MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taeric | 2025-06-24 15:07:35+00:00
Sadly, I make that largely as an assertion that I don't know how to disprove. I do remember seeing a study on it at one point, but did not save it. I think this and tires were much higher than people contend with.

At a personal level, it is just kind of eye opening to see how much lint I generate in the dryer on a regular basis. Granted, cat hair also makes up an amusingly sizeable portion of that source.

If you do find a good read that is counter to this, please share. It would not be the first thing I was personally wrong about. Probably wouldn't be the last, either. :D
by brudgers | 2025-06-24 15:07:36+00:00
I found very tedious, and ended up giving up

Technically, you paused and could restart this afternoon or next year or twenty years from now…

I've recently become interested

Unless you are guitar virtuosic, against adult standards non-beginner level Spanish guitar competence is years ahead of you. That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun (and you probably should). But doing things you don’t do well is the only way to learn. Good luck.
by troyvit | 2025-06-24 15:07:50+00:00
I agree that this is a story about a blog post. Having them both up I'd say that they complement each other pretty well. Cloudflare blocked the attack, so they have all the meaningful data, but that post is basically an ad for Cloudflare's services with a lot of details and good graphs. The Ars article provides a bit more context (like for instance why UDP attacks are effective flooding tools, not requiring handshakes), and it removes some of the chest thumping Cloudflare is doing. And I say that being a big fan of Cloudflare.

Thanks for posting the original post.
by jinlisp | 2025-06-24 15:08:04+00:00
Solving Queens using J and brute force all permutations.

randomboard =: 3 : '? (y,y) $ y' testsolution =: 4 : 0 NB. solution is a list of columns. m =. x n =. #x solution =. y A. i. n regions =. ({&m) <"1 (i. n) ,. solution distinctregions =. n -: # ~. regions adjacentregions =. 1 e. |2-/\solution distinctregions * -. adjacentregions ) findsolution =:3 : 0 board =: y ns =. 1 i.~ (board & testsolution)"0 i. !#y if. (ns = !#y) do. 'No solution found' else. echo 'Solution index is ', ": ns ns A. i. #y end. ) regions =: 4 : 0 ({&x) <"1 (i. #x) ,. y ) number2solution =: 4 : 0 y A. i. #x ) writesolution =: 4 : 0 board =. x sol =.y m1 =. m n1 =. #x count =. 0 for_a. sol do. m1 =. n1 (< count , a) } m1 count =. count + 1 end. m1 ) writewithsolution=: 4 : 0 m1 =: x writesolution y (":"1 x) ,. '|' ,. ":"1 m1 ) m =: randomboard 9 echo m writewithsolution findsolution m
by sidewndr46 | 2025-06-24 15:08:43+00:00
If everyone employed by the company is doing something that somehow contributes to revenue I think your position is correct. If a significant percentage of employees activities don't contribute to revenue, then your position isn't entirely correct. Performing layoffs of those employees should improve revenue outcomes.

But it is also incorrect to assume that since some employees don't contribute to revenue that layoffs are going to improve the companies profitability. Executives may not have the information to know exactly who to layoff. Or they may have that information, but actively chose to ignore it. But if you're willing to engage in something vaguely equivalent to the shotgun debugging of your personnel, you probably can cut more non-revenue generating staff than revenue generating staff.
by a_leontaridis | 2025-06-24 15:10:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm Alex, a student founder building Peako, a lightweight AI tool that gives startup founders instant clarity on what their team is working on—without needing constant check-ins.

The problem: In fast-moving early-stage teams, it’s hard for founders to stay in sync with what’s actually happening across dev, marketing, sales, etc. Status meetings interrupt flow, tools are siloed, and most updates are noisy or outdated.

What we built: Peako connects to your team’s existing tool stack (GitHub, Notion, Slack, Trello, etc.) and automatically generates a daily performance update that tells you:

Who’s working on what

Who’s blocked and needs help

Where momentum is building (and where it’s stalled)

It’s like having a smart operations layer that quietly tracks team progress and sends you the signal, not the noise.

Who it’s for: Small startup teams (typically <20 people), especially founders juggling product, GTM, and team management.

