MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aldipower | 2025-04-01 09:41:43+00:00
Very catchy landing page, like it. And I've read the documentation. Unfortunately not convincing me. I mean, writing larger web apps means nothing else then dealing with a lot of _state_, really a lot of asynchronous _state_. Clicks, notifications, mouse movement events, push messages, navigation changes and so on and on. Larger web apps are state monsters. That's why I choose a framework that is good a state management in the first place. React is one of those proven. Nue does not look trustworthy in regard to good state management tbh. For smaller apps that might not be a problem, but there I tend to use vanillajs anyway.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-04-01 09:42:05+00:00
Depends on the circumstances, it very well can be. Who are you to decide who gets a megaphone or not? But abstractly you cannot really confirm or deny such statements.

But that is besides the point. The criticism of free speech isn't new, the arguments are always the same and usually those that argue for more restriction do end up being wrong. I don't see the path developing differently here.

To ask why Trump can capitalize on these issues, a careful reading might be appropriate as the result wouldn't be too surprising without needing to much predictive capacities.
by roenxi | 2025-04-01 09:42:29+00:00
That thinking is time honoured and never found much traction. For example, pretty much nobody knows how to grow their own food, make their own clothes, carve their own furniture or even drive a manual car. Hordes of tourists circle the globe bringing disrepute to all sorts of time honoured monuments of history's greatest. Skills and challenges which aren't needed get forgotten and are generally not missed.
by panick21_ | 2025-04-01 09:44:12+00:00
That's just your avg elitism. The idea that the world is better by making the creation of art expensive so that only a small group of elite people is nonsense.

Effort of course went down that's clearly a good thing. As for quality, before you needed to get enough return to pay for the expensive equipment and process, so likely you only do it for very few project. So on some abstract sense maybe 'quality' did go down, but that isn't bad as the total amount of high quality goes up far more.

See the massive amount of great TV that have happened since digital cameras.

> slop

What's slop for you is somebody else's favorite show.

Art doesn't have to 'impact us in a positive way' whatever that means. You are not a better person for having watched "Lawrence of Arabia". And in the past most people didn't watch "Lawrence of Arabia" but generic TV shows.

Personally I can easily filter the 'slop' (ie thinks I don't care about) so given how much better the ability is to select what to watch. On demand media libraries, recommendation systems, digital word of mouth and so on. In the past there were few TV channels and only a few movies in theaters at the same time.

So the total access to high quality content has gone up exponentially.
by fabian2k | 2025-04-01 09:44:13+00:00
It's not an accident if the government intentionally circumvents all checks that usually would apply to cases like this and denies them due process. It's also intentional that they send these people to a prison in a different country (and for most of them not the country they are originally from) with conditions that would certainly be illegal in the US itself.

This is also about more than just this single case. From the little we know so far it seems that being from Venezuela and having any kind of tattoo is sufficient to be targeted.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-01 09:45:02+00:00
That was definitely a case of people buying up land purely for the IHT value and then doing some toy farming on the corner to get the exemption.

I feel like a lot of these cases could be avoided if people wanted to structure their family business like a business and gradually transfer control to their children, rather than keep it as personal property right until the very last minute.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-01 09:45:44+00:00
Art becomes tainted by association.

The USSR had some absolutely incredible art used on their propaganda posters. But if you use that for anything outside of ironic Russian themes (e.g. a goofy game set in that era, some silly snack that claims to be Russian-inspired), people will think you're an unironic communist and you instantly turn away loads of people.

When a dominant political force uses AI "art" for everything they do and the style becomes apparent, anything that looks similar to that instantly disgusts loads of people. You can argue "well that's their fault for being disgusted", but pattern recognition and being conditioned to associate certain images with "bad" goes far deeper than the conscious and it's a base instinct in animals.
Rethinking Hiring: How Moka Recruiting Uses AI to Cut Costs and Time
by butterutter | 2025-04-01 09:45:55+00:00
Recruitment is broken—slow, expensive, and inefficient. Companies spend months filling roles, often with mismatched candidates, while HR teams drown in manual processes. AI recruiting tools promise a fix, but most systems still rely on rigid workflows that barely move the needle.

