MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonzzzies | 2025-04-27 12:50:33+00:00
I did that all my life: no unicorns but if you do enough things, some will sell auto (once any traction happens I sell: I don't like running a company, I like building stuff). Without all this stress and grifting. Granted, I was lucky that my hobby in 2000 turned out to be worth millions, but it still works fine 25 years later.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 12:51:10+00:00
> What are the odds HN engages in speech censorship on viewpoints it doesn't like?

Funny you should ask but now's not the time to get into it.

Your comment breaches the guidelines.

Particularly this line:

> Get a grip on reality. Elon didn't cause any issues in EU policitcs.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by 90s_dev | 2025-04-27 12:51:34+00:00
The CSS community's promise was always that structure and presentation can be separated.

After my 30 years of writing GUIs, I'm now convinced that this is the wrong place to draw a dividing line.

Instead, we should be isolating intent. This is what Composites do in my project. I'm so excited to announce it next week!
by redbell | 2025-04-27 12:51:35+00:00
> It will use information it knows about you to arrive at the answer.. and when I asked it how, it mentioned that it knows I live nearby.

Oh! RIP privacy :(

I’ve pretty much given up on the idea that we can fully protect our privacy while still getting the most out of these services. In the end, it’s a tradeoff—and I’ve accepted that.
by trollbridge | 2025-04-27 12:51:40+00:00
I'd love to see more of this - eventually there will be some new OS concept, as opposed to everything just being a rehash of the same old ideas from the 1970s. (For reference, the VAX 11/780 was announced in 1977, and we run on fundamentally the same model of hardware today. Nothing particularly exciting or different than VMS or UNIX is being used in today's operating systems.)

An example of a radically different way to think is TempleOS.
by ycombiredd | 2025-04-27 12:52:04+00:00
all the job postings are fucking fake too. :-/

maybe not yours, and maybe not mine (though i did get taken over from LinkedIn breaches - twice, right now i control my LinkedIn) which is why maybe even though I consider myself more of a devops type than the post maybe indicated you were interested in, i maybe sent my resume via dropbox. "Please forward to a hiring manager." :-)
by cvoss | 2025-04-27 12:52:55+00:00
The system is certainly broken and inefficient in many ways. But the system exists to promote and foster invention. Consider: I will not sink a large amount of resources into R&D if, as soon as I figure out something worthwhile, my competition can undercut me because they didn't have to spend all those resources upfront. Sure, the patent system delays my competition's followup invention. But neither of us would have chosen to invent anything in the first place if it's all risk and no reward.
by alex_suzuki | 2025-04-27 12:56:05+00:00
Speaking as a parent of a 5yr and 9yr old (who is already asking for a smartphone because some friends in school have one), it would require a concerted effort by parents, schools and media companies to achieve this. Especially the latter is unlikely to happen.

The first easy step is to ban smartphones from schools, and that is happening in some places already, but the process is slow. Smartphones are a weapon of mass destruction for kids‘ attention spans.

Last but not least, parents need to be more conscious about their screen usage. I find it hard myself to resist the temptation of „checking the phone“, how can we expect kids to do so…
by genjo | 2025-04-27 12:56:58+00:00
it's a social experiment. "if we don't do it top-down, will the educated and driven try to make us do better or do it themselves?". the answer revealed itself when architecture and design remained procedural but failed to emphasize and to build around the goal of social evolution and identity seeking. instead we got Gentrification, efficiency nobody asked for and wealth wasted on uninspired and demotivating pseudo-game theorists.

it's funny how nobody noticed in time that the side effects of these many experiments destroyed more beauty & opportunities, especially in urban convolution and social convection than they have revealed in data about human nature and civilized networks ... "we happened to become a community and build around the growing desires of our children and our own" is something you only hear on garden plots, even though on the country side everywhere, people are now third and fourth generation heirs.
by praveen9920 | 2025-04-27 12:58:05+00:00
Patents are mostly theoretical.. they are done by researchers in companies. Companies consider them as assets and holds them which sometimes increases valuation of company itself. This does not mean they want to spend money into building that may not bring them business in near future.

