MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-12-27 20:24:50+00:00
> you get scraps for everything not cars.

In a place like Manhattan, the sidewalks are wide and, like I said, plenty of space has been made, and continues to be made, for bike lanes.

The good thing is that space for pedestrians and cyclists doesn't actually require taking away that much space from cars as a percentage. There's plenty of room, you just knock out a lane, as NYC has been doing.

So I don't really know what you're arguing? It's not "table scraps". You certainly don't need the width of a 4-lane highway just for pedestrians and cyclists.
by guywithahat | 2025-12-27 20:25:09+00:00
I don't have the capital for it right now but hearing about all this stuff makes me want to start a hardware company lol. Drones are the most relevant to my current work, but networking hardware sounds like fun too.

I was hoping to hear more about what's happening on the front although I suppose the people doing things probably aren't spending their evenings on HN
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-27 20:25:20+00:00
I am newly interested in Compute Module style SBCs after I bought a one to toy around with. I was surprised to learn that the PCBs that interface to them are open specs and I can probably build myself more custom PCB solutions to match different form factors instead of being stuck with a bulky normal Raspberry Pi.

I was pleased to learn that Radxa and Orange Pi have compatible similar boards.

I have wanted to see more RISC SBCs so I may toy with these but I rather wait for the software support to get much richer.
by trashface | 2025-12-27 20:25:25+00:00
Well there is intel, their GPUs have been a running joke of course for decades now in gaming but they've also been getting better too. The first generation of their GPUs in the aughts was essential silicon trash - I did some gamedev at that time and we essentially gave up on getting them to work. But I've (accidentally) fired up some games on my late 2010s laptop using the Intel onboard and they were actually somewhat playable - only clue was substantially reduced framerate.

And of course apple is now doing its own GPU thing. How ironic if they become the premier choice for gaming. Their CPUs already kick x86's ass, though throttling up all the cores and the GPU for extended periods of gaming might challenge their thermal management design.

But my guess is china would build discrete gaming GPUs if no one else is doing it. They don't rely on TSMC as much and probably not for much longer, and they are catching up on the machine learning GPUs. Since they can do that, they can surely add the additional hardware needed to make them suitable for gaming, which is simpler by comparison, and implementing a decent performing driver on top of that (like for D3D or Vulcan) would be straightforward.

Its quite unlikely the US will outlaw chinese gaming GPUs like we do their EVs - one reason being US policymakers simply don't care about gaming since unlike autos there isn't a massive domestic industry to protect.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-27 20:25:36+00:00
Saying "what survives, survives" may bother Creationists, Discovery Institute, and Intelligent Design pushers, but not actual scientists who don't have an agenda to discredit evolution as revenge because it discredits their religious dogma.

Saying "what survives, survives" is like saying physics explains motion as "things that move, move." That’s not what the theory actually claims; it’s a caricature.

Evolutionary theory explains mechanisms, not slogans. "Fitness" is not the explanation, it’s a measurable consequence of those mechanisms.

If you want teleology or ultimate purpose, science won’t give you that, so take some shrooms and ask the machine elves. But evolution absolutely explains how structured complexity accumulates without foresight, and it does so with predictive, testable models.
by koolba | 2025-12-27 20:25:44+00:00
A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier. Rather than one giant wall of changes, you see a series of independent, self contained, changes that can be reviewed on their own.

Having 25 meaningless “wip” commits does not help with that. It’s fine when something is indeed a work in progress. But once it’s ready for review it should be presented as a series of cleaned up changes.

If it is indeed one giant ball of mud, then it should be presented as such. But more often than not, that just shows a lack of discipline on the part of the creator. Variable renames, whitespace changes, and other cosmetic things can be skipped over to focus on the meat of the PR.

From my own experience, people who work in open source and have been on the review side of large PRs understand this the best.

