MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eitland | 2025-10-01 13:39:32+00:00
Agree.

But for anyone tempted by Oracle, do remember that the upfront, agreed licence costs are only a fraction of the true price:

You’ll need someone who actually knows Oracle - either already in place or willing to invest a serious amount of time learning it. Without that, you’re almost certainly better off choosing a simpler database that people are comfortable with.

There’s always a non-zero risk of an Oracle rep trying to “upsell” you. And by upsell, I mean threatening legal action unless you cough up for additional bits a new salesperson has suddenly decided you’re using. (A company I worked with sold Oracle licences and had a long, happy relationship with them - until one day they went after us over some development databases. Someone higher up at Oracle smoothed it over, but the whole experience was unnerving enough.)

Incidental and accidental complexity: I’ve worked with Windows from 3.1 through to Server 2008, with Linux from early Red Hat in 2001 through to the latest production distros, plus a fair share of weird and wonderful applications, everything from 1980s/90s radar acquisition running on 2010 operating systems through a wide range of in house, commercial and open source software and up to modern microservices — and none of it comes close to Oracle’s level of pain.

Edit: Installating Delphi 6 with 14 packages came close, I used 3 days when I had to find every package scattered on disks in shelves and drawers and across ancient web paces + posted as abandonware on source forge but I guess I could learn to do that in a day if I had to do it twice a month. Oracle consistently took me 3 days - if I did everything correct on first try and didn't have to start from scratch.
by bdcravens | 2025-10-01 13:39:42+00:00
48 years old, so definitely not a "new age kid"

Sharing is the killer feature. Not that you can't share with Office 360 these days, but many of us were sharing Google Sheets years ago when the rest of the world was still sending Excel files as email attachments, and there hasn't been much reason to switch.

Probably not used by many, but if you need to break out of basic functions, some may find working in Javascript preferable to VBA.
by DonHopkins | 2025-10-01 13:39:53+00:00
If only their role is limited to being a Subservient Chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subservient_Chicken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGjtE_SOn70

I would pay to boss around country club criminals in chicken suits like Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump over the internet, in the name of rehabilitation.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-01 13:39:56+00:00
The blog is about training but the technique applies equally well to inference, just like FSDP and kv cache sharing are routinely done in inference on GPUs.

There is just no need to have parameters or kv cache for layer 48 in SRAM when you are currently computing layer 3, you have all the time in the world to move that to SRAM when you get to layer 45 or whatever the maths work out to be for your specific model.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-01 13:40:19+00:00
> If a platform lies or spread malicious content, it seems people want the platform to have the liability and consequences for the malfeasance. That is what most people mean by "responsible".

The platform isn't lying, any more than if I write "1 equals 2" on a letter and send it via the mail system to someone else is the mail system lying.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-10-01 13:40:20+00:00
This is the study that the Guardian article talking about https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-068921

So, before everyone accuses their favorite mechanism:

"After multivariable adjustments, men who consumed ultra-processed foods in the highest fifth had a 29% higher risk of developing colorectal cancer than did those in the lowest fifth...However, we found no significant association among women"

and

"our results show that the association between ultra-processed food consumption and colorectal cancer among men was largely independent of body mass index."

and finally:

"Why the association was seen in men but not in women is unclear."

They also saw the obvious factors (smoking, alcohol, being sedentary, etc.) correlate with cancer, but were accounted for.

So this is a sex-based result. Make of that what you will.
by cma256 | 2025-10-01 13:40:29+00:00
> But writing that traditional SQL databases cannot go above these "100-1000 TPS" numbers due to Amdahl's law is going to raise some eyebrows.

I don't think that's controversial. Amdahl's law applies to all software. Its not a peculiar feature of SQL databases. The comment is well-contextualized, in my view, but reasonable minds may disagree.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-10-01 13:40:37+00:00
Yeah that's fair (although the original comment was only talking about energy costs).

