MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by harry8 | 2025-06-10 03:11:34+00:00
Oh no. No way.

Will never, ever be forgotten due to neglect.

Came right in the middle of arguably the greatest song-writing streak ever heard.

(random google hit about it, bound to be plenty of others others) https://firebirdmagazine.com/lists/steviewonder

I love Dark Side, it's great. Stevie on that form was something else and isn't going to be forgotten for a century or two at the minimum as long as civilisation survives to remember one of its high points. Maybe Sylvester Stewart had an influence in it too.
by ydlr | 2025-06-10 03:11:54+00:00
> The library is meant to be noisy: It’s a lounge-like area with no walls or doors that is bisected by the hallway that traverses the building. And there are no shelves or books — all volumes are digital.

> Classrooms are organized like high-tech college lecture halls — no teacher has their own room. Instead, each teacher has a desk and a computer in a separate and small “collaboration” room.

I'm all for state of the art public and collaborative spaces. But I hope they make room for solitary reflection and individual study. As a student, the hours spent in the library stacks were invaluable. In my career, having a quite place to retreat throughout the day is sometimes the only thing that keeps me sane.
Show HN: Vibe Map Design – Create interactive map themes with text/image
by apolkingg8 | 2025-06-10 03:12:00+00:00
Hello HN guys, just want to share my recent work.

It's a "vibe map design", basically means you can design a interactive map theme by prompt text/image. It's one of the features in Tasmap (https://tasmap.app), a personal map creation tool, like google my maps, but focus on design, customize, and privacy control. I split it into a stand-alone page so you can try it without register. Looking forward to seeing your creation :)

Tip: An imperative prompt can achieve the effect you want, but a poetic prompt can sometimes bring surprises.
by ekidd | 2025-06-10 03:12:04+00:00
> This is probably an unpopular opinion but I would like politicians on the left to speak up about the rioting and burning of stuff at the current protests and also the Tesla and George Floyd protests.

I mean, Gavin Newsom just did a long interview from a "crisis center" where he did exactly that, today. And plenty of Democratic politicians also speak against violent protests whenever they occur.

But unless you actually pay pretty close attention to what Democratic politicians actually say, you won't hear these statements. Fox doesn't cover Democratic politicians speaking against violence. And frankly, if there's a 99.9% peaceful protest with one burning car, the media will devote 80% of their coverage to the burning car, and maybe a few sentences to politicians saying the burning car is bad. The media is unfortunately interested in spectacle and entertainment.

I pay more attention than average to what politicians of both parties say, and it's kind of hilarious how often I hear "Why didn't so-and-so say X?" (uh, they do every week or two), or "I never believed so-and-so would do Y" (uh, they literally promised Y on the campaign trail). I don't know how to fix this.
by roenxi | 2025-06-10 03:13:41+00:00
I live in Australia, I don't think government overreach in Australia is a laughing matter; beyond maybe a few dark jokes. We're people too.

Old mate was asking a stupid question - people care enough about the COVID restrictions to protest in every country they were bought in. Exactly how heated the protests get isn't really a factor and how unreasonable the police response gets isn't really a factor either. What is jeffbee's complaint supposed to be - COVID protesters in the US behaved too well for his liking? People only show they care about law and principle when they are physically threatening police? Maybe he wanted them to act like monkeys to show they were serious? Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. The literal one is yes. People were tear gassed. Move on to the next question.
by lmm | 2025-06-10 03:15:06+00:00
This started with rioters attacking the legitimate authorities (ICE) as they tried to enforce long-established law that most of the population supports (you can't be in the country without citizenship, visa, or similar authorisation). Escalating to the national guard and ultimately the military is established best practice when the rule of law breaks down in a given locality. No fascism there (if anything, letting rioters run wild as long as they're going after the undesirables is a well known fascist tactic)
by consumer451 | 2025-06-10 03:16:47+00:00
I know that many might read the parent comment as flippant, or politically biased, but we are witnessing the insane reversion of scientific advancement. This is not a new trend:

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti‑intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

- “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, published on January 21, 1980 in Newsweek
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-10 03:20:02+00:00
Like the fact that wearing masks in public is primarily done so that sick people have a mask over their coughing mouth.

But if only sick people had to wear masks, it would single you out as sick, so nobody would wear a mask.

So the solution is for everyone to wear a mask, so a mask isn't a sign of illness.

Of course, this level of thinking requires an IQ of at least 100, which half the population is under.

So "Wear a mask, because masks stop the spread of illness" is used to allude to masks being a tool for protection primarily, rather than a tool of containment.
by dwg | 2025-06-10 03:20:57+00:00
Japan has required amortization of capitalized software over five years for qualifying internal-use software since at least 2000. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe most other countries have similar rules.

