MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0dayz | 2025-12-15 12:29:18+00:00
>Are you the opinion police?

For asking a question?

>The problem with compromise is that everyone becomes equally unhappy. And when everyone is unhappy strange results come at elections.

And the alternative is exactly what?

Compromise is not a negative or a positive otherwise healthy relationships wouldn't be defined by those who find compromises.

>EU member states are so different, that you can't have regulations that benefits an economy like Denmark and also simultaneously one like Romania. Which is how places like Romania now have German energy and grocery prices but Romanian wages and pensions. Not exactly a great compromise for a lot of Romanians

What specific regulation is causing tremendous benefit to Denmark but is causing harm to Romania?

And if Romania pays a lot for energy spot price then that is on Romania, similar to Germany, on top of this grocery prices are not regulated by the EU.

>It doesn't matter how it is in reality, what matters is how Spanish voters perceive it come election times. Elections are always won on vibes and feels rather than facts and arguments.

Then the fault is at those who do understand facts for not approaching vibes with better vibes, I can agree with you that neo politics has been the biggest catastrophe for Europe.

But the only reason why people follow vibes is because of the lack of social, political and cultural issues being part of what it means to be political and instead politics is portrayed as at best as a numbers game and at worst technocratic (just look at chat control, sounds wonderful when your experts are the police and lobbyists but sounds awful if politicians were invested in social perspectives).
by spoiler | 2025-12-15 12:29:29+00:00
I don't know the authors of those posts, so I don't want to put word in their mouth, but neither seem to be delusional about the "if it compiles, it works" phrase. The first one qualifies it with "most of the time", and the second one explicitly mentions using type state as a tool to aid correctness...

But I don't doubt there are people who take that phrase too literally, though.
by PetitPrince | 2025-12-15 12:29:41+00:00
My D7 lost its mapping capability (including markerless no go zone) a few weeks ago due to the new owner pulling the plug early on their server. An enthusiast is jerry rigging an offline solution thanks to a vuln in an earlier firmware, but for those unwilling to solder an esp32 to the debug port of their vacuum they essential got a lesser robot overnight.
by koolba | 2025-12-15 12:29:50+00:00
> The fact that capital owners successfully avoid contributing to the financing of our states and social systems is, in my view, one of the fundamental problems of our time.

Are you talking about taxing unrealized capital gains?

Because for the situation where capital is directly replacing labor, the income generation is taxed regardless of the whether it’s generated by a human or machine.

If I hire people to make and sell hot dogs, they pay taxes on their wages. If I build an automated hot dog vending machine, I still pay taxes on the profits of selling those same hot dogs.

One can’t spend any of the money until it becomes personal assets. So what is not being taxed?

If I keep them in the company, I pay corporate tax on profits (22%) for retained earnings. And then I’d have to pay dividend tax (either 15% or 20%) atop those retained earnings to pay them out to myself as income. Or I pay myself a salary and pay regular income tax on the full amount.

Due to our progressive tax brackets and double taxation of dividends, both options end up with larger tax rates than when dealing purely with low wage human labor. We as a society collect more in taxes from one high income earner than multiple low income ones.
by p0pularopinion | 2025-12-15 12:30:36+00:00
BEVs most certainly aren‘t. Chinese EVs are strongly competing on price. Based on my own experience with them (n=4). They are very good as a EV, solid as a rolling smartphone, but not leading as being a car. Given the choice, I still would prefer a BMW EV any day.

However, batteries as a commodity are a good example where china is leading as volume and R&D leader
by blazingbanana | 2025-12-15 12:31:20+00:00
That is absolutely awesome and I love hearing about the tools that people build themselves!

Honestly, the capabilities of whisper is insane, the fact that it's free and open source is really a gift. Some of the things it can do feels almost sci-fi.

If you ever decide to release it publicly please let me know, sounds like a very useful tool.
by MLgulabio | 2025-12-15 12:31:30+00:00
Uncontrolled capitalism hasn't worked either. Controlled capitalism brought us were we are today: Huge inequality around the globe especially in 3th world countries like the USA and destruction of the whole ecosystem we live in.

Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.

My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.

If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.
by mkleczek | 2025-12-15 12:31:36+00:00
This is actually a very deep and interesting topic. Stripping information from an identifier disconnects a piece of data from the real world which means we no longer can match them. But such connection is the sole purpose of keeping the data in the first place. So, what happens next is that the real world tries to adjust and the "data-less" identifier becomes a real world artifact. The situation becomes the same but worse (eg. you don't exist if you don't remember your social security id). In extreme cases people are tattooed with their numbers.

The solution is not to come up with yet another artificial identifier but to come up with better means of identification taking into account the fact that things change.
by monus | 2025-12-15 12:31:46+00:00
We’re building the Browserbase for mobile - Android & iOS at agentic scale with no concurrency limits.

