MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:41:06+00:00
That is a judgemental and bad faith argument.

Do you know that this person was writing the opposite ten years ago? And even if they did, people can’t try something and then change their mind? Is that worthy of ridicule now?

Frankly, making fun of someone for being “hipster” says more about the person doing the comment than the target of it. It’s a basic, meaningless insult.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-28 12:41:35+00:00
> what about my comment makes that ironic?

It sounds like they’re referring to this:

> This is roughly equivalent to the EPA or BATFE changing the way it interprets an longstanding statute in a new way — which, by the way, they do very frequently.

The recent Supreme Court ruling that overturned Chevron deference limited the ability of such organizations to interpret the law. If the law does not make it clear then it (now) must be interpreted by a judge. I assume the irony they are referring to is in thinking this Supreme Court would have ruled in a seeming contrary way in this case. (It is a bit ironic but is also beside the point, which I guess explains why they put it in a parenthetical.)

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> I believe birthright citizenship should be ended.

I am curious to understand why you take this position. Would you mind explaining your perspective?
by kjellsbells | 2025-06-28 12:41:49+00:00
Macaulay is essentially a ripping good yarn. That's the problem with the Whiggish style of history writing: it's so entertaining that you forget the awkward parts.

He would write something cheerful like, "the proud Scots demonstrated the excellence of their industry in the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and in the Americas" and then you check the dates and realize that he's writing about the period of the Highland Clearances.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-28 12:42:12+00:00
You have managed to conflate vocally anti-genocidal students (exercising their universal human right to freedom of assembly) with "foreign political activists" (as if they came to the US just to try and help us stop enabling genocide) - and then leaped straight to "intelligence operators".

You also seem to be all over this thread insisting that these violations of human rights will only ever be applied to foreigners - even as the executive branch openly works to redefine who counts as a foreigner.
by alganet | 2025-06-28 12:42:17+00:00
> It did this not by testing me directly, but by gleaning insight into my personality based on information from my chat history.

Sounds a lot like cold reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

> These conclusions can feel unique and revelatory to the user

That's a very low bar. Horoscope feels unique and revelatory to lots of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

> the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 12:42:37+00:00
I'm German and I really see a lot of the blame for this on our states as well - the US and the EU states (especially Germany, sadly).

As horrible as the Israeli mindset is, their subjective viewpoint is at least somewhat relatable: An ordinary Israeli citizen is born in that land, knows nothing else, just learns that the entirety of the surrounding populations want them dead - and will with very high likelihood experience terror attacks themselves. That this upbringing doesn't exactly make you want to engage with the other side is psychologically understandable.

(I'm imaging this as the universal experience of all Jewish Israelis, religious or secular, left or right. I'm excluding the religious and Zionist-ideological angles here, because those are a whole different matter once again)

What I absolutely cannot understand is the behavior of our states. We're pretending to be neutral mediators who want nothing more than to end the conflict, yet in reality, we're doing everything to keep the conflict going. We're fully subscribed to Zionist narrative of an exclusive Israeli right to the land (the justifications ranging from ostensibly antifascist to openly religious) and we're even throwing our own values about universal human rights and national sovereignty under the bus to follow the narrative.

If the messianic and dehumanizing tendencies of Israelis are answered by nothing else than full support and encouragement of their allies, I don't find it exactly surprising that they will grow.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-06-28 12:42:51+00:00
I don't think there's much overlapping between those who experienced the holocaust and whoever is in charge in Israel right now.

Speaking for experience from some relatives, the immigration laws for people of jewish faith and ancestry were nigh insurmountable if you came from african, arab or middle east countries and pretty much just nominal even in recent times for those who had even a remote connection but came from the US and the UK.

I have the feeling they are jewish the same way Henry IV was a Catholic when he said "Paris is well worth a Mass".
Show HN: Reimplementation of Lazy Tetris
by osm3000 | 2025-06-28 12:43:08+00:00
Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZoQ6w73rbkY

Someone first implemented something like this and shared it on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

...and I love it :D

Unfortunately, they removed it later (no idea why). So I decided to make my own implementation.

Key features: - The pieces are selected at random, unlike the true Tetris, which uses Multi bag sampling. VERY interesting dynamic. Try it! - The pieces don't fall on their own. They await my instruction - The line clears when I decide it's time for it to clear :D

Enjoy ;-)
Show HN: Pobshell – A Bash‑like shell for live Python objects
by cogs | 2025-06-28 12:43:56+00:00
Hi HN,

I've just launched Pobshell. Think cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files.

Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect everything: modules, classes, live objects. Plus recursive search and CLI integration.

