MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-13 10:26:01+00:00
Yeah, Om2008 was a disaster. I liked Om2007.2 as a user, but as a developer I can see why it was abandoned. Eventually it was FSO what made the phone actually solid and with proper foundations. If your device shipped with 2007.2 still, it must have been one of the earliest ones, so you've got the whole set of hardware bugs that were fixed in later batches (but so did I).

Still, Freerunner, while usable, required plenty of patience. My current experiences with Librem 5 are so much better - but whenever I play with a PinePhone it does somewhat remind me of my old Freerunner (which still works, BTW!).
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-10-13 10:26:29+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. I have recently built a software NGO with over half a million supporters and over a thousand active volunteers and major political and media networking. I have built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it, and build a team or company around it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com

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Example engagement types:

- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles

- Security audits for cryptography and secure code

- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report

- Short-term dev and research work

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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 10:26:57+00:00
> Ukraine a working democracy ?

Straw man.

Moscow is ruled by idiots. The war in Ukraine was perhaps the largest own goal of the millennium, ahead of Brexit and possibly right behind—worst case—the Iraq War.

> is it feasible for a country right next to a colossal power to have independence ?

Yes. Literally how alliances have worked since the Bronze Age.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-10-13 10:27:16+00:00
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Rust, Zig, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-13 10:28:23+00:00
Flow of HN discussion every time Economics Nobel is announced:

It's not a "real" Nobel Prize. This is because it's officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, created in 1968.

This distinction often leads to people downplaying economics itself. They argue it's not a "real" science like physics or chemistry because it can't predict things perfectly and is based on human behavior, which is unpredictable. This critique sets the stage for a more political debate. Libertarian and socialist contribution is oversized.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-10-13 10:28:23+00:00
Location: EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rust, Haskell, Python, Go, TypeScript, Nix, Zig, C++ Résumé/CV: ask damianjobsites@gmail.com Email: damianjobsites@gmail.com

20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. I have recently built a software NGO with over half a million supporters and over a thousand active volunteers and major political and media networking. I have built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it, and build a team or company around it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com

~~

Example engagement types:

- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles

- Security audits for cryptography and secure code

- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report

- Short-term dev and research work

- One-shot meetings

(see reply for skill list)
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-10-13 10:28:39+00:00
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Rust, Zig, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
by samrazer | 2025-10-13 10:28:50+00:00
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by delaminator | 2025-10-13 10:29:12+00:00
> estimated points of no return

which is quite different from the assertion of "tipping points being crossed".

these are numbers pulled from the models and, regardless of your opinion, the models are reductions of the truth. We've seen lots of models with flaws or biases.

https://www.hoover.org/research/flawed-climate-models

https://geography.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/01/climate-models-...

https://www.cscs.ch/science/earth-env-science/2024/how-scien...

There may be no tipping points at all.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-13 10:29:14+00:00
The title is a bit non descript, so the blog post is exploring

> a 15K-array, 2.9M-panel dataset of utility and commercial-grade solar farms across the lower 48 states plus the District of Columbia. This dataset was constructed by a team of researchers including alumni from NOAA, NASA and the USGS.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 10:29:33+00:00
> Cutting cheap Russian gas was a suicidal move for European manufacturing (and households)

Brussels checkmated itself trying to maintain industrial power while appeasing its anti-nuke reactionaries.

Europe cedes sovereignty with gas. (Whether it buys from America or Russia isn’t structurally relevant. Militarily the distant and rich master is obviously preferable.) The answers are solar, wind and nuclear. Germany is singularly responsible for fucking up the last, and with its Russian gas appeasement, undermining the former.
by youzzh | 2025-10-13 10:29:51+00:00
I am working on an English learning app. I combine flashcards like Anki with Duolingo-style motivation: leagues and streaks. Plus, integrated Giphy and a Telegram bot. Of course, we use the OpenAI API. Also, as an idea for selecting words to learn, we parse movie subtitles with AI and find cool phrases and words to learn before watching a movie in English (as a second language). The app has Russian translations and UI. My goal is to create the best online dictionary for English learners. We use a crowdsourcing approach where anyone can suggest a cool illustration for any word or phrase and add any word or idiom to learn.

https://gem-words.com/
by cube00 | 2025-10-13 10:30:17+00:00
It'd be interesting to understand how much of that memory pressure is down to the devs compared with the frameworks now trying to cache everything in sight.