Really the goal is to make things as easy as possible for the reviewer. The simpler the reviews process, the less reviewer time you’re wasting.
by hinkley | 2025-12-27 20:25:49+00:00
I took to distributed systems like a duck to water. It was only much later that I figured out that while there are things I can figure out in one minute that took other people five, there were a lot of others that you will have to walk them through step by step or they would never get there. That really explained some interactions I’d had when I was younger.

In particular I don’t think the intuitions necessary to do distributed computing well would come to someone who snoozed through physics, who never took intro to computer engineering.
Show HN: Crossview – visualize Crossplane resources and compositions
by moeidheidari | 2025-12-27 20:25:58+00:00
Hi HN,
Crossplane is powerful, but once you start working with multiple compositions, claims, and managed resources, it becomes hard to understand how everything is connected.

We built Crossview to solve this problem for ourselves. It’s an open-source UI that visualizes Crossplane resources and compositions as graphs, making it easier to explore relationships, debug issues, and reason about complex setups.

Some of the things we focused on:

Visualizing relationships between compositions, claims, and managed resources

Real-time views with search and filtering

Multi-context support to switch between clusters easily

The project is still early, and we’re actively improving it. We’d really appreciate feedback from people using Crossplane, Kubernetes, or building internal platforms:

Is this useful in real-world setups?

What features would you expect from a Crossplane visualization tool?

What’s missing or unclear?

Repo: https://github.com/corpobit/crossview

Thanks for taking a look.
by bavell | 2025-12-27 20:26:06+00:00
Whew boy, your comments are great examples of not being curious, understanding or promoting civil discussion.

> You obviously know they can't be trusted, you just said so.

A baseless accusation with no supporting evidence. I never asked anyone to trust anyone else. I didn't even assert the idea was true, just interesting to consider. I merely thought the idea was interesting as a layman with little knowledge of evolutionary biology.

> Why not just say that as a disclaimer to the video

Because you're putting words in my mouth that I don't believe.

> What "certain crowds" would that be

Curmudgeons like you.

> When you uncritically recommend and parrot bullshit

Really? I recommended something? I thought I said I enjoyed a video talking about a pet theory relevant to the topic at hand, which I had recently learned of.

This whole "framing is a huge tell", and "reliably revives strawmen, Intelligent-Design-adjacent language, and manufactured doubt, while producing zero new knowledge" shtick is boring and wrong. I've been atheist since I could critically think for myself and it's silly how off-base you are.

Since you seem to be so knowledgeable on the subject and confident in your position, can you point me to something I can read instead of just taking your word for it? Otherwise you're no better than them. I skimmed a few wikipedia pages [0][1] and didn't find the morphology "variables" Brett was discussing.

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if you just pattern matched on Rogan/Weinstein, typed out your reply and don't actually know what was being discussed. The tone and tenor of your comments so far would seem to indicate so. Your entire objection boils down to "I don't like them and no one should listen to them". Light on substance, heavy on the ad hominem - not exactly persuasive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_DNA
by kccqzy | 2025-12-27 20:26:28+00:00
If you are an engineer at Google dealing with Spanner, then you can in fact assume clocks are well synchronized and can use timestamps for synchronization. If you get commit timestamps from Spanner you can compare them to determine exactly which commit happened first. That’s a stronger guarantee than the typical Serializable database like postgresql: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html...

That’s the radical developer simplicity promised by TrueTime mentioned in the article.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-27 20:27:39+00:00
It is definitely time to stop looking at equity as part of pay at a startup. The trend is extremely clear, startups aren't paying out to employees but the C suite gets internal raises and IPO is pushed to infinity. It is nice to have some paper laying around but that is all it is, paper. Go to a startup for a year. Get the experience, move and get a 20-50% pay increase and keep doing that every year and you will be way happier and financially healthier.
by blauditore | 2025-12-27 20:28:35+00:00
Tangential, but: Cars are in part so problematic because they are a means of transportation designed for a handful of people, but mostly used by a single person. All the alternatives are either unpopular to most people (like bikes, or public transport), or obscure (small one-person cars). Especially the US just converged to this impractical de-facto standard in size and shape.
by n8m8 | 2025-12-27 20:29:05+00:00
Apparently pro tools came out in 1989, makes me think this may or may not be true. This article has some info about the mixture of analog and digital tools use to record:

> The main event was a brand-new mixing console called the Harrison Series 10, which was the first analog console to feature a digital control surface, with full automation of all parameters. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were the first studio to have it, according to Jam. This meant that they could cut down the time it took to switch songs to about 10 minutes because complex mixes now required little-to-no cross-patching.

https://reverb.com/news/the-making-of-janet-jacksons-rhythm-...
Show HN: InsideStack – Find curated tech articles with semantic search
by kivarada | 2025-12-27 20:30:01+00:00
I built InsideStack to make it easier to find high-quality technical and software articles.

Why?
- The web is flooded with AI-generated content
- Businesses are publishing tons of articles with biased content
- Search results are often driven by engagement rather than quality.
- AI-generated summaries of articles don’t drive traffic back to the original creators

InsideStack lets you:
- Search across curated RSS feeds with semantic search
- Subscribe, bookmark, and follow topics or authors

Currently, only a small set of feeds is included, but I am adding more every day. Suggestions for high-quality RSS feeds and any feedback are very welcome!
by aarondf | 2025-12-27 20:30:55+00:00
No easy answers, I'm afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inundated HR front door if you want a job. If you hang out on twitter long enough you'll see people go from "hey I made this cool thing" to "hey cloudflare/vercel/etc hired me to come work on cool-thing-adjacent thing!"

It's a pretty repeatable pipeline. And having proof that you can DO something makes you stand out. Maybe moreso than ever!
by compsciphd | 2025-12-27 20:30:55+00:00
that's not really true. In 2001 I built a single disk linux installation (with a handful of popular nics supported) with X (tiny X with vesafb support) and rdesktop + vnc as a thin client on floppy.

I'd be honest and say that qnx demo disk had more usability overall than my disk, but one could easily have a usable text only linux bootable disk. Busybox and uclibc already existed back then.

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/floppy.bin (won't be that useful today due to the ethernet drivers, but it was a 1.44mb floppy)
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-27 20:31:22+00:00
I get into arguments about this with my wife, who is a riding instructor but I think has poor "dog sense". That is, when she is helping a friend who is out of town with a dog she goes in the house and yells the dog's name and the dog is cowering in the crate. I just flop down on the bed and the dog comes out of the crate.

I ran with a pack of dogs as a kid and developed "peer" body language instinctively that helps me click instantly with strange dogs but my wife warns me that I'd better watch out with more dominant dogs because I might get attacked. My problem now is that I go out-as-a-fox these days with a hood that people read right but that I think dogs read as "bear".
by gcanyon | 2025-12-27 20:31:27+00:00
I maintain Navigator, a development tool I started over twenty years ago; I am the only contributor to the open source repository [1]. I have rewritten drag and drop in that thing four times (because drag and drop in Livecode [2] is a bit of a hack). It's a pain every time. I'm not rewriting it again.

1. https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator

2. https://livecode.com
by gigatexal | 2025-12-27 20:31:35+00:00
The steady building up of alternatives will happen until one day the reserve currency status will change hands all of a sudden.

I think the Fed could stem the whole thing by just issuing a stable coin itself pegged to the dollar and re-assert itself as the dominant currency/arbiter... but who knows. Maybe then it'd have insight into every transaction and be able to stem things with even more power than it can now.

Nobody stays king forever. Maybe it's time the US is forced to balance its books and stop riding on cheap credit. Losing the power of the reserve currency and the power that that gives to SWIFT and things will take a lot of soft power away from the US. Without allies the US couldn't stop a united China, Russia, insert-other-would-be-ally-of-theirs in a world conflict.

