MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jreynoldsdev | 2025-10-07 16:38:04+00:00
Wirespeed | Founding Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://wirespeed.co

We are looking for a founding engineer to help us continue our mission of building a fully-automated Managed Detection & Response (MDR) platform.

Our ideal engineer has a broad set of experience across frontend, backend, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data(bases). If you've been responsible for managing production infrastructure, talking to customers, and having full ownership of your features from start to finish, we'd love to talk with you.

Tech stack:

- Typescript - Frontend: ReactJS/Tanstack - Backend: BunJS/NestJS - Postgres - Clickhouse - NATS - Redis - AWS - Anything fun, secure, and scalable

We don't care about your resume, tell us why you're awesome: https://wspd.link/founding-engineer
by donnaoana | 2025-10-07 16:38:15+00:00
thanks, I used AI but aren't we all? I thought the point of AI is to get us to be more productive. But that's only after I came up with the questions for the speakers and I wrote a draft of the blog, and the penelists read it, added comments and I published. It seems I get a lot of hate here for it, but I am happy with the number of engineers and founders sharing feedback that this was useful to them. I'm not forcing anyone to read my content, but if people want to put the time to hate on it, it's their choice.
by yatopifo | 2025-10-07 16:38:22+00:00
I got introduced to microcontrollers through the original Arduino board. It took me only a year to switch to bare metal atmega/attiny (zero external components!), and to this day, those are my favourite micros despite all their shortcomings. Theyare extremely well documented, and them being 8-bit with a simple instruction set makes it very easy to learn assembly (or even opcodes). At the same time, they are compatible with 5V logic (and can be abused!) which makes them almost perfect for beginners.

Would I have been able to learn assembly with ESP32? Probably not. You couldn't even find proper manuals for ESP8266 back in the day because they either didn't exist, weren't in English or weren't released to the general public...
by drivers99 | 2025-10-07 16:38:53+00:00
They have the PCB files and schematics linked from here: https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/arduino-uno-rev3 It says "Arduino Uno is open-source hardware! You can build your own board using the following files"

Found some licensing info here: https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L...
by ajross | 2025-10-07 16:39:26+00:00
> give me LeBron James-level basketball skills in 3 years

That doesn't seem like a good faith analog for "I got a 3.2% mortgage with 5% down and payments less than my last rental".

You keep pretending that the idea that the real estate market was internally overleveraged by repackaged derivatives held by investment banks was some kind of obvious thing that regular homeowners were too stupid to see. And I'm telling you it wasn't, because no one saw it, not even the bankers and regulators, until it was too late. Blaming the homeowners for not "understanding the risks" is unfair, but also frankly non-actionable. They'll never be as smart as you want them to be in hindsight, because no one is.
Show HN: Arc – high-throughput time-series warehouse with DuckDB analytics
by ignaciovdk | 2025-10-07 16:40:02+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Ignacio, founder at Basekick Labs.

Over the past months I’ve been building Arc, a time-series data platform designed to combine very fast ingestion with strong analytical queries.

What Arc does? Ingest via a binary MessagePack API (fast path), Compatible with Line Protocol for existing tools (Like InfluxDB, I'm ex Influxer), Store data as Parquet with hourly partitions, Query via DuckDB engine using SQL

Why I built it:

Many systems force you to trade retention, throughput, or complexity. I wanted something where ingestion performance doesn’t kill your analytics.

Performance & benchmarks that I have so far.

Write throughput: ~1.88M records/sec (MessagePack, untuned) in my M3 Pro Max (14 cores, 36gb RAM) ClickBench on AWS c6a.4xlarge: 35.18 s cold, ~0.81 s hot (43/43 queries succeeded) In those runs, caching was disabled to match benchmark rules; enabling cache in production gives ~20% faster repeated queries

I’ve open-sourced the Arc repo so you can dive into implementation, benchmarks, and code. Would love your thoughts, critiques, and use-case ideas.

