MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2025-06-17 14:37:31+00:00
Web sites hate the idea of a web ecosystem with dozens of (if not thousands of) User Agents, each of them presenting the site in a way the user wants it to be presented. We have strayed so far from the path of HTML being text markup that suggested formatting and semantics only. We have basically handed control over all the content, its presentation, and its interaction modes, to the web developer.

My ideal version of YouTube is a bare HTML page with a single <video> element that the User Agent decides how to interpret and render. And maybe some <li> links to navigate through the site to find other features. Maybe my User Agent is a browser, but maybe it's a video player, or some kind of assistive video display for the disabled. Or a powerpoint slide. Or a command line downloader. As a user, I should have control over how the web content is ultimately rendered, and the only job for the web site is to send me structured content that my renderer can pull apart, understand, and render in the way I see fit.

Similarly, my ideal version of Amazon is a bare HTML page with a search box and a structured list of products and their attributes, that my User Agent can ingest, understand and render in whatever way it sees fit.

Web sites have totally abandoned this path of giving the user control, and now when we GET from a web site, instead of structured, semantic data, we get a big opaque blob of JavaSludge that our browser is expected to faithfully execute as-written, so that the web company gets to make all the major presentation decisions. The user is just the passenger along for the ride.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-17 14:37:35+00:00
I once rented a Peugeot 3008, and wanted to pair with Apple CarPlay. The car warned me that it's in "rental" mode and pairing will disable that and will share tons of data (which was listed as bullet points) about me and the car between my (apple) profile and the car.

I rejected and didn't go further. I appreciate the honesty, though.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-17 14:37:50+00:00
My experience with LLMs currently is that they can handle any level of abstraction and focus, but you have discern the "layer" to isolate and resolve.

The next improvement may be something like "abstraction isolation" but for now I can vibe code a new feature which will produce something mediocre. Then I ask "is that the cleanest approach?" and it will improve it.

Then I might ask "is this performant?" Or "does this follow the structure used elsewhere?" Or "does this use existing data structures appropriately?" Etc.

Much like the blind men describing an elephant they all might be right, but collectively can still be wrong. Newer, slower models are definitely better at this, but I think rather than throwing infinite context at problems if they were designed with a more top down architectural view and a checklist of competing concerns we might get a lot further in less time.

This seems to be how a lot of people are using them effectively right now - create an architecturr, implement piecemeal.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-17 14:37:51+00:00
Yes. Assume your users have a poor or metered connection. I don't want unnecessary things (like images) to load because it takes time, eats at my data quota and to be frank, I don't want people looking over my shoulder at media on my phone (especially when I have no idea what it is going to be). This is especially true for social media (and the reason I prefer HN over bluesky, reddit, etc.).
by inanutshellus | 2025-06-17 14:37:52+00:00
I think it's time to let this pet peeve go. :(

It wouldn't be fair to use "MENU", as not everyone speaks English, and regardless, many UIs aesthetically need an icon, so why not have standardized on one?

It's healthy to have decided on an icon, but I agree an ellipsis would've been (and still would be) intuitive too. Maybe designers trying to make their mark will start using ellipses in new designs... who knows.
by throwaway843 | 2025-06-17 14:37:53+00:00
I'm curious what's cognitively loading about three horizontal bars arranged in a square located in the corner of an app or website.

Screens, somewhat counterintuitively, used to be wider. Because they were not on handheld mobile devices. Then we had the menubar and nested dropdowns, suckerfish, etc. It was an exciting time to see a menu, you were never quite sure what you were going to get - I believe there are positives to learning curves for power users.

But I digress. 三 means 3 in Chinese. It doesn't take cognitive load. Why does a hamburger? I really am curious.
by paulvnickerson | 2025-06-17 14:38:23+00:00
Paul Graham tends to be against Silicon Valley participation in the defense industry, while Marc Andreessen is all for it. Palmer Lucky makes a very good case why AI applications in military are a very good thing, and I tend to agree with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMXEwl7N8Y

It's American technology and industry that won the major wars of the 20th century. If Western technology companies abdicate that responsibility, we will all need to learn Mandarin.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-17 14:38:54+00:00
My hot take is the majority of complaints made by people who otherwise had planned on staying together are probably valid.

The divorce industry and divorce lawyers request these orders like candy, as leverage for proceedings and to take away custody briefly during the temporary order while the custody hearing is going on so that during custody hearings it can be argued the child already is only with the mom or dad and they should get full custody. It also lets you eject the partner from the home without a legal eviction process, so they are at their weakest and homeless when fighting in court. They produce a massive number of weak DV claims, the point was never to take them final but to provide enough of a discontinuity in their life to crush them.
by antisthenes | 2025-06-17 14:39:08+00:00
There are a lot more of regular reasonable folks who own guns (approximately 134 million in USA) than those who have some kind of meme warlord fantasy.

