MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orwin | 2025-04-02 21:03:12+00:00
If you reduce politics to 'what politians do', sure, I avoid it too.

Even when I know that outside of the US, most of us have the same opinions on what the trump admin is doing (especially in the pen and paper RPG community, where not being transphobic is basically a requirement), I still hate comments and discussions about it, probably for the same reason than the author does.

I disagree with his axis though, I've read a lot, and I mean _a lot_ of books and the more I read, the more left I went. And I started almost tea-party libertarian, then liberal-libertarian (because logic, and my class) then I understood power and class and became original libertarian (think Emma Goldman).

But politics are much more than that, it's how society organize, and if you can't talk to everybody about your city evicting the parasites who mismanaged and eventually brought down the waterlines because you're afraid of 'groupthink', you are fucked.
by tomhow | 2025-04-02 21:03:21+00:00
I understand, and lament, that the world is so polarised these days. There's a limit to what we in this little corner of the web can do to correct such powerful global macro trends, but we'll continue to try our best.

If you see things that are unfairly flagged, you can email us and we'll look at them. As long as comments/submissions are within the guidelines, we'll restore them.

We want HN to be a place where people can discuss contentious topics. This is a major reason why I've moved into an expanded role here. I think HN has been, and can continue to be, one of the better places on the internet for discussing contentious topics.

The thing to remember is the guiding principle of HN is curiosity. This place is not meant to be for ideological battle, or for trying to win arguments. It's for conversations where we can learn from each other about things we're curious about.

I've always liked to learn about the opposing side of whatever position I hold. That's why I've found HN to be so valuable, and I want it to be a place people to come to for that reason for many years into the future.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-02 21:03:38+00:00
Look it's fine let it go. You think this is good because you can't imagine it happening to you or people you care about and I think it's bad because I can. People stripped of citizenship also have "no right to be here" and that's the obvious direction this is heading.

In the many years we've been discussing similar things I've never known you to change your mind on even the smallest point of any subject. I frankly just don't respect you enough to put more energy into this conversation.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 21:03:43+00:00
This is a point that I absolutely don't like with .Net projects. Not that it has to be this way as dot-env files can be used as well as environment variables in general. It's just the App.json/Web.config files and transforms are typical, including production environments. Even if it's a private repository with restricted access it feels wrong.

That said, I know they don't have to be this way, just a huge niggle IMO.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-02 21:04:14+00:00
It is highly unlikely my iPhone or Macbook will be checked for newness when on my person, or the iPads in my kids' hands. I'll just time these purchases around trips to Mexico or Europe.

Anything more powerful I will rent or colocate outside of the US in a rack somewhere, moving bits instead of atoms. In short, unless you spend a lot on tech, or tech that isn't portable, workarounds in some cases are available. Certainly, if you’re trapped in the US (or you need goods that are impossible to import on your person), you’re hosed and will be exposed to the tariff costs.

I am allergic to kowtowing to stupidity.
by cobertos | 2025-04-02 21:05:04+00:00
Hmm, sounds about right. I still feel like being around people when they express such radical beliefs reflects poorly on me and hurts me in some unexplainable way.

When challenging such beliefs I find some are hyperbole or a side effect of group-think. Rarely are they genuine, but when they are it's the most worrying. And that's usually when I stop engaging that line of thought.
by melbourne_mat | 2025-04-02 21:05:17+00:00
From an alternate universe:

I apologize for my erratic behavior which has tarnished our brand and created unnecessary turmoil within our organization. Regrettably, we will need to implement a 16% reduction in headcount to address the financial challenges we now face. I have decided to step aside and hand over control to my deputy, who I believe will provide the steady leadership needed to rebuild trust and restore our company's vision.
by sfRattan | 2025-04-02 21:05:42+00:00
I'm cautiously optimistic. It's certainly the most realistic business plan their leadership has put forward in a long time.

And a Mozilla/Thunderbird based email service is well timed. Microsoft's upgrade (read: downgrade) of the newest version of Outlook, making it a glorified web app, has pissed of a lot of users who aren't the sort to browse hacker spaces but do have to use serious email and calendaring every day for their work.