Why I built it: I’ve seen early teams spend hours trying to get visibility into progress—either micromanaging or flying blind. Peako aims to offer an alternative that’s calm, contextual, and automated.

Would love any feedback on:

The core idea (do you feel the pain?)

Whether it’s actually useful vs. just another dashboard

Here’s a link if you want to check it out or join the waitlist: www.trypeako.com Happy to answer questions or go deeper into how it works.

Thanks! Alex
by metadat | 2025-06-24 15:11:17+00:00
Previous discussion:

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525633 - Feb 2025 (200 comments)

And another discussion for the same link is currently underway on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366548

p.s. thank you, what a terrific resource
by amiga386 | 2025-06-24 15:11:19+00:00
SourceHut isn't under Dutch law because it's the best legal jurisdiction to run a code hosting service from. It's because the sole trader who runs this particular code hosting service personally moved to the Netherlands, so that's the easiest place for him to run his business from.

Also, this diff does not say his business has left US jurisdiction:

- before: "You must obey all local, US, and Dutch laws"

- after: "You must obey all local, US, European, and Dutch laws and regulations"
by oytis | 2025-06-24 15:11:41+00:00
I don't get his argument, and if it wasn't Martin Fowler I would just dismiss it. He admits himself that it's not an abstraction over previous activity as it was with HLLs, but rather a new activity altogether - that is prompting LLMs for non-deterministic outputs.

Even if we assume there is value in it, why should it replace (even if in part) the previous activity of reliably making computers do exactly what we want?
by diggan | 2025-06-24 15:12:29+00:00
> You don't get to opt in to the laws you like and ignore the ones you don't like.

Well, maybe you shouldn't, or maybe you should, but you definitely can if you have the technical know-how. Probably best example is ThePirateBay which people and organizations have tried to take down for more than 20 years, yet it persists.

They're quite literally still alive while still choosing what laws they want to follow.

Obviously, that you can make this choice also means you get to chose if to even expose yourself to the potential consequences of that too, as Silk Road would attest to.
by conradev | 2025-06-24 15:12:32+00:00
I find meaning in understanding ever so slightly more about the world we live in, and so I love consuming as many things and experiences as possible to have a rich understanding of myself and to some extent, humanity as a whole.

I don't like the word "consume" though. Am I consuming a surfboard or am I surfing? am I consuming a song, or am I listening to it? singing along to it? This perspective feels tired.

The entire system (evolution) is based on growth and consumption. Blame agriculture! Too much free time to consume now – we are full-time entropy farmers.
by seaports | 2025-06-24 15:12:56+00:00
Yeah this is ridiculous. One of the songs you posted has a key change so if you're saying a key change is fundamental for expression you're clearly not listening hard enough. You also didn't do a great job trying to explain the appeal of it, likely because you don't like it, as you will never be able to capture the fire like someone who does, so it just comes across as condescending. As well, likening her to "Taylor Swift but Louder" further shows your lack of knowledge about pop theory and history.

The rapidly moving pace of the music and performances in those two performances (2 of her hits, of course they're intense) is because she believes those were the more interesting/economical choices at the time. any inferences you make about the women who listen to it are purely based on your personal idea of what you decide women are thinking about on a given day.
by ravdar | 2025-06-24 15:13:32+00:00
nice! I was looking for a tool like this a while ago. All I could find were either nice paid ones or some pretty crappy free options. I have to shamefully admit I ended up using the free version of Pika and just cropped out the watermark :D Yours looks solid and free. I'd suggest adding a few things like slider for corner radius, shadows, and frames (like macOS, browser, etc.)."
by huimang | 2025-06-24 15:13:33+00:00
Ah I misunderstood. Yes that's a bit more complex. Your options boil down to a) using pkgs.autoPatchelfHook [0], b) learning some nix and writing a derivation yourself, c) using nix-ld [1]. There's also pkgs.steam-run which provides a typical environment expected for games.

A great deal of things are already packaged, but for the most part I find it pretty fast to package something. Once you write a derivation [2] or two, it's not that bad. I never packaged for other distros because they all seemed quite tedious, but the nixpkgs reference [3] lists most things and I can look at the source of similar packages in nixpkgs. It is a time commitment though to learn so it's understandable that it's not really appealing.

