MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hashstring | 2025-04-22 15:03:53+00:00
Are you talking Twitter or X? X is in many ways much closer to TruthSocial than any other platform currently is [1] [2]. The only thing that grounds X a bit is the (old) Twitter user base that’s still on there, which is and has been declining.

It’s also interesting that your view of progressive might be different than mine. In this current age, I guess even advocates for DEI are considered too “progressive”. Which (in my opinion) relates more to a shift of right to far right, which shifts the balance, and people mistake it for what are really just centric viewpoints being “leftist”.

To me, BlueSky is the best current alternative to what Twitter originally was.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump... [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x...
by jlkuester7 | 2025-04-22 15:03:57+00:00
> Debuggability is much more important than marginally-better readability, for production code.

I find this take surprising. I guess it depends on how much weight you give to "marginally-better", but IMHO readability is the single most important factor when it comes to writing code in most code-bases. You write code once, it may need to be debugged (by yourself or others) on rare occasions. However anytime anyone needs to understand the code (to update it, debug it, or just make changes in adjacent code) they will have to read it. In a shared code-base your code will be read many more times than it will be updated/debugged.
by qwery | 2025-04-22 15:04:04+00:00
Sad to see it if this gets killed as a [dupe].

The story has been posted twice, yes. The first submission[0] is ~10 hours older and has 3 comments on it. This one has 348 comments at time of writing. If you care about having an interesting discussion, this one's clearly where it's at.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758392
by anthk | 2025-04-22 15:04:21+00:00
I was afraid 'dbi' would clash with a binary on my machine (related to DBI), but it's fine.

BTW, on Basic, I had MISSION.BAS for MBASIC.COM under CP/M.

https://termbin.com/w7oe

Is there any public Basic to run it? I tried bas, blassic, bwbasic, yours, and I had no luck.
Show HN: IntelliQ – AI-powered quizzes with multiplayer and doc uploads
by rickyraveanu | 2025-04-22 15:05:33+00:00
Hey HN

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You can: - Create your own quizzes or generate them with AI - Play solo or with friends in real-time multiplayer - Upload PDFs to turn them into quizzes - Bookmark and organize quiz collections - Try randomized surprise quizzes

We built it using: Supabase (auth, db, vector search), OpenAI, Hono, Cloudflare, Next.js, Shadcn/ui, and Upstash Redis.

We’ve unlocked full access for HN here: https://app.intelliq.dev/hn (signup required to track quiz progress)

We’d love your thoughts on: - How smooth multiplayer feels - The doc-to-quiz flow - What features or quiz types we should build next

Thanks for checking it out
Ask HN: Animation Libraries for Education?
by tmaly | 2025-04-22 15:06:28+00:00
I have been thinking of new ways to create educational content.

I find the animation capabilities of Scratch to be quite nice as it supports sound and importing art. However, I would like to have some way to drive it like a library sort of like manim. Does anyone know of a more cartoon like animation library like Scratch that could be controlled by a library or api to create educational animations?
by pc86 | 2025-04-22 15:06:29+00:00
The mental overhead from having slightly different drop shadows and button sizes is minimal, and I think pretty overblown by people who prefer identical UIs for everything regardless of form factor (which is of course a valid take).

But someone could just as easily respond to today's UIs with "Yes, it's wonderful that every single app looks identical, as if it was all designed by one pretty boring artist with no creativity whatsoever" and that would also be a perfectly valid take.
by jjulius | 2025-04-22 15:06:40+00:00
>Various levels of verification make it easier to distinguish what's real from not real, for whatever definition of "real" you prefer.

Exactly! ;) Bullshit is still bullshit, whether it's under a real name or a pseudonym. Additionally, blue checks don't stop "real/verified" people from copy/pasting AI-generated content.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-22 15:06:44+00:00
From my experience, people are really wary of learning the tool they're using to code, because any editor similar to VSCode fulfills their needs.

However, as you said, mastering a proper IDE is a superpower and allows much more to be done in a single window in a shorter amount of time.

