MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim333 | 2025-06-16 14:56:47+00:00
Counterpoint - I don't really miss the old internet as in wanting to go back there. There is so much more content now of a high quality. Back in the old days not so much. And you can still find odd places to chat. I do miss the old Facebook a bit back when it was a place to see what your friends/family were up to without being drowned by infinite clickbait.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-16 14:56:50+00:00
In the 00's, the CS program at my undergrad university had computer clusters with all of the above +Linux +MINIX -Apple -DEC. It was de rigueur then to write portable C/C++ code and (non-GNU) Makefiles.

Also, lest not forget the contentious one: SCO - SCO -> Sun -> Oracle
by troupo | 2025-06-16 14:57:27+00:00
> These fuckers ask for location on each search query, basically on each page load.

Google's search is rapidly going in the same direction

> "Yeah yeah notifications are enabled. Stop bothering me" ??

It boggles my mind that even the "privacy conscious" browsers like Safari and Firefox don't have a "no, and never ask me again for this site".
by href | 2025-06-16 14:57:28+00:00
I appreciate the personal note:

> Some of you may wonder why ZubanLS isn’t open source, unlike Jedi. The honest answer is that open source never worked out for me financially. Beyond some small donations and a small recurring compensation from Tidelift, I was never able to make a living from it. I'm no longer a student, and with a family to support, it became clear I needed a sustainable path.

> Joining a company like Astral (makers of Ruff) could have been an option—but I’ve also grown skeptical of venture capital as a model. VC-backed companies often need to aim for massive success or risk disappearing within a decade. I want to build something that lasts. I’ve already spent more than ten years in this space, and I plan to continue.

https://zubanls.com/blog/release/

Best of luck!
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-16 14:57:36+00:00
Finally some real pushback to the whole agentic mania - from an actor who is incentivized to push the narrative. Following the recent apple paper - some realism is being injected into the hype.

58% success rate on a task is close to a coin flip. and 35% success rate on multiturn. >80% success rate on workflows could make that a reasonable usecase (eg, form filling) with some human supervision.
by nxobject | 2025-06-16 14:57:51+00:00
As anecdotal evidence, it serves my complex-enough purposes very well - mathematics and code interspersed together. One of my "litmus test" papers is this old paper on a Fortran inverse-Laplace transform algorithm [1] that intersperses inline and display equations, and monospace code blocks, while requiring OCR from scratch, and very few models currently do a satisfactory job, i.e. in the following page transcribed by Marker,

https://imgur.com/a/Q7UYIfW

the inline $\sigma_0$ is mangled as "<sup>s</sup> 0", and $f(t)$ is mangled as "f~~t*!". The current model gets them both correct.
by andrewaylett | 2025-06-16 14:57:58+00:00
zstd also has an rsyncable option -- as an example of when it's useful, I take a dump of an SQLite database (my Home Assistant DB) using a command like this:

sqlite3 -readonly "${i}" .dump | zstd --fast --rsyncable -v -o "${PART}" -

The DB is 1.2G, the SQL dump is 1.4G, the compressed dump is 286M. And I still only have to sync the parts that have changed to take a backup.
by looofooo0 | 2025-06-16 14:58:20+00:00
Well you entering deep level of game theory here. Can you distinguish the decoy from the real and what resources you need to spend (e.g. LoRa device in a home)? How much is the signal that you can deploy decoys worth? Isn't deploying decoys below some noise level of frontline drone activity and the enemy cannot learn nothing? How many shells do you need to destroy a decoy? How certain you are about the destruction?
by lelandfe | 2025-06-16 14:58:48+00:00
> a hidden column in the Chrome task manager that shows how many goats a browser process has teleported

Was very dissatisfied to find this no longer works. Here's an old post with a screenshot: https://www.100-geek.net/articles/goats_teleported?action=ar...

From 234 columns to 16, what a purge.
by cool_beanz | 2025-06-16 14:58:58+00:00
In a world where code is written more and more by LLMs, these random human generated comments might hold anthropological value in some future.

