MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shipscode | 2025-04-15 13:01:52+00:00
The take on 4chan on here is super intriguing. I always felt that the current social media/doomscroll/memesharing landscape which has become so common worldwide is indiscernable and in some ways worse than 4chan. It feels like 4chan left it's homepage and went worldwide sometime in the early 2010s when iPhone-style phone use became more commonplace.

I remember that 4chan users had more honor than users on the internet today. One example would be 4Chan's "Not your personal army" mentality vs. the widespread doxxing/"call their place of employment!" witch hunts, driven by huge accounts on IG/Tiktok/etc, that hit normal people daily.

The modern social media landscape has become far more hectic, harmful, and downright scary than 4chan. Dodging explicit imagery is harder on Instagram's explore page than on 4chan, and the widespread popularization of OF creators has zero bounds across the socials. DOXXING is no longer frowned upon and now commonplace. And memes have become less unique and funny and more commoditized.
by PeterStuer | 2025-04-15 13:02:11+00:00
Your question is very general. "A customer support app" can mean many things from a faq to a case management interface.

If you 100% can not tolerate "bad" answers, only use the LLM in the front end to map the user's input onto a set of templated questions with templated answers. In the worst case, the user gets a right answer to the wrong question.
by oldprogrammer2 | 2025-04-15 13:02:27+00:00
People are reflexive. In a different context, driven by someone else, many of the people currently defending Harvard would instead be pointing out that Harvard and the other elite institutions are part of "the problem". In general this year, it's been interesting to me to see Republicans become protectionists and Democrats become neoliberal free traders, both parties flipping their talking points to either align or disagree with Trump.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-04-15 13:02:36+00:00
So you were able to find the leak? Because I see reports that it was hacked repeated as fact everywhere on Daily Mail-tier reliable news websites and Reddit posts, but they are all based on “rumors on social media go about that there was a leak” but I've not been able to find the actual leak searching for it. Obviously not many people want to link it but it's also weird that so many people claim to have so easily been able to find it when I cannot.

Finally, I was there and using it when the website went down and this did not resemble an actual hack but technical issues. First there were a couple of hours where the website was up but no posts went through for anyone except occasionally when a new threat was bumped, mirroring the normal pattern of downtime issues that sometimes occur and then it just went down completely. This doesn't really resemble how a hack plays out but looks more like technical issues to me.

Even now, going to the front page, it loads for me, except very slowly and incompletely. This does not resemble a hack but technical issues.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-15 13:03:02+00:00
I checked the first two results and not one of them said the man was innocent [1][2]. It's okay if the claim is baseless and there is no citation, but asking me to find a citation for someone else's baseless claim is not really okay.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/abrego-garci...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-meet-with-el-salvador...
by nemomarx | 2025-04-15 13:03:11+00:00
the blue boards did have some slow overlap with pol in my experience - they were more distinct before 2014 or so and by 2016 I barely recognized /tg/ culture.

I'm curious, why bodybuilding.com in particular? I think I've only heard of it once. I wonder if anyone on HN remembers stardestroyer.net or old weird tech forums?
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-15 13:03:20+00:00
There are also constant ongoing efforts at improving efficiency, which is why they keep going “ah ha! We found it!” then poor bureaucrats who are trying to do their fucking jobs while these idiots run around messing things up have to explain, “no, you’re seeing an artifact of record-keeping practices that exist because [very good reason], you’re wrong yet again, maybe try asking literally anyone who knows about these data sets”

They also love to throw around the word “fraud” while bringing no charges. Despite the DOJ being in Trump’s control. Same pattern as other lies (“rampant voter fraud! We have proof” ok so when you’re in change you’ll prosecute, right? You should! That’s bad if true! I mean I’ve looked at your proof and it doesn’t appear true, but maybe you have more proof you haven’t shown! “Uhhh… [smoke bomb]”)

Plus, we have the GAO and CBO. Trump won’t want to listen to them because they’ll say “our #1 problem is we keep cutting taxes”, and “there’s not much waste to be eliminated cutting government workers”, because that’s true at this point, but they exist. It’s not like nobody’s been looking at these kinds of things. That’s just bullshit.
by wegfawefgawefg | 2025-04-15 13:03:40+00:00
To add context, every male in my high school went on that site. Pol was just a place crazy people posted. We used to laugh and read eachother dumb copypastas at lunch with gorgonzola cheese rhymes and bad puns.

