MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-06-23 19:29:08+00:00
Being a programmer is not about configuring your development environment. It never has been. I know a relatively accomplished programmer whose preferred development environment is Unix with the ex editor, and plenty of beginners whose whizbang IDEs completely fail to compensate for their lack of understanding.

That's not to say that tooling doesn't matter at all. Just that, historically, it's been a relatively minor factor. Maybe LLMs have changed that, or are about to.

An athlete with shoes for a different sport might run 5% slower. In a winner-takes-all competitive environment, that's fatal; a sprinter that ran 5% slower than the gold medalist is just another loser. Most programmers, however, win by collaboration, and on a relatively smooth fitness landscape, not a winner-takes-all spike. Even in winner-takes-all regions like startups, failure always results from bigger errors. I think nobody has ever said, "My startup would have succeeded if we'd used Dvorak keyboards instead of QWERTY", or vim instead of VSCode, or vice versa. It's always things like feuding cofounders, loss of motivation, never finding product-market fit, etc.
Show HN: Screenshock.me – Zap yourself into being productive with browser AI
by grbsh | 2025-06-23 19:29:45+00:00
I recently got the Pavlok, a wrist worn device that is capable of delivering a shock (intended for negative reinforcement of behaviors). But, you have to manually trigger it yourself. So, I decided to continuously record my screen and use vision AI (via gemini-flash) to detect lapses in focus and trigger the negative stimulus via the Pavlok API.

It's 100% browser based -- super simple to try. For those who don't have the device, you can still try it in your browser -- just select "loud beep (through computer)".

It's also open-source: https://github.com/gr-b/screenshockme
by xp84 | 2025-06-23 19:30:11+00:00
> a reasonable option to function in society that doesn’t involve a large wealth transfer to facebook

There are so many people out there functioning in society just fine without Facebook. And Facebook tried to have an ad-free Facebook product for EU where people could just pay money for the services they apparently depend on -- a perfectly fair transaction, and the EU fined them for that, now mandating that Facebook has to offer a product to EU users for €0 but is only allowed to monetize it with ads that no advertiser would buy because untargeted ads are a waste of money. See the banner ads of the late 90s. Or I suppose the EU regulators would also be satisfied if FB just provided the services to Europeans as a charity.

I don't have a personal dog in the race, and don't own any shares of Meta, but I think the regulators don't know what they're doing, and as such, would prefer that they don't go too far in the area of social media, advertising and tracking until they figure it out.
by quintes | 2025-06-23 19:30:23+00:00
I have gmail and don’t use Gemini in it, it appears to be out of the way enough.

I have a Google workspace as well and Gemini was recently included. I don’t really see it bugging me to much. In the Gemini console (Gemini.google.com??) it works quite nice and I actually find I use it more than I’d have thought, positively
by ekidd | 2025-06-23 19:30:30+00:00
I've translated code from Ruby to Python, and other code from Rust to Python.

Rust's speed advantages typically come from one of a few places:

1. Fast start-up times, thanks to pre-compiled native binaries.

2. Large amounts of CPU-level concurrency with many fewer bugs. I'm willing to do ridiculous threading tricks in Rust I wouldn't dare try in C++.

3. Much lower levels of malloc/free in Rust compared to some high-level languages, especially if you're willing to work a little for it. Calling malloc in a multithreaded system is basically like watching the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive fail. Also, Rust encourages abusing the stack to a ridiculous degree, which further reduces allocation. It's hard to "invisibly" call malloc in Rust, even compared to a language like C++.

4. For better or worse, Rust exposes a lot of the machinery behind memory layout and passing references. This means there's a permanent "Rust tax" where you ask yourself "Do I pass this by value or reference? Who owns this, and who just borrows is?" But the payoff for that work is good memory locality.

So if you put in a modest amount of effort, it's fairly easy to make Rust run surprisingly fast. It's not an absolute guarantee, and there are couple of traps for the unwary (like accidentally forgetting to buffer I/O, or benchmarking debug binaries).
by Spivak | 2025-06-23 19:30:58+00:00
So as a comparison I asked AI to translate the text as closely as possible to modern English. Which I know is the task given to the students but the text isn't hard once it's in roughly your native tongue, it's just written using unfamiliar prose.

> LONDON. The Michaelmas term recently ended, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Relentless November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had just recently pulled back from the surface of the earth, and it wouldn't be surprising to encounter a Megalosaurus, about forty feet long, waddling like an elephant-sized lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke hanging low from chimney tops, creating a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as large as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might think, for the death of the sun. Dogs, unrecognizable in the mire. Horses, barely better; splashed up to their very blinders. Pedestrians, bumping into one another's umbrellas, in a widespread outbreak of bad temper, and losing their footing at street corners, where tens of thousands of other pedestrians have been slipping and sliding since daybreak (if this day ever broke), adding new layers to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking stubbornly to the pavement at those points, and building up with compound interest.