But this is kind of a worst case cost analysis. I fully expect that the average non-pro Sora 2 video has one to two orders of magnitude less GPU utilization than I listed here (because I think those video tokens are probably generated at a batch size of ~100 per batch).
by gavinray | 2025-10-01 13:41:46+00:00
I will soon, as a follow up from cardiologist.

My money is on it being within normal limits.

> Curious what drives these events in cases such as yours.

In my case, I got dealt a very, very poor set of cardiac genes. Everyone on my mother's side has had at least one heart attack, though they generally started around age 50.
Show HN: Awsui – A Modern Textual-Powered AWS CLI TUI
by jasper_go | 2025-10-01 13:43:04+00:00
Hi everyone, I'm currently a DevOps/SRE engineer.

Why build this?

When using the AWS CLI, I sometimes need to switch between multiple profiles. It's easy to forget a profile name, which means I have to spend extra time searching.

So, I needed a tool that not only integrated AWS profile management and quick switching capabilities, but also allowed me to execute AWS CLI commands directly within it. Furthermore, I wanted to be able to directly call AWS Q to perform tasks or ask questions.

If you encounter any issues or have features you'd like to see, please feel free to let me know and I'll try to make improvements and fixes as soon as possible.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/junminhong/awsui

I hope this helps others facing the same challenges, thanks!
by franticstone | 2025-10-01 13:43:29+00:00
We started making a platform that adds some usability and protection around our git repos. But quickly started expanding into a cli tool. Making commits easier and actually increasing our productivity when working through issues.

We would love some genuine feedback. Free accounts automatically come with $2.50 credit enough tokens to evaluate but as a thank you email me with your account details and I’ll add $25 credit to your account to use.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-01 13:44:00+00:00
Well, for one, Florida is one of the largest states and an economic powerhouse. It's business environment is completely driven by residential and vacation real estate. They have a regulatory and tax environment that is attuned to extract money from migrating old people and vacationers.

Flood insurance has allowed proximity to water = $$$. Water is desirable, but banks dislike risk. People are attracted to the place to avoid income taxation. Anything that slows down the real estate flywheel is a political death issue, and Florida's unique position as an election kingmaker at the federal level gives it alot of power.
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-10-01 13:44:01+00:00
While true, this is the devil's bargain we have struck in 2008. Big banks betting on RMBSs got a bailout and removed the moral hazard there. People with mortgages rightfully revolted and this FEMA scheme is one of the ways in which money is being filed out.

It all needs to be unwound. How, is unclear.
by HSO | 2025-10-01 13:44:21+00:00
the next mac pro (presumably next mar/apr) is the first that comes a full 3-year product cycle after ai hype started.

therefore I expect that mac pro (and in similar vein mac studio) will be repositioned as ai/ml dev machine, with apple leaning into their lucky strike of UMA fit with modern requirements.

my bet is m5 extreme exclusive to mac pro and 1 tb possibly even 2 tb ram, and mac studio limited to m5 ultra and 1 tb ram on the high ends.

but thats not based on rumors or "news" of any sort, just from logic extrapolated if i were in apple shoes
by pjmlp | 2025-10-01 13:44:23+00:00
> But C++ still can't be used in many places that C is

Unless we are speaking about PICs or similar old school 8 and 16 bit CPUs, with compilers like those from MIKROE, there is hardly a platform left were the vendor compiler isn't C and C++ (even if it doesn't go beyond C++11).

And if it must be deployed as freestanding, there are still enough improvements to take advantage of.

In the end it boils down to human factor in most cases, however as Dan Saks puts "If you're arguing, you're losing.", taken from

CppCon 2016: “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Sd8A6_fYU
by fjfaase | 2025-10-01 13:44:25+00:00
I wonder if the 'debits and credits' example is still realistic. Is it not that banks record all individual money transfers and keep them on record for years (often due to national laws that require this). Then the balance on a certain account is a simply a selection/view on the set of all transactions. For efficiency reasons you may want to store the result in some table. If there is a limit on withdrawals on a certain account, you do need to calculate the balance first and then a transaction mechanism is needed to assure that there are not several money transfer that individually do not surpass the limit but together do.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-01 13:45:10+00:00
Voat turned into a gathering place for racists because reddit at first only kicked those out - and became more fundamentalist only after voat was the well-known 'bad place for bad people' where 'respectable, but misunderstood people' did not linger. The frog cooks slowly.

