MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigbuppo | 2025-06-17 16:48:29+00:00
The whole reason we need web "applications" when a simple web site will do all boils down to the demands of marketing and advertising. If you were to go to a major news organization's web site, the bulk of the javascript isn't for frontend UI frameworks, but advertising. Go to a video streaming platform, and they do Weird Things not to prevent scraping, but to inject marketing analytics for advertisers even when you're on an ad-free plan.

Marketing and advertising makes the world a worse place. When you look at the real numbers, it rarely achieves whatever business goals it's supposed to achieve, though for some reason they keep throwing money at the crap because maybe this time it will be different.
by glitchc | 2025-06-17 16:48:51+00:00
Not a mystery. This is directly correlated to the CPAP's primary goal which is to ensure a steady flow of air in and out of your lungs. Without the CPAP, your heart is reacting to variations in O2 (inflow) and CO2 (outflow), speeding up and slowing down accordingly, including experiencing stress during periods where the airway is completely obstructed.
by nilamo | 2025-06-17 16:49:02+00:00
I disagree that government doing nothing is better than keeping money flowing. Or, I disagree that money should be removed from the populace via taxation, if that funding doesn't have any path back to the populace. Government doing nothing is a net negative to the entire country, and is worse (imo) than doing "nonproductive" spending. A nonproductive spend is still spend that keeps people employed, families fed, researchers researching, etc.

I don't believe that you guys all believe the military industrial complex should start sitting on cash and collecting interest, even though that's what you're saying. The obvious solution is "they don't need that much money", but that's unrelated to how they spend the money they do have.
by launchboard | 2025-06-17 16:49:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built LaunchBoard because I was tired of switching between Stripe, GA4, HubSpot, Klaviyo, and spreadsheets just to answer basic growth questions.

LaunchBoard is a no-code dashboard for early-stage founders. It tracks key metrics like: • MRR, churn, CAC, LTV • Funnel conversion • 10+ integrations (Stripe, GA4, HubSpot, Mailchimp, etc.) • Real-time visualisation with alerts and summaries • Free for startups under £10k MRR

It takes ~5 minutes to set up — just connect your tools and LaunchBoard starts populating your data automatically. No spreadsheets, no code.

I’d love feedback from fellow builders: • What metrics matter most to you? • What would make this indispensable? • Any red flags or UX issues?

Thanks for checking it out https://launch-board.com
by hs86 | 2025-06-17 16:50:28+00:00
I am always disappointed when I compare the answers to the same queries on 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini/o3. But trying out the same query in AI Studio gives much better results, closer to OpenAI's models. What is wrong with 2.5 Pro in the Gemini app? I can't believe that the model in their consumer app would produce the same benchmark results as 2.5 Pro in the API or AI Studio.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-17 16:51:34+00:00
My point is that the potency at small doses creates novel hazards which, when avoided (and rightly so) interfere with the ability to know what you have.

One dose would be tricky, but you could process twenty doses of "MDMA" via column chromatography and end up with a sample of MDMA which your scale can actually measure. There's nothing scary about twenty doses of MDMA except that maybe you'll get caught with it. If you dropped it, nobody would get hurt.

If you tried the same with LSD you'd have to process tens of thousands of doses before your scale would be of any use. That much LSD in solution is an accident waiting to happen. I wouldn't go anywhere near it.
by edvaldodfreitas | 2025-06-17 16:51:52+00:00
Great to see this topic coming up! I work at Kodus, so I’m closely involved with both the development and real-world application of AI-powered code review tools.

From my experience (and from what I hear from users), AI really helps raise the bar for code reviews: it catches bugs, suggests style improvements, flags inconsistencies, and helps maintain security and quality standards. What I find most interesting is how the AI learns from the team’s own history, so the suggestions become more and more aligned with the reality of each project.

At Kodus, we built Kody, an AI agent that integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Kody provides contextual suggestions and evolves with your team’s feedback. A cool feature is that Kody can analyze your project’s review history and suggest custom rules, which makes it much easier to maintain standards and retain knowledge as your team grows.

