MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-10-21 11:27:59+00:00
Yeah I point that out too in a sibling comment.

My personal opinion is that curl pipe to bash is not much worse than any other third-party binary installation method. (Third-party meaning from a source other than the package repo of your distro, or other than brew, or other than some kind of official App Store like thing on your platform.)

If this project isn’t already available in the official package repos of various distros, it will eventually be. And for those more cautious among us you will probably want to wait until that point in time.

For me personally I wouldn’t have any big concerns about the curl pipe bash install method on some of my servers. On my personal laptop (macOS), I’d probably rather build it from source (which is also a method available since it’s open source).
by crabmusket | 2025-10-21 11:28:42+00:00
It's really interesting to see this essentially providing a stateful wrapper around scalable serverless compute. Restate does something similar, where the restate service "farms out" work to e.g. Lambda. As a whole the system implements a durable, stateful process - but it can leverage these stateless compute systems to do so.

https://docs.restate.dev/foundations/key-concepts
by xg15 | 2025-10-21 11:28:58+00:00
> What happens if we instead put our lender hat on? [...] Case 1 (90%): OpenAI goes bankrupt. Return: $0

Even for a very simple model, this seems unrealistic. Isn't the whole point of a loan that your liable to pay it back if you're in any way able to? (very roughly)

So the bank would have claim to some of OpenAI's existing assets even if they went bankrupt. The probability that they not only go bankrupt but also have no assets left at all would be much lower.
by state_less | 2025-10-21 11:29:38+00:00
> it's worth investing a lot of resources in sandboxing.

I tend to agree. There’s an opportunity to make it easy to have Claude be able to test out workflows/software within Debian, RPM, Windows, etc… container and VM sandboxes. This could be helpful for users that want to release code on multiple platforms and help their own training and testing, which they seem to be heavily invested in given all the “How Am I doing?” prompts we’re getting.
by account42 | 2025-10-21 11:30:15+00:00
Very possible but if they go an tell someone using loops that they aren't really making music they'd still be an asshole.

Managing your own hardware can be fun and rewarding but it isn't actually required for the original goal of regaining control over your digital life. And it's not like if you start with a VPS you can never move to your own hardware in case you find building on someone else's service too limiting.
by motorest | 2025-10-21 11:30:32+00:00
> (...) teams need ways to share their complex workflows (...)

Apps like Postman are the wrong tool for this purpose.

If you want to share workflows, let alone complex workflows, any automated test suite is far better suited for this purpose.

We are in the age of LLMs and coding agents, which make BDD-style test frameworks even more relevant, as they allow developers to implement the workflows, verify they work, and leave behind an enforceable and verifiable human-readable description of those workflows.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-21 11:31:29+00:00
Isn't the ability to store past reasoning in an external system to avoid having to do the computation all over again precisely what a memory is though?

But mathematically KV-caching, instead of doing prefilling at every token is equivalent, sure. But the important part of my message was the attention.

A plan/reasoning made during the forward pass of token 0 can be looked at by subsequent (or parallel if you don’t want to use the cache) passes of token 1,…,n. So you cannot consider token n to be starting from scratch in terms of reasoning/planning as it can reuse what has already been planned in previous tokens.

If you think about inference with KV-caching, even though you are right that mathematically it’s just an optimization, it makes this behavior much more easy to reason about: the kv-cache is a store of past internal states, that the model can attend to for subsequent tokens, which allows that subsequent token internal hidden states to be more than just a repetition of what the model already reasoned about in the past.
by jcgl | 2025-10-21 11:31:48+00:00
> you need to be able to describe the system when it's in a state of partial evaluation, and that's the trick we have up our sleeve generally

Yeah, this is the sort of thing I was trying to gesture at when I mentioned "fudging transactions." But if you don't actually have to fudge stuff and can do proper partial evaluation, that's super cool! Presumably it's not too hard to build synchronization on top once you've got that nice foundation.

