MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jaccola | 2025-12-15 08:07:28+00:00
This is utterly backwards and your false statement leads to a completely wrong set of inferences.

We don't let corporations do anything because they provide value through jobs and taxes. What company do you know that exists (beyond transiently) solely by paying taxes and employing people?

Companies are an extension of the individual, they exist to make money for the individuals that own them so that those individuals can acquire goods and services that they themselves need or desire.

How do companies make this money? Holding people at gun point and taking it is generally illegal; instead they resort to providing goods or services to some set of people who are willing to pay for them.

To provide these goods or services they need to employ people. The fewer people companies in aggregate can employ, the better for people in aggregate since those people can acquire "things" (food, jewellery, phones,...) for less of their own labour (or equivalent dollars).

If the "benefits dry up" as you say, people will stop sending their hard earned money to this company and the company will eventually cease to exist. Your fallacy was assuming the benefits were the jobs and taxes, not the goods and services provided.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-15 08:07:31+00:00
This is why the EU is going the app route. You load your ID into an app, and can review on-the-fly what data you're sharing (including a simple "older than 18" token to buy liquor). The app also allows keeping a log of who requested what data, so if you find out in hindsight that your grocery store requested your full name illegally, you can report them.

Enforcement chances in the US, maybe outside of California, do seem low, but at least the "we cannot do it" argument is off the table when the EU has a ready-to-deploy suite on Github for anyone to access. If you don't like the EU, the Yivi (previously IRMA) project implements pretty much the same ecosystem, but in a slightly different way.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-15 08:07:33+00:00
There are SO MANY Excel sheets someone automated a decade+ ago still used in essential parts of the government and big corporations.

Nobody knows how they work, very few have the skills or time to edit them or check them. People just use them for the convenience.

The magic sauce of Excel is that it's free an scriptable (programmable even). If you want a SaaS, you need to involve IT, Legal, your supervisors and it's a whole-ass thing of contracts and shit.

Excel? It's just there.

There are so many stories and anecdotes of people being in stupid data entry jobs, getting bored and finding out their whole job can be automated with a single smartly done Excel sheet. Then they press F9 once per day and do something else for the rest of the time =)

And just because, my main gripe about Excel: there are no unit tests or validators for it. There's no easy way to programmatically confirm that Cell C5 has the same formula as C875

If (when?) people start AI-coding the things they used to use Excel for, we might get some actual tests and validation to confirm what the code is supposed to actually happens.
by fainpul | 2025-12-15 08:07:44+00:00
If you read a few of the posts in this thread, you qickly notice a pattern: people in need are being helped.

Maybe you are not very adventurous? If your life consists of only hotel trips, best you can expect is a free breakfast upgrade or something like that.

If you're hungry and out of energy on a hike, someone might give you a sandwich. If you're drowning, someone might save your live. The situations you're in determine your experiences, not your looks.
by zwnow | 2025-12-15 08:07:48+00:00
I put my explanation in my earlier comment. Thats interesting, so their sexuality came from the bodies their brain was put into? So the brain essentially transforms too after that surgery. Like I know male and female brains have structural differences (which obviously doesnt have implications on anything else but the brains structure), but the experience people gather throughout their lifetime are heavily influenced by their gender.
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-15 08:08:37+00:00
VAE was invented in the EU (critical parts of diffusion models, like the U-net were also from here). Lots of other fundamental contributions are from here too. Edit: I initially wrote diffusion, but this is wrong-- I never meant diffusion.

The US dominates the commercial space in LLMs, but the EU is much further along in that too than may be immediately apparent.
by qwerpy | 2025-12-15 08:09:04+00:00
Years ago my Sony TV came with Google Assistant enabled, and when I disabled it, it nagged me for a long time to turn it back on until I installed some launcher that finally shut off all the nags and full screen ads. The biggest button on the remote is Google Assistant and I have to keep a careful eye on whoever's using it so that they don't accidentally re-enable it.
by gherkinnn | 2025-12-15 08:09:23+00:00
Many SaaS are not products, but 1-2 features. And an LLM can generate a single-purpose script to replace that one feature you're using. Opus 4.5 does that very well.