Which is to say, normal people really don't like shooting each other, and they REALLY don't like being shot at, so most normal folks would eliminate the threat of crazy warlords first, then form some kind of organized militia group to repel small groups of raiders/thieves.

Any large group of raiders would very quickly fall victim to its own internal politics and lack of resources, because they don't produce anything. You can't have a group that's 100% raiders.

It's just not going to look like Mad Max, ever. Sorry to disappoint.
Show HN: Henosia – We built a JavaScript Engine for vibe coding
by jimmeyer | 2025-06-17 14:39:22+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Jim – one half of the two-person team building Henosia (https://www.henosia.com/), a browser-based visual vibe coding tool with a purpose-built JavaScript Engine.

Why would we do something as crazy as building our own JavaScript Engine? In a word, speed.

Today's vibe coding is built around files: Edit, save, a build is triggered, Hot Module Refresh triggers a file-level re-evaluation, the page re-renders. This means that code updates are much heavier and slower than they need to be, especially compared to how fast drawing and design tools can perform updates when you edit.

To get design tool like speeds (60FPS) for vibe coding, edit operations need to happen at the lowest possible level: The syntax tree nodes. Changes to the syntax tree then need to cause a minimal amount of code to be re-evaluated in the browser, which is where our purpose-built JavaScript Engine comes into play. Well, technically it's a TypeScript Engine, because it directly evaluates TypeScript syntax trees (ASTs), skipping over non-executable nodes like type annotations.

Here's how it works: The engine receives a change in the AST because the user made a visual edit of a selected component using our component props panel, e.g. to change the size property on a Button component. We're currently focusing on React, so the engine identifies the closest most fine-grained way to perform the rendering update, which in this case is to re-render the nearest parent component that owns the Button component. This happens in just a few milliseconds, and we're able to optimistically perform the change on the client before distributing the change to the server.

Since we're not bound to file save operations and file watchers, we can have multiple pending draft edits at once, e.g. to present the user with multiple AI-based edit suggestions. This capability opens up a ton of new ways to interact with code, with design tools and code editors converging into something entirely new.

If you want to see this thing in action, head over to https://www.henosia.com and drop a prompt to get the project started. Use the selection tool, it's the button with a pen on a bullseye icon next to the chat input. This starts our code engine, and you're able to instantly preview and edit Tailwind styling and component properties at 60FPS. Our docs at https://docs.henosia.com/edit/select have more info, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqsFGt7zAg walks through the capabiliies.

I’d love to hear what you think about our approach, and where we should take it next :)

PS: For a limited time our free plan includes unlimited AI messages and visual edits.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-17 14:39:23+00:00
As I recall, at one point Wave sort of had enough of an XMPP bridge that you could terribly IM a Wave without having a Wave invite if you were one of the 20 people still using XMPP that month and your friends with Wave knew a "secret" @ mention and you felt like learning an XML mini-DSL of pseudo-commands and kinda-unidiffs to read the changes from the people actually in Wave.

There was also plenty of talk about the "eventual" email bridge and real multi-server Wave federation, neither of which properly happened. (At least not in the invite months).

Though, yeah, Wave really could have used the network effects of non-scarce invites, because it wasn't as interoperable or as much of an "open standard" as it wanted to be. Or it should have had all that interoperability and open standards properly ready at launch and the Google server could have just been sold as the "best" of several options (and people waiting for invites could self-host; that might have done enough for viral class projects in college environments).
by anthomtb | 2025-06-17 14:39:33+00:00
The article you linked quotes Mr Clarke's father:

The hardest thing in my life was to sign a committal form to send Niall to hospital.

And follows with

Irish health authorities refused to commit Clarke

That sure sounds like Mr Clarke's country refused to treat him.

And to your points:

> He refused to get treatment and actually fled the country to escape it.

What you are saying and what I said about Mr Clarke's country refusing to treat him can all be true at once.

> So, a crime is a crime even if it is committed by somebody who is insane?

Is a crime committed by somebody who is insane, who refuses to get treatment, and who flees their own country in avoidance of treatment, a more acceptable crime?
by mjburgess | 2025-06-17 14:39:39+00:00
I was using one aspect of schizophrenia, which isn't this "salience disregulation" feature you're talking about -- but something more schizotypal, a general feeling of being slighly askew from reality, ie., a kind of magical thinking. Maybe better put as "the qualitative feeling of being around someone schizotypical", than exactly the clinical issue.

