MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adfm | 2025-10-30 21:38:44+00:00
No doubt. The ingredients to make a Mission-style burrito hover around $2 in quantity. Rice and beans are cheap filler and a 10-pack of 13.5-inch flour tortillas is $3.50. Prices fluctuate, but definitely not enough to justify the current fast food pricing models, which seems to assume everyone works at a FAANG company, which is increasingly not the case. Ditch Chipotle and hit La Cumbre instead.
by justonmxlinux | 2025-10-30 21:38:51+00:00
There is nano which doesn't have any fees at all if you are going into that, but personally I would recommend some chain like polygon or stellar etc. with low fees and to use stablecoins like USDC on top of it, personally, the fees are so negligible, and if they are still an impact, maybe pay them on nano but polygon's fees are in cents iirc, there are other low cost stable coin based tokens too i guess.

For whistleblowing though, Monero would be top tier.

Also I am pretty sure that there are already systems which can give a list of numerous crypto accounts from one thing but still monero would be my best choice for such kind of things tbh given how usdc can still hold/censor your money in a somewhat degree y'know, maybe there are some freedom usd things or something but at that point, having them in monero makes more sense.

These are the few applications of cryptocurrency which can genuinely be used (I am a bit of crypto skeptic because I don't like what the community has become, my only respect is for monero community really and some nano contributors or some chain developers in general but they form a very small portion and the markets don't move because of them and no matter how much trust I have in a project, I don't trust markets and I don't want to play a fool's game compared to stock markets where there is genuine productivity in conservative stock markets generally speaking although that productivity is also de-linking thanks to AI in S&P 500 )

To be really honest, I just don't like crypto personally except stablecoins and that too in just a very small degree, That is my personal experience that I am not going to take part in something which feels like an speculative asset no matter its use-cases as most of these would just converge on one or two and if not, they would have some niche use cases and their use case right now is feeling more and more like a ponzi scheme more and monero is the only one which doesn't feel that way really.
by andy_ppp | 2025-10-30 21:38:57+00:00
Apple could substantially eat into Nvidia’s AI lunch if they really tried, honestly Macs are fast enough… my guess is by the time M6 is coming out they will have external GPUs available for both the data centre and home use. If I was them I’d already be taking orders, power requirements alone even if they aren’t as fast 2 nodes ahead would make their offering sensational.
by allenu | 2025-10-30 21:40:01+00:00
I suspect some of this is due to the fact that the programmers consenting to do free work already have well-paying jobs, so they have the freedom and time to pursue coding as a hobby for fun as well. Graphic designers and UX designers are already having a hard time getting hired for their specific skills and getting paid well for it, so I imagine it's insulting to be asked to do it for free on top of that.

That said, I don't think it's as simple as that. Coding is a kind of puzzle-solving that's very self-reinforcing and addictive for a certain type of person. Coders can't help plugging away at a problem even if they're not at the computer. Drawing, on the other hand, requires a lot more drudgery to get good, for most people anyway, and likely isn't as addictive.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-30 21:40:18+00:00
It also helps that they are moving phone financing off their balance sheet and onto AT&T’s, where people who don’t know anything think AT&T is giving away iPhone 17s right now, when of course, actually, Apple is.

The better question is, who do you know pays full price up front for an iPhone with no discounts? Only people who destroy or lose their current iPhone? The parents of teenagers giving the teenager the old phone and replacing theirs?
by MrGilbert | 2025-10-30 21:40:27+00:00
> We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.

We had that development with cars. 40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car. Nowadays, we have a subscription for seat warmers. The manual tells you to visit the dealer to get your brakes checked. Makes me sad, somehow. But people have choosen this path as a collective.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-30 21:41:08+00:00
Is that really a problem though ?

Unless you’re doing something special, you can be fairly certain that universal binaries will behave well on both platforms, that’s what Apple guarantees. They expose one API, which can be executed on multiple hardware architectures.

If you’re doing something special, like an image editor, or a game, you might need to test performance, but you couldn’t really do that with Rosetta either.

