MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gcanyon | 2025-04-02 11:24:15+00:00
From memory, having last seen it in the '80s:

"Why do you wear that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else, it...chafes"

"What's that?" "A laser beam, bozo!" "What are we supposed to do?" "Follow it!"

"Your stutter has improved" "I've been giving myself shock treatment" "...Up the voltage"

"You're laborers, you're supposed to be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education!"

"It's a coherent beam of light" "So that means it talks?"

Of course, the non-quote where one of the kids at the study table stands up, screams repeatedly, and leaves, and with no reaction one of the kids at the periphery of the room moves to sit in his place.

And of course: "If there's ever anything I can do for you, or, more to the point, to you..." "Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?" "Well, not right now..."

Real Genius had a significant impact on me...
by voidhorse | 2025-04-02 11:24:15+00:00
Unfortunately, wage labor as our primary labor structure has a tendency to produce Severance far more frequently than it does a meaningful marriage between work and personal purpose.

There are a lot of people that argue that if you were to eliminate wage labor, and distribute goods as equally as possible or at least take care of basic needs for free through universal income or some other means that people would get lazy and stop working...but it's not true. As your post illustrates, working and producing is just as essential of an aspect of human life as consuming is—people want to produce, they just want it to be meaningful! They want to work on stuff that aligns with their own interests and beliefs. Ironically the people that claim that this isn't the case are probably the few that actually would prefer to never work (they want to keep wage labor in place so that they can extract capital from laborers while they relax and "lead" instead of produce themselves).
by spwa4 | 2025-04-02 11:24:32+00:00
But "government gives me money" is how Jeff Bezos became the richest man in the world (lookup interstate commerce tax exemption). And "government gives me money" is how Elon Musk became the richest man in the world (both Tesla and SpaceX are running on government subsidies. Running as in they couldn't have grown without subsidies and can't maintain themselves without constant subsidies). "Government gives me money" is how Carlos Slim became the richest man in the world. And so on.

(btw: this is working on the assumption, if the government pays for a satellite launch, the government may get something, but it's still a subsidy. Even though SpaceX got plenty of subsidy too)

In fact, over the last century the mantle of richest man in the world has been worn by 12 people. In 7 cases it was a government that made them the richest man in the world. In 4 out of those 7 cases it was the US government.

That's disregarding that the military-industrial complex is full of rich companies that may not have conquered the very top spot, but are doing really, really well.

Getting the government to give you money, in the sense of sponsoring your business, has been THE path to incredible wealth.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-04-02 11:25:17+00:00
"Linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in seed oils such as soybean and safflower oil, and animal products including pork and eggs, specifically enhances the growth of the hard-to-treat 'triple negative' breast cancer subtype, according to a preclinical study. The discovery could lead to new dietary and pharmaceutical strategies against breast and other cancers. "

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9805
by rongrobert | 2025-04-02 11:25:21+00:00
Exactly. The attitude is just so totally ignorant. Otherwise, just consider practically all equal temperament western music a ripoff of J.S Bach.

Of course, someone who knows nothing about music like this wouldn't know that.

The irony is that it could be argued hip hop is one of the few western pop musical art forms that isn't a complete J.S Bach ripoff.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-02 11:25:25+00:00
Tombstone was a cultural icon in my fraternity house as we had a drinking game based around it. But Val will always be in my memory as the wild swordsman Mad Mardigan in Willow. RIP!

Every time Doc Holiday drinks you take a shot. Nothing less than 80-proof allowed. No other food or drinks allowed. You cannot vomit before the end of the credits. If you get through the whole movie you get to sign the house's Tombstone movie poster. With the director's cut I believe it was 21 shots total, with one or two of the scenes in the saloon what really push people over the edge because he drinks frequently in a short period of time.

I never even attempted it. We had one or two brothers who vomited during the credits.....FAIL! Ah good times.

"I got two guns...one for the both of ya."
by zvr | 2025-04-02 11:25:42+00:00
My issue with using "text" is that I assume that a text like "I THINK I DO" should be converted to "I think I do", not "i think i do".

And that's just in English...

If "text" is in Greek, like "Καλημέρα", the upper form should be "ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ", not a juxtaposition of upper() conversions of each letter.
by jelder | 2025-04-02 11:25:57+00:00
I don’t intend this to be mean, but is this satire? Confetti seems to proudly use concepts which are very much NOT popular right now.

