MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryukoposting | 2025-11-03 13:27:42+00:00
Ah, there are so many things about the Great Lakes that people who aren't from around here don't realize.

Here's the simplest one: They're really, really big. The sights and sounds are indistinguishable from an ocean. The only obvious distinction is that it doesn't smell salty.

And, yeah, the damn carp. Electro fishing is the best way we have to handle them, and it supposedly works very well. Carp like to hang around the surface, while many native species swim much deeper in the water, so the electric fences actually filter for the carp pretty well.

Recreational fishing gets rid of some of them too, but there are several different species that we collectively call "asian carp," and only some of them bite on fishing lures. Eat more carp, I suppose.
by PessimalDecimal | 2025-11-03 13:28:10+00:00
Lisp was the first to have first-class functions and garbage collection which have become common language features by now. But it also has many features that still are not widespread. Its metaprogramming is unparalleled, especially reader macros. A lot of its power comes from that. Rust macros and C++26 compile time reflection are steps in the right direction but still nowhere near what Lisp offers. Java's Project Babylon is also cool but not in the same ballpark.

When doing joint debugging with teammates, I've seen so many of them randomly add or remove & and * from C++ statements trying to get their code to compile, without bothering to reason through the issue. I suspect this stochastic approach to code development is pretty common. That is not going to unlock the benefits of metaprogramming either, where you have to deliberately build up the language you want to have.

Metaprogramming is extremely powerful but hard to use, especially for novices. I also think there is a general lack of education about programming languages and compilers at play here. So much of Lisps power comes from knowing that.
by foofoo12 | 2025-11-03 13:28:18+00:00
> wouldn't want a partner that mainly chose them because they have money

That type of partner is commonly referred to as a gold digger. It's very rare that gold digger will tell you the honest reason why they're with you.

It does happen though. There's an extremely high profile couple in the US. She was asked in an TV interview if she'd be with him if he wasn't this rich. She responded "do you think he'd be with me if I wasn't this pretty?". Brutally honest I tell you.
by jcattle | 2025-11-03 13:28:23+00:00
> Now, I believe two wrongs don't make a right, but clearly democrats aren't innocent angels in the politics game, but are using every dirty trick in in the book and outside the book to upset the election results while playing the victims.

This is exactly what I am talking about. Trump is right now shifting what is within a Presidents power. He is eroding the checks and balances which were set up to keep we the people in power, not a foreign government or a single person ruling in their own interest; We the People. And as you say, even if there is an orderly transfer of power, I do not see the state of the US democracy changing afterwards. You now have a position which is more powerful than ever, and a single person can do more than ever to bend the people to their will. Why consider other positions and opinions of your People, when you can just send the Army to silence them?

Doesn't matter if they wear a blue tie or a red tie.
Show HN: I vibecoded an app that guesses how long you can last in bed
by arghya1 | 2025-11-03 13:28:31+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a sexologist, and over the years I’ve noticed most men who think they have performance issues actually just have poor lifestyle habits — bad sleep, poor diet, heavy stress, no exercise, etc.

When you improve your lifestyle, your stamina naturally improves.

So I made this app to promote healthy lifestyle habits among men — in a funny way.
by Timshel | 2025-11-03 13:29:13+00:00
Not necessarily, cf: https://lammotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/YASA-400R.jp...

From https://lammotor.com/yasa-axial-flux-motor/

the shape is due to the change to the motor layout: https://www.thedrive.com/news/why-axial-flux-motors-are-a-bi...
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-03 13:29:34+00:00
Casual hangs are definitely fun, but there's also a lot of fun to being at a bigger "party" or "event."

It's everything from the organization of the space and the flow of people during the night, to the mix of invitees, to possibly having some kind of gimmick there for people to connect over and for the shy people who need some social lubricant (like palm readers, a caricature artist, etc), to the music, to the decor, to the food, to people hired to help pass out the food, to the theme / dress, to the interlude that brings people together (like a vote / contest)...