Thanks!
by akersten | 2025-10-07 16:40:19+00:00
This is an amazing idea but do I have to run Google takeout every time I want to update the data[0]? Unfortunately that's such a a cumbersome process that I don't think I'd use this. But if my timeline could update in near real time this would be a killer app

[0]: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/google-photos
by lastdong | 2025-10-07 16:40:42+00:00
Arduino is an open-source platform — both its hardware and software are open to everyone, right?

The first Arduino I built cost me just $5. I assembled all the parts on a breadboard, and it worked perfectly with the Arduino IDE, just like the ESP32 does nowadays.

Is Qualcomm basically paying for the brand? I didn’t even realize Arduino was a brand at first.
by anonymars | 2025-10-07 16:40:43+00:00
Huh? The registry thing is for a specific niche*, not just "multiple processes"

You just set the startup properties on the solution to start the multiple projects. On that page, look for "To set the startup project or multiple projects from solution Properties" (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/debu...)

* "Sometimes, you might need to debug the startup code for an app that is launched by another process. Examples include services and custom setup actions"

Starting multiple copies of the IDE wouldn't handle these scenarios either
by BirAdam | 2025-10-07 16:41:39+00:00
Government regulations around fuel efficiency per size of vehicle as well as crash test safety as well as materials.

People universally seem to dislike the size increase in vehicles, but this was due largely to magical requirements for fuel efficiency standards. The obvious result was putting smaller engines in larger cars and adding a turbo.

On the complexity side of things, cramming the safety gear into the car while also getting maximal efficiency and keeping costs low meant some rather terrible design choices from a repairability perspective.

All that said, I do love the safety requirements. I got hit by a Ford F150 in a Miata and walked away perfectly fine.
by erondpowell | 2025-10-07 16:41:55+00:00
Presenting: The really, really incredibly, ridiculously open-source "FreeTalk Dictionary"

Zoolander throwbacks aside, this is a complete OS dictionary dataset (prompt-engineered).

This dataset is a lean V1.0 and definitely a few "content bugs".

If this is your thing, I’d love contributors: feedback on UX, content bugs, PRs to improve the dataset, etc!

It's the first item in a larger suite of English language learning products I'm building.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-07 16:41:58+00:00
I think the solution is to recreate and reenforce United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. for the modern age, forcibly separating the production and display of video media.

That means Netflix couldn't make any of it's own shows, you wouldn't have each media company with its own streaming service.

Add on top of that standard fees for streaming royalties which were how do I say contract free syndication. As in you don't need to make a deal with a studio, any company can have anything in their streaming library and everybody pays the same fee (maybe with something like a 1 year lockout, but anything made available on one would be required to be available on all).

Then you have a real market for streaming services and productions instead of all of these little monopolies. Consumers get to choose with their wallets instead of tying the art with the corporate policy.
by afishhh | 2025-10-07 16:42:08+00:00
> I will mention that youtube has pretty good subtitle capabilities, even if they're rarely used.

Yep, their srv3 format is very usable, although it is in many ways inferior to ASS (animations have to be done manually in discrete timesteps, although YTSubConverter does that for you I think, and no crazy stuff like shape drawing or 3d transforms). Does support ruby text though which ASS currently doesn't.

I think the worst thing about it is actually that YouTube is not doing very well in getting people to use it. For example they don't support most of the format's functionality in any client that isn't the web one[1]. Additionally I don't think there's even an official way to create these complex subtitles, you have to use unofficial tools like YTSubConverter.

If anyone is interested, I am working on a library for rendering srv3 (and some WebVTT) here[2]. Maybe if we had widespread support people would use it more? That seems like very wishful thinking though :)

[1] I suspect this is because they have to work within the constraints of whatever UI frameworks they're using for apps. It does not seem possible to implement compliant web text layout (pretty complicated!) on top of such higher level systems.

[2] https://github.com/afishhh/subrandr
by mholm | 2025-10-07 16:42:28+00:00
I've been using Ink/Stitch for awhile, and it has an extraordinarily steep learning curve compared to manufacturer specific software. Most of the information you need to run it safely without getting tangles or breaking needles is not published by sewing machine vendors, and you have to trial+error it with ink/stitch. You can get there eventually, but it'll take a lot of frustration.
by kieranmaine | 2025-10-07 16:42:34+00:00
You have to weigh up the negatives with the positives and look at trends. AI can gave you a more exhaustive list of positive developments, but some I've noticed:

* "FERC: Solar + wind made up 91% of new US power generating capacity in H1 2025" [1] - The rollback of the IRA will reduce the speed of the US transition.