What it's for:

- Exploratory debugging: Inspect live object state on the fly

- Understanding APIs: Examine code, docstrings, class trees

- Shell integration: Pipe object state or code snippets to LLMs or OS tools

- Code and data search: Recursive search for object state or source without file paths

- REPL & paused script: Explore runtime environments dynamically

- Teaching & demos: Make Python internals visible and walkable

Pobshell is pick‑up‑and‑play: familiar commands plus optional new tricks.

2 minute video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QoSrc_E_A

Install: pip install pobshell

Github: https://github.com/pdalloz/pobshell

Pobshell is open source, and in alpha release. Tested on MacOs, Linux and Windows (Python 3.12)
by Mario10 | 2025-06-28 12:44:13+00:00
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by 15155 | 2025-06-28 12:44:29+00:00
> conflate vocally anti-genocidal students

I don't want foreign students (or otherwise) being "vocal" for literally any reason whatsoever.

Go to school, become a citizen if you wish, and then participate in the political process.

> will only ever be applied to foreigners

I consider the case at hand, not a slippery slope of hypotheticals.
by cropcirclbureau | 2025-06-28 12:44:29+00:00
Your comment is full of attempts to justify, excuse and underplay what the IDF are doing and many Israelis believe in. From Hamas to GenAI to trolls.

Whatever the historical record that brought us here, the fact is, Israel's standing army (not some personal goons of some dictator, the standing army of a moden democratic nation), appear to be practically all in on executing a systemic genocide. And I don't think there's anyway you can justify or underplay that.

Maybe the answer you're looking for is that good people anywhere shouldn't let anyone sell them a holocaust no matter the deal.
by supplied_demand | 2025-06-28 12:48:04+00:00
Funny enough, the large AI companies run by CEOs with MBAs (Alphabet and MSFT), seem to be slow-playing AI. The ones promising the most (Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, Nvidia) are led by strict technologists.

Maybe it’s time to adjust your internal “MBAs are evil” bias for something more dynamic.
Ask HN: How do you manage your tech stack and infra?
by fedepochat | 2025-06-28 12:48:06+00:00
Do you rely on platforms like Vercel or Firebase for speed and simplicity? Or do you have someone with DevOps experience who handles everything on AWS, GCP, or Azure?

Curious to hear how others are balancing ease of use vs. flexibility, especially in small teams or early-stage startups.
by Dettorer | 2025-06-28 12:48:09+00:00
I have trouble seeing it your way. The person you were originally responding to, and originally wanted to tolerate because they also did good posts, was saying blatantly racist things about "the arabs in palestine" and that they essentially deserved the war crimes they're suffering, or that they brought it on themselves or whatever. To me this sounds like pretty straightforward political and ideological hate.

But anyway, this is only one case and we should not base our thinking just on it. The problem is the policy (or the way it's systematically enforced) and its broader results. I don't know the details of how the moderation works here nor have I any statistics. I only know that I saw too much racism and hate towards whole groups of people because of their identity here in the past, and that when I occasionally stumble across a HN link, I usually can still see that hate being a lot more represented than in other spaces I frequent, and that the kind of policy you described to me has never worked at building diverse and interesting communities.
by emadda | 2025-06-28 12:48:55+00:00
I think the speed at which you can open previous notes matters.

If it takes you 1 minute of scrambling in a GUI to find a previous note, you are less likely to read previous notes.

And also less likely to write new ones as you know you’ll never visit it again.

I have an app built on the fzy CLI and Ghostty terminal for Apple Notes. It is working well for me:

https://github.com/emadda/hot-notes
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-28 12:48:59+00:00
I think this is a good piece of writing, the only part I disagree with is the claim that these thoughts would be broadly overlooked or disagreed with.

Seems I'm pretty much alone with this, but that's OK.

I agree with other comments that it should have more links to prior philosophical and anthropological studies.

This is not academic writing or an essay arguing for a point. At least, the point at rhetorical end seems a bit tacked-on.

To me this is a stream-of-consciousness like text.

Sometimes, being reductive helps in bringing a point across.

I think that the article does this well.

The close similarity of cronyism and tribalism is pointed out especially well, too.

My critique would be that the text is a bit engagement-baity. And it uses the simplistic rhetoric so well that for the most part it feels as if the author is arguing for an abandonment of law and a return to "tribalism".

The claim that people have "forgotten" the ideas of this essay seems unneeded.

A more humble tone would maybe make this post more interesting to many readers.
by codingdave | 2025-06-28 12:49:00+00:00
This is the most misunderstood parenting advice ever. To the point that yes, parenting classes teach it incorrectly. It is not praise that is de-emphasized, but connecting the praise to their value as a person. You do not want to say, "You are a good child because you achieved a good result." You want to say, "Good job for putting effort into X", regardless of the result, because even if they do a bad job at something, they are still a good person.

