MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jaccola | 2025-10-19 16:05:13+00:00
The way I think about this is either the job is done in the most efficient way possible or I am asking everyone else to pay more for that product/service (sometimes a worse product/service) just so I can have a job.

E.g. if I was a truck driver and autonomous trucks came along that were 2/3rds the price and reduced truck related deaths by 99% obviously I couldn't, in good faith, argue that the rest of the population should pay more and have higher risk of death even to save my job and thousands of others. Though somehow this is a serious argument in many quarters (and accounts for lots of government spending).
by gnarlouse | 2025-10-19 16:05:19+00:00
Respectfully, that’s not a very functional belief. It’s sort of the equivalent to saying “communism is how mankind should operate”, while completely ignoring why communism doesn’t work: greedy, self-preserving genetic human instincts.

The workforce gives regular folks at least some marginal stake in civilization. Governments aren’t effective engines against AI. We failed to elect Andrew Yang in 2020–who was literally running on a platform of setting up a UBI tax on AI. Congress is completely corrupt and ineffectual. Trump gutting the government.

You may be right about ai taking jobs eventually if that’s what you’re saying, but you come off pretty coldly if you’re implying it’s what “should” happen because it’s Darwinian and inevitable, and just sorta “well fuck poor people.”
by raincole | 2025-10-19 16:05:26+00:00
Freedom isn't about the number of choices. It's about:

- Comprehensiveness: instead of pork or beef, you can choose from meat, fish, tofu or egg as your protein source.

- Non-commitment: choosing one of them doesn't prevent you from choosing another for the next meal.

- Safety: none of them shouldn't be so expensive that it hurts you financially, or poisoned it hurts you physiologically beyond its nutritional nature.

I'm not talking about meals but elections, by the way.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-19 16:05:35+00:00
Here's what I don't see: survivors that have a particular interest in "healthy" lifestyle.

Like the survivors weren't the kinds of people who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, were drunk most nights in their 40s, nor weighed 350 pounds for a majority of their lives... so they weren't doing the obviously very unhealthy things.

But at the same time they weren't health fad people.
by soganess | 2025-10-19 16:06:10+00:00
Honestly, from what I understand, most men’s relationship to “lovemaking” isn’t exactly winning awards. Plus, if the tables were turned, I’m sure some SV types would just call it “rational” or “logical” and magically develop nuanced yet expansive understandings of consent, autonomy, and ownership (“your wife”) overnight.

Assuming the Everdrive is M and the SNES cartridge port is F, I can understand why the Everclan men are particularly attuned to this topic. Many better-quality, more feature-rich, and cheaper SNES multicarts have hit the market; the Everdrive is looking dated.
by lproven | 2025-10-19 16:06:31+00:00
There were also software-defined modes. A very handy tool for awful early-1990s LCDs was Laptop Ultravision:

https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute///issue138/124_Laptop...

It ran the DOS text screen in VGA graphics mode, with soft-loaded fonts, but this also permitted all kinds of extra modes -- iff your DOS apps supported them. Some just read the screen dimensions and worked, some didn't.
by jinbachman | 2025-10-19 16:06:34+00:00
Very impressive.

So Satya Nadella shoves Recall in Windows so that it takes screenshots every few seconds. Satya then sits there scratching his head wondering what to do with all these crap pictures his highly innovative product has captured.

Uber is silently watching and is highly impressed by Satya's innovation and decides to pay its large fleet of employees (sorry, no, they aren't employees) to label these pictures. Having nothing better to do, they start labelling these pictures as hot dog or not hot dog.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is outdoors surfing and hunting but doesn't want to be left out from these once in a lifetime innovations. Mark, a very smart individual, has already foreseen where all this innovation is headed. He rushes home and gets busy and throws around money to buy people who can use these labelled pictures to build him a "AI" bot which can tell him how to make korean sauce.

Very impressive bunch of highly intelligent individuals bringing us billions worth of artificial intelligence revolution. Marvellous.
Show HN: Moonfish – AI podcast generator with research, writing, and voicing
by huygiab | 2025-10-19 16:06:58+00:00
I built Moonfish because I have a long commute and kept wanting podcasts on niche topics that don't exist.

