MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyanydeez | 2025-06-30 00:36:21+00:00
unfortunately, climate scientists need to model the politics involved in solving the problem.

The easiest way to do that is to create two forces, simulating a zombie apocalypse. One force is the "good" guys who want to maximize the number of survivors and the "bad" guys who want to maximize the amount of resources per survivor.

You can then see how, as the climate change destroys habitats, forcing good guys and bad guys into closer quarters, the tension between resource allocation and survivability naturally creates strife.

Also, the models can't do shit about predicting volcanos, eruptions, ocean burps and a bunch of aperiodic events that can expel methane and CO2 all without billionaires flying their jets around convincing everyone that Technology Jesus will save us.

Anyway, it's a seriously bad position to think that "if only we accepted climate change" that there'd suddenly be an agreement on how to implement "fair" controls on the drivers of change.
by grishka | 2025-06-30 00:37:41+00:00
As a Russian who removed "winlockers" from so many of my not-so-tech-literate schoolmates' computers in the late 00s, I disagree :D

But those weren't as sophisticated, I suppose. They didn't encrypt files. They only displayed an uncloseable window demanding a payment. Sometimes with hilarious phrasing like "thank you for installing this quick access widget for our adult website".
by hedora | 2025-06-30 00:37:44+00:00
Yeah; best not to let them reach adulthood. The BBB takes away a bunch of their health care and food. That’ll thin the numbers!

Oh wait, were you being serious?

Look at which programs are being cut vs expanded, and their relative cost vs benefit.

Basic arithmetic says this bill is designed to do maximal damage to the future of the US.

For instance, the energy star program saves an average taxpayer 1000x what they pay in taxes to fund it, and is supported by industry, consumer, environmental groups, democrats and republicans.

So, of course it’s getting killed.
by coolKid721 | 2025-06-30 00:37:47+00:00
Lol total garbage people have been whining about the blocks regularly being EMPTY now, a huge % of transactions just occur off chain on exchanges/lightning/etc. There are no 100 dollar fees you can basically do everything for basically free. https://mempool.space/ look, you can see how many blocks aren't filled lol. This piece is literally just garbage. Big blockers are scam artists.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-30 00:37:50+00:00
This was discovered pretty much early on when LSD was first discovered. One of the early (cough) "uses" for LSD was for medical professionals to simulate what some patients experience.

(At least that's what I remember from "LSD, My Problem Child" by Albert Hoffman. Granted, it's been ~30 years since I read it.
by Kholin | 2025-06-30 00:38:16+00:00
I've built a Reddit-like community platform in Go. Users can create their own sub-communities, and within them, set up different categories and boards. Posts can be voted on, and board types can include regular posts, Q&A, or live chat. It's like a hybrid of Reddit and Discord but leans more towards a traditional web community. It also supports server-side rendering, making it SEO-friendly. This project is an extension of my previous Hacker News clone, dizkaz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885998). I'm currently working on implementing submission rate limiting and content moderation, which is a bit challenging, but it should be ready for launch soon.
by seanwilson | 2025-06-30 00:38:55+00:00
A tool for creating WCAG/ADA accessible Tailwind-like color palettes. :)

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

The idea is it helps you create palettes that have predictable color contrast built-in, so when you're picking color pairs for your UI/web design later, it's easy to know which pairs have accessible color contrast.

For example, you can design your palette so that green-600, red-600, blue-600, all contrast against grey-50, and the same for any other 600 grade vs 50 grade color, like green-600 vs green-50.

That way you won't run into failing color contrast surprises later when you need e.g. an orange warning alert box (with different variations of orange for the background, border, heading text and body text), a red danger alert box, a green success alert box etc. against different color backgrounds.
by geoctl | 2025-06-30 00:38:56+00:00
One more thing regarding the CRDs. Octelium resources and k8s resources look similar from a YAML perspective. However, Octelium actually use protobuf, all the resources are defined in proto3 and compiled to Go, then the Golang resources are serialized to JSON and stored as JSONB in the Postgres data store of the Cluster. I guess that's another reason you thought that Octelium resources might be CRDs but they actually are not.
by arp242 | 2025-06-30 00:39:05+00:00
China is no longer a "poor country". And overfishing is harmful especially for poorer people who will be deprived of a relatively cheap source of food and export. Especially the smaller fishers. Somalia is probably the best example of this.

