MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psygn89 | 2025-11-20 17:16:13+00:00
I agree, it's improving by leaps. I'm still patiently awaiting for my niche use of creating new icons though, one that can match the existing curvature, weight, spacing, and balance. It seems AI is struggling in the overlap of visuals <-> code, or perhaps there's less business incentive to train on that front. I know the pelican on bicycle svg is getting better, but still really rough looking and hard to modify with prompt versus just spending some time upfront to do it yourself in an editor.
by dzonga | 2025-11-20 17:16:23+00:00
if people need to have the great intellectual renaissance of the past

- cheap housing for young people like the rooms mentioned in the article at around $250~$500/month range - no communal kitchens - but communal cafeterias serving cheap food at $5/meal or even better go for the packed elsewhere - microwave option - lots of rooms (cafes / study's) for people to interact & have people with diverse goals / interests meet
by fl7305 | 2025-11-20 17:16:44+00:00
In 1971 there where ships with almost twice the displacement of the Dali.

They weren't freight ships destined for Baltimore, but it wasn't hard to imagine future freight ship sizes when designing the bridge in the early 1970s.

The London sewer system was designed in the 1850s, when the population was around two million people.

It was so overdesigned that it held up to the 1950s, when the population was over 8 million. It didn't start to become a big problem until the 1990s.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-20 17:17:10+00:00
Python's strong native story has always been one of its biggest draws: people find it ironic that so much of the Python ecosystem is native code, but it plays to Python's strength (native code where performance matters, Python for developer joy/ergonomics/velocity).

> Even if you call into fast code from Python you still have to contend with the GIL which I find very limiting for anything resembling performance.

It depends. A lot of native extension code can run without the GIL; the normal trick is to "detach" from the GIL for critical sections and only reconnect to it once Python needs to see your work. PyO3 has a nice collection of APIs for holding/releasing the GIL and for detaching from it entirely[1].

[1]: https://docs.rs/pyo3/0.27.1/pyo3/marker/struct.Python.html#m...
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-20 17:17:25+00:00
Nano Banana has been the only model I’ve really loved. As a small businesses who makes products, it’s been a game changer on the marketing side. Now when I’ve got something new I need to advertise in a hurry, I take a crappy pic and fix it in that. Don’t have a perfect model ready yet? That’s ok, I can just alter to look exactly like it will.

What used to cost money and involve wait time is now free and instant.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-20 17:17:29+00:00
> It was particularly visible in how, if you edited the map so that every pile of resources was 50k, so essentially endless, you'd arrive at a stalemate.

Given (effectively) unlimited resources within base distance, Zerg undoubtedly have a fairly substantial advantage and will probably win. Assuming comparable player skills, of course.

Their remax time is 1/3-1/4 that of Protoss/Terran, they can tech-switch near instantaneously, and they have some of the most powerful endgame meta. This was true for SC1 and Brood War, and it's even more true for current SC2.
Show HN: Simple Price Drop Alert
by Curiositry | 2025-11-20 17:17:53+00:00
I built this to monitor the price of my staple clothing and gear, so I could stock up when my size/color goes on sale, and not think about shopping the rest of time.

I was so tickled with the project, I decided to make it more widely available.

I would welcome any feedback!

Under the hood, I'm using Python (and Bash), Scrapy, Selenium, and good ol' Cron. (I have a blogpost mostly written that goes into all the details.)
by hnthrowaway0328 | 2025-11-20 17:18:00+00:00
Yeah I agree with that. And I'd argue that it is still the same nowadays. People at the top probably knows clearly which interest group they are in, and which group they can rally up, and which ones they need to fight to the death -- even if they all belong to the same nationality -- and I'm not surprised if local interest groups ally with "foreign" interest groups to fight another local interest group. It is blurred.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-20 17:18:08+00:00
Easy to say until it impacts you in a bad way:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence...