React Compiler automatically memoizes values and functions, reducing the need for manual useMemo calls. You can use the compiler to handle memoization automatically.

https://react.dev/reference/react/useMemo
by mjburgess | 2025-10-13 10:30:32+00:00
> Because simulated fire burns other things in the simulation just as much as “real” fire burns real things.

What we mean by a simulation is, by definition, a certain kind of "inference game" we play (eg., with beads and chalk) that help us think about the world. By definition, if that simulation has substantial properties, it isn't a simulation.

If the claim is that an electrical device can implement the actual properties of biological intelligence, then the claim is not about a simulation. It's that by manufacturing some electrical system, plugging various devices into it, and so on -- that this physical object has non-simulated properties.

Searle, and most other scientific naturalists who appreciate the world is real -- are not ruling out that it could be possible to manufacture a device with the real properties of intelligence.

It's just that merely by, eg., implementing the fibonacci sequence, you havent done anything. A computation description doesnt imply any implementation properties.

Further, when one looks at the properties of these electronic systems and the kinds of causal realtions they have with their environments via their devices, one finds very many reasons to suppose that they do not implement the relevant properties.

Just as much as when one looks at a film strip under a microscope, one discovers that the picture on the screen was an illusion. Animals are very easily fooled, apes most of all -- living as we do in our own imaginations half the time.

Science begins when you suspend this fantasy way of relating to the world, look it its actual properties.

If your world view requires equivocating between fantasy and reality, then sure, anything goes. This is a high price to pay to cling on to the idea that the film is real, and there's a train racing towards you in your cinema seat.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-13 10:31:09+00:00
Obligatory quote:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth

Source: https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf

From a quick look at it, it seems to be a "case 1" potential error, as the proof is done by hand. That is the warning is likely because it is a mathematical exercise first, and the code is for illustration and not for inclusion in production software.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-13 10:32:26+00:00
Thats why I like enshittification as a phrase as it attacks the bad side of things.

If you want to propagandise against the cloud the thing most average (and indeed smart and dumb also) people hate about the cloud is: the software keeps morphing. the buttons keep moving. the menu disappeared.

Lets call it shapeshifting software. Different from this morning-ware!

Confusionware!
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-13 10:32:44+00:00
I always wondered where this belief that progress is given comes from.

Nothing is given in this world. Every real fruit of progress (freedom, democracy, public health etc, not iPhone) was fought for and paid with effort, sweat and blood. People were often put in jail, tortured and murdered. I am not sure what exact price you have in mind when you state you've dedicated your life to FOSS, but I somehow doubt it is comparable. It is naive to think that once we achieved something, we don't need to keep fighting in purpose to keep it. This is equally true about democracy, eradication of diseases through vaccination, and free computing.

Of course only geeks care. My point was that it was always like that. Every big societal and political change was enacted by a relatively small, but coordinated and motivated minority. Majority always is passive, and even if it comes in, it comes in at the very end of the process. The problem is not a small number of geeks that care, but rather geeks' reluctance to organize and act politically. Hell, in this demographics political is always suspicious and unworthy. There won't be any success until this changes.
by alecco | 2025-10-13 10:35:15+00:00
Most of it caused by "Mama Merkel":

* She inherited a booming economy with very good reforms and plenty of budget surplus

* Let infrastructure to rot

* Energy production cratered and shifted to Russian gas dependency (high profile politicians related) showering Putin with billions every year

* Then tricking Puting to a peace agreement to quietly "rearm" Ukraine to prepare for war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements)

* Nuclear reactor dismantling

* Poisoned relationships with peripheral EU countries by forcing her brand of politics

* Persecution of opposition, branding "far right" anything right of center

* Destroying German identity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8PNgxbTE0o)

* Pushing police state and against free speech

* Failing upwards her protégé von der Leyen to the top of the EU, an incompetent, and unelected nepo-baby

* Forcing Germany and the EU to take in tens of millions (at least) of "refugees" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wir_schaffen_das ("we can take them", open doors, family "reunification", etc)

* Anti family hard-line feminist

TBF, at the time, I also fell to the propaganda of Merkel being the best and smartest stateswoman ever.

