MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yakkomajuri | 2025-06-17 16:02:59+00:00
This has led to all sorts of opinions on the thread, which are all very interesting!

I do agree that just accepting this is not the way to go, and also that slowly making changes is a valid approach.

I do want to qualify though, for those who aren't in a WhatsApp-heavy country, how things work.

I looked at my latest messages and beyond all my friends and all my family, I have my accountant, my landlord, my barber, HOA, groups for birthday party invites (where you're asked to confirm attendance), a painter, etc. In many restaurants, if you want a reservation, WhatsApp is the only way. For people who work in Brazil (I work remotely for a company abroad), a lot of work communication happens on WhatsApp.

Again, this is not to say that not dong anything is the way to go! But I think abroad some people don't understand the extent to which WhatsApp is used here. Someone mentioned iMessage for instance and I don't think I know a single person who uses it. Most Brazilians have Android phones too.
by hansvm | 2025-06-17 16:03:30+00:00
> 30 cent is

Not everyone pays the same amount in taxes.

> does 30 cents (or the actual value, $3) matter?

Not hugely, but the other point is still important. If somebody takes $3 out of my back pocket a few times each hour it adds up, and when the net effect is nearly guaranteed to be a transfer of funds to OpenAI with no benefit to the taxpayer (likely a negative benefit given our usual stance on letting monopolies run amuck) I'm especially salty about it.
by rhdunn | 2025-06-17 16:03:37+00:00
The ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) [1] is my usual goto for what ARIA markup I need for custom elements, as it is clear on what the keyboard navigation, ARIA roles, ARIA states, and ARIA properties should be for a given element in a given state. That makes implementing and testing it easier than reading the core specs.

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-06-17 16:03:46+00:00
I had a similar experience on a very small dose of magic mushrooms. Significantly smaller than necessary to even have hallucinations (under 1g of dried magic mushrooms). I was filled with dread and terror and felt like I was going to die. I was told by my shrooming friend that it was probably just bad, and to take some of his good stuff. I took 1g, and again had hours of terror and dread, and thought I was going to die for several hours on end. I then had nearly constant anxiety for about a month afterward.

I think many pro-psychedelic and pro-drug people in general underestimate how much these drugs vary with people. I have a friend who will make a gram of weed into cannabutter and eat the whole thing in 1 sitting, getting about 200mg of THC at once, and not have any major problems. He was a big proponent of "there's no such thing as too much" until he saw another friend of ours have an incredibly intense panic attack on 10mg of THC. My wife has intense anxiety on as little as 2.5mg of THC, regardless of CBD and CBG levels (whether via gummies or straight plant matter); no dose can be thereputic for her.

Based on the number of people I know who have experimented with these drugs, I think there's a smokescreen effect where people who have bad experiences don't talk about it nearly as much as people who have good experiences, so it seems significantly less risky than it is. Of the 10 or so people I know personally who had a psychedelic experience, about a third of them have had bad ones. They just don't really talk about it and never want to try it again. I wouldn't say that most people should try psychedelics at least once unless I knew what the actual numbers were, otherwise I'm pushing many people into having a horrible nightmare for hours on end.
by semiquaver | 2025-06-17 16:03:50+00:00
> ChatGPT and Gemini literally only know the answer because they read StackOverflow

Obviously this isn’t true. You can easily verify this by inventing and documenting an API and feeding that description to an LLM and asking it how to use it. This works well. LLMs are quite good at reading technical documentation and synthesizing contextual answers from it.
by sceptic123 | 2025-06-17 16:03:52+00:00
You're assuming that it's an agreed and understood standard, which it really isn't. Tech savvy audiences often don't find it easy to understand that there are lots of people who don't understand things like this.