Think of it akin to us studying cave paintings, wondering what whoever left their handprint on the cave wall was thinking when they did it. So these ancient lines of code might be studied in some future by our descendants, or whatever form we'll take. Interesting to perceive the author's frustration with said bit of code.

By comparison LLM generated code is neat and tidy with clean and clear comments. Plenty of that to go around for the future. No need to suck the soul out of every bit of code we currently have.
by X6S1x6Okd1st | 2025-06-16 14:59:29+00:00
It's increasingly looking like if you're young enough most knowledge work will be eaten by LLMs (or the thing that comes next) within your lifetime.

Hopefully we'll see human assisted with AI & induced demand for a good while, but the idea that people work unassisted in knowledge work is gonna go the way of artisan clothing
by taylodl | 2025-06-16 14:59:48+00:00
> Sugar has been an almost impossible-to-conquer "addiction" for many years

Sugar has long been a difficult habit to break, and while it's not officially classified as an addiction like alcohol or nicotine, it can trigger cravings and withdrawal-like symptoms. Excessive sugar, especially fructose, can damage the liver in ways similar to alcohol and is strongly linked to heart disease. Thanks in part to powerful industry lobbying, sugar's health risks have often been downplayed, while fat has taken most of the blame. But both deserve scrutiny, and the public deserves better awareness of sugar’s true impact on health.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-16 15:00:21+00:00
> Just checked, their website lists 0.28 mm, 0.38, 0.5, 0.7, and 1.0 mm, with examples of each. [0]

Except that you forgot to check their website. Jetpens is a reseller.

Uniball only acknowledges 0.5mm for Jetstream pens that include multiple ink tubes in one cylinder.

My use case is that I carry a pen around in my pocket in case I need to write something down. More rarely, I might actually write something down. I don't like writing in thick lines.

The pen I'm currently carrying is one of these: https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/682114580/O1CN01nP4t8J1jh...
by joshstrange | 2025-06-16 15:00:27+00:00
Cheap factored in for some but easy of use and reliability were my main reasons for using Lyft/Uber.

Maybe if you lived in a bigger city the taxis were good but I assure you that in Lexington, KY they were terrible. You had to call into a dispatcher, the connection/quality was terrible, they were blunt/rude, and you got a general idea of when someone might show up. I tried once to schedule for 8:45am pick up (I called around 7:30) and someone showed up at 7:45am mad that I wasn't ready. On top of all of that _no one_ took credit card and the drivers were rude and often hard to communicate with.

With Lyft/Uber I could see where my driver was, my destination was already entered, and it was all charged to my card. I cannot stress enough how much better this was and I was happy to see the taxi companies go down in flames.

Uber and Lyft have _many_ problems but they are still leagues ahead of taxis. I recently traveled to Italy and absolutely hated the lack of Uber-like services and the need to use taxis. It felt like going back in time, I was shocked at the state of things there.

Lastly, nothing boils my blood quite like watching the meter all the way to the destination, then the driver pressing some buttons and the total jumping 20-50%. WTH is that? Whatever it is, I hate it.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-16 15:01:11+00:00
This isn't really accurate historically. TLS has both ciphersuite and version negotiation. Logjam (2015) [1] was a downgrade attack on the former that's now fixed, but is an extension of an attack that was first noticed way back in 1996 [2]. Similar problems occurred with the FREAK attack, though that was actually a client vulnerability. TLS 1.3 goes out of its way to fix all of this using a better negotiation mechanism, and by reducing agility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logjam_(computer_security) [2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-16 15:01:31+00:00
I think you're confusing or conflating civil and criminal courts. If someone breaks a law, that's generally a matter for the state to decide in a criminal court. If someone was damaged (i.e. if the victim feels the perpetrator owes them compensation), that's a matter for them to bring up themselves in the civil courts. These are separate functions; one situation could be tried in both courts. A famous example off the top of my head is that even though OJ Simpson wasn't criminally convicted of murder of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, a civil court found him liable, awarding tens of millions of dollars in damages, to be paid to their families.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-16 15:01:44+00:00
>Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is a classic case of “love-hate”.