As for Retool, I see the several waves of low/no-code products, the current one being LLMs, as repeated attempts to get non technical idea-guys to build their ideas. Where they all fail, and this is fundamental to the problem they're trying to solve, is that idea-guys' ideas crack when meeting reality. And neither Retool nor LLM fix that.
by schappim | 2025-12-15 08:09:50+00:00
There is a version of Thonny[1] designed for use with the Pico that is great for education. Raspberry Pi have some good resources on getting started[2].

If your target audience is school kids, you really can't go past the micro:bit and Makecode[3].

1. https://thonny.org

2. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...

3. https://makecode.microbit.org
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-15 08:10:19+00:00
But local agents will still keep working. Of course they're not as poweful as an acre of industrially cooled compute power, but still a massive improvement over "Intellisense" and code snippets.

You're 100% right though, you shouldn't build your business on top of an AI service and not have a plan what to do _when_ it either goes away or just prices itself out. It's a massive bubble where money is just moving in a circle.
by satinfive | 2025-12-15 08:10:53+00:00
I couldn't find a K-pop API, so I built one. Kpop has millions global fans but no proper REST API for developers building fan apps, bots, or tools (like me). KpopAPI fills that gap. Still in beta—feedback welcome. New endpoints will be added as it evolves and lots of improvements :)

Here is a discord server to discuss about it! https://discord.gg/hYFfEakx6e
by ozim | 2025-12-15 08:10:57+00:00
Why do we expect school or university to teach „understanding”.

It is like teaching snowboarding. You can get the pointers but students have to actually do the snowboarding - there is no shortcut.

The same with knowledge and understanding, you can organize material so they don’t end up in unproductive rabbit holes - but they have to work out their understanding on their own.

Classroom setting is also not really good one unless you have small groups on the same level - larger group and you are just pulling slow ones up and fast ones are getting bored.
by maciejzj | 2025-12-15 08:11:15+00:00
Great idea, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this initiative.

I believe that the main challenge would be to get more traction and build a community. Hope you find a way to encourage as many people as possible to join the website.

My very minor nitpick -- I would add some kind of background colour to the main post list, something like #FAFAFA looks fine to me.
by jwr | 2025-12-15 08:11:18+00:00
As a reminder if you own an LG TV, turn off the sneakily named "Live Plus" thing. This "option" makes your LG TV spy on you, tracking and reporting what you watch based on the image that is shown on the TV.

You need to go to Settings -> All Settings -> General -> System -> Additional Settings to make sure the "Live Plus" option is OFF.

Check it periodically, as it sometimes turns itself back on again after updates.

The enshittification of our world is beyond words.
by mmooss | 2025-12-15 08:11:51+00:00
> It doesn’t actually help you to know that some indigenous population was decimated by the mining of the uranium that power’s the ship’s reactors.

It does, because for people to survive and thrive, they need politics and institutions that don't kill them and that produce CO2 scrubbers. The politics and institutions turn out to be much harder than the scrubbers - few societies produce the latter, and it's generally the ones with much stronger human rights.
by jvink | 2025-12-15 08:11:58+00:00
Mostly been working on tier6 [0], which is "like" zerotier but over the sanctum protocol and fully open source (ISC licensed).

Getting ready to release a 1.0.0 of sanctum [1], after almost a year of internal testing, dogfooding and talking about it at security conferences.

We've also setup conclave [2] as an official release site for the projects tied to sanctum such as tier6, or the library implementation of the protocol etc.

[0] https://github.com/jorisvink/tier6

[1] https://sanctorum.se

[2] https://conclave.se
by duckerduck | 2025-12-15 08:13:06+00:00
I'm building a Typeform/Google Forms alternative that integrates into existing applications and stores data in your own database. It allows you to define forms in JSON Schema or JSON Forms. Forms can be added or removed dynamically, and submissions are sent to your backend and in turn stored in your database.

