MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Theodores | 2025-10-06 00:23:46+00:00
I have wondered for a while what happens to the gamblers in the city where I live. They don't end up in homeless shelters or at the soup kitchen, which has got me curious. I appreciate that the money comes to an end and debts are a result of that. However, the gamblers are not pushing it to destitution, they might lose all their big ticket stuff but they don't end up in just the clothes they wear and nothing else.

I don't think generalisations about ease of giving up alcohol versus ease of giving up sports betting (or other gambling) is an apples to apples comparison.
by rbits | 2025-10-06 00:23:56+00:00
Love this! My favourites:

The winner of this: https://ambigr.am/contest/sayings

And every single submission for this is amazing: https://ambigr.am/contest/duality

Also nice tip: You can click on the image and it will flip it for you. Especially useful if viewing on a computer, and also because some of them mirror instead of flip.
by jntun | 2025-10-06 00:24:30+00:00
"Lighthouses in the sky" was pro-slavery & pro-racism Virginia Senator John Randolph's criticism of John Quincy Adams policy to build astronomical observatories throughout the US. Adams referred to the observatories as "lighthouses of the skies" and Randolph turned the phrase during the Congress of Panama to embarrass Adams. Could be complete coincidence that Dr. Getting used the same phrase, but this time with a productive connotation.
by rhettjull | 2025-10-06 00:25:05+00:00
We were tired of wasting hours setting up landing pages for new projects. As a result we built Zylo, an AI that can turn plain language into a live, hosted website or app in minutes.

Under the hood, Zylo uses full-stack generation (frontend + backend + database) with responsive design, authentication, payments, and deployment all handled automatically.

You describe what you want (e.g. “a site for a coffee shop with online ordering”) and within ~15 minutes, Zylo provisions everything and pushes it live.

It’s not a template generator, it’s a real builder that writes and wires code.

We’re testing with early adopters now, and would love your feedback on:

What types of projects you’d want to spin up instantly

What control or export options matter most to you
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-06 00:27:38+00:00
Yes. Phasing out coal is a multi step process.

The next step is coal plants forced to become peakers thermally cycling daily because they are loosing too much.

As seen in for example Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/australian-coal-plant...

The next step is being a reserve plant only activated seasonally.

Finally rounding off with purely being a reserve plant and then decommissioning when it costs too much to even keep it runnable.

And instead they make you a bunch of money a bog standard autumn day because the French and Swedish nuclear power decided to crap out.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-06 00:27:42+00:00
Suppose there is an arsonist setting fire to random houses. They come by and throw a Molotov cocktail through your window.

We then observe that you immediately drop everything to deal with the fire. Should the conclusion be that you love arson and enjoy spending time on it? More importantly, do we like a system where the arsonist is rewarded for getting you to spend time on something?
by gpm | 2025-10-06 00:27:48+00:00
I think they might be laughing at 800 watts to charge a laptop or small fridge. Most laptop chargers are a fraction of that. Full sized fridges might use slightly more power than that to spin up the compressor, but their steady state energy usage is generally less than that, and their average energy usage (including the time when the compressor is entirely off) is like a 20th of that.
by wdr1 | 2025-10-06 00:27:48+00:00
Harvard perhaps, but definitely not MIT.

U of C notably does not have an engineering program. When I attended (in the 90s), the rumor was that, over the years, several alumni had offered to make significant donations to start one, but it was always rejected for being "too applied."

We didn't even has a CS major for a long time, instead having "Mathmatics with a emphasis on computer science." When CS was introduced as a major, it was still very heavy in theory. I would estimate I didn't touch a computer for half of my classes?
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 00:28:25+00:00
I have a really neat idea to improve the message passing speed in QNX: you simply use the paging mechanism to send the message. That means there is no copying of the data at all, just a couple of page table updates. You still have the double TSS load overhead (vs 1 TSS load in a macro kernel), but that is pretty quick.

But you are right that there is a price for elegance. It becomes an easier choice to make when you factor in things like latency and long term reliability / stability / correctness. Those can weigh much heavier than mere throughput.
by neilv | 2025-10-06 00:28:30+00:00
> Often people have the illusion that getting paid $80k a year when you used to make $300k will mean that your employer will recognize that you are a tremendous value. They won't.

Sounds like the folk wisdom that, by default, employers/clients tend to only value you how much they're paying you.

If they had to pay a lot extra for you, the wisdom goes, they will imagine that you must have been worth it, and will take you more seriously.

If they paid bargain basement price for you, well, I suppose the same psychology applies.

(I was reminded of this folk wisdom last week, by a couple hints in an interview. It's a bit tricky to filter out startup employers who only want midrange commodity skillsets, when you're willing to take a lower salary in exchange for meaningful equity. While many of them are thinking of workers as generic commodities (and necessary evils, to the real stars who are the founders), and valuing these hires based on salary they are willing to entertain.)
by CamelCaseName | 2025-10-06 00:28:41+00:00
I share my realtime Google Maps location with 30 people, friends, family, people from the internet.