For mid-level developers, I see AI as a powerful ally: it brings objective criteria, suggests best practices, and speeds up learning—making it easier and more comfortable to participate in reviews, even alongside more experienced developers.

If you want to learn more, Kodus is open source, easy to integrate, and very flexible. You can check it out at https://kodus.io

Bottom line: AI doesn’t replace human reviewers, but it really helps speed up the process, standardize practices, and support team growth. If you want to chat more or have questions about Kodus, feel free to reach out!
by Dilettante_ | 2025-06-17 16:51:57+00:00
>100-150 micrograms of LSD is a medium to strong trip

Did you get that from a government "risk prevention" website? 100 micrograms is a base, standard dose; There's a reason that that is the most common amount to a piece of blotter paper.

A medium trip would be something like 220(also a common dose), and "strong" can go anywhere from what, 500 to 1000?(1000 and above being commonly referred to as "heroic dose" and fairly rarely taken)

I do agree that a beginner might want to try sub-100 micrograms, but you rub up against the lower border of real perceptible effects around 50.
Show HN: BewCloud (a simpler Nextcloud alternative) v2.1.0 with SSO and MFA
by BrunoBernardino | 2025-06-17 16:52:02+00:00
Over the last month, bewCloud received support from the NLnet foundation [1], reached v2 [2], and passed 700 stars on GitHub [3]! There were a lot of features recently added and a couple more planned for the near future. Check it out!

I also released a <1-minute video [4] talking about it.

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/bewCloud/

[2] https://bewcloud.com

[3] https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWXjvtFivPI
by codingdave | 2025-06-17 16:52:15+00:00
> I've always been fascinated by how people approach complex ethical questions

But this site doesn't explore that. It bypasses all of the "why", and just gives statistics of where people fall at a snapshot in time. It gives no opportunity to dig into reasons, no philosophical basis for people's choices, no arguments to perhaps expand people's thought processes around ethics...

I'd expand this to dig deeper. Provide reading lists to build up the knowledge to have discussion around the issues. Identify the core literature and discussions that already exist on a topic, and ask people to build upon those, not just complete a poll.

After all, new ethical questions do have precedent. New questions can be broken down into non-technical ethical concerns that have already been covered in philosophical literature. Go all the way back to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the centuries of philosophers who have built upon them, as well as non-Western traditions. Tech may add a new flavor, but the underlying questions at least can start from a prior base of knowledge and thought, from which you can filter out what the new question is that tech brings to the discussion.
by starik36 | 2025-06-17 16:52:19+00:00
I don't know about easy. Today we have exactly 1 proven reusable orbital class family of rockets: Falcon. And even at that Falcon 9 only recovers 1st stage and the fairings. And Falcon Heavy has never recovered the center stage.

There might be more in a year or two (New Glenn, Neutron, Starship, a Chinese one), but for now, I would call it extremely difficult, not easy.
by CM30 | 2025-06-17 16:52:48+00:00
It's also worth noting that poor quality internet connections can be depressingly common in countries other than the US too. For example, here in the UK, there are a surprising number of areas with no fibre internet available even in large cities. I remember seeing a fair few tech companies getting lumbered with mediocre broadband connections in central London for example.

So if your market is a global one, there's a chance even a fortune 500 company could struggle to load your product in their HQ because of their terrible internet connection. And I suspect it's probably even worse in some South American/African/Asian countries in the developing world...
by marklubi | 2025-06-17 16:52:55+00:00
Sorry to hear about losing your father, it's certainly hard to fathom. My dad lost his at a young age as well.

I would give my life (or anything else) for my son or anyone else in my family or group of friends. No questions, no hesitation.

Some of us live our lives that way. Would rather give my life for someone I care for, than live knowing that I didn't try to save theirs.

Edit: I live my life with no regrets. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. A decision was made given the information available at the moment.
by mac3n | 2025-06-17 16:53:05+00:00
...looking forward to my rocket-powered Honda Fit!

