MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-23 22:36:54+00:00
Everyone is flawed. But some people do significant harm to the people around them on a regular basis. That isn't erased just because they did a thing we like. Whitewashing the harms that "respected" people do is part of how the powerful get away with sexual assault or abuse of power. And if being a "flawed human" isn't so bad, then there also isn't anything wrong with pointing out those flaws, is there?

On the other hand, excusing, downplaying, or erasing those harms, should not be acceptable, because who decides who's worthy of having their history erased? Should we erase Stalin's past because he helped us win the war? Should we erase Churchill's starvation of millions of Indians because he helped us win the war? The point is not to obsess over good or bad, or call someone a "good person" or a "bad person". The point is to have a realistic perspective on real people, and not let hero-worship distort history or reality. We need realism and accountability now more than ever.
I don't want to use GitHub ... what would you recommend?
by ColinWright | 2025-05-23 22:36:55+00:00
I write a lot of small scripts, and because of ... reasons ... I've never put them in a repository or made them available.

Recently I've been asked multiple times if a thing I've talked about is available, so I want to explore having a publicly accessible repository.

But I really, really don't want to use GitHub.

What would people suggest as an alternative for making small scripts available for wider use, and to allow people to contribute mods?
by postalcoder | 2025-05-23 22:36:57+00:00
> Clarify relationship with https://hckrnews.com/

clarified in the about page.

> Don't put the settings in localStorage, use URL params

Working on this

> The settings overview is too terse. What does something like "Timeline, Top 20, Day, Comments"? Maybe you could turn that into a concise natural language sentence.

Makes sense i'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the suggestions, open to more if you think of any!
by schoen | 2025-05-23 22:37:46+00:00
> Unlike what most people seem to think, ACME isn't something invented just for Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt was certainly the first high-profile CA to implement the protocol, but various CAs (free and paid) have their own ACME servers and have had them for ages now. It's a generic protocol for certificate authorities to securely do domain validation and certificate provisioning that Let's Encrypt implemented first.

This depends on whether you're speaking as a matter of history. ACME was originally invented and implemented by the Let's Encrypt team, but in the hope that it could become an open standard that would be used by other CAs. That hope was eventually borne out.
by kouteiheika | 2025-05-23 22:39:39+00:00
> There were some tweaks developedz sure, but if I open Llama 4 code on HugginFace, it is more or less the same code that I've seen there 5 years ago.

This is very much true. It's essentially the very same architecture, just tweaked slightly.

I can take the code I've written which implements the original GPT-2, tweak it very minimally (I don't know, maybe 30~40 lines of code changed?) and get Qwen3 which is a state-of-art model released ~3 weeks ago.

Contrary to what you might see when looking at e.g. HuggingFace code where every new architecture needs a new multi-thousand line of code file - that's just a result of an insane amount of copy-pasting and technical debt (although they started to clean it up a little bit lately). I have my own custom implementation which can load weights for ~19 different architectures straight off HuggingFace in like ~2k lines of code. They aren't really all that different.
by fullStackOasis | 2025-05-23 22:41:09+00:00
> a low-frequency route means it's something you need to plan your entire day around.

Okay but the dude is making $5K/y which means he basically has no job and he sits around in his house all week or goes hiking etc. His most exciting day of adventure will literally consist of taking the bus to the library to check out a book, and bringing it back home (while reading it on the bus, perhaps). He can totally afford to plan his entire day around the event.
by postalcoder | 2025-05-23 22:41:17+00:00
Wow, /bestcomments is one of those pages that I at one point knew existed but totally forgot about since.

There's no api for that (I don't think?), but I'm not averse to scraping. I suppose it'd work decently as a fourth view.

Would you want to just see it as a list of comments or also in a timeline view as well?
by throw0101b | 2025-05-23 22:42:04+00:00
> You're not handling sensitive data, so unencrypted is just fine.

