MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by naikrovek | 2025-06-30 00:59:09+00:00
I know what it is. It is a virtual civilization populated by people, the worst species ever known to exist. And it is in this virtual civilization where people reveal their true colors, because there is no punishment for doing so. So here, you see the real identity of humanity. The real people who are underneath the facades of the people you interact with in real life.

And it's clear that the people, as they really are, are all despicable and horrible inside.

thanks for the pep talk, coach, but you're not my coach and i didn't ask for any coaching. i know what i'm dealing with. i've probably been on the internet longer than you've been alive, so i've watched the internet go from a fairly healthy place to just pile after pile of shit everywhere people interact with each other online. i've watched more and more people show up solely so they can be themselves, and more and more places appear solely for people to be unreastrainable asses to each other.
by EnnEmmEss | 2025-06-30 01:00:20+00:00
It looks like a pretty interesting product so I really hate to be that guy but the FAQ page at https://vexlio.com/faq/ straight up doesn't work (whenever I click any of the questions, it does nothing). Also, wanted to know if there was anything in the pipeline to get a Desktop application which would work offline. In several places in the enterprise world especially, I do feel there would be scope for that. I would definitely pay for a desktop version which worked offline for example.
by AngryData | 2025-06-30 01:01:24+00:00
That is no way justifies cops extra judicially breaking into ATM machines to seize the cash. Imagine if someone filed a criminal complaint about something a bank did and when the cops got a search warrant for the case they drive up to the outside ATM or go to the bank vault, break into it by force using power tools, seized all the cash inside, and then told the bank they have to file a case with the state in order to prove the money is legitimate and they own it instead of the state because some disgruntled person claimed they got scammed.
by syedkarim | 2025-06-30 01:01:57+00:00
Yes, they are on the BIS Commerce Control List. It doesn't need to be particularly advanced to be export controlled.

5A001.g Passive Coherent Location (PCL) systems or equipment, “specially designed” for detecting and tracking moving objects by measuring reflections of ambient radio frequency emissions, supplied by non-radar transmitters. Technical Note: For the purposes of 5A001.g, non-radar transmitters may include commercial radio, television or cellular telecommunications base stations.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulations-docs...
by Kranar | 2025-06-30 01:02:13+00:00
The issue is that it's impossible to formally and uniquely define the actual natural numbers, and hence it's impossible to require as part of the formal definition of some mathematical object like BB(n) to equal an actual natural number.

Yes, between you and me we know that BB(n) needs to be a natural number, but we have no way to formally and uniquely define what natural numbers are. The best we can do is come up with a formal definition of natural numbers that includes the actual natural numbers but will also include other number systems that contain mathematical objects that are infinitely big and hence are not actual natural numbers. Hence our formal definition of natural numbers will not uniquely define a single set of numbers {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}, there will be other sets of numbers such as {0, 1, 2, 3, ..., Q - 1, Q, Q + 1, ...} for some infinitely large object Q that satisfy the formal definition of natural numbers. Between you and me, we both know Q isn't an actual natural number, but what we don't know is what formal rule we need to add to our formal definition of natural numbers in order to get rid of Q. In fact, it's worse than that; we know that even if we add a rule that gets rid of Q, there will always be some other number system {0, 1, 2, 3, ..., Q* - 1, Q*, Q* + 1, ...} to take its place. No formal definition can ever uniquely define the natural numbers (unless that formal system is inconsistent).

It's also true that a model where BB(748) = Q is not the actual BB, it's some other function. The problem is that this model satisfies all of the rules of ZFC and all of the properties that ZFC says natural numbers must satisfy and hence it satisfies the formal definition of BB even though it isn't the actual BB. Remember it is impossible for the formal definition of BB to include the property that BB(n) = an actual natural number, because there is no formal definition that uniquely singles out what the actual natural numbers are. Since there exists one such model that satisfies all of the rules about BB but isn't actually the real BB then we can't use ZFC to formally prove what the value of BB(748) actually is.