"you meet the nicest people on a Honda" <https://www.vintag.es/2017/09/you-meet-nicest-people-on-hond...>

I don't know what kind of people you meet on that other, better-known, reusable rocket company.
by meindnoch | 2025-06-17 16:53:23+00:00
>I also notice that I sometimes don't take a breath (or feel any need to) for several seconds, if I'm being sedentary.

Normal adult breathing rate is 12-20 per minute. So by the pigeonhole principle, if you don't pause breathing for several seconds when idle, then you're breathing too fast than what's considered normal. Your wife is hyperventilating, which could be a sign of stress, or a compensatory reaction to metabolic acidosis.
by faheem00 | 2025-06-17 16:53:49+00:00
So many terrible things have happened in the past century due to Western Interventionism. The western society in large glorifies the progress due to these interventions, but not the far-spreading chaos and destruction they sowed.

Until the Western society in large (and by extension, their representatives in government) and the civil servants acknowledge this simple truth and work towards reconciliation, the wars and chaos and conflicts will only increase, not decrease.
by bumby | 2025-06-17 16:53:52+00:00
>they used a lot of the public funds to just throw shit at the wall, and see what sticks.

This is where I think the business acumen came into play. Because the govt is self-insured, it allowed SpaceX to pass the high risk off to the taxpayer. Once the tech matured, the risk was low enough to be palatable for private industry use.

And FWIW, I don’t mean that as disparaging to SpaceX, just an acknowledgment of the risk dynamics.
by MPSFounder | 2025-06-17 16:54:20+00:00
I was discussing Singapore recently. I asked a friend of mine with a PhD on the subject what made it so special (is it the port?). He mentioned if he had to pinpoint one reason, Singapore is a first-world nation in that region of the world because of the rule of law. Corruption was dealt with swiftly and harshly. Looking at contracts given to Elon (Teslas selling on front lawns, SpaceX contracts in the billions funded by our taxes), Sam Altman (who gave the current admin 1 million at inauguration and has reaped many folds), and Tim Cook (for a brief time, Apple being exempted of tarrifs), my heart quickly hurts. The comments are making light of the situation and joking on Defense software, while ignoring the magnitude of this. When favors are gained via bribes, America becomes the very concept we all despised: corruption and favors dictating our governance à la Soviet Union. We saw the Kushners lead talks on the Middle East, we saw inept billionaires leading the department of education (WWE's Linda McMahon), we saw the Adelsons drag us into a war on behalf of Israel, and yet there is something that is particularly funny here. I think I might be missing the joke... My age might be showing, but these headlines are precedents that are undermining the fabric of America. Perhaps we deserve it, since the only response is light hearted jokes, holding paddle signs at union addresses, and protests where Instagram photos and poses, wearing silly hats and holding signs with aphorisms, occur alongside military parades. The circus writes itself, and history books will judge us harshly on this one.
by quantadev | 2025-06-17 16:54:26+00:00
Yes, by "the shape of spacetime" that refers to every specific location in spacetime having a specific shape associated to it. It you want to expand your view out across a range of space and/or time, yes you can see waves, but those waves are still nothing but just waves of variations in "the shape of spacetime". Because we haven't proven the existence of a graviton yet.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-17 16:54:59+00:00
he managed to find a spouse interested enough to marry him. That's already 10 steps above many internet dwellers as of late. People who want to seem "not dull" for that exact goal.

I also did read the piece and recognize this "Dull man's club" is anything but. It's simply a tongue and cheek name for niche hobbies. I'm sure the hackers of the 80's/90's would have fit right in.

We sadly became more dull overtime in comparison as our hobbies all converged into the same few things. And even those few things could be interesting, but hobbies became so shallow. we watch TV but often don't analyze and critque it. We eat food but don't truly taste and savor its flavor. Being "dull" in my eyes means not truly interacting nor resonating with the things you do in your life.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-06-17 16:55:11+00:00
Lower single core throughput with more cores is just always a bad bet. Existing software runs better on faster cores, people buy hardware to run existing software, and people write software to run well on hardware that other people already own.