It's like a combination of OpenAI's deep research and Google's NotebookLM – it searches the web for sources, synthesizes the information, and creates a conversational podcast with two AI hosts.

It's very steerable. You create a show first, then add episodes to it. Set the tone at the show level ("explain like I'm a beginner or create podcast in xxx language"), then prompt individual episodes.

Episode creation would take around ~3-5m and episode length is about 15 minutes right now (I'm working on extending that hopefully to an hour :) )

Underneath it comprises of three main agents - one agent searches and gathers sources, another structures the narrative, a third writes natural dialogue. The architecture is simple but very effective and scalable with new model release

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moonfish-ai/id6748574770 Would love to hear your feedbacks!
by bos | 2025-10-19 16:07:07+00:00
This is a bizarre essay by someone who understands neither functional programming nor the history of computers.

> To be kind, we’ve spent several decades twisting hardware to make the FP spherical cow work “faster”, at the expense of exponential growth in memory usage, and, some would argue, at the expense of increased fragility of software.

There is not one iota of support for functional programming in any modern CPU.
by baconbrand | 2025-10-19 16:08:05+00:00
Your potato RTX that uses a finite amount of power, is already paid for, and does things that you know are useful verses your supercomputer cluster and circular funding economy that uses infinite power, is 10x more overleveraged than the dot com bubble, and does things that you think might be useful someday. Challenge:

“Don’t collapse the global economy.”

:)
by dkdcio | 2025-10-19 16:08:16+00:00
the background is this UI is the MotherDuck UI for their cloud SaaS app. MotherDuck is a VC-backed DuckDB SaaS company, not to be confused with DuckDB Labs or the DuckDB foundation

MotherDuck decided to take their web app UI and make it a locally usable extension via DuckDB. however as noted in that thread, the architecture is a bit odd as the actual page loads once the extension is running from MotherDuck’s servers (hence the online requirement)

I don’t think it’s intentionally malicious or bad design or anything, just how this extension came about (and sounds like they’re fixing it)

disclaimer: I do know and actively work with the MotherDuck folks, I’ve also worked w/ DuckDB Labs in the past
by sandworm101 | 2025-10-19 16:08:55+00:00
The US still biulds skyscrapers? From what i have read, the vast majority in recent decades have been biult in china, on the order of 20x as many biulds. And outside of a couple cities like NYC and SF, sky scrapers are rare in the US. Per population, canada and australia have nearly twice as many. It is therefore no great suprise that American firms are no longer leaders in the field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_the_mos...
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-19 16:08:58+00:00
I did read Charlotte’s Web. The whole story is a lesson in how beauty is created by language. Wilbur doesn’t become beautiful because he changes, but because someone clever enough decided to write the right words above him. That’s what beauty usually is something we agree to see, not something that exists on its own.

And Miss Piggy understood that better than anyone. She didn’t have beauty, she performed it. She made desire itself her act.

So yes, I read both. Maybe that’s exactly why I don’t mistake the show for the substance.
by garganzol | 2025-10-19 16:09:18+00:00
Exactly, ludditism revolves around a fear of loosing identity. This phenomenon intersects with narcissism, which in turn is caused by the lack of authenticity. In terms of creative work, we talk about lacking professional authenticity.

In simple words, authenticity is the desire to work on mistakes and improve yourself, being flexible enough to embrace the changes sooner or later. If one is lacking some parts of it, one tends to become a narcissist or a luddite, being angry trying to regain the ever-slipping sense of control.

To translate to human language: gold diggers who entered the industry just for money do not truly belong to the said industry, while those who were driven by spirit will prosper.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-19 16:09:25+00:00
They might, at which point the argument for diversity of key industries kicks in. Batteries are key to the near future of hand-held gadgets, e-bikes, passenger cars, many other vehicles and to power grids, so the tolerance for extractive monopolies might be limited.

