MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zak | 2025-05-17 22:21:14+00:00
Knives should be sharpened when they no longer cut as effectively as the user would like. Several weeks of daily use with no maintenance is probably longer than I would go, but I do not know your knife.

It's not necessary to use a whetstone that often though. My preference is a leather strop with a fine (under 1 micron; I use 0.25) diamond paste on it, and it usually only takes a few strokes (around five) per side to restore my gyuto to performance I'm happy with. The duller I let it get, the more time it takes to restore.
by thejeswi | 2025-05-17 22:23:09+00:00
Maybe IPTV is an interesting source of curated entertainment

This playlist has hundreds of channels: https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u

Github page: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

Another source could be following respected critics who have similar tastes to you, like the film critic Roger Ebert:

https://rogerebert.com/reviews
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-05-17 22:23:22+00:00
This has nothing to do with regulatory capture, this is libertarian philosophy in action. Essentially the view that government should never be allowed to regulate industry. And the belief that if businesses are ever doing something most view as wrong, a new company will spring up to make money on fixing it so the problem will go away.

No matter how many times that's been shown to be wrong, many people still believe it.

The best part is they argue in support of it with the tautology of "if it's a problem then a business will fix it. And then someone points out all the problems that business has not fixed, their response is 'see well it must not be a problem'". Completely ignoring all of the structural reasons why it doesn't get fixed.

And that how we get this rampant collection of "data brokers", and all of our data being captured and sold by every platform.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-17 22:23:34+00:00
This is yet another article writing without taking into account the reality of the nuclear weapon.

In an age where all your significant opponents have nuclear ICBMs, anything which could look like a nuclear strike will be interpreted as such by your opponent in an open conflict and generate direct retaliation.

This is frankly weird to me how some American commentators like to pretend this has not been the reality for 70 years. I don’t know if it’s because most of America recent wars have been mostly asymmetric or if it’s because the army propaganda needed to be insanely strong to occult the long series of strategic losses despite the costs of the wars but it’s kind of scary.
by asdefghyk | 2025-05-17 22:24:30+00:00
I read the linked page and googled here name. I found a very detailed and intesting page ( to me ) at

Commodore International Historical Society Link below )

Gail Wellington: far more than just a herder of CATS and ... https://commodore.international/2021/11/21/gail-wellington-f...

Looks to be an excellent page, excellent information about Commodore computer history too.
by Xss3 | 2025-05-17 22:26:58+00:00
When I say it's a better writer...I really mean it's a faster writer. It's a tool. You can ask for 15 variations on a sentence, ask it to be more or less concise, or to tailor it to a certain audience. Ask it for 5 ways to communicate a stronger feeling of X. Etc.

If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs guidance.
by kazinator | 2025-05-17 22:28:49+00:00
Forth could be written devilishly where you have this

2 .... hundreds of words .... +

where the operands of + are 2 and the result produced by the hundreds of words!

Which could also be:

.... hundreds of words .... 2 +

which would be a lot easier to read!

If you're writing Forth, it likely behooves you to try to adhere to the latter style of chaining where you take everything computed thus far, and apply a small operation to it with a simple operand. Not sure if it's always possible:

... complex numerator ... ... complex denominator ... /

Now find the division between the numerator and denominator among all those words.
by bobthepanda | 2025-05-17 22:28:51+00:00
Is it hard because of the media landscape or is it hard because you are older?

As someone who is still listening to today’s pop acts and whatnot, there are still tons of people you can talk to in person who probably listen to similar music, concerts are well-attended, etc. If anything the definition of popular has broadened to include new stuff like KPop, Latin pop, Afrobeats, etc. and I don’t have an issue finding people who like that music in person.
by telesilla | 2025-05-17 22:29:21+00:00
Yes, this is extraordinary and I'm excited for the medical innovation that will come from it. For me until now it's been the photo of earth by Michael Collins, from the the first moon mission as he was above the moon lander, being the only living person not in the frame.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/05/micheal-collins/
by hypertexthero | 2025-05-17 22:29:26+00:00
Solution: Edit the # Print the current date section in…

/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/espanso/match/base.yml

…to read:

# Print the current date - trigger: ":date" replace: "{{mydate}}" vars: - name: mydate type: date params: format: "%Y-%m-%d"
by westurner | 2025-05-17 22:30:46+00:00
Nice.

