MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by catapps | 2025-05-03 14:45:54+00:00
As someone who just signed a PNS on a condo in the French Quarter yesterday (what timing for this HN post!), I'm looking forward to finding that balance between the universal and the intimate - I come from New England, where the elitism and tribalism the author speaks of is easy to find, and easier to get sucked into.

I've been here a few times now, mostly frequenting the Quarter, Marigny, the Warehouse District, and the Garden District -- each seem (to me) to be their own special, slower spin on different areas of the country. I'm sure some will disagree, but to me, the French Quarter, while obviously having tons of European influence, feels a lot like a New England town (except the weather of course!). Marigny (again, to me) feels almost SoCal-esque, with its small bungalows and arts focus. The Warehouse District feels like a rust belt city, very industrial but charming, and the Garden District feels straight out of Georgia or South Carolina, the most southern. All this is to say it all makes New Orleans a very special place.
by DJHenk | 2025-05-03 14:45:55+00:00
My guess: no-one needs it.

Originally, iframe were the solution, like the posts mentions. By the time iframes became unfashionable, nobody was writing HTML with their bare hands anymore. Since then, people use a myriad of other tools and, as also mentioned, they all have a way to fix this.

So the only group who would benefit from a better iframe is the group of people who don't use any tools and write their HTML with their bare hands in 2025. That is an astonishing small group. Even if you use a script to convert markdown files to blog posts, you already fall outside of it.

No-one needs it, so the iframe does not get reinvented.
by dimal | 2025-05-03 14:45:56+00:00
This was the rabbit hole that I started down in the late 90s and still haven’t come out of. I was the webmaster of the Analog Science Fiction website and I was building tons of static pages, each with the same header and side bar. It drove me nuts. So I did some research and found out about Apache server side includes. Woo hoo! Keeping it DRY (before I knew DRY was a thing).

Yeah, we’ve been solving this over and over in different ways. For those saying that iframes are good enough, they’re not. Iframes don’t expand to fit content. And server side solutions require a server. Why not have a simple client side method for this? I think it’s a valid question. Now that we’re fixing a lot of the irritation in web development, it seems worth considering.
by kyeb | 2025-05-03 14:46:02+00:00
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by vorpalhex | 2025-05-03 14:46:08+00:00
I don't care what Trump intends or says he intends. Ending de minimis was one of the highest value things anyone has done since 2000.

Diet changes are one of the hardest things to effect. And taking away travel has horrible effects on destinations, international relationships and more. Those are all losses for us as a culture.

Slave labor clothing from Temu is not.

Short of invading China, we can't fix their labor issues but we can stop paying for it.

If chattel slavery was still going on, you may not be able to end it but you can stop funding it.

The cost of doing this is.. no more cheap ass clothing from Shein. Not the end of a culture, not a violent uprising, not a revolution. Just no more bad fashion built on slave labor.
by nico | 2025-05-03 14:46:31+00:00
Huge yes to this

A friend recently made a simple app/site where he can pick the bpm of the music (he likes running listening to 180bpm), then see a bunch of songs and create a quick playlist he can load on Spotify with 1 click and go running

That got me thinking it would be cool to use suno/ai to create activity-specific songs, like songs about/for running or biking, or studying, or working, or painting. Instead of trying to curate popular hit songs to fit the task
by dotandgtfo | 2025-05-03 14:47:47+00:00
> You are welcome to define all news you dislike as ragebait but that's clearly not an argument, it's just a "lame value judgement".

> Meanwhile the injustice upon innocent people remains, and the existence of it harms society itself greatly via other paths as well.

Your hyperbole is exasperating. I'll pass.
by rdn | 2025-05-03 14:48:02+00:00
For ios/swift the results reflect the quality of the information available to the LLM.

There is a lack of training data; Apple docs arent great or really thorough, much documentation is buried in WWDC videos and requires an understanding of how the APIs evolved over time to avoid confusion when following stackoverflow posts, which confused newcomers as well as code generators. Stackoverflow is also littered with incorrect or outdated solutions to iOS/Swift coding questions.
by NalNezumi | 2025-05-03 14:48:02+00:00
I can't find the article anymore but I remember reading almost 10 years ago an article on the economist saying that the result of automation was not removal of jobs but more work + less junior employment positions.

The example they gave was search engine + digital documents removed the junior lawyer headcount by a lot. Prior to digital documents, a fairly common junior lawyer task was: "we have a upcoming court case. Go to the (physical) archive and find past cases relevant to current case. Here's things to check for:" and this task would be assigned to a team of junior (3-10 people). But now one junior with a laptop suffice. As a result the firm can also manage more cases.

