MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amarcheschi | 2025-06-29 19:37:00+00:00
I'm a perfume fan (hobbyist? I don't know how to name it), and I wonder if this still holds. Nowadays, the "luxury" brands such as the Arab ones, and even the "western" European niche catering to the biggest spenders are making a lot of oud fragrances, gourmands, incense perfumes... Basically anything thick, dense, almost syrupy. They don't limit to this, of course, but ouds became much more common in the last years
by blobbers | 2025-06-29 19:37:08+00:00
Jony Ive might be a genius, we've yet to see. Tim Cook couldn't get along with him anymore, he didn't respect him the way Jobs made him stand at attention.

Can Altman inspire him? Somehow I doubt it, the guy has never built a product in his life. Unclear if he's even a good investor... nobody reads the Altman essays, its PG that built the castle, Altman somehow managed to get the ear of the King.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-06-29 19:37:24+00:00
Nobody has "complete control", sure, but there's a reason Gaza doesn't have an airport (destroyed by the IDF) and can't receive aid by sea (intercepted by the IDF).

The latter happened as recently as this month; the IDF commandeered a boat delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza and arrested its passengers in international waters. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israeli-forces-commandeer-aid...
by ricardo81 | 2025-06-29 19:37:27+00:00
I've used dozens of VPS providers in the past, albeit 'low end' in this instance- they constantly change IP addresses because they're renting them, buying them, etc.

For IPv4 definitely a problem.

I maybe used around 100 VPS hosts, less well known ones beyong DO etc. I'd get a dozen IP change notices a year.

Case in point: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/160162/aio-ip-related-ipv4...
Ask HN: According to HN and r/reactjs, NextJS = bad. Yet many sites use it. Why?
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 19:38:21+00:00
Many of the biggest recently built sites use NextJS.

However, whenever I see dev comments about Next on HN, or r/reactjs, it's extremely negative sentiment.

Can anyone help me understand the disconnect between my perceived developer sentiment, and how widely adopted Next has been by some of the biggest sites in the world?

Is this a product decision forced upon devs, or are there lots of devs who love NextJS and they just stay quite on forums? If it is a product call, what are the main drivers here?
by fwip | 2025-06-29 19:38:22+00:00
Note that those rebates would be entirely killed under the current Trump budget bill [1], so we'll see what happens.

I also love the concept, it's a bunch of things I've been looking for but unable to find in the US market. The final price/availability as well as repairability are going to be the dealmakers.

[1] https://electrek.co/2025/06/28/republicans-are-trying-kill-7...
by trchek | 2025-06-29 19:38:28+00:00
I have this in French.

Despite having worked 10x harder at it than I did Portuguese or Spanish. When speaking those two languages, it’s close enough to a correct accent that people often will ask if my family is Latino or Portuguese once they hear that im American or hear my English. This hasn’t happened 5 times but so many, I just assume it will happen now.

However my experience has been different in French, even if it’s obvious I’ve worked very hard at French (C1 now), my French friends are not begging to speak to me in French unless they have limited English skills… just because my pronunciation/cadence/intonation isn’t quite right or even remotely ok, despite having much more immersion in French than those other two languages. French also feels like I’m singing at a concert rather that just conversing.

Just sometimes your culture/brain/ linguistic mix result in happy or unhappy accidents.

Edit I’m sure someone will bring up cultural differences but I have several multilingual friends .. they all say my Spanish is beautiful and nearly to a person criticize my French (in a helpful friendly manner), this is true if they’re Latin American or French. Just seriously it’s a thing, brains are weird.
by latexr | 2025-06-29 19:38:36+00:00
> The comments here confirm that, everyone is saying this isn't what they expected.

No, no they are not. That is so simple to disprove.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414508

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411237

Again, you’re only seeing what you want to see. Your opinion on Apple isn’t special or rare, it’s shared by tons of people on HN.

> If you genuinely don't think their comment is relevant to your point, then there would be no reason to write a reply to it.