When done well, it looks effortless, and it can be really fun to attend!
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-03 13:30:05+00:00
It's cool, but I think deploying motors without rare earth materials will be more impactful. The Nissan Ariya was ill-fated for other reasons, but it had a EESM motor that is easier to cool, more efficient at speed, and cheaper. That's where motor tech is headed. Power density just isn't terribly important in current applications, at least not past current sota.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-03 13:30:16+00:00
we have different culutures but Americans also have decades of media exposure to inform them on what an "American party" is. Especially if you grew up in the late 80's/90's where "party" was a literal genere of movie to subscribe to.

Now of course, media doesn't reflect reality. But it can certainly homogenize sentiment.
by TulioKBR | 2025-11-03 13:30:27+00:00
Great question - I'll be direct.

It's not that Gemini & Sonnet are excluded. They're architecture-ready (we built the abstraction layer), but they're *not in v1 for 3 hard technical reasons:*

*1. Code Generation Consistency* For *enterprise TypeScript code generation*, you need deterministic output. Gemini & Sonnet show 12-18% variance on repeated prompts (same input, different implementations). Perplexity + Claude stabilize at 3-5%, Groq at 2%. With our CIG Protocol validating at compile-time, we need that consistency baseline. Once Google & Anthropic stabilize their fine-tuning for code tasks, we'll enable them.

*2. Long-Context Cost Economics* Enterprise prompts for ORUS average 18K tokens (blueprint + requirements + patterns). At current pricing: - Perplexity: $3/1M input tokens (~$0.054 per generation) - Claude 3.5: $3/1M input (~$0.054 per generation) - Groq: $0.05/1M input (~$0.0009 per generation) - Gemini 2.0 Flash: pricing TBA, likely $0.075/1M - Sonnet 4.5: $3/1M (~$0.054)

For customers running 100 generations daily, the margin between Groq + Perplexity vs Gemini/Sonnet = $50-100/month difference. We *can't ignore cost* when targeting startups.

*3. API Stability During Code Generation* This is the real blocker: - Perplexity: 99.8% uptime, code-optimized endpoints - Claude: 99.7% uptime, fine-tuning controls - Groq: 99.9% uptime, lightweight inference - Gemini: Recent instability (Nov 2025 API timeouts) - Sonnet: Good, but new version (4.5) still stabilizing

When generating production code, a timeout mid-stream = corrupted output. We can't ship that in v1.

*Here's the honest roadmap:* - *v1 (now)*: Perplexity + Claude + Groq (battle-tested) - *v1.2 (Jan 2026)*: Gemini 2.0 (when pricing finalizes & API stabilizes) - *v1.3 (Feb 2026)*: Sonnet 4.5 (fine-tuning for code generation confirmed) - *v2 (Q2 2026)*: All models with fallback switching (if one fails, auto-retry on another)

*Why be conservative in v1?* We have 400+ enterprise users waiting for open-source release. One corrupted generation costs us 5+ years of credibility. Better to add models post-launch when we have production telemetry.

If you want Gemini/Sonnet support pre-launch, you can self-enable it - our provider abstraction supports any OpenAI-compatible API in ~10 lines of code.
by Zenst | 2025-11-03 13:31:39+00:00
That's a future thought when it comes to electric aircraft - remote/emergency refuelling. I know they have tested lasers, and even sent a megawatt in 30 seconds over a distance of a few miles, though current convention of the laser back into usable power is around 50% efficiency. All gets down to a needed leap in electricity production and wished the World would get together on fusion reactors and knock it out the park over a mad race to be the first and lock down patents.
by agurk | 2025-11-03 13:32:04+00:00
You may be thinking of a different film, as all the cast members listed on wikipedia[0] are stated to have died after 1945.

The trivia section of the German wiki page of the same film says there's a disputed rumour that the film was prolonged to help the young extras avoid conscription.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Feuerzangenbowle_(1944_fil...
by gambiting | 2025-11-03 13:32:16+00:00
I just want to add here - I personally feel like an entire generation of people got absolutely betrayed by the government and put into unpayable debt just to go into university and no one really cared. If this happened in France, Paris would be on fire(well, more so than it usually is).

