MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-30 02:09:21+00:00
He should join the Ardour project. Or go to work for Ableton or Bitwig or Presonus or Digidesign or MOTU or any other DAW manufacturer. Or any video or image editing application. Or get involved with more or less any complex, "creative" native desktop application.

All of the stuff he feels he is falling behind on? Almost completely irrelevant in our domain.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-30 02:09:32+00:00
> Anyhow, we know what life was like before Great Society programs, and it wasn't higher wages for the poor, we've just forgotten because it's been so successful.

That doesn't tell you the answer because the programs were instituted prior to the productivity increases in the 20th century. Are people better off now than they were before the general availability of electric light or mechanized transportation? Probably, but that doesn't mean you can trace the development of modern agriculture to the existence of SNAP.

> In a free market, how would Walmart be forced to pay a "livable wage" if entitlements didn't exist?

People frequently have choices between jobs that are easier or otherwise more pleasant and jobs that pay more. For example, long-haul truck drivers get paid significantly more than short-haul drivers, but they also sleep in their trucks and don't get to see their families most nights. Likewise, a lot of jobs require you to get a degree or certification, which can be a lot of work, which people may not be willing to do if they don't need to.

If you give them "benefits" then they take the easier job over the better paying one. Which allows the employer offering the easier job to pay less and still get applicants. It also creates a poverty trap if the benefits are contingent on not making more money, because then the compensation advantage of the higher-paying job is much smaller -- in some cases negative.

> EITC increases as your wages increase, theoretically incentivizing work, rather than diminishing as you earn more.

Except that it does diminish as you earn more, because it has an aggressive phase out. For a single person with no dependents, the phase out kicks in below federal minimum wage. If you had a minimum wage job at 30 hours a week and wanted to work 40 hours, increasing your hours would cause you to receive a smaller EITC.

There is a reason the EITC represents ~0.1% of the federal budget, and it's not because it's a bad idea, it's because it's implemented in a way that prevents people from getting much from it.
Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)
by stanyy | 2025-12-30 02:11:03+00:00
I built an open source web app that generates cover letters using local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, etc.) so your resume and job application data never leaves your machine.

No placeholders. No typing. Letters are ready to copy and paste.

The workflow is:
1. Upload your resume (PDF) - it gets parsed and cached in your browser.
2. Paste the job description
3. Get a personalized cover letter in ~5 seconds

It connects to any OpenAI-compatible local LLM endpoint. I use it with Ollama + llama3.2, but it works with any local model server.

Key features:
- 100% local and private depending on the LLM of your choice
- Smart resume parsing with pdf-parse
- Multi-language support (you can add more languages)
- Editable output with one-click copy

I made this because I was tired of wasting time with writing letters while applying for jobs. All other tools I tried weren't as quick as I wanted because I still needed to modify the letters to replace placeholders.

I also didn't find any tool that let's me use my local LLM for free, and I didn't want to pay for ChatGPT/Claude API calls for every job application.

The output quality is good, and it can bypass some AI detectors.

It's open source too and free to use. You can self-host it or run it locally in development mode.

GitHub: https://github.com/stanleyume/coverlettermaker

Cheers :)
by KnuthIsGod | 2025-12-30 02:12:00+00:00
Plenty of unemployable PhDs here Australia. I know one who is tutoring high school students to earn a living. His thesis was on phycology and the production of sustainable fuels. A nuclear physicist with a PhD is unemployable and is retraining as a data scientist. Another phycologist is retraining as a counsellor. A molecular biologist is running a plant shop.
The first phycologist is charming but a century ago, he would have been a charming but very average greenkeeper or a gardener.

Bright people in Australia head into finance, medicine or law not into dead end PhDs. The problem is that universities sucker too many into PhD programs for the sake of the departmental government funding. This leads to indiscriminate entry into virtually all the PhD programs in Australia. When they graduate they are often underemployed or unemployed.

