MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-10 16:35:09+00:00
The evidence broadly shows that the people who vote for this will not change their mind. Not when their farming business is likely going to fail due to tariffs (~78% of farmers voted for this), not when their North Carolina saw mill that has been in the family for forty years is forced to close (Mackey’s Ferry Sawmill), not when their ACA subsidies and SNAP benefits are pulled. One's presence and voice is immaterial. One can both vote and donate to campaigns from abroad; there is literally nothing one can do on US soil you cannot do from abroad while not exposing yourself and potentially family to a slowly failing and degrading governance system, that by all observations and evidence, hates its citizens with policy.

As I often ask when problem scoping, "What is your time horizon?" Will things change in 3, 5, 7, 10 years? ~2M voters 55+ die every year in the US, ~5k per day (mental models are rigid, progress occurs one funeral at a time as Planck said). Young voters were very excited for this admin, and now that vibes have met reality, they are not so excited, with a roughly 50 point swing in favorability in polling. I expect a swing back, considering recent elections over the last few weeks, but it will take quite some time.

So, from a first principles perspective, if you can live somewhere safer, better, or other idea of more favorable while losing nothing, why not? You can always move back if the US gets its shit together, and if it doesn't, you have made a home and life for yourself somewhere more favorable. Leaving is not giving up, it is merely having a better life experience while sacrificing nothing except US in person work opportunities and proximity to friends and loved ones (if applicable) for the time horizon in question. Some may feel entitled to functional governance systems, and they should (imho) vote with their feet and wallets. It is a rational evaluation in a volatile environment.

And if another country is offering you a residency visa or path to citizenship, they clearly want you. You might not be aware, but the developed world is going through a working age population crunch due to structural demographics; skilled workers are in demand, as well as those with either investment, pension, or social security income.

(think in systems)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 16:35:41+00:00
> more money you have, more you benefit from this ruling

This is nonsense.

The poor of New York benefit from congestion pricing. It means more funding for the public transit they predominantly take. And for the minority who drive for a living it increases their revenues.

The opposition to congestion charges comes from principally outside New York, often from folks who have little to no familiarity with it.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-10 16:36:04+00:00
It's true that brake dust is the primary PM2.5 emission from vehicles in an urban environment. However the PM2.5 component from tail pipes are still very significant, higher than the contribution from tires.

The order is:

1. brake dust 2. road dust 3. engine emissions 4. tire dust

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00456...

https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/another-way-electric-cars-cle...
by poguemahoney | 2025-12-10 16:36:21+00:00
I was replying in the context of what you were replying to where they either could spend 30k or make a private root. I'm not sure they were actually using EV but for it to cost $30k and given the topic of the thread it seems plausible they were using some technicality on EV or similar to reduce public domain validation requirements.
by notecal | 2025-12-10 16:36:49+00:00
So yeah, I basically ended up building my own calorie tracking app because every other app was just annoying and way too complicated for my brain. Tracking my macros was a full headache and since I’m ADHD it was even worse. I’m going to the gym like 8 days a week and tried everything. MyFitnessPal, random apps, paid ones, all of them.

One day I kinda did the math and realized it was taking me like 3 to 4 minutes just to log ONE meal. Multiply that by how many meals a day and then a month and then a whole year… yeah nah. I’m not doing that forever.

Then those “take a picture and the AI tells you calories” apps came out around 2023 and I swear I thought I found heaven. I tried like 3 of them, paid of course, and all of them were trash. It actually took me more time because I had to fix every macro manually one by one. So annoying.

So I stopped tracking the normal way and did something different. I just wrote my food in my iPhone notes and at the end of the day I gave the text to ChatGPT. It gave me the macros and calories and if it was wrong I would ask again or fix the portions. Sometimes I even tried Perplexity because it was better at some stuff. That system actually worked perfectly.

I told my gym bros about it and they started doing the same and then their friends told their friends and so on.

