MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by parsimo2010 | 2025-11-11 15:30:15+00:00
I’m so glad there are some people willing to pay over $200 for “a piece of cloth” which I assume is a translation issue but it sounds uninspired- who knew your inspiration for a bag could be the material that most bags are made of?

I especially like how it’s sized to fit almost any iPhone ever made. So not only are you getting a bag made of cloth, for over $200 it’s not even custom fitted!

Anyway, this product isn’t for me. I suppose enough other people will buy it.

Edit: I suppose the short version is under $200 but my sentiment hasn’t changed. Perhaps I’m even more cranky now that increasing the length of the strap costs $80. That’s the same level of rip-off that Apple charges for increased SSD storage on their Macs.
by buellerbueller | 2025-11-11 15:30:21+00:00
>Do we want a society where everyone can masquerade as an “artist”, flooding society with low-quality content using AI trained on the work product of actual artists?

The internet was sold to us with the promise that everyone could publish, and wasn't that great? So many voices, we will hear wonderful new things!

What happened? Enshittification. The rise of the antivax community. Empowerment of far right white nationalists across what had been the most (lower-case "l") liberal governments in the world. Signal being drowned amdist the noise of a bot-driven ad-hellscape internet.

No. We do not want a society where everyone can masquerade as an artist.

Unless, that is, we hate art.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-11 15:30:24+00:00
outside of instiutions of granduer and programming greats like bell labs, eriksson, and so forth, no, programming has been TERRIBLE and has gotten a lot better.

Version control, documentation, language capabilities are all better than they were 10 or 20 years ago

Fewer people are writing horrible applications in VBx and Access, more people are writing things with good fundementals.

So - in many ways it's easier than ever to write "good" software.
Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?
by Seb-C | 2025-11-11 15:30:33+00:00
I am a software engineer with about 20 years of experience, and lately I have felt a bit lost about what to do going forward.

For the context, I have always been passionate about software engineering, I started very young and have worked in it non stop every since. I mostly worked broadly in web development and have pretty-much mastered all areas and layers of the stack (infra and cloud, databases, backend, network, front-end and even a bit of mobile...). I've also been an indie game dev on my free time ever since.

For the last 5~10 years I have not been evolving or learning anymore in my daily job, and feel that I've basically seen everything. It only feels repetitive, and as I've lived through many tech bubbles, I don't get much interested in the major trends because the fundamentals are the same and everything old gets new again.

Over the years, I've worked in many companies, from big ones to fresh startups, B2B and B2C, in direct and as a contractor as well as web dev agencies. I've also found out that while I like tech leading and the various design and spec phases of software, I don't like managing people. I do not want to evolve as a CTO either because of those reasons and the endless meetings. But the industry seems to think that the normal path forward is to quit being a developer and manage people instead, which is a totally alien idea to me because it involves completely different skills and knowledge.

I am now at a step in my career where I find it impossible to find a company where my knowledge and experience is really valued and useful. I'm often the most senior, more than even the managers and CTOs, but have less power or influence and am just another cog in the machine. I see the mistakes being made and know what it will cost (because I've been there and done that many times), I do my best to explain that and recommend alternatives, but more often than not it still happens anyway.

I've long considered switching to game dev professionally since I find that it has a lot more fun and interesting challenge, and I yet have lots of things to learn there. But as a husband and a dad, the reputation of the industry (low salary and crunch time) makes it difficult to seriously consider. I'm now thinking that freelancing my be my best bet going forward, and then explore and build things from here.

I know that there are more senior (30, 40+ years...) people around here, so I'm curious to hear your experiences. Did you ever feel the same way, what did you do and how did you finally find a satisfying daily job?
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 15:30:37+00:00
The evidence strongly suggests to me that the PSF knew, or reasonably ought to have known, the terms of the agreement months ago, which makes the current activity read very much like a publicity stunt (after realizing they wouldn't be able to take the money).

We are talking about a grant here. I can't see anything wrong with offering someone money that comes with strings attached, when you don't owe anything in the first place. Especially when the offer is being made generally rather than targeting anyone in particular.

In my assessment, the "stated mission" reflects politics that indirectly resulted in harm to me personally, perpetrated by the PSF's Code of Conduct Work Group. The way that this "mission" is presented is in line with common statements that the administration has identified as discriminatory, and I believe they are justified in coming to that conclusion. The PSF represents it as something simple and agreeable; but while I indeed agree with the idea they represent it as, in practice I have seen it mean something very different, and objectionable. In making this representation I find that they commonly insinuate salacious, untrue things about people with value systems like my own, and I consider that representation to be simply dishonest.