The ultimate harm to society is the production of research slop that worsens the SN ratio in published work.
by adamaustad | 2025-12-30 02:12:32+00:00
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by octorian | 2025-12-30 02:12:49+00:00
Its also useful for developers to have a way of bypassing customer support to have direct visibility into what issues the actual users are experiencing. This can come in the form of browsing tickets, online forums, or social media.

Often something that's easily brushed off by a support rep will ring a bell in the mind of a developer who has recently worked in the area of the code related to the issue.
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-30 02:13:28+00:00
I currently prefer Cursor to CC, does Superset play well with Cursor too? Is this a replacement for their work tree feature?

I haven’t setup worktrees yet, so if I have a quick task while working in main, I currently just spin up another agent in plan mode, and then execute them serially. In parallel would be really nice though. I often have 5-10 agents with completed plans, and I’m just slogging through executing them one at a time.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-30 02:14:39+00:00
You are correct. I wasn't advocating that it not be posted, and I can see how my post made that seem what I meant.

I just didn't think that it was something that I would be that interested in, but I really enjoy many of the oddball, eclectic articles posted here, so my statement really isn't one that I feel should carry weight.

I did think it was a pretty "light on detail" post, though. I read stuff like that, all the time, and most of what I read, is a lot more "meaty," so it's really just a personal thing, for Yours Truly.
by Manouchehri | 2025-12-30 02:14:43+00:00
Would you be open to offering MASQUE proxying? I started to as support to GOST, been testing with Bright Data (only for UDP sadly, not TCP), but would love to see others add support so I could test with more than just 1 vendor.

https://github.com/go-gost/x/pull/75

https://github.com/go-gost/x/pull/76
by mikestorrent | 2025-12-30 02:15:50+00:00
To be fair, back in those "good old phpbb days", people trolled just as hard as anyone does now, and maybe worse, since the consequences of it were not as visible, and getting in trouble for things you said online was virtually nonexistent. Everyone used a fake name, and while it might be possible to dox someone, it wasn't an operational concern for anyone who just wanted to be a jerk...
by alisonatwork | 2025-12-30 02:16:53+00:00
From what I've heard from people who insist on using Substack even though it's American, VC-funded and full of dark patterns, they are trying to make money from their writing and are actively hoping to capitalize on its social network features. Basically they want Instagram or YouTube for text, they want "the algorithm", they want the recommendations, they want the analytics, they want the money or the fame more than they want to uphold their indie values. There is no non-US alternative that provides an equal-sized network effect, but if there was it would anyway be problematic because that whole model of monetization where the platform refuses to take any editorial responsibility incentivizes the production of clickbait, ragebait, misinformation/disinformation, scams, slop etc.

Of course for ordinary people there has always been an alternative to Substack, and it's the Bcc field in their email client. For folks looking to self-publish on the web, Wordpress has been around for decades now - there is no excuse for any serious writer or journalist not to know about it and the multitude of managed hosting options. Even for a newsletter-first option, there is Ghost. But if you discuss this with writers who move to Substack the answer is always the same - they want to try access the money or the fame that may come from being on the most popular social network for writing. I think the only fix for this broken ecosystem is for governments to dismantle these sorts of companies, but the US will never kill their golden geese - they are gladly taking a cut from every other country's content creators.
by zmgsabst | 2025-12-30 02:17:06+00:00
Helicopters can operate off supply ships, 100km back from the conflict area and ferry munitions to your battleship that’s standing only 20km back. You can also use airdrops from cargo planes, delivery by small boats, or dropping back to meet the supply ship directly. None of those methods resupply VLS cells.

We’re also not debating a return to old guns — but to a modern version using autoloaders and shells equipped with guidance and range extension, to around 100km using modern techniques. Using barrages of all barrels, it’s closer to firing off waves of ~45 missiles at targets 100km away (9 guns, 5 rounds per minute burst).