Best example is car companies. I heard from one of the employee that they already have research and patents to build more efficient cars but the production of those are delayed for getting the value for the research done.
by teeray | 2025-04-27 12:58:54+00:00
> The other option is essentially just the traditional screening process.

I know that, and you know that, but you have to convince the average traveler that nothing bad will happen if they say no. In the mind of the average traveler, it’s safer to just say “okay” to whatever the TSA wants. There needs to be some kind of neutral ombudsman to placate travelers’ fears of reprisal for opting to preserve their rights.
by jbverschoor | 2025-04-27 12:59:00+00:00
Shell containers under code are unbearably laggy and crappy.

I simple have a container for each project using my own container-shell

I run my bundles / whatever. Have all the tooling and can use VSCode to attach via ssh (I use orbstack, so I get project hostnames for free)

It’s the best workflow for me. I really wanted to like containers but again, it’s too heavy, buggy, bulky.

http://github.com/jrz/container-shell
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-27 13:00:46+00:00
"Gatekeeping" of porn, when I was young, was of course the guy behind the counter you had to convince to let you purchase a Penthouse magazine (And since they were either on a top shelf or behind the counter as well, you first had that hurdle as well).

I have no idea how this maps to modern tech — just kind of pointing out that privacy and surveillance of course were not involved then.
by metalman | 2025-04-27 13:04:11+00:00
There is nothing "alleged" about wikipedia's activites that have absolutely nothing to do with publishing an open source online encyclopedia, and have gone from an "inclusivity" statement into spending money on "programs" in an entirely discretionary manner that has absolutly no possible conection or meaning to an ALL inclusive publishing endevour. knowledge IS power but picking WHO gets to be empowered, and heard is called censorship and discrimination, no matter how disadvantaged and under represented those chosen are. publishing is one thing, how people are empowered by that information is another. wiki crossed the line,failed to pick a lane, and will very likely end up causing more suffering, than if they had left the pie, alone and just done there stated job, very, very, well
by api | 2025-04-27 13:04:19+00:00
If I wanted to just attack and destabilize society I'd have armies of bots supporting all the most divisive positions on all sides, as well as promoting incoherent and irrational positions.

The idea is just to divide, confuse, "flood the zone with shit" as Bannon likes to say.

It seems like people are actually not bad at noticing likely bots arguing against their favorite positions, but are blind to the possibility that there could be bots pretending to be on their side. The most corrosive might be bots pretending to be on your side but advocating subtilely wrong or unnecessarily divisive formulations of your ideas, which in turn are more likely to influence you because they seem to be on your side.

Phrases come to mind like "vandalism of the discourse" and "intellectual terrorism" where the goal is not to promote one specific idea but to destroy the discourse as a whole.

That certainly looks like the world we're living in.
by parshua | 2025-04-27 13:04:43+00:00
The best way to implement a text adventure in C would be to implement a simple lisp interpreter in C and then implementing the actual game in a lisp DSL. Lisp lends itself surprisingly well to this, and defining game logic declaratively instead of imperatively is much more intuitive. Here are a few examples:

[1] http://www.ulisp.com/show?383X

[2] https://github.com/mswift42/MetalHead

[3] https://github.com/xlxs4/lisp-spels/blob/main/spel.el
by edrickdch | 2025-04-27 13:06:24+00:00
Why I built Blooming

I kept bouncing between model-specific UIs (Kling 1.6, Hailuo Minimax, Midjourney, …) and lost hours going through prompts, AI images and videos. I wanted a single canvas that lets me:

1. Sketch an idea visually – like wiring Lego blocks

2. Swap any model in seconds – no tab switching, see all the assets

3. Download the output easily – no watermarks

You can easily iterate on the same prompts, compare image model outputs, compare video model outputs, turn images into videos.

