MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 16:30:37+00:00
There wasn't much directed learning. We played all day. Indoors building stuff, outdoors in the woods. All that academic material with reading and writing and maths and all that, that's what primary school was for. Which started at age 6/7.

I'd say let kids be kids and have them explore the world through curiosity, not through a planned curiculum from age 3.
by TheCycoONE | 2025-10-07 16:30:55+00:00
I held a similar opinion several years ago. The main thing is that lua has less magic than js largely because it's been allowed to break compatibility.

My main example is self in lua which is just the first argument of a function with some syntactic sugar vs this in javascript which especially before 'bind' often tripped people up. The coercion rules are also simpler largely by virtue of making 0 true.
by ivanech | 2025-10-07 16:31:07+00:00
> Gold has reached all time highs

this is true

> US debt (ie T-bills) selling at all time lows

this is not true unless you’re doing some kind of adjustment. For t bills, us03m yields were much higher 30-40 years ago.

> US equities are at all time highs

this is true

> USD falling day over day, month over month, year over year

if falling means inflation, yes in banal way. If falling means relative to other currencies, that’s the last 9 months or so. Previously the USD was quite strong

> US debt is falling in value because no one wants to buy it

this appears to be the hinge of the argument? It is not true. 10y yields have been down / flat since beginning of 2025 (i.e., price up). also tsy auctions remain well-subscribed / within historical range
by free_bip | 2025-10-07 16:31:11+00:00
I disagree with the reasoning "Because there's too much important software that runs only on windows."

My disagreement isn't because wine or proton exist, it's because most people only use a web browser. They check their email, watch tiktok and netflix, and write documents. 90% of people would have all their computing needs met by a basic chromebook.
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-07 16:31:17+00:00
If it doesn't crash due to these factors, IMO Boomers aging and dying will crash the economy due to the outsized share of wealth they have locked up. They're going to cash it out as they incur more and more health/assisted living costs. Whatever is left will be sold immediately by their heirs to pay off debts or other forms of spending. I also have a theory that Boomer spending right now is the only thing keeping a lot of business in the black, especially higher end services, food, and tourism.
by jarjoura | 2025-10-07 16:31:25+00:00
Companies like OpenTable that make money on the backend for connecting you with the restaurant will happily partner with OpenAI on this.

There are plenty of brokers that will add immense value to ChatGPT for free and if users go there looking for something, it's only a matter of time.

Right now, I only like using the chat interface to answer questions I can't quite form into searches, but I also don't go directly to a chat bot to book dinner reservations. However, if I'm using the service to riff on ideas for a romantic thing to do with my partner, and it somehow leads me to resturant reservations, I do think I would engage with it and come back to ChatGPT in the future for novel interactions like that.
Show HN: netq – A script to fetch common network parameters, written in POSIX sh
by pooyamo | 2025-10-07 16:31:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I've written a simple script, mainly to query public IPv4 and IPv6 of a computer. Currently about 14 IP-finder services are supported. It also supports fetching local IP and the corresponding network name (like SSID), which is useful for integrations in status-bars of minimal GNU/Linux-based setups like tiling wm desktops.

I've used POSIX sh and tried to fall back to alternative tools if a dependency is not found so the script would be more portable on different Linux distros. Also, it has basic support for Windows via MSYS2.

Hope it's useful. Let me know of what you think ;)
by bitwize | 2025-10-07 16:31:37+00:00
The future of desktop Linux is in a Windows-hosted VM, and some configurations (Home) might not allow even that.

We're a few years out from machines that, by law, cannot run an alternative OS on bare metal. As it is, Linux only runs on bare metal because Microsoft, the sole Secure Boot key authority for almost all OEMs, deigns to allow it.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-07 16:31:50+00:00
NB, there is no "San Francisco University".

There is the University of San Francisco, which is what Gizmodo should have written, as reported in SFGate. This is a private Jesuit school in the Inner Richmond district.

There is the unrelated San Francisco State University, a public university and part of the California State University system.

Which itself is not to be confused with the University of California, of which there are also two SF campuses, University of San Francisco Medical Center, primarily at Parnasusus Heights (at the confluence of the Haight Ashbury / Cole Valley / Inner Sunset), though with another growing campus in Mission Bay, and ... the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), near the Civic Center.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-07 16:31:56+00:00
> Not sure how they made money recently,

That's an easy riddle to answer: Nothing sold by Arduino is particularly inexpensive. They've got room for profit margin. It's easier to make money when the things are several times more expensive than the competitors.

To pick an example: I can get a sketchy-feeling ESP32 board that was manufactured by some nameless entity and sold by a company that calls themselves "QQQMFXFDCX" or something. It'll probably generally work, but the pins will be in whatever order, labeled however, and I might have to spend some time documenting its unknown [mis]features. It will cost me a few dollars.