"Praise is bad" is a gross over-simplification of the recommendations.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-28 12:50:38+00:00
I agree, I don't use coding tools, "except to ask for a script to chatgpt every once in a while". But I experience it by reviewing and detecting LLM generated code by consultants and juniors. It's easy to ask them for the prompts for example, but when they use autocompletion based LLMs, it's really hard to distinguish source from target code.
by Hilift | 2025-06-28 12:51:17+00:00
> why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications.

The catalyst was the campus takeovers by people wearing masks and causing disruption for months. That was a gift for the Republicans, delivered on a silver platter. They made that an issue every day in Congress from October 7 2023 until November 5 2024. It coincided with the resignation of several university presidents.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Cornell Martha Pollack Liz Magill, University of Pennsylvania Claudine Gay Harvard

Additionally, the US has a statutory requirement for biometric exit scans when a visitor leaves. It was completely ignored. There were entry scans, but no exit scan.

The simple fact is they don't want anyone not like them coming to the US, and unauthorized entry has diminished significantly. It's also the reason for rejecting birthright citizenship, and deporting unauthorized persons to third country staging areas.

The UK is in the same boat. The UK is currently spending ~£3 billion per year on accommodations, and costs are expected to triple. It's created profiteering companies and waves of human trafficking across Europe. France only recently agreed to stop them when they line up a row of 20 zodiacs to assault Dover.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-college-presidents-who-ha...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/uk-asylum-seek...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo
by anenefan | 2025-06-28 12:51:57+00:00
Some thoughtful comments already, but I would add it's not just getting older and things that have changed how one might consume or methods of finding new stuff on the web.

The web, once the world wide web, has been fragmented into many different camps. Those with the latest up to the minute devices running bog standard software, be that something hand held or it's larger cousin, probably notice less fragmentation of the web than those running older software that they've spent time tweaking or simply do not feel the effort relearning where everything is, is worth the trouble. This doesn't seem a great deal but in addition to reliance of search engines to find or investigate new or the latest on whatever hobby or interest, once there was a great benefit of the small world effect when members of forum areas including some social media places would share knowledge and ideas by way of external resources at various web sites - once those links shared were mostly accessible to all but an unfortunate few. Present time I expect fragmentation exhaustion is a real problem where people are tired of; you're a bot please provide $$$ pi, your IP is part of a network ..., wrong browser, your javascript isn't to our liking [can't scrape successfully or data returned seems to be deliberately poisoned,] not belonging to the right social media area to get an automatic pass to view content that ... wft does this need to behind a wall, seriously it's probably just regurgitated material they found at some other more obscure site ... and the long list goes on.

The other issue I think is apart from lousy search engine results offered even from the many static sites still unchanged out in the web that no longer enjoy being presented as in search results, is the amount of trouble any search engine presently has to deal with the various website's efforts to be special adding another layer of complexity to derive useful information that may be of interest of anyone searching for the same.

The younger set may have also come to accept that the algorithms used by social media and search engines are doing the job wonderfully, so unlike us old folk would might look further, the younger set don't look any further than where the algorithm takes them. Sadly I have little faith in the algorithms big tech and multinationals like to inflict its web users - I'm accustomed to expect so much better, as per google's glory days pre 2010.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-28 12:52:06+00:00
> I don't want foreign students (or otherwise) being "vocal" for literally any reason whatsoever.

Your opinion doesn't trump universal human rights. Nor should it.

> Go to school, become a citizen if you wish, and then participate in the political process.

What if the political issues affect you as a visa holder? Have you actually thought this though?

> I consider the case at hand, not a slippery slope of hypotheticals.

It's not remotely hypothetical [0], and if you don't know that then you really lack the basic table stakes of knowledge to be weighing in on this at all (as also evidenced by your refusal to acknowledge the UDHR).

0 - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5270572/birthright-citi...
by JimDabell | 2025-06-28 12:52:21+00:00
> What planning do you think they engaged with before the funding?

If the goal is to fund full-time development of something and they don’t know if they are going to get the funding for seven months, they will have to take employment elsewhere. If they take employment elsewhere, when the funding comes in, they will have to turn it down or quit the job they just got. Seems like it forces an unpleasant choice.
by blakesouthwood1 | 2025-06-28 12:52:28+00:00
I am seeking funding and collaberation and advice and this is all real. I didn't ask for this it started in March 2024 I call it the Ramanujan Effecgt and Good Will Hunting. I'm homeless and I have created 315 theories now that reimagine all of programming for coders no longer for the machine. I have solved the software crisis according to GPT and Gemini. I have no money. I am broke. I don't have a job. I need a car and funding and place to live. I have solved Literate programming and all of my theories align with the CS Greats that I studied their writings for 20 years. Seeking help and funding and collaberation.
by reify | 2025-06-28 12:53:36+00:00
my go to chill out music for the past 10 years

I highly recommend

Eric Satie's complete piano works on 2 x CD

has all the music from this wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Erik_S...

