MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DirkH | 2025-05-28 16:39:34+00:00
I don't understand how jailing CEOs doesn't place pressure on CEOs to steer a company to follow the law thereby leading to better long-term outcomes for society as a whole. It also creates an incentive structure where the corrupt systems that currently exist are harder to entrench because there is no bystander effect where everyone can just "blame the system" and go along with things without culpability.

My evidence for my view is basically pointing at all countries with strong rule of law and institutions having less corrupt systems. In so many countries bribery is just considered "the way things are done". Add robust systems for punishments to those with the most authority instead of blaming some abstract entity and watch as all of a sudden the whole system creaks towards accountability. Hasn't this happened reliably in basically every country that enacted and reliably enforced democratic laws?
by e-topy | 2025-05-28 16:39:39+00:00
> I read somewhere that every augmentation is also an amputation. Progress in tech means we are constantly lobotomising a majority of the population.

Just thought about something:

There are a few sides to this. There is innovation that just makes things easier but doesn't amputate, like typing machines vs word (took me a while to come up with an example, essentially just evolution). Then there are things that are so old it's useless to know them. Like making butter, sure you can do it if you want to, might be fun, but in the grand scheme of things irrelevant. Then there's stuff that is in decline but needed anyway. Like being able to read a book.

Maybe you could express this as a 2D graph, where X is how much people know it and Y is how much people need to know it.
by zIndex9999 | 2025-05-28 16:39:48+00:00
Remix v3 isn’t just a new direction, it’s a full reboot. They’ve scrapped React, forked Preact, teased their own UI library, and are positioning themselves as a zero-dependency, fully self-owned framework. It’s not evolution, it’s erasure.

Let’s not forget how Remix got here. It gained traction primarily by merging into the React Router repo, inheriting 11M dependents and a decade of credibility it didn’t earn. From there, it became a thin abstraction over React Router before going dark entirely with the now-famous “taking a nap” announcement.

Now it’s back. Not with stability, not with iteration, but with a declaration, “We’re doing our own thing.” No React. No compatibility. A fresh stack, built from scratch.

Why? That’s the real question.

Shopify reportedly acquired Remix for ~$40M. Maybe this is them pushing for something big and new to justify the investment. Or maybe it’s the founders wanting full-stack ownership and long-term lock-in. Or maybe, with the pressure off post-acquisition, this is just Rich People™ messing around with legacy projects instead of supporting their users.

The leaked version of this pivot was even more aggressive, it openly criticized React and dubbed the shift a “Declaration of Independence.” The blog post toned that down, but the core direction hasn’t changed. It’s still a move away from the ecosystem that gave them a user base, toward something inward-looking and self-defined.

They claim to still be maintaining React Router. But it’s the same team now split across two projects. That means both will slow down. One is legacy support mode, the other is vaporware until proven otherwise.

Meanwhile, others in the space are embracing the now. They’re solving the hard problems of 2025 head-on. They’re building with the current stack, improving developer experience, shipping usable features, and making the future better, not by erasing the past, but by working with it.

This isn’t thoughtful evolution, it’s a hard reset with unclear motives, launched by a team with less to lose than their users.

Trust is easy to lose in devtools. This is how you lose it.
by benregenspan | 2025-05-28 16:39:50+00:00
At a media company, our web performance monitoring tool started flagging long-running clientside XHR requests, which I couldn't reproduce in a real browser. It turned out that an analytics vendor was injecting a script which checked if it looked like the client was a bot. If so, they would then essentially use the client as a worker to perform their own third-party API requests (for data like social share counts). So there's definitely some prior art for this kind of thing.
by andrepd | 2025-05-28 16:40:20+00:00
Moving to a place where I can bike anywhere safely has been one of the best changes to my quality of life.

It's really not even complicated to do the bare minimum: whenever there are 2 or more lanes, fence one off with concrete dividers to make a bike lane. Whenever there's just 1, pave it with stones and add bumps, and cars and bikes can co-exist.

Bang, I just made your city safer, healthier, and the car traffic quicker. You're welcome.
by komali2 | 2025-05-28 16:40:29+00:00
> I made acquaintance to a city worker who, to her non-professional friends, is very proud that she takes home a salary for about two hours of work per day following up with contractors, then heading to the gym and making social plans.

If she's able to do this without risk of being fired, she's absolutely succeeding according to the values of capitalism. The worker / employer dynamic under capitalism is: employers try to extract the most labor value for the least cost (maximizing profit margin) while the worker tries to retain the highest labor profit margin possible for the least labor cost (wear and tear on mind and body, time, etc). Since it's not possible to retain / change total capture of labor profit margin on the employee side, since compensation for labor isn't attached to value but rather to "market conditions" (geography, whether or not another employer in the industry recently laid people off, the phase of the moon), the employee's only option is to reduce personal labor cost: work as little as possible, as lazily as possible.

