MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eibrahim | 2025-11-09 11:48:32+00:00
I am a real person. Not invented and not a scam, but enhanced for sure :) . I use the tools I have.

I have been in tech for 25+ years and love programming but I have been busy running my company the past few years and too busy to write code and I MISSED IT A LOT, when AI-assisted coding came about, it drastically reduced the friction.

Vibe coding + Years of Experience = Vibe Engineering and it is AMAZING.

I feel like Tony Stark every day. I wake up every day and review code from several agents on several projects and sometimes i start a new agent when i am bed because of a thought/idea I had and when i wake up in the morning the feature i wanted is ready for review and can be live live in under 30 minutes. that is incredible.
by ramraj07 | 2025-11-09 11:49:14+00:00
Here's an on topic question: all the frontier model companies "promise" that they wont store and train on your api use if you pay for it. Who do you trust? I for sure will absolutely assume grok will just use the data I submit to train in perpetuity. Thats a scary thing for me and if anyone else does anything thats real work this should be great cause for worry if they wish to use grok.
by krisoft | 2025-11-09 11:51:36+00:00
> Other than to create an appearance of arms length from government.

Big benefit is to separate the regulator from the regulated entity. That alone could probably stop the kind of group thinking which let them route a busy helicopter route through a busy landing corridor with inadequate procedural controls.

Other big benefit is to make the flight operators pay directly for the services the flight operators need. We are not paying their fuel from taxes, why do we pay for air navigation services from taxes?

> Would have the upside of not being shutdown due to the USA's crazy government shutdown nonsense

That is why it is brought up, yes. That is the most direct benefit at this moment.
by CPLX | 2025-11-09 11:52:05+00:00
This really isn't an accurate description of what happened. In fact, the contrast between Boeing and Airbus is instructive. Boeing is exactly what happens in the event of unregulated capitalism, which is endless mergers and attempts to exploit monopoly power and relentless efforts to satisfy the financial sector.

The end state of unregulated capitalism for a company like Boeing is a “capital-light” company based entirely on monopoly power and relationships that hardly manufactures anything at all, having outsourced everything to subsidiaries and suppliers to satisfy the return on capital requirements of Wall Street.

The Airbus approach is a clear contrast to this. The fact that Boeing has imploded while Airbus has thrived is, in fact, a very helpful counterpoint to reflexive and idiotic market fundamentalist ideology.
Valori – A Python-native Vector Database I built from scratch
by varshith17 | 2025-11-09 11:52:18+00:00
I’ve been working on a project called Valori, a Python-native vector database I built from the ground up — not by reinventing every algorithm, but by wiring together efficient, well-known indexing and search techniques into a cohesive, hackable framework.

The idea came from my frustration with existing vector DBs that were either too heavy for experimentation or too opaque to modify. I wanted something simple, modular, and extensible — so I built it.

What it does:

Lets you store, index, and search high-dimensional vectors

Supports multiple indices (Flat, HNSW, IVF, LSH, Annoy)

Has memory, disk, and hybrid storage backends

Includes a full document processing pipeline (parsing, cleaning, chunking, embedding)

Offers quantization, persistence, and plugin-based extensibility

All written in Python, integrated with NumPy, and production-tested with logging and monitoring built in.

Install:

pip install valori

GitHub: https://github.com/varshith-Git/valori

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/valori

I’d love to hear your thoughts —

What’s missing for you in current vector DBs?

If you’ve built LLM or RAG systems, what do you wish a lightweight, pure Python DB like this handled better?

Would you prefer tighter integrations (LangChain, Haystack, etc.) or a more “build-it-yourself” style?

Feedback, criticism, or collaboration ideas are all welcome. — Varshith (varshith.gudur17@gmail.com )
by spragl | 2025-11-09 11:52:53+00:00
Indeed. Why did grass shears loose out to lawnmowers? The question is misguided, they are two different categories.

The interesting question is why Forth lost out to BASIC on the home computers. There were a few that were Forth based, and there were RPL on calculators, so that whole programming paradigm could conceivably have caught on. I wonder how that would have affected other kinds of programming...
by razingeden | 2025-11-09 11:53:25+00:00
i had the exact same first/last name / birth year as a kid in my school (town of about 3,000) and were both “juniors” so our dads both have the same name. that makes four of us.

unfortunately that guys got some problems .. duis… domestic batteries.. drug possession ..

i have been walked out of a couple jobs for “not disclosing my record” and having to sort that out.

then the one time i did get into trouble. my expungement was denied because i had “so many priors”…… and then i had to go back and explain that NO, thats not me. it was approved.

then process servers, warrants, derogatory credit entries cause the guy doesnt like paying his bills.

i eventually got a sealed name change and that was the end of that.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-09 11:54:35+00:00
Journalists should really disclose that they are unionized when covering labor union related stories.

