MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by worik | 2025-06-25 20:14:04+00:00
Yes, I am in agreement

I would like to add what many non-religious people (and some "out to lunch" evangelicals) do ot understand about churches (I guess this applies to mosque and synagogue too).

The role of a church is social, not religious. There are religious elements of course, but churches would not be required if it were not for the communities they foster
by JdeBP | 2025-06-25 20:14:33+00:00
The opposite, if anything. Very little was written against the old semantics, with most of the time the supplied C library providing what was needed, and so the code that did rely upon old semantics barely got exercised. A little-used shim that had been broken wasn't noticed, in other words, until just the right combination of circumstances got the shim being used on a platform where it would break.

What there are piles of, are softwares that reinvent the C library, all too often in little bits of conditionally-compiled code that have either been reinvented or nicked from some old C library and sit unused in every platform that that application is nowadays ported to. Every time that I see a build log dutifully informing me that it has checked for <string.h> or some other thing that has been standard for 35 years I wonder (a) why that is thought to be necessary in 2025, and (b) what sort of shims would get used if the check ever failed.
by timewizard | 2025-06-25 20:14:41+00:00
> You "Yikes" because of your discomfort and lack of practice with regexes.

That's exceptionally presumptions to the point of being snotty.

> I think you are getting the causality wrong there.

Where did I imply causality? This was simply an occasion to look at the code. This is bad code. I would not pass this. What's your _justification_ for using a regex here?
by mystraline | 2025-06-25 20:14:41+00:00
At least in the US, SBUX was the primary 3rd place until they decided to remove themselves in lieu of drivethru and mobile orders... And removing chairs and tables.

To be fair, a proper 3rd place really can't be a company proper, since there's always the pressure of 'buy or leave'.

Even malls aren't sufficient, since many of them are incredibly hostile to under-18. I instead look at public libraries as the gold standard here.

It makes much more sense for cities to run the actual 3rd place, and businesses rent around the 3rd place. That way, coffee shops, restaurants, and the like can comingle as can the people.

Outside the USA, we see more of that in various areas. But folks here would likely howl socialism with a 3rd place run by the city. One can wish for better community, but alas.
by meristohm | 2025-06-25 20:14:55+00:00
Huh. Us meatbags are not just artificial intelligences, we're organic intelligences and thus more important than robots (who are not alive; even if we make golems and infuse them with "life", they are not human animals), and all of us are in training throughout our lives, so this means training on copyrighted material is fair use.

Edit: I see another commenter, presumably human, clarified: "legally-acquired copyrighted books" Even with the arguments about AI being potentially helpful to disabled humans, one healthier route is to help each other out directly instead of dividing and conquering with technology, in the name of helping. Feels like one of the aims of Capitalists is to put us each into our Matrix (1999 movie) battery capsules and bleed us dry while we're distracted.
by politelemon | 2025-06-25 20:14:59+00:00
The initial experience with LMStudio and MCP doesn't seem to be great, I think their docs could do with a happy path demo for newcomers.

Upon installing the first model offered is google/gemma-3-12b - which in fairness is pretty decent compared to others.

It's not obvious how to show the right sidebar they're talking about, it's the flask icon which turns into a collapse icon when you click it.

I set the MCP up with playwright, asked it to read the top headline from HN and it got stuck on an infinite loop of navigating to Hacker News, but doing nothing with the output.

I wanted to try it out with a few other models, but figuring out how to download new models isn't obvious either, it turned out to be the search icon. Anyway other models didn't fare much better either, some outright ignored the tools despite having the capacity for 'tool use'.
by riedel | 2025-06-25 20:16:08+00:00
Had to read up on it as it was only hear say. But apparently RWE did this after Biblis was shut down [0] . They were already deconstructing other parts and the generators were in the non-nuclear part. No clue about other sites though

[0] https://www.rwe.com/presse/rwe-power/2019-02-27-kraftwerk-bi...
by busterarm | 2025-06-25 20:16:17+00:00
You don't even have to be tech illiterate.

