MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by os2warpman | 2025-06-23 17:45:33+00:00
Hey Xorg, your code is like, the worst in the entire galaxy spanning the entire history of mankind will you let contributors fix it?

"No" -Xorg

Hey Xorg, it's 2025 and people have really powerful GPUs so fancy-smanchy effects can be implemented that use like 1% of a GPU's horsepower but would have been considered impossible fantasy beyond the power of every supercomputer in the world combined when you were written, can you implement something to handle stuff like that?

"No" -Xorg

Hey Xorg, your code is so insecure that any instance of it should be considered a critical vulnerability of the highest severity level will you let more than the dozen or so people you have work on it?

"No" -Xorg

Hey Xorg why do my windows get all jaggedy and messed up when I wiggle that around?

"No, uh, I mean, that's called screen tearing and it's a feature" -Xorg

Hey Xorg I have three monitors and I want to run them at different resolutions, refresh rates, and fractional scaling levels. Can I do tha..

"What the hell kind of frame buffer do you have that lets you do that?" -Xorg

Hey Xorg I was going to ask if I could do that without touching any config files or using the command line because I ain't got time for that. Wait. Frame buffer? Is this 1993? Are you developing on a single headed TurboGX-equipped Sun SparcStation running the SPARC port of Linux and you have absolutely no clue about either the state of the art or the march of progress?

"Yes" -Xorg

"Wait, why are people abandoning me?" -Xorg
by nozzlegear | 2025-06-23 17:45:42+00:00
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but I think most Americans are weary of war and don't want to get involved in another – even if we're proud of our military forces. I would expect my senators to vote against approving extended involvement in an Iran conflict or war past 60 days. Furthermore, I don't think it's impossible for Congress to disapprove anymore with how polarized our politics are. Certainly any kind of boots-on-the-ground action is going to be anathema to both parties as well.
Show HN: CivicEcho, a tool to help you write emails to Congress (AGPL)
by abkhur | 2025-06-23 17:46:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I built CivicEcho, a simple and open-source tool to help people write personalized emails to their US House representative. The idea was to remove friction for people who care about issues but might hesitate to write or feel overwhelmed by the process.

It works like this: You enter your address, and it identifies your House rep automatically. Then, you choose a bill or current news topic (or enter your own topic, either via link or however else), and it provides a coherent first-draft message. You can edit freely, it's not meant to replace thoughtful writing, just make it easier. It also includes a "campaigns" feature, so you can share a prefilled message link to quickly get friends or communities involved.

I know tools like ResistBot and 5Calls exist, and they're great. CivicEcho is just slightly different. It's web-only, email-focused, and generates unique (but editable) drafts rather than templated or scripted messages, and allows sharing and tracking campaign engagement.

The stack is straightforward, Express.js, MongoDB, OpenAI API (as a pragmatic choice), with plans to eventually shift to self-hosted, open LLMs when sustainable.

It's fully open-source under AGPL. No logins. No tracking. No bullshit.

Would love any feedback, criticisms, or suggestions.

Thank you!

https://civicecho.org https://github.com/abkhur/civicecho
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-23 17:46:13+00:00
We have no caretakers in society. People that care about and watch out for society. We have only political creatures now. When I was a kid the majority of political people/institution people were caretakers. Even the political pundits on TV put those things above party. Then grifters learned to weaponize being a caretaker against the caretakers by calling them RINOs on the right, and centrists on the left. We've optimized our politicians based on snark and media propagandists that only care about their audience numbers and ran off the RINOs/centrists that were the caretakers of society.

In institutions, we ran off the caretakers/removed their roles and replaced them with optimizers and prioritized max profit/optimization over institutional caretaking.
by mcv | 2025-06-23 17:46:36+00:00
Do you think these are all accidents? Read what I wrote. The intent is clearly there.