Until 2022, U.S. companies had a real competitive advantage.

Software developer salaries in Japan are depressed—other roles too, but especially engineers. Without digging too deep, perhaps the previously unfavorable (now roughly equal) tax treatment of was perhaps a contributing factor.
by seanwilson | 2025-06-10 03:21:41+00:00
Signifiers? https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94265/whats-the-diffe...

> Affordances are what an object can do (truth). Perceived affordances are what one thinks an object can do (perception). Signifiers make affordances clearer (closing the gap between truth and perception). Signifiers often reduce number of possible interpretations and/or make intended way of using an object more explicit.

> A grey link on the screen might afford clicking (truth). But you might perceive it just as a non-interactive label (perception). Styling it as a button (background, shadow etc.) is a signifier that makes it clearer that the link can be clicked.

I don't think there's any more widely known terms here, and not any used within general tech audiences. I'd like it if there was a useful shorthand too but devs/users/clients are probably going to stick with e.g. "I couldn't tell that was a button" because the above have failed to catch on.

"Visual cues" feels accurate enough. I immediately understand "Buttons should look like buttons".
by bawolff | 2025-06-10 03:22:22+00:00
It does make a big difference in the fight for hearts and minds.

The reason why non-violent protest works is not because it prevents escalation, but because when escalation does inevitably happen, the masses will think the escalation was unwarranted and be sympathetic to the protestors. The worst possible thing for a protest movement to do is scaring the masses, since then they will flock to the state for "protection" and give the state carte blanche to get the situation under control.
by rifty | 2025-06-10 03:23:54+00:00
I like the glassy shader effect and concept even if lacking a bit of discipline in all of the places where it's applied at the moment. Though I think the real test of differentiation for this redesign is how approachable the 'liquid' animations will be for developers to implement outside of the UIKit elements. Will be interesting to see how this design language system changes how they approach elements of the experience as they get more used to thinking through it.
by bolster8505 | 2025-06-10 03:24:26+00:00
I've lived in the Las Vegas area my entire life. I'm so glad they're doing this. Some areas of town have very little green space, especially since grass has been outlawed. Trees are a net positive, even if it isn't a silver bullet solution. I do miss the grass though, everyone in the neighborhood watering their grass at night really cooled things down but the cost is too high considering how much water is used. Trees can keep the asphalt and concrete from becoming frying pans.
by nonplayercaesar | 2025-06-10 03:24:45+00:00
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by robotelvis | 2025-06-10 03:25:49+00:00
I was asked to give a talk on how to make the most out of OpenAI's new Codex coding agent, and it turned into a blog post.

Codex works best when you have a really clean code base, with thorough tests, and well documented best practices. Getting your code base into that kind of shape might seem like a lot of work, but Codex is already great at the kind of mundane tasks needed to get your code into a state where Codex can work well.

Codex has also changed how I think about software engineering. With previous AI tools, I used them to help me write the code, but now my job is to mentor a team of AI agents as they write the code.

Even if you don't write code, it's important to understand what it's like to use Codex, because this kind of "manage a team of AI agents to do your job" is likely the future of all human work.
by serjester | 2025-06-10 03:25:54+00:00
I wouldn’t underestimate the impact of having massive communities around a language. Basically any problem you have has likely already been solved by 10 other people. With AI being as frothy as it is, that’s incredibly valuable.

Take for example something like being able to easily swap models, in Python it’s trivial with litellm. In niche languages you’re lucky to even have an official, well mantained SDK.
by vunderba | 2025-06-10 03:27:00+00:00
I'm sure its more now than it was ~5 years ago. A cursory glance on Trulia shows you can still snag reasonably sized houses for around $1400-1600. It doesn't have to be Stone Mountain (Tucker, Decatur, etc are all adjacent) and fine areas.

There's not a huge number, but I see some:

$1600 / month (3bd 2ba ~1400sqft) https://www.trulia.com/home/5449-pepperwood-ct-stone-mountai...

$1400 / month (3bd 3ba ~1400sqft) https://www.trulia.com/home/640-woodcrest-manor-dr-stone-mou...

$1600 / month (3bd, 2ba, ~1100sqft) https://www.trulia.com/home/1616-w-austin-rd-decatur-ga-3003...

So it is very doable in Southeast US. I'm not sure where you live where the average rent is $2400 for a similarly sized 2-3 bedroom house, but if you work remotely - it's trivial to find significantly cheaper rents.