The reason for AMD's resurgence right now is not that they have more cores, but that they have better cores. If they had even faster cores, and fewer of them per die, they'd be selling even better.
by duped | 2025-06-17 16:55:29+00:00
Can anyone explain succinctly why basic window management and pointer warping is absent on Wayland, what it would take to fix, and how to get involved fixing it?

I've been hearing about these problems for years and if all that's missing is someone to own up to fixing it, it's worth finding out.

edit: looks like pointer warping was added to the protocol last week: https://lore.freedesktop.org/wayland-devel/aEw0AP7h6T8l11ug@...
by saurik | 2025-06-17 16:55:39+00:00
> (because Signal didn't develop that, and I honestly don't think they should)

FWIW, as far as I ever could tell, Facebook did this correctly: the only real thing is letting a business have an account without a phone number; they then provide the software you can run on your server to be a WhatsApp client, so all of your user's messages are then end-to-end encrypted to your business. Yes: later on they decided they'd get in the business of offering a "hosted client"--which meant that, technically, if you used that service, they could see the messages, which caused a change to their terms of service, as a blanket statement that Facebook can't ever see messages isn't technically true anymore, which Signal threw a ton of FUD at :/--but anyone could have offered that service before (and could right now also for Signal).
by timr | 2025-06-17 16:56:22+00:00
> Even if Vyvance is manufactured with compounds that often have a smell or taste associated with them

Just to be clear: it's not "associated" -- the drug itself probably smells, and you just didn't notice it. It's very, very common with drugs containing amines.

Metformin, for instance, has a distinctly fishy odor (but it also has a couple more amines):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metformin#/media/File:Metformi...
by codazoda | 2025-06-17 16:56:56+00:00
I think we're there, not 2 years away.

I have software that won't work quite right in Safari or Firefox through a VPN every single day. Maybe it's the VPN and maybe it's the browser but it doesn't matter. We're at IE levels it's just ever so slightly more subtle this time. I'm still using alternatives but it's a battle.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-17 16:57:00+00:00
Totally agree. I used to work in an office like that. It was a converted 1800's factory building and visually it was beautiful: high ceilings, old exterior brick walls and interior glass walls with hardwood floors.

Then we went remote with Covid and my productivity skyrocketed. It was only then that I realized just how loud and creaky those floors were, and all the hard surfaces just reflected sounds around. It was a constantly noisy space and we had just all gotten used to it. In comparison, my house in the country was dead quiet and a much better working environment.
by leptons | 2025-06-17 16:57:27+00:00
The one thing "AI" actually does well enough for me is writing CSS. It's actually the only thing I trust it with, because there is very little consequence to trusting the output when it writes CSS.

I have a designer on my team that adds their polish to the basic HTML and CSS I produce, but first I have to produce it. I really don't care what the front-end ends up looking like, that's for someone else to worry about. So I let the "AI" write the CSS for buttons and other UI elements, which it is good enough at to save me time. Then I hand it off to the designer and they finish the product, make the buttons match the rest of the buttons, fix the padding, whatever. It certainly has accelerated that part of my workflow, and it produces way better looking front-end UI styling than I would care to spend my time on. If I didn't have the designer, the AI-generated CSS would be good enough for most people. But, I wouldn't trust the AI to tell me if a page "looks weird". I have no doubt it would become a nuisance of false-positives, or just not reporting problems that actually exist.
by kemayo | 2025-06-17 16:57:35+00:00
A camera that costs as much as a flagship smartphone shouldn't need a "setting expectations" section. Particularly when those expectations are "this is going to take worse pictures and be harder to use than your smartphone"...

It might be an okay intro-to-"real"-cameras device, since it's far less huge-and-clunky than an equivalently priced DSLR. But even there the tradeoffs don't look great.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-17 16:57:43+00:00
It does look a little newer than the oldest examples I've seen photos of, but it's hard to say what the range of possible production dates would have been. You might be able to find a date code on an electrolytic capacitor or some other internal component.

