MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mellow_observer | 2025-06-06 08:39:07+00:00
Since the brain is optimized for low energy environments, and we have now reached a high energy availability era, it makes you wonder if there's a way to get around the mental fatigue problem somehow. Fatigue is incredibly intellectually debilitating and if we could find a way to be fully on all of the time if we so wish, that should come with a great increase in quality of life.

Now available energy is almost certainly not the only reason we have fatigue, so maybe there's other barriers to overcome, but I'm shocked at how little attention this topic gets. In hackernews spirit, if someone could sell a real cure for mental fatigue, you'd change the world
by netodatamz | 2025-06-06 08:40:09+00:00
After years of watching enterprises struggle with network visibility and compliance, we started Netodata. The problem: most companies have network data scattered across multiple systems, outdated documentation, and manual processes that don't scale. Our solution combines open-source network automation tools (Nornir, Ansible, NetBox, Prefect) to create comprehensive network assessments. We automate data collection, build a reliable Source of Truth, and deliver actionable insights - typically taking 1 week to several months depending on network complexity. What makes us different: we don't sell products. Pure automation services focused on solving the actual operational pain points. Check out our technical approach at netodata.io - curious what the HN community thinks about this space.
Ask HN: Anyone else feeling increasingly alienated from the industry?
by saubeidl | 2025-06-06 08:40:23+00:00
When I entered the tech industry about a decade ago, it was a time of optimism.

We were gonna change the world for the better, allow people to connect and access knowledge right from the palm of their hand. Working conditions were great, we were solving interesting problems and there was a general sense of positivity.

Now, our industry's leaders are embracing far-right movements across the world, actively working to make the world a worse place. Everything's increasingly shittified - Google and Netflix are putting ads even into their paid products.

AI companies keep talking about how their products will change the world, without talking or even thinking through the results of that change. In their dreams, they will replace most of the work force with computers, saving costs on those pesky wages. Not a single thought is given to what might happen to the recipients of said wages or how that would affect society at large.

Meanwhile, a contingent of our peers is enthusiastically working towards that future state, again, without ever thinking about consequences. In the process of doing so, we use immense amounts of energy, accelerating the already happening climate catastrophe.

It seems like we're openly building a dystopia, making the very few even more wealthy and powerful while dooming the rest.

What is one to do in this scenario if they have a conscience? Is anyone else struggling with this? How do y'all deal?
by sigmoid10 | 2025-06-06 08:41:44+00:00
Methylene blue is said to allegedly have helped some people with brainfog - especially after covid. But the research is really scarce. Ibuprofen and creatine may also have some positive nootropic effects with recently mounting evidence, but at least they were already very well studied before because of their actual uses. So if anybody wants to try this stuff, I'd stick with those.
by user_7832 | 2025-06-06 08:42:13+00:00
Don’t worry, I believe it’s mostly/only good - I’ve also heard it to be good.

I mentioned it specifically because it’s generally considered as a physical body/muscle targeted supplement and not a brain impacting one, but it appears to have an impact on the brain too.

(Anecdotally I did notice a negative impact on sleep personally, but for me it was quite apparent even at a relatively low dose so I realised it quickly, hopefully that’s not the case for you.)
by zimpenfish | 2025-06-06 08:44:01+00:00
> Hamit Coskun was arrested and convicted for burning a Quran

Wasn't just for burning a Quran though? He was doing it whilst shouting Islamophobic abuse outside the Turkish embassy.

"[Judge McGarva] said that burning a religious book, although offensive to some, was not necessarily disorderly, but that other factors (including Islamophobic comments made in police interviews) made it so on this occasion."[0]

> Multiple cases of people being arrested for silently praying around abortion clinics.

I could only find three - two had their charges dropped[1] and one was charged for not leaving a safe zone after being advised[2] (not silently praying.)

> Arrest and conviction for dressing up as the Manchester Arena bomber for a private Halloween party.

Definitely agree that one would have been better as a warning not to be such a twat rather than arrest and conviction.

> Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes publicly

> Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes between a group on WhatsApp

"offensive" is doing a lot of work there given they were, in the first case, "racially aggravated online social media posts linked to national civil unrest" and, in the second case, just plain racist.

I'm ok with racist content being policed, personally?

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9v4e0z9r8o

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gze361j7xo

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 08:44:04+00:00
I think we may be discussing different things. When I talk about the DMCA machine, I mean the cottage industry of firms that make it their job to check the internet for infringement and file the appropriate claims. I'm not referring to Google's AI.

