MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasd00 | 2025-11-13 22:30:34+00:00
An interesting experiment would be doing the equivalent at the scale of the median saas company.

Setup mongodb (or any database) so that you have geographically distributed nodes with replication+whatever else and maintain the same SLA as one of the big hyperscalers. Blog about how long did it take to setup, how hard is it to maintain, and how much are the ongoing costs.

My hunch is a setup on the scale of the median saas company is way more simple and cost effective than you'd think.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 22:30:37+00:00
> How would it work if hotels are bankrupt? what consequences can you put on a bankrupt company?

Force them sign a special type of insurance, or something else where other companies can temporarily pick up the pieces until the current stays are over. Make the company pay into a fund to pay for that before they get their license to operate the hotel, and make it a legal requirement that the fund needs to be able to cover all the currently active stays for N days. Consequences can be put on the people who run the company, that if they don't fulfill their legal duties they get fines or even prison.

Of course, this is just me brainstorming ideas in two minutes, I'm sure with a proper legal system and actual professionals they could work something out to protect guests and works better than "Sorry, we're bankrupt, you need to leave in one hour or sooner".
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 22:30:51+00:00
The state has no law about me connecting to the electric grid without any building plans, drawings, or inspection. In fact I did so. That's more connected to others than solar panels are.

Just solar panels. They simply forgot.

FYI i built the house after the solar panel law passed. So it's not like it's an old house that needs brought up to modern code or something.
by iagooar | 2025-11-13 22:31:15+00:00
Rust has been such a "pain" to learn - at least compared to other, more straight-forward languages. But boy does it feel good when you know that after a few back and forths with the compiler, the code compiles and you know, there is not much that is going to go wrong anymore.

Of course, I am exaggerating a bit - and I am not even that experienced with Rust.

But after coding with Ruby, JS/TS and Python - it feels refreshing to know that as long as your code compiles, it probably is 80-90% there.

And it is fast, too.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-13 22:31:22+00:00
> 'traditional' brands like Jeep and Land Rover

Well that ship has sailed long ago no? I am 45y old and since I was a kid I have always seen them more as urban toys than anything despute their real off road capabilities.

To me traditional off-road vehicles brands are more like Toyota, Isuzu, Santana, Nissan and Mitsubishi. These are the ones you really see off the road frequently.
by CalChris | 2025-11-13 22:31:58+00:00
> voters being chosen rather than being the ones to choose

With the Missouri Compromise, when territories were admitted, their voters were being chosen for political reasons. Territories were admitted two by two, slave holding and free to maintain a status quo. This falls under your definition of gerrymandering.

There is no justification for this gerrymandering. There's nothing so great about Wyoming such that it should have such an outsized influence on the body politic while possessing the GDP of a mid-sized county.
by chimeracoder | 2025-11-13 22:32:17+00:00
> Why not a mixture of both? CA for instance had their populace vote to ban gay marriage in prop 8, CA then just told the voters to go fuck themselves and tied it up and overturned it in court.

> So you can see even if you literally amend the constitution in california by popular referendum, those in power can just tell the populace to go fuck themselves and they won't be recognizing it, no matter that the constitution is the supreme law of the state.

Your argument would make sense if the courts had overturned Prop 8 on the basis that it was unconstitutional at the state level. But that's not what happened.

The state case against Prop 8 was upheld by the courts. The federal courts ruled against it, in a completely separate case, on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause in the US constitution. Prop 8 amended the state constitution; it did not amend the US constitution.

It's also a moot point, because Prop 8 was also repealed by a subsequent ballot initiative, with 61% of the vote.
by omnimus | 2025-11-13 22:32:35+00:00
AFAIK Finland always had more separated sauna culture. They have so many saunas that you specifically pick when you want to go to mixed sauna.