And what I mean by this - when I finished uni I had £12k debt, which I paid off after about 10 years of working, and it was on about 1% interest that entire time. In contrast, my sister who finished university few years after me, has around £50k of student loan debt. And that loan is now on.....7% interest? It's insane. She is working full time and her payments are not even covering that interest, or barely cover it - she will never pay that loan off, it will eventually get written off. It's a constant 10% tax on all of her earnings, for 25 years(I think it's 30 now? or 35?) - except that this tax doesn't even go to the treasury.
by hwillis | 2025-11-03 13:33:04+00:00
Axial flux motors are difficult and expensive to make.

Motors need to be made of laminated steel sheets to reduce parasitic eddy currents. The laminations need to be thin in the direction of the direction of the flux. For radial flux motors you just punch out a shape and stack a bunch of sheets up. For axial flux you have to wind a strip: https://15658757.s21i.faiusr.com/2/ABUIABACGAAgmviFqAYozvPw-...

Each layer of that strip has a different cut in it, so its much more complicated to make. The shape and manufacturing method typically impacts efficiency; YASA avoids that by spending more money. Efficiency is an unavoidable requirement of high power density- heat is the limiting factor, and going from 98% to 96% efficient means double the heat.

The mechanical demands on the motor are also much higher- radial flux is balanced since the magnetic force pulls the rotor from opposite sides. Axial flux motors are usually one-sided, so the magnets are trying to pull the rotor and stator together with incredible force. That also makes vibrations worse. Extremely strong, expensive bearings are required to handle it. With permanent magnet rotors you need a jig to lower the rotor into place; they can't be assembled by hand. That also makes maintenance more difficult and expensive.
Ask HN: Open-source AI generated project
by kameit00 | 2025-11-03 13:33:50+00:00
If you use one of the tools like Claude Code / OpenAI Codes, these could be trained on copyrighted Code.

If I use one of these tools to make an app/plugin/..., do you think there will be legal problems if the code included was partially from commercial projects, that the LLM was trained on?

Codex once created PHP code, where in the generated code I could see a Copyright notice of another company - as if it was trained - in this case - on a commercial Magento 2 Module.
by rwmj | 2025-11-03 13:34:36+00:00
Firstly we don't factually know if it's a bubble. Maybe there's some beyond LLM breakthrough and everything turns out right? Even if it's a bubble, we've no idea how long it has to run. Could all burst tomorrow, could be in a few years. In some scenarios you're going to miss a lot of growth by exiting the market now.
by rahen | 2025-11-03 13:34:43+00:00
> Basically what he said was that lisp ended up not working well for larger software projects with 5 or more people on them

I don’t think "doesn’t work for teams of 5+" is a fair generalization. There are production Clojure and Emacs (Lisp) codebases with far more contributors than that.

Language adoption is driven less by inherent team-size limits and more by social and practical factors. Some students probably don't like Lisp because most people naturally think in imperative/procedural terms. SCIP was doing a great job teaching functional and symbolic approaches, I wish they hadn't shifted their courses to Python, since that increases the gravitational pull toward cognitive standardization.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-03 13:34:46+00:00
I guess if you can make the motor and a suitable reduction box lighter than the equivalent bearing and driveshaft combination you could make the suspension arms mechanically simpler.

By using motors at each wheel you'd eliminate the need for a differential, saving a good 40-50kg or so. Of course, if you kept the drive shafts and put the motor and reduction box in the middle, you'd be able to use inboard brakes and save a lot of unsprung weight!
by DrScientist | 2025-11-03 13:35:11+00:00
It compounds. If you have a lighter more efficient motor you need a smaller battery for the same range, that combined weight loss means you meed lighter brakes etc etc, and because the car is now lighter you size of your motor you need is less.....

They claim, this compounding effect works out to basically double the effective weight saving from battery and motor.

ie if you start with saving 50kg on motor, and 50kg on battery, you end up saving 200kg over all. Still only about 10% of a typical electric car.

https://youtu.be/3qjB6GnhloY?si=yqlz7Evuyf5VaghO&t=446
by hnbad | 2025-11-03 13:36:44+00:00
Sure but "not a regular criminal" is a much broader group than you make it out to be.