Even if those folks don't see Thunderbird as an alternative to what Outlook/Exchange was, it'll absolutely be an alternative to what Microsoft is turning Outlook into... [1][2][3]

And there's something devilishly funny about the fact that, because DDG uses Bing on the backend, when I search for articles to cite... Everything that comes up trashing the new Outlook is from MSN.

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-new-outlook-fo...

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/windows-11-takes-small-...

[3]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/even-microsoft-s-a...
by benbreen | 2025-04-02 21:05:49+00:00
I've been developing a more elaborate variation on the "chat with a pdf" idea for my own use as a researcher. It's mostly designed for a historian's workflow but it works pretty well for science and engineering papers too. Currently Flash 2.0 is the default but you can select other models to use to analyze pdfs and other text through various "lenses" ranging from a simple summary to text highlighting to extracting organized data as a .csv file:

https://source-lens.vercel.app

(Note: this is not at all a production ready app, it's just something I've been making for myself, though I'm also now sharing it with my students to see how they use it. If anyone reads this and is interested in collaborating, let me know).
by dubrado | 2025-04-02 21:05:57+00:00
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by Arathorn | 2025-04-02 21:05:58+00:00
Telegram certainly has an excellent UI/UX. On the Element side, its quality bar has very much been the target for Element X - and (in my biased opinion) we are getting very close, if not exceeding it in some places. For instance, we just landed The Event Cache in Element X and matrix-rust-sdk (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/3280 - closed 2 days ago after a year of solid work), which provides seamless offline support and local encrypted-at-rest caching of the messages it's seen, which in turn then makes the native SwiftUI and jetpack-compose UIs go brrrrrr.
by chadd | 2025-04-02 21:06:32+00:00
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by ceejayoz | 2025-04-02 21:06:38+00:00
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/black-drivers-are-less...

> The largest-ever study of alleged racial profiling during traffic stops has found that blacks, who are pulled over more frequently than whites by day, are much less likely to be stopped after sunset, when “a veil of darkness” masks their race.

Very clever methodology on this one: they used Daylight Savings to rule out other variables.

> Next, they took advantage of the fact that, in the months before and after daylight saving time each year, the sky gets a little darker or lighter, day by day. Because they had such a massive database, the researchers were able to find 113,000 traffic stops, from all of the locations in their database, that occurred on those days, before or after clocks sprang forward or fell back, when the sky was growing darker or lighter at around 7 p.m. local time.

> This dataset provided a statistically valid sample with two important variables — the race of the driver being stopped, and the darkness of the sky at around 7 p.m. The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a black driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-02 21:07:35+00:00
Isn't all that art faded out, though? I wouldn't be surprised if Baroque period art was originally painted with riotous color first and then faded over time to where it now looks merely like an "opinionated use of color".

In a similar vein, all those old grey marble statues the Greeks and Romans made used to be bathed in riotous color before the paint flaked off.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 21:07:57+00:00
For your example, probably. Different people will have different compulsive behaviors. I painted my kitchen cabinets shortly after moving in... I didn't do the best job of it, and I do notice the blemishes, inconsistencies and bleed through as well as a few spots that chipped over the last 6 years or so. Not enough that I stress over it, or even really think about it in general, but recognize.

I don't think I'd ever want something all that monochrome for myself. To me, subdued isn't about monochrome so much as limiting the noise. I don't even mind a sharp contrast, such as a colorful photo/painting. It's what I can only describe as visual noise that gets me. Especially with patterns that aren't really something you'd see in nature.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-02 21:08:09+00:00
A lot of this stuff is just designers imitating each other. You see this a lot in web design where every website uses similar colors, fonts, visual language etc. I've worked with a few good designers that do actual original design where the point is to be different in a tasteful way. Standing out from the grey masses. If you get a lot of people copying each other, it all averages out to the same bland/boring stuff.

A lot of Hollywood productions these days are sequels, re-runs, and endless variations of successful movies. Down to copying stylistic elements, color grading, etc.

I love Tim Burton and Wes Anderson as directors. Both use vibrant, saturated colors and have a very recognizable style. Tim Burton uses lush, saturated colors to portray suburbs (many of his movies feature lush green lawns white picket fences, etc.).

