MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-30 04:16:10+00:00
Per HiQ vs. LinkedIn, it doesn't matter what their ToS says if the scraper didn't have to agree to the ToS to scrape the data. YouTube will serve videos to someone who isn't logged in. So if you've never agreed to YouTube's ToS, you can scrape the videos. If YT forced everyone to log in before they could watch a video, then anyone who wants to scrape videos would have had to agree to the ToS at some point.
by sandspar | 2025-06-30 04:17:06+00:00
+1 for the mention of Zune. I started with a Zune, a bright green and brown one, then went to iPods. Like the author and their first Walmart MP3 player, my first MP3 player, my Zune, left a much bigger impression on me than all of my later iPods. I think there's an alternate history where Zune, with all of its weird personalization and oddness, won out over iPod's sleek luxury. In some ways I think that that alternate reality might have been a bit more fun.
by drpakfro | 2025-06-30 04:17:08+00:00
been working on a side project for a few months that has me excited to keep iterating on it the more i do it. long story short it's an adaptive learning app for autodidacts. creates a json object which is the foundation of features i build on top of it to help people learn with an end-goal in mind, using peer reviewed behavioral psyc research + AI. You learn whatever you want but it learns you too to help you learn better.
by derangedHorse | 2025-06-30 04:17:39+00:00
If you think peers on the Lightning network are “rent-seeking” intermediaries then you don’t understand what Lightning is. Peers allow us to circumvent the need for every counterparty to make a channel with one another and allow us to maintain privacy via onion routing. There’s no rent seeking here. Nodes pay fees to one another because these benefits come at the cost of liquidity for participating routing nodes.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-06-30 04:17:55+00:00
Honestly, it is a problem.

There is a playground with indigenous street name and I can't call it in any way because I usually forget the name. So I go online to check the name, but of course I cannot read it. It is so incredibly challenging, I wish there was a different solution.

I came up with a nickname for it within my family, but of course that works only within my family.
by drpakfro | 2025-06-30 04:18:02+00:00
been working on a side project for a few months that has me excited to keep iterating on it the more i do it. long story short it's an adaptive learning app for autodidacts. creates a json object which is the foundation of features i build on top of it to help people learn with an end-goal in mind, using peer reviewed behavioral psyc research + AI. You learn whatever you want but it learns you too to help you learn better. not good enough to apply to YC yet but...hopefully soon.
by light001 | 2025-06-30 04:18:39+00:00
At work, I often need to submit PDF documents, but the photos I take on my iPhone are in HEIC format. To make it easier to convert HEIC to PDF, I developed a website: https://heictopdf.run/. It allows you to batch convert HEIC files to PDF online, with all processing done in the browser—no data is stored on the server.
by paxys | 2025-06-30 04:19:40+00:00
It isn't copied by other consumer electronics companies because none of them have the brand value of Apple. Microsoft tried the model with its own chain of stores but failed pretty quickly. Most tech is better suited for Best Buy-like megastores where shoppers can browse and try a bunch of products and brands in one go. And for phones (at least in America) most people still prefer to go to their carrier store.

Go outside of tech though and the Apple Store experience is commonplace. Apple itself copied the concept directly from high end fashion houses.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-06-30 04:20:11+00:00
I was very confused by

> When you add a string, you can see that the bits at the index given by the hashes are set to 1. I've used the color green to show the newly added ones

because all I saw was the content text of "Your set:" changing, no bits, no colors. It took me trying a different browser and then scrolling up and down to realize that it's the visualization two paragraphs above that was changing.
by thayne | 2025-06-30 04:20:26+00:00
Unfortunately, the decrease in supply of budget cars hurts people buying used cars as well for two reasons:

1. With less people able to afford new cars it increases demand for used cars, which pushes up the price

2. There will be less budget cars that eventually end up in the used car market, and the increased price of new cars will trickle through to used cars
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-06-30 04:22:16+00:00
> some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025.

You may be surprised to find out how incorrect this.

I can think of two popular conservative sites likely to quote Doge people off hand that do this. I read all news in order not be an insufferable ideologue. So again, off the top of my head, NotTheBee (I think affiliated to BabylonBee (conservative The Onion)) and Twitchy. Among YouTubers, I think Asmond Gold, and I’m sure others like Steven Crowder who himself is in a famous meme.

That said… yea, you are probably right.
by maxglute | 2025-06-30 04:22:27+00:00
60/75m (~80%) metric tons of PRC seafood is from domestic aquaculture. That's one of the highest % of aquaculture share out of total fisheries of any country. 60% of global aquashare total. It's not urgent because it's already addressed, like EV, food security was literally Xi's first priority when he entered office with reduce food waste program.