So someone misunderstands or mischaracterises your point, and in your mind you should never correct and clarify the misconception, because doing so is bad faith? I mean, you do that if you want to, but that’s not what astroturfing is.
by Nextgrid | 2025-06-29 19:38:43+00:00
Who would sue, and what damages would they demonstrate in this case? Both the Linux and ZFS source is available and you are allowed and encouraged to build and use them. Redistributing binaries can be thought of caching precompiled artifacts, merely speeding up what you can already do manually (and with reproductible builds the result should be identical). Nobody loses anything.

Let's say I built a magical compiler capable of compiling a Linux+ZFS kernel in miliseconds. I put it behind a web UI which accepts a Linux tarball and ZFS tarball and spits out the compiled kernel. Because of some mysterious bug I am still trying to solve, only specific Linux and ZFS tarballs work, so I put validation to hash the uploaded tarballs and only let through the ones that are known to work.

Let's peel back the curtain: there is no magical compiler and all this is doing is hashing the input kernel & ZFS source tarballs, using it as a lookup table in a cache of precompiled binaries, and spitting out the matching one, which is currently not allowed. But let's assume the compiler was real, in this case it should be fine, even though the functionality of the system is no different.

I would at least understand if one of the licenses explicitly restricted the right to distribute ready-to-use binaries as a way to carve themselves a moat so the authors are the only ones that would be able to do it (and thus charge for it). But that's not the case here, nobody is better (or worse) off whether I waste time building it manually vs reuse someone else's earlier effort of building it.
by s_dev | 2025-06-29 19:38:48+00:00
LLMs in their current state are very useful writing tools but not necessarily good thinking tools. A programmer can be more productive because boilerplate can be generated with a prompt like other 'templating' procedures but it's just far more flexible.

I recall a professor in my university stating that there is a vast difference between knowing information and having access to information. While this distinction in the era of the internet, search engines and smart phones seems slight the distinction is becoming more and more important.

It's worth stating because we are 'knowledge' workers and pride ourselves on our ability to learn and adapt. Every technological advancement has made certain jobs redundant and yet the prophecies that people will sit around idling and twidling their thumbs has never come close to fruition.

There will always be 'work' because there are things we want to do and things we don't want to really do and work is simply the latter. We all wish to work purely to buy our future laziness even 'security' can be understood in this sense.

It will be intersting to see how our learning institutions adapt -- pretty soon CS grads will have classes on how LLMs work in theory and more so in practice -- how to prompt effectively.

I'm less fearful than many -- this is just as someone put it before 'auotmation on steroids'.
by buran77 | 2025-06-29 19:38:49+00:00
Look, I get it, you're a power user with very special needs. But the rest of the home user world is on a different page. It's funny if you think home users in general have these kinds of wants or needs just because you're a user, at home.

The data volumes, the cost even before we look at the TCO, the performance characteristics, the time/expertise requirements, the need (hassle) for proper storage and retrieval really kill the attraction of tape for home use.

For the backup (and storage as a bonus) needs of most home users cloud or external drives are unbeatable, especially in combination.
by 1propionyl | 2025-06-29 19:38:54+00:00
As someone who has gotten a lot out of psychedelics therapeutically, you are correct. Psychedelics do not in of themselves grant any insight or wisdom beyond perhaps raw experiential evidence that our senses are fallible and our perception of the world is an artifact of cognition.

Past that, psychedelics are (kaleidoscopic, funhouse) mirrors. In the hands of a curious and humble person they can (in addition to being a lot of fun shared with like-minded others) be valuable therapeutic tools for approaching firmly rooted hangups, attitudes, etc. In the hands of someone like your friend, you get what you observed.

Both are commonly occurring patterns, and if you know a person's character even a little well you can usually predict how they'll engage with and come out of the experience.