[0]: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-patchtools

[1]: https://blog.thalheim.io/2022/12/31/nix-ld-a-clean-solution-...

[2]: https://ayats.org/blog/nix-tuto-2

[3]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/
by 15155 | 2025-06-24 15:13:42+00:00
> modern FPGA tools have functionality

HLS is not good, so I don't know what you are referring to as "modern." I am primarily experienced with large UltraScale+ and Versal chips - nothing has changed in 15 years here.

> basically the same as for an ASIC

What does this even mean, specifically? Use RTL examples. ASIC memory access isn't "easy," either (though it is basically the "same.")

> partial reconfiguration involves swapping out accelerators for specific functions

Tell me you've never used PR without telling me. Current vendor implementations of this are terrible (with Xilinx leading the pack.)
by metalman | 2025-06-24 15:13:53+00:00
mathematics is a human construct, one among many others, such as order and chaos. One of the characteristics of human constructs is the never ending battles to redefine them as is evident in any investigation of the historical uses and definitions of these ideas. while we can point to any number of ordery things that are admired, no one can point to an orderly framework that shapes our universe, well no one who does not have that flash fryed all seeing thousand yard stare that will stay with you, which is the little game we are blithely toying with in the title of the article..........as in be carefull what questions you ask, as you just might get an answer
by Rebelgecko | 2025-06-24 15:14:32+00:00
Oh cool, I've checked cal-isos supply graphs occasionally and looked again after reading your comment. It's the first time I've noticed there being times in the night where "battery" is the main source of electricity (albeit only for an hour or two, in the early morning it falls behind gas, hydro, nuclear etc).

I'm sure that capacity is only growing going forward.
by lan321 | 2025-06-24 15:15:09+00:00
I'm not and never have been into drugs, alcohol and clubbing, so I don't know the limit.

The most I've seen was a ~1k EUR monthly budget for drugs by a person I knew whose main hobby was drugs. It's not astronomical, but we were both students in ~300 EUR/month dorms. It also affected his career progress. Lectures at 8 AM don't mix well with coke the night before.

With cars, the sky's the limit. I'm making 6 digits, and I can still ruin myself financially in a weekend.

And it's not just financially. I love motorcycles because they're cheap, but if I have a proper accident, it'd set me back months if not forever.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-24 15:15:13+00:00
The country with the most surveillance laws in the books and the most documented phone taps is probably not the most surveilled country on earth (at least, for the worst countries I expect law enforcement to just do whatever they want and not leave a paper trial because… why would they bother? Nobody is going to scrutinize them anyway).

Of course, this puts the conversation in a tricky spot. The less-bad actors (no country is great in this context) should have the most well documented abuses, the worst will just do it without bookkeeping. So it is, unfortunately, a “prove a negative” sort of thing.
by jltsiren | 2025-06-24 15:15:18+00:00
There are plenty of places where many people can afford market-rate rentals, while there is nothing they can afford to buy. That includes some major cities, where land is inherently scarce, as well as other desirable locations, where the locals have chosen to ban sufficient housing.

Rents are ultimately based on what people can afford to pay. Home prices, on the other hand, also reflect the viability of the home as an investment. If the market believes that housing will not become more affordable in the foreseeable future, homes in that area are low-risk investments, and investors will accept lower returns for their money. Home prices grow very high relative to rents. Taking a mortgage to buy then becomes the financial equivalent of taking a loan and putting the money in a savings account.

The city where I live in California is one of those places. Before Covid, home prices were high but tolerable. Then the prices jumped due to WFH, while rents grew at a much slower pace. And then interest rates went up without making a dent in home prices, making homes too expensive for those poor enough to need a substantial mortgage.
by vikingerik | 2025-06-24 15:15:20+00:00
Yeah, the headline is using "epidemic" clickbaitly just to mean widespread, not transmissible.

The classic real example of actual transmissibility was the Zip drive click of death. A bad drive would damage disks, which would in turn damage another drive they were put in. The case was rarer than people thought but did happen. https://www.grc.com/tip/codfaq4.htm
by wglb | 2025-06-24 15:15:30+00:00
When I was doing security training for the engineers at Relativity, I gave each attendee (ultimately all of engineering) the book.