And Wes Anderson has his famous style of exactly centered subjects,using a lot of surrealist visuals, and elaborate sets and models. I loved the little Roald Dahl thing he did on Netflix two years ago or so (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) where all of this was on display. If you haven't seen that, worth a watch.
Show HN: WordPress Gets Plugin Orchestration – At Last
by vigile | 2025-04-02 21:08:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been a WordPress hobbyist for years, and like many of you, I’ve used the usual performance tricks: caching, CDNs, image compression, lazy loading, etc. All of that helps—but I always felt something was missing.

Eventually I realized it: WordPress loads all active plugins on every page, whether the page actually needs them or not. I checked some of my own sites and found 20+ plugins running on pages that didn’t use them at all. That felt… absurd.

So I built Plugin Super Charger—a tool that fixes this blind spot by detecting where plugins are actually used and ensuring they only load when needed.

It works like this:

It analyzes your entire WordPress site and maps plugin usage to specific URLs.

Then it prevents unused plugins from loading on pages where they’re not needed.

It works with your existing stack—no code changes, and no conflicts with your caching/CDN setup.

You can test it directly on your own site (live or staging) and we even include a simple before/after performance comparison tool, so you can see the speed gains yourself. In some cases, we’ve seen page loads drop by half.

We’re offering a free evaluation version, no signup walls or gimmicks. You can get started in minutes.

This isn’t a cure-all for performance, and we’re not trying to replace caching—just fill in a gap that, for some reason, no one else seemed to address directly. We’re still improving the detection engine and edge-case handling, and I’d love your feedback, bug reports, or ideas for making it better.

Try it here: https://www.pluginsupercharger.com/

Happy to answer questions and dig into the internals if people are curious.

Cheers, Vigile
by 0x_rs | 2025-04-02 21:08:37+00:00
>the tariffs are half of what the other country is charging

And that figure is questionable. Read "including currency manipulation and trade barriers". This is the same presidency that believes the "EU was made to screw USA over", and accused them, Japan and practically every other major economy of manipulating their own currency to harm US. It's improbable that rate has any basis in reality, but surely a detailed breakdown of how they came to that number will be published.. not.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-04-02 21:09:04+00:00
It matters because on your own domain you control the MX records (Mail eXchange) servers.

So, if Mozilla Thundermail were to disappear, you can switch servers on the MX record to another email provider with little downtime if done correctly.

You also become the sovereign of your email. Should your Google account get banned (a news like these hit HN once a month), you are left to start over changing email address in every service you use.

Not to mention dead accesses to SSO, because the Google account would be inaccesible by then.
How do you track positions and orderbooks across DeFi, CEXs, and macro sources?
by Abhimanyu21 | 2025-04-02 21:09:09+00:00
My current setup is getting out of hand—I’m checking Twitter for sentiment, Deribit for options flow, Hyperliquid for perp moves, Binance for spot, YouTube for macro stuff like FOMC updates, and even stock prices of companies holding BTC. It’s a mess to keep up.

How are you all monitoring your positions and orderbooks across DeFi, CEXs, and other sources? Any tools or workflows that actually help consolidate this info in one place?

what’s working for others.
by scoofy | 2025-04-02 21:09:45+00:00
The book has you meta-analyze every aspect of your conversation. You're basically treating everyone with kid gloves all the time. Never tell someone they're wrong, go out of your way to praise people, treat everyone like the noble protagonist in their own story.

All of this is fine and dandy, and incredibly practical in practice, but it presupposes that you're talking to someone whose thinking processes are in opposition to any analytical thinking or self-critique.

I'm not saying the book isn't useful, my point is that the type of people for whom the book is effective are not the type of people I want to be close friends with.

To put it another way, my friend's parents are classic NIMBYs. If I want to hold their hand, and walk them to a place where they can see that their actions are harming the next generation, then, yes, Dale Carnegie's prescriptions are very effective. My point is I don't actually want to be close friends with anyone who needs their hand held just to see things from a different person's perspective.