GamesRadar is unionized as part of the Future US Union under the Writers Guild of America East.

It stands to reason that reporters instinctively avoid framing organized labor as a self-interested power structure when doing so would cast doubt on their own union legitimacy, and that's why journalistic integrity demands disclosure of their union status.
by eibrahim | 2025-11-09 11:56:06+00:00
PS: I am the author and owner of that site.

And just to add some more contest, my site used to be a wordpress blog back 15 years ago and I used to block semi-frequently but couldn't keep up with it. The domain has been parked for 10+ years now and i have been wanting to revive it forever but again, too much time than I had to spare. AI tooling has inspired me again and reduced the time significantly. I can now generate content much faster and review it for coherence and accuracy etc...

Lately i have been recording voice memos in the car and when i get home i take the transcript and ask AI to turn it into a blog post. In the past, it just sat on my phone because the effort to edit and research it and format it and type it was too time consuming.

The point is, there is a real person behind this, effort and thought went into it and now i can share my thought without worrying about formatting and grammer and css and blah blah.
by grebc | 2025-11-09 11:58:04+00:00
I actually give Trump more credit for understanding scrapping filibuster is the wrong move.

I also think he’s smart enough to realise people think he’s dumb. So he says scrap filibuster as a way to sow the seeds that there’s tension where there really isn’t.

Maybe it’s too much 4D chess but he is a master manipulator of media/public opinion.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-09 11:58:44+00:00
>Yes, other things deserve investigation, but so does this.

I was not trying to imply that this does not deserve investigation. I just thought that it was relevant to point out the agenda or ideological bias of the source because it helps to know these kinds of things.

>And there's plenty of right-wing media — in fact I'd argue too much such that there's a lack of balance in US media.

Journalists are overwhelmingly left-wing in their ideological leanings.

The result is something you could call "silence by selection": investigative reporting on corporate or conservative money is constant, but similar investigations of public-sector unions’ financial pipelines, pensions, and political leverage are almost non existent.

When mainstream coverage discusses "special interests", it targets corporations or billionaires, not the public-sector class which is the single most powerful political bloc in every advanced Western democracy (and which is the reason why every major urban area in the US is controlled by Democrats).
by 2b3a51 | 2025-11-09 11:59:05+00:00
Just wondering if there is any potential for coasting with these smaller ships? Replacing lorries for port to port travel say in med or along Atlantic coast of Europe.

Coasting ships were the main cargo transport before trains and for some time after in the UK. Even as late as 1950s a fair percentage of cargo came in and out of London on relatively small ships from UK ports and Europe mainland. Before containerisation of course but I'm not sure it was containers that killed that traffic off. I suspect it may have been motorways and lorries.
by senfiaj | 2025-11-09 11:59:13+00:00
Svelte / SvelteKit is very lightweight but probably not a good choice if your app quickly grows in complexity. Angular has a larger community, long term support from Google, more people are familiar with, has rich functionality (including forms, localizations) and is well structured for huge projects. Once NextJS, SolidJS and others were interesting because of SSR, but Angular added this too (and continues to improve) in the recent versions.
by secondcoming | 2025-11-09 11:59:59+00:00
The only thing that seemed to work for me was putting a thread across the railing where they used to land. I glued some cheap hooks to the wall either side of the railing and ran a thread over and back.

I’m not sure why it worked. They either can see the thread and get put off, or they don’t see it and freak out when they land on it. I’ve tried both black and white thread and both seem effective. It did snap once probably due to a pigeon being caught out but that’s not a problem.

It doesn’t getin my way either as the thread is loose enough for me to rest my arm on the handrail without it breaking.

My balcony has been crap free for about a year now and it cost like £2 to do.
by tgv | 2025-11-09 12:00:17+00:00
They're not the same thing, although visual migraines can appear at the start of a "real" migraine. It's a distortion of vision with glitchy geometric patterns that pulsate and move a bit. Here are some attempts to recreate them: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=visual+migraine+&ia=images&...
by tovej | 2025-11-09 12:01:03+00:00
You seem to be shifting definitions by moving from native Brits to "indigenous" Brits. And conveniently not responding to the point that native means you're born somewhere. Native is the word DHH uses.

The indigenous claim is also funny, because that would refer specifically to Celtic peoples in Britain. And the modern white British population is not predominantly Celtic, and definitely not indigenous. The Anglo-Saxons, e.g., are not indigenous to Britain.

Which leads to the most hilarious point of your post, where you first equate nationality with skin color (in a particularly misguided way) "White Brits are the only indigenous Brits", and then immediately deny that you are equating nationality with skin color.

That's a decent self-contradiction speedrun.

I don't get it. You clearly hold ethnonationalist views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are an ethnonationalist. Be honest about it.
by strken | 2025-11-09 12:01:06+00:00
This isn't true.