What’s Actually Changing? Moka Recruiting claims to reduce time-to-fill by 34%, cut hiring costs by 36%, and streamline the entire process by 42%. The system automates candidate sourcing, shortlisting, and interview coordination, replacing human bottlenecks with AI-driven workflows. It’s designed to minimize repetitive tasks and let HR teams focus on strategic hiring rather than administrative work.

The Bigger Picture The real challenge in recruitment isn’t just about filling positions faster—it’s about making better hires. Moka Recruiting integrates AI-powered candidate analysis, filtering applicants based on skills and role fit rather than keyword-matching resumes. This could mean fewer bad hires, lower attrition, and a more sustainable workforce.

The Skeptical Take AI in recruitment isn’t new, and plenty of platforms overpromise. Automation helps, but hiring still involves human judgment, team fit, and negotiation. How much of Moka Recruiting’s efficiency gain is from real AI advancements versus simple process optimization? And does cutting recruitment time actually lead to better hiring decisions, or just faster ones?

Where This Goes Next The recruiting space is evolving fast, with AI pushing boundaries in talent matching, interview scheduling, and even automated outreach. If Moka Recruiting’s numbers hold up, it could set a new benchmark for AI-driven hiring. But the real test will be whether companies see long-term benefits beyond just speed and cost savings.

Does AI actually improve hiring outcomes, or are we just moving faster in the wrong direction?
by aredox | 2025-04-01 09:46:22+00:00
Ponoc is made of former Ghibli employees who founded a new home when Ghibli's future was uncertain. I am sure they are on friendly terms, if not family, with Ghibli: they worked together for years. People like them can have a gentleman's agreement.

What is OpenAI in all this, if not a greedy, sloppy, soulless outsider stealing their Art and effort for financial gain without ever asking for permission?
by Avamander | 2025-04-01 09:46:44+00:00
> Of course these days the mega-corp walled garden email providers don't really follow standards like IMAP.

Not really true. It's usually the client implementations that violate the standard in some way or another, like Outlook. But there are way more bespoke rare clients that have poor implementations.

> They have each implemented their own proprietery out-of-band authentication system that only works over HTTPS using the OAuth2.0 toolkit to build it.

Well, no. They have implemented OAuth and that's not proprietary. They do it because plain login has massive downsides.
Show HN: Vibe Mini-Games Website
by Bohann | 2025-04-01 09:46:45+00:00
I am planning to fully use coding agent, without IDE or anything, just a website agent to create an mini-game app.

Website name: Vibe Games Core Concept: Take a 3-min break from work and let's vibe!

I have already using AI to generate - A landing page - Snake Game - Flappy Bird Game - Gomoku Game and deploy online with 40 mins. And each game page has basic SEO optimization.

Next Move: Tank Battle

⬇ Comment the game you wanna play here and I will let AI do it.
by II2II | 2025-04-01 09:46:52+00:00
I ended up getting a faster Kobo! Thankfully, the slow load is a one time thing, per book. Depending upon when you tried it, KOReader has switched to a progressive model of updating it's caching (with most of it being handled in the background) when modifying a book's formatting.

That said, I think this may be mostly based upon a book's formatting. Messing around with upload options in Calibre may help. (For example, Calibre recently added an option to speed up load times with Kobo's reader software.)
by hk__2 | 2025-04-01 09:47:11+00:00
I tried an exercise with Italian, but for some reason one of the words is not in the list to drag and drop ("qualcuno"), so I’m stuck: https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/cm8y1r2cv004m8v1pr775ko...