What we can do is add new rules to ZFC get rid of this model, but that will only push the issue down to BB(749) or BB(750) or maybe if pick a really powerful rule we push the issue down to BB(800)... but the point stands that adding new rules only pushes the problem further down the road, it never eliminates the problem entirely.
by RobRivera | 2025-06-30 01:02:21+00:00
Still working on my video game.

I didnt realize how much overhead an sfml window draw call has, granted I have yet to target optimizing that yet.

Seems like my first candidate for multithreading; also I think the scheme I implemented for how to manage texture/sprite switching is advised against and may need to slightly refactor how I store and swap based on object state.

Yeet
by ggm | 2025-06-30 01:02:44+00:00
Leo Szilard (he's credited with theorising purposeful fission and patenting core ideas long before the Manhattan project got off the ground) wrote a long time ago about a (dys/u)topia where technocrats made the decisions. He had this idea "the bund" would fix politics by moving decision making to pure evidence based rational methods.

It wouldn't work, but when I see appeals to authority (FDA) enter the room, it's usually to feel superior because its a logical fallacy in argument but the place it actually fits (which btw, is here, in this thread) is that compliance to standards and policing them, is not "argument" it's the "you only had one job" part of the gig.

"yes Mr Kennedy, these friends of yours are very nice at parties, but unfortunately they are neither qualified, nor actually capable of fulfilling their role and so no, you won't be appointing them" is what the Bund would do.

Being able to take a compliance body oversight function and leverage it to remove adjuvents because of one paper, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is precisely whats wrong in the current politicised situation.

If people making generic cancer drugs for use in africa had to be held to the standards in the west, we'd all be better off. I have said elsewhere that if the US rejects flu vaccines because of the mercury, they should be checked for other compliance and standards, and subject to cold chain integrity shipped to economies who usually can't afford them, and can use them.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-30 01:02:53+00:00
That doesn't seem like it would be possible, if you want all the convenient hooks in VM's for them to be able to integrate with and be usable from the host system.

The solution really does seem like implementing those same hooks in non-VM environments, but preventing their actual usage behind permissions. In a VM, the permissions could genuinely be granted or denied. In a non-VM they would always be denied. But malware could never be able to tell why it was denied permission.
by lovich | 2025-06-30 01:04:20+00:00
I didn’t read into his comments to see if he had this level of nuance but the idea that billionaires shouldn’t exist is perfectly valid under a model that supports capitalism as they indicate a market failure.

Everytime someone or some organization is able to accumulate vast amounts of wealth relative to others, it’s indicative of some barrier to entry into the field that ideally we would ruthlessly innovate away.

If he meant “billionaires shouldn’t” exist as in “punish people for success” then that’s just dumb imo
by zeta0134 | 2025-06-30 01:04:33+00:00
It's an FPGA mapper made by Broke Studio, detailed here if you're curious:

https://github.com/BrokeStudio/rainbow-net/blob/master/NES/m...

In terms of capabilities, graphically it's something like MMC5 (8x8 attributes and a bunch of tile memory) while sound wise it's almost exactly VRC6. The real nifty feature though is ipcm: it can make the audio available for reading at $4011

It turns out the APU inside the NES listens to writes to $4011 to set the DPCM level, which many games use to play samples. By having the cartridge drive it for reading, I can very efficiently stream one sample of audio with the following code:

inc $4011

So I just make sure to run that regularly and hey presto, working expansion audio on the model that doesn't normally support it. It aliases a little bit, but if I'm clever about how I compose the music I can easily work around that.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-06-30 01:05:15+00:00
Yikes. Are you related to someone who invaded Vietnam? It seems like it. And I don't much see nuance in mass murder. Injecting nuance into very clear black-and-white moral situations is a common tactic of people who have done bad things. Holocaust deniers lure people into their racist views by starting with "well, it was a little more nuanced than that."

