MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-14 19:15:06+00:00
> That point is that capital tends to move away from places with high taxes toward those with lower taxes passed a certain threshold.

What's in dispute is where that threshold is, and how steep the curve before/after it.

(It looks more like this, in other words: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-18...)

Per Wiki:

"A 2011 study by Trabandt and Uhlig published in the Journal of Monetary Economics estimated a 70% revenue maximizing rate, and estimated that the US and most European economies were on the left of the Laffer curve (in other words, that raising taxes would raise further revenue). A 2005 study concluded that with the exception of Sweden, no major OECD country could increase revenue by reducing the marginal tax rate."

> You mean like this Norwegian "test"?

Others have pointed out that the (uncited!) numbers in this advertisement targeted at the mega-wealthy seem to be plain old made up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930222), so yes.
by hardtke | 2025-11-14 19:15:14+00:00
If you want to understand the state of these industries I highly recommend reading "How contracting because a race to the bottom"[0]. The crux of the problem is that unlicensed/uninsured firms will always undercut "quality" firms for small jobs. If you are getting a quote from a firm that actually pays workers compensation insurance it's going to be at a substantially higher price.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/magazine/contractors-cons...
by jdiff | 2025-11-14 19:15:45+00:00
It's wasteful. If someone built a clock out of 47 microservices that called out to 193 APIs to check the current time, location, time zone, and preferred display format we'd rightfully criticize it for similar reasons.

In a world where Javascript and Electron are still getting (again, rightfully) skewered for inefficiency despite often exceeding the performance of many compiled languages, we should not dismiss the discussion around efficiency so easily.
by bentt | 2025-11-14 19:15:56+00:00
if you never programmed before college and you chose CS because it was a good job then you should change.

If you got into programming when you were a kid, can’t stay away from programming because you love it, and pursuing CS was an expression of this, then you should stick with it.

It used to be that there were only the second type because being a nerd wasn’t cool or lucrative. So this is just a return to baseline.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-14 19:16:40+00:00
We just saw an explosion of streaming platforms because of their version of 2). Instead of continuing to license to Netflix for a percentage, they decided to spend all of the time/money to develop their own streaming platforms in hopes of keeping all of the proceeds. Maybe they have internal dialog looking at this same comparison which has not settled out yet. The streaming platforms have shown rolling your own is not a guaranteed panacea.
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-14 19:17:40+00:00
The great tragedy is that bullets are also more accurate.

I don't mean to be "that guy", but how do we even know the sailors on these boats aren't just some fishermen working for the cartels because they have a guy at his shack with a gun on his mother and siblings or kids? Or, even worse, what if they aren't working for cartels at all? Just went out to try to fish.

I'm not sure what our endgame is here, but just eyeballing this from the outside it looks like we're doing surgery with chainsaws instead of scalpels.

And all that assumes that our government is actually trying to help. Our end goal could be something else entirely? It's all just mystifying right now? I'm not sure anyone could give a coherent explanation of the why's, and I'm just about certain that no one could give a rational explanation of the how.
by bloppe | 2025-11-14 19:17:54+00:00
Some giant portion of English vocabulary actually are compound words. English loves using compound words but only if the roots are sourced from Latin or Greek: words like electrocardiogram ("electronic heart picture", sourced from Greek), agriculture ("field nurturing", from Latin), and telecommunication ("far sharing", a hybrid of Latin and Greek roots). Probably the overwhelming majority of the words in an English dictionary will be compound words, and people regularly coin neologisms ("new words") using this formula.

An English speaker might be willing to accept componoma ("names placed together", Latin) or synthetonoma (also "names placed together", Greek) without breaking stride.
by aetherson | 2025-11-14 19:18:15+00:00
My experience with AWS is that they are extremely, extremely parsimonious about any information they give out. It is near-impossible to get them to give you any details about what is happening beyond the level of their API. So my gut hunch is that they think that there's something very rare about this happening, but they refuse to give the article writer the information that might or might not help them avoid the bug.
by tharne | 2025-11-14 19:18:18+00:00
> The environmental argument is frivolous as long as people fly to Vegas for the weekend or drive a F150 to the office. Why is this as special domain?

I keep seeing arguments like this. They sound like a bit like a form of nihilsm. Do you really think we shouldn't worry about risks to the environment simply because we're all hypocrites on that front in one way or another? I get the frustration and have been guilty of using this type of argument myself in the past, but refusing to discuss a problem because the people raising the concern are imperfect human beings doesn't seem like a tenable position.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-14 19:18:28+00:00
Okay how about this then to cut through the ambiguity of terms.

1) Someone in their 20s who can live with their parent(s) while they get a startup off the ground has an advantage. It doesn't matter if they are below or above median household income so long as they can allocate majority of their time to it.

