MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnjames87 | 2025-11-11 13:23:26+00:00
> Until all other short-haul airlines copy them

Like it or not, we live in a market economy with market competition. There are new airlines every year. In 2022 there was a net increase of 13 airlines in europe alone. If people want paper boarding passes, some competitor will give it to them. Always been like that in market economies, and socialists will keep fearmongering about "what one company does" like its the end of the world.
Show HN: Venturu – Zillow for the market of local businesses
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 13:24:31+00:00
Hey HN, Joel here, co-founder of Venturu.

Imagine trying to buy a house before Zillow. That’s what buying a local business is like today. It's a massive market, but it's completely fragmented and stuck in the 90s.

My co-founder, Luis, discovered this firsthand by knocking on doors to buy six of his own businesses. I saw it at industry conferences, where at 29, I’m usually the youngest person in the room. The system is built on gatekept information and a wall of fees designed to keep people out.

For a small business owner, it starts with a gut punch: you have to pay thousands of dollars just to get an idea of what your life's work is worth. Then, you face thousands more in listing fees just to get it seen on an outdated platform.

This broken model forces brokers to be gatekeepers. The high costs mean they can only list a fraction of their clients' businesses, hiding the rest on thousands of separate, clunky websites.

We’re trying to fix this by building the single, open, and free platform this market needs. We got rid of the scary upfront fees by offering free, instant valuations, and unlocked the hidden market by making all listings free.

It’s one place for owners, buyers, and brokers to finally connect efficiently.

It seems to be working. We’ve welcomed over 1,300 brokers who have listed 3,800+ businesses across all 50 states.

It's still early days, but our goal is to build this into the definitive marketplace for local businesses, creating the first real source of truth for valuations and making the entire process, from discovery to closing, more straightforward.

We’re building in the open and would love your feedback. Ask us anything.
by lavren1974 | 2025-11-11 13:24:35+00:00
No, not yet. Right now it's a tournament where Stockfish plays against itself from different starting positions — each of the 960 white setups will play against each of the 960 black setups (a full tournament will consist of 921,600 games). This is an experiment to understand which starting positions are most balanced. In about a week, online play will be available, where each player can create their own starting position (it's almost ready, just waiting for my day off).
by styanax | 2025-11-11 13:24:53+00:00
> The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG

Tangent, a friend and I started using Delta Chat with a chatmail relay and it's incredibly friendly to get started, and hides the fact GPG tech is being used from the user; one can export a bundle of the key data as needed and easily copy the key profile to a second device over local wifi (I was impressed at how smooth it was).

Not that I've kept track, but Delta Chat's UX is probably the first easy, no-nonsense implementation of using GPG tech as a foundation but keeping it away from the user experience I've encountered (and liked). It has it's pain points but I mean it just works and my buddy and I chat all day over it using a public relay.
by maybe_next_day | 2025-11-11 13:26:04+00:00
I couldn't find a simple, efficient, and good zip viewer for macOS that just worked the way I wanted, so I built one.

Grizzly is a native macOS app for browsing ZIP archives without extracting them. It uses a memory-efficient architecture that only loads metadata, so it handles large archives (GB+) smoothly.

Key features: • Quick Look preview (spacebar) - preview files without extracting • Memory-efficient - only loads zip metadata, not the entire archive • Streaming extraction with async/await • Full keyboard navigation with Finder-like shortcuts • Multi-selection (Cmd+Click, Shift+Click) • Recursive search across all folders • Drag & drop support Built entirely with SwiftUI for macOS 14+. The architecture uses @MainActor for state management and processes large archives in chunks (1000 entries at a time) to stay responsive. Open source (MIT). You can build it with just `swift build && swift run` or download the DMG from releases. Happy to answer any questions about the implementation!
by macintux | 2025-11-11 13:26:30+00:00
I discovered Erlang from Bruce Tate's book[0] and it was such an obviously pragmatic and interesting language that I started participating in the Twitter Erlang community, discovered Basho was using it for Riak and looking for a tech evangelist in the Midwest, and thus began my all-time favorite job.

I'm still more of a infrastructure guy than a software developer, but working with such incredibly smart people was a delight. Basho was good at hiring people who could learn Erlang (and, perhaps unsurprisingly, was almost entirely remote).

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-...
by Rochus | 2025-11-11 13:26:57+00:00
The article criticizes AI-generated music and argues the music industry is legitimizing artificial content at the expense of real artists.

But who and what are "real artists"? Much of the boring BS (i.e. "slop") the record monopolists serve us on the charts via Spotify etc. composed and played by "real musicians" is so monotonous, standardized, and superficial that it hardly requires real musicians, and I certainly wouldn't call these creators "real artists."