Yes, we should not let one manufacturer or one country be the sole supplier. The scale is large and will only grow, and if the profit margins are large, then there is opportunity.

The past and future evidence is firmly on the side of batteries getting steadily cheaper. I'm not saying that the opposite is impossible. Just that to make that claim, there is therefor a substantial burden of proof to be met, and I don't see it at all in this thread.
by someperson | 2025-10-19 16:10:15+00:00
Since after 3 years you're beyond the break-even point due to energy use, the old refrigerator should be disposed of rather than given away.

By keeping it in service, it's making somebody poorer. Especially since the person receiving the free 30 year old power hungry refrigerator and keeping it for a decade is the least likely to afford a replacement.

Somebody already disadvantaged will eventually be stuck with structurally higher bills and find it harder to save due to this.

Those that's not your problem it's more a government policy problem.
by diogenes_atx | 2025-10-19 16:10:31+00:00
I downloaded the checksums and the ISO image from the Xubuntu website: https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releas...

This url is on the main Xubuntu website, under "Xubuntu 24.04": click "Release page," then select United States. From there, you download the following files: SHA256SUMS, SHA256SUMS.gpg, xubuntu-24.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

The output of the other checksum commands is shown here:

[user@host]$ gpg --keyid-format long --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS

gpg: Signature made Thu 07 Aug 2025 06:05:22 AM CDT

gpg: using RSA key 843938DF228D22F7B3742BC0D94AA3F0EFE21092

gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

[user@host]$ sha256sum --check SHA256SUMS

xubuntu-24.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso: OK

(output omitted for results of Xubuntu minimal version, which was not downloaded)

The checksum is a cryptographic hash generated from the ISO file's contents. While the checksum for a specific, unchanged ISO file is fixed, the checksum that is published on a website could be deliberately altered by an attacker to hide a modified, malicious ISO.
by veqq | 2025-10-19 16:11:58+00:00
https://janetdocs.org/ does (server side) syntax highlighting through hiccup-lexer which converts janet-peg's tokens to hiccup: https://github.com/sogaiu/janet-peg

The LSP used on vscode works with PEGs also: https://github.com/CFiggers/janet-lsp/blob/ca526aee35c60bcf5...
by stevenicr | 2025-10-19 16:12:09+00:00
I've been seeing that housing supply / demand and pricing is complicated by many other factors beyond population. It can less or more obvious depending on location.

I've watched one of my favorite cities housing go crazy because of many factors including investors buying up properties for airbnb, developers focusing on catering to the coming influx of higher paid amazon / oracle people, and so many betting on those future increases that everything else goes up.

Adding to that, becoming a popular place for people to buy a second (or third / fourth home) - whether it's for a temporary move, to shelter their kids going to college who have chosen here instead of Chicago, trying a lower tax place to move with remote work being easier post 2020, etc..

Good point about new construction costing more, and that in itself has many factors. and depending on exactly when things were purchased making big differences.

With the limited supply of builders, most are choosing to build more expensive places.

Sadly even if we made this place less attractive for people to move to, many of the properties wouldn't go on the market, many would just hold on to the property as a stable investment.

So population numbers are not the primary weight in the supply / demand equation in many places is something I have been learning.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-19 16:13:28+00:00
“Robots coming for your jobs” is a valid argument against robots even if they can do those jobs better and faster, under two assumptions: 1) humans benefit from having jobs and 2) human benefit is the end goal.

Both are fairly uncontroversial: many humans not only benefit from jobs but in fact often depend on jobs for their livelihoods, and (2) should be self-evident.

This can change if the socioeconomic system is quickly enough and quite substantially restructured to make humans not depend on being compensated for work that is now being done by robots (not only financially but also psychologically—feeling fulfilled—socially, etc.), but I don’t see that happening.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-19 16:13:32+00:00
> “Houston is famous as an unwalkable city,” Ren said… “Google Maps said it was a five-minute walk from my hotel to a pharmacy, but it took me 30 minutes with no shade, no red lights and no safe place to cross,”

This sounds like a Google problem as much as a Houston problem! But it’s amusing (and sad) to read about the Democrat mayor of Houston removing bike lanes and trying to ban electric scooters[1].

