MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oldnetguy | 2025-11-10 13:25:58+00:00
> First, infrastructure. A wet mill—the machinery needed to process coffee cherries into beans—starts at $50,000 for basic equipment. Industrial-scale operations run into the hundreds of thousands. A moisture meter for quality control? $2,000. Drying beds? Storage facilities that prevent mold? Cupping lab for quality assessment? The capital requirements stack up fast.

I'm surprised there is no group trying to raise funds for small coffee farmers to obtain this equipment.
by Spectrallic | 2025-11-10 13:26:04+00:00
Looks good!

I have a couple minor suggestions, do with it what you want:

- I'd disable the fade between two visualizations on the live weather radar, it's hard to scroll through quickly now.

- Personally I'm always looking for the hourly and daily forecasts. Currently they are split by the live radar. I'd either move them all above or all below the radar if you want to keep this format
by khalid_canada | 2025-11-10 13:26:08+00:00
I’ve built two AI agents that curate personalized news:

- Market Pulse Agent — analyzes the last 24 hours of global and US market news to generate actionable stock-trading signals.

- TechPulse Agent — tracks emerging tech trends and surfaces interesting GitHub projects and engineering updates.

Both are live on my site: https://kryptunes.com

Still iterating, but the goal is to build a fully automated, AI-powered research companion for traders and tech enthusiasts.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-10 13:26:16+00:00
So, the bill:

* Reaffirms (state) government power to restrict individuals in computing

* Suggests that when a restriction infringes on your rights, but not on some specific fundamental rights, then then governmenty actions need not be limited.

* Legitimizes the control of infrastructure by artificial intelligence systems.

* Mostly doesn't distinguish between people and commercial/coroprate entities: The rights you claim to have, they will claim to also have.

Wonderful...
Show HN: Charl – ML language with native tensors and autograd
by MitchelNovoa | 2025-11-10 13:26:19+00:00
I built Charl, a compiled language for machine learning with tensors and autograd as native features (not a library). It's alpha-quality but functional.

What works: Neural network training, 22x faster than PyTorch CPU, GPU support, type-safe.

What doesn't: Small ecosystem, alpha bugs, missing features (modules, etc).

Not trying to replace PyTorch - this is an experiment to see if ML-native language design offers advantages.

Try it: https://charlbase.org Code: https://github.com/charlcoding-stack/charlcode

Looking for testers and feedback. What would make this useful for your work?
by dijit | 2025-11-10 13:26:22+00:00
Yes, I hate this.

It's more annoying because browsers literally tell you what language they want.

Developers seem to have a canned response to this; largely that they don't trust users to have set their operating system language to the correct one... somehow

https://dijit.svbtle.com/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-la...
by shevy-java | 2025-11-10 13:26:25+00:00
Recently the UK bought some old laptops with Win10. I think they handed over to Microsoft +300 million pounds (or within that sum; I don't know how much was attributed to the actual laptops).

I think when you get these deals, you get rich, but you are no longer having any real incentive to do quality control. So the whole system breaks down. They do minimum quality control. Plus, a lot of what Microsoft seems to be doing nowadays is to spy on people. The recall anti-feature kind of gave this away, but before that there was "trusted computing", which I can understand may make sense for some organisations, but for solo users? Why am I being tagged and monitored suddenly? Why is a corporation claiming this is about "trust"? I don't trust that corporation. (I use Linux anyway, but still; one computer has Win10 right now, which I use mostly for testing stuff.)
by MichaelZuo | 2025-11-10 13:26:33+00:00
Well after 45 years isn’t that just reflecting what the median voter actually cares about (or doesn’t care about)?

If voters were genuinely willing to expend their political capital, time, attention, energy, etc., to a significant degree on this issue, year and year for 45 years… there’s no amount of party intrigues that could have blocked it.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-11-10 13:27:44+00:00
There's so much duplication, or overlap at least.

Despite being a software dev and more invested than the average person, I don't feel like there are that many websites or applications I use really. But there are the best part of a thousand webapps being developed there. I was mulling over starting a language learning platform, but there seem to be 133 being worked on just by people who've posted to HN to say they're working on one.

No wonder most of us seem to struggle with getting traction.
by kgritesh | 2025-11-10 13:27:53+00:00
Working on Strot - an AI agent that reverse-engineers website APIs for scraping.

Instead of DOM scraping, it intercepts AJAX calls and figures out which API endpoint gives you the data you need. Uses visual analysis + fuzzy matching to identify the right call.

The use case: scraping product reviews, paginated listing data (products), etc. Existing AI scrapers either didn't work or were very slow and costly. A product with 1000 reviews takes 10+ minutes with Playwright, costs $10 with LLM scrapers. With Strot? 10 seconds via direct API calls.

