MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-04 22:03:20+00:00
The reason for Android remains mostly same as ages ago: flexibility and customization without barriers. The countless things one can do without having to think twice about what workaround will be needed to go thru weird Apple hoops. Being about to do simple things like transfer files to a laptop without having to use any third party apps. Having a homescreen with just the icons you want and some added information and stuff without a ton of work, no problem (a third part launcher, acknowledged). If iOS isn't trying to stop you from finding a way with it's limited UI, there is always some other trick or workaround required to just go about your day doing things. With android for years now just never had to even run into any of that. Never a reason to switch.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-04 22:03:46+00:00
Thanks very much for the correction. FWIW, the reason for my apparently faulty assumption is that when searching for your company online, the top result is the Crunchbase entry, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/helios-companies, and it shows web (www.helioscompanies.com) and LinkedIn links that are both defunct.

To be honest, I find it kind of bizarre that your company doesn't appear to have any public web presence. I also worked at a B2B-only fintech very recently, and we still had a website. Heck, my neighborhood barbershop has a website. I know it sounds like I'm knocking y'all (and maybe I am a little), but I'm honestly just curious. If I were a tech leader at a bank and got a direct sales call from a vendor and they said they didn't have a website, I'd just assume it was a scam. It must be working for your company so I'm very interested in how you haven't found the need to have a website in 2025. That I think would actually be a more interesting blog post!
by epolanski | 2025-10-04 22:04:29+00:00
Zig is a modern safer and more approachable C, that's the value proposition.

It's value proposition is aiming for the next generation of system programmers that aren't interested in Rust like languages but C like ones.

Current system devs working on C won't find Zig or Odin's value propositions to matter enough or indeed as you point out, to offer enough of a different solution like Rust does.

But I'm 100% positive that Zig will be a huge competitor for Rust in the next decade because it's very appealing to people willing to get into system programming, but not interested in Rust.
by ziofill | 2025-10-04 22:04:47+00:00
To be honest, as a pianist and physicist I’m still sceptical. The only thing you can influence at a mechanical keyboard is the speed with which the hammer hits the strings because by the time contact happens the escapement mechanism has removed the connection between hammer and key. One cannot influence its weight, momentum, angle, etc. So if all there is is a single variable (speed of the hammer), I find it hard to believe that one can change timbre independently on its own.
by apimade | 2025-10-04 22:05:44+00:00
This is like a guerrilla solar recipe from the anarchist’s cookbook.

The author doesn’t explicitly dissuade people from plugging in another multipoint/powerstrip/plugstrip into the end of the extension cable you’ve run into the other room. So I will. Don’t do that. There are plenty of low gauge, cheap extension cables out there which will degrade fast in this setup, and may cause a fire.

Also, if your landlord is okay with seeing this setup they probably don’t have insurance they’re worrying about, and are simply making sure you’re not actively destroying the property (rather than potentially destroying it with the fire hazard).
by nine_k | 2025-10-04 22:06:04+00:00
But obviously the result of a + b is [0..200], so an explicit cast, or an assertion, or a call to clamp() is needed if we want to put it back into a [0..100].

Comptime constant expression evaluation, as in your example, may suffice for the compiler to be able to prove that the result lies in the bounds of the type.
by breve | 2025-10-04 22:06:11+00:00
> That's great, but the writing is still on the wall if Toyota doesn't get serious about electric cars.

This sentiment doesn't match the practical reality. Toyota is the best selling automaker in the world.

In 2011 Toyota sold 7.9 million cars. In 2023 Toyota sold 11.2 million, a record sales year. It looks like 2025 might set a new sales record for Toyota:

https://www.autoblog.com/news/nearly-900000-cars-sold-toyota...

Toyota isn't getting the car business wrong. Toyota is getting it right.

BEVs will make up a greater percentage of Toyota's sales as time goes on. The notion Toyota somehow doesn't understand the car business is just false.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-04 22:06:21+00:00
> The Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable!

N900i and P900i(2004) were running XFree86 on Linux. NTT Docomo was moving Linux based phones in orders of 10m for couple years on half a dozen model by the time iPhone launched.

But there were waaaay too many stakeholders with little focus on customer facing values and too much obsession with self punishment involved in those businesses. Using OpenGL for UI was considered irresponsible, indulgent, lustful, lacking in restraint, associated with those kinds of emotions. That and Apple's relentless anticompetitive pursuit burned down Japanese phone industry into ashes.

What was missing was user interface, and the environment that would allow user interface software to develop without getting shut down as a gross offense to the whole society.

Nowadays it wouldn't be so controversial to put a dialer in PSP OS. Back then it was so obviously blasphemous that it would have kept me as a kid awake during nights. How on Earth have life in Japan gotten so simple and reasonable and streamlined these days? Hardly anyone on social media is complaining about highly nuanced local district stitching pattern requirements for kids' school desk wipes anymore.
Show HN: Praying Map
by lukethedev | 2025-10-04 22:06:30+00:00
I’ve been working on something close to my heart called Global Prayer Map.

