MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-03 15:50:02+00:00
I think a lot of this viewpoint comes from the fact that the median software engineer doesn't really have a lot of exposure to mature, and often therefore regulated industries and how much make-work paper pushing and ass-covering paper pushing there is.

I have no idea what fraction of our economic productivity is wasted doing these sort of TPS reports but it's surely so massive that any software that lets us essentially develop more software on the fly to cut that back even slightly is highly valuable.

Previously only the most moneyed interests and valuable endeavors could justify such software, like for example banks flagging sus transactions. Current AI is precariously close to being able to provide this sort of "dumb first pass set of eyes" look at bulk data cheaply to lesser use cases for which "normal" software is not economically viable.
by edude03 | 2025-10-03 15:50:27+00:00
Yeah, I'm probably splitting hairs here but as far as I understand (and honestly maybe I don't understand) - Rubin CPX is "just" a normal GPU with GDDR instead of HBM.

In fact - I'd say we're looking at this backwards - GPUs used to be the thing that did math fast and put the result into a buffer where something else could draw it to a screen. Now a "GPU" is still a thing that does math fast, but now sometimes, you don't include the hardware to put the pixels on a screen.

So maybe - CPX is "just" a GPU but with more generic naming that aligns with its use cases.
by inerte | 2025-10-03 15:50:39+00:00
I used to work on a product where the app server and database were in the same rack - so similar low latency. But the product was successful, so our N+1 would generate thousands of queries and 1ms would become >500ms or more easily. Every other month we would look at New Relic and find some slow spot.

It was a Rails app, therefore easy to get into the N+1 but also somewhat easy to fix.
by MrCoffee7 | 2025-10-03 15:50:47+00:00
Google's AI search overview is designed to quickly pull and summarize information from its massive web index, while ChatGPT search focuses on providing detailed conversational responses that may require more processing time. The speed difference users notice comes from fundamental differences in how these systems work - Google leverages its existing search infrastructure and pre-indexed web content, while ChatGPT processes queries through a more complex language model that generates responses token by token. Also, I would imagine that ChatGPT is using RAG more in generating some of its responses, and RAG is I/O bound. I/O bottlenecks are orders of magnitude slower than a process that could be completed mostly in memory.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-03 15:51:22+00:00
I've mentioned this before on HN [0][1].

The name of the game has been custom SoCs and ASICs for a couple years now, because inference and model training is an "embarrassingly parallel" problem, and models that are optimized for older hardware can provide similar gains to models that are run on unoptimized but more performant hardware.

Same reason H100s remain a mainstay in the industry today, as their performance profile is well understood now.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275413

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383418
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 15:51:26+00:00
> This thread is literally about an article in which it is outlined that there is indeed a famine in Gaza.

It's not credible however[0]. There have been many claims without appropriate evidence for a while[1] and those involved tend to be antisemitic individuals interested only in pushing a specific narrative regardless of the facts on the ground.

[0] https://unwatch.org/hillel-neuer-on-sky-news-fabricated-u-n-...

[1] https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-food-rapporteur-mic...
by csomar | 2025-10-03 15:51:30+00:00
> but the good folk in Africa know damned well the value of their environment.

I guess I was just exaggerating for effect.

> For example the objections to Shell's planned seismic oil exploration of the coast of South Africa is vehemently opposed - on largely environmental reasons - by local residents. They have obtained an injunction and are now opposing it in their constitutional court.

Same thing in central Tunisia, though without courts; people just scared off the multi-nationals into leaving. Shale gas is very dangerous in populated areas and Tunisia has a quite a bit of it. But it's not really worth to extract expect for the people doing the extracting.
by bccdee | 2025-10-03 15:51:36+00:00
Whatever database you end up using, you'll need some sort of backup solution. Litestream is a streamed backup solution which effectively doubles as replication for durability purposes.

MySQL, Postgres, etc. have a much greater overhead for setup, unless you want to pay for a managed database, which is not going to be worth the price for small quantities of data.
by Eridrus | 2025-10-03 15:51:47+00:00
Nice anecdote, but if you follow the links in the post you will see this is the minority of these issues:

"Altogether 71.5 percent of the PCs failed the RAM test and 14.66 percent the TPM test."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/windows_11_adoption/
by cyrialize | 2025-10-03 15:51:59+00:00
I've been getting into baseball and what I love about it is the rising tension.

Like how people take turns playing offense and defense and how you can only get runs by touching home plate - and if the inning is over, you just lose all your progress.

It kind of just feels like a board game with some many things happening at once in such a small amount of time.
by oytis | 2025-10-03 15:52:43+00:00
They could stop the current stage of the war, sure. They couldn't achieve peace though - basically stopping the operation would mean reverting to pre Oct. 2023 state with Israel trying to improve their security (aka "blockade") so that it doesn't happen again. Given the recent advances in military practice I would imagine that would involve lots of drones flying over Gaza 24/7 and I can already hear what international organizations are saying about that.