Seems like a pretty general pattern.
by thijsvandien | 2025-05-03 14:48:10+00:00
Amazing idea. I can hardly stand audio books, and some musical updressing might completely change that. Having a beat to it just makes it so much more fun/engaging/digestible/memorable. Kids are already taught their ABCs using songs for that reason. Why stop there, if all sorts of material could easily be put in that form? Honestly it could revolutionize teaching.
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-03 14:48:44+00:00
Pretty much. Having a working understanding of Newtonian physics, electricity, and other High School physics topics has real-world benefits. Landing a spacecraft on Mars is a remarkable technical achievement, but makes almost no difference in the life of 99.999% of people.

Either could inspire someone to pursue a career in science, I was more thinking of just practical benefits.
by zamadatix | 2025-05-03 14:48:51+00:00
Headers and their menus are often problematic for this approach, unless they are 100% static (e.g. HN would work but Reddit and Google wouldn't since they both put things in their header which can expand over the content). I.e. you can make it transparent but that doesn't solve eating the interactions. The code needed to work around that is more than just using JS to do the imports.
by msabalau | 2025-05-03 14:49:38+00:00
> It's kind of a wild sign of the times to see a tech company issue this kind of post mortem about a flaw in its tech leading to "emotional over-reliance, or risky behavior"

Their intended users are basically everyone in society--people who a low in many types of intelligence, including social intelligence. People with a range of emotional and mental health challenges. Children. Naive users who anthropomorphize AI, and can't be expected to resist this impulse at every moment of interaction.

They aren't designing exclusively for very bright, emotionally adjusted, people deeply familiar with technology, working in a professional context.

You might find it "wild" that they are consider all of this. That's fine. But a company sensibly is doing this work ought to avoid hiring you.
by specialist | 2025-05-03 14:50:07+00:00
Tangential yes and: Cognition is social.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cognition

So what's that all mean for my relationship to GPT, agents, etc? (I have no idea.)

Some years ago, during the brouhaha over emotional intelligence, I eventually grudgingly acknowledged it's probably real and important. For instance, babies take cues from caregivers, learning how to modulate their own emotions, sharing focus, acquire language, somehow develop a theory of mind.

(Am noob. Please, someone smart about these fields jump in any time to correct me.)

With the successes of GPT, I've been wondering if anyone's revisiting these notions and (case) studies.

eg There was an article in The Atlantic (?) about an autistic child's relationship with Siri, written by the mother. Fascinating stuff. Like (sci-fi book) Diamond Age made real.

I intend to revisit Donald Norman's Things that Make Us Smart [1993] https://archive.org/details/thingsthatmakeus00norm_0 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16868.Things_That_Make_U...

Norman hugely influenced my own worldview, way back when I fancied myself an aspiring user interface designer.

Surely he said stuff I didn't appreciate, understand, or simply forgot. Hopefully others have responded to Things that Make Us Smart, updating Norman's thesis as needed.
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by behnamoh | 2025-05-03 14:50:31+00:00
How is the name pronounced? Like nate-n, which is a play on Nathan?

Aside from that, I've been thinking about no/low-code solutions for educational purposes. I'm an incoming professor of a university and most my students have little background in CS or related fields. The university insists on using tools like Alteryx but I want to see if free open-source solutions exist (because that way, students can use the tools after graduation).

So far I've seen Dify, Flowise, Langflow, n8n, Make. The last two seem to be more general while the other ones are tailored to LLMs (which is the focus of my courses—applications of LLMs in management).
by netcyrax | 2025-05-03 14:51:15+00:00
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by Ocha | 2025-05-03 14:54:01+00:00
I was patient and calm for 30 minutes trying to get same day flight after Turkish Airlines bumped me off my connecting flight and told me to wait 24h in airport for next one. They kept giving me different excuses why they cannot put me in airport hotel, why they can’t put me on a different airline that had flights and only gave me $12 food voucher. After yelling at them for 5 min I was booked on KLM flight departing in 2 hours.

You can have assholes on both sides and set up is already adversarial from the get-go
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-05-03 14:54:29+00:00
Just today I was asking about parsing names and determining gender and it kept pushing an external paid service called namsor. When I asked the same question about a month ago, there was no such mention. So yes, paid ads are here.

