MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2025-10-11 16:23:35+00:00
Are you referring to Midori?

I've only ever seen three reasons for Midori to shutdown:

1) they were hitting C# limitations (and started working on custom compilers etc) (and people involved in Midori say Rust has already shipped things they failed to do)

2) there was a bit too much academic overeagerness, e.g. software transactional memory will kill any project that attempts it

3) basically getting their budget taken away

https://www.zdnet.com/article/whatever-happened-to-microsoft...

https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-10-11 16:23:39+00:00
I THINK they mean that once you move like-items they auto group into stacks?

Also I THINK they mean, create a little copier machine icon where you can drag items to and out pops a copy of it.

Basically, extending the " physical environment" aspect of this app. I actually quite like both ideas, but for the stacks could see things getting accidentally grouped too easily. So maybe some friction to auto grouping.
by smath | 2025-10-11 16:24:09+00:00
Slightly tangential: this is a wonderful and deep project, that requires a lot of personal time. Lately I've been wondering what social/economic/govt conditions allow for this type of deep thinking + tinkering among working people (not academia). My very rough guess is the US of 1950-60s did, and some other countries today do, but not so much the US of today because the cost of living and time pressures are higher. I'd be curious if anyone has a more detailed answer (or a rebuttal of my thesis altogether).
by theptip | 2025-10-11 16:24:19+00:00
> some of the ones I've played with come from telling Claude "Here's my copy of programming book. Please read the book and pull out reusable skills that weren't obvious to you before you started reading

This is actually a really cool idea. I think a lot of the good scaffolding right now is things like “use TDD” bit if you link citations to the book, then it can perhaps extract more relevant wisdom and context (just like I would by reading the book), weather than using the generic averaged interpretation of TDD derived from the internet.

I do like the idea of giving your Claude a reading list and some spare tokens on the weekend where you’re not working, and having it explore new ideas and techniques to bring back to your common CLAUDE.md.
by loverofhumanz | 2025-10-11 16:24:52+00:00
> Oh good lord. Now it's no longer even "have you read a history book on the 20th century?" anymore, it's "have you been paying attention to the world for the past 15 years?".

Spare me the hysterics and the insults. What exactly is your claim?

That body cavity searches have increased rapidly over the last 15 years? That it's a common occurrence? That security personnel actually has an incentive to do them more rather than less?

Give me the books you read and sources you read that support your claim. I doubt they exist. I suspect you're going off "vibes" here, but I'll gladly read them if you can cite them.
by lordnacho | 2025-10-11 16:25:27+00:00
Yes, it's wrong, and it's wrong on such a fundamental level I wonder if people who don't understand it have even given it a minute's thought.

You've lost money regardless of whether it is realized. You can even find a very simple contradiction in what realization even is: if you bought a stock at 100, double up at 90, and now it's 80 and you sell some, how much have you realized?

Your total net worth is the same regardless of whether you thought you realized a unit of -20 or -10.

> If you stay put, it will very likely be recovered AND have grown in time.

You should think about what risk of ruin is here. If your investments keep going down, what's your move? Double up, because it will likely bounce back? I may not agree that the market is efficient, in fact I make a living out of the inefficiencies, but the degree of inefficiency is close to a rounding error: the current price is a decent estimate of the value, incorporating all known information.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 16:25:43+00:00
I’m always amazed how people dismiss the contributions of people who actually bring in revenue so that you can get paid.

I’m not in sales. I’m what would be considered a “post sales architect” who is the first person a client talks to once the sale is closed and responsible for delivery. But I’m high enough up the funnel and work closely enough with sales and marketing to appreciate them.
by dan15 | 2025-10-11 16:27:06+00:00
There's many providers that have similar pricing, sometimes as their normal day-to-day pricing, and sometimes as sale pricing just for events like Black Friday. I've been happy with HostHatch, GreenCloudVPS ("Budget KVM" like), and RackNerd. RackNerd always have a sale running. GreenCloudVPS often have stock for their cheap ones (starting at $15/year). HostHatch has decent regular pricing (they're trying to compete with Hetzner), but their sale pricing is especially good.
by potatolicious | 2025-10-11 16:28:20+00:00
What you're getting at is the heart of the problem with the LLM hype train though, isn't it?

"We should have rigorous evaluations of whether or not [thing] works." seems like an incredibly obvious thought.

But in the realm of LLM-enabled use cases they're also expensive. You'd need to recruit dozens, perhaps even hundreds of developers to do this, with extensive observation and rating of the results.

So rather than actually try to measure the efficacy, we just get blog posts with cherry-picked example of "LLM does something cool". Everything is just anecdata.