The Work Group in question has a document of "Enforcement Procedures" for the Code of Conduct. I determined that these procedures may lead to making decisions that directly contradict what the Code of Conduct says. When I pointed this out, I was baselessly accused of citing previous (unspecified) moderation action against me as examples of the phenomenon that the Code of Conduct forbids but the Enforcement Procedures require ignoring. In so doing, it was proposed that I characterized these actions in terms that I explicitly reject using. (In fact, the main point of my post was to reject the term — as it is one commonly used in strawman representations of my position.)
by jermaustin1 | 2025-11-11 15:31:04+00:00
> they're primarily more productive.

But why are we needing a phone to be productive? And they were already a distraction from the world around us when they fit in a single hand.

I know I'm probably abnormal, but my phone is a phone first, camera second, and "work" device fifth.

As a society, our boundaries around communication and instant contact to anyone have collapsed. Now if you don't respond to a message within a few minutes, you get multiple follow ups. If you don't pick up the phone when a friend calls you, they don't leave a message, they text, then call again, then text again.

We've gone from being able to leave the house, and no one can contact us for a few hours, to no matter where we are people are trying to contact us. So they may be more "productive" with larger screens, but we never asked whether they SHOULD be more productive.
by NicolasCornwall | 2025-11-11 15:31:14+00:00
It may sound absurd: But a website in which people can set their availability on a calendar. Kinda like Doodle. My requirements are: - no account necessary - timezone support - not have to pay for it Basically impossible to find something which fills those requirements. So I am coding myself a handy tool. For what? To coordinate people for the game Foxhole to take responsibility for certain areas so we always have a General Manager online
by kmoser | 2025-11-11 15:31:20+00:00
What surprised me most is that there isn't a ton of publicly available information on translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that would make this reasonably easy, or even a website that would allow one to enter an English phrase and get back the hieroglyphic equivalent.

Oh, wait, there is: https://lingojam.com/HieroglyphicsTranslator except its translation of "Welcome, the entire land" looks very different from the symbols in the article.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-11 15:31:41+00:00
I don't think this counts as property damage or vandalism because nothing is damaged or vandalized.

Part of putting shit in public is that it now has to interact with the public. If you want your stuff pristine, I would think you should not put it in public.

Maybe the law disagrees with me here, and it probably does because this country bends over backwards for companies, but that's how I see it.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-11 15:32:13+00:00
Usage

It is not immediately clear what the intended usage pattern for Lumen and WebAssembly is.

Pros and Cons

Things we like:

The idea of having both runtime and code compile is cool

Things we’re not big fans of:

We could not immediately figure out exactly how Lumen works, and builds appear to be failing The project might be stalled or unmaintained. It has not been updated in over a year.
by a4isms | 2025-11-11 15:32:14+00:00
I was obsessed with Tales of Mystery & Imagination, I Robot, and Pyramids in the 70s. I also loved Rush, Yes, ELP, Genesis, and ELO, but while Alan Parsons' albums weren't better in an absolute musical sense, his production values were so obviously in a class of their own I still put Parsons in the same bucket as people like Trevor Horn and Quincy Jones, people who created masterpieces of record album engineering and production.
by Modified3019 | 2025-11-11 15:32:53+00:00
A word of warning, while the issues of low choline tend to be what shows up in a search, too much can also have negative effects, such as inducing strong depression. Because choline touches so much in the brain/body, there are other things that can happen as well, such as subtle mental effects and changes in blood pressure. TMAO generation may also a concern.

So be careful trying supplements, and monitor your mental/physical state.

Choline from normal food sources isn’t typically a problem, but supplements and additives like lecithin can push people over the edge.

This looks like a decent summary of why it may cause depression: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6fdb/adf596271afea393659cbf... (World Nutrition 2019;10(1):54-62 “Too much of a good thing? Lecithin and mental health”)
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 15:33:00+00:00
So you're telling me this is easier to read:

+----------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------+ | CustomerID | First Name | Last Name | Email | State | Balance | +----------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------+ | 000123 | Alice | Ramirez | alice.ramirez@acme.com | NY | 245.50 | | 000124 | Brian | Chen | bchen@northdata.io | CA | 1289.00 | +----------------------------- ------------------------------ ---------------------+

This doesn't seem like a question of different preferences to me. This seems objectively worse. It's not even close.
by metabagel | 2025-11-11 15:33:02+00:00
> "We expect to purchase at least a million drones within the next two to three years," Driscoll said.

> "And we expect that at the end of one or two years from today, we will know that in a moment of conflict, we will be able to activate a supply chain that is robust enough and deep enough that we could activate to manufacture however many drones we would need."
by seanhunter | 2025-11-11 15:33:12+00:00
> Does picking E minor somehow give you fewer options than C major (I'm not a musician)?

Short answer: No. No matter what note you start on you have exactly the same set of options.