* "Solar and wind growth exceeded global demand growth in the first half of 2025" [2]

* Perovskite solar panels could lead to even lower solar costs [3]

There's also increased investment in nuclear, exicting geothermal advances (eg. Fervo Energy), increasing EV sales, a massive expansion of battery storage, zero emissions concrete (https://sublime-systems.com/). There are lots of positive developments, so I'd recommend learning more about them to offset your current fears and introduce some hope.

1. https://electrek.co/2025/09/03/ferc-solar-wind-91-percent-ne...

2. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-...

3. https://www.ft.com/content/a5095373-1762-41cd-a078-af533e264...
by sgarland | 2025-10-07 16:42:36+00:00
Thank you for the sincere and in-depth response. I hadn't really meant mine to be troll-esque, but I can see how it could come across that way.

My favorite comparison of two sites from the same place is HAProxy: haproxy.com is the one meant for the C-Suite to be impressed, and haproxy.org is the one meant for people who are running it. It's also the reason that I suspect it's not just nostalgia that makes me think of text-heavy sites as being more authoritative (unless it's a share delusion by elder millenials, I guess). If you're going there, you probably are interested in finding a specific answer in technical documentation, not a sales pitch.

Zooming out to other industries entirely, look at cars: it's generally pretty easy to guess the decade of a car if you have any interest in them. However, with some, the designers have occasionally managed to blend the different eras together in a way that I would argue borders on timeless. The canonical example, IMO, is the Porsche 911. Before the 996 model, it had a certain look about it that updated, but didn't change. The 996 had the oft-mocked "fried egg headlights" (plus it was water-cooled, which angered purists), but other than that, it started a more gradual shift in the looks of the car. The 997, 991, and 992 all look remarkably similar from many angles, assuming all are wing-less. That's 21 years of models. Also, the 992 changed its rear vents to a vertical rather than horizontal configuration, which hasn't been used since the 911's predecessor, the 356 - a car that ceased production in 1966. That subtle change, along with some typography for the logo, makes it look way older than it is, but in a good way.
by mdhb | 2025-10-07 16:42:44+00:00
A hell of a lot of absolute slop as well… it’s really not at all obvious that it’s a net win in any way at this stage.

Actual real life case studies that people can point to where they deployed it and it all went great are actually very hard to come by. It was only the other week that there was that study that said the number was as low as I think they said like 5% or something.

No shortage of excitement though, but a lot of things seem to be riding on some big breakthroughs coming down the pipeline that may never arrive.
by pton_xd | 2025-10-07 16:42:48+00:00
> They offered to pay $6B of $11B gains. Maybe you think they should have been fined $100 trillion or whatever for all the harm they caused, but that money doesn't exist, and moreover it's unclear whether a long drawn out legal battle would result in more money than the settlement they offered.

Paying $6B out of $11B earned from literally killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Meanwhile Alex Jones receives a $1.5B judgement (against ~$10 mil in assets) for just harassing people that were killed?

Even involuntary manslaughter comes with years of jail time. Recklessly killing a single human being. Willfully destroying thousands? Nah, just give us some of the money you earned and we're square.