Also, since VSCode is everywhere, getting people off of it, or showing much capable software is a sad and moot effort, from my experience, again. KDEs humble KATE is much better than VSCode on many fronts.
by tptacek | 2025-04-22 15:06:45+00:00
I don't think SSPX matters, really, but I'd encourage anyone curious about this particular controversy to simply Google [SSPX antisemitism]. There's a whole Wikipedia article about it (going back to the founder of the order), but lots more than that. Suffice it to say, we're just not going to agree about this.

TLM, don't TLM, but conservative Catholics had a beef with Francis about the Latin Mass, and this is important context to that beef.
by greatgib | 2025-04-22 15:06:47+00:00
The crazy thing is more that multiple versions of the same package could be installed as dependencies of dependencies...

They were thinking to be the cool kids supporting multiple versions and that the old way to do packaging, like debian and co that expects everyone to use the same version, was the old legacy fart way to do things.

Just, developers before were engineers first and so designed things well especially to avoid this situation of dependency hell and supply chain injection. But the web dev crowd decided to do "better" and now to have old problems as new problems...
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-22 15:06:55+00:00
The more ideological parts of the GOP (like the Heritage Institute) have been pushing for consumption taxes as a replacement for the income tax for more years than I can remember. At least since the 2000s. (Just Google the phrase and just about any year since 2003.) It’s always been a bad and regressive idea. With that said, Trump has loved tariffs since the 1980s and so any similarity between the two plans is more a marriage of convenience than any careful plan.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-22 15:06:57+00:00
Separately, because it's a pet peeve of mine, your project is advocating for running an AGPLv3 binary[1] seemingly needlessly; perhaps you meant https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/RELEASE.2021-04-22T15-44...

1: https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/RELEASE.2023-06-19T19-52...
by anenefan | 2025-04-22 15:07:11+00:00
Oh I'd guess it's this disingenuous report [1] judging by its content would seem to confirm authored by a woo woo though they sign with Ph.D. Seems like a mismatch ... oh Ph.D. of communication [2] ...

When the body gets worn down by one or more infections like viruses, secondary diseases usually easily fended off by the body under normal circumstances can quickly rear up, overwhelm and do serious harm. In days before antibiotics were common, around my parts the older generation were told by their mothers to rug up and keep warm outside in the cold or rainy days, less they risk catching cold. The same story for any other potentially lethal virus as well while the body starts to mount a defence.

It's disingenuous in this instance to refer to the secondary illness as the primary cause of death. Some people might say the actual cause was some idealism by the child's parents ...

[1] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/medical-error-de...

[2] https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/public-health/breaking-chd... [see footnote bottom of page.]

Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., is a reporter and researcher for The Defender based in Fairfield, Iowa. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Texas at Austin
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-04-22 15:07:35+00:00
It would be silly to use a pipeline for x |> foo(). What's nice is being able to write:

def main_loop(%Game{} = game) do game |> get_move() |> play_move() |> win_check() |> end_turn() end

instead of the much harder to read:

def main_loop(%Game{} = game) end_turn(win_check(play_move(get_move(game)))) end

For an example with multiple parameters, this pipeline:

schema |> order_by(^constraint) |> Repo.all() |> Repo.preload(preload_opts)

would be identical to this:

Repo.preload(Repo.all(order_by(schema, ^constraint)), preload_opts)

To address your question above,

> if `foo(y)` actually gives you a function to apply to `x` prob you should write `x |> foo(y)()`

If foo(y) returned a function, then to call it with x, you would have to write foo(y).(x) or x |> foo(y).(), so the syntax around calling the anonymous function isn't affected by the pipe. Also, you're not generally going to be using pipelines with functions that return functions so much as with functions that return data which is then consumed as the first argument by the next function in the pipeline. See my previous comment on this thread for more on that point.

There's no inconsistency or ambiguity in the pipeline operator's behavior. It's just syntactic sugar that's handy for making your code easier to read.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-22 15:07:51+00:00
I brought all my toys the moment these policies were announced.

