MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Deep-States | 2025-11-03 19:39:43+00:00
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by nje | 2025-11-03 19:39:48+00:00
iM3 | Junior Developers (2) | Christchurch, NZ | Hybrid (mostly WFH) | Contract → possible long-term

We build AI-driven imaging software for vets - capturing and analysing x-rays to find dental issues in animals. We train our own models, are totally AI-pilled and use Claude Code and AI-assisted coding heavily day-to-day.

Looking for junior or new-grad devs with solid fundamentals and curiosity — no need to know our stack (Clojure, C#, Swift, Kotlin, Python, k8s, WPF, Svelte, Postgres). Just bring enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

Hybrid in Christchurch New Zealand (mostly WFH, a few meetups each week). 3-month initial contract, likely ongoing if it clicks.

Send a short intro + GitHub profile link to nick.edwards+hn@im3dental.com
by gschizas | 2025-11-03 19:40:05+00:00
In the test, Windows Terminal (weirdly written as "terminal.exe") comes up as #4 in the scoring table.

As to the "love" question, I still watch this video from time to time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE :)

EDIT: I love the easter egg with the names of the developers across the Windows timeline :)
by xienze | 2025-11-03 19:40:07+00:00
> "If what LLMs do today isn't actual thinking, what is something that only an actually thinking entity can do that LLMs can't?"

Invent some novel concept, much the same way scientists and mathematicians of the distant past did? I doubt Newton's brain was simply churning out a stream of the "next statistically probable token" until -- boom! Calculus. There was clearly a higher order understanding of many abstract concepts, intuition, and random thoughts that occurred in his brain in order to produce something entirely new.
by loftsy | 2025-11-03 19:40:13+00:00
CamyPro | Oxford, UK | Full-time | ONSITE

Be the first hire, working with me, combining LLMs, geometry, and manufacturing in a high-agency, high-trust environment. You’ll have significant ownership over your work, freedom to experiment, and direct influence on the direction of the product.

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by huijzer | 2025-11-03 19:40:36+00:00
Also due to being dissapointed with social media, especially how it always makes you feel that you know more while you actually go deeper in your bubble, I created a mini blogging platform mostly inspired by X/BlueSky called fx [1]. You can use f**k X as a mnemonic device for the name. It's running for a few months now and works very well for me. Whenever I have a random thought that I want to publicly write down, I use my phone or computer to quickly put it on my site. Unlike X or other social media sites, the post is fully under my control. I can edit it, delete it, share it, link it, and it's all backupped in GitHub.

[1]: https://github.com/rikhuijzer/fx
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-11-03 19:40:40+00:00
Viewing an image in a terminal can be really handy for debugging ML systems that use images or bitmaps. You can also paste images directly into claude code as context.

Once while working on a daemon that did both ML and DSP on live audio I added the ability to play sounds and display spectrographs of in-memory audio data at various points of the internal pipeline to debug an issue that would have been difficult otherwise. Way quicker than dumping WAV files to view externally.
by barrell | 2025-11-03 19:40:42+00:00
Phrasing.app | Co-founder | EUROPE REMOTE

Phrasing is a bootstrapped company dedicated to building the most effective and efficient way to learn a language.

I’m a polyglot myself and have always struggled for a few main reasons:

1. Apps only ever focus on taking you from 0-1, never from 1-100.

2. If you have any experience in the language, it’s really hard to pick it up after a few years.

3. Language learning apps are always ugly, clunky, ugly, and just stressful to use. And ugly.

4. No apps support maintaining and learning multiple languages simultaneously

5. Apps only ever support the major languages, leaving minority languages in the dust

So, I set off to build my dream language learning application, and a quick 2 years and 10,000 hours later I’d built Phrasing.

It’s launched, it’s live, it has (happy) paying daily users, and I myself am using it to learn 18 languages. The product is ready to go, and the business is already growing organically.

