MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knuckleheads | 2025-12-27 17:56:37+00:00
Very funny, reminds me of how Jennifer Lopez created Google Image Search when she wore a very deep cut green dress in 2000. So many people searched for "Jennifer Lopez Green Dress" that the search team realized they needed to include images in the search results.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/google-european-c...
https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/jennifer-lopez-walks-in-versa...
by duttish | 2025-12-27 17:56:50+00:00
I'm not an economist so someone please correct me / expand on this;

I'm guessing this is kind of a "It's not a problem until it's a crisis" situation? So far other central banks haven't begun selling treasuries, they've just stopped buying them. But once one starts selling it could become self reinforcing?

What could replace it? There doesn't seem to be any new hegemonic power on the same level. Could we enter a world where all central banks hold a mix of currencies and nobody benefits from being the reserve?
by mxxc | 2025-12-27 17:56:52+00:00
exactly. plus i mean, this particular build is quite boring because it's, like i said, silverblue. vanilla gnome and all that. but one can go quite wild and make vastly different builds. building locally takes very little since it's basically decompressing a bunch of packages, moving some files around and building an initramfs, so the infrastructure one actually needs is minimal (especially if said upgrades happen silently).

i must say that even though this tech has been around for a while it's still very much WIP. much of the ostree command line is undocumented, some commands are hidden and even though there is significant overlap between rpm-ostree, ostree and bootc, they do quite different things and some things are easy with one tool and outright impossible with the other. but personally i think this is the future of "mainstream" linux, and even though "immutable linux" has been often associated to locked platforms (e.g. android), it's been fun to showcase how you can do it yourself too, with whichever distro you like.
by tzury | 2025-12-27 17:57:07+00:00
A) What’s 20b comparing to the extravagant current valuation of Nvidia at 4.64t?

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8c395eb5-8d22-431f-b6ba-0...

B) All info the OP(= author) knows is known to the professionals dealing with the due diligence. They decided to do so while looking at data which is not available the public. So assuming they know some things why we don’t know is not a far fetched idea.
by karambahh | 2025-12-27 17:57:17+00:00
Except that lemons are picked for "cheap" in Argentina (and oranges in Morrocco or Valencia), industrially packaged to ports (most likely to BCN or VLC ports) and then shipped in containers to Palma.

Pick the oranges in the middle of the island: not cheap, as stated. Squeeze & freeze the juice (likely around Palma): not cheap, not even including transportation. Ship them back to the continent: probably not cheap either.

Transshipment is extremely costly and even more so at a smaller scale, and that's what we're comtemplating here.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-27 17:57:57+00:00
It’s a rote observation at this point, but: there’s a clear discrepancy between the demonstrated value of LLMs (which is, to be clear, significant!) and the aggressive manner in which Microsoft has introduced them into their products. The latter is what you do when you can’t demonstrate value, and it produces worse outcomes by design (because it starts from the assumption that users need to be given the stick instead of the carrot).

There have been a lot of recent changes to VS Code that feel like this: the Copilot pane has been refactored to take up more space and behave less like other composed panes in the window; the integrated terminal now does overly clever and brittle things to introduce suggestions in REPLs like Python’s. Those kinds of changes have pushed me more to Zed recently, which has all of the same AI features but without the user hostility.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-27 17:58:33+00:00
Spot on. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

You've seen the "Dot-com" and "Mobile" cycles. This "AI cycle" feels faster, but the trap is the same: Mistaking Access for Mastery.

In Japanese martial arts, we have "Shuhari" (Obey, Digress, Separate).
AI gives everyone a shortcut to the final stage ("Look, I made an app!"), skipping the painful "Obey" stage where you learn why things break.

As you said, when the bubble bursts, only those who understand the "Foundation" (database design, consistency) will remain standing. The tools change, but the physics of complexity do not.
by toast0 | 2025-12-27 17:58:59+00:00
> Ugh I don't really blame them there, that's really a dirty hack.