As long as we don't take anything these service spew out at face value, we can use them to our advantage. Human brains are being subject to evolutionary pressures at warp speed.
by tehbeard | 2025-05-03 14:54:34+00:00
No HTML imports was an idea of using the HTML document format to encapsulate the 3 distinct data types needed for custom elements:

- JS for functionality via the custom elements API - HTML for layout via <template> tags. - CSS for aesthetics via <style> tags.

Not for just quickly and simply inserting the contents of header.html at a specific location in the DOM.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-03 14:54:50+00:00
> For most people when their Netflix (or HN) password gets leaked that means every email they've sent since 2004 is also exposed. It might also mean their 401k is siphoned off. So welcome the annoying and checkbox-y MFA requirements.

Not true. For most people, when their Netflix or HN password gets leaked, that means fuck all. Most people don't even realize their password was leaked 20 times over the last 5 years. Yes, here and there someone might get deprived of their savings (or marriage) this way, but at scale, approximately nothing ever happens to anyone because of password or SSN leaks. In scope of cybersec threats, people are much more likely to become victims of ransomware and tech support call scams.

I'm not saying that cybersec is entirely meaningless and that you shouldn't care about security of your products. I'm saying that, as a field, it's focused on liability management, because that's what most customers care about, pay for, and it's where the most damage actually manifests. As such, to create secure information systems, you often need to work against the zeitgeist and recommendations of the field.

EDIT:

> This is the ultimate nihilistic take on security.

I don't believe it is. In fact, I've been putting efforts to become less cynical over last few months, as I realized it's not a helpful outlook.

It's more like, techies in cybersecurity seem to have overinflated sense of uniqueness and importance of their work. The reality is, it's almost all about liability management - and is such precisely because most cybersec problems are nothingburgers that can be passed around like a hot potato and ultimately discharged through insurance. It's not the worst state of things - it would be much worse if typical cyber attack would actually hurt or kill people.
by dahart | 2025-05-03 14:55:03+00:00
The entire reason someone takes the risk is for the chance to have a ‘positive’ expected value, which in startup land means the company gets really big, hires a lot of people, and makes a lot of money for the owners (founders & investors) by selling a product for more money than they pay the workers.

Startup investors often treat this like an odds game, expecting that while 9 out of 10 investments might fail, one of them will return better than 10x, which turns into a net profit on investments.

The “risk” might be relatively big for small investors, but it’s quite low for the bigger savvier institutional investors.

Startups are economically interesting, but they are not the majority of the economy. When evaluating parent’s argument, don’t forget to think about companies like Walmart, Amazon, Exxon, and Disney.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-03 14:55:05+00:00
I think this is a genuinely good question that I was also wondering some time ago.

And it is a genuinely good question!

I think the answer of PD says feels the truest.

JS/CSS with all its bureaucracy are nothing compared to HTML it seems. Maybe people don't find nothing wrong with Html, maybe if they do, they just reach out for js/css and try to fix html (ahem frontend frameworks).

That being said, I have just regurgitated what PD says has said and I give him full credit of that but I am also genuinely confused as to why I have heard that JS / CSS are bureaucratic (I remember that there was this fireship video of types being added in JS and I think I had watched it atleast 1 year ago (can be wrong) but I haven't heard anything for it and I see a lot of JS proposals just stuck from my observation

And yet HTML is such level of bureaucratic that the answer to why HTML doesn't have a feature is because of its bureaucracy. Maybe someone can explain the history of it and why?
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-03 14:55:13+00:00
I think it’s not that you couldn’t have used it but because you discount it it wasn’t something you reached for. If you flip the script as something that’s out there and explicitly look for opportunities to use it it’s there. Alternatively, you don’t structure your commits carefully and thus git bisect for you is a mess that would pull up a giant amount of code anyway.

Heck, I used it yesterday because I had a PR where I was cleaning things in the C++ build system where things stopped working in CI in weird ways I couldn’t figure out but was fine locally. I used bisect locally to figure out which commits to test. You just have to think that a blind bisect search is going to be more effective than trying to spot check the commits that are a problem (and for tricky bugs this is often the case because your intuition can mislead you).

I’ve also used it to find weird performance regressions I couldn’t figure out.
Show HN: Daily email digests of your calendar, fitness and todo lists
by sansjack | 2025-05-03 14:55:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I recently created dailydebrief as i was kinda bored of hopping between my apps and calendars in the morning and checking each one and just wanted a simple brief and catch any important things for the day.

You just have to connect to your apps like Google Calendar, github, Strava, Monday.com and it will sends you a daily email debrief at the time you choose summarizing your day (i prefer 9am). You can also get a weather update too but i plan to add a lot more.