Case in point. I don't *need* a new Surface , but I saw one for like 500$ off. I don't imagine being able to find one at a reasonable price during the next few years.

Really China is still playing softball here. They could just ban exports to the US tomorrow and we'll be the ones cut off from any moderately advanced technology.
by entaloneralie | 2025-04-22 15:08:41+00:00
If I may chip in, I wouldn't call it obvious or straight-forward, but multiset rewriting[1] can be implemented in terms of multiplication alone(like in Fractran), and multiplication can be implemented in origami[2], so there might be something there.

[1] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pocket_rewriting

[2] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/paper_product.html
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-22 15:08:45+00:00
My hunch is that they are just using an existing framework that does that, and it may require some digging into the configuration to disable that (or worse, have to change some code). Since this is never going to be an urgent thing it will never be fixed.

I work in MacOS VSCode frequently, and whenever I open a large repo with a huge number of files, it's PIA to find the scrollbar. I have to hover the mouse above it to make it appear, but how can I hover above it without knowing where it is?

BTW if you share the same frustration with VSCode, please vote this ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/244123
by sohkamyung | 2025-04-22 15:08:51+00:00
It doesn't look like it can be used to track and cross-reference short stories.

Short stories can be stand-alone (web based), found in an anthology, a book collection or published in a magazine.

What would be nice is a tool to track where I read a short story (in anthology A, for example), and where the story can be found, which may be in more than one place (in magazine B, collection C, on-line, etc.).

This is, unfortunately, also not supported in many other book sites like Goodreads, etc.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-22 15:10:14+00:00
Shipping is not tariffed, so I expect that hobby PCBs will still be affordable. ($2 PCBs becoming $5 is hardly a deal-breaker.)

Aliexpress I expect will adapt to end (or at least sharply curtail) free shipping promotions and start charging for shipping (which will not be tariffed), which better aligns what you’re actually paying for anyway.

So, getting 100 transistors for $1.02 and free shipping with $10 total might not be a thing any more, but $0.25 for those transistors and $0.75 for shipping with a $10 minimum might be (and is probably closer to the true economics than $1 and free shipping via airplane).
by aeturnum | 2025-04-22 15:10:28+00:00
I guess if you wanted to argue that the fact that it doesn't say much should not be mistaken for being able to pick and choose your understanding, you should have said that before. Instead you contradicted "The Bible has very little to say about hell in general." - and linked that list of passages. I would say that ~10 passages there clearly describe "hell" and that, because the bible is a long book, that absolutely qualifies as it having "little to say" about hell.

> Beyond that you're not really gonna get a lot of consistency on topics.

This just seems like moving the goalposts to me. There's not a lot of consistency in talking about the "kingdom of heaven / god" but there are a LOT of passages that describe it. Many more than describe hell in any form. That doesn't mean that hell couldn't be a real thing but it's not a thing that's very present in the canonical text. Christian thought goes far beyond the contents of the traditional bible, but if you want to argue for a "paradise lost" hell or somesuch, you need to cast your lot with thinkers beyond the old and new testament authors.

That said, I don't think any of my sibling comments have responded with sources that ignore the biblical text. I think Ehrman is a bit liberal to stand in for all of christendom, but he's a respected scholar and I think his analysis is not in the category of "ignoring the text and inserting his own beliefs."
by pmags | 2025-04-22 15:10:29+00:00
Suspending milk quality testing at this time is particularly shocking given the H5N1 outbreak in dairy herds:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/a...

• Choose "Total Outbreak" in the site above to see the full breakdown across states

The USDA's own website has the following headline text:

"Testing for HPAI H5N1 is crucial to achieve disease freedom from this virus in U.S. dairy cattle. USDA works closely with Federal, State, and industry partners to ensure our testing activities are comprehensive. "

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/a...

