MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikae1 | 2025-05-01 13:08:33+00:00
See also:

https://www.linkace.org/ (my fave)

https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/

https://linkhut.org/
by chuckadams | 2025-05-01 13:08:42+00:00
Anyone know of a setup, perhaps with MCP, where I can get my local LLM to work in tandem on tasks, compress context, or otherwise act in concert with the cloud agent I'm using with Augment/Cursor/whatever? It seems silly that my shiny new M3 box just renders the UI while the cloud LLM alone refactors my codebase, I feel they could negotiate the tasks between themselves somehow.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-01 13:08:58+00:00
>What's up with that?

Always been that way on HN. You give a flagging ability to users and they'll press the button when they please.

>Why are Americans so censorious all of a sudden?

I wouldnt say there's anything nationality wise or all of a sudden about this.

>Are you all falling in line with the new authoritarian regime that quickly?

I would suggest that the hivemind here hates trump so this seems misplaced.

>I thought y'all liked free speech?

Free speech is only the government. Not anonymous users abusing a private entity's censoring system.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 13:08:59+00:00
Is it surprising? If the revenue realized by the ongoing defiance of the courts exceeds the cost of replacing the executive (including any risk premium caused by the risk of jail time in that job) then it seems rational for Apple as an entity to continue to defy the law.

Even if these executive positions carried a guarantee of a several year term in minimum or medium security prison, for the salaries involved they should be able to find someone who is reasonably competent and willing to do the job.

It's not like the corporate entity itself can be threatened with state violence, and it's owners (probably half the US!) are insulated from any real consequences. An entity like Apple really has diffused responsibility to the point that it transcends the law at this point, and it becomes perfectly rational for it to defy the courts.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-01 13:09:04+00:00
> we are now a culture built on lying.

Are now? I mentioned Thomas More to show that this exact same thing happened 500 years ago. The whole point of the movie A Man For All Seasons is to show that this is always how it has been throughout human history, and that only a few people stand out as putting the truth higher than their own interests, such as Thomas More and Joan of Arc, which deeply impress even non-religious people like Robert Bolt and Mark Twain.
by kjellsbells | 2025-05-01 13:09:32+00:00
Yes, exactly. To be fair, projects like GNOME and distros like Ubuntu do publish human interface guidelines, but I dont think there is any enforcement and so jankiness creeps in. I suppose it's no different from Windows 11 still having programs that have UIs dating from Win2K. But at least the icons and colors and window chrome are professional looking.
by alif09 | 2025-05-01 13:10:08+00:00
In 2023, the global Automotive Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) market was valued at approximately USD 56.21 billion. By 2033, this market is projected to reach around USD 123.85 billion, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.22% from 2024 to 2033.
by caseyy | 2025-05-01 13:10:39+00:00
I don't remember who wrote the report, but a recent games industry report made its way to my desk, and it stated that considerably more games were removed from mobile stores than added over the last few quarters.

I think that could be due to some uncertainty in the market about the future of mobile gaming. Mobile AAA never caught on, and the industry tried it with CoD, Civilization, Mario, Fortnite, Resident Evil, GTA, Assassin's Creed, and others. Only Pokémon Go and Genshin were exceptions on the AAA side due to strong mechanics (Pokémon: ARG appeal, Genshin: gacha profits).

Meanwhile, the small-budget side has become extremely overcrowded by trash-level asset flips, gachas, and ads with vague game elements. Many genuinely talented game developers are asking, "Does my game fit in the mobile markets?" and concluding that the answer is probably closer to no than a yes.

Maybe this is just the natural life cycle of the stores. Moderation doesn't keep up with use, leading to disappointed users and abandonment. Do you remember when we used to check the App Store occasionally for new fun apps during the iPhone 4/4S era? We'd get like an accelerometer app that turns a phone into a silly beer pint, and it'd be quite clever and novel. Or we'd download pedometers, and that was quite a novel and smart tool to track exercise. All because they were promoted on the stores. That's a distant memory for me; I only go to the stores to download the things I already know I need, they have turned into package managers for me.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-01 13:10:39+00:00
I could have clarified there. Google propping up a few browsers is good for consumers in the short term.

In the long term I'd argue that less competition will be a bad thing, and that we have already seen that when it comes to browsers.

For years Google made a habit out of ignoring the spec process in favor of designing their own web specs and shipping them in Chrome. That's ultimately bad for developers who have to code for different browsers like we're back in the IE days, and it being bad for developers leads to it being bad for users.

More importantly, the few browser vendors we do have can take all this Google money and use it to subsidize features that are bad for privacy, or further anticompetitive behaviors in related fields like AI. Without the Google funding we could end up with new browser competitors that are at least on a more level playing field.

