MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-12-26 01:28:17+00:00
Well, you’ll never see an erotic film on YouTube, or a war documentary using real combat footage for example, so there are many categories where it’s simply not capable of competing. And even without straight-up banned content, ‘advertiser-unfriendly’ content is aggressively buried by the algorithm, which discourages people from making it, so the ‘quantity’ part might not be true. Some content might be so heavily punished by the algorithm that almost nobody thinks to make it. This is a problem for your position, as it’s not enough for YouTube to win in some categories; it has to win in every category.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-26 01:28:17+00:00
Can't speak to most of those but smart lights are pretty nice.

I made sure to buy zigbee ones so that I'm just tied to home assistant which even if it goes out of business will still work with whatever binaries I've downloaded already (as well as it works locally so I can control them during internet outages). I'm sure somebody else can explain why you should get Thread or Matter nowendays but I never bothered to learn the differences.

But yeah, the average life of a company is what 1 year? Don't get any product you want for more than 5 years from a company younger than 5 years if you need that company to exist for it to work.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-26 01:28:37+00:00
Nest started out great for me as an early adopter.

The recent iterations are just frustrating. The apps are laggy. It’s always prompting me to join an energy savings program no matter how many times I say no. We had to disable the home/away detection because it went from working well to thinking we were away 5 times per day.

Nest stands as my example of a product that went from great to terrible through complete mismanagement and customer neglect.
by Bitorre3 | 2025-12-26 01:29:08+00:00
Author here. This is a position paper analyzing the thermodynamic limits of current financial architectures (Fiat & Legacy Crypto).
We argue that systems dependent on "Secret States" or "Time-Bound Computational Hardness" operate under unstable invariants that create unbounded entropy at scale.
The paper proposes a "Type III Architecture" based on:
Energy-Anchored Value (Conservation of Energy)
Radical Verification Symmetry (Universal Observability)
We are looking for formal refutation of the invariants presented in Section 2.
by mattacular | 2025-12-26 01:29:53+00:00
My Nest works great other than the app trying me to get to change my account to Google, which I just close out of every-time. Basic functional UI and works as billed. The unit itself has a nice sturdy feel to it with a very intuitive wheel-and-click interface. It's the only smarthome thing I have besides Hue lightbulbs
by like_any_other | 2025-12-26 01:30:22+00:00
> They wanted solar and photovoltaics

lol. Germany still used ~40% fossil fuels and another ~8% in "biomass" (unclear how much of that meant cutting down forests) in 2020 - did the Greens think 40% of German electricity consumption in renewables would magically materialize only after nuclear power plants were shut down, that's why they didn't want to promote renewables first and shutting down nuclear only after fossil fuels were eliminated from the grid?

> the past administration favored cheap gas and oil from russia

So it was Merkel's CDU that did Russian bidding, and the Greens were just useful idiots?
by Aurornis | 2025-12-26 01:30:32+00:00
My suggestion would be to start with a refurbished or last-gen normal watch on sale. See if they like it. Upgrade to Ultra a few years later if they do.

It’s a hit or miss product category. My wife and I like ours and most of my friends like theirs, but I have a couple friends who got a smartwatch and then never liked it. Would be a shame to buy an expensive one for someone who doesn’t even like it.
by araes | 2025-12-26 01:32:05+00:00
> ranchers have an incentive to sell off their cattle now to capture those soaring profits

This part seems like the main part of the article. They're looking at huge sales returns and relatively low feed costs that just dropped a bunch (since 2022-2023 highs) and want to rake in the money.

Pretty much that economist quote "'Do I sell that animal now and take this record high check?' 'do I keep her to realize her returns over her productive life when she’s having calves?’ 'so far the side that’s been winning is to sell her and get the check.'"

Personally, wonder whether they're actually going to bother with more herd. The low prices possibly incentivize selling high cost cows at low feed prices and raking in as much as they can before the prices go down.

And it all seems nonsensical, since cattle herds have been going down in size pretty much continuously since 2000 [1] while prices have been going up almost continuously except for 2015-2020 [2] (which is notably when herd sizes actually went UP). So when prices go down, herd sizes go up. People don't try have have more cows to make more money, they just sell the cows now.

[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2025/07-25-2025.php

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LE%3DF/

Admittedly, the food thing generally is kind of BS anyways about the drought and otherwise. The drought was probably an issue (prices went up during 2022-2023), yet Hay is still pretty much on the same linear trend it's been on since 1970. [3] Alfalfa Hay also went up locally in 2022-2023, yet dropped back to normal trends relatively quickly after (basically almost the same linear up since 1970). [4] It matters, it just doesn't seem to matter that much.

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0181

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01810101

Cattle sales prices keep rising, farmers keep selling, rather than betting on long-term elevated prices and large herd sales.