For me, true artists are not only people who have mastered their craft to perfection, but those who advance culture and humanity and create new things that the world has never seen before, and which therefore often do not appeal to the masses. It's a joke anyway, considering that most of today's popular artists don't even have to compose, arrange or play "their own" music anymore; there are even prominent cases where the "artists" move their lips, but someone else is actually singing. So we cannot even be sure, who actually is the real artist.

Ironically, as a musician myself (used to be a professional musician and producer twenty years ago, still making music), I find the arrangements and solos that Suno has generated from my uploaded pieces much more creative and even "human" than most of the stuff that the record monopolists serve up these days (see e.g. https://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1428).

In my view, the real danger is not so much that AI music will become "legitimate" (most people can no longer distinguish between human and machine-generated music anyway), but rather that the record monopolists, with their market power achieved through lobbying and other shady practices, will crush innovative companies like Suno (ironically, ostensibly in the name of the musicians whose exploitation enabled them to gain this power in the first place) and then use this technology themselves to improve their margins even further by eliminating other cost factors such as composers and studio musicians. Since more and more people are consuming anonymous playlists without ever caring about the musicians who made the songs, nobody will notice. But they will continue to pay for their Spotify subscription, most of which will continue to go to the record monopolists.

(originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876674)
by davidalayachew | 2025-11-11 13:27:15+00:00
Isn't the entire point of "reinventing the wheel" to address this exact problem?

This is one of the tradeoffs of maintaining backwards compatibility and stewardship -- you are required to keep track of each "cause" of that backwards compatibility. And since the number of "causes" can quickly become enumerable, that's usually what prompts people to reinvent the wheel.

And when I say reinvent the wheel, I am NOT describing what is effectively a software port. I am talking about going back to ground zero, and building the framework from the ground up, considering ONLY the needs of the task at hand. It's the most effective way to prune these needless requirements.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 13:27:22+00:00
> I'm sure they'd love to drop Windows as-is,

Sure, but developing both Win32/Linux and GNU/NT, means they would not get rid of anything. They need to keep the userspace API, so maybe they would favor Win32/Linux over GNU/NT. But then why should they get rid of the kernel, which is the least of their problems, isn't held back by API compatibility, is widely praised for its quality and supports a lot of things, which userspace doesn't. (fork, symlinks, etc.) What is the benefit of Win32/Linux over Win32/NT for Microsoft?

The alternative doesn't make sense either. There is no point in integrating their kernel into a different OS, when the result only is a different flavor of that OS. Why should anyone use GNU/NT over GNU/Linux, when it's still incompatible with all Windows software?

They could massively invest into Wine or an alternative and maybe also implement a shim for kernel modules. Or there could open-source Win32 and wait for it to merge with Wine, so that Win32/Linux becomes viable. Lastly they could spin off Windows OS into its own company and it would become just one of their targets for their software. This would likely also improve Windows, as the OS' main problem is forcing ads and bloatware into it. But why would Microsoft allow that?

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Arguable GNU/NT already exists with MSYS2/Cygwin. What they are missing is an OS package manager, integration into the user/process/permission system, a registry shim and a way to force random program installers to install into the FHS.
by tensility | 2025-11-11 13:27:37+00:00
Meanwhile, can I have multi-message selection back in (iPad) Mail? Whoever decided to axe that feature apparently has a spam-free inbox.

This company has become such a joke. Maybe Apple should start being concerned about building computers that Just Work well again rather than continuing to flounder after Cook's obsession with bad fashion.

I suppose the underlying message here is that, if you can no longer innovate, shill overpriced purses instead.
by lgyarmati | 2025-11-11 13:27:45+00:00
I built this because I wanted to visualize my travel photos geographically without uploading them anywhere.

Tech: Vanilla JS, Leaflet.js, client-side EXIF parsing, Nominatim geocoding, Service Worker for offline. No backend, no upload, no tracking. Everything stays in your browser. Would love feedback from the HN community!
by rbatiati | 2025-11-11 13:28:02+00:00
Hi! Rafael from TigerBeetle here!

> One way to keep those faster speeds in Tigerbeetle for real-time workloads is microbatching incoming real-time transactions to Tigerbeetle at an interval of every second or lower, to take advantage of Tigerbeetle's blazing fast batch processing speeds.

We don’t recommend artificially holding transfers just for batching purposes. René actually had to implement a batching worker API to work around a limitation in Python’s FastAPI, which handled requests per process, and he’s been very clear in suggesting that such would be better reimplemented in Go.

Unlike most connection-oriented database clients, the TigerBeetle client doesn’t use a connection pool, because there’s no concept of a “connection” in TigerBeetle’s VSR protocol.

This means that, although you can create multiple client instances, in practice less is better. You should have a single long-lived client instance per process, shared across tasks, coroutines, or threads (think of a web server handling many concurrent requests).