Universal binaries work well. And as long as they exist, apps will most likely run just fine on both Intel hardware and Apple silicon.
by madeofpalk | 2025-10-30 21:41:43+00:00
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more...

> The fund’s expansion includes a multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple to produce advanced silicon in TSMC’s Fab 21 facility in Arizona. Apple is the largest customer at this state-of-the-art facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers to manufacture the chips in the United States. Mass production of Apple chips began last month.
by burningChrome | 2025-10-30 21:42:27+00:00
The US has been?

- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions peaked around 2007, then declined by roughly 18% from that peak.

- 1990–2022: Emissions fell about 3% compared to 1990 levels, despite population and GDP growth.

- 2005 Benchmark: Emissions in 2022 were 17% below 2005 levels, largely due to cleaner electricity generation and efficiency improvements.

- Transportation: Consistently the largest source, accounting for ~30–35% of CO₂ emissions.

- Electric Power: Significant reductions—down 41% since 2005—due to coal-to-natural-gas shift and renewables growth.

- 2024: Energy-related CO₂ emissions totaled 4,772 million metric tons, down from 4,940 MMt in 2022.

- 2022: Total U.S. GHG emissions were 6,343 million metric tons CO₂e, or 5,489 MMt after land-sector sequestration
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-10-30 21:42:32+00:00
A guy was talking to me about designing some robot legs. He was just getting started and was new to mechanical design. The more questions I asked him the more I realized he couldn’t internally visualize what he was designing. When I’m putting something together in my head it’s like a mental CAD where I can place objects down, constrain them to each other, and see how they move in relation to each other. For this guy I recommended simply diagramming on paper to work out how it should function.

I have a fuzzy mental stage for these things. It’s like my mind’s second monitor. It mostly goes ignored but I can focus on it if I want to. Shapes and colors are weak but are definitely there. But still a useful tool.
by FredPret | 2025-10-30 21:42:40+00:00
Corporate income tax is one of those ideas that are immensely popular politically ("someone who is not me will pay billions to benefit me? yay!") but not supported by economic theory or real economic outcomes. Rent control / other price controls is another one ("No more rent increases for me, yay!").

Personal income taxes are a better choice according to [0] and that makes sense if you think about it. Let companies go wild creating wealth; eventually the company matures, growth slows, and instead of reinvesting, the money mostly gets paid out to employees and owners as salaries, dividends, or stock buybacks. That's the point where it's most efficient to tax it.

[0] https://www.economicsobservatory.com/which-taxes-are-best-an...

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxedu/primers/primer-not-all-taxe...
by ortusdux | 2025-10-30 21:42:54+00:00
I recently learned about the Green Ramp disaster, where the crew ejected from an F-16 under full afterburner, and the jet continued on to collide with several parked airplanes, resulting in 24 fatalities.

"As of 2025, this incident has the largest number of ground fatalities for an accidental crash of an aircraft on U.S. soil. It was also the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the division since the end of World War II."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ramp_disaster
by hexbin010 | 2025-10-30 21:43:08+00:00
Sometimes we really do just want a checkbox toggle though :D

Eg an app to prevent MacOS going to sleep. I want a checkbox to also stop an external display sleeping. I don't need my entire usage of the app and my computer-feature desires analysed and interpreted in a way that would make a psychoanalyst look like a hack.

But yes in a professional setting people do use "Can we add a button" to attempt to subvert your skillset, your experience, to take control of the implementation, and to bypass solid analysis and development practices
by renewiltord | 2025-10-30 21:43:29+00:00
Take the money. These things are 10x bets. You won't be sad that you got 7.5x instead of 10x (which is what happens if you take the 25% of your stake off the table). If you flip it, you'd have 10x instead of 7.5x. It's not meaningful.