EDIT: Consideration after, think it all seems nonsense, cause if this was gambling, then usually the response would be to double down, add more money, or similar if a player was raking in money at the table. If the table turned against them, and they got poor returns, then usually they'd walk away, or find a different table. Instead, they're "winning" and getting huge sales prices, so they ... have less cows?
by wisty | 2025-12-26 01:33:16+00:00
People want to spend money to fix a problem that fundamentally requires effort on their part, not tech.

Vacuuming is actually the easiest bit of cleaning a house IMO - getting the floor clear (if you have kids, or out of control hobbies, or are just lazy or a bit of a horder) is hard.

People aren't stupid, they kind of know this. But just like buying expensive gym equipment they think that a new toy will incentivise them do the hard bits.

"If I buy a new gizmo I'll finally start cooking healthy delicious food" is a great pitch.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-26 01:35:14+00:00
The annual report of this org is pretty underspecified. There a numerous directors. Are they getting paid under "ops & admin" (11%)? Is "advancement" (12.3%) marketing?

Prossimo gets 6.8%. Does that money go to programmers? Are people whose works are being rewritten and plagiarized offered money to do the rewrite themselves or does it go to friends and family?

Why does an org that takes donations not produce a proper report?
by mistrial9 | 2025-12-26 01:35:15+00:00
it seems like you moved to property on "a road called 'Solsteinen' " .. did it occur to anyone that many special local things might be built close to the stable sun stone? I would even guess that no one built a home or horse barn there because they were not allowed to by the community.. this is modern development.. using up the ancient old area for a new sale. That is the appearance from the description above.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-26 01:36:51+00:00
If you don't think there was wealth inequity under the gold standard then I recommend opening a history book ...

This also isn't something that all billionaires and multi-millionaries can do. This was splitting 15% of the proceeds from a sale; like how often do the Walmart heir sell Walmart?

That said, yeah I don't like the idea of charity dictating how well people do. If you think there's some minimum standard for people then legislate it ...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-26 01:37:22+00:00
It's interesting you mention that. Even Obamas detractors admit he spoke well. True, but i find JFKs speeches are on a different level from that. And it's not just him, but the contrast is particularly striking.

Now in the UK all we get are monotonous robots or people who have clearly had intensive coaching in how to speak in a clear. Decisive. Direct. Way, to inspire confidence and project competence. The two qualities entirely absent in most of our politicians.

The less said about the other side of the pond the better.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-12-26 01:37:47+00:00
All languages offer the ability to write memory-safe code. It's just that doing so is very difficult in C and C++. The benefit of Rust isn't really the assurance of safety that's provided by not using the `unsafe` keyword. After all, pretty much all Rust programs do use the `unsafe` keyword. The benefit of Rust is a combination of many design decisions that make it easy to write safe code.

For example, everyday operations in Rust are almost all defined. But in C++, it is extremely easy to run into undefined behavior by accident and make your code do something bizarre. On the practical side, I have never ever gotten a segfault when writing rust, but have many times in C++.
by nkrisc | 2025-12-26 01:38:58+00:00
I personally find that text written by a human, even someone without a strong grasp of the language, is always preferable to read simply because each word (for better or worse) was chosen by a human to represent their ideas.

If you use an LLM because you think you can’t write and communicate well, then if that’s true it means you’re feeding content that you already believe isn’t worthy of expressing your ideas to a machine that will drag your words even further what you intended.
by nabbed | 2025-12-26 01:38:58+00:00
This can work with the way you think as well.

Many years ago, I had a technical manager who never felt any pressure to be the first to come up with the answer to a question or the solution to some problem. If I was having a technical conversation with him, and we arrived at a particularly subtle or complex issue, he could go completely silent, just staring straight ahead with his fingers to his lips. I would find it very uncomfortable, and I would start blurting out half-baked ideas to fill the silence, but he would either raise his finger or (usually) just ignore me. This could go on for 30-60 seconds, at which point he might shrug and say "I don't know" or, more likely, have a pretty well formed idea of how to move ahead.

I used to joke to my co-workers that during those silent interludes, he was swapping in the solution from a remote disk.

This manager also typed with one or two fingers, and pretty slowly too. But he wrote a lot of good code.
by dangus | 2025-12-26 01:39:31+00:00
I’m actually surprised I didn’t hit this problem. My 3D printer has been wildly useful.

I seriously thought it would be another fad hobby that I drop immediately. But now I’ve gone as far as learning 3D modeling which I never really expected to do. I actually have more projects going on than I have printing capacity for sometimes.

I wish I had perfect advice for getting the most out of it.

