MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sharkjacobs | 2025-11-09 21:23:02+00:00
I made a mistake if my post made it seem like I thought this article should not be written or published. And especially if it seemed like my concern was that I thought Boring Company was being unfairly targeted because of Elon's repellent politics.

I'm concerned that this article was published because Elon Musk is a celebrity, not because the offence itself is newsworthy. And if I thought that this article would effect corporate practices anyway, I would simply shut my mouth, and keep my apprehensions to myself. But I suspect that Elon will get a little dopamine hit if he sees his name in a news headline, and every other CEO of a major corporation will ignore it altogether and continue committing environmental offences whenever they think it is advantageous.

I think that Elon Musk is a bad person, I think that billionaires shouldn't exist, and specifically that the kinds of people who become billionaires are some of the worst kinds of people to wield power in society. But I don't think that Elon Musk is special. I don't think that he's a uniquely bad person, I think he is basically a very normal CEO.

> Should there be other companies requiring similar exposés

I think that there are so many other such cases that it is almost impossible to wrap my head around. I said "I wish I had a sense of the numbers" not because I want to normalize and excuse this, but because I think the scope of the problem is so much bigger than this story suggests. Here[1] is a tiny slice of what I mean, a review of environmental penalties issued in Ontario, Canada. It seems like there should be 15 to 20 such exposes in the Local News section of The Toronto Star every year.

Elon Musk, like every other antisocial monster leading a major corporation is "just" making a calculated decision comparing the risk of getting caught and the cost of a fine against the expense of doing the right thing.

I think the real story is that maybe fines are insufficient to address the issue of corporate environmental offenses, or that maybe they accurately represent the priorities of regulators, but not of citizens.

There's a problem here and it's not that Elon Musk is evil. Our society needs to be resilient to the existence of evil people.

[1]https://www.ontario.ca/page/2016-2020-environmental-penaltie...
by subquantum2 | 2025-11-09 21:23:33+00:00
Agree that this LLM stuff 'dumbs down' or using a better word for it 'changes the human skill set'. Your real skills are reduced over time. The LLM is like a broken mirror of your own skills and because the mirror is biased at some point you do not learn anymore, or learn the biased world, it becomes brain rot, you become the LLM pet. you cannot function without your owner...

On the negative side: The LLM uses fancy language to try to convince disinfo. The danger is that you do not see this disinfo and it will shape your consciousness that is the trap.

However if you are lucky you learn to distrust the LLMs it's not a educated AI.

On the positive side: You can still use it as search engine or to get some ideas But you should continue on your own to increase your creative skills.

Your consciousness / attention is stolen on a daily basis to keep you occupied to do stuff. However this is already ongoing before LLMs, before the computer age.

I think at some point your consciousness will detect this brain rot at some point and evolve beyond.

Our body's has evolved to copy trait from others from childhood on, moreover it's also in our DNA itself its created to copy. So the LLM is not any different but you should be aware which trait to copy.
by spenvo | 2025-11-09 21:24:04+00:00
I'm working on Argon Chess, a deterministic chess variant with some degree of cheat resistance (hard to describe to chess engines like Fairy Stockfish) and tons of variety. A week ago, I added a way to play friends online a week ago (a Discord Activity) and a simple Play a Dumb AI feature on its website. You can also print the cards for free for offline play. https://argonchess.com/
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-09 21:24:28+00:00
Admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to white men is an instant rage-boner for most of Trump's opponents and also every previous US presidential administration and prestigious institution for as long as I've been alive. If individuals in their private capacity want to do preferential treatment for specific demographic categories, they can do so; but I don't want them to get government grants that comes out of my taxes for it.
by nullc | 2025-11-09 21:25:39+00:00
At times I'm mused that man is perhaps calibrated to live in tribes of 100. If you're known to ten million, however, you can get the 100,000x the correct dosage for whatever attention your actions draw.

Hard to fix, -- since even if people were considerate enough to make a tenfold reduction you'd still be overdosed by 10,000x.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-09 21:25:40+00:00
You’re not properly accounting for the risk of getting blocked on one of these 5 second tasks. Do an expected value calculation and things look very different.

Across a day of doing these little “run one command” tasks, even getting blocked by one could waste an hour. That makes the expected value calculation of each single task tilt much more in favor of a hands off approach.

Secondly, you’re not valuing the ability to take yourself out of the loop - especially when the task to be done by AI isn’t on the critical path, so it doesn’t matter if it takes 5 minutes or 5 milliseconds. Let AI run a few short commands while you go do something else that’ll definitely take longer than the difference - maybe a code review - and you’ve doubled your parallelism.