Hamas on the other hand has the keys for the permanent peace. Not implying that the way current operation is waged is justified though.
by bruckie | 2025-10-03 15:52:54+00:00
I found FreeCAD more difficult to learn than other 3D CAD programs, but the 1.0 release that came out about a year ago has improved things a lot. It also looks like 1.1 (being stabilized for release right now) is going to add a lot of nice features.

It seems like the product is having a bit of a renaissance. I'm not sure how much of that is coasting on the work that Ondsel (now defunct) did over the past few years, and how much is sustainable momentum. Hopefully more the latter.

The boundary representation kernel that FreeCAD uses (OpenCASCADE) has some limitations, and it's unlikely that those will be resolved. They make for a bumpy ride sometimes.

I think FreeCAD is almost becoming usable enough that it's reasonable to try to learn it if you want to use free software, or want to create models that you can use commercially.

If you don't care about commercial use, or you are willing to pay, I think OnShape is more powerful and significantly easier to learn and use. It uses the Parasolid kernel, which is more robust than OpenCASCADE. It's free for non-commercial use with the caveat that your models have to be publicly visible. https://www.onshape.com/en/products/free

If you want to learn FreeCAD, here's what I recommend doing:

- Install OpenTheme and OpenPreferences. https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeCAD/comments/1j82svt/i_really_w.... These fix a lot of the sub-optimal defaults that FreeCAD ships with.

- Increase the marker, font, and line sizes in sketcher and display preferences.

- Watch Mango Jelly and Joko Engineering videos on YouTube to learn how to do things. Focus on videos about FreeCAD 1.0.

Good luck!
by andrewmutz | 2025-10-03 15:53:11+00:00
I'm not saying that all bubbles build real businesses that have a big impact on the world, I am saying specifically this AI bubble will do so.

I've already seen enough significant, real-world value being created by AI technology that I am a believer that it will have a big impact. It will also destroy a lot of investment money along the way, but that's just normal bubble stuff.
by mtlynch | 2025-10-03 15:53:57+00:00
Very excited to see Fly restart development on Litestream after a 2ish year freeze!

I love Litestream and use it in every app I build now.

They advertise it as costing "pennies per day," but it's even less expensive than that. It obviously varies depending on how much storage you need, but I had a real app in production, and Litestream replication to S3 only cost me 2-3 cents ($0.02-$0.03) per month.[0]

[0] https://mtlynch.io/litestream/#using-logpaste-in-production
Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?
by smj-edison | 2025-10-03 15:54:01+00:00
Hi!

With the recent buzz around MCP, it made me think about what I've read about other unifying protocol attempts in the past. Why did these 2000s era interoperability protocols fail, and what does MCP do different? Was it a matter of security issues in a newly networked world? A matter of bad design? A matter of being too calcified? I would love to hear from those who were around that time.
by simonw | 2025-10-03 15:54:37+00:00
The thing where your app displays 20 stories in the homepage, but for each story it runs an extra query to fetch the author, and another to fetch the tags.

It's usually a big problem for database performance because each query carries additional overhead for the network round trip to the database server.

SQLite queries are effectively a C function call accessing data on local disk so this is much less of an issue - there's an article about that in the SQLite docs here: https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
by benbristow | 2025-10-03 15:54:46+00:00
Top tip, if you're in a hotel room you can often put any card like item (e.g. loyalty card) into the slot and it still works.

This works at a lot of chain hotels. Not every hotel, but a lot of them. In the UK this works in most Premier Inns and Travelodges, doesn't work in Point A hotels from experience.

Alternatively ask for two or more cards at the desk.

If the room is cleaned daily the cleaners have a tendency to remove them though. The chain hotels only tend to clean if you ask though, or on a certain few days after check-in.

Helps if you want to keep the air con on or devices powered up.
Show HN: API for removing watermarks from Sora 2 videos
by the_plug | 2025-10-03 15:54:56+00:00
Computer vision for detection, advanced inpainting for removal, FFmpeg for audio handling. Simple REST endpoints with webhook callbacks for async processing.

Built this after seeing developers struggle with building their own ML pipelines for video post-processing. The API handles the complexity—you just POST a video and get back a clean file
by atombender | 2025-10-03 15:55:03+00:00
Temporal has a full-fledged UI where I can drill down into individual workflow runs and see the graph of activities, detail logs, retry counts, inputs and outputs, and so on. Temporal also has an API to introspect this without reaching into a database.

