skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the recipe. Don't skip any steps

- Your room must be cold. If you stand around in the room you should feel kind of chilly

- Your room should be quiet. If you have loud A/C which turns on and off that's a problem c.f. step 1 -- think hard about how to meet both requirements given your personal situation/constraints

- Your room must be dark. Not necessarily pitch black but dark. No blinking LEDs.

- A couple hours before bed, remind your brain that it is soon time to sleep

- Your phone must not be in the room with you. Your phone sleeps in the kitchen. I cannot emphasize this enough. It's OK you are going to have a nice book to read instead

- You need a real physical book. Books are cheap and make you more sexy and smarter. No Kindle

- Here's the book I'm reading: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/gormenghast/

- This is the headlamp I use: https://www.pelican.com/us/en/product/flashlights/headlamp/2...

- There's nothing special about that headtorch -- there are hundreds of head torches you can buy with a red ~630nm LED. it's the standard red color LED. It would be interesting to swap it out for the 670nm wavelength described in the article though!

- Actually that model is pretty heavy and just happens to be the one I bought for camping -- you could do a lot better/smaller/lighter e.g. Nitecore NU25, Black Diamond Spot 350

- You will feel like a clown when you put the headtorch on. That's okay -- you read books and sleep well, making you very attractive in the daytime. It's OK to look like a clown at nighttime

- You are going to sleep on your back. You can do this, I believe in you. You are going to sleep positioned like Tutankhamun and for nearly as long

- You need a reasonably firm pillow and you need to set it up right. It needs to support your neck and stop you rolling on your side. None of this foam bullshit it needs to have feathers in it. You are a human being not a cellphone. You don't sleep on plastic

- OK let's get this bread. You lie down you turn off all the lights and you turn on your cool little headtorch. You get your head very well positioned on the pillow. You are about to sleep like a boss, you're going to sleep like Genghis Khan. You better get those covers tight because it's fucking cold in your room. Then you start reading. Hell yeah this book is so good. It feels so natural and rewarding and you remember that people used to write in ways that are outside our grasp today, no LLM or modern author can touch it. Within a couple of pages your eyes are shut. You find yourself holding the book with your eyes closed, barely awake. At that moment boom you put down the book, ideally switch off the headtorch, and disappear
> I'm American, and 50.2% of Americans did not vote for this.

In all fairness, a good portion of the other 49.8% probably didn't vote for this (or didn't know they were voting for it) either.
I think you misunderstand. The comment your responding to was arguing against this assertion:

> no way the top 10% receive 3/4 of the services

I think the argument is that the main service USA taxes pay for is defending property and keeping order (via force and infrastructure) such that property rights are honored. The rich have disproportionate property, so they receive disproportionate service.
Yeah, to agree with you in different words--

With IPv4 and NAT, I'm setting up a network. I control it from end-to-end. I can define whatever subnets I want, connect them how I want, put a static IP on my IoT device so Home Assistant can find them reliably, etc. Then I have _a_ point (well, three) where my network touches another network and all configuration and setup around how the two interface and interact is defined and controlled there.

With IPv6 the expectation is I'm building out another little piece of someone else's network. Now all the communication within my network is closely intertwined with theirs. There's really no good way for me to handle that today.

Using SLAAC so devices update when prefixes change leaves me unable to find/connect to anything. Short of installing a DDNS client on my air quality monitor somehow, how do I manage to connect to it?

I can use DHCP6 (not on Android though!) and let the server handle DNS registrations. This would also regain the ability to push a NTP server to clients which would be a nice thing to have. Except now when the prefix changes the devices have no way to know and (like you say) I have to run around and reboot everything.

And this still doesn't give me a path to load balancing across multiple connections!

I guess really the bigger issue here is the dynamic nature of the prefixes. If I could go log into IANA and click a button and get assigned a /48 then log in to my ISPs' sites and attach it to my connection and be on my way... I'd deploy it today, no problem.