Or, I mean: I can get one from Arduino with their name on it (and with a ublox-branded module) in their Nano form-factor for ~$20. It will work fine. The pins will be [mostly] in numeric order, and labeled on both sides of the board. It will cost me about $20.

There's a lot more potential profit margin in a $20 sale than there is in a $3 sale.

(Do they add enough value to make me want to spend $20 instead of $3? Not necessarily, but I'm pretty cheap.)
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-10-07 16:32:08+00:00
I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-07 16:32:26+00:00
> Arduino got obsoleted by the Raspberry Pi and its clones/compatible devices.

Not entirely. Arduino was always targeted at the "casual DIY" segment - artists, school robotics clubs, and other folks who wanted automation without a steep learning curve. This was a notch below the "serious hobbyist" tier where you could save a lot of money by just buying a bare-metal version of the same chip and write some code in C (or Rust). Or the pro tier, where there's way you're paying $20+ for a glorified breakout board.

Casual DIY always had a ton of inertia. It's also the reason why every other design for an analog guitar pedal or whatever is using components that are 50 years old: ancient designs are just copied-and-pasted forever. So I don't think Arduino is dead there, although other platforms are definitely eating some of their lunch.
by busymom0 | 2025-10-07 16:32:56+00:00
> The account seizure also required emergency powers.

Court ruled the use of Emergencies Act against convoy protests was unreasonable, violated Charter:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-federal-cou...

> Second, the bank accounts seized did not belong to protestors

Wrong. Many people whose accounts were frozen were family/friends who were not even at the protest.

Court found:

> The judge said the economic orders infringed on protesters' freedom of expression "as they were overbroad in their application to persons who wished to protest but were not engaged in activities likely to lead to a breach of the peace." He also concluded the economic orders violated protesters' Charter rights "by permitting unreasonable search and seizure of the financial information of designated persons and the freezing of their bank and credit card accounts."
Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options
by ultrasounder | 2025-10-07 16:33:09+00:00
Hi HN, Long time lurker and occasional contributor here. I recently moved to a "high-growth" Startup after spending some significant time in enterprise/corporate. It turned out be a mutual "culture mis-fit" issue. I am burnt-out within the first two weeks of being there and I have asked them to terminate my employment immediately so that I can file for unemployment with state of California(my home state). Right now I am in a technical non-software/Hardware role and have been for the last 20 years since graduating from Grad-school. I tried pivoting into the "next shiny object" several times to no-avail(AR/VR/DS/ML/AI). I even tried getting into the whole "Leetcode" FAANG rat race and eventually gave up on that. I am contemplating on what my next potential career move could be. Truth be told, I have the financial security both from my savings, 401Ks and a spouse who is gainfully employed in a tech role at one of the Big-tech companies(that has a product in every "office"). So, I could just "retire" now and pursue other things. But, I want to lead a productive life , doing something meaningful and worthwhile with the time active work time I have on my hands(I am 47 will turn 48 this feb). Son will be off to college next year and won't have any time pressures. His college fund is taken care of. 80,000 hrs was suggested before. And so was techjobsforgood mentioned before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325501). A few of my core-strengths - I am generally a good person to be around, have always made good relationships with my peers and external vendors. So though not a people manager person, I like working with people. Sorry for the rant, but I am in huge mental turmoil and any iota of collective wisdom from HN would just save me not just my career but my "mid-life crisis" as well. I find posting this to HN much more therapeutic than to say "Chat with GPT". Thanks for reading.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-07 16:33:33+00:00
If a librarian put a book out on the front table with a "recommended reading" sign then yeah that seems fair for them to carry some liability if that book were actually libelous. And so it should be for recommended posts on sites like Youtube, Instagram, etc. A chronological or alphabetical index is a factual catalogue of information. A recommendation is you vouching for the material. Totally different.
by atoav | 2025-10-07 16:34:05+00:00
I run a medialab at an university. ESP32 is great, but there are some downsides that are all not dealbreakers, but can in some cases lead me to recommend a classic Arduino-type device:

1. Lack of 5V tolerant pins. Beginners may or may not be aware of the possibility of destroying the device or the need to level-shift signals.

2. Tooling may not work out of the box. As of today the tooling step boils down to pasting a URL into a field in the preferences, but that is something you need to know. You need to select the right uploading options which are much more complex than with arduino type devices.

3. IMO less clear naming of different dev boards, thus also harder to find docs.

4. Examples may not work out of the box, simple Arduino examples may fail with hard to debug issues (for beginners) where they don't know whether it is a hardware issue, wrong board/uploader setup or a pinout issue (e.g. if the onboard LED pin differs).