If Hitler said "I'm not going to kill any Jews" while murdering a million Jews, would you believe he didn't have the intent to kill them? And there's plenty of people in Israel who do talk openly about destroying Palestine, destroying Gaza, killing or deporting all Palestinians, and even arguing that Palestinians aren't a real people (like Putin does with Ukrainians). All of that shows intent.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-23 17:46:54+00:00
Article II of the constititution grants the president broad authority to direct military operations, deploy troops, conduct military strikes and respond to threats to national security.

Carter deployed troops to Iran without congressional approval, Reagan deployed troops or air strikes to Grenada, Libya and Lebanon without congressional approval. George HW Bush deployed troops to Panama and Somalia without congressional authorization using executive authority and broad interpretations of the 2001 AUMF. Clinton intervened in Haiti, bombed Bosnia and Kosovo, and performed air stikes in Sudan and Afghanistan. George W Bush conducted strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen without congressional approval. Obama used troops or Airstrikes in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan and notably sent US troops into Pakistan to apprehend Osama, a sovereing country without congressional authorization. Trump hit Syria and conducted strikes in Iraq against Iran without authorization. Biden conducted strikes in Syria and Iraq and assisted Ukraine in many ways although supposedly not through direct military involvement without congressional authorization.

I’m not sure why there is a sudden argument over whether Trump should be hamstrung, delay opportunities and eliminate surprise completely by having a congressional debate over acts of war that are not declarations of war that have been performed by virtually every president in modern history. It’s just not how the US Government works and Trumps actions in this case are completely in alignment with our norms.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-23 17:47:08+00:00
Long story short: you have to adjust the model itself. Video game meshes aren't made for 3D printing and especially aren't optimized for FDM-style additive manufacturing. You have to apply the lessons you learned from mechanical 3D print prep; no freestanding objects, make sure everything connects to the base of the print. Even then, it's going to take time to get it right and you'll almost inevitably need supports if you're not using a resin vat printer.

It's a laborious process, sadly. For simpler character models (eg. Toad from Mario) it probably wouldn't be hard to fix up. If you intend to 3D print Vicar Emilia though, you've got a lot of work cut out for you.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-06-23 17:47:33+00:00
In context, entirely logical!

We have extremely pervasive health problems across the west, and many theories (you can surely think of 20), but all of them are weak under scrutiny, specifically because the phenomena are effectively impossible to isolate and pin down. You can't actually achieve a strong signal.

So if multiple studies link a low-value and/or easily replaceable additive to problems, we can remove it as a precaution.

Food colorants in particular serve _primarily_ an advertising role. In general, advertising junk food to children is often restricted and highly contested. The difference here is the child is expected to physically consume the artefact.

We should adopt a "default deny" stance and contested ingredients at least should show some kind of value. You can make a case for many preservatives. Paint is not like that.
by jacquesm | 2025-06-23 17:48:11+00:00
If there was a 'simple and obvious' solution to this I'm pretty sure I would have found it. There are no settings in my Google profile that will disable this categorically across all Google products (Mail, Drive, Search, Chat, probably others), and the ones that are there seem to be happily ignored. I don't want more of this shit I want less of it, in fact I want none of it and it is driving me nuts that Google would force this on people, charge them for it and annoy them without ever so much as a 'by your leave'. I was reasonably happy with G-Suite (or whatever they call it today) but all of this crap opens us up to security risks, potential lawsuits and breaks our workflow which we have established over many years. This is not a case of 'random user types in query into Google and is annoyed' but a case of 'whole company is continuously distracted by new and to us utterly useless (and even detrimental) google crap'. Even fixes at the organizational level did not get rid of it and it is getting worse just about every day. It now even offers to mess in conversations and in written text (that we get paid for to write).
by hinkley | 2025-06-23 17:48:22+00:00
My local library had books 1-3 and 5-6 of a series I was reading by an author who I own all of her later books. I even tried to find a copy at the local used shop, thinking I would read it and then donate it, but due to her rising star they had printed new editions in a completely different style, and size. I ended up pirating a copy of that book instead. Then bought the audio book for a book I already owned as penance.