Edit: also tried in French, and it shows some words in red (I guess that means "invalid" -- please don’t convey information with color only) although they are correct: https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/cm8y1o6d5002s8v1p2h0m2f...
by andai | 2025-04-01 09:47:18+00:00
I often hear it said that devs should use slow machines and connections for development. That's a great idea (and it can be simulated) in theory, but in practice very few people are going to buy old ThinkPads to test on. So a solution should probably be done in software, i.e. at the level of compilers and runtimes.

i.e. if JS engines weren't so fast, bloated frameworks would be impossible, even on dev hardware.

So I'm wondering if just like C++ compilers have optimization levels, perhaps there should be negative optimization levels, where all your code runs 10x slower by inserting dummy instructions (or perhaps a browser for testing that uses a naively implemented JS engine).

This would allow you to directly experience the pain you're causing without leaving the comfort of your fancy dev machine.

Then again by the sound of it, the release build of the app running on v8 already takes 10 sec to load, so we have already achieved the goal of gross lag without special tooling, so clearly people just don't care (or are working in systems where they feel powerless to fix it)?
by Aaron2222 | 2025-04-01 09:47:40+00:00
> Safari 18.4 on macOS now supports Safari Web Extensions that have been Developer ID-signed and notarized. [...] Once notarized, your app and extension is ready for distribution and use in Safari.

From the Apple developer docs:

> If you provide your extension in macOS and don’t want to use the Mac App Store for distribution, you can sign and notarize your extension’s app with a Developer ID to distribute it outside the Mac App Store.
by Adverblessly | 2025-04-01 09:48:18+00:00
I can't really speak for other people, but I think the "democratizing creativity" part comes in in places where the specific creative part that the AI replaces is not a core part of the creative experience.

Take a look at Super Auto Pets, a pretty successful and fun auto-battler game. It literally uses a free emoji pack for its core art. It doesn't really matter that they didn't hire an artist for those (though I think they did hire an artist after finding success) since a free emoji pack was enough for the creative product they wanted to create. If they had AI generated emoji instead, it wouldn't have really mattered much for the final result (creatively at least, I assume audiences would respond poorly due to GenAI's reputation). At the same time, the ability to create their product without paying a lot of money for artists was critical to make it in the first place.

This is what it means to me to "democratize creativity", to allow creatives to realize their creative ambitions in an area they are proficient at (e.g. video games) without requiring a lot of creative skill in adjacent areas that aren't critical to the experience they are trying to make.
by CaptainZapp | 2025-04-01 09:49:19+00:00
I'm not so sure:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/canada-us-flig...

"Airline travel between Canada and the US is “collapsing” amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, with flight bookings between the two countries down by over 70%, newly released data suggests."
by sod | 2025-04-01 09:49:36+00:00
If you want to increase the liklyhood of your contribution being merged, do:

* Provide unit-tests

* Good types

* No breaking changes

And if you want breaking changes or grand new features to be merged, you have to show activity in the issue tracker or fix open bugs first, to show the maintainer that you are willing to deal with the fallout or support requests that follow after a PR gets merged. This is not to be rude. This is seeing a PR through the eyes of a maintainer.
by gertrunde | 2025-04-01 09:49:49+00:00
I have to suspect that your post is based on assumptions from the (somewhat misleading) post title, rather than from reading the article content.

The following is a direct quite from the article:

"None of this is to say that LLMs aren’t great. I love LLMs. I use them all the time. In fact, I wrote this very essay with the help of an LLM."
Show HN: A GitHub action to publish Discord help forums
by floitsch | 2025-04-01 09:50:12+00:00
As maintainers of our open-source project, we provide support on multiple different channels: Stack Overflow, GitHub discussions, and Discord.

The problem: Most activity happens on Discord, where questions aren't indexable/searchable.

To fix this, we build a small GitHub action that generates transcripts of our help forum. We run this action every hour and then publish the result via GitHub pages.

The heavy lifting of the action is done by https://github.com/ItzDerock/discord-html-transcripts, a node.js module by Derock that generates chat transcripts. We just wrapped it into a GitHub action so it is more easily reusable.

