MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shagie | 2025-05-02 15:01:27+00:00
The fuel leach has been that way for a long time.

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Burner_inserter&ol... (edit from 2016)

> Since v0.10.0, any Fuel items picked up by a burner inserter will also be used to power the inserter. This makes it useful for:

> Automatically loading Gun turrets from a Transport belt, where one side of the belt is filled with magazines and the other with Coal.

> Filling Boilers with Coal. This has the advantage that they will continue working even if the power fails. This is not the case for electrically powered inserters.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/0.10.0#0.10.0

> Burner inserter will use item with fuel value for itself when it has empty inventory.

0.10.0 was released 2014.

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The flickering isn't a problem (though a high frequency flicker can caused the power chart to be difficult to read).

A consistent drain on power that is causing capacitor levels to drop below some threshold suggests that certain things should be turned off before the problem becomes cascading when capacitor supply drops to 0.
by solardev | 2025-05-02 15:01:56+00:00
Fortnite started as a P2W coop game where legendary weapons were all inside loot boxes. It was very predatory. Then an internal team at Epic made an experimental battle royale mode and that's what became modern Fortnite. The old one is still available as Fortnite: Save the World.

Epic is largely owned by Tencent anyway, who makes a lot of their money from gambling games.
by thesuitonym | 2025-05-02 15:01:56+00:00
Note that the Apple I was a kit computer that didn't come with anything other than the board and the chips. Not even a case! It's not really like Jobs and Woz had the brilliant idea that nobody had thought of before to include the accessories, it's just that the prices had come down to the point where a person wouldn't balk at buying a preassembled computer with a keyboard, display and a couple of floppy drives.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-05-02 15:02:06+00:00
> Xbox already isn't selling well compared to the competition. I imagine this will not help.

What you want to optimize is

(profit per customer) * (number of customers)

The economic assumption behind the price increase is that by this change the "profit per customer" increases "more" than "number of customers" decreases.

We will see ...
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-02 15:02:20+00:00
Youre making reductive assertions on my comment.

I’m neither defending nor explaining Apples actions. Just adding commentary on why the App Store exists.

Also you’re getting cause and effect the wrong way around. Plenty of businesses have made 10s of billions based on happy accidents. Just because Apple now makes a mint from the App Store, it doesn’t mean it was part of their original vision for the iPhone.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-05-02 15:02:22+00:00
It's a land grab that, if GSAP becomes a standard, makes it that much harder to compete with Webflow.

For example GSAP will now never make its way into Figma or Framer which is a staple of the design workflows of many teams. This move by Webflow makes GSAP a line of demarkation between Figma-based workflows, Framer-based workflows, and Webflow-based workflows.

Any momentum the library might have had is now skewered by these limitations which will surely create demand for more different animation libraries to exist within other walled gardens.

The same happened to Vercel & Next.js which now seems to be powering the return of Vite & CSR.

Now that said, I'd never heard of this library until this announcement, and I don't know much about its role in the javascript ecosystem, but I can't say that the trend towards M&A kingdoms in the open source community delights me.
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-02 15:02:22+00:00
Does anyone else find the vibe to be... off-putting? From the trailers, videos etc, something about this doesn't gel with what I go for, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's an uncanny valley feel between abstract and realistic, or may be it's just different from the games I play, and fiction I'm exposed to.

Edit: After watching more videos, I think it is, indeed, the mix of cartoon/early-video-game-era flashy animations on the screen (Or maybe think Batman comic books?), with a story-driven narrative, and characters that also toe the line between cartoon and realistic style.
by conduit-tech | 2025-05-02 15:02:31+00:00
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by Eextra953 | 2025-05-02 15:02:32+00:00
In my comment I was using the Constitution and the founding Fathers as symbols for democracy to contrast the current administration which is very anti-democratic.

I understand that the constitution/founding fathers are very flawed - but to most people they still serve as symbols of the core principles of this country. As you've mentioned, if you scratch the surface the reality is very different. If you have better examples that aren't as flawed, I'd genuinely like to hear them.
by dotandgtfo | 2025-05-02 15:02:39+00:00
Your lighthouse parable is still highly relevant for public broadcasters when you consider that modern public broadcasting heavily subsidize expensive original reporting that for-profit newspapers are free to and happy to republish.

A core reason for having a robust public broadcasting system is that it lifts the quality of the entire information ecosystem.

Saying this as a Norwegian. I happily pay around 200/300 dollars a year for it out of my taxes.
by kurthr | 2025-05-02 15:02:42+00:00
Yeah, how to you thing that schematic is represented internally? How do you think the netlist is modeled? It's SPICE and HDL all the way down!