In such a scenario, the client can efficiently pack multiple events into the same request, while your application logic focuses solely on business-event-oriented chains of transfers. Typically, each business event involves only a handful of transfers, which isn't a problem of underutilization, as they'll be submitted together with other concurrent events as soon as possible.

However, if you’re dealing with a non-concurrent workload, for example, a batch process that bills thousands of customers for their monthly invoices, then you can simply submit all transfers at once.
by lysace | 2025-11-11 13:28:25+00:00
From the first two of your cherrypicks' web pages:

I am committed to [...] the broader decolonisation of cognitive and computational sciences. My research interests comprise (meta)theoretical, critical, and radical perspectives on the neuro-, computational, and cognitive sciences broadly construed.

and

Central to my research is challenging and dismantling societal and historical inequalities and power asymmetries; holding responsible bodies accountable; and paving the way for a future marked by just and equitable AI systems that work for all.

Notice a theme?
by voodooEntity | 2025-11-11 13:28:35+00:00
So i just tried this on 2 repositories.

1. On (https://github.com/voodooEntity/gits) -> https://deepwiki.com/voodooEntity/gits

This is a longterm golang project i work on and it has a very very detailed documentation already.

While going through the AI docs of deepwiki, i could see how it profitted from my existing documentation, most stuff is just different words same content. What i liked about it was the visualisations (even if some of them are well "special") it shows some insides in workflows that i have in my mind but might give a benefit to others not beein the author

While trying out the search/chat i have to admit it gave better answers than i expected.

Due to having a very fond knowledge of how to do stuff efficiently with the lib, i tested the chat on telling me whats the most efficient way to achieve XYZ. While it listed me all possibilities (all of them correct) it also correctly pointed out whats the most "efficient" way.

Also i gave it some question that, i know from experience when others first tried the lib, could be confusing. But it was resolved correctly.

Allover a pleasant result

2. On (github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade/) -> https://deepwiki.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade/

For those who dont know , CnC Renegade is a very old game (~2000) which was coded by the original Westwood. Its mainly in C++ (some c) and a through and through plain code. There is no real documentation in the repo other than some base info for dependencies etc.

First of all i saw that the resulting documentation well.... lacked documentation i guess? It just in multiple pages explaind whats in the main Readme (which is not really alot). So from the "docs generating" perspective, no gain here.

Than i tried to chat with it about it - and it seemed like it has a basic understanding of the code. For me its harder to validate the results (tbh i only read over the code once when it was released - curiosity) but it seemed like it was no total loss.

Conclusion: To me it seems like, to get a very good basic documentation out of it, it already must have a good basic documentation. Apart from the graphics it added, i didn't really see a gain compared to the already existing documentation.

Based on the chat results i'd say, those might be decent and helpfull if you dig into a new codebase especially a more complex one and you are searching for a specific thing in 1000s of loc in multiple files.

Would i use it in the future? Ill maybe try, but only the chat feature - for the generated docs as elaborated i don't see any use.
by entropie | 2025-11-11 13:29:53+00:00
> Eg I tried to install linux and windows to some brand new hardware couple of years ago,

I realized this too. I recently installed a dual boot Fedora/Win11. The fedora installation was literally pressing 4 times "Next" and was done after 5 minutes.

Windows took well over 1 hour (offline account) and installing drivers and taming edge & co was over 2 hours at the end.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 13:30:09+00:00
> This is comical because we used to have something called the turing test

It didn't go anywhere.

> which we considered our test of human-level intelligence.

No, this is a strawman. Turing explicitly posits that the question "can machines think?" is ill-posed in the first place, and proposes the "imitation game" as something that can be studied meaningfully — without ascribing to it the sort of meaning commonly described in these arguments.

More precisely:

> The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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> We never talk about it now because we obviously blew past it years ago.

No. We talk about it constantly, because AI proponents keep bringing it up fallaciously. Nothing like "obviously blowing past it years ago" actually happened; cited examples look nothing like the test actually described in Turing's paper. But this is still beside the point

> There are some interesting ways in which AI remains inferior to human intelligence but it is also obviously already superior in many ways already.

Computers were already obviously superior to humans in, for example, arithmetic, decades ago.

> It remains remarkable to me how common denial is when it comes to what AI can or cannot actually do.