In terms of using MENU, if your audience is not English speaking then you can, and should, consider adding internationalisation and localisation as an alternative. If you have considered it for your content, it makes sense to consider it for your UI as well.
by xpe | 2025-06-17 16:04:01+00:00
Initial Operating Capability (IOC) is notably different from how many people think of Minimum Viable Product (MVP). From the Wikipedia page on IOC:

> "In general, attained when some units and/or organizations in the force structure scheduled to receive a system have received it and have the ability to employ and maintain it."

Contrast with these quotes from [1]:

> I have long defined minimum viable product as the smallest possible product that has three critical characteristics: people choose to use it or buy it; people can figure out how to use it; and we can deliver it when we need it with the resources available – also known as valuable, usable and feasible.

> I love the concept popularized by Eric Ries of the smallest possible experiment to test a specific hypothesis, but I refer to that that as an “MVP Test” so that people don’t confuse an experiment with a product.

[1]: https://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product/
by rcx141 | 2025-06-17 16:04:07+00:00
I just rented a BMW from Sixt and there was no way to disable the annoying wheel-yanking "lane departure" technology.

It showed disabled in the menu, but it was definitely still active.

So SIXT are forcing this horrible feature on everyone

A much worse feature than the one everyone complains about, the one that kills the engine when idling

In the rain, driving through roadwork, with abrupt lane changes, you have to cope with the car yanking the wheel back and forth when it can't figure out where the lanes are.
by hungryhobbit | 2025-06-17 16:04:14+00:00
I love how the article implies there's something flawed about webp at the end ... but if you click the link the only "flaw" reported is that webp isn't ubiquitous enough yet, so some sites don't support it

Perfect logic: let's not switch to webp because it's bad. Why is it bad? Not everyone has switched to it yet.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-06-17 16:04:20+00:00
Can JPEG do 3D somehow (I'm thinking VR/AR)? DVDs lasted well, until the medium itself moved to cheap NAND flash and then various SSD technologies.

When/if simple screens get usurped then we'll likely move on from JPEG.

I'm sure you were being a little flippant but your last sentence shows good insight. Someone said "we just need it to work" to me the other day and the "if it works there will be little impetus to improve it"-flag went off in my brain.
Show HN: Rssrdr.com: The simplest RSS reader on the planet
by due-rr | 2025-06-17 16:04:37+00:00
_This project has one (1) daily user. He loves it!_

Many platforms increasingly rely on algorithms and it stared to bug me.

One way to take back control is to follow RSS feeds, but I could never find a reader that I liked and worked on all my devices.

That's why initially created motherfuckingrssreader.com, kind of as a joke. That quickly grew to one daily user, who got annoyed by the long url and the profanity in the title when he wanted to read his feeds at work. So rssrdr.com was born.

I hope you like it as well :).
by Spivak | 2025-06-17 16:04:45+00:00
I mean if you define superior not in terms of its technical merits but because of its blessed status by Google. It's not a terrible format but it is very much "what is the worst quality we can reasonably get away with to save on bandwidth." Such a thing does have its uses.

At some point you have to be pragmatic and meet users where they are but doesn't mean you have to like that Google did throw their weight around in a way that only they really can.
by toast0 | 2025-06-17 16:05:04+00:00
> I've been thinking about ditching Windows as my primary OS for some years, but Wayland has been really detrimental to the Linux desktop. Over a decade later and it's still not production ready, at least in my tests. Yet X11 is dying it seems, with GNOME and KDE dropping support soon[1][2].

IMHO, Wayland will be dead before X11. There's too many things people want to do that Wayland designed out of their system. The future is likely a third system.

Probably something designed to service Win32 windowing APIs, because Win32 is basically the stable application toolkit, for better or worse.
by ksec | 2025-06-17 16:05:24+00:00
I want to add a slightly off topic point here.

This submission was originally shown as [dead]. I have no idea why, I read some of the content and seems decent enough, especially in the current state of things when JPEG-XL is blocked because of AOM / Google Chrome. I vouched for it and upvoted, then somehow it is on the front page.