They can see where I am, down to my address, at any given time.

Why not?

The very real upside is that they casually see me while looking at Google Maps and strike up a conversation or invite me somewhere, something that's happened many times.

The article talks about private and public life... but people will go to all the effort to post the very same things their location reveals on social media. Might as well make it real time.

If you're sharing location data with people who would use it to harass you, that seems like a selection issue, not a systemic issue.

Location data is hardly private. Everyone should share theirs with as many interesting people as possible. If only I had done so back in school.
by Veserv | 2025-10-06 00:29:01+00:00
1. 12% of the increased profits. If we used your logic then we would conclude that 100% owners of businesses are not being compensated for their work. They are literally being compensated all of the profit and asset growth.

2. Yes, it is fairly common to “compensate” executives primarily in the form of their own stock appreciation [1]. Mark Zuckerberg receives 1$ in salary, options, stock awards, with only a tiny 20 M$ as reimbursements to avoid running afoul of tax law [2]. Larry Ellison [3] got only 8 M$. Michael Dell only got 3 M$ [4]. Andrew Jassy only 1 M$ [5]. Should I keep going?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary

[2] https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/mark-...

[3] https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/lawre...

[4] https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/micha...

[5] https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/andre...
Show HN: 6 Months Building and 2 Refining – I Shipped My AI Accountability Coach
by Stevinn | 2025-10-06 00:30:16+00:00
About six months ago, I started building JustGrind because every habit app I tried was either overloaded with features or built on empty hype.

I wanted something quieter — an AI coach that learns your goals, keeps you consistent, and adapts as life changes.

After two more months of refining and rebuilding, V2 is finally live: smoother, faster, and fully redesigned with more features.

It’s still in early development, so I’d really appreciate any feedback, feature requests from the HN community.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-06 00:30:44+00:00
To be sure, when talking about solar panels, 800W is the nominal/nameplate capacity. That's how much it generates when conditions are perfect and the sun is shining straight down on them. Most of the time an 800W installation will produce rather less than that.

You'd need rather more panels (and/or some combination with batteries) to hit 900W output constantly. (on the other hand, do you need 900W constantly, or is that peak usage? A battery might be able to handle that.) That said, solar panels are probably a lot more efficient in Indonesia than they are in Germany. Since you're in/near the tropics, perhaps 1500-2000W nameplate capacity could cover your 900W? See if you can get a local expert do the maths for you.
by Rochus | 2025-10-06 00:31:06+00:00
See https://www.openqnx.com/node/471

"Access to QNX source code is free, but commercial deployments of QNX Neutrino runtime components still require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for QNX Momentics(R) development seats. However, noncommercial developers, academic faculty members, and qualified partners will be given access to QNX development tools and runtime products at no charge."
by wdr1 | 2025-10-06 00:31:40+00:00
If you take it as profit over people, you've grossly misunderstood it.

Friedman explained numerous time how he went from a New Deal left (having grown up in the Great Depression) to an fervent free market capitalist because he believed capitalism was more effective in helping people.

Now you may disagree, perhaps vigorously, but you should still be honest over their motivations.
by davkan | 2025-10-06 00:31:48+00:00
I’m no expert but traditional lead acid battery UPS are typically at the bottom of the rack due to weight and concern about leakage. Wouldn’t surprise me if li-ion UPS go at the bottom as well. In that case if uncontrolled it seems pretty easy to torch an entire rack.

96 servers isn’t that many, probably less than 10 racks and given the state of the backups it would track that they didn’t spring for halon.
by scarface_74 | 2025-10-06 00:32:06+00:00
I work for one reason - to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. There is no higher calling.

If I were 22 post 2010, instead of 1996, you damn well better be believe I would have been “grinding leetcode to get into a FAANG” instead of wallowing in enterprise dev making what a returning intern makes at BigTech.

I’m not bitter, by 2012 I was 38, recently remarried and wasn’t about to uproot my (step)kids. But by youngest graduated from high school in May 2020 and I had an offer from BigTech June of 2020.

I definitely encourage any younger developer to play the game.

As far as jumping ship, if my goal is to exchange labor for money, why wouldn’t I exchange the most money for my labor given my other priorities? Instead of letting a company pay me less than market value or even worse what they pay someone coming in at my level.

Besides, I had my first house built in 2002 for $175K when I was making $65K and had no student loans. Neither is true for most students graduating today.

And it’s copium thinking that people at BigTech making 50%+ more at every level work that much harder than an enterprise CRUD developer doing Java at a bank.