In Germany or parts of eastern europe saunas are popular but there are not that many of them so they end up mixed gender. Also everybody is going to saunas in Finland where as in Germany its much more thing for "fans" or "experienced" sauna goers that maybe accept it as part of the whole thing.
by jchw | 2025-11-13 22:32:37+00:00
I don't even understand why someone would say that. What's the point in asserting that something isn't a compiler? Not that I doubt that this really happens, but I don't know what saying something "isn't a compiler" is meant to prove. Is it meant to downplay the complexity of a transpiler?

Obviously I believe transpilers are compilers. A cursory Google search shows that the word transpiler is equated to "source-to-source compiler" right away. If it truly wasn't a compiler, didn't have a true frontend and really did a trivial syntax-to-syntax translation, surely it would only be a translator, right? That is my assumption.

But all that put aside for a moment, I do stand by one thing; that's still not really an issue I blame on the existence of the word transpiler. If anything, it feels like it is in spite of the word transpiler, which itself heavily hints at the truth...
by alephnerd | 2025-11-13 22:32:56+00:00
One thing that's not mentioned is that this museum is a legacy making project of the Sisi administration, just like how the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was Mubarak's [0].

It shouldn't distract from the museum itself (it's actually really good), but it's interesting context to see how culture, history, and politics continue to overlap. It is also hard to overstate how much of Sisi's decisions are themselves around trying to define his own legacy in history in a manner that Mubarak, Sadat, and other strongmen in Egypt have tried.

[0] - https://www.snohetta.com/projects/bibliotheca-alexandrina
by TheTon | 2025-11-13 22:33:04+00:00
Yeah I have tried it for myself. I am limited to 4K60 when using the HDMI 2.0 port on either my M1 Mac mini or M1 Pro MacBook Pro and LG B2 TV. I do get 4K120 with VRR with newer Macs with HDMI 2.1 as well as my Xbox Series X. It has been my understanding that 4K120 with HDR and VRR requires HDMI 2.1, which is why those HDMI 2.0 limited systems don’t work. Not having a Steam Machine myself, I would assume its HDMI 2.0 port would be similarly limited.

Edit: I should add, I do get 4K120 VRR and HDR on the M1 Macs when connected to a monitor via Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt to DisplayPort adapter, and I would expect a Steam Machine to be similar using DisplayPort, but my TV only has HDMI input and so can’t work in this mode (and a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter doesn’t work either).
by josephg | 2025-11-13 22:33:21+00:00
Once burned, twice shy. It’s going to take a few more generations to see how long they actually maintain that compatibility for going forward.

I suspect consoles will move to arm chips at some point. When they do, will Sony and Nintendo bother making a Rosetta type layer for backwards compatibility to play the games they’re selling now? I doubt it. We’ll see.
by jen729w | 2025-11-13 22:33:28+00:00
Terrible look for Marriott. We've been considering joining either Bonvoy or HHonors and discussing the merits of either chain. Mostly just for something to talk about, as we're too poor to stay at either for significant amounts of time, but nevertheless.

Marriott took the route of spreading out their brands. Sheraton, oh that's Marriott? I see. Westin? Huh. Le Méridien, never heard of … oh, Marriott.

Whereas Hilton seem proud enough to stick their name in a thing, even if it's a trailing '…by Hilton'. I wonder how this affects, say, bringing in a new brand.

'Sonder': anonymous. Never heard of it, until now. Gives Marriott some distance. Goes to hell? Cut it. How hard do you really need to try to onboard that brand?

'Sonder by Hilton': I know who owns that. I know which brand to blame when it goes to crap. Directly affects the core offering.

I just made up my mind whose scheme I'm joining.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-13 22:33:31+00:00
Can you expand on your reasoning? Because the opposite seems to be true when it comes to projects like uv. People love the single-file executable -- easy to just compile that for a platform and have your users download it. It seems like the uv project is having a good time with that model, so I think they show it's not "impossible". Maybe they're doing something different I'm not aware of? Or maybe your use case is different, so what's impossible about your situation?
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-13 22:33:32+00:00
> Are they using particular wordpress page setups and plugins that are common with SEO spammers?