We run them on bare metal without VM brittleness, fully GPU-accelerated with WebRTC streaming using hardware encoder. As good as it gets and it’s amazed every single person who tried it.

Still behind waitlist, give me a heads up at hello@limrun.com to try it out.

https://lim.run
by quinniuq | 2025-12-15 12:32:42+00:00
I’m working on a community-driven website for finding local deals, especially happy hours, in Seattle, Washington: https://seattlebardeals.com/. I launched last week on Seattle Reddit and got a lot of positive response. The long-term goal would be to have something like this in every city, so when people are new or are just visiting they can find fun things to do on a budget
by dsego | 2025-12-15 12:32:46+00:00
I also think we can use a combination of a PID - persistent ID (I always thought it was public) and an auto-increment integer ID. Having a unique key helps when migrating data between systems or referencing a piece of data in a different system. Also, using serial IDs in URLs and APIs can reveal sensitive information, e.g. how many items there are in the database.
by jzb | 2025-12-15 12:32:55+00:00
“They could simply name their source(s) if they wanted to be taken as credible.”

Not if they want sources again in the future. Assuming they have credible sources, it will prove them correct in due course. The vast majority of people aren’t grading news outlets on a minute-by-minute basis like this: if they read in People first it was his son, and two weeks from now it’s his son, they’re going to credit People with being correct and where they learned it first.

And if People burned the sources who told them this, industry people would remember that, too.
by ben_w | 2025-12-15 12:33:06+00:00
> The technology of LLMs is already applicable to valuable enough problems, therefore it won’t be a bubble.

Dot-com was a bubble despite being applicable to valuable problems. So were railways when the US had a bubble on those.

Bubbles don't just mean tulips.

What we've got right now, I'm saying the money will run out and not all the current players will win any money from all their spending. It's even possible that *none* of the current players win, even when everyone uses it all the time, precisely due to the scenario you replied to:

Runs on a local device, no way to extract profit to repay the cost of training.
by p0pularopinion | 2025-12-15 12:33:43+00:00
DJI as consumer and professional drones seems like they‘re most certainly they are also an R&D leader given the fact that there are essentially 0 western competitors.

When it comes to more commodity tech, batteries immediately come to mind. Chins has spent years funding battery research and they are now the biggest supplier for LiIon batteries of basically all kinds. Solar panels seem like another example.
by leidenfrost | 2025-12-15 12:33:56+00:00
The real culprit is the International Division of Labour.

Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them.

But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries and improves education overall.

China knew this. And used all its non-democratic powers to make their country a manufacturing superpower.

A country that only extracts natural resources can't hold a numerous population. And if it does, a big % of them is doomed to a life of misery.
by thedanbob | 2025-12-15 12:33:58+00:00
> "A friend who had been learning some language in Duolinguo and then couldn't say a sentence to a native", should be proverbial nowadays.

I tried picking up some German via Duolingo once. I thought it was going great, pretty soon I was up to full sentences. Then one day I realized (because my voice teacher sometimes makes me translate the foreign language songs) that I wasn't learning German sentences, I was learning English sentences substituted with German words. German grammar is completely different. I haven't touched Duolingo since.
by susam | 2025-12-15 12:34:33+00:00
Slightly off-topic but related.

See also: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack from VileR at <https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/>.

I came across this website when I was looking for IBM PC OEM fonts for a little HTML + Canvas-based invaders-like game I was developing a few years ago. It is impressive how much effort VileR has poured into recovering each OEM font and their countless variants, from a wide range of ROMs. The site not only archives them all with incredible attention to detail, but also offers live previews, aspect ratio correction and other thoughtful features that make exploring it a joy. I've spent numerous hours there comparing different OEM fonts and hunting down the best ones to use in my own work!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-15 12:34:35+00:00
I have been the tech lead for two companies between 2015-2020.

The first company was a low margin business that sent home health care nurses to special needs kids and reimbursements came from Medicaid.

I was hired by the new director to modernize their aging in house Electronic Medical System built on FoxPro 1999 running on SQL Server 2000 - in 2016.

They had two “developers” who had been their for 10 and 20 years respectively who only knew Sql Server and FoxPro.

They also had some other software.

After doing some assessments of the situation, my report to the director and the CTO was that this company should not try to support a software development department and hire new people. Their margins are too small to be competitive or to keep people.

I suggested we outsource everything to other consulting companies - not staff augmentation. Let the consulting company do the entire implementation based on a Statement of Work.

The two “developers” role changed to “data analyst”. Even with AI I would have said the same thing today. Not every company needs to try to do software engineering. Every company does need to understand its data. [1]

The next company was a startup. I was adamant about blocking every developer who suggested any internal tool that we could get a well known SaaS to do or where AWS had a service that wasn’t firefly related to our product. To use the cliche - anything “that didn’t make the beer taste better”. My opinion wouldn’t have changed with AI.