To quote Shulgin,

> The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche.
by ninalanyon | 2025-06-29 19:40:27+00:00
Of course you are quite right about the loo. In my defence I was unable to look at it to check as I'm out of the country on holiday. :-)

I have been remiss in searching for evidence about the Clarke vs Asimov question. Perhaps I'll try delegating it to ChatGPT.

I don't think that it was sexist in a pejorative anti-woman sense, in my (possibly faulty of course) memory it was said approvingly that women had solved a problem that men were struggling with.
by intended | 2025-06-29 19:40:34+00:00
Because the worker doesn't have the ability to be able to protect his interests when he is just keeping his money.

The rich are able to keep larger portions of their income, and then eventually leverage that to be patrons of political power and set the rules for themselves.

You are also not in the same category as the super rich, so theres an unspoken blurring of the terms here as well - theres no sense in considering a normal perso, or a rich person against someone like Bezos, who has the wealth of several countries.
by Frost1x | 2025-06-29 19:41:10+00:00
We can all become Amish while Bezos, Trump, etc. fly around in their privately owned 747s. Perfect society for our capital and power ownership class… that is until the hounds are at the door threatening the security of their capital or the economy downturn makes it far enough their wealth and power won’t buy the level of opulence they expect on the daily. Difficult to fly around if no one’s producing runways and jet fuel, etc.
by neilv | 2025-06-29 19:41:45+00:00
If you have mixed feelings about Calibre (e.g., powerful, but the GUI looks unpleasant to you), you can use Calibre to help you convert books to EPUB format, then put them in something like a `~/doc/` directory on your laptop, with descriptive filenames.

Then you can read on your laptop, such as with `foliate`, and also sync to an ereader that lets you mount it as USB storage, with a script for which the key part is:

cd ~/doc && rsync -crltv . "${DeviceMountPoint}/."
by int_19h | 2025-06-29 19:42:59+00:00
The German relationship with Israel is very weird, to put it mildly, and I don't mean just the official government position, but the more broad political culture.

To the best of my knowledge, they are the only Western country in which there are far left groups that proactively support Israel specifically wrt what it's doing in Gaza. And by "support" I mean e.g. posters encouraging to drop more bombs on "Hamas Nazis".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_curren...
by audunw | 2025-06-29 19:43:14+00:00
But I thought nuclear was supposed to be 100% reliable baseload that wasn’t affected by seasons in any way /s

I don’t mean to be negative about nuclear power, I just feel that in recent years in online discussions nuclear power has become this mythological source of power. We’re discussing all the challenges and issue with renewables in such detail. But the discussion of nuclear is so surface level, focusing mainly on public fear and regulations.
by zombiezen | 2025-06-29 19:43:28+00:00
Yup, as others have mentioned, it's for zb. I originally outlined some background on design goals for this blog post, but the outline for that section was as big as the outline for the rest of the post, so I cut it. I'll probably write that one up as another blog post in the near future. :)

(Also, my pronouns are she/her.)
by luckylion | 2025-06-29 19:43:47+00:00
> It's worth stating because we are 'knowledge' workers and pride ourselves on our ability to learn and adapt.

I don't think this is universally true for people working in IT. For some it definitely is, others don't care about their work and avoid learning and adapting at all cost because it's effort. They want the paycheck, but you'll need to threaten them with termination to get them to learn something new.
by blululu | 2025-06-29 19:44:04+00:00
No disagreements with the article. Best to be clear eyed as this comes down the pipe. Getting told 'we will fire you as soon as we can' is not a great workplace, but the bigger indictment of management here is that they have no plan for growth. If your people are more productive, you could invest that in more ambitious projects if you had any good ideas about new opportunities.

You look at Andy Jassy's company wide memo referenced in the article and it starts with 'we are the world's largest start up', followed by claims of increased productivity that will be applied toward cost cutting instead of growth. Most VC's would pass on a 'start up' that has such an apparent no/slow growth mentality.
by mrbonner | 2025-06-29 19:44:22+00:00
My actual usage is a mix-bag. For general tools and utilities, I often just use Nix and Home Manager. It is a pain for setting up but once you got it working, it's basically fire and forget. Whenever you need a new app, you just add that to the `home.nix` and call it a day.