I wonder if dead means somehow flagged it. If so, then why? If not, why is it dead?
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-17 16:06:48+00:00
Having stewed on this for a week, I'm even more morose over this.

I'm getting particularly salty that this is happening exactly as Android hurdles two huge integration challenges, as it goes from a standalone not-Linux-desktop single-screen computing device to something vastly more: a multi-screen capable, virtualized Linux desktop running device. Two huge leaps of integration.

This is just a maddening maddeningly crucial leap forward that Android is making right now, and it's woeful beyond words to see it making such a bold leap but leaving open-source totally behind at this exact junction, where the OS actually integrates with the hardware reasonably well/with more than the most trivial complexity for the first time ever.

This is just such a shitty shitty shitty turn of events.
by nedt | 2025-06-17 16:07:06+00:00
Yeah Microsoft can be pretty bad with that stuff. When my sons account, which was also what he used for Minecraft, was stolen I even reached out to a real person. Could they help us get the account back? No because they most protect the owner of the account. Which is even more crazy if you think about it because that would be my son and not the thief they gave the account to.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-17 16:08:24+00:00
>your old MUD

Mine was a weird one, it was actually a top-down paintball game whose "graphics" were just ascii with screen refreshes. It might even be stretching the definition of MUD to call it that but it was a text-only multiplayer game that you accessed via telnet so it just kinda got absorbed into the MUDiverse. A few weeks ago I found out that, after a 20 year hiatus and at least one moderately successful clone, it's been relaunched with a GUI frontend. paintballnet.net, there are even occasionally a few players online but when there aren't there's always bots and a shockingly deep pool of loadouts to choose from.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-06-17 16:08:48+00:00
Way back in the 20th century, Boston's passenger rail service coalesced into two mostly independent systems; a rail network north of the city, servicing the northern suburbs, and the same in the south. The southern system was the northern terminus of the intercity passenger railroad system to New York and beyond. These systems are seperated by about a mile of dense urbanization.

There was discussion during the planning of the "Big Dig" infrastructure project of the 1990s to join these systems via a tunnel, but this was rejected due to the technical complexity, and more importantly, the cost, with the politicial battle around the project as a whole.

We could have had, for example, through service between Lowell and Providence, or between Newburyport and Worcester. Amtrak could have continued the Northeast Corridor into Maine.
by tristor | 2025-06-17 16:09:07+00:00
For my extensive collection of photography, I export to JPEG-XL and then convert to JPEG for use online. Most online services, like Flickr, Instagram, et al don't support JPEG-XL, but there's almost no quality loss converting from JPEG-XL to JPEG vs exporting to JPEG directly from your digital asset management system, and storing locally in JPEG-XL works very well. Almost all desktop tools I use support JPEG-XL natively already, conversely almost nothing support WEBP.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-06-17 16:09:25+00:00
On the complete other end of the spectrum, I found deep research (whether it's actually performing searches or not) to be a significant upgrade in quality. But you need to be cool with having to wait 15-30 minutes. It's certainly not for everything, but definitely worth trying.

It tends to output significantly longer and more detailed output. So when you want that kind of thing- works well. Especially if you need up to date stuff or want to find related sources.
by vessenes | 2025-06-17 16:09:53+00:00
I'm using Pro. It's definitely a "hand it to the team and have them schedule a meeting to get back to me" speed tool. But, it "feels" better to me than o3, and significantly better than gemini/claude for that use case. I do trust it more on confabulations; my current trust hierarchy would be o3-pro -> o3 -> gemini -> claude opus -> (a bunch of stuff) -> 4o.

That said, I'd like this quality with a relatively quick tool using model; I'm not sure what else I'd want to call it "AGI" at that point.
by aidenn0 | 2025-06-17 16:10:25+00:00
There is more than enough room for 4 menus across the top of a typical mobile device. If you expect the user to need to access it regularly, you could even put it across the bottom. This is why the homescreen on most phones has 4 items across the bottom; not a single hamburger menu with "Phone, Messages, Web, ..."
by sceptic123 | 2025-06-17 16:10:32+00:00
Why not just recreate the [original experiment](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/) rather than citing a book that uses different methodology?