As another commenter said there's no leadership at teh top just chaos. People, countries, banks don't invest in chaos.
by why-o-why | 2025-12-27 20:31:51+00:00
it's the same logic lotto uses: "you can't win if you don't play".

while i agree it is irrefutable logic, the chance of being seen is quite small because there are literally millions of other people doing the same thing. gauging probability is what human brains have trouble with.

but it does improve your odds a minuscule amount. but it is always always always better to have friends in high(er) places who can amplify your work. that counts for x1000 more. one mention from someone with 1M followers is worth more than publishing 1000 articles.
by cubefox | 2025-12-27 20:31:56+00:00
> Most production AI applications aren't running 405B models. They're running 7B-70B models that need low latency and high throughput.

Really? At least for LLMs, most actual usage is concentrated on huge SOTA models. 1 trillion parameters or more. And LLMs seem to be the lion's share of AI compute demand.
by Salman23 | 2025-12-27 20:32:22+00:00
Yes I think you are right here. The purchase price is high enough for all parties to be get return on their shares, and whilst there will be a waterfall for who gets paid first, I doubt many people will be unhappy with this deal.

Unlike Windsurf... who's 2nd employee only got 1% of what their shares were worth (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44673296)
by idorosen | 2025-12-27 20:32:22+00:00
Alternatively, you could guarantee the same synchronization using PPS and PTP to each host's DCD pin of their serial port or to specialized hardware such as modern PTP-enabled smart NICs/FPGAs that can accept PPS input. GPS+PPS gets you to within 20-80ns global synchronization depending on implementation (assuming you're all mostly in the same inertial frame), and allows you to make much stronger guarantees than TrueTime (due to higher precision distributed ordering guarantees, which translate to lower latency and higher throughput distributed writes).
by silisili | 2025-12-27 20:32:56+00:00
Oddly enough, the Kentucky side of Cincinnati is nicer than the OH side, at least near the river.

It's worth checking out, but I found downtown Cinci weird. It was completely lifeless at night. Haven't been in 15 years or so, so it's entirely possible that's changed now. Other than that, it's a neat area. Make sure to checkout Jungle Jim's, it's a unique enough store worth a visit.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-12-27 20:33:34+00:00
> A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier. Rather than one giant wall of changes, you see a series of independent, self contained, changes that can be reviewed on their own.

But this would require hand curation? No development proceeds that way, or if it does then I would question whether the person is spending 80% of their day curating PRs unnecessarily.

I think you must be kind of senior and you can get away with just insisting that other people be less efficient and work in a weird way so you can feel more comfortable?
by Izkata | 2025-12-27 20:33:41+00:00
> A well laid out history of logical changes makes reviewing complicated change sets easier.

I've been on a maintenance team for years and it's also been a massive help here, in our svn repos where squashing isn't possible. Those intermediate commits with good messages are the only context you get years down the line when the original developers are gone or don't remember reasons for something, and have been a massive help so many times.

I'm fine with manual squashing to clean up those WIP commits, but a blind squash-merge should never be done. It throws away too much for no good reason.

For one quick example, code linting/formatting should always be a separate commit. A couple times I've seen those introduce bugs, and since it wasn't squashed it was trivial to see what should have happened.
by metalman | 2025-12-27 20:34:05+00:00
Tolls and public transit fares are regressive.

We have removed all tolls here in Nova Scotia,including for small car ferry's ,
were not rich or populous,but are building out our infrastructure bit by bit to facilitate ease of transport and the prevention of accidents and traffic jams.
The other thing they added are info signs accross the main hyways comming in, giving
times for the main transit routes, making it easy to redirect , 45 MIN!, yikes! sounds like coffee and grocerie shopping to me!
It has realy made a huge difference getting around the city and has opened up options for travelling rural routes that have ferries.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-27 20:34:14+00:00
Please inoculate yourself against believing and parroting anti-science Intelligent Design / Creationist talking points by understanding where they come from, and what they lead to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design