My point was that those firms currently cater to large creators/the cost only makes sense for firms with lots of IP. BUT, if it was cheaper/more accessible (and profitable to litigate in this area) then more small creators can do it, and the problem becomes more acute for large content hosters.
by anovikov | 2025-06-06 08:44:24+00:00
Well, try to explain how could that ever be possible that an industry that by very definition of what software is - something that can be infinitely copied and reused for free having being created once - is an inequality engine - was a source of optimism? It could only be a source of optimism of stakeholders because it promised, and indeed make, many of them near infinitely rich. It was the goal and purpose of it all along - to eat the world.
by atemerev | 2025-06-06 08:46:05+00:00
"They" are me, I am a religious Zionist Jew. I believe that Palestine has the right to exist, just like Israel. Israel is the land of our ancestors, which was ruined by Romans and then settled through Arab conquests (Arabian colonialism was a thing). This is fine, this was a long time ago. We were there even longer, but it is not the time to compare.

If Palestinians consider themselves a nation, they are a nation, just as we are. Neither of us should try to destroy each other.
by moomin | 2025-06-06 08:46:30+00:00
I’ve read about this a lot before. My gut tells me that if you’ve got a central genius with twelve adherents and no-one else, what you’ve got is a cult, not a proof. But also, it is frankly amazing to think that Galois’ original proof was very nearly lost. It wasn’t like he’d not tried to publish. He’d been laughed out by people like Cauchy saying it was nonsense.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-06 08:46:35+00:00
He is not "batshit crazy", or maybe he is. But he is making the next generation of ICBMs for the US government, sorry.. he is making super-duper rockets that will definitely take people to Mars and his companies/creations will be the very first tech ever to _not_ be used for war and death!!! (he wrote while laughing). So that settles it (all).
by friendzis | 2025-06-06 08:46:42+00:00
You would not be allowed if not for legitimate interest.

Websites A and B buy fraud prevention service FPS, website A flags user x as fraudulent, how should FPS flag user x as high risk for website B if consent from user x was required?

Legitimate interest literally allows FPS to track users, build cross-service profiles, process and store their data in case FPS needs that data sometime in the future. Under legitimate interest response to query "What's the ratio of disputed transactions for this user?" is perfectly legal trigger to put all that data to use, even though it is for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from pre-GDPR tracking.
by brazzy | 2025-06-06 08:47:17+00:00
I use TiddlyWiki every day as an interlinked combination of diary, Kanban board (via a plugin) and knowledge base. I'm not aware of any other tool which can do all this while being self-hosted and storing all its data as easily parseable text files in case it stops being developed.

That being said, its hackability and extensibility are hampered by being based on an incredibly crufty template/scripting language. I've never been able to do anything useful with it before running into limitations or bizarre behaviour and eventually giving up.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-06 08:47:24+00:00
I’m not sure what this is intended to do, but when I created an account, I saw in the left sidebar a widget saying “Was this search result helpful?” with thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. I hadn’t searched for anything. I pressed the “Hide” button instead, and the widget changed to an “Any feedback?” button. I thought I would tell you about this weird bug, so I clicked the feedback button. The widget changed back into the “Was this search result helpful?” widget.

I found the UX very difficult to read. The monospace font, the unusually small text, the bold white and bright green text on a dark background… I found it a little more readable by changing the font to system-ui, but not by much. Please consider a more traditional style instead of leaning into the 80s terminal gimmick. This factor alone makes me want to not use it. It needs to be easy to read, not a pain to read.
by sensanaty | 2025-06-06 08:47:30+00:00
I genuinely hate to be that guy lol, but I've found LLMs great for this.

I've been updating my resume lately and I've had some LLMs create scripts to call Jira + Linear APIs to fetch all tickets I've had any involvement in and to analyze it. It hallucinates details all the time of course, but I can at least get a rough idea of the things I worked on, cause I'm the same as you and forget immediately what I worked on last week.
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 08:47:45+00:00
To solve that problem: when you're logged in, go through the suggested-videos margin and right-click on the suggested videos that appear irrelevant or awful to you, and you can click either "Do not recommend channel" or, more mildly, "Not interested." Do that a few times and you'll see the suggested videos get far more relevant to what you want to see. Yes, they definitely have an agenda in terms of the channels they push, whether it's political news clips, late-night talk show interviews, celebrity gossip, or zany pranks and challenges, but you can block them all. They love CNN, Joe Rogan, the Kardashians, and New York City real-estate mogul Donald Trump, but you don't need to see them if you don't want to. I've also done this with my Instagram "Explore" page and now it's always nearly all posts I'm definitely interested in, like about technology, science, astronomy, history, archaeology, coins, all sorts of stuff I like, it's great.
by Lutger | 2025-06-06 08:48:55+00:00
I don't see how one necessarily leads to the other. There's obviously already filtering going on in youtube, even before covid, on illegal content and also on legal content that is against the policy (adult content for example).