Given the original study shows quite comprehensively how bad a design pattern it is, it would be far more interesting to see that research repeated rather than a test on hamburger variations.
by mopsi | 2025-06-17 16:10:42+00:00
> Pissing off Russian citizens as the level of lies they keep producing for years is just unbelievable.

Radio Free Europe has maintained a strong focus on social issues, and that seems to piss off trolls the most. Stories about ordinary people and the social issues they face in everyday life are much more powerful than generic articles about politics. This story about gold mining destroying rivers is a good example: https://www.rferl.org/a/krasnoyarsk-siberia-polluted-rivers-...
by zavec | 2025-06-17 16:11:36+00:00
Now I'm trying to remember where I read the story about somebody who was in a programming class and was writing some program that took user input, and figured that it should be smart enough not to repeat curse words. So they started writing down all the curse words it should know not to say, and that was about the extent of what they had done when the teacher came around to see how everything was going.
by eightys3v3n | 2025-06-17 16:12:52+00:00
I pursonally took Vyvance brand name for over 1.5 years by opening the capsule and mixing it in a bottle of water. Never did it have a smell or taste. Even if Vyvance is manufactured with compounds that often have a smell or taste associated with them, the fact that this generic smelled almost certainly speaks to lower quality controls than the brand name based on my experience. At the very least it would speak to them choosing a component that smells over one that does not.
Show HN: I built a site to vote on ethical dilemmas like AI after-death chatbots
by sim_p | 2025-06-17 16:12:59+00:00
Hi HN,

Creator of the site here. I've always been fascinated by how people approach complex ethical questions, especially new ones created by technology that have no historical precedent. So, as a side project, I built Ethica Project. It's a simple platform to present these dilemmas, let people vote anonymously based on their country, and see how their choices compare to the global consensus. The goal is to create a living dataset of human morality and a place for thoughtful debate. The linked dilemma about AI "ghosts" is a perfect example of what I'm trying to explore. The tech stack is Next.js, hosted on Vercel, with Neon for the database. I would genuinely love to get this community's feedback on the concept, the UX/UI, and any technical suggestions you might have. What other dilemmas should I add?

Thanks for checking it out.
by ksec | 2025-06-17 16:13:14+00:00
Anywhere from 5-15% if I remember correctly depending on source material. I was at one point thinking this would make JPEG-XL and AV1F moot because all of a sudden JPEG became good enough again. But the Author of JPEG-XL suggest there is still so much JPEG-XL encoder can do to further optimise bit / quality especially in the bpp below 1.0 range.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-17 16:13:38+00:00
"Trials" by true believers who don't understand their own proposal?

We don't need trials to know if UBI can work or not. Basic economic literacy is all you need. It's like saying there's a bunch of trials that show 2+2=5. No review of the trials is required, all the statement means is the trials were incorrectly designed/run.

The concept of UBI boils down to "something for nothing", which is incoherent, practically a violation of the laws of physics. Money is not wealth. You cannot simply pass a law that magics wealth into existence. The only way to give everyone a minimum standard of wealth is via the already heavily used strategy of taking wealth away from other people who are creating it, and then hoping it doesn't bum them out so much they stop working.
by haswell | 2025-06-17 16:14:12+00:00
> What's the difference between ego death and physical death?

When the body dies, the lights go out (as far as we know). When the ego "dies" (I agree with your sibling comment that maybe the word "death" is not the right word), you can go on living your life with a fundamentally shifted perspective.

> Doesn't physical death include ego death? If so, why bother trying to kill it before then.

This line of questioning doesn't make much sense to me. Why learn language, study philosophy, form relationships, have kids, and otherwise gain life experience if we're just going to die eventually?