Being used in production by a couple of clients. Would love feedback!

Blog: https://blog.vertexcover.io/strot-is-a-api-scraper GitHub: https://github.com/vertexcover-io/strot
by ebonnafoux | 2025-11-10 13:28:10+00:00
He has a lot of impact it's true. But is he a figure to be inspired of ? I don't think so, his hubris kill more than 400k men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia).

One can argue that Hitler or Mao were also impactful people, but do we want to learn from them ?
by ryanar | 2025-11-10 13:28:15+00:00
I just hit 25 books read for the year which was my goal for 2025. To make it happen I did a few things: - Listen to audiobooks when doing chores (dishes, laundry, mowing the lawn) - Keep a book on me and use a bookmark. Being able to quickly open and read a page or two when I would normally doom scroll on my phone - Rather than watch TV at night or play video games, read instead - Use goodreads to track progress and add my friends who are readers to provide motivation and goal visualization.

This year has been quite enjoyable and I have found my reading tastes evolve over time. For a while I was reading books like the ones on this list, self-help, business/management/leadership focused, and memoirs. I then got bored and moved into fantasy, and now I have been getting into history.
by liotier | 2025-11-10 13:28:30+00:00
> estadounidenses

And in French the inhabitants of "les Etats-Unis" are "Etats-uniens". I've taken the habit of referring to them as USAians, which often gets negative reactionsand remains rare - but I find it is the most accurate demonym and I'll keep pushing it.

I look forward to the world inventing demonyms for the citizens of the European Union, because at least it will mean that our emerging national body is getting mindshare !
by andriesm | 2025-11-10 13:30:03+00:00
"for any reason other than to cure a fatal disease" ... what about non-fatal but debilitating ? Sounds like you have a pretty absolutist view here ? What other reasonable exceptions can we imagine outside your rigid criteria ? Why should we not have nuanced discussions of the entire spectrum of reasons ?

Also hard to miss your implication of "agree with me or you are on par with a nazi"
by kannanvijayan | 2025-11-10 13:31:13+00:00
I tend to agree with this sentiment, but my takeaway is slightly different.

People who would describe themselves as supporters of "capitalism", as well as supporters of "communism" or "socialism", are not able to admit that their belief systems are actually religious in structure. Not spiritual perhaps, but effectively "secular religions".

Both capitalism and its nemesis arose in the mid 1900s, when humanity was obsessed with modernist thinking about "solving problems once and for all". And in that context, the people fell in love with these two "clean systems". A more perfect set of rules.

Sure, capitalism doesn't claim to be the most powerful god. But in surrogacy, it claims to be "the least imperfect system". Which is structurally the same claim: declaring the scripture to be some apex that is not surpassable.

The main difference between communism and capitalism was how it was implemented. The USSR went full-tilt ideologically rigid, and collapsed very quickly. The US didn't go full-tilt capitalism. It implemented a hybrid system with a high marginal tax, welfare programs, subsidies, labour unions, public works projects, along with a market system, and that hybrid non-ideologically rigid model served it well.

Around the time it was clear the USSR was collapsing, the USA went hard tilt in favour of ideological purity in capitalism. Systematic series of clawbacks in the tax regime, privatization, elimination of labour unions.

As they leaned into the religion, it was used against them, much like the communist religion was used against the people of the USSR. And now they have been robbed of their prosperity, of the value of their efforts, much like the people in the USSR were robbed.
by staticman2 | 2025-11-10 13:31:19+00:00
Thanks for sharing that.

I'm not sure if you cited that because it's the first to come up in a web search but the fact that "undecided" was not an option is a red flag in my mind.

What do you think of this one:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-you...

"When asked about having children, 51% of young adults who are not parents say they would like to have children one day. Three-in-ten say they’re not sure, and 18% say they don’t want to have children."
by dtagames | 2025-11-10 13:31:34+00:00
Most people probably don't know what a DJ really does, which is investigate, curate, and catalog a whole library of music and then tailor it to the mood of an event or crowd, moment by moment.

This is a feelings-based job that directly operates where feelings hit the body with the physics of sound and motion. Lacking either feelings or a body, there can't be an algo for a DJ.

The best thing about Sirius/XM is they pay human DJs to find and play music us mortals would never know about and to put it in contexts we'll enjoy.
by bko | 2025-11-10 13:31:38+00:00
Two things:

BBC is government funded and running misinformation and fraudulent editing to affect a foreign regime

There is no pretense that fox news is somehow objective. At best people say it balances out the bias of nearly every other mainstream publication. For instance check 2016 newspaper endorsements Trump had 28 compared to over 600 for not trump

Newspaper endorsements in the 2016 United States presidential election - Wikipedia https://share.google/jOTQxKDCycI7bm04i
by gyomu | 2025-11-10 13:33:04+00:00
I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I’m not quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don’t want to open it to a wide audience because I don’t want the burden of moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies & interests.
by dijit | 2025-11-10 13:33:11+00:00
I work in gamedev.

