MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-06-08 20:35:09+00:00
Wayland works great for me and is significantly more stable and feature-rich, so I'm not waiting for anything. I'm doing things right now that are probably never going to be possible on X just because of the legacy of X.

Obviously, our priorities are different, and probably our hardware too. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe you're horribly unlucky, I don't know. But I will continue to enjoy my higher DPI displays, and HDR, and thunderbolt :p
by leakycap | 2025-06-08 20:35:25+00:00
I follow advice I learned from a friend who moved to the US from Germany. She said the German philosophy when researching is "Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis" (PLV)

PLV isn't just the sticker price - it's the total cost of ownership when considered against the utility and convenience it provides.

I no longer set a goal to find the very best #1 thing in every category by reading reviews when I'm buying something. Reviews can be hit or miss, anyway. Instead, I focus my energy on getting good value and buying the best when it comes to things that make me happy or I use a lot.

A computer monitor is a great example of something where PLV for a developer is totally different than a casual user, but the equation serves them both well in pre-purchase considerations.
by josephg | 2025-06-08 20:36:24+00:00
It’s a trust thing.

If you can trust that downstream users of your api won’t misuse private-by-convention fields (or won’t punish you for doing so), it’s not a problem. That works a lot of the time: You can trust yourself. You can usually your team. In the opensource world, you can just break compatibility with no repercussions.

But yes, sometimes that trust isn’t there. Sometimes you have customers who will misuse your code and blame you for it. But that isn’t the case for all code. Or even most code.
by exceptione | 2025-06-08 20:36:54+00:00
> by some benevolent all-powerful force, they just grab a mic and use it.

You are a bit optimistic. It is way worse. What happens is: your media mogul more often than not lives in an environment where people's belief systems and preferences vary from oligarchy, tech-fascism, corporatism, cultism, gilded-age etc. I.e. the cult of wealth problem. Then that media mogul buys a platform, and installs a certain kind of people. Double profit: more engagement, belief systems of regular people getting anti-social. The fear, hate and disgust for their compatriots make way for sado-populism. Regular, normal people are getting so mindfucked that instead of seeking the common good they they give autocracy consent to purify society from their imaginative enemies.

> Do you mean disallowing people who make nasty radio broadcasts?

Yes, the paradox of tolerance is a paradox. The only way to keep a tolerant society is to not tolerate the intolerants.
by strangelove026 | 2025-06-08 20:38:13+00:00
At a startup where I've exercised 75% of my options because the company seems to be going to a direction where maybe it's public in a little while (and I've got some other investments which prevent me from being over-invested here). I also want to dump all of the shares as soon as they go public and I'm able (employee sale window-wise) as I anticipate that there'll be a pop followed by a drop. This is all anecdotal given what I've observed over the years. As a result of exercising everything early (back into the S&P) on I'll be able to get long-term capital gains which is a motivator.

So that all said I agree with the author's take of "maybe" exercising before an IPO is worth it. This is my first time in a role where I've actually got pre-IPO Options. My last role I joined right before the company went public. The agreement there was that I'll get x$ worth of shares where the quantity is determined by the price 3 months or so after the IPO. They went from >$100 per share to like $30 a share which coincided with when I was assigned my shares lol. Oh well.
by kpgraham | 2025-06-08 20:38:55+00:00
Harp player here. When I first started playing, I had a Gindick's book, Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. This was maybe 35 years ago. I would recommend that book and the tape (cd? mp3?) that comes with it, for beginners. You can't see the notes you are playing on a harmonica. You have to hear them. You start by playing clear single notes and then shaping the note by articulating eeeh-yah or something similar and the note magically bends. You have to hear the note so you can tell if the note bends. It is very organic, and I don't think an app will help much. It may confirm what is happening, but it is not going to help if you can't do it. Personally, I played along with Little Walter's greatest hits on my hour long morning commute, and eventually it was just natural to bend the notes at the right time. My advice is to look for Jason Ricci on YouTube. He has hundreds or thousands of videos on beginner to advanced subjects. He is a weird dude, but I've never known a better teacher.
by foota | 2025-06-08 20:40:34+00:00
I'm not sure if it makes it easier, but there are some differences between the high oxygen titanium alloy and titanium with some yttrium in it that might make it easier to separate?

Presumably when you melt the titanium the yttrium doesn't react, whereas the oxygen dissolved in the titanium alloy at room temperature will form titanium dioxide when it's heated (if I'm reading correctly). So maybe you could "just" separate the molten metal by density afterwards? I'm not sure this would work though. For one, you'd need to avoid re-introducing oxygen contamination, but I guess you could do it under a vacuum (yes "just" spin the molten metal at high speed in a vacuum)?