These are cool _ wave propagation vids too; Nils Berglund wave visualizations: https://youtu.be/v0cZjOIfwos?si=07w2Wd4dPlGmNxHp

_: photon, fluid, standing transverse,, plasma

What about longitudinal waves in plasma, superconductors, and superfluids though? https://www.google.com/search?q=What+about+longitudinal+wave...

I suppose vorticity doesn't matter that much for classical electronic circuits
by CuriouslyC | 2025-05-17 22:30:49+00:00
I wouldn't waste your time, if someone wants to stick their head in the sand rather than reconsider what's possible because it personally threatens their ego and world view, nothing's going to change their mind. If I were to share the code he'd probably grasp at smoke trying to find ways to discredit it rather than try to understand my workflow and replicate my results.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-17 22:31:07+00:00
We built and shipped educational software to schools in the 80s and 90s; starting with homecomputers and pcs and later on (of course) only pcs. Good times sending stacks of disks off with the postal service. We also, starting late 80s (running on an msx2), had a BBS which was written by me so it had the licensing/logistics/accounting in there; barely anyone used it for getting their software, but we used it ourselves for mostly everything.

Good times; not having to worry about library versions/updates was nice actually. Besides turbo Pascal (later delphi), we had no 3rdparty dependencies up until we sold the company.
by Telemakhos | 2025-05-17 22:31:12+00:00
It's an old military dream; Ithacus [0] was a 1966 concept for a vertical take-off, vertical landing troop transport rocket that could put 1200 soldiers plus materiel anywhere in the world in an hour. Issues that others have brought up here (like the vehicle being mistaken for a nuclear missile) were brought up then, and the obvious flaws killed the project.

As [0] points out, and as I vividly recall from the antiquated books of my childhood, a similar concept was prominent in the 1979 Usborne Book of the Future. The idea of being able to put boots on the ground anywhere within an hour is probably still a military dream somewhere, although I don't think US doctrine has a place for that right now, since achieving air supremacy over the theater, a prerequisite to boots on the ground, would probably take longer than an hour.

[0] https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/12/Ithacus_and_SUSTA...
by arp242 | 2025-05-17 22:31:34+00:00
> Why is it no neighbouring country will allow Gazians to come there.

Same reason you wouldn't want millions of refugees to suddenly appear in your country. All the hubhub about refugees in Europe over the last few years is typically about tens of thousands of refugees per year.

> Hamas must of spent $Billions of dollars UNSRWA aid on tunnel networks and military infrastructure

I'm sure some funds from UNSRWA have ended up with Hamas in some capacity, but "billions" is unfounded nonsense. In the end it's impossible to prevent all types of fraud or misappropriation (which is true for everything where money is involved).
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-17 22:32:11+00:00
My last job was at the office. I had my work queue implemented as a stack of files. I would sit at my desk and, in an infinite loop, pop files from my stack and process them. Occasionally, my supervisor would come and push a new file onto my stack. A naive worker would think that, once I was done with my stack, I could finally get some sleep, but no. Our office implemented something called "work stealing," where, once I was done with my own work, I had to visit a random co-worker and pop files from their stack.
by reustle | 2025-05-17 22:33:11+00:00
Here are a few more:

- https://smithery.ai/

- https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers

- http://mcp.so/servers

- https://cursor.directory/mcp

But as mentioned above, there is an ongoing discussion for the Anthropic registry https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
by jjcm | 2025-05-17 22:33:40+00:00
With regards to color on the web, semantic tokens refer to css variables that are named in a way that describes their use, ie:

* bg-brand (this would be used whenever you need your brand color as a background)

* text-danger (likely a red text color)

* icon-warning-hover (likely a dark yellow-orange that's slightly different from icon-warning)

Generally speaking, there are three "levels" of tokens: primitive, semantic, and component. Primitive tokens describe the value. In the case of color, this might be a color ramp. IE red/100, red/200, red/300. Semantic tokens reference primitive tokens. IE bg-brand might have its value set to blue/300. This layer is sometimes called a "reference" layer because of this, but I'm not a fan of that nomenclature since the component layer also references the semantic layer. The component layer is one that describes where in a component the token should be used, ie button-bg or button-text. I highly, HIGHLY recommend against using a component layer though in all but the most extreme multi-brand situation. If you aren't unilever, you should never use component tokens.
by imperfect_blue | 2025-05-17 22:33:54+00:00
As an amateur home-cook, I find current LLMs incredibly useful as a sounding board for the on-the-fly recipe modifications - for allergies and food sensitivities, adapting preparation methods to available equipment, or substituting produce not available in season. It may not be able to taste the final product, but its reasoning on what's likely to work (and what isn't) has not led me wrong so far.
by johnh-hn | 2025-05-17 22:35:05+00:00
Does anyone know if these glasses, or any other glasses, can be tried in-person and used on desktop? I'm legally blind, but have just enough vision to use a screen without a screen reader. The problem is I have to be about 6 inches from a 27 inch screen. I'm tall, and I'm almost bent in half to do it. It's been hell on my back and neck. I've only really made it work because I've modified so many things to get around it (i.e. customising Windows, Firefox, and so on).

The part that makes it so tough is monitor arms come in standard sizes and are nowhere near long enough or extend far enough for me to sit comfortably. My dad modified my desk for me years ago to mount a monitor arm on wooden blocks, but it means I can't move the monitor much.

Being able to wear glasses and ditch the monitor entirely would be a game changer for me. I know next to nothing about AR though, being as I assumed, perhaps wrongly, it isn't something that would work for me.

Edit: Thank you for the replies. It means a lot. I've got some options to explore here now thanks to you.
by ay | 2025-05-17 22:35:07+00:00
I suspect indeed we have the difference in terminology.

I put distinction between “simple” and “easy”.

Digging a pit of 1m * 1m * 1m is simple - just displace a cubic meter of soil; but it is not easy as it’s a lot of monotonous physical work.

A small excavator makes the task easy but arguably less simple since now you need to also know how to operate the excavator.

LLMs make a lot of coding tasks “easy” by being this small excavator. But they do not always make them “simple” - more often than not, they make bugs, for fixing which you need to understand subject matter, so they don’t eliminate the need to learn it.

Does this make sense ?
by odyssey7 | 2025-05-17 22:35:34+00:00
Python in general and its ecosystem are some of the biggest roadblocks to building real-world AI systems, in my opinion.

Python is a scripting language that makes it easy to produce student-quality work. Academia adopted it for its pedagogical utility.

Unfortunately, people made the assumption that, because universities teach it, it's well-suited for production systems.

I'd argue that Python doesn't scale very well for codebases much larger than a homework assignment.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-05-17 22:37:14+00:00
Fair point.

To me, Clojure is an "almost-lisp" because of its lack of cons cells, its use of all the brackets on the keyboard, and its dependence on the JVM which can't do tail jumps.

I love Common Lisp because it compiles down to the metal and you can write code with it that starts instantly and runs very fast.