I can't see any _technical_ reason that wouldn't be possible. But there isn't a snowball's chance in hell any ISP starts offering that ability on consumer connections when they could be gating it behind having a $5k/mo business connection.
Which maybe will happen eventually with RFC 9686 & 9663. Those are getting activity and maybe eventually will enable an actual IPv6 future in, oh, another 20 years? give or take.
Honestly, it's kind of blatantly transparent that corporate climate change initiatives are meaningless when they insist workers commute to the office when we just spent the last few years proving we would work from home. I'm thankful my employer still lets us WFH and it greatly helps our recruitment and retention.
> So the company is making more profit from you now? What am I missing?

Yes. The elasticity of Tariffs is historically >1.
6k is not that bad considering that top of the line Apple laptop costs as much. However, I don't have X so unfortunately I can't read the details.
Shhh, don't let the facts get in the way of the bootlicking.
In the context of Moore's law exponential growth was measured in the number of transistors per integrated circuit. This seems vigorous and straightforward.

With AI the improvements have certainly been impressive but it isn't straightforward how you can define "reasoning" to measure whether or not the reasoning is exponentially "improving".
How this is even legal. Don’t they have any sort of competitive tendering?
We could make every reader do the extra work, or the author could write a few words once.
Here's the fun part if you are not wealthy. You would pay both anyways.

It's a rigged game, if anything they would use tariffs to cut the progressive rate not the base tax rate anyways.
The threshold to enter top 10% is only 180K. Do you still believe most people can do this?
If I ran a spy agency or specialised in blackmail the first thing I'd do would be to run a VPN service. We have no way of auditing their trustworthiness.
A failure of imagination I suppose.
I'm not a fan of Trump but I don't think you can let Biden off the hook on inflation either: Biden should've reversed course on tariffs, and not added his own, but didn't - likely a political calculus to avoid appearing "soft on China". Lifting tariffs would've immediately provided relief to both businesses and consumers.

They do have a cooling effect on the economy though, so perhaps the other motivation for keeping them around was to prevent run-away inflation. While Tariffs can raise the cost of goods, they do not in-and-of-themselves create inflation unless you attempt to pump money back into the economy to repair the damage being caused by your tariffs.
The other thing that I'll add here is that if the tool has a battery, then I'm going to a well established and supported brand. I know they love to change the technology (Lookin' at you DeWalt) but there are often workarounds. I'll buy into the tool ecosystem because the last thing I want to do is stop my flow to figure out which tool/battery is ready for the task at hand.
Regardless of whether the storyboards are in the public domain, I'm sure that someone will eventually "make" Jodorowsky's Dune using AI tools. Feed in the artwork, novels, and actors to get a complete movie out. This will be technically possible within a few years. It will probably look good (at least for casual viewing) but the human performances will still seem a little odd.

I'm not claiming that this will necessarily be a good thing from an artistic or legal perspective. But there are enough Dune fans out there with access to AI video tools that someone will eventually do it.
VAT is categorically different--it is applied to both domestically and foreign produced goods.

I believe import duties are similar to tariffs, and open to criticism on the same grounds.
> For what? There is no ROI at that price point. There is no monetization potential.

It appears that LLM chat interfaces will replace Google SERPs as the arbiters of truth. Getting people to use your LLM allows you to push your world view. Pushing his "unique" world view appears to be the most important thing to modern Musk.

In that light, paying 40B for Twitter, and billions for Grok training makes perfect sense.
comment wasn't talking about toddlers
There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative. Grok3's release is pretty important, no matter what you think of it, and initially this story quickly fell off the front page, likely from malicious mass flagging.