The average 15yo boy have enough mental hygiene to know everything you read online is false. The website is not a nazi factory.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-04-15 13:04:03+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vedkm7w2do

I'm assuming the response to this is going to be along the lines of 'oh this doesnt prove he was innocent, they say he was a member of ms-13 etc etc etc' because evidently innocent until proven guilty (which they provided no proof of) isn't a thing anymore
by greazy | 2025-04-15 13:04:04+00:00
4chan is a reflection of the depraved, extreme side of humanity. Twitter has taken on the mantle of 'asshole of the internet', but I think the rotten apples post in both.

4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers.

I like 4chan for the minor boards, not /pol/ or /b/. But /boardgames/ and /dyi/ and /international/. The absurd humor, green texts that make absolutely no sense, or ones that lead down a strange and wonderful path.

I like being anonymous on the internet.
Ask HN: Problems with LinkedIn Editing/Typing
by franktankbank | 2025-04-15 13:05:07+00:00
Does anyone else have issues typing messages or just updating anything on their own page? It kind of sort of works but it seems really damn buggy. I'm not sure if this is some browser issue but I've noticed it for years and keep things up to date, its caused me to just give up on keeping my profile up to date because its so buggy. If I'm typing a message for instance and try to double enter to create a line break I will get 1 return and 1 space wtf? If I try to edit fields on my profile sometimes it works, sometimes it gets locked and I can't get out of whatever modal and have to close the window and try again. Anyone else?
by CalChris | 2025-04-15 13:05:44+00:00
Yeah, keep thinking it was about Communism. We backed the Viet Minh during WWII and we backed the Khmer Rouge as a counterweight to big bad Vietnam (where our Navy now makes port calls), even to the point of defending the Khmer seat at the UN well after they lost until 1993.

Because Communism.
by cyrnel | 2025-04-15 13:06:04+00:00
On its own, immutability isn't a complete solution to supply chain attacks. Software still needs to be updated and those updates could contain malware too.

You need immutability and something like sandboxing where actions cannot e.g. dump the memory of the runner process to steal secrets.

The alternative is vetting every single line of code in every dependency and every subdependency perfectly for every update, which is not realistic.
by sgarland | 2025-04-15 13:06:48+00:00
> bodybuilding.com

Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online [0]. It’s so good, the Wikipedia entry [1] has a section devoted to it.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/https://forum.bod...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com
by flmontpetit | 2025-04-15 13:06:55+00:00
It used to be a diverse place without much to tie all the boards and users together save for a shared commitment to counter-culture. Then GamerGate and Donald Trump happened. "Every board is /pol/" was one of the most frequent replies you would see for a while until all the halfway decent people left.

/g/ is where I and a lot of people learned about FOSS advocacy and now it's just gamer hardware and transphobia.
by wickedsight | 2025-04-15 13:07:38+00:00
> I often find that AliExpress sells things I simply cannot find anywhere else.

I recently needed some bearings for a project. I wanted them quickly, so AliExpress would take too long. I visited 5 local stores and none of them sold the bearings I needed. AliExpress had 200 sellers selling them in every possible type for a decent price.

Ended up buying AliExpress quality from Amazon for a higher price because they shipped faster.
by adrianmsmith | 2025-04-15 13:07:47+00:00
> The majority of these so-called symptoms are what I'd classify as "normal boyhood"

I mean I know what he means and I think there is merit in the argument, but on the other hand sitting down, paying attention, understanding stuff, and doing stuff you don't want to are in fact essential skills to get through middle-class adult life.