These examples are situational and up to the individual to choose how they operate, and they don’t affect you or your decisions.
by askonomm | 2025-11-09 21:25:43+00:00
Discovered in-door bouldering / rock climbing and now go 3x a week, am absolutely loving it! Because of that, I haven't really worked on any side projects in a while. Perhaps I don't need to? My job advances me plenty in my field, but it is a bit of a bitter-sweet feeling in a sense, like maybe I should try to squeeze more out of my free time somehow.
by ultra_nick | 2025-11-09 21:25:45+00:00
AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending isn't either. It's outsourcing and can be easily confirmed by cross-referencing H1B approval rates with layoffs.

If you've been outsourced, ask your representative to support the HIRE Act: - Creates a 25% tax on outsourcing payments - Creates a “Domestic Workforce Fund” for apprenticeships/workforce development. - Prohibits companies from deducting outsourcing payments.
by MakerSam | 2025-11-09 21:26:08+00:00
Nice. Did you build your Hackberry or buy it?

The Hackberry looks awesome. I was going to build/buy one, but I wanted a slightly bigger screen and keyboard, and I also wanted to save some money by using an old 3b+ I had laying around. And I wanted to be able to build it quickly from off-the-shelf Amazon components. So all-in I think I spent ~$70 on this one, whereas the hackberry pi would have cost about double that, and then I would have had to buy the CM5 module.

Curious to hear of your experience with the hackberry - I still might consider getting one of those myself.
by dpark | 2025-11-09 21:26:15+00:00
You can surely get pizza delivered, though certainly I’ve had pizza delivery people text me because they couldn’t find my house. So having a cell phone is valuable even then.

Part of my problem with the claims that cell phones are the problem is that the answer often seems to be a landline that you’re still available on. If you replace one phone with another, what’s the difference? This isn’t a sarcastic question, either. The differences are key.

No one worried about the impact of dumb cell phones on our kids. Maybe the texting was a bit annoying but that’s all. What really changed is smart phones, the Internet in your hand all the time. The doomscrolling Instagram or TikTok and completely disconnecting from the real world most of the time. The Facebook-type sites that enable anonymous bullying.

It’s important to understand what the actual problems are because abstaining from phones entirely is just not realistic. Possible? Yes. Realistic? No.
by osm3000 | 2025-11-09 21:27:30+00:00
I am learning Godot engine, going through the list of 20 games in order to build up my experience https://20_games_challenge.gitlab.io/

I am almost done with flappy bird (2nd challenge)

Why? I love the old arcade and game boy games, and I want to recreate them to my liking. I also love mechanical systems and space rovers, and I want ro build worlds to explore and simulate these things
by stared | 2025-11-09 21:27:33+00:00
As a very recent pet project (and pretty much work in progress), Equations Explained Colorfully (KaTeX + Markdown + TypeScript) https://github.com/stared/equations-explained-colorfully

Thinking on good export formats (except of taking screenshots and Pull Requests, obviosuly). LaTeX and Typst? A remark plugin?
by mrtnmcc | 2025-11-09 21:27:39+00:00
There are ten 640 MSPS ADCs (I+Q per channel and a cal path, per 4-antenna PCB tile). These are custom MASH ΣΔ designs built from discrete diff pair transistors (cost about $0.08 each) and do noise shaping/decimation to get a clean 50 MHz of baseband bandwidth. The 8x DACs are also ΣΔ, using the LVDS pins of the FPGA and some modulating DSP. Mixers are MAX2850/1, LNA are custom design based on Infineon transistor, and RFPA is a Skyworks part meant for WiFi (have iterated on a few model numbers).
by ac29 | 2025-11-09 21:27:39+00:00
> I’ve got issues with high blood pressure and swelling in the lower extremities

Edema in the lower legs is a relatively common side effect of some types of blood pressure medication. If you are on BP medication, talk to the prescribing doctor about it.

If you aren't on medication, you should discuss starting something with your doctor. High blood pressure is a risk factor for many things you dont want to happen and is very treatable. (Of course, the standard health advice to improve your diet and exercise more very much applies here as well).
by CodinM | 2025-11-09 21:28:02+00:00
A lot of things!

A law professionals helper - aggregates judicial case info into a single place, gives visibility and notifications - asistentul.ro

A scheduling platform for self-employed professionals that offer services (think hair-cutting, nails, psychlogists). (Not yet live)

Aaand something in compliance that I want to keep a bit stealthy right now.
by hananova | 2025-11-09 21:28:23+00:00
You must understand the difference between those two statements, I refuse to believe that you do not, so this response is more aimed toward people that might not realize what you’re doing here. There is a vast difference between “all” and “a lot of”.