Maybe this one will help: remember that even cheap plastic products are often more expensive than printing your own. That $10-20 doodad from the store is still more expensive than a LOT of filament. I’ll list out some stuff I’ve printed:

- Planter pots

- Knock box (for espresso)

- portfilter stand for tamping (espresso)

- espresso machine mod kit enclosure

- A loom for a friend who weaves

- “neon” LED signs with custom words (designed by me based on YouTube tutorial)

- Same concept but used to make might up address numbers for the house

- A triangle-shaped piece to guide the extending kitchen sink sprayer hose so it stops getting caught on stuff under the cabinets

- A replacement clip for a Packit reusable container

- Designing your own wall or under-desk mount for any custom size object is trivial

- Tea bag organizer

- Bag clips

- Toothpick dispenser

- Toothpaste squeezer dispenser thing to keep the tube neat

- storage organizers, including a whole pegboard system hanging up all my tools and junk

- Contact lens storage boxes

- Replacement latches for plastic bins

I haven’t printed them yet but I’m very interested in some of the cool mini-racks, mini NAS systems, and small form factor PC cases you can print from scratch rather than buying them. For example there’s a design on makerworld where you grab a cheap mini PC, an nvme to SATA adapter, and an AliExpress SATA 3.5” backplane, and boom, you’ve built a consumer NAS alternative for a fraction of the price.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-26 01:40:23+00:00
Eh, touch some grass buddy. You're interpretting a lot of negativity from the poster despite having no evidence to support it.

> [1] A famous study in 2010 from the Review of Economics and Statistics revealed that, out of 35,000 lottery winners who obtained between $50,000 and $150,000 in winnings, 1,900 of them had filed for bankruptcy within 5 years.

> A 2015 paper in The American Economic Review also presented that 15% of NFL players filed for bankruptcy after 12 years of retirement.

It's really common for people with sudden windfalls to lose it all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_wealth_syndrome#Effects...
by coffeeaddict1 | 2025-12-26 01:41:53+00:00
> C++ requires the developer to make a conscious effort to avoid unsafe code

The problem is much worse than how you put it. I've written C++ for more than a decade and it's painful to constantly having to worry about memory safety due to enormous complexity of the language. Even if you are super diligent, you will make a mistake and it will bite you when you expect it the least.
Relying on clang-tidy, non-default compiler flags, sanitizers and other tools is not only not enough, but a constant source of headache on how to integrate them with your build systems and project requirements.
by mmooss | 2025-12-26 01:42:06+00:00
I'm not downplaying what you and your wife went through, which is outrageous. And generally speaking, it's 100x harder as kids.

> I volunteer with emergency services and hope to open a clinic with my wife next year focusing on helping foster children with mental illness who tend to age out the system and fall through the cracks.

That's fantastic, whatever our debate about the details. Thank you.

> you gotta ask yourself if it's worth the risk.

There's always risk in life, as I said above. The level of risk is the key - the likelihood and the amount of harm - and that's debatable.

For kids, by far the most child abuse (as I'm sure you know) is by family and people the family knows. Staying home may be less safe. I just don't see the risks as worse than car accidents and other dangers.

Also, I don't know that I agree "there are predators everywhere", except as a sort of logical truth - predators aren't limited by geography. There are rabid dogs everywhere too. I doubt predators - which, come to think of it, is undefined and sounds like a bogeyman sort of term - are limited by wealth.

But of course, everyone needs to think and act intelligently. You don't let your kid go down the street where the prostitutes or drug dealers hang out.

> the cool ones and the dangerous ones look exactly the same

That's not my experience, but of course nobody can know for sure - that goes for family and coworkers too. Coincidentally, I ended up in coversations today with three apparently unhoused people today. The idea that these people are dangerous somehow is just not plausible. After the third conversation, I made an inside joke I have with the person next to me 'homeless people are so dangerous!'. We both rolled our eyes.
by throwaway277432 | 2025-12-26 01:42:19+00:00
So many things.

Every item meant to "solve a problem" rather than "do something" never solved my problems and rarely worked well. Be it fitness or personal productivity or learning etc.

I've had to learn the hard way that reviews are mostly marketing, and very few (if any) reviewers will actually say something isn't great. And grassroots reviews are too often shills or some hivemind and not worth much either (even on HN).

Tech specs aren't worth much either, it's how it's actually in use that counts.

Examples from tech:

Sony WF 1000 (1st gen): good on paper (before Airpods with NC) but then lost charge every day in the charging case, making them useless.

remarkable 1: went back to real paper.

Fitbit, Garmin watches: Playing Spotify offline during a run never worked reliably with any of these and every one dies in 1h. The Apple watch can sort of do it but only on cellular, offline doesn't work either. And of course dies after 30mins.

Mighty player: likewise, also never worked reliably

Early Samsung note tablet for note taking at uni - even though technically superior to an iPad, the software support was lacking.

