MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-26 13:38:45+00:00
Don’t worry, there’s no greedy, rent-seeking rock that hasn’t been overturned. Your idea would cost them way too much money. Since we’ve embraced scalping as a legal business model, Ticketmaster makes money on all sides of most transactions. It’s in their interest to for you to have maximum anxiety and buy as early as possible to increase the odds that you’ll resell.

The bots and scrapers aren’t black hat, Ticketmaster makes some nominal effort to “stop them”, but somehow those pesky hackers manage to figure out how to make Ticketmaster more money. Ticketmaster is adept at making the purchase experience high friction and difficult, so those bots must be really clever. (Lol)
by victorcoder | 2025-05-26 13:39:41+00:00
We've just released Dkron Pro 4.0, a major update to our distributed and fault-tolerant job scheduler. We focused on security and user experience in this version.

Key highlights include:

* New Access Control List (ACL) System: Allows you to define granular permissions for users and teams, securing access to jobs, agents, and resources. * Revamped User Interface (UI): Updated to React Admin, and added dark mode. * Improved Documentation: Significant investment in making our documentation more comprehensive and easier to navigate. * Updated Dkron Open Source Core: Incorporates numerous fixes and improvements for better stability and performance.
Show HN: AI Page Ready – Is Your Website Ready for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude?
by sidchilling | 2025-05-26 13:39:50+00:00
Hi HN,

We just launched [AI Page Ready](https://aipageready.com) — a tool to check if your web pages are discoverable and understandable by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

It runs 40+ checks across six areas: Discoverability & Crawlability, Structured Data & Semantics, Content Quality, Answer-Ready Formatting, Accessibility & Rendering, and Deep AI LLM-specific checks.

Would love your feedback — especially if you work in eCommerce, SEO, content, SaaS, or are trying to get traffic from AI tools.

(Also open to ideas on what else to add to the tool!)
by fallinghawks | 2025-05-26 13:39:55+00:00
A year or two ago when I was doing some searching in Maps for trails to hike in Hawaii, I noticed that if a trail didn't have an "official" website i.e. pointing to a local government page, in several cases a certain photographer had put his website into that spot. And later I discovered he had done this not only in Hawaii but several trails in Utah as well. It would not surprise me if he's hit up hundreds of trails for free advertising via Google's lack of vetting.

I reported it, of course, (as someone else mentioned, Suggest an Edit) and they got changed, but I haven't checked to see if he changed them back.
by eajr | 2025-05-26 13:39:57+00:00
There was a Trade Wars inspired game 25 yrs ago called "Black Nova Traders" that was a whole lot of fun. The original author is embarking on a v2 after a quarter century since the first release. You might find it interesting to see if yours and his vision align and work together[1]. All good if not, I'll keep an eye on your project as I love Trade Wars inspired games.

[1] https://github.com/harwoodr/bnt2
by sidchilling | 2025-05-26 13:40:18+00:00
Some things I’m curious to hear from HN:

(1) Are you optimizing your content for LLMs yet? (2) What do you think AI traffic will look like 6–12 months from now? (3) What kinds of AI visibility issues have you run into?

Happy to answer anything about how we built the tool or what’s under the hood too.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-05-26 13:43:59+00:00
Chat Gpt can write great apolgia for blood thirsty landempires and never live that down :

"To characterize a structural analysis of state violence as “apologia” reveals more about prevailing ideological filters than about the critique itself. If one examines the historical record without selective outrage, the pattern is clear—and uncomfortable for all who prefer myths to mechanisms." the fake academic facade, the us diabolism, the unwillingness to see complexity and responsibility in other its all with us forever ..
by fidotron | 2025-05-26 13:44:02+00:00
It's legitimately scary how much oxygen Next.js has taken out of the room. If you do anything remotely related to selling to developers you absolutely have to participate in that ecosystem or you won't sell anything, and this contributes to the noise. Vercel have become an insanely powerful company, and are to front end what Hashicorp were a decade ago to cloud computing.