This would seem to me to beg the question of why not just grind up the titanium in a vacuum to remove the oxygen and then melt it down, so I might be missing something here.
Building for social good: Looking for a technical co-founder
by thirstycr00w | 2025-06-08 20:40:48+00:00
Hey all,

I am working on something new - focusing on what truly matters in online interactions - building a social platform that redefines connection and impact.

This isn't about fleeting trends. It's about cultivating a space for genuine positive exchange and real-world good.

If you're a skilled builder (technical) who believes in the power of meaningful community and wants to leave a lasting mark, let's connect.

I'd prefer someone in the Bay but open to folks in other locations too!

About me: FAANG, 17 years of multinational business leadership, B2B/B2C Sales, Marketing and GTM expertise managing large P&Ls. Bay Area

DM me to explore.
by const_cast | 2025-06-08 20:41:07+00:00
I agree with what you say about sensationalist science reporting. It's very common to take one study and then have dummies who aren't scientists report on it as if we've just found out how to live forever. Science is very tricky because it's complicated and the barrier to entry is high - you can't just extrapolate things out like that.

However, there's also the other side of things, which is mostly established science. Which, you're right, don't typically spark political debate... but they do sometimes. Vaccines, climate change, cholesterol, seed oils. The RFK Jr faction of anti-science is rife these days.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-08 20:41:08+00:00
I agree AMT itself is not a particularly complicated calculation. But I don't think that was really the point of that quoted statement. The complicated part is figuring out if and when AMT applies to you, and, essentially, for how long it can raise your taxes.

As you said, the tax code requires you to calculate your taxes twice - once using the "normal" rules, and another time using the AMT rules, and you pay whichever is higher. So, depending on your individual circumstances, it's non-trivial to know if AMT will apply to you when making particular money movements during the year. Also, if you have to pay AMT in year one, but then in year two the calculated AMT is below your normal tax calculation, you get a credit for the excess amount (i.e. amount over the normal tax from year 1) up to the delta between the normal tax and the AMT amount. In other words, AMT can often times just cause tax to be paid earlier, but the total amount of money (over years), ends up being the same. Of course, the time value of money comes into play - paying a tax earlier is losing money.

So, point being, there are complicated considerations to take into account.
by leakycap | 2025-06-08 20:41:47+00:00
I love products that are regulated, like water filters. You can look them up and verify that they meet specifications that make a difference.

Right now, I prefer the Brita Elite. Refills available everywhere and it makes my chlorinated tap water taste clean. (Not the same as regular Brita).

I tried about 40 brands over the years. Brita Elite is the first one with no drawbacks that make me want to keep looking for something better.
by josephg | 2025-06-08 20:42:25+00:00
> Then I noticed (I kid you not) people started writing FOOLIB_PRIVATE(var) in their own code.

If it’s in an internal monorepo, this should be super easy to fix using grep.

Honestly it sounds like a great opportunity to improve your API. If people are going out of their way to access something that you consider private, it’s probably because your public APIs aren’t covering some use case that people care about. That or you need better documentation. Sometimes even a comment helps:

int _foo; // private. See getFoo() to read.

I get that it’s annoying, but finding and fixing internal code like this should be a 15 minute job.
by edoceo | 2025-06-08 20:44:13+00:00
Correct. The motivation for equity comp should be more of "I want to change the world" than the "I want big money". The odds are very against it.

Here's some older stats (2017) https://berkonomics.com/?p=2899

But searching, you'll find loads more studies on startup/angel/seed.

It's like, optimistically, 1/20
by MilnerRoute | 2025-06-08 20:45:16+00:00
I've always loved this paragraph from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before. And how far a body can hear on the water such nights! I heard people talking at the ferry landing. I heard what they said, too—every word of it. One man said it was getting towards the long days and the short nights now. T’other one said _this_ warn’t one of the short ones, he reckoned—and then they laughed, and he said it over again, and they laughed again; then they waked up another fellow and told him, and laughed, but he didn’t laugh; he ripped out something brisk, and said let him alone. The first fellow said he ’lowed to tell it to his old woman—she would think it was pretty good; but he said that warn’t nothing to some things he had said in his time. I heard one man say it was nearly three o’clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn’t wait more than about a week longer. After that the talk got further and further away, and I couldn’t make out the words any more; but I could hear the mumble, and now and then a laugh, too, but it seemed a long ways off.
by const_cast | 2025-06-08 20:45:49+00:00
Because that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes?

Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know.

You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table.

So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.
by akomtu | 2025-06-08 20:46:36+00:00
The same reason people eat meat. The reality of what happens behind the scenes to produce meat or their paycheck is carefully hidden from their sight, and when it's hidden, it's easy to convince ourselves that we aren't some monsters who run concentration camps with cows and pigs in them, but decent humans who have taste for medium rare steaks.