The Feast of St. Michael's just ended. Some guy who is roughly akin to the Chief Justice of The Supreme Court is chilling at what is basically "The Supreme Court Building" (The US was so creative with the name). It's raining, a lot. Everything is muddy. Dickens when writing this clearly had just learned recently what a Megalosaurus is. Oh my god Dickens is so pretentious describing chimneys doing absolutely nothing special. The dogs and horses are covered in mud. The people are struggling to get around and are becoming frustrated at one another. The mud is building up on the pavement because of all the people tracking it.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-23 19:31:03+00:00
In case anyone were wondering: delta 8/9 THC were/are de facto decriminalized in TX because of the exception that substances originating from hemp are okay while ordinary marijuana plants are still illegal. It's inconsistent and silly. In practice, ordinary marijuana has entered gray market status as it is sometimes for sale in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio in some small shops.

The war on drugs continues because there's police and prison money and status gained by maintaining the status quo.
by renewiltord | 2025-06-23 19:31:16+00:00
I'm not romanticizing it. I'm saying that it's optimal for me that lots of smart conscientious people get limited job opportunities because then they will do small things to excellence rather than pursue personal gain. This is good for me because I get to experience the results of these. The guy who would be a great engineer, quant, or business leader will end up making rice wine and so I get great rice wine. I don't want to be limited like that, though. I want to be sorted into my zone of excellence and then enjoy the positive externalities from the smart and unfairly limited.
by cauch | 2025-06-23 19:31:22+00:00
I think a big fraction (the majority) of people who hold the belief that private market is more efficient are also saying things like "you should not do X or the private companies will just go in another country where they don't impose X", with X being usually a thing beneficial for the community/society (collecting fair tax, protecting the employees, protecting the environment, redistributing the money towards basic infrastructure where people cannot afford them, making sure the market is fair, ...). Trying to avoid any of those X is usually morally questionable (and on top of that there is the fact that they will not hesitate to turn their back to the country that provided the environment were they were able to be successful).

So, a lot of these people who hold this belief are agreeing (not explicitly, they just know it's true but don't want to say it out loud) that rich people are doing what is better for them, not what is better for the society. Which is why people view negatively rich people who profit from government tax incentive.

I think you summarize my understanding on why using tax incentives are seen as a negative trait with the sentence

> We want to softly encourage some behaviors and discourage others

If you have to encourage behaviors that are good for the society and discourage behaviors that are bad for the society, it means that some people, without these incentives, will prefer to do the "bad" behaviors rather than the "good" behaviors. I understand that people will not like these people.

Again, tax incentives are totally useless if the rich people are people with normal moral who will naturally try to do the correct thing. The government, not you, is already choosing the domain where it applies tax incentives. So the argument that you don't want to give tax because you think you will do a better job at choosing the project than the government does not hold: if you are doing something where the government provides a tax incentive, you are doing something that the government wanted to be done. And the government is also more than happy to get good advice and support on such projects, but again, there, those generous rich people are not doing anything despite their nice posture. If indeed they don't trust the government to do "good things", it's funny that they don't do them themselves and instead jump on the first tax incentive opportunity. Posture is cheap, but when it comes to invest extra, without government help, for something that is "good", there is no one remaining from the group of the people who explains that a government collecting tax is not a good way to have nice things done.
by aristofun | 2025-06-23 19:32:03+00:00
All those "nice guys" vouching for negotiations — you have absolutely no idea who are we dealing with here.

Only street laws and rules apply to them. They see negotiations as weakness, nothing more. History proved many times - you don't negotiate with tyrans and bloody dictators. Period.

If you have enough brain to crack leetcode puzzles, why can't you nail that?
by favorited | 2025-06-23 19:32:26+00:00
Oh man, this is great timing – I played the hell out of this game in middle school, and I've recently been investigating either getting it running on modern hardware. I got it installed & launching inside an XP VM, but that is (unsurprisingly) not ideal.

I've been thinking about building a retro gaming PC for these kinds of games, and now I can kick that can a little further down the road.
by grbsh | 2025-06-23 19:32:59+00:00
I recently got the Pavlok device to stop a bad habit - compulsive nail biting. It worked extremely well! It works less well for thinks like distraction, because you have to manually trigger the negative stimulus.

I find the prospect of an AI continuously monitoring and course correcting very interesting. Like GPS/ maps -- if you go off course, it re-routes you. What will people build with real-time AI like this in the future? I think Cluely may be the best example of this.

I'd personally like a version of the Pavlok device that has a built in camera / mic that allows me to configure these type of triggers with real-time monitoring. It'll probably be a while until we can run an LLM on a watch-sized device in 1-3s but still have ~8hr battery life.
by kelnos | 2025-06-23 19:34:20+00:00
> Also not related to America at all.