It sounds like they want to make the city even more car-centric, not less.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/houston-mayor...
by brap | 2025-10-19 16:13:40+00:00
>We made it so that if you do not take part in trade (trade labor for income), you cannot live.

We did not make it so, this has been the natural state for as long as humans have existed, and in fact, it’s been this way for every other life form on Earth.

Maybe with post-scarcity (if it ever happens) there could be other ways of living. We can dream. But let’s not pretend that “life requires effort” is some sort of temporary unnatural abomination made by capitalists. It’s really just a fact.
by bitwize | 2025-10-19 16:13:41+00:00
I would say "sequential execution of CPU instructions" and "O(1) memory access" are two major spherical cows in computing. Probably the biggest, though, is the "fast, reliable network". We build systems that treat networked resources as if they were local: always there and instantly available. Heck, most of our stuff wouldn't even run without the database being online, and that's usually provided over the network.
by Danieru | 2025-10-19 16:13:44+00:00
This is a big deal for YKK.

Until a few years ago they had a hold on the upper end of the market. The chinese competitor's quality was unreliable enough that clothing manufacturers were willing to pay a premium to ensure a failed zipper does not trash a garment. That situation has been changing, and chinese companies are offering zippers which are getting used on progressively higher end products.

By releasing a new product with substantial changes and thus patentability they can buy a few decades at the top of the market. I suspect this technology has been in development for a long time, and held back until competitors were threatening the premium traditional zipper market.
by zahlman | 2025-10-19 16:14:07+00:00
> Look at the ANSI escape sequence you need to make any of this work, does that look like a sane graphics API to you? Obviously not.

Of course it doesn't, because it isn't a graphics API. It's a styled text API.

> Modern 2D graphics are extremely capable and deliver better performance in every metric.

A big part of the complaint is https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency .
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-19 16:14:54+00:00
Oh interesting, I didn't know this.

What I meant was the ability to simulate in one's own mind how someone else would feel about something. Basically an ability to predict an emotional reaction in others.

So for example I can empathize with someone who I have to deliver bad news to, and still be an asshole and deliver it harshly, or try my best to soften the blow and deliver it clearly but gently.

We can all empathize with each other to an extent, but beyond a limit we need to know more about the other person to increase precision. This is why I mentioned curiosity. For example if I gave you tickets to a football game, but you don't like football, I might predict you will be happy but that would be wrong because you'll feel awkward since you don't like football and I basically just have you an obligation / social problem. Or maybe not because you won't feel uncomfortable saying "no thanks I don't like football", but some people might be super uncomfortable declining a gift like that. So to empathize accurately and precisely we need to know the whole value system of the other person.

How does this differ from your view?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-19 16:15:22+00:00
I mean Trump just got caught on mic discussing business for his son. His sons literally made a billion dollars from a crypto pump and dump that's only value was it's ties to the current regime. This person doesn't care about corruption, they care about using it to promote their narrative:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-overheard-hot-mic-apparently...
by woodruffw | 2025-10-19 16:15:43+00:00
New York’s climate is pretty harsh: you have annual freeze/thaw cycles, lots of rain and ice, plus high winds and an annual hurricane season.

The problem here is not a general one with urban building quality in the US, but the fact that this specific piece is a part of a many-headed scam: the developers themselves built it quickly and cheaply because they knew that their clients are using it as a (foreign) asset, and not as a living space. The tenants in turn are doing exactly that, and they knew exactly what they were getting into; the reason they’re suing is to protect the value of their asset for the next sucker. Normal buildings in the US, including new builds, do not have this particular dynamic.
by mschild | 2025-10-19 16:15:46+00:00
>1. “I’ll Just Fix It”. As a senior: it’s reckless.

For the sake of my own sanity and enjoyment of my work, I have realised that I sometimes have to do this. I'm not talking about massive 2 week tasks but rather something done in 30mins - 1h. I call them pallet cleansers and when there is a particularly hard task that has me stumped I'll do one of them to give my brain some time to passively process the more difficult one.

