MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by calebh | 2025-10-01 15:56:45+00:00
I have aphantasia and have been practicing meditation with the goal of improving the condition for a couple years. I have seen some minor improvements - when I'm in a pretty relaxed state I can see some visuals, but am not able to control the stream of images.

I haven't been working on this quite as much recently since there seems to be a connection with the meditation causing an ocular migraine with aura.
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-01 15:57:20+00:00
It's more that category theory foregrounds the functions themselves, and their relationships, rather than on the elements of sets which the functions operate on. This higher-level perspective is arguably the more appropriate level when thinking about the structure of programs.

For more detail, see Bartosz Milewski, Category Theory for Programmers:

"Composition is at the very root of category theory — it’s part of the definition of the category itself. And I will argue strongly that composition is the essence of programming. We’ve been composing things forever, long before some great engineer came up with the idea of a subroutine. Some time ago the principles of structured programming revolutionized programming because they made blocks of code composable. Then came object oriented programming, which is all about composing objects. Functional programming is not only about composing functions and algebraic data structures — it makes concurrency composable — something that’s virtually impossible with other programming paradigms."

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
by SilverbeardUnix | 2025-10-01 15:57:26+00:00
It would take more than just your neighbor developing their land for your land to increase in value. land value taxes calculate the value of the undeveloped land as in land in denser areas is more valuable than suburban land. Unless all of your neighbor are putting up fourplexes changing the entire makeup of the neighborhood, your land value is unlikely to increase. This can't be said of property value where if your neighbor improves their property, your property value and property taxes might increase as a result.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 15:57:50+00:00
That's what the public relations people say. The evidence of my eye was that there 50 HR-Vs in a row that nobody wanted to buy and that the dealer's plan was to get me to buy one of those instead. Of course sales of the Fit are going to be low if they don't have any in stock and they pressure you into buying an HR-V.

My dad had the exact same thing happen to him at American car dealers in the 1970s -- supposedly they had small cars for sale but actually they didn't. Today it is Japanese car dealers doing the same thing.

Before the pandemic (discounts disappeared) I used to see big-ass trucks with decals advertising $7000 off. If people really wanted those cars they wouldn't have to discount them to sell them, instead you'd see $7000 discounts on the small cars that supposedly people don't want to buy.
by soulofmischief | 2025-10-01 15:58:10+00:00
No, I don't realize that, because it's laughably false. The president is not elected to represent me, that's what Congress is supposed to be for. A single man cannot possibly represent a country of 340 million people. It's understandably easy for people from smaller countries to not be able to fathom just how big and divided America is.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-01 15:58:17+00:00
Only one response to make sure I'm correct in who I'm conversing with:

> > ask your latest supreme court justice

> Ah. I do not posses a Supreme Court justice.

I have been assuming you're an American all the time and made my remarks based on those assumptions. If you are an American this latest supreme court justice is 'yours', if not she isn't.

Assuming that you are indeed an American I can only conclude you assume I meant 'your (...) supreme court justice' in an ideological way - why? Is that a normal way to talk about justices in your circles? It is not in mine.
by k310 | 2025-10-01 15:58:32+00:00
For real "journaling" it's pen and paper. One dated journal [0] and one "idea file"

I post a lot and on both desktop and phone/ipad, so the "no thinking needed" route is Apple Notes, and I just spent some time exploring how difficult it is to export these. But it works cross-Apple-device (mini-rant deleted)

Obsidian requires extra synchronization, or $$$.

I dumped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired.

[0] the semi-dated one that CVS sells.
by piptastic | 2025-10-01 15:59:05+00:00
same: google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --no-pdf-header-footer --hide-scrollbars --print-to-pdf-margins="0,0,0,0" --print-to-pdf --window-size=1280,720 https://example.com

ended up using headless chrome specifically to make sure javascript things rendered properly
by ignaciosoffia | 2025-10-01 15:59:21+00:00
Hey there!