I guess the USDA and FDA are failing to communicate with each other.
by Yizahi | 2025-04-22 15:10:38+00:00
In EU waiter asks "cash or card?" when you ask for a bill, then brings both bill and the terminal, then you pay with a phone (just like 99% of others) and the whole process is done fast and smooth. No USA/Israel nonsense about taking your card to some back room and doing something with it. In fact, I don't really remember where my actual plastic cards are. Probably in a wallet, but can be in the desk drawer too, I've never used them for past 2 or 3 years.
by bunderbunder | 2025-04-22 15:10:44+00:00
I'm starting to think that it would take replacing basically everything that's happened on Web frontend development since XMLHttpRequest with an alternative system that's still standards-based, platform-agnostic and Web-centric, but designed from the ground up as a GUI toolkit instead of a markup language for hypermedia formatting.

Because with the current status quo, the platform that dominates everyone's mindshare is HTML/JavaScript/CSS. Which has a really rudimentary concept of UI controls, and human interface guidelines that spend 90% of their effort on begging people to manually implement usability features that we used to get for free with native GUI toolkits. And I think that we might need to get away from that mess before it's possible for anyone to have any energy left over for worrying about HCI on the level that we used to in the late '90s and early '00s.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-22 15:10:59+00:00
Yes. Google says " in March 2025, the top five smartphone brands in Africa by market share were Samsung (29.86%), Apple (14.11%), Tecno (13.65%), Infinix (6.62%), and Huawei (6.29%) [Xiaomi and other smaller brands make up the remaining share] ".

So basically, Chinese brands have a 56% market share in Africa (1.5 billion people and probably the market with the most growth reserve).
by andsoitis | 2025-04-22 15:11:17+00:00
Since the tariffs target the whole world, my responses look at imports rather than constraining to China.

> How many American houses are built in China?

Roughly 30% of the softwood lumber consumed in the US is imported, and Canada accounts for over 80% of those imports. Other key suppliers include China, Brazil, and Mexico. And that’s just lumber.

The US now imports 1.5 million metric tons of rice. See trend:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/806643/us-rice-import-vo...

> How much American electricity is produced in China?

Generating and distributing electricity requires equipment. More expensive (or hard to acquire) equipment means more expensive energy, affecting just about everything.
by gs17 | 2025-04-22 15:11:31+00:00
> 1. Buy a book you genuinely want to read (if not genuinely interested, you will lose motivation).

This has been my issue. There's a really small set of novels I enjoy. The better (but not good) recommendations have been to re-read something I've already read as a translation. I have never re-read a novel in my life and I'm not sure it being a frustrating experience would make it more appealing.

There's probably a market for something that helps connect people to books/stories/media they would actually like in other languages, ideally that isn't already commonly available translated.
Ask HN: Why can't devs make collaboration apps that are client native?
by sirjaz | 2025-04-22 15:11:46+00:00
Why can't devs make collaboration apps that are client native? I mean the technology exist to do decentralized collaboration already. I know most people would prefer an actual native program rather than a website/webapp. Heck some devs do this for their mobile app, but give a lower quality webapp for desktop users.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-22 15:11:52+00:00
God Honda will not quit on Hydrogen.

> As the first plug-in hybrid fuel-cell car, the Honda can travel 29 miles on a 17.7 kWh battery, before switching to a 4.3-kilogram tank of onboard hydrogen, for a total range of about 290 miles.

290 miles, I could be mistaken but are not many pure battery cars already within that range?

Maybe there is some viable applications for space like potential rocket refueling?
by rsynnott | 2025-04-22 15:12:10+00:00
They used to elsewhere, as well. In most European countries chip and pin became ~mandatory around the turn of the century, which made it impossible.

