MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-05-29 17:01:57+00:00
Churches are fine - there are endless letters and instructions to them in the scripture you mention. "Religion" is not the same word as church. If you feel compelled to "demonstrate why almost every claim you said..." etc, feel free - it's ok! Christianity is about mercy and compassion, and you mention "emotion" - that's absolutely true. I'm very emotional about it, because my message is an emotional one, and emotions were high when it was given to me. It's not going to end my little universe if you disagree, or make fun of, or try to embarrass me about it. My sincere hope is that you are happy, and that through "emotion" or any other medium, you make others around you happy.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-29 17:01:59+00:00
The Earth receives enough energy from the Sun in ~30 minutes to power humanity for a year. Electrification is highly efficient vs thermal losses with combustion. Half of marine traffic disappears if you're not shipping fossil fuels around. Etc, etc. Humanity can live within the energy budget available between solar energy received and geothermal energy available (imho).

Certainly, we're going to bump into limits if we're exhausting total solar potential falling on the Earth and geothermal reserves, but that is a problem decades into the future at current electrical generation technology deployment rates.

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245229292... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100612
by FridayoLeary | 2025-05-29 17:02:06+00:00
I've used it recently here's my experience: It's incredible that such an old browser still works. Most websites don't load but basic browsing is still possible. Even gmail still worked until a few years ago.

The browser is only really suitable for reading text such as articles etc. A great example is hacker news. Just to prove this point i wrote this comment on my old nokia!

The thing about the browser is that it can only load static elements. That means no ads autoplay or pop ups. Only the necessary text will appear and the page loads relatively fast. This, in my opinion makes opera mini a SUPERIOR browsing experience to a modern smartphone. I realised how much unnecessary junk is usually on the page.

It is totally antiquated, but it's sad how such an obsolete piece of technology can be better (in a limited way) to what is used nowadays.
Show HN: Technical Interviews Built for 2025
by devday-admin | 2025-05-29 17:03:15+00:00
Hey HN,

The way we hire engineers made sense in 2015. But in 2025, when engineers use AI tools daily, we're still testing algorithm memorization on whiteboards..

That's why we're building DevDay. DevDay is built for the new reality of modern engineering work: candidates collaborate with AI teammates, delegate tasks to AI agents, and solve problems using the tools they'd actually use on the job (LLMs, git, and Slac(k) for team communication).

The old interview playbook is fundamentally broken: - Whiteboard anxiety tests don't predict performance - Take-home tests and virtual paired programming get gamed with ChatGPT - Algorithm memorization has zero correlation with debugging prod issues (what you actually deal with in your day to day work)

Here is what we are not: X Another LeetCode clone with AI buzzwords X Replacing engineers with AI X "Disrupting" hiring with magic algorithms

What it actually does: - Tests AI collaboration skills (AI teammates, delegate task to agents, coding assistant integrations) - Simulates real team environments and workflows - Shows problem-solving approach, collaboration and behavioral skills, not memorized solutions - Assesses how candidates think and communicate

Questions for HN because we are genuinely curious:

- Do you assess engineers who work with AI daily? If yes, how do you do it today? - What would technical interviews look like if designed today within your organisation? - Are we testing skills that matter in 2025?

Link: trydevday.com

P.S. - Yes, someone will suggest "just pair program" or "check their GitHub." Great for small teams, doesn't scale when hiring 10+ engineers monthly.
by josephcsible | 2025-05-29 17:03:58+00:00
> IMO, you are also an elitist jerk by telling non-believers that they will be going to hell for not believing your religion, a religion which 69% of the entire world does not believe.

Catholics don't believe that you have to be Catholic to go to heaven. In fact, believing that you do is explicitly condemned as a heresy (Feeneyism).
by nasretdinov | 2025-05-29 17:04:28+00:00
One easy way to achieve this is to store really large values, e.g. 10 Mb per row. Since ClickHouse operates in large blocks you'd easily cause an OOM just by trying to read chunks of 8192 rows (the default) at a time, especially during merges, where it needs to read large blocks from several parts at once
by joshring2 | 2025-05-29 17:04:42+00:00
Community support in C3 is massive, as you can use C libraries directly, it might parallel or exceed Rust on that metric, and the barrier to adding native C3 wrappers or versions is significantly lower too.

Rust is solving a different problem, that of safety over all else. C3 on the other hand is more akin to developer experience above all else.

If you find something that should be easier to do in C3, that's a bug.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-29 17:05:36+00:00
I agree with you, but no one listened back then, why would they ever think about listening now.

Capital formation comes first before everything else, not the other way around, when you have nothing to trade that's of value it simply can't happen, and inevitable hyper-inflation/deflationary cycles begin which once started can't be stopped.

These people think, survival is guaranteed, jobs are guaranteed, the how doesn't matter; it happens because some politician says it does; reality doesn't matter.

