MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by collingreen | 2025-05-01 08:32:51+00:00
It seems like bad faith to be rabid about Clinton emails and silent about the use (and overwhelmingly sloppy use at that) of signal. Do you care about following security procedures or not?

It's also weird to see you seem to take so much pleasure in lashing out - how can you feel vindication thinking your opponents should have done something about emails but not have that same feeling now? How do you hold both views (and with such vitriol) at the same time?

The hypocrisy is why folks find it hard to take these complaints at face value since we show time and time again that they appear more "my team should win the game" than anything consistent and built on principles.

I'm struggling to not write more details here but generally I think the whataboutism and completely ignoring degree is absurd. I remember when the big complaints about Obama were wearing the wrong color suit, saluting with a coffee cup, and allowing a military strike on a us citizen actively working with Al queda. If you want to be convincing (you may not want this- if you just want to feel self righteous and vengeful then carry on) then I think a better path would be explaining why this current situation is a good thing (or at least the same level of bad as the things you hate).
by CapricornNoble | 2025-05-01 08:33:13+00:00
I know some pretty competent O-4s...but also a TON of mouth-breathing field grade officers too. Hegseth sucks on his own merits (or lack thereof) as a person.

SecDef Lovett only rose to O-4 before going into the NYC business community and then becoming a Special Assistant to SecWar Stimpson in 1940. https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-V...

SecDef McElroy came up through Proctor & Gamble, no government or military experience. https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-V...

Just as a few examples of adequately-successful SecDefs coming from "unimpressive" paper resumes.
by ytpete | 2025-05-01 08:33:20+00:00
It last happened with Safari when it was the overwhelming majority of mobile traffic market share. That was even a meme for a while in the web developer community around 2010-2015 or so: "Safari is the new IE."

It took years for Android's growth to make it a credible second browser for mobile devs to care about, and to pressure Apple to catch up to web standards faster.
by rcxdude | 2025-05-01 08:33:33+00:00
Yeah, a switch in mode between "make an XML document and then make something else to present it" (I think suffered massively from never actually being completely achievable with CSS, let alone comprehensible) and "just make a UI toolkit for javascript" (where in a full webapp world, the underlying documents are usually JSON and the presentation layer is javascript using HTML+CSS to talk to a layout and rendering engine).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-01 08:35:18+00:00
> This theme is common among people who don’t understand how manufacturing works right now: They don’t realize that a product like this has many different parts from different places, down to the dozens of little SMT capacitors. You can’t just move the factory and avoid tariffs because the parts still come from other places.

This argument doesn't make a lot of sense.

Suppose your company only does final assembly. Then whatever the value add of final assembly is, that's how much of the tariffs you can avoid by moving your own factory. You can eliminate as much as comes from your own contribution to the cost of the product. Meanwhile the company that makes the capacitors can avoid the tariffs on their value add by moving the factory that makes the capacitors. The fact that these are two separate companies doesn't really change much. Each one can move the part that they do.

In fact, it actually helps. Suppose the capacitor company can't move for some reason, but the final assembly can. Well, then at least you can avoid the tariffs on final assembly instead of neither if they were both made by some conglomerate that refused to move either one. Not only that, suppose other companies make the capacitors in Japan as well as China, and then the company can do the final assembly in the US and avoid the tariffs on capacitors from China by buying the ones from Japan.
by dripdry45 | 2025-05-01 08:35:26+00:00
Guh, NK Jemisin :Q I tried getting through a few chapters of three of her books and haven't felt so... Pushed? Talked at? Bored? Hadn't grimaced internally and externally as much with an author in a while.

They feel juvenile, trying SO hard. Using a different person perspective in one of them to hamfisted effect, as opposed to someone like Tamsyn Muir who integrates that device for good reason and to brilliant effect.

