MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyle | 2025-11-09 11:32:27+00:00
Thanks for mentioning your Youtube serie, have you considered doing it in English?

The Youtube auto-dub stuff is pretty bad and the subtitles are quite good but hard to follow with all the vim motions on top of it!

Your writing is in English and your code comments too... English was not my native language but I'm fluent now. So unless you are targeting specifically the Italian viewers, you would reach many more people in English. Your content is worth being international I feel.
by bjackman | 2025-11-09 11:32:27+00:00
Actually I disagree that that's what's going on in the world of hyperscaler platforms. There is genuinely a staggering amount of money on the line with the efficiency of this platform. Plus, we have extremely sophisticated and performance-sensitive customers who are directly and continuously comparing us with our competitors.

This isn't just that nobody cares about the truth. People 100% care! If you actually degrade a performance metric as measured post-hoc in full prod, someone will 100% notice, and if you want to keep your feature un-rolled-back, you are probably gonna have to have a meeting with someone that has thousands of reports, and persuade them it's worth it to the business.

But you're always gonna have more luck if you can have that meeting _before_ you degrade it. But... it's usually pretty hard to figure out what the exact degradation is gonna be, because of the things in my previous comment...
by Aeolun | 2025-11-09 11:32:41+00:00
I tried to make the claude code cli interface with the codex/chatgpt endpoints directly, and found that that’s really hard, because those ChatGPT endpoint accept only one system prompt, and one system prompt only, the one that is baked directly into Codex.

That was a bit dissapointing, because I feel the codex api with claude semantics would be really nice.

Translating all the tools calls when you cannot control the prompt seemed like a bit of a dead end though, so I eventually just switched back to claude (which incidentally allows any prompt you can dream up, but using the codex cli with claude was very much not on my wishlist)
by pmontra | 2025-11-09 11:32:47+00:00
There are so many people buying rice that's not hard for rice producers to forecast how many thousands of tons of rice they have to grow each year. And not many people look at how much they spend for rice year long. For the single box, yes, they do notice. So it's not a subscription but it looks like it is, at least from the point of view of the seller.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 11:33:21+00:00
>together with Lisp

Lisp has a lot in common with Forth in that people often reduce it to a trick and miss the lesson it has to teach; people implement their six words from the bare metal and use those six words to implement Forth but never seem to make the leap, realize they can take it one step further and implement the language they need for the task at hand just as easily as they implemented Forth with those six or however many words they decided to start with. Sure it may not be the most efficient solution but in a time when most people walk around with half a dozen cores in their pocket, counting clock cycles is generally not a concern and it can probably be more efficient than the batteries included solution that comes with eight D cells when it only requires a single coin cell. But there is something about the weight of those eight D cells, they are substantial and we can feel it.
by cube00 | 2025-11-09 11:34:48+00:00
Time for other Zuck to sort out his SSL.

Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for markzuckerberg.com.

The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.net, *.fbsbx.com, *.m.facebook.com, *.messenger.com, *.xx.fbcdn.net, *.xy.fbcdn.net, *.xz.fbcdn.net, facebook.com, messenger.com
by moralestapia | 2025-11-09 11:35:01+00:00
"Smaht" people continuously parrot things they read elsewhere, usually in a contrarian way, to assert themselves in a futile and shallow way.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting one CT at a specific point in your life to right a disease which, as TFA states, has a 25% incidence rate.

The smaht ones will now point me to that study of 1-5% of cancers being linked to CT scans. Yeah, sure, but those are not from people who got one-two in their lives.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-11-09 11:35:35+00:00
It's not docker itself. It's the mindset of some of its users: just throw in every garbage and don't bother about maintenance.

It's also often used by users shying away from maintenance -- often due to a demanding schedule. Sometimes not grasping the level of investment they need to do to have a good Dockerfile. If seen too many self-managed installations where the user mapping is utter crap an the process are running with random system users or random end-user UIDs.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-09 11:36:00+00:00
> France is being kept alive by paying itself? Makes no sense.

For the past 18 years at least, France has been trapped in an economic stagnation driven by terrible economic policies (as if trying to outcompete eastern Europe on cost wasn't a great idea). The only thing that keeps the economist from collapsing entirely is the perpetual stimulus from public spending using foreign loans. (This also will probably stop being sufficient soon since the governing party seems to be obsessed by the idea of reducing public spending instead of fixing their economic policy).
by dogman1050 | 2025-11-09 11:36:52+00:00
My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."
by atoav | 2025-11-09 11:38:23+00:00
Unfortunately that isn't how optics work (former freelance camera person and VFX professional).

When you look at a thing you will have two mechanisms at work: (1) the imagined view line of both your eyes will cross over at that focal point, (2) your eye muscles and irises will shift the focus of each individual eye to the distance of that convergence point. Meaning the stuff you concentrate on will be in focus and on a screen that is the screen, even if it is transparent.