A former roommate of mine who is extremely tech-savvy but just fat and lonely was constantly wiring women he'd never met money.

He was constantly getting catfished on dating apps and talking all day to fake facebook profiles 2-3 hours away and they'd always have an excuse to not meet him and have their hand out for escalating amounts of money until reality hit him and he'd start over and do it again with another catfish. I moved out partly because he would miss his mortgage payments because he wired some scammer money.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 20:16:18+00:00
> folks here who were dragging the Internet Archive for controlled digital lending, just trying to be a digital library

The problem with the Internet Archive was it jumped into uncontrolled lending. Basically, there was no practical reason to buy a book that the Internet Archive would "lend" you. That simply isn't true for an LLM citing a book, which may still cause me to read it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-25 20:16:19+00:00
Was Google Search slop?

Edit: I respect your position to not engage. We can just do things regardless of those who would disagree (which is good imho when the risk of harm is low and the benefit potentially high), in this case while still adhering to the law as set forth by a court. The judicial interpretation guides that you can train if you own a copy of the work; build accordingly.

When Search Engine Services meet Large Language Models: Visions and Challenges - https://arxiv.org/html/2407.00128v1
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-25 20:16:43+00:00
While this may seem like a big issue, it's really to be expected. Asking judges to rule on new technology applied to old laws is like asking a bus driver to design an energy efficient bus motor. Judges are technicians, not scientists. They apply the law, they can't think creatively about new laws. For that, we have experts (political think-tanks). And I'm sure political think-tanks are kicking into overdrive as they realize that ramifications of this ruling. This will have an impact, but it's hard to determine what that will be. To some degree, it will disincentivize writing books. If this ruling only applies to SELLING books, then some people will make their books subscription-only, and will test this law against that (do AI companies need a perpetual subscription if they've trained an AI on a subscription-only book?). If AI companies are the primary consumers of books, and everyone just gets their information from AI, then direct-to-consumer books will cease to be a thing, and authors will sell their books directly to AI companies for $100,000 or $1,000,000.
by pmdulaney | 2025-06-25 20:16:44+00:00
The author is basically saying that autism is mo more prevalent than it was, say, 50 years ago -- it's just that we've gotten better at recognizing it.

The conspiracy theory mentality would lead one to simply assert that he is wrong. I am not a conspiracy theorist. On the other hand I AM skeptical wrt the author's assertion. It is rare for the intuition of an intelligent layman to be so significantly wrong.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-06-25 20:16:55+00:00
The linked bill [1] is pretty short and readable, so I'd encourage people to actually check it out (since the EFF article doesn't even quote from it). If you want a diff view, the "Today's Law As Amended" tab [2] shows that.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

[2] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...
by NoOn3 | 2025-06-25 20:17:25+00:00
No one unarmed was exterminated and no one say that will be exterminated. You're exaggerating. None of the unarmed people were harmed on purpose. Yes, there are crimes in war. And there are precedents when the perpetrators were arrested. Yes, some words about "existing" really don't sound nice and strange, but if you really want to figure all out, then you need to watch the original full speeches, rather than quotes selected by interested Western media. But Ukraine and West reaction is not adequate. Ukraine nationalis really comitted bloody crimes, even european court confirmed it(https://www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concerning-ukraine-2). Ukraine and the West could really fight for their territories without war by peaceful ways. Ukraine also had no plans to hold a referendum on joining NATO, although not all people who support the West and the European Union would support joining the NATO military alliance. No Russia will be able to hold the territories if the entire civilian population went on strike against it. Sorry if you're not interested in looking into this deeply and you can't be persuaded.
by bbatha | 2025-06-25 20:17:51+00:00
I'm also a fast listener. I find audio quality is the main differentiator in my ability to listen quickly or not. A podcast recorded at high quality I can listen to at 3-4x (with silence trimmed) comfortably, the second someone calls in from their phone I'm getting every 4th word and often need to go down to 2x or less. Mumbly accents are also a driver of quality but not as much, then again I rarely have trouble understanding difficult accents IRL and almost never use subtitles on TV shows/youtube to better understand the speaker. Your mileage may vary.