Built using our full-stack library toolkit Fragno [0].

[0]: https://fragno.dev/
by mirzap | 2025-12-15 08:13:18+00:00
They already have, significantly, around 25-35% in developed economies. The issue is that people often look at revenue, seeing company X earning $100 billion annually, and assume they should pay $20 billion in taxes. However, most AI companies today are not profitable and spend up to 100% more than their revenue on R&D and product development. I doubt they will turn a profit anytime soon, probably not for at least a decade.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-15 08:13:20+00:00
I personally think Youtube itself is just fine. It has parental controls and I can block channels etc.

What isn't fine is YOUTUBE FUCKING SHORTS. It's by far the worst of the infinite content producers in the world because automated uploads are so easy compared to the other platforms and there is no way to block it completely from kids without just banning all of Youtube. It _needs_ to have a separate setting.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-15 08:14:59+00:00
> What would you have the education system do? Put iPads in front of kids all day?

A clear majority of parents that I know actually would have the education system do that. Hence the oftentimes poor results.

A private school I looked at in 2025 required iPads (and nothing else) because their entire management of students was don by an iPad application (that worked on nothing but iPads).

The school admin/marketer/consultant/whatever I spoke to during the sales call literally did not understand what I meant when I said "If your management is so incompetent at decision-making that they got shangaied into buying into this deficient ecosystem when almost any other decision would have worked for both major mobile platforms, why on earth would I think that the other decisions they make would be any good".[1]

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[1] Management who make obviously incompetent decisions like "Our study material only works on iPads" are obviously incompetent or otherwise disconnected from reality.
by seec | 2025-12-15 08:15:11+00:00
I have premium French dressing in my fridge. It's 483 kcal/100g. The recommended serving size is 2 tablespoons, but most people actually put in at least 3. That's about 20-30 g of vinaigrette. In other words, it's about 150 kcal just for the vinaigrette, or about 50g of bread.

You are an idiot, I'm not your buddy, go fuck yourself.
by foldr | 2025-12-15 08:15:18+00:00
No, I just think that Rust is less safe than it would be if it didn’t have the unsafe escape hatch.

I think you’re taking issue with how pizlonator phrased his post rather than addressing the substance of his point that Fil-C does not have the ‘unsafe’ escape hatch and is therefore safer in this respect. Sure, Rust uses a pretty standard definition of memory safety when talking about the desired property of the program, but pizlonator is talking about the definition of memory safety that the Rust compiler actually guarantees that Rust code will meet, which (when you include unsafe-marked code) is a conditional and weaker one.
by Semaphor | 2025-12-15 08:15:27+00:00
I'm using selfhosted multi scrobbler [0] to scrobble to lfm, listenbrainz, and selfhosted koito [1].

Maybe not super useful, but fun ;) when at home, I scrobble to MS which distributes the data, when I have no VPN active on the go, I scrobble to last.fm only, which then gets used as source by MS as well, to redistribute it to the others.

[0] https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler

[1] https://github.com/gabehf/Koito/
by jwr | 2025-12-15 08:17:55+00:00
I am the founder of a niche SaaS (https://partsbox.com/ — software for managing electronic parts inventory and production). While I am somewhat worried about AI capabilities, I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

The worry is that customers who do not realize the full depth of the problem will implement their own app using AI. But that happens today, too: people use spreadsheets to manage their electronic parts (please don't) and BOMs (bills of materials). The spreadsheet is my biggest competitor.

I've been designing and building the software for 10 years now and most of the difficulty and complexity is not in the code. Coding is the last part, and the easiest one. The real value is in understanding the world (the processes involved) and modeling it in a way that cuts a good compromise between ease of use and complexity.

Sadly, as I found out, once you spend a lot of time thinking and come up with a model, copycats will clone that (as well as they can, but superficially it will look similar).
by crote | 2025-12-15 08:18:39+00:00
The flipside of this is that the RP2xxx has rather poor hard IP, and the PIO is not quite powerful enough to make up for it.

