MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pton_xd | 2025-11-10 01:38:26+00:00
I think this is the beginning of the end of Github. Who has time to read through all these new vibe-coded projects and tools? The READMEs alone are basically essays. You can always get a chuckle or two if you read long enough though, so there's that...

"

Acknowledgments

- OpenAI for providing the GPT API

- The conventional commits specification

- The git community for powerful version control tools

"

The future of sharing code is probably dead. Everything is write-only now. Vibe it yourself.
by DivingForGold | 2025-11-10 01:38:26+00:00
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame has a piece circulating now on Fox Business that says classic trade jobs are the best bet in the age of AI. So called "white collar workers" are being laid off by the hundreds of thousands - - - but blue collar jobs are actually HIRING. I am retiring at 71 yrs. from my own "blue collar" company I started 15 years ago, I created and manage both my websites without a lick of javascript, I have averaged $150K+ a year gross, working mostly from May through October. Scuba diving in my area lakes, nothing to be ashamed of, I am out in mother nature, not locked up in a cubicle cranking out code all day. It's your choice. In 2023 I did $335K and have a solid method to add on another 100 to $200K with a related blue collar offering.
by asdfman123 | 2025-11-10 01:38:28+00:00
> Studying to go into a market in an obvious downswing has predictable results

Yes, if you're in your 30s and have lived through a bunch of corporate downsizings before, it does make sense.

Do you remember what it was like to be 18? I had no idea what people in offices even did all day. My way of thinking about the world was 100% idealistic and had no basis in the gritty realities of corporate life.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-10 01:38:32+00:00
On a PC, Intel ME and the like can be accessed remotely only through an Intel NIC, which can be avoided by using a PCIe Ethernet card from another manufacturer, if the motherboard does not have such an interface on it. Even many of the Intel Ethernet interfaces are supposed to have the remote access disabled from the factory, but you cannot be certain about this.

A more serious problem is caused by the laptops having Intel WiFi, which is difficult to replace. With such a laptop one would have to disconnect the internal antennas and use an external WiFi dongle, to be sure that remote control is not possible.
by montroser | 2025-11-10 01:38:32+00:00
> "Over the last two years the war has mutated. Before we didn’t even think about drones, but now it’s a drone war."

Especially with the rise of AI, the dystopian future of war is clearer than ever. Wherein no longer do masses of humans need to believe in the cause enough to risk their own life. Soon enough, very powerful people lacking in compassion will be able to just type, "dispatch a fleet of drones in take-no-prisoners mode to seize control of $region" into the War app on their phone, and it will be done.

The fishing nets are creative for this moment, but in no way any sort of robust sustainable defense...
by omustardo | 2025-11-10 01:38:45+00:00
A multiplayer game prototype, written in Rust, using Bevy + egui for graphics. Think of it as a bare bones implementation of a game like Runescape, mostly to test out current LLM capability.

I haven't found much value in LLMs for coding beyond very self contained tasks, but some people speak highly of it, and I want to be sure that I'm not missing out. So from time to time I give new tools a try. This time is "Claude Code on the web".

I've put in an estimated 50 hours so far. It has a client and an authoritative server. The client displays 3D graphics with some placeholder models. From the client, you can click on tiles and move to them, or click on enemies to pathfind and attack them. You can right-click on tiles or monsters to open a menu with options (attack, trade, move). There are some unit tests and a few integration tests.

Right now the issues that Claude has been unable to resolve after a few attempts are: * Attack animations. I'm trying to get it to raise and then lower a rectangular block to simulate a sword attack. It really doesn't get it, and it's harder to write tests for compared to movement and server-client networking. * "Entity interpolation". Rather walking entities instantly moving from tile to tile, movement should flow smoothly.

I have Claude Pro ($20/mo) which let me make a few commits per day. After a few days of that, Anthropic offered $250 in credits to promote "Claude Code on the web". The credits expire after two weeks. I'm now five days into that period and have gone through $50 in credits. It is heavily rate limited and frequently locks me out for multiple hours after only a few interactions, but it's free credits so I can't really complain.
by solraph | 2025-11-10 01:39:03+00:00
tl;dr; Nope.