It's super that you're a UI person who wants things to feel fast! Imo that gives you a big advantage in terms of design sensibility compared to someone who's more deeply a data structures person. Best of luck!
by gus_massa | 2025-10-21 11:32:35+00:00
Interesting read. Some empathy (real or simulated) would be nice, but:

> Maybe that baby will die, I thought. Then I can get some sleep.

I guess the name of the baby doesn't matter, because it happened more than once, perhaps without so cinematographic circumstances. But there is no even a hint of looking at the source of the problem:

> This was only the beginning of my twenty-four-hour shift, during my second year working eighty-hour weeks.

It's insane.

Why we don't allow airplane pilots to have "twenty-four-hour shift, working eighty-hour weeks". Because sleepy people make stupid mistakes. The difference is that in an airplane the errors are registered and then people blame the pilots and the companies.

In the university, we have some T.A. with multiple courses, but we have an internal rule of no more than 6 consecutive hours. Tired people make stupid mistakes, like 1+0=0 [1]. A few typos and wrong signs are distracting, the other T.A. or the students tell the error, everything is fixed. And more importantly, even in the worst case nobody dies.

Is it possible to give a cheap insurance for "8 hours per day, 40 hours per week" and a more expensive (x10) for "24 hours per day, 80 hours per week"? It looks like selling insurance for drunk driving [2], but perhaps it's the only way to fix this mess.

[1] I have that exact errors saved in a video. We edited the video before uploading it. No natural number was harmed.

[2] Bus and truck drivers also have very strict rules about the maximum amount of hours and alcohol. Tired people make stupid mistakes.
by Werkzeug | 2025-10-21 11:32:47+00:00
I think it's not the case. Chinese characters have the highest information entropy of all writing systems. However, Chinese characters are all independent symbols, which means if you want the LLM to support 5000 Chinese characters, you need to put 5000 characters into the lookup table (obviously there's no root, prefix, and suffix in Chinese, you cannot split the character into multiple reusable word pieces). As a result, you may need fewer characters to represent the same meaning compared to latin languages, but LLMs may also need to activate more token embeddings.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-10-21 11:34:05+00:00
Not to be that guy but I switched to Android a few months back for the first time in my life.

It took some getting used to here and there, but over all I've been happy with doing something new on this front.

I suspect I'll be looking at hopping back over a couple summers from now when they figure out how to make this design language work.

The Liquid Glass aesthetic isn't bad, it's just rough around the edges. It'll be a nice effect once reality reigns it all in. That's what happened around a year or two following iOS7.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-10-21 11:35:13+00:00
The problem with it is that it makes it easy to make bad faith arguments for why we can’t or shouldn’t transition (kinda like is being done here).

Take for example paragraphs like:

> Primary electricity (hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, and a small contribution by geothermal plants) accounted for no more than about 18% of the world’s primary energy consumption, which means that fossil fuels still provided about 82% of the world’s primary energy supply in 2022.

Are used as justification for why green green energy is a scam, it can’t be done, or it’s too expensive, etc., etc. after all 82% of primary energy is still from fossil fuels.

Except we don’t have to replace 82%, since 2/3rds of that is wasted. Of 100 kWh we’re already done 12 kWh and only need to add 27 (NOT 82) more kWh of electricity to replace all the fossil fuel usage. And that’s before talking about any efficiency gains (e.g heat pumps with COP >4).
by lproven | 2025-10-21 11:35:40+00:00
Flipside: it looks like the most productive programmers are those who work alone and not in a large pool. The core point of the article is that team development is slower and less efficient.

Which means management must make a choice: getting good code relatively fast from a small pool of high-value individuals that it must therefore cherish and treat well...

Or get poor-quality code, slowly, but from a large and redundant group of less skilled developers, who are cheaper and easier to replace.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from the three characteristics of "good, fast, and cheap", you can pick which two you want.

In this case, maybe the choice is as simple as "good and fast" or "cheap."

If the structure of the business or the market requires management to pick "cheap" (with concomitant but unspoken "bad and slow") then the structure, I submit, is bad.
by tyleo | 2025-10-21 11:35:57+00:00
My feelings on LoC really depend on what you want to measure. LoC tends to correlate with # bugs. A 100-line function is probably going to have more bugs than a 20-line function that does the same thing.