The target being 99% transparent doesn't magically shift your focus point backwards just because you can see the background. You would still have to look at it.

You can easily try this at home. Take a sharpie, write on the window and try reading the text while focusing on some object on the outside. You will find the closer you are to the writing, the harder it will be to still read without shifting the focus back to the front.

If anything you will find that reading on a non-uniform and potentially moving background will make it harder for your brain to focus on the text, not easier. The fact that they make a claim like this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in their ethics.

It is healthy to not stare at the same focal plane for hours, but that just means heavy screen workers should make it a habit to occasionally let their gaze wander offscreen and potentially out of the window. The eyes are muscles, give them some movement.
by mjlee | 2025-11-09 11:38:38+00:00
> why is this not used in conflicts to devastating effect?

The systems with devastating impact are air-gapped. They're designed, audited, validated and then never touched again. Ports are disabled by cutting the traces on the motherboard and adding tamper protection to the case, which is in a secure facility protected by vetted people with guns, who are in a security facility protected by different vetted people with guns.

No system is perfect, but the time and effort is better spent on the generic case that the military understands well.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 11:38:43+00:00
>contempt for everything that's not Forth.

I have never seen that, most in the Forth world seem resigned to obscurity and content living in their own world. If you could point me to the people advocating Forth above all else, I would love to see it and I don't mean that in a "you're wrong, I'm right" way, I just want to see what their methods are.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-11-09 11:38:54+00:00
This was very apparent to me on IG before I shut down my account (again) here in the US.

Women promoting themselves (photography, DJ, art, small biz) want to give off the scent of being available. Rarely does a woman have an account simply to share life - it is a messaging and broadcasting channel suited to their gender chemistry. They want the guys to think they have a shot of sorts. It’s a deceptive marketing practice and part of the reason I quit (I met a couple of the local women were playing this game).
by nik736 | 2025-11-09 11:39:17+00:00
The problem with ONCE is that software is never finished. This is why most ONCE software that is still available today is charging a one off licensing fee + update fee (e.g. charge yearly for major updates or 10% of the one off fee per year). This is sustainable, but your model isn't. You will notice down the road in 2-4 years that it's no fun to work for free for users that expect an update because it requires patching or there are breaking changes.
by al_borland | 2025-11-09 11:39:26+00:00
I got my nephews a raspberry pi for their first computer. I tried gifting an old laptop, but that was rejected my the parents as “too much”, so I went the Pi route… first with a Kano Kit (which I think is no defunct) and later with a Pi 400.

The Kano was nice, because it was built for kids and had some guided stuff to help get them into it with various software and hardware to play around with.

With the Pi 400 it was stock Raspbian. The kid wasn’t sure where to begin. While it came with a book geared toward kids, I don’t know that he read it. I was trying to find a way to show him around to stuff he might think is fun, without it seeming boring over overwhelming, but I didn’t feel it went that well. I was also living 6 hours away at the time, so there weren’t regular visits for questions or to help things along, and the parents didn’t know anything about Linux.

Ultimately, I don’t think it inspired them as much as I was hoping. All they actually wanted was something to play Minecraft on, and the Pi edition was a very compromised experience for Minecraft. The Kano did have a mode to let people use Scratch type programming to automate aspects of building, which I thought was really cool, but it didn’t totally seem to click… though I did see some limited use after a couple years.

I think not having someone in the house who can guide and field questions really hindered the ability for them to really thrive on Linux. It would probably be worth including a series of lessons to ramp up their skills and knowledge. Doing something like that was difficult for me due to the distance and also not so much parental support on the idea of kids on computers. I was swimming against the current a little with those gifts, because I thought it was important they get access to the main tool they are likely to use throughout their life.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-09 11:40:06+00:00
Could be multiple factors. In my N=1 experience fiddling with various things in my life.

* Improving diet (primarily avoiding refined foods and sugar) generally improves my energy levels.

* Cutting out social media mostly improves concentration.

* Trying to avoid rumination such as problem solving or rehearsing arguments through meditative practices reduces stress levels, makes it easier to be present and react to things in front of you.

* Sleep is also pretty big for cognitive clarity. Having a consistent sleep schedule and not drinking coffee past noon helps with sleep.

But really, all of these seem to tie into each other. If you want to improve your diet, it's much harder if you are tired from lack of sleep or overstimulation. If you want to improve your sleep, you can't be scrolling social media all day. Mental exhaustion also makes awareness/meditation harder.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-09 11:41:18+00:00
> In turn, this makes your own research or problem-solving skills less sharp.

Why would that be true? The average assistant is certainly typing more quickly than their boss, but most people would not find issue in that. It's different responsibilities. You free up time to research / problem-solve other things.