I suspect when there are gaps that either the counterfeiters win or nobody wins.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-23 17:48:50+00:00
> I actually trust a cop to be a more impartial arbiter of what does and doesn't fit that definition than some snooty white collar worker who just has a snitching app on their phone

Arbitration is done by the NYC Dept of Environmental Protection. While it is unknown whether their workers are white collar, no evidence of snoot is manifested.
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-23 17:48:56+00:00
Interesting points, proc0. I agree that getting concrete about consciousness is key.

Regarding meditation, IPWT actually posits that states like 'emptiness' aren't functionless, but involve a dynamic restructuring of high-level information integration within the DMN/ECN. It's about optimizing predictive integrity by suppressing noisy sensory input, not a void of function. Honestly, if meditation truly achieved functionless qualia, humanity would have transcended mere existence by now!

As for qualia being orthogonal to function or why not all brain activity is conscious: IPWT’s latest version directly tackles this. Qualia arise specifically from information that undergoes deep synergistic integration in DMN 'gateways' and is then broadcast by ECN 'broadcasters' to form a 'Dominant Neural Workspace Instance'. Subconscious processes, while functional, simply don't reach this specific integration/broadcast threshold for subjective experience, which neatly sidesteps the 'philosophical zombie' conundrum. More details in our latest paper: https://zenodo.org/records/15720913
by intellectronica | 2025-06-23 17:49:58+00:00
It's so cool. I now habitually vibe-code little scripts that I can immediately run. So much nicer than having to manage environments and dependencies:

- https://everything.intellectronica.net/p/the-little-scripter

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LB7e2tKWoI

- https://github.com/intellectronica/ez-mcp
by SSchick | 2025-06-23 17:50:13+00:00
Apparently VC(1) so far, I'd assume there will be LTS support contracts and tailored enterprise features down the line; for the moment I'd assume it's just a bunch of talented devs fixing problems they've been tired off / see as long term existencial threats to the python ecosystems.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/12rk41t/astral_next...
by gruez | 2025-06-23 17:50:23+00:00
>You wouldn’t eat something you don’t know if it’s edible just because it has a nice color

Easy for you to say while writing a HN comment, but people would certainly be turned off by gray yolks[1] for instance, even if theoretically they were safe to eat.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/12/201501977/he...
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 17:50:26+00:00
cooking includes the running tap under which you peel the potatoes, the water you boil the eggs in, etc.

washing includes the 150 liters a washing machine uses or the 100 liters in a bath or shower.[3] Spraying things down with a hose really uses a lot too.

farming is the one with most variance - but some crops have a super high number of liters of water used per kg of crop harvested. 1kg of rice = 5000 liters of water! [4] For things like beef, you really need to include all the water to grow the grass too...

[3]: https://www.ariston.com/en-me/the-comfort-way/news/how-much-...

[4]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Country-average-water-co...
by neurostimulant | 2025-06-23 17:50:28+00:00
> Over here the price difference between drinking water from the tap and the cheapest bottled water is a factor ~200.

Does it take the cost of building city-wide plumbing installation and the water treatment facility into account? Someone (probably the government) have to pay for it and many 3rd world nations can't afford to pay for them except for a handful of cities (usually the capital city).
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 17:50:30+00:00
> but it's missing the point.

There was a point to that? Hopefully the Luddites being a labor movement wasn't the point, because I've never heard of it as anything else. It would be pointless to reiterate the obvious.

> Intriguing to try and reify labor rights as conservative.

The people were conservative[1]. Labor rights aren't human and cannot exhibit human attributes.