For various reasons the US was very slow to adopt chip-based cards, and even when it did they were usually chip and sig. It was also slow to adopt tap to pay (likely because mobile terminals were less of a thing, because chip and pin was not a thing); it only _really_ took off when Apple and Google kinda forced the issue by putting it in phones.
by cassepipe | 2025-04-22 15:12:23+00:00
I am pretty sure your vision of alcohol "being fine" at low doses is quite simplistic and you are avoiding taking into account people's differences in your comments but I personally don't like weed much and also think alcohol is the best drug. And it's pleasant to read a wall of text on why it is indeed the best drug. Thank you for choosing to die on this hill. I will remember you, comrade.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-22 15:12:34+00:00
There’s a similar disdain for menubars which I really can’t understand. The disorderly and abbreviated hamburger menus that most often are used as a replacement are just worse on every single axis except for maybe visual appeal. They throw out what could be the single strain of consistent usability across apps in favor of looking good on a PowerPoint slide and web marketing blurb.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-22 15:12:42+00:00
>Trump wants to get rid of income taxes for those earning under $150k.

Trump has openly talked about his plan to replace income tax with tariffs for years. Not just for "earnings under $150k" -- that was some post-facto inventions by Howard "Used Car Salesman" Lutnick on some news program appearance after tariffs were proving spectacularly unpopular -- but Trump has constantly ruminated on the grand old days of the 1890s, at least when he isn't talking about that ol' timey word "groceries" or showerheads, light bulbs and coal. And every economist save a few nuts like Pete Navarro (or his associate Ron Vara) have soundly announced that it's an incredibly stupid plan.

Here in reality, thus far the only tax break offered up has been an extension on tax reductions for the super rich. No tax free tips, overtime, etc. Only the super rich have benefitted.

Further, it economically makes zero sense and Trump has repeatedly argued completely contrary "wins" from his tariffs: both that all of the manufacturing and other production will return to the US (ignore that the US has effectively full employment, and such would be massively inflationary without a dire reduction in US quality of life), yet somehow he's going to make trillions from tariffs, which would require such an egregious tariff rate that there would be no imports at all and thus no tariff income. Federal spending would have to drop by almost 80% for tariff funding of the government to be remotely rational, and that means demolishing the military and social security.

>so he can step in an give everyone the "gift" of no income tax

Yeah, that isn't at all how Trump operates. Much like DOGE and their hilarious "$5000 cheques for all the savings" that will never, ever happen -- and quite the contrary the government financial position is more dire than ever -- Trump makes all of his promises up front. Like his tips and overtime tax claims, both of which are never going to happen. Or his amazing healthcare plan that's coming in two weeks. Or how about that line of countries offering everything and their 90 deals in 90 days. This guy is the definition of overpromising and underdelivering.

There is zero scenario where tariffs even cover the current deficit. And as Trump demolishes the credibility of the USD and US TBills (people don't realize that US banks have been increasingly forced to buy these as the global market as dissolved), it's going to get drastically worse.
by doix | 2025-04-22 15:13:03+00:00
I have to use a Mac for work and it drives me crazy. I disabled everything I could find, enabled reduced motion preferences or whatever it's called and still got some animations.

My "solution" is to use Aerospace [0], which reimplements window management. That's the only way I found to not have animations. Unfortunately i still feel some delay when switching windows compared to i3wm/sway in Linux.

[0] https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
by kashunstva | 2025-04-22 15:13:20+00:00
> I've honestly never understood the point of the tariffs

Nor, seemingly, does the U.S. president. It’s the same rhetoric we’ve heard from him since the mid 1980’s onward. “We’re being ripped off,” “We’re being laughed at,” “We need to fix the trade deficit…tariffs…” A case of arrested development. Going back to his earliest projects as a nominal real estate developer, the same inability or unwillingness to capitalize on the expertise of others to the detriment of most of his endeavours. Except for image-making. There he excels. This time, the project he is inevitably destroying is the global economy. And there’s no Fred C. Trump to bail us out.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-04-22 15:13:27+00:00
Sure, but now you’re on a plane and would like to grab something from your bag - headphones or a sweater or an aspirin. Do you need to pull the bag from the overhead bin, balance it on your chair while you unpack the whole bag? Or do you reach into your bag while still in the overhead bin and pull out the item you need?