There are a few HP 200As listed on eBay in the $100-$300 range. Not sure if they're actually selling for that, though.
by colecut | 2025-06-17 16:58:03+00:00
MDMA is extremely mild on the psychedelic side compared to psilocybin, lsd, dmt, etc.. not to mention it floods you with "happy/safe" feelings which makes for a generally easy experience.

The others can really get you..

I've experienced what I thought was being at the gates of hell on all of them at least once.. The gratitude I felt at the conclusion of those trips lasted for months =p
by roryirvine | 2025-06-17 16:58:09+00:00
They'd already experienced the downsides of an invite-based rollout for a closed network, thanks to Orkut in the mid-2000s.

It flopped in English-speaking countries because invites were so limited when people first started talking about it, but became a success in Brazil and India as the buzz built a little later there, by which time it had become easier to get and share invites.

They then compounded the error by force-partitioning their users between the existing service and an invite-only New Orkut, with no easy way to communicate between the two.

That disaster was still playing out when Wave launched, so at least some part of Google ought to have been aware of the importance of network effects for a product of this type.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-17 16:58:19+00:00
That's almost correct. The order matters to an extent inasmuch as for the older paper terminals one had to delay after sending a CR in order to let the print head actually travel. So it wasn't LF+CR, but actually LF+CR+delay. In the other order it would have had to be CR+delay+LF.

MUDs didn't precede the CR+LF convention, because that convention (if memory serves) pre-dates the Internet itself by a few years. However, it wasn't the case that CR and LF separately had the individual functions that they commonly had a decade or so later. Sometimes, for example, LF on its own was newline, or CR had to be simulated with lots of BSes.

The thing about TELNET is that in 1983 it explicitly specified an abstract Network Virtual Terminal and was definite about what newlines should be for it. See RFC 854. Anything TELNET-based was supposed to operate to that abstraction, not take advantage of the fact that sometimes LF+CR worked on real terminals. An NVT wasn't a real terminal. All of the delays and what the characters really did was supposed to be hidden by the abstraction.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-06-17 16:58:29+00:00
Used to be able to use Gemini Pro free in cline. Now the API limits are so low that you immediately get messages about needing to top up your wallet and API queries just don't go through. Back to using DeepSeek R1 free in cline (though even that eventually stops after a few hours and you have to wait until the next day for it to work again). Starting to look like I need to setup a local LLM for coding - which means it's time to seriously upgrade my PC (well, it's been about 10 years so it was getting to be time anyway)
by lovich | 2025-06-17 16:58:35+00:00
I’ve been using it in my job search by handing it stuff like the hn whose hiring threads, giving it a list of criteria i care about, and have it scour those posts for matching jobs, and then chase down all the companies posting and see if they have anything on their corporate site matching my descriptions.

Then I have it take those matches and try and chase down the hiring manager based on public info.

I did it at first just to see if it was possible, but I am getting direct emails that have been accurate a handful of times and I never would have gotten that on my own
by haswell | 2025-06-17 16:58:55+00:00
I'm not sure upon what basis you think such a claim can be definitively made. Nor does declaring "Kant got this wrong" help the argument.

For sake of argument, let's say the simulation hypothesis is true. Would you acknowledge that the implications of such a thing being true would have vastly different metaphysical properties than other hypotheses, e.g. "consciousness is a fundamental property of existence and all matter is conscious"?

The mind is literally the only thing we can be certain exists. We've made so much progress scientifically mapping the territory available for us to explore, that I think many people have lost sight of the vastness of the gap between what we actually know and what we have yet to understand.
by delichon | 2025-06-17 16:58:58+00:00
If a news item isn't textually embedded in a larger narrative then it's just embedded in the default narrative, which can easily be just as wrong, however "not weird". And it's not like it's neutral without any associated context, since even a simple factual report is loaded with attention bias.

Social media ... like HN ... provides a more diverse set of contexts to the news of the day. That's an improvement compared to giving the default context free reign. It might not feel like that, because it's not as pre-digested and you have to chew on it before swallowing or spitting.