MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myself248 | 2025-06-23 03:00:12+00:00
These are very good. I take phone-free walks around the neighborhood, to the store, downtown for a festival. It feels weird at first, then it's nice.

I took an internet-free vacation last spring, and it was lovely.

While planning the trip, I made sure my old TomTom's built-in maps seemed accurate to what I was seeing online; there wasn't a lot of road-building activity there in the last decade or two. Then I turned off my phone and locked it in the glovebox, there in case of emergency.

Then I took a deep breath, started the car, and headed north.

It was awesome just knowing there was no way a notification could ding, nobody could call me, no news headline could pop up and harsh my mellow. Even if those things didn't actually happen constantly, simply existing in a state where they could was stressful, apparently, and turning the damn thing off was remarkably cathartic.
by docsorb | 2025-06-23 03:00:13+00:00
I've been working on something called DocsOrb... a mobile app, for now only for iPhone, to help people (ICP: families, students, expats) get on top of all their important documents. The idea is: scan or import files, organize them by life moments (e.g. moving house, having a child), and make them easy to find when needed. And the additional magic stuff like 'select X photos or files, and the app automatically organises them for you in the right folders - this one is tricky because it needs to process their personal docs via AI - which im trying to avoid'

Not trying to pitch, just curious: > Do you already have a system that works for you? > What problems do you run into with keeping things organized and accessible? > Would you even want something like this, or is it a non-problem for most?

Would love honest thoughts. I'm pretty serious about this but want to know the vibe here :)
by phatskat | 2025-06-23 03:00:28+00:00
Found it! For reference, I originally heard this in the Some More News episodes about “Uncomplicating the complicated situation in the West Bank”, but I can’t find those episodes at the moment.

> As far back as December 2012, Mr. Netanyahu told the prominent Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mr. Margalit, in an interview, said that Mr. Netanyahu told him that having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
by gavinsyancey | 2025-06-23 03:01:03+00:00
For books, your local independent bookstore can order pretty much any book for you if you walk in and ask (if they don't already have what you want). They won't charge shipping, it'll just come with their next shipment from the publisher and then you can come pick it up. Or if you have to do things online, try https://bookshop.org
by moregrist | 2025-06-23 03:01:11+00:00
> From the hiring side: It’s not a lie at all, it’s just that we have other serious candidates we also like. If you’re not serious about taking the job then we need to move on to the next candidate quickly.

This would be a reasonable argument if the timeline was at least 7-10 days. Three days is a red flag: they’re clearly pressing you to make a bad decision.

Serious candidates have to talk things over with their family, and often have busy spouses. They often have to get legal advice, which can end up in a few days of phone tag.
Show HN: No sign up catchy temporary url shorterner
by afrieirham | 2025-06-23 03:01:13+00:00
hi all, i made this url shortener but it's temporary and easy to type.

use case for this is when you need to share links (or files/notes) from one device to another but there's no direct connection between them or it's too slow to connect.

easy example use case. 1. you in class and you need google slides to for a presentation. 2. you need to use the teacher's computer.

now you can either: 1. use incognito mode and sign in to your google account and share the slide. 2. email/text/whatsapp the link to your teacher if they have either of those logged in on the computer, so you can access it from there. 3. use typical url shortener but it might be hard to type/remember and it's usually permanent until you deleted it (also usually requires sign up for beautiful url).

(i actually have experience this before in my class).

with this tool, you just paste your link and you'll get easy to type url and it's temporary by default.

it started as url sharing tool but now it also supports file upload and notes sharing.

i just want to share this because i think it's cool, you can test it out but please dont spam especially the file upload.

another thing i'm thinking of adding is users can use their own r2 cloudflare storage for extra privacy, might be a pro feature but it kinda defeats the purpose of "no sign up required" thing.

feedback/comments are welcomed.

p/s: it's open-source too https://github.com/afrieirham/typit.in
by weq | 2025-06-23 03:02:16+00:00
Modern day methadone maintainence plan. So many people in this world need this button! Goodluck on your journey!