Now, for language development environment, I won't use Nix and just prefer to whatever that language popular choice. For instance, in Python I use uv. For Node I use npm (or yarn or bun or whatever in fashion now), Java has mice, Rust has rustup.

It is not a one-size-fit-all solution but I am not sure if we can ever achieve that.
by dsign | 2025-06-29 19:44:41+00:00
Authors also need to unhook from Amazon, and here are some reasons why:

- They keep at least 30% of the cut, but much more if you dare to include high quality images in your e-books. That map you spend a week or two creating? It'll be a messy blur in a kindle.

- If you are not a best-seller, Amazon brings you nothing in terms of discoverability. In fact:

- the moment a potential reader lands on your book's page, Amazon will show them ads for other books. Consider that that potential reader may have come there after you paid for ads in Amazon or in some other platform, or after you spent a day doing in-person marketing at an arts fair. That's just asinine.

The discoverability issue affects me the most as a reader, since Amz keeps surfacing ten-a-dime stories that happen somewhere in USA, mention starwars three times per page, and involve werewolves.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 19:44:56+00:00
> that isn’t how you cite sources

And this isn't an academic paper. If you want to learn about Anslinger, so you don't make false claims, my link is a perfectly cromulent starting point.

> Please cite a source, or don’t, but either way, stop shilling.

Not sure you know what shilling means - I trust you can google it if you don't? If you do, what is it you believe I'm shilling?
by ninalanyon | 2025-06-29 19:45:27+00:00
I was wrong, not an infrequent occurrence. It was Asimov, as others suggested:

Here's the ChatGPT question and answer:

Which SF author wrote a story in which communication speed over astronomical distances was made faster by sending messages continually instead of waiting for a reply? In the story it was pointed out that this is how women exchange news on the telephone.

ChatGPT said:

The story you're thinking of is “My Son, the Physicist” by Isaac Asimov (1962). In it, a communications engineer struggles with the long delays of radio messages to Pluto (about 12 hours one way). His mother suggests what women do on the telephone: “Just keep talking”—transmit continuously rather than wait for a reply—effectively creating a live conversation despite the latency en.wikipedia.org+1tvtropes.org+1 .

This clever idea highlights a real aspect of human communication—especially on the phone—where continuous exchange helps bridge delays, and adapts it to an interplanetary scale. So yes, Asimov used that domestic analogy to demonstrate a practical solution to astronomical message delays.
by worik | 2025-06-29 19:46:25+00:00
> Convince me I should fund people to focus full-time on things where they can't make a living

I cannot do that.

But given that we need the labour of about 10% (give or take) of people for society to function, we need to change our economic arrangements

I think we should fund the basic meat hook realities for the common person. Accommodation, food, health care, shoes...

That is a UBI - Universal Basic Income

It will simplify so many aspects of modern life, increase our taxes, and open up many opportunities

The current system has failed to deliver anything like economic justice and needs rethinking

This will mean that people are able to "focus full-time on things where they can't make a living", rather than hustle for crusts. That is a side effect, not the purpose
by 827a | 2025-06-29 19:46:42+00:00
Sure; and a bunch of Phillips (a European company) CPAP machines (which had received full FDA clearance) killed over 500 people [1]. The J&J COVID vaccine gave over 100 people GBS [2]. We could go back to the 80s and pick on the Therac-25, which caused six incidents of severe radiation exposure or death [3]. And a thousand other examples in-between, of western made, FDA approved, vetted, and tested medicines or therapies that ended up killing people.

It would be stupid to believe that the FDA doesn't serve an important purpose. But, it would be equally daft to believe that even FDA-cleared products aren't, in fact, occasionally shady (of poor quality). It would be racist to believe that China is unique in the production of occasionally shady products; that the same things don't happen all the time in western manufacturing facilities.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/recalled-philips-ventila...