2) Someone who has capital and connections because their family is wealthy has other advantages, but many people coming from this situation also have other disadvantages, because they have often been shielded from discomfort and struggle and a lot of entrepreneurship is being tolerant (and even seeking) discomfort and struggle.

3) Someone in their 40s who has been frugal and saved by living within their means and has a spouse who works can allocate either part time or full time and be successful.

In the examples above I consider 1&3 as not coming from money but are the most common paths to entrepreneurial success that I have seen anecdotally. My 2nd example I would consider coming from money in the context of the article (a good concrete indicator is access to family seed capital), and this doesn't seem to me to be the most common path to success.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-14 19:18:31+00:00
That’s awesome, but I think we’re kinda talking past each other. I was responding to the claim that these models represent the largest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. In order for that to be true, these models, closed or open, need to have value for average people. I don’t see that at all. Most use it as a glorified google, some are actively harmed by the sycophantic tendencies of the models.

Edit: I’d like to add that I personally get a lot of value out of the models. They’ve helped me learn to do frontend development very quickly at my job. That said, that hasn’t translated into higher pay. The expectations have risen with employee capacity.
by ericmcer | 2025-11-14 19:18:46+00:00
My conspiracy theory is that the administration recognizes the current media climate (a flood of frantic but ephemeral media/social media coverage of everything he does) and are leveraging it to combat things like immigration and drug-smuggling down.

The ICE deportation shit seemed nuts at first. Sure deport undocumented immigrants, but have some compassion and sympathy. Things like deporting a mom and dad at their kids birthday party seemed psychotic and bad for everyone.

Then I read that 80% of the deportations are a result immigrants turning themselves in out of fear. Whether intentional or not the most effective thing ICE did was creating a media frenzy that resulted in people turning themselves in out of fear. Ironically the people trying to "hold ICE accountable" by blowing them up on social media have caused way more deportations than ICE themselves.

Maybe this is the same thing? If all of a sudden a few smugglers getting blown up goes viral the next fisherman who wants to make some extra money might take a pass.

The alternative is Trump is just crazy and evil and power hungry (could be easily true based on his past), but I tend to get suspicious whenever we attribute a humans motivations to: "yeah they are crazy/evil/bad" because people are much more nuanced.

Also I know I am gonna get downvoted to oblivion lol
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-14 19:18:57+00:00
Rust has things that have dynamic runtime check overhead that are often used. Reference counters, array size, e.t.c You have to have runtime checks because of Rice's theorem.

The only way around this would be to have a absolutely strict type system that defines the finite sets of data that memory can hold.

But for compile time checks, its not hard. For example, the I would do it C is that every pointer gets an optional permission id through some syntax when created. Any expression involving modifying that pointer needs to have the appropriate permission id stated, any dereference operation needs to have the appropriate permission stated, and free is only limited to the function where the pointer was created with malloc. Then any pointer created in assignment from an expression involving that pointer inherits the permission id.

So you simply have a system of tracing where memory gets used.

But all of this is overkill tbh, when you can just use existing static memory analyzers that pretty much do the same thing. And coupled with dynamic memory analyzers like valgrind with appropriate testing, you don't even need to do runtime checks within your code.
by asdfman123 | 2025-11-14 19:19:19+00:00
"Victim blaming" applies to blaming victims of violent crimes instead of the perpetrators. If the left wants to cast itself as a victim for, say, losing an election then it truly has lost the plot.

The democratic presidential candidates have given off the vibe of "if you don't vote for me, it's because you're a bad person." But what they don't seem to grasp is that makes them just look weak to ordinary people. The purpose of politics is strength and playing weak like this is a losing strategy.

Within an extended social scene with mutual obligations, say a political party, you can tell peers "you are being a bully and you should sit down." But the rest of the world doesn't respond to those messages. There are enemies to fight.
by josteink | 2025-11-14 19:19:23+00:00
That’s just semantics.

If a website which otherwise wouldn’t censor you begins to censor you because of threats from foreign nations, that’s a foreign nation pressuring an American company into suppressing rights of American citizens.

That’s a foreign nation imposing on your rights. In the past that used to require an invasion, so it was a bit more obvious what was happening, but the result is still the same.

Yes it’s through a website, which is owned by a company, which technically speaking owes you nothing.

In the digital age though, where are you going to use your speech, if not on a website?

What you (and others) are doing is trying to reduce the significance of a major transgression over a minor technicality. Way to miss the forest for trees.

The EU can stuff it on this one. And I supported (still support!) the GDPR.
by alister | 2025-11-14 19:19:40+00:00
> model drift driven by just small, seemingly unimportant changes to the prompt

What changes to the prompt are you referring to?

According the comment on the site, the prompt is the following:

Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting.