Then it hit me… why not make an app that looks like a normal notes app but has AI already inside and it understands what I write about food automatically without me doing anything extra.

And that is how Notecal AI started.

I added a 3 day free trial so if you hate it or it doesn’t fit you, just unsubscribe. No hard feelings.
by ben_w | 2025-12-10 16:37:16+00:00
It was high ranked last year, is it still high ranked now?

With the €100k fees for certain visas, with all the news about ICE, with the requirement to have public social media profiles to get in combined with the other news about people getting deported for having politically unacceptable opinions?

According to this, the USA was net-negative on immigration by 1.4 million people between Jan and June 2025, but I don't know how seasonal things and partial data modify that: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findi...

Blip, or long term change? I also don't know.
by yks | 2025-12-10 16:37:42+00:00
> How would they keep everyone under control? You won't find that many people eager to participate in satellite regimes or new social experiments, like you had in post-WWII.

Through cynicism and propaganda, just like they've been doing at home, and the same way it works in the US now. Everyone can see the corruption and depravity of the current regime, it might as well be a Russian satellite (many people would claim it already is), and yet we all collectively do nothing about it.
by aynyc | 2025-12-10 16:38:06+00:00
Yes, we have to in order to use a lot of the features. The core issue for us is really the way Django assumes code represents database state. In normal webapp where the application has full control of the database, that's a good idea. But our databases are overloaded for simple transactions, analytics, users managements, jobs and AI. Business uses the databases in various ways such as Power BI, Aquastudio, etc.. Django app is actually a tiny part of the database. As you can imagine, we duck tape the heck out of the databases, and Django goes bonkers when things aren't matching.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-12-10 16:38:30+00:00
I am not convinced they are executing code. Otherwise I would expect LLMs to not frequently guess the result of math questions.

Of course you could train it. Some quick scripting to find all words with repeat letters, build up sample sentences (aardvark has three a,) and you have hard coded the answer to simple questions that make your LLM look stupid.
by letmetweakit | 2025-12-10 16:38:40+00:00
> TLS inspection products can intercept the paste transaction before the data leaves the company network, hitting the user with a "No you didn't! Shame on you!"-banner and notify the admins how a user just tried to paste hundreds of customers' personal information and credit card details into some snooping website, or into otherwise allowed LLM chat which still is not allowed to be used with confidential information."

Are there tools that do this reliably today without a whole bunch of false positives?
by lm28469 | 2025-12-10 16:38:59+00:00
Sure, but the parts you still enjoy wouldn't even exist otherwise. Even the crumbling western european healthcare system is miles ahead of the american one for the average citizen.

It's always been a ponzi scheme, even 20 years ago when you enjoyed it and thought everything was perfect.

> low skilled migrants that are not incentivized to work.

Including all the FIRE people and tech migrants who come to take freebies while not chipping in
by schmiddim | 2025-12-10 16:39:20+00:00
Was in the same situation last year and gave up waiting for a new Oasis or Voyage. Bought an Android Reader (Boox Go Color 7) with Buttons. Battery life is comparable to the Oasis, Buttons are OK. The Oasis is much better made. I really enjoy the App Koreader and the support for Bluetooth Remotes. I transfer my Epubs remote via Calibre.
by fullstop | 2025-12-10 16:39:26+00:00
> Just the cost to get my garage outfitted with a charging port is about to be in the thousands because it requires me to replace the entire breaker panel. Now this is a me problem because that panel is ancient but it does add to the total cost of "doing this" and going EV.

You likely don't need to replace the panel, as load management options exist. Wallbox, in particular, has an option where you can add a modbus doo-dad (carlo gavazzi energy management module) to your panel and it will monitor the overall usage and drop the EVSE current to keep it at a safe level.

