MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GaggiX | 2025-10-06 12:10:10+00:00
This isn't a government failure. The government is correctly pricing the true cost of industrial land use: the loss of farmland and natural space.

Rooftop solar is cost-effective because it cleverly avoids that cost by using land that's already developed. It's not winning because of bureaucracy, but because it's using a limited resource in a smarter way.
by yorwba | 2025-10-06 12:10:57+00:00
As far as I can tell, most of its value comes from having a reasonably thorough dependency tree of math topics and corresponding exercises (which can be solved with pen and paper) and describing it as "AI" is how you get investors to fund a math textbook.

See also How Math Academy Creates its Knowledge Graph https://www.justinmath.com/how-math-academy-creates-its-know... "We do it manually, by hand."
by mmaunder | 2025-10-06 12:11:00+00:00
OpenAI agrees to buy massive quantities of AMD chips. That demand boosts AMD’s revenue and stock price. OpenAI holds warrants that gain value as AMD’s stock rises.

The more valuable those warrants become, the more incentive OpenAI has to buy and deploy AMD hardware—fueling further AMD growth and stock gains.

It’s a circular incentive chain where success at one point amplifies success elsewhere. Orders drive stock price, stock price drives incentive, incentive drives more orders.

If any part of the cycle falters, say AMD’s chips underperform, markets cool, or OpenAI overextends, the feedback reverses.

Fewer deployments hurt AMD’s stock. OpenAI’s warrants lose value. Incentives to keep buying evaporate. Both companies growth narratives unravel.
by jcattle | 2025-10-06 12:11:34+00:00
Isn't the thing that costs everyone an arm and a leg at the moment the race for better models? So all of the training everyone is doing to get SOTA in some obscure AI benchmark? From all of the analysis I've read, inference is quite profitable for the AI companies. So at least for the last part:

> we'll have a ton of folks out there psychologically dependent on a product that is either priced out of their ability to pay or completely unavailable, and the ensuing mental health crises that might entail.

I doubt that this will become true. If there's one really tangible asset these companies are producing, which would be worth quite a bit in a bankruptcy it's the model architectures and weights, no?
by germandiago | 2025-10-06 12:12:50+00:00
> IMO, macros and such should be to improve coding UX

Coding UX critically leans on familiarity and spread of knowledge. By definition, making a non-obvious macro not known by others makes the UI just worse for a definition of worse which means "less manageable by anyone that looks at it without previous knowledge".

That is also the reason why standard libraries always have an advantage in usability just because people know them or the language constructs themselves.
by dilipdasilva | 2025-10-06 12:12:58+00:00
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by ta1243 | 2025-10-06 12:13:53+00:00
My fortigate clusters do both natting and session based firewalls. I configure them via a pull request into git which is approved by a second person and applies the config automatically.

I assume that Palo Alto have similar APIs.

My routers don't do anything at layer 4, the fortigates advertise default routes via BGP into the core switches, which route everything.

Now of course you need to make sure that your traffic going out of one firewall comes back via the same firewall, that's trivial to handle though, and is required for session based firewalling.

Plesae don't tell me that "ipv6 is better" because you are still logging into network devices and making changes like its 1999?
by addicted | 2025-10-06 12:14:09+00:00
I think eliminating online sports betting, and requiring it be done within the physical confines of a casino may help mitigate most of the concerns around this.

After all, sports betting was legal in several states such as NJ, Nevada, as long as they were taking place in the casinos in Atlantic City/Las Vegas, and we didn't see any major negative impacts like we do now.
by jna_sh | 2025-10-06 12:14:41+00:00
I recently completed a MSc with a focus on bird bioacoustics, and this problem goes for the whole ecosystem/pipeline: there are very few (non-proprietary) off-the-shelf, ready to go products. Even the most popular methods that are extolled in lots of papers and by NGOs all practically need a dev/data scientist for basic implementation
by Doxin | 2025-10-06 12:15:07+00:00
> if you're still in the "the problem is other people" phase

While I'm sure there's plenty of people who adhere to that theory, I'm worried you're getting that confused with the theory that a bunch of handicaps (among which is autism) are mostly just handicaps because the world isn't accommodating them.