What Meta does to society is more insidious: it gets people addicted to content so it can make them eat a poison for their minds, so-called ads. Surveillance is just method of making the ads more invasive, tailored to each user individually.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-06-08 20:46:57+00:00
Hey Artix!

Zig's is in the standard library. From the commits it was started by Joran from Tigerbeetle, and now maintained by mlugg who is a very talented zig programmer.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.os.linux.I...

The popular Rust one is tokio's io-uring crate which 1) relies on libc; the zig one just uses their own stdlib which wraps syscalls 2) Requires all sorts of glue between safe and unsafe rust.

github.com/tokio-rs/io-uring
by mshook | 2025-06-08 20:47:35+00:00
The B-52 and SR-71 had star tracking systems for that exact reason. Not sure about the B-52 version but the SR-71 worked in daylight.

https://www.glennsmuseum.com/items/b52_astro/

https://theaviationgeekclub-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/theav...
by zathan | 2025-06-08 20:48:40+00:00
I wonder if somehow we'll be able to get this version of Windows available to download. Would be great to install in a living room PC or similar.

I'm also very interested if this version will be able to avoid having to leave the Xbox interface, be it to interact with other storefronts or to do some changes in Windows. Since they control Windows and have a strong position for partnerships, it may be possible.
by marci | 2025-06-08 20:49:50+00:00
If at any point you can find a place of your choosing to rent within a few days without any hassle, you're not homeless. You're not in the category of person that could need help.

> Your saying there is a difference between making choices that resulted in homeless being the only option and choosing homelessness because its the best available option?

Absolutely. For example, if a city wants to build systems to help them, one group would need counseling, temporary housing, while the other would rather haver access to public showers, a dispensary, and another group none of that.

Let say you're in a place that attracts a lot of backpacker/vanlife, whatever you build there you would make people pay for it. There would not be any food bank close to that place.
by b3morales | 2025-06-08 20:50:02+00:00
Because it's rules for us and not for them. If I take Microsoft's code and "transform" it I get sued. If Microsoft takes everyone else's code and "transforms" it (and sells it back to us) well, that's just business, pal. Thomas's argument is completely missing this point.

EDIT to add, I said this more completely a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34381996
by tilne | 2025-06-08 20:50:16+00:00
Regarding 3: Shouldn’t the medical system be optimizing for patient outcomes rather than the business their in?

Regarding the first two: I think the anecdote being from 1995 suggests there would have been time to put together said mountain of research.

I’m not agreeing that this is shameful for the original doctor, but I do think it’s shameful if avenues for potential research are not taken because it’s inconvenient for the hospitals.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-06-08 20:50:22+00:00
Interesting, I've had the exact opposite experience. My oldest HDD from 2007 is still going strong. Haven't had even a single micro SD card fail in a RPI. I built some fancy backup infrastructure for myself based on a sharded hash addressed database but so far have only used the backups to recover from "Layer 8" issues :)

I had a look at my notes and so far the only unexpected downtime has been due to 1x CMOS battery running out after true power off, 1x VPS provider randomly powering off my reverse proxy, 2x me screwing around with link bonding (connections always started to fail a few hours later, in middle of night).
by sedatk | 2025-06-08 20:51:09+00:00
> so I still don't know what the actual problem is.

1. Not adaptable to the variety of display form factors we have today. In other words, not responsive enough.

2. As others mentioned, not being able to link a specific page. Maybe it can be overcome with modern browser history replacement API's nowadays.

3. A link to one of the frames not opening with necessary navigation elements. That used to be solved by redirecting the user to another page that would decorate the same page with the frames around it. Quite cumbersome.

4. Since all frame components are individual web pages, the communication between them isn't straightforward except for opening a link in another frame. Programming more complicated logic (such as dragging from one to another, or sharing components in other ways) would be quite difficult.

5. Every frame has its own scrollbar. It's less accessible, and looks terrible too.

6. Analytics is harder to track.
by electromech | 2025-06-08 20:51:28+00:00
> My real worry is that this is going to make mid level technical tornadoes...

Yes! Especially in the consulting world, there's a perception that veterans aren't worth the money because younger engineers get things done faster.

I have been the younger engineer scoffing at the veterans, and I have been the veteran desperately trying to get non-technical program managers to understand the nuances of why the quick solution is inadequate.

Big tech will probably sort this stuff out faster, but much of the code that processes our financial and medical records gets written by cheap, warm bodies in 6 month contracts.