[1] And also liberal. The difference is only a matter of perspective. As you point out, it is false to think of them as being somehow different. No doubt everyone is both liberal and conservative at the same time, all the time. We use the words merely to indicate at which angle we happen to be looking at someone.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-06-23 17:50:33+00:00
I'm pretty sure often these things go forward because they are expected to fail. Your base and the single-issue voters notice and reward you for 'trying', but the general public does not really remember or care about that time 3 years ago you voted for a bill that never passed. Gives some flavors of brexit, which was not an expected or desired outcome by the PM who ultimately called the referendum.
by throitallaway | 2025-06-23 17:50:44+00:00
I always downvote this brain rot low effort crap. An article could be a dissertation containing the meaning of life itself, but if it's meme-laden I'm not reading it. I get so annoyed by oft-repeated phrases ("This is the way", "Take my upvote", "This.", "This guy Xes", "ngl") and "go brr" this is no exception.
by welshwelsh | 2025-06-23 17:50:44+00:00
The fact that there is no truck parking is not an excuse for trucks to park in the bike lane or on the sidewalk.

If an area doesn't support trucks, then deliveries need to be made without trucks. That means parking the truck far away and using a hand truck to make the delivery on foot using the sidewalks.

The shipping companies can either eat the cost, pass it on to consumers or refuse to deliver to those areas.
by dataflow | 2025-06-23 17:50:47+00:00
This function is provided only for compatibility with 16-bit Windows-based applications. Applications should store initialization information in the registry.

They literally provided the registry to solve this very problem from the days of 16-bit Windows. Holding it against them in 2025 when they have given you a perfectly good alternative for decades is rather ridiculous and is evidence for the exact opposite of what you intended.
by LeratoAustini | 2025-06-23 17:51:42+00:00
I often think about how cold our lifeforms on earth are, relative to temperatures of things in the universe. 0 Kelvin is theoretical lowest possible temp, quasars are apparently > 10 trillion Kelvin (10,000,000,000,000K), yet all life we know of is between what, 250K and 400K?
by robenkleene | 2025-06-23 17:51:44+00:00
I love this, I've been iterating on workflows like this for something like a decade now. Over time I've tried to peel back as many of my custom layers as possible, because all of those layers have a maintenance cost.

Stock Vim (without `tmux`) can actually do most of what's shared in this post with `rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -c cb -` (`vim -c cb -` is my favorite feature in Vim; I find it strange that it's so rarely used or talked about).

(Since re-running the `rg` search can be undesirable, and I often like to analyze results in a terminal before opening them in Vim. I use a custom `tmux` command to copy the output of the last command [using this trick that involves adding a Unicode character to your prompt https://ianthehenry.com/posts/tmux-copy-last-command/], then I send that into Vim with e.g., `tmux saveb - | vim -c cb -`.)
by incomingpain | 2025-06-23 17:51:45+00:00
Game character models or like the warhammer type models are hardcore for some kinds of printers. If you're using a $300 clone printer you're going to want that dialed in really well before you even attempt printing.

Then, you have alot of designers who optimize their stances and such relative to the orientation they provide. So to try to optimize it better than them is a higher skill you learn from experience.

As a begineer, go with the orientation the designed made it; within reason obviously.

>and ensure a smooth finish on my FDM printer?

After your printer is tuned well. This is all about layer height.

I would note as well, most of these intricate character prints are usually done with an SLA or SLS printer. FDM really struggles at these.
by memcg | 2025-06-23 17:52:33+00:00
I fill 5 gal bottles at a water store. Some of the 12 bottles I use are 30 years old. My kids and their friends grew up drinking from a water cooler at our house instead of sodas or juice.

When I started buying in 1993, my treated municipal water sourced from the Potomac river had a chlorine taste that seemed more noticeable in the winter. I now use unfiltered tap for coffee, tea and cooking, and barely notice any chlorine taste.
by Stratoscope | 2025-06-23 17:52:34+00:00
> Go actually compiles the code to machine code directly

True.

> so it needs to have an assembler for its compiler.

No, it doesn't need an assembler for this. As you said correctly, it compiles to machine code directly.

While it was once fairly common to use assembly as an intermediate step, very few or any modern compilers do that. They just compile directly to binary machine code.