I certainly wouldn't do it today, but using two pair for a connection designed for two pair isn't a dirty hack, it's as designed.

Today, using 4 pair for 1G or more and a small switch on the host side to get more ports is probably a better plan.
by bobajeff | 2025-12-27 17:59:49+00:00
Emacs and Vim are terminal based though. So nice things like scroll bars, tabs, drag and drop etc. might be available as hacks but will disappoint in the ways in which they fail to work like a actual GUI interface. I'm also not a fan on model text editors.

For open source GUI text editors there sadly aren't many that match the feature and polish of vscode.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-12-27 18:00:40+00:00
This is an opinion article and you should realize that opinions do not make definitions.

"Conversely, Richard Stallman argues the "obvious meaning" of term "open source" is that the source code is public/accessible for inspection, without necessarily any other rights granted"

See, here's another Wikipedia article with another opinion that disagrees, and RMS is obviously an authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_...

All of this is pointless so the common and accepted definition should be preferred. Which does not add extra political criteria for requirements.
by dnautics | 2025-12-27 18:01:07+00:00
chips designed to run ResNET? I guess the haskell compiler they built is impressive (it made it so 8 racks of chips designed to run ResNET can run llama 70b with extremely low latency).

Edit: my information might be old, I don't know if they successfully taped out their second gen chip or not. Can anyone corroborate?
by FloorEgg | 2025-12-27 18:01:27+00:00
Read "the terrifying art of finding customers" by Collin Stewart

Very few know more about outbound than he does, and that book is recent.

My two cents: It's unlikely you can make outbound work for a custom software dev studio unless you go extremely niche and have a way to target customers with relevant needs. The more broad your services the more new business depends on trust, and outbound has the lowest trust context of all top of funnel sources. What works best for dev shops is word of mouth.

Maybe consider a referral program.

Anything that can greatly boost trust when prospects learn about you.
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-12-27 18:02:19+00:00
We could just keep using "First world" vs "Third world" as above. There are also multiple NGOs that measure these things and break down the "ratings" into component parts.

On the other hand, an advocate for greatly increased corruption might claim that corruption can't be measured at all. Or, hypothetically, they might strictly use un-anchored non-metrics like "the other guy does it too", "any is too much", "omg look over there!", etc.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-27 18:02:28+00:00
It's different because it's all about that now. The Clintons had their scandals, the "pay to play" lists etc. We all know they are in bed with the moneymen. But it didn't define their administration, and they were pretty hush-hush about it.

Trump on the other hand is completely open about this. He even brags about making money from deals, something that was previously considered a huge conflict of interest. He appoints people based on loyalty alone, not knowledge or experience. He bullies countries into compliance with mafia tactics ("appease me or else..." tariffs or even war like venezuela and greenland). It's a huge moral shift where that is no longer unthinkable. The US used to have values. It was a country that was at least trying to be the good guy.

Also, the constitution used to be holy. Now Trump is flaunting the 1st amendment on a daily basis (limiting LGBTIQ+ speech, establishing America as a "christian country" which is explicitly forbidden). I think all these developments are very concerning. I don't live in America but considering it is still a big world power it does worry me.
by aggregator-ios | 2025-12-27 18:02:55+00:00
A strange and anecdotal take. Infrastructure is already here. Millions of Americans are happily driving across the country charging their EVs just fine. You probably had a bad experience with a Chargepoint L2 charger in a garage that needed an app to operate and the FTUX on that is really painful. But, no one is using a L2 charger while roadtripping. L2 charging is primarily only for home or work use while parked for 8-12 hours. All the L3 chargers that people use during trips feature tap to pay.

As for maintenance, seeing 1 charger be down out of 10 is not an infrastructure problem. EV drivers figured out waiting in line and queuing just fine. And with most stations charging at L4 speeds, the wait time is short.
by MorehouseJ09 | 2025-12-27 18:04:16+00:00
You hit the nail on the head with the 2/3 thumb key bit. That is what was such a game changer for me with the kinesis. all the sudden you have real estate to take a layering approach that you just can't with normal keyboards.