I'm Ignacio, one of the co-founders of faces: the everyday site builder. Most website builders focus on help you "create A professional site", but the reality of many creators and entrepreneurs is different. They need many sites, constantly, to try different ideas, share ideas, conceptualize future projects...

Some vibecoding tools have made it easier to generate sites, but they all look the same (purple gradient/shadcn), are a pain to work on with a chat-only UI and end up being too complicated for non-technical people.

Faces takes the best of both worlds. It's fully generative, meaning you can prompt it to build what you want, but it's modular. Each section of your site is a standalone module that connects to the next. This way you get the ease of iteration of a regular builder, with the flexibility of vibecoding.

Anyways, we're launching today and I'd love to hear what you think :)

https://x.com/facesdotapp/status/1973410165040005591
by scottyah | 2025-10-01 15:59:39+00:00
It is an interesting question. Of course everyone should have equal access to the data in theory, but I also believe nobody should be forced to offer it for free to others and I don't think I want to spend tax money having the government host and distribute that data.

I'm not sure how everyone can have access to the data without necessitating another taking on the burden of providing it.
by iamleppert | 2025-10-01 15:59:52+00:00
Have you tried Loveable or seen any of their marketing? They are innovating a new category of software that is passable in all the ways a typical user can examine, but none of the ways of traditional software.

And why should they? Most people will pay them, churn out whatever code, it will likely never be deployed or used by anyone (this is true of most code created by a real engineer too). By the time the user has figured out what they have "created" isn't real, Loveable is on to the next mark/user.
by SkyBelow | 2025-10-01 15:59:55+00:00
Barter still exists. It is largely inefficient as we don't see things having equal value. Even in barter, often some intermediate that was a form of money emerged, such as a staple food that could be stored for a relative long term. In smaller communities, there was a bit of not seeking equal exchange because belonging to the community was more important, but that doesn't scale well to larger groups and can lead to some people being taken advantage of and thus leaving the community if that is an option.

Violence is problematic for self evident reasons. Cooperation I already touched on about the community involvement, with all the same problems.

It isn't that we can't imagine a world without money, but that we quickly see the problems with it given the scale of modern day life.

As for post scarcity, it really depends upon what is post scarcity. Money becomes meaningless for things that are not scarce, but some things remain scarce.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-01 15:59:59+00:00
I once had about three racks full of servers under my control, admittedly they weren't a ton of disks, but still the hardware maintenance effort was pretty much negligible over a few years (until it all went to the cloud).

The majority of server wrangling work I spent dealing with OS updates and, most annoyingly, OpenStack. But that's something you can't escape even if you run your stuff in the cloud...
Ask HN: Who's Looking for Cofounders (October 2025)
by kristopolous | 2025-10-01 16:00:02+00:00
This is a new monthly post for pre-funded, self-funded, or not-for-profit ventures to help people connect on early stage projects.

This is for high risk projects where there is no guarantee of compensation.

Here's the format:

Location | In person/remote | Short topic | Languages (if primarily non-English)

< Who are you >

< What you're doing >

< What you're looking for >

< Contact >

A full example:

Portland | Remote | Animal translator

I’m an avid birder and hobbyist AI developer.

I’ve got a speech-to-speech model on Huggingface that takes human imitation of bird calls and generates the intended birdcall.

I'm looking for an auditory zoologist to extend the model to dog barks and cat purrs. This is probably not for profit but I'm open to possibilities.

Contact: example.com/contactus
by oaktowner | 2025-10-01 16:00:14+00:00
>>It's the best authoring tool we've ever devised.

100% agreed. Creating a spreadsheet is declarative programming, and Excel (and now Google Sheets) has made more developers than any other platform (probably by an order or two of magnitude).

I do not know a business that was not CRITICALLY dependent on Excel for actual business operations through the 90s and 00s...and the same is likely true today.
by TuringNYC | 2025-10-01 16:00:35+00:00
>> She never had the full proceeds in her possession. Remember, she had investors. She was venture-backed startup. She likely only had somewhere between 10% and 25% of the equity at the time that she sold the company.