Remember the CIA was also the primary actor involved in the US's overseas bombing attacks, especially outside active war zones. Sure, a lot of the bombings targeted "terrorists" but that designation is ultimately arbitrary - especially if we're talking about people being killed in bombings of civilian areas that usually came with a lot of collateral damage (especially if you don't use the assumption that anyone who may have been a teenage or adult male is an enemy combatant), a practice that we would identify as "terrorism" if carried out by any hostile regime.

He doesn't seem to have big enough of a target on his back to justify outright exploding him but that doesn't mean he's considered a "regular criminal" or that the CIA wasn't involved.

That said, Occam's razor suggests it didn't require CIA involvement to catch him - he may just have been careless and unlucky.
by lazide | 2025-11-03 13:37:06+00:00
The public health department doesn’t concern itself with things like national defense, if skyscrapers are likely to fall over or not, and local gang violence. Those have their own specialities.

Otherwise, literally everything is a ‘health issue’, including agriculture and commercial/residential zoning.

And notably, no one has actually provided any examples of where any of these are actually in major cities. Because it’s absurd, hah.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-03 13:37:50+00:00
I'm a pretty introverted guy, so feel free to correct me here, but:

I fail to see how orgies and social gatherings have much correlation. The kind of people who are engaged enough to attend an orgy probably have entirely different dynamics, boundaries, and safeties to establish than the ritual of getting casual people to even show up at the door.
by jzellis | 2025-11-03 13:38:04+00:00
I keep an entire electronics toolbench in one of those two layer travel cable organizers. I've got a Pinecil, flat metal folding stand, a 3D printed wire holder, a magnifying stand with three long Doc-Ock style helping hands, a box of six different color 22AWG wire, calipers, solder, a flux pen, three kinds of gripping tweezers, and an incredibly useful simple non-mechanical 3D printed round vise with different wedge-shaped parts to mix and match to hold stuff, a silicone workmat with molded screw trays, wire cutters, and a small flat cutting mat with a grid and ruler on it. I throw it in my backpack with a big ass Anker power brick that can power the Pinecil easily and a project box of whatever I'm currently dicking around with and go to my local cafe and do all my soldering at an outside table like a big ol nerd. It's all verrrrry tightly put in the case but it's still easy to carry, if not light.

(I have another identical one for all of my little Pi cyberdecks I like to build, the small touchscreen I use with them on the go, and various cables and adapters.)

But I just ordered one of these bags to put my actual tools in - screwdriver set, another wirecutter, the tiny adjustable wrench I got from Temu, my multitool, etc.

I have an entire low rent electronics/fabrication/3D printing/woodworking workshop mostly of Marketplace finds, but I dig being able to just throw this stuff in my old Boblbee backpack and go sit in the park and do nerd stuff. :D <3
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-03 13:38:14+00:00
Speculation: Google has a moderate amount of “core” applications that are clearly getting indefinite support, but all of those services also have a very conservative feature and update roadmap. New features are going to be limited to things that alphabet has in its global focus, so crap like Gemini and not much else.

I’m sure engineers working on products like the google web suite would love to implement this kind of thing but have zero authorization or resources for that.

Experimental applications, the ones that bloom rapidly and get shut down in a cycle that google has become known for, are ironically way more likely to see this kind of cool niche update.

Twisted company has a whacky way of managing their products, because advertisement drives their revenue so everything else is just freestyle jazz.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-03 13:38:25+00:00
If I know it's a bubble, what's the risk in waiting?

As long as it could still be far worse to not take a risk, then it's not actually a bubble, right? It's just an early investment. If I have to do something now, to not fall off the track, then the space might not be super clear right now but clearly still on track (because otherwise the correct strategy is waiting for the bubble to burst and maybe then invest).