That said, some things mentioned in this thread have been genuinely great and useful for me, so not everything is universal.
by neilv | 2025-12-26 01:42:26+00:00
That seems to be one of the things that some great professors do. I've heard of that convention from many colleges/universities.

At any university, look for the professors who act like benevolent citizens of the best of university ideals. They don't all do it in the same way, but they're some of the best.

I like to think of the university as a microcosm, and incubator, for how you'd like larger society to be.
by tooltalk | 2025-12-26 01:42:29+00:00
>> It's interesting, but 20% loss after 100 cycles is just not great.

That's pretty decent. you are conflating different metrics used in accelerated aging test in the labs and the product cycle rating used in the battery industry.

In automotive applications, the mainstream high-nickel NCMs can easily do 1,500-2,000 and EV-grade LFPs, 2,500-3,000.
by torginus | 2025-12-26 01:44:54+00:00
I think one of the fundamental differences in the SOTA C++ approach to memory safety (eg. extending unique/shared_ptr) and Rust is that C++ doesn't try to enforce having a single mutable reference to a variable and it still relies on strict aliasing heuristics, and so cannot claim to be fully deterministic.
Still, use after free, and memory leaks should be impossible.

It'll still let you do a bunch of stuff Rust doesn't, which is up to the programmer to decide whether this is good or not.
by pizlonator | 2025-12-26 01:46:31+00:00
> By definition, C and C++ are memory safe as long as you follow the rules.

This statement doesn't make sense to me.

Memory safety is a property of language implementations, which is all about what happens when the programmer does not follow the rules.

> The problem is that the rules cannot be automatically checked and in practice are the source of unenumerable issues from straight up bugs to subtle standards violations that trigger the optimizer to rewrite your code into what you didn’t intend.

They can be automatically checked and Fil-C proves this. The prior art had already proved it before Fil-C existed.

> But yes, fil-c is a huge improvement (afaik though it doesn’t solve the UB problem - it just guarantees you can’t have a memory safety issue as a result)

Fil-C doesn't have UB. If you find anything that looks like UB to you, please file a GH issue.

Let's also be clear that you're referring to nasal demons specifically, not UB generally. In some contexts, like CPU ISAs, UB means a trap, rather than nasal demons. So let's use the term "nasal demons".

C and C++ only have nasal demons because:

- Policy decisions. For example, making signed integer addition have nasal demons is because someone wanted to cook a benchmark.

- Lack of memory safety in most implementations, combined with a refusal to acknowledge what happens when the wrong kind of memory access occurs. (Note that CPU ISAs like x86 and ARM are not memory safe, but have no nasal demons, because they do define what happens when any kind of memory access occurs.)

So anyway, Fil-C has no nasal demons, because:

- I turned off all of those silly policy decisions for cooking benchmarks.

- The memory safety means that I define what happens when the wrong kind of memory access occurs: the program gets killed with a panic.
by positron26 | 2025-12-26 01:46:47+00:00
Hundreds of thousands of developers with access to a global communication network were not stopped by AMD. Why act like dependents or wait for some bright star of consensus unless the intent is really about getting the work for free?

We don't have to wait for singular companies or foundations to fix ecosystem problems. Only the means of coordination are needed. https://prizeforge.com isn't there yet, but it is already capable of bootstrapping its own development. Matching funds, joining the team, or contributing on MuTate will all make the ball pick up speed faster.
by mmooss | 2025-12-26 01:47:09+00:00
> it’s inauthentic

I have a hard time believing that a population deeply into social media, an ocean of inauthenticity - disinformation, influencers, bots, trolling, etc. - and who actively support people who advertise their inauthenticity with pride (such as certain politicians), suddenly care about authenticity.

They don't want AI messing up the 'authenticity' of their social media? lol
by password-app | 2025-12-26 01:47:13+00:00
Congrats on shipping v1. The "sense-think-act" architecture is exactly what's needed for agentic workflows.

Re: the login handling discussion upthread—I've been using browser-use for automated password rotation (breach response use case). Two patterns that might be relevant to Vibium's roadmap:

Credential injection: Instead of putting passwords in the prompt, pass them via a sensitive_data parameter. The agent calls enter_password() without the value ever appearing in LLM context. Solves the "blast radius" concern several people raised.

Deterministic 2FA handling: When email verification is required, open Gmail in a new tab, but extract OTPs with local regex—not AI. The LLM orchestrates navigation; code extraction stays local. Handles ~90% of email 2FA automatically.

These patterns should work with any browser automation framework. Built a Mac app around this: https://thepassword.app

Would love to see Vibium add first-class support for credential injection in the API—it's the missing piece for any security-sensitive automation.