How does this work for the VCs? Does JPMorgan claw back money from the VCs? What if the VCs distributed to their LPs...does money get clawed back from the LPs?
by franktankbank | 2025-10-01 16:00:36+00:00
So if a distribution exists and the data scientist is aware of it and knows hed need to match it within some deviation then that is pretty trivial to do in not too much time of coding and not too much runtime. If guy doesn't have that and doesn't know hes party to a fraud then its just as easy, random match first names and last names from a limited list. There's no training scenario imaginable that would be taking into account some particular name details. Guy was probably paid near 10k per hour, which I don't know, might trip me up a bit.
by em-bee | 2025-10-01 16:00:37+00:00
how does that work with SPF, DMARC, DKIM?

don't you have to authorize email-smtp.us-east-2.amazonaws.com to send email on your behalf?

if you don't wouldn't every spammer use that?

also, how much does that cost? i don't need to send more than a dozen email per year like that.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-01 16:00:40+00:00
It's an accounting term. You need to report the value of assets of your company each reporting cycle. This allows you to report company profit more accurately since the 2400 drives aren't likely not worth what the company originally paid. It's stated as a tax write-off but people get confused with that term (they think X written off == X less tax paid). It's better to correctly state it as a way to more accurately report profit (which may end up with less company tax paid but obviously not 1:1 since company tax is not 100%).

So anyway you basically pretend you resold the drives today. Here they are assuming in 3 years time no one will pay anything for the drives. Somewhat reasonable to be honest since the setup's bespoke and you'll only get a fraction of the value of 3 year old drives if you resold them.
by peteratt | 2025-10-01 16:00:45+00:00
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We're building Cursor for doctors. At Vibrant, we've picked the expensive, high-touch, data-heavy subspecialties of functional, integrative, and longevity medicine, and we've created AI agents that reduce hours of clinical work to minutes.

We're a world-class team of health tech founders, AI builders, and physicians from Meta, Stride Health, and Parsley Health. In just five months, we've built notetaking/scribing, Clinical Decision Support, and some of the integrations a clinician needs to run their practice with Vibrant as their AI Operating System.

In words of doctors using our product already in production: "I have goosebumps, this is really incredible. Very accurate." "Seeing the patient overview AI-generated summary come to life after placing a couple notes is AMAZING. I'm losing it over here"

Our stack: Typescript, React, NextJS, React Native, Expo, AI SDK, and custom AI agents, RAG, tools, and agentic workflows.

It's still early days for us – we're looking for folks who ship fast and are curious and resourceful. If that's you, shoot me an email at pedro [at] vibrantpractice.com or just book an intro with me: https://book.vimcal.com/p/pedro/hn-15-minute-chat-with-pedro
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-01 16:00:46+00:00
I know very little about cyber security in the wild - little Bobby Tables is about my level.

Are these hacks unavoidable, or are they indicative of shoddy IT on the victim's side? There has been a sleugh of cyberattacks recently and I don't know what to make of it.

If it's kind of like getting burgled - get good home security but a determined burglar will get in anyway - then it's a systemic problem we have to somehow tackle as a society. And if it's shoddy workmanship, again, it would appear so widespread that we have to do something about it.

I'm not passing judgment, just trying to understand.
by a13x57 | 2025-10-01 16:00:52+00:00
Look, I am a very experienced Developer of nearly 20 years. I have worked on countless projects as both a Front End Developer and Backend (and UI designer in the past).

I have worked with many startups, long-standing corporations, governments, many name brands (in which I'm sure you've even interacted with my work multiple times and wouldn't know it), and have had my own businesses in this field. I have single handily built applications seen by millions of public users and I would absolutely bet you are one of them.