It’s a simple website where anyone can share a prayer request, and it shows up on a live map so others can pray for them. Requests can be about healing, peace, family, finances, or anything on your heart.

Why I built it: To remind people they are not alone To connect through prayer To highlight needs in real time around the world To offer a safe space — we don’t save your location or any personal information

It’s free, open to everyone, and I hope it can be a small light in a world that often feels heavy.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-04 22:06:38+00:00
What year was this written?

All for people doing their own sites/blogs. But social media is the RSS feed and has been for like 15 years. Short form posts that link to long form posts. Social posts that link to the content you've published wherever. And the reposting of other curated favorites is the extra feed portion. The change in recent years is ppl skipping the self-hosting/POS part of the POSSE and posting directly on the social media sites because they were convinced to do that and the social media sites were discouraging users from travelling off-site etc. We just need to get away from using social media sites as the hosts of our content and back to the POS part.
by grvdrm | 2025-10-04 22:06:48+00:00
I don’t care much for social features but they were more compelling when I first used the app and the user base was smaller.

The user base now is using Strava as the standard platform for data. Someone else pointed this out too. It is the place I look/visit to see nearly all of my physical activities in one spot. Works across different brands/devices/etc.

Garmin’s platform isn’t much more appealing as an end user. Apple’s makes me insane. Strava just kind of works even though I can’t stand the constant mobile push/CTA to pay.

I don’t and won’t.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-04 22:06:50+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

> He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.” According to Barnum's critics, his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers". The adage "there's a sucker born every minute" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had coined the phrase.
by varispeed | 2025-10-04 22:07:06+00:00
> if you want to make a code base more minimal, have a POC and some details worked out for when the opportunity presents itself.

Why would you want to do that? You will not get the cream for such work. From experience, you'll never get recognition for these things, you will never get paid more and most certainly they may dump more work at you.

Taking initiative and improving something never pays off to you.

Unless you are the type of person that looks out of the window at the company car park and sees board member in a branch new Lambo and then say to yourself proudly "I did that".
by jacquesm | 2025-10-04 22:07:17+00:00
Yes, good point. Compared to how the Erlang community has handled decades of change Python does not exactly deserve the beauty prize. The lack of forethought - not to be confused with a lot of hot air - on some of these decisions is impressive. I think that the ability to track developments in near realtime is in conflict with that though. If you want your language to be everything to everybody then there will be some broken bones along the way.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-04 22:07:26+00:00
No kidding!

> “You don’t have the leverage anymore to get people to change bad behavior,” Zepponi said. A neighbor who leaves their RV parked on the driveway in violation of association rules might just eat the $100 rather than pay for RV storage that is more expensive, he said.

Yes, god forbid someone have the legal right to park their vehicle at their own house. I'd prefer my neighbors not do that, but I'd also like to have that right for myself if I ever needed to.

And a friend had a ration of hassle when he replaced the back door on his house with one that wasn't an approved design. I'm certain he'd have been delighted to say "whatever, Karen, here's your $100 and STFU."
by nick__m | 2025-10-04 22:07:27+00:00
Looking at the code it appears to be somewhat easy, you add your language to language.rs and in the engine folder you add yourlang.rs where you provide an implementation of the LanguageEngine trait for the YourLangEngine struct.

It would be less tedious if some code was factored out into an Helper struct but it doesn't look like it's hard.
Cerebras: The AI hardware giant facing imminent collapse
by noob_hardy | 2025-10-04 22:08:08+00:00
Post by ex-employee.

In the cutthroat AI world, Cerebras Systems, despite colossal wafers and bold claims, faces collapse. Its fragile foundation stems from brittle hardware, astonishingly narrow in practical application. Optimized primarily for LLaMA model finetuning, touted "speed boosts" often use speculative decoding, masking that many "supported" models run inefficiently, if at all. This rigidity mirrors a Formula 1 engine demanding one fuel under lab conditions.

This compounds with a poorly conceived software and kernel stack. The current infrastructure restricts Cerebras systems almost exclusively to LLaMA-family transformer LLMs. Modern vision pipelines, diffusion models, or other AI paradigms are beyond reach. In a rapidly evolving field, this narrow focus is a death sentence. A complete software overhaul is desperately needed, yet internal motivation is absent, hinting at leadership either oblivious or unwilling to invest in survival. Technical woes are exacerbated by third-class ML expertise and rudderless, top-down leadership. Non-technical decision-makers lead to misguided strategies and poor adaptation. ML expertise is subpar and highly politicized; questionable ideas from figures like Head of AI Ganesh Venkatesh are reportedly prioritized, wasting resources. An extreme resource shortage – Cerebras hardware and even GPUs – cripples meaningful work, making numbers in reports untrustworthy fiction. The chasm between rhetoric and reality widens.