How is Covid desinfo during the pandemic suddenly a slippery slope for anti-competitive measures, while all the other moderation measures aren't? Whats so special about anti covid desinfo rules?

I think we really need a better argument than 'making any rule leads to making bad rules, so we better have no rules'.
by dbspin | 2025-06-06 08:49:33+00:00
Modern advertising was invented by Edward Bernays in his book 'Propaganda'. It is literally and specifically designed to manipulate beliefs and behaviour. Broadcast TV was created as content to package advertising, not the other way around. The social impact of advertising is enormous - primarily in reenforcing the helplessness and delusion of inevitably around disengaged consumer capitalism that Mark Fisher referred to as Capitalist Realism. It's pure, constant, unending manipulation - in public spaces, in private spaces embedded in in every drop of media in both explicit and disguised forms. It negates our ability to trust one another and what we see and read. It makes the worst and least democratic aspects of modernity seem eternal and unchangeable. It creates awful incentives and enforces disingenuousness. Advertising is a psychic poison.
by didntcheck | 2025-06-06 08:49:53+00:00
I also live in the UK, and I in fact care about both of these. "Things are worse in America" is a tired and harmful cliché frequently used to deflect valid complaints about affairs here. Is the Trump administration really the low bar we're happy with?

And I'm afraid we're long past the point of dismissing police and state overreach into freedom of expression as an "American/right-wing myth". The Julian Foulkes case [1] is just one recent example - and no, the fact that they apologised in this one case, featuring an important person, that received substantial media attention, is not enough to reassure me that it was an error

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j718we6njo
by joey_spaztard | 2025-06-06 08:50:54+00:00
I typed my intrusive thoughts in to a document and analysed them. It turns out I had a hundred of them.

It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a child when that happened, I'm now an adult who knows how to handle that."

My brain thinks that a physical piece of paper is much more authoritative than a thought in my head and makes less effort to remember things that are documented so having twenty page booklet that I can get out if I need it seemed to help.
by fortran77 | 2025-06-06 08:51:35+00:00
That's not _this_ problem. Guns n' Roses, the Eagles, etc (or someone assigned by them) owns the rights to the score, lyrics, and recordings of performances. These are separate copyrights. If you cover their song, you may still be infringing on their copyrighted lyrics, score, and arrangements.

I'm talking about compositions to which nobody has any rights to any part of (a recording of a performance can still have a copyright).
by djtango | 2025-06-06 08:51:57+00:00
Open Studio (OpenStudioJazz) and Nahre Sol I like. Charles Cornell gets an honourable mention.

Watching Nahre Sol break down Chopin's E flat Nocturne (Op9#2) gave me a penny drop moment. I have often had trouble memorizing the left hand for that piece even after writing out the harmonies but seeing her play out the progression as flat chords led me to realise I can change the pattern and then play the left hand as a very quick broken chord to hear the harmonic progression while also cementing in the muscle memory a lot more effectively.
by tromp | 2025-06-06 08:52:36+00:00
How is a program like

``f`,\0`,\0

where f is applied to two arguments, each of which is the next input byte as a Church numeral, evaluated? Does it depend on order of evaluation?

Note that it's also possible to do I/O without additional primitives, as demonstrated in [1].

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/
by ageitgey | 2025-06-06 08:53:00+00:00
If you want to get hired by a traditional company, you need to get into a stable position with a fixed address. If that's not possible right now, you can try doing project-based work on Upwork or similar services. It's quick to get started. It might be a great way to bring in some money immediately and build up a portfolio without the commitment of a full-time role and with a lot of flexibility. You might be able to do some quick 1-day projects and get some quick success going.

If that isn't possible, do whatever you can to build some stability in your life and then worry about the tech work after that. It's a lot easier to focus on software projects when the core parts of your life are stable. Don't feel bad about not being able to accomplish software projects if you have bigger, more immediate life needs to work on first. Wishing you the best!
by worble | 2025-06-06 08:53:30+00:00
Nearly every time I see this, it's because people have other addons colliding which cause issues.

You only need uBlock origin; get rid of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, adblock for youtube or any of that other stuff. Other extensions can cause uBlock to not work correctly.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#all-pro...

> Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly.
by SparksJoy981 | 2025-06-06 08:53:44+00:00
* it serves multiple sizes for faster/slower connections

* it serves it with correct codecs, whatever the original input

* from local servers that are close to the user, so it's faster

* it doesn't kill your bills when the video becomes moderately popular

* discussions built-in

* virality built-in

* it won't go down when you forget to pay your server

* you don't need to deal with hosting software updates

You can solve some of that with CDNs, some of them even do some kind of video players that do all the ffmpeg stuff for you, but then you have a third party in the mix again.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-06 08:54:16+00:00
> Whats so special about anti covid desinfo rules?

- The magnitude of content involved.

- The fact that there exists a significant part of the society which is vocal about not endorsing these particular deletions.

- The fact that many people became aware of the moderation ("censorship") that YouTube does and its power.

- The fact that these COVID information videos (despite being perhaps wrong) formed important patterns of opinions, i.e. some opinions considered "extremist" or "wrong" were suppressed.
by planb | 2025-06-06 08:54:38+00:00
> Besides a non-ad-free experience, the $7.99 Premium Lite subscription also removed several other cool features like the ability to download videos for offline viewing and background play, which can be quite convenient for listening to music on the app. Speaking of music, YouTube Premium Lite also does not include access to YouTube Music.

So what's the deal here? $8 for "less ads but none of the premium features"? I'd understand "no ads but none of the premium features" but even for that it would be quite expensive. Who on earth is the target group for this plan?
by imgabe | 2025-06-06 08:54:56+00:00
I've enjoyed quite a few movies from the past 5 years, but I don't know what you like, so who knows.

Baby Assassins - japanese movie about two teenage girls who are assassins. Very weird and funny movie and the fight choreography I found fascinating. I can only describe as "floppy".

Tetris - this was on Apple TV. A fictionalized retelling of the story of getting Tetris out of the USSR and licensed to distribute in the US.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - A music biopic of Weird Al Yankovic, in true Weird Al style

Nobody - action / revenge flick with Bob Odenkirk

I could go on. No need to limit yourself to the past 5 years though. Surely you haven't seen every movie from before 2020?

Lots of great shows too, and you don't need any subscriptions on the high seas...
by mhitza | 2025-06-06 08:55:02+00:00
My understanding is that they have to keep chats based on an order, *as a result of their previous accidental deletion of potential evidence in the case*[0].

And per their own terms they likely only delete messages "when they want to" given the big catch-alls. "What happens when you delete a chat? -> It is scheduled for permanent deletion from OpenAI's systems within 30 days, unless: It has already been de-identified and disassociated from your account"[1]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/openai-accidentally-delete...

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8809935-how-to-delete-an...
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-06 08:55:20+00:00
> In practice, you have to be an extremist to think literally no content should be removed from Youtube with the most obvious example of something nearly everyone wants to be removed being CSAM.

What is extremist about this opinion? (EDIT: with the exception that we indeed remove CSAM and similar things "everybody" wants removed and will (importantly!) otherwise get YouTube into deep trouble, but (basically) nothing else)
by Defletter | 2025-06-06 08:55:43+00:00
This tendency to obscure context is unfortunately pretty common within discussions about freedom of speech (or the lack thereof) within the UK. I would just like to point out that if your points were so evident, you wouldn't need to remove context to make them.

You may it sound like Coskun threw a Quran into his fireplace and the police kicked his door down and arrested him. You're leaving out that he travelled across the country to burn it outside Turkish consulate in London. The idea that this is "reintroducing blasphemy laws but only for Islam" is you merely repeating punditry.

Likewise, people "being arrested for silently praying around abortion clinics" is because they're violating the protective zone around abortion clinics. You can pray all you want but just a little bit over there. You have the entire country to pray for the unborn. Your rights are not being unduly abridged because there's a few 150 meter zones where doing so is considered violating the dignity of others, if not harassing them while they're vulnerable. But of course, this context can be stripped to make a point.
by eggie5 | 2025-06-06 08:56:35+00:00
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by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-06 08:57:14+00:00
> Many will say, this is good, children should be protected. The second part of that is true. But the way this is being done won't protect children in my opinion. It will result in many more topic areas falling below the censorship threshold.

For example, YouTube currently has quite a lot of really good videos on harm reduction for drug users (and probably also a bunch that are not very good and/or directly misleading). I would expect all of such videos to be removed if such a child protection law was passed, because any neutral discussion of drug use apart from total condemnation is typically perceived as encouragement. That would deprive people of informative content which could otherwise have saved their lives.