Even worse, you wanted to drive-by shut me down by saying there's "nuance" and just leaving it at that. Do you think I'm incapable of thought, or do you actually not understand the issue yourself, and that's why you refuse to take a stance either way? What specific nuances am I missing? Please, nuance the Vietnam war. Please morally justify joining the military with the purpose of invading someone else's country and killing their citizens.
by ropable | 2025-06-30 01:06:34+00:00
As someone working in infosec for a largish 2000 seat organisation - it's honestly not inaccurate. No matter how much accessible information security training we try to provide and the EDR controls we implement, >95% of our incidents involve an end-user following (sometimes extremely obvious) phishing links. And contrary to what you've said, Windows Defender (in conjunction with Airlock) has actually saved us from ransomware attacks.
by the_florist | 2025-06-30 01:06:53+00:00
I’m building an e-book reader for the web and PWA platforms:

https://flowery.app/books

The library of public domain classics is courtesy of Standard Ebooks. I publish a book every Saturday, and refine the EPUB parser and styler whenever they choke on a book. I’m currently putting the finishing touches to endnote rendering (pop-up or margin notes depending on screen width) so that next Saturday’s publication of “The Federalist Papers” does justice to the punctilious Publius.

Obligatory landing page for the paid product:

https://flowery.app/vocabulary-building
by jfengel | 2025-06-30 01:07:28+00:00
I have never seen the bed of a Cybertruck.

Not a dig at the vehicle; that's a different thing. Rather, I notice that this truck doesn't seem to spend much time as a, ya know, truck.

With other trucks it's less obvious because they don't have a built in bed cover. I suspect many of them also spent very little time trucking, at least here in this suburb. Perhaps it's different in more agricultural areas.
by absolute_unit22 | 2025-06-30 01:08:24+00:00
Thank you - appreciate it! :)

> btw do some tech twitter promos.

Yes - I have plans to do. Still relatively new to the marketing, SEO, etc world. Recently quit my job to build products (TypeQuicker is the first in line) and up until now I've only ever done software dev work.

How would you suggest to do twitter promos - just post consistently about the app features and such?
by bix6 | 2025-06-30 01:08:25+00:00
Legend!!! My buddy just got stung the other week.

Check out Eventship. Hussein is local to SD. You should also meet Fred for press.

I’ll try and remember about these in the winter. I need new booties anyways. How many mm? 2 plus 2 so 4?

https://eventship.com/
by Xixi | 2025-06-30 01:08:34+00:00
I've been working on AltStack.jp [1], a curated directory of Japanese digital services (think cloud hosting, registrars, email providers, etc.), all made and operated in Japan. It’s for anyone in Japan looking to reduce reliance on foreign (especially US-based) platforms, inspired by projects like European-Alternatives.eu.

The site itself is built with Astro, content is written in Markdown. It's still very much a work in progress: the design’s evolving, search isn’t done yet, and I’ve only scratched the surface with a handful of categories out of the dozens I have planned.

[1] https://altstack.jp/en/
by jerf | 2025-06-30 01:08:46+00:00
Channels allow for many-to-many communication.

To a first approximation, you can imagine any decently optimized concurrency primitives as being extremely highly optimized, which means on the flip side that no additional capability, like "multi-to-multi thread communication", ever comes for free versus something that doesn't offer that capability. The key to high-performance concurrency is to use as little "concurrency power" as possible.

That's not a Go-specific thing, it's a general rule.

Channels are in some sense more like the way dynamic scripting languages prioritize ease-of-use and flexibility over performance-at-all-costs. They're a very powerful primitive, and convenient in their flexibility, but also a pretty big stick to hit a problem with. Like dynamic scripting languages being suitable for many tasks despite not being the fastest things, in a lot of code they're not the performance problem, but if you are doing a ton of channel operations, and for some reason you can't do the easy thing of just sending more work at a time through them, you may need to figure out how to use simpler pieces to do what you want. A common example is, if you've just got a counter of some kind, don't send a message through a channel to another goroutine to increment it; use the atomic increment operation in the sync/atomic package.