For example, you’ve reintroduced the Norway Problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745212

And I personally hope to never edit another file which lacks a strict schema like this does.
by maluya4 | 2025-04-02 11:26:29+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2025-04-02 11:26:35+00:00
Yes it does, all of this is to make Java fully safe by default, in the age of cybersecurity laws, hence all loopholes are being closed down, in reflection, JNI and Panama.

The security model was deprected, just like .NET dropped CAS in .NET Core, because it wasn't sound, and without applets, the OS security model was the right way.
by IvanChess744v3 | 2025-04-02 11:30:37+00:00
Thanks for pointing that out. I will definitely have to reword a few things on our site. Maybe the same 'essential' mechanic, or something to that effect.

The king could still move the same two squares in the direction of the rook, but it might mean that the space is sometimes occupied by the rook or you may be simply jumping over the rook.
by anupamjain | 2025-04-02 11:31:28+00:00
Good stuff! Looks neat on first impression. One question: when I suggest an improvement to the code it created, it further edits the code but the original edit goes away. (I asked it to safely access a variable's property in the suggested code - it changed the code to adhere to it but now it only handles that and doesnt show the other code it added earlier. HTMS)
Show HN: Vibe Styler – Transform Any Website's Style With a Prompt + Gemini 2.5
by MajidManzarpour | 2025-04-02 11:31:43+00:00
I vibe coded a Chrome extension that lets you redesign any website using a simple prompt, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro's million-token context window. It analyzes the full DOM and existing CSS, then generates contextually-aware styles based on your requests – from specific tweaks ("make the header sticky") to complete themes ("apply cyberpunk aesthetics").

The extension maintains style persistence across visits, handles CSP gracefully, and lets you manage styles per website. All processing happens through the Gemini API (you'll need your own key), with no intermediate servers. The API is currently free to use.

Note: Since the extension sends the entire context of the website to Gemini, be careful not to send any sensitive data.

Try asking it to style as "Star Wars" or "Simpsons", or "add subtle animations to all buttons" – it's pretty fun to experiment with!

GitHub: https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/vibe-styler

Demo: https://x.com/majidmanzarpour/status/1907275311798206561
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-02 11:31:53+00:00
If your anxiety is so severe that you are having advanced chronic physical health problems then you need to be on medication. That can add years to your life. Otherwise, DO NOT take anxiety medication. The side effects can be horrific for your health and you will become dependent on it for daily functioning. See a doctor to be sure.

Changes to diet can help. Try a low carb diet and drop alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine. A low carb diet will focus on mostly meat, dairy, and vegetables. Cardio and weight training will also help. Focus on exercises that increase bone density. Not only does this kind of diet improve your mental health it improves nearly all chronic health problems. In my case it has almost reversed and eliminated arthritis.

Just remember a job is a job. They are disposable. You aren’t a celebrity or senior executive so don’t let it interfere with your health. I would rather be poor than let a job drive me crazy and I saying that as a military guy with 5 Middle East deployments.
by zejn | 2025-04-02 11:33:13+00:00
I find it amusing how a lot of people immmediately recognize 1000s of old laptop battery cells in a wooden shed a fire risk.

But they were as much of a fire risk (if not more) before being recycled, they were just spread out along the e-waste bins!

Every time I hear of a waste processing plant fire, I wonder if there was a (lithium) battery involved. Maybe from a single use vape, or a child's toy.
by t43562 | 2025-04-02 11:35:15+00:00
Forgetting the tone for a moment but I can say I see lots of people using things they don't understand and making hard problems for themselves. To be fair I know that I don't understand those things properly and yet see people rushing in to use them who know even less.

With threads it was a messaging service that was supposed to offer a persistent queue that could survive restarts. It possibly doubled or trebled the length of the project through multithreading bugs. I wasn't the creator of the code - it was someone without a degree. In the end I had to solve one bug on it that took 3 months to work out and that was just a double-free in some odd circumstance. Nobody wanted to touch it and muggins (i.e. me) was the last person without an excuse!

Asynchronous python and python threading are the recent ones I've experienced - javacript programmers who decided that python was trivial to learn and tried to speed everything up with threads (makes everything worse until 3.13 with a special compilation option that we could not use) and then they made life even worse to no purpose at all by using async without knowing that the ASGI system underneath didn't support it properly. Uvicorn does but uvicorn wasn't usable in that context.

Apart from creating wonderful opportunities for bugs they didn't even know how to write async unit tests so the tests always passed no matter what you did to them.