One of the genius strokes of this arrangement is that humans aren't purely economic rational actors: we generally take pride in our work, and also want to be a part of something greater, and even if we don't have either of those things, we suffer social pressure to do good at our jobs or not leave our teammates hanging. So, in reality, the employer has an advantage, because it's basically immune to these human traits. Therefore the corporation can extract even more value for less cost (people will work harder than necessary per their compensation because e.g. they take pride in their work).

As the overall system destabilizes further and normalization deepens and people feel the inherent contradictions more strongly, I believe cynicism will increase and these human traits will hold less influence over the employer / worker dynamic, and people will operate more like rational capitalist actors.

Annoyingly this will probably lead to more articles about how "people just don't want to work anymore."
by WalterBright | 2025-05-28 16:40:30+00:00
Again, the vast bulk of Boeing's history was before that.

> the whole impetus for MCAS was to rush the design to market so they wouldn’t lose out on AA as a customer

The impetus for MCAS was to make the MAX behave like the previous 737 model to reduce the expense of retraining the pilots.

In general, flying is safer when pilots do not need to "code switch" when switching airplane models. Many crashes result from a pilot reflexively doing the right thing for the previous airplane they flew, rather than the one they are flying at the moment.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-28 16:42:15+00:00
You say bureaucracy, but what I think you mean is complexity.

Bureaucracy is a type of complexity that occurs once systems become to big for a small well trained group of people to manage.

AI/humans managing the system will work for a while, we'll be able to manage the current complexity better, but it won't last. We'll make even more complex systems that become unmanageable.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-28 16:42:27+00:00
> presumably because the proceeds of that theft were laundered

this phrase highlights some really common but unnecessary misunderstandings

1) the proceeds swapped to Monero. there is nothing "presumably" about that because we can see they were swapped to Monero. It isn't a correlation, the instant exchanges show and retain records that they were swapped to Monero.

2) they are unlinking the origin and destination of illicitly obtained funds, so that is laundering BUT

3) its equally as likely that Monero is the destination. there is no further swapping out to hide. no further laundering to complete. Monero can be used to purchase goods, services, and invest with as well. I think this is as misunderstood as people actually wanting to hold bitcoin was 10 years ago.

4) Monero is an old coin, from one of the first crypto cycles, one thing that's held people back from using it and other mixers is the liquidity. If a large hack of funds used any one of them, then most of the funds coming out would be probabilistically part of the hack and illicit. But if MANY of the hacks used it and other licit sources, this would improve the liquidity for everyone and other hacks. Liquidity begets liquidity. It was only a matter of time before someone started it.
by aquir | 2025-05-28 16:42:28+00:00
Looks like a very polished (no pun intended) device but I never understood why some people bothered about other people hearing them while on the loo. Natural noises like blowing your nose, sneezing or even farting! I know what in Japan for example it's an issue and people continuously flushing the toilets so other people can't hear them. Maybe it's cultural.
by zo1 | 2025-05-28 16:43:11+00:00
> "Incidentally, have you got a moment to talk about the white genocide in south africa?"

Is this some sort of joke, or are you genuinely wanting to discuss what's happening here in South Africa?

If it's a joke, I think it's in very poor taste at the expense of a persecuted minority. I have seen it, experienced it, and know full well how real it is, no matter how much social-media pushes it one way or the other.
by lapcat | 2025-05-28 16:43:17+00:00
> I had my first job in 1974. The expectation back then was that if you wanted to leave your job, you always gave at least two weeks notice.

Why do you think that was? Expectations don't just arise out of nothing. In 1974, there was more job security and less frequent layoffs.

> I'm slow so it took me a very long time to realize how ridiculous this was.

Alternatively, it wasn't originally ridiculous, but the economic conditions slowly changed to make it ridiculous.

> It's about an imbalance of power that has been going on a long time.

Of course things didn't change overnight. I never said they did.
by skeaker | 2025-05-28 16:43:51+00:00
You responded to a rhetorical question with the wrong answer (you can obviously live well on only modest means as arguably the majority of people do, even in the US), and then proceeded to lay out maybe the most egregious false dichotomy I've ever seen right after. I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you hold a definition of "economic powerhouse" that aligns more with "a first world country" rather than "a shareholder-maximized corporatocracy".
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-05-28 16:44:01+00:00
True. But he was using a variation of the Waffle House logo that their lawyers would argue would "confuse the average consumer", and he was using the "Waffle House" name in a domain. In something that was actually directly related to the real Waffle House. Unfortunately, their lawyers would have an easy time with that lawsuit.