One thing that's taken over Reddit and unfortunately has spread to the rest of the internet is people thinking of themselves as online activists, who are saving the world by controlling what people can talk about and steering the conversation in the direction they want it to go. It's becoming harder and harder to have a normal conversation without someone trying to derail it with their own personal crusade.
> You do realize that Trump increased the deficit almost twice as much as Biden did? (Trump: $8.3T, Biden: $4.6T)

Why is that talking point, I mean statistic, not adjusted for the pandemic? I think I know why. Also deficit spending and govt spending continued to be high or increasing during 2022/2023 when inflation was taking off because the post covid economy was heating up, resulting in stubborn inflation that hurt the most vulnerable folks.
> Missing from this is the percentage of people that can charge at home.

In the US[1], about 70% of homes are detached or attached single-family homes[2]. The vast majority of those will be able to support charging one or two cars at home. How to address the remaining 30% is definitely an issue worth discussing, but it's not an issue for the majority of people who live in the US. If we could get to 70% of cars to being EVs, that would be a huge dent in our emissions, still worth celebrating even if it doesn't work for absolutely everyone.

> Even if apartment complexes start adding chargers the renters may have to eat that cost as part of their rent for some period of time.

What I've seen around here (Twin Cities, MN) is apartments just have some charging company put about 4~8 of their fast chargers in their parking lot. I would guess those companies pay the installation costs and charge the users directly, so the apartment owners don't have to deal with it at all.

[1] The article is about Europe, but I don't live there. Maybe someone else can find stats for Europe.

[2] Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs...
I have no such aspirations. Commenting here when I have time and to learn something and not to prove something to somebody else.
The Librem 5 USA phone is made in the US, and costs $1600. That might seem reasonable compared to the $1000 iPhone 16 Pro, but if you look at the spec sheet it's clear that it's closer to a $100 phone than a flagship. That's not a 20% premium, that's over 1000% premium.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/
I was originally worried about depreciation when I bought my EV six years ago, because I feared 5 years later all the cars on offer would have 500mi range and charge in half the time.

I realized I generally hold my vehicles for life, (because it's the most cost effective thing you can do), and it really doesn't make any difference what happens as long as I'm happy with the features at the point I bought them. If you don't want to hold onto a vehicle for life, you should strongly be considering used or lease.

Another thing to note is that EV depreciation is being wildly exaggerated. The resale value of my EV is right in line with other comparable ICEs (actually better, depending on the comparison). Most of the misleading reporting uses data from the COVID era where vehicle pricing was wildly whack. At that time I could sell my 3 year old car for more than I paid new - something I had never seen in my lifetime and suspect I will never see again.
I'm not sure the author learned anything. There is nothing here from the first discovery that the hole did not exist all the way until the end that could not have been pre-empted by just thinking through the steps you're about to take. There's nothing stopping you from measuring your hoses, measuring your drill chuck, visually checking the flow through the drainage pipe, and even investigating the taps BEFORE you make your first trip to the hardware store. But the second trip I'm already wondering why the author doesn't try to think one step ahead instead of immediately getting in his car to fix the immediate problem.
I'm not sure "top 10%" is all that useful of a grouping. In the table you present, $178,611 is the income split point, defined as "the minimum AGI for tax returns to fall into each percentile". $178k does not make you rich in almost any part of the US. You're not struggling if you live in a low cost of living area, but treating these folks the same as your Pichai, Ellison, Bezos, Cook, etc. is severely misleading to me. I think that's a core problem with our current tax bracketing -- seven just isn't enough for the absolutely massive income spread of American workers.
The point is that it is inefficient. Others achieved similar results much cheaper, meaning they can go much further. Compute is important, but model architecture and compute methods still outweigh it.
You mean to tell me that Corn isn't grown in the US in the dead of winter?

I wonder if coffee will be the real thing that gets people upset.
No constitutional basis at the federal level, and ad valorem taxation is already implemented at the state level (as a pragmatic approach, without being rooted in incoherent ideologies like Georgism).
A doctor in Australia has been cancer free for almost 2 years after treating his brain cancer with Car-T therapy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713
In all these discussions the term "rich" slides around from "slightly more wealthy than I am" to "doesn't even include Elon".