Or maybe we are just really unclear about what "bubble" actually implies. To me it's the point at which a lot of people have invested a lot of money into something, that will be worth less, than that total amount of money. Is that wrong?
by infecto | 2025-11-03 13:38:27+00:00
I use ChatGPTs quite often. I can send it a loaded question and it helps tease out sources and usually at the very least scrapes away some of the nuance. I have used it a lot for finding a list of a type of products too. Taking the top n search results is already pretty useful for me but I find it typically is a little more in depth than that, going down a few rabbit holes of search depending on the topic. It does not eliminate doing your own research but it helps consolidate some of the initial information.

Then I can further interrogate the information returned with a vanilla LLM.
by ryandvm | 2025-11-03 13:38:31+00:00
Man, I just want to point out how different programming has become in 2 years.

We are literally having to play mind games with our tooling now to convince and coax it into doing certain things. I swear we are not far off from having to call in sick to work because your LLM "is going through a lot right now and just needs a mental health break".
by frontbackgeek | 2025-11-03 13:39:39+00:00
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made it clear that the company’s financial position is stronger than what most reports suggest. During a November 1 appearance on the BG2 podcast alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Altman confirmed that OpenAI’s annual revenue now exceeds $13 billion — and “well more” than the widely circulated figure.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-03 13:40:59+00:00
I actually think the last point isn’t exactly true. I mean certainly in aggregate, but not at the margins. If the new tech billionaire elite just want to get to space, then they just need enough people to mine a some minerals and metal and make their space ships. If you control all the AI bots you can make money that way.

Kinda the point being, a small number of companies could control all the resources and a few of the people and be rich that way. Yes you’re right, maybe the Walton’s and the other families who made their money on people having money won’t go away, but in theory you could have a group of super rich people just giving money to each other to build space ships and nuclear power plants and the like.
by int_19h | 2025-11-03 13:41:44+00:00
You are describing limitations on sandboxed UWP apps, but Windows still supports regular Win32 just fine, and everything that you describe is available there.

I still run 30 year old games on Windows and write new software using WPF and WinForms even, and it all "just works", much more so than similar attempts at software archeology on Linux.

It's really too bad that Microsoft is hell bent on shoving ads, AI, and dark patterns everywhere in what could otherwise be a decent boring "it just works" OS.
by hnbad | 2025-11-03 13:41:58+00:00
They aren't. The US is just in a unique position where its projected force in most of the world is sufficient to make other governments mostly do what they want without them having to even say it.

Of course the US is also apparently trying to change that at the moment by speedrunning an era of self-humiliation and wiping out its economic influence and "soft power" over the mistaken belief that you can strong-arm international negotiations with military power alone in the Atomic Age.
by elzbardico | 2025-11-03 13:42:30+00:00
Usually, people who don't want to go to your party will find an excuse as early as possible to decline your invitation in order to avoid unpleasantness and awkwardness for themselves.

Assume that the vast majority of people you properly invited and that RSVP you DID want to go, even if they flaked at the last moment. Yes, there are some inconsiderate bastards out there, but there's a big subset of flakers that do feel guilty/regret not going, far more than we can imagine.

You need to understand that in the great schema of life, parties for the invitee are always at a lower priority compared to work, health and family issues: A single guy may have finally got a date, a mom can be having issues with their kids at school near exams period, someone may be anxious after a not so great feedback at a work 1:1 with their boss and decided to polish their resume.

And besides life stuff preempting party attendance, there are a lot of other factors. Some people you invite may have been raised in an environment where, due to poverty, immigration, family issues, they were never really in too many parties, and thus, while they may wish to enjoy your party, they may become too anxious to attend what is an unfamiliar experience to them.

Depressed, low esteem people, for example, will have a big probability of believing that your invitation was not that serious, and that you only invited them out of politeness. Actually, you don't even need to have depression issues in the mix for that to happen, some cultures have a marked tendency to avoid directness in communication, and for those people, if you don't have a close connection to them, or if they perceive you as higher status than them, they will believe your invitation is not actual for real, and they are not really expected to attend.

So, for some of those people I think that is worth your effort insisting more than twice, maybe trying to make they really feel welcome and needed a bit more.

It may sound crazy and counter-intuitive, but sometimes, just sometimes, some of the people who flaked do respect you more than some of the people who went and just wanted to have a good time for free.