Except when an adversary MITMs your site and injects an attack to one of your readers:

* https://www.infoworld.com/article/2188091/uk-spy-agency-uses...

Further: tapping glass is a thing, and if the only traffic that is encrypted is the "important" or "sensitive" stuff, then it sticks out in the flow, and so attackers know to focus just on that. If all traffic is encrypted, then it's much harder for attackers to figure out what is important and what is not.

So by encrypting your "unimportant" data you add more noise that has to be sifted through.
by geoffmunn | 2025-05-23 22:42:08+00:00
I am 100% convinced that the baby weight thing is because grandparents love to compare newborns with their own experiences, and they were on the cusp of the metric conversion in the 60s. In a decade or two, this will vanish.

Imperial height is because 6 feet is the generic height of a "tall person" - we get so much of our sporting news from overseas and no one bothers to convert it.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-05-23 22:42:40+00:00
Well, I think people like you are strange: how weird would it be to go through life assuming that everyone thinks the same way as you!

How is working at McD's more "diverse" than playing soccer, or even tinkering with a computer at home? It's only "better" in a very specific value system, that of the American lower middle class

Or put differently: the cliche thing that every teenager does in every American movie is "diverse"? How?
by hyperpape | 2025-05-23 22:45:10+00:00
Right, which is why it's extremely confusing that the author wrote:

> In this case, you could work just one ten-hour shift per week, and in so doing, earn more than 30% of what you need to live well at this particular house with just four days of work per month.

What he probably did was write that one shift is more than 30% of what you need, then switched gears to write about four days of work per month, but forgot to remove the 30% number.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-05-23 22:45:13+00:00
> Everybody dismissing him might be right. Those keeping score know that Carmack's batting average isn't one thousand. But those people also know Carmack has the resources to work on pretty much whatever he wants to work on.

To me this reads as "this is very far-fetched but he's got the money so golly for him"
by jskelly | 2025-05-23 22:45:15+00:00
I think all three of you are right. The official Bernie campaign did not use this as a slogan until the 2020 campaign (so 2019-2020)-- however, it was in use by supporters during the 2016 campaign (source: I was in the crowd of Bernie supporters at the 2016 Democratic National Convention when the guy standing next to me started the chant & it quickly spread. It was so interesting to see how quickly it spread from just one guy.)
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-23 22:47:04+00:00
The problem customers have with these Shiny New Things that Microsoft keeps trying get us to switch to is that they drop features and entire product suites on the floor, even those that aren't officially deprecated and have no equivalent replacements. It's common to see SSRS, SSIS, SSAS in multidimensional mode, etc... simply forgotten about like they no longer exist.

Not to mention that SQL "SDK-style" projects only work properly in VS Code, so Visual Studio users are left out in the cold having to deal with an incomplete, half-baked solution.
by cjbenedikt | 2025-05-23 22:47:06+00:00
I experienced exactly the same only even more expensive: $1300! The US health care system has deeply entrenched players:care providers,insurers, hospitals, pharma industry. All make a lot of money from it. Several startups tried to tackle it. Even the combination of Amazon& Buffett &JPMorgan that set out to change it eventually caved. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-j... Hopeless case.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-23 22:47:25+00:00
I think you're assuming way too much.

From my observations, having low parental involvement and excessively unstructured upbringing doesn't automatically produce determined and self-directed adults. From my familiarity with several small towns, I would actually say it does the opposite. I can think of many people I knew as a kid who ended up stuck in small towns at dead-end jobs simply because inertia was the only thing they knew. Nobody ever jumped into their lives to push them to try different things or explore paths that weren't sitting right in front of them.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-05-23 22:48:44+00:00
I think your point that AI would refuse to play chess is interesting. To humans, chess is a strategic game. To a mathematician, chess is an exceedingly hard game, (pretty sure it is EXP complete, but I'm not fully familiar with Np/Exp completeness). To an AI, it seems like the AI will side with the mathematicians. AI is like "bro you can't even figure out if P=NP so how am I going to, you want me to waste power to solve an unsolvable problem?"