These are all examples of issues students had when they used the ESP32 boards without my guidance, so not just my opinion or a theory. And as I said none of these are dealbreakers, but depending on the patience, stress levels, perceived skill etc. of the student this might make me recommend an Arduino over an ESP32.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-07 16:34:16+00:00
It was a long time ago but more than once I had troubles with a Windows license and it was known that if you talked to somebody at Microsoft on the phone long enough they'd take pity on you and give you a new license key.

They're not really afraid that individuals are going to rip off Windows, they are afraid that system builders are going to rip off 20 copies of Windows for machines that they build. In fact, given that they are so into Azure and GAME PASS and all sorts of thing you've never heard of, Windows might just be a loss leader.
by bapak | 2025-10-07 16:34:38+00:00
Your comment touched on a lot of notes and I'm having trouble writing my thoughts down.

Everything expires, the stuff/mementos I saved in my teens is now gone. My situation only speeds this process up due to practical reasons. If gifts reach my dumping ground I do care about them, I'm just very liberal with words.

I have no intention of returning even just to my home country, nor of collecting my stuff from there. Nomadism taught me to be minimal and even if "I settle" it doesn't mean I will start hoarding stuff.

Given how long I've been at it, I disagree that it's not sustainable. The only "end" I see to my situation is that I find someone who convinces my heart to do it. But I'm too picky to settle, both with places and with people. Now that's the issue.

> it's worth recognising the privileged position you're in

Absolutely, but my point was only that people do not need a lot of stuff, and that applies to unprivileged people even more so than it does to me.
by cvoss | 2025-10-07 16:34:39+00:00
It's more spooky and interesting. When we switch to discussing the single particle case, the "wall" is a metaphor. You have a single particle in a low energy state at position A. There is another low energy state at position C, but the path from A to C entails (ostensibly) passing through an intermediate high energy state at position B. Without lending energy into the system, you wouldn't expect the particle to be able to move from A to C, because the particle needs a lot of energy temporarily to move from A to B (which it would give up again as it moves from B to C). Yet the particle does move from A to C, in the absence of an energy source that could explain what happened. This raises the spooky question: Did it actually pass through B on its way? It seems like it did not.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-07 16:35:16+00:00
> The conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, along with Colorado therapist Kaley Chiles, is challenging the ban on conversion therapy, contending that it violates a therapist's right of free speech in talk therapy.

> "I want to be able to operate genuinely and create therapeutic relationships that are not hindered by the values and position of our state," Chiles says, adding that for now she has to turn away clients who want conversion therapy.

This paints a picture of conversion therapy as a nice chat in an office, instead of camps where children get sent away to, with minimal supervision, and barriers to even the parents getting a hold of them again.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-07 16:35:34+00:00
> The panel’s consensus: conversation works when it removes a learning curve.

Conversational UIs are controversial but I think there are a good number of websites where a better search could be more centric. Not generating text, but surfacing the most relevant text.

I’m thinking of a lot of library documentation, government info websites, etc. Basically an improvement over deep hierarchical navigation, where their way of organizing info is a leaky abstraction.

Maybe that will be one of the side effects of this AI boom. Who knows.
by amluto | 2025-10-07 16:35:40+00:00
I am currently waiting for an oven technician to show up to help fix an oven that refuses to operate until I complete a certain cleaning cycle. But the cleaning cycle is blocked on a pop up that cannot be dismissed. I think it’s trying to helpfully give me instructions, but I don’t need the instructions — I already followed them and now it should be the oven’s turn.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-10-07 16:35:42+00:00
This is why we have courts and judges, to hear complaints and issue remedies when the defendants are unwilling to do so. A better solution would be to reign in arbitration agreements, which are horribly inefficient. Arbitration purports to be lest costly, but it encourages unnecessary litigation by preventing the operation of res judicata, it increases the costs of litigation by preventing class actions, etc. It increases injuries by keeping wrongdoers conduct confidential.
by sionisrecur | 2025-10-07 16:35:52+00:00
Well if it's my site I want to give users choice between 2 styles.

I remember Firefox used to have an option in the menu for selecting alternative stylesheets, multiple ones not just light and dark, I think it was a standard from CSS, but only Firefox had a way to select them through the UI, for other browsers you had to use Javascript to make a selector.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-07 16:36:03+00:00
Gold can be an asset. But the way it functions as a financial instrument is more like a short against fiat currency. That is, when inflation starts (or at least when it comes to peoples' attention), gold will move by more than the amount of inflation. When peoples' awareness of inflation goes down, gold goes down, even if inflation is still greater than zero.