Long answer: No. All scales (in the system of temperament used in the vast majority of music) are symmetrical groups of transpositions of certain fundamental scales.[1] These work very much like a cyclic group if you have done algebra. In the example you chose, E minor is the "relative minor" of G Major, meaning that if you play an E Aeolean mode it contains all the same notes as G Major), and G major gives you the exact same options as C Major or any other Major Scale. What Messiaen noticed is that there are grouped sets of "Modes of limited transposition" which all work this way. So the major scale (and its “modes”, meaning the scales with the same key signature of sharps or flats but starting on each degree of the major scale) can be transposed exactly 11 times without repeating. There are 3 other scales that have this property (Normally these are called the harmonic minor, melodic minor and melodic major[2]). There are also modes of limited transposition with only 1 transposition (the chromatic scale), 2 (the whole-tone scale), 3 (the "diminished scale") and so on. Messiaen explains them all in that text if you're interested.

[1] This theory was first written out in full in Messiaen's "The technique of my musical language" but is usually taught as either "Late Romantic" or "Jazz" Harmony depending on where you study https://monoskop.org/images/5/50/Messiaen_Olivier_The_Techni...

[2] If you do "classical" harmony, your college may teach you the minor scales wrong with a descending version that is just a mode of the major scale. You may also not have been taught melodic major but it's awesome. (By “wrong” here, I mean specifically Messiaen and Schoenberg would say it’s wrong because a scale is a key signature/tonal area and so can’t have different notes when a melody ascending from descending. If there are two sets of different notes, Messiaen would say they are two scales and I would agree.)
by jedberg | 2025-11-11 15:33:33+00:00
There is a solution for Toy Story specifically -- the Laserdisc version. If I'm not mistaken, the laserdisc was digitized from the 35mm print.

Toy Story is the only Pixar movie ever released on Laserdisc (along with all their shorts, in the same box set). Disney also released a lot of their 90s animation on Laserdisc.

So if you're a true cinephile, seek out the Laserdisc versions.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-11 15:33:33+00:00
I don't think it's pork. Drones have proven their usefulness on the modern battlefield, and those million drones probably cost about as much as about a squadron of F-22s. In a battle between a million drones and 10 F-22s, I'd bet on the drones.

I do think that they're making a mistake by considering drones as ammunition rather than as ammunition delivery vehicles. Because the next phase of the conflict, after both sides have a million drones, comes down to who has better software. If one side has a million drones and the other side is stuck with traditional military hardware like tanks and helicopters and fighter jets, the side with a million drones wins, just like how in WW2, if one side had an aircraft carrier and the other side had a fleet of battleships, the aircraft carrier won. But as soon as both sides started having aircraft carriers, things like the quality of the pilots and planes started mattering. Same here - once you have drone parity, the side with the better software wins.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-11-11 15:33:37+00:00
I have taken insane one time dosages up to 200mg and haven't noticed that effect. In my experience they never fully turn off the effects of adrenaline spikes at any dosage still bearable.

They aren't magic zombie pills, at worst they turn you mostly fearless and consequently slightly unhinged (and make you feel like shit due to the low blood pressure).
by array_key_first | 2025-11-11 15:34:01+00:00
Because doing something evil and then lying about it isn't any better than doing something evil and being honest.

Everyone with even a quarter of a brain can recognize that the extreme data collection is a ticking time bomb. This WILL be leaked. This WILL be used to deny people's rights. This WILL lead to financial loss for people.

It's only a matter of when.
by Glamklo | 2025-11-11 15:34:08+00:00
Curiosity.

We only live once.

If your default live model is going to school, then going to unviersity, partner, kids, work, work, living daily live, getting old, dying and you are happy and content, great!

But that image is not true for a lot of people for a lot of different rasons.

LSD gave me a lot of empathy for people who have some mental illness for example. MDMA gave me a very empathic experience i never had before.

And just getting old might be a goal for people, also something like not dying but again, thats just a default thinking not necessarliy what other people conclude for their lives.
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-11 15:34:08+00:00
Individual countries, or even multinational orgs like the EU, "opting out" doesn't work, is the critical problem. In a digital economy, you can't keep AI workers from crossing borders. You can pretend to make it illegal, but the Philippine "contractors" you hire will just be fake!

Or more likely, your entire enterprise collapses against international rivals. Or your entire country turns into North Sentinelese islanders just surviving at the whim of hypertechnical industrialized neighbors.

I'm all for international cooperation on how to preserve a place for humans, I truly am, but the "let's just not do it" is frustratingly naive and not an actual plan.
by achenet | 2025-11-11 15:34:24+00:00
> Billionaires are simply people who play the money game best.

False in the general case - with inherited wealth, someone who starts with a lot but grows more slowly will beat a fast grower who started with nothing, at least on short time scales.

In other words, you can build a better OS than Windows today, and have better business sense than Bill Gates, but it'll still take you years to catch up to him wealth wise if you're starting at zero.

> I’m not the best basketball player, but I can admire the game of the best players without being jealous of them.

