MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fidotron | 2025-06-10 11:57:34+00:00
The same European intellegentsia that is progressively forcing Apple to tear down the walled garden simultaneously fails to understand that this is exactly why they had it in the first place:

> You’re not affected if (and only if) . . . > You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)

At the very least they should step back and allow companies to enforce safeguards because they clearly lack the understanding or foresight to do so effectively.

The simple way for the EU to beat Meta is to stop being so cheap: break the WhatsApp dependency by actually paying properly for something that has a decent UX and doesn't track you. If you aren't willing to do this you will be exploited over and over again. TANSTAAFL
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-10 11:57:38+00:00
> I think it’s just very, very easy to create a system of people collectively doing evil things where no one person carries the burden of evil individually enough to really feel sick enough with what they’re contributing to.

Which is why I don't think punishing just the company itself is enough. The engineers, designers, PM's that implemented this should also receive punishment, sufficient enough to make anyone thinking of participating in the implementation of such systems has reason enough to feel sick, if only for their own skin. Make it clear that participating in such things carries the risk of losing your career, a lot of money, and potentially even your freedom.
by pavlov | 2025-06-10 11:58:43+00:00
I’ve always felt the same way. What’s the point of winning in a game? Why are some people so obsessed with that kind of competition? The rules are artificial, it’s somebody else’s box. You’re mostly just training yourself to accept external reward functions uncritically.

When these boxed-in competitive people age, usually money becomes their terminal external reward, but they don’t seem to know what they want to actually do with it.
by octopusRex | 2025-06-10 11:59:16+00:00
They haven't said anything. But I realized that quite a few submissions in a short amount of time were posted. AI bot scraping sounds like a good explanation.

Funny, we take it for granted that sites will stay up - I'm old enough to remember pre commercial web when there was a courtesy rule about overloading. Especially with universities where we'd wait until after hours to connect.
by subscribed | 2025-06-10 11:59:45+00:00
Many highly skilled jobs automatically gravitate towards the population centres because of the pool of the workforce available.

We have a dev team in one of the big cities of New Zealand, we need people, and we interviewed everyone available (yes, this must be on site).

When you have jobs, childcare, education, entertainment, government, etc, all inside cities, people migrate towards cities.

I wish I could move further away from the big city but I'd get paid third of my salary, my SO didn't found any openings, and I'd have to buy a second car so my kid could attend their school.

I see what you're saying but not every job is available outside.
by smaccona | 2025-06-10 11:59:59+00:00
Apple is definitely not the worst in this regard, but the most recent version of iOS to support the iPad 3rd generation (the device we are discussing which is being used as a PDF reader) is iOS 9.3.5 (a security/bugfix release on August 25, 2016 which supports the WiFi-only version of the iPad 3rd generation) or iOS 9.3.6 (also a bugfix release on July 22, 2019 which supports the WiFi+cellular version of the same device - specifically, this was a fix to keep GPS working).

The iPad 3rd generation was released in 2012, so the 2016 9.3.5 iOS release gave 4 years of security/bugfix support for the WiFi-only version of that device.
by kalaksi | 2025-06-10 12:00:27+00:00
Sure, degrees don't _guarantee_ you'll be successful. That's just a misguided expectation. You might even create constraints to help you get there.

Not all goals are misguided, and constraints can be misguided, too.

Do constraints somehow reward you more then? I've had both constraints and goals in my life, both have been rewarding and not just intrinsically.
Onlook (YC W25) Is Hiring an engineer in SF
by D_R_Farrell | 2025-06-10 12:00:39+00:00
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Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onlook/jobs/e4gHv1n-fo...

or email daniel [at] onlook.com

We're Onlook, the Cursor for Designers.

We made an open-source (18k stars) visual editor for code that lets anyone craft changes to codebases using AI on an infinite canvas. We just had a blowout launch of our latest product on HN, 10xing our traffic and making us the #1 trending Github repo in the world for 3 days in a row.

We’re looking to bring on Onlook’s first Founding Engineer to work with us in our incredibly cool office in downtown San Fransisco. You’re a full-stack engineer with experience in AI who is ready to build a generational design-led company.

The Role

This role requires autonomy – you’ll lay the foundation for an uncompromising open-source visual IDE that tens-of-thousands of engineers and designers around the world love, and help craft our AI.

The most important things we look for:

• Olympic-level dedication – you want to be the best in the world at what you do. • Ownership – you like autonomy and control over the destiny of the company. • Speed – you’re comfortable shipping and iterating quickly with feedback. • Craft – you’re opinionated and are willing to defend your opinions.

Ideally, you:

• Are looking for a fast-paced, intense startup environment. • Are willing to put in long hours and go the extra mile. • Are comfortable with any part of the stack, front-end, back-end, or database. • Believe in open source and are ok with your work being very public.