This is also the biggest barrier to actual LLM adoption for many, many applications. The gap between "it does something REALLY IMPRESSIVE 40% of the time and shits the bed otherwise" and "production system" is a yawning chasm.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:28:20+00:00
User-uploads are the #1 cause of this if the developer is not doing anything otherwise against TOS. Users will upload things you don't expect in ways you don't program for. And the files they upload can be immediately spotted by any big storage provider due to the known file hashes.

So, when you do relaunch with another service provider, I recommend putting all user-uploads on a system that sanitizes/reviews the file before saving and therefore it would never allow a file in with a known hash flag.

The experience you're having is a reason to choose use a hosting provider that allows multiple user account per human/company. (Many providers have a very strict limit of one account per human/business and enforce sub-accounts.)

As you're seeing, an issue on one sub-account or site can sometimes bring down an entire account and all related sites.

Hope you are provided backups, they likely do have them, but you may need a lawyer to get more info and you'd need to get in touch before the typical backups get rolled over/deleted.
by 0xCMP | 2025-10-11 16:29:01+00:00
I'm sure models which replace characters in realtime will also become popular. I would imagine some company thinking it would be cool if the main character looked slightly more like whatever main audience it's being shown to and it's done on their playback devices (so, of course, it can be customized or turned off).

I find the idea fun, kinda like using snapchat filters on characters, but in practice I'm sure it'll be used to cut corners and prevent the actual creative vision from being shown which saddens me.
by zahlman | 2025-10-11 16:29:10+00:00
> It also bakes in the brainstorm -> plan -> implement workflow I've already written about. The biggest change is that you no longer need to run a command or paste in a prompt. If Claude thinks you're trying to start a project or task, it should default into talking through a plan with you before it starts down the path of implementation.

... So, we're refactoring the process of prompting?

> As Claude and I build new skills, one of the things I ask it to do is to "test" the skills on a set of subagents to ensure that the skills were comprehensible, complete, and that the subagents would comply with them. (Claude now thinks of this as TDD for skills and uses its RED/GREEN TDD skill as part of the skill creation skill.)

> The first time we played this game, Claude told me that the subagents had gotten a perfect score. After a bit of prodding, I discovered that Claude was quizzing the subagents like they were on a gameshow. This was less than useful. I asked to switch to realistic scenarios that put pressure on the agents, to better simulate what they might actually do.

... and debugging it?

... How many other basic techniques of SWEng will be rediscovered for the English programming language?
by asveikau | 2025-10-11 16:29:10+00:00
The explanation they give is they need to put their trademark, Windows, before Linux. Sometimes they say this is advice from the legal department.

I still think they could fulfill that requirement and call it the "Windows Linux subsystem" or something, but what do I know?

Unrelated, but I think the WSL2 design is kind of stupid. It's just a VM. I think the WSL1 design, where it was a syscall layer, is a better call. But that was slower, IIRC chiefly because the NT filesystem syscalls are slower than Linux's VFS. Rather than improve that problem, they side-step it by running Linux in a VM.
by jayd16 | 2025-10-11 16:29:21+00:00
I don't know, I think it's conceivable that you could get much much better results from a custom upscale per game.

You can give much more input than a single low res frame. You could throw in motion vectors, scene depth, scene normals, unlit color, you could separately upscale opaque, transparent and post process effect... I feel like you could really do a lot more.

Plus, aren't cellphone camera upscalers pretty much realtime these days? I think you're comparing generating an image to what would actually be happening.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-11 16:29:40+00:00
>True AirPods aren’t fiddly. But neither are just plugging in wired headphones.

Setting Apple aside, bluetooth multipoint is a game changer for how I use laptops and headsets. I agree that wired headsets are fantastic. For years I used OnePlus phones because they held on to the venreble 3.5mm jack longer than other Android phones. When traveling, however, the bluetooth multipoint headsets are considerably more convenient than wired headsets. With the work Mac and iPhone, Apple's proprietary fast switching makes this very seamless. I look forward to the day when the similar Fast Pair from Google works on non-Chromebook laptops.