It's a useless discussion - the questions should be what needs to be done, and THEN figure out how to pay for it, if necessary.

After all, an easy argument against the OP is that if my "blue collar job" is saved by a tariff, I won't CARE that I'm spending 10% more on laptops, as I still have the job!
I know! I Loved it!
Overpass Turbo rocks for custom maps! There is market for a user friendlier version of it, though.
Geof Darrow is one of my fav Moebius-influenced artists. Among his own projects, he created concept art for The Matrix.

Example here, down a bit: https://www.vulture.com/2015/05/geof-darrow-shaolin-cowboy-z...
When people are talking about "the rich not paying their fair share", it is typically about the income class that makes most of the income not from "working", but from "owning" (capital gains, profit from owned assets). This is exacerbated by the fact that those kinds of incomes are often taxed less (percentage-wise) than peoples salaries.

The cutoff for this is probably more in the top 1 to 0.1% range.

This notion is not something that only poor communists subscribe to (out of selfinterest/delusion), see e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffett_Rule
> but treating these folks the same as your Pichai, Ellison, Bezos, Cook, etc

I never mentioned these people.
It is even worse than that. Musk is currently suing to argue that the NLRB is more-or-less entirely unconstitutional. There's a meaningful chance that labor organizing protections simply permanently end within the next couple years.
The compute edge belongs to those like Google (TPU) and Amazon/Anthropic (Trainium) building their own accelerators and not paying NVIDIAs 1000% cost markups. Microsoft just announced experimenting with Cerebras wafer scale chips for LLM inference which are also a cost savings.

Microsoft is in process of building optical links between existing datacenters to create meta-clusters, and I'd expect that others like Amazon and Meta may be doing the same.

Of course for Musk this is an irrational ego-driven pursuit, so he can throw as much money at it as he has available, but trying to sell AI when you're paying 10x the competition for FLOPs seems problematic, even you you are capable of building a competitive product.
I've been doing Python development for a long time, since when 2.4 was the hottest thing.

I've used the language for all sorts of things: web apps, web APIs, GUI tools, image manipulation, data processing and visualization, some data science, machine learning more recently.

I've used many IDEs over the years, currently on PyCharm.

Just to qualify the feedback.

Pros:

- It looks very pretty.

- Some nice time saving features.

Cons:

- Mac only.

- Subscription business model.

- Having to tie the code to the IDE.

Any one of the con's would be a deal breaker for me.

Overall I'm not sure what the target market is. Maybe I'm just too used to having free and/or libre tooling.
As someone who worked inside Honeywell for 10 years, I can tell you that "large organizations that operate as for-profit businesses will collapse" is absolutely not a true generalization. Everything the GP said about large organizations is true, and after a decade of seeing HW as one of the worst organizations in practice, their stock price was much higher than when I joined because that's the outcome the C suite pursued.

This reliance on the profit motive to enforce a Darwinian culling of private enterprises is a spherical cow.
Show HN: I got tired of waiting on hold, so I built an AI agent to do it for me
Oh, this looks really grea... oh, it's another $20/m subscription...
Rich people, including CEOs, are disproportionately paid with equity, so your point is pretty irrelevant.

In 2022 Google's CEO made $2 million in salary and $218 million in stock awards.
You are way over confident. I definitely have memories from 2 onwards and I know I remember them because I remember relaying them to people at age 4 onwards, by which point my memory was very well formed.
> If Google search disappeared, I would still remember the names of several sites like Stack Overflow that are always at the top of the results, and I’d just go directly there.

I kind of agree with this, but Google is still, IMO, the best way to search these sites even when you know they exist because most of them have terrible local search.

Google searches with the site: tag are one of the few ways in which I find google search to be somewhat useful. Its pretty terrible these days at more generalized search due to their capitulation to SEO.
What do they show?
Show HN: BitTorrent Indexer Using Neo4j
This BitTorrent Library for public domain books featured a Graph Visualizer, Recommendation Engine, and allows for copyrighted works to be legally transferred using $LINK.
Alternately, if you're reading an article about something and realize it assumes familiarity that you don't have, stop reading it or follow your curiosity.