I’m not advocating someone works 70 hours a week at a startup getting underpaid with the promise of “equity” that will statistically be worthless. I am advocating they get paid in cash and/or RSUs and immediately sell as soon as they vest and diversify.

And next year will be my 30th year working, I’ve never experienced burn out because I exercise my agency to say “no” to being overworked knowing I could get another job worse case and continue exchanging my labor for money and stay housed and fed.
Ask HN: ML Engineers not negatively impacted by AI?
by AznHisoka | 2025-10-06 00:32:55+00:00
Does have any anecdotal evidence on whether the demand for ML engineers have increased, or at worst stayed the same? Logically, I would think that companies need more ML engineers, especially since many of them are creating their own models, and incorporating LLMs into their software.

And if they're not impacted, I guess that logical follow-up is: should new grads focus their efforts on being a ML engineer then?
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-06 00:32:56+00:00
It can be posed as shame on the front side.

More often than not the suicide covers a whole organization's dirty laundry. You'll have people drunk and driving their cars over cliffs [0], low profile actors ending their life as shit hits the fan [0] etc.

Then some on the lower rank might still end their life to spare their family financially (insurance money) or because they're just so done with it all, which I'd put more on depression than anything.

Us putting it on shame is IMHO looking at it through rose colored glasses and masking the dirtier reality to make it romantic.

[0] https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/76130

[1] https://www.tsukubabank.co.jp/cms/article/a9362e73a19dc0efcf...
by ninkendo | 2025-10-06 00:33:01+00:00
I was at Apple around 15 years ago working as a sysadmin in their hardware engineering org, and everything - and I mean everything - was stored on NFS. We ran a ton of hardware simulation, all the tools and code were on NFS as well as the actual designs and results.

At some point a new system came around that was able to make really good use of the hardware we had, and it didn’t use NFS at all. It was more “docker” like, where jobs ran in containers and had to pre-download all the tools they needed before running. It was surprisingly robust, and worked really well.

The designers wanted to support all of our use cases in the new system, and came to us about how to mount our NFS clusters within their containers. My answer was basically: let’s not. Our way was the old way, and their way was the new way, and we shouldn’t “infect” their system with our legacy NFS baggage. If engineers wanted to use their system they should reformulate their jobs to declare their dependencies up front and use a local cache, and all the other reasonable constraints their system had. They were surprised by my answer but I think it worked out in the end: it was the impetus for things to finally move off the legacy infrastructure, and it worked out well in the end.
by Theodores | 2025-10-06 00:33:48+00:00
Thanks for the links, however, everything above is off the mark, even NextCloud, which I once used to really like. The only problem is that you are instantly deep into the weeds that no PC/Apple consumer-civilian would ever wade into. Facebook and their ilk don't need a manual, and neither should a webserver with email server need a manual to get you started, just subdomain, email domain and username should get you started.

As for security, it is all a bit meh. If you have a box that only runs https: with no other ports open, you are half the way there. If you are just running static pages then you are done. If you run a NextCloud type of beast then you are opening things up, but my hunch is that it works just fine with nobody losing sleep on it.
by skissane | 2025-10-06 00:34:12+00:00
The way it was explained to me was different... yes, all able-bodied males do national service. But there's a different phenomenon in which someone serves some years active duty (so this is not their mandatory national service, this is voluntary active duty service), in some relatively prestigious position, and then jumps ship to the corporate world, and they get hired as an executive by their ex-comrades/ex-superiors... so there ends up being a pipeline from more senior volunteer active duty military ranks into corporate executive ranks (especially at large and prestigious firms), and of course that produces a certain culture, which then tends to flow downhill
by whateveracct | 2025-10-06 00:34:16+00:00
Leading up to me buying my home, the narrative was about how expensive houses are - especially in my city (Seattle).

But now on the other side, I got so lucky to buy one when I did (2020) due to interest rates.

Savvy also comes into play. The most affordable decent Seattle houses then were like $750k for sub-2k sqft well outside the main parts of the city. But Tacoma had 3k sqft houses for under $600k. 45ish minute reverse commute to Seattle bustling-est neighborhoods for evening fun. When we discovered this we pulled the trigger and it was the best financial decision we ever made along with going to college.

I agree it's a shame that owning in the biggest city (especially the nice parts) is hugely expensive.
by astrange | 2025-10-06 00:35:20+00:00
"only" and "repeating" aren't accurate here. There's a lot of steps between the pretraining tokens and the LLM. I mean, you can pretty much do whatever you want in the process of making one or running it.

For instance you could use pretraining/SFT to steer something away from a document instead of towards it and that wouldn't be "only repeating" it. Though I don't know if that's actually possible, and afaik it is true RL reweights existing data instead of learning new things.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-06 00:36:12+00:00
Do you have any example of these high profile suicides that can't be better explained as "taking one for the team" for lack of a better idiom.

