skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: 150+ products launched in 7 days on this fair Product Hunt alternative
A little over a week ago, I was wondering if anyone would care about the thing I’d just built.
Let me rewind a bit.

I’m a solo indie maker, just like a lot of you. I’ve built so many projects, put in the work, and then… nothing. A few months ago, I launched something I was genuinely proud of on one of the big platforms. I was excited, hopeful. But within hours, it got buried under a pile of other launches. No one saw it. No one cared.

That sucked. Not because I expected it to blow up overnight, but because it felt like I never even had a shot. And I kept thinking about how many other indie makers feel the same way?

So, I decided to build something different.

I coded for four days straight, juggling my 9-5 job, running on no sleep, and a lot of self-doubt. But I kept going because I believed in the idea: a platform where indie makers could get a fair shot.

The idea was simple (but powerful as I see it): • 10 launches per day, max. Every product gets its moment in the spotlight. • 2 votes per user, per day. Quality over quantity. • An "Under Radar" feature to give overlooked products a second chance. • A randomized product list to ensure fair exposure and reduce voting bias.

I posted about it here on Hacker News and on X, half-expecting crickets. But something incredible happened. Within hours, indie makers just like you and me started scheduling their products.

And in just 7 days, over 150 products were scheduled to launch on the platform.

Every time a new product is scheduled on ItsLaunched, I'm reminded why this platform needs to exist. These are products that deserve to be seen. I'm not sharing this to boast, but to thank this community. Your support, your feedback, and most importantly, your willingness to give a platform like this a chance, means the world to me.

I’m still tweaking and improving the site every day based on feedback. It’s far from perfect, but it’s growing.

So, if you're a maker with a product you're stoked about, come check us out at ItsLaunched.com and if you've already launched with us, a huge thank you. You're the reason this thing exists in the first place.

As for me, I'm just a maker trying to create something that makes a difference. And thanks to this community, I feel like maybe, just maybe, we're doing exactly that. Here's to the makers and the dreamers. Keep building awesome things. We'll be here to make sure the world sees them.
A step-by-step guide on deploying DeepSeek-R1 671B locally
Unless GPUs work markedly differently somehow or there’s been some fundamental shift in computer architecture I’m not aware of, spatial locality is still a factor in computers.

Aside from HW acceleration today, designs like Cebras would benefit heavily by reducing the amount of random access from accessing the weights (and thus freeing up cross-chip memory bandwidth for other things).
Ignore this remark if irrelevant

But f00kin'AYE on wget.

I can't say for certain (please pard0n) but if there was anyway to (ya, right) find we'd learn way back when 'AutoCad' was originaly built (and for) UNIX.

Because LISP (Lost In Stupid Parentheses) was an emacs dealio, Richard Stahlman stuff but I suspect even before Torvalds built Linux...

When 8086/88 machines went viral there was a (hardware) limit <640K (kb) RAM.

To escape this we used 'PharLap' to make a 16mb (megabytes) Ramdisk look like "REAL" to Autocad...

It'd be amusing to know how the UNIX app was ported to 8086/88 (before 'Windows' 3)
I loved XSLT. I thought it was the most perfect language ever created. What was I thinking?
Umlauts are one of the more consistent schemes at least, and generalizes decently well if you treat it as the indication that vowel is being centralized (i.e. applying it to "e" and "i" should yield unrounded central or back vowels - which is indeed the case in some languages; e.g. "ë" in Albanian is basically the schwa). If you map it to the frequency-based 2D vowel chart, you get something like this:

i ü ï u

e ö ë o

ä a

Throw in another diacritic for lowering that can be combined (say, ogonek), and you get 20 vowel characters to play with - that's sufficient for just about any language I can think of, and with some care in mapping, also translates naturally across languages.

Most other systems are very haphazard largely because all of this stuff evolved as scribal abbreviations. (So did umlauts, of course; it just happens to be the lucky case where it ended up mostly consistent.)
If you're using Gnome, you could try the system-monitor-next extension[1]. The main thing to note when installing for the first time is that you'll also need to install a few system packages[2].

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-n...

[2] https://github.com/mgalgs/gnome-shell-system-monitor-next-ap...
Indeed, there is a polar coordinates representation of the complex numbers with the nice property that when you multiply you multiply lengths and add angles.
What is the feasibility of building data centers in Alaska to take advantage of the mostly cold temperatures? A solid fiber connection is one prerequisite.
Feel like he could have done this pretty easily with 1950s tech
When uploading books to kindle direct publishing you have to state that you own the copyright and publishing right.