They are great for basic hobbyist projects, but they just can't compare to something like an STM32 for more complicated applications.

They are a pleasure to work with and I think that they are great MCUs, but every time I try to use them for nontrivial applications I end up being disappointed.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 08:19:23+00:00
>Atmel had shipped 500 million AVR flash microcontrollers, due in large part to the ecosystem created by Arduino.

How do you know the 500 million sales is due to the Arduino ecosystem?

I used to work in embedded for 10+ years and in the 4 companies I worked at so far, none of the products ever featured AVR microcontrollers. The microcontroller of choice for production was always based on the feature/cost ratio for each application, never on the "is it part of the Arduino ecosystem?" question.

Tinkering with Arduino at home, and building products for mass production, have widely different considerations.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-15 08:19:39+00:00
> The reality is that, even for smart people, the world is pretty hard to navigate with book learning. I’m reminded of the last president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, a professor at Hopkins with a PhD from Columbia who wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States.” Yet he was spectacularly unsuccessful at fixing the problems that were squarely within the field of his expertise.

Outliers.

You cannot come to conclusions based on examining outliers only. The better conclusion is from taking a sample of the population, and checking the correlation between test scores and success.

> Given the limits academia’s predictive power with respect to complex issues, I think it’s more important to select for and socialize pro-adaptive “gut feelings.”

There's plenty of studies that determine the correlation between academic performance and success. Have you possibly even considered that the basic "gut-feeling" only gets better (i.e. more predictive successes) with better academic scores?

IOW, the more you know, the more you learn, the better your heuristic is when making snap conclusions.
by vpShane | 2025-12-15 08:20:25+00:00
Should be interesting to see how the internet blocks those of us who don't want to be fingerprinted, ID'd, or reveal our home IP addresses. YouTube already blocks embeds to login and prove I'm not a bot, funnily it doesn't work and embeds never play. Reddit will block me unless I'm signed in which I don't mind too much, but the daily beast and many others block me which is a shame because I'm a real human being using the internet as intended.

Instead of blocking or limiting features to whitelist users with approved behavioral patterns and limit / block those that don't -- such as loading a page and immediately commenting or doing things that normal humans don't do, they block IP addresses and ASNs.

I just close the browser tab and remind myself not to waste my time caring, there'll be other platforms.

My router is setup for WireGaurd and it'll never be disabled.

Shame on SoundCloud
by seec | 2025-12-15 08:20:33+00:00
I'm not American; I'm French. We invented the vinaigrette, and I have worked at quite premium restaurants. You are just clueless, and it's not even worth explaining.

Salad is a stupid meal for rich people to feel superior. It's wasteful and plain stupid. And if you are actually a worker (or someone who needs to be physical), you are ingesting the wrong type of calories. But that's the whole point. It's not sustainable for a worker; thus it is a class signifier.
by tete | 2025-12-15 08:20:43+00:00
That has been a long way coming. Only a couple of months ago I was looking at alternatives and "Arduino compatible" products. The reason being simply that so many "for fun projects" are built with it and I wondered what good alternatives there are.

I kind of drifted off. So curious about what people here think is the best "Arduino when it still was open source" contender. Preferably something Arduino compatible because of the sheer amount of projects already out there.

That said I've heard a fair bit about Adafruit criticism as well, but that's more on the company level and no personal experience there.
by fabian2k | 2025-12-15 08:20:50+00:00
The secondary structure graphic is entirely wrong. It's full of bad chemical formulas, and I would assume is AI-generated.

I'm quite impressed by the amino acid overview graphic. I'm sure all images are AI-generated, and this one is something I didn't expect AI to be able to do yet. There are mistakes in there (e.g. Threenine instead of Threonine, charged amino groups for some amino acids), but it doesn't look immediately wrong. Though I haven't needed to know the chemical formular for all the amino acids in a long time, so there are probably more errors in there I didn't immediately notice. The angles and lengths of the bonds are not entirely consistent, but that also happens without AI sometimes if someone doesn't know the drawing tools well. The labels are probably the clearest indicator, because they are partly wrong and they are not consistent as they also include the non-side-chain parts sometimes, which doesn't make sense.

