MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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Show HN: Vibe Flow – Pure-prompt toolkit for AI-assisted development
by paleopr | 2025-10-03 07:10:41+00:00
Hi HN, Vibe Flow is a pure-prompt vibe coding toolkit for generating technical specifications and implementation plans. It should be compatible with all AI programming agents. It’s lightweight: no additional tool or plugin, just your agent and some reusable prompts that you can adapt.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-10-03 07:10:43+00:00
Some root cause analysis:

* Big swings to populism (even if the populist leaders are merely lying about their populist beliefs to entrench their power and set up an oligarchy) come about because of loss of legitimacy in the mainstream political spectrum.

* In the absence of a large and unexpected disaster, a loss of mainstream political legitimacy comes from mass alienation slowly attriting away the base of support.

* Japan is an import-heavy country with an educationally demanding labor market in a time of global uncertainty driving up trade costs across the board and impacting people's available cognitive energy budget. Under such circumstances, I'd be shocked if Sanseito hasn't already collaborating with AfD for a while.
by Ratelman | 2025-10-03 07:11:53+00:00
Yeah, he was quite vocal in his opinion that they would plateau earlier than they did and that little value would be derived from them because they're just stochastic parrots. Agree with him that they're probably not sufficient for AGI, but, at least in my experience, they're adding a lot of value and they're continuously performing better in a range of tasks that he wasn't expecting them to.
by muzani | 2025-10-03 07:12:05+00:00
For a century, Israel has been telling the world that they represented Jews, and Nakba was what the Jews wanted and it was their right. So for a century, the world hated Jews because of this narrative. And only recently people are learning the truth.

There's a lot to unpack in the last 1400 years, but basically everyone cherry picks what they want to see.

Medina, the first actual Islamic state, was established on an alliance between the Muslims and Jewish tribes. When the Muslims took Jerusalem, they welcomed the Jewish back. There's a few of these right up until Ottoman times. Dhimmi literally meant "protected person" - they can't be attacked or looted by Muslims and were not conscripted. Alliances aren't necessarily friendships, and a lot of these were built on mutual protection vs a common enemy rather than brotherhood.

Even in recent times, there's common grounds, especially in terms of religion. It's a kind of cousinhood. Notably all kosher food is halal, though not vice versa. In countries with both, it's popular to have a Jewish/Muslim district and Muslims often join Jewish student accommodations.

Of course there's plenty of bad history, but I find that the people who are pro-genocide will bring up massacres by Muslims. The people who advocate for treating Israeli Arabs as second-rate citizens will bring up dhimmis.

In the end, we pick the history we want to repeat.
by snozolli | 2025-10-03 07:13:02+00:00
Several years ago, two people were leaving the local dog park with their respective dogs. Person A loaded Dog A into his dark blue Jeep Wrangler and began to pull out. Person B was walking to his dark blue Suzuki Samurai. Dog B looked over, saw the Jeep driving away, and thought it was Person B abandoning her. She took off running after the wrong vehicle.

I've known dogs to identify the sound of their favorite human's car engine pulling up, but that was the first time I saw a dog identify a vehicle by color (dark blue) and general category (jeep-style).
by ben_w | 2025-10-03 07:14:05+00:00
> you can't expect to die before consequences catch up to you.

Many of the worst people in humanity, seem(ed) to act like they thought they were immortal.

Even being grazed by a bullet didn't stop Trump praising the second amendment.

(Though I say that as a non-American, and someone for whom the 2nd was part of why I never even considered attempting to migrate to the US; I do recognise the language used to support it as a quasi-religious badge of identity, i.e. hard to shake).
by graycat | 2025-10-03 07:15:23+00:00
Got an iPhone 16 Plus:

Apparently somehow needed to have an "Apple account." Don't want one -- don't want to be subservient, subordinate to, dependent on Apple or hurt my privacy -- but relented and applied -- refused!!!!!

The phone rang, apparently with someone from Apple Help who somehow noticed that my frustration (wasting time) was about to explode with some gigatons of TNT, enough to level everything from me to CA on to Hawaii. Soooo, apparently Apple HQ is somehow always online -- outrageous privacy threat. Since I was trying to make the phone work for even the simplest things, I could not receive the call.

Heck, could not even get an Apple account.

Super, semi-quasi, pseudo bright: The phone isn't working so to help call the phone that isn't working.

Apple, to communicate with a new user, use some REAL computing, including email. Understand???

New user? That iPhone is my first cell phone, first Apple product, and hope my last.

Using some computing that has a real keyboard, 30" screen, an 8 core AMD processor, and Windows and actually works, eventually got to Apple online help. Was advised to press the "Down Volume" button. I asked which one of the five was that button, and the help staff didn't know. Soooo, not even the Apple help operation knows what the buttons do. Disney with Donald Duck could make total riot out of this disaster!