If op had named it something different, and didn't use such a closely inspired logo, he probably could have kept it up. Or at least had a much stronger case of fair use. But this is always the problem with "fan appreciation" and our trademark system. In order for Waffle House to keep their trademark, they must enforce it. They cannot let a fan use/abuse it, or else it can get to the point where a judge can say it is been made generic (ex: escalator).

When I was young, I learned this lesson via a very scary letter from Warner Brothers. The lawyers aren't always trying to be dicks (though some clearly are), but they are paid to protect the brand. And someone registering a site with your brand name, putting up a logo very similar to your real logo.... is always 100% of the time going to get that C&D letter. And eventually a lawsuit if you fail to comply.
by lysace | 2025-05-28 16:44:08+00:00
Not quite my experience.

> where every single server in a country would receive infinite re-captcha.

What does that even mean? Have you also disabled cookies?

Typically it's a Cloudflare captcha if you're doing that, not a re-captcha. And afaik pretty much everyone gets this treatment with zero history. Welcome to the modern web.
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-28 16:45:24+00:00
>Where I live, it seems like half the streets don't have street signs (this isn't a backwater where you'd expect this, it's Boston).

I've noticed that this is a New England thing. Driving up for the first time, I got lost repeatedly. Signs were placed too close to exits, hidden behind trees, etc. I came to the conclusion that there must be some local aversion to proper signage, probably based in the area's age and relative insularity. "Keep things the way they are and have been for hundreds of years," and, "If you're supposed to be here, you'll know where you are," attitudes, respectively. Boston, Providence, etc. are cosmopolitan, but I'd wager that the people who control public works iniatives are decidedly not.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-28 16:45:30+00:00
Running proof of work on user machines without their consent is theft of their computing and energy resources. Any site doing so for any purpose whatsoever is serving malware and should be treated as such.

Advertising is theft of attention which is extremely limited in supply. I'd even say it's mind rape. They forcibly insert their brands and trademarks into our minds without our consent. They deliberately ignore and circumvent any and all attempts to resist. It's all "justified" though, business interests excuse everything.
by proxynoproxy | 2025-05-28 16:46:03+00:00
https://bitaxe.org/ I guess all those plebs are just imagining mining sats at the edge. Mining isn’t just farms. And farms are not pools. You are regurgitating ETH propaganda that doesn’t match reality.

what you are missing is that PoS coins are printed from nothing. The original sin. From nothing. Worth nothing. PoS is a Ponzi to dump worthless tokens on you. You can’t escape that.

PoS trends to zero. I can’t believe we are still arguing this with >2T market cap for BTC and ETH has actually shrunk since it moved to PoS. It’s going in the wrong direction…
Open Source AI Infrastructure (WebAI)
by eduardoworrel | 2025-05-28 16:46:10+00:00
Hi everyone,

For the past 5 months I have been working on this personal project with great motivation, I have created incredible connections and gotten closer to the international WebAI community.

However, in the past 3 months I have ended up in a situation of overemployment. Foreseeing the burnout of dealing with multiple simultaneous demands, I started creating the open-source version with the intention of taking the focus off SaaS & sales and focusing on product, real utility & teamwork.

I am sharing it today on some networks and it would be a pleasure if you contributed in some way. It could be by commenting here on something that could be improved, helping with the development or simply trying it out ;)

MAIN REPO: https://github.com/woolball-xyz/woolball-server
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-05-28 16:46:11+00:00
I think there really, really has to be a demo (at least screenshot mocks).

How will you collect the data (about me)? How much? How much more individual will this be compared to just subscribing to my city's newspaper (or a trade magazine, if we're talking job-related news)?

This may be just me, but I also think collecting emails here is a really weird first step — most news services provide at least a blurb of each article w/o any kind of signup, so this broke my expectation in a "what do you need my email for" kind of way.

Hope that helps.
by tromp | 2025-05-28 16:46:16+00:00
Yes, it scales much worse:

* node resources scale with the size of the UTXO set (unspent outputs), which in Monero's case balloons to the entire TXO set (all outputs, orders of magnitude larger)

* a typical 2-input 2-output transaction is 4 times larger

* wallets have to track all outputs to choose random decoys for transaction inputs

One can argue that this is the price to pay for significantly better privacy, but the largest benefits come from having no visible amounts or addresses, which can be achieved with significantly better scalability than BTC [1].

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart/8114
by bumby | 2025-05-28 16:46:26+00:00
Not really. It’s based on expected future results. Sometimes that’s based in reality, sometimes it’s hopes and dreams. How else do you explain companies that have never made money being having any positive stock price? There are no “results” just projections.

We probably agree that the stock will eventually reflect value. I think we’d quibble about how long that takes. As the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. In other words, don’t bet on the market always reflecting reality.
by netghost | 2025-05-28 16:46:28+00:00
It seems really neat, but it's unclear what problem you're solving.