I'm not so sure. Or, rather, reasons can differ. I'm not into anime at all, but every time I visit Japan (was just there in April, after not having visited since 2017), I am constantly finding little things and thinking "it's a shame we can't have that sort of thing in the US".

I'm generally positive on the concept of government regulation, but the US & US state governments tend to over-regulate so many things, like zoning and alcohol licensing (as mentioned in the article). Culture plays a part too, certainly.
by conductr | 2025-06-23 19:34:48+00:00
It's certainly degraded and I have to sift through a lot of junk but I find it's still pretty easy to identify the grift/counterfeiters/etc. I've never had a problem with returns. It's generally easy to initiate, there have been a few random high dollar purchases $500-$1000 that I didn't even notice were flagged as "no refunds" at time of purchase, but if I get on chat they have always made exception and allowed me to return it. The only annoying part is every time I do that, finding the chat feature takes me a good deal of time it's so buried in the UI

I don't buy a lot of books though so maybe that's where a lot of this is coming from?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 19:35:25+00:00
> You're making it partisan, I wasn't.

It isn't you or I who decides that, it's media outlets. And they've decided to be partisan.

> If a loved one of yours would be killed by a visa holder who wasn't vetted properly even though his social media profile had all the red flags, who would YOU blame?

The visa holder.

Also, those kinds of social media posts are public, so what does it have to do with immigration? If you want to blame law enforcement for not investigating the nutters who post on the internet then maybe they should start with the ones posting crazy stuff and investigate who they are, instead of starting with random innocent people and unmasking them with no justification.
by staticman2 | 2025-06-23 19:35:38+00:00
"In that video above George Hinton, directly says we don't understand how it works."

That isn't what Hinton said in the first link. He says essentially:

People don't understand A so they think B.

But actually the truth is C.

This folksy turn of phrase is about a group of "people" who are less knowledgeable about the technology and have misconceptions.

Maybe he said something more on point in the second link, but your haphazard use of urls doesn't make me want to read on.
by progbits | 2025-06-23 19:36:13+00:00
The USCSB will be defunded.

With a budget of just $14M it regularly investigates accidents causing $100M+ of property damage, not to mention the casualties and environmental impact.

This video gives overview of what the agency does and why they believe it's well paying for itself.

I have no stake in this, I'm not from US. I've long watched their work as they provide really excellent investigation reports.
by judofyr | 2025-06-23 19:36:38+00:00
> … but it seems like the judge simply doesn't get the objections. And the reasoning is really strange

The full order is linked in the article: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NYT-v.... If you read that it becomes more clear: The person who complained here filed a specific "motion to intervene" which has a strict set of requirements. These requirements were not met. IANAL, but it doesn't seem too strange to me here.

> Also, rejecting something out of hand simply because a lawyer didn't draft it seems really antithetical to what a judge should be doing. There is no requirement for a lawyer to be utilized.

This is also mentioned in the order: An individual have the right to represent themselves, but a corporation does not. This was filed by a corporation initially. The judge did exactly what a judge what supposed to do: Interpret the law as written.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-23 19:36:58+00:00
Love it. I would have loved to stumble across that on my trip. I also googled for coffee but the only place open early enough near me was 7-11. Most seem to open ar 12pm for some reason. I was slightly out of downtown to the north. But had a similar experience with a restaurant. It didn't look like this and was more conventional but it did feel like we were guests at someone's home rather than a restaurant and the food was fantastic. It felt different to the normal! I've had that experience in London too but it is very uncommon there. I think the true quirk exists in every city but you have to hunt it down more in western cities.
by mac-attack | 2025-06-23 19:37:26+00:00
To me, this is akin to Google saying that they don't want to follow a court-ordered law because it would be a privacy invasion.. I feel like OpenAI framed the issue as a privacy conversation and some news journalist are going along with it without questioning the source and their current privacy policy re: data retention and data sharing affiliates, vendors, etc.

It takes 30 seconds to save the privacy policy and upload it to an LLM and ask it questions and it quickly becomes clear that their privacy policy allows them to hold onto data indefinitely as is.
by Rastonbury | 2025-06-23 19:39:28+00:00
The standard for science a much higher ie. publishing a effect when it arose by chance as an academic

When you A/B test generally mistakes are reversible and will not make your company bankrupt or lose your job. Something being a 1 in 20 fluke is acceptable risk, you'll get most decisions right. Compare this however to hairy decisions on entering a new market or creating a new product line, there are no A/B tests or scientific frameworks here, you gather all the evidence you can, estimate the risk and make a decision
Show HN: Python tool to migrate from YT Music to Spotify
by Pharaoh2 | 2025-06-23 19:40:09+00:00
Ran into enough issues that I wanted to switch from youtube music to spotify. So I made a small tool to keep my liked music and playlists.