But all the above is more about personal taste than anything else, so maybe I should try Clojure again.
by asdefghyk | 2025-05-17 22:38:39+00:00
RE "....Hamas has a full right to have tunnels ....." Its reported in media that MUCH aid money $Billions was diverted from its given purpose to build tunnels. Hamas has no right to use innocent Gazians as shields. Its also reported that Hamas currently takes aid food and sells it on Black market to raise funds. Apparently thats the claim, why aid food has been stopped to be delivered. Thats what I've read. Also its recently reported that some Gaza people protested against Hamas - in that they did not support them. Reported in media they where murdered by Hamas. Not much in the media about these Hamas murders in my opinion.
by nerder92 | 2025-05-17 22:38:55+00:00
I feel something similar, mostly in the context of programming. Yesterday, I spotted a bug and instead of trying to understand the issue, I just typed a quick "why this doesn't work" into the Cursor Chat. A few seconds later, I got my answer and I tab around my solution. Of course it was a cool experience, yet another "wow" moment of working with AI, but that also gave me a strange feeling and made me wonder: will I lose my ability to think program independently?

After a bit of human reflection, my simple answer is no. I won’t lose these abilities; they'll evolve just as they've evolved many times during my lifetime. The critical difference this time is that the evolution will be much faster and more radical.

To clarify, a thought for me is an idea that comes to mind based on the things we know or have experienced. The bottleneck of thinking ability lies precisely there—how can you think about something you don’t know exists? An early human living inland couldn't possibly conceive of navigating the sea; the concept simply didn't exist for them. Their thinking was shaped entirely by their personal experiences and those of their peers, passed on around a campfire. Thinking evolved many time throughout history, from those campfire stories to sharing paper books, to browsing web pages and now this autocomplete on steroids.

The difference this time is that the paradigm is shifting. The bottleneck moves from accessibility of knowledge to the latency between your initial thought and the AI’s completion of it. With a Google search, you were a few clicks away from potential new knowledge. With AI, you're just a few keystrokes away from a fully developed thought.

Today, there is still a clear distinction between my thought and the AI’s, because you prompt it and then wait for the response. But what if that latency was virtually zero? What if merely thinking a prompt triggered the CoT within my brain? Would that thought still be mine? Would it belong to the AI?

My feeling is that what we are experiencing today is a transition phase until we completely "integrate" this AI thinking into our own thinking. What I don't see change or improve in AI anytime soon is curiosity, judgment, taste - those things are probably what we should double down on for now.
Ask HN: Do directory listing sites help boost SEO
by AussieCoder | 2025-05-17 22:39:08+00:00
I've built a SAAS application and am now working on marketing it. There are a growing number of directory listing sites that claim that that listing on them will boost your "domain ranking" and in turn boost your search result positioning.

Do they work?

They seem a bit like the old webrings, all publishing the same content and referring to each other, with monetization added. I would have thought that the search engines were wise to this, but interested in other people's thoughts?
by ipaddr | 2025-05-17 22:39:18+00:00
People made fun of others and themselves. Now it's only okay to "punch up" which makes things unfunny. It's great you can make fun of religion well only one religion but the rules constrain novel ideas that push outside of those rules to make actual humor. Tell me something I haven't heard before with some truth.

The repeated going back to the well makes everything unfunny. The first time a Polish joke was said was in Poland many Polish watching laughed because their was kernel of truth that made it funny but years later hearing it repeated like it's gospel makes it awful because people have changed but the joke doesn't so it doesn't land as true anymore. Once we start looking why the joke is untrue instead of why it's true the joke is dead.

Saturday night live always tries to go back to a joke that was never really that funny.
by colingauvin | 2025-05-17 22:39:20+00:00
You can use them just as a monitor/without AR - some require a special USB-C to DP cable if you don't have native USB-C video out (or Thunderbolt), but they are a bit blurry compared to normal screens for me. I'm not sure how well they'd work for you.

The other problem is they aren't quite up against your eyes the way VR headsets are. They project a screen that appears to be quite far away. I imagine you could lower the resolution though, and it might look closer.
Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works as a desktop feature
by GWBullshit | 2025-05-17 22:40:14+00:00
In the new "New Reddit" force-unloaded last year, there have been many (unfortunate) changes to post edit mode; one of them is that if you have several images and extra spaces between them, deleting even one such extra space sometimes inadvertently deletes the image above such spaces, even if there were, say, 4 spaces between images and you only deleted the bottom-most. Or sometimes it will delete any text above the line you just deleted if the spaces were between text and an image.