Assuming that HIIT workouts are 100% vigorous activity (unlikely), then a "few" instances would only add up to around 24 minutes of vigorous activity, which is far short of the minimum recommended 75 minutes of vigorous activity.

If you are short on time then performing HIIT for 15 minutes five days a week will get you much closer to the minimum requirements.
Show HN: LLM Onestop – Access ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more in one interface
by hhameed | 2025-11-10 01:39:38+00:00
Hi HN! I built LLM OneStop (https://www.llmonestop.com), a unified interface for accessing multiple AI language models in one place. The main problem I wanted to solve: constantly switching between different AI platforms, managing multiple subscriptions, and losing conversation context when comparing outputs across models. Key features:

Switch between GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and other models mid-conversation Compare responses side-by-side Single interface instead of juggling multiple tabs/subscriptions Free tier available to try it out (no credit card needed) "Connect" plan lets you bring your own API keys for unlimited usage

I built this because I found myself constantly copy-pasting prompts between ChatGPT, Claude, and other platforms when I wanted to compare responses or find the best model for a specific task. You can try it right now with the free tier - would love to hear your feedback on what works, what doesn't, and what features you'd like to see!
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-11-10 01:40:20+00:00
Building https://typequicker.com

I’ve always wanted a typing application that’s both more than typing random words and is data-focused so I built this.

The more you type, the more the analytics system learns about your typing patterns and generates natural text to target those weakpoints (SmartPractice mode).

There’s a lot of variety as well; you can practice typing code in any programming language, or type text of various topics, use custom text, etc).
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-10 01:40:27+00:00
It's not strictly necessary to have separate a hub/controller, no: After all, a Matter controller is just a small computer-widget that sits on a network and talks with IP packets.

A pocket supercomputer, such as an iPhone, theoretically works just as well: It's a small computer-widget that sits on a network, right? It just happens to run on batteries and be carried around in your pocket.

It's just software at that point.

At the end of the day: The Matter devices are paired with the controller, similar to how Bluetooth devices are also typically paired with a main brain-box. (Except: A Matter device can be paired with many controllers concurrently, whereas a lot of Bluetooth devices can only be paired with one at a time.)

The network connection doesn't have to be permanent: It can work when controller is present on the network, and it will [perhaps obviously] cease to work when the controller is absent.

So if Apple has software that runs within an iPhone and acts as a Matter controller, then: Sure, no additional hardware is needed to wiggle the state of a Matter light bulb using your iPhone.

(And if that kind of local control is all you ever care about for controlling stuff then... that's good enough.)
by fka | 2025-11-10 01:40:56+00:00
Good point. The purpose of git-rewrite-commits isn’t to "polish" history or rewrite meaning, it’s more of a rescue tool for those chaotic early stages of side projects (like mine) where commits are basically "update again" for months.

In those cases, the "intent" was never recorded in the first place, so the AI is just giving some structure and readability to what’s already lost context.

It’s not about pretending the repo was well maintained, it’s about making messy histories a bit more understandable for humans (and future me) without rewriting the actual code or meaning.
by domenicd | 2025-11-10 01:41:13+00:00
A lot of people in the comments are expressing curiosity about "ideal" amounts of exercise to avoid these sorts of problems.

I have a real-life friend whose hobby is studying this stuff. His recommendations boil down to:

- 1/week 20 minutes HIIT: 5 minutes warmup, 3x(2 minutes high intensity + 3 minutes low intensity) blocks.

- 1/week strength training focused on large muscle groups.

- 12,000 steps per day walking (HIIT excluded).

According to his reading of the literature, this gives you the best bang for your buck in terms of all-cause mortality avoidance. Most of the studies in this area are correlational, not randomized controlled trials, so it's hard to be sure. But I can vouch for his diligence in trying to get to the bottom of this. I've been following his program since January with reasonably good results over my already-active baseline.