The last thing I want is a bunch of bespoke internal vibe coded AI Slop that we have to support that is not in service to the product when we can find a reputable third party product.

And no that doesn’t mean I am going to trust some unknown one person SaaS company.

[1] 18 months into the job, I walked into the director’s office and told him, “let’s be honest, you all don’t need me anymore”. I purposefully put myself out of job. But boy did I have a story to tell during behavioral interviews at my next job at the startup and my interview for my job at BigTech after I left the startup.
by upvotenow | 2025-12-15 12:34:36+00:00
I agree to some of that, however I think room could be built to change the way people use the Vote system. Our aim is to use it to showcase the best of the internet content first... what people are really enjoying, trending, looking at.

We don't have a messed up algorithm that puts what we want Infront of people, it is done by our users through key engagement.
Show HN: 270 Lines of Python to Replace WisprFlow (Local Whisper and Qwen)
by lucharo | 2025-12-15 12:34:42+00:00
Voice-to-text tools like WisprFlow, MacWhisper, and VoiceInk have been getting popular, and I wanted to see how hard it would be to build something similar running entirely locally.

The transcription itself (Whisper via MLX) isn't new — plenty of people have done that. What I find useful is the combination: transcription, LLM cleanup (Qwen 2.5-3B via Ollama) and pasting wherever your cursor is. That last part is (to me) the magic of tools like WisprFlow, and it turns out you can replicate it in a single Python script, running fully locally with comparable performance to paid subscriptions.

It's a proof of concept more than a polished product, but I've been using it daily. It's a testament to our times that all of this fits in a single script.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-15 12:35:06+00:00
There's actually multiple standard libraries for embedded applications and a lot of the standard library from C++11 and on was designed with embedded in mind in particular.

And with each std release the particularly nasty parts of std get decoupled from the rest of the library. So it's at the point nowadays where you can use all the commonly used parts of std in an embedded environment. So that means you get all your containers, iterators, ranges, views, smart/RAII pointers, smart/RAII concurrency primitives. And on the bleeding edge you can even get coroutines, generators, green threads, etc in an embedded environment with "pay for what you use" overhead. Intel has been pushing embedded stdlib really hard over the past few years and both they and Nvidia have been spearheading the senders and receivers concurrency effort. Intel uses S&R internally for handling concurrency in their embedded environments internal to the CPU and elsewhere in their hardware.

(Also fun side note but STL doesn't "really" stand for "standard template library". Some projects have retroactively decided to refer to it as that but that's not where the term STL comes from. STL stands for the Adobe "Software Technology Lab" where Stepanov's STL project was formed and the project prior to being proposed to committee was named after the lab.)
by szszrk | 2025-12-15 12:35:08+00:00
> Yes, but they can be a bit tricky to find. You can find them used. You can use a computer monitor.

Sir, that's basically a no.

A TV is a specific device. It has many functions that TV monitor seldom has, or implements poorly. Like speakers. Or rich inputs and outputs, like multiple hdmi and antenna. Or a proper remote, a dvb-t tuner. Or play media on it's own when connected via USB. Or DLNA (I had devices far from modern smart-tv that could do that, in the past).

Monitor or panel can mimic some of this, with effort on your side, but not really.
by wccrawford | 2025-12-15 12:35:17+00:00
The funny thing is that Bambu didn't innovate. They just made it work really, really well.

I've owned a few 3d printers, including a kit printer, and the Bambu doesn't have any tech that other printers don't. They just always work well, and are easy to maintain.

Others are finally catching up, though. Snapmaker really scared them with the U1 (which is getting insane reviews), and Prusa has finally stepped up and started innovating again, too. The Centauri Carbon is another really good entry-level printer as well and it's eating into Bambu's market.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 12:35:17+00:00
>>Why have strong opinions if you're really just a doomer?

>>Are you the opinion police?

>For asking a question?

Calling someone a doomer then pretending you were just asking a question is bad faith argumentation so I'll have to end the conversation with you.

>What specific regulation is causing tremendous benefit to Denmark but is causing harm to Romania?

That was only a though exercise for an example. But to answer your question with something concrete it would be auto industry regulations for example. If China would destroy Eu's auto industry, Denmark wouldn't care since they don't have one, they'll reap the benefits of cheap Chinese import but it would wreck auto making countries like Slovakia or Romania.

>And if Romania pays a lot for energy spot price then that is on Romania, similar to Germany, on top of this grocery prices are not regulated by the EU.

No, that's on the EU, since the EU forced everyone to tie electricity to gas energy prices in the name of environmentalism which disproportionately affects poorer countries.