If you’d like to stand out, please share a project or piece of work that you’re most proud of. We love seeing people’s work.

Working at Onlook

We’re based in San Francisco, the startup capital of the world, and work closely together in person. We have a very cool office near South Park – it has ultra tall ceilings, tons of natural light, great restaurants and groceries stores just a block away, a full-kitchen, and even a shower. Employees get bespoke black bomber jackets with the Onlook crest embroidered on them, their own standing desk, monitor, budget for tech, and more swag.

You must be willing to move to San Francisco if you are not already here.

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by DrScientist | 2025-06-10 12:00:52+00:00
> Companies have no soul. They are, by design, just chasing revenue. Everything else is just a risk to be factored.

I disagree - companies are set up/run by people, and those people define company culture/ company culture reflects those people.

Not all companies, even big ones, are the same.

To make that concrete - if Mark Zuckerberg found out about the above activity and was appalled and sacked everyone involved that would send out a very strong signal.

Note this particular method can't be a rogue one man job - it requires coordination across multiple parts of the Meta stack - senior people had to know - which would point to a rotten culture at Meta emanating from the top.
by frenchtoast8 | 2025-06-10 12:01:17+00:00
My reading of the article is that it has nothing to do with the author's trust or lack thereof for their lawyer. I think the author would agree that you have to find a lawyer you trust, just as you need a doctor you can trust.

I trust my doctor, and if it's a minor issue like needing antibiotics for something I just accept whatever they prescribe. But if it was a life or death situation I am not going to blindly follow their advice without any questions. I ask my doctor for their recommendations but I make the final decision. They may disagree with that decision but ultimately it's my life at risk and I'm the one who suffers the consequences. As long as you are reasonable and not trying to cure cancer with fruit I hope that the majority of doctors are going to support this.

When it comes to drafting contracts or other minor issues you should just trust your lawyer. But if the lawsuit has the ability to completely end your company I think it would be a mistake to do the same. But I'm not a founder so maybe my opinion isn't worth anything here. I've only hired a lawyer once for a landlord-tenant dispute, my lawyer gave their recommendations, I disagreed with it, and they said alright it's your money, but it ultimately worked out so we were both happy. I find it interesting that the author had trouble at first finding a lawyer who would agree to this arrangement because that wasn't my experience.

If you're going to do this, you need to do your own research beforehand. In my case I read all the relevant tenant laws before I even met with the lawyer. Today I might use AI to help with that, but I would be wary of hallucinations. I think the majority of the article is about this: just using AI to help with research before meetings with your lawyer.

At the end of the article the author says they are now using AI to draft legal documents and I don't agree with that but that's just me.
by nick__m | 2025-06-10 12:01:38+00:00
Calc was not a great alternative to Desktop Excel but maybe it's better now, my opinion is 8 major version behind. But I remember that in v17 the array functions were a pale imitation of what's possible in Excel.

I also find that there is something wrong with the rendering that made the suite looks dated but again maybe it's better in v25...

I prefer the document model of writer to the word document model but it requires a more cartesian mindset. But then most people don't learn how to effectively use their word processor so maybe Words still have an edge with non technical user.

I asked a few questions to Bing and to my surprise it appears to know Calc as much as it know Excel.

Good luck to the Danish Ministry of Digitalization, we need used alternatives to the Office monopoly.
by maccard | 2025-06-10 12:01:55+00:00
I’ve been writing c++ and working in web adjacent space for 15 years. I’ve regularly thought about setting up a kickstarter for 6 months of my salary that if I reached it, I would start a patreon and work full time on Firefox, in public.

The developer of the ladybird browser has a pattern page where he makes £760/month [0]. That wouldn’t even pay rent for a 1 bed flat where I live.

If 200 people donated £10/mo, it still wouldn’t be minimum wage for me in the UK. So realistically, how much would you donate and how often?
by Jolter | 2025-06-10 12:02:29+00:00
You're assuming they don't know how to make this work -- with that assumption, of course you can claim that they won't get it to work.

If you have any evidence that they are have not staffed the IT department with the right people to make this work, yo ucan go right ahead and post it...

I think some careful optimism is warranted here. At least someone is showing some will to change the status quo, which is what I'm missing from the European leadership in general.
Show HN: Is it a startup? Idea analysis
by svrourke | 2025-06-10 12:02:41+00:00
Hey everybody, this is my first time doing this so I'm a bit nervous I'll be excoriated but here's an app I'm validating based on a prompt I found super useful with the output piped into a report format. It solves a problem I have which is overthinking my ideas and never launching anything. Let me know what you think.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-10 12:02:41+00:00
For a better article on the legal distinctions: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/does-us-law-allow-trump-sen...

To fill in the negative side of authorities, Trump cannot use the mobilized Marines to enforce US laws (aka act in a law enforcement capacity).