I understand 4-6x speakers fairly well but don't enjoy listening at that pace. If I lose focus for a couple of seconds I effectively miss a paragraph of context and my brain can't fill in the missing details.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-25 20:18:10+00:00
Disclosure: No affiliation besides sending them financial support as well as physical collections. I am a supporter, to put it mildly, because we need libraries that cannot be burned.

[section removed; refer to harshreality's context in sibling comment, which is more thorough than what I had commented]

As a reasonable person who believes one should be reasonable until they can no longer be reasonable, as a hacker, this is a green light to be unreasonable as it relates to onerous copyright regulations infringing on the commons. Copyright stakeholders took too much from the commons, and this enables people to take back (with a combination of judicial review and technology).

https://www.library.upenn.edu/news/hachette-v-internet-archi...

https://blog.archive.org/tag/controlled-digital-lending/

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by eikenberry | 2025-06-25 20:18:13+00:00
I guess this depends on how much you value repairability. To me it makes the difference between having a laptop or a desktop. A non-repairable laptop is inherently unreliable as you must return it to the manufacturer for any repairs and are without a computer for that time. That makes traditional, non-repairable, laptops something you get for mobility in addition to your desktop. Not only does this increase costs significantly but also that you need to worry about syncing when moving between the two.
by rbanffy | 2025-06-25 20:18:45+00:00
The difference between a multi-generational interstellar ship and a self-sustaining space colony is the engine. They wouldn’t need inhabitable planets - they would need raw materials to build more ships and habitats.

I’m not sure that after spending a lifetime in an ample space colony its inhabitants would feel nostalgic of the time we spent sitting on round rocks cooking around a star.
by ericmay | 2025-06-25 20:19:25+00:00
Why should some barely paid above minimal wage coffee shop manager do that work either?

There’s no magical distinction between a coffee shop manager and barista.

I’m not suggesting that a barista or even the manager have some sort of moral or legal obligation to kick some asshole out of a store. They don’t have to do it. There are options. But generally speaking we all experience uncomfortable situations and you just deal with them like an adult in the best way you know how.
Show HN: Requests-Based Google Maps Scraper
by rahulsingh34 | 2025-06-25 20:19:38+00:00
I spent a while reverse-engineering the private API so that I could scrape Google Maps in a scalable and cheap way.

Used to spend $50K/month on Google Maps data, now we only spend $1K/month and I'm making the scraper public for only $50/month.

Enjoy!
by eminence32 | 2025-06-25 20:19:42+00:00
Some years ago, "iroh" was supposed to a replacement for ipfs. However since then, they (very smartly, in my opinion) dropped those ambitions and are just focused on being a high-quality library for anyone writing a P2P app (like ipfs).

I often see projects attempting to be a universe tool to solve every possible problem, and I think the iroh folks were smart to scale back and narrow their focus
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-25 20:20:10+00:00
I don't think this is as surprising as the article makes it seem. Gene expression regulatory networks are often several layers deep. It's like

if foo: if bar: if baz: thing 1 else: thing 2 modification 1 else: thing 3

if foo has been off for millions of years, and bar and baz have not broken since then, then enabling foo brings back the whole ancient show. Plants have notoriously large genomes because they can't move around, so whenever they grow they have to adapt to the conditions in that place. It makes sense to keep a lot of old code around just in case.
by gdudeman | 2025-06-25 20:21:13+00:00
Review after 1 hour in:

Gemini CLI does not take new direction especially well. After planning, I asked it to execute and it just kept talking about the plan.

Another time when I hit escape and asked it to stop and undo the last change, it just plowed ahead.

It makes a lot of mistakes reading and writing to files.