The real difference is a battleship carries 1200 rounds instead of 120 VLS cells — and can replenish those rounds at sea. We gain that increased storage and endurance for decreased burst capacity, but remain over 45/min; excluding the VLS cells (which a modern battleship would also have).
by Aerroon | 2025-12-30 02:17:17+00:00
An important thing to add: the gaming industry was basically the R&D that (partly) led to this AI in the first place. GPUs were gaming devices first and foremost. The programmable pipeline came about because people wanted their video games to look better.

Furthermore, Stable Diffusion was (is) absolutely a large component to all of this. And a lot of that effort was grass roots: random people online can't together to figure out ways to generate better images.

It would be quite ironic if the next revolution comes about on Intel or AMD (or some Chinese company's) hardware because those GPUs were more affordable.
by goatlover | 2025-12-30 02:18:00+00:00
> The simple local lifestyle is that which was lived by all of humanity for all of history up until the last ~75 years (give or take).

A percentage of people still traveled, communicated, traded and migrated to other places in the past. Cities were a mix of lots of people, commerce, news. It was just slower and a smaller percentage. Look at the letters of Paul in the bible. He was writing to different communities around the Roman Empire, and traveled to them when he could.

Looking at the big picture, trade, communication and migration are the norm over human history. We colonized the world before the Industrial Revolution, some humans did it thousands of years prior.
by godelski | 2025-12-30 02:18:43+00:00
According to the Fed

- Median bank account balances in the U.S. range from $5,400 for those under 35
- ... $13,400 for ages 65–74

So yeah, in range.

Does it require saving? Yes. But most Americans go on vacation each year. Give up the cost of a few years of vacations and you have this one.

I want to stress "not out of reach" doesn't mean easy. It explicitly doesn't mean one doesn't have to reach. I'd have said something very different if I meant most Americans could easily go on that trip. I specifically mean if it's something they really wanted to do, enough to save over a few years (or more) then that's something that could be accomplished.

https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-the-average-ameri...

https://www.statista.com/chart/31152/share-of-us-respondents...
by techjamie | 2025-12-30 02:19:00+00:00
Personally, I have no issue watching things that are shot at 60fps (like YouTube videos, even live action) but the motion smoothing on TV shows makes it look off to me.

I dunno if it's just a me thing, but I wonder if a subconscious part of my brain is pegging the motion smoothed content as unnatural movement and dislikes it as a result.
by lategloriousgnu | 2025-12-30 02:19:41+00:00
Cloudflare works with the UK government to facilitate blocks within their infra, I assume in exchange for being allowed to access UK network infrastructure.

In the case that a blocked site resolved to a Cloudflare IP, it would likely be kicked off of Cloudflare, or geo-blocked for UK users (by Cloudflare).

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/07/cloudflare-blo...
by ggreer | 2025-12-30 02:19:58+00:00
Since this is a discussion about electric vehicles, I thought it could go without saying that I was talking about batteries in such vehicles, not batteries in consumer electronics that are 1,000 times smaller.

To use an analogy: If someone stores a gallon of gasoline in a single-walled plastic container, that's probably OK. But storing 1,000 gallons of gasoline without certain safety measures is unsafe. So it goes with battery capacities.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-30 02:20:00+00:00
> But in theory fingerprinting with protocol RTT difference where one protocol is proxied and the other is impossible to bypass, but this is only the theory.

Alice wants you to think she's in New York when she's really in Taipei, so she gets a VM in New York and runs a browser in it via RDP. How are you detecting this?
by bigiain | 2025-12-30 02:21:27+00:00
They moved from platform USA/Surveillance-Capitalism to platform non-USA/Privacy.

That's a big deal to some of us.

Especially important it the demonstration that your privacy which Google et al, are so insistent on monetizing, does not mean they are charging you less for the same services that other companies can charge when you are paying only with your money, not your privacy as well.
by chii | 2025-12-30 02:21:32+00:00
It's because the poster assume that each pirated copy ought to have been paid for - which if they had been, then a previously failing game would've been viable.