I quite tech at home when i started working as a software engineer over 20yrs ago. Hobbies are a great way to break free, and quitting news fullstop is another good way to avoid social media. You dont even need to delete your accounts, just turn off all notifications of every app and avoid coupling your life to them in any way.
by all_factz | 2025-06-23 03:03:46+00:00
Because Rooney writes dressed-up romance novels. They’re mediocre. But to the author’s point, at least they’re readable and touch on real emotion, even if I find them a bit trite. Some balance could be struck between Rooney and the more highbrow experiments the author bemoans. Elena Ferrante is a decent example here, and she does get sales. But even then, I do think the author understates the competition reading faces from new forms of media - yes, there are more people, but the amount of distraction has scaled disproportionately to the number of new people. Massively.
by gnabgib | 2025-06-23 03:03:51+00:00
You're pretty famous here

(353 points, 2 months ago, 277 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864108

(319 points, 2 months ago, 208 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668433

(100 points, 3 months ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427679

(67 points, 3 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422928
by wolrah | 2025-06-23 03:05:08+00:00
There are valid reasons to want to know the specific user agent when working around bugs in old but popular versions, that's why I said a user-agent allowlist for access or advanced functionality was bad. That inevitably breaks any new platforms that haven't been explicitly approved, which is obviously bad. Denying access from or specifically only applying fixes to known bad versions is fine.

Also IMO it's useful as an admin to know what clients your users are using, but I do understand why many would prefer to limit the data shared with the sites you visit.
by aisenik | 2025-06-23 03:05:20+00:00
Israel is actively engaged in a genocide and its ethnic cleansing program is fully supported by the USA, which is currently engaged in its own domestic ethnic cleansing through violent and illegal kidnappings by heavily armed, erratic, masked, unidentified secret police. The American genocide is informed by and its gestapo trained in Israeli doctrine.

Innocent children are being maimed, starved, and murdered and it is being done with materiel produced with my tax dollars and provided with the bipartisan endorsement of my government.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is not perfect, they have promulgated many evils within their society. The USA is directly responsible for the rise of fundamentalism and sociopolitical precarity within Iran, but even that pales in the light of the disgusting atrocities being committed today by the traitorous US government. Iran has issues, but their biggest issue is the existential threat of the American-Israeli alliance against their sovereignty.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-23 03:05:26+00:00
If I had to guess, it was a mix of culture and process. For job #1, I'm not surprised, since it was clear they were mostly looking for bodies.

The other two werre 5-6 stages of interviews, so the resume was the screen while the cultural parts of the interview werre built into all the people I had to talk to. I even distinctly remember the last part of one interview was the a director who came in, and as a twist, he asked no questions. It was all about me asking about him, the project the company, etc.

I'm sure by the end they had a good feel of who I was and if I'd mesh, so there wasn't a need to read what I wrote. It's interesting, but exhausting. I would much prefer a 2-3 stage process and crafting a proper cover letter if I had the choice.
by Saigonautica | 2025-06-23 03:06:16+00:00
As a courtesy, I used to check in on client servers every morning to alert them if services were down. Eventually it became a chore, so I made some hardware server status boards that monitor them for me (8 each).

Here in Asia they cost 5-8$ each to make depending on exact part choice (total cost including boards and components).

I open sourced the hardware / firmware if you want some: https://github.com/seanboyce/servermon

I used to use scripts etc to do it. However this tells me what I need to know in a glance, so I like it better.
by ggm | 2025-06-23 03:07:58+00:00
It would be useful to understand to what extent this has some basis in ground truth. If it's essentially unknowable, with any confidence, it's just a posture.

If there is significant evidence of domestication originating in China landmass, it fuels other theories of emergence of human cultures.

Your comment is helpful but I think incomplete. Certainly the jokes are rich in the field, "irish invented wireless communications since no glass or copper fragments found in field" type jokes. It used to be "soviets did it first" for a prior generation.

China has significant large landscapes littered with caves. Like parts of Indonesia, and in both cases they have been mostly undisturbed for eons. So it's a landscape rich in potential for preserved remains. I think thats why the hominid discovery in Indonesia was both fascinating and irritating, falling into local power politics and first-rights-to-analyse problems.

The cave systems found in Europe seem to me to point to later occupation and with the changes to the shoreline in Spain and France (and the Doggerland retreat with the north sea) it's arguable older remains are now seaborne and harder to find.

Believing the "out of africa" theory, emergence of these trends in the east prefigures a migration back to europe and down into Austronesia surely?

(not an archeologist but fascinated)
by jrgaston | 2025-06-23 03:08:18+00:00
It's not a dslr replacement, what a weird claim. My Nikons and Fujis are so much nicer to hold, to adjust, to shoot. But for a phone camera the s.w is ok. More adjustable than the iPhone app. I like the controls, the current settings text, and built in help text.