Shame is a powerful social force throughout the society, but we're talking about systematic screwings more often than not backed by political corruption (letting incompetent entities deal with gov contract on basis of political money and other favors) or straight fraud.
by kylecazar | 2025-10-06 00:36:19+00:00
I routinely use an LLM (Gemini 2.5 Pro) to steel man and/or criticize an unfinished thought I have about something, or to check if there is an existing body of knowledge about that thing. I just write my thought, and say "what do you think about this?" or something similar, and it usually gives me the vocabulary I need to research further.

As an example, I'll ask something like "when exactly does a cheap thing become expensive?", and it will point me to the Sorites paradox and imprecise predicates.
by svachalek | 2025-10-06 00:37:01+00:00
They did. The KV-Markdown is essentially a dict with ``` wrapper, and INI which is similar scored very high as well. The worst performers were index-based rows like CSV or Markdown tables. JSON is in the middle with high context and more syntactic noise and less clear record labels.

The odd ones to me are HTML which uses th and td to make indexed-based rows but did better than JSON somehow, and XML which is like JSON with even more syntactic noise placing better than INI. If I had to guess I'd say because vast amounts of the web were in the training set.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-06 00:37:37+00:00
> It is entirely possible to have actually healthy relationships where people respect having information available to them and not abusing that information

This is true, but it’s also possible to not realize your relationship is unhealthy until it’s too late. Trust should be earned, not given, especially with something as sensitive as location data. It should be years into a relationship before you even consider this unless you have proven yourself to be a truly excellent judge of character.

It’s also possible to share your location in ways that aren’t private, allowing intermediaries to get this sensitive information and either sell it or better manipulate you using targeted ads. Location data can be misused in some pretty serious ways, especially if someone wishes you harm, so it’s best to avoid handing it out if you can avoid it.
by dataflow | 2025-10-06 00:38:46+00:00
> They can see where I am, down to my address, at any given time. Why not?

To avoid some awkward conversations many people would rather avoid, I guess?

"You were nearby? Why didn't you attend blah/come say hi/etc.?"

"You're here? Didn't you say you're going to be out of town?"

"What were you out doing at {time/place}?"

etc.
by sincerely | 2025-10-06 00:39:05+00:00
>Rather than becoming defensive, Masad and his team owned the problem. In fact, says Masad, within two days, they rolled out an automatic safety system that separates a user’s “practice” database from their “real” one. The way Masad describes it, it’s a little like having two versions of a website’s filing cabinet — the AI agent can experiment freely in a development database, but the production database, which is the real thing that users interact with, is completely walled off.

I gotta wonder who the median techcrunch reader is if the writer/editor felt it necessary to explain the point of having a staging and prod environment, and with such a pointless analogy. We surely cannot understand what a database is unless we're told it's like a filing cabinet, right?
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 00:39:07+00:00
I'm confused. How is that the opposite of what he actually said? Charlie Kirk was strongly Christian, as I understand it. If a faithful Christian argues against cherry-picking the Bible, doesn't that imply an endorsement of everything in it? So if the Bible says to kill gay people, which he said it does, then does that not mean that he thinks that should be done? Especially given he describes it as "God's perfect law."

I don't understand how this would be "debunked" or mean anything other than what King originally said it meant, unless we're absolutely forbidden from doing even the most basic and obvious logical deduction on statements.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-06 00:39:33+00:00
Ever since I rode in a BYD in China I've thought it would be great to be able to get one in the USA. It just really felt complete, put together and polished in a way that I haven't seen in a "normie" U.S. car in a long time. Too bad our country uses high tariffs and regulatory barriers to protect its dinosaur companies.
by serbuvlad | 2025-10-06 00:40:27+00:00
This is not an ABI stability problem, this is a UX problem.

iOS and Android do backwards incompatibility all the time. If you find a mobile app that hasn't been updated in 10 or 15 years, you won't be able to install it on a modern device. But, iOS and Android ship apps to billions of users, nobody complains about ABI stability and nobody uses a Win32 compatibility layer.

glibc already has decent UX in that it doesn't allow you to load an app built for a newer version on a host with an older version. Unfortunately, the message is not user friendly at all "could not load @@GLIBC_X.YZ@@foo()", instead of something more readable, but the restriction is, in itself, good.

The problem is that there is no system to trigger backwards incompatibility at any point, nor is there a simple way to target an older Glibc version without spinning up a docker container.

And glibc is a HELL of a codebase, I would NOT want to be responsible for implementing those features, so I understand why they're not there. But 'our Linux build for our game we are still selling and advertising as working on Linux is no longer compatible with new Linux distributions, so let's rebuild it' is a much easier decision for a developer, publisher, etc. to make than '"some" Linux users are reporting issues with our game, should we dedicate resources to investigating this?'