> No need to wait for 5-30 minutes until LLM figures this out.

I don't care it the LLM takes 15 additional minutes to figure it out, if it net saves me a minute (we could certainly debate the ergonomics of the multitasking involved, but that is something that every person, who delegates work, has to deal with and that's not unique to working with LLMs in any way)
by conz | 2025-11-09 11:42:45+00:00
I disagree with this assessment.

Franklin didn't have the tools and process for determining the structure of DNA, only Watson and Crick did, because they used actual physical models to measure the angles and positions of the molecular components.

Further, by the time Watson and Crick did their work, Franklin had already left to work on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)[0].

That Watson and Crick could only nail the structure of DNA because of her crystallography work is almost certain. That she would have discovered the structure of DNA without them and their process/approach is a furphy[1]. It's their combined efforts which made it possible, with Franklin's work being the pointer in the right direction and confirmation, but Watson and Crick's being the bulk of the heavy-lifting necessary to map the molecule structure.

In the end, she probably didn't share in the Nobel because she died before the prize was awarded for the research.

[0] https://www.cinz.nz/posts/rosalind-elsie-franklin-1920-1958 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy
by krisoft | 2025-11-09 11:42:47+00:00
Indirectly. Do you think electric substations should be also bought from tax money? Everyone who uses electricity need those too (indirectly).

It is a clear service which certain companies and individuals need. Why don’t we let them pay for it.

This is not some crazy fringe idea. This is how it works in Canada. Here are the current prices to operate a flight in or over Canada: https://www.navcanada.ca/en/customer-guide-to-charges---effe...

Are you flying a Boeing 747-400 from Seatle to London return overflying Canada? That will be $5,370.78 please. It consist of $66.10 for oceanic services and $5,304.68 for enroute services.

Are you flying an Embraer 175 from Halifax to St John return? Good on ya. That will be $1,608.04. Pleasure doing busines.
by spaintech | 2025-11-09 11:43:23+00:00
It personally feel that Forth if often overlooked as a solution. It’s great for lowlevel embedded work… even on complicated x86 hardware. I also think that people shy away because the tooling is thin and often DIY, but a Forth exokernel plus a single-purpose app can squeeze more from the hardware.

Tethered Forth programming on small devices is an underrated opportunity, IMO. There is also the opportunity to revise the OpenBoot project, I remember the days of automation for deployments at the Bios, it was an amazing tool for massive deployments of Sun T systems in telcos.
by rwarfield | 2025-11-09 11:44:19+00:00
> no safe level of alcohol

I hear this kind of phrasing frequently in the discourse nowadays, but it doesn't seem like a useful framing to me. Is there a safe amount of chocolate? A safe amount of sex? Are we supposed to stop enjoying every pleasure of life as soon as someone does a large study with high enough statistical power to show some negative effect on health, no matter how small?

The question is whether the enjoyment we derive from these things is worth the risk, not whether there is a "safe level", whatever that means.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-09 11:44:51+00:00
You're confused. Silencing people is the thing 1A protects against.

"I'm in favor of gun rights and that's why we need to eliminate the 2A"

I don't think you get it lol. Your arguments are not consistent with you understanding the facts. Who do you expect to convince with unapologetc ignorance?
by rsynnott | 2025-11-09 11:45:15+00:00
The funny thing is, the actual industry is going in the opposite direction, because it turns out that a single big tunnel is in practice cheaper than a bunch of small ones. Conventional deep-bore metro lines consisted of two tunnels about 3.5 meters in diameter, but if you look at _current_ metro projects, the Dublin metro is using a single 10 meter tunnel, the newer Barcelona lines are using a singe 12 meter tunnel...

The expensive bit of building metros isn't actually boring the tunnel, generally, not anymore. It's everything around that; securing a route, the disruption while it's going on, etc etc. So the last thing you want is to have to do it twice.
by muldvarp | 2025-11-09 11:45:42+00:00
> Still, it is noticeable that with many of the AI companies claiming that their version of "AGI" is just around the corner, developers and staff don't appear to be particularly excited about this

Why would they be excited about it? There's little in it for them.

Nobody that has to work for a living should be excited for AI, they should be genuinely afraid of it. AGI will have vast, deeply negative consequence for almost everyone that has to work for a living.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-09 11:45:59+00:00
I would recommend installing Scratch[1] - it's a programming language designed for kids from 8yrs old onwards. I would recommend pairing it with a Raspberry Pi, as you can do fun real-world physical stuff with using Scratch, and I think kids can find that very interesting. Eg, start with a simple program to turn LED lights on and off, programming buttons, playing sounds etc. Eventually this could lead to making simple games or other programs. Regardless, would highly recommend getting a Raspberry Pi as its just so much fun using it to interact with the physical world and getting to learn actual electronics.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/parents/
by whstl | 2025-11-09 11:46:03+00:00
Yep.