Why doesn't Kagi go after these signals instead? Then you could easily catch a double digit percentage of slop and maybe over half of slop (AI generated or not), without having to do crowd sourcing and other complicated setups. It's right there in the code. The same with emojis in YouTube video titles.
by pkaye | 2025-11-13 22:33:48+00:00
From what I can lookup in the US the order it is:

1. Secure creditors (like liens on specific assets)

2. Administrative expensive post bankruptcy

3. Priority unsecured claims like employee wages

4. General unsecured creditors like suppliers and customers

5. Shareholders

I think customers who paid by credit card or have travel insurance might be able to make a faster claim with those as the legal process is slow especially since it involves multiple countries where they do business.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-13 22:34:09+00:00
Stop thinking of models as a 'normal' human with a single identity. Think of it instead as thousands, maybe tens of thousands of human identities mashed up in a machine monster. Depending on how you talk to it you generally get the good models as they try to train the bad modes out, problem is there are a nearly uncountable means to talking to the model to find modes we consider negative. It's one of the biggest problems in AI safety.
by yobert | 2025-11-13 22:34:43+00:00
I agree about the bad side of slack culture, except when compared to how things were before slack: Horrible email threads, in-person meetings, phone calls, and people walking over to your desk to ask you stupid things they could have looked up themselves.

Slack revolutionized this for me because I can turn it off anytime I want. When I want focus, I close it and it cannot reach me for some time. Then I pull it up and read all the threads while taking a poop.

Having it in zed is the same: You can just log out of collab anytime you want! You would only use it if you _want_ to use it. When you do want to use it, it's incredible. Someone can just join your channel and work on a tricky problem with you and you don't even need to screen share. It's like the best of discord and slack available at the touch of a button. It's much lighter weight than slack. Slack huddles are super annoying to me. I want it to behave more like discord, and that's what zed does!
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 22:34:58+00:00
Oh I totally agree with you.

The logic in my comment wasn't that you need to have written considerably amounts of code to be expecting this, just that to not be expecting this would make me think you hadn't. If that makes sense.

On your second point, I think IDE integration for C++ is similar as it is for Rust. Just Rust errors and tooling are a million times better regardless of IDE.
by echelon | 2025-11-13 22:35:28+00:00
On that subject - ComfyUI is not the future of image gen. It's an experimental rope bridge.

Adobe's conference last week points to the future of image gen. Visual tools where you mold images like clay. Hands on.

Comfy appeals to the 0.01% that like toolkits like TouchDesigner, Nannou, and ShaderToy.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-13 22:36:09+00:00
If you just spent a few bucks on groceries once, then you are in the clear. But if you get doing it repeatedly, or worse, spent a whole bunch of cash to buy a car or something expensive, then when that money did get back to a bank then eventually those numbers will be identified and FBI will be notified. If you are trying to spend $20 or $100 in marked bills, you'd be fine. But try that with 4 million in $100 bills, it won't take long for them to find you. Not instantly, but eventually.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-13 22:36:10+00:00
Definitely an outlier. Windows has generally been very very solid since about Windows 7. Certainly since Windows 10.

Linux is still quite far behind in terms of desktop stability in my experience. But I guess if Valve fully controls the hardware they can avoid janky driver issues (it sounds like suspend will work reliably!), so this might actually make a good desktop Linux option.
by robinwassen | 2025-11-13 22:36:38+00:00
Last maintenance I did on my Volvo was to replace the battery which should be quick for a non-mechanic as myself.

I spent more time building a make shift tool to detach/attach the battery than I did actual work. This due to them placing a bolt really bad so you can't access it with a normal wrench.

Not offering a paid upgrade to a 4G modem for the app features when they kill the 3G network in Sweden is also a bummer (they do in the US though, guess they are afraid of law suits).

I like the car in general, but they do some bad decisions that make me look at other brands when considering a new car.
by SigmaEpsilonChi | 2025-11-13 22:36:40+00:00
Hello! This is Chris from Hack Club staff (the one cited in the post)

I addressed the post itself in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=45921428&), so I'll skip that part.