I mean if I shouted and punched every boss or colleague I disagreed with, well in some sense maybe I'd have more fun and be living a more "manly" existence, but it certainly wouldn't be good for my bank account.
by krzysztofg_12 | 2025-04-15 13:08:02+00:00
I finally made a product demo video — without spending much or showing my face.

I’m a solo dev. A while ago, I built a Jira Service Desk app that turned into a small side project with a few paying customers. For years, I wanted to make a demo video to help explain what it does, but I kept putting it off. Mostly because I didn’t really know how to start — and I didn’t want to spend hundreds on software.

Last week, I finally did it using free-tier of the following tools: HeyGen for AI avatar, ElevenLabs for voice, CapCut for editing, and the Windows Snipping Tool for screen recording.

If like me, you’re doing everything yourself — building, marketing, support — this setup might save you some time. Happy to share how I did it.
by aswerty | 2025-04-15 13:08:20+00:00
My 2 cents

The SSR game is peak frontend fashion.

The players in this space sell hosting solutions and getting you onto their platform and spending money is their primary goal (i.e. increasing the amount of server side compute and ancillary "services" needed to deliver a frontend solution). Regardless even if you go SSR the backend elements should just be used for SSR, and potentially things like auth, but otherwise just go with a data API as normal that provides the SSR backend with data. Rule of thumb, the SSR solution should never be considered "backend" even if it is running on a server and not the client.

SSR means it is way more difficult to open the network tab in developer tools and understand how your frontend is driving your API. I don't think I fully appreciated looking at the JSON sent over the wire in this tab until I did some SSR work.

If you go with SSR expect ridiculous churn in your technology space.

In the end I have latched onto vanilla React (e.g. no framework like Next) SPA that lazy loads components so you don't have a huge download on the first page load. I use wouter for routing and am pretty much trying to minimize all other deps where possible. I've gone with Preact but am questioning that a little now since it feels like I'm going off-road a bit on my simple setup.

I'm no expert on the frontend but thought I'd share my experience walking down this same path over the last 3 months or so.

Edit: how ironic that I'm calling React "my simple setup"...
by bayindirh | 2025-04-15 13:08:23+00:00
> I guess I'm not a very good 'hacker'.

It depends. For me, the outcome is a function of spare time I have in the upcoming days. I have written complete tools in a weekend, or written much smaller tools over the years. On the other hand, there is a mount of projects waiting to be started, but I have no time whatsoever to touch them.

Just don't hit yourself what engages you or your priorities is different than the person who's on the video/website you're visiting.
by simgt | 2025-04-15 13:08:32+00:00
> But, someone buying stuff made by their employer is not what harms them.

It is exactly what harms them.

With that logic one can defend keeping children in tantalum mines in the supply chain of an iPhone. That's not an acceptable status quo...

Removing the market for immoral exploitation of beings and the environment is a necessary step. The size of the market for things made fairly needs to grow.
by Gigachad | 2025-04-15 13:08:45+00:00
I don’t use them to generate code but I’ve found ChatGPT becoming increasingly helpful giving me ideas or working through things I’m stuck on.

I’ve started regularly sharing my ideas with it and either getting back a “yeah that’s correct, here’s why” or a “there’s an alternative which might be better …”

I’m actually shocked how good it’s getting. Used it on the weekend to help set up a terraria server. Yeah I could have worked out iptables was dropping the connection and changed the config myself. I’ve done it before. But having ChatGPT walk me through it was way faster.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-15 13:08:59+00:00
>asking me to find a citation for someone else's baseless claim is not really okay.

It is one of the biggest news stories in the last month, and various articles (at least 3 that I can think of) have been here on HN. It's trivially searchable. Asking for a citation is almost certainly bad faith.

>I checked the first two results and not one of them said the man was innocent

It's pretty obscure, but there's this thing called "innocent until proven guilty". The man never had his time in court. The US admitted it was a mistake. What are you looking for? Just being contrarian for the sake of it?
by jmyeet | 2025-04-15 13:09:19+00:00
This is /pol/ focused, yes, but the other boards aren't separate worlds. It's all part of what many call the "alt-right pipeline" and it's subtle and insidious.