> “My wife and I have been together for over 30 years, and she has my voice everywhere,” Schlegel said. “She could easily clone my voice on free or inexpensive software to create a threatening message that sounds like it’s from me and walk into any courthouse around the country with that recording.”

> “The judge will sign that restraining order. They will sign every single time,” said Schlegel, referring to the hypothetical recording. “So you lose your cat, dog, guns, house, you lose everything.”

At the moment, the only alternative is courts simply never accept photo/video/audio as evidence. I know if I were a juror I wouldn't.

At the same time, yeah, watermarks won't work. Sure, Google can add a watermark/fingerprint that is impossible to remove, but there will be tools that won't put such watermarks/fingerprints.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-20 17:18:21+00:00
Well actually..

Steve Jobs himself said in his famous “Thoughts on Music” letter that was posted on the Apple home page that less than 10% of users music on iPods were bought from iTunes.

> Probably influenced by the original iPod, which really wanted you to sync your iPod with your iTunes library (conveniently directing you to purchase all of your music from Apple's platform).

iTunes (the software) came out before the iTunes (the music store) and iPods and Apple actually marketed the iMacs as “rip mix burn”.
by random3 | 2025-11-20 17:18:26+00:00
The processor is built of transistors, built of silicone. The paper that wraps the box that wraps the processor is simply a mindless container. Yes, there’s nuance when it comes to “wrapper” companies but it in the end they may just be wrappers. Back in the “web 2.0” things were called mash-ups and everybody didn’t try to make them look like companies.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-20 17:18:30+00:00
> charter schools are also public, not private.

Charter schools are publicly funded and privately operated. That's what I mean by private.

And the per child payment is less because charter schools are experts at keeping children with disabilities out of their facilities. They have to accept them, but they can deny entry if they don't, for example, employ special ed teachers, therapists, etc.

Public schools have to provide those services. They have to accept all children.
by axxto | 2025-11-20 17:18:37+00:00
That's ok, me and my "dark arts" will have to make do without your "compassion", somehow. And the world will have to make do without "training" on your secret "methods to measure intelligence", somehow.

I don't appreciate your expletives in your original unedited post, by the way, but the fact that you lost your temper is once again proof of something. You sound young, so I hope one day you "find a short program" to recover that data.

That last part was not sarcasm, in case you have any trouble picking it up.
by jebarker | 2025-11-20 17:18:39+00:00
This phrase comes up alot in mindfulness and self-esteem related writings. I interpret it to mean that you don't have to do anything to justify your existence on the planet or prove your worth. I agree with this. But the phrasing of "you are enough" implies that it is possible to not be enough, but I don't think that's true since there's no bar that you have to meet, you just are.
by andrewla | 2025-11-20 17:18:40+00:00
Yes -- the closing of mental hospitals was very much in response to a moral panic (possibly justified) against the unreasonable use of involuntary indefinite confinement. That combined with the inhumane conditions in the facilities themselves, which was itself worsened by the difficulty in obtaining funding and overcrowding.

In the US this is very much an unsolved problem -- chronic homelessness is probably a problem better served by indefinite involuntary confinement, but the moral cost of this is very high and there's a lot of reluctance to go back to that. In Europe this is less the case -- if you look closely into any country that has made big strides fighting chronic homelessness (I'm looking at you, Finland [1]) underneath it you'll see a huge rise in the involuntary confinement numbers that are the quiet solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280456
by jimmar | 2025-11-20 17:18:43+00:00
> IBM anticipates that the first cases of verified quantum advantage will be confirmed by the wider community by the end of 2026.

In 2019, Google claimed quantum supremacy [1]. I'm truly confused about what quantum computing can do today, or what it's likely to be able to do in the next decade.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/technology/computing/google-and-nasa-ac...
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-20 17:19:02+00:00
> Hiring a janitor or cleaning or supervisors etc was so much cheaper than it is now due to Baumol's.