You can imagine if everyone in the world was in a wheelchair it'd be real easy to get around in a wheelchair. Similarly if everyone in the world had autism it'd be much easier getting around having autism.

Whether you like it or not, to people with autism "other people" are a large part of the problem. Having sensory issues around shaking hands isn't inherently a huge problem, but fuck me if people don't make it a huge problem. Your options are basically to either have people think you're a gigantic asshole or to be deeply deeply uncomfortable whenever it comes up.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-06 12:15:22+00:00
Just some background: there is a controversy in the Ruby community[0][2] around the governance of the rubygems project. It has been maintained for a long time by employees of Ruby Central but not in a corporate capacity. There was a recent hostile takeover of this project by the Ruby Central corporate arm.

The most likely reason it was flagged from my perspective is that David Heinemeier Hansson (who created rails) is kind of the figurehead of this community and he has controversial opinions[1] which people believe make him unfit to represent their community. The controversy has manifested as people speaking out against DHH in his position. So this post seems to have been flagged for being "political" because it is seemingly in opposition to rubygems for the DHH reason.

0: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

1: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance (this article has a lot of examples from DHH's blog)

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390
by ConfusedDog | 2025-10-06 12:15:58+00:00
While it will give a little more revenue, I suspect keeping users longer in a "self-paid trial" might ended up change their mind and keep the subscription.

The only reason I would subscribe would be an interesting movie/tv show that I cannot find anywhere else. Frankly, these days if I find those, they just go onto my backlog... then there are also my games, books, bucket list things to do backlogs. So, I'm not subscribed to anything.
by mk89 | 2025-10-06 12:16:19+00:00
Norway: 5.50 million people. Finland: 5.6 million people Sweden: 10.57 million people.

All these 3 together have slightly more population than NRW in Germany, and they have way more money.

So: almost same population, way more money and way more resources to generate energy (unless we want to consider Coal again... then we'd win).

The sooner we stop considering the Nordics as the model example the better it is for all of us in EU.

They are great countries, but very specific.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-06 12:16:23+00:00
> I believe that in France (for example) zero is regarded as both positive and negative.

That would cause all kinds of problems, so I'd be pretty surprised if it turned out to be true.

I note that this is the heading of the relevant wikipedia page:

> Un nombre négatif est un nombre réel qui est inférieur à zéro, comme −3 ou −π.

( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombre_n%C3%A9gatif )

It'd be hard to be more explicit that zéro is not a negative number.
by amomww | 2025-10-06 12:16:39+00:00
Meanwhile, Dutch coal and gas plants are running overtime for electricity exports. Obviously to compensate for the German and Belgian nuclear exits. (see https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/NL/5y/monthly)

On top of that, NL govt is investing 10B EUR to prepare the construction of several new nuclear power plants, less than 300km from one of the abandoned German ones (Emsland). In conclusion the nuclear exits of BE and DE are some of the most stupid and hypocritical decisions in EU energy policy. Both countries will continue to depend on nuclear energy (from FR and NL). The only difference is that it is now produced <200km outside of their borders, in neighbouring countries.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 12:17:30+00:00
> I have no faith Trump gives a shit about the constitution.

I didn't say he does. But again, abolishing the Constitution is the only path to staying in power.

> He and his goons can amend

No, they can't. Have you studied the amendment process?

> So long as there's a somewhat legitimate election that says Trump's president

That's the point. There can't be another somewhat legitimate election that says Trump's President.
by kohlerm | 2025-10-06 12:18:04+00:00
>All politicians follow their beliefs No they don't they, a lot them will do whatever is needed (change their minds at will) to stay in power. If you ever listened to Habeck, there are simple rational arguments why it did not makes sense to continue running the nuclear plants for longer. There was anyway no easy affordable way to just let them run for many years (contracts). At the end nuclear was only contributing 1.5% to the overall energy production.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-06 12:18:46+00:00
I'm looking at this through the lens of US copyright, where the Copyright Office determined that AI output isn't protected by copyright, and thus isn't private IP, as it isn't the creative output of a human being.