I don’t think functions inherently need to be small though. 5 20-line functions are just as buggy as that 1 100-line function. Bugs scale with LoC, not how well you’ve broken functions apart.

The lesson is really just to avoid overcomplicating things. Use less LoC if you can. You should also avoid overly-shortening or cleverness but it tends to be the lesser evil.
by mlrtime | 2025-10-21 11:36:35+00:00
For people that like nuance and details yes. But the point is, most people don't want that, they want to be told what to do or make a binary decision: Good or bad.

FWIW I tell people that running is bad for your knees, but relative to other exercises! If someone wants to only run, then go do it... better than nothing.
Show HN: Markethunt – I built a database to find growing, overlooked markets
by moudah | 2025-10-21 11:36:40+00:00
Hey HN

After years in the startup world, listening to hundreds of pitches, I saw a pattern over and over:

- A stagnant market is a slow death.

- A saturated market is a brutal, cash-burning fight.

- A growing, overlooked market is a massive, unfair advantage.

I got obsessed with finding that third option. So, I built Markethunt.

It’s a simple database of market reports designed to uncover those high-growth niches. Think less "AI disruption" and more "Automated Fare Collection Systems" - real industries with real money, just not always in the headlines.

Each report gives you the growth projections, key drivers, and a few concrete startup ideas to get you started.

I've made it free to check out 7 rotating reports. No credit card, no nonsense, just see if it's useful for you.

I'd love your feedback: is this genuinely useful, or am I just scratching my own itch?

The site is built with Next.js and Supabase. The link is here: https://www.markethunt.io/

I'll be around all day to answer questions. Thanks for looking.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-21 11:36:54+00:00
Hard to say, these days. Interviewing seems to be a pretty nasty, adversarial process. It wasn't, for me, back when. Not sure if any questions would have done it. I observed the place.

In my case, I was contacted by a recruiter (the old-fashioned kind, which no longer exists). It was quite low-key. When they first contacted me, I thought it was a joke.

I was flown out to a trade show in San Jose, for my initial interview, and to Long Island, for my follow-up. There were no coding tests. I started as an engineer, on a brand-new team of two. I became the manager of that team, after a few years.

I think observing the people there; seeing how they interact with each other, is important.

Of course, looking at their products is also key. Asking yourself "Do I want to help make this stuff?" is important.

In my case, I was intrigued by the culture of the Japanese. I was born overseas, and spent most of my formative years in a pretty heterogenous environment. I like to mix it up with strange (to me) people.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-21 11:37:41+00:00
Quick look into it, in the 50s:

- Before the age of 1, top cause of death were defects (prematurity/immaturity, birth injuries) and congenital deformations.

- Age 1-4 it was accidents (e.g., drownings, burns, traffic) followed by influenza/pneumonia.
by antonvs | 2025-10-21 11:38:34+00:00
> It's really hard to argue with Trump's methods

On the contrary, his methods are ridiculous. He could have achieved similar ends without kowtowing to Russia, without squandering the opportunity to further weaken Russia’s military capacity, and so on. Something similar applies to pretty much everything else he’s done. He incurs collateral damage on everything even when it’s completely unnecessary to do so. It’s a definitional example of egregious incompetence.
I discovered a new mathematical relation "alien" (⍊)
by DenisDolya | 2025-10-21 11:39:20+00:00
Two numbers a and b are alien (a ⍊ b) if all their basic arithmetic combinations give completely different results, like a+b, a-b, ab, a/b, b/a, a^b, b^a, sqrt(a), sqrt(b), sqrt(a+b), sqrt(ab) — all must be unique values. For example, 3 and 5 are alien, but 2 and 4 are not because 2^4 equals 4^2. It’s like they speak different mathematical languages, no hidden equations between them. I think this could be useful in cryptography, testing, game balance, anywhere you need numbers with no predictable links. I’m looking for feedback, maybe it already exists under another name, or maybe we can build something new with it.This could be used in cryptography for generating keys with no mathematical relationships, in software testing for creating truly independent test cases, in game design for balancing mechanics without hidden synergies, in machine learning for selecting uncorrelated features, in security for creating non-predictable identifiers, and in simulation systems for generating non-repeating patterns. It's about eliminating hidden mathematical connections wherever numbers are used. Thanks for reading.
by TMWNN | 2025-10-21 11:39:20+00:00
>However, Germans I see online - even under the guise of anonymity - will strongly defend and support their system. Are the German dissenters all offline, or are they way fewer than in other similar countries?