Mostly hate.

>Talk is cheap, let’s see how to really disable GIL in our local environment.

Im scared.

>However, given that the no-GIL Python is expected to become the default around 2028 and the current no-GIL Python 3.13 is merely an experimental build, we should not use no-GIL Python in production now.

That's the place i develop though...

ubuntu 26 LTS will almost certainly keep the GIL. So probably 2028 before any serious no-gil python for me?
by gspencley | 2025-06-16 15:02:01+00:00
> No more absurd than the notion that a mere sequence of sounds could convey any other meaning of elicit any other response.

I completely disagree. It is a lot more absurd. Language is not a priori. It must be learned. It requires both a speaker and a listener. Both must understand the meaning of the spoken word as well as other factors of communication, including tone and body language, in order to interpret and understand the communicated meaning.

The idea behind a "bad word" is that the word is offensive no matter what. It doesn't matter what the dictionary definition of the word is, or the intended meaning of the word or the subject of the sentence that employed the word. The word is intrinsically "just bad" according to this religious belief.

Objectively, sometimes there are polite ways to use a "four letter" word such as "fuck." The preceding sentence is one such example. But ... if you hold the irrational view that I am describing, there is no such thing. It is ALWAYS "bad." This is a faith based belief system. There is no grounding for such a position. Under such a position, even an academic discussion of the word would require it be censored for fear of offending someone.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-16 15:02:20+00:00
The AI companies want two things:

1. Strong copyright to prevent competition from undercutting their related businesses.

2. Exclusive rights to totally ignore the copyright of everyone that made the content they use to train models.

I personally would much prefer we take the opportunity to abolish copyright entirely: for everyone, not just a handful of corporations. If derivative work is so valuable to our society (I believe it is), then I should be free to derive NVIDIA's GPU drivers without permission.
by ROllerozxa | 2025-06-16 15:02:50+00:00
Yeah that's where the concept of the blink tag originates, the now deprecated HTML tag. But what's covered in the blog post refers specifically to a hidden (and AFAIK undocumented) blink tag that exists in the Android XML layout view system, which is an independent thing from the system WebView browser (that I assume probably still contains some code for blink tags, but that wouldn't be a surprising discovery). I don't know if there are any other built-in tags in Android views that really map to HTML tags otherwise.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-16 15:03:03+00:00
Begs lots of thoughts and questions:

0. IIRC, most filters don't work very well without a pressure gradient.

1. How does water get circulated to clean the clean area? It will be extra gross the first time anyone goes #1 or #2 it in without any particular way to make it clean. Yuck.

2. How then will this "filter" surface clean itself on the outside?

3. Who's going to maintain it? The website doesn't specify that.

4. Is this a free public use pool? It doesn't say that it will be free.

3. Is this a utopian project cleantech scam that will be debunked by Thunderf00t soon?

https://pluspool.com
by trealira | 2025-06-16 15:03:06+00:00
Android does let you produce em dashes. I'm typing this with Google Keyboard right now.

If you hold the hyphen button, you get options for an underscore, an em dash (—) an en dash (–), and the dot symbol (·). The ellipsis (…) can be written by holding the period button.

But yeah, the commenter admitted it was authored by AI. But even if you converted all the em dashes to "--", it would still have a ChatGPT cadence.

> There’s a missing piece here — maybe coherence, resonance, or field attraction. But “just entropy”? That doesn’t explain formation. It explains dissolution.

Even ignoring the em dash, it just screams ChatGPT.
Show HN: Making music on the web with hand gestures (open source repo)
by getToTheChopin | 2025-06-16 15:03:19+00:00
Hand-controlled arpeggiator, drum machine, and audio reactive visualizer.

Runs in real-time in the browser. Built with threejs, mediapipe computer vision, and tone.js.