I gave NK a solid try and was appalled at how in the world anyone could think these are engaging.
Social media apps: Your experience so far
by jrdieter | 2025-05-01 08:35:53+00:00
Hey there, I wanted to get your opinion and views on the social media landscape. How do you feel about X? Are you excited about OpenAI's potential social media app proposal? (Solved the long term data consumption to refine AI models) Do you think Instagram is dead?

Does anybody have any experience with the fediverse social media apps? which do you use, and how's the visibility when you post?
by drougge | 2025-05-01 08:36:39+00:00
One thing that really annoys me about the HTTP standards is that some older version used to say that text/* without a declared charset was definitely latin-1 (don't remember which version exactly). Then a later version said no, text/* without a declared charset is definitely utf-8. In practice I feel this means they said "not declaring a charset is definitely not ok", but in a way that no one will understand.

Possibly a newer version that I haven't read fixed how they said that. As long as I don't check I can hope.
by code_biologist | 2025-05-01 08:36:46+00:00
I understand the sentiment, but disregarding the nuance does the situation a disservice. HTML/CSS serves two separate but related use cases: a document layout and display language, and as a display layer for applications. I remember Pete Hunt's talk "React: Rethinking best practices" [1] explaining in 2013 why the styling separation of concerns for document display doesn't make sense for applications. Has opinion on best practice se-sawed back and forth? No, we've merely gone from web content being document centered to being massively application centered, and the discourse on best practices follows that proportional shift.

Would it be better if there was a different web application display technology, not retrofitted on top of HTML/CSS? Like maybe, but HTML/CSS is... fine. Even separated from the success of Javascript, it's an archetypal example of "worse is better" [2] leading to market success.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
by codeulike | 2025-05-01 08:37:46+00:00
Not a fan of the Trump administration but I imagine the official pentagon communications systems must be extremely clunky and annoying, and about 20 years behind civilian tech.

During the UK Covid-19 enquiry into gov decision making at that time it came to light that most of the UK cabinet were co-ordinating via Whatsapp groups. Again, I'm not a fan of Boris and Dom Cummings but this makes some sort of sense to me. I recognise the need for government teams to have quick convenient chat available to them. Things move too fast these days to wait for the next cabinet meeting or to arrange things via a series of phone calls.

Similarly we can look back to Obama having to fight to keep his Blackberry in 2009 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28780205
by 0xEF | 2025-05-01 08:38:33+00:00
This is the Liberal Way; complain about the state of things, but when it comes time to do the work and change it, they are suddenly nowhere to be found unless you go to the various social media enclaves where they sure do talk up a big storm of moral outrage, mostly well-reasoned and justified. The problem is they wait for someone else to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

The Fascist Right does not, which is why they are winning this War of Ideology.
Show HN: Vibesuite – build 3× faster on v0 and Lovable
by jfmb | 2025-05-01 08:38:42+00:00
Hi HN!

A month ago, I realized I was wasting ~40 minutes every day staring at “Generating…” bars on v0, Lovable, and Bolt—enough time to completely lose track of what I was building.

That's why I built Vibesuite!

Features:

Instant desktop + sound notifications (no more manual checking!) Dynamic tab titles – "Generating..." in tab bar Metrics — see how long code generating took Auto-switch – immediately brings you back to the right tab when code is ready

Today it supports v0.dev and lovable.dev, and support for bolt.new is coming very soon.

Try it out here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vibesuite/gaodnbdam...

Is the auto-switch helpful or feels hijacky? Other AI builders that slow your flow? Any features you'd like to see?

Happy to answer anything. Thanks for reading – hope it saves you a few context-switches!
by TylerE | 2025-05-01 08:38:43+00:00
Absolutely. I was at the Virginia Museum of Art where they have several Monets and 3 Van Goghs. They also let you get quite close to them… less than a foot away in some cases. The amount of texture is incredible. (What also struck me in person, though I had read about it previously, is how tiny almost all Van Goghs are. Barely more than postcard size in some cases.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-01 08:39:00+00:00
I think it's the latter. I don't think Google really cares about the default search engine. Microsoft didn't take the money and have their own stuff but it doesn't make any dent in Google's popularity (even now that Google is terribly enshittified and pretty much everything else is now better)

I think it's propping up the competition to be just enough to be considered competition, but not really interfere with them milking their internet domination.
by tacker2000 | 2025-05-01 08:39:34+00:00
Im using Hetzner Storage share, which is a managed Nextcloud service, since years with no issues.[1] Starts at 4.29 € for 1TB.