Intelligent Design is a religious ideology, not a scientific theory. The Discovery Institute is the evangelical advocacy organization that systematized and promoted it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute

After Intelligent Design failed legally and scientifically, the Institute pivoted to the "Teach the Controversy" strategy -- not to advance new science, but to manufacture doubt about evolution in public education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy

That approach -- revealingly effective -- became a template for later efforts to reintroduce religious ideology into secular institutions. Project 2025 represents the political continuation of that same strategy at a much larger scale: shifting from attacking a single scientific theory to reshaping education, governance, and public policy along explicitly religious lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

These are not isolated phenomena. They are successive adaptations of the same agenda after earlier versions failed.

Exposing Discovery Institute Part 1: Casey Luskin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRxq1Vrf_Js

>Have you heard of the Discovery Institute? Have you fallen under the impression that they know what they are talking about, or can be considered an even remotely legitimate source of information?

>Well, you've come to right place. They aren't. They're a propaganda mill, and all of their content is full of lies.

>They hide behind a paper-thin roster of scientists who have deluded themselves into dishonestly preaching outside of their expertise, and they blatantly misrepresent any scientific research or scientists they are referring to. Constantly. Sometimes they even commit slander.

>That's what this video is about, and it is the first installment in a series where I will expose the fraudulent activity of all the major contributors at the Discovery Institute, one clown at a time.

>Part 1 addresses Casey Luskin, and it is centered around some very serious slander he committed against an esteemed anthropologist.

>But don't worry, I cover lots of other lies and stupidity that come out of his mouth as well.

>If you're a fan of the DI, do please find the courage to watch this rather than running to the comments section to yell at me.

>It's not all that long, and I promise that I make it extremely clear and undeniable that Casey is a liar. If you have a shred of honesty within you, you will quickly see that this is the case. Enjoy!
by theandrewbailey | 2025-12-27 20:34:33+00:00
I wouldn't call it scrutiny. It's mostly caused me to communicate and articulate my thoughts better, to the point where I'm misunderstood less often. Along the way, I realized that I left out important points, so I've gotten better at including them the first time.

Others? Only a handful of people read my blog, and most of them are my friends.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-27 20:35:08+00:00
> write my-iso ./zip.zip onto external hard drive

Dang! not that one, the other one!

> zip my-folder into my-zip.tar with compression level 9

What do you mean, I don't have write permissions in the current working directory? I meant for you to put the output in $HOME, i mean /tmp, i mean /var/tmp, i mean on the external hard drive, no other other one.

> git delete commit 1a4db4c

What did you do? I didn't mean delete it and erase it from the reflog and run gc! I just mean "delete it" the way any one would ever mean that! I can never get it back now!
by bottlepalm | 2025-12-27 20:35:50+00:00
AI has become my type checker in a way. I'm writing large Python apps now, and not even installing the Python IDE tools into VS Code. The AI assistants generate and refactor my code understanding the types and making it work. Same with JavaScript as well. AI modifies the code, I run/test it. Almost never any bugs related to typing inconsistencies.

I'm not saying we (humans) don't need type checkers and I love TypeScript, but something is happening where AI might theoretically surpass the power of traditional type checking. Have the power to catch even more invalid code than the static analysis tools, linting tools, etc.. we have now.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-12-27 20:36:24+00:00
https://github.com/adamzwasserman/domx
https://github.com/adamzwasserman/stateless
https://github.com/adamzwasserman/genX
https://github.com/adamzwasserman/hnreader
https://github.com/adamzwasserman/domx-site
www.multicardz.com (waitlist at the moment)
by aunty_helen | 2025-12-27 20:36:47+00:00
Buying one of these Pi knockoffs taught me one thing, software support is the key to raspberry pi’s success.

Whenever I would have a problem, and it was more often than not, I would search for a solution and come across something that worked for rpi that I could try to port across.

Double the hardware spec matters little if you can’t get the software to even compile