I began freelancing in high-school in the late 90s. I didn't learn development from a bootcamp, I was obsessed at an early age and understood the fundamentals of JavaScript well before front-end frameworks were a thing yet my experience with React, Vue, SolidJS, and many others has been the forefront of my work for the past 13 years or so (not SolidJS obviously).

I know this market isn't great on both sides, and you could absolutely hire someone outside the US for cheaper (my rate is 65/hr negotiable btw), but you would definitely not get the same experience or outcome for your project.

I am also available for local hybrid (Atlanta, GA), part-time, full-time, remote etc. and am I am absolutely devoted to the work that I do.

My personal hobbies include upgrading and maintaining my on-premise k8s cluster (reddit post of the first iteration: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1li74m2/first_home...) comprised of many various Single Board Computers with different archetectures to self host my entire digital life for security and privacy, as well as teaching a small class about the fundamentals of electronics. My talent however lies strongly on the front end but my curiosity is in linux, open source, security, and so on.

Location: Atlanta, GA USA Remote: Yes/Hybrid Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Vue, React, Tailwind, Astro, NextJS, Node.js, Postgresql, Docker, AWS, Linux, HTML, CSS, Figma, Electron Résumé/CV: http://alexstubbs.com/resume - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderstubbs Email: hialex [at] duck.com - http://alexstubbs.com
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 16:01:02+00:00
first off, as a ren fest veteran, it's easier to just take "renaissance" to mean "basically any time between the collapse of rome and world war i, also with the possibility of time travellers and things that never existed in the first place and anachronisms like turkeys in pre-Colombian England" and take "Renaissance" with the capital "r" to mean "from the 1300s to roughly the discovery of the new world"

Second, I think it's an interesting question to ask if people craved this particular past or if they just craved a space where everything is vastly different and settled on this period because it's pretty firmly embedded in our cultural mythology and everyone has an idea, however historically inaccurate, of what this time period was like. I think it's less that we built it because this is specifically what we want and more that this was waiting for us to materialize it. The majority of what people get from the ren fest isn't renaissance specific, it's just about going to a place that's different enough to be novel and exciting but familiar enough to be comfortable. I think that if we did a Flintstone Fest where we all dressed as cave folk that would be similar enough that you have people who go to both. In fact I may be a little biased because I actually like to bring a caveman character to our local fest's time traveller's weekend. It's fun to turn the conceit on its head by walking around acting amazed at how advanced everything is. I could also foresee a successful Old West Fest. All time periods that are vastly different than now, but with a familiarity from being studied, stereotyped and riffed on in the common culture. A comfortable elsewhere and elsewhen.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-01 16:01:16+00:00
> rendered with an approximately 2 GB geometry pool, in 26ms when using ray tracing and 16ms when using rasterization, on NVIDIA GeForce 3050. Not bad for a GPU that draws all its power from the motherboard without needing a separate power cable!

This is very impressive, but I still think we're heading in a really scary direction with this combination of art & technology for gaming use cases. Memory bandwidth is finite. Giving an art team permission to use assets of arbitrary complexity is a dangerous precedent. It is impossible to put this kind of cat back into the bag once you start having trouble with it on lower-end platforms.

Resorting to TAA is inevitable if you lean on Nanite. All (efficient) intraframe anti-aliasing techniques fall apart with sub-pixel triangles. SSAA defeats the core principle of Nanite and MSAA would be potentially be even worse in the most degenerate cases.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-01 16:01:20+00:00
> This doesn't look like a standard .net config (appsettings.json) to me.

Having done... enough .NET I don't see a serious consensus and it frustrates me. My favorite was the project that used dot ENV files. I have tried to convince them of it here, but nobody cares enough about the craft I suppose, of course there's more important things to be worked on, momentary change for increased dev experience is not worth it the business.
by card_zero | 2025-10-01 16:01:30+00:00
I feel in my gut that this is fad-driven internet bullshit, and I would like to learn less, if it were possible.

> Dr. Adam Zeman, a neurologist from Exeter, receives a patient who can no longer imagine — known as patient MX. MX goes blind in his mind’s eye after undergoing surgery.