His website is https://www.unaging.com/, and honestly it's a bit hard to recommend because he's definitely playing the SEO game: the articles are often repetitive of each other and full of filler. And the CMS seems janky. (I would tell you to find his older articles before he started optimizing for SEO, but, it seems like the CMS reset all article dates to today.) But, if you have patience, it might be worthwhile.
by lvl155 | 2025-11-10 01:41:39+00:00
Came out right after dotcom bust. It was really disappointing when I learned that corporate America simply moves on to the next graduating class. All the recruiting mechanisms in place means you’re going to get burned pretty bad if you miss that hiring wave. Some of my classmates took years to find something long term. You’re so much better off taking a year off from school to reset. As most things in life, timing is everything.
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-10 01:41:40+00:00
Since 1969 we have returned a total of 383KG of Moon rock, 382KG of that before 1972. And yet somehow we are going to suddenly turn this into a viable thing in the space of only a few years.

Moon (and asteroid) mining is all well and good provided everything goes to plan. Things rarely go to plan. Two plans that jump out is George W Bush's 2020 Moon base and Trumps 2024 Man on the moon landing. Those didn't even get anywhere close but not for lack of ambition.

I mean I hope to be proven wrong, but there is a lot that needs to go right before I am wrong.
by mac-mc | 2025-11-10 01:41:54+00:00
I've tried designing information-dense things for colorblind coworkers, and they seemed a bit disinterested in testing it out with me. Even with tools that simulate it, you can still be off, I've found.

There can be some sensitivity about trying to figure it out with them. I've added little affordances here and there, and ironically, I rely mentally more on color coding things because I am bad at finding things in a visual field than most.

I've also found that colorblind family members and friends just never tell you and they tend to suffer in silence. Even my own half-brother (which I have a 15 year gap with) didn't tell me he was colorblind until recently.
by czhu12 | 2025-11-10 01:41:54+00:00
I’ve been working on https://canine.sh which is a free, open source Heroku alternative for 2 years now.

It’s exactly the product I wish I had when I started my previous company. Running on PaaS is incredible for devex but the pricing is bonkers, and the vendor lock in makes it really hard to deal with annual price increases. We spent close to 400k / year for just 128GB combined fleet in our last startup on Heroku.

Canine tries to get the best of both worlds: developer friendly PaaS with no lockin or price gouging.

Just added build packs as a build option recently.

Also got a sponsorship from the portainer folks which lets me work on this close to full time

Hoping this saves someone the headache I had two years ago.
by abound | 2025-11-10 01:43:05+00:00
Oof, thanks for sharing and the well wishes.

I'm funding this myself, and my current approach (hopefully!) avoids most of the red tape. I'm leasing fiber from a local ISP for the colo <-> my home connection, and once I have myself as a successful "customer" of my own ISP, I'll start doing the last mile build out, which is where I expect the red tape to begin.

But I haven't decided if I'll do fiber or wireless, and if I go wireless, I might be able to avoid pole agreements entirely by just working directly with my neighbors. The problem is that our area is pretty heavily wooded, so I'm not sure if I can place antennas high enough to cover a reasonable swatch of the area.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-10 01:43:07+00:00
Article misses the mark a little bit. "Outdoors" preventing myopia isn't about focusing distance, it's about light levels. Dimmer light makes the eye think it isn't done growing, so it grows more.

You can replicate those light levels indoors, if you're bloody minded enough to do so. It's somewhat expensive but for a tech-enabled crowd not too difficult.

You need about 10x to 100x the lighting most people are satisfied with indoors, and you need to turn it on whenever you're in the room and leave it on between sunrise and sunset. This is easiest with timers and automation.

The most important thing about all of this is to realize that children NEED outdoor recess sometime between the hours of 10am and 2pm every day. They don't have to be directly exposed to the sun, but they need to be in an environment with >1000 lux, more is generally better, for a number of hours. This will prevent their growing eyes from continuing to grow indefinitely.

We know this because there was an intervention in Taiwan, which has extremely high myopia levels in children (80%+ last I heard), and it dropped myopia from ~80% to ~35% in the intervention group. That's an astounding effectiveness for something free.
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-10 01:43:14+00:00
I tried 12 and 13. My car hasn't gotten 14 and I'm not interested in finding out if it'll get it, because at this point I'm simply not interested even if it's decent.