The prompt doesn't seem to change.
by southwindcg | 2025-11-14 19:20:16+00:00
Specifically when produced with "exceptional purity"...

Wikipedia [0] lists room temperature thermal conductivity at 1300 W/(m·K) and says "Chemical synthesis of cubic BAs is very challenging and its single crystal forms usually have defects." I guess it remains to be seen how cheaply and easily this "exceptional purity" can be achieved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_arsenide
by 9rx | 2025-11-14 19:20:20+00:00
> You make all your food from scratch all the time. [...] You fix everything yourself.

What stands out here is that if someone finds out that you can cook or fix things in my circles, they'll be knocking at your door trying to throw money at you. These are hotly desired skills. Of course, it is conceivable that if your circle is other poor people that can't offer you a good job, you'll never find those opportunities. Does this suggest that the company you keep is most signifiant? That is certainly not a new idea.

Being able to hobnob with the world's richest billionaires is probably a function of luck more than anything. But what about the moms and pops that are found everywhere? Is getting into their good graces also limited by sheer luck, or does self-control start to dominate?
by IAmGraydon | 2025-11-14 19:20:29+00:00
That's because they literally cannot do that. Doing what you're asking requires an understanding of why the numbers on the clock face are where they are and what it would mean if there was an extra hour on the clock (ie that you would have to divide 360 by 13 to begin to understand where the numbers would go). AI models have no concept of anything that's not included in their training data. Yet people continue to anthropomorphize this technology and are surprised when it becomes obvious that it's not actually thinking.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:20:39+00:00
> I don't know how effective a low-manganese diet or lifestyle would be though but it is very interesting.

You cannot achieve what the paper is discussing through diet or supplements.

The paper is hypothesizing that if a drug could target the components of B. burgdorferi that regulate manganese then that would kill it.

You cannot deprive the cells of manganese or overwhelm them through supplementation or restrictive diet. You would damage your own body long before reaching levels that killed the Lyme infection.

I really hope the alternative medicine people don't start abusing this headline to push diets and supplements.
by jmccaf | 2025-11-14 19:20:48+00:00
I think the water use arguments are relevant, particularly in regions of the world and US (CA) where potable water is scarce, but land and electricity are available .

NYT article gift link where people reported wells ran dry after data centers moved in. : 'From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy' https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center...

From https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-co... , I understand there are two types of cooling with water in DCs, open-loop that's simple but water-intensive, and closed-loop that's expensive but efficient.

>> This can be achieved through air cooling using water evaporation, which is an open-loop and more water-intensive method, or through server liquid cooling.
by burkaman | 2025-11-14 19:20:56+00:00
Some evidence has been shared with the public, and the administration has lied about it.

> The boats get hit and you see that fentanyl all over the ocean, it’s like floating in bags, it’s all over the place.

- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/trump-venezuela-car...

Here are the videos he's referring to, let me know if you see any bags of fentanyl: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1151367989097..., https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1152335554451..., https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1153737518118..., https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1153966324414...

Beyond this administration, the US government has a documented history of lying about the justification for military action. When people are being killed it is irresponsible to assume, with no evidence, that they are telling the truth this time.

I am not assuming the strikes are baseless, I am stating that there is no evidence for any basis, so discussing if they might be justified if some hypothetical evidence existed is pointless.
by tredre3 | 2025-11-14 19:21:13+00:00
> There is always a bottom % of people who are under the cognitive capacity to meaningfully contribute to society. That doesn't mean they are bad people, but they will always be poor/broke.

The percentage of people so dumb that they can't hold a useful job is staggeringly low.

Unless in your mind anybody of average or below average intelligence "can't contribute to society" in which case I suggest you step off your tech pedestal and look around you.
Show HN: Linkeddit PH#1 Find Customers in Seconds Write Viral Content in Minutes
by elephantisfast | 2025-11-14 19:21:56+00:00
The tool actually hit Product Hunt #1 back in February. Since then I’ve added a bunch more on top of the original version. Now you just describe the intent or goal for the leads you want, and it searches based on keywords and a bunch of other signals to surface the best ones for you.

I also added a Reddit-powered content writer. Basically, you pick a topic or category, and it pulls the top posts from Reddit, analyzes what made them go viral, and helps you write content using the same patterns. Reddit is super underrated for content. If something blows up there, it almost always spreads to other platforms later.

Let me know your thoughts!
by filloooo | 2025-11-14 19:22:01+00:00
This JV obssession is weird, China basically admitted that they can never compete on ICE cars and bet on EVs instead, either this JV model doesn't actually work or what was transferred do not have much value.

Now people claim they stole their IPs through JVs and that's why they are good at making EVs, this theory doesn't add up.

Also, what China offered is a vast untapped market, no one forced these companies to go to China to set up JVs and start picking up gold down the street, this was way before WTO and China was not at all obligated to open it's market, let alone for free.