I’m looking for someone cracked to come in in a co-founding capacity and eventually take over the backend (elixir) codebase from me.

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If you’re interested, and located in Europe, send me an email at hn@phrasing.app.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-03 19:40:54+00:00
Counterpoint: I do work 5 days a week 40 hours remotely. I wake up around 7 or 8. I never set my alarm clock. I hang out with my wife before finally getting up, I roll over, get ready for the day and walk to my home office.

I can walk downstairs to work out during the middle of the day, swim almost all year (Florida), go for a jog of whatever.

On a higher level, working remotely means we can do things like spending a full year flying around the country like we did until September 2023 or going forward spending a couple of months in Costa Rica, Panama during the winter while working.

4-5 days a week doesn’t impinge on my freedom like working in an office would. I “retired my wife” in 2020 when she was 46 8 years into our marriage so she could enjoy her hobbies and passion projects.

I “decompress” between the minute I close my computer and not think about work until the next day and walk to the living room.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-03 19:41:02+00:00
I'm super excited to fly an electric plane, but a lightweight motor isn't what's gonna make that possible. My current plane carries 561 kwh of energy in a 100 pound/ 17gal gas tank.

Even if you say the engine is only 30% efficient, I am still carrying an absolute shitload of energy compared to what I could get out of 100 lbs of lithium batteries.

The actual motor only weighs 84 lbs.

So I have a weight budget of 184 lbs (call it 200 just to be safe), and current capability is a peak output of 50hp (37 kw) and a cruise endurance of 3 hours at 40 hp / 30 kw. So just to math it out, lets say I will need about 90kwh of battery to come close to my current gas capabilities. At an extremely generous 5 kg per kwh, I need a battery that weighs more than my entire airplane's max gross takeoff weight. The weight of the engine is completely irrelevant when the battery weighs 450kg.
by maxbond | 2025-11-03 19:41:14+00:00
https://peps.python.org/pep-0810/#what-about-star-imports-fr...

> What about star imports (`from module import *`)?

> Wild card (star) imports cannot be lazy - they remain eager. This is because the set of names being imported cannot be determined without loading the module. Using the lazy keyword with star imports will be a syntax error. If lazy imports are globally enabled, star imports will still be eager.

Additionally, star imports can interfere with type checkers and IDEs and shadowing caused by star imports is a frequent and difficult to diagnose source of bugs (you analyze the function you think you're calling and find no issues, but you're actually calling a different function because the star import occurs after your explicit import).

You might be able to workaround this limitation by doing a lazy import into an intermediate module (a prelude) on a name by name basis and then star import that intermediate module. But personally I solve this problem using IDE features.

https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server/blob/develop...
by celsoazevedo | 2025-11-03 19:41:23+00:00
> Even low-band 5G gives you 30–250 Mbps down.

On paper. In practice, it can be worse than that.

I've spent the past year using a network called O2 here in the UK. Their 5G SA coverage depends a lot on low band (n28/700MHz) and had issues in places where you'd expect it to work well (London, for example). I've experienced sub 1Mbps speeds and even data failing outdoors more than once. I have a good phone, I'm in a city, and using what until a recent merger was the largest network in the country.

I know it's not like this everywhere or all the time, but for those working on sites, apps, etc, please don't assume good speeds are available.
by t-3 | 2025-11-03 19:41:28+00:00
This site is filled with highly successful people who make/have made fortunes (or at least extremely good salaries) by playing around with computers. My failures are my own fault, but that doesn't stop the irrational feeling of jealousy when I read about jobs doing interesting things that pay more than 2x minimum wage and don't involve standing for 10 hours a day.
by simonw | 2025-11-03 19:41:57+00:00
And honestly, even then YAGNI might still win.

There's a big opportunity cost involved in optimizing prematurely. 9/10 times you're wasting your time, and you may have found product-market fit faster if you had spent that time trying out other feature ideas instead.