Some, but by no means all, of the obsequious quotes from my first hour with the product: - “You’ve asked a series of excellent questions that have taken us on a deep dive ...” - “The proposed solution is not just about clarity; it’s also the most efficient and robust.”
by lumost | 2025-06-25 20:21:23+00:00
In the 2000s startup workers tended to do better financially and be better than their peers at large firms such as HP, Delll, Cisco and others. Even discounting equity, the compensation was higher. These individuals went on to start firms using the experience and money that they acquired.

If you contrast this with modern tech workers, while you can get the experience in multiple ways - you can only get the compensation at large firms. Few startups pay well enough to give employees financial freedom.

Add to this, many “startups” are simply small businesses that are pretending to grow and be tech focused.
by rrauch | 2025-06-25 20:21:34+00:00
I've been following Iroh's development for quite some time now and I have to say that I've been really impressed with what you've built so far.

At one point I'm going to use Iroh (or something heavily inspired by it) as the transport layer for a project I am working on. Can't wait.

I do have one question though while I have your attention: what was the reason you decided to use the Ed25519 public key as the NodeId directly? I mean, why not derive the NodeId from the public key instead (by hashing it for example)? Then the protocol itself would not be so tightly bound to Ed25519. A little indirection here would have been useful imho.

It's the one thing I have been wondering about Irohs design that I haven't really been able to answer by myself.

Anyways, great work! Keep it up!
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-06-25 20:21:35+00:00
Article says most of the apartments are sold, guess they’ll have to wait for someone to show up and pay cash.

Walked past it to and from work everyday in 2019 - always wondered what it was.

The building is beautiful and it gives some soul to a somewhat soulless part of SF. It rises above the Transit Center’s bald concrete lot and the twists are something you could stare at for ages.
by move-on-by | 2025-06-25 20:21:35+00:00
Oh this is a good point! Looking at my DNSSEC domain (hosted by CloudFlare) on https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com - the Inception Time and Expiration Time seems to be valid for... 3.5 days? This isn't something I look at much, but I assume that is up to the implementation. The new shortlived cert is valid for 6 days. So, from a very rough look, I expect X.509 certificate is going to be less time sensitive then DNSSEC - but only by a few days. Also, very likely to depend on implementation details. This is a great point.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 20:21:42+00:00
Sure!

Chris Lilley--one of the original PNG co-authors--has a post with an example HDR image: https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html It is about half way down, with the birthday cake. Generally, us tech nerds have phones that are capable of displaying it well. So perhaps view the page on your phone.

What you should look for is the cake, the pink tips in her hair, and the background being more vivid. For me, the pink in the cake was the big give-away.

There is also the Web Platform Tests (WPT) which we use to validate browser support: https://wpt.fyi/results/png/cicp-chunk.html?label=master&lab...

Although, that image is just a boring teal. See it live in your browser here: https://wpt.live/png/cicp-chunk.html

For an example of APNG, you can use Wikipedia's images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

But you have a bigger point: I should have live demonstrations of those things to help people understand.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-25 20:22:29+00:00
Nobody referenced any sort of committee.

Groundbreaking technologies are not created via moonshots. They’re created by decades of slog. Moonshots can launch from an unremarkable platform of slog, but the slog had to happen. You just cannot speedrun the vast majority of questions that need to be answered to power a breakthrough.

That’s why I’ll question glory-chasers who want to sit on the rocket but can’t take a few thousands of pay cut to stare for a few years at a true problem that needs solving.

Our species’ actual heroes are those who powered through the slog.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-25 20:22:35+00:00
Unironically. The new Ubuntu installer has such a piss-poor UI that I, a 33-year Linux user, could not figure out how to get it to partition my disk, and searching the web turned up nothing other than spam and video spam, until I ordered Gemini to give me gparted commands that achieved what I wanted and made the Ubuntu UI unblock itself.
by Tabular-Iceberg | 2025-06-25 20:23:11+00:00
From the video and what I've read at folklore.org it sounds more like what Agile purports to be, writing software in a tight iteration loop, trying things, getting feedback and adapting to the changing needs of the project.