All that said, I'm not actually a fan of government intervention and am torn on that front. If we do have a government tasked with protecting markets from anticompetitive behavior, though, they should enforce it.
by Someone1234 | 2025-05-01 13:10:42+00:00
We did.

I certainly peacock every time the new latest greatest [thing] is added to the spec, and am certainly not shy about using those features. There is a handful of misses, but it feels a little dishonest to point the finger squarely at Google when HN in particular lights up like a Christmas tree with every new feature.

Want me to link to our discussion(s) about the new browser DateTime library - Temporal? Or what about Streams, Pattern Matching, Subgrid, Container Queries, color-mix, et al. We ask for this stuff, and we're thrilled when it arrives. Seems hypocritical to then turn around and complain that they're making the browsers "too complicated."
by Ono-Sendai | 2025-05-01 13:10:43+00:00
What I don't get about this timescape theory, is what is the mechanism for time passing faster in the 'voids'? Or equivalently, what makes time pass slower along the edges of the voids? Is it supposed to be gravitational time dilation? (e.g. 'low is slow') Surely this can't have an effect of this magnitude (a 2x speedup in the voids)? As I understand it gravitational time dilation only has significant effects (like the 2x slowdown) in the strong gravitational region regime, around black holes etc.
by kace91 | 2025-05-01 13:10:48+00:00
>Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation.

Judging by tech, apple is right now in deep water due to the failure of delivering apple intelligence and a major drop in software quality.

Judging by political positioning, cook’s donation to trump’s inauguration didn’t sit well with the fanbase.

Now, it seems Cook is going for shady behavior against judges.

Maybe it’s time for a major change of leadership. Financially they might be ok, but one can’t avoid the feeling they’re burning the furniture to heat the house.
by parpfish | 2025-05-01 13:11:21+00:00
Why don’t labor issues resonate more with tech workers?

I know that we’re not a monolith and are actually a heterogeneous mix of opinions, but there frequently talk about job dissatisfaction (career burnout, comically stingy equity grants, etc).

But when organizing comes up, it’s usually treated with disdain because so many have bought into highly individualistic hustle-culture and the narrative that unions only exist to help lazy freeloaders
by tacker2000 | 2025-05-01 13:11:34+00:00
You need to enable this feature in Nextcloud itself, it doesn't matter where it is hosted.

"Nextcloud features an enterprise-grade, seamlessly integrated solution for end-to-end encryption. It enables users to pick one or more folders on their desktop or mobile client for end-to-end encryption. Folders can be shared with other users and synced between devices but are not readable by the server. "[1]

EDIT: so i just checked, it seems Hetzner doesnt have the E2E option that Nextcloud has switched on, since it's deemed unstable. so one could use a tool like Cryptomator to encrypt folders locally and send that folder to the cloud [2]

[1] https://nextcloud.com/features/#end-to-end

[2] https://cryptomator.org/
by ponector | 2025-05-01 13:12:28+00:00
We are working on backend for life insurance. They have a separate pricing team who creates calculations for different insurance products. The results are usually presented as excel files with heavy scripting inside. Really heavy! Have you seen 100mb excel files? I did!

On the funny note: as powerful excel is, it cannot open two files with the same name from different folders! Or at least my version can't.
by lukan | 2025-05-01 13:13:02+00:00
You can really explain how gravity works?

To quote wikipedia:

"Scientists are currently working to develop a theory of gravity consistent with quantum mechanics, a quantum gravity theory,[7] which would allow gravity to be united in a common mathematical framework (a theory of everything) with the other three fundamental interactions of physics."

(And unlike your assumptions, my background involves some physic)

So I am curious for your grand unified theory.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-01 13:13:27+00:00
HOA's are a death cult to keep the home values of all houses within them guaranteed to go up. The sad part is that it works - HOA neighborhoods have guarantees that things which (old white people) hate, like loud parties, will not happen.

Stop buying HOA homes, and people will stop forming them. The market has spoken and a lot of Americans love them.
by omneity | 2025-05-01 13:13:33+00:00
I'm using Qwen3-30B-A3B locally and it's very impressive. Feels like the GPT-4 killer we were waiting for for two years. I'm getting 70 tok/s on an M3 Max, which is pushing it into the "very usable" quadrant.

What was even more impressive is the 0.6B model which made the sub 1B actually useful for non-trivial tasks.

Overall very impressed. I am evaluating how it can integrate with my current setup and will probably report somewhere about that.
by acdha | 2025-05-01 13:13:51+00:00
Yes, it was sickening to watch a lot of people - even self-proclaimed libertarians – flip on torture during that period. There was a stark reversal from the 90s where the War Crimes Act was unanimously passed because back then anti-torture laws were thought of as affecting enemies like the Viet Cong, which lasted less than a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996
by DrScientist | 2025-05-01 13:14:27+00:00
> RTO and 5 days working weeks seem to be less effective than nomadic/remote work and 4x10 or even 4x8 working weeks

It does depend on how you measure it. Given diligent workers you could argue that working from home is better for 'on task' work, than the distractions of the office - however some of those distractions create value for companies that's hard to measure.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had the polite - how are you type conversation - via a chance encounter in the office, that has lead to an idea or new connection that moved something forward, ( have you tried X? Have you talked to Y ).