It's more expensive than if you had a modern panel, but less expensive than replacing the panel itself.
by btown | 2025-12-10 16:39:39+00:00
This could be hugely popular for songwriters who want a zero-friction way to capture melodies or lyric ideas on the go!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Songwriting/comments/yd8jsv/what_do... is illustrative, as are EJAE's press comments on how she relied on voice memos for her now-quintuple-platinum melodies for K-Pop Demon Hunters.
by MarkMarine | 2025-12-10 16:39:47+00:00
I agree with the sentiment, but the rights of Americans are being eroded at a comical rate with no positives like protecting children (be that an allusion to protecting them or actually doing it)

Look at the TikTok “ban” for example. Congress passed a law to ban it because they didn’t have control over what the population was seeing, specifically around the genocide in Gaza. Now US ownership has passed to Larry Ellison, a republican connected pro-Zionist that will make sure the objectionable content that shows Palestinian's suffering does not bubble up in the algorithm. Never mind that you see 10 year old girls practicing TikTok dances when they are standing in line, waiting for the bus, etc. That problem persists, and no one in leadership cares because now the right people are getting rich and censoring the actual content the rulers cared about.

I’m with you on Rahm, but I’m not going to let him trying to hook his wagon to a policy that I support ruin my support of it.
by mtalantikite | 2025-12-10 16:39:50+00:00
Yes, but also it's just annoying to have a car in NYC. For many routes the subway is going to be faster than driving and sitting in traffic, unless you're traveling between outer borough neighborhoods that only have a connection in Manhattan. If you're making that commute often (say, Bushwick to East Flatbush, or Flushing to Canarsie), a car might make sense, but then this whole congestion pricing thing doesn't apply to you.

Transit is $3/ride (in a few weeks), 24 hours, and all over the city. It's not perfect, but for the vast majority of cases owning a car in NYC is just not really worth it. If you need one because you have a weekend home out in Long Island or up in the Hudson Valley, you can afford the $9 toll.
by dauertewigkeit | 2025-12-10 16:39:55+00:00
It's a small country, relatively speaking. Rather dull cities, again relatively speaking. Rural land is hard to come by and expensive. Not a lot of sunshine hours either. Not English speaking, not an immigrant culture, and quite an insular society so if you're not born there it kinda sucks. The cities punch way above their weight, but in total the tech job market is still tiny compared to the US. If you like being outdoors, Switzerland has one landscape, pretty much. It's heaven for rich people, but a very specific kind of heaven.
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-10 16:40:03+00:00
I think there's no "you", just an illusion that there's this uninterrupted "you"-ness from birth to death. It's a very useful illusion for the most part.

I view life (in the philosophical sense; consciousness) as the stream of subjective experiences (qualia) that arise out of life (in the biological sense; neurons and such). Right now my life consists of a collection of sustained interest in this discussion, a little hunger, the qualia of seeing the screen and the realization that I'm sitting a bit uncomfortably. In a few moments "I" will be a collection of other ephemeral qualia.

There's no "real" continuation between one experience and then next, just like there's no real continuation between my past "self" and my future "self", but they're both extremely useful illusions. I'll eat to subside that hunger that was registered a moment ago or change my position to get comfortable. I'll be responsible for "my" previous actions, as well. I'll basically be able to function as a temporally continuous being.

On the topic of immortality, I'd like to be virtually immortal so I can pursue my goals indefinitely. If I stop having goals or feel like I've had enough, I could always kill myself. My goals arise from my ethics, my biological needs and probably many other things. Why would I be OK with biology and death preventing me from achieving my goals at some arbitrary age?

So for me "immortality" is both being able to continue the illusions of self indefinitely (which I admit, feels good intrinsically), and being to continue the pursuit of my goals indefinitely. The goals seem to actually have more "real" continuity than "I" do.

The most troubling thing with immortality is the biological imperative to live that makes suicide so hard. But I think after a few centuries many people will reach that point. It's not a bad thing, it's just a personal choice.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 16:40:25+00:00
My in-laws are like that.