If you hit a point where you have to do a painful migration because your product is succeeding that's a point to be celebrated in my opinion. You might never have got there if you'd spent more time on optimistic scaling work and less time iterating towards the right set of features.
by Marsymars | 2025-11-03 19:42:19+00:00
Maybe, but you don't have to move that far down the salary scale for $25/hour post-tax to start looking fairly attractive. In the US, median weekly personal income is in the $1200 range, so assuming 40 hour work weeks, $30/hour, or a bit under $26/hour after federal income tax if you live in a state with 0% income tax.
by sre_mny | 2025-11-03 19:42:24+00:00
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by mft_ | 2025-11-03 19:42:27+00:00
Personal take: LLMs are probably part of the answer (to AGI?) but are hugely handicapped by their current architecture: the only time that long-term memories are formed is during training, and everything after that (once they're being interacted with) sits only in their context window, which is the equivalent of fungible, fallible, lossy short-term memory. [0] I suspect that many things they currently struggle with can be traced back to this.

Overcome this fundamental limitation and we'll have created introspection and self-learning. However, it's hard to predict whether this will allow them to make novel, intuitive leaps of discovery?

[0] It's an imperfect analogy, but we're expecting perfection from creations which are similarly handicapped as Leonard Shelby in the film Memento.
by strangattractor | 2025-11-03 19:42:40+00:00
I disagree. The problem is this person is not the only one - they are the only one saying out loud on HN. This view is not distant from the views of people like Altman, Musk, Andreessen, Zuck ... the list goes on.

There have been and always will be "Entrepreneurs" that think like this. Prior to AI they had to convince large numbers of employees/people to buy into that type of thinking. This kept the proliferation of things like porn and gambling to lower levels because most people find them uninteresting career wise - especially technologist. As our tools improved - "Entrepreneurs" can do more with less people - the proliferation of socially questionable/beneficial activities has become cheaper. Hence the explosion of gambling and porn on the internet.

Now image an AI world were people with this type of thinking can conjure up their dystopian ideas with out having to convince others that their ideas are worthy. They pay for tokens and make a product that is addictive to young men - something that would have previously take much more money and employees.

We have already been experiencing this with social media. AI will amplify it. I am concerned about the benefit to detriment ration b/d. I have always been in the technology is making that number bigger camp. I am no longer so sure is all.

Many CEO's are using their fiduciary responsibility to the company to justify this behavior. But CEOs are also Human beings. Human beings have a social responsibility to not harm other Human beings.
by ImJamal | 2025-11-03 19:42:51+00:00
This still doesn't make sense.

Athens itself killed Socrates for violation of speech laws and yet they are considered a democracy. This would be a violation of the First Amendment which would be considered an unalienable right that the Declaration of Independence was talking about.

There is an interesting point, "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". If the governed consent to an authoritarian law, why would they cease to be a democracy? If 100% of voters voted to ban wearing the color green, they wouldn't be a democracy?

I think you are basically saying democracy means good policies and authoritarianism means bad policies so you cannot have authoritarianism and democracy, but that just isn't the definition of either of those words.
by righthand | 2025-11-03 19:43:23+00:00
Can you be a bit more clear as to something someone could reference to start following the money? Perhaps the awareness of the issue would spread faster if the advice wasn’t so inactionable.

Follow what money? My insurance payment? How? Are you alluding to political payments? Lead me to water or we’re all doomed. Being coy helps nothing only misunderstanding. As demonstrated by my previous response to your comment. It’s lost because I have no clue what you’re talking about.
by mywittyname | 2025-11-03 19:43:44+00:00
Does this motor design scale down? It's not clear from the article - the article focuses more on the relative efficiency gains over the previous model.

A 30lb 1000hp motor doesn't necessarily mean that they can also produce a 3lb, 100hp motor. It would be cool if it did, but I doubt that it does because usually component strength doesn't scale linearly.