From Wikipedia, Garry Kasparov said it was a pleasure to watch AlphaZero play, especially since "its style was open and dynamic like his own".

People can't define AI because they don't want to consider AI as a subset of exponentially difficult algorithms, but they do want to consider AI as a generator of stylistic responses.
by kebokyo | 2025-05-23 22:48:47+00:00
What kind of “value-generating” features are you thinking of?

One big comment I want to give on that front is, if you decide to try any generative AI features, please please please make them *completely opt-in* and integrate with *local models* (either completely or as an alternative to cloud models like GPT / Claude / etc). If I can use your software happily without being bombarded with ads for AI features and can use those AI features how I want to instead of how would best make you money, I would appreciate that so much.
by digianarchist | 2025-05-23 22:50:46+00:00
We're all being asked to sacrifice the living standards our parents grew up with because the utter failure of local, state and federal government to provide housing, public transit, education and healthcare, something most of the Western world manages to pull off without issue.

We have never been more productive in this country's history and yet we cannot even meet a bar set in the 1950s.

It's frankly ridiculous as is this piece.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-23 22:50:55+00:00
> Getting a shitty fast food job is done not due to any kind of aspiration but simply because it's the default thing to do.

This is the kind of "tracks" I'm most familiar with: Especially in small towns where ideas like individual freedoms, bucking the trend, and turning your nose up at higher education are common, you don't see it translating to a lot of success in life. You see it trapping people in cycles of poverty and dead-end jobs.
by colesantiago | 2025-05-23 22:51:20+00:00
I was looking for a tool for building a cross platform app for my established business, I was quoted £100K+ for an app + needing a full time senior mobile software engineer.

Seems over excessive, so I found Rork which basically is all I need at close to zero cost of a senior.

Not affiliated, but just thought I'd share if Rork will help others.
by fullStackOasis | 2025-05-23 22:52:37+00:00
Well, minimum wage in NY state is $15.50/hour. ($432/mo)/($15.50/h) is about 28 hours per month, i.e. 7 hours per week. https://dol.ny.gov/minimum-wage-0

He also mentions other forms of employment, like raising rare herbs, so maybe he's got a little homegrown operation going that doesn't take much time.
by lkrubner | 2025-05-23 22:55:26+00:00
Surprising they don’t mention Fernand Braudel:

https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Cen...

The Annales journal was established in 1929 and shaped the context of everything that Christopher Hill did:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_school

Braudel is the most famous of the historians from this school. His book “The Structures Of Everyday Life” established historiography on the basis of what ordinary people did in their ordinary lives: what they ate, what they wore, how they worked. And Braudel was building upon ideas already established by the founders of the Annales school. But this enormously influential group of historians were a constant source of inspiration to Christopher Hill, and I think shaped the way he wrote The World Turned Upside Down.

I recommend both Hill and Braudel, both pillars of my intellectual life.
by giantg2 | 2025-05-23 22:55:35+00:00
Can't speak for your location specifically, but some places in the US have cash only doctors charging low fees for routine/easy visits. Some urgent cares offer primary care similar to that too. My guess is it will still be more expensive where you are due to cost of living. Most insurers have cost estimator tools on their website that help you price compare providers, so that might be an option for you.
Ask HN: Is anyone else burnt out on AI?
by throwaway12345t | 2025-05-23 22:55:48+00:00
It’s not a post to deny that the field is moving and is very interesting to follow but it’s just become too much.

Every week there’s several new things, most examples are cherry picked, benchmarks are blown out etc.

I run a software company that has not added any AI features, mostly because the usefulness seems to fall below the bar for value that most of our features try to maintain.

I use ChatGPT personally for random searches and Cursor + whatever model is deemed best at the time but even with that it takes a lot of work to get something valuable out of it in day to day.

I feel like I’m losing my mind when I see startups posting 10m ARR numbers in just 6 months or whatever.