People bitching about PRC fishing is like people bitching about PRC coal, i.e. most of coal use has stablized, with renewable making up new energy production. PRC DWF has also mostly stablized with seafood increase via aquaculture.

Except with coal as % of energy mix is way higher than PRC DWF as % of fisheries. AKA it's a made up problem, it so much as PRC is unique bad behaviour.
by amluto | 2025-06-30 04:22:35+00:00
Maybe the default form of RUN is kinda sorta safe [0].

How about ADD? Or COPY? Or RUN —-mount=type=bind,rw…?

Over the last ten years or so we’ve progressed from subtle-ish security holes due to memory unsafety and such to shiny tools in shiny safe languages that have absolutely gaping security and isolation holes by design. Go us.

[0] There is some serious wishful thinking involved there.
by senectus1 | 2025-06-30 04:24:27+00:00
dont be such a sook. if you're not making money off it, its a homelab. If its just infrastucure to run your house its then you wouldnt be blogging about it.

your about says: Hi! I’m Neeraj Adhikari. I work as a software engineer. I love free and open-source software, care about data privacy and dabble in self-hosting.

which tends to indicate a degree of "labbing".. if it wasnt and you were treating it like a fridge or a washing machine, you wouldn't be "dabbling" in it. you'd be installing it then not bothering to mention you have.
by absurdo | 2025-06-30 04:24:57+00:00
I’ve commented on this topic recently, and go figure Haidt is brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402475

I’m of the opinion there’s very little (not nothing) wrong with social media, and a whole lot wrong with people. Kids are just seeing how fucked up humans are earlier than we did and they realize early on they’re trapped in this shitbox with us.

But yes, let’s blame class warfare and rampant corruption on social media. That’ll fix it, lads.

(Side note: fuck cal newport)
by mrheosuper | 2025-06-30 04:25:09+00:00
i wonder if it's true anymore.

Recently i've bought the new iphone, it's not as expensive as the high end macbook, but still, not a small amount of money.

I got to the store, asked for the phone, finalized my purchase and got out, all in 15 min i guess. No second guess, no cold feet, because i had been researching smartphones for years before going with it, i knew what i would get and what i wouldn't.

Back in the day you would indeed need to go to the store to know what you were getting.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-30 04:25:53+00:00
These aren't necessarily related to today's Ophiocordyceps fungus. Fungi that take control of arthropods and cause them to climb to disperse spores have convergently evolved more than once, including Arthrophaga myriapodina, which affects millipedes, and is in a different Division (the level above Class) from Ophiocordyceps.

Convergent evolution is more common than you might think. Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-30 04:26:23+00:00
San Francisco is in the top 10 cities in the US for public transit usage. You can see the stats here: https://www.sf.gov/data--vision-zero-benchmarking-commute-me...

If you are forced to commute into SF for your job, then make living close to BART a top priority. (Many years ago, I met many people who suffered through that daily commute, but refused to make living near BART a priority. It was dumb to watch.) BART is a miracle train system (hybrid commuter rail/metro/subway), even if the coverage isn't great.
by userbinator | 2025-06-30 04:26:31+00:00
The MP3 player I had before that iPod was a much more generic one. I've spent the last few days occasionally checking Wikipedia and other places online to see if I can tell which one it was, and I have absolutely no idea.

Might've been an S1, which arguably was better than Apple's products in many ways, and likely sold a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-30 04:26:50+00:00
I'm so sorry. Australia is such a draconian nanny state, hell-bent on surveillance and authoritarian control.

It always reminds me a lot of here in the US: Incredible land, a vast ecology, great history and subcultures, and some truly amazing people unfortunately drowned out by a staggeringly large population of loud morons who seem hellbent on voting in the worst possible people to run the whole thing, people who often couldn't care less about the things that make their country truly great, while leaning heavily on populism and deception as a means to retain power.

I wouldn't be surprised if the US eventually requires ID for phone numbers, either, the way things have been going.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-06-30 04:27:03+00:00
> Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3 %

The funny thing is, we forgot how to write programs that spend most of their time in 3% of the code.

Profile a modern application and you see 50 level deep stacks and tiny slices of 0.3% of CPU time spent here and there. And yet these slices amount to 100%.
by crq-yml | 2025-06-30 04:27:21+00:00
Peri's approach is built around his Hollywood production experience: you don't have to be the real thing, you have to be believably close to the real thing. IOW, verisimilitude.