(If you need absolute performance, you probably don't want to use Go. The runtime locks you away from the very lowest level things like memory barriers; it uses them to implement its relatively simple memory model but you can't use them directly yourself. However, it is important to be sure that you do need such things before reaching for them.)
by colinmilhaupt | 2025-06-30 01:09:58+00:00
My girlfriend recently got into making sourdough and wanted to keep a log of all her recipes. She really wanted to explore the relationships between recipe water percentage and crumb density, or proof time and oven spring, for example. I built her https://sourdoughchronicle.com - a local first bread journal that allows peer to peer recipe and results sharing. Claude + aider had a MVP built in an hour and she's loving it! Oddly enough the comparison charts haven't made it in yet, but that's the next feature on the the to-do list.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-30 01:10:36+00:00
It's still "the length of the street" better than having malware installed as root/admin. Malware in userspace is much easier to both detect and remove for the simple fact it cannot embed itself that deeply into the system (barring nation states leveraging zero days, but that's a fee levels above 'regular consumer' advice).

This method has saved me (my parents) more than a couple of times.
by tomhow | 2025-06-30 01:12:40+00:00
Previously:

Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34966909 - Feb 2023 (41 comments)

When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224 - Sept 2020 (340 comments)
by tedk-42 | 2025-06-30 01:13:02+00:00
> We need to stop destroying ocean ecosystems, not just shift the damage around. Overfishing of wild stock, habitat destruction through bottom-trawling and intensive fish farming all need to be properly looked at.

You criticise, yet don't provide any suitable recommendations or alternatives.

People like to eat fish and have done so since the beginning of our species.
by kenrick95 | 2025-06-30 01:13:23+00:00
I submitted my travel planning web application [1] few weeks ago as Show HN [2] and it received tons of feedback and ideas that resonates with me. So I'm still working on it :)

[1] https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029
by nghiatran_uit | 2025-06-30 01:14:06+00:00
I'm building an alternative to Lulu. Native macOS app, strictly follows Apple Human Interface Guidelines, powered by Network Extension for better performance. I also try to convert IPs to domains (LuLu only shows the IPs) from DNS or get the SNI on the wire. It allows you to monitor all traffic from your Mac and block it if needed.

Simple license, no subscription, perpetual license with 2 years of updates.

https://tinyshield.proxyman.com/
by denkmoon | 2025-06-30 01:14:30+00:00
welp, guess my corolla needs to last until I die. I spent about $9k usd (in australia though) on it second hand pre covid and I'm just gobsmacked at the prices of vehciles now even years post covid. I make good coin and I just can't see how non-"enthusiasts" can justify spending so much money on their vehicle. there are houses in my suburb with 3-4 of these expensive, new model cars out front.
by litbear2022 | 2025-06-30 01:15:20+00:00
Arrogant Western middle-class netizens think that residential kindergartens are more inhumane than commuting over several mountains at an altitude of more than 4,000 km every day. Because every time they see the word residential, they reflexively recall the genocide they once inflicted on Native Americans.

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64225855

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/world/canada/mass-graves-...

PS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Tibet_by_elev...

To this day, Americans visiting Xizang are subject to stricter scrutiny than visitors from other countries. the first name on the CIA Memorial Wall is Douglas Mackiernan, a man who was dramatically killed by his own ally. Shameful invader.
by tomhow | 2025-06-30 01:15:25+00:00
> What are you even talking about, bot account?

> instead of just saying random stuff like a coward.

You can't comment like this on HN, no matter what you're replying to.

You've posted many comments in this thread that are inflammatory and risk breaking the guidelines. On a topic like this one, this guideline is especially important:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

You've been asked before to make an effort to observe the guidelines. Please remind yourself of them and keep them in mind when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Nursie | 2025-06-30 01:16:35+00:00
Sometimes things need to be addressed whether there’s an alternative or not, because they are damaging.

Onshore fish-farming is being developed. I don’t know enough about it to have any idea whether it can be made compatible with animal welfare or environmental responsibility.