Video demo: https://x.com/measure_plan/status/1934618478524199126
by mgr86 | 2025-06-16 15:03:46+00:00
Understandable. I work in academic publishing, and while the XML is everywhere crowd is graying, retiring, or even dying :( it still remains an excellent option for document markup. Additionally, a lot of government data produced in the US and EU make heavy use of XML technologies. I imagine they could be an interested consumer of Nanonets-OCR. TEI could be a good choice as well tested and developed conversions exist to other popular, less structured, formats.
by falcor84 | 2025-06-16 15:04:16+00:00
But it's not that they "underperformed" at life in general - they underperformed when assessed on various aspects of the task that they weren't practicing. To me it's as if they ran a trial where one group played basketball, while another were acting as referees - of course that when tested on ball control, those who were dribbling and throwing would do better, but it tells us nothing about how those acting as referees performed at their thing.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-06-16 15:04:33+00:00
Having done a bit of internet research I'm convinced the RAT deployed. There is a very good quality video of a Thai Airways 787 coming in to land with the RAT deployed which sounds identical to that of the rooftop iPhone video, if you get the better quality version. It sounds like a Jet aircraft being pursued by a P51.

I was never very convinced that a 787 which managed to get airborne (suffering a tail-strike or a runway overrun would certainly be a possibility), would not be able to climb away on two good engines, regardless of the flap setting. There is a good demonstration of the takeoff configuration alarm from a simulator, it would be very difficult to ignore, and unlike some older airframes, the exact reason is displayed on the MFD.

Incidentally in that video the aircraft rotates and climbs out without flaps set, I don't place a lot of emphasis on that though because, firstly the simulator is not real life, and secondly I don't know if the conditions the simulator were trying to recreate were at all representative of the accident flight.
by tiffanyh | 2025-06-16 15:05:57+00:00
Very interesting.

I have some basic questions if anyone knows:

a. do all inmates get computer & internet access? (or only some, dependent upon the crime you committed)

b. do the inmates have to pay to use the computer & internet? I ask because I hear commissary is prohibitively expensive in prison.

c. how much time per week do inmate get to use the computer with internet access? (and is that time guaranteed they will get)

d. are there job boards specific to helping inmates find remote friendly jobs that are accepting of incarcerated individuals?
by sillystu04 | 2025-06-16 15:05:59+00:00
They've adopted a different flavour of devilishness. See VSCode versus Visual Studio, or their approach to AI.

Bill Gates would've bought OpenAI. Satya shares their mission of developing AI for the good of humanity. He charitably donated billions of dollars in Azure credits in exchange for nothing besides a voice at the table and a license to help enable other organisations use AI through MS services.

In a way it's a PR difference, but I feel that understates the change.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-16 15:06:16+00:00
If you built a lightrail where only 3 people could be in each section, that would be a close equivilant to driver density. At anything close to rush hour, you couldn't put enough trains on the line to keep up with demand, because trying to transport that many people, at that low density, all to the same area just doesn't work. It is so crazy to me the lengths people will go to justify car culture over walkability and public transit.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-16 15:07:24+00:00
> Excluding a very small handful of SVU level crimes everything should be wiped clean after 5 years or so.

My understanding, is that's what the UK does, with an exemption for certain jobs, like teachers and creche hosts. In the US, I think some states have the ability to expunge convictions. Not sure about federal crimes, though.

The "scarlet letter" of a past conviction is a very real issue, and keeps some folks down. People can get past it, though. I know folks that served time for murder, that have very good careers, and people that have misdemeanor records, that have always struggled.
by andrepd | 2025-06-16 15:07:52+00:00
It's very frustrating, I admit. Backups and archival are indeed a pet peeve of mine, as are the frequent redesigns (but that's just a "feature" virtually every single god-damn modern app).