Sure, not everything she did was bad. But her legacy is now Germany's nightmare. And EU's, too. Untangling this mess will be very difficult.
by this_user | 2025-10-13 10:35:56+00:00
The problem are leftist policies that have completely destroyed any economic dynamism and that have created such high tax burdens that working full-time and trying to advance in your career is basically not worth it for many professionals. I know a lot of people who have either left the country or who have switched to part-time, because doing four days a week gives you 50% more weekend, but only costs you a little bit of money if you are reasonably well paid.

If anything, we need more economically liberal policies, because those actually do stimulate innovation and growth. Instead, leftists are completely focused on how they can extract even more money from the productive part of the population to give to the unproductive.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-13 10:36:09+00:00
I don't see odds on a good outcome from a revolution. Keep in mind which faction in the united states is generally militant. The best possible scenario there is broad civilian unrest that the administration tries to forcefully quell, triggering a military coup, but it's unlikely that the coup would be unified, and right wing militias and hardcore trump supports would go down fighting.

We need political Aikido to hold this country together.
by seanwilson | 2025-10-13 10:37:00+00:00
Cool! Here's a quick link for now with those colors:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/?style_dictionary=eyJjb2xvci...

I've sorted the colors by luminance/lightness and added a gray swatch for comparison so can explore which color pairs pass WCAG contrast checks.

I haven't really gotten into colorblind safe colors like this yet where the colors mostly differ by hue and not luminance. Colorblind and non-colorblind people should be able to tell colors apart based on luminance difference i.e. luminance contrast. Hue perception is impacted by the several different kinds of color blindness so it's much trickier to find a set of colors that everyone can tell apart. This relates to the WCAG recommendation you don't rely on hue (contrast) to convey essential information (https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/use-of-color.htm...).

The gray swatch above could be called colorblind safe for example because as long as you pick color pairs with enough luminance contrast between them, colorblind and non-colorblind people should be able to tell them apart. You could even vary the hue and saturation of each shade to make it really colorful, as a long as you don't change the luminance values the WCAG contrast between pairings should still pass.
Show HN: AI Figure Generator – Photo to figurine renders and box mockups
by brian_bian | 2025-10-13 10:37:16+00:00
I built a web app that turns a single photo into collectible-style figurine renders and packaging mockups.

What’s different: • Focus on figurine + retail box compositions (window boxes, bases, poses) • 14 curated styles; text-free packaging presets • Fast web workflow (no installs); background cleanup and re-style in one place

Tech bits: • Next.js + Cloudflare edge; image models orchestrated per-style • No tracking parameters on the demo; feedback welcome on latency/quality/pricing

I’d love feedback from HN: what features/styles are missing, and where the UX feels rough.
by jeduardo | 2025-10-13 10:37:34+00:00
Hey, that's good to hear. Was it a recent experience for you? Maybe they heard some of the feedback and acted on it.

This encourages me to revisit them, not because I'm unhappy with my current provider, but rather because Twilio offers what I need (a number that can receive and send SMS) in regions where my current provider doesn't.
by zahlman | 2025-10-13 10:38:48+00:00
I knew from the headline that this would be the Turkish I thing, but I couldn't fathom why a compiler would care about case-folding. "I don't know Kotlin, but surely its syntax is case-sensitive like all the other commonly used languages nowadays?"

> The code is part of a class named CompilerOutputParser, and is responsible for reading XML files containing messages from the Kotlin compiler. Those files look something like this:

"Oh."

"... Seriously?"