If the results of inference and generation can't be protected under copyright, as they aren't the creative output of a human being, why wouldn't the results of back-propagation and gradient descent follow the same logic?

This isn't about how we feel about it, it's a legal question.
by Slartie | 2025-10-06 12:19:04+00:00
Actually, it is pretty common for homeowners to first install a balcony solar power plant and eventually "upgrading" to a full-scale solar power installation on the roof. The first is very easy and cheap to do and can be done on a weekend, the latter is costly, requires dealing with bureaucracy and partially-sleazy system sellers, and thus requires overcoming way more substantial hurdles, for which one must muster the motivation first.

Balcony solar power plants are sort of a gateway drug into actual, practical participation in the renewable energy sector. They are easy to install, cheap, have a clear and fast way to profitability, and provide significant gamification value (people who buy these kits tend to start with constantly monitoring their energy generation and usage in apps afterwards). That "ice breaker" effect should not be underestimated. It can pave the way to way more substantial actions (or to the acceptance of actions taken by others) that people wouldn't have considered otherwise simply due to inertia of the status quo.

> look ugly

That is YOUR taste. I consider most balconies with solar panels to look futuristic and cool. Garden houses with solar panels on the roof also look way cooler and more modern than without them.
by bartlomein | 2025-10-06 12:19:47+00:00
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by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-06 12:21:30+00:00
>but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s

Ugh giving me flashbacks to the “the office will change him” arguments. Can’t believe people actually said that out loud.

If he somehow got the peace prize as he balloons a department sneaking around in plain clothes with their faces covered rounding people up at work and terrifying/ripping families apart then the prize is truly a joke. Luckily there’s no way he’s getting it.
by mindcrime | 2025-10-06 12:21:44+00:00
Good stuff. I run my own ejabberd server and it's been great. Installation is relatively straightforward, configuration isn't terribly convoluted, and it "just works" once up and running. Now my server doesn't have a ton of load on it, as it's used mainly for development / experimental purposes at the moment, so I can't say much about it's scalability or anything. But generally speaking, I installed it, did the initial setup, and other than adding/modifying users, I've rarely had to think about it since.
by diegof79 | 2025-10-06 12:22:10+00:00
I love projects like these. Even when I took algebra and calculus in university, it’s good to refresh and go deeper into the concepts many years later.

However, a small critique to the author: the audience of this book is not clear. It says “basic” math, but then in chapter 1, the group's explanation starts with this sentence: “The additive group of integers (Z,+) and the cyclic group Z/Zm.” Maybe it was a draft note. To be fair the paragraphs that follow attempt a more basic explanation of groups, but even my “Algebra I” book at the university was friendlier than that.
by api | 2025-10-06 12:22:21+00:00
> He probably believes that marriage and motherhood are best for most women.

I don’t want to go on a quote hunt. I’ve seen some. But this is the crux of it.

My wife is a stay at home mom. It’s something she’s wanted to do since we were dating. I’m supportive of it, and she’s become kind of the pillar of the whole extended family.

That was her choice. It’s what she wanted. Get it?

It wasn’t my choice. I’d have supported her if she wanted a career. I supported her giving it a try but it wasn’t for her.

It’s definitely not some windbag public intellectual’s choice, or the government’s. The thing you quoted sounds innocuous until a politician gets ahold of it. Then we find out what it really means.

I guess the most damning thing to me is that so many incel and Tate types like him. By its fruit shall it be known. Marxism sounds liberating but if that’s true then why does every Marxist nation turn into a dictatorship or a mafia state?

A lot of things Marx said sound innocuous until politicians and men with guns get hold of them. Then you find out what they really mean.