A palpable resignation within the ranks further indicts the company. Employees are "waiting it out" or trading stocks, not contributing. This disengagement highlights deep problems, where personal finance trumps innovation.

Cerebras appears a bloated, incompetent, and culturally bankrupt company. Any stock price would be a scam. The rare "A players" have left or are leaving.

The writing is on the wall. Cerebras, despite grand pronouncements, is a company built on sand, destined to crumble under its limitations and poor choices.

Get out while you still can.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-04 22:08:48+00:00
Yes?

At some moment in time, the first human built a house there, then sometime later some other people showed up then sometime later the israeli tribe conquered the land then the romans conquered it and so on until some muslim tribe conquered it and then in 1950 or whenever the current people conquered it.

Which one of those groups is supposed to have some kind extra special entitlement to live there?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-04 22:10:03+00:00
I've lived next to two different households who leave campers in their driveways all summer, between uses. I have never given a shit nor can I comprehend the mind of someone who does.

I'm convinced HOAs are a product of privileged brains so used to things going their way that they have to make some shit up to act annoyed about.
by erxam | 2025-10-04 22:10:06+00:00
Milei's government slashed the national health care budget by 48 percent in real terms and fired over 2,000 Health Ministry workers — 1,400 in just a few days in January. These drastic moves were part of Milei's broader plan to shrink the state and remake Argentina's debt-ridden economy.

Among the most dramatic cutbacks was the dismantling of the National Cancer Institute, which halted early detection programs for breast and cervical cancer. Funding was also frozen for immunization campaigns, severely disrupting vaccine access during Argentina's first measles outbreak in decades. The National Directorate for HIV, Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis lost 40 percent of its staff and 76 percent of its budget, delaying diagnosis and treatment across the country. Emergency contraception and abortion pill distribution have also stopped.

Prescription drug prices and private health insurance premiums have surged by 250 percent and 118 percent, respectively, according to official data.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/278391265/mileis-austeri...

Obviously, this is an article from the political side of things (I tried to cut out value judgements), but these are decisions made by actual economists like José Luis Espert, Agustín Etchebarne, Federico Sturzenegger, Alberto Benegas Lynch and probably a million others I'm not aware of.
by krapp | 2025-10-04 22:10:10+00:00
>The idea that the US is still living in the Wild West era with regards to firearms is a complete myth.

Compared to every other country in the world, including those with private firearm ownership, the US very much is still in the Wild West.

>That's not an experiment I'm willing to indulge in personally.

You're indulging in it now. Your rights are being eroded and nullified daily by an increasingly militarized police force, an ever more pervasive surveillance state and an authoritarian government going off the rails. How are your guns helping?
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-10-04 22:10:54+00:00
I respect EFF for fighting the good fight. And its direly needed.

But, having spent a couple of years in the privacy space. People choose convenience over privacy 10/10 times. No amount of cookie banners, privacy notices and user consent are going to change that. There are so many cases of data abuse by EVs, Governments, etc. once you dig a little deeper than the surface
by _zeta | 2025-10-04 22:11:00+00:00
I use my blog to mainly write about stuff I do that I really don't want to forget about, like interesting vulnerabilities I found or projects I want to share, reach is ~30k visits/month (still no idea how since I think it's kinda niche) but so far is working.

I consider it also a good way to force myself to keep thoughts in order and to do a recap on the activities I do that most of the time are very chaotic.

I would probably consider integrating messages also to receive feedbacks.

I use hugo with the backend hosted on GitHub Pages, so far is a pretty solid setup that requires minimal effort since I just wrote an action to build pages every time a commit is done on the main branch

In case you are interested: https://appsec.space
by mc32 | 2025-10-04 22:12:00+00:00
Yes and no. HOAs can be a PITA and petty and I err on the side of less governance but some people are recalcitrant, stubborn and just set in their ways. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't.

HOAs are usually clear in their rules, so if you want to live in a predictable neighborhood you can choose to live in one. IF you want more laisses faire neighborhoods you can pick one that does not have an HOA.
by c0balt | 2025-10-04 22:12:28+00:00
In my personal experience it's not just safety. Reliability of produced is also a big part.

Ime, being able to express constraints in a type systems yields itself to producing better quality code. A simple example from my experience with rust and golang is mutex handling, rust just won't let you leak a guard handle while golang happily let's you run into a deadlock.
by lordnacho | 2025-10-04 22:13:05+00:00
It actually adds excessive structure.

The underlying model is just:

N*f

How many planets are there, and what proportion of them have detectable life?

The f does not have to be structured as fl->fi->fc, although we can see why you'd assume that kind of structure. It's simple to calculate the PI(series) when the model is just a funnel. Like the Million Dollar Money Drop gameshow.