[2] https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-vaccine-guillain-bar...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
by bdesimone | 2025-06-29 19:46:45+00:00
Genuinely, didn't take it that way at all! I don't expect you to be an expert on Pomerium.

> Funnily enough, Octelium started as a sidecar ext_authz svc for Envoy instances to operate as an IaP but I ended up creating my own Golang-based IaP, Vigil, from scratch because Envoy was just nothing but pain outside HTTP-based resources.

That's really funny... we went the opposite direction as the original versions were based on a custom Go proxy. Of course there are tradeoffs either way. Envoy is blazing fast, and does great with HTTP naturally, but has a giant configuration surface area (both pro and con), but we are now having to write some pretty low level filters /protocol capabilities in envoy for the other protocols we support (SSH, MCP, and so on) in C++ which does not spark joy. So I totally feel what you are saying.

Thanks for the kind words, though I am one of the contributors my colleague did the heavy lifting on the WebAuthN side.

Genuinely happy to see the release and where you are headed on the AI/MCP side. If you (or others) are interested, I am trying to bring more light to this model in the spec if you (or others) would like to weigh in: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
by refulgentis | 2025-06-29 19:47:29+00:00
That's not true, though!

We can see the bar for 2021 is longer than 2023!

We can see the table value for 2021 is > 2023!

Screenshots, for sales, from 2nd link, i.e. what we are told to look to see 2021 < 2023: https://imgur.com/a/CpGWbWM

(although, my comment makes a hash of the whole thing and says 2021 is both < and > than 2023. Sigh.)

(n.b. not trying to be aggressive, or disagree, or make a statement about the overall premise that sales are declining. Just mildly amused by the confusion in the thread)

(my $0.02 would be that we're seeing the same general stasis that was presumed after the iPhone 6 release, but really, we just need more data (2021 was COVID stimmy high))

(but my $0.02 should be that "yeah stuff plateaued, or at least no more hypergrowth, post-2018" because this is what we were shown on the Pixel team at Google, and a little birdy told me that's how Apple thinks about it)
by userbinator | 2025-06-29 19:47:30+00:00
This sounds like a good thing, in contrast to the doom-and-gloom "scary chemicals!!!11" articles that seem to have flooded journals and news in the recent years. I believe it's basically saying there is an antioxidant effect from lotions and perfumes.

Globally, PCP usage is widespread

Skimmed the article at first, and this made me chuckle. I wonder if that was deliberate.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-29 19:47:47+00:00
I heard that from a small Italian YouTuber who does cooking videos (Tortellino) who apologized yesterday for his video that was transformed without his knowledge and consent.

Apparently his (average) Italian accent, plus simple Italian words (spaghetti and similar ones) triggered a robotic voice that "improved" his accent and translated the Italian words.

This is insane.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-06-29 19:48:04+00:00
R.D. Laing was saying the same things 50 years ago.

" We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today. In these circumstances, we have all reason to be insecure. When the ultimate basis of our world is in question, we run to different holes in the ground; we scurry into roles, statuses, identities, interpersonal relations. We attempt to live in castles that can only be in the air, because there is no firm ground in the social cosmos on which to build."

"Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world — the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities. As this external human world is almost completely and totally estranged from the inner, any personal direct awareness of the inner world already entails grave risks."
by alwa | 2025-06-29 19:48:28+00:00
For sure. I’m among them—very sensitive both to human (and animal) odors and to fragrances. For me at least it tends to be fragrances—usually synthetic ones associated with body or room products—that people are able and willing to concentrate to an overwhelming intensity.

I certainly recognize that others’ sensitivities can go the other way, and I apologize for sounding dismissive toward the distress that can cause.

And perhaps we can share a sigh over people we’ve met who like to combine a pungent personal odor along with a pungent concentration of perfume or cologne…