When trying to help with these issues I found the attitude to be extremely resistant. No way they were going to listen to me - the annoying whippersnapper in one case or the old fart programmer in the other. They just knew better
by rcxdude | 2025-04-02 11:35:29+00:00
The more insidious will be if the government starts putting roadblocks in the way of solar expansion, like the UK government basically banning onshore wind turbine development (which is much cheaper than offshore wind). Absent government interference, solar already has good enough economics it's going to dominate without public funding (which may still waste a lot of time and effort on nuclear plants).

(I also see a big trend of objections to grid-scale solar deployments, which is nuts to me: why on earth do you care about living next to a solar farm? It's about the most inoffensive local development that could possibly happen)
by voidhorse | 2025-04-02 11:36:05+00:00
One small beacon of hope, perhaps, is that I see perspectives like this becoming more common over time. A few years ago there were (anecdotally) way more true believers in the current MO of pervasive profit seeking to the detriment of all else, true believers in the "free market" etc.

It's easy to see how absurd the practice of advertising is if you think about the actual dynamic.

As human beings we all have intentionality. When we want something, we seek it. "Hey, I really need to cut the lawn, let me find a lawnmower"—I'll go out and research lawnmowers to find one that helps me accomplish my intended goal.

Advertising totally inverts this dynamic. Instead, apropos of nothing, some person I don't know and have no relationship with interrupts some other thing I am in the middle of intentionally doing to tell me all about their fancy lawnmowers. At its worst (and most effective) it short circuits my own potential formation of intentions and reshapes my intentions, manipulating me, and at its least effective it's just a completely annoying distraction from what I was originally trying to do. It's horrible and antithetical to any notion of respect and dignity you might ascribe to the limited time of other human beings.
by actionfromafar | 2025-04-02 11:36:34+00:00
Another take is to nurture a "tamagotchi" or "pet" phone (iPhone) at home, with some innocuous memes, following sports accounts and such. Bring that when crossing any border. Leave the "real" or "business" phone at home at all times. Of course, it's not a realistic solution for many people.

Bringing anything non-standard can be misinterpreted as, or worse, construed as something malicious.

The problem with an empty "burner phone" is, that can also look suspicious. Even if you have a receipt with you, they may wonder why you bought a new phone just for the trip. Lockdown mode seems even more suspicious.

Just don't stick out is unfortunately probably the best answer.
by rollcat | 2025-04-02 11:36:50+00:00
That's the sane way to tackle it. If you're the vendor, just target the top N (whatever value of N you can cope with).

I don't mean disrespect towards people running Alpine (hi), Arch, or Gentoo, but you wouldn't be running these distros if you aren't ready to handle their quirks.

TFA mostly talks about binary compat. Even if you can get away with statically linking everything, you still have to cope with the mess that is userspace fragmentation: <https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux>

So yeah, supporting the top N gets you approximately sqrt(N/(N+1))% of the way. (Assuming desktop Linux market share is about 1%.)
by vladstudio | 2025-04-02 11:37:44+00:00
in case anyone finds this useful, here's the slowly growing collection of links to similar tools:

https://tinybase.org/

https://www.evolu.dev/

https://replicache.dev/

https://fireproof.storage/

https://vlcn.io/

https://www.instantdb.com/

https://loro.dev/

https://electric-sql.com/

https://docs.y-sweet.dev/

https://syncedstore.org/docs/

https://collabs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://remotestorage.io/

https://rxdb.info/offline-first.html

https://github.com/siriusastrebe/jsynchronous

https://www.powersync.com/

https://pouchdb.com/

https://jazz.tools/

https://www.triplit.dev/

https://automerge.org/

https://www.dxos.org/

I hope one day to try them all :-) Or read a summary from someone who does.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-02 11:39:41+00:00
> All that is needed is the factory owner quietly telling the town councillors that if they are forced to clean up their emissions, they will not be able to compete with foreign competitors who don't have to do the same, and will be forced to close.

Thing is, they're usually _lying_ when they say that. A while back I was looking at buying a house that was near a local authority recycling centre, so went on the EPA's website to see if there were any complaints about it, and went down a rabbit hole of reading regulatory action documentation (everybody needs a hobby). A very common pattern was, basically, company says "if we fix this, we'll have to close", regulator says "don't care, it's the law, fix it", company fixes it, and unaccountably fails to close like they promised, life goes on.