I try to be kind, I try to be honest, I try to be upfront about who I am and what I stand for. I have made lots of close friends just by being willing to be patient with people who have different views from my own, without actually having to pretend I don't have any views at all. My friends are mature enough to understand that we are both smart people, and if I say something that puts them off, then we ought to be able to discuss it and learn from each other.
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by progman32 | 2025-04-02 21:10:09+00:00
Can't speak for op, but for me it's a question of control. If this service ends up closing or otherwise loses me as a customer, I have to update every single contact and account before I can stop using it. That's not practical. If I bring my own domain, I can switch providers much more easily.

Some people might be ok with losing contact with the long tail after an email provider migration, but I'm not one of those people.
by ariaattar | 2025-04-02 21:10:23+00:00
We just open-sourced AgentTrace, a lightweight tracing and evaluation framework for AI agents and LLM workflows. Originally built as an internal tool at TensorStax, it helps you trace function calls, monitor OpenAI API usage, tag sessions, and evaluate model outputs with custom scoring logic.

It runs locally by default (SQLite), comes with a built-in web dashboard, and is easy to plug into async + tool-using workflows.

If you’re building agents or working with LLMs in production, we’d love feedback and contributions.

GitHub: https://github.com/tensorstax/agenttrace
by bashfulpup | 2025-04-02 21:10:51+00:00
Other guy said it right. These work and are fine but you lose the legacy stuff. If you know your limits and where the eventual system will end up it's great and probably better.

If you are building a expandable long term system and you want all the goodies baked in choose airflow.

Pretty much the same as any architecture choice. Ugly/hard often means control and features, pretty/easy means less of both.

On the surface the differences are not very noticable other than the learning curve of getting started.
by lyu07282 | 2025-04-02 21:10:55+00:00
> the real story, which is the federal government’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing of Yemeni residences in an attempt to execute a mildly infamous terrorist

also the story about how a natsec reporter just happens to be so intimately in contact with these officials that they accidentally add him to the group chat in the first place. There is no adversarial relationship between journalists and the state department, there never was, no matter who is in the white house. They just parrot whatever the US or allied nations are saying when it comes to foreign policy (that is the illegal invasion and murder of innocent civilians in foreign sovereign nations).

The fact that they used signal and leaked some messages to a propagandist is a distant third, but everyone only cares about that, makes me sick. This is why the US is hated around the world, and nobody gives a shit about Trump outside the western bubble.
by pclowes | 2025-04-02 21:11:11+00:00
You don't believe there has been widespread failures if not malpractice and outright fraud in many journals and published studies resulting in replication crises and performative/self-serving peer review over the last several years?

Also cars can read speed limit signs pretty accurately. GPS is pretty accurate. It should not be possible to go highway speeds in areas that are purely residential and miles away from the highway.

Also we could make a more accurate map enforcement system. Not trivial but straightforward.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-02 21:11:23+00:00
> companies

Different from the government (in theory). In the US in particular, any data that is generated from a tax-dollar-paid system is by default public information that can be requested either by FOIA or a state-equivalent law. I think that is a qualitative difference that makes this genuinely worth considering. Imagine if Google et. al. were legally required to make their location data publicly available. I mean, assume that were the case from the inception of the idea to gather that data because that's how it is with governments in the US.

(Granted, there are further considerations around the potential for abuse, especially when considering victims of domestic violence/abuse. But the idea is far more palatable than what we currently have with large corporations.)
by Arathorn | 2025-04-02 21:11:38+00:00
That's .well-known based delegation, which was proposed in MSC1708 in Nov 2017: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/old... and merged into the spec in Jan 2019 (prior to Matrix 1.0 in June 2019): https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/commit/0347e873efc...

So yes, fully-baked and part of Matrix since 1.0!

Next Gen Auth via OIDC is instead a key part of the (upcoming) Matrix 2.0 spec release - see https://areweoidcyet.com and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/386...
by Avamander | 2025-04-02 21:12:03+00:00
The only issue with "large" mailboxes is that Thunderbird tends to become really slow. But this issue plagues other desktop clients as well.

I would love to find an actually performant email client. It shouldn't take like seconds to sort like 100 000 emails. It's a puny number. The time it takes one can read all the emails from disk a thousand times, it's sad.