What is the alternative though? A private chat app, mobile + desktop, syncing, with enough ease of setup and use for normies to adopt? I don't see it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-16 15:08:10+00:00
You need a decent amount of experience to make psychoactive substances. Chemistry is one of those things that looks like you just follow the steps, but in practice requires a ton of intuition and "feeling it". You can see this if you watch NileRed on youtube, he is a pretty experienced chemist, and even then still flops all the time trying to replicate reactions right out of the book.

Besides, the books Pihkl and Tikhl lay out how to make most psychoactive substances, and those books have been online for free for decades now.[1][2] Maybe there are easier routes and easier to acquire precursor recipes, but I doubt those would be hard to find. The hardest part by far is the chemistry intuition.

[1]https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml [2]https://erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.shtml
by simonw | 2025-06-16 15:08:36+00:00
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878

Code: https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/CRMArena

Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Salesforce/CRMArenaPro (8,614 rows)

Here's one of those JSON files loaded in Datasette Lite (15MB page load): https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://huggingface.co/datas...

I had Gemini 2.5 Pro extract the prompts they used from the code:

llm install llm-gemini llm install llm-fragments-github llm -m gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 \ -f github:SalesforceAIResearch/CRMArena \ -s 'Markdown with a comprehensive list of all prompts used and how they are used'

Result here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/33d51edc574dbbd9c7e3fa9c9f79e...
by koverstreet | 2025-06-16 15:08:39+00:00
There's degrees of hackyness. Tone and emphasis are important parst of clear and effective communication.

Something that's a mere "hack" might be something I don't mind, but worth being aware of and revisiting if and when the code becomes more complicated and has to do more things.

A "stupid fucking hack" indicates something that could have only come about by a whole chain of stupidity and mistakes, inflicting brain damage that we're now stuck with, to great anguish and misery.

Those things are important to highlight, if only as lessons in what not to do.
by vlovich123 | 2025-06-16 15:09:05+00:00
While in formal professional settings it is rarer (and swearing at each other vs about a thing is generally always impolite) Russia, Australia, Iceland, Scandinavian countries generally have fewer issues inherently treating swearing as impolite vs a strong expression of emotion.

There’s even a comic about how common swearing is in a professional coding environment: https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
by wiredfool | 2025-06-16 15:10:19+00:00
I like them. Don't use pens much, used to be a bit picky, either fountain pens or roller balls or gel, but they'd always leak or be dry or not be ready to roll when I needed them.

I had one Cristal pen that I managed to hold on to and use through at least three moves and 8+ years, until I finally ran it out of ink. It didn't get lost, destroyed, eaten (by puppies or humans), or quit working -- until there was nothing left of it. It was a small accomplishment, but one that I'm absurdly proud of.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-16 15:10:22+00:00
You don't need any dynamic features in PDF to attack. One of the most famous exploits used a bug in the JBIG2 format to build the attacker's own dynamic feature (basically a virtual machine built from logic operations) to launch an exploit. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

In fact you have gotten it backwards. The obviously dynamic features in PDF like JavaScript are designed to be dynamic so they receive so much more attention in security. So smart attackers attack the not-obviously-dynamic features in PDF.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-16 15:10:51+00:00
> is professional in the same way that a suit and tie is professional. It's a uniform to ensure nobody stands out, and the corporation can absorb everybody's personality, like flour incorporated into bread dough. White bread, no seeds.

I take you also strongly believe then that when I waltz up to work in some random hoodie, sweatpants and running shoes, that's actually some bespoke eloquent expression of self, full of meaning?

Reminds me to all those "he/she is wearing this/that kind of glasses/shoes, that means <extremely specific personality trait>" scenes from older movies and shows. Holy hyperbole.
by Retric | 2025-06-16 15:11:49+00:00
> Is the encoding itself an infringement

Barring a fair use exception, yes.

From what I’ve read MP3’s get the same treatment as cassette tapes which were also lossy. It’s 1:1 digital copies that represented some novelty, but that rarely matters.

I’m hesitant to comment of the rest of that. The ultimate question isn’t if some difference exists but why that difference matters.