I think where Agile goes wrong is people thinking that you don't need someone who is actually experienced and good at writing software like this (like Atkinson), you can just pick a random individual off the streets who a lot of the time can't even code, and have them take a theoretical course about writing software like this.
by thehappypm | 2025-06-25 20:23:41+00:00
I don’t know if there’s really that much time overhead. If I’m spending $200 on that rail ticket, I’m gonna arrive at the train station early to account for any issues I have getting there, just like an airport. I find it a little frustrating that people argue that there is zero time overhead in getting to a train station but there’s like three hours with an airplane when in fact, it’s often two hours for airlines and one for trains in reality.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 20:24:22+00:00
Polling of independents at 60/40 against should scare the shit out of the GOP, if they intend to press this.

I expect there is no desire on Trump's part for a long game, and he just took an isolated opportunity (Iranian air defenses smashed and air force suppressed) to wave the flag and look militaristic.

Limiting the strike to nuclear facilities also provides deniability to Iranian civilians that, unlike Israel, the US isn't looking for a full scale war.
by well_actulily | 2025-06-25 20:24:36+00:00
Notably the litigation-induced bankruptcy of Gawker Media (of which Jalopnik was a part) in 2016 is the reason why Jalopnik wound up owned by these private equity groups. Most of these publications are shells of their former selves, but I suppose it could be argued that a lot of written media has gone that way—Gawker-associated and otherwise.
by SonomaSays | 2025-06-25 20:25:33+00:00
You could have a hybrid business model:

Build a thing that does a complex thing elegantly (Some Deep Research Task) that is non trivial for others to setup, but many people want it.

Charge a direct access in a traditional sense [$5 per project] -- but then have the Customer link their API to the execution cost - so they basically are paying for:

"Go here and pay HN $5 to output this TASK, charge my API to get_it_done" This could be a seriously powerful tool for the Digital Consulting Services industry.

(I mean that is what its model for)

So this begs the question, will Anthropic be building in a payments mechanism for such to happen?
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-25 20:26:31+00:00
This might lead to some creators and publishers silo-ing off valuable content in tightly controlled environments. Tightly controlled in terms of both DRM used to prevent screen/web scraping and potential contractual obligations restricting use for training if granted access.

Think Blu-Ray DRM but for more than video, it's already happened with publishers and college textbooks.
by nostrademons | 2025-06-25 20:28:18+00:00
(Replying to my own comment because I've been digging and would rather search for truth than argue.) This article has more details about why this an issue now:

https://getterms.io/blog/california-invasion-of-privacy-act-...

Basically, CIPA is a 1994 law, initially aimed at landline telephones, that forbids wiretapping or recording conversations without the consent of both parties. Starting in 2024, there have been a number of lawsuits that argue that things like cookies and recorded chats should be considered wiretapping. Several of these lawsuits have been dismissed, but some are still pending, and the legislature / corporate lobbyists are trying to get ahead of the problem by explicitly exempting themselves from CIPA.

Personally I think a better solution would be to explicitly enumerate the types of tracking that are considered violations of CIPA, rather than adding a blanket exception for commercial purposes. But I also think that wave of CIPA lawsuits in the last year isn't a great trend either: one (recently dismissed) case actually did try to argue that collecting IP addresses was a "pen register", which would've criminalized running a hobby website.

https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/02/...
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-25 20:28:29+00:00
This is the attitude that holds Linux back the most. Quick, what is the #1 priority of Linux? "Being better than Windows". Not being good, great, or even amazing? No, as long as it's 0.0001% better than Windows, it can be awful!

And people will say "Yeah, but it is amazing". Then why do so many people feel the need to defend it in terms of _being better than Windows_? Clearly they prioritize the perception of being better than Windows over being actually good, because otherwise they would defend it by pointing out how good it is. Are they all just weirdos, or have they subconsciously picked up on the real but unwritten culture of Linux?