That's the line and level of thinking we are dealing with here. How do you convince someone that if they do something, they and their children may die as a consequence; if they can't make that connection.

Communication ceases being possible in a noisy medium at a certain point according to Shannon. Pretty sure we've crossed that point, and where we may have been able to discern and separate the garbage previously, now through mimicry its all but impossible.

Intelligent people don't waste their efforts on lost causes. People make their own decisions, and they and their children will pay for the consequences of those choices; even if they didn't realize that was the choice they were making at the time they made it.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-29 17:05:38+00:00
I would say the topic framed in terms of mental health. For one, the chicken itself is called an "emotional support chicken" - this itself is indicative of cultural currency. The idea and purpose of a knit chicken can be framed in many ways. It can be simply fun, creative, or artistic. In this case the purpose is psychologically palliative opposed to recreational. It is medicalized. You see this elsewhere. A day off work to rest, relax, and enjoy isn't just vacation (which also implies these concepts), but a mental health day.

One of the leading stories in the article is about delivering them to survivors of Hurricane Helene - an interesting linguistic choice in its own right (Helene impacted roughly 2 million people, killing about 200. It had a 99.995% survival rate).

I suspect most people make these chickens simply for fun and decoration.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-29 17:05:39+00:00
That and during the COVID supply chain crisis, Musk clearly shifted to "what can we remove from the car to make it cheaper" mode. This does not drive tech innovation but it does provide profitability. A lot of the decisions re: removal of sensors, stalks, etc flow from that.

And as others have pointed out - not only is Musk insistent on camera-only, but they are not even good state of the art cameras.

For years they were using cameras so bad that even though it provided a "security system recorder" for your car, you couldn't make out license plates most of the time. Kind of useful to be able to read the license plate if you want to actually have anything to give to police when a car hit & runs you.

They only in a recent year updated the cameras to.. still not even 4k.

Sure reading license plates is not the primary purpose of these cameras, but then again .. I'm supposed to trust my life to a car that "sees" with 2010 era iPhone cameras?
by jghn | 2025-05-29 17:05:55+00:00
Vaccines are designed to reduce likelihood of contracting disease and/or reduce the effects of disease if contracted. The COVID vaccines did both of these things

Vaccines are never perfect barriers. It's better to think in terms of population scales. if enough people are vaccinated against a disease, then most of the people who would have contracted it will not. And that means a large reduction in the amount of that disease floating around, and that effect compounds.

For you to claim otherwise is either naïveté or trolling
by fishtoaster | 2025-05-29 17:05:56+00:00
Yep. Clickhouse is absolutely great for tons of production use cases.

Unless you try to join tables in it, in which case it will immediately explode.

More seriously, it's a columnar data store, not a relational database. It'll definitely pretend to be "postgres but faster", but that's a very thin and very leaky facade. You want to do massively a complex set of selects and conditional sums over one table with 3b rows and tb of data? You'll get a result in tens of seconds without optimization. You want to join two tables that postgres could handle easily? You'll OOM a machine with TB of memory.

So: good for very specific use cases. If you have those usecases, it's great! If you don't, use something else. Many large companies have those use cases.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-29 17:06:01+00:00
> including the US most obviously, has excesses of dependencies on other countries

Do we have excessive dependencies on other countries (Madagascar) for vanilla? How about for chocolate? Are tariffs supposed to stimulate our own chocolate and vanilla production? How does that work if you don't have the right climate for these things? I suppose we could grow vanilla in greenhouses, but would that really be worthwhile when we can just import it from places where it does grow?
by grantfwilkinson | 2025-05-29 17:06:30+00:00
The web version sounds like naturally the next step to removing friction and making it quicker to see the value of it. Love that you can visually edit post creation.

Are you thinking most people will start their projects here or bring an existing one in to edit on? Maybe a github app/integration you could open a supported repo directly in onlook to run it?
by ensignavenger | 2025-05-29 17:06:32+00:00
Its just a number assigned to every American person usually at birth nowadays. It is assigned the the Social Security Administration. It was designed as a Social Security account number, but is also used as a Tax Identification Number by the IRS. And a lot of places treat it like it is some super secret password, but it is just a number, and it is a number that everyone wants, and everyone and their dog- including multiple government agencies- has made publicly available, so now everyone and their dog and their dogs cousins dog has access to them, so it makes absolutely no sense why anyone would treat them as secret.
by robomartin | 2025-05-29 17:08:35+00:00
> In every time and place where people "lost everything," they woke up in the morning again, still, and had to figure out what they would do that day. In Europe during the WWII bombings, when someone's house and all possessions were reduced to rubble after a night in the shelter, or maybe even worse, when their whole family was killed.