So any book or story on Amazon that was generated substantially via prompting should now have to be removed based on this guidance from the copyright office.
Looks vaguely similar to https://github.com/mbecker20/komodo
It wasn't exactly a choice as much as a "which country has lots of nukes and aircraft carriers, rock-'n'-roll, blue jeans, and movies"

If not for the first two, we all know everyone would have chosen Sweden.
Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby
Even if ski resorts followed every sustainable practice stringently it wouldn’t change much, wouldn’t it? It’s not like ski resorts are the drivers of climate change, or even that climate change is really what causes ski resorts to close.
Binance breaks every single financial law in the developing country I live. Many users have lost money in their P2P scheme. Not really a great reference.
Yeah. In my opinion we should replace most of these cops with traffic cameras which don't do this kind of crap
I'd agree with your recommendation while pointing out that a big part of the benefit from doing this is getting high-quality audio ADC/DAC hardware in the final mixed-signal interface. This can be achieved well with either kind of device, but the external device will be usable longer.

That said, my biggest gripe about external sound cards is introduction of drivers rather than usage of standard bus class protocols, which has a tendency to create "complicated upgrades" problems due to the manufacturer dropping support for the driver over time, causing an unnecessary forced obsolescence for otherwise good external hardware.
I’m not sure what point you’re arguing. C and C++ treat uninitialized reads as UB, full stop. Any C/C++ compiler can do whatever it wants if it realizes that’s the case. Rust is no different, it’s just that it makes it a compile error in “safe” mode and forces you to annotate it with unsafe to be explicit it’s intentional (while still following the rules mind you - accessing uninitialized memory is still UB even in unsafe rust and doing so gives the compiler freedom to break your code)
The big bundle size is a reason.
Make is primarily used with C and C++. It is not commonly used in Java, Rust, Go, NodeJS, or hardly anything besides C and C++. Make is not "generally used with other languages".
Windsurf <- try this first
Cursor <- then this
Aider <- then add this to your workflow
I think Ghidra could do better even without any LLM involved. Ghidra will define local variables like this:

SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY* local_5c;

I wish it at least did something like:

SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY* local_5c_pServiceTableEntry;

Oh yeah, there’s probably some plugin or Python script to do this. But I just dabble with Ghidra in my spare time

It would be great if it tracked the origin of a variable/parameter name, and could show them in a different colour (or some other visual distinction) based on their origin. That way you could easily distinguish “name manually assigned by analyst” (probably correct) vs “name picked by some LLM” (much more tentative, could easily be a hallucination)
They bury the part where inducing brain like structure hurts performance!

This is a method to just hurt your network in exchange for nothing useful at all aside from some sketchy story that this is "brain like".
> I suppose the silver lining is that if this goes poorly enough the civil service will probably receive better protections to help this from happening in the future.

This isn't a pen-test its a lobotomy.
Yes - best decision we made.

Running a new startup now and choose modern Java (JDK 21+) with Spring Boot and it's been fantastic. Have previously built startups using both Haskell and Python/Django in the past. Ignore the folks talking about it not being cool, heavy, boring or whatever - modern Java is just super nice and quick to work with.

Some positives we noted,

- "good-enough" integrated type system & language features, e.g. immutable records, type inference, generics, sum and product types with exhaustive pattern matching, lambdas, streams (along with the new stream-gatherers). We feel the gain isn't enough to switch to Kotlin anymore.

- Fantastic tooling, from IDEs, build systems, cloud integrations, remote debugging, settings configuration etc.

- Massive ecosystem - there are libraries for everything, and all major vendors, including cloud providers and most startups, have a Java SDK

- Spring Boot is a great framework, especially for API backends coming from Django - setting up things likes OAuth and OIDC was super easy. Spring AI is developing rapidly, for instance it got
MCP support within a week or two of it being released

- Verbosity can be tamed with annotations processors, and Lombok if you desire (we do but understand some don't like it). JSpecify helps with null-checking.

- Performance is great, you just don't have to think about it at a startup scale, and Loom / Virtual Threads makes it even easier to build performant web services without the mental overhead of building `async` systems

I could go on, and like all things there are of course negatives, but we took the plunge and have been really happy with it.
This makes me remember game developers back when games could still be played directly from the physical disc. They would often duplicate data to different parts of the disc, knowing that certain data would often be streamed from disc together, so that seek times were minimized.

But those game devs knew where everything was spatially on the disc, and how the data would generally be used during gameplay. It was consistent.

Do engineers have a lot of insight into how models get loaded spatially onto a given GPU at run time? Is this constant? Is it variable on a per GPU basis? I would think it would have to be.

Hard to optimize for this.
Huh? That doesn't happen to me. Mine is signed.
"In the interim, to the extent
permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related
to ..."

It seems to me that they were just trying to stop the money that was being spent without direct Congressional approval. Like condoms to Mozambique I guess
> The main reason topography emerges in physical brains is because spatially distant connections are physically difficult and expensive in biological systems.