> If there is, it's certainly not a profitable product.

I think this is the main issue: that we walled up our discussion plazas to make them 'profitable products'.

I know I am a bit of an idealist here, but I miss the old-timey usenet, basically an agora where you could filter yourself (with the appropriately-called killfile), and which was not controlled by one institution alone). I had some hope with federated systems - but these are often built with censorship mechanisms written right into it, and again give operators too much influence on what their users may or may not see.
Show HN: PageLM – OSS Alternative to NotebookLM
by Boblaw1 | 2025-10-01 13:46:08+00:00
Big news: NeuroPilot is now *PageLM*

PageLM is the open-source alternative to NotebookLM — a study companion that turns your documents into: Quizzes Flashcards with spaced repetition Structured notes Podcast-style audio lessons Exam simulations (ExamLab) AI-powered homework planning

Built with *LangChain + LangGraph*, free forever and community-driven.

https://github.com/CaviraOSS/pagelm
by sgarland | 2025-10-01 13:46:31+00:00
I don’t even think it’s memory, it’s lack of experience. A lot of the battle-tested infrastructure is now abstracted away to the point that a lot of devs are hard-pressed to explain the difference between AWS’ ALB and NLB, much less name OSS versions of them.

Actually, load balancers are a great example. The number of times I’ve seen a team re-implementing HAProxy, but poorly, is entirely too high. The reasoning is always something along the lines of “we need this extremely specific feature.” OK, and have you even read the manual for HAProxy? Or if that feature truly doesn’t exist, did you consider implementing that separately?
by jove_ | 2025-10-01 13:47:22+00:00
But it's hard to argue the machine at the end is stateless. We can endlessly do this. You can construct lambda calculus with Turing machines and Turing machines in lambda calculus.

There seems to be this weird idea in the functional community that the existence of some construction of one thing in another shows that one of those things is "more fundamental" than the other, when in reality this is often a circular exercise. e.g. Functions can be formalized as sets and sets can be formalized as functions.

Even worse in this specific case, the Church-Turing thesis tells us that they're equivalent, which is the only sensible answer to the question of which is more fundamental. There's an oft quoted phrase of "deep and abiding equivalencies" and it bears pointing out how deep and abiding these equivalencies are. From a formal perspective they are the same. Yes, there's arguments could be made that typed lambda calculus and its relation to logic are important, and that's true but it's not a formal argument at all and I think it's best to be clear on that.
by tclancy | 2025-10-01 13:47:24+00:00
Well yes, starting as a coder in the 2000s in the US, I always thought of my job as turning tortured spreadsheets sitting on a Windows network drive that have to be constantly babied by an underappreciated office staffer into web apps. But I do recognize that a lot of businesses have been run on spreadsheets and run well. There’s a scaling problem and when it hits, ideally you know and can move to an app, but perfect is the enemy of done.
by bluGill | 2025-10-01 13:47:28+00:00
This is a bunch of NIMBY trying to make it seem like there is a problem here.

You want someone else to pay for the costs of fixing your house: don't be surprised if they then put restrictions on what you can do. Fix your house yourself without insurance if you don't like the rules (I suspect the law won't allow this - but I doubt anyone is seriously considering this option so I'm going to ignore it now that it is pointed out).

The rest of the article is complaints that the new compliant houses are different. Which is to say NIMBY cannot stand change and progress. I have no sympathy for this argument, it is their land not yours and your input should be greatly limited.
by IOZ | 2025-10-01 13:47:29+00:00
Hi everyone, I'm Igor.

I want to share the project I’ve been building over the past two months — almost entirely with AI: https://from100k.com

A job board that lists only software jobs starting from $100,000/year.