And that's exciting, that's the path to a lot of creative answers. It's a good response to the shareholder-centric corporate idiom: don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in. And it's a good answer for the AI-saturated landscape we've entered: make products that are very similar to the best ones of the past.
by dheera | 2025-06-30 04:28:08+00:00
I have a rack for convenience, not education.

It got rid of all of my wiring mess since 90% of my networked stuff just lives together and now uses a single UPS. It's also relatively easy to move from place to place as I move apartments. Also, enterprise equipment just works better. After a few Comcast failures during meetings I now have a 5G failover; I also firewall corporate laptops from the rest of my home equipment to prevent any unwanted spying.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-30 04:28:15+00:00
Rolex is not high utility, it is harsh environment. Real Antarctic expeditions, mountaineering, pre-GPS flight and navigation, SCUBA diving, sea navigation, desert navigation, etc. You could rely on your Rolex not to be the component that fails and gets you killed or lost.

Of course, like the SUV, often it's actual use case is a far cry from what it is actually capable of doing.
by slg | 2025-06-30 04:28:29+00:00
I don't know why inflation is dismissed so quickly. The article lists the industry average price increase as 29.2% and the inflation value I got out of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics calculator[1] was 26.2%. So sure, "this isn’t just a case of inflation affecting the entire vehicle market" [emphasis mine], but it is mostly that.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
by whitefang | 2025-06-30 04:29:47+00:00
I'm building an AI for Customer Support.

Here's the summary: - read all your sources - public websites, docs, video - answer questions with confidence score and no hallucinations with citations - cut support time and even integrates directly into your customer facing chatbots like Intercom

Still deliberating on the business model. If anyone would be interested in taking a look, I would love to show you.
by dagmx | 2025-06-30 04:30:00+00:00
Microsoft stores were abysmal. They felt like Best Buy without the convenience somehow.

I went in to try the (then new) Surface Studio (the drafting table like AIO) and they couldn’t find the peripheral knob. But it kept triggering, but it turned out employees would mess around with customers by spinning it while they used it.

Of course that’s just one store, but I walked by several and they all just looked depressing inside. Layouts felt about as poorly planned as a Best Buy or staples display, and even things as simple as lighting was harsher.

It’s just not as simple as making a store. The store has to provide the right vibe, and Microsoft don’t understand vibe.
by whitefang | 2025-06-30 04:30:22+00:00
I'm building an AI for Customer Support.

Here's the summary: - read all your sources - public websites, docs, video - answer questions with confidence score and no hallucinations with citations - cut support time and even integrates directly into your customer facing chatbots like Intercom.

Still deliberating on the business model. If anyone would be interested in taking a look, I would love to show you.
by haneul | 2025-06-30 04:30:56+00:00
Hah that's pretty fun. I got tossed about by the animated hands for a few, but grabbed a 194 after that.

Dunno about the trigrams though, mostly it's on the "token group" level for me - either the upcoming lookahead feels familiar or it doesn't, and I don't much get bothered by the specific letters as much as "oh I don't have muscle memory on that word, and it's sadly nestled between two easy words, so it's going to be a patchy bit of alternating speed".
by avi_vallarapu | 2025-06-30 04:30:59+00:00
https://www.hexarocket.com/

I am working on the world's first end-to-end Database Migration tool, supporting Oracle to PostgreSQL and MSSQL to PostgreSQL database migrations with AI for Schema Migrations. Until now, people used different tools for Schema Migration and Data Migration/Replication. During this process, we ended up building a data migration and replication tool supporting any databases between Oracle, SQL Server (MSSQL) and PostgreSQL databases.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-30 04:31:53+00:00
I self-host a few things that are important to me but likely unimportant to anyone other than me. I use the term 'homelab' because that's the use that seems to be the norm in describing various computers in a network running shit at home that, if it were in production, would be on more modern, serious and redundant hardware.

I don't experiment much these days, so 'lab' isn't quite right. But if I were to experiment then it would be using the same hardware as all the other stuff. So it's both accurate and inaccurate.

In this instance: who cares, it gets the message across to the necessary demographic - and isn't that what communication is about?

...and I'm someone who could care less about words and grammar (notice the correct use of the term, so as not to say the literal opposite of what I'm trying to say (notice the correct use of the word literal, rather than it's not-oft-used-but-oft-correctly-applicable figurative)).