As if I didn't hate XML enough already.
Show HN: Simple 2D Interaction System for Godot
by wasivis | 2025-10-13 10:39:40+00:00
This lightweight system includes a ready-to-use player, interactable objects, and an interaction manager singleton.

Perfect for chests, buttons, NPCs, and more. Drop in the scripts, set up your scene, and start interacting!

Includes a fully playable demo scene for easy testing.
by ohdeardear | 2025-10-13 10:40:00+00:00
man -T grep | grep 'Free Soft\|Thom'

(Cop)108 348 Q(yright 1998-2000, 2002, 2005-2023 Free Softw)-.1 E(are F)

Sure, he wrote _a_ version of grep, and probably the first, but who cares? "The" (sure, you might run some bsd grep) current version of grep certainly doesn't.
by agoodusername63 | 2025-10-13 10:40:03+00:00
My point is that DRM isn’t something that FOSS has any control over, and is becoming an increasingly common strategy to discourage using third party software because it forces compromises.

So when the DRM doesn’t work and you get a degraded experience, pitching anybody who isn’t really interested in the ecosystem of technology is pretty much impossible. One tech stack works well, one doesn’t. That’s all one cares about
by lelanthran | 2025-10-13 10:40:23+00:00
> Besides, what's wrong with mentioning how crappy these movies are (they really do suck) in a post that specifically names them?

Assuming you're talking about Prometheus and Covenant, I enjoyed them. Not quite as good as the first (1979) or the second (1986), but I did indeed enjoy the last two.

It's the Alien:Earth series that I stopped watching after 3 or 4 episodes. I did not enjoy that one bit.

Alien Romulus was also not enjoyable; there was no progression of the stories in the universe. At least Prometheus and Covenant attempted expanding the original story. A:E and A:R didn't even bother - with very few changes, those both could be about any alien-filled universe, not specifically about the one started with Alien(1979).

I'm curious what didn't work for you about those movies?
by jbarrow | 2025-10-13 10:40:27+00:00
Training ML models for PDF forms. You can try out what I’ve got so far with this service that automatically detects where fields should go and makes PDFs fillable: https://detect.semanticdocs.org/ Code and models are at: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms

That’s built on a dataset and paper I wrote called CommonForms, where I scraped CommonCrawl for hundreds of thousands of fillable form pages and used that as a training set:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506

Next step is training and releasing some DETRs, which I think will drive quality even higher. But the ultimate end goal is working on automatic form accessibility.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-13 10:41:19+00:00
I don't think the premise that everything is a proxy is right. We can distinguish between proxies and components.

A proxy is something like, you're trying to tell if hiring discrimination is happening or to minimize it so you look at the proportion of each race in some occupation compared to their proportion of the general population. That's only a proxy because there could be reasons other than hiring discrimination for a disparity.

A component is something like, a spaceship needs to go fast. That's not the only thing it needs to do, but space is really big so going fast is kind of a sine qua non of making a spaceship useful and that's the direct requirement rather than a proxy for it.

Goodhart's law can apply to both. The problem with proxies is they're misaligned. The problem with components is they're incomplete. But this is where we come back to the principal-agent problem.

If you could enumerate all of the components and target them all then you'd have a way out of Goodhart's law. Of course, you can't because there are too many of them. But, many of the components -- especially the ones people take for granted and fail to list -- are satisfied by default or with minimal effort. And then enumerating the others, the ones that are both important and hard to satisfy, gets you what you're after in practice.

As long as the person setting the target and the person meeting it are the same person. When they're not, the person setting the target can't take anything for granted because otherwise the person meeting the target can take advantage of that.

> What are the reasons this happens and what are the reasons people think it is reasonable? Do you think it happens purely because people are dumb? Or smart but unintended.

In many cases it's because there are people (regulators, corporate bureaucrats) who aren't in a position to do something without causing significant collateral damage because they only have access to weak proxies, and then they cause the collateral damage because we required them to do it regardless, when we shouldn't have been trying to get them to do something they're in no position to do well.