~90% of the code was written in Cursor with Claude Sonnet v4.

Why I built this

- While job hunting myself, I kept running into the same frustrations:

- Most listings had no salary info. Or they offered below-market pay.

I wanted a faster way to cut through the noise — so I built a platform that only shows high-paying tech roles. No more endless scrolling or guessing what “competitive salary” means.

I’d love your honest feedback:

- What features would make this more valuable for you?

- Any pain points you face when job hunting that I should solve next?
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-10-01 13:48:02+00:00
My proposal is the Western world do more to support the Ukrainian military, defeat the Putin regime militarily, and usher in the collapse of the russian federation.

You can't have state-sponsored cyber-attacks if the state sponsoring the cyber-attacks goes away.

No, I am not proposing anyone start killing children. What a ridiculous misinterpretation of my words. It's the russian military who kill kids[0], and nobody should be ok with that. It's also the russian government recruiting children to commit acts of sabotage[1] abroad.

[0]: https://www.politico.eu/article/former-wagner-group-commande...

[1]: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/147402-ukraine-fsb-recruits-t...
by trehalose | 2025-10-01 13:48:09+00:00
>Need to Decrease Size Too? HadBomb’s your all-in-one toolkit! decrease images size to 50KB, 100KB, or any size with the same pixel-perfect precision.

Any size? Without altering any of the pixels? That's some very impressive technology. I hope you've patented it, because you can make millions, maybe even billions, of dollars off this.
by jplusequalt | 2025-10-01 13:48:32+00:00
I have been saying this for a long time--generative art is just fine grained consumption. Instead of searching through YouTube/TikTok for content that may interest you, you can now just ask your LLM to generate what you want to see that moment. It's the next evolution of keeping the masses addicted to their devices, and we as software engineers are gleefully supporting this ... because?
by tiahura | 2025-10-01 13:48:33+00:00
So a survey of what people want here is kind of meaningless because people just don't understand the question.

I think they understand perfectly well. They look at an internet where internet companies aren't held responsible, conclude it's largely corrosive, and prefer a different approach. I'm not sure it's important that they don't understand the elements of a libel claim or that internet companies get a special get of jail free card that traditional media doesn't.
by clamorbeclam | 2025-10-01 13:49:10+00:00
Funny, I recently departed from the google ecosystem to proton, self hosted nextcloud, kagi, Libreoffice, and Apple Maps. Am I giving up some ease of use? Absolutely! Can I live with it? Absolutely! Can google go fuck itself? Hell yea. Libre office is like missing a limb, but with practice it can do anything I want it to.
by afavour | 2025-10-01 13:49:15+00:00
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how much is possible with an iOS PWA these days. It certainly doesn’t cover all bases but it would cover a lot… if only they’d make it easier to actually install one. With iOS 26 they’ve put it yet another tap deep!

It's often argued that Apple doesn't make PWA installs obvious because they want to preserve the sanctity of the web or something along those lines but I'd say that argument is invalidated by the “smart banners” for installing an App Store app that you can set via meta tag:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting-a...

In my experience they're far more intrusive than a PWA install banner!
by Romario77 | 2025-10-01 13:50:05+00:00
yes, that's true. It also brings the issues related to that - it's easy to delete the whole org data, change things uncontrollably, corrupt the data, there entries in the tables are free-form (well, you have to do programming to make it more robust).

it works fine initially, but for long term it's usually more productive to have custom software.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-01 13:50:05+00:00
Four other still-open discussions of this:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400422

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379840

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303437

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426221
by mellosouls | 2025-10-01 13:50:29+00:00
Hmm, this sort of thing (switch over from corporate to open source and vice versa) seems to happen on a periodic basis with often the reverse-ferret then happening a few years later.

Probably not because one is better than the other, but I wouldn't be surprised if a significant factor is the prevailing sentiment at the time among senior decision-makers - especially those wanting to make their impact seen and felt. A significant platform switch over either way is always going to gain CV kudos.