Is the goal of the project to let people write documentation for APIs, explore APIs, or something else?

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Start with a clear story of why you built this. Not lock in etc, but what were you or your team trying to do? That will help me understand whether I too try to do this thing.

2. Now you can tell me about all your frustrations, and I as a fellow misery drenched individual will say "Yes! I too have suffered the lack of cloud sync lock-in!"

3. Let me see it! Is there a way to embed the actual editor in the browser? Barring that putting a heading over the video, or a caption telling us what you're doing. When I click around to explore, let me click on those screenshots so I can see what you've built.

All in all, this looks really neat, but the challenge with building something divergent is that you need to invest more effort in telling the story.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-28 16:46:37+00:00
There's no good orchestration system that is both easy to implement and has the core features that make a monorepo pleasant to use that is language agnostic.

Bazel is complex and isn't the easiest to pick up for many (though to Google's credit the documentation is getting better). Buck isn't any better in this regard. Pants seems easiest out of all the big ones I've seen but its also a bit quirky, though much easier to get started with in my experience. NX is all over the place in my experience.

Until recently too, most of these monorepo systems didn't have good web ecosystem support and even of those that do they don't handle every build case you want them to, which means you have to extend them in some way and maintain that.

It also doesn't help that most CI systems don't have good defaults for these tools and can be hard to setup properly to take advantage of their advantages (like shared cross machine caching).

As an aside, the best monorepo tooling I have ever used was Rush[0] from Microsoft. If you are working in a frontend / node monorepo or considering it, do take a look. It works great and really makes working in a monorepo extremely uniform and consistent. It does mean doing things 'the rush way' but the trade off is worth it.

[0]: https://rushjs.io
by alexjplant | 2025-05-28 16:46:43+00:00
> Why would I give a flying fuck about my employer, other than the baseline expectation of what I was hired for?

You should care about the people whose lives are affected by the result of your work at the very least.

If you work in property management, for instance, you shouldn't repeatedly bill your tenants after charges are due then accuse them of late payment. Ditto for double-billing them for a month and doing the same anyway... if these bogus "late payments" end up on one's rental history then it's a lot of work to fix even for a completely honest person that's never paid a bill late in their life.

Or, if you're a doctor, you should probably read a patient's blood test results correctly so that you don't prescribe them the wrong medicine or tell them to take an incorrect supplement. If you have somebody take the wrong chemicals because you can't read a piece of paper then bad things could happen to them.

I could go on and on and on but the bottom line is that you need to give at least an iota of a shit when your fellow people are at the mercy of the quality of your work. Missing a topping on a sandwich is whatever but messing with somebody's finances, shelter, or health out of lazy defiance is outright sociopathy. The fact that you don't like your boss is your problem; stick it to your employer on your own time.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-28 16:46:47+00:00
It’s pretty good. I think it seems better especially early on because the guardrails aren’t as stringent.

ChatGPT is really wussified. I tried to edit a fence from a picture of my son hitting a baseball and it was flagged as violent content.

From a business context, i wouldn’t put my customers data anywhere near grok.
by andybak | 2025-05-28 16:47:26+00:00
I just downloaded it and tried it and I still don't understand what it does.

It seems to be some kind of wysiwyg editor? With elements specific to API docs?

But then why does that make it an "API client". I'm guessing "API" specifically means HTTP API here. But "client" is completely throwing me. An API client is just software that talks to an API. So what's with the wysiwyg stuff?

Is it something like Jupyter notebooks?
by aresant | 2025-05-28 16:47:28+00:00
Not sure that's the right way to look at it

Premium Telegram users get to try for free, will move to a subscription model

Telegram has 12m premium users up from 4m in 2023, and 1b+ users

Not unreasonable to think a 5% take rate from just premium users at say $10/month extra

Which - at 50% revenue share to GROK - would be a ~$36m a year run rate for Grok

At $36m in this category of AI SaaS that's something like $400 - 500m in enterprise value out of the box
by bumby | 2025-05-28 16:47:32+00:00
>Again, the vast bulk of Boeing's history was before that.

I’m not sure what you intend to convey with this statement. If price reflects reality, the current price should reflect the current reality, no? Whether the White Sox were the best team 100 years ago has little bearing on my prediction about their chances this year. I fail to see how Boeing’s prior culture prevents them from succumbing to short term incentives. I know your point is the downfall is a bureaucratic one, but the evidence does not point to that (they actually cut corners on bureaucratic requirements).

>The impetus for MCAS was to make the MAX behave like the previous 737 model to reduce the expense of retraining the pilots.

Go deeper. Why was this considered necessary?

(Hint: it’s because they wanted to rush the design to market with a less expensive (and lower quality) product. Ie cost and schedule pressure. You stopped at the proximate cause.)