A kernel module is easier to make on Linux than on Windows.

The only person who would say otherwise has clearly never written anything on that level on Windows. It's not just uneasy: it's Sisyphean. The code-signing signature you need alone is an order of magnitude more difficult to obtain than the development burden of an appropriately defensive kernel module.

We gamedevs don't even need "full control", just a moderate amount of checking for tampering of our application memory and a scan of the proclist and device tree. It's like, not much. The reason it's in the kernel is because we need to get "under" the cheat engines so that the OS doesn't lie to us, linux doesn't make that aspect harder or easier, just different.

Easyanticheat already supports Linux if you enable it in your Epic developer settings. The limitation here is that developers know that gamers are mostly running windows so the support burden isn't worth it.

For now.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 13:33:13+00:00
Personally I always loved computers more than smartphones and really loved the freedom even windows could provide over something like android (in the sense of its interface etc.)

I feel that a lot of people my age spend a lot more time on their phones as compared to computers and maybe even using the computer just for gaming or discord or something else (just click open, the games are there in steam, play run, it runs)

I feel like it is partially tech's fault as well. Tech really wants us to not interact with things or to create a superapp to abstract everything to get a bigger portion of the cake

I personally wouldn't be surprised if with things like AI browsers, we might be coming to the point where they genuinely just convert the whole internet into just a chatbot and would interact with the computer and everything on your behalf in the same interface (most likely)

I am pretty sure that if this interface or something similar comes true then most people might not even know about things like www. or internet links in general, and we might be shocked in the same way we are right now to them not knowing what files are.
by ndegruchy | 2025-11-10 13:33:51+00:00
I've not had much of a problem with Time Machine. It works as advertised and does so quietly and without much input. The only thing I've had to do is turn off scheduled backups, as it tries to do a backup while I'm on a slow connection. This is because it can still see my NAS over Tailscale. I just put the menubar icon up there and trigger it when I get home.

I wonder if most folks have different expectations from it. Most of the HN crowd are probably already familiar with the usual suspects, so the lack of options and visibility into the process are probably concerns. For most folks, though, I imagine it's turn it on and forget it.
by tamimio | 2025-11-10 13:34:07+00:00
> I'm generally one of those people who is always warm

You and me both! Here in Canada it can easily reach -30 and I go out with tank tops. I have a theory that if you can control your inner temperature, you won't feel cold, so it's an intrinsic thing. Although some of my colleagues exploited this when we used to go to the field to fly and test drones during harsh winter, they would bring up that theory to me to be outside while they were cozying up in the car!
by grimre4p | 2025-11-10 13:34:11+00:00
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by skrebbel | 2025-11-10 13:34:18+00:00
Cool!

If I may ask, what made you settle on the double dash to disambiguate content from tags? Like is it some sort of nod to SGML from way back when? It seems like an odd choice to me at first glance, but I bet it was thought about long and hard so I’d love to hear some background about what alternatives you considered.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-10 13:34:20+00:00
I just brought a new TP-Link (Omada brand) to replace a (also fairly new) D-Link router that would just stop working, every couple of weeks; requiring a reboot.

The performance of my network immediately jumped up.

The D-Link might have a hardware issue (but it’s not worth trying to get them to address it, as it’s intermittent by weeks, and they’ll just gaslight me, if I try), or it could just be crap firmware. A lot of hardware companies treat their firmware teams like shit.

Doesn’t matter. I’m avoiding their routers, in the future. I have had good luck with their switches, though.
by crote | 2025-11-10 13:35:08+00:00
That's exactly why it should be used for wifi!

2.4GHz is completely unusable in urban environments, because you're getting interference from two dozen neighbours. And everyone has a poor connection, so their "handy" nephew will turn up the transmission power to the maximum - which of course makes it even worse.

6GHz barely makes it through a concrete wall, so you're only receiving your own AP, so you have the whole bandwith mostly to yourself.

On the other hand, cellular networks are well-regulated: if an airport's entire network is managed by a single party they can just install extra antennas and turn down the power.

And it's not like cellular operators will be able to use it often: outdoor use falls apart the moment there are a bunch of trees or buildings in the way, so it only makes sense in buildings like airports and stadiums. Why would the rest of society have to be banned from using 6GHz Wifi for that?

Besides, didn't 5G include support for 30GHz frequencies for exactly this application? What happened to that?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-10 13:35:09+00:00
Re: "Cisco has decided to leave france": (https://web.archive.org/web/20250614052849/https://support.o...)