For example, many (particularly women) have consumed Candace Owens's content about the Blake Lively / Justin Baldoni saga, just like many followed certain creators with the Amber Heard trial. Both of thse fall squarely on the alt-right pipeline.

So you may start folloing 9gag. Particularly if you're young, you may enjoy being "edgy" but a bunch of that is actually normalizing right-wing views. Even seeking validation on /b/ fits this.
by vjerancrnjak | 2025-04-15 13:09:48+00:00
Exactly. I found it surprising how soon it was implied "Imagine you're the smartest and most creative person in the world, ..." would somehow result in the most creative output.

It's clear from the start that language modelling is not yet there. It can't reason about low level structure (letters, syllables, rhyme, rhythm), it can't map all languages to a singular clear representation. Representation is mushy distributed mess out of which you get good or bad results.

It's brilliant how relevant the responses are and when they're correct, but the underlying process is driven by very weird internal representations.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-15 13:09:50+00:00
> I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website.

That's probably why a lot of websites use moderation to avoid having one section of it turn into a cesspit of every -ism you can imagine, up to and including fascism, because once you have a section of your website that is openly coordinating the pushing of fascism on society, everyone kinda forgets about the diverse and interesting other things it might have, because of the fascism.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-04-15 13:10:00+00:00
It doesn't even describe /pol/. This is what 4chan thinks of /pol/ but when you actually go there there is a pluriformmity of opinions and it's indeed mostly just about current events.

The biggest good thing that came out of 4chan and 8chan to me is that it made me extremely weary to ever trust second-hand reports about some place and made me better at identifying reports that read like “This person dislikes this place, never visited it, and just reasons together what it's like.”. It also made me try Tumblr. I heard terrible things about it how it was filled with “social justice warriors” and stuff and unsurprisingly, when actually trying it it was nothing like that and just a fairly chill place where people mostly blog about fiction and pornography and share their thoughts. Even when ignoring the filter and logging out and going to what is trending, almost no content is political.

I remember when 8chan went down and all the news reports and forum posts basically said it was basically Stormfront but I was there at the time and it was nothing like that. People just posted cat memes, talked about fiction, talked about life and dating and stuff. One had to dig on very specific boards to find that kind of content.

People talk a lot about “places”, online or offline or even fiction that they clearly have no firsthand experience with, and just reason together about what it's like. They just “expect it to be like that” based on some image they create in their head, or some cherry picked examples they've seen and start to treat it like fact. It's especially weird when it's about something they clearly don't like, some kind of book or television series of which, despite clearly disliking it, they can supposedly tell you exactly what it's like... well, they've never seen it, they just reasoned it together in their head based on some things they read about it and their own expectations.

I frequent 4chan a lot; it's nothing like this description indeed. I don't frequent /pol/ because I found the discussions to be completely empty but I tried it and it was nothing like that. Even within 4chan I read all sorts of things about other boards that are just not true when actually visiting them. /pol/ isn't a far right echo chamber, /r9k/ isn't full of lonely incels, /lgbt/ isn't some social justice warrior hub despite what one might read about those places on other boards.
by josefresco | 2025-04-15 13:10:39+00:00
> On Friday, at the site of one mine near Longnan, a diesel generator was humming and liquids were gurgling through plastic pipes, indicating that at least some mining operations had probably resumed. Heavy rare earths are mined by dumping strong chemicals into holes dug in the top of a hillside. The chemicals dissolve the ore and dribble out of the base of the hill, where they can be pumped to nearby pits for initial processing.

Fascinating!
by jml78 | 2025-04-15 13:10:47+00:00
I use it for mundane shit that I don’t want to spend hours doing.

My son and I go to a lot of concerts and collect patches. Unfortunately we started collecting long after we started going to concerts.

I had a list of about 30 bands I wanted patches for.