I declared the iPhone 16 Plus a disaster, expensive, useless, worthless, at best a puzzle box, and will return it to Xfinity.

Actually, of course, the iPhone is a grand triumph of electronic engineering, optics, software, etc. -- still for new users is useless and worthless as a phone, i.e., won't make or receive calls, just won't; several hours a day of absurd mud wrestling in the dark for several days yielded no utility at all.

Useless? First big problem: Apple, apparently with rock solid, ironclad determination, deliberately, totally refuses to DOCUMENT, say, with an easy to find, COMPETENTLY, BEAUTIFULLY, EFFECTIVELY written PDF of D.O.C.U.M.E.N.T.A.T.I.O.N. Go bankrupt, maybe. Write documentation for new users, NEVER. Won't do it.

Me? Can I read tricky material from good documentation? Hold a Ph.D. in applied math with plenty of pure math where learned lots of tricky stuff, but from well-written books.

Apple, shut up, sit down, and listen up -- until you DOCUMENT, for new users your expensive phones are worse than worthless junk. Sure, maybe high school girls form little groups and share some of the basics they discovered somehow, but I'm out of high school.

One word Apple -- DOCUMENT.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-03 07:15:25+00:00
The practice of illegal clone brain transplants figures in some of the Vorkosigan series books: The clone-children of various customers are raised in cohorts, and taught little while enduring years of strictly controlled diets, cosmetic surgeries, and exercise regimes.

Then, one day, the are told their important and distant "parents" are finally arriving to bring them away to their new life...

Anyway, the point is that any aging wealthy pedicidal murderers are also gonna insist the body is perfect before they move in. The easiest way to do that without conjuring more new technology is the force the future-victim to do it.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 07:15:46+00:00
If it's the events that I'm thinking of, one of the drivers killed was a Bedouin from the Tarabin family. They literally gathered hundreds of family members to record a cellphone message to the perpetrators, who were mentioned by name. In the video, dozens of illegal weapons - mostly M-16 variants - were paraded and fired in the air. Tarabin is a well-known dangerous and hostile family, the Israeli police don't interfere with them (that's why they have all the illegal weapons).

I know of other Bedouins families that have rewards for the heads of other Hamas members.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 07:16:04+00:00
Thank you. I don't have a sense for the credibility of the poll.

But taking their numbers at face value, we have 58% of Gaza residents saying Hamas was incorrect to launch its 7 October offensive. (Surprisingly, 59% in the West Bank say it was correct. That's problematic.)

Problematically, too, is the 2/3rds of respondents in Gaza who oppose Hamas disarming. Based on this survey, which again, I have zero ability to judge in terms of accuracy, there would need to be a long civic transition to democratic self-rule while new political parties are given a safe space to form and grow.
by mixcocam | 2025-10-03 07:16:46+00:00
> I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.

RSS is just a protocol. You could make a reader now with any algorithm you want that displays feeds. In fact, I can’t imagine that no one is using the AI boom to say they will build a decentralized Twitter using rss plus ai for the algorithm
by mrweasel | 2025-10-03 07:16:53+00:00
That is nice, so many companies don't stop to think how their product might be abused. Love to see that you've given it some thought.

One think I might add: limit how many requests per second your clients can make. Even if they can just scrape a small set of sites, they can still hammer a site into the ground. One of the things I think Google has been doing really well since their start is knowing when to back of a site. So either rate-limit your clients, or back of a site if you see responses slowing down.

We just had a company hit one of our sites pretty heavily, and when asking them of back off a bit, they just asked if we could perhaps rate-limit them. Apparently they don't know how to reduce their traffic themselves.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-03 07:17:08+00:00
When I was a kid and my family first moved to the US my dad used to take me for walks. He didn't know anything about the country (couldn't speak English yet) so the only thing he could comment on was what he imagined the prices of all the houses were. Some people just feel the need to comment on something even when they don't understand anything.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-03 07:17:16+00:00
Private schools are, of course, not homogeneous. Some schools will accept bad apples, most won't. Public schools have no choice and you generally cannot expel a child except for extremely serious issues. If you've found a public school without major disruptive issues then you probably live in a high income and/or less urban area which immediately works as an invisible filter on the student body. I went to public school system in an urban low income area - I will never put my own children in such a system, under any circumstance.

As for 'no child left behind' and the woke stuff. I can actually tie both of these together in California. [1] In an effort to increase equity they've essentially hamstrung their own education. They're making Algebra 1 a grade later (meaning less normal path access to calculus), offering "alternatives" to Algebra 2, swapping from a focus on mastery to one on "big picture" understanding, keeping classes integrated regardless of student performance, and generally dumbing down the mathematical education across the board. They want to achieve equity in outcomes, and so they're taking the easy route - lower the ceiling, rather than raise the floor. It's near to certain that outcomes in California will decline significantly over the next decade, but I expect there will also be better grades on average - laying a nice layer of paint on a building that's collapsing.