I live in a fairly urbanized walkable city so I haven't rented a house in a while. Here $3k / month would get you a pretty posh pad, but it's far more than I spend on my flat.
by fsckboy | 2025-06-10 03:27:04+00:00
he absolutely does not agree with what you've stated, and he does believe in germ theory, and he does believe the original vaccines worked and were effective. Did the original vaccines have mercury in them? Why was mercury added to vaccines? Do you understand any of that? You have no basis to disagree with him as you don't know what you are talking about.

my point is not that he is right, I have no idea if he's right but I know what the argument is.

my point is that this HN discussion and all others like it is full of useless whining.
by unethical_ban | 2025-06-10 03:27:35+00:00
You'd have police shoot into a crowd of people because rocks got thrown?

edit: I got throttled, as is the case on HN when things get "active". Here is my response to koolba:

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At a head? Sure.

Do I think police can get rough and "in it" with civilians without live fire and without the use of the US Military? Yes.

Do I think, when a sufficient bloc of a city rebels against its law enforcement, then maybe the law enforcement should reconsider what they're enforcing? Also yes.

I disagree with the premise that the State is always right and that their monopoly on violence is absolute.

We celebrate the US revolution and revolutions across the world when governments act illegally and against the will of the people, violating civil rights.

I would not support firing into a crowd of people because of minor property damage.
Show HN: Jina – AI QA Engineer
by fearlessboi | 2025-06-10 03:28:15+00:00
Jina is your AI QA engineer. It spins up AI users that browse your app like real people, run end-to-end tests, and catch bugs autonomously, at scale.

It understands UI, code, and user intent. Doesn't rely on test scripts or CSS selectors and requires no maintenance.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-10 03:28:24+00:00
> Who pays taxes when it's well known that the IRS doesn't audit and follow up on tax cheats?

But they do. They always have. The question is, once they've done that, should then they proceed to audit an even larger number of mostly innocent people, because a small percentage of them did something wrong and finding that small percentage would cover the costs of the IRS, but not any of those other innocent people?

> Especially, if all it takes to further dissuade them is engineering complex wealth structures and keeping tax lawyers on retainer.

This is an entirely different problem. The ones with sophisticated lawyers aren't actually violating the tax code. The problem there is that the tax code is so complicated and poorly considered that fancy lawyers can find ways to avoid taxes without violating the law.
by chrisco255 | 2025-06-10 03:29:01+00:00
Everybody got Covid (multiple times!), despite draconian measures to force people to take the vaccine. I've taken many vaccines in my life. I never got measles, mumps, or rubella. I never got tetanus or hepatitis C. Nobody I know who got the smallpox vax ever got smallpox. But everyone I know got Covid, vax / no vax. Some people I know got ill for three weeks from the vax itself. One dude got bells palsy from it. Nobody ever had to force people to take the smallpox vax or lose their job. People just willingly took it because they knew smallpox was really, truly, desperately deadly and that the vax actually worked. The Covid vax had none of those properties of the smallpox vax and yet it was paired with the most 1984 level insanity of my entire life.
by Spivak | 2025-06-10 03:33:03+00:00
> Of course, Intel Macs will continue to get critical security updates for some time thereafter. But users should not expect to be able to update to get new features from macOS 27 onwards

Crazy to see how fast Intel got dethroned. ARM on the server is cheaper for the same performance, and the M* is unbelievably faster at the lower energy budget of a laptop.
by handsclean | 2025-06-10 03:33:13+00:00
It depends on the company. I’d never dream of reporting a bug to Apple, they don’t care. I think your turnip truck analogy applies there. On the other hand, iA Writer consistently replies thoughtfully and usually fixes the bug.

It’s so important to treat companies individually instead of just according to some blanket impression of the world. Individual treatment means good companies benefit and grow, while blanket treatment actually actively rewards bad behavior: a company that invests in quality will bear the cost while you share the benefit with the competition, while a company that treats you worse will reap the savings while you take out your frustration on the competition, too.
by lossolo | 2025-06-10 03:33:21+00:00
It's a salami tactic, that's how democracies are turning into autocracies, slice by slice. This is something new to you, but people who experienced this firsthand see what's going on in the US as an obvious road to autocratic rule. Then another Rubicon will be crossed, and another, one by one, little steps, until someday you will find yourself in a totally different country after all the steps converge into a different political system.
by Nathanba | 2025-06-10 03:34:24+00:00
Next time they shouldn't lie nonstop about almost every single thing during a pandemic. Then you can expect people to follow you. People don't like to follow proven liars, whether they did it with "good intentions" is ultimately irrelevant. Someone with good intentions can also bring you to ruin.

1. They lied about masks, first it was irrelevant whether you wore one or not, then they changed their mind and suddenly masks were super important and you just have to wear one or else. The truth is that it probably helps a little because duh, you have some cloth in front of your breathing, it probably catches some particles but definitely not all all the time. Saying that scientific truth evolved is utter nonsense, experts definitely always knew particle size and mask efficiency. They just didn't care and didn't do their job figuring it out and telling people the real efficiency.