How does this make sense? This is an extreme injustice no matter how you look at it. The Sacklers deserve far, far worse.
by donnaoana | 2025-10-07 16:42:51+00:00
thanks for the hate, they did love it indeed, the questions I've asked them, the draft I wrote for them to read, and published only after they read and added comments. I am curious, do you not use AI? isn't the point to polish things and make it more efficient? I am curious if there was anything useful to you in the article or if you have constructive criticism? I was sad to read some of the hate, but overall, I am very happy with the many notes form founders and builders who found it useful.
by evo_9 | 2025-10-07 16:42:54+00:00
How can I prevent Windows 10 from upgrading to 11? I have a gaming pc that's basically just for VR, and is ~5 years old. I play non-VR on my SteamDeck, so really I just want to keep my old pc gaming box running on 10 for (occasional) VR gaming at this point... also, pretty heavily invested in Steam (VR and non-VR) so I really prefer not to switch to something like Meta Quest, etc.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 16:42:57+00:00
Yeah. Major thorn in my side. I spent hours trying to automate that process by using Chrome headless, and it kinda worked, until I realized that I needed to physically authenticate not just once, but every 10 minutes. So, it basically can't be automated since 2FA is needed so often.

In practice, I do a Takeout once or twice a year. (I recommend this even if not using Timelinize, so you can be sure to have your data.)
by linsomniac | 2025-10-07 16:43:02+00:00
A buddy of mine is retired and managing his own investments, and he's a reasonably savvy investor. He has some guys he follows and like 2.5 years ago they were all predicting the market would crash in the next 3-6 months. We have lunch every 2-3 weeks, and we've been holding their feet to the fire, "Still hasn't crashed". (Not saying it won't, it "feels" over-hot).

I just moved my son's "kid retirement plan" (giving him matching and compounding interest, he can access it at 18) into a custodial account, and put his money into a few stocks and ETFs (including PHYS, a gold ETF). So far in the last week it has gained $140 on $940 investment. I've warned him: This is fun to see these gains, but we can't expect it to always happen, we just need to protect our gains by using stops.

I also had him pick a stock that is something he likes and thinks will go somewhere. He picked Roblox. My FIL had given me the advice to take a little bit of your money, "pocket change", and invest in something you like, to keep it fun. My first investment following that advice went from $7K to $200K, so I was a big fan of that. ;-)
by tky | 2025-10-07 16:43:18+00:00
In some cases, sure. My anecdote:

Electric car. Horn keeps failing. $15 part, $900 to do the work. Why? Because to get to the horn, the entire front end of the car has to be disassembled, including the hood, bumper, fenders, you name it.

My fuel car’s horn assembly is easily accessed through the engine bay with a single bolt to remove it.

Efficiencies in one area seem to have led to extraordinarily difficult repair abilities elsewhere.

I won’t even go into how the air filters are replaced — but it starts with removing the dashboard…
by yoyohello13 | 2025-10-07 16:43:23+00:00
I've stopped recommending Linux to other people. I use Linux every day as my main OS. I haven't used windows in over 5 years and I'm happier for it. But there is a learning curve no doubt. I happen to love what Gnome does, but it's definitely unlike any other desktop environment. If you're up for learning something new, and/or software freedom is important to you, I think Linux is definitely worth it. If you just want "Windows without Microsoft" you're in for a bad time.
by kemotep | 2025-10-07 16:43:30+00:00
If Gold kept pace with inflation (roughly $35 an ounce in 1970 dollars) it would be ~$279.98 an ounce in 2025 dollars.

So inflation has almost nothing to do with the current price of gold and the grandparent post’s speculation about the futures market running hot is far more likely. The price of gold isn’t attached to the dollar and hasn’t been for over 50 years.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-07 16:43:35+00:00
This is connected with windows 11 requiring a TPM. If all their users have a Microsoft account and that Microsoft account is needed to access all their passkeys, then they end up with a privileged position where they can aggregate info about user behavior based on their logins which, thanks to the TPM, the user is cryptographically locked out of interfering with, and their competitors are locked out of participating in by the fact that Microsoft controls the client.

As always, it's about controlling users via high switching costs. I hope we come up with an improved webauthn spec which ruins this for them.
by ajross | 2025-10-07 16:43:39+00:00
The cynical question then becomes: what part of the market is bearing the security costs of all that gold being shipped around as collateral? That's a transaction friction that doesn't show up in a commodities trade balance sheet.