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As for the Civil War, imagine the EU had a military and simply refused to accept Brexit, triggering a war. Would the cause of that war have been e.g. immigration (which was arguably the main factor leading to Brexit, and mentioned in numerous official documents relating to Brexit), or would it have been over the rights of EU member countries? Obviously without immigration you don't have Brexit and so you don't have a war. Yet similarly without our hypothetical effort of the EU to impose its will on member countries, you also don't have war. A key point to me is that one issue is variable, while one is fixed.

[1] - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-12/californ...
by wesammikhail | 2025-10-03 07:19:26+00:00
> An open standard for the world to use for this seems like the ideal way you would want it to happen.

I get the convenience part. I am from Sweden. We have BankID. I really get it.

But in reality, when centralized systems go to shit, they go to shit REAL BAD. So I personally oppose any such measures on both principles but also... it's okay if life is a little bit less convenient. Not everything needs to be ultra optimized for efficiency. Privacy and systemic integrity is worth at least that much imo.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-03 07:20:00+00:00
I do, this was a research project.

Also this was mostly interpreted back then, without JIT compiler support.

Also to note,

> Regardless of the threat, Sun determined that the project was not a priority and decided not to put more resource to develop it to product quality. The project continued in an experimental mode, but with Sun's finances deteriorating, it became inactive in late 2006

Written from a Java userspace powered mobile phone, with 75% worldwide market share.
by stavros | 2025-10-03 07:20:03+00:00
I'm not against digital ID, but I am very much against perfect law enforcement. Society evolves, and things that used to be unthinkable (eg gay marriage) slowly become acceptable.

To become acceptable, however, they need to be allowed to be done, even if illegally. If you arrested every homosexual the moment they kissed someone, then homosexuality would never have become legal.

Perfect enforcement leads to an ossified society that only changes when the people who can lobby for laws that benefit them want it to. It will be a perfect dictatorship that can never be toppled, it can only get worse.

Every dystopian film or movie starts with some tyrannical society and a resistance movement. Now imagine you made resistance impossible, which is what perfect law enforcement will do.
by tho23i42234 | 2025-10-03 07:21:37+00:00
I'd have imagined that the first thing that "Japan First" would imply would be to kick out the US-bases, defend against the feudatory-lord like shake-down measures by the US.

It's so strange - the "Japan First" gang infact appears to be pro-occupation (let's not pretend this is not what this is), and have even been raising funds for the likes of imperialists like Kirk.

Almost seems like it's meant to keep Japan artificially glued to the US and out of Asia, and not let geography work. Reminds me of what Brezhinsky feared about Germany / Russia getting together (and is now playing out in Europe).

Really sad though, since JICA and the prev. generations really gave Japan a very good name across Asia.
by darkwater | 2025-10-03 07:22:10+00:00
Xavi is catalan (shorter form of the name Xavier) and in Catalan "x" has exactly the "sh" sound. To get the "ch" sound you need to use "tx". And yes, most people - even natives - pronounce Xavi badly, due to Castillan influence on Catalan, and the lack of the "sh" sound in Castillan.
by fergie | 2025-10-03 07:22:37+00:00
I appreciate the response, and I essentially agree with your assessment that this has become the prevailing feeling in Israel. With that being said: surely Israelis understand that the current direction of travel leads to a dark place, not least for Israel itself? I can't imagine a reality where the crisis in Gaza continues and Israel continues to be supported by the West. And then what happens? Surely at some point peace and reconciliation prevails?
by andydotxyz | 2025-10-03 07:23:03+00:00
My ambition is for it to be the best desktop for developers or people learning to code.

We are integrating an app editor into FyshOS which (although now renamed and at https://apptrix.ai) can be seen in an old video as a preview: https://youtu.be/XXmDmn-et4E?si=5n1Ao-V6dKurXzS6 (mostly from 15:30 in)
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 07:23:30+00:00
> Hamas successfully baited Israel into a disproportionate response

Was Hamas' response proportionate to Israeli actions? What actions specifically.

Before you answer wildly, note that you're talking to someone who knows a dozen hostages and ex-hostages personally. Someone who knows two women whose babies were burned to death. Some whose daughter lost a close friend (that friend was slaughtered in his home along with both siblings and both parents, in their pajamas). Someone whose son's camp counselor was dragged to Gaza and murdered. I could go on. What was Hamas' actions a proportionate respond to?
by thrance | 2025-10-03 07:24:23+00:00
Full quote:

> It's not a "political stance" to say that people should call others by their preferred name and pronouns. It's just basic human decency to do that,

You're fighting for the right to be a dick to people for no other reasons than because you are prejudiced against them. Frankly, that sounds rather pathetic, maybe do a little introspection?
by geomcentral | 2025-10-03 07:24:46+00:00
> that said "feeling of incompleteness" will distract me for the rest of the evening

I find that it can even ruin an evening. I'll find myself trying to solve a problem in my head rather than being present with my family.