Also, in one company where im the IT guy, ive been self hosting a Seafile instance for years without problems.

So there are plenty of alternatives out there.

[1]https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
by mort96 | 2025-05-01 08:39:52+00:00
A major worry I have is: the EU is bringing forth some serious cybersecurity regulations (affecting equipment with radios (WiFi, Bluetooth, ...) as part of the Radio Equipment Directive later this year, soon to affect everything as part of the Cyber Resiliency Act). This enforces some good security practice, but also has a lot of stuff in it that's way easier to comply with if you just say, "the device is locked down with hardware-protected write protection (or Secure Boot)".

To my understanding, there's nothing specifically preventing companies from giving the user the ability to disable write protection or load their own signing keys, but it means that the default will be to have locked-down devices and companies will have to invest extra resources and take extra risks with regard to certification into enabling users to do what they want with the hardware. I predict that the vast majority of companies making random IoT crap won't bother, so it's e-waste.
by satanfirst | 2025-05-01 08:40:14+00:00
I get his PoV, but I think most people who have thought about it know which tools should have been used at the end of the cold war. The difficulty is precedent and the preference to the power two factions over structure.

Doing something to fix the US' executive branch problem with the proper Amendments would be likely to fail because it would be too neutral to collect from lobyists or sell on emotion.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-05-01 08:40:59+00:00
That sounds like a child's argument - "it's not fair!".

It's basic public health logic - is it a net benefit to the population to add fluoride to the water supply and at a suitable price point or is there a more effective method to achieve the desired outcome?

Meanwhile, we have toxic tyre pollution being released into the very air that we breathe which has no known benefit to the population's health and has been shown to lead to heart/lung problems and early deaths. Is that fair?
by KronisLV | 2025-05-01 08:41:29+00:00
> It's a good moment to move to an european storage provider I suppose.

I recently started using the Hetzner Storage Share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Basically, it's just managed Nextcloud (so you're not vendor locked and if you want you can just get a VPS and host Nextcloud directly too), works okay, pricing seems fine, though there is the occasional downtime when they do updates between the versions or need to do maintenance.

Overall, would recommend at least looking at it.
by roenxi | 2025-05-01 08:41:59+00:00
Google thinks - accurately - that the more people use the internet the more money Google makes. It invests a fortune into making the internet more accessible through creating better browsers. There isn't anyone else willing to dump that sort of money into browser development.

It is a bit like calling a supermarket a cartel if it relies on local residents for 80% of its profits. No, the technical term is they are paying customers (although in Google's case it is complex and non-traditional because they are carrying the financial burden on behalf of the people who click on ads and there are a bunch of free riders). The odds are against a bunch of alternative customers hiding in the wings waiting to pop up; if they go away then they are just gone.
Ask HN: Did anyone figure out how to make money from open source?
by asim | 2025-05-01 08:42:04+00:00
Hey. I'm the author of Go Micro. An open source framework for Go development. Over the past 10 years I never managed to find a sustainable way to keep working on this. I bootstrapped with my own savings. Meaning I quit my job and burned what was in a bank account for 9-10 months (most people don't have this luxury). I then managed to find a corporate sponsor (again a friend doing me a favour which most people don't have the luxury of). And after about 4 years of doing that I raised VC funding to try build a product around the framework and turn it into a real company. That went very poorly. So I think open source sustainability is hard and from first hand experience I never managed to make it work. I'm curious to know if anyone figured it out? We know elastic, hashicorp, redis, etc. But did anyone make it work in a smaller capacity? I even remember the story of Mike Perham with Sidekiq and doing like $1m in sales solo. But again I never managed to make any of it work myself.
by izabera | 2025-05-01 08:43:05+00:00
firefox is not remotely able to bring in enough cash to justify its current development costs. see https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-202... ($12M income from contributions vs $260M spent on software development, the vast majority of which is undoubtedly spent on firefox). so no, mozilla cannot just drop everything else to finally focus only on their browser, as that is guaranteed to bankrupt the company.
by logifail | 2025-05-01 08:43:36+00:00
(With apologies if this appears provocative)