But no, the West has often been imperfect, no doubt about that, which is why these sort of restrictions and limitations were set up: to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past which hurt everyone. And yes, we probably should recognise more that the West got ahead partly in ways that harmed everyone. But none of that justifies what China is doing.
by pdoege | 2025-06-30 00:39:31+00:00
No

"Of the 2024 Medicaid improper payments, 79.11% were the result of insufficient documentation. These payments typically involve situations where a state or provider missed an administrative step and do not necessarily indicate fraud or abuse."

Depending on the year, that means that intentional fraud is around 1.8%, almost all of it over charging by medical companies and physicians.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fiscal-year-2024-im...
by Nifty3929 | 2025-06-30 00:40:15+00:00
Netflix introduced an additional billing model to cater to those folks who would prefer ads to a subscription fee, but has not removed the no-ads model for a higher fee. I'm happy to pay for my ad-free Netflix, and I respect that others might want to choose differently. This is not a dark pattern, it's a light/good/gold (?) pattern.
by Nursie | 2025-06-30 00:40:47+00:00
Tasmania produces a lot of caged salmon.

It’s bad for the salmon (in terms of animal welfare) and it’s wrecking the local ecosystems. It’s not any sort of panacea.

We need to stop destroying ocean ecosystems, not just shift the damage around. Overfishing of wild stock, habitat destruction through bottom-trawling and intensive fish farming all need to be properly looked at.
by saurik | 2025-06-30 00:40:59+00:00
I know about XWayland, but trying to go to war to modify an infinite number of random window managers and the ecosystem of tools that plugged into the X backend is, to me, the thing which should have been avoided by thinking about the project more as a massive rearchitecting of the stack. If you do build that -- even if it is kind of difficult, though frankly I can't imagine it is actually HARD and not merely BORING (which is a big problem with software developers where they conflate that: most of the job is, in fact, boring, and you have to embrace that) -- you could just delete the X codebase as you expanded hardware support, rather than being stuck in some weird limbo where a bunch of tooling out there is still having to be ported or even rebuilt for Wayland.
by benreesman | 2025-06-30 00:42:23+00:00
This has applications for other kinds of malware. I used to work in ads, to put it mildly, and all this stuff about blocking the trackers at the DNS level or something? Very silly stuff.

If you want to fuck up surveillance capitalism, you send plausible but wrong information to the trackers. There are a zillion ways to do this: let one through now and again and replay it, do a P2P browser extension that proxies you and someone near you through each other, subtly corrupt it, bounce it off a mullvad node. The possibilities are endless.

If you got a fair number of people doing it, you could even have some collective bargaining, like let some of the extreme value conversion stuff through in return for concessions on the more egregious tracking-for-the-sake-of-tracking.

Sure they'll checksum and shit, but that's a cat-and-mouse game they lose: the typical tracker cookie fire isn't worth shit, it's Superman 2 fractions of a basis point, so even modest effort playing smart against it drives the effective CPM negative.
by saurik | 2025-06-30 00:42:36+00:00
I mean, does it? I was under the impression that it enforced double- or even triple- buffering, which is NOT what you want in "here is my output, put it on the display plz" situations. Maybe you are implying that they finally fixed that?... but, the fact that they tried to cram all this stuff down everyone's throats first before fixing obvious deficiencies--leading to a bunch of obsolete understandings over totally fair complaints about software a decade too early being constantly evangelized by asshats on forums saying you're dumb for still using X11 when Wayland was not even a half-baked solution--is extremely dumb.
by jlarks32 | 2025-06-30 00:45:06+00:00
I'm working on Tennis Scorigami - a data viz and tennis centric project somewhat similar to NFL's scorigami, but with a little bit more (if i do say so) interesting visualizations / new ways to look at the data.