You can share a database server with DBOS, but it's common to give applications dedicated database resources (one Postgres cluster per app in different regions), meaning it won't work with DBOS unless you write your own federated control layer that can speak to multiple instances. Which is also not offered out of the box. Sharing one DBOS-specific server across all apps would introduce a single point of failure.

Again, I like DBOS, but right now the value proposition isn't that great given that Temporal has already nailed this.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 15:55:27+00:00
> You seem to imply that there are legitimate reasons to starve an entire population, which is to me so repulsive that you’re not even allowed to consider entering that territory.

No, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that the claims of starvation are simply not accurate.[0] They also tend to be pushed by antisemitic individuals[1].

[0] https://unwatch.org/hillel-neuer-on-sky-news-fabricated-u-n-...

[1] https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-food-rapporteur-mic...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 15:55:40+00:00
>Somebody who puts the interest of their nation and the citizens of that nation first isn't a "fascist."

No, but nationalism is a very common channel to rile up fascist behavior. Make the overly proud, then dehumanize whoever you want them to attack. Once they no longer see that other as a human, all ethics goes out the window.

>is just driving everybody who was kind of in the middle more and more away from the 'name callers.'

Don't act fascist if you don't want to be called one:

>Another issue grabbing national attention is rising numbers of foreign residents and visitors, which has fueled widespread anti-foreigner sentiment that sometimes turns outright xenophobic. Many argue that Japan is at risk of losing its way of life, or that Japanese workers are being edged out of jobs.

Uh huh. A familiar trend the far right takes advantage of. Blame the foreigners than take hostile action towards them.

My only surprise is that the job market in Japan is this impacted. I guess seven a bad economy can dwarf the under-population crisis.

> think you can see this in the US where polls show independents increasingly leaning right on most issues, whereas not that long ago they tended to lean left.

In January, yes. By now, independents in the US have already soured. Maybe they are still right wing, but they realize Far-Right actions aren't it.
by nnurmanov | 2025-10-03 15:55:53+00:00
I am using Neo4j to build an equipment database, I also use MySQL in the same project to store transactional data. It took some time to figure out right syntax for Spring Boot/Neo4j Cypher query, but now it works OK. The reason I chose Neo4j? Because I wanted to play with it:). I can say it is more flexible than relational databases. I would like to continue using it, but you can't create multiple instances within a database, I guess it is possible to do so by installing separate binaries, but I have not tried it yet.
by jbritovsr | 2025-10-03 15:56:03+00:00
How many times have you found yourself driving in circles, looking for a parking space?

Me and my team are building an app to fix that, guiding you to available parking spaces in real-time, so u don't have to search for them anymore

We’re starting opening a waitlist now: https://app.youform.com/forms/wmisapuz

Would love your thoughts and feedback!
by NickC25 | 2025-10-03 15:56:14+00:00
>If this was Instagram nobody would care.

Yes, people would care. People who have been ringing the alarm bell regarding kids on social media for literally decades now.

Congress wouldn't care. Mark would make $ure of that...$omehow, but I can't quite figure out exactly what he would do. $omething $omething "campaign donation$".
by tanjtanjtanj | 2025-10-03 15:56:14+00:00
I’ve experienced most of your annoyances but maybe I can help with a few of them!

> .nl to .nul

If you undo the correction on the prompt that comes up in the correction instead of fixing it with backspace or whatever it will stop doing that autocorrect

> No intro at all into UI

There is a very long series of tutorials for using the interface on first phone setup and then for each major update

> Video pauses while when looking at notifications

This depends on the behavior defined by the app. It did not happen when I just checked with YouTube (premium)

> pulldown on center is Siri

It has always been and still is notifications for me, maybe a setting?

> Safari instead of default browser

App defined. Some apps open a safari browser and some open my defined browser (Orion)

> Swipe up to close a picture

And some apps are double tap or even swipe up! What the heck?

> Alarms confusing

You can still set your daily/weekly/whatever alarms in the alarm section of the clock app. I believe this is the main way people set their alarms.

> switching focus by “holding”

Not sure what process you’re talking about but the control tray (swipe down from right side of screen) has a simple focus mode switcher with no acrobatics needed
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-03 15:56:34+00:00
I liked Newsblur's approach to this when I was using a firehose (I dropped most of my firehose-like feeds a couple years ago for various reasons including I didn't actually like most of them all that much). Newsblur has Focused versus Disliked and you can "train" all sorts of things to Like or Unlike about an article. You can Like an entire feed, but you can also Like things like specific authors or tags in a feed or words in a headline. Similarly you can use all the same tools to Unlike an article. If an article has more Likes than Unlikes it shows up in a Focused view and if an article has more Unlikes than Likes it shows up only in an "All" view, meaning it disappears from the default Unread view. When you have a limited amount of time you read Focused, when you have more time you read Unread, and if you want to check on spam or topics you dislike you can zoom out to "All" and spot-check feeds for Unliked articles.