I’m hearing from VC’s churn is 15-30% in many of these companies and they’re far from profitable but the growth is just wild.

Do I succumb and just add yet another text generation that maps to an object like fill-in-the-blank app of the week?

It feels disingenuous but even companies I know and respect are adding questionable “agent” features that rarely work.

Anyway, how are you feeling?
by rufus_foreman | 2025-05-23 22:56:16+00:00
She mentions "want ambitious plans, have ambitious plans", "don't want ambitious plans, don't have ambitious plans" and "want ambitious plans, don't have ambitious plans".

What are the vast number of groups outside of that set? Of course there's "have ambitious plans, don't want ambitious plans", which would probably be more interesting than the other three, but what are the other missing groups?
by Aurornis | 2025-05-23 22:56:41+00:00
> the post-graduation options that continue to provide tracks are also treated as the more "prestigious" options (go to grad school. work at big3/faang, etc).

Graduate school is a mixed bag when it comes to prestige. It's fairly well known that grad student lifestyle is a grind, highly competitive, and a financial sacrifice. You go into it for a love of academics, not as a default next step.

As for prestigious jobs like FAANG: I think you're downplaying the extreme compensation offered by many of these jobs. It's not just about prestige, it's about unlocking a level of wealth that is hard to ignore. It delivers on the dream people have when they imagine a university education unlocking incredible career options.
by fzeroracer | 2025-05-23 22:56:43+00:00
There's a particularly funny anecdote I have in regards to your transphobic dogwhistle.

Back when I was living in Austin I was at the airport getting ready to visit my family for a flight. As I went to enter the male restroom, a woman from behind me yelled at me that I was entering the wrong restroom and sneered at me.

Do you know what my crime was? Being a cisgender male with long hair. That was all it took for someone to assume I was transgender and then proceed to be an asshole.If you're in a rural like that and you stand out in any way, people will notice. And if you're someone that is trans, it'll be far worse.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-23 22:57:36+00:00
Any advice you get will be worthless because continuity and consistency do not factor in to this administration's thinking; its driven by expediency and whim rather than procedure or substance. In some policy areas one might expect things to settle down after the disruption of a new administration, but given that immigration is Trump's core policy issue and the one on which his base is most radicalized, where things stand a year from depends entirely on how Trump is doing in the polls. My guess is that the Trump admin will be polling at mediocre or poor levels next year, with 6 months to go before a mid-term election so immigration enforcement will become more draconian in order to drive GOP turnout. If he's doing better than I anticipate, they might roll out some sort of fa$t track for business applicants.

Your options as I see them:

- marry an American and be ready to drop $50,000 on your green card application process/legal fees, assuming you have never, ever done anything wrong including parking or speeding tickets

- commit social suicide and become a MAGA influencer that tweets at least 20x/day in fulsome praise of the president, ideally focusing on some niche where you have expertise. I say social suicide because you will have to prioritize loud political loyalty over rationality, dignity, or other considerations, and you will need to get internet famous and become an enemy of the left/the establishment/some definable MAGA out-group. This will only work if you have the willingness to pursue celebrity/notoriety as a full-time goal while projecting religious levels of devotion.

- start your business now and aim to hire as many Americans (the whiter the better) as possible over the next year. Spend at least 5% of your operating budget on PR, position yourself as job creator #1 (eg almost every photograph of you should depict you surrounded by a team of Americans, all the corporate happy talk should revolve around hiring, growth, opportunity etc., double points if you do it in a red state, triple points if you can do it away from an urban hub). Your PR does not have to be explicitly MAGA, but it will have to be overtly red-white-and blue and generate plenty of media. Again budget a lot for your legal fees.

It sounds cynical, but I believe that for the foreseeable future any application for US residency benefits will be evaluated on optics at least as much as merits.
by johnisgood | 2025-05-23 22:58:13+00:00
Probably because of the "Show" / "Hide" thing. He should just use CSS for that. You can mimick it by some CSS hack with checkboxes (that are not really checkboxes as far as the user is concerned).