I don't know the (in)correctness of the use of brackets within brackets.
by defrost | 2025-06-30 04:32:15+00:00
A little bit bigger, the starlink sats have a uniform height, the optical spy sats with the big mirrors have a similar mean orbital height but are in elliptic orbits that come in closer, then further away. The best photos are taken closer to the earth than a typical starlink sat is.

The above comment about geostationary orbits is confused .. the spy sats with mirrors relay their data out to geostationary relay sats and then back to earth ground stations.

If you're curious you can read more in the wikipedia link (and other references) I linked in a peer comment.
by hmottestad | 2025-06-30 04:33:00+00:00
I definitely have a homelab, though I’ve tried to keep mine concealed and out of the way. It’s fairly reliable, but so overkill I wouldn’t want to talk to loudly about it in fear that people would burst my tiny little bubble of justification.

I do have a really cool washing machine from Miele that has a cartridge system in the bottom so that I don’t have to measure out detergent by hand. Just press a button.

But I’m not OP.
by guiambros | 2025-06-30 04:33:27+00:00
I've been using a CGM on and off for the last year, and it has given me a whole new perspective about food and nutrition.

I discovered that a bunch of things I thought were reasonably healthy actually caused huge glycemic spikes -- e.g., white bread in the morning, croissants, dried mangos, excessive amount of fruits, etc.

I also discovered the importance of what you eat for your first meal in the day (either breakfast or lunch), or how to better order what you eat (fibers, fat and protein first, carbs last), light movement after eating reduces 20+ mg/dl, and more.

At this point I don't even need to wear a CGM every day; I can tell my glucose level just by thinking of what I ate earlier.

I still wear one when I'm traveling for work, as I know I'll have less control over food and calorie intake (airplane meals, restaurants, team lunches, etc).

ps: if you're interested in learning more even without using a CGM, strongly recommend "Glucose Revolution" [1].

[1] Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar - https://www.amazon.com/Glucose-Revolution-Life-Changing-Powe...
by larusso | 2025-06-30 04:33:34+00:00
I still run the theory that Apple has actors on staff to just “be cool at the Apple Store”. I once went into the local store during daytime in summer (my lunch break) to pick up an order. There was a very attractive young woman dancing next to the headphones seemingly testing out a pair of AirPod Max. And the rest of the store was also filled with strangely attractive persons. I wasn’t able to verify my theory because I have a work life and don’t happen to walk by an Apple Store during working hours. But in my mind I believe it would totally be Apple if they hire extra cool folk to make the store feel more hip and not empty.
by sandspar | 2025-06-30 04:34:29+00:00
That's reasonable. iPod was probably a better product overall, but I think Zune had more character. In Starcraft terms, I'd say that iPod was the pure Protoss and Zune was the primal Zerg. I guess I'd rather live on a Protoss world, but you can't deny that it'd be interesting to visit a Zerg one.
by arminiusreturns | 2025-06-30 04:34:39+00:00
Look, I know it's crazy.

My own action MMORPG (think Mordhau meets Cyberpunk meets Arma 3). It's the perfect application of everything I already know as a platform engineer, and I get to learn all the things I don't. I'm making the client foss, the assets foss, and the gameplay compelling as all getout. Non-sharded, persistent world, with different lands for different real world regions. It's a type of metaverse in truth, but some of that part I have to flesh out better on the local client side where you can do whatever, but on the server there is a storyline.

I almost applied to YC because I'm at the stage I'm close to public alpha and need funding, but instead I'm planning on crowdfunding, but the release strategy has to be tops. I'm also doing things like planning on how to scale the business itself, lots of work on the over time growth profit model, etc. So basically, instead of a thousand side projects, I have one giant project where I get to do everything with my own theorycrafting - after years of being stuck doing whatever the boards/c-suite needs, it's a taste freedom and a dream.

Been working on it since 2013...
by HaZeust | 2025-06-30 04:34:53+00:00
Great! The fun thing about social problems is that you, yourself, can make routines and picky-preferences in life to avoid most of them for yourself! You could start today by taking away HackerNews from your routine - as well as other platforms and sites that perpetuate behaviors that meet your criticisms.

If you do, you'll find that you'll stop feeling the need to project your scorn for the things you voluntarily surround yourself with!
by Calwestjobs | 2025-06-30 04:35:59+00:00
of course you can not have your whole house be build like that, but calling one room as lab is allowed in most continental europe countries.

noone cares in Russia etc, you just have to make small donation to your public official (if they even care/notice) and everything is fine,

even those pizzaboxes...

EDIT: in most countries there are devices which can not be connected to grid without electrician in any case, like PV. but again germany has balkon PV something something. so yes, exceptions are to everything.