MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-05-05 12:43:37+00:00
Oh, I certainly don't doubt that. And as I said, I haven't really found Paged.js all that frustrating! I have extensive though not recent Pagemaker experience; I expected InDesign to be easier, and now I rue the day when that's where I'm forced to resort.

In my experience Paged.js is at its best when building to PDF, but then that's always my intermediate format when working to paper, because that's where PDF's inflexibility shines. The source of a book block, everything that builds to that PDF, partakes of all the infelicities of the JS ecosystem. But to remake the book itself again, all I need do to start is print the PDF.
Show HN: I automated Outlook's broken unsubscribe flow (47 mins → 1 click)
by jaime1 | 2025-05-05 12:43:57+00:00
I spent 47 minutes unsubscribing from one Outlook newsletter last month. Turns out: - 72% hide unsubscribe links in tiny gray text - "Manage preferences" usually means "Enter your email again" - Some make you solve captchas just to leave

So I built *AI Unsubscriber for Outlook* ([Chrome Link]): 1-click removal from any Outlook newsletter Skips all confirmation pages/surveys Free for 3 tries → then $1.99/month

*How it works technically:* 1. Uses Chrome’s scripting API to analyze email DOM 2. Scores potential unsubscribe elements (links/buttons) 3. Automates multi-page flows (even handles some CAPTCHAs)

*Ask HN:* 1. What’s your worst unsubscribe experience? 2. Roast my detection algorithm approach 3. Should I open-source the core logic?
by marcedwards | 2025-05-05 12:45:29+00:00
Did you listen to the example audio in the video? Soft synths and digital emulation can be absolutely amazing these days, but the VSM201 and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. It’d be pretty easy to pick them out from a blind test with other vocoders.

Oh, it also might be of interest that the IVL algorithm isn’t FFT-based. I think their harmonizers sound better than the rest, so maybe FFT isn’t the best way to go.
by haswell | 2025-05-05 12:45:39+00:00
> can create a vanishingly rare, one of a kind image

Early in my photography journey, I captured some photos of a stunning sunset. “WOW, this is what I’ve been missing” I thought to myself, and also thought I could capture similar photographs regularly.

It took me some time and experience to realize just how rare or unique many conditions actually are. I’ve gone back to the same spot for years and have never seen a sunset quite like that early one.

But photography did really clue me in to what I’d been missing. The subtle and continuous change that is always happening and is never not happening. It expanded my perspective and opened my awareness. Even when I’m not carrying a camera now, I see things I never would have noticed before.
by ringeryless | 2025-05-05 12:46:00+00:00
it appears that MAGA has successfully dismantled the USA. I don't expect any further fair elections, TBH. I'm rather aghast at how much of American corporate money is just either collaborating with an obviously criminal regime or just sort of blindly pretending business as usual can return with an election.

There is no current checks mor balances, a king runs America and Republicans smile because they are wearing the same color jersey and seem to think their longtime agenda is being implemented, when, no, a mafia is riding their agenda and party to absolute power.
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by dustincoates | 2025-05-05 12:46:49+00:00
I worked at a building in San Francisco (589 Howard St) that still was fully manual. You controlled when the elevator stopped, lifted the gate by yourself to get out, the whole works.

There was a safety mechanism where, IIRC, the gate on one of the floors wasn't closed, none of the other floors could call the elevator, so it was a bit of a pain. Even though we were on the top floor, it was pretty rare for anyone to use it.
by bluGill | 2025-05-05 12:47:02+00:00
Slowly things are changing though. More and more products are past the point where a competitor can quickly come in and snipe you. Now a lot of products are at the point where there are so many features that it takes years of effort for them to match. What this means is the only way for a competitor to take over is to have a well designed product which allows adding new features faster than you even after they match you on nearly all features.

20 years ago I read that the nobody uses more than 5% of the features of Word - but every user has a different set of features making up that 5% and so a competitor couldn't release with 5% of the features and get more than a handful of customers. Sure you could maybe get one customer by finding a feature Word doesn't have and making your 5% features what that one customer needs, but you cannot charge a reasonable price if you only have one customer.

Of course you are correct that company reward impact. Which isn't all bad, if you decided to compete with Word your company would need to be willing to invest in 20 years of losses before you have a product that has a chance. This is probably not a good investment unless you already have a lot of sunk costs because you have been a competitor for decades.
by antonvs | 2025-05-05 12:47:47+00:00
> Calling things modern that are updates to techniques to use technologies only invented a few years ago is borderline illiterate.

If you’re going to make a criticism like that, you might want to check a dictionary first:

> modern, adj. designed and made using the most recent ideas and methods

— https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/moder...