I was able to give precise instructions on what I wanted. Deep research came back with direct links for every patch I wanted.

It took me two minutes to write up the prompt and it did all the heavy lifting.
by allturtles | 2025-04-15 13:10:56+00:00
So, we should have merit-based hiring with respect to race and gender, but then have a quota-based system for political affiliation? How do you even measure this? Who counts as a "conservative"? MAGA-only, or do we get to count RINOs? Won't people just lie about their political beliefs to get a job? Do you detect any irony in the way your agenda exactly parallels that of structural racists who see racism in any job where the racial distribution doesn't match that of the general population?

The reason that academia is overwhelming left-leaning is that those are the people that choose to go to grad school and pursue academic careers. For whatever reason (whether ability or inclination) conservatives do so in much smaller numbers. You want conservatives in academia, go get a Ph.D.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-15 13:11:02+00:00
I'm a UK citizen and I'm okay with sharing health records as long as they are sufficiently anonymised and I doubt that my details are rare enough to make me easy to identify (not that I'd be a target for Chinese security services anyhow).

Ultimately, global health should benefit from being able to perform analyses on people in different areas with different lifestyles and determine the effects of things such as air pollution, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles etc.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-04-15 13:11:11+00:00
That is unfortunate. With only two prime factors, one of which being 13, base 26 is even worse than base 10, and it doesn't even have anatomical coincidence to recommend it. Much better to use base 36 -- we have a ready made character set for it by simply adding the digits to the 26 alphabetic characters. This gives us many more integer prime factors. Not as good as base 60, but better than base 26 and finger numbers.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-04-15 13:11:48+00:00
"The US government has conceded Mr Ábrego García was deported because of an "administrative error", though it also says he is a member of the MS-13 gang - something his lawyer denies. "

Try actually reading the article next time. Again, the burden of proof here should be falling on PROVING he is a member of ms-13, not proving he isn't. You are obviously arguing this in bad faith.
by gaiagraphia | 2025-04-15 13:12:04+00:00
Yes. Your spending is a far more powerful vote than any democratic process. Your society is what it spends on. A society addicted to cheap trash is going to be precisely that.

These 'dollar stores' are wealth extraction centres, which don't really provide anything to society other than enriching a dropshipping middle class and foreign exploitative factory owner class. There's very little value being created.

I'd far rather support places where purchases have numerous positive externalities, whether it be from labour conditions to promoting curiosity, or from environmental impacts, to building local communities.

Society was doing quite ok until the greedy middleman classes decided to render the domestic working classes irrelevant for a little short-term profit, just so we can buy new LED lights, or change our t-shirt collection every week.
Ask HN: I'm a 24-year-old Postgres internals hacker – would love your wisdom
by DumBthInker007 | 2025-04-15 13:12:16+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm 24 and have been diving into Postgres internals and learning about other database systems since I was 21. I'm deeply fascinated by systems programming and database architecture — especially how things work under the hood.

I'm trying to shape a long-term career in this space, and I'd really appreciate hearing from folks with more experience. A few questions I’ve been reflecting on:

1)What are some things you wish you had done earlier in your journey?

2)What are some things you wish you hadn’t spent time earlier on?

3)What keeps you motivated or helps you push through when you’re stuck or feeling low?

Any advice, reflections, or stories would mean a lot. Thanks in advance!
by noisy_boy | 2025-04-15 13:12:44+00:00
They have a chance to come-up with a user-friendly framework on top of MCP and make a big difference in acceleration of adoption. Cherry on the cake would be if they can build a UI on top of it to build/monitor/visualize. Hosted by them with a generous free-tier i.e. more private data to munch on for ads (only half joking).
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-15 13:13:00+00:00
He's an illegal who had a credible (like actually credible, like you could pitch it to someone in the year 2002, not the flimsy 2020s BS) claim for asylum but didn't file in time. He was eventually caught up in the system for reasons not related to the commission of any crime. ICE looked at his case, and gave him a "we won't deport you because your case is pending" status.