Smart but unproductive is a class. We've all had experiences with those types of engineers. I think startups generally weed them out though. It's hard to survive at a startup without being productive. I probably should have put that as a disclaimer up front.
by Hendrikto | 2025-12-27 18:04:16+00:00
It’s not a neutral service though. The owner is very opinionated and likes to get involved in what projects are and are not allowed to be hosted there, and changes these rules on a whim.

In my eyes, this disqualifies Sourcehut for anything serious. You could get booted off any second, if Drew decides that he does not like you.

(I like Drew, and I like opinionated and outspoken people. But Service Providers should be neutral, and only involve themselves as far as required by law.)
by PopAlongKid | 2025-12-27 18:04:19+00:00
Putting down "N/A" for battery life aspect of a paper book clearly shows the bias here. Further, failing to mention ownership and permanence aspects of the content is a glaring omission. And then there is durability and risk: if I drop a book it likely is still fully usable. And it's much less likely that someone would steal a book compared to an electronic device. Eventual disposition also matters: a book involves no e-waste and will not last for centuries in a landfill.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-27 18:05:28+00:00
From the FAQ [1]:

"How are stories ranked?

"The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

"Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
by jcgl | 2025-12-27 18:05:37+00:00
Human-readability isn't a feature of ASCII though. It's a feature of any encoding for which the user has sufficient tooling. Sure, that's an easier bar to clear for ASCII than for binary formats in general. But as I said, as long as you have the tooling, binary is no less readable. (Also, many binary formats will store strings as ASCII or UTF-8, so you can use the strings utility or whatever you want against them.)

> the entropy of time destroys codecs (bit rot/obsolescence)

Okay, so you don't mean "entropy" in an information theoretic sense. You're just talking about the decay of time. That's a much more specific claim than your original one, and I grant than that may be true for some use-cases. But you don't need semantic recovery if you don't need to do recovery at all, i.e. if your data format and/or storage medium transparently provide redundancy and/or versioning.
Show HN: RelicBin – A modern take on pastebin
by ovidiuvio | 2025-12-27 18:05:41+00:00
Hi Everyone,

I've been working for some time on RelicBin, a modern self-hosted pastebin with the following features:

- Deployable via docker compose.

- Support for text, images, binaries, documents, logs, terminal ansi logs and archives.

- Public / Private relics

- Bookmarks

- Built-in rich rendering:

- syntax highlighting
- ANSI log viewer mode
- Static HTML rendering
- PDF/CSV viewing
- archive browsing
- excalidraw files
- markdown files

- Collections via .rix relic index files
- CLI for uploading straight from your terminal
- S3 as storage backend
- DB backups in S3
- S3 sync service to sync storage to an other S3 bucket as backup

Why I built it:

I wanted a self hosted pastebin that is scalable, flexible and developer / devops focused

Made with AI ( Claude / Gemini / GLM )

Feedback, criticism are very welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/ovidiuvio/relic
by quotemstr | 2025-12-27 18:06:05+00:00
More projects should push back against calls for "governance" and "steering committees" and such. As you noticed, they paralyze projects. It took JavaScript seven years to get a half-baked version of Python context managers, and Python itself has slowed down markedly.

The seemingly irresistible social pressure to committee-ize development is a paper tiger. It disappears if you stand your ground and state firmly "This is MY project".
by jmkni | 2025-12-27 18:06:06+00:00
It does seem to me like Microsoft (and every other company developing AI models) is doing so at a loss, and a signifigant one.

Is the play here to get everyone hooked on AI and then jack up the price to make a profit?

If so, I worry about Junior devs in particular, who have never developed the skills to write software themselves, suddenly finding themselves being "cut off" from their AI dealer

Or people generally who outsource their thinking to AI, forget how to do things for themselves, and suddenly face a big bill!
by dceddia | 2025-12-27 18:06:27+00:00
In many cases today “gif” is a misnomer anyway and mp4 is a better choice. Not always, not everywhere supports actual video.