That’s exactly what this article is describing. There’s been a lot of development in this space over the last seven years or so, and e.g. GPT 1, 2, and 3 are certainly very outdated at this point, i.e. not modern in the above sense.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-05 12:47:52+00:00
Because just like we have stupid people who don’t vaccinate their children from measles, we have stupid people who don’t make them brush their teeth.

So rather than have them suffer with a lifetime of oral health problems, you can intervene in a transparent and cheap way to prevent these issues altogether.

The introduction of fluoride dramatically improved oral health. NYC has been doing it since the 1960s, so one would think we’d see evidence of the supposed negative effects.
by alganet | 2025-05-05 12:48:04+00:00
Humanity is a fine thread between "lobotomized drones" (divided on two sides, sounds familiar?) and "aggressive clowns" (no respect, get provoked by anything, can't see an inch over their faces). Of course, it's more than a single spectrum, there's more to it than social behavior.

It could have been better than this, but there is no option now.

I can play either of those extremes and thrive. Can you?
by poulpy123 | 2025-05-05 12:48:15+00:00
Bambu Lab make good printers, and with the X1C and they were one the first to propose "click & print" 3D printer affordable for consumers. The issue is that they are currently closing their ecosystem, and we cannot know where they will go.

Also comparing recent printers and the old enders is very unfair, you have to compare with similar current technology
by DrillShopper | 2025-05-05 12:48:16+00:00
> They will only learn what's needed to "get the job done" for whatever it means at that moment

I graduated university around the turn of the century, long before the current AI boom started, and the majority of my classmates were like that. Learning the bare minimum to escape a class isn't new especially if you're only taking that class because you have to because every adult in your life drilled into you that you'll be a homeless failure if you don't go to college and get a degree. The LLMs make that easier, but the university, if the goal wasn't just to take your tuition dollars to enrich a vast administrator class instead of cover the costs of employing the professors teaching you, could offset that with more rigorous testing or oral exams at the end of the class.

The real lesson I learned during my time in university is that the two real edges that elite universities give you (as a student) are 1) social connections to the children of the rich and leaders in the field that you can mine for recommendations and 2) a "wow" factor on your resume. You can't really get the first at a state school or community college, and you definitely can't get the second at a state school or community college, despite learning similar if not the same material in a given field of study.

It hasn't been about (just) the learning for a long time.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-05 12:48:27+00:00
I'm not much of a SpaceX fan or critic, but when it comes to manned space flight in the US we have been going "back to the moon" since around the time the Saturn / Apollo program was shuttered. I've never produced a calendar of these announcements, but it's almost a constant theme in US politics.

The main reason we haven't gone back to the moon is it not really that appealing. There were some valid scientific reasons for going to the moon originally and the final Apollo mission took a geologist. Beyond that, there isn't much reason to be there. It's substantially less inhabitable than Antarctica and we don't bother living there in a permanent fashion, although it does notionally have a population there 365 days a year.

Cancelling manned moon missions would potentially free up more resources for robotic missions, which NASA and their partner agencies have an excellent track record of.
by samyar | 2025-05-05 12:48:33+00:00
I agree on this. I thought LLMs are great for coding but they suck. They produce more work with debugging.

I think I is good in two way, one is which you use if as a small helper (basic questions, auto completion...)

Two for getting started on something that you have no idea on ( not to teach you but just give you an idea of what it's and resources to learn more)
by lynaghk | 2025-05-05 12:48:47+00:00
For my application I need just the translations and Euler angles. The range of poses is mechanically constrained so I don't have to worry about gimbal lock. But yeah, my limited understanding matches yours that other parameterizations are more useful in general contexts.

This post and interactive explanations have been on my backlog to read and internalize: https://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/

(Also: Thanks for pointing out the typo, I just deployed a fix.)
by codetrotter | 2025-05-05 12:48:47+00:00
> some information services were still able to stay online and available

I’m in Valencia, Spain.

The mobile internet connectivity here during the power outage was very unstable.

Cellular phone signal strength was also very very low for the majority of the time.

Even sending SMS or WhatsApp messages would not work most of the day, because of just how unusable mobile connection was for me and my girlfriend and our families here.

And I only managed to load news pages, national or foreign, a few times during the hours of outage, to try and get some information on what cause, how widespread, and how long it would probably take to restore power.

On the plus side I did get to try my little solar panel for the first time to try and charge one of my power banks using solar power. And it did seem to get some juice out of it.

The biggest problems of all from my pov was:

- We live on the 8th floor with a 1 year-old baby. Going 8 floors of stairs with the stroller was not fun.