How it works under the hood

- Frontend: Next.js 15 + React-Flow for node graph

- Backend: Next.js + Python scripts

- Inference: Models from Replicate and OpenRouter

Roadmap

- Add more models

- Export assets into an editor

- Upload your own assets

- Websockets to enable multiple artists to collaborate

Feedback wanted:

- Any bottlenecks?

- Which model/node is highest on your wish-list?

Happy to answer anything! Would love to know how you’d use this, if you’d want to see anything different
by alpaca128 | 2025-04-27 13:07:17+00:00
The stigma for mental issues is still a lot more severe than sexuality etc, and the court knows they can do it without consequences. Mental health issues are often viewed as a moral failing or a weakness of a person who can't get their life sorted out, a bit like how people are judged for laziness. Very easy to stick to a "criminal" without anyone batting an eye.

If the judge instead said "this guy's not that bad, he's just gay" it wouldn't go over so well.
by smittywerben | 2025-04-27 13:07:35+00:00
Someone made Adblock rules for Wikipedia ads that I use with Ublock Origin who refuses donations. https://gist.github.com/jnss95/0fb8872fa7ce73d7795916c84eb30...

Previous discussion calling Wikipedia wasteful was not well received but I'm inclined to agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106982

Can the administration be more direct about it? Like Wikipedia shouldn't be able to threaten to obstruct to take back the data then place a banner ad covering 90% of the screen that I receive 0% of just to access my own thankless contributions I'd rather just pay than be subjected to domestic ads but maybe it's leaking overseas that would be scary.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-27 13:09:08+00:00
>the system exists to promote and foster invention

It doesn't matter why it exists; what matters is what effect it has. "The purpose of a system is what it does."

>But neither of us would have chosen to invent anything in the first place if it's all risk and no reward.

This is not true. Plenty of small companies invent things every day and never patent anything. The idea that companies would just stop innovating without patents is not just implausible, it's plainly untrue.
by hdivider | 2025-04-27 13:11:15+00:00
Sadly, we need it.

And yet we should build and struggle toward the conditions which would allow a massive reduction of the nucelar arsenal.

This would require a level of strategy and clear-mindedness as well as strengthening the US Alliance system so we can push against the autocracy superpowers in a united front, by nonviolent means.

Instead we get high school age kids with flash drives stealing the most sensitive federal government data and potentially injecting unknown code.

So the best bet is this $946B will flow down to other innovations and market translation through the small business set-aside laws. One can always hope.
by alabhyajindal | 2025-04-27 13:11:49+00:00
I need to brush up on C for my dissertation. How does this compare to Head First C?

I read the first chapter of that book and loved it! Very unlike other books on C which dedicate an entire chapter to `for` loop for instance. How do other programmers even read a book like that? Isn't it tiring to read through how a `for` loop works for the 70th time.
by redbell | 2025-04-27 13:13:01+00:00
Excellent work, Love it, bookmark it and considered it for future use!

The HN title is, however, a bit confusing/misleading, especially at the end with 'NES' as it has a special meaning/feeling when read in the context of HN. At first, I though this was a project showing a remake of some icons from the Nintendo Entertainment System. Also, the word Icône (with 'e' at the end and accent circonflexe on letter 'o') is the French translation of icon.
by gf000 | 2025-04-27 13:13:55+00:00
Return of value is with respect to the costs of it. A lawsuit/brand value loss from illegally recording every communication you make (which we would have definite proof if it were happening, given that there our more phones than people on Earth) would far outweigh the tiny benefit (if any? I'm not convinced you would get any extra information in the general case compared to the tracking of the regular usage of your phone)

Also, I don't see the relevance of your second paragraph. The baseline is not "no ads", the baseline is "ads supported by all the tracking that Meta/Google currently does".
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-27 13:14:46+00:00
>I mean, why do you think the US nuked Japan at the end of WW2? Because it was the most expedient and economic way to kill enough people to break the government's will to fight and make them surrender.