But one case I see often: If you’re making a website with an animated gif that’s actually a .gif file, try it as an mp4 - smaller, smoother, proper colors, can still autoplay fine.
by suralind | 2025-12-27 18:07:28+00:00
My incomplete list:

- learn to sew clothes
- improve my kitesurfing skills
- I want to create and share more online
- not to improve, but run more

This last bit is critical, I’ve been working on projects never really finishing them. I think part of that is I really, really dislike sharing unfinished things with strangers. The other part is that I struggle if something just works, I always want to make that perfect (when building for myself, ironically I’m usually the person to advocate for iterative approach). So this next year I’m going to focus more on improving that skill (already started this year).
by terminalbraid | 2025-12-27 18:08:03+00:00
> decoherence

This has a specific meaning and is not a word I would use here. For something to be "decoherent" the particle phases would need to be "uncorrelated" or "random", but given the internal wavelengths, masses, and strength of the interaction of the particles involved against the spatial dimension of the proton this is not the case under quantum field theory.

In some ways the problem of this being "complicated" is because it's intractably coherent with a fluctuating large number of particles interacting via three "colors" of self-interacting charge (very different from electric charge and not just "three" independent charges) to consider. I'd put money on any decoherence would likely simplify the problem.

> Normally, the universe only asks protons the question: "are you a proton?" and it's like "Yep I'm a proton." (What's your baryon number? What's your charge? etc)

Protons have internal structure (the quarks and gluons) and size. Those are relevant to its interactions. To consider a proton "by itself" and just reduced to quantum numbers is not "normal" if by "normal" you mean "protons at a scale in nature you deal with every day". Those protons are bound in nuclei and are modified by the fact they are bound. These effects have been explicitly measured and documented, the EMC effect being one of them. The "new questions" you are referring to are in fact relevant questions at low energies and are not "new". They are a large active area of research typically referred to as "medium energy" (despite the fact it extends into "low" energy traditional nuclear physics and high energy QCD physics).

Even in a hydrogen atom, the internal structure of the proton modifies the chemistry by small changes in the electronic shell energies, in particular contributions to the lamb shift which has been used to measure the radius of the proton.

Maybe most directly, if what you described were the case you wouldn't have so many decimals in atomic mass numbers of nuclei.

> So having different answers based on how you look is really answering different questions, just like asking an electron: What's your momentum? What's your location?

The problems of looking at quarks and gluons at different energy scales are also endemic to other forces (e.g. electromagnetic) and all particles (for example, look up the running of coupling constants and renormalization theory). Saying they are "different" questions is more akin to comparing questions of skyscraper engineering and concrete dust mechanics. They are not orthogonal as I would consider momentum and location. They're questions of scale and things like emergent effects at different scales.

There are orthogonal questions of internal structure to be considered, though. Deep inelastic scattering processes at high energies tend to ask the "what are the momentum" questions. Elastic nucleon form factors ask more the "location". They both exist in a unified framework of "generalized parton distributions".
by wredcoll | 2025-12-27 18:08:22+00:00
You're literally being downvoted for stereotyping an entire generation. The word stereotype implies it, but it's not remotely close to true.

Like, the easiest, most obvious example in the world is trump: he hyperbolically brags constantly about things he didn't do or actively tried to stop and it would be real hard to argue that he's genZ.

When you single out a specific group for your observation, it has strong implications about the other groups you didn't mention.

As in this case: why did you only mention genZ?
by vee-kay | 2025-12-27 18:08:43+00:00
Technically, that magnetic spinning HDD can work even after decades if maintained safely (no dust, no extreme heat) and without stress, even if it is not switched on for years.

In fact, if a magnetic HDD crashes, you may still recover some or all of the data by doing something hardcore, such as letting it sit for some hours in the freezer of your refrigerator, or immersing it in a bowl of rice overnight.