For the same reasons "death" is potentially a misnomer, so too is framing this as "killing" it. The ego does not "die" because it was killed. It "dies" because we realize it was never what we thought it was to begin with. Ego is an idea. A concept. A formulation of thoughts and feelings that is so pervasive in our psyche that we form beliefs about its nature despite those beliefs not withstanding rational scrutiny.

The "death" of ego is the felt sense of this truth.

Clearly there is a difference between physical death and adjusting one's beliefs based on new evidence/experience.

> If we already have "connected to everything" at home, shouldn't we take advantage of the situation while we're out?

This is a misconception about the experience of no-self. Many people hear about this concept, and draw conclusions about what such an experience means about the rest of life that are unfounded (I was one of them).

It reminds me a bit of the arguments some of my religious friends make. "Well if we all just evolved, and are the result of random chance, what's the point of living life?" as if gaining a deeper understanding of existence will somehow suddenly change what it means to be human and to have a human experience. To me, this is a nonsensical line of reasoning. Learning more about the fundamental aspects of the universe doesn't de-value life for most people. If anything, it makes it all the more fantastical.

> Because home sounds kind of boring.

I'm right there with you. Experiencing ego "death" didn't make me suddenly decide to just rot at home because I have everything I need. It didn't remove the things I'm passionate about in life or make me less likely to engage with the world and do interesting things. It didn't even remove that internal collections of thoughts and feelings that I had previously identified with as synonymous with "me".

It just changed how I understand myself, relate to those feelings, and how I relate to the world around me. In a practical sense, it helped me reframe the more distressing aspects of life and deal with my anxiety and depression in new ways.

Your questions seem to reveal a belief that experiencing no-self somehow devalues or reduces the richness of experience. In my experience, the opposite is true. It makes life richer, fuller, and more amazing. It's anything but boring.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-17 16:15:36+00:00
> I mean if you define superior not in terms of its technical merits

“Technical merits” are rarely, for anything, the sole measurement of fitness for purposes.

Even for purely internal uses, internal social, cultural, and non-technical business constraints often have a real impact on what is the best choice, and when you get out into wider uses with external uses, the non-technical factors proliferate. That's just reality.

I understand the aesthetic preference to have decisions only require considering a narrow set of technical criteria which you think should be important, but you will make suboptimal decisions in the vast majority of real-world circumstances if you pretend that the actual decision before you conforms to that aesthetic ideal.
by benjiro | 2025-06-17 16:16:21+00:00
Its more about money.

If you know that something can be done, and there is a potential market for such a project, it then becomes easier to get the funding. Chicken or the egg...

One thing we also need to point out, is that SpaceX uses like 80% of their yearly launches, for their own communication / sat service. This gave a incentive for that investment.

Is the same reason why, despite SpaceX throwing those things up constantly, there really is a big lag of competitors with reusable rockets. Its not that they where / not able to quickly get the same tech going. They simply have less market, vs what SpaceX does non-stop. So the investments are less, what in time means less fast development.

SpaceX is a bit of a strange company, partially because they used a lot of the public funds to just throw shit at the wall, and see what sticks. This resulted in them caring less if a few rockets blew up, as long as they got the data for the next one with less flaws. It becomes harder when there is more oversight of that money, or risk averse investors. Then you really want to be sure that thing goes up and come back down into one piece from the first go.

A lot of projects funding are heavily based upon the first or second try of something, and then (sometimes unwisely) funding is pulled if it was not a perfect success story.
by palata | 2025-06-17 16:16:31+00:00
What is "the hassle"? Do you mean the few seconds required to install Signal on your phone? Or do you mean converting all your friends to Signal?

I understand the latter, but for the former... it's probably faster to install Signal than to answer to a message on HN.

If everybody just installed Signal (because it's better, even if marginally), then eventually everybody would be on Signal and it would be easy to switch.