My parents were like that, in a different way. They couldn’t sit in a room without a tv on, even if they had visitors and everyone was talking and not paying attention to the TV. Living room TV was on at least 16 hours a day, just about every day, I bet. So weird. Also had TVs in every bedroom, including rarely-used spare bedrooms. Like they had six TVs in their house at peak. WTF.

(Actually, my in-laws also do the TV thing, or else a laptop playing YouTube trash… plus phones)
by haritha-j | 2025-12-10 16:40:34+00:00
Sorry, you want to sell me a $75 dollar disposable mic with a button? When i could do the same with a phone or a watch that i already own? Just like the humane ai pin, there is no need to create a brand new hardware device to do something an app won't do. And justifying it saying "we're introducing a whole new piece of hardware to save you from the pain of clicking one extra button" isn't going to fly.
by presto8 | 2025-12-10 16:40:35+00:00
I have a very similar setup, but using gnus, mbsync, notmuch, and afew. All mail stays on the servers (including a self-hosted dovecot server on my home network). I manage about 10 email accounts with very little effort. It's easy to get extremely customized behavior by overriding defaults with elisp. Previously I was using Thunderbird, but I feel my emacs setup is much more productive.
Ask HN: Better Markdown workflow for Ghost? Building a lightweight web editor
by ktersigni | 2025-12-10 16:41:06+00:00
I write a lot on Ghost, and while the platform is great for publishing, the writing workflow often feels limiting if you prefer Markdown or distraction-free editors.

My routine has usually been: writing in a dedicated Markdown tool → exporting → adjusting formatting again inside Ghost. It works, but it breaks the flow, especially when writing frequently.

I’ve also used several Markdown-focused tools over the years (including ones I really like), but none of them integrate well with Ghost or support things I rely on when publishing: internal linking, basic SEO preparation, newsletter-friendly formatting, handling multiple drafts, etc.

That’s what pushed me to explore a more “publishing-oriented” Markdown editor specifically for Ghost.

I’ve started building a lightweight web-based editor (Next.js) that connects directly to Ghost via the Admin API. The goal is simply to make writing and pre-publishing smoother.

Some things I’m experimenting with: - live Markdown editor - one-click draft → Ghost sync - simple post management - small, optional AI helpers (internal linking suggestions, SEO prep, outline support)

A very early prototype/landing is here: https://skrivia.com

I’d love to hear from creators, people who write on Ghost or have built tools around it:

Do you also feel friction in the writing workflow? Would a Markdown-first approach be valuable, or is Ghost’s native editor enough for you? Are focused AI helpers useful in this context, or unnecessary? Any pitfalls when working heavily with the Ghost Admin API?

Happy to go into technical details if helpful. Thanks!
by paulddraper | 2025-12-10 16:41:17+00:00
Comparison is hard, because states themselves are the size (land and population) as other countries. People that would be counted "immigrants" elsewhere are not.

E.g. Switzerland has an unusually high immigrant population, but also an unusually high emmigrant population.

The U.S. has 52m immigrants and 4.8m emmigrants. [1] Nowhere else is nearly that ratio. Next closest would be Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_im...
by cratermoon | 2025-12-10 16:41:22+00:00
Speaking of DEI: Stanley Morison, the inventor of Times New Roman, in collaboration with Victor Lardent, was one of the founders of The Guild of the Pope's Peace, an organization created to promote Pope Benedict XV's calls for peace in the face of the First World War. On the imposition of conscription in 1916 during First World War, he was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Morison#Early_life_and...>
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-12-10 16:41:42+00:00
Error tolerance in this context means the parser produces a walkable AST even if the input code is syntactically invalid, instead of just throwing/reporting the error. It’s useful for IDEs, where the code is often in an invalid state as the developer is typing, but you still want to be able to report diagnostics on whatever parts of the code are syntactically valid.
by duckerduck | 2025-12-10 16:42:16+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 nyeah | 2025-12-10 16:42:34+00:00
Everyone deserves clear advice not to use rhubarb as a cancer treatment, and not to use LLMs for mental health care. It's very easy to provide that advice.