The only thing that works for me is waiting for clean breaks that happen mid-late afternoon. As soon as I reach a happy stopping point, I must stop and switch to shallow work for the rest of the afternoon. Then it's easy to leave my computer at the end of the day.

It's hard but after years of struggling with this, I found a sustainable way to balance work and life.

I also track my consistency with doing this so that I notice myself slipping back and correct it before it becomes a problem.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-10-03 07:25:03+00:00
Since blender has Geometry Nodes (and especially the more recent versions of those) I make all my parametrized models in blender.

True, it's a bit more hassle to setup and way less standardized. And it's not really the right tool for the job. And the models are less re-usable.

But.... I use blender a lot for other stuff and it's a joy to use. Freecad otoh feels like a confusing mess to me (probably because I don't use it often enough, but still...)

I'd love if Freecad would go through it's own 'blender 2.5 release' phase where someone would prune the UI.
by anfilt | 2025-10-03 07:25:11+00:00
If your worried about acrylamides then you should not be browning any starchy foods. A lot cooking intentionally wants the Maillard reaction for flavor and texture reasons.

When it comes to seasoning carbon steel you should not be letting carbon build up. It's a bad habit. If your getting carbon build up clean it off with something coarse like salt or a metal scrubber. After that if you need to it's not hard to give a pan a quick touch up seasoning with oil. Carbon steel is much quick to touch up season than something like cast iron. Cast irons rough sand cast surface means you generally need a much much thicker seasoning layer.

You also should still clean the pan too! Modern dish washing detergents are generally not made from lye so won't strip your seasoning.
by zeristor | 2025-10-03 07:25:37+00:00
Don’t forget the Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire.

I’m not sure if they still SPQR’d though.

Update: it appears to have fallen out of favour by 300

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jdrpz/did_t...

From a comment from a 12 year old Reddit post, 12 years being 0.5% of the span of the Roman Empire.
by totetsu | 2025-10-03 07:25:49+00:00
It’s fine, but she’s saying I only want to support people I love so I don’t want to support foreigners. The implication being she cannot love anyone if they are a foreigner. Which is kind of a racist position.. but even if we give that the benefit of the doubt. Okay we can’t say who anyone should or shouldn’t love.. but then maybe we can think of some cases of people we couldn’t love, but still deserve to receive support of the society they live in. (Like we might be disgusted by the thought of two very fat ugly people having sex, but our reaction to that doesn’t make it morally wrong) We might have no interest in sports or traditional music, but even if we don’t love it we can support it, or I might not personally have any people close to me in wheel chairs but it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t support accessibility policies. This is what I mean that it’s racism pretending not to be. It’s a politics of exclusion basses on racial prejudice, just with one more node on the causation graph.
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-10-03 07:26:42+00:00
Do you mean pre-profit/without ever making a profit? I found an article about their IPO:

> Pets.com lost $42.4 million during the fourth quarter last year on $5.2 million in sales. Since the company's inception in February of last year, it has lost $61.8 million on $5.8 million in sales.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pets-com-raises-82-5...

They had sales, they were just making a massive loss. Isn’t that pretty similar to AI companies, just on a way smaller scale?

We haven’t seen AI IPOs yet, but it’s not hard to imagine one of them going public before making profit IMO.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-03 07:26:59+00:00
I'm a software engineer, I've been using MacOS for five years already, and I still don't know how to use Finder, and I randomly open up some emoji app and also Dictionary. Literally the worst UI design I've ever seen, because such nonsense never happened to me on any other platform. Two months ago I switched to Linux and the distribution I chose is ten times more intuitive than MacOS.
by ben_w | 2025-10-03 07:27:14+00:00
> There is plenty of reason to welcome death.

Only when painfully ill, this reverses old age symptoms correlated with some of those painful conditions.

> As Max Planck observed: "Science progresses one funeral at a time".

If the aphorism was causally true, Spanish Flu, the Nazi's death camps, and Pol Pot's Cambodia would've created a lot more science than they did.

Even for politics: the Holodomor didn't end Stalin; the deaths in WW1 didn't change the world order enough to prevent WW2.
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-03 07:27:22+00:00
Accessibility for seniors is a real problem and an iPhone is a terrible choice for people who can’t use their thumbs or see the screen very well.

But an article about some very elderly people who cannot remember their own birthday has triggered the exact same Apple-UX-is-in-decline rants that a post about Liquid Glass or literally any other HN post about Apple does. I agree with some of the criticism but it’s not really engaging the point.