You can have a modal, and multi-step CAPTCHA in CSS, so it should be relatively easy to just stick to CSS for this functionality.
by ppsreejith | 2025-05-23 22:58:16+00:00
Ben Thompson's latest article deals with a possible solution to this issue: https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-si...

Tl;dr* He claims ads were the original sin of the web, built for a human internet. For the coming agentic web where most browsing would be done by agents, he proposes a new protocol that has payments integrated into it. Specifically agents paying for accessing content using micropayments with stablecoins.

Also interesting to note that this is one of the most submitted articles of Stratechery to HN but gained no traction. Latest submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073241

* A summary can also be found here: https://stratechery.com/2025/the-upheaval-coming-for-the-int...
by hackyon | 2025-05-23 22:58:18+00:00
in addition to the diff viewing, the plugin also allows claude code to pick up more context from the IDE!

it should automatically pick up your current selection, as well as any highlight/diagnostic errors (squiggly errors and warnings) that the IDE finds. there's also a shortcut key (Cmd+Option+K) to send your current selection as a @File reference to the prompt.
by jppope | 2025-05-23 22:58:23+00:00
I think a lot of people are missing the larger point. Yes its very possible to live quite inexpensively in the American Siberia... thats not what the author is really getting at. The Author is pointing out that there is a HUGE opportunity for young americans to live in places that aren't a handful of large Metros with outrageous housing costs lots of these places are the heartland, where it is socially unacceptable now for costal middle class adults go.

The authors point resinates for me, and I've seen a different but related model by friends - A couple (Dentist and small business owner) living in semi-rural Kansas (city pop ~40K). Their contention was that normal people in a normal week eat some food, go to work, do kid stuff (school, practices, etc), workout, watch some TV, and sleep a bunch... And theres really nothing about that that is needs to be in a major metro, so they moved to a place where college educated adults from the coasts dare not go- Kansas. The recognize the useful stuff from the metros are the food, culture, etc... and what they did was take a trip one a month to live like kings...

Can you imagine how much more fun you can have with ~400K of disposable income (after living expenses)? Seeing the trips they've taken and the adventures they were able to afford because their 7 bedroom 5 bath house cost ~400K (movie theater and all)... was mind boggling to me. It was all for the small cost of not being able to get access to the metros during the week. Seems worth it to me...
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-23 22:58:37+00:00
There is definitely some "more research is needed here". Some fabrics (like silk) are clearly marked "hand wash" but I wonder how much of it is backed by actual research.

Washing has several components, like detergent, temperature, agitation and time, and you have to balance them for good cleaning and minimal damage. Hand washing is usually weak on all counts, so maybe just using less aggressive wash cycles in a machine could work as well. In marketing, they tend to promote more aggressive cleaning just to be sure your clothes come out clean (it would be bad publicity if they didn't) at the cost of increased wear.

In addition, how much do cleaning affects how long your clothes last. I remember seeing an article saying that what damage clothes the most is wearing them, followed by washing, followed by drying. If true, there is not much you can do besides the most obvious and unsatisfying solution of not wearing the clothes you want to preserve.

Without better knowledge, I try to stick with the instructions on the label.
by kevinventullo | 2025-05-23 22:59:10+00:00
A mind-blowing consequence of the MRDP theorem is that there is a multi-variate polynomial which fits on a sheet of paper with the property that the set of values of the first variable which appear in integer solutions are exactly the set of prime numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#Formula_bas...
by julienchastang | 2025-05-23 22:59:52+00:00
I've never tried that but copying files via two different dired buffer is trivial. It is also really useful for copying files to and from remote hosts via tramp. (If copying large files in this manner look into rsync versus ssh.) Here is my .emacs if you want to see it: https://github.com/julienchastang/dotemacs/blob/master/setti.... It is a continuous work in progress.