Swing voters exist. Moderates exist. Single-issue voters exist. Occasional voters exist. These are observable facts about the world.

The four groups exist in large enough numbers that they decide elections. Die-hard party loyalists exist, committed non-voters who'll never ever vote exist, but they're fixed quantities and are practically irrelevant.

I agree with the statement that what really matters is whether you can convince someone to vote differently - but, yes, of course you can! Trump has run three times and only won twice. Obviously there's something that can convince people not to vote for Donald Trump, because it has already happened.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-09 12:01:29+00:00
I think you should find authoritative sources rather than relying on blogspam misrepresenting the source article.

Your article is a single paragraph:

> China burned more coal at power plants between January and July of 2025 than at any time since 2016, despite massive renewable capacity, according to new environmental research report.

Then they link the source DW article:

https://www.dw.com/en/china-boosting-coal-capacity-at-record...

Which was updated due to not correctly presenting the underlying report.

> Correction: The article initially referred to China burning coal at record high levels and had other inconsistencies with the original CREA report. This has been edited to reflect that the study highlighted an increase in coal power plants, rather than burned coal, after being contacted by the research institution.

Which is what I have been telling you again and again. China is building tons of coal plants but in absolute terms the coal usage is declining.

Why is it so hard to accept that?
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-09 12:01:30+00:00
> "_Is_ this gender discrimination?"

Still a yes from me. I see no reason to change the law to prevents people from being discriminated against in employment opportunities, And that was implied in my comment. I was not “fobbing” to the current laws, I was saying, this is illegal and for good reason.

Whether intentional or not, you cannot advertise a job to only certain people based on targeting by a protected characteristic.

You may not like it, but you haven’t proven to me that the law is nonsensical. I’m actually a little skeptical you are able to describe the current law you wish to change - see: Chesterton’s Fence.
by PhilKunz | 2025-11-09 12:01:32+00:00
I've learned quite a bit from the comments here, also got to see perspectives I wasn't focusing on. I've since then added a bit to the article about how one could be in favour of the deal. To be more transparent about changes, version history is coming to coffee.link.

The question I'm having is: Where exactly do inter.link and Google peer? Like either they are both at a public IXP (which would mean Google is not actually discontinuing peering, or you'd have to really define the "direct" in that quoted sentence), or one has a fiber cable to one of the others DC? How does that work? Any insights?
by bobnarizes | 2025-11-09 12:01:35+00:00
Hi HN, Floxtop is a native macOS app that organizes files and images by their content — not just their names. It runs fully offline on Apple Silicon, with no servers, no cloud, and no data leaving your machine.

Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders would fill up with PDFs, screenshots, and random files, making cleanup and finding the right file frustrating and time-consuming.

Solution: Floxtop uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to embed document text and metadata, plus OCR to read images. It groups and classifies files by semantic similarity — all locally, so your sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.) stay private.

Current version: Supports 30+ file types including images (with OCR), Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDFs, EPUBs, Markdown, CSV, and more. Parsing and classifying 50 files takes around 17 seconds. It integrates with Finder (right-click > Organize with Floxtop), Quick Look + thumbnails, and includes keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow. Currently, Intel Macs are not supported and it only works with English-language files.

I launched an early beta ~3 months ago, Fallinorg (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932375), and have since built out more features based on user feedback.

I’d love your feedback on classification workflows, missing features, pricing, usability, and potential bulk operations or integrations.

Happy to answer questions and share implementation details!

Free version here - requires macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/download/1....

Demo video: https://floxtop.com/assets/demo.mp4
by mjlee | 2025-11-09 12:01:38+00:00
The easiest way to do it is on a repositioning cruise where at the end of the season the cruise lines take their ships from one market to another. The positives are a cheap cruise, the negatives are that you're right at the end and beginning of ideal seasons so your experience at each end might not be great. Also you'll have a lot more sea days and fewer port days which could be in either column.

Weather at sea can be considerably worse than coastal weather. Cruise ships are pretty stable and it's unlikely to be awful, but plenty of people do get seasick. I used to be a professional sailor and so obviously can't see what the fuss is about, but probably half the passengers I spoke to felt ill on at least one of the days, and a few people spent the entire ocean transit in bed. If you're prone to motion sickness take some medication with you.

The atmosphere is different to regular cruises. Typically less of a party and the clientele skew towards older and more independent travellers.

To answer your actual question - go to cruisemapper and seascanner and you'll find them easily enough. They're all over the world.
by bbbhltz | 2025-11-09 12:01:45+00:00
We were gifted our old work laptops. My partner and I work for the same place. She gave hers to the mother in law after I wiped Windows and put Linux on it.

I gave mine to my son. I figured that my son might want to use the touch screen I went with Gnome because it seemed a little more touch friendly. I told myself it doesn't matter because he is 8 and I can always reinstall.