It will match exact and fuzzy match tracks and will give you a nice output to show progress.

If you also want to make the move, try it out! Let me know if you run into any issues and I am willing to fix them.
by Clein | 2025-06-23 19:40:10+00:00
Hi HN, we're Clein, Kelly, and Ronald, back with a big update to Sphere! Our previous Show HN for v0.1 introduced Sphere as a local sandboxed command runner. Thanks to some amazing feedback (including insights on MicroVMs right here on HN!), we've been hard at work. v0.2.0 launches the SphereHub MVP. Now, sphere run can automatically fetch, verify (SHA256), and cache dependencies from a public, GitHub-based registry. The sphere publish command guides you to contribute your own .sphere tools via a PR. We believe this is a big step towards an ecosystem of simple, secure, and truly portable software components. The Gist linked has all the details and a quick example. This is still very early, but we're excited about the potential. We're here to answer any questions and would love your thoughts on this networked approach! GitHub: https://github.com/Nakadra/sphere-runtime v0.2.0 Release: https://github.com/Nakadra/sphere-runtime/releases/tag/v0.2....
by pouzy | 2025-06-23 19:40:22+00:00
There's a lot of fuss around MCP, but all I've seen about it is local MCP servers that you have to download and run.

I've stumbled upon this, tried it on a small api documentation of ours and it seems to work well!

Seems like a good way to make tools you use regularly but that are a bit old school become compatible with Cursor and Claude

Seems like the paint is still fresh and they're actively developing it
by aceazzameen | 2025-06-23 19:40:35+00:00
I have never been able to unlock my under-screen fingerprint reader by taking it out of my pocket. This is because the reader isn't in a good position when the phone is in my pocket. Yes, it's where my thumb is when properly holding my phone, but my grip is different when pulling the phone out of my pocket. My older phone with the reader on the back had my index finger in position before I even attempted to take out of my pocket. It was slower at reading my prints, but was always unlocked before I looked at the screen.

I'd love to use the old phone for so many reasons, but the lack of updates has rendered it useless. No Lineage or Graphene for that one either.
Show HN: E-commerce data scraped from any website
by ss323 | 2025-06-23 19:40:56+00:00
Hey HN,

One year into my startup journey, I was going through pivot hell.

My life changed for good when I got a friend's call who wanted to connect me to their teammate looking to scrape an Indian apparel brand.

This brand wanted to scrape quite a lot of their competitors (inluding H&M and Zara type brands) from both the DTC websites and marketplaces.

This project gave us enough money to be in the game and not give up. Soon, working with them, we had gone into every depth possible of scraping e-commerce sites.

1. Identifying the product links (trust me, it's tough to fetch product links from raw HTML) 2. Scraping things like available sizes, the buttons and way of presentation is different for all websites. 3. Getting the data hidden on the page behind a button.

Our tech stack worked beautifully, maybe we over optimised because we had so much time.

So when the engagement with that apparel brand ended, we had time to actually work on this and make it work for each and every e-commerce website that there is.

I will launch it sooooon. But here is a taste of it, so sorry that I have already added sign up. I don't want to remove this now, but it's through google, so should be easy.

Any feedback would be genuinely helpful to me at this point, thanks!
by fernmyth | 2025-06-23 19:42:20+00:00
Science is a tool for finding truth, or at least weighing evidence. It isn’t policy and doesn’t have anything to say about policy.

You can have a policy of waiting for overwhelming proof of harm before banning anything. But there are an awful lot of chemicals added to our food and environment, with precious few studies competently and honestly tracking their effects. I want a much more careful policy - don’t put unknown chemicals in my body without convincing me the benefit.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-23 19:42:47+00:00
Although you're free to like/dislike whatever you want, calling other people's food vile seems kind of mean. There are plenty of old/ancient foods that look exactly the same as jell-o

warabi-mochi, nata-de-coco, aiyu jelly, kokum, annindofu, kanten, blancmange, to name just a few
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-06-23 19:42:53+00:00
That appears to be the case to me too. There are so many similar services that people use that could fall victim to this same issue of privacy . We should have extremely strong privacy laws preventing this, somehow blocking over-broad court orders. And we don't. Imagine these case:

1. a court order that a dating service saves off all chats and messages between people connecting on the service (instead of just saving off say the chats from a suspected abuser)

2. saving all text messages going through a cell phone company

3. how about saving all google docs? Probably billions of these a day are being created.

4. And how has the govt not tried to put out a legal request that signal add backdoors and save all text messages (because there will no doubt be nefarious users like our own secretary of defense). I think it would take a very significant reason to succeed against a private organization like signal.

The power and reach of this makes me wonder if the US govt already has been doing this to normal commercial services (outside of phone calls and texting). I recall reading back in the day they were "tapping" / legally accessing through some security laws phone company trunks. And then we learned about tapping google communications from Edward Snowden.