I've heard it said that the idea that Germans are efficient is a myth. (The new Berlin airport is one example.)

Germans are, rather, *rule followers*.
by gregw2 | 2025-10-21 11:39:37+00:00
Don't IRS Form 990s (for nonprofits) contain an address? Where GoFundMe could proactively send a check upon receiving a donation rather than keeping it until contacted?

(Answer: yes)

So GoFundMe uses info from the public accountability mechanisms when it suits them to collect money, but not when to pass money to donor-desired recipients helping the actual charities?

Slimy.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-10-21 11:39:42+00:00
mdns is a really awful protocol. it was already bad in the era it was born, being just an evolution of Microsoft NetBIOS out something. today in the age of wifi and overlay networks, i just consider it information leak with zero benefits.

so, the rfc have a section on how the mdns server have to evolve to handle multiple interfaces and own that. but in reality nobody gives a damn because the maintainer (redhat ibm) is it in the context it was invented (work networks on the 00s), so everyone (like many comments below) just work around in all the wrong ways making other things more complicated.

"just do these hundreds changed on wireguard, your firewall, install this reverse proxy... now your service that only exists to route things automatically can look like it works" heh.
by 0xCaponte | 2025-10-21 11:40:06+00:00
I have a similar view in that sense, I think that at the moment many companies are counting with AI taking over many of the senior level tasks and therefore not investing in that many juniors. If this assumption fails, there will be a lack of qualified seniors to take over when the current batch moves on; there will be juniors but not nearly as prepared or with the amount of experience needed, as they are currently struggling to get into the industry.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-21 11:40:49+00:00
> are capable of transmitting just as much useful information as the technologies of reading and writing.

No. A mythology of a demon spiting fire and rocks doesn't help you understand geology, tectonic plaques and volcanoes. We know that an eruption happened 7700 years ago without the need for this "oral traditions" bullshit.

Religious superstitions aren't "as much useful information" as science. That's why they are left behind. Religion is useless because is just a mask for ignorance.
by tim333 | 2025-10-21 11:40:53+00:00
There seem to be some quite powerful forces acting in the opposite direction - social media maximising engagement by pushing divisive stuff and politicians trying to demonize the other team. Not quite sure what the answer is. I feel there should be some tech type solution. At least LLMs at the moment by taking in the whole internet seem fairly neutral although Musk seems to be trying to develop right wing versions.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-21 11:41:10+00:00
It’s no secret that AWS has been seeing a mass talent exodus. Probably 90% of the folks I know that were the best and brightest in what they do and worked at AWS are no longer there. It’s beyond a blip, but a full blown exodus, with the talent bar severely lowered.

The writing was on the wall for a bit now that something like yesterday would happen.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-21 11:42:11+00:00
>the concept of sport imposes human concepts on a hypothetical alien culture.

Many animals like cats do it. Its not a human concept but one from superior smarter predators which should occur regardless from what planet they are. The greater the differences in intelligence and power the easier it is to justify cruelty.

I do think it's less likely because to actually travel space they would need to be so technologically advanced that we simply wouldn't be worth fighting or destroying. Maybe studying which could be cruel in its own way.
by mlrtime | 2025-10-21 11:42:46+00:00
I think it is ignorance.

Affluent areas in general have more variety. The ice cream shop may be a place where you can get all kinds of ingredients that you wouldn't find at other places. This is 100% true for "fine dining" and it's one reason why they ask.