I chose Debian (Stable) so I wouldn't have to deal with keeping it updated, put a root password to prevent them from going crazy with installing stuff.

I will have to put Scratch on it someday, for the moment he cares about the following:

- the LEGO website to look at instructions - the music player to listen to soundtracks from his favourite games - MyPaint for making drawings

He is starting to figure out the idea of folders, deleting things, undo, etc., but hasn't asked for any other software or even games yet.

I am a professor and would like for my son to learn about word processors, spreadsheets, programming, etc.. If he ever asks, I will give him the root password and let him browse the repos. Right now, I'm just happy to see him enjoy it without doing what lots of his friends do: sit in front of YouTube all afternoon.
by baubino | 2025-11-09 12:05:12+00:00
I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting emails again from a different law firm.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-09 12:05:20+00:00
Indeed. Free grok.com got significantly worse this week and has been on a decline since shortly after the release of Grok-4.

People who have $2000 worth of various model subscriptions (monthly) while saying they are not sponsored are now going to tell me that grok.com is a different model than Grok-4-fast-1337, but the trend is obvious.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-09 12:06:27+00:00
>Given that the current president is right wing, wouldn't the left have a vested interest in talking about self-dealing in the state?

If there wasn't a permanent bureaucracy of sorts, then yes, but in this case there is in fact a permanent bureaucracy, what some call the deep state, which is a constant regardless of which party is in power. And this political bloc overwhelmingly supports the Democrats and is threatened by potential cuts from Republicans.

Covering self-dealing within the state would give the Republicans' efforts to cut some of these programs and departments moral legitimacy in the public eye, so left-wing news sources would not do that.
by nolok | 2025-11-09 12:06:39+00:00
Well I would disagree with that and laugh at the fact that this exact analysis has been published by The Economist and similar for the past 50 years, in fact for the first time France unemployment numbers have gone below the numbers they climbed to in the 90s, and in 2020 for the first time since the turn of the century our deficit was reaching a point allowing our debt to start lowering instead of climbing, and was stopped by a combination of both covid and then the energy crisis and the cover offered to french people.

We do have issues and for the past 3 years they've been amplified by our political standoff (parliament cut in three third and none agree to work with the others), but the core of our economic woes is from pensions.
by mihaaly | 2025-11-09 12:09:10+00:00
As someone moved several times in my life I could support (potentially several) personal uuid with global post routing service. Having declaring new postal address to all essential and random places one by one where I was mandated to give out to receive something I couldn't miss (authorities, banks, essential service providers, all else) is a common nuisance in an otherwise difficult period of life. Having a trustful[*] service (preferably post services itself, trusted parcel services) that translates a postal uuid to a current address each time a postal mail is supposed to be sent, current living address is righfully needed, would be a great advance (some countries have a postal address change service locally, some partially, that does similar).

[*] trustful, yes, that is a hard nut to crack! Who can be trusted with physical address and for what purpose, but in some sense it may be better for its controlled nature rather than the wild west of postal address world that we live in.
by namibj | 2025-11-09 12:09:41+00:00
For comparison, I calculated the J/(kgm) for both the Emma Maersk (at the numbers I could find in the Germany Wikipedia article; they seem to be for higher power levels with less efficient hydrodynamics) and a generic battery electric truck like a Mercedes E-Actros ("1kWh/km"; realistic net payload on/in trailer: ~20t): Emma: 0.0406 J/(kgm) E-Actros: 0.18 J/(kgm)

If we'd only carry modern LiFePO4 at 150 Wh/kg, their range (at zero remaining payload) would be: Emma: 13300 km E-Actros: 3000 km

Thus while a substantial payload mass fraction, the heavy engine could be mostly avoided (the Emma's main engine has a specific power of about 34 W/kg; contemporary power-dense electric motors/generators around even just 1 MW are slightly above 10kW/kg; a factor of 300).

IMO rather look at whether the approach to battery packs of Form Energy allows for this level of specific energy, and if so, how to hook container crane swapped battery packs to the ship's electrics. If that's too heavy, see how such a ship could be plugged in while in port with 1000 contemporary E-Actros worth of charging power (400 MW instead of 400 kW; gives 1 day recharge after 5 days at sea). By the time that's solved, batteries have gottwn cheaper. Those 5 days of battery capacity would cost in the high triple digit million USD today; for comparison, the Emma build cost inflation-adjusted around 233 million USD today.

A container train on flat track in Europe seems to be rated to 0.15 J/(kgm) while being grid powered, over twice as fast as the Emma (also faster then the truck), though that consumption is what the traction system needs to be rated to to reliably make the train schedule; fleet efficiency should be much better.

Sadly there's oceans either side of north America unless you want to take a great circle through Alaska and Siberia or through Greenland and Norway.