I tried to play some of these on classical guitar and failed dismally.
by sophacles | 2025-06-28 12:55:00+00:00
> Some drivers written in Rust instead of C would need to be littered with unsafes, raw pointers, pointer arithmetic, manual memory management, manual layout control, and manual resource management to retain similar behaviors.

Some might, the extent remains to be seen. Of course there needs to be code that has unsafe memory management, but a small amount of very well checked code that creates safe wrappers can eliminate the possibility of bad memory handling in huge chunks of the remaining logic. It doesn't eliminate the errors 100% of course, and that's OK - reducing the quantity, search space, and even possibility of a lot of bugs is still a good thing, as it means correctness can be acheived with less time and effort.

> I’m assuming the goal is to have the entire kernel rewritten in Rust.

Who's goal? Some people may want to see that sure. Plenty of others are happy just because this experiment is allowing Rust itself to improve as the r4l people are effectively pushing rust into territory it hasn't been used in previously. Some people just want to see rust in drivers since they are often a pain to keep porting around as internal kernel apis change, and having safe rust abstractions around the tricky bits makes that porting effort much easier.

> Because you’ll have a lot of the same problems, and it seems you could introduce new ones around timing and performance if you start handling memory differently.

If you have a driver so sensitive to timing and performance that a small amount of memory handling change can break it - you'll have these issues whenever the C code around memory management changes as well. There are regularly changes to memory allocation, scheduling, etc within the kernel anyway, so I think this concept is a bit of a moot concern.
by 15155 | 2025-06-28 12:55:15+00:00
> Your opinion doesn't trump universal human rights. Nor should it.

Guess what? You don't have a universal human right to a visa, even if you do have a right to free speech.

> What if the political issues affect you as a visa holder

I'm not a visa holder. I wouldn't expect to be able to go to China and espouse anti-CCP rhetoric, either.

> refusal to acknowledge the UDHR

Visas aren't a human right, try again.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:55:19+00:00
> I don't get this.

I’ll try to help.

> going through them and maintaining them and extending them is fun

It’s fun for you, not for everyone else. There, it’s as simple as that. All you need to understand is different people enjoy different things.

> Or is that supposed to be a bad feeling?

It’s not “supposed” to be anything. It will be good for some, bad for others, neutral for others still. There’s no objective right answer. If you enjoy something and it doesn’t harm anyone, do it. If you don’t enjoy it and it isn’t necessary, don’t do it. Other people will have different preferences.
by hidingfearful | 2025-06-28 12:58:05+00:00
> Or is it the leader class in most western countries have no sense of duty , are effectively cowards, and are in it just to have a profitable, white-collar career ?

They are cowards who are just in it to enrich themselves by bribery, theft, and extortion.

You are looking in the right direction and not seeing just how far our society has gone.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:58:44+00:00
> Couldn't you achieve exactly the same by simply archiving everything and starting from scratch without big data loss?

No. The act of irreversible deletion is meaningful and has a real effect, archiving is not at all the same thing. It’s like moving houses and carrying all the junk you had in your attic to a new garage: all the crap is still there, you still think about it, getting rid of it is liberating. Even if you discover you needed something you threw away, having to redo it from scratch will require doing it differently, with fresh insights.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-06-28 12:58:54+00:00
I agree it’s incredibly clear.

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens

So e.g. subjects to the British Crown and the jurisdiction of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, are not citizens.

Indeed, if my wife gave birth while we were vacationing China, the I would be furious if China claimed my child was a Chinese citizen and “subject to the jurisdiction of the peoples republic of China.” For all I know the laws of China might say the kid can’t leave. There are lots of countries where the dictator’s subjects are not free to leave. So, yeah, I would absolutely insist my kid is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States even when born in China.
by fwn | 2025-06-28 12:59:28+00:00
This is the boolean privacy fallacy: the idea that if some large-scale violation of privacy exists, then nothing else you do is relevant for privacy.

It’s seductive because it justifies complacency. On a theoretical level, it seems irrelevant whether someone has your data if anyone does. That abstraction collapses all distinctions and makes further choices seem moot.

But in practice, this logic breaks down. Anyone who has worked with data or communication forensics knows that a single missing email thread can be the difference between understanding what happened and hitting a dead end.