Or am I being too cynical?
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 13:50:37+00:00
It's not just "high income" people who buy expensive cars, it is also "car poor" people that aren't saving for retirement or complaining that the rent is too damn high because they're paying another $400 a month on the car payment that they don't need to pay.

Now maybe I live in an unusual area but all the time I have people park a Honda Fit that looks just like mine at a car parking lot. When my last Fit got totalled I found that (1) they didn't have any new Fits, (2) they had one used Fit that they had just bought that morning, and (3) they had a neat row of 50 or so HR-Vs that nobody wanted to buy.

If you actually go to a car dealer looking for a size L car they will try to sell you an XXL car, if you go looking for an M car they try to sell you an XL, if you go looking for an S they will try to sell you an L. They have a lot of tricks they play to do this, not least a manipulation of the narrative, the threat of pulling away access to review vehicles from car publications that question their narrative, etc. Sure a lot of people are scared by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, other people really like a big car or would rather roll their car or crash through the guardrail than break their ankle in a crash. But no matter how big of a car you want, they want you to buy a bigger one.
by general1465 | 2025-10-01 13:51:02+00:00
It kinds of hinting on the hypothesis, that life will emerge the moment it will get a chance to emerge - there is indirect evidence of unexplained fossilized structures from Mars, Phosphine gas on Venus, now organic molecules on Enceladus, I would consider it very likely that there is going to be life on Europa, at least microbiological.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-01 13:51:04+00:00
Yes, DBase was written in Assembly, like many compilers and interpreters back then, and I am certain you would be able to dig out a Lisp or Scheme compiler for CP/M equally written in Assembly.

Yet, the folks down at the bank, insurance companies, and video rentals, were using DBase applications written in xBase, compiled via Clipper, not Assembly.

My first computer was a Timex 2068, I kind of know what was being written with what.
by benoau | 2025-10-01 13:51:15+00:00
This will come as no surprise to anyone who's looked closely at analytics, the elaborate 15-step process Apple invented reverse-optimized the funnel to maximize the attrition rate, swapping to a 6-step process doubled the success rate.

Epic's data resembles Phil Schiller's testimony in the Epic trial earlier this year, where he testified Tim Cook was personally involved in similar optimizations that were ruled to be in criminal contempt of their 2021 court order -

> In one model, for example, Apple worked to determine how the “less seamless experience” of using a non-IAP method would lead customers to abandon their transactions. By modeling where this tipping point was, Apple was able to determine when the links would stop being an advantage to developers, which would push them back to using IAP.

> Apple also found that more restrictive rules around the placement and formatting of the links themselves could reduce the number of apps that decided to implement these outside links. The company looked into the financial impact of excluding some other partners — like those in its video and news programs — from the new program.

> Lawyers suggested Cook himself was involved with how the warning to App Store customers would appear, recommending an update to the text that appears when the external links were clicked. In one version, that link warned customers they were “no longer transacting with Apple.” Later, the link was updated to subtly suggest there could be privacy or security risks with purchases made on the web.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/apple-exec-phil-schiller-t...
by dgacmu | 2025-10-01 13:51:52+00:00
It's flashcards++: They can have audio attached, for example, and multiple "sides" to the flashcard, but the most ++ part of it is the integrated spaced repetition algorithm(s) that automagically adapt the next time a card is shown based upon its difficulty to improve long-term recall without having to look at all of the cards super often. This is termed spaced repetition.

It's really good. It's still flash cards and best for things where you just have to memorize something (I use it for mandarin characters, for example, for which it's really excellent). But it's great at what it does.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-10-01 13:51:53+00:00
Nope, it was pretty straight forward. It was the 1968 National Flood Insurance Act. Flood prone communities get flood insurance in exchange Gov gets to manage building standards to reduce damage caused by flooding. It was pretty similar to what we are seeing today. There was a hurricane and the Mississippi river flooded. Private insurance started pulling out so the Government decided to step up.