Go does have a -S flag to generate assembly language so you can review the generated code more easily. But that assembly code isn't part of the compilation pipeline, it's just optional output for human review.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-23 17:52:55+00:00
I'm not going to get into the weeds about COVID because you said:

> the things these systems "say" are emergent phenomena ... Consensus was overwhelmingly on one side ... [those who disagree] jeopardize their license

Rephrased, it's not happening and it's good that it's happening.

Pick your side: either you want agreement in the healthcare system to be trusted because it's the result of many independent decisions pointing in the same direction, or you want a system that punishes dissent. You can't try to claim the benefits of the first whilst cheering on the second.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 17:53:24+00:00
Back in the 1990s I remember CS professors taking a very chauvinistic idea of what an "operating system" was limited to the kernel, would probably exclude a CLI interpreter like bash, never mind the rest of the userspace and would particularly exclude anything having to do with GUI even if you had kernel drivers and tons of DLLs that came with the OS to support GUIs.

Now you have Arstechnica, which should know better, which makes detailed reviews pixel-by-pixel of everything that changed between one version of MacOS and the next and seems to think the only thing that matters in an OS is the superficial things you can see, at least if the OS is MacOS.

Windows is refreshing because it has more widget sets than I can count but it doesn't matter because you can get your work done even though it is inconsistent and usually just a bit ugly. It beats Linux though, because at least in Windows if a label is 75px wide, Windows will make at least 75px of space for it, whereas in Linux nobody gets excited if it label gets clipped because they only left 55px -- they'll even close out a bug request about this as soon as you make it. But hey, Linux on a bad day looks better than the 99% percentile NFT.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-23 17:53:34+00:00
Bro, just email the bookstore. Going through a middle man designed/optimized to rip both you and the bookstore off (some SAAS bookstore site solution) of course jacks the price up.

At this point, if it's online, it's worse/crap/designed to screw you and whoever you are dealing with as much as it can get away with.
by tomsmeding | 2025-06-23 17:53:35+00:00
> Escape for some reason doesn't get sent as the escape key if it shows up next to any other keys???

Welcome to ANSI escape sequences. The left arrow key, for example, is really just <Esc>[D . You can see this stuff for yourself by running `cat >/dev/null` (cat isn't actually doing anything useful here, it's just allowing you to type without the shell getting in the way and actually, you know, making an attempt to interpret the keys you press). Press backspace to figure out which bytes are represented by 1 and which by 2 characters. 2-character sequences where the first is a caret (^) can be produced by ctrl + the second character, and correspond to the second character in ASCII minus 64. Hence ^A is byte 0x01. The escape key sends ASCII ESC, number 27, and is written ^[ .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Software distinguishes between a bare Escape key press and an ANSI escape sequence by waiting a couple of milliseconds and seeing if more bytes arrive. The number of milliseconds is often configurable, with e.g. the 'escape-time' config key in tmux and the 'ttimeoutlen' setting in vim.
by hinkley | 2025-06-23 17:54:12+00:00
When I was a kid it was still considered normal for your dog to sleep outside. Most people drew the line at chaining your dog instead of having a fence, but that was about it. My dad built an insulated doghouse for our dog rather than let her stay inside. I thought that was weird, but I was the “weird kid” so who cares what I thought.

The number of things I thought should be true at that age that finally are is baffling. Even accounting for recent regressions.
by parpfish | 2025-06-23 17:54:12+00:00
i can't help that think a big part of what made the internet special was that it wasn't for everybody back in the day.

it used to be that only certain types of people had the means and interest to be there. going there was like venturing into a world that was created and maintained by people that were all a little... weird. if you were also somebody that was also a little weird, it was a nice escape and gave a sense of belonging because the default way of being was "a little weird".

but now the internet is mainstream. the internet populus mirrors the real world populus. it's not built by and for nerds and academics and startrek obsessives anymore, it's built to serve the needs of the normal and popular people because normal people are now the modal people on the internet.

there are still pockets where you can find your weirdo kin, but you need to look for them. and the fact that you need to look for them kind of ruins the old allure where you could imagine what a parallel universe run by people like you would be like.