That being said, these are still valuable for traditional EVs. Even if they are only a modest weight savings in the grand scheme of modern vehicle weight, their ability to improve packaging options will be a boon. One thing the industry has dicovered is that the generic "skateboard" platform doesn't make for the best vehicles, in terms of packaging.
by husav1k | 2025-11-03 19:44:05+00:00
Whatever US is securing, is directly tied to its own growth machine. Let's not overlook the fact that US has been funding right-of-center, often far-right, politics overseas for decades, and aiding THOSE governments. Covertly preventing progressive movements worldwide doesn't seem as benevolent to me as you portrait it to be.

Numerous civilizations in history brought then-unprecedented prosperity to humanity. At the end of the day, nations that they oppressed under the name of being the big brother, rose against them. How dare they, right?
by fluoridation | 2025-11-03 19:44:11+00:00
>There comes a point where supporting 10yo devices isn't worth it

Ten years isn't what it used to be in terms of hardware performance. Hell, even back in 2015 you could probably still make do with a computer from 2005 (although it might have been on its last legs). If your software doesn't run properly (or at all) on ten-year-old hardware, it's likely people on five-year-old hardware, or with a lower budget, are getting a pretty shitty experience.

I'll agree that resources are finite and there's a point beyond which further optimizations are not worthwhile from a business sense, but where that point lies should be considered carefully, not picked arbitrarily and the consequences casually handwaved with an "eh, not my problem".
by wyc | 2025-11-03 19:44:33+00:00
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The demand for trusted digital ID is accelerating as AI deepfakes begin to destroy most of the ways we use to verify identity today. How private or secure is it to hold your driver's license or passport up to a webcam to get a bank account? Was it ever private or secure? Stable diffusion can break so much of this already. Society will need trusted digital IDs and credentials. Our mission is to allow them to be controlled by individuals, with safeguards to prevent descents into surveillance states and checkpoint societies.

We are the main implementers of category-defining initiatives such as the digital ID program for the California DMV, and the verifiable digital credentials program in Utah. We are private sector participants in NIST's National Cyber Security of Excellence initiative for privacy-preserving digital ID.

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by soulofmischief | 2025-11-03 19:44:34+00:00
Innovation? Patents are designed to protect innovation. Copyright is designed to make sure Disney gets a buck every time someone shares a picture of Mickey Mouse.

The human race has produced an extremely rich body of work long before US copyright law and the DMCA existed. Instead of creating new financial models which embrace freedoms while still ensuring incentives to create new art, we have contorted outdated financial models, various modes of rent-seeking and gatekeeping, to remain viable via artificial and arbitrary restriction of freedom.
by Audiolite | 2025-11-03 19:45:20+00:00
As one example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission uses it in its Broadband Data Collection program. You can see some of how it's been implemented here: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/

Edit: It seems some people get a blocked message when visiting the base url. The home path may work better? https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
by rkomorn | 2025-11-03 19:45:51+00:00
If you want to dig more, I suspect Microsoft got a lot (if not all) of it from blackshark.ai . They're one of the companies whose logo shows up during game start.

I knew their name because, when I worked for an Airbus subsidiary, we talked with them about a solution to generate 3D environments for any/every airport.

They had some cool stuff but also some wonky stuff at the time (like highway overpasses actually being rendered as walls across the highway).
by vablings | 2025-11-03 19:46:00+00:00
Honestly, I don't think the USA does a terrible job at managing these systems it's just funny to me how the song and dance pretend is such a thin facade. Something like UBI is too idealistic and out of reach for policymakers until the USA moves away from the concept that if you are poor, you are inherently evil.

Really all the USA needs to do is make a fork of the VA healthcare and fix the rough-around-the-edges and start offering it as a well-controlled attractive option in the market that is taxpayer funded, maybe roll it out for union workers and blue collared folk first for maximum political appeal
by bbartlomiej | 2025-11-03 19:46:09+00:00
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