Each time you get money you get to deploy that elsewhere. If you have super risk tolerance, push $25k cheques as seed.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-30 21:44:16+00:00
Isn’t there a lot more compensation available in software? Like as a developer, you can make a lot of money without having to even value money highly. I think in other fields you don’t generally get compensated well unless you are gunning/grinding for it specifically. “For the love of the art” people in visual arts are painters or something like that, probably. Whereas with software you can end up with people who don’t value money that much and have enough already, at least to take a break from paid work or to not devote as much effort to their paid work. I imagine a lot of open source people are in that position?
by avidiax | 2025-10-30 21:44:23+00:00
Obviously, they must think it's a feature of some value.

Knowing the country allows an immediate diplomatic protest, threats to withdraw business, and investigation.

The payment is to be within 24 hours, which means that they can act quickly to stop the processing of the data, prevent conclusions from being drawn, etc.

If the signaled country were the US, I would expect a bunch of senators to be immediately called and pressured to look into and perhaps stop the investigation.
by oblio | 2025-10-30 21:44:28+00:00
From the programming language side of things the solution other languages use is to... just be fast. Java is fast enough, so is C#. Javascript/Typescript can be fast-ish, Go is fast enough, Rust is definitely fast.

So a lot of other major ecosystems are just self contained. All the "big" libraries are portable and written in the language itself, so they rarely plug into C/C++ (aka distribution/OS dependencies).

So Docker was basically built primarily for slow programming languages and I guess in a weird way, for C/C++, as you say? :-)))
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-30 21:44:43+00:00
I wrote “if you’re in the EU” because the project only has resolvers in the EU, so accessing it from the rest of the world will likely not be worth it over local alternatives.

As for the legality, the following text is from their website:

> Yes, our DNS4EU Public Service is completely free for citizens. Although primarily intended for users within the European Union due to our infrastructure's geographic distribution, we impose no restrictions on users from other locations.
by lostlogin | 2025-10-30 21:45:05+00:00
The point being made is good though.

Owing no one anything is incredibly liberating. It changes how you behave and what you are risking.

Sure, I’d be richer on paper if I had kept the first house and rented it out, buying the second house with debt. But the worry and hassle and was my concern and I’m far happier. Perhaps 20 years from now my position would be different.
by vladgur | 2025-10-30 21:45:11+00:00
You’re conveniently ignoring that Hamas took 200+ hostages and refused to return them throughout the war.

Just because Hamas, build the biggest underground bomb shelter network and refused to let any civilians in it and that that it operated militarily out of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, causing inevitable casualties by civilians does not make it a genocide. It makes it a terrible war. A war that Hamas started on October 7.
by verdverm | 2025-10-30 21:45:13+00:00
yea, I get that, but my gut tells me this doesn't pass the sniff test

It's a choice you make and action you take either way, be it not updating a canary or sending a covert financial transaction

That it has not been tested in court is why it's still a "theory" (hypothesis?)

My hope is that a jury of our peers would stay closer to the spirit than the letter of the law
Show HN: Socratic – Automated Knowledge Synthesis for Vertical LLM Agents
by kevinsong981 | 2025-10-30 21:45:23+00:00
Socratic ingests sparse, unstructured source documents (docs, code, logs, etc.) and synthesizes them into compact, structured knowledge bases ready to plug into vertical agents.

Backstory: We built Socratic after struggling to compile and maintain domain knowledge when building our own agents. At first, gathering all the relevant context from scattered docs and code to give the agent a coherent understanding was tedious. And once the domain evolved (e.g. changing specs and docs), the process had to be repeated. Socratic started as an experiment to see if this process can be automated.

The Problem: Building effective vertical agents requires high-quality, up-to-date, domain-specific knowledge. This is typically curated manually by domain experts, which is slow, expensive, and creates a bottleneck every time the domain knowledge changes.

The Goal: Socratic aims to automate this process. Given a set of unstructured source documents, Socratic identify key concepts, study them, and synthesize the findings into prompts that can be dropped directly into your LLM agent’s context. This keeps your agent's knowledge up-to-date with minimal overhead.

How it works: Given a set of unstructured domain documents, Socratic runs a lightweight multi-agent pipeline that: 1. Identifies key domain concepts to research. 2. Synthesizes structured knowledge units for each concept. 3. Composes them into prompts directly usable in your vertical agent’s context.