I saw Cliff speak twice at the Dayton Hamvention. The first time was a retelling of his Cuckoo's Egg story, and the second time was about the joy of learning and all the marvelous things you could get at the flea market to build something.

Thanks, Cliff!
by 9rx | 2025-06-24 15:15:38+00:00
A credit card is for gaining access to the electronic payment monopoly's network[1]. BNPL is explicitly a loan. Yes, a credit card transaction may effectively turn into BNPL if you fail to complete your end of the transaction in a timely manner, but that is a hindsight outcome, not the reason for choosing the method in the first place.

[1] Nowadays you can often also use the network with other methods, like a debit card, but those alternatives still aren't universally accepted like credit cards are.
by mindslight | 2025-06-24 15:16:18+00:00
How so? The comment I was responding to made no such distinction - it merely claimed "the government is not involved". In the US, "government" is generally taken to be anybody acting under the banner of nation/state authority (contrast with say the UK). So the government is most certainly involved here - adjudicating the case and issuing this retention order.

(for example, your own comment: the executive and judicial branches [of government])
by stego-tech | 2025-06-24 15:16:26+00:00
> I'd wish there were movement for the privacy-conscious services to escape any regulation, not just choose the currently-politically-correct one.

Not possible. Anywhere that an entity is able to exist will also see some form of regulation. Regulation is the attempt of society to balance the benefits and harms of business such that its benefits reach as many people as possible, and its harms minimized or eliminated.

Too much regulation is just as bad as too little, and we have centuries of data demonstrating the need for a balanced approach.

As for the nod to piracy sites, what you’re suggesting is instead civil protesting of hostile regulations that harm society to benefit business interests. That’s excellent but the answer there is better regulations, not a lack of regulations.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-24 15:17:00+00:00
I think you need to put a number on "likely", here. 80% of all workplaces, maybe? Even that seems a little high. There are a surprising number of devs who have never even heard of auditd. It's just not the kind of thing most people come across in their day to day work unless they go digging for it, or come from a security or DevOps background or something.
by dataflow | 2025-06-24 15:17:41+00:00
Depends what you consider coercion I guess. Perhaps if you view it that way there isn't a monopoly, I'm not sure. The way I'd look at it is that you could always quit your job, and you agreed to its terms beforehand anyway, so threatening to fire you is not exactly coercion... it's more like the contract stopping to be in effect. But I'm happy to see it as not-a-monopoly if that feels more sensible. The point I was disputing wasn't the existence of a monopoly on violence by the state, but the connection between that and "all laws are ultimately backed by violence" - I just don't believe every chain ultimately leads to violence, because states can (and do) coerce people in other ways.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-24 15:18:05+00:00
Credit cards however, can be used to get free stuff from rewards.

Credit loans or payment plans can also be used to get a higher credit score, making the first item easier.

Conversely to your example of credit making cash, Cash can make you money through investing, so Credit can also be used to keep higher amounts of cash on hand when purchases are made. , e.g., buying a car on credit and using the car money to invest. But we're saying the same thing there.
by diggan | 2025-06-24 15:18:18+00:00
> Also, this diff does not say his business has left US jurisdiction:

That is true, but the commit message also says:

> v2: rollback the premature removal of compliance with US law - Will defer this until we finish shutting down the US business entity entirely.

So it seems leaving US jurisdiction is planned, it was just a bit premature so they temporarily rolled that particular change back.
by that_guy_iain | 2025-06-24 15:18:48+00:00
All privacy-conscious services are already based in countries that have privacy-conscious laws.

And most privacy-conscious services generally protect you to a certain level by the amount of data they don't keep. Mulvad, for example, when raided kept everything they had. Because they could prove that the data that the warrant was for was not stored on their equipment. PRQ, they're quite happy to work with you without knowing who you are.