I think the difference is that Europe still had an industrial base that could be used to rebuild entire countries and economic bases. Not to mention the Marshall Plan, which had a significant and non-trivial hand at rebuilding Europe.

Today things are very different. Take any object in your home and go through the exercise of understanding what it will take to manufacture that locally or semi-locally (parts and services sourced from regional partners). In most cases you will discover it is impossible. And, if you can make that product, it might be at an extremely high cost.

In other words, the software engineer or graphic artist who might lose their job to AI in the future, will not have an industrial base to consider shifting into as an opportunity to pivot and move on. That barely exists today, and it will get worse over time if we don't address the problem in a sensible manner.

I don't necessarily like tariffs as a tool for rebalancing trade. At the same time, there's something I dislike even more: Developing technology, only to watch it being stolen and used to kill the very business that developed it in the first place...without any legal recourse whatsoever. These problems are very real. Most people who are not exposed to the realities of the industrial sectors don't have visibility into what has been going on for decades. Frankly, I am not sure if we can fix it. It might be too late.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-05-29 17:09:07+00:00
Razr might have been a bit too early for that ?

( mandatory Razr 2 V9 ad : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyr6HO617w )

How well did it ran ? More importantly, how expensive would have been the data usage in 2005 ? (Would have depended heavily on location I guess.)

I only remember starting using it on the Nokia N75/N95, so a smartphone already (Symbian OS, slider form, keypad).

By that point (2007-2009) data costs had come down to a (what felt cheap at the time) 1024€/Go, as well as data speeds : up — though looks like Razr got 3G in 2005 already, so data speeds might not have been a bottleneck ? — so heavy browsing became possible.

Though I mostly used it indeed for RSS feeds (especially Slashdot). Desktop Opera had a great RSS feed reader too !

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And email client. That desktop Opera 12 (2012) is probably still the best browser that had ever been made. Meanwhile Firefox only got built-in tab groups back in 2025 ! (It lost them in 2016.)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/hands...

(Any browser built on Apple's WebKit or Google's Chromium (like the company that now owns the Opera brand, or even Vivaldi, the true Opera successor) being of course out of the question, especially in 2025.)
by cozyman | 2025-05-29 17:09:57+00:00
So Jesus: 1. Founded a church 2. told the apostles to make all nations disciplines and baptize them, bringing them into that church 3. The apostles wrote letters to those churches instructing the people on how to live a christian life 4. The successors of those apostles carried on their teachings, spreading more churches all over the world and convening councils to clarify doctrine

sounds a lot like a religion, how do you define religion?
by iamjackg | 2025-05-29 17:10:53+00:00
I have very fond memories of using Opera Mini on my N-Gage and on a bunch of later feature phones that only had J2ME support. It felt revolutionary at the time, especially since data plans were still extremely restrictive.

Wifi on phones was also not quite a thing yet, so I had found an application for S60 phones that allowed them to share a computer's connection via Bluetooth. The range was extremely limited, but enough for me to browse the internet from my bed!
by kragen | 2025-05-29 17:11:11+00:00
Yes, but the British Navy didn't have a system of relaying messages from one station to another over long distances, and church bells (mentioned in the text I quoted from Gleick (?) in my comment upthread) normally don't carry messages at all; everyone knows the sequence they will be rung in before they ring, so the information content is zero. You could hypothetically use them to relay coded messages over long distances, but to the best of our knowledge, nobody did.

Similarly, Archimedes had mirrors, even if he may not have burned ships with them, so he could have invented the heliotrope or heliograph, but in fact that had to wait for Gauss.

The first telegraph relay system in Europe used a semaphore system similar to the British Navy's, but it wasn't deployed until 01792: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph At that point the relaying of drum messages over long distances through many stations was already practiced in parts of Africa.
Ask HN: Tips on a Founder's Blog
by freedmans | 2025-05-29 17:11:17+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve greatly appreciated the candid feedback from this forum. Recently, I shared my personal webpage for review, and the suggestions I received immediately improved the outreach and responses for my work.

(The best stinging reaction: Your website comes across like you're self-absorbed and don't want feedback. This hit a nerve with me because I'm constantly trying to balance the act of doing it yourself and not waiting for anyone to save you, and, collaborate more with others and don't hog the ball like Jordan did in his early years. -- Not that I'm comparing myself to Michael Jordan, but sports metaphors. I'm told they're useful in communication. Tangent. -- But this has encouraged me to try and change my whole approach of presenting myself. Because it's truly not my intention, and I've found that this increased mindfulness has made not just a better entrepreneur, but also maybe a better person. I'm trying...I'm only thirty. Being a person has been a humbling experience. But I like it! lol)

Now, I have a new question: I’ve been encouraged to start writing about my company’s journey. I work in the film industry, where development is a lengthy process.

The goal of these blog posts is to clarify my own thought process and highlight our unique approach to film development, which differs from others in the industry. Additionally, I aim to reassure investors about how their funds are being utilized.