There are good reasons not to vibecode Verilog, but a lot of test cases are already being written by LLMs and the big EDA vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens) all tout their new AI capabilities.

It's like saying it can't read handwritten mathematical formulas, when it solves most math problems in markup (and if you aren't using it you're asking for trouble).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-02 15:03:25+00:00
> Moving cheap crap around long distances is a huge source of pollution. One of the core ways we can actually reduce CO2 emissions to consume less stuff

Perhaps, but we could also help save the planet by all becoming vegetarian, or by staying home rather than flying, etc. In any case, I don't think Trump is looking to reduce consumption or international trade - he (appears) to just want to reduce trade imbalance and/or increase US independence.

> Then comes the human rights factors of forced and unfair labor. Your cheap t-shirts are made off the backs of ethnic minorities not allowed to leave the factory site after their 12+ hour shifts.

Do you think these workers would be happier without a job, or that US adding import taxes to Chinese-made clothes is going to cause Chinese manufacturers to pay more, or reduce working hours? What scenario are you thinking of where US import taxes on Chinese goods would be beneficial to Chinese workers?!
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-02 15:03:27+00:00
> That is, an algebraic manipulation that we can reduce to an integer under certain circumstances, but it doesn't "exist" the same way that an integer or a rational exists.

This depends on your interpretation: some view the reals as completions of that process, in which those “verbs” are “nouns”.

But you can construct a coherent theory in which this is not the case — and nobody is much fussed, because mathematics is full of weird theories and interpretations.

And both integers and rationals are defined by their relations, eg, integers are equivalence classes of pairs of naturals and rationals as equivalence classes of pairs of integers — where the class obeys some algebraic manipulation properties. If you feel there’s some great difference in sequences (and where you find that difference, eg, allowing only constructibles) is a matter of perspective.
by lelandfe | 2025-05-02 15:03:27+00:00
This was the worst bit so far: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/t-mobile-users-t...

> ”T-Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T-Mobile One plan”

> T-Mobile also published an FAQ that answered the question, "What happens if you do raise the price of my T-Mobile One service?" It explained that the only guarantee is T-Mobile will pay your final month's bill if the price goes up and you decide to cancel
by watwut | 2025-05-02 15:03:40+00:00
No, this happens all too often and was successful too many times to bee random. Moderate republicans used this as a tactic for decades. They always claim the thing that is happening is not happening, they always claim that opposition is paranoid.

This is just people who want republicans to win and either support the project or who do not care about whatever one way or the other protecting the party.
by RajT88 | 2025-05-02 15:03:57+00:00
Yep - they just have to elect enough candidates who will let Trump run amok. The majority doesn't need to agree with Trump, just enough people to avoid voting (a much smaller number). That's what we're seeing now.

Then they just have to keep that small number of people in power through whatever means. Even if congress swings enough to have anti-Trump votes, he'll just ignore whatever Congress says, and force it into the courts (which are packed increasingly with Trump friendly judges). That's how it happens.
by macguillicuddy | 2025-05-02 15:04:28+00:00
I feel that this is orthogonal to my point - it's not about how generous or not a given mechanism is, more to question why the App Store is any different from other transactions we need to protect. You either have to argue that App Store transactions need more consumer friendly refunds than other credit card transactions for some reason, or otherwise that credit cards should have no-questions asked refunds.

As another commenter said, in some cases Apple's power in the relationship is detrimental to the consumer - if a user issues a chargeback then Apple can disable their entire Apple account.
by leakycap | 2025-05-02 15:04:38+00:00
Apple's attempt at taking a cut of every Patreon podcaster's income was disgusting to me, and I've been a fan of the company from the six-color days.

Apple's choices lately show a lack of long-term thinking.

What app right now could you not replace with something competent/comparable on Android? iMessage is the only thing currently keeping me on iPhone; otherwise, I'd be using a phone with pen input which would fit my needs better.
by ncr100 | 2025-05-02 15:04:57+00:00
I speculate it started in the 1950s.

There was a move to make Business about numbers over People, per my Grandpa's "Back In My Day" speeches he used to give me. He blamed the MBA (no offense to MBAs) for encouraging money-over-people thinking.

This then leads to GOP appearing to value winning political power for itself over building a healthy society, in my view.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-02 15:05:08+00:00
The Lisp standard allows it to be implementation dependent, but in SBCL (which I believe the author of TFA is using), it disables all runtime type and bounds checking. This usually speeds things up negligibly[1] in exchange for allowing all kinds of undefined behavior.