You can see our help page at https://help.toit.io, with the corresponding GitHub action here: https://github.com/toitware/web-help/blob/main/.github/workf....
by wg0 | 2025-04-01 09:50:14+00:00
This is great. But I went for Svelte. Invested in Svelte and SvelteKit. Wrote a decent sized app (not toy example, pretty feature right, tens of forms and screens if you will) and later I looked back at React.

And I discovered that:

- React is not that hard if you understand the hooks. - React is lightweight too. For my use case at least. - React is boring technology at this point which is good. - The ecosystem is huge. You cannot have React Query like library and that's just one example.

So I'm sticking to React for next few years especially when the React compiler is already being used inside Facebook and Instagram and released as public beta.

Even React Native supports React compiler and I don't see this support going away rather getting better.

PS Edit: React compiler leaves not much for runes in Svelte or its compiled nature. I don't like Svelte much after runes because it feels like you're not writing Javascript rather a notation that looks like Javascript. Post React compiler, much of the hooks hell is not needed in complex scenarios.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-01 09:50:25+00:00
It is not in the abstract a bad thing, and things like this are fairly inevitable under the circumstances. It's probably not a great thing for the US's foreign policy, and particularly trade policy (if you can call the current random flailing a policy) if the cause of it is treating the US as a common adversary, however.

On some level, Trump clearly understands that this sort of cooperation would be a problem for him (https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-threatens-eu-and-canad...), but I'm not sure if he understands that it is _inevitable_.

> If American policy is what keeps them apart, which I strongly doubt

No, it's not that. Current US policy is _driving them together_, however.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-01 09:50:32+00:00
I'm an AI-bro, but I think the value of equity in OpenAI or Anthropic is likely zero. They've achieved incredible things with their models, but big-tech only ever seem to be a few months behind and have the economies of scale to make inference profitable. I think both will be acquired with valuations significantly below what was invested in them.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-04-01 09:51:08+00:00
Not only that, but it's also inconsistent with the U.S. administration expecting non-US businesses to comply with executive orders even when operating in other countries [0]:

> An executive order that Mr. Trump signed the day after taking office instructs federal contractors not to engage in D.E.I., which the order described as “illegal discrimination.” The letter to French businesses said the order “applies to all suppliers and contractors of the U.S. government, regardless of their nationality and the country in which they operate.”

[0] https://apnews.com/article/french-companies-dei-letter-us-tr...
by dkh | 2025-04-01 09:51:48+00:00
A Mercedes van to lug it all around is both hilarious and also probably the coolest way to do it.

While working on set between 2012-2014, we were shooting all RED, and I had a 12-disk ATTO FC RAID10 rig on set at all times borrowed from RED. Not needed for speed of frames by this time of course, but for the ridiculous total storage required shooting 6.5k raw and the time needed to copy it all. On paper this system should've been good/safe enough. In practice, we almost lost it a handful of times within a month, each in a unique way, including the time a stunt driver messed up, veered off course, and plowed directly into video village, striking the RAID and killing exactly the maximum number of disks in one mirror it could tolerate, but thankfully no more. (Needless to say the shoot was a massive learning experience and I have never managed data the same ever since.) By the time the shoot was over, the RAID was alive, but it was absolutely beat to shit, and I was afraid of how the guy from RED would react when he came to pick it up. When he did, he was completely unphased. He chuckled and said, "You should've seen how messed it was after Ridley Scott's crew borrowed it!"

Very cool background though, I was not quite old enough to get into it all quite that early! When the Viper came out, I was still in high school, just exceedingly nerdy. I believe to this day I have PCs with ATTO Disk Benchmark on them
by ravenstine | 2025-04-01 09:51:48+00:00
My first thought seeing this headline: "Please don't tell me he got sent to CECOT."

> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) admitted to mistakenly sending Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT prison.