By now Java people already have their licensing agreements. They aren't going to be buying anything new.
by pona-a | 2025-05-26 13:44:37+00:00
But what's the aspect of sys-adminning do you find separate from normal use that SteamOS addresses?

Is it the updates that break your system? There are mature immutable distros like Fedora Kinoite, which I personally used for years without reinstalling. Is it hardware workarounds? The only way to solve that is to use OEM-tested hardware, which in the case of Linux laptops is sparse and still requires some research for desktop. If it's Windows compatibility, Steam itself has supported Proton years before the Deck was released.

The only thing SteamOS provides is an immutable base with preconfigured kiosk UI. Unless your use-case is exactly that, a home console, I don't see any added value in it specifically.
by Geee | 2025-05-26 13:44:45+00:00
This is great news. Stablecoins issued by banks are much better digital cash than CBDCs (central bank digital currency). EU is currently trying very hard to implement their own CBDC, and stablecoins will directly compete with it. A CBDC is basically a stablecoin issued by a central bank. The problem is that this digital cash would compete with currency in private bank accounts, and ultimately bank accounts wouldn't be needed any more. I think every bank must start issuing their own stablecoins if they wish to stay in business.

Private banks issuing their own stablecoins will make the banking system little bit closer to the free banking system [0], when banks used to issue their own banknotes i.e. paper currency. This is better, because every stablecoin could have their own risk profile which is associated with the issuing bank, which would lower the overall systemic risk.

On the other hand, a CBDC would be a move in the direction of single-tier banks [1], which centralizes all money issuance to a single bank.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-tier_banking_system
by jjrv | 2025-05-26 13:45:07+00:00
I found a losslessly compressed version: https://github.com/LeanModels/Bagel-DFloat11

It works following readme instructions at least on Ubuntu, on my RTX 3090 GPU with 24 gigs of memory, just barely. Have to close most other windows and lower screen resolution to be able to load the model. Then it generates or edits images in 2-3 minutes. I only have this one GPU and am using Chrome to use the browser interface on the same machine.

The original release won't run on this hardware, but the compressed one is supposed to give identical results.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-05-26 13:45:14+00:00
The problem encompasses not just biology and information technology, but also linguistics. Even if LLMs say nothing about biology, they do tell us something about the nature of language itself.

Again, that LLMs can learn to compose sophisticated texts from training alone does not close the case on Chomsky's position.

However, it is a piece of evidence against it. It does suggest, by Occam's razor, that a hardwired universal grammar is the lesser theory.
by diggan | 2025-05-26 13:45:31+00:00
> GitHub Copilot Chat had a very similar bug last year.

Reminds me of "Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak" from yesterday: https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/

TLDR is: Security issue found, patched in a OS release, Apple seemingly doesn't do regression-testing so security researcher did, found that somehow the bug got unpatched in later OS releases.
by Aardwolf | 2025-05-26 13:45:48+00:00
It says "Browser doesn't support WebGPU" in both Chrome and Firefox in Linux

What's the situation of WebGPU, is it supposed to work in Linux or not?

I'm sure that I've seen other GPU-like things (water simulations etc...) run in my browser before so I'm not sure what's wrong this time, or how many different GPU-like API's exist for browsers other than WebGPU (like WebGL).

I sometimes enable and/or disable "hardware acceleration" in Chrome and/or Firefox because sometimes one or sometimes the other causes video problems (sometimes having hardware acceleration on can make videos slower despite what you'd think). Is this hardware acceleration setting related to WebGPU?
by javcasas | 2025-05-26 13:46:05+00:00
> It would be crazy if in an auto factory people were measuring to make sure every angle is correct

That cannot be any furthest from the truth.

Take a decent enterprise CNC machine (look in youtube, lots of videos) that is based on servos, not the stepper motor amateur machines. That servo-based machine is measuring distances and angles hundreds of times per second, because that is how it works. Your average factory has a bunch of those.

Whoever said that should try getting their head out of their ass at least every other year.
by Y_Y | 2025-05-26 13:46:16+00:00
I presume if you think eighths of an inch is good enough then you mostly work with large objects. Luckily outside of USA, Liberia, and Myanmar inch-based scales are rare nowadays, but I still come across specifications in small fractions of inches for such things as manufacturing tolerances, drill bits, coating thickness, cable diameters.