Except that's not really true. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had little to do with "ending the war more quickly"[0]:

"The Soviet invasion of Manchuria and other Japanese colonies began at midnight on August 8, sandwiched between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And it was, indeed, the death blow U.S. officials knew it would be. When asked, on August 10, why Japan had to surrender so quickly, Prime Minister Suzuki explained, Japan must surrender immediately or "the Soviet Union will take not only Manchuria, Korea, Karafuto, but also Hokkaido. This would destroy the foundation of Japan. We must end the war when we can deal with the United States."

As postwar U.S. intelligence reports made clear, the atomic bombs had little impact on the Japanese decision. The U.S. had been firebombing and wiping out Japanese cities since early March. Destruction reached 99.5 percent in the city of Toyama. Japanese leaders accepted that the U.S. could and would wipe out Japan's cities. It didn't make a big difference whether this was one plane and one bomb or hundreds of planes and thousands of bombs."

[0] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-27/its-time-...
by tusharsharma09 | 2025-04-27 13:15:16+00:00
While we think this procedure has the potential to be a prophylactic treatment, there is no evidence to back that up.

There is a recent study, however, published by Cleveland clinic that demonstrated higher prostate cancer recurrence rates in patients with high local testosterone levels (around the prostate) post prostatectomies.

Also this procedure is not currently approved for treatment of prostatic issues. But if varicocele results in testicular pain, it’s often times treated.
by karlgkk | 2025-04-27 13:17:56+00:00
We don’t need it. We have about 3500 warheads and another 1500 awaiting dismantlement

I’m not going to say that a country doesn’t need nuclear weapons in the modern era. As disappointing as that is.

But I really do not see why we need 3500

Surely, 1500 nuclear bombs is an effective deterrent
by n_ary | 2025-04-27 13:18:16+00:00
While this is most alarming and sad state of affairs for LLMs being peddled to lowest denominator of anything valuable to replace lonely-heart scammers with more platform engagement. I believe, this should pull away people from other scams which may have higher consequences(financial loss is major one).

Other than that, I wanted to say kudos to your very SEO combination of particular word associated to Facebook all over your comment. I am optimistic that, if this thread gets adequately ranked higher in searches, I want that combo of yours to come up the most.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-27 13:19:15+00:00
I hate tipping. Especially the practice of tipping _before_ service is rendered.

I hate even more that “taking a stand” against tipping doesn’t solve anything and just hurts the people I’d like to be helping.

I work for a POS company, I hate tipping screens, but there is no way to not offer that feature.

I run my own food festival payments company, I was forced to add tips for Bar payments but managed to hold firm on not adding tipping to the food vendors (even though they complain constantly about it, the entitlement is insane “how am I going to get people to work without tips?”, uh, pay them more?).

My sister owns a bakery, they added tipping because they couldn’t entice people to come work for them even at $15-16/hr unless they also could make tips. This front of house we are talking about, not the people actually making the products (though tips are pooled for back of house), they are talking items out of a case and putting them in a box to hand to customer. Why that deserves a tip I’ll never know, especially since most can’t be bothered to do anything to increase sales and thus their tip.

For the _first_ time in my life I clawed back a tip from a delivery app about a week ago. I’ve had many bad deliveries and bad shoppers but turns out my line in the sand was: 7hr late delivery and the meat and cheese was 70F when it arrived. I hate that _this_ is the only thing that’s caused me to remove a tip. Maybe I should be quicker to clear the tip when the delivery person messes up (happens often).
by TrickyRick | 2025-04-27 13:19:19+00:00
I had a similar experience, I tried with some photos from various European cities and while it pretty much always got the city correct it was hilariously confidently incorrect in the exact location within the city. They were plausible but nowhere near the level of accuracy the article describes. All the images had distinctly recognizable landmarks which a resident of said city would know and which also have images available online given one knows the name of the landmark so I'm not particularly impressed.