Socratic is open source and still early-stage. We would love your thoughts/feedbacks!

Demo: https://youtu.be/BQv81sjv8Yo?si=r8xKQeFc8oL0QooV

Repo: https://github.com/kevins981/Socratic
by yoz-y | 2025-10-30 21:46:06+00:00
Arf, and me who was hitting that "update later button", now I wish I had updated to the latest version before the removal from the store.

That said, I'll try this when it will become necessary. Affinity tools were great. I downloaded the new Canva version, and although I'm not a fan of the new icons and general look and feel it seems okay. It feels a bit less responsive than the v2, that might be fixed with some "bug fixes & small improvements" releases. I might be just jaded and resigned.

Edit: Actually it is still possible to update.
by ghaff | 2025-10-30 21:46:19+00:00
I find iPads only marginally interesting now that I don't travel as much. Although the newer magnetic keyboards make them more usable as laptop replacements than they used to be. (Still not totally sold--maybe next longer trip.)

Re: Macbooks generally. My mind was somewhat blown when a former co-worker told me their kid didn't want a Macbook. They were fine with an iPhone for their schoolwork.

Personally, I still find MacBooks as the least replaceable category--other than the iPhone. Anything else I could live without as needed.
by ergonaught | 2025-10-30 21:47:18+00:00
Okay, so, if you think people are only metaphorically referring to their "minds eye", then you probably have aphantasia. If the idea of people "counting sheep" to go to sleep confuses you, thinking that perhaps you could not go to sleep if you just lay there counting to yourself (hint: that's not what they mean), welcome to club aphantasia.

I haven't even read the comments yet and I guarantee there are people here debating that there is some spectrum or degree of quality to the imagery of the minds eye, and those people don't understand that there is nothing which can possess qualities when you have aphantasia. If there are degrees, then you don't have aphantasia.

It's entirely possible to imagine things, and to access data/information about things that the brain is presumably constructing, but there is no direct, sober, conscious access to mental imagery. None. Not "fuzzy", not "cloudy", not "not very strong": none.

Resonates? Again, welcome aboard.

No? Thanks for stopping by. :)
Show HN: AI Resource Manager
by jomadu | 2025-10-30 21:48:20+00:00
AI Resource Manager (V3) (FKA AI Rules Manager)

A package manager for AI rules and prompts with semantic versioning and automatic distribution to AI tools.

What is ARM?

ARM is a package manager for AI resources, designed to treat rulesets and promptsets as code dependencies. It introduces semantic versioning, reproducible installs, and straightforward distribution to your AI tools.

Seamlessly connect to Git repositories such as awesome-cursorrules or your team's private collections. Install and manage versioned resources across projects, and keep everything in sync with your source of truth.

Why ARM?

Managing rules and prompts for AI coding assistants like Cursor or Amazon Q is cumbersome:

- Manual duplication: Copying resources disconnects them from updates and the original source

- Hidden breaking changes: Updates may unexpectedly alter your AI's behavior

- Poor scalability: Coordinating resources across multiple projects becomes chaotic

- Incompatible formats: Frequent manual conversions between different tool formats.

ARM solves these problems with a modern package manager approach.

Key Features of ARM

- Consistent, versioned installs using semantic versioning (except for git based registry without semver tags, which gets a little funky)

- Reliable, reproducible environments through manifest and lock files (similar to npm's package.json and package-lock.json)

- Unified resource definitions that compile to formats needed by any AI tool (the audacity! clutches pearls)

- Priority-based rule composition for layering multiple rulesets with clear conflict resolution (your team's standards > internet best practices)

- Flexible registry support for managing resources from Git, GitLab, and Cloudsmith

- Automated update workflow: easily check for updates and apply them across projects (nice)
by zenware | 2025-10-30 21:48:21+00:00
Except that you can, because every software company did this for decades… Want to upgrade to a new version of our product? That’s another one time fee for that version.