But it also doesn’t matter. Sometimes you’re just going to need to stop wrecking the place.
by snuxoll | 2025-06-30 01:16:37+00:00
I mean, basically every major mobile in the developed world adopted IPv6 when they were rolling out new core infrastructure to handle LTE (T-Mobile USA being notable as one of the first to go IPv6 only). When you consider the deployment of VoLTE (and now VoNR for 5G networks) in particular, rolling out IPv6 internally removes a lot of nastiness that SIP/IMS have with NAT (and CG-NAT in particular), so it's little surprise that it happened.

What surprises me more is the very mixed state of small to midsized ISPs. Sparklight (regional cable provider) still does not support IPv6 in any fashion even though it would be financially beneficial to auction off a significant portion of its v4 holdings (nearly 1.3mm addresses), deploy DNS64+NAT64 (plus CG-NAT as a fallback) and hold onto a chunk for their business customers who still need inbound v4 connectivity. My local fixed-wireless ISP that's my only real option (love them, but this is a bugbear of mine) since I moved last year only offers CG-NAT, and I know their equipment can handle v6 fine which would save them some resources (no expensive state tracking on edge equipment or dedicated CG-NAT gateways) and provide a better customer experience (multiplayer games, VoIP traffic, etc.)
by fahimf | 2025-06-30 01:16:46+00:00
I built a tool that surfaces engineering issues for my VIP customers at https://customercanary.com/. It's a layer that sits on top of our existing error tracker.

It's something I've needed for a while working in engineering teams in B2B SaaS. Currently technical co-founder of AdQuick.com, an outdoor advertising marketplace backed by Initialized.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-30 01:17:19+00:00
And here comes the obligatory "crypto scam, bad" troglodyte who can't say or think of anything about cryptocurrency with the least bit of nuance for how laws, basic financial definitions or practical use cases work.

Why not specify how people using their own money to set up an ATM that dispenses cash for crypto to those willing to exchange one or the other with their OWN money is a scam. Bitcoin itself is also a scam you say? Pray tell, how? By existing as a decentralized cryptographic system of fungible units that the market in general ascribes shifting value to and people happen to be able to exchange? Well shit, that sounds similar to many things that most of the world uses for economic exchange. They're all scams too?

Why not at least argue something semi-coherent?
by xyst | 2025-06-30 01:17:59+00:00
~2 years ago, Reddit was cracking down on this type of usage. This lead to a mass exodus of users to lemmynet and other decentralized platforms.

What makes you special in this aspect? Seems you are small fish now, but if your niche project picks up steam. Nothing to stop them from cutting you off or forcing you to court/injunction and waste your personal resources.
by jfengel | 2025-06-30 01:18:52+00:00
Republican governors will demand the aid and sometimes get it, but at the federal level it doesn't count against them to deny the aid. What are the constituents going to do, vote for a Democrat?

There may come a day when they have saved up enough grievance against the Republicans to look for an alternative. But right now they have a solid foundation of anti-woke grievance and they can be counted on to keep voting the same way.
by fzeroracer | 2025-06-30 01:19:32+00:00
Well, the key thing is that many of them don't expect to live longer than 20 years, which means its strongly in their self interest to instead grab as much power, money and influence NOW no matter the cost.

It's not an understatement to say a lot of the ultra wealthy almost belong to a cult of nihilism either. We've ceded power to people who only care about things in the immediate future and the end result is disasterous.
by sdenton4 | 2025-06-30 01:19:33+00:00
You take the branch with the stronger smell to get home. The branching point is where the trail divides, as different groups branch out, and thus the way home has more pheromones. Follow the trail and you don't need to remember the direction...

Many animals detect and interpret smells as chemical gradients. We don't have the hardware for it, but plenty of others do.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-30 01:19:50+00:00
Where I work has recently implemented Airlock and my laptop feels a lot less responsive since. I'm aware of the whole security trade-off, just wondering how noticeable it has been in your organisation, if at all?

Having said that, two things worth considering in my case:

1. My laptop is relatively old and, I think, overdue for replacement (8GB RAM, really?)

2. Windows Defender + Airlock + CrowdStrike + Netskope + Nessus seems an expectedly heavy load on a system