Any time someone says they know what other people should do with their lives and they have some grand theory of history full of great meaning and purpose all ready to slot people into their appropriate roles, run away.
by dceddia | 2025-10-06 12:22:26+00:00
I’m coming to see the root is usually some kind of avoidance, always emotional, often subtle. I think this actually is pretty universal but the specifics vary wildly. It’s taken a while to unpack this. For a long time, when I’d about of a task I was avoiding, I’d just get this wave of a feeling of “ughhh” and turn away.

There’s something the feeling is trying to warn me about, and sitting with it can help figure it out and let it go. A lot of my own stuff stems from school I think. The funny thing is it’s often totally illogical. Like a sense of panic comes up - “oh no! Someone will be mad I haven’t started this yet!” - yes well wouldn’t getting it done avoid that outcome? “no but it’s too late! They’ll yell at me when I turn it in!”. My brain associated “doing the task” with “getting in trouble” in a weird way, and that emotional program runs whenever something vaguely similar comes up.

The surface-level fear might cover up a deeper fear underneath too (something like, I won’t be ok, or good enough, or loved anymore).

All this emotional stuff has been a recent focus of mine ever since finding Joe Hudson’s work. There’s a good playlist on procrastination that’s relevant here: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbct081G13-ot5FviKz1bt...
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-06 12:22:33+00:00
>> The Presidency is term-limited by the Constitution. Trump cannot run for a third term.

The Constitution says "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". It doesn't say no person shall serve as President more than twice.

Gerald Ford was never elected to the office of the President. He was never even elected to the office of Vice President. Yet he served as President.

One scenario: Trump runs as a Vice President on a ticket with someone else as President. 5 minutes after being inaugurated, the President resigns, making Trump President for a third term.

I'm sure clever people can think of other scenarios.
Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
by LarsenCC | 2025-10-06 12:23:40+00:00
Everyone’s chasing AI hype. I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.

In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!

No launch. No funding. No AI. Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.

I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com Now, more than 2,300 people use it.

It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.

People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem. This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.

Build something useful. Solve a real problem. Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.

So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?
by qzw | 2025-10-06 12:23:49+00:00
I abhor the general trend of governments outsourcing everything to private companies, but in this case, a technologically advanced country’s central government couldn’t even muster up the most basic of IT practices, and as you said, accountability will likely not rest with the people actually responsible for this debacle. Even a nefarious cloud services CEO couldn’t dream up a better sales case for the wholesale outsourcing of such infrastructure in the future.
by bgentry | 2025-10-06 12:24:00+00:00
I get the temptation to attribute the popularity of these systems to lazy police with nothing better to do, but from personal experience there’s more to it.

I live in a medium sized residential development about 15 minutes outside Austin. A few years ago we started getting multiple incidents per month of attempted car theft where the thieves would go driveway to driveway checking for unlocked doors. Sometimes the resident footage revealed the thieves were armed while doing so. In a couple of cases they did actually steal a car.

The sheriffs couldn’t really do much about it because a) it was happening to most of the neighborhoods around us, b) the timing was unpredictable, and c) the manpower required to camp out to attempt to catch these in progress would be pretty high.

Our neighborhood installed Flock cameras at the sole entrance in response to growing resident concerns. We also put in a strict policy around access control by non law enforcement. In the ~two years since they were installed, we’ve had two or three incidents total whereas immediately prior it was at least as many each month. And in those cases the sheriffs could easily figure out which vehicles had entered or left during that time. I continue to see stories of attempted car thefts from adjacent neighborhoods several times per month.

I totally get the privacy concerns around this and am inherently suspicious of any new surveillance. I also get the reflexive dismissal of their value. In this case it has been a clear win for our community through the obvious deterrent factor and the much higher likelihood of having evidence if anything does happen.

Our Flock cameras do not show on the map here, btw.
by gosub100 | 2025-10-06 12:24:03+00:00
What needs to be "maintained" in a flying aircraft? If it's in need of an update, why was it certified to fly that way in the first place?

Also in safety critical apps, being "difficult" can be a feature, not a big. Should we have easier turbofans so we can pop them open and swap out blades and rings for tiny little improvements? No. Every flight critical component should be fully understood as a prerequisite for use.