1: If it speeds things up non-negligibly, there's almost always a way to get a similar speedup without setting safety to 0; e.g. if you check your types outside of your hot loops, the compiler is smart enough to omit type-checks inside the loop.
by lukan | 2025-05-02 15:05:33+00:00
"Yes, there are extremists in Xinjiang with foreign funding."

Radical islmaists are definitely a thing, but don't you think, the chinese government considers anyone extremist not ok with one party rule?

(I don't expect a honest answer, since you need a vpn to communicate)

And that you don't find information and that your chinese friends don't find know about controversal topic, then this is rather a obvious sign to me, that chinese censorship is working.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-05-02 15:06:08+00:00
> The Core Memory team spent months filming with Brad Smith, the third patient to receive Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant. Smith has suffered from ALS for several years and agreed to be part of Neuralink's clinical trial in the hopes of being able to communicate better and interact more with the outside world. We documented his journey from before the surgery to after and watched as he learned to use the device.

> Along the way, Elon Musk and the Neuralink team visited with Smith and his family in never before seen footage.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqrANrm-QMY

Full detail article: https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-mr-smith-gets-a-neura...
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-02 15:06:14+00:00
I think the persistence of advertising is an issue overall. I think we are worse off today now that you get bombarded with targeted ads and there's usually a seamless buy now button displayed within them.

Preying on whales is exploiting psychological issues. New technology certainly does exist today to aid in this exploitation that didn't exist 30 yrs ago.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-02 15:06:35+00:00
"Enshitification" is probably the most self-sabotaging term we could think of; in terms of how it makes us look like whining teenagers. I will never use it in polite conversation; which would ironically be a tech company's greatest goal for if we had a word.

But optics aside, this also ignores the problem that many of these businesses were not sustainable and were never sustainable. They are heading downhill, partially because they never had any ground to stand on. If we want to see less of this behavior, we should stop allowing the blitzscale strategy of running a loss to gain marketshare.

This is also why the claim of "greed" or "enshitification" falls on deaf ears for them. They could easily say: "No, we lit billions on fire as an investment to keep it free and grow market share; we're now asking for some returns on that investment. We're not adding a Pro plan, we were paying for the Pro plan previously. Be thankful for how long it lasted, and how much money you saved."
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-02 15:07:10+00:00
You're doing it wrong. Counting doing nothing as something is incorrect.

Doing nothing counts as not a thing and doing a thing counts as one thing, which is what it says it does.

It may have two dot points, but only one of them is something.

If I tell my wife I was busy all day because I was doing nothing, she would say you did not get one thing done today, and she would be right.
by andrewclunn | 2025-05-02 15:07:14+00:00
I've been doing music composition and songwriting as a hobby for a decade. 4.0 is where Suno added enough features where workshopping things conceptually there first made it worth it, even for someone who can and often will, break apart stems into composite instruments and then manually adjust as needed. People always worry about what this means at the low effort "spray and pray" approach to music, but ultimately, it also allows for faster and cheaper iteration and development for all involved. Is the finished product ultimately "better" though? You be the judge.

For comparison, here's a song where I forced myself to do everything within Suno (took less than a week):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6mJcXxoppc

And here's one where I did the manual composition, worked with session artists, and it took a couple months and cost me several hundred dollars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5JcEnU-x3s
Ask HN: Help recovering my wrongfully disabled Instagram archive ( escobarsoap)
by escobarsoap | 2025-05-02 15:07:31+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m totally stuck and could use the collective brainpower here. In March, my Instagram account @escobarsoap got disabled. That page was my passion project: a curated archive of art, music, and cultural finds (think a tiny online museum). I was planning to feature it in my university applications to showcase my work and dedication to cultural preservation.

Here’s everything I’ve tried so far—still nothing:

Appeals via official forms: Filled out every disabled-account appeal on Instagram’s help site.

ID verifications: Uploaded scans/photos of my passport, birth certificate, NIN slip, and vaccine card. Insta’s AI kept rejecting them.

Direct Meta outreach: Messaged any Meta employees or support addresses I could find on LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Zero replies.

Community forums: Pounded r/InstagramDisabledHelp, Facebook groups, and support chats—no breakthroughs.

Losing @escobarsoap has been rough: I can’t show my portfolio, my uni apps lack proof of my project, and all those hours of curation are locked behind Meta’s silence.