- All my money is electronic, except from one 50 euro bill I had in my wallet. How was I going to pay for water and food if this outage would go on.

- What’s going on? How bad is it? How long is it going to last? Very unstable mobile internet as mentioned.

In the end we ended up staying outside going for a walk and meeting up with my mother a bit and then me and my girlfriend and our baby going to the beach and sitting there until late. Finally when we came home lights were starting to come back on. And the elevator was working again too!

The next day the first thing I did was walk to the nearest ATM and withdraw several hundred euros, and I bought a bunch of water. We don’t have a car, so I used one of my big bags with wheels to be able to bring more water home than usual.
by tester756 | 2025-05-05 12:48:58+00:00
>The hard-to-understand linker errors are typically caused by the compiler, not the linker (it's the compiler that speculatively chooses to use a symbol with a long and funny name, thinking that it'll later be provided by <somebody>, when in fact the linker later finds out that no library or object file actually provided said symbol; and then for the linker to give you a decent error message, it needs to have a pretty good understanding of what the compiler was actually trying to do - i.e. to know implementation details of the compiler that otherwise would not concern it at all).

So... maybe let's avoid having linker as another/external tool and just let compiler perform linking
by placardloop | 2025-05-05 12:49:33+00:00
No, that’s not the reality. “Production data” isn’t as black and white as that.

Metadata about your account, regardless of if you call it “production” or not, is not guaranteed to be treated with the same level of sensitivity as other data. Your threat model should assume that things like bucket names, role names, and other metadata are already known by attackers (and in fact, most are, since many role names managed by AWS have default names common across accounts).
by billconan | 2025-05-05 12:49:49+00:00
After reading this article, I reflected on my own experience with burnout, which doesn't quite align with the typical causes mentioned.

In my case, the burnout stems more from organizational dysfunction. Our company is highly political—senior leadership mostly comes from non-technical backgrounds, and they manage by fostering competition between teams rather than creating clear functional boundaries. Success is measured by who delivers first, who secures more resources, and who can strengthen their position, leading to constant turf wars.

My manager, despite holding a PhD in computer science, is not technically hands-on. He has a strong ego and is deeply invested in winning these internal power struggles. He also places a lot of importance on maintaining a polished image, both for himself and for the team.

As a result, much of our time is spent building flashy demos instead of focusing on meaningful technical work. We're often tasked with superficial or peripheral projects meant to impress, rather than solve real problems. Internally, the "product" is essentially a collection of immature, duct-taped solutions that don't hold up, and many of our demos eventually get discarded. There’s little emphasis on building something robust or valuable—just on making things look good. I’ve learned very little in this role; the work feels more like labor than growth.
by alexpotato | 2025-05-05 12:50:02+00:00
> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta.

NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States.

Apparently, this didn't quite work out due to both language and cultural differences

Then, one of the guests says:

"Yes, there were some challenges. In fact, we ended up getting books with titles like: 'How to manage Spaniards if you are a German'"
by unsupp0rted | 2025-05-05 12:50:38+00:00
> https://youtu.be/R5eefu7wjbw

Vaudeville slapstick

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq9wIQ243f8

Melodramatic poorly acted, over-choreographed, stunt wire work. Might as well be a dance or a cartoon. At least in the Matrix homage to this genre, there was some diegetic explanation for why the characters appeared to be throwing each other around on wires.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z0XBq74c0w

A 1964 film where every line is sung? You got me there. Chalk one up for the appeal of international cinema over Hollywood.
by narrator | 2025-05-05 12:51:12+00:00
This reminds me of the semantic web. It ultimately didn't work because people decided the most useful thing to do with it was lie about and spam with their metadata in order to better SEO rank. Right now we're in the idealistic phase, but soon the MCP servers will just be full of AI job catfishers from North Korea or Burmese dating scam farms with completely made up AI people. The curators will spend their entire existence fighting spam wars all over again with AI on both sides.
by Bluestrike2 | 2025-05-05 12:51:17+00:00
I realize it's just another hair-brained scheme likely cooked up on the porcelain throne, but part of me is curious about how exactly they'd implement this train wreck.

Since Trump is relying on declarations of national emergencies for his tariffs, there's the question whether it's even legal given that Berman Amendments to the IEEPA[0] explicitly exempt "informational materials, including but not limited to, publications, *films*, posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, compact disks, CD ROMs, artworks, and news wire feeds" from the President's authority under IEEPA.[1]

Even if we set that aside and ignore the likely legal challenges, how would you actually implement them? It's not like a movie or TV episode "produced" overseas gets transmitted into the US each time somebody wants to watch it. It's a digital file, and you're really only sending it once. So when do you tariff the damn thing, how do you manage to actually do it since there's not exactly a literal port of entry for the internet, and what exactly do you value it at? The system isn't built to track and tariff info being uploaded to random servers, and making it work would require all sorts of new law.