2. They lied constantly that vaccines are super safe and super effective, outright attempting to gaslight you that "nobody" dies to vaccines. Which is just a flat out lie. People absolutely died from vaccines and always have. Just stop lying about it.

3. The U.S president himself lied that you will not spread it anymore if you get vaccinated. All lies. And it was definitely already known at the time he said this, frankly it's common sense.

3. They lied about herd immunity which is basically impossible to achieve.

4. Deals with vaccine companies were kept secret, that doesn't exactly inspire much confidence to follow guidances when everyone knows how much money can corrupt.

5. They mounted a massive coercion campaign and constantly shamed everyone in the most pathetic ways possible with patronizing TV coverage. Colbert's little vaccine dance is historic at this point.

6. They strongly suppressed alternative points of view from other scientists and doctors. These were not flatearther tier people, they made good points and many were and are well respected people. And yet they were suppressed anyway.

And after all this you come here with a very generic comment about how disappointed you are that people didn't come together on a base truth. I'm disappointed that you seem to have no complaints and offer such a generic, apologist view of the past.
by roenxi | 2025-06-10 03:34:25+00:00
He's talking about tear gassings and people being dragged away though. Have employers even formed a mob to assert their right to commit wage theft? That seems like it'd be a wildly rare event but a prerequisite to a tear gassing. I assume it must have happened at least once but I can't recall an example. Dragging them to a foreign prison isn't really a productive way to deal with wage theft. They get dragged to local prisons if they commit crimes though.

If the point is that employers get a trial and that is unfair then there might be something there, but the point isn't being expressed very clearly.
by jcranmer | 2025-06-10 03:34:33+00:00
Hacker News is a social media site for people to talk about (usually) tech-related news. It might be hosted by, and fully run by, a tech startup incubator, but Y Combinator isn't exactly a household name, and the only real indication that this site is related to the incubator is the domain name.

It's pretty easy to come across this site if you're just generally interested in tech stuff (I think everybody I talk to knows exactly what I refer to if I say "the orange site"), and if you're someone who's interested in tech but not particularly plugged into things like the mechanics of startups or business, well, there's a lot on here that's not related to that.
by 14 | 2025-06-10 03:34:36+00:00
I lost my hotmail account I had for years due to losing my phone number. My boss at one point said he would pay for me to have a cell phone, not for work purposes or to contact me just as a perk of working there hey here is a personal cell phone on me so you don't have to pay for one. All good and he let me get the first iphone that came to Canada the 3g and it was awesome. Left that job years later and didn't think far ahead enough that I needed that phone number to get into my account should I have an issue. Well I did and tried all the recovery methods with no luck. Sad thing is I still get occasional emails forwarded from that account, haven't seen one in a long while but was still getting them for years. Hurts a lot to have lost it. The screw up that compounded my loss was I guess I was paranoid about giving my personal information online back in the day. So my name I used was John Fokendoe. And some made up birthday. So I could not remember all the info I entered and years and years lost. For my google I downloaded the backup codes in Case I lose access to my phone. They sit in a folder safe and there if I ever need to recover the account.
by pyuser583 | 2025-06-10 03:34:38+00:00
I read somewhere reliable Trump is not invoking the Insurrection Act.

I’d cite my source, but can’t find it. I also can’t find anything saying he is invoking it.

Do you have any specific source?

Edit: I’ve found several sources that make It clear the Insurrection Act had not been invoked.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/insurrection-act-tru... - “Trump officials quietly discuss moves in LA that avoid invoking Insurrection Act, but it’s not off the table”
by itake | 2025-06-10 03:36:09+00:00
I might misunderstand the project, but I wish there was a secure way for me to execute github projects. Recently, the OS has provided some controls to limit access to files, etc. but I'd really like a "safe boot" version that doesn't allow the program to access the disk or network.

the firewall tools are too clunky (and imho unreliable).
Ask HN: SaaS launch tomorrow – lifetime deal or subscription?
by pankaj9296 | 2025-06-10 03:38:26+00:00
I ship tomorrow and I’m stuck on pricing. Product (one-liner for context): ViralFeed.ai helps create & publish UGC "hook + demo" videos promoting your product demo.

Two options on the table: - Subscription – $19/mo → $99/mo tiers (credits reset monthly) - Lifetime deal – $99 one-time for early adopters (same quota as $19/mo)

Concerns:

LTD may attract deal-hunters and kill future MRR

Subscription alone may slow early traction / feedback

Support & infra cost are low but not zero (Rendering + storage)

If you’ve tried LTD first, did it hurt later growth or churn? Conversely, if you skipped LTD, did you regret missing the launch spike?

Any war stories or heuristics appreciated. (Will share full numbers post-launch; link to the app in the first comment to avoid looking spammy.)