What I’m hoping for:

Any non-standard appeal routes or contacts at Meta/Instagram

Any weird edge-case suggestions I haven’t tried

Even a pointer to an email, Slack channel, or someone who knows someone at Instagram would mean the world right now. Thanks for reading—and I’d love to pay it forward if anyone else ever gets stuck.

my email is olumidedos@gmail.com if you could help please.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-02 15:08:10+00:00
Maybe these aren't the "same men", but it's interesting that men see and admit this phenomenon exists in the reverse (Men prefer cuter/sportier/more natural looking women and that a lot of what women do to look good is meant to appeal to other women) but not the reverse?

But even I can sort of look at the two pictures, and my gut reaction is, I'd like to look like the guy on the right, but I'd rather be friends with the guy on the left. Maybe it's a feeling of safety? Maybe a little pudge is like imagining being curled up on a warm sofa rather than a cot of metal coils? But then maybe, just to sort of give this a little credence. While I'd like to be friends with the guy on the left. There is a part of me that's like. Maybe I'd ask the guy on the right for advice on my stock portfolio? Tips to get ahead in the workplace? I do value some of those things, but not in my close personal life. I am transactional in the spaces it matters.

"It is, after all, a special case of the central liberal delusion that all people are the same"

lol this was not going the direction I thought, this person apparently has the completely opposite thesis I do.

I'll not another weird thing about this "liberal delusion that all people are the same" is that they seem committed to category theory. They're very committed to the idea that men and women are not the same, but sort of equally suspicious of the idea that there are strong within group differences. i.e. they want to say something like all women are all the same and all men are all the same and all women are different from all men in some substantial way.
by wkirby | 2025-05-02 15:08:24+00:00
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by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-02 15:08:25+00:00
A chance, but I suspect not much of one.

If we have a unitary executive, then the president is over the Supreme Court. I suspect that at least Justices Kavanough, Barrett, and Roberts (along with the liberals) would have a problem with that.

(Some of the liberals might be on board if the president was Harris rather than Trump, but no way are they going to agree with it while Trump is president.)
by bluGill | 2025-05-02 15:08:30+00:00
The most important books are things like first aid and CPR. Or better yet a class because hands on experience beat books learning.

I love the Gingery books and they are great foundations for a hobby. However even in a end of civilization scenario we only need a small minority who knows that content who can teach the rest - that is at best, but quite likely there won't be enough industrial base to produce the aluminum needed and so you are stuck with useless knowledge. Even your 19th century homesteading tends to assume far more industrial base to make some annoyingly hard things.

Most so called practical skills are either not practical in modern civilization (there is far too much population for us all the be hunter/gathers even if we want to); or they are only practical in context of current times. I've seen how to wire your house for electric lights books from the 1920s - most of the things shown wouldn't pass code today. My house was built in 1970, and there are a lot of things that still work but there is good reason we don't allow that anymore.
Show HN: Input Source Pro(OSS) – Auto-switch input sources between apps/websites
by runjuu | 2025-05-02 15:08:49+00:00
As a multi language speaker, I often switch between different input sources– e.g., English for coding and Chinese for messages. I kept forgetting which one was active and typing the wrong language in the wrong window.

It was a small but constant frustration, so I decided to build Input Source Pro for macOS to automate it.

The idea is simple: it remembers which input source you want for each application or website. When you switch applications, or browser tabs to a different site, it automatically changes the input source to match your preference.

I've been working on it for a while, tweaking it based on my own use and feedback.

A few days ago, I open-sourced Input Source Pro! You can find the code here: https://github.com/runjuu/InputSourcePro

If you use multiple languages during the day, check it out. Maybe it can solve a small frustration for you too.
by slashdev | 2025-05-02 15:08:53+00:00
I've been saying this for years on X. I think static languages are winning in general now, having gained much of the ergonomics of dynamic languages without sacrificing anything.

But AI thrives with a tight feedback loop, and that's works best with static languages. A Python linter (or even mypy) just isn't as good as the Rust compiler.

The future will be dominated by static languages.

I say this is a long-time dynamic languages and Python proponent who started seeing the light back when Go was first released.
by pavankamat24 | 2025-05-02 15:09:05+00:00
For years, the narrative has been that building world-class software requires deep pockets. Massive engineering teams, million-dollar budgets, and elite talent seemed like the only way to succeed. But here’s the reality: software development is no longer an expensive process.

If you break down costs in a typical tech company, the highest expenses are often engineering salaries. AI is rapidly changing this equation, bridging the gap between elite engineers and good engineers. With the right AI PR review tools, AI code review, and automated pull request reviews, even smaller teams can produce top-tier software.