>Why would I care about the repeatability of a work laptop? If something breaks, I talk to my IT department

We are a remote company, so going to the IT department is not always the most feasible option. In addition to the Mac, I have Linux and Windows computers for work. My employer lets me do things like expense M.2 drives and install them on those systems. Virtual environments are helpful and having both operating systems helps to validate our on-prem offering works with KVM and Hyper-V. Due to the soldered storage (and ARM CPU), I accept this is not feasible with today's Macs, but also recognize this was Apple's choice and it did not have to be this way.
by thatguy0900 | 2025-10-11 16:29:42+00:00
I can say I've cooked chicken sous vide incorrectly before that had cooked long and hot enough to be safe, but the texture and feel of the meat could only be described as a meat gusher, if you've ever had those candies. Every bite exploded with liquid and the meat itself was squishy, it was very disgusting
by mcphage | 2025-10-11 16:30:02+00:00
> one could say about Walmart that Walmart didn’t destroy small-town American main streets, consumer preferences did

Except that’s not even true—Walmart doesn’t merely sell products, it does plenty of anticompetitive tactics itself, like opening a store in a town, waiting until smaller retailers nearby go out of business, then close that Walmart and open a new one in the next town over. People in the first town have no choice but to drive to the next town for products, since the local businesses are gone. Rinse and repeat.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-10-11 16:30:26+00:00
I think you're ignoring a lot of realities of US politics and the US government structure as set forth in the constitution. Remember after he got ACA through (which was a really big achievement), there was the tea party backlash. Dems lost the House by a big margin and nearly lost the Senate. That made it very difficult to get the kinds of revolution you're hoping for. Yes, I agree that he should've jailed bankers (and he shouldn't have chosen Geithner as his treasury secty), but I think he had too many wallst-beholden advisors there that told him that if he did that it would lead to all kinds of economic trouble. Not sure what your beef with the ACA is (probably that it didn't go far enough towards universal healthcare, and I can agree with that, however given the political realities it was a pretty great achievement.)
by ajayvk | 2025-10-11 16:31:08+00:00
Any repo which has a Dockerfile can be deployed directly. For frameworks like Streamlit/Gradio/FastHTML/Shiny/Reflex/Flask/FastAPI, OpenRun supports zero-config deployments, there is no need to even have a Dockerfile. Domain based deployment is supported for all apps. Path based deployment is also supported for most frameworks, which makes DNS routing and certificate management easier.
by philbo | 2025-10-11 16:31:11+00:00
I think this and other recent posts here hugely overcomplicate matters. I notice none of them provides an A/B test for each item of complexity they introduce, there's just a handwavy "this has proved to work over time".

I've found that a single CLAUDE.md does really well at guiding it how I want it to behave. For me that's making it take small steps and stop to ask me questions frequently, so it's more like we're pairing than I'm sending it off solo to work on a task. I'm sure that's not to everyone's taste but it works for me (and I say this as someone who was an agent-sceptic until quite recently).

Fwiw my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md is 2.2K / 49 lines.
by nightski | 2025-10-11 16:31:43+00:00
Even though the author refers to it as "non-trivial", and I can see why that conclusion is made, I would argue it is in fact trivial. There's very little domain specific knowledge needed, this is purely a technical exercise integrating with existing libraries for which there is ample documentation online. In addition, it is a relatively isolated feature in the app.

On top of that, it doesn't sound enjoyable. Anti slop sessions? Seriously?

Lastly, the largest problem I have with LLMs is that they are seemingly incapable of stopping to ask clarifying questions. This is because they do not have a true model of what is going on. Instead they truly are next token generators. A software engineer would never just slop out an entire feature based on the first discussion with a stakeholder and then expect the stakeholder to continuously refine their statement until the right thing is slopped out. That's just not how it works and it makes very little sense.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-11 16:31:47+00:00
If it’s been “overvalued” for decades, wouldn’t there be a point where we can concede that it is actually valued properly, and it’s your valuation model that needs to adjust, not the market?

Surely there is some time horizon at which we can admit that the market is effectively correct. After 100 years of being “overvalued”, can we call that the real value? 1000 years?

This seems like that meme where the guy is looking in the mirror and telling himself, “you’re not wrong, the market is wrong”[1]

[1]https://i.imgflip.com/639cj2.jpg
by kgwgk | 2025-10-11 16:32:26+00:00
“At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?”

Written some time ago by the CFO of a company that was making more money than ever in a rapidly growing new industry that was completely changing the landscape of the entire world. (Not investment advice - it could be different this time.)

> How are *they* overvalued?

By the way, you forgot to mention that TESLA's forward P/E ratio is approximately 203.39, indicating the price investors are willing to pay for each dollar of estimated future earnings. This ratio is lower than its trailing P/E of around ~259.
by hearsathought | 2025-10-11 16:32:40+00:00
> In the US, from at least 1950 through at least the 1970s, there was such a thing.

Is this a joke?

> You had, for example, the editor of the New York Times who, knowing that his reporters leaned left, deliberately steering the editorial policy to the right, trying to have the net result be unbiased.

Who is talking about editorial policy. We were talking about news. Right?

> He literally had them put on his tombstone "He kept the paper straight."

Wow that must mean it is true. That reeks of overcompensation. Doesn't it? But you are right, the NYT is not biased at all. Never has been... Fox News said they were "fair and balanced". If they said it, it must be true right? Believe the branding. Hey, the Truth Social platform has the word "truth" in it. So that must mean it was created to push truth to the public. Right?