There are exceptions, of course, but a lot of "following the rules will make us unviable, so let us ignore the rules pls" rhetoric from companies is just rhetoric intended to marginally reduce costs. See RoHS; manufacturers acted like it would cause the collapse of modern civilisation, EU pressed ahead anyway, and 20 years later somehow modern civilisation is still there, albeit with somewhat less lead and mercury.
by jbenlang | 2025-04-02 11:41:13+00:00
Hi HN,

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by iamsaitam | 2025-04-02 11:41:55+00:00
Programmers are also human just came out with this:

Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 https://youtu.be/JeNS1ZNHQs8?si=kQIVpEBUwK3pNvRw

I think this helps to understand the mindset of a vibe coder better
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-02 11:43:19+00:00
If you're cringing it's because it is accurate (and you and I were like that — or nearly so).

If anything I wish it had not been a comedy but rather a more serious film with the same cast. They only touched on but could have done more with the psychology of these young, awkward, hormone-fueled "geniuses" falling in among some of the most awkward and smartest other young people in the world. Those who have always been the smartest in school now finding themselves ranking maybe somewhere in the middle among their new cohorts. And of course all the heightened awkwardness of being away from your parents for the first time in co-ed living arrangements....
by seethedeaduu | 2025-04-02 11:43:43+00:00
Try repeating the paragraph before the last to your "friend". Even transmedicalists tend to not be fond of this line of thinking.

> but now it seems that time has passed.

I am glad. I have yet to see any form of actually nuanced discussion about this that involves a cis person so far.

Anyway, none of this is "center".
by woodpanel | 2025-04-02 11:44:34+00:00
sure, and just 4 days prior to that totally neutral verdict another french court ruled that political bans were legal. what a coincidence, what a convenience. something that was never even considered legal in France just “clearly and unambiguously” fell into that judge’s hands days ahead.

No, there’s nothing noteworthy here, especially for a crime Le Pen didn’t committed herself and which every single party of France is guilty of.

Don’t choke on that kool aid!
by Applejinx | 2025-04-02 11:44:57+00:00
The 'haha! ha!' from Genesis's 'Mama' is quite literally taken out of 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (the first rap hit song): I just think it's neat Genesis were listening to that. They don't seem like they'd be listening to rap and yet it's well documented in their own words that they'd not only heard it, but were that into it that they kept sticking that riff in 'Mama' and it stuck.
by rcxdude | 2025-04-02 11:44:58+00:00
>extremely cheap when amortized

Doesn't seem like that in practice. Nuclear's generally one of the most expensive per-kwh sources of energy on the grid. And nuclear-renewable diversity doesn't favor nuclear either: renewables absolutely destroy any margins nuclear might have, and both want to share the grid with storage or dispatchable fossil fuel generation like gas turbines.
by sheepscreek | 2025-04-02 11:45:30+00:00
Did you even read the article? You might have missed the main point entirely. It’s not discussing the job security of management consultants, but rather the job satisfaction.

Particularly for junior professionals, the expectations placed on them have suddenly increased tenfold, while the expectation to utilize generative AI for the most intellectually and creatively demanding tasks has diminished the mental reward. As a result, the most unsatisfying manual tasks are only ones left to be done - needing most of their attention.
by Baltoli | 2025-04-02 11:45:48+00:00
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by mkranjec | 2025-04-02 11:46:28+00:00
So many fond memories of DSJ. Thank you Jussi. No other game kept me and my friends playing as much as DSJ.

Fun facts: Since Slovenia is being mentioned, recently Domen Prevc set the world record at 254,5m on the largest ski jump in the world in Planica, Slovenia. His sister Nika Prevc won the World Cup this season with a record difference in front of second place. They're both related to Peter Prevc, yet another ski jumper. The whole Prevc family is amazing. To crown everything Anze Lanisek got 5x20 (highest grade) for his jump also in Planica, Slovenia this season.
by ddtaylor | 2025-04-02 11:46:35+00:00
I don't know everything about his past, but the man was involved in the industry from a young age and extremely active in the early years. Compared to most, if he had some big skeletons in his closet they didn't come out yet or they did and were really dumb and minor.

That doesn't happen much now. Usually we know they are a nazi supporter or something by the time they are 19.
by archerx | 2025-04-02 11:47:29+00:00
It’s not just about the size of the payload, it’s about the stuff happening in the background and the constant diffing of the various DOMs that react has. I can tell I’m on a react site by how laggy it is. Some devs manage to do better but I can still tell.

Another wonderful feature of react is it will fully render the page on my iPad and then quickly replace it with an error message. Absolute brilliance.
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