They will also have substitutes for an allergy to make the experience just as pleasant, thus they ask.
by Doxin | 2025-10-21 11:43:16+00:00
For everyone in the comments assuming these will be unrepairable I... don't think they will be? As far as I can tell this has zipper teeth on cord instead of tape. I don't see why that'd be impossible to hand-sew. It might be a bit more fiddly because it'll be more flexible. If anything it'll be much easier to seam rip existing zippers because you can just put the seam ripper between the teeth and cut the cord instead of the stitching.

The proprietary sewing machine does seem like it's not amazing competition wise, but if you think Chinese manufacturers aren't going to have a clone the second this becomes popular you haven't been paying attention. It'll basically be a sewing machine that does a zigzag stitch with a modified transport so the needle doesn't hit the teeth.

The one thing I do think is a disadvantage is that this style of zipper would put limits on how thick the fabric it's attached to can be. Normally the tape goes between the sides of the runner, but now it's the actual garment fabric. Might have implications for wear too.
by ninalanyon | 2025-10-21 11:43:20+00:00
That's true-ish. But the thing about Wordstar is that it is a word processor not a text editor. Other word processors don't make this so easy. Also the standard keybindings for cursor control in Emacs are much less ergonomic.

^ = control

In Wordstar: ^S/^D moves left/right; ^E/^X moves up/down; ^A/^F word left/right; ^R/^C moves page Up/Down

Notice that all of those use only the left hand. In Wordstar almost everything to do with cursor control uses only the left hand.

Emacs is mnemonic ^b for left (back), ^f for right (forward), ^n for next line, ^p for previous line, etc. You need both hands and the keys are all over the keyboard.
by NiloCK | 2025-10-21 11:43:24+00:00
Even inside the claude-code ecosystem, more than ever there are tradeoffs on raw speed vs intelligence vs cost.

Moving a bunch of verbose templated HTML around while watching results on a devserver? Haiku all day. It's a bonus that it's cheaper, but the real treat is its speed.

Adding a feature whose planning will involve intake of several files? Sonnet.

Working specifically on 'copy' or taste issues? Still I tend to prefer Opus here.

Individual experiences may vary!
by JCM9 | 2025-10-21 11:43:29+00:00
From what folks at AWS tell me that’s basically already happened. The best and brightest won’t even apply to work there anymore. For many key functions they’ve legit run out of people to recruit and thus have to go down market compared to competitors. Thats very much true in hot sectors like AI where AWS has “C” and at best “B” team players and leadership.
by lproven | 2025-10-21 11:45:29+00:00
Interesting analysis. Thanks for that.

I'm well aware of ROX Desktop and have used it in the past. I've written about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/the_end_of_absolute_l...

ROX's AppDirs provided the app format used in AppImage.

I am sure I remember a Mac-like one, and I've asked -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937562 -- but to no avail.

You say a WM isn't enough, and I agree, but in this case, amiwm is still right there.

I own an Amiga and I'm interested and I try to cover Amiga news, but back in the 1980s, I was an Archimedes owner. I loved RISC OS and I never mastered AmigaOS. This is not something I personally want, although I'd love to write about it.
by jzellis | 2025-10-21 11:46:19+00:00
In America the poor do straight up die when they get sick. I'm an American who wrote a book about medical tourism who now lives in the UK partially because healthcare is affordable and available here.

And I like Berlin personally, but I'd probably like it better if it actually was like the Sultanahmet district in Istanbul. Then I wouldn't have to go to the Turkish neighborhoods to find the best food when I visited there (sausages and pastries, as Weiwei says, being the exception). :-D
by oldnetguy | 2025-10-21 11:47:06+00:00
Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks is a year-long project investigating best practice in the preservation of floppy disks in GLAM collections. The aims of this project are two-fold, first to create a resource to have one central point for safeguarding floppy disk knowledge. Secondly, to enhance this knowledge by interviewing individuals who have worked with floppy disks, and by running several experiments with conservation specialists.
by 8organicbits | 2025-10-21 11:48:09+00:00
Yes, I think familiarity is quite important. The white pages example is quite dated though. I'm in my late thirties and I think the only time I've seen a phone book being used was in the Terminator movie. So the analogy feels like the save icon being a floppy disk. I'd be curious what the younger crowd thinks.