> You see that in the distrust for the media.

There have been many periods of deep distrust of media.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." -- Thomas Jefferson

Through the yellow journalism years. To the ww1 and ww2 years. And beyond.

> When you say that, are you sure that you haven't bought someone's narrative?

I'm sure.

> Or is that a narrative that you are deliberately trying to create?

It's not a "narrative". It's the truth. It's basic history and reality. What do you think newspapers and media were created for? What do you think they exist to do? Do you think Rupert Murdoch created fox news to push "truth"? Do you think a banker created the NYTimes to inform the public of "truth"? Do you think politicians created the nypost and washington post to expose "truth"?

You are trying to push a narrative. I'm just telling you what the news industry is. It's an obvious fact anyone could see if they just took off their politically driven blinders.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:32:54+00:00
I imagine it's the common phenomenon of Sunday Sads where you face the upcoming Monday and think about the things you want to change.

Maybe you went out with friends and were reminded you wanted a partner, or maybe you spent the weekend alone and are thinking about a change.

In the US, Sunday is the first day on the calendar, so it often is considered the planning/prepping day for the week if you're non-religious.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-11 16:33:44+00:00
I feel like you're describing some strange alternate universe. I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about.

Faceless artists? Artists have dedicated followings with fanbases where they interact more than ever before. Weightless and interchangeable? Artist's personalities are more distinct and individual than ever.

You think people don't listen to albums anymore? That they're "clicking next" rather than listening? Do you actually know anybody who likes music? I think you might not actually be in touch with today's music scene.
by tombert | 2025-10-11 16:34:37+00:00
I don't run Android anymore, but when I did (about two years ago) I uninstalled Firefox because, as far as I could tell, it didn't properly background tabs when the app was closed. I didn't realize this initially, so I was unsure why my battery life was terrible and my phone as always hot. Being able to install extensions was neat, but not worth it for killing my battery.

Suffice to say, I do not agree that it's the "best mobile browser" on Android.
by djaboss | 2025-10-11 16:35:18+00:00
Then I do wonder why no company has come knocking to the door of the hospital room where I'm sitting right this minute waiting for my terminally ill mother to die. Because since years she's member of EXIT, the well-known Swiss institution that is providing assisted suicide services, and it would still take several weeks for us to jump through all the required paper and legal hoops to get the ball rolling. And now she being already unconcious and therefore incapable, most ways are blocked already, as others pointed out, so I'm not sure we could accelerate the process at all.

Sorry, but your comment smells rather about peddling fakery, especially as you have provided heaps of reliable references.
by crote | 2025-10-11 16:35:31+00:00
Screen size is pretty much irrelevant, as nobody is going to be watching it at nose-length distance to count the pixels. What matters is angular resolution: how much area does a pixel take up in your field of vision? Bigger screens are going to be further away, so they need the same resolution to provide the same quality as a smaller screen which is closer to the viewer.

Resolution-wise, it depends a lot on the kind of content you are viewing as well. If you're looking at a locally-rendered UI filled with sharp lines, 720p is going to look horrible compared to 4k. But when it comes to video you've got to take bitrate into account as well. If anything, a 4k movie with a bitrate of 3Mbps is going to look worse than a 720p movie with a bitrate of 3Mbps.

I definitely prefer 4k over 720p as well, and there's a reason my desktop setup has had a 32" 4k monitor for ages. But beyond that? I might be able to be convinced to spend a few bucks extra for 6k or 8k if my current setup dies, but anything more would be a complete waste of money - at reasonable viewing distances there's absolutely zero visual difference.

We're not going to see 10.000Hz 32k graphics in the future, simply because nobody will want to pay extra to upgrade from 7.500Hz 16k graphics. Even the "hardcore gamers" don't hate money that much.
by jsnell | 2025-10-11 16:36:13+00:00
6 months seems like a carefully cherry-picked number there, it is basically middle of the the trough of the tariff-induced market collapse that started 7 months ago and had been recovered from 5 months ago. That explains about 20 percentage points.

The USD is down about 10% this year. Anything USD-denominated needed to go up by 10% just to stay even in real terms.

So you're looking at a 30%-ish baseline for that specific 6 month interval. That's basically where Meta (etc) are. Of the larger outliers:

Nvidia continued growing at >50% YoY, and their largest customers announced increased capex spending plans.

Google's valuation had been depressed by uncertainty from ongoing anti-trust cases. One of them got resolved (and the day the remedies were announced is exactly when Google's share price decoupled from Microsoft, Amazon and Meta).

Tesla? I've got nothing.