The brain itself seems to have bottlenecks that aren't distance related, like hemispheres and the corpus callosum that are preserved over all placental mammals and other mammalian groups have something similar and still hemispheres. Maybe it's just an artifact of bilateral symmetry that is stuck in there from path dependence, or forcing a redundancy to make damage more recoverable, but maybe it has a big regularizing or alternatively specializing effect (regularization like dropout tends to force more distributed representations which seems kind of opposite to this work and other work like "Seeing is Believing: Brain-Inspired Modular Training for Mechanistic Interpretability," https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08746 ).
While lift ticket prices have maybe doubled in the last 20 years, I am sure costs
For the ski areas have more than doubled, like
You said insurance, but also parts, labour,
The entire code needed to reproduce R1 in a single Gist
The code:
https://gist.github.com/willccbb/4676755236bb08cab5f4e54a047...
How many ants live on Earth? (2022)
> Side effects of suzetrigine reported by patients were similar to the ones reported by those taking the placebo

If this is what you're referring to, note the article is talking about the side effects.

Not trying to say I'm for/against the drug, just wanted to point a possible incorrect conclusion.
What I don't get is why the day of the month doesn't also start at 0?
I encourage anyone who is curious to try to build an AI to get an approved client ID / secret from Google to access end user's gmail accounts. Most tier-one apps, such as Google, Zoom, Shopify, etc require a formal application process, third-party security reviews, and much more.
Show HN: HDR Steganography – one file / two images
tl;dr you can make a JPEG that looks totally different for users on SDR vs HDR displays

I'm curious if people think this is an actual issue or just a curiosity. I doubt this is novel but I recently discovered you can do this.
F#, while missing some of the more interesting features of OCaml (e.g. the expressiveness of its module system), also has indentation-sensitive syntax that ditches a lot of the scaffolding, including semicolons in most cases:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
> The reality is that giving a mulligan to some jackass cop who fucks up has benefits to many stakeholders. Investigations involve looking at things, and sometimes you see things when you bother to look.

Thanks; that paragraph sums up a lot of what I was trying to say.
The countries with the highest inflation rates [1] aren't necessarily the same with high rates of poverty [2]. For example Lebanon has the highest inflation rate in the world, but has poverty rates lower than Mexico (which itself has relatively low inflation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-r...
Context is everything.

Sixteen years ago $50 million USD was the absolute low bar of interest when reporting on IPO capital raising for mineral development projects.

We tracked any global mineral exploration activity; leases changing hands, ground chemistry surveys, geophysical survey, drill survey, technical reports, etc.

But, for the purposes of informing investors on the Toronto TSX and elsewhere, anything less than $50 million on development was too small to be worth mentioning. It was literally the lowest least interesting amount.
That study is hardly strong enough to make that statement that firmly. "Broadly," only if you exclude all of the Western world, and much of the rest of the world as well.

The study cites a dozen or so papers saying:

> Within contemporary Western populations, wealthier, higher status men tend to have lower fertility. In low and middle-income countries where populations are at different stages of this transition, women in wealthier households have fewer children on average. Over the course of the fertility transition, wealthier families also reduce their fertility earlier and more dramatically than the rest of the population.

They then essentially do a big regression analysis to say that if you take your material wealth and your education together, which they call your market opportunity, there is a strong negative relationship between that and fertility. Then if you take that same material wealth and your agricultural wealth together, there is a weaker positive relationship between that and fertility. So basically agricultural wealth (land and livestock) may be weakly correlated with having more kids, but other kinds of wealth aren't.

(And that's ignoring the fact that the chi-squared analysis said that their model was a poor fit anyway, but they hand-wave that away by saying that that's probably just because they had too much data.)

Finally, and importantly, the original statement by GP was that there was a sexual selection that favoring rich men. That is, that rich men would be selected by women and have more children. This study does not address that at all, as it measures household wealth, household education and number of children per woman, not per man.
> Nothing about substack wastes readers time.

Login modal wastes time.
In some languages, like Java, go and probably Javascript, this is probably true, depending on how much memory needs to to be initialized. But in rust FFI isn't any more expensive than any other non-inlined function call.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879864

this is cerebras' 70B number, 1600 tokens / sec, not sure about the costs.
Thanks for replying. I actually was looking for this answer but couldn’t remember the name!
That's true, and interpretability is helpful for AI safety.
If the law strictly controls capital flows to US dollars, why do you think capital flows to US dollar stablecoins is legal?

Or is the business plan to make it easier to do crimes?
NoRedInk[0] also uses some Haskell in their backend, as well as Elm for most of their frontend. They've also worked some with Roc according to a blog post from a few years back; not sure if using it.

[0] https://blog.noredink.com
Very sad that .Now is not a function call. It shouldn't be a property.

Evaluating .Now multiple times in a loop will yield different values, which is unexpected.