But you could imagine a more complex model of probabilities that branches and merges. There could be events on the bayesian tree that amplify downstream events. For instance, suppose there is some pathway that if reached will leave certain minerals that future civilizations could use. This has happened already on earth at least once: lignin bearing plants could not be easily digested for a long time, and that led to coal formation during the carboniferous period.

You could imagine many such potential trees, but we only have one iteration.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-04 22:13:16+00:00
I kept getting "Driver Message (OpenGL, Performance, GL_CLOSE_PATH_NV, High): GPU stall due to ReadPixels", which for anyone familiar with OpenGL probably knows... usage of the glReadPixels function is typically frowned upon if at all possible, because moving framebuffer data out of the GPU and back into system memory can cause huge performance issues.

I'm not sure why they need to use this function, or if it's just not optimized enough to go without it.
by cpfohl | 2025-10-04 22:14:13+00:00
So this is terrifying for all the reasons mentioned below, but the _core_ setup where it is not connected to the utility and acts (basically) like a solar powered UPS is really attractive to me.

All the commercial solar setups out there spend a lot of effort pushing power back to the grid, when all I really want is this configuration to all my outlets.

Does anyone know of a setup like this? Basically a power bank that charges primarily from solar, secondarily from the grid, and provides my normal panel with power through an inverter (or panels/inverters, I actually expect). Feeding back to the grid seems more trouble than its worth...
Show HN: World Amazing Framework: Like Django for Civilization
by mnm | 2025-10-04 22:14:39+00:00
Any initial thoughts?

This framework is meant to be a tool for construction, so if you want to play around with it for creating potential specific implementations, you can drop the contents of the website, the GitHub README, and the entire overview.md into an AI chat, and that should be enough to use the framework, at least conceptually.

Would y'all want me to pre-prime a chat in Google AI Studio with the full context of the plan and some basic direction for discourse? I can share a link to a ready-to-go environment.

The core documentation should answer most mechanical questions. And if you feed the docs into an AI chat, you can ask it any question you may have, or to simply ask it to explain something in different ways, or hypothesize solutions to any world issue, either systemic or regional.

Gemini Pro 2.5 can take the full doc in one prompt, and its ability to co-create ideas is remarkable. I've been using it mostly through the AI Studio interface. Much of the overview is as much my work as it is a synthesis of my collaboration with Gemini Pro 2.5, ChatGPT-4o, and some early contributions from GPT-4 about a year ago.

Before LLMs, I was building out pamphlet-style pages on a website (that are up at whomanatee.org, which is the base wrapper implementation of the framework), and I was planning to use them as talking points. I was anticipating that much of the deep thinking would have to happen in slow, public discourse. With LLMs, I've been able to stress-test these ideas from every possible angle, using any past event or theory to see if the framework could withstand scrutiny.

At one point, a model argued that Adam Smith would have rejected this idea as fantasy. So I worked with it to develop an economic plan that "synthetic Adam" praised. It's incredible that we now have the ability to get synthesized thoughts from almost any perspective. You could ask it, "What would Barack Obama think of this plan? And using the framework, what would be your response to any hesitations he may have?" And it responds with incredible analysis, synthesis, and feedback.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-04 22:14:53+00:00
I'm not "left", but I liked Bill Burr even though he's fairly uneducated and populist.

That's because Bill Burr is a hypocrite for it. He complains about billionaires and the rich, complains about not enough free speech (but Saudi stipulation was censorship about royals and religion), and complains about other people doing exactly what he did[0] (still sleazy if he says he'd do it too). He acts like he's Carlin, rants about other people's $ but he's really only about his own $ too.

People thought he held sincere ethics and would speak on them. They're disappointed he's just another greedy rich guy he was complaining to everyone about.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/comedy/comments/1nt1umd/comment/ngq...
by palata | 2025-10-04 22:15:07+00:00
> The CEO has legal rights

I don't think that anything in the law says that if your title is "CEO", then you can fire cofounders. I'm guessing it depends on the contract the cofounders sign in the beginning.

> often with the board on their side

I have seen the CTO convince the board to fire his cofounder who was more the CEO? Well I don't know if the titles were written in the contracts, they changed over the years. But the guy who got his cofounder fired went from calling himself CTO to calling himself co-CEO to getting his "buddy" fired.
by leptons | 2025-10-04 22:15:56+00:00
It's part of the same first amendment that gives you the right to free speech. Go look it up. There is no such thing as privacy in public, and if you feel like you have a right to privacy in public, then you need to read up on the first amendment. The only thing that requires permission is when the footage is used for commercial purposes, then you need permission to use it.

And FWIW, citizens have a right to get the footage the government records. You can get any camera footage from any government building, and even personal cellphones of government emplpoyees if they happen to film something with their personal cellphone while on the job.