The person who wrote the article did so for the audience of people that follow them, who would already be familiar with FFmpegkit: there would be no point to describing it because the name would be de facto known. Because the web is open, they don't have control over whose eyes stumble upon it and didn't submit it here. But the link got modest traction here nonetheless because enough people are already familiar or at least curious. It's a very organic process and neither the writer, the submitter, nor yourself are under any particular obligations.
SMS almost doesn't matter outside of the USA. No one in my circle has once asked if Signal had SMS support, neither have I ever received an SMS since like 2010.
More spectacular then the self driving cars in 2014, people on Mars in 2024 and a Hyperloop that's shuffling ppl in a vacuum pipe? Frankly, I'm not sure how much further we can go. It's been full on fantasy tech since he's become well known.

While the self driving works surprisingly well in 2025, it's been 11 years since the promised date and you still get the occasional assisted suicide attempt via Tesla in the news. (Near fatal crashes while not paying attention because of "self driving")
This in particular looks like a solo project that probably took around a year.

Say OP sells 1000 subscriptions. That's 20 thousand dollars a month. They sell 10k subs, 200k a month.

Or the project fails, and as a closed source tool I can't fork and fix issues. The only options are it becoming a multi million dollar company or abandonware.

I'd be open to it if it was 100$ with one year of free updates. But even then, I think Visual Studio( which is free for hobbyist) is the only closed source IDE I use. Everything else is open source and free.

Maybe I've been traumatized by Unity 3D, but I don't want to use a bunch of closed source tools. What if this becomes my primary dev tool, and OP decides to update the pricing.

If you're justification for a $20 subscription is that oh you're probably making six figures and this is making your job easier, then what's to stop you from pricing it at $50 a month. Why not a hundred .

Open AI has already started this bizarre slide into higher pricing tiers, I can use Deepseek or LLma3 for free, but if I'm using the most up-to-date chat GPT, I'll run into a rate limit and be told it's time to upgrade to a $200 a month service?!
I couldn't defend it as such in a general sense, but the reason I always liked Slackware was minimalism. It never had that as an explicit goal, but it was for a long time a distro great for people who wanted minimal systems, without any 'wizards' to get in the way. It kind of lost it's way trying to comepte with things like Ubuntu though.

Alpine is so much better from a minimalist point of view (a functional minimal desktop install is only 700mb, while on Void, Devuan and Gentoo it's about double that), and that it has security as a priority at the forefront is icing on the cake.
SLS
This looks awesome! I’ve struggled with launching SaaS projects too, and keeping track of finances has always been a challenge. LaunchPro seems like it could really help with that. I’m currently working on a SaaS project myself, and I can see how having a clear financial overview could make a huge difference in making smarter decisions!
Flight radar shows a normalized approach where speed and altitude conform to that standard. I wonder if late wind shear was the issue.
> Stopping people from two closely related cultures from killing each other is "dooming". Fighting until the last Ukrainian is "supporting".

It won't really stop anything, and it justify the unprovoked aggression of a country toward another and reward them for it. Something the U.S stood against when Irak invaded Kuwait, so it is clearly not about "the people".

> Why can't Gaza be more like Dubai? Are you saying its people are somehow inferior and must depend on your handouts forever?

Because they are nothing alike ? Gaza doesn't have a large access to a limited and desired resources worldwide. It have an decade old embargo preventing its growth.

> Cleaning up Oakland is "gentrification" but letting criminals run the show is "cultural sensitivity". You have a dim view of the culture you are supposedly protecting then, no?

I honestly didn't even understood this one.
They'd be right too soon. The ICE has been a very useful technology but car dependency has been a nightmare for society. Forget a bicycle for the mind, maybe LLMs are like an SUV for the mind.