A creative thief (or, y'know, scriptwriter) must be thinking about how to exploit that disconnect. If it's never been a better time to "own" gold, but not to "hold" gold... then surely this is also the best time to steal gold?
by SSymTech | 2025-10-07 16:43:40+00:00
We introduce BigBang-Proton, a unified sequence-based architecture for auto-regressive language modeling pretrained on cross-scale, cross-structure, cross-discipline real-world scientific tasks to construct a scientific multi-task learner. BigBang-Proton incorporates three fundamental innovations compared to mainstream general-purpose LLMs: Theory-Experiment Learning paradigm aligns large-scale numerical experimental data with theoretical text corpora; Binary Patch Encoding replaces byte pair encoding(BPE) tokenization; Monte Carlo Attention substitutes traditional transformer architectures. Through next-word-prediction pretraining on cross-discipline scientific datasets of real-world problems mixed with general textual corpus, followed by fine-tuning and inference on downstream tasks, BigBang-Proton demonstrates 100\% accuracy in up to 50-digit arithmetic addition operations, performance on par with leading specialized models in particle physics jet tagging, matching MAE of specialized models in inter-atomic potential simulation, performance comparable to traditional spatiotemporal models in water quality prediction, and benchmark-exceeding performance in genome modeling. These results prove that language-guided scientific computing can match or exceed the performance of task-specific scientific models while maintaining multitask learning capabilities. We further hypothesize to scale the pretraining to the universe scale as a fundamental step toward developing material world foundational model.
by csomar | 2025-10-07 16:43:47+00:00
I highly doubt the rare coiners and Costco bars can move a market this big. This is also not a US-only thing; it's happening worldwide.

> but the big buyers out there don’t actually want or need all this expensive physical gold. The price spike isn’t because all of a sudden there’s increased demand for physical gold - it’s just a financial instrument at this point that happens to have a physical counterpart.

The reason is well understood: Central banks around the world are increasing their supply of Gold. In particular, the one in China: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gold-reserves

And no, big buyers expect deliveries: https://www.ft.com/content/86a5fafd-603e-4ee1-9620-39b5f4465...
by standard_indian | 2025-10-07 16:43:49+00:00
Adding a folder to the Time Machine exclusion unfortunately does not exclude it from the local snapshots, it only removes it from the copy it does to the TimeMachine destination volume.

From https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/02/why-did-that-macos-upgra...

> Backup utilities including Time Machine normally make a snapshot with each backup, and retain them for 24 hours, following which they’re automatically deleted. As snapshots can’t exclude folders in the way that Time Machine can in its backups, if you’ve been working with a couple of 100 GB VMs then they will be retained in snapshots even though you probably exclude them from being backed up.
by senordevnyc | 2025-10-07 16:43:55+00:00
To be fair, while Europe dominates the top ten happiness scores, those countries at the top of the list are mostly all some of the richest countries in the world.

And there are 20+ European countries with lower happiness scores than the US, including France, Spain, and Italy. So living in Europe means you’re about as happy as Americans but also poorer…

I don’t think it’s as clear cut as you’re indicating.
Show HN: Mylinux Made by Me
by Mylinux-os | 2025-10-07 16:44:08+00:00
Hi everybody! I am 13 years old from India who has created a linux distro. It is live on github as rolling release model.

Link for github: www.github.com/pro1234123/Mylinux

I have also made a simple yet effective website for Mylinux hosted using github pages.

Link for website: www.pro1234123.github.io/Mylinux

The repo is still in early development but the os is rigorously tested. The latest release also packs support to boot from real hardware.

I hope for your support Please try it out and share your feedbacks on how to improve Thanks!
by graemep | 2025-10-07 16:44:15+00:00
No, but the decision is taken on the basis that it probably will not happen, and if it does there is a good chance that the person taking the decision will not be the one to bear the consequences.

That is why I chose to compare it to the 2008 crash. The people who took the decisions to take the risks that lead to it came out of it OK.
by petra | 2025-10-07 16:44:23+00:00
I agree. The Arduino brand isn't for professionals.

But let's say tomorrow they come together with bundle/partnerships to create a new, great dev environment, very easy, that a mechanical engineer can prototype a great robot for a niche use case,and continue to use that chip and code, with some changes in V1 production ?

Is there value to the Arduino brand and community than ?