> On top of this grocery prices are not regulated by the EU

Doesn't matter that the EU doesn't regulate the food prices, but it's the outcome of the EU free market it led to for poorer nations like Romania and obviously Romanians aren't happy.

A lot of EU market regulations have negativity affected the poorer people of the poorer member States. And they still have a right to vote.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-15 12:36:24+00:00
> What made it worth it for you?

Too many to list such as jobs, recognition in the community, but the best ones are some sort of a personal satisfaction without the need to say anything aloud. The other two things I will always remember are (i) my cousin once accompanied me to a conference where I spoke, and after seeing the people lined/gathered around to talk, “What the heck are you, what do you do!” and (ii) recently, my daughter, “Papa, I searched you on Google and you are kinda Internet-famous, you are everything if I search your name.”

> What kinds of posts actually worked (for learning, career, network, opportunities)?

Two ways to look at it, (i) I don't care, I will just write or (ii) focus on a topic/community/vertical and keep writing about it, even if someone has written about it, write your own opinion. Watch for topic upticks in that vertical/interest and write about it, even if it means adding something to the ones that is already written. @simonw does it best https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/

> Any practical format that lowers the bar (length, cadence, themes)?

Make it open-ended. When you want and inspired, keep writing perhaps a long-form article or just stay short like @kepano https://stephango.com/style

> If you were starting today, what would you do differently?

Stay simple, minimal, comments optional/avoid. Separate content from your styles. Keep all of your content which you can just walk-out from a platform/service/framework if need be. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
by avianlyric | 2025-12-15 12:36:54+00:00
> Sure there are initial product R&D cost overheads

I think this, plus different attitudes to intellectual property are the two big reasons western companies can’t compete.

The general strategy for R&D in the west is to spend significant sums developing a new technology, then building an IP moat around it to prevent direct competition. Our IP laws make this approach viable, and it allows companies to develop something new, then exploit it for decades without needing to innovate further.

China on the other hand does not have this approach to IP. Copying is rife, even between Chinese companies, and generally the idea of being given a state enforced monopoly just because you were first is laughable. As a result, when one Chinese company figures something out, that technology, process, technique, rapidly spreads around the entire market, and all of the competing companies benefit.

This creates few interesting side-effects.

* One a ginormous ecosystem of basic parts and components that are basically common between all competitors in a market (looks at the LiDAR units of robot vacs). This drastically lowers the barrier of entry for new players, it’s easy for them to get access to everything they need to build a “good enough” product, without having to do much R&D themselves.

* Two, it forces all companies to innovate and developer technology continuously. There is no state enforced monopoly for IP, so companies can only maintain an edge by innovating and advancing faster than their competitors at all time.

* Three, it’s makes a failure to constantly innovate an absolute death sentence for a company. Not just because they loose their edge, but because it takes time to rebuild the R&D skills needed to innovate as fast as their competitors. Once you start falling behind, you can never catch up, there is no space to financialise a company and sweat its assets. It’ll be dead before you got any return.

All this creates huge problems for companies like Roomba. They developed so very cool tech early on, but stopped innovating as fast, thinking they had a strong edge over any of their competitors, and solid IP moat. Unfortunately once Chinese companies caught up, and figured out how to get around their moat, its was impossible for Roomba defend against these new competitors. They were able to innovate orders of magnitude faster, because the environment that created meant only the fastest innovating companies could survive, they had huge momentum, and also a huge common core of shared components that had driven the cost of a basic robot vac to well under anything iRobot could achieve.
by haizhung | 2025-12-15 12:37:14+00:00
Very well put. I am working on tooling that will likely increase developer productivity by a large factor; and will most likely be used to lay off more developers as their labor is no longer required.

I often ask myself whether that is ethical or not. But in the end, it’s not the tooling that’s unethical. Productivity increases are good for everyone, under normal circumstances.

It’s the fact that all the gains are being collected by the already uber-wealthy that’s wrong.
by elric | 2025-12-15 12:38:45+00:00
I'm finally wrapping up a little webdav tool that's been on my todo list for years. It's just a simple tool to copy directories over webdav. I tried using Cadaver but I kept running into strange errors with it. And this one ties in with an unusual authentication setup. Might open source it, haven't decided yet.

Also dicking around with DMARC tools. Was unhappy with all the existing tools, want something simple I can run semi-locally for a bunch of low volume email domains. Haven't decided yet how that will turn out, still in the reading specs & tinkering stage.
by wccrawford | 2025-12-15 12:39:02+00:00
It's the curse of writing well. ChatGPT is designed to write well, and so everyone who does that is accused of being AI.

I just saw someone today that multiple people accused of using ChatGPT, but their post was one solid block of text and had multiple grammar errors. But they used something similar to the way ChatGPT speaks, so they got accused of it and the accusers got massive upvotes.