From a technical side, I've processed around 325k+ matches. Right now, only main ATP / WTA matches (no challengers, no doubles, no mixed) sadly. I'm working on expanding that, improving our infra layout, exposing a public facing API, collecting the data on my own, and most importantly live score ingestion (especially given the fact that Wimbledon is starting tomorrow).

Feedback on the app through Canny / joining the Discord / following the Twitter / or any and all of the above would be much appreciated.
by billy99k | 2025-06-30 00:45:45+00:00
I'm quite happy about this. I hope Reddit ends up in the garbage heap of history. The users and mods in most subreddits are nothing more than petty children that permaban anyone that disagrees with them politically.

There is a subreddit that was dedicated to bullying a Youtuber, and they ended up committing suicide. Many of the posters that did this removed their comments and they are not going to suffer any consequences.

This is just one example. There are countless examples of the worst types of people on the Internet here.
Show HN: Free AI Thumbnail Tester (based on real YouTube data)
by sachou | 2025-06-30 00:46:35+00:00
I built this free tool to analyze YouTube thumbnails using a proven checklist I first found on Reddit. It grades clarity, contrast, text readability, and visual hierarchy, all using AI.

It's now live on aithumbnail.so. I believe it’s one of the most accurate tools out there for thumbnail testing.

Would love feedback, ideas, or bug reports!
by kingstnap | 2025-06-30 00:47:21+00:00
I wonder about engineering yourself a productive fishery instead of exploiting wild stocks.

Most of the ocean is practically a desert. The only productive places are near land, where deep water up wells and returns sunken nutrients back to the surface.

I'm sure we could study and engineer some sort of nutrient dumping and cycling scheme. I bet you could make vastly more food while leaving a lot of ocean alone.
by MrApathy | 2025-06-30 00:48:47+00:00
jq Jake: An interactive challenge based approach to learning jq for JSON processing. https://jqjake.com

jq is an incredibly powerful tool, but it's not always the easiest tool to use. LLM's are remarkably good at constructing filters for most uses cases, but for people that work with JSON a lot, learning jq can be real benefit.
by NiloCK | 2025-06-30 00:49:01+00:00
https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder https://patched.network

FOSS toolkit for SRS and adaptive tutoring systems. Inching closer to proper demos and inviting usage.

In essence, I'm looking to decouple ed-tech content authoring (eg, a flash card, an exercise, a text) from content navigation (eg, personalizing paths and priorities given individual goals and demonstrated competencies), allowing for something like a multi-sided marketplace or general A/B engine over content that can greatly diminish the need to "build your own deck" for SRS to be effective.

Project became my main focus recently after ~8 years of tiny dabbling, and I've largely succeeded at pulling spaghetti monolith into a sensible assembly of packages and abstractions. EG, the web UI can now pull from either a 'live' couchdb datalayer or from statically served JSON (with converters between), and I'm 75% through an MVP tui interface to the same system as well.
by ruieduardolopes | 2025-06-30 00:49:10+00:00
I am a PhD student and for a while now I'm designing and developing a distributed network protocol that enables dynamic resource allocation across heterogeneous nodes, to which I called Rank. It's designed to handle computational, network, and temporal resources in fully distributed environments without central controllers, but that could also handle a centralized environment. Rank implements four core functions: discovery (finding paths between nodes), estimation (evaluating resource availability), allocation (reserving resources), and sharing (allowing multiple services to use the same resources). What I think it makes it unique is its ability to operate in completely decentralized environments with heterogeneous nodes, making it particularly valuable for edge computing, cloud gaming, distributed content delivery, vehicular communications, and grid computing scenarios. The protocol uses a bidding system where nodes evaluate their capability to fulfill resource requests on a scale from 0-1, enabling dynamic path selection based on current resource availability. I've implemented it in C++ and then also created a testing framework to validate its performance across different network topologies. This is still a work-in-progress and I am eager to publish results someday!
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-30 00:51:38+00:00
Which is precisely why the company cannot split with Elon, and people who think it will are deluded.