Informal measurement of humans and beer is a nice quirk of the UK system, but in my experience it's not commonplace to use imperial units for anything where accuracy is important (except maybe jewellers, and arguably road speeds/distances).

See also, the monstrosity that is AWG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge
by pornel | 2025-05-26 13:46:28+00:00
That's just an overcomplicated way of doing pre-authorization.

Talk about decentralisation and anti-deplatforming makes no sense here. Concerts are a physical thing happening in the real world, organized by selected "centralized" entities. Venues can refuse to host an artist. Artist can "rug pull" by refusing to host. Imaginary tokens can't do anything about that, and we already have laws, contracts, and currencies that have been dealing with that for as long as these things existed.
biski64 – Fast C PRNG (.42ns), 2^64 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass
by the_othernet | 2025-05-26 13:48:22+00:00
biski64 is a fast C PRNG I wrote for non-cryptographic tasks.

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/danielcota/biski64

Highlights:

* ~0.42 ns/value (GCC 11.4, -O3 -march=native), 92% faster than xoroshiro128++.

* Easily passes PractRand (32TB), exceptional BigCrush results (running BigCrush 100 times against established PRNGs).

* Guaranteed 2^64 period - through the use of a 64-bit Weyl sequence.

* Parallel streams, robust reduced state size tests.

* Core requires only stdint.h.

Details on the 100x BigCrush tests (including reference PRNG results), parallel streams and reduced state size tests can be found in the Github README).

Seeking feedback on design, use cases, or further testing.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-26 13:48:23+00:00
"When everything fails, read the manual." --Anonymous?

Add a few examples! I wish every new programming language posted here has an example section, like Hello Word and Fibonacci and 99 Bottles of Beer. Your project is not a programming language, so the examples should be different. But remember to add a few examples.

---

> for a technical audience who might just read the source anyway

"When everything fails again, read the source. -- Me, now

Many users will use your library without understanding the implementation details. It's a feature of a good library, so more people can use it.

And there are sometimes subtle details, like in "f(x, y)", can x and y be equal or y must be always greater than x. Perhaps it's easy to discover reading the source or perhaps the check is hidden after a few subroutine calls. Perhaps when x and y are equal f does nothing, and some libraries decide to check that and skip the situation and other to raise an error and other to make a huge mess.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-26 13:48:32+00:00
Ticketing is like dating websites, many are affiliated in various ways. Ticketmaster doesn’t down StubHub… Livenation (the company that owns them), and operates most of the venues, does. They are structured to have nominal competition to meet competitive bidding requirements for .gov owned facilities.

Long ago I worked for a company that did some novel work in the ticketing and contained reservation space. We didn’t do resale due to the nature of the product, but the fees we extracted were bonkers - the facilities operators basically paid a nominal amount to stand up the platform, and we derived all (and it was a lot of) revenue from the customer - often on a white label basis.

Long story short, Ticketmaster elbowed in and bought the company and the tech once we had traction. That pattern holds in many similar business models.
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-26 13:49:12+00:00
1. Summary

It wouldn’t be too hard to add that with a 3rd party plugin. You could set an event hook to run through the comments, and add it to the top comment.

For bonus points, you could use an LLM to summarise. Every company loves a bit of AI these days, so your manager can gloat with his manager buddies that you now have AI-powered issue tracking.

2. That sounds like an anti-pattern to me. There shouldn’t be PII in your dev issue tracking system.

There problem here isn’t RBAC, it’s the workflow. If you’re in a situation where you need to make notes of sensitive information then you should store that in the same data store as the source information (eg Salesforce, et al). And I say this as someone who hates Salesforce.

3. I’ve not seen this feature in any issue tracker. Sounds like a nice feature but I wouldn’t have thought it as essential.
by estebarb | 2025-05-26 13:49:18+00:00
In my experience it works better in more constrained and repetitive domains. For example: it is better doing a Ruby on Rails website than a ASP.NET web service.