These don't happen when you are on task working from home.

For companies which are knowledge based - this sort of spontaneous creativity happens more when people are all together and less when people have to intentionally reach out.

Companies aren't just the simple sum of the individuals and a lot of the creativity happens off-task.
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 13:14:53+00:00
Lawyer here - that's not how these things work. This is definitely non-compliant.

Injunctions are, intentionally, required only to "describe in reasonable detail the act or acts restrained or required". The key being "reasonable". They are not required to specify every detail, or every wrong or right thing, especially when the party being enjoined knows more of the details of how things work than the court does.

You seem to believe the court must specify language, etc, and they are absolutely not required to do so. It is your job to figure it out, and if you need more information, shockingly, you can ask the judge for the information, or whether your proposed approach would be compliant.

You are also required to make good faith attempts to comply with a court order. The evidence here is overwhelming bad faith - they were not trying to figure out how to actually ensure the court's goals were carried out, they are instead trying to figure out how to thwart them. That is pretty much the definiton of bad faith.

The injunction has reasonable detail. This is neither good faith, nor did they ask.

You seem to think this is game of try to find legal loopholes. That is a good way to get thrown in a jail by a judge.

It's not. Once you are found guilty and injunction entered, the adversarial process is done. You lost.

Your job is to do what the court requires of you, in good faith, as best you can.

Even if you appeal it, unless it is stayed, you are still required to do it.
by wqaatwt | 2025-05-01 13:14:55+00:00
> Your Ben Shapiros, your Tuckers, Rogans, Maddows, Jon Stewarts

That’s not really a balanced take in any way. Sure there are things that Stewart can be criticized about but at least he is generally semi rational and not a lying treasonous degenerate (like e.g. Tucker). It’s like saying that Trudeau, Trump and Putin are all the same because they are all politicians..
by taylodl | 2025-05-01 13:15:35+00:00
This can't possibly be true! I'm only familiar with the North American power grid, but there would be "spinning reserve" to ensure events such as this wouldn't happen. When you bid variable power sources such as wind and solar into the market, you have to back it up with readily available, secure generation to match the load forecast. The load forecast and generation forecast is done for every 15-minute interval of the day, or 5-minute interval - depending on the control area. These forecasts are done weekly, daily, and hourly.

If you have coal fired generation units, then those would typically be used for your spinning reserve since you can't (shouldn't) spin down those units since that dramatically decreases their operational lifetime. Otherwise, use your fast fire "peaker" units to guarantee the power.

If what you're saying is true, then they don't have secure grid management in place which is shocking because North America has had these policies and practices in place for decades.
by deazy | 2025-05-01 13:15:39+00:00
What is the most effective way to make people (humans) come together as a whole and achieve a common goal or defeat a common enemy or solve a common problem.

Forging the Collective: Abstracting the Mechanism of Collective Formation, with Hindavi Swaraj as its Landmark Manifestation, for Cooperative AI Systems (AI/ASI/ALF)

This is a part of my hobby research into artificial life forms, a recent one, this is to showcase the brilliance, sophistication and surprisingly effective thing that came/occured out of India (Maharashtra) (Indigenous), in 17th Century, that everyone should know, celebrate and be proud of and be amazed by, that serves as a Landmark Manifestation of Foundation/Formation of a Collective, read and you might understand / realize few things.

This is a conceptual framework for Cooperative AI and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) more of a Ideas piece or a think piece, conceptual and inspirational in nature.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-01 13:15:58+00:00
> I wish companies would go back to building fast apps...

Similar to the slow-opening glove box in a car, many humans perceive slow computers & software as a signifiers of importance/luxury/prestige. At least at first. By the time they are familiar with the slow software, and impatient to just get their work done - too late, SnailSoft already has their money.
by amiga386 | 2025-05-01 13:16:17+00:00
"I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=29...

> The thing is, all of these bad features were probably justified by some manager somewhere because it’s the only way their feature would get noticed. They have to justify their salary by pushing all these stupid ideas in the user’s faces. “Hey, look at me! I’m so cool!” After all, when the boss asks, “So, what did you accomplish in the past six months,” a manager can’t say, “Um, a bunch of stuff you can’t see. It just works better.” They have to say, “Oh, check out this feature, and that icon, and this dialog box.” Even if it’s a stupid feature.