I think you're assuming my proposed solution is to take rhubarb away from people? It's not.

Maybe you want to found the "Oncological Rhubarb Validation Association" or something. If so, that has nothing to do with me? That's just snake oil marketing. Not my field.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-10 16:42:45+00:00
That source is Europe, not New York. It claims EV's are 24% heavier than ICE vehicles. That might be true in Europe but definitely not the case in the US where the average ICE vehicle is a 6000 pound truck and the average EV is a 4000 pound Tesla.

It also assumes they're using the same tires. EV owners put on EV tires, which are formulated to have a lower rolling resistance, quieter and last longer. All 3 of those correlate with lower dust.
Show HN: Transactional Email with a Stripe-like CLI
by farhadhf | 2025-12-10 16:42:51+00:00
I'm the founder of AhaSend. We've built a transactional email service specifically for developers, with a Pay-As-You-Go pricing model ($0.50 per 1,000 emails) and up to 70% volume discount for platform partners.

While there are many ESPs out there, we focused heavily on the Developer Experience to solve the pain of building and testing email flows:

* The CLI: Heavily inspired by the Stripe CLI, we built a tool that lets you develop and debug locally. You can listen to webhooks, trigger events, manage your domains, and send / list / debug messages directly from your terminal.

* True Sandbox: We offer a full-lifecycle sandbox where emails go through the entire pipeline (processing, signing, etc.) without ever leaving our servers. Rhis also triggers all the webhook events (delivered, clicked, etc.) so you can test your app's logic without spamming real inboxes.

* Granular Security: We support fine-grained API scopes (e.g., reporting-only keys, or keys scoped strictly to sending from specific domains, etc), so you don't have to store "root" API keys in your application.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-10 16:43:00+00:00
If I have to constantly assess every single line done by an LLM then we are fast approaching a point where it’s no longer being helpful and I’m just grading homework for a C student.

I’m not saying that isn’t what has to be done, but it kind of clashes with the whole “this will make you more productive” argument if you ask me
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-12-10 16:43:05+00:00
Not only that, in France for example the liter of Diesel fuel was always 10 to 15 euro cents cheaper at the petrol station due to how regular gasoline and diesel fuel was taxed.

That's why before EVs started to show up on the market en masse if you walked into a dealership they would always recommend that you pick the diesel engine if you wanted to save money of fuel costs.

That was actually the reason why the Yellow vest protests started in 2018 when the French government announced that the taxation gap between diesel and regular gasoline was going to disappear gradually.

Small edit to add to the context:

By that point, when the protests started in 2018, the governments(right and left) of France and the many French automakers had been pushing diesel engines as THE solution to alleviate rising fuel costs and so justifiably, the protesters thought that someone had just pulled the rug from underneath them.

Also this measure was in direct contradiction to Macron's campaign promise which was that he was going to reduce the tax burden or at least not increase it on the middle class, especially the rural middle-class that basically cannot get a job without having a car as public transport is almost non-existent in rural France.

That and many other things which I won't get into since it is not relevant for this discussion really riled people up.
by leecoursey | 2025-12-10 16:43:07+00:00
Electric motor company YASA, acquired by Mercedes-Benz in 2021, is transitioning its breakthrough high-density axial-flux technology from exclusive hybrid supercars to mass-market performance vehicles. The company’s latest prototype motor generates a peak 750 kilowatts (1,005 horsepower) while weighing only 12.7 kilograms (27.9 pounds). This yields a power density of 59 kilowatts per kilogram, which the company claims is an unofficial world record and approximately three times the efficiency of current leading radial-flux designs, including those used by Tesla. Daimler is actively retrofitting a factory in Berlin to produce up to 100,000 of these compact, powerful motors annually for deployment in upcoming Mercedes-AMG electric vehicles, marking the first time this high-performance technology will be used in mass production.