If you want to keep yourself private from law enforcement or intelligence agencies, then you shouldn't be using standard services without your own layer of encryption and privacy steps in between. You're always going to be at the behest of some government, that's just how the law works.
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-24 15:18:49+00:00
For those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in

https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k

In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."
by kmeisthax | 2025-06-24 15:18:56+00:00
> Big Tech continues, after several decades, of being really quite a benign steward of society's information

> we have a bunch of unsupervised 20-something MAGA bros loading the entirety of the Federal government onto their Macbooks, that seems extremely tone deaf to me.

The latter is the direct and consequential result of the former. Elon Musk is Big Tech, and he specifically engineered Trump's second electoral victory to get back at Gavin Newsom not letting him run the California Tesla factory at full tilt during COVID. He also turned Twitter into a 24/7 far-right slop machine.

Before that, under the latter half of the Jack Dorsey regime, Twitter was a 9-to-5 liberal slop machine. And before that it was so painfully "neutral" that it let all these far-right nutjobs get a foothold on the Internet to begin with. Remember Jack Dorsey rolling out the "world leaders" policy just to justify not enforcing the rules on Trump? Or Reddit vetoing moderators of far-right subs from shutting down their own hellholes? Big Tech's stewardship of public forums ranges from "asleep at the wheel" at best to "actively malicious and incompetent" at worst.

And this is downstream of the broader disintegration of the liberal coalition. The operation of a large enterprise involves many inherently illiberal acts, and thus the business half of that coalition no longer acts as liberals. In fact, I would argue they fell away decades ago. We didn't notice because the business class had distracted us with a culture war, specifically using their stewardship of social media to amplify opposition and division.

I have plenty of complaints about the EFF, but their lobbying against Big Tech is not part of them.
by linguae | 2025-06-24 15:19:18+00:00
I’m a big Steve Jobs fan, but I’m also a fan of what I call the “interregnum” years at Apple from 1985 through 1996. Yes, Sculley, Spindler, and Amelio were not the greatest leaders, and Apple fumbled hard with Pink/Taligent, Copland, and hardware debacles such as the PowerBook 5300 and the Performa 5200/6200/5300/6300 series (1995 in particular was a disastrous year for Apple).

However, there were many wonderful things about this era. Jean Louis Gassée fought for expandable Macs, and his influence helped lead to the Macintosh II, which started a long series of expandable Macs that went unbroken until the “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro was released. System 7 might not have been the most reliable OS, but it had a wonderful UI. Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini promoted solid UI/UX principles and guidelines. HyperCard is from this time period. Apple’s Advanced Technology Group with Larry Tesler, Alan Kay, and many others worked on very interesting projects such as the Dylan programming language and the SK8 environment. OpenDoc was an interesting attempt at making a component-based software platform.

There was also this cozy, whimsical feeling of the classic Mac OS that got lost during the transition to Mac OS X, though I’m greatly appreciative of Mac OS X.

I’m a fan of “interregnum” Apple and also 1997-2011 Apple when Steve Jobs returned, but I’m not much of a fan of Tim Cook’s Apple. This is when I felt Apple has changed dramatically from its roots. Apple is financially the most successful it’s ever been, but the Mac no longer has the same feeling it once had back in the 1990s or the 2000s. Apple has gone from the Mac company to the iPhone company now.
by mrpippy | 2025-06-24 15:19:54+00:00
Note that this was the last “OldWorld” Mac (at least desktop Mac, the WallStreet PowerBook G3 was probably a bit later) where the traditional Mac ROM was in an actual hardware ROM.

“NewWorld” started with the iMac: only Open Firmware was in ROM and the classic Mac OS ROM was just a file on disk.

When a HW/SW team is shipping a new Mac and burning a ROM, that feels like an occasion to put in a picture of the team. When you’re not burning a ROM and the picture would take up space on everyone’s disk…not so much.
Show HN: I made a free scorecard to diagnose my B2B sales pitch
by lawrencecole | 2025-06-24 15:20:14+00:00
Hi HN. I'm a founder working on a sales tool. I found my own pitch was a major weak point, so I created a 10-point framework to grade it objectively based on best practices (value prop, social proof, etc.). I'm trying to validate if this is a problem other founders face. The scorecard is just a simple page with the checklist. Any feedback on the framework itself would be really appreciated.