To solve the “all” problem, none of those people need to be removed from the organization. It merely states that diversity is good. To solve the “a lot of” problem necessitates getting rid of those members.

This is fundamentally why one is discriminatory and the other is not.
by usrbinenv | 2025-11-09 21:28:45+00:00
Frontend framework in JavaScript that requires no build step, relies on DOM and SSR and can be used to build both SPA and hybrid apps without VDOM, js templates, hydration or putting HTML (or worse, css) inside JS code. It'll also have a very sophisticated declarative state manager which makes managing state and ui transitions a breeze. It's basically anti-React.
by sixtyj | 2025-11-09 21:29:01+00:00
For roller coasters there is a software for simulation. It is imho similar situation compared with balls in your Marble Fountain

https://www.nolimitscoaster.com/

First, I thought about Ansys or CATIA software but I couldn’t find any module specialized for simulation of balls.

But I think that people from those companies could help as well and participate in simulation as an interesting usecase. (These software are expensive for personal projects.)
by brudgers | 2025-11-09 21:29:10+00:00
Plumbing, HVAC and other skilled trades operate almost entirely B2B, not B2C. The very premise of this article is why that is the case...people who don't understand what is required, what is good, and how construction operates shopping solely on price with unreasonable expectations.

That $22k quote? That's how a company can pay for capacity during peak demand...i.e. paying skilled workers enough to make extra long hours with no expectation of repeat business worth the effort, paying suppliers enough to get priority access to inventory, and of course making it worth dealing with customer-is-always-right amateurs.

Uber operates by letting customers not give a shit about their drivers (and not giving a shit about them itself). In the world where people have reasonable options, relationships matter and relationships are non-fungible.
by YZF | 2025-11-09 21:29:11+00:00
Why are we comparing Fox News (aka "Crazy like Fox News" ;) ) with the BBC though? Compare CNN with Fox. I have to admit I'm not up to date on the latest in US media but at least CNN used to be non-stop bashing and misrepresentation just like Fox. Agenda has come before facts for US media for a long time and it's definitely not been one sided.
by poolnoodle | 2025-11-09 21:29:18+00:00
It's what hooked me on video editing as a kid. I then moved on to cracked Sony Vegas and eventually Premiere and After Effects. I made short films with my siblings and friends to try and recreate VFX that I had seen on YouTube channels like freddiew. The interest eventually died off a bit but I gained skills in video editing that I have to this day. Movie Maker made that happen for me :)
by isodev | 2025-11-09 21:29:25+00:00
> it was never "upgraded" to include male issues like these

Imagine women going through this extreme painful thing every month and the best we have is generic painkillers and stupid jokes about “the special day”. Do you know people petition their cities to remove traffic light installations for visually impaired people just because they don’t like the clicking noise?

It’s a cruel world friend. Unless you get a billionaire to care about your problem, it will take many years until there is interest and consensus to improve the situation.
by righthand | 2025-11-09 21:29:53+00:00
Feeding pigeons is a bad thing. For one the pigeons are not starving and you are over feeding them. The other issue is that you are training them to depend up humans for food. You are also aiding in creating unnaturally large pigeon populations since they are overfed.

Many places it is illegal to feed the birds. Media has created this stupid meme where people think it’s a hobby to over feed birds in cities.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-11-09 21:30:04+00:00
Working on https://ziva.sh/, an AI agent for game development. It uses MCP to integrate with Godot, a leading open source game engine.

It's coming together really nicely, targeting a beta release later this month. If anyone is interested in game development and wants to be a beta tester, lmk :)
by squidfunk | 2025-11-09 21:30:41+00:00
Excellent question. We're not using differential dataflow (DD), but are rolling our own differential runtime. It's basically functions stitched together with operators, heavily inspired by DD and RxJS, and is optimized for performance and ease of use. The decision to go from scratch allows us to provide something that, IMHO, is much simpler to work with than DD and Rx, as our goal is to allow an ecosystem to evolve, as MkDocs did as well. For this, the API needs to be as simple as possible, while ensuring DD semantics.

Right now, builds are not fast, since Python Markdown is our bottleneck. We decided to go this route to offer the best compatibility possible with the Material for MkDocs ecosystem, so users can switch easily. In the next 12 months, we'll be working on moving the rest of the code base gradually to Rust and entirely detaching from Python, which will make builds significantly faster. Rebuilds are already fast, due to the (still preliminary) caching we employ.