I agree with that - with any art/practice (business, programming, music, sports, etc), it's always inspiring to see the best play.

However, I'd argue that in our current business culture, many players will

1) do things I'm not comfortable doing morally - the sports equivalent of Maradonna's Mano de Dios [0] - so I'm not really comfortable using them as role models (I just tell myself I can do better by playing fair). Examples include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, so-called libertarians with entire business that consist of "use your friends in government to get juicy government contracts and grow rich off that sweet, sweet taxpayer money" (SpaceX, Palantir), Jobs, Zuckerberg and Gates ripping off their friends and co-founders, products that are intentionally addictive (cigarette companies), etc.

2) not actually be that good but just be in a good position - many rich people are honestly just lucky. Yes, you have the serial entrepreneurs that make _several_ billion dollar fortunes like Jim Clark, you have the wise investors like Warren Buffet, but you also have people like Adam Neumann [1]or any New York real estate tycoon who got started with a small million-dollar loan from their millionaire parents/Saudi oil princes who just got lucky.

In particular, I firmly believe I've got more money-making talent than a random Saudi oil prince, even if my bank account doesn't reflect that.

Or to use the sports metaphor, I believe I'm a better player than a lot of people currently in the big leagues, even if it's taking a while for the rest of the world to realize that :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann
by surajrmal | 2025-11-11 15:34:25+00:00
I'm aware of java being used for embedded, but that wasn't really proper java and it requires specialized hardware. You can't just expect to run java on an arm microcontroller and expect it to work out. I'm curious to learn more about production quality golang kernels. I've never heard about this before. Personally, if a language doesn't give you the flexibility required to run it on microcontroller grade hardware, I find it difficult to ascribe it systems programming language status. Anything with a large runtime makes that difficult without some sort of hardware assistance to offload the runtime (eg javacard).
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-11 15:34:42+00:00
I have been trolling for a while now to find a great project to write in Erlang. I can't write any erlang and it's sufficiently foreign it's been fun to try to get my LLM to do it for me. This is because I cannot make any useful suggestions on _how_ to write it.

I have a toy replacement for syslog.

i supervised an LLM writing a discord-esq chat program that implemented a imaginary JMAP extension called 'JCHAT'.

i had the LLM write a Erlang based dimensional accounting system

So far in real life i don't have any uses, which is a shame because it's a great language and OTP comes so batteries included I can think of many use cases.
Show HN: SpecMind – AI architecture tool for vibe coding
by mushgev | 2025-11-11 15:35:18+00:00
I built SpecMind, an open source developer tool for spec driven vibe coding. It keeps architecture and implementation aligned from the first commit instead of letting them drift apart.

With AI assistants writing more of our code, projects move faster but architectural consistency is often lost. Each developer or AI can introduce new patterns, and after a few sprints, the structure becomes fragmented. SpecMind helps prevent that by generating and maintaining living architecture specs directly from your code.

It works in three steps: 1. analyze – scans your codebase and generates .specmind/system.sm with architecture diagrams and relationships, 2. design – creates a spec describing how the feature will change the system, 3. implement – applies the spec, updates diagrams, and logs what changed

All specs are plain text files with Markdown and Mermaid diagrams, stored alongside your code. A VS Code extension lets you preview them visually.

Supports TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and C#, with Go and Rust coming next. Works with Claude Code and Windsurf today, Cursor and Copilot soon.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9gQxw8DQU

Repo: https://github.com/specmind/specmind

Would love to get feedback from engineers working on large or complex codebases.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-11 15:35:37+00:00
It always amazes me that some Europeans look to the USA as some goal to aspire to. As an American, all I’m trying to do is get rich enough to move to Europe someday. There are greater goals than growth at all costs. Things like respecting the humans that live there and putting their well-being above corporations. If that thwarts “growth”, so be it.
by sph | 2025-11-11 15:35:37+00:00
> That would be an absolutely awesome project. Usually when you can think of it someone has already done it so a bit of googling

I've done a bit of googling and research, nothing viable has surfaces, and I still haven't found the time to create a prototype myself, just some doodling around here and there. I do agree that it's an awesome idea, and it's been stewing in my head for a couple years now!

There are a lot of moving parts (scheduler design, probably needs its own high level language and bytecode, mapping capabilities onto actor semantics, etc.) that are outside what current OS-research seems to be focused on.

EDIT: I've just seen the mention of your QNX-like OS in your profile. Lovely! Any reason you haven't posted it on Github/Codeberg?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-11 15:35:50+00:00
Why do you need phones to not be productive?

Being able to instantly communicate via photo and video makes a lot of people’s lives easier. For example, getting quotes for a house repair to save on travel time and energy getting estimates, showing before and after pictures to document performed work, and myriad more examples.

If someone is contacting you too much, that’s a problem solved by asking them not to harass you, not by putting limits on the device for everyone else.