I would say in dreamer-type autism, the magical thinking doesnt have the same character -- it's more abstract, typically. In schizotypalism you have a literal sort of paranoia often behind this. However, I think the clinical study of autism very often focuses on the literal-minded type, i think who are probably more common amongst the low-functioning -- but I don't believe this exhausts the autistic.

One common feature of autism, imv, is a stickyness to one's own context and a resistance/difficulty in "social contextual osmosis" which is common both to schizotypals and autists (, schizoprhenics of course, but by way of severe impairments of functioning that would apply to any extreme mental disorder ).

In any case, one of my "clinical cultural analysis hot-takes" is that a lot of intellectual culture war issues are schizophrenics arguing with literal autists -- that was my analysis of the "richard dawkins vs. jordan peterson" youtube debate/video which you can find. If you attend to peterson's trains of though, he's barely able to obtain any deductive depth. At one point i think he manages two sequential premises, before another tangent. Highly characteristic of flight-of-ideas thinking.

Whereas dawkins is basically wholly deductive and literalist in his thinking, anti-wonder and anti-free-association. It make the "debate" primarily interesting as a clinical case study.

It's just another retred of the eternal war between these modes of thought.

I think socrates is a worthwhile case study of someone i'd say of a mixed schizophrenic-autistic type, fully in the dissociative category i outlined -- an ironist. Though, that he's so fully in that ironic category, the alleged schizoprehnic elements to his psychology could simply be a performative ploy to indict his audience -- using their own commitment to the divine against them.

One can see socrates' internal compulsion to question those around him as this dissociative-mode autism at work, ie., an inability to exist in the social-fantasy context of others, but an ability to impose a kind of (ironic-)fantasy context of his own. "I know that I know nothing" is this ironic self-characterisation which kinda stages both contexts at once: I (literally) know that... + (fictionally,) I know nothing.

In a sense, in this mode of autism, you have Richard Dawkins in one ear in war with Jordan Peterson in the other.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-17 14:39:46+00:00
> We already had the world’s largest ubi experiment during Covid and it was a complete failure.

COVID response neither featured a UBI, nor saw everyone stop working (and the people who did stop working largely stopped working because of a combination of formal restrictions and voluntary behavior changes due to a contagious illness either banning their mode of business or resulting in them not having customers, additional government support, which was not structured as a UBI, was given because of that and to cushion the impact of it.)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-17 14:40:23+00:00
I don't think there has been a trial that shows what happens if you do it, permanently, for everyone, and raise taxes enough to pay for it.

I don't agree with dgfitz's dogmatic "it will not work". But I don't agree with your claim, either. There has never been a city- or state-wide trial, let alone a national one, that increased taxes to pay for it. So under actual conditions, no, we don't have evidence that it works.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-06-17 14:41:09+00:00
In India a palm will pop out of the phone screen every few hours and deliver a tight slap and people might still use it.

Even banks et cetera are making it the first class communication medium especially for OTP (which technically is safer than SMS but a glaring lock into a desk-less foreign company and at the same time the “OTP” can literally be the single point to take over someone’s almost entire life - including almost every single paisa). Every other day I am shown a sneaky lightning popup or two asking me to consent to send everything or something on WhatsApp. Sometimes the popup is about something entirely else but there’s an already checked checkbox with WhatsApp consent. Calling it bizarre will be an understatement.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-17 14:41:14+00:00
This gets down to a fundamental problem that crops up everywhere: How much is x willing to exponentially sacrifice to satisfy the long tail of y?

It's grounds for endless debate because it's inherently a fuzzy answer, and everyone has their own limits. However the outcome naturally becomes an amalgamation of everyone's response. So perhaps a post like this leads to a few more slim websites.
by dperfect | 2025-06-17 14:41:23+00:00
I should have worded it like this: I prefer to watch movies in UHD, even though they're usually also HDR.

I don't think anyone is saying HDR isn't really HDR. It obviously does support higher dynamic range, but it's kind of like giving someone directions in a language they don't speak. Technically, the spec does what it claims to do, but it adds unnecessary requirements on the display side that undermine a lot of the benefit. As a result, you have filmmakers forced to pick an arbitrary level of "scene white", which in turn means that displays aren't using their full range of brightness as effectively as they could. It also means that most TVs and projectors have to implement their own version of "tone mapping", some of which are pretty terrible to be honest. Not just terrible for HDR, but worse than SDR.
by wishfish | 2025-06-17 14:41:39+00:00
Thinking about telnet & social media, I do remember that brief moment in time when the majority of my college's students had internet access but the web hadn't been invented yet. Telnet (along with talk, finger .plan's, newsgroups) had its moment in the sun. Enough so that I had a professor who would joke with us about getting our papers done before we'd hit telnet.