But this doesn't make the statement true - because the assumption that each pirated copy would've been paid for had there been no piracy. This is the same incorrect logic that music/movie copyright holders use to count pirated works' financial "damages".
by tom_m | 2025-12-30 02:21:42+00:00
There will be a need. Don't worry. Most people still haven't figured out how to properly read and interpret instructions. So they build things incorrectly - with or without AI

Seriously. The bar is that low. When people say "AI slop" I just chuckle because it's not "AI" it's everyone. That's the general state of the industry.

So all you have to do is stay engaged, ask questions, and understand the requirements. Know what it is you're building and you'll be fine.
by adzm | 2025-12-30 02:23:09+00:00
> Maybe one cave system has a place where it connects to a dungeon, which connects also to a basement in some guy’s house in the middle of nowhere

To an extent, tears of the kingdom really does do this a few places, but not enough. It really is fun finding new holes into the underworld from a cave, and using the caves to get into the shed in that one village or to the tower etc
by randycupertino | 2025-12-30 02:23:23+00:00
> I'm a big fan of podcasts; this year I've heard multiple podcasts that I listen to say that the bottom fell out of podcast ad sponsorship money and they lost a lot of funding. Many were looking for alternative ways to fund their podcasts like selling monthly subscriptions.

This has happened to a bunch of youtubers I follow recently as well! They mentioned youtube funding all but dried up as advertising dollars moved to more short-form content. I've heard maybe 5-8 of them mention it.
by jesuslop | 2025-12-30 02:23:24+00:00
TBH it is not ALL cloudFlare IPs but a significant quantity of sites using and not using CF CDNs. You cannot imagine what a pest that is even for legit users of legit collateral damage pages. CloudFlare is in the courts appealing/countering initial court allowance to blockade and ISPs are bound to comply to blackout requests. You can look at https://hayahora.futbol (traslation: is there soccer match now?) to see affected domains.
by kylemuth | 2025-12-30 02:24:02+00:00
A couple of months ago, I spent weeks hunting down potential users, tweaking cold DMs/emails, and reaching out to 600+ people on Instagram/email to validate a SaaS idea (brand deal management for creators).

The results for all of this effort....? Absolutely nothing.

The product solved a real problem—but not one painful enough for people to pay for. The bigger mistake? Spending three months building everything first and then trying to go about validation.

It’s easy to fall into “my idea will be different” until reality hits. Real validation only happens when people give you one of three things:
• Their time
• Their reputation
• Their money

So this time I’m doing it right. I’m building VibeValidation: a tool that generates custom validation kits for founders and indie hackers/vibe coders.

You feed it your idea → answer a few quick questions → get a ready-to-use kit:
• Prompts to spin up a landing page/waitlist fast (Lovable/Cursor)
• X thread templates
• Reddit/HN post drafts
• Tailored cold DM scripts
• Interview question frameworks

“Why not just use ChatGPT?”

You absolutely can. But anyone who’s worked with AI tools in any capacity knows the cycle: endless prompt tweaking to get something that finally sounds human and works. Even then, it often falls flat.

This removes that friction and where speed acts an advantage—you spend less time iterating and more time getting ideas out into the wild and finding out if what you're building is something worth paying for.

Curious: what’s your worst (or best) validation war story? What actually moved the needle for you?
by austinbaggio | 2025-12-30 02:25:13+00:00
I can't find it, but there's a good graph that shows Google search decline in share to GPT, but it excludes Gemini. With Gemini, it stays relatively on par. That's pretty much the answer with where one goes. LLMs are higher intent than search could ever be, and they are closer to you selling to yourself than a store selling to you since they have all of your user context
by gaigalas | 2025-12-30 02:25:27+00:00
I like the fact that it forgets.

Each time an LLM looks at my project, it's like a newcomer has arrived. If it keeps repeating mistakes, it's because my project sucks.

It's an unique opportunity. You can have lots of repeated feedback from "infinite newcomers" to a project, each of their failures an opportunity to make things clearer. Better docs (for humans, no machine-specific hacks), better conventions, better examples, more intuitive code.