Particularly, with data structures it is garbage: it nevers understands the constrains that justify writing a new one instead of relying on the ones from the standard library.

And finally, it is incapable of understanding changes of mind. It will go back to stufd already discarted or replaced.

The worst part of all is that it insists in introducing its own "contributions". For example, recently I have been doing some work on ML and I wanted to see the effect of some ablations. It destroyed my code to add again all the stuff I had removed on purpose.

Overall, it provides small typing/search savings, but it cannot be trusted at all yet.
by rvnx | 2025-05-26 13:49:27+00:00
Testing in production happens. This is for example the best practice at SpaceX or at Tesla (FSD, Robotaxi, Unboxed designs, etc), and I think these people sleep very well.

Yes, of course, some rockets may explode (almost 10 soon), or some people may have accident, but that's ok from their perspective.
by aniket_920 | 2025-05-26 13:49:34+00:00
Yes, when we launch v1.0.0, all users need to verify themselves. And for verification we only accept National ID of that country.

And all the non-verified users cannot vote. SO they cannot manipulate the results.

And we also allow to anonymous post of Polls, means anyone can create Poll, still we need some parameter to make sure its not scam, but user ID.

And public opinion is calculated based on lots of parameters.

WORK IN PROGRESS!
by hoseja | 2025-05-26 13:49:57+00:00
Retirement started as state charity for the very oldest and most infirm and grew into unsustainable pyramid scheme bribery operation. Nineteenth century unwillingness to let uncared-for metuselahs die in squalor doomed us all.

"In 1881,[3][4] the conservative German chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, in a maneuver against Marxists who were burgeoning in power and popularity, announced that anyone over 70 years old would be forced to retire and that he would pay a pension to them.[1]"

Ah.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-26 13:50:38+00:00
Possibly, but the pressure difference would pop people's ears, moreso than they do already. I'm sure the piston-like effect of moving trains is considered too to help move air around. Question is whether that's enough air movement to offset the heat generated by the trains, after all (and this is secondary school level understanding of thermodynamics), the energy needed to move the train is the train weight itself, plus track friction, plus air resistance. That is, in my head, it costs more energy to move the train than the amount of air that is moved around, so it in itself wouldn't be enough.
by vintermann | 2025-05-26 13:50:50+00:00
Repost from four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44060712

Also, they do a really good job of making it sound like it violates thermodynamics. Since it doesn't, and dehumidifiers already do a good job of getting water out of air for the energy price you have to pay, there has to be some other selling point. Right? But I'm not sure I see it.
by jsheard | 2025-05-26 13:51:02+00:00
> What's the situation of WebGPU, is it supposed to work in Linux or not?

Chrome officially supports WebGPU on all platforms except Linux for now, you can force it on with a flag but it's obviously not meant for prime time yet. Firefox has yet to officially ship WebGPU at all but it's supposed to be coming in version 141, due at the end of July. Safari is still dragging its feet with no indication at all of when they'll get around to shipping.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-05-26 13:51:17+00:00
Those don't exist because of unintended (but obvious) consequences of government regulation. For all sorts of reasons the risk and cost profile is pretty similar per employee whether they are 20 hours a week or 60 hours a week (non exhaustive examples: health insurance costs me the same to provide no matter how many hours an employee works. Depending on your regulatory regime certain payments like pensions/unemployment are capped so more workers earning less can actually cost more than less workers earning more, firing regulations makes more employees riskier because the probability you hire junk you can't get rid of or an employee turns to junk and you can't fire is higher with more employees, etc.) Since there is a very real cost with what you want your skill set has to be scarce enough to make the added cost worth incurring. As long as I can hire someone that will work full time for similar hourly equivalent pay, the part timers will not be seriously considered.
by 0xEF | 2025-05-26 13:52:17+00:00
Your comment is adversarial for no reason. "Real" QC? I work for people who make vehicles on the ground and in the air that hold passengers expecting to be delivered safely. Some of them even make parts for very large structures that are expected to remain standing when the wind blows too hard or the ground shakes too much. Let's talk about "real" QC and these other imagined types that must exist to you.