However, SSDs (and other flash storage devices) need to be switched on once in few months, otherwise there's a chance that some data stored in them may be permanently lost, as some cells may loose their power.

"As a reminder, an SSD's endurance rating is calculated based on how long it can store data if left unplugged after a certain amount of data has been written":
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered...
by sgf0568 | 2025-12-27 18:09:02+00:00
Abbott states that only the Freestyle Libre 3 and 3 Plus are affected. However, I use the Libre 2 Plus with my Tandem t:slim pump, and since March of this year I have contacted Abbott at least ten times because the CGM consistently reports low blood glucose when a fingerstick reading is actually 20–30 percent higher. These inaccurate readings cause my pump to reduce or completely suspend insulin delivery.

As a result, my most recent A1C was 7.1, even though the pump software calculated it should have been 6.3 based on the CGM data being fed into the system. While 7.1 is not too terrible, I have not been above 7.0 in many years.

You might ask why I don’t switch to Dexcom to see if it performs better. Unfortunately, with my insurance coverage, Dexcom would cost nearly seven times more per month.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-27 18:09:08+00:00
Panics about how oil is being traded in non-USD terms are as old as the internet and, in all likelihood, even older than that. You can find usenet slop from 20-30 years ago about the petro-euro and the "tehran oil bourse". Here's an old site that is/was daily panics about the fall of the dollar, from 15-25 years ago. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-27 18:10:04+00:00
US Treasuries have terms, if you aren’t refreshing your treasury buys, it is the same as selling them. US treasuries and by extension USD was useful because it could soak up billions of dollars of savings (debt for America) without taking a huge inflation hit (treasury rates were often less than inflation, so you still take some hit).

As for where that money is going now? Other currencies and saving instruments probably..
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-27 18:10:05+00:00
I seem to recall Safari doing the right thing for JPEGs when I was experimenting with publishing red-cyan stereograms [1] where an sRGB (255,0,0) becomes something like (187, 16, 17) on a high gamut display because the sRGB is less saturated than the P3 red. It looks right for a normal photo but for the anaglyph that little bit of blue and green leaks through and makes ghosts. Emedding a P3 profile in JPEG solves the problem. You run into the same problem with print and I ended up addressing those by applying the color profile to the R and L images, doing the anaglyph blend, then attaching the native color profile of the printer -- it probably isn't quite right but the colors are always going to be off for an anaglyph anyway and if I go back to that project I'll design a color grade that pushes the scene away from pure-red and pure-cyan-spectrum colors.

What gets me is that the image he's publishing is not really a PNG kind of image.

[1] https://cybereality.com/rendepth-red-cyan-anaglyph-filter-op... is a write up that didn't go as deep as my research
by deepsummer | 2025-12-27 18:10:13+00:00
Great idea. Whether brainstorm mode is actually useful is hard to say without trying it out, but it sounds like an interesting approach. Maybe it would be a good idea to try running a SWE benchmark with it.

Personally, I wouldn't use the personas. Some people like to try out different modes and slash commands and whatnot - but I am quite happy using the defaults and would rather (let it) write more code than tinker with settings or personas.
by Zak | 2025-12-27 18:10:18+00:00
> Zersiedlung is the Swiss-German term for urban sprawl

That is perhaps a more interesting word than Verdichtung.

Zer is a prefix that gives a destructive meaning to the base word. Teil is piece. Teilen is to share. Zerteilen is to break into pieces. Druck is pressure. Drücken is to push. Zerdrücken is to crush.

Siedlung means settlement.
by fn-mote | 2025-12-27 18:10:55+00:00
> If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications […] they didn’t complete their job properly

1. That’s a whole extra level of responsibility / management / bureaucracy. At some point, somebody near the top needs to care or it doesn’t all get done. The existence of this DB says somebody cared, they just didn’t have enough power.

2. I’m curious how this compares to experiences at Big Old Corp, like IBM or GM, not just the SV darlings.