It is not "denial" to point out your factual inaccuracies.
by 1317 | 2025-11-11 13:30:20+00:00
I tried it with my repo, it was impressive at first

but then as i kept going along it just got tiring, it kept calling everything sophisticated even when it wasn't

it's the same as all the other AI slop, it's really impressive the first time you see it

and then you keep seeing it and get tired of its patterns of speech etc and oh it's just making up nonsense

and now the ai slop "documentation" is up on the public internet for all to see with no way for me to remove it :)
by al_borland | 2025-11-11 13:30:38+00:00
I was really hoping the 'iPhone Pocket' would be an iPhone that actually fits in one's pocket. Instead it's an awkward pocket you wear over your shoulder, because the phone is too big to fit in the pocket of normal pants.

Once again Apple is trying to solve problems created from making phones too big.

I'm not sure who the market is for this, other than Apple collectors.
by oblio | 2025-11-11 13:30:48+00:00
We already have this in the physical world.

Plastic/synthetics are the slop of the physical world. They're a side product of extracting oil and gas so they're extremely cheap.

Yet if you look at synthetics by volume, probably 99% of them are used just because they're cheaper than the natural alternative. Yes, some have characteristics that are novel, but by and large everything we do with plastics is ultimately based on "they're cheaper".

Plastics, unfortunately, aren't going away.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-11-11 13:31:52+00:00
This does look like a gag to me too, but 3D knitting technology is interesting. I have a pair of carbon-plate marathon race shoes made with 3D knitting. They're very light and very comfortable, with stretch in some axes and stiffness in others as needed, no seams but form-fit around my foot in compound curves.

Instead of making the thing out of 2D pieces of fabric, even stretchy knit fabric, and sewing those planar shapes together into something 3D, they made this as one continuous knit object that adds and drops stitches to give it shape without seams. The machines and programs that manipulate the yarn and partial garments, tying knots at crazy speeds to create something 3-dimensional out of something 1-dimensional, are just astonishing. Equally astonishing is the fact that with two sticks and their hands, it's not that challenging for a human knitter to do the same. I think that "knit a sock" is one of the most challenging tasks to give a humanoid robot.
by balksi | 2025-11-11 13:32:08+00:00
I am working on yet another news aggregator: newsmuncher.com

So far i've got the scraping and embeddings / similarity clustering down (to build timelines of news stories), lots of data cleaning and UI refinement required. I find it hard to make choices, maybe I need a cofounder who can pair up with me. Looking to either monetize news data or build a news analysis / intelligence platform.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-11 13:32:11+00:00
> Industries that cant comply to modern standards should be harmed.

Those "modern standards" need to be codified into law, and feedback from established companies is valuable for doing that.

> We dont need industries willing to pay lobbyists to keep fossil fuels alive for example.

Those lobbyists represent the interests of a good portion of the economy. If you disregard their feedback, your risk damaging/destabilizing your economy for unclear gain, and the resulting backlash is going to more than undo any progress you made anyway.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-11-11 13:33:18+00:00
> Mouse-driven tools like VS Code don't demand that the user learns them.

Honestly, I found the barrier to entry way lower with lazygit than with vscode.

I realise I'm not adding anything useful to this discussion. I tried to start VSCode so that I could evaluate it and, maybe, add some info. as to why I find it more difficult to get into, but it just crashes now :shrug:
by davrosthedalek | 2025-11-11 13:33:31+00:00
Fewer absolute or relative? If you scale down your search space... This only makes some kind of sense if your step size is fixed. While I agree with another poster that a reduction of a creative process to gradient descent is not wise, the article also misses the point what makes such a gradient descent hard -- it's not sharp peaks, it's the flat area around them -- and the presence of local minima.
by apples_oranges | 2025-11-11 13:33:37+00:00
I think originally the EU was conceived as a peace project and it succeeded so far in that. Some do not like how it evolves, some want the benefits of the market but not the rules that come with it. Ok, but at least nowadays the EU is promising more than just the market, for instance democratic standards, health regulation, social cohesion, addressing climate change.

I think it's not fair to pick the one thing that appeals to some group and say, this was their mission and they've lost track of what they exist for. I do not think this was ever the case and certainly isn't the case now.
by ibizaman | 2025-11-11 13:34:40+00:00
For sure, the hardest part is to create meaningful generators for the problem at hand which can test interesting cases in a finite amount of time. That’s where the combinatory explosion takes place in my experience.

I wanted to highlight one unexpected but very welcomed side effect of having those stateful property tests is we could use them to design high fidelity stubs. I wrote a follow-up blog post about it https://blog.tiserbox.com/posts/2024-07-08-make-good-stubs-w...
by randallsquared | 2025-11-11 13:34:47+00:00
There are two observations I've seen in practice with decision documents: the first is that people want to consume the bare minimum before getting started, so such docs have to be very carefully written to surface the most important decision(s) early, or otherwise call them out for quick access. This often gets lost as word count grows and becomes a metric.

The second is that excitement typically falls with each iteration, even while everyone agrees that each is better than the previous. Excitement follows more strongly from newness than rightness.