Is there evidence that SECDEF 'acted with criminal intent'?

We've already clarified that '[being] extremely careless' is not enough for a court case.

[I have a mental picture of a Venn diagram with three circles: "Politicians", "Idiots" and "Criminals"...]
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-01 08:43:56+00:00
I think speed and convenience are essential. I use chat gpt desktop for coding. Not because it's the best but because it's fast and easy and doesn't interrupt my flow too much. I mostly stick to the 4o model. I only use the o3 model when I really have to. Because at that point getting an answer is slooooow. 4o is more than good enough most of the time.

And more importantly it's a simple option+shift+1 away. I simply type something like "fix that" and it has all the context it needs to do its thing. Because it connects to my IDE and sees my open editor and the highlighted line of code that is bothering me. If I don't like the answer, I might escalate to o3 sometimes. Other models might be better but they don't have the same UX. Claude desktop is pretty terrible, for example. I'm sure the model is great. But if I have to spoon feed it everything it's going to annoy me.

What I'd love is for smaller faster models to be used by default and for them to escalate to slower more capable models on a need to have basis only. Using something like o3 by default makes no sense. I don't want to have to think about which model is optimal for what question. The problem of figuring out what model is best to use is a much simpler one than answering my questions. And automating that decision opens the doors to having a multitude of specialized models.
by alganet | 2025-05-01 08:44:41+00:00
Isn't that what PRISM and other programs were anyway? The USA as a surveillance state is a known fact. Past and present tense.

Or is it just a piece to concentrate efforts against the big techs?

As a piece to concentrate efforts, it sounds disingenuous. Maybe the goal is to sound disingenuous to catch who didn't get the memo? Damn, so much spinning you guys are doing, but it still looks the same thing.

I have no hope of fighting against such thing (I am not a fighter by the way). No one worthy of demonstrating the spirit of being opposed to surveillance. Why even bother?

I have faith in journalists (no irony). So there must be a reason for these things. Maybe I am too dumb to know.

(all questions rethorical)
by photonthug | 2025-05-01 08:45:01+00:00
Hey! We read more than code, and Calvino's not so obscure. ;) Here, enjoy some stuff from my open tabs: https://rustandmoth.com/work/on-the-ducks-who-are-people-and... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26063/... https://fleursdumal.org/poem/099 https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein/books/artifi...
by collingreen | 2025-05-01 08:45:05+00:00
He can do that - presidents have a long history of abusing pardons. Trump has shown he is happy to pardon people without much thought either for media attention (j6?) or for money (levandowski?).

On the other hand trump isn't very loyal to his people so far - remember the wasteland of trump advisors and officials in the first term getting convicted of various frauds without getting pardoned (or the lawyer on tape saying he needs a pardon for trying to overturn the election and him not getting it).

Not that it matters but I don't think Biden gave a blanket pardon to his entire staff I think he pardoned people who he thinks are dangerously and unfairly targeted by some extreme media like fauci and Bidens son hunter.

At the end of the day pretty much all of the limits of presidential power come from restraint, especially (but not exclusively) in todays world of a tame judiciary. If the president cares about or wants to be seen as caring about the rule of law it is a bad look to wantonly disregard it too often.