> Media outlets like the New York Times report the findings. This leads to an outpouring of new discoverers.

Hmm
by motorest | 2025-10-01 16:01:56+00:00
> Similar to how relational databases and SQL are still the gold standard today.

...except they aren't. The world is gradually slipping towards nosql databases and stepping away from normalized data stores, to the point where tried and true RDBMS are shoehorning support for storing and querying JSON documents.

All flagship database services from major cloud providers are nosql databases.

Perhaps you're confusing pervasiveness with representing gold standard. Yes, RDBMS are pervasive, but so are non-compliance with the standard and vendor-specific constructs. The biggest factor was not what was the theoretical background behind each implementation but ease of use and ease of adoption. SQLite is an outstanding database not because of its compliance with SQL standards and adherence to theoretical purity, but because it's FLOSS and trivial to setup and use.

I expect the same factors to be relevant in adoption of functional programming. This stuff exists for decades on end but mass adoption was between negligible to irrelevant. What started to drive adoption was the inception of modules and components that solved real-world problems and helped developers do what they wanted to do with less effort. In JavaScript the use of map, filter and reduce is not driven by any new-founded passion for function programming but because it's right there and it's concise and simple and readable and capable. In C#, linq is gaining traction for the same reasons but is largely kept back by performance issues.

The key aspect is pragmatism, and theoretical elegance is by far a mere nice-to-have.
by duxup | 2025-10-01 16:02:04+00:00
>As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump claimed he would quickly end the war in Gaza. Eight months after taking office

Trump is the ultimate big talk, few results. But he keeps talking to so folks don't notice, it's always the next big talk, next threat, fear, and whatever he saw on Twitter last.

I don't think Trump much cares about the middle east, there's no easy win for him, so yeah he gets played time and again by Netanyahu.
by j_bum | 2025-10-01 16:02:21+00:00
I haven’t listened to this podcast, but I listened to an excellent RadioLab podcast a while ago on the topic. They ended the podcast by discussing some of the ethics of “fixing” aphantasia, many of which I had never considered.

I recall them mentioning: 1. the ethical challenge of arguing that aphantasia is something that needs “fixed” in the first place 2. The unknowns of what might happen to someone emotionally if they go from nothing to something. This might sound odd, but we know that hyperphantasia can be associated with schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric issues. 3. The implications of downstream cognitive “enhancements” that might result from this.

I have aphantasia, and I do not think I’d want it “fixed”.

My partner has hyperphantasia, and similarly she wouldn’t want it “fixed”.
by taylodl | 2025-10-01 16:02:48+00:00
"or face the punitive 100 percent tariff" - how is this not a you'd better do as I say, or I'll shoot my foot off situation?

Trump hails himself as a negotiating genius, so what am I missing here?

- Taiwan makes the bulk of the world's processors

- Building a new fab facility is both a money and time-consuming endeavor. Ironically, Trump's tariffs are destabilizing the global economy making such investments even less likely

- The demand for processors is relatively inelastic. The consumers will largely "eat" the cost increases due to tariffs

- The last point means Taiwan is relatively unharmed by the tariffs

Given this, what is Taiwan's motivation to capitulate to Trump's demands? From where I stand Taiwan appears to be holding all the cards and Trump has nothing - yet Trump somehow thinks he's going to use nothing to strong-arm a deal? Is this what everyone else sees or am I missing something?
by eitland | 2025-10-01 16:03:02+00:00
> The thing that this comment misses, imo, is that LLMs are not always enabling people who previously couldn't create value to create value. In fact i think they are likely to cause some people who created value previously to create even less value!

Agree.

For some time I’ve compared AI to a nail gun:

It can make an experienced builder much quicker at certain jobs.

But for someone new to the trade, I’m not convinced it makes them faster at all. It might remove some of the drudgery, yes — but it also adds a very real chance of shooting oneself in the foot (or hand).