IIUC, this is an inappropriate of use of Baumol's cost disease. That is intended to apply in cases where the fundamental issue is that technology and/or process changes cannot improve the productivity of those performing a task, such as a symphony orchestra. Janitorial work has been subject to productivity increases, and ultimately, it's a bit of a stretch to use Baumol's to talk about a case where you can't for some reason reduce the number of people doing the work from one to zero.

Supervisory roles might, possibly, be an appropriate Baumol's example.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-20 17:19:06+00:00
As always, I'm firmly of the mind that none of this has to do with balance sheets or what things cost. There's a type of person who just has this image in mind that everyone struggling is a drugged up loser who refuses to get a job and lives on benefits, thanks to decades of propaganda saying as such. The fact that UBI would save us astronomical amounts of money versus the current piecemeal, ineffective and constantly under seige social system we have doesn't matter, because the point isn't to keep people fed, it's to keep poor people in line. The fact that housing assistance and other such things would clean up the streets of the same people while giving them the help they need, and at a lower cost than rolling the cops on them to beat them with batons and shove them into coach busses to other cities doesn't matter, because the violence is what they want.

There's a substantial slice of this country that legitimately hates poor people, whether they want to admit it or not, and they will die on the hill of spending a thousand taxpayer dollars making their life a living hell, before they will willingly accede to giving them a hundred bucks to buy food.

This is not a reasonable position and as such, you cannot reason with it.

As they say, "The cruelty is the point."
by programjames | 2025-11-20 17:19:28+00:00
Babbling in the mathematics sense: no information transmitted.

I agree with you in the linguistic sense on the word 'intelligence'. Everyone has their own colloquial meaning. That doesn't make their definitions correct. If someone says, "exponential growth," just to mean fast growth, they're wrong (according to me). It's impossible to have universally agreed upon definitions, but we can at least try to standardize some of them. If you only care about intelligence in regards to a specific niche, add adjectives not definitions.

IQ tests measure 'intelligence' in the general, correct sense of the word. Not perfectly, but they're pretty good. If you care about a specific task, you can finetune on that task. While a generally intelligent agent will do better than a less intelligent agent at pretty much all tasks, it can still be defeated by test-time compute.
by itake | 2025-11-20 17:19:35+00:00
> This is a natural consequence of being an industrially advanced country though.

Ok, but then compare the GDP of the USA vs Europe as millennials enter the workforce. Entering the 2008 crisis, USA and Europe were neck in neck. Now, the USA has left Europe in the dust.

Declaring the US an outlier seems like an odd choice... What country should you compare Europe to?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-20 17:19:36+00:00
> The drug and mental illness you describe are widespread right now, but because they happen in periodically-swept homeless encampments, you can ignore them and pretend they're not real.

What are you talking about? I brought them up because it’s a front and center problem that anyone who walks through a big city will have to encounter on a daily basis. It’s not out of sight out of mind at all.

> And where's this assumption that SROs would have no facilities maintenance or law enforcement?

At $231 inflation adjusted dollars per month, just how much do you expect to be left over for daily cleaning staff? If you expect nearly hotel level frequency of cleaning common spaces, you’re going to have to expect nearly hotel level monthly rents.

Law enforcement isn’t going to arrest someone for refusing to clean their plates. It’s the responsibility of the SRO operator to evict people. Do you know how hard it is to evict anyone these days? Even literal squatters or people who stop paying rent can take months to evict.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-11-20 17:19:59+00:00
Dude I don’t know what to tell you - China is ramping up faster on AI than almost anyone realizes.

Also the contribution by Chinese nationals to AI innovation in America is massive.

The US sanctions on China’s access to technology like Nvidia chips has stimulated creativity and determination in China. This while withdrawing research funding in the US, and making it very unattractive to foreign students to study in the US.

Almost all the open models we get to play with are from Chinese companies, not US or European.

I’m just mentioning all this so you can pull your head out of the sand and understand what’s happening. You can choose to call this psyops and refuse to take any company seriously that doesn’t have an enormous market cap, that’s your right entirely.
by epolanski | 2025-11-20 17:20:02+00:00
> That is never going to be the case because all EU countries want different things and for very good reasons. They have different needs and different economies.