In fact some of the answers were completely geographically impossible where it said "The image is taken from location X showing location Y" when it's not possible to see location Y if one is standing at location X. Like saying "The photo is taken in Central Park looking north showing the Statue of Liberty".
by hilbert42 | 2025-04-27 13:19:29+00:00
That film was made about 40 years ago and even then the Dundee character was a dying breed and only found in pockets of Australian society—those parts where life was hard and day-to-day activities were hands-on with the physical world (like those portrayed in the film).

Even in the '80s most Australians wouldn't have lived and worked like that, these days much less so. Most Australians live in a highly urbanized city environment and many of them live in high-rise buildings without even a backyard. Moreover, nowadays, they mostly work in the service industries such as banking, finance, tourism and retail. Put simply, a reasonable percentage would hardly know one end of a screwdriver from another let alone perform manual labour or know how to ride a horse, or use a lathe or milling machine.

That may sound harsh but having lived through that time (I was an adult when the film was released) I reckon that's a reasonable assessment. You also need to keep in mind that Australia has essentially killed off its manufacturing industries over that time with China being the beneficiary. Thus, Australian society has lost many of those hands-on, down-to-earth skills it had at the end of WWII through to the end of the 1960s. Today's Australian society is nothing like it was when I was growing up, I now live in a totally different world.

BTW, what made Paul Hogan (Dundee) so suitable for the film's character was that he is one of that dying breed of hardworking ruffians and was so before he became an actor, his persona was essentially behind the making of the film. He came from the rough outback opal mining town of Lightning Ridge and then worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge—a very dangerous job that required working at hundreds of feet in the air—those with the slightest fear of heights would have been terrified, and that would include most Australians. (I can say that because in my younger days I used to work on radio and television towers—shame I can't show you photos I took from the top of them).
by hs86 | 2025-04-27 13:20:01+00:00
While its deduplication feature clearly demands more memory, my understanding is that the ZFS ARC is treated by the kernel as a driver with a massive, persistent memory allocation that cannot be swapped out ("wired" pages). Unlike the regular file system cache, ARC's eviction is not directly managed by the kernel. Instead, ZFS itself is responsible for deciding when and how to shrink the ARC.

This can lead to problems under sudden memory pressure. Because the ARC does not immediately release memory when the system needs it, userland pages might get swapped out instead. This behavior is more noticeable on personal computers, where memory usage patterns are highly dynamic (applications are constantly being started, used, and closed). On servers, where workloads are more static and predictable, the impact is usually less severe.

I do wonder if this is also the case on Solaris or illumos, where there is no intermediate SPL between ZFS and the kernel. If so, I don't think that a hypothetical native integration of ZFS on macOS (or even Linux) would adopt the ARC in its current form.
by unparagoned | 2025-04-27 13:20:55+00:00
You mentioned smart people and I wondered who you were talking about. Then you said Sam Harris who has a reputation for being a clueless idiot in philosophy circles.

Most philosophers are compatibilists, since that’s a good strong philosophical position. Harris is just saying libertarian free will doesn’t exist, but that’s irrelevant since that’s not what people really mean by the term.
by n_ary | 2025-04-27 13:21:25+00:00
Will actually open more ad opportunities of marketing more private contents and detecting preferences at higher level. This data will also of course cater to more advertising money from questionable industries, which in the end goes to Facebook coffer and they can shrug saying, they only provide a platform, whatever people are buying or clicking is whatever people want, otherwise they wouldn't be clicking those ads.
by thih9 | 2025-04-27 13:21:51+00:00
I tried using Facebook and Pinterest via Safari on a recent macbook pro, and my experience has been very poor.

Pages take a lot of time to reload, the information density is low, the navigation felt confusing.

In contrast, the Instagram’s native app seems without these problems. Interestingly, 10 years ago social media didn’t feel that slow to me; this may be subjective though.

Am I using my web browser wrong? Or are these platforms (Facebook / Pinterest) best accessed via a native mobile app?

Is there any mainstream social media platform where web browsers get first class support?