Can you define the differences between "real" QC and other versions? Does this imply a "fake" QC? Does that mean that our auto and aerospace manufacturers can't hold themselves to the same quality standards as Big Pharma, since both are ultimately trying to achieve the same goal in avoiding the litigation that comes with putting your customers at risk?

Let's not pretend that pharma co's have never side-stepped regulation or made decisions that put swaths of the population in a position to harm themselves.

My argument was dispelling the general idea that just because rules are in place, they are being followed. Believe me, I'd love to live in that world, but have seen little evidence that we do.
by Aardwolf | 2025-05-26 13:52:33+00:00
I see, I thought 3D graphics in browsers already existed and worked in Linux for a very long time so this must be a new one then... what's the difference between WebGPU, and WebGL that allowed demos like this one since long ago? https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

Is there some reason WebGPU has difficulties getting implemented for Linux, like DRM features or so?
by tootyskooty | 2025-05-26 13:54:29+00:00
Beeminder: Personal accountability through commitment contracts. Helps me stay on track with my goals, often serves as a little extra "push" to do something useful even if I'm really low on willpower that day.

Anki: Maybe not underrated, but seems like it only really took off in language-learning circles. I create a card for anything new that I'd like to retain, and have been doing so for almost 10y now. Really multiplies the long-term value of sitting down and learning, since I can be relatively certain that I'll keep the knowledge with me for a long time. Particularly useful for papers.
by gentios | 2025-05-26 13:55:31+00:00
Thank you for your honest feedback and giving it a try. Before launching to public we used it internally since we are a dev team (still using it :D) and we have tried it into specific domains such as: fintech, e-commerce etc. with larger code bases and have really performed well

The purpose of it has always been to be a good assistant of the code reviewer it self by giving a clean summary and suggesting fixes

Of course we work in new features that will be quite helpful for developers
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-05-26 13:56:08+00:00
Nope, at least Claude code is very useful IME.

Great for annoying ad-hoc programming where the objective is clear but I lack the time or motivation to do it.

Example: After benchmarking an application on various combinations of OS/arch platforms, I wanted to turn the barely structured notes into nice graphs. Claude Code easily generated Python code that used a cursed regex parser to extract the raw data and turned it into a bunch of grouped bar charts via matplotlib. Took just a couple minutes and it didn't make a single mistake. Fantastic time saver!

This is just an ad-hoc script. No need to extend or maintain it for eternity. It has served its purpose and if the input data will change, I can just throw it away and generate a new script. But if Claude hadn't done it, the graphs simply wouldn't exist.

Update: Sorry, missed "writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code"... well for core development I too haven't really used it.
by alexbouchard | 2025-05-26 13:56:11+00:00
Some do; Gitlab, Otka, and Pipedrive come to mind. I think this is more about the expectations set over the last decade. If you do things differently, there's a need to justify it, and it's just perceived as less secure, regardless of whether it's true or not (the pros and cons are well articulated in the article).
by 33hsiidhkl | 2025-05-26 13:56:33+00:00
For any given seed value, the output of an LLM will be identical- it is deterministic. You can try this at home with Llama.cpp by specifying a seed value when you load a LLM, and then seeing that for a given input the output will always be the same. Of course there may be some exceptions (cosmic ray bit flips). Also, if you are only using online models, you can't set the seed value, plus there are multiple models, so multiple seeds. In summary, LLMs are deterministic.
by BlackFly | 2025-05-26 13:56:56+00:00
What fraction of all total soft plastic is collected by supermarket take back schemes compared to road side curb collection (where only 10% of municipalities "support" its recycling)?

I have a strong prior that they can achieve such high numbers only because they only capture a small amount of the total amount of soft plastic waste. If they had to deal with it all there wouldn't be enough demand to burn or recycle and it would end up buried. This is somewhat supported by the fact that by official definitions supermarket take back schemes are not counted in official recyclability numbers:

> Soft plastic collected via supermarket collection points does not satisfy this definition [of working at scale] and therefore was not counted towards WRAP’s UK Plastics Pact recyclability target.