Plus, what's the legal definition of "production" he wants to use? What constitutes foreign production? Can some of the producing just be done remotely? What if raw footage is uploaded instead and then it's edited here? Or a nearly finished copy that just needs something minor done to be considered ready? Hollywood accountants are in a league of their own. Put them in a room with lawyers and accountants whose focus is the creative eccentricities of tariff engineering--hello, chicken tax people[0]--and I shudder to imagine what they'd get up to.

We're only a few months in at this point, and I feel like I'm losing my mind.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom...

1. https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/2333...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
by bambax | 2025-05-05 12:51:53+00:00
> 10 years later, I regret having essentially no pictures of anything

Yes. I take lots of photos and even I regret not having more, or videos of the kids learning to walk or learning to talk.

Also: memories are fleeting, very fast. I've been keeping a journal for five years now; I try to describe my day the day after at the latest, but when I miss a day or two it's incredibly hard to remember anything--anything!!-- about what I did 48 hours ago.

Some moments stay with you for the rest of your life, but most of the things that you do disappear from your mind extremely fast.

You will absolutely remember the birth of your first kid, with many details and the sweet and sour smell of hospital corridors, camera or not; but not everything is like that (actually, nothing is like that!)

Now the counter-argument is maybe that what you don't remember didn't deserve to be remembered; but I don't agree with that. Memories is the only thing that's truly ours.
by neiman | 2025-05-05 12:52:11+00:00
I tried with one physical bank, and they refused; the expat forums said it's the same with all, though I didn't verify myself tbh.

The problem is that the only thing you get is a stamp in your passport saying you applied for a temporary residence permit (including the request number).

The border control people can then (I guess) use this number to verify that your case is still pending, so you're legal in the country. But since no one else can, you get no services.

[Edit: I should add that my main problem was with other financial services, not a bank, since I could use my existing bank accounts from another country. So maybe if I'd make enough effort, I would be able to open a physical bank account, but this was not the main problem for me]
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-05-05 12:52:12+00:00
it's adapting the world (well, internet) to suit the model rather than the other way around -- to the point where there is a growing amount of content on the internet designed exclusively for machine consumption at the expense of direct human consumption.

it's like self-driving cars -- if we had a dedicated separate road network just for self-driving cars, and required that they all communicate with standard protocols, then we'd have self-driving cars by now -- but that's not actually the goal of FSD. the goal is to have cars that can use existing infrastructure and co-exist with human drivers.
by omneity | 2025-05-05 12:53:31+00:00
Great job, congrats for the release! A little feedback, it could be nice to auto-generate a unique url on page load (the one you generate after clicking on "share"). Bonus is that it gives the user a certain confidence to reload the page for example.

Side note, I am wondering if this could be used as a better way to collaborate with coding agents. "Pair with me" instead of the typical "Code for me".
by dinfinity | 2025-05-05 12:53:35+00:00
The problem is quite the opposite: a large part of the incentive structure is effectively static. Our biological makeup hardly changes, so we're still drawn to all kinds of primitive things. Without strong cultural overrides we are sitting ducks, ready to be exploited by click and engagement bait.

With an analogy: Connecting an average human to social media is like connecting a Windows 95 machine to the internet.
by ecocentrik | 2025-05-05 12:53:43+00:00
Hollywood made a few anti-fascist, anti-Nazi exploitation movies last year with big name actors and directors. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Freaky Tales are two that stand out. Hollywood is pro queer, pro minority and pro free speech. MAGA hates it all and would happily destroy it. It's not stupid, it's their vision for the country and they want to project that vision to the rest of the world. They don't want the world to think of the US as an inviting place where anyone can pursue the American dream, where the government fights for the rights of the downtrodden, politically oppressed and abused and acts like the global stabilizing hand exchanging trade for peace and prosperity. For the MAGA faithful, those days are over, the country is full and it's time to reestablish Anglo-Christian dominance. Their game plan is economic and political isolation, the erosion of democracy and the end of the global unity narrative.

Cutting off Hollywood from its funding sources is part of the plan. MAGA controlled states cancelled tax breaks and subsidies for film/tv production years ago, in some cases torpedoing billions in investment in new studios. This isn't a new strategy, this is the amplification of an existing strategy.