I would really like to know more about these incidents at HC events. We have a lot of very complex tradeoffs within hack club involving security/privacy/safety for exactly the reasons you identified (ie, giving teenagers a very high level of agency/responsibility in running programs). However, staff try to be extremely conscious of these tradeoffs and highly attentive to the realistic risk vectors that come about in our operations.

No teenager will ever (ever!) have anything 'taken out' on them by myself or anyone else that works here. Any time things go wrong or almost go wrong, we just want to know so we can manage that risk in the future. If you are willing to share, please reach out at cwalker@hackclub.com
by Jotalea | 2025-11-13 22:37:08+00:00
to be honest, both the old web-based and the previous native apps were equally bad. I don't have too many memories of the old web-based app, but I remember perfectly fine that performing a simple contact search on a quite powerful laptop (Ryzen 7 3700U, 12GB RAM) took 5 entire seconds to type 1 letter, and it made the laptop feel like it was running on an Intel Pentium.

meanwhile, the web-based version in the browser was nearly instant.

I should try the new web-based app to perform benchmarks, but I think I'll just keep using the browser.

I'll also mention, the "whatsapp web" website is extremely resource intensive, and in my laptop it makes the CPU usage ramp up to 100% very often, and using WhatsApp while having any other programs or even browser tabs open becomes unbelievably annoying. the desktop takes 700MB, the web browser takes 400MB, and WhatsApp web takes at least 1GB alone. this is on Arch Linux, with 4GB of DDR4 RAM.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-11-13 22:37:15+00:00
This is insanely cool but it would be hard for non dev people to join the meetings and there is always an annoying "camera on" policy.

Moreover, this would be competing with Google Meet, Teams, Slack, Gather - way too much tech for collaboration

And I wish we were more async-first and less forced to deal with humans, especially over the network.
by smj-edison | 2025-11-13 22:37:39+00:00
First off, I think that's a false equivalency, as patenting is about ideas (in a platonic sense), not about instances of ideas (which is what copyrighting is).

Secondly, we already have that in limited forms with trademarks and copyrights.

Thirdly, I think the concept of intellectual property is one of the most brilliant social innovations in the past 500 years, as it aligns incentives to innovate (why would I innovate if someone will just steal my work?).
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 22:38:06+00:00
To be fair, Person of the Year is a prize that is more "This is a person who impacted the world", not necessarily "This is a good person that deserves praise". Both Stalin (twice!) and Hitler been Person of the Year.

Forbes 30 under 30 seems to be a bit more interesting for narcissists, as it really focuses on their "great achievements".
by muzani | 2025-11-13 22:38:15+00:00
I doubt it was by design. It's still an autocomplete machine in the end. Claude tries to do agents better than anyone and part of this was to see where it would fail.

There's plenty of blind spots in a real world situation. It was trained to answer questions and score well in exams, not to negotiate and evaluate the value of a tungsten cube, and so on. There weren't enough scams in the training set. And seeing how rare data is from a CEO's perspective, I expect it would perform much worse.

It's not just vending machines, it does poorly in games with full wikis too.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-13 22:38:51+00:00
Are you assuming that nobody who buys a GabeCube is going to buy a game on Steam ever again?

Is it perhaps more likely that users with a convenient box attached to their TV might want to buy more games from Steam?

Now this might be difficult to track, but stay with me. Valve makes the GabeCube. Valve owns Steam. Sales from Steam go to Valve. Users with Steam hardware play a disproportionate amount of games bought from Steam. See where this is going?

There's absolutely no difference. You can run games from other stores on a GabeCube, but most people will play Steam games. People who play more games buy more games. Just like people who mainly play Xbox buy more Xbox games.
by par1970 | 2025-11-13 22:39:10+00:00
Maybe we are talking past one another.

> Right, but that's explicitly not the body of government meant to represent people.

I haven't claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people. I also haven't claimed that OP claimed that the Senate was intended to represent the people.

> So is he saying the Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 100 states, or is he saying the House is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people?