Now ask one question, what the EU has to offer to "force" China to set up JVs? Guaranteed billion dollars profit?

EU car market is crowded and full of incumbents, Chinese cars represent a low single digit market share despite the weekly "China is taking over the EU car market" news article.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-11-14 19:22:10+00:00
> preservation & the ability to actually play a 25 year old game is more important than its capitalization

> Even if you don't want to pirate it, there are lots of copies for multiple platforms available to buy just on eBay.

This feels like a contradictory position.

On the one hand the important thing is the preservation and availability of a work. On the other hand it's okay if the it is only available as 20+ year old used copies and pirated copies.

And any preservation or restoration project is under the shadow of 3 companies (Warner Bros., Activision, and 20th Century Fox) which have all recently "complained that they may have rights to [NOLF] and may sue over it"
by pembrook | 2025-11-14 19:22:11+00:00
The number of laws/rules added vs. removed in any given year is like 100:1.

New rules lead to profitable business opportunities (and future lobbies), incumbents get to entrench their positions using the new rules, and people get stockholm syndrome and just end up accepting the new normal.

Modern representative democracy is Parkinson's law at work. Government is the purest form of bureaucracy and monopoly. Thus, it finds ways to grow itself every year regardless of what happens.
by sltkr | 2025-11-14 19:22:14+00:00
That's the behavior you get in Zig, if you declare a variable of type `u31`: an unsigned 31-bit integer that's implicitly convertible to `u32` or `i32`.

Also in Zig overflow is illegal for both signed and unsigned integers, and guaranteed to be detected when building in Safe mode (but not in Fast mode). There is a separate set of operators for wrapping arithmetic.
by latchup | 2025-11-14 19:22:19+00:00
I am going to assume your question is genuine and not rethorical hyperbole.

Every sovereign nation has legal supremacy over its own territory. Any company doing business in the EU, no matter its origin, must follow EU laws inside the EU. However, these laws do not apply anywhere else (unless specified by some sort of treaty), so they are not forced to comply with them in the US when dealing with US customers.

If they still abide by EU law elsewhere, that is their choice, just like you can just choose to abide by Chinese law in the US — so long as it does not conflict with US law. If these rules do conflict with the first amendment, enforcing them in the US is simply not legal, and it's up to the company to figure out how to resolve this. In the worst case, they will have to give up business in the EU, or in this case, prohibit chat between US and EU customers, segregating their platform.
by Arisaka1 | 2025-11-14 19:22:22+00:00
What I find amusing with this argument is that, no one ever brought power savings when e.g. used "let me google that for you" instead of giving someone the answer to their question, because we saw the utility of teaching others how to Google. But apparently we can't see the utility of measuring the oversold competence of current AI models, given sufficiently large sampling size.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-14 19:22:23+00:00
> the hugely negative perception of virus-laden wildlands on Android

I... don't see this in real life? There have always been San Bernadino-emboldened Apple customers that love to dunk on Android security, but recently that's gone away. Trojan horses are making it through[0] Apple's manual review, NSO Group has working exploits more often than not, the US government has wiretapped Push Notifications[1] and Apple has seemingly slowed their persecution of organized hacking groups.

iOS is in a post-Pegasus world. Android was perceived to be vulnerable if you downloaded the wrong app; iOS was proven to be vulnerable if you received an SMS payload from any user. And Apple has admitted that they cannot even really detect it[2] anymore. Neither educated users nor common people are associating Apple with security, especially now.

[0] https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/20/apple-currently-only-able-to-...
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-14 19:22:33+00:00
>Seems like we're bombing a bunch of low level, poverty stricken fisherman who occasionally bring a load of drugs from point A to point B.

If I understand things correctly, no one's denying that this is what they're doing. Furthermore, not only are they denying it, in many people's minds, this is justification. I'm sure that many carjackers had awful childhoods, but when one has a gun to your head you're not really in a mood to pray that no one hurts him.
Show HN: Harvest Bowl – A simple app for building meals with exact grams/macros
by harvest_bowl | 2025-11-14 19:22:43+00:00
I built a small iPhone app called Harvest Bowl. It helps you build meals using exact grams or calories and shows your macros instantly as you adjust portions.

I made it because I wanted a dead-simple way to put together meals without using a full tracking app or dealing with cluttered food databases. Just pick ingredients, slide to set the portion, and the numbers update immediately.

Features: • Precision sliders for grams/calories • Instant macros • Clean ingredient lists • Quick veggie presets • Save your go-to bowls

I’d love feedback from the HN community — UX, performance, missing features, anything. This is a version 1 and I’m trying to keep it focused and disciplined.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/harvest-bowl/id6754568085 Website: https://harvestbowlapp.com