The thing about "it's IO bound anyway so who cares" is that it forces you to scale the app much earlier.

At a company I worked, a single Golang instance (there was backup) was able to handle every single request by itself during peak hours, and do authentication, partial authorization, request enrichment, fraud detection, rate limiting and routing to the appropriate microservice. I'm not saying it was a good idea to have a custom Ingress/Proxy app but it's what we had.

By contrast, the mesh of Rails applications required a few hundred machines during peak time to serve the same number of requests, and none of it was CPU-heavy. It was DB heavy!

If it had been a Golang or JVM or Rust app it would require a much smaller fleet to serve.
Show HN: Teda.dev – AI app builder that beats Lovable
by ebenezerdon | 2025-11-09 11:47:31+00:00
Hey everyone, I've been working on teda.dev for the past month. And to be honest, I was tired of seeing tools that promise to “build production apps” but end up producing the same AI-like sites you can spot a mile away.

There are several platforms out there that keep trying to position themselves as replacements for developers, but the apps they make are nowhere near production quality. They’re bloated, clunky, and always tied to their own systems and external dependencies.

With Teda, I'm not pretending to replace developers. If you were going to build the next Facebook, you'd hire a team of engineers. If you were building a production SaaS focused on revenue, you'd put AI coding tools like Cursor or Copilot in the hands of engineers. You won't be thinking of "vibe coding platforms" for that.

Teda focuses on what people who use these platforms actually want: simple, working apps that solve everyday problems. You describe what you want, and Teda builds it in a few minutes.

And I have to say this directly - Teda apps UI and UX are far better than anything you’ll get from Lovable, Bolt, or V0. Not just slightly better, but by a wide margin.

You can confirm it yourself: just use the same prompt across all of them and look at the results.

To be clear, Teda is not for building complex production SaaS or live dashboards that need a server. The other platforms that claim to do this don't do it well anyway.

Teda is for focused tools that run entirely in the browser.

No frameworks, no servers or build step. Just clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that you can run anywhere and own completely.

This is something that means a lot to me and I've been using Teda a lot myself. The ability to quickly prototype apps and build tools for day-to-day issues I face has been a dream come true.

An example from just yesterday, I wanted to download an Instagram video and the apps that offer this are filled with ads and so many clickbaits, so I just asked Teda to build it and I had my working app in a few minutes: https://ebenezerdon.github.io/reelfetch-instagram-video-down...

This is just one small example out of the numerous apps I've built with Teda. From things like the meal planner we now use at home, to an application I use to doodle, make stickers, convert images or generate handwriting practice sheets for my daughter.

You'll find some examples on https://teda.dev and on my GitHub: https://github.com/ebenezerdon

If you’ve ever wanted to turn your idea into a working app without the noise, try Teda. You’ll see what I mean.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-09 11:47:51+00:00
The catch is that the body likes lots of things that are awful for it. For instance drug abuse isn't limited to humans - some bears have gotten addicted to huffing gas to get high. [1] Quite cute if it wasn't so awful! The big issue is that in modern times a whole bunch of things are going wrong - testosterone levels (adjusted for health/bmi/age) are declining, IQ is declining [2], basically every single psychological disorder is skyrocketing, and much more.

And the reason why isn't clear. So the most likely reason is that we're doing what humanity has done repeatedly and endlessly throughout history and likely accidentally poisoning ourselves with some thing or things -- things that we believe to be completely safe. So a precautionary principle approach to consumption is to consider what we evolved with and sugar definitely wasn't that. Sugar only really took off in the 19th century. And various further refined sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup and other such things only took off in the late 20th century.

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294757/Bear-ly-con...

[2] - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...
by anthk | 2025-11-09 11:48:25+00:00
If you install EMWM and the goodies from the author's page you can get a very close system. Also, some guy at Nixers.net it's trying to recreate the whole Irix interface under EMWM.

https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html

Also if you want to program something in Motif:

Motif prog. manual https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/motif/vol6a/Vol6a.pdf

Motif reference manual https://www.ist.co.uk/motif/download/6B/6B_book.pdf

For the X11 books, current X.org manuals are easily found under X.org docs and they will work nealy the same. Now they promote xcb instead of xlib but xlib itself still works.

You'll might (not sure) need:

- Xmu.pdf XMU, low level

- intrinsics.pdf X11 inners, useful to debug X11 stuff

- icccm.pdf Basically window manager standards

- libXaw.pdf Athena/X11, if you need something lighter than Motif

For instance, you can create some MPV frontend with XEmbed and Motif. MPV can be controlled by sending commands to a socket, and creating a GUI for it can be first prototyped with TCL/Tk and then done with MPV.