And there's no guarantee it'll be meaningfully better, if I'm being honest. Why would I believe that all the issues are fixed? For me to be interested, every single problem that I'd encountered needs to be resolved. Why would I even consider accepting anything less? It's not "partial" self driving. An incremental improvement is useless.
by primaprashant | 2025-11-10 01:43:17+00:00
Building a docs website [1] for my speech-to-text CLI tool, hns. I use it 5-10 times daily to transcribe my voice, and a few developer friends I've shared it with have also adopted it for daily use. They like that it runs in the terminal and keeps all data local. So, felt like I should write down guides for new users to get started quickly and to highlight key use cases.

Building this documentation website using Docusaurus. This is my first time using Docusaurus, and it feels like a very nice tool for quickly developing a documentation website.

[1]: https://hns-cli.dev/
by danielcspaiva | 2025-11-10 01:44:27+00:00
I'm working on a simple open source iOS client for hacker news that makes use of the latest iOS design language and features.

No Ads, no paywall, just focused on a good reading experience with some extra niceties like widgets on the home screen.

Website: https://www.hackerreader.app/

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-reader/id6754137305

Repo: https://github.com/danielcspaiva/hacker-reader
by etothepii | 2025-11-10 01:45:14+00:00
> For most of the industrial era, you could assume that any large physical operation, like a warehouse, would need a certain number of human bodies to move boxes and drive forklifts.

Were there forklifts for most of the industrial era? Given they were invented in 1917 (according to ChatGPT), No.

Unfortunately, I don't think it is "playing by the rules" to get a career specific education.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 01:45:55+00:00
I didn't say he was a racist. But we are talking about feeling excluded in environments where the primary change has been it's not longer acceptable to tell racist/sexist jokes or make disparaging comments about others based race/sex/ethnicity.

People have had three opportunities now to give concrete examples of behavior that should be acceptable and makes them feel excluded or like they need to walk on eggshells. Nobody has offered a single thing.

So point blank: What can you not say or do in these environments for fear of reprisal?
by jschveibinz | 2025-11-10 01:46:16+00:00
This whole housing question boils down to leveraged (and tax advantageous) savings and ownership of something that appreciates in value. For individuals that do not have enough capital or income to purchase an entire property, there needs to be 1) the ability to participate as a fractional owner in properties with commensurate tax benefits or 2) the ability to invest in some other leveraged, appreciating asset (or fraction thereof) that has similar high demand and societal benefit as housing--e.g. franchises based on entertainment, health and wellbeing, public utilities, etc.
by ramoz | 2025-11-10 01:46:45+00:00
After creating the feature request for Claude Code hooks[1] a few months back, Cupcake is nearly ready for release.

Cupcake is a governance/policy-enforcement layer for agents. Its innovation is binding OPA/rego to agent runtimes (via hooks).

I do not believe we will every strictly rely on "better" models in the wild without deterministic guarantees or ways for enterprises to factor in their own alignment - system prompts dont cut it.

https://github.com/eqtylab/cupcake

Stay tuned for the formal release here in a couple of weeks.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/712

Cupcake GitHub: https://github.com/eqtylab/cupcake
by acdha | 2025-11-10 01:46:45+00:00
I don’t see that as Indian culture as much as outsourcing. I’ve had tons of that from entirely domestic contractors, including people who’d bid on a project only to admit their team didn’t have the domain experience promised. I’m talking about things as basic as telling the client that they needed to buy an enormous SQL Server cluster because their “developers” didn’t know how to limit joins and were had deeply-nested loops processing duplicate results.

They do this because it often works: business people often lack the experience to tell whether excuses are correct, and large organizations have enough project churn that it’s entirely possible to wing it for the duration of a contract / pivot, get paid, and move on before someone knowledgeable notices that the old deliverables didn’t really work.