:O

If you haven't heard of CECOT, go watch one of the recent YouTube videos on it. I'm glad that El Salvador has taken control over gang activity but, man, CECOT is one of the last places on earth you want to end up.
by serf | 2025-04-01 09:52:02+00:00
if you live in a world where you believe that rockstar programmers are a myth, all I can say is that I think you're wrong. The world is vast , and there is some amazing talent out there -- no one needs to understand the entirety of all systems to affect change, especially with expert systems and modern documentation.

rockstars can still be rockstars even in the complex modern world.
Ask HN: How does taxes in your country handle extra costs due to disability?
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-01 09:52:42+00:00
I'm wondering, I am in a little fight with the taxes in my country as I have a child that breaks significantly more things and eats significantly more than a normal child their age due to various diagnoses.

The tax system says that's too bad, parents pay what children break.

I'm wondering how various countries handle it, I'm hoping to find examples where I can say hey look this country has the understanding of statistics and that if you're paying much more than other people because your child has a problem that you should be able to deduct that.
by 7bit | 2025-04-01 09:52:56+00:00
It's not surprising, but it never fails to amaze me that people hear about projects the first time, that have been around for decades. (This is not an attack). The first time I hear about MAME was maybe in 2004 or so. At that point the project was already over 6 years old. So for me that project is ancient, but when I heard about it the first time, someone was probably also amazed how I could not have heard about it earlier.
by ebenezerdon | 2025-04-01 09:53:30+00:00
100% agree. It’s less "product-market fit" and more "husband-wife fit." Wasn’t trying to build a startup, just trying to fix something that felt broken for someone I love. And since it’s free, Faye doesn't need mass adoption. It just needs to exist for that one person who goes, "hold on...my health data ended up where?"

Or for when the next data breach hits and people start searching for local-only options.
Pro-duct-hivity tips update? AI or Wikis..? Tools?
by TheIrishHubert | 2025-04-01 09:53:51+00:00
Productivity tools are abundant. 'HOW' do you use 'WHICH ONES' and is Notion (wiki) or Workflowy say.. easiest. Info overload and structure of all of it will be more important. Maybe AI has helped solve this? Any ideas or updates, recommendation?

Thank you all! -HG
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-01 09:54:27+00:00
People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason:

https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid...

> It’s a crash, not an accident. End the language of denial.

> I can’t help but get upset when people call a crash an accident. I lost my leg in a crash with a lorry. It was preventable – and even though the driver didn’t intend for the crash to happen, it was still his fault
by dstpierre | 2025-04-01 09:55:23+00:00
Hi,

Since I started my podcast go podcast() 3+ years ago everytime I'm saying to a guest that I'm blind and using a screen reader I always get the same reaction: "What, wow, I didn't know. I'd like to hear more about it".

I invited Ivan Fetch, a SRE that's also blind and we talk about challenges about being blind, not only tech-wise, but life also.

This will be a two part episode. I thought it might interest some people here in hacker news.

Thanks
by naiquevin | 2025-04-01 09:56:20+00:00
> when I practice for more than an hour every day

> this creates horrible calluses on my fingers

I think both are good problems to have :-). Consistently practicing for more than an hour every day is quite difficult unless you are professionally into it. If you are able to manage it then that's commendable. And once the calluses are formed, it doesn't hurt as much. A downside of skipping practice for a week, besides the practice itself, is that the calluses go away.
by M95D | 2025-04-01 09:56:22+00:00
> systemd, while not for everyone is a good for most people

Are you really sure?

systemd is a tool that automates system configuration with no interaction from the user, and it does it in such a way that the user doesn't have to know how the system works, then the user doesn't want to know, and then no longer actually knows.

When that happens, the user can't make any political decisions about his/her system, the "system" account gets to have higher privileges than "Administrator", the user is no longer the owner of the OS, can't control what the system does, not even what it does with his/her personal data, and finally we all turn into uneducated mindless drones. Oh, wait, we're already there. How did that happen?

Great for company computers ; very bad for users.