That, in my opinion, is how markdown (for machines only and not humans) will fall. There will be a breed of projects that thrives with minimal machine-specific context.

For example, if my project uses MIDI, I'm much better doing some specialized tools and examples that introduce MIDI to newcomers (machines and humans alike) than writing extensive "skill documents" that explain what MIDI is and how it works.

Think like a human do. Do you prefer being introduced to a codebase by reading lots of verbose docs or having some ready-to-run examples that can get you going right away? We humans also forget, or ignore, or keep redundant context sources away (for a good reason).
by dgunay | 2025-12-30 02:26:21+00:00
Even if you are not gaining a big productivity boost from parallel agents, the paradigm has these positive externalities:

- I am no longer chained to my laptop. With the right setup, you can make real progress just using your phone as a thin client to your agents.
- They can easily outrun me when it comes to raw typing speed. For certain tasks, this does make things faster since the review is easy but the editing is tedious. It also helps if you have RSI.
- They are great for delegating small things that can potentially become distracting rabbit holes.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-30 02:26:36+00:00
If you're comfortable going with a US-based provider, https://www.scipress.io/ seems a lot more honest. They've DIY'd their legal documents badly, but they prohibit AI-farms and don't appear to sell user data. If I had to pick based on first impressions, I'm far more inclined to trust Scipress.
by bananaboy | 2025-12-30 02:27:24+00:00
Hm yeah. We removed it a few years ago now so I assume they should have found it though. We followed these instructions and had to contact valve and give a justification https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/retire_app I don’t remember the details of the form but maybe there were options and one amounts to being delisted and another amounts to just no longer being visible and available for sale.
by sailingparrot | 2025-12-30 02:27:46+00:00
Uncharitable take.
His last public stance on this a few months ago when he released nanochat was that he didn’t use coding LLM for it, even though he tried, because they were not good enough and he was just losing time, so coded everything manually. Andrej is already set for life, and has moved into education where most of what he does is released for free.
by jitl | 2025-12-30 02:28:21+00:00
I have my agent run all docker commands in the main worktree. Sometimes this is awkward but mostly docker stuff is slow changing. I never run the stuff I’m developing in docker, I always run on the host directly.

For my current project (Postgres proxy like PGBouncer) I had Claude write a benchmark system that’s worktree aware. I have flags like -a-worktree=… -b-worktree =… so I can A/B benchmark between worktrees. Works great.
by throwaway5465 | 2025-12-30 02:28:27+00:00
While TFA is anecdote, the author mentions maintaining their spend, being gifted adword budget, and getting lower returns so increasing spend.

This suggests adword revenue is up, conversion to adword 'dollar' balances is inflating those balances, so both return per dollar in is down and even more down is return per adword balance dollar.

It's a leading indicator that quarterly-return focused Google must be scrambling to fix right now - they inflated themselves out of Q4 2025 but 2026 is a question mark, or to parle some Boxton Matrix, is the cash cow dying and if so is the extension strategy ad injection in AI responses, product placement in your AI videos, background changes in your family snaps, etc.
by finolex1 | 2025-12-30 02:28:47+00:00
Is there anything substantial in his list ("agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations") that Claude Code or Cursor don't already incorporate?

I empathize with his sense that if we could just provide the right context and development harness to an AI model, we could be *that* much more productive, but it might just be misplaced hope. Claude Code and Cursor are probably not that far from the current frontier for LLM development environments.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-30 02:29:27+00:00
There's many guides out there for exactly this, but this one from QuinLED is probably the best [0].

You can't really avoid power injection downstream. I'm not sure if you're using 24v LEDs based on your ask (you said rails). But even with 24v strips at 20m you'll need 4A edge injection with 720 LED/m. This is literally one of the most simplistic approaches without being under powered.

[0] https://quinled.info/the-ultimate-led-strip-power-injection-...