Note well: This is my impression. I have not tested this hypothesis against historical data.
by darkro | 2025-10-07 16:36:06+00:00
Yea of course. I was trying to click the docs link from the homepage on llamafarm.dev from two different networks on two different browsers: edge and brave. Neither worked. Phone didn’t either. It takes me to a supabase link that errors out. Hope that helps! Thanks for the link! (Btw I don’t see any errors in the browsers console)
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-07 16:36:09+00:00
Equities can melt up in real terms for a very long period of time, there doesn’t have to be a return to normalcy within in our lifetimes, though I do predict there will be an economic calamity within my lifetime.

The main issue is how will asset prices be maintained when civil unrest makes securing physical assets so expensive that they can no longer yield positive returns. Until then the system is stable as the people with power are able to retain power, the increasing inequality helps intrench the power further.

People see a wealth tax as a way out, but if that happens the state is entirely dependent on the growing the wealth of the mega rich and will act in their interest in effect cementing their power even further.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-10-07 16:36:10+00:00
> When I upgraded my PC I was apparently supposed to transfer the license before deleting the old PC from my account. Doing it in the wrong order lost the license forever - no way to transfer it.

This happened to me too! It's absolutely insane that a license I bought through my account can't be transferred somehow...

My newest NUC is somehow recognized by Windows 11 as being entitled to a copy, and I can reinstall on it repeatedly while keeping the activation, so at least we've got that going for us.

But after Proton, all the machines in my house exclusively run Linux. I sincerely hope I never touch a windows machine again for the rest of my life :)
by kbolino | 2025-10-07 16:36:48+00:00
It is a weird mix.

Kingdom at least has some connection to historical places/people so it kind of makes sense.

Thunderbolt Fantasy on the other hand is completely original/fictional in setting and characters, and yet still uses the Chinese names in the subtitles. While it is a joint Taiwanese-Japanese project, the only available audio is Japanese. So none of the completely made up names ever match between audio and subtitles.

And then there's Dragon Ball with e.g. Son Goku who is named after the Monkey King from Journey to the West but nobody ever refers to him as Sun Wukong.
by akirahittoxyz | 2025-10-07 16:36:56+00:00
Dive into Dog Mothers and Incels: Chronicle of Attraction and Repulsion, a daring novel that weaves together raw desire, biting humour, and the tender chaos of human connection. This is not your typical love story. It’s a provocative, emotionally sharp exploration of two unlikely souls—Iris, a fiercely independent dog mother, and Lukas, a repressed dreamer teetering on the edge of incel culture—whose lives collide in a viral storm of public shame, primal attraction, and unexpected redemption.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 16:37:02+00:00
Most small investors have money only in retirement accounts which don't pay taxes. Now you should mostly not play with that money (just put in good funds which rebalance for you) but taking 5% to play is fine. Just don't lose it all and then take another 5% until it is gone.

outside of that just rebalance only every other year is your best plan - but it means only buying things you can hold that long.
by atoav | 2025-10-07 16:37:21+00:00
Well which board do you select then? ESP32 boardfiles do not come with the Arduino application per default.

Sure, to you and me this may seem trivial, you paste the URL into the prefs, but there are people who will get stumped by this and with an Arduino there is one less step you can forget, not know about or do wrong.

As someone who teaches those things at an University level I can assure you that does make a difference for at least 50% of my students if I let them try to do this unguided.
by strange_quark | 2025-10-07 16:37:23+00:00
This 1000x. I’ve sat through several vendor demos of BI tools that have a chatbot and seen my PM go all starry eyed that you can ask it “show me top x over the last week” and get a chart back. How an empty text box is easier to use than a UI with several filter drop-downs, I’ll never understand, and I suspect that the people impressed with this stuff don’t know either.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-07 16:37:34+00:00
This is mostly true, but the cost of maintenance, fuel, and repair doesn't offset the cost insurance, electricity, and battery replacement for me over the course of 10 years, so my next vehicle will still be a petrol engine car unless something changes substantially. The big thing is, for me, an electric vehicle insurance quote for me ranges between 4K and 6K per year.
by simmons | 2025-10-07 16:37:46+00:00
I was in this same situation earlier this year with one machine that was using a license attached to my Microsoft account. From what I read online, I thought I was freeing up the license by running "slmgr /upk" and "slmgr /cpky" on the old machine, but I guess not. I was eventually able to get the license transferred to the new machine, but only after a very painful morning of working with an MS support person.

I learned that there are two ways of buying a Windows 11 license. One way results in getting a traditional license key that can be reliably transferred, and the other way (tying the license to your Microsoft account) risks losing your license. :( I'm very careful to only buy licenses the former way, now.
by gruez | 2025-10-07 16:37:49+00:00
>Privately held lifestyle businesses don't, at least not as much.

Only because if they're the sole owner, there's nobody with standing to sue. There's no special legal classification for "Privately held lifestyle business". If such businesses have minority shareholders, you still have fiduciary duty to them, and can't use it as a personal slush fund, or manage it incompetently.