If you squint, this looks a lot like a subscription model, but with extra steps. Why it’s different is because those extra steps actually matter.

They matter to the people who aren’t subjected to subscription dark-patterns to keep them from unsubscribing for just a little bit longer. They matter to the product, development, and sales teams who know they actually have to produce and deliver something meaningful if they want repeat customers. The matter to the accounting teams on all sides of the transaction, in particular because subscription revenue or expenses can always be counted as “recurring” and this has implications on cash flow which itself can impact many things.

The pitch has always been “we grow with you, this is a win-win”, implying that perpetual license fees are actually good for you to pay. Ostensibly because keeping your supplier in business keeps you in business, but in reality it was totally possible for a software supplier to go out of business and for their customers to continue operating without issue for 5, 10, even 15+ years, before even considering finding a replacement software.

And despite the pitch seeming so sweet, the literature on why you want your software business to operate on a subscription model was always about gaining an advantage over your customers, however marginal it may be, and now the data has borne out that the advantage is stark.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-10-30 21:48:22+00:00
I looove the fact that we can now seamlessly switch between the Photo, Designer, and Publisher modalities within a single program.

One of the great things about using the Affinity suite for the last few years has been the consistency of design conventions and key commands across all three programs, so of course it makes sense to merge them all!

Whereas Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign all have inherited different commands and conventions from their independent developments and are incongruent.

I'm so impressed by the workflow now. This feels like a tremendous win from a workflow standpoint.
by archagon | 2025-10-30 21:48:39+00:00
Gimp, maybe not so much[1], but I understand that Krita has improved quite a bit. And regardless of stagnancy, both of these applications will continue to exist long after Affinity gets our-incredible-journeyed.

[1]: (FWIW, I don't know one way or the other. Apologies to any Gimp developers here.)
by kazinator | 2025-10-30 21:49:17+00:00
Here is a correction which m akes it exactly 8.0:

> 987654320 / 123456790 8.0

I've decremented the numerator and incremented the denominator:

( 987654321 - 1 ) ----------------- = 8 ( 123456789 + 1 )

Works in other bases. TXR Lisp, base 4:

1> (/ (poly 4 '(3 2 1)) (poly 4 '(1 2 3))) 2.11111111111111 2> (/ (poly 4 '(3 2 0)) (poly 4 '(1 2 4))) 2.0

It also works for base 2, which is below the lowest base used in the article: the Python code goes from 3.

For base 2, the ratio is 1/1. When we apply the correction, we get (1 - 1) / (1 + 1) = 0, which is 2 - 2.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-30 21:49:27+00:00
I've been thinking about this lately. It's really difficult to understand where your dependencies are with modern software.

I might built myself a full blown piracy machine that never gets to access the internet so I have access to an environment that can't get taken away. At the very least, it'll be a good way to learn how much dependence there is on internet connectivity, which we all know the answer to - way too much.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-30 21:51:16+00:00
If you don't care about the material, why on earth would anybody sit around for 15 minutes/30 minutes/an hour listening to you talk about the material. The sole reason for a presentation over a technical reference buried somewhere is because the presenter wants the audience to care about the thing they're presenting. If that isn't reflected in the presentation, it's not a worthwhile presentation.
by BryantD | 2025-10-30 21:51:33+00:00
I dug in a bit and did a little research. Criterion and Dropout, as mentioned, use Vimeo. So does Arrow's streaming service (cult films, mostly). From there on in it gets even more fringe: Taskmaster (the British game show) has a streaming service built on Vimeo, the Z-movie titans Troma and Full Moon Features use Vimeo, and so on. So not insanely crucial but I still think it's a better world in which those services can keep doing what they do.
by tdb7893 | 2025-10-30 21:51:53+00:00
One of my family members was a research director at the UN and came from a middle class American family. It has its problems (he certainly has his share of complaints) but the idea that they are all nepo babies is incorrect and they do have serious researchers. Also, are we sure that the $10.5 trillion is a UN generated number? Other people in the comments seem to think it was made up by some other organization.