And thinking about MUDs, there is no better / worse way to feel the crush of time than finding your old MUD is still online. I found mine again a few years ago. Couldn't remember my password so made a new char. Used "finger" to look at my main. Last logged in 9000+ days ago. Looked up my friends who I used to spend hours with. Around the same. 9000+ days. Seeing it quantified in days rather than years made it more difficult and more personal. 9,000 days just gone like that.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-17 14:42:18+00:00
More than anything hamburger menu type design feels to me like an “avoid effort and skill as much as possible” sort of thing more than it does an “optimize ad revenue” sort of thing, as does flat design. It’s about lowering the bar for what’s acceptable to ship as far as you can possibly get away with. Plaster some scrolling flat rounded rectangles and a hamburger menu on the screen and boom you’ve got an app.
by adastra22 | 2025-06-17 14:42:37+00:00
None of that new information you provided is something that can be corroborated against the historical record. The claim is that LSD gave you access to long-locked up memories that happened to corroborate with what you are going through now.

The vastly simpler explanation is that your brain did what brains do best and filled in the gaps in your memory be inventing a story constrained to corroborate with the bare facts you remember, but because LSD it feels so real and vividly detailed that it “must be correct.”
by mandmandam | 2025-06-17 14:43:02+00:00
> lets compare apples to apples

Yes, let's compare the Democrats immigration policy to that of other developed countries.

Which countries are separating kids from their parents in their thousands, caging them in mesh, giving them foil sheets to sleep under, making them drink toilet water, and then losing track of them completely? Name one other.

> It's nothing unique to the United States

... US immigration policy is uniquely cruel, and racist, including when Democrats are in power.

> there's no shortage of documented evidence showing that the U.S. has a long history of being exceptionally welcoming to immigrants by global average standards

Every American is an immigrant, unless you're native American (who were genocided over hundreds of years). So, yeah I guess so. Doesn't really affect the current topic though.

> It's a country literally built by them

I think you're thinking of slaves. It was built by slaves first, and then immigrants.

> whose demographic reflects this across the board as it does in only a few other countries worldwide.

... And?

For the last couple decades, US immigration policy has been one of bipartisan brutality and atrocity. It's nice that America was a melting pot for the world; it's cool that there's a mixed demographic (though I don't know how cool actual native Americans are with it all). I love the Statue of Liberty and the poem under her - but that welcoming spirit isn't reflected in modern American policy, and hasn't been for quite some time.

Everything Trump is doing now is simply an extension of policies laid over the last few decades by both Democrats and Republicans. If Americans refuse to acknowledge that then the problem is never going to be fixed.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-17 14:43:37+00:00
It is trivial in many states and jurisdictions to get a temporary order. One was obtained against David Lettermen just by a woman in a different state claiming he was sending her secret messages through the TV.

The final order is more difficult, but quite often (i.e. in divorce / custody court) the only goal was to evict them from the home and disrupt custody to get the upper hand in hearings, so temporary is all that's needed to do the job and then no need to actually defend the claim made 14+ days later when they're already homeless and with the baseline of out of the kid's life.

http://www.ejfi.org/PDF/Nestler_Letterman_TRO.pdf
by ddtaylor | 2025-06-17 14:43:57+00:00
What computer is he referring to?

> When these machines were announced and their functional specifications became known, quite a few among us must have become quite miserable; at least I was. It was only reasonable to expect that such machines would flood the computing community, and it was therefore all the more important that their design should be as sound as possible. But the design embodied such serious flaws that I felt that with a single stroke the progress of computing science had been retarded by at least ten years: it was then that I had the blackest week in the whole of my professional life. Perhaps the most saddening thing now is that, even after all those years of frustrating experience, still so many people honestly believe that some law of nature tells us that machines have to be that way. They silence their doubts by observing how many of these machines have been sold, and derive from that observation the false sense of security that, after all, the design cannot have been that bad. But upon closer inspection, that line of defense has the same convincing strength as the argument that cigarette smoking must be healthy because so many people do it.
by nullc | 2025-06-17 14:44:12+00:00
AFAICT the way most 'recovery' places work is that they'll recover data if there are no issues and any ordinarily skilled IT tech could also recover it. And then otherwise they'll claim it's unrecoverable. Sometimes, it seems, they'll even just claim its unrecoverable because they didn't happen to have or find a compatible drive when that's all that was needed.

I've recovered data from media a number of times a recovery company said it was unrecoverable with no particular difficulty.