That's quite of a weak argument, every state or county in the US has conflicting interests too. But there has to be defined boundaries in what is the business of EU and what is the business of single states.

I would say that matters like digital data privacy should have one common policy, not 20+ agencies.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-20 17:20:03+00:00
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/megyn-kelly-eps...

Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she’s splitting hairs about men “into the barely legal type.”
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-20 17:20:12+00:00
In my jurisdiction I once had a roommate who stole from me. I was the homeowner, and he was renting from me. I was able to kick him out without notice. If he had his own separate bathroom & kitchen I wouldn't have been able to due to those tenant protection laws you mention. But because we were in a shared space those laws didn't apply.

The laws for SRO should be the same as shared living, but I imagine it varies greatly.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-20 17:20:38+00:00
> There's a type of person who just has this image in mind that everyone struggling is a drugged up loser who refuses to get a job and lives on benefits,

I wasn’t talking about people struggling. I was talking about the actual, visible drug users on the streets. The struggling people looking for temporary housing would be intermingled with these people and suffer the most.
by jordanb | 2025-11-20 17:20:38+00:00
Here in Chicago there are still some SROs. Chicago has middling tenants rights: not as strong as New York or SF but stronger than most of the country. If tenants rights ended SROs you'd expect them to not exist in a place like Chicago.

I moved to logan square before gentrification. There were two SRO buildings that I knew of. Both were redeveloped by the time I moved out.

SROs often serve as half-way houses for people getting out of prison so there's a lot of community opposition. All the SROs that are left in Chicago have been around a long time, there aren't new ones being built and the old ones slowly go away when the area gentrifies.
by maxbond | 2025-11-20 17:21:00+00:00
You want people to be curious and investigate? Then don't snap at them when they ask a question or express confusion. Respond and show your work and they'll learn by example. Snap at them and you'll raise the temperature of the discussion and make it more polarized and reflexive, exactly the opposite of your stated preference.

And they aren't wrong, inhaling basalt fibers is dangerous and long term exposure could injure or kill you. It's just a different mechanism than asbestos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

See for example this MSDS for basalt. https://mcdn.martinmarietta.com/assets/safety-data-sheets/ba...

> The major concern is silicosis (lung disease), caused by the inhalation and retention of respirable crystalline silica dust.

(NB: I do not know if or claim that basalt fibers are more dangerous than alternatives.)
by Tiktaalik | 2025-11-20 17:21:00+00:00
With the recent boom in tourism in Japan there's been heaps of people coming back after seeing no homeless people, pointing to Japan some utopia with all the answers, and grasping for vague socio and cultural reasons as the explanation.

The answer to why there is less visible homelessness in Japan than NA is a rather more boring one in that they simply didn't destroy their last resort low income housing as much as Canada and America did and so there remain many more options for someone in Japan to duck out of the cold at a very low cost.
by NickC25 | 2025-11-20 17:21:12+00:00
China solved this.

They deliberately made SFV educational content only. Tiktok had to comply or face the wrath of the CCP.

SFV about a math theorem or a physics phenomena or explaining how to use a type of conjugation in English? Cool.

SFV thats just a clip of a show or movie with some stupid music overlayed? SFV about a kid doing some stupid dance? Banned.
by mattglossop | 2025-11-20 17:21:23+00:00
Totally fair point. We think that beginner investors already have a ton of resources at their disposal. There are a lot of platforms aimed at making it as easy as possible to start investing for the first time. We're focused on people who are already investing and who want to just have more clarity as to where they stand financially and whether their goals are actually on track.

The no-custody aspect is really a starting place. We wanted to eliminate the usual friction that investment platforms impose in asking people to transfer their assets before receiving service. We think this is one of the biggest points of friction in financial services, and one which drives up CACs across the industry.