Elon has a very loose association with truth, in a manner that usually yields long prison sentences. For many years he has been engaging with what could accurately be called securities fraud, and there is always some amazing new mega revenue stream just around the corner. If Tesla fired Elon (in an imaginary world where he didn't control the board), any competent hire would have to seriously say ooof and point out all of the mega risks the company faces. With Elon it's all magic and fairy tales and soon a trillion super robots and robotaxis to Mars and...
by deathanatos | 2025-06-30 00:51:47+00:00
> The USB outlets

I should have clarified that this was an A/C outlet, I guess.

> Even the planes with 110 outlets are heavily current limited. I tried to plug in a USB charger and use it to charge a phone and tablet at the same time, and the outlet just shut off until I disconnected one of the devices.

Perhaps, but if the outlet can't supply the current for typical/reasonable uses one might use an outlet for on a plane, and just shuts down, is there an outlet?

Particularly if you never tell me the limits of the outlet. Ideally … that'd be up-front, but I sort of understand that to most people this is a minor part of the flight, so I'd probably settle for "written on the outlet". It'd just be cool to know if I'm going to be bored to tears once I'm tired of reading.
by kaibee | 2025-06-30 00:52:57+00:00
Look, its pretty simple. Here's a microcosm example: There is a German ship-builder that exclusively builds luxury yachts. They have ~2,000 highly skilled craftsmen, engineers, etc.

This company only exists because wealth is concentrated enough to support a market for it.

That company consumes about 4 million skilled-labor-hours a year to provide this service.

This means that skilled-labor-hours are more scarce/expensive for _everyone_, because the on any given year, there are only so many skilled-labor hours that exist. These labor hours require about three decades of investment from society to produce (public education/childcare/etc).

Bezos may not buy a super-yacht every year, but as a class, the super rich consume an insane labor hours.
by metmac | 2025-06-30 00:54:05+00:00
Depends on the industry. But many large enterprises in the Fortune 500 are actively trying to move away from your traditional VPN. (F5, Pulse, Cisco, etc).

Even with VPNs the question should be, what are we gating behind that VPN anyway. Does it actually give us the granularity of controls we want or is this all security theater. (Also what about hybrid infra, between the datacenter and cloud)

FWIW, my ideal architecture is Wireguard into Corp. (Ala CloudFlare Warp, Tailscale, etc) Corp doesn’t hold a ton of sensitive assets. Or put another way, it’s a lower trust tier.

And then using something like Teleport, Octelium, etc to reach production assets.

Admittedly no vendor product I’ve come across yet has bridged this gap nicely. The überProxy tend to focus on the application protocols they support. While the wireguard clients cares more about session control of the tunnel.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-30 00:54:28+00:00
Nobles don't feel a lot of need to seek power through claims of spiritual experience. If you're in the hinterland, however, you might find being possessed by a fox as a way to move up in the world.

My son had a friend whose parents came from China, his dad had a big job, his mom felt like might have been a mistake to immigrate because she had a medical certificate (barefoot doctor?) of some sort which wasn't accepted in the US.

Now my son's friend was mentally ill, I believed, and his mother believed he was mentally ill because he was possessed by a demon. She went to an evangelical church where I wouldn't expect her to be encouraged that belief. Some people have said, "it's a good thing she isn't practicing medicine in the US if she believes stuff like that"

It's kinda no surprise that a person from a rural village in China would believe that or, really, that anyone from a rural village in the developing world would believe that -- it's what they do.

My son's friend gave him an expose about witch doctors in Africa written by a missionary that, based on what I know now, was probably motivated by his experience with his mom. In particular, I was later to learn that the fox cult in China is pretty similar in how it works, I mean, you might have hundreds of fox shrines in your area and if you have some problem you can't work out the fox (through a medium) will tell you how it will be. If you fail to comply, the fox doesn't need a lot of help haunting you (you'll bump into fox shrines every day) but you can rest assured the fox can call in a favor from someone if it needs help haunting you and if the fox is just starting in its career it has connections it met at the fox academy that will help it because it will then be indebted to them.