I was going to host the blog on my personal website, away from the official company page.

I've also wondered if I should just confine these blog posts/memos to the password protected Investor Portal I've created for investors. The portal is regularly updated with the projects we're working on, and the projects we want to work on next.

Looking for some thoughts about navigating all of this.

I know it's a mixture of preference and practical application.

My sister likes writing on Substack, where folks pay for genre of memoir. I'm not sure if that's what I'm necessarily trying to do. But I've been tempted to explore Ghost as a platform...

I understand the power of blogging and newsletter because...well...I read Hacker News everyday myself, and have been for nearly a decade, maybe? -- But I'm a new founder so I'm here to take all the feedback.

Thanks everyone, Daniel.
by hoakiet98 | 2025-05-29 17:11:27+00:00
Yes, import is on the roadmap. We're already supporting importing on the desktop app so will need to have a way to get the code into the sandbox. My plan is to have 1. Import from GitHub - We clone and do a best effort setup 2. Run an npx upload script on the local repository 3. Drop a bundle directly through an upload UI
by lysace | 2025-05-29 17:11:40+00:00
> The result of all that is in 2005 J2ME was surprisingly capable, but virtually no one was using it, and so Opera Mini was kind of by itself for a while.

Compatibility with J2ME was really fragmented and this was the time when there were literally thousands of phone models in the market at the same time, so it took a sizeable effort to ship something that worked well.

With Opera Mini we had about 5-6 people (developers+QA) working on J2ME device compatibility continuously. And a really impressive physical device library. I think it had about 2.5k devices in the end.

Once you got really popular though, most device manufacturers started including compatibility with your app in their shipping criterias, so then it suddenly got really easy.
by chmod775 | 2025-05-29 17:11:52+00:00
> Support for direct use of the 7-character address would require serious changes.

No, it doesn't. You can just format that 7-character address like a valid address, essentially like:

番号０１２３４５６,日本

Fill any extra fields with placeholders or ０s as necessary.

The most you'll have to change is to maybe skip validation for those if you have address validation.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-29 17:12:43+00:00
I think the first people to use that phrase were advocates for it.

You have to remember that a lot of people in the industry have ass-backwards values. A lot of people squee when they see chaos and the more chaos the better. When things are orderly they feel like they are in the Apple '1984' video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS24cBZPc

It's got a lot to do with why Docker is so popular. Instead of deciding that you're going to use a certain version of libc and a certain version of Java and a certain version of MUI widgets, they take joy in having many different partitions of the system slightly different from others in ways that will cause all sort of problem large and small. If you standardized things you could run multiple tenants with 1/10 the resources you'll waste with Docker, in a just world it would mean you crush the Docker-using competition but unfortunately the Docker-users are often backed by VC which can be irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
by BJones12 | 2025-05-29 17:12:59+00:00
Regarding the Robert Morris reference, not going to defend any action, but I will point out his 'bad action' was 40 years ago.

Why does that matter? There are abuses happening now, every day, by high profile. Some (Epstein, Diddy) are starting to be caught. Others (Drake) may face judgement far into the future. Others (Chris Brown) never will.

If criticizing modern church culture requires referencing acts of 40 years ago, and criticizing secular culture requires references acts that happened recently, and will probably happen again tomorrow, that could indicate that the modern USA church is doing better than we think. Possibly a lot better.
by owenthejumper | 2025-05-29 17:13:15+00:00
I find Clickhouse fascinating, really good, and also really tough to run. It's a non-linear memory hog. It probably needs 32GB RAM for basics to run, otherwise it will OOM on minimal amount of data. That said, it won't "OOM", as in crash. It will just report the query would use too much memory, so it aborted the query.
by consumer451 | 2025-05-29 17:13:21+00:00
I can agree with that some extent, however this is an entirely new scale and level of immediacy, isn't it?

One comparison might be to an oil exec who understands the science of what happens when you add CO2 to the atmosphere, yet continues working to produce more of it. However, that is a somewhat distant horizon. Humans are terrible at that.

AI lab folks are the ones who think that the damage from their products will occur in just 1 to 5 years, and yet they still continue.

My other point here is that it's not just the C-suite, it's also the researchers.
by Apes | 2025-05-29 17:13:30+00:00
> They dropped 60 eggs each from three different heights (8, 9, and 10 millimeters)

Based on the photos, they measured this as the distance from the surface of the edge to the surface they were dropping it onto.

But for the vertical egg drop, the center of mass is several millimeters higher than for the horizontal drop, a pretty significant difference when you're only dropping 10mm at the most.

Maybe I'm missing something, but based on how they set up the experiment, maybe they're not measuring how resistant the egg is in certain positions, but instead just measuring that higher potential energy is more likely to break an egg?