Functionally, what happens with our platform now is that we show you exactly what to invest in with specific ETFs to buy and keep you on track with regular rebalancing instructions. You then make those trades wherever you're already investing. Trades sync to our platform through an API connection (Plaid/SnapTrade) so you can see your progress towards your goal.

Our aim is to add a custody solution as well, letting users trade on the platform, but we always want to offer the non-custody solution as an entry point for users, making it super easy to get started and gradually earn user trust.
by bitwize | 2025-11-20 17:21:24+00:00
Well, that's kinda what he did. He formed a new studio, Monkeystone Games, and released the 2D top-down adventure, Hyperspace Delivery Boy, on Windows CE devices, which was pretty well received at the time. Like I said, he took the L pretty well and learned its lessons.

I've played Daikatana GBC. It's pretty good. Years back, Romero released the ROM on his web site as a free download. I suspect ION was pretty involved, at least from a standpoint of making sure the story unfolded more or less as it did in the main game.
by ghc | 2025-11-20 17:21:30+00:00
I saw a Halloween display at a Walgreens in late July. I saw artificial Christmas trees for sale at Home Depot in September. I don't know what's happening but selling goods related to a holiday 3 months early seems excessive. What's next? Back to school displays before school is even let out for summer? Easter displays just after New Year's? Valentine's Day cards for sale in mid-November?
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-20 17:21:41+00:00
> If that is your goal, OK, that's a choice, but then you can't say "oh GDPR fears were overblown". They caused exactly the problems people were predicting

I feel like, there's nothing in my statement you can actually disagree with, so you're just expressing general frustration with the state of the world.

That's fine. You can set up aggressive PII laws, you're a big boy sovereign nation. But then you will not get domestic tech giants. That's not like, my opinion, that is the reality we are in.

I am describing that reality, and that the EU is unhappy with it, and your response is "Here's why we set up laws!". OK. I'm not sure what you are looking for here. We all know how you got here.
by zahlman | 2025-11-20 17:21:42+00:00
> All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.

> “Whoa!”, I can hear some of you say. “Offside, that’s not cool. That’s an ad hominem, and very immature of you. What do you have against a mixture of dried carbohydrates and powdered seasonings?”

This is not a serious post; it clearly exists to bash a political outgroup under a clickbait-satirical heading. Skimming through and trying to extract the actual argument, it's using rhetorical technique that in my estimation would not be acceptable in comments here.
by netsharc | 2025-11-20 17:21:59+00:00
Ah, makes me think of MacOS system 7 days. MacOS formatted the 3.5" disks with its own filesystem, so if you copied a file onto it, and put the disk in a Windows PC (or DOS?), the PC would go "Huh?".

3 decades later, hooray, now we can share files between Android and iPhone!
by Negitivefrags | 2025-11-20 17:22:18+00:00
The person who runs the hotel isn’t doing it to house the homeless out of the goodness of their heart.

If a person abuses the shared kitchen, they get kicked out. This is a business. Maybe don’t do it next time.

And that is a good thing. It forces people to actually abide by the social contract.

And there will be people who can’t deal with that, and can’t live anywhere, but here’s the thing.

You need a first step on the ladder for people who are ready to actually enter society. Otherwise they never will.
Show HN: LLM-Powered Arbitrage Finder for Kalshi and Polymarket (Gemini Pro 3)
by bojangleslover | 2025-11-20 17:22:55+00:00
Scans all Polymarket and Kalshi markets with over $1m of volume every 4h and uses the LLM to match markets.

Finds "true arbs" and "stat arbs". True arbs are what they sound like — the exact same market on each platform. Stat arb markets are correlated but not the exact same thing. For example, "Trump impeached during his second term" and "Trump impeached this year?" are correlated.

Thinking of incorporating slippage into this soon and assigning a dollar amount to each arbitrage since not all markets have deep order books. Also might start trading! But I have no idea where Kalshi and Polymarket host their execution backend. I would guess Ashburn or NY but I am not sure.

Statistical arbitrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_arbitrage