As you said, they are restricted to protecting federal buildings and federal agents.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-10 12:03:30+00:00
> The person I replied to here has used it repeatedly in a derisive way on HN.

I think this is kind of an interesting point, because you mention Asian people, but "American" isn't a race. To certain readings, racism is prejudice plus power. In this setup, America is a hegemon establishment power. To dismiss someone or their views just because they're from the US doesn't sound nice, and I don't see how using the term would improve the tenor or tempo of the discussion, but as you surely know, cheekiness is a common trait of Australians. That's why I brought it up, as it's well and good and arguably just to be direct and to the point about not using that kind of talk on HN, because that's what your mod hat is for. I acknowledge and respect that you're doing what you're supposed to do. I simply wanted to gently acknowledge that whatever point that they were making, however poorly it might be phrased, was part and parcel to the derision that you're speaking of. I don't know if it's a very interesting or compelling point when stripped of its emotional language, but our words perhaps say more about ourselves than that which we speak of. I think it's good to be clear about what it is that is bad, not simply that it is bad.

You know better than I what is bad posting for HN, as what might be within the norms of acceptable speech down under would make many English-speaking people blush. I think the post was more heat than light myself, but if they'd said it any other way, we wouldn't be having this interaction, which is arguably what HN is for, interacting with each other in a way that encourages curiosity about the topic and about each other.

Then again, most people aren't super curious about HN metacommentary, so I better wrap this up. Appreciate the context.
by echelon | 2025-06-10 12:03:50+00:00
> strengthen the quasi-monopoly of established players.

When are we going to break the majors up already? Google should be like seven different companies. YouTube is bigger than Netflix for Christ's sake.

Demand antitrust enforcement!

There's so much value pent up and wasted in Google today that it'll be worth more as divisible parts. They're practically giving half of the value away for free and wasting it on implementing the same thing four times before cancelling it.

And Apple and Amazon...

These giants are basically stifling the US startup ecosystem and putting a valuation cap on innovation. They're also ripping apart other industries by moving in and undercutting costs with subsidized offerings detached from the underlying economics. They're like invasive species destroying the ecosystem, eating up everything, completely immune to competition. And if that's not reason enough for you, they're putting massive wage pressure on our profession.
by Luker88 | 2025-06-10 12:03:53+00:00
I have been programming in Go for several years now and I agree, though I am not that sure even the rest of the ecosystem redeems it that much.

On the other hand, the programming languages used by LLM people seem to be python and javascript mainly.

So while I argue that they all should really move on to modern languages, I think go is still better than the I-can't-even-install-this mess of python and javascript imports without even a Dockerfile that seem to be so prevalent in LLM projects.
by smcin | 2025-06-10 12:03:56+00:00
No it doesn't do I everything I listed: doesn't do subtasks. Or sub-sub-tasks. That's why I specifically told you that.

Constructive feedback that would greatly increase its capabilities and your addressable market hurt your feelings? You solicited feedback, I'm the only person who gave you any, then you say that. What would you expect us to say to you? (There are already many existing time-trackers for invoicing that "don't suck", why not explain how yours improves over them? Is it ease-of-use? cross-platform? dashaboards? management features?)

Your homepage only talks about tracking time and logging time (by broad categories, nothing about subcategories or specific tasks or bugs). Based on what your homepage shows, Todoist does more. Then I checked your feature page, and yes Todoist does more. Just to triple-check I wasn't being unfair to you, I signed up for your trial, and checked and indeed no it doesn't do subtasks. Or sub-sub-tasks. Or most other features at: https://www.todoist.com/task-management

Your tool looks good for people who are okay with only a few broad toplevel categories to track, and don't need to manually manage a hierarchy of tasks, subtasks and their dependencies. It does the role stuff that Todoist free tier doesn't offer. They're in separate market niches.
by uselesswords | 2025-06-10 12:04:21+00:00
Since no one wants to explain and you I just got downvoted, Barry James Marshall is ironically an example of EBM and is HIMSELF an active proponent of EBM.

He had a biological hypothesis that the scientific community disagreed with and tested it on himself for a case study to get data. That case study was successful and then became a clinical trial. That trial was replicated and shown to work. He then won a Nobel prize for that work and the risk he took. This is an evidence-based process. EBM doesn’t mean you disregard a N=1, it means you expand N=1 into N=10, then N=100,… before you apply something to the general population. This is loosely how phase-1,2,3,4 trials work in the US.

Dismissing EBM because of Marshall is like dismissing all of math because someone disproved a popular conjecture like the local-to-global conjecture. Sure the community sentiment had it wrong, but the systematic logical approach of Math got it right. In Marshall’s case the community sentiment had it wrong, but the EBM approach eventually got it right. Half this thread doesn’t even know what they are arguing against.
by bombcar | 2025-06-10 12:04:29+00:00
ICE is doing immigration arrests.