C# did the same and it shouldn't have been:

https://ericlippert.com/2014/05/19/when-should-i-write-a-pro...
Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rollout
JIT isn’t the problem. It’s giving control of JIT to third parties.

We can still hate on Apple, it’s just more accurate to say they don’t trust their own app sandboxes to stand up to LLVM / assembly attacks from malicious apps with JIT access.
Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek's best
Own your platform. If you host your own blog, you have the ability to make it do literally anything you want. It's such a superpower that's severely underrated.
Thanks so much for the support!

All of these uses are possible - my dream is for it to become much more advanced and powerful, almost like Blender but for audio and acoustics. It's still in early days and I'm a solo dev for now...

I'll look at those links. For me it was blender, and spatial audio plugins like the DearVR stuff, and game engines!
This has bitten me a couple times too but it's usually easy to figure out the first time you botch it and you're more careful after that.

Immutability is double edged. If I'm doing a bunch of math on a date, I don't want to be creating a dozen copies either.

SQL query builders also have this problem.
SwiftBar: Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool
This will get you immediately fired at Meta today.
I imagine it could be easier to make sense of the 'biological' patterns that way? like, having bottlenecks or spatially-related challenges might have to be simulated too, to make sense of the ingested 'biological' information.
I hate to dog on research papers. They’re work to write. That said, I think this paper is not likely to be of interest to AI researchers — instead it may be of interest to Neuroscience folks or other brain research types.

The lede — adding topography worsens networks at similar weights — is not only buried, it’s obscured with statements claiming that topo networks show less upheaval when scaled down, e.g. they are more efficient than similar weight networks.

It’s hard for me to see how both these things can be true — the graphs show the more topography is added, the worse the networks perform at the trained model sizes.

To have the second statement “They compress better and are therefore more efficient” also be true, I think you’d need to show a pretty remarkable claim, which is that while a model trained at the same scale as a llama architecture is worse, when you scale them both down, this model becomes not only better than the scaled down llama, but also better than a natively trained model at the new smaller scale.

There is no proof of this in the paper, and good reason to be skeptical of this idea based on the data presented.

That said, like a lot of ideas in AI, this .. works! You can train a model successfully imposing these outside structures on it, and that model doesn’t even suck very much. Which is a cool statement about complexity theory and the resilience of these architectures, in my opinion. But I don’t think it says much else about either the brain or underlying AI ‘truths’.
Not at the moment, though I am curious what the main benefit of a desktop app would be for you - running the code locally? more performant UI?
I don't think you create Temporals though. It's essentially a namespace for things like Instant, so it need not be a noun.

Time has the opposite problem. I expect it to be a class, not a namespace. Time.Time creates more confusion, not less.
This is demeaning, uncivil, and largely baseless.
The government wouldn't bother with the individuals. They would designate Karsa as a criminal organisation.

And then trigger an Interpol Red Notice for the founders.
I think you just ended up supporting my argument, because you perfectly explained why most people hate bean counters.

Again: $50 million dollars is an insane amount of money, even moreso since it's American tax dollars and we're apparently spending it buying condoms for other countries. What the sincere fuck. That is not what I'm paying my taxes for, and I'm willing to bet a lot of Americans will agree with me.

Spend that $50 million dollars on anything for the direct benefit of Americans: Student debt, food stamps, Medicare, public schools, or condoms for that matter, I don't care. Spending this money on anything for Americans is better than spending it buying condoms for other countries. Absolutely noone can convince me this is a wise and justifiable use of our (my) taxes.
The headline is either sloppy or intentionally misleading: the Copyright Office is saying that the law surrounding whether AI generated works can be copyrighted was settled in 1965 (the answer being "yes if AI assisted a human creative process, no if not, and we have to decide on a case by case basis if there was enough human input to qualify"). This has been their stance all along, but now they've provided a bit more guidance on what counts as human input, which is helpful.

What this article doesn't talk about at all is the far more controversial AI copyright debate, the one most people will think of given the headline: whether training a model is fair use. That's the one everyone is actually concerned about, and they're definitely not claiming it was settled already.
I've needed these custom selects so many times... Including right now and I'm dreading building one from scratch again because all the libs I've found are lacking.
> Let that sink in.

Yes, I'm aware. My reasoning follows from my response to the sibling of your comment. I think the US is piuring gasoline on the fire to use ww3 as a mechanism to reset the national debt.
Excellent video snipping resources. I love HN for this.
Today they only allow creepy surveillance if it makes money.
Japanese scholars famously learned Dutch because they were the only foreigners who were allowed to bring in Western books.

Luckily if you are intelligent enough to read Dutch learning English is a walk in the park.
Well, I have a bear call spread on NVDA and so far its not working super great. It all depends on timing and I seem to be pretty crappy at options. o well.