Effective June 28, 2024: Due to a court order in France issued under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code and a court order in Portugal issued under Article 210-G(3) of the Portuguese Copyright Code, the OpenDNS service is not currently available to users in France and certain French territories and in Portugal. We apologize for the inconvenience. July 23, 2024: Cisco's OpenDNS service has been reactivated in Portugal and is currently available following a decision by the Lisbon Court of Appeal.

It's laudable that Quad9 want to fight censorship, but they too could block French requests in this way. Maybe redirect to an HTTP/HTTPS IP that tells users about the issue and gives them contacts to their government representatives?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-10 13:35:11+00:00
AI is very good for mirroring the culture around it. You can use it for all kinds of things, including QA, but you still need a culture where QA and UX matter.

MS doesn't have that. It's a B2B marketing company with a rapidly decreasing developer headcount glued to the back, far away from daylight.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-10 13:35:22+00:00
> I’m young, so I have no clue, but surely the job market didn’t always work like this?

No it didn't. Established (older) people saw it as their duty to help the younger generation become a part of the team. Today's older generation have nothing but hate and resentment against the young, and nobody considers themselves as having even the slightest duty towards younger generations. Maybe for their own family members, but usually not even that.
by Aissen | 2025-11-10 13:35:27+00:00
I have recently been working on adding SMS support to my GG emulator, and there a few (very minor) incorrect details, because often reality is a bit more complex, and adding them to an article might obscure the point.

On mappers: this forget about 3rd party (non-sega) mappers like Codemasters' https://www.smspower.org/Development/Mappers

On resolution: the SMS can have a higher than 192 pixels vertical resolution: https://www.smspower.org/Development/Modes ; and some (Codemasters, again) games did use that: https://www.smspower.org/Tags/Extra-Height

On ROMs checksum verification: no need to guess, this is documented depending on the BIOS: https://www.smspower.org/Development/BIOSes

Nevertheless, I loved the comparison with Famicom's hardware design.

Last but not least, don't forget about sverx's devkitSMS for writing SG-1000, SMS or GG software: https://github.com/sverx/devkitSMS
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-10 13:35:44+00:00
Reading books is extremely important

However, as a nitpick, I don't think you're going to "beat the experts" as a "contrarian outsider" by reading books like Man's Search For Meaning and Lee Iacocca's autobiography.

Aside from the dubious value of building one's brand as a "contrarian", you're not going to get any information the experts don't have if your reading list looks like you grabbed the first 10 books you saw at the business paperback section at the airport book store.

That's not to say these aren't valuable books. But it's IMO a truly odd collection if your lead in is talking about contrarianism.

Completely separate point on the topic of branding as contrarian: One of the authors, Thomas Sowell, is mainly known for being politically conservative in a predominantly liberal field. That might unintentionally reinforce the impression that "contrarianism" means "I align closely with my in-group but my in-group is not the largest in-group." Whereas I would suspect that we wouldn't call a protestant in a predominantly Catholic country a "contrarian" or vice versa. But perhaps it's about trying to rebrand belonging to an unpopular identity with a kind of renegade status.
by AmVess | 2025-11-10 13:35:54+00:00
Perhaps not, but Linux desktop marketshare doubled in 2024. It is still minuscule, but it doesn't take much for a movement like this to take off. Microsoft continues to make Windows 11 impossible to install for the average user up to and including not all that rare scenarios where it cannot be installed at all.

Conversely, 15 minutes to install, fully patched, and ready to go Linux distro is a hugely attractive alternative to Windows. There are 3 viable gaming distros, and the underlying tech continues to evolve. It is already invisible to most games.
by 960design | 2025-11-10 13:36:13+00:00
https://digital-storybooks.github.io/multilingual/#/testbook...

My friend had a cute baby boy and mentioned difficulty in finding children's storybooks in Spanish.

Challenge accepted:

I built an AI generated multilingual storybook, just to see if it would work.

Tap or click the little monster to have it read to you.

Local LLM generated the story, stable-diffusion generated the images, AI converted text to speech in two languages: English and Spanish ( could easily do many more languages ).

I "filled the app out" by adding a simple landing page placeholder, login page and "library" page.

Not very phone friendly, was made for her iPad.

Just click login to move on, as it is currently not connected to a backend.

Only the second book currently has a story, the others are placeholder templates.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-10 13:36:21+00:00
I suspect the US would push back on this unless they were the ones doing the censoring. So far the US has not opened that door with DNS; it’s important to make sure that the door stays closed, as this would create chaos and major fragmentation.

In the meantime it might be worthwhile to develop alternatives, like some kind of DNS-over-Tor or DNS-over-DHT scheme, along with normalizing Tor onion services as an alternative access method for clearnet sites.