The biology part of the text looks somehwat reasonable overall, I didn't notice any completely outrageous statements at a quick glance. Though I don't like the "folding is reproducible" statement as that is a huge oversimplification. Proteins do misfold, and there is an entire apparatus in the cells to handle those cases and clean them up.
by supermatt | 2025-12-15 08:20:50+00:00
> am I missing something?

I believe so? A domain can not get renewed for many reasons - such as the death of the registrant. The domain can then get reregistered and the email addresses effectively "hijacked", leading to impersonation of the original owners.

A reliable email provider with a policy of never recycling an email address would mean that scenario wont happen. Obviously they can change policy, but if that happens while I am able then obviously I can inform everyone to migrate to a new email then.

This is an attempt to protect against a legitimate security concern.
by switz | 2025-12-15 08:20:52+00:00
It doesn’t really matter if they’re using commercial VPNs or the same upstream providers as commercial VPNs. Blocking an ASN is a million times more effective than blocking single IPs (at the risk of blocking genuine customers). I’ve had customers reach out to me asking to be unbanned after I blocked a few ASNs that had hostile scrapers coming out of them. It’s a tough balance.

VPNs often use providers with excellent peering and networking - the same providers that scrapers would want to use.
by bilekas | 2025-12-15 08:20:55+00:00
I have to say I'm surprised at the sentiment here that the companies shouldn't be taxed a higher rate than currently.

It's disingenuous to claim that companies are paying the fair amount of taxes on their earnings.

Plainly speaking, the human labor who will be replaced pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes that corporations.

https://observer.com/2024/11/sam-altman-openai-salary/

Simple well known and preventable accounting tricks make the rich never need to pay a fair share. Yet regular people are now even seeing their electricity bills go up because they're using the infrastructure to such an extent.

Yet the sentiment here is : Well don't be silly, they're making profits so they're paying taxes.

They're not making a profit, yet they're reducing employment, increasing services bills for everyone else.

https://www.iea.org/news/ai-is-set-to-drive-surging-electric...
by rerdavies | 2025-12-15 08:21:17+00:00
It is no so much the parts of the code that run infrequently that contribute to poor performance, but the very tiny <1% of all code that does run frequently, and should be running completely in cache. So code size doesn't have an enormous impact on speed of execution.

The overhead of threading seems pretty obvious: call and return instructions are expensive compared to the cost of the one equivalent instruction that would have been executed in a compiled implementation. And placing arguments on a stack means that all operands have to to be read from and written to memory, incurring additional ferocious overhead, whereas a compiler would enregister values, particularly in performance-critical code. Not unreasonable to expect that Forth code is going to run at least an order of magnitude slower than compiled code.
by cornholio | 2025-12-15 08:21:32+00:00
There has been substantial development in a replacement for all copper wires in the form of CCA - copper clad aluminum conductors.

This product combines the advantages of both materials - low price and mass, stable connection, can be soldered etc. while using a small fraction of copper. It's making inroads into aviation and motor vehicle harnesses, and will probably be the default low cost option for new homes in a few decades.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-12-15 08:21:42+00:00
> I do not know how to respond to such situations.

>I am a professional problem solver.

As it so happens, you can probably apply the latter to solve your knowledge gap re/ the former.

Unless you don't actually consider it a problem, but a facet of your personality or something. Valid. But, if you are capable of applying that thinking to yourself, why are you not able to extend the same grace to others, and wait until you're asked for a solution?
by Crowberry | 2025-12-15 08:22:59+00:00
I second this. Most of our customers IT department struggle to look at the responses from their failed API calls. Their systems and organisations are just too big.

As it stands today; just a bit of complexity is all that is required to make AI Agents fail. I expect the gap to narrow over the years of course. But capturing complex business logic and simplifying it will probably be useful and worth paying for a long time into the future.