Only knock so far is it runs hot: never seen an overheating warning ever on my iPhone 14pro. Now i get one every ten or fifteen minutes when using Indigo.
by weq | 2025-06-23 03:08:52+00:00
100% Americans are complicit in making amazon the beheomoth they are. Convenience above all else. Ive shopped online for 20 years and never purchesed from Amazon. There are very few things that cant be bought form other e-vendors. Its just that they wont turn up next day.

Amazon perpetuates the stealing of IP to the point that they are the global leader. They use their market power to steal anything that makes money. Whether its directly, or indirectly as above.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 03:09:49+00:00
... and common sense.

In the zero interest rate era a few years back it wasn't clear how to run an honest stablecoin so we saw grifts like the Luna/Terra thing.

If you can get 2% interest at the bank or similar with T-bills you could take deposits, deposit them, spend whatever you need to administer the thing, and pocket the rest.

People won't be happy with that because they could keep the money in the bank and earn interest and yeah, maybe they can offer you 1.5% yield at a profit but somebody else dishonest is going to offer you 3% and now you're in trouble.

Stablecoins could also be stable enough that people build dapps that lend and borrow them and that could be all sorts of trouble.
by MikeTheGreat | 2025-06-23 03:10:17+00:00
I don't remember why I looked this up in Washington state, USA a while back (bad work by a plumber, I think) but here in WA I think there's also a rule/law that you can only take individuals to small claims court.

There's also a dollar limit ($4,000? Maybe 15 years ago?).

But yeah, by law you can't drag companies into small claims court. It's meant to settle minor things like your neighbor accidentally backing into (and damaging) your fence, etc.
by roarcher | 2025-06-23 03:11:24+00:00
> Going forward, I won’t be hiring for languages, I’ll hire devs who can solve problems, no matter the stack.

Ah, there it is. Every time I see one of these posts, it's by someone who isn't actually a developer. It's always some gleeful executive type salivating over how much money he thinks this will save him.

I suppose we'll have to suffer a wave of these idiots firing their engineering staff and crashing their companies before they learn their lesson.
by pie_flavor | 2025-06-23 03:11:34+00:00
This is false information. They present as expecting you to tell them first so that they have a chance to screw you, and will never let you know if you name a number lower than what they would have offered. Every single thing in the post is something employers know, and are hoping you don't know; guessing 'well this seems weird so I won't do it' is essentially deliberately making a mistake, for all the reasons outlined in the article.
by profsummergig | 2025-06-23 03:13:44+00:00
I wanted to try out the tee-shirt hustle once.

There was a cool design (or at least I thought so) I came up with. Had about 100 of those printed.

Went to Amazon to get a seller account:

1) learned that if I had only 1 tee-shirt with a single design to sell, I couldn't get the account.

2) after researching the competition, discovered that many of the tee-shirt designs for sale were:

a) clearly in copyright violation (e.g. Disney characters on some mom & pop store. b) their images on their store were just a photoshopped tee-shirt. I.e., not photos of the actual tee-shirt they had for sale. But the design photoshopped on to a photo of a blank tee-shirt.

Boggled my mind that Amazon was okay with this.
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 03:15:45+00:00
> I can tell you that most hiring managers and recruiters find it offensive [...] suggesting a salary they know isn’t realistic.

But how are you going to go know?

In most lines of business, prices are public knowledge. In a retail setting, for example, you can look at the price tags on the shelf, in commodities we have price data published on a continual basis, etc. Anyone and everyone can just look if they want to see an effective range of what others are selling similar products for. This provides a decent mechanism for price discovery.

But labor prices, in the US at least, tend to be hush-hush (slowly starting to change, but still early days). Even where you occasionally find people opening up, there isn't a consistent metric used (e.g. some talk base salary, others talk total compensation, no mention of inputs [like how many hours are required to fulfill the salary], etc.), if they are even telling you the truth. And where you have the full picture on exacting price, you aren't apt to know much about the person. Someone doing the same job might truly be worth half/double what you are. People are not commodities.

Hiring managers and recruiters usually get to see term sheets across many people along with background on those people, so they have a reasonable idea of what is realistic for a person of similar stature, but that doesn't help the seller. And it is usually the seller's job to make the first price move, so all one can do is make a complete guess.

Employers have long pushed for that secrecy exactly so they have the benefit of knowing what the seller doesn't. And fair enough. You can't blame them for wanting to leverage that advantage if they can get away with it. But, to then be offended when someone isn't aware? You can't have it both ways.
by cycomanic | 2025-06-23 03:16:04+00:00
From watching people write their thesis in both latex and word, I'd say if anything it is the other way around. The people who write their thesis in word (or another wysiwyg editor) spend more time on their layout than the people writing in latex. Worse, they spend the time while writing, while latex allows for separation of tasks, which allows people to get into the flow much more easily.