On the other hand, I very much enjoyed going to Excel 97 cell X97:L97, pressing tab, holding Ctrl+Shift and clicking on the chart icon, because then you could play Excel's built in flight simulator
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 13:16:22+00:00
There is probably nothing whatsoever the judge could have done about this action by itself. The issue is the conversations around it, which established intent. The chat logs provide hard evidence that it was done in bad faith and with criminal intent.

Now that I think about it, I wonder how much of the current backlash against remote work is to avoid this exact situation. Face to face conversations don't end up in evidence. Written conversations do, and video chats are increasingly being summarized and recorded by AI.
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-01 13:16:37+00:00
In general, I find it easier to desolder and replace surface mounted parts. With those, you just have to hit it with some hot air, it melts all the solder at once, and lifts right away. The chips are small, so it's not too bad to heat the whole thing evenly with a small air gun.

Through hole parts need a lot more heat across a bigger area, or you have to go pin by pin. I've scorched many a through hole board trying to desolder something, cursing at those who didn't socket the chip in the first place.

Want to annoy a repair person? Pot the whole thing in epoxy.
by deazy | 2025-05-01 13:16:44+00:00
Casual Peer Review:

Conceptual leap – could be considered a spark of genius or at least high creativity.

Framework serves more as a philosophical guideline or a set of desired emergent properties for future MAS, rather than offering concrete algorithmic or architectural solutions

Provides interesting research questions and potential directions for MARL (e.g., exploring identity-based intrinsic motivation), but practical implementation requires significant breakthroughs in representation learning and reward design.

The framework serves as a rich source of phenomena for BGT/EGT researchers to target. It motivates the need for more sophisticated models incorporating dynamic identity and group-level agency but doesn't provide those models itself. It pushes the application boundaries of existing game theory.

It currently serves more as a thought-provoking extension than a developed technical proposal.
by oriettaxx | 2025-05-01 13:17:16+00:00
same as the need of beauty around you: to me higher "perfection" of a family's house is a sign of deep issues (as much as a house that is a total mess).

It's never too late to realize the search of beauty together with consumerism, or alcohol (or religion) is messing up with our aim for a better life and relationships.
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 13:17:26+00:00
This is also wrong.

Good faith is a requirement. Act in bad faith, and you can still be sanctioned.

Do you have any background in this, or are you just asserting what you want reality to be?

Because you are just spouting wrong information that, even for a non-lawyer, would take you 10 minutes to go find and read right information.
by briandear | 2025-05-01 13:18:02+00:00
Except when a company like Best Buy can fire a bunch of workers and replace them with Accenture who are paying workers $40/hour while holding them hostage with the H1B. At least 20% of workers in US construction (and even higher for residential) are illegal aliens. Then there is the offshoring of manufacturing: your local workers get too uppity? China can supply whatever you need. Don’t like the United Auto Workers? Move your factory to northern Mexico.

What’s interesting is that tariffs helped American workers back in the day — whether or not that happens again remains to be seen.

Unless the entire world gets onboard with worker rights, trade barriers remain one of the only ways to improve the working conditions of local people.

Regarding the French example: they do have the so-called 35 hour week, but compare disposable income for the same job in the U.S. versus France: Americans have much higher disposable income than the French (even after accounting for health care costs.) The US could improve conditions, but pay will drop accordingly. That might be ok or it might not, but there is no free lunch.
by addoo | 2025-05-01 13:18:29+00:00
The article already touches on this, but in the modern day the games that exist on physical media are pretty much useless without their zero-day patches. Putting physical media aside, companies rarely make older builds available, so even when media contains a game and servers are up there is already plenty of ‘lost media’ if you consider old and interesting (potentially hilariously broken) old builds of virtually every game.

I’ve realized this at some point, but video games are ephemeral and should really be enjoyed in the now. Even if you can perfectly preserve a game, and the means to play it, tastes change so quickly in gaming that a game that’s fun today might not be enjoyable even a year later.
by m-hodges | 2025-05-01 13:19:32+00:00
Bill text: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00186E...

Definition of social media: (1) "Social media platform" means an Internet website or application that is open to the public, allows a user to create an account, and enables users to communicate with other users for the primary purpose of posting information, comments, messages, or images. The term does not include: (A) an Internet service provider as defined by Section 324.055; (B) electronic mail; [or] (C) an online service, application, or website: (i) that consists primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or other information or content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider; and (ii) for which any chat, comments, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content described by Subparagraph (i); or (D) an online service, application, or website used primarily for the purpose of interactive gaming.

Definition of child: (2) "Child" means an individual who is younger than 18 years of age.

Ban on use: Sec. 120.112. USE BY CHILDREN PROHIBITED. To the extent permitted by federal law, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (15 U.S.C. Section 6501 et seq.), a child may not use a social media platform.