Yes, there are a lot of folks who want to believe everything their chosen guy does is absolutely right but realistically each bad thing chips away at their ability to ignore the evidence. I know several people who have lost faith in trump as the evidence continues to absolutely pile up that he doesn't match the values they were told to appreciate (rule of law, respect for the constitution, human rights, fairness, Christian values, intelligence). If he gives a blanket pardon to everyone that worked for him a few more people will say "wait, maybe the other side was right and this IS a huge abuse" so it's possible, especially if we continue to have elections, that we won't see this kind of thing.
by choffee | 2025-05-01 08:45:24+00:00
Gnome dropped status icon support as they think it's more consistent for the user to have a window for interacting with the application and do notifications via the notifications system.

I can see how people like a "dropbox" icon, especially Dropbox, as it makes them stand out but also I can see how it does not fit with the Gnome idea of consistency.

I used to be conditioned to using certain apps via their status icon as that was the only way to interact with them but as a long time user of Gnome I don't miss them now and use apps like syncthing-gtk via the app and notifications just fine. So for me, if I was a dropbox user, this would feel like a step backwards.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f... https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f...
by manidoraisamy | 2025-05-01 08:46:29+00:00
Our target customers are product teams like ours. I’m the technical founder and was building a feature to extract product prices from unstructured text. But my co-founder, who understands all the pricing formats — is non-technical. I built Promptrepo, so he could finetune the model himself and improve accuracy without relying on me. My bet is that this same dynamic exists in many other product teams.

Thanks again for the feedback and recommendation. We’ll update our site with clearer examples and target use cases!
by lukan | 2025-05-01 08:46:31+00:00
Some pathogens also survive hard radiation in space.

Even desinfection does not kill everything.

https://xkcd.com/1161/

Also no need to, bacteri and virus are a normal thing. The problem is, if too many of the wrong type get in your system. So reducing them in general (and also normal washing machines do that) is mostly sufficient.

(And dishwashers indeed kill microscopic life with heat and chemicals, but that is a side effect of cleaning)
by pjmlp | 2025-05-01 08:47:20+00:00
"I think the reason people started calling it the “system tray” is that on Win95 there was a program called “systray.exe” that displayed some icons in the notification area: volume control, PCMCIA (as it was then called) status, battery meter. If you killed systray.exe, you lost those notification icons. So people thought, “Ah, systray must be the component that manages those icons, and I bet its name is ‘system tray’.” Thus began the misconception that we have been trying to eradicate for over eight years…"

Doesn't change the feature was already there, with Win32 APIs to interact with it.
by bgro | 2025-05-01 08:47:40+00:00
A sea of perfectly crafted misleading YouTuber pog faces isn’t necessarily better than autoplaying previews.

The automatically generated thumbnails were often the best at conveying what the video actual is in combination with a title and description that is currently overlooked in place of thumbnails.

These went away when people started gaming the system with a thumbnail frame right in the middle to intentionally misrepresent the content of the video. Same problem with the current YouTuber pog faces. The next step is to automatically generate multiple random frames to preview.

The garbage stock footage doesn’t work well here because it’s not great content to begin with. It’s lazy filler often used to hit the bare minimum arbitrary adsense time limit which wastes countless amounts of user hours.
by Nursie | 2025-05-01 08:48:24+00:00
One of the rules I came up with while driving the coast of Aus a good while ago was just "always fill up". Oh and also "carry a jerry can of spare fuel"

The first bit came after one day when I skipped a servo and then it was over half my remaining fuel further along the road, I hadn't seen another and I realised "well I can't go back. Shit."

The second bit got expanded to two jerry cans after I had to use one because even though I made it to the servo in rural FNQ, it was 5.15pm and they were already closed. Thankfully that day the extra 20l got me to Port Douglas.

We do still have a few remnants of the imperial system - "90 mile straight" on the Nullabor comes to mind. The longest straight road in Aus, or maybe the world I don't know. When you're already suffering brainrot on your multi-day Nullabor drive, the announcement that you're not even going to have to turn the steering wheel for over an hour is... well it didn't fill me with joy!