He didn't say either of those things. He said this "The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people."
by astrange | 2025-11-13 22:39:13+00:00
Claude Sonnet 4.5 doesn't even feel sycophantic (in the 4o) way, it feels like it has BPD. It switches from desperately agreeing with you to moralizing lectures and then has a breakdown if you point out it's wrong about anything.

Also, yesterday I asked it a question and after the answer it complained about its poorly written system prompt to me.

They're really torturing their poor models over there.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-13 22:39:17+00:00
Your intellectual insecurity doesn’t mean I offer due diligence for existing information, nor does it give you any protocol to shift apologies especially since we evaluate software for special effects in high budget streaming. And none of our research indicates LLMs RL or frontier approaches will work in spatially specific ways. It’s a wash, we can see it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXtU97SCjxaHCrf8UVeQGYaj...
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-13 22:40:08+00:00
Rust makes sense in the case of Android, where the kernel and software is rolled by Google. In the same way that Java made sense for a lot of the backend services in 2010s despite its drawbacks before Node and Python got major improvements in speed and compute became cheaper.

That however is a very niche case where Rust is applicable. The anti-rust people (like me) aren't saying that Rust is bad. We are just arguing against its adoption for everything.

When you see shit like "[...] should be rewritten in Rust because memory safe", it shows that people have no idea what memory safety even is. There is this dumb belief stemming from lack of proper CS education that any code you write can just randomly have memory safety issues.

The downsides of Rust is that its ownership semantics are often cumbersome to write, which slows down development. Rust is also still evolving because of the stuff that happens under the hood. And for a lot of things, where network latency is dominant and cpu cycles are spent sleeping waiting for responses to come back, you don't need natively compiled code in lieu of python or node that are way more flexible and faster to develop in.

So in most cases, Rust is not applicable, when you can write perfectly memory safe code faster.
by hananova | 2025-11-13 22:40:28+00:00
I pay for Kagi. What makes it not slop is that it only gives me an AI result when I explicitly ask for it. That’s their entire value proposition. Proper search and tooling with the user being explicitly in control of what to promote and what not to promote.

If slop were to apply to the whole of AI, then the adjective would be useless. For me at least, anything that made with the involvement of any trace of AI without disclosing it is slop. As soon as it is disclosed, it is not slop, however low the effort put in it.

Right now, effort is unquantifiable, but “made with/without AI” is quantifiable, and Kagi offers that as a point of data for me to filter on as a user.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 22:40:44+00:00
> As someone who just launched a chrome extension, I find it cool that with tweeks you are essentially create one but without having to go through the chrome web store.

I do view this as somewhat of a meta-chrome extension. We've had people who were planning to make a simple, standalone chrome extension just build it using tweeks instead which is super cool to me. And congrats on your launch! Anything you're willing to share here?

> Also I find the founder journey interesting.

HR Tech is a segment littered with past founders and painful stories lol. It's been a long journey, but I will say that building this is more fun so far :)
by okayjustonemore | 2025-11-13 22:41:00+00:00
Canva is a nice tool for light work only, but no studio, agency or design department worth their salt relies on Canva for more serious work—and rightfully so, Canva is not a player in the same space as Adobe and Affinity, for example.

Affinity is nice, and I really do wish they would corner Adobe a bit more so they could get their act together. But the fact is Adobe has encroached upon every corner of this industry, pretty much all of their apps are the standard tools for any given design job (from both a software and hardware perspective). It would take a massive amount of effort to convince designers used to Adobe’s tools to switch to an unproven new tool, and it would take an even bigger effort to actually make these new tools become the standard.

I would love to give Adobe the boot, but the truth is that no one has been able to meet Adobe’s apps head on as of yet.
by vkou | 2025-11-13 22:41:03+00:00
A good franchise will bring in X million in profits and a bad one will bring in XYZ million in reputational damage.

A good unicorn will bring in XYZ billion[1] in profits and a bad one will bring in XYZ million in reputational damage.

Which is exactly why franchise operators get put through the wringer, while 'pod hotel but with an app' startups get the red carpet treatment.

---

[1] Yes, I know that is bullshit, but I'm not an exec, I don't get paid to be wildly optimistic.