The differential runtime is called ZRX[1], which forms the foundation of Zensical.

[1]: https://github.com/zensical/zrx
by aswinmohanme | 2025-11-09 21:30:41+00:00
A modern QuickBooks, based on beancount, WorkBill (https://workbill.co). You can play with it at https://demo.workbill.co.

Unlike traditional accounting platforms we expose the ledger model directly which enables our customers to model complex transactions even when we do not have direct support for it.

Been working on this for a month, and it uses Elixir, Phoenix and InertiaJS with React.
by dcm360 | 2025-11-09 21:31:02+00:00
> A user may make a typo in the email, and that email might still be a valid email know to work (but for another, unrelated person).

That won't verify. The issuer should check if the request has valid session cookies for the e-mail-address that should be verified. This also implies that it just won't work for any service that uses sessions with a short timeout.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-09 21:31:33+00:00
Manabi Reader: Japanese learning through reading

https://reader.manabi.io

I recently added FSRS (besides also having Anki integration). Now I'm working on replacing the need for reviewing flashcards by having reading activity automatically mark flashcards (current and future) as reviewed, so that you can get many of your reviews in just by reading native materials that interest you instead of sacrificing most of your study time to contextless flashcard grind.

I'm also working on a manga mode using a new manga OCR tech I have licensed out of academia that is ahead of state of the art alternatives.

This project now sustains my full-time focus.
by ymyms | 2025-11-09 21:31:37+00:00
Building https://www.hessra.net/, an authorization system based on the Biscuit token format (decentralized, signed, and attenuable). The goal is to push beyond JWTs and Zanzibar-style policy engines by giving every machine-to-machine request its own embedded, verifiable authorization logic in a small capability token. These tokens can be delegated, restricted, and verified locally with no extra network calls required after getting the token.

Early use case is replacing API keys with identity tokens that expire, delegate, and prove possession and then can be used for easy step up to fine-grained authorization. There's some pretty interesting authorization stuff you can do, like having multiple parties sign off before a token is valid or requiring a series of micro-services sign a token for it to be valid.
by jabedude | 2025-11-09 21:31:45+00:00
A kernel extension-less sshfs for macOS. I tried using FSKit and got halfway before I felt too constrained by the extension security model (must be app sandboxed, must be approved by the user in system settings). Now it’s just a standalone command line binary that doesn’t require any special permissions since it proxies NFS to SFTP. Everything “just works” and performance is reasonable
by tikotus | 2025-11-09 21:31:53+00:00
I posted in this monthly thread first time in May when I launched a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. Since then it's grown significantly, and I couldn't be happier!

The game has a farily simple frontend, but there is a fairly complex constraint solving algorithm as part of the puzzle making process. What makes the puzzle quite unique is that you can't "guess". You can only make guesses that are provable by logic. The algorithm ensuring this has worked flawlessly for months now (though I've manually inserted some silly mistakes once or twice).

Today's puzzle is one of the hardest to date. The difficulty resets on Mondays, and then gets harder again towards Sunday.

https://cluesbysam.com
by bobnarizes | 2025-11-09 21:31:55+00:00
Building https://floxtop.com/, a Mac app that organizes your files and images.

It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then moves it to the right folder with a single click. Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers.

It already works with images, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) PDFs, ePubs, text, Markdown, and many other file types (30+) in English. Next I’m adding multi-language support.

If you have messy folders anywhere on your Mac, Floxtop can help.

Try it for free - requires macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/download/1....
Ask HN: Anything to be done with lost Time Machine backup password?
by jmhammond | 2025-11-09 21:32:04+00:00
My wife's macbook air was destroyed due to a watery-incident, and it turns out that the Time Machine password isn't anything that we can think of.

The computer was sent off to Apple for applecare+ repair, but when we got it back, the key is no longer in Keychain Access. It's gone.

Some of my students are cybersecurity majors, and they're doing a "class project" trying to crack in during downtime on our university's super computer.

Outside of just being bummed at losing 2 years of content, is there anything to be done that I haven't thought of?

Many thanks!
by thayne | 2025-11-09 21:32:27+00:00
> This protocol solves a pretty contrived problem ("By sending the email verification code, the inbox provider knows the user is using that service!")

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I think the main motivation is actually trying to reduce friction for the user to verify their email, which is good for the user, because it makes registration easier, and good for the company, because less users bounce at the email registration step.

But yeah, this is quite complicated, and there isn't a lot of motivation for email providers to implement it.