Additionally, Newsblur added an automated "Infrequent Site Stories" for things it knows come from feeds that don't update all that frequently. (Which you can use in tandem with Focused view for even less time.)
by rammcodes | 2025-10-03 15:56:59+00:00
I’m launching my new app called Prompt-Snap

It lets you create stylish, shareable images of your AI prompts for social media, presentations, tutorials, or content creation.

I’ve always wanted to share AI prompts that helped me, but plain text is boring. Now you can make them look stylish.

Use it for: - Sharing AI prompts on social media - Creating prompt templates for tutorials or documentation - Showcasing prompts in presentations or content

I invite you to try it out and share your feedback :)
by therobots927 | 2025-10-03 15:57:23+00:00
1 Samuel 15 in the Old Testament describes this situation perfectly. According to the Bible God told Saul and the Israelites to destroy the Amalekites (a familiar term if you’ve listened to Israel refer to the Palestinians as “Amalek”) and all of their cattle as well.

“But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves[b] and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.”

Now this could be interpreted as a direct instruction not to profit from the conflict. Something Israel is planning on doing once the Palestinians have been removed from Gaza and they build luxury hotels on top of uncountable dead bodies of children. You could argue that even if you grant Israel religious justification for destruction of Gaza, they would not be granted religious justification for profiting from it.

It’s a pointless thing to bring up other than that I think it exposes this whole thing for the colonialist enterprise it really is, and calls into question how much religious belief is really driving the decision making over there.
by dmix | 2025-10-03 15:58:20+00:00
> The assessment, seen by Reuters and first reported by Breaking Defense, comes just months after defense drone and software maker Anduril was awarded a $100 million to create a prototype of NGC2 with partners including Palantir, Microsoft and several smaller contractors.

> Army chief information officer and Chiulli’s supervisor, said in a statement to Reuters that the report was part of a process that helped in “triaging cybersecurity vulnerabilities” and mitigating them.

So it's a brand new prototype and this is a run of the mill cybersecurity review while it undergoes some internal testing?
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 15:58:36+00:00
> Sure. Doesn't require starving civilians.

Sure, and I don't see credible evidence that they are[0]. Just more of the same false narratives pushed by the all too common antisemitic UN officials[1].

[0] https://unwatch.org/hillel-neuer-on-sky-news-fabricated-u-n-...

[1] https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-food-rapporteur-mic...
by grilledchickenw | 2025-10-03 15:58:48+00:00
Not the poster, but it's my blog, funny seeing it posted here. This was actually from June this year, which is supposed to be the sunniest month. I got to see just five islands, so there's still plenty more to explore. The cliffs and the rough sea are a mesmerising sight, I remember sitting for an hour just watching the waves crash along the base.
by 8organicbits | 2025-10-03 15:58:52+00:00
I think you're focusing on the wrong parts of the comment.

People care about things like long-term support. Postgres 13, from 2020, is still officially supported. Litestream 0.1.0 was the first release, also from 2020, but I can't tell if it is supported still. Worrying about the maturity, stability, and support of an application database is very reasonable in risk adverse projects.
by iLemming | 2025-10-03 15:58:56+00:00
I don't use Windows these days. For Mac I wrote a simple Hammerspoon script; on Linux I do this on every WM I use - they typically have a way. You just need to call emacsclient to load a helper elisp script, e.g., https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer/blob/master/spacehammer...
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-03 15:59:06+00:00
"automated experimentation so it's able to generate new types of data to train itself"

AIs don't understand reality. This type of data generation would need a specific sort of validator function to work: we call this reality. That's what "experimentation" requires: reality.

We already have this right now, with the AI training ingesting AI crapgen, with StackOverflow posts no longer happening. That would seem to point to a degrading AI training set, not an improving one.
by rozab | 2025-10-03 15:59:06+00:00
She made a mistake by saying it, but she meant it for sure. "Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations."

I struggle to believe that cessation of food imports, medicines, medical equipment etc would have no impact on a country reliant on them, and can't see why these sanctions would be enacted in the first place if they were thought to have no effect.

I see no moral justification for using food as a weapon.
by graemep | 2025-10-03 15:59:29+00:00
Fossil is primarily a DVCS, like git, but aimed at a different set of users (e.g. smaller projects) and includes decentralised tickets etc., but in practice it is easiest to have a centralised server. Its easy to run your own, but there is hosting available for Fossil: https://chiselapp.com/

Redicale seems much more decentralised. Rather than making it easy to run your own server it eliminates the server altogether. A more radical approach :).

it would probably be easier to build something like Radicale on top of Fossil because all that is missing is a way of finding to peers, and connecting to them without a server (e.g. from dynamic IPs, behind NAT etc.).