What they had in common was greed, and I think that’s where the association with India comes from, too, but as a selection bias affecting people who don’t otherwise have exposure to Indian workers: there’s a floor on what a productive developer is going to get paid – someone smart enough to do the job is also smart enough to realize when they’re being underpaid and all of the abuses I’ve seen were cases where some combination of the outsourcing outfit and senior management were basically saying “why cut our cost by just 30% when we can find someone who’ll show up to work for ¼ of our staff rate?” and then acting surprised when they can’t retain decent people (e.g. I once talked to a guy who had two clues to rub together as he was leaving and learned he was getting ⅓ of the hourly rate and bailed as quickly as possible to get closer to market rate). Less ethical American companies do that, too, but they still lose to the even cheaper body shops so they aren’t as successful, but in all cases I would say it’s not the entire nation’s culture but the subset of fake-it-til-you-make-it business types. Plenty of people in both countries detest that and don’t deserve to be lumped in with them.
by djmips | 2025-11-10 01:46:48+00:00
Yes and that would be why Sega used it in the SG-1000. TI was no longer updating the VDP so later it was evolved in the Master System which was then evolved to the Genesis/Mega Drive. So to be clear the Genesis/Mega Drive did not have a TMS9918 inside just something that was similar enough to get a foothold into reverse engineering the actual VDP.
by windowshopping | 2025-11-10 01:46:56+00:00
Two initial thoughts:

1. This author's writing is extremely, uncommonly good. Good enough to write a book and have it sell. "Competing with the past of the economy," "residual behaviour of a world that treated labour as sacred," "immigration without immigrants" -- there are many elegant turns of phrase here. This is a very skilled writer.

2. His resume is designed poorly. Have a look. I'm not surprised his job search has been unsuccessful when his resume looks like an essay. OP, you gotta cut that text down by like 70% and put more highlights. This is the world of tiktok and instagram reels.
by Wistar | 2025-11-10 01:47:33+00:00
Hmm. I am 67 and require no corrective lenses. Two years ago, at my last exam, the doctor said I was “the one percent of the one percent of people” my age that do not require glasses. All of my siblings and both of my parents wore glasses.

Most of my professional life has been spent staring at screens, usually in darkened rooms, so I have no idea why my sight is still good.
by storus | 2025-11-10 01:48:28+00:00
4-minute HIIT run (30s full/5s walk, repeat) makes you vomit and not feel your legs. 15 minutes of HIIT 5-times a week is a wishful thinking. It's not your typical "vigorous" activity. At my athletic very best I could at most chain 3 HIITs in a row and be destroyed for a few days.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-10 01:49:04+00:00
That's not really a relevant question, actually.

We know definitively that active is strictly better than inactive in all respects unless someone has such severe end stage cardiorespiratory issues that they risk actual death, or some other unusual condition that makes exercise contraindicated, in which case, of course, speak to a doctor and obey their advice.

Even if it merely preserves function (which I would be skeptical about, humans are amazingly adaptive), the alternative is inactivity and thus gradual loss of function indefinitely over time until death.
by ipnon | 2025-11-10 01:49:07+00:00
The level of effort is becoming comparable: It's not unfathomable to send 1,000 applications to get a new job. Think of all the emails, coding evaluations, high-pressure interviews, LeetCode grinding, multi-round interviews, HR back-and-forths, and inevitable let downs or ghostings you have to endure just to get one measly job. Compare this to making a product that 1,000 people will subscribe to for $10/month, except you own it all forever. The skillsets are vastly different, and starting a business is much less rote and industrialized, but I don't think the level of effort is an order of magnitude greater. All of the experience I have gathered with my own business has paid dividends but the experience of looking for yet another job in yet another downturn seems to mostly have been wasteful in the long-term.
by tkzed49 | 2025-11-10 01:49:10+00:00
I would be careful assuming that a lack of performance was responsible for the internships not converting.

At my company, I've recently seen a lot of cases where interns don't get return offers. Maybe they're all underperforming for pre-entry-level, but I seriously doubt that.

I will also point out that hiring is rarely skill based. I mean seriously. You can be great and not get hired, and you can be a liability and get hired anyway. This was true even before the post-COVID squeeze.