Here's the weird part (or at least for me it is): I inadvertently discovered by mistake that if you go to your DESKTOP menu and select "Undo" ... about 7/10 times it actually "undoes" the deletion within Reddit's edit mode and reposts any images/text lost.

How is this possible, ie, how do desktop OS functions work while editing in a website?
by fredoralive | 2025-05-17 22:40:50+00:00
The two memory allocations makes sense, ROM and RAM are separate chunks of memory, and in the Mac memory map(s) they're non-contiguous, so why not two allocations?

It's only once the C classic of optimising through FUN™ with pointers, and then weird issues with bits of the Mac ROM not liking being mapped into random high memory addresses that we end up with lockups.
by Bender | 2025-05-17 22:41:57+00:00
Do they work?

Not for the big search engines. They usually detect them as link farming which lowers the score. Link farms may also attract more bots and fake clicks. Some of these sites also produce some of the fake clicks using their own bots and proxies/VPN's. More useful may be references from related SaaS sites that are popular in that category or popular financial sites that discuss the related SaaS sites in my opinion. i.e. if one had a buddy that is running a similar yet non-competing legit site that is popular. But don't take my word on this as I have not been involved in seo in a while not that much has changed. I think it would be better to ask around 10 AM PST on a Monday or Friday to get more eyes on the question. I guess that would be 3AM on Sunday if you are in AU.
by Tarsul | 2025-05-17 22:42:00+00:00
Problem with their website is that it appears that your journey is possible only to then be disappointed at the last step of the check-out. Happens way too often and especially for international travel.

Btw. I nearly traveled from Budapest to Hamburg in a single train but alas as written above I had to put in a stop in Munich just so that I could finish my order (both routes were roughly 14hours which I found quite manageable).
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-05-17 22:42:18+00:00
Too many requirements just to test it out.

Typed in a simple prompt and selected generate, only to be told I must have an account, ffs, annoying as hell, but fine at least you have “sign in as” options and I’ll just block you if it gets spammy with the emails, but then you insist I upload a profile pic.

Yeah fuck that.
by jfim | 2025-05-17 22:42:23+00:00
In the case that was mentioned above, hardware frequently has drivers which can run as part of the kernel and can read the memory of other processes, among other things. A user of some hardware would be very likely to install a driver for it, without realizing that a malicious driver can basically do whatever it wants on their system.

In practice, if the software one wants to use is not trustable, then it shouldn't be run, at least on current mainstream desktop operating systems.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-05-17 22:42:23+00:00
It was overdue for a redesign. I find the iOS 18 Photos app much more usable, it's been clearly redesigned with a focus to make a faster and more aesthetically pleasing interface for the experienced user. It's significantly denser too, with a single scroll (under half a second) you can access way more collections and utilities, and those you want because you can customize. And this makes sense, the Photos app is not a new-user app, every iPhone user uses it every day, every user is an experienced user.
by tkiolp4 | 2025-05-17 22:42:29+00:00
I don’t know why but for a moment I thought this was about switching jobs among two strangers. Say, I advertise “Senior Software engineer at company X, team Y, salary Z, wishes to switch to a similar position and compensation in another company”. So, if you match the requirements more or less, you swipe right (or left, not sure which one is the “let’s do it”). Then candidates would chat via their company email at first (to confirm they actually work there). Their respective manager would then approve the move without interviewing them at all.

Crazy, eh?
by w10-1 | 2025-05-17 22:45:48+00:00
Ok, we all understand the ancient problem and its current manifestation.

But what can be done? Science is not supposed to be the realm of disinformation, but it seems to have no real defenses. People are being paid to lie, no one is being paid to say they are liars, and from the outside scientific dispute looks a lot like politics, so scientists lose credibility by association.

That's a real problem.