All that was a problem before LLMs. Thankfully I'm no longer at a consulting firm. That world must be hell for security-conscious engineers right now.
by ldjkfkdsjnv | 2025-06-08 20:52:17+00:00
One thing no one told me:

When you cofound a company, its not the equity percent, but who is in control that matters. If you have 40%, and they get 60%, but legally or otherwise (you are the face of the company), then you have control and the 40% is worth more than the 60.

If you leave early after cofounding a company, there is no saying what happens to you shares, and likely they will be diluted to almost nothing

Its all about control.

If you are an employee, either go for a company thats a few years from IPO, a generational startup, or consider the equity worth 0.
by exceptione | 2025-06-08 20:52:38+00:00
> "kill your own baby"

We are talking about instigating intolerance, with material consequences. Think genocides, like in the OP and Germany in the 30's.

> you either respect the sovereignty of an individual and > they are responsible for their actions,

Paradox of Tolerance. [0]

An individual lives in a society. Waiting for some other country to sacrifice their 18 years old to clean up your mess because you insisted that you couldn't possibly know what happens when you normalize intolerance is not so nice. And maybe there is no country who could possibly help your compatriots to get rid of their autocrats, so be careful if you try.

____

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
by gretch | 2025-06-08 20:53:21+00:00
It's neither of these options in this false dichotomy.

100M people signed up and did at least 1 task. Then, most likely some % of them discovered it was a useful thing (if for nothing else than just to make more memes), and converted into a MAU.

If I had to use my intuition, I would say it's 5% - 10%, which represents a larger product launch than most developers will ever participate in, in the context of a single day.

Of course the ongoing stickiness of the MAU also depends on the ability of this particular tool to stay on top amongst increasing competition.
by leakycap | 2025-06-08 20:56:00+00:00
I was lucky enough to be seen by MD Anderson doctors for my rare type of cancer. Within hours of the first painless infusion, the large tumors I could feel and see from the outside were completely gone. Hours, truly.

Now, the rest of the chemo wasn't as easy as the first. But the miracles of modern medicine, thanks to dedicated researchers and medical teams, truly blew my mind and that was a decade ago.

I was told I was one of 42 people ever that MD Anderson had seen with this cancer, yet they were able to tailor a treatment. I think Vox is right about the progress being amazing, and I hope it continues.
by duskwuff | 2025-06-08 20:56:12+00:00
It's a bit more than that. The list of X coordinates is cumulative - once an X coordinate has been marked as an inversion, it continues to be treated as an inversion on all Y coordinates below that, not just until the next Y coordinate shows up. (This manifests in the code as D3 never being reset within the NOTRECT loop.) This makes it easier to perform operations like taking the union of two disjoint regions - the sets of points are simply sorted and combined.
Show HN: Dolph AI – A Focus App That Rewards You with AI Chat Time
by kurrupttt | 2025-06-08 20:57:20+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Dolph AI — a focus timer for students that mixes deep work with a little AI fun.

The idea is simple: 25 minutes of uninterrupted study time followed by 5 minutes of chatting with an AI

The goal is to train focus, not just track it. I built this because I noticed students (myself included) often struggle to stay off our phones — especially with AI becoming more engaging than ever. Ironically, I wanted to use AI to help fight that.

Dolph doesn’t do a million things. It just gives you a focused study space, then rewards you with 5 minutes of chill AI time where you can reflect, ask questions, or just talk.

Would love feedback — on the experience, the UX, or even the name. I'm considering expanding the AI to remember what you studied and help quiz you over time.

Thanks, and love ya'll HN community <3
by adrr | 2025-06-08 20:57:24+00:00
Gilead charges $85k for Harvoni. There's also alternative drugs from different manufacturers because there still lots of money to made. Treatments you're constrained by the duration of the patent thats need to be filed before trials. You're looking at a max of 14 years. Ozempic runs out 2032 but there are already alternative drugs.
by gibbitz | 2025-06-08 20:57:33+00:00
Don't forget that to start a company the more common goal is to make money, not to produce a good or service that others want or need including employment. Meaning this is just a lesser concern. Generally business owners are just as likely to shed quality as to shed employees as long as the profits go up. What helps to sustain this is the gradual lowering of the bar on quality that leads to consumers settling for garbage products and sending a positive signal to the business to continue. This is exacerbated by monopolistic trends in the world where only one company is providing a good or service and buying out the competition when it raises to control choice. What we end up with is similar from the consumer's viewpoint to late Communism in regards to choice and quality. In the end Capitalism didn't win. It just lost last.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-08 20:58:10+00:00
> I just don't think that is the best way to get productivity out of these tools right now.

Well that I completely agree with. I don't think people should outsource to an LLM without the skills to validate the output.

At that point I don't see the value, if I have the skills and will proofread/validate the output anyway it mostly just saved me keystrokes and risks me missing a subtle but very important bug in the output.