LAPD/Sheriffs are doing vandalism related arrests including unlawful assembly.

CA guard is standing around federal properties. They normally don’t do arrests but they can and will do “detainments” until another agency can take over.

But the FBI is on site doing federal arrests (vandalism etc against a federal building is both a state and federal offense).
by user568439 | 2025-06-10 12:04:40+00:00
I just happen to have a 3 hours recording that needs transcription and I didn't manage with Whisper. It has 3 special characteristics:

-Huge size (400MB), it can be split but then I want a single text file with correct timestamps

- There are 3 speakers and one is speaking far from the microphone and with low voice. Whisper sometimes ignores this speaker.

- The last and more difficult is that there are 2 languages being used at the same time. The same speaker might use Dutch or English and even mix both in a sentence.

Is there a way to deal with all that?
by bjackman | 2025-06-10 12:07:08+00:00
Pretty cool!

> The reliance on VirtIO means Munal OS does not support running on real hardware yet

I think if you wanted to run it on HW, instead of running adding drivers to it a cool strategy would be to build a Linux-based system that acts as a bootloader and then starts a minimal hypervisor. Then you could keep the "virtio is the platform" thing.

It would be quite cool how you end up using VirtIO as the platform for the OS in the same way that you use WASM as the platform for applications.

For what it's worth, as a platform security nerd, unfortunately I do think we need to use the MMU. But, a cool realisation with your design is that it doesn't mean we need virtual memory, you could keep the identity mapping and just use the protection bits. Unfortunately that still takes away a big part of your simplification since now you need multiple set of pagetables, need to manage TLB flushes, etc.
by brookst | 2025-06-10 12:07:14+00:00
I agree except perhaps an over generalization.

Some companies do have soul, and some pockets within big companies do. Patagonia, of course but even some big companies like Unilever are surprisingly soulful. They’re the exception maybe, but it’s not like companies have to be amoral.

In tech, there used to be a ton of borderline hippy companies, including Apple and Google. There are probably smaller ones now, but growth and pressure and wealth does seem to squeeze the soul out of places.
Ask HN: Would a website like this be funny?
by 01-_- | 2025-06-10 12:08:02+00:00
A social platform focused on hyperlocal communication, allowing people to interact with their neighbors and nearby communities about events, alerts, businesses, complaints, tips and local initiatives.

## Problem

- Lack of a structured platform for local communication.

- Neighborhood groups on social networks are chaotic, with spam, misinformation and zero organization.

- Local businesses have little digital visibility.

- Neighbors don't know each other and miss opportunities for mutual help and community engagement.

## Solution

- A platform that organizes communication by neighborhood and theme, connects residents with local businesses, promotes safety, and strengthens the sense of community.

If you could take a moment and reply to the original post, it would help us a lot. <https://chat-to.dev/post?id=YjR3RXFkVnRPUStNTVQyd3lxZldWUT09>
by SkiFire13 | 2025-06-10 12:08:29+00:00
> or just what the guest OS is actually using should depend on the hypervisor itself.

How can the hypervisor know which memory the guest OS is actually using? It might have used some memory in the past and now no longer needs it, but from the POV of the hypervisor it might as well be used.

This is a communication problem between hypervisor and guest OS, because the hypervisor manages the physical memory but only the guest OS known how much memory should actually be used.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-10 12:08:34+00:00
The problem here is, that also larger networks (eg. student wifi at some university) uses a /64 for maybe even hundreds of students connected at the same time. Hold a lecture, tell the students to go to github to download some tool, and the first 10 will succeed, and the rest will get rate limited.

The same is true now with NAT (where they're all behind a single ip or a very small pool of IPs), but IPv6 should make these things better.
by alpaca128 | 2025-06-10 12:08:41+00:00
Their website states they search "<language> programming", so anything programming related would be counted - including content about Ada Lovelace. And the American Dental Association, which also comes up on Google when I use this query.

TIOBE also includes SQL because technically SQL is Turing complete and that's the criterion for inclusion on the index, ignoring that this isn't the real reason people are using SQL.

The more I think about this index the more my head hurts.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-10 12:09:24+00:00
> (MAO) inhibitor

That triggered my "uh-oh" alarm.

Anyone familiar with MAO inhibitors as a psych med, know that they can have really serious side effects, when you eat certain things (like chocolate or caffeine). It can kill you[0].

However, I guess that this stuff doesn't have those side effects.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539848/#:~:text=MAOIs%...
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-10 12:10:18+00:00
> It must be low enough that Meta never seriously considers to pull out of Europe.

Why? Threathening is one thing, actually leaving one of the largest markets is something different. Also, not much of value would be lost.

> Something that you can sensibly express as a fraction of the revenue of Meta is significant though.

Also, if the percentage is low, it just becomes the "cost of doing business" and not a fine that would actually make them rethink and not do stuff like that again.