What’s different about it? - The emails are minimal and fast to scan (built for busy developers). - Growing integrations off feedback - No spam, no upsells, just a helpful daily debrief.

Im buidling off feedback and need some ideas on what to focus on next!

Cheers- Jack
by nico | 2025-05-03 14:55:46+00:00
This didn’t require PRs

But, it did require passing tests

Most of the changes in the end were relatively straightforward, but I hadn’t read the code in over a year.

The code also implemented some features I don’t use super regularly, so it would’ve taken me a long time to load everything up in my head, to fully understand it enough, to confidently make the necessary changes

Without ai, it would have also required a lot of google searches finding documentation and instructions for setting up some related services that needed to be configured

And, it would have also taken a lot more communication with the people depending on these changes + having someone doing the work manually while the scrapers were down

So even though it might have been a reduction of 15hrs down to 1.5hrs for me, it saved many people a lot of time and stress
by b112 | 2025-05-03 14:55:50+00:00
I didn't read your entire comment (sorry), but wanted to support your water tank statement.

I live in an area with frequent, often day long power failures during winter storms. So my house is designed around that.

When I bought a new hot water tank, I spent a little extra for the super insulated one. The result?

I can take a shower during a power failure, and still another not as hot 24 hrs later! When you consider that the first shower injected cold water into the tank, that's fairly impressive.

On long power failures, on the third morning I can even take a lukewarm shower, with no cold water at the shower (I have individual hot/cold controls). This is far preferable to a shower at 5C water temp (from my well in winter)

And where did any eacaped heat go? Why... into my house! Surely not a loss.

So yes, water tanks rock.
by rsolva | 2025-05-03 14:56:02+00:00
After researching this very topic earlier; SSI is the most pragmatic solution. Check out Caddy's Template Language (based on Go), it is quite capable and quite similar to building themes in Hugo. Just much more bare bones.

I have built several sites with pure HTML+CSS, sprinkled with some light SSI with Caddy, and it is rock solid and very performant!
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-03 14:56:27+00:00
(not sarcasm)

Yes ! Triple price of PV panels to buy "ceramic glass print" PV panel with eye pleasing pattern / stealthy photo on it and you can have facade or fence made from PV panels, there is drop in generated power from 10-50 % depended on pattern, color used.

Price per panel not price per install ! ! ! And subtract need to buy materials used for that purpose before.
Show HN: Mimir-AIP a Modular Open-Source AI Platform
by ciaranmca | 2025-05-03 14:56:42+00:00
Hi HN,

Just wanting to show off something I have been working on recently, Mimir-AIP, it's my first proper open-source project, and I’d love some feedback from the community.

The goal is to essentially have a framework for connecting inputs from various data sources to data processing and output plugins. The user just defines their pipeline as a yaml file which can either just be ran once or based on a repeating schedule.

Docs: https://mimir-aip.github.io/ Github: https://github.com/Mimir-AIP/Mimir-AIP
by vishnugupta | 2025-05-03 14:56:53+00:00
I could probably be convinced of this reason.

But why would they cancel B-A when there’s a no show for A-B? More so when there’s a few days gap between A-B and B-A? The only issue being they were booked as a single itinerary/PNR. I don’t see what cost has got anything to do with it.
by very_good_man | 2025-05-03 14:57:37+00:00
I wrote this website for my Aunts/Uncles. It lets them log the state plates they've seen. I was criticized by a high IQ friend into supporting the DC plate. And that's why the max score is actually 102% in a given month :D

I pay an exorbitant $5/month for Cloudflare Durable Objects and Workers. The code is public here:

https://github.com/josephecombs/license-plate-game/

Thanks for reading guys!
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by nico | 2025-05-03 14:58:56+00:00
Not so sure given how fast ai can understand the code already written

Personally, I do try to keep a comment at the top of every major file, with a comment with bullets points, explaining the main functionality implemented and the why

That way, when I pass the code to a model, it can better “understand” what the code is meant to do and can provide better answers

(A lot of times, when a chat session gets too long and seems like the model is getting stuck without good solutions, I ask it to create the comment, and then I start a new chat, passing the code that includes the comment, so it has better initial context for the task)
by skydhash | 2025-05-03 14:59:08+00:00
I think the best examples of HTML in that regard is HTML-rendered info pages[0], for Emacs and its ecosystem. Then you have the same content presented in HTML [1]. Templates were enough in the first case. Includes are better in the second case due to common assets external to the content.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/in...

[1]: https://emacsdocs.org/docs/emacs/The-Emacs-Editor