As it is an alternative route to status, fox mediumship is a career path for lower-status men or women of a wider range of SES who might find it's a job they can do out of the house.
by yostrovs | 2025-06-30 00:55:32+00:00
"A team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1976 and long before the arrival of humans"

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ancient-history-of-ly...
by gregbot | 2025-06-30 00:56:30+00:00
The total system cost of meeting electrical demand using 100% wind and solar is many times higher than the total system cost of meeting that demand with nuclear. The fact that you can produce lots of electricity cheaply using wind and solar is not that useful because it’s not generated when and where the demand is. Basically, storage and transmission are expensive and you need more and more of it as you add wind and solar to the grid. Do you have any evidence that oil and gas companies are deliberately spreading false information? Blaming oil companies for everything is a hallmark of anti-nuclear degrowthers.
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-30 00:57:17+00:00
I am mostly continuing to work on Super ZZ Zero, which is a game engine, like ZZT and MegaZeux in many ways. The program is FOSS and is written in C.

I also have some ideas of a programming language designed mainly to process files in DER format (as well as data from stdin and to stdout), but have not actually implemented anything so far.

I also have ideas about an operating system design and computer design, and should have help to write the specification properly, and then it can be implemented afterward.
by amluto | 2025-06-30 00:57:31+00:00
In both cases, the FDA was generally run and staffed by non-political people who were at least vaguely competent. I have plenty of issues with how the FDA operated, but it didn’t matter much who was president.

Today, most of the Cabinet positions are held by people who love to talk, who are generally extremely wealthy and/or well connected, and who are generally unqualified for their jobs. And, even more relevantly, they have been very heavily interfering in the operation of their respective departments.
by ggm | 2025-06-30 00:58:09+00:00
If the US hadn't argued so vociferously against normalised worldwide minimum tax standards, this argument would be significantly weaker. The root cause of "well I'll just take my wealth elsewhere" is that taking it elsewhere attracts a benefit against leaving it in the economy with the new taxes.

It's certainly true that capital flight is a risk which has to be assessed, but at that point, we really can say (to re-enter the political domain) that the super rich are holding the rest of the economy to ransom.

Apple sitting on $1T of funds deciding how to spend it best in apple shareholder interests needs to be set against apple re-distributing $1T to shareholders, who then incur tax consequences with capital gain, and the rest of the world gets to move on with things that tax can do. Keeping the money inside Apples safe harbour isn't actually useful.

Remember, money is meant to be useful. Hoarding it, is not always helpful.
by oefrha | 2025-06-30 00:58:21+00:00
I never benchmarked this, so just guessing from principles, take this with a grain of salt. Channel isn't a broadcast mechanism (except when you call close on the channel), so a naive channel-based broadcaster implementation like the one you find in bench/main.go here uses one channel for each subscriber; every event has to be sent on every subscriber channel. Condition variable on the other hand is a native broadcast mechanism. I imagine it's possible to leverage channel close as a broadcast mechanism to achieve similar performance.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416345 seems to have done a much more detailed analysis of the code. There's likely more to this.
by ok_computer | 2025-06-30 00:58:22+00:00
We use coconut oil for kids’ diapers and as skin moisturizer. The melting point (above room temperature in winter) and skin absorption makes it less greasy to me. And it seems ok and maybe preferable to get the refined organic expeller pressed stuff because it has lower aromatic smell and scratchy particles as the virgin cold pressed stuff at a 3-4$ jar discount.
by e44858 | 2025-06-30 00:58:45+00:00
This is likely because the DMSP satellites are outdated: "In 2015, Congress voted to terminate the DMSP program and to scrap the DMSP 5D-3/F20 satellite, ordering the Air Force to move on to a next-generation system." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Meteorological_Satelli...

The GOES-R satellites seem to have equal or better resolution: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/4/4/1520-042... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16

DMSP resolves to 600m, while GOES-R resolves to 500m (don't confuse it with the older GOES satellites mentioned in the article).