I have also told my manager point blank that they can get on board or start looking for a new engineer because I would leave otherwise. Thankfully, they're a good manager and are completely fine with it as long as my main work gets done on time and I somehow communicate it (standup, slack, jira, etc).
by halJordan | 2025-10-19 16:16:06+00:00
While I disagree with your equivalence, i think it's undeniable that gfw-lite is certainly coming. Italy/Spain/France routinely block dns and are prepping the legal framework for vpns. Ofcom has extraordinary power in England. Australia has already passed all the recent legislation blocked in the US/UK.

Notably though, for all the know-it-alls on this site. Its not the spy agencies getting these powers.
by dcminter | 2025-10-19 16:17:08+00:00
Not forgotten, but this article did not mention my favourite and the most moving RFC: 2468

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468

There's quiet genius in that choice of number by the way. 2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?

Related: https://www.internetsociety.org/grants-and-awards/postel-ser...
by derektank | 2025-10-19 16:17:53+00:00
>Firstly, they are not coming for my job, they're coming for all jobs.

They're not coming for all jobs. There are many jobs that exist today that could be replaced by automation but haven't been because people will pay a premium for it to be done by a human. There are a lot of artisan products out there which are technically inferior to manufactured goods but people still buy them. Separately, there are many jobs which are entirely about physical and social engagement with a flesh and blood human being, sex work being the most obvious, but live performances (how has Broadway survived in an era of mass adoption of film and television), and personal care work like home health aids, nannies, and doulas are all at least partially about providing an emotional connection on top of their actual physical labor.

And there's also a question of things that can literally only be done by human beings, because by definition they can only be done by human beings. I imagine in the future, many people will be paid full time to be part of scientific studies that can't easily be done today, such as extended, large cohort diet and exercise studies of people in metabolic chambers.
by neom | 2025-10-19 16:18:14+00:00
"Please be aware that when using AiryString® on fabrics with the following characteristics, there are concerns that the zipper may come unstitched, roll into the slider, or not be strong enough. ◇ Fabrics with notably low slippage resistance ( woven fabrics: fabrics with low thread counts, knitted fabrics: fabrics with loose tension). ◇ Fabrics with low friction resistance ◇ Fabrics with large bumps ◇ Shaggy fabrics"

Seems like the target use case is Athleisure?
by hakunin | 2025-10-19 16:18:40+00:00
> It’s interesting to ask how we can bring development costs down without compromising quality; in my world, it’s not at all interesting to talk about strategically reducing quality.

You have some level of quality ya'll are used to, that was already achieved by compromise, and you'd like to stay there. How was that original standard established?

On an exponential graph of safety vs effort (where effort goes up a lot for small safety gains) you are willing to put in a lot more points of effort than general industry to achieve a few more points of safety.
by emptybits | 2025-10-19 16:18:45+00:00
"Major Upgrade" for the fast, disposable fashion crowd.

Major downgrade for maintainability and ability to repair.

This "upgraded" zipper will be impossible to replace if broken at home, by hand or with a machine, or even at a typical professional repair shop. YKK documents say a "dedicated AiryString® sewing machine" is required.[1]

[1]https://ykkdigitalshowroom.com/assets/AiryString_202507_en.p...
by alexpotato | 2025-10-19 16:19:52+00:00
My concern is this:

There is an intersection of certain industries and a particular demographic where adapting/retraining will be either very difficult or impossible.

Case in point:

- car factory town in Michigan

- factory shuts down

- nursing school opens in the town

- they open a hospital

- everyone thinks "Great! We can hire nurses from the school for the hospital"

- hospital says "Yeah, but we want experienced nurses, not recent graduates"

- people also say "So the factory workers can go to nursing school and get jobs somewhere else!"

- nursing school says "Uhm, people with 30 years of working on an assembly line are not necessarily the type of folks who make good nurses..."

Eventually, the town will adapt and market forces will balance out. But what about those folks who made rational decisions about their career path and that path suddenly gets wiped away?