Sure, theoretically you can only concentrate on writing with word and ignore layout. In practice in takes a lot of discipline so instead you see people moving figures around putting spaces or returns to move a heading where they want to etc.. In particular as a way to procrastinate from actual writing.
by pie_flavor | 2025-06-23 03:16:37+00:00
As carefully described in the article, this is totally not true, and the employer works double-time to create the perception that it is true, because it means they can get away with underpaying the gullible. They make a face like you don't have leverage because they don't want you to know about the leverage you actually do have; the sunk cost is opaque to you and they have no reason to make it any less so.
by idiotsecant | 2025-06-23 03:20:05+00:00
Ok, let's make the language more utilitarian. There are lots of bad governments in the world. What makes this bad government uniquely special? Why are we getting entangled in yet another to generational war? We're well past the point that we can cut blank checks. Our national debt is absolutely insurmountable, we're cutting social programs that will quite literally kill more of our citizens than Iran ever will.

What justifies this?
by vivzkestrel | 2025-06-23 03:20:53+00:00
forgive me for asking a few daft questions but i want to know a few things - who is the target audience for this (programmers / sql admins / companies with these guys) - what are they gaining using this tool - who are some other providers that offer similar stuff - how is your offering different from theirs - is this a commercial product, do you have plans to commercialize it like turning it into a subscription based model?
by hackingonempty | 2025-06-23 03:22:10+00:00
It's known as a "chilling effect" of the law. For a professional it just isn't worth your time to get into nuance, the finer points of the law, or "guidance" when your license / livelihood is on the line.

There is a similar problem with prohibition and treating pain or whole classes of conditions that lead to chronic pain; many people are needlessly suffering because doctors are concerned with losing their license to prescribe.
by vel0city | 2025-06-23 03:23:57+00:00
There is one on display in the USAF museum in Dayton, OH. Its quite a sight to see. Cool museum to check out overall as well. I have a photo from the second floor dining hall looking out to one of the hangars, that one photo has:

- SR-71

- B-2

- U-2

- A-10

- F-4

and more.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...
by wolrah | 2025-06-23 03:24:25+00:00
Proving my point, user agent allow lists would make it only ever work on Netscape, when the blink tag was supported in Firefox prior to v23 and any of its cousins, as well as Opera prior to v15 (where it switched to Blink and became yet another Chromium derivative). As long as your HTML wasn't total jank dependent on exact bug compatibility with Netscape specifically it should work fine on a wide variety of browsers.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 03:24:52+00:00
I think you'd be surprised how a little bit of difficulty can be enough to break binge cycles. I killed both my hackernews and reddit addictions years ago by just adding them to /etc/hosts. It was easy to change and sometimes I did but that was enough that I didn't dwell on those sites anymore.

Recently I've written a chrome extension that does this much better. Hopefully it gets approved today or tomorrow. Maybe I'll post it to show HN.
Ask HN: Do you think switching between apps hurts your productivity?
by PaulShin | 2025-06-23 03:25:25+00:00
Founder here currently building a product to address a problem I’ve seen repeatedly in modern teams.

We use Slack to talk. Notion to document. Jira or Asana to plan. But every time a decision is made in chat, someone has to manually copy, summarize, or “translate” it into another system. Context gets lost. Work slows down.

I'm starting to wonder: is it the tools themselves, or the gaps between them, that hurt our productivity the most? I’m not here to pitch anything, just trying to learn from your workflows.

"How do you and your team deal with this?" "Is switching between apps a real friction point for you?" "Have you found any habits or tools that reduce this friction?"

Would love to hear from you.
by 7thaccount | 2025-06-23 03:25:54+00:00
I can still sort of remember that in the 90s, but was mainly reading magazines in the late 90s and early 2000s, so I probably missed out on some of that. I did go back and read a lot of old magazines on microfiche at the library a few years ago (I think Byte magazine) and yeah...a lot of ads, but I guess they would have been super useful pre-internet. Did you use the BBS as well? I was too young when that was common.
by MichaelRo | 2025-06-23 03:26:47+00:00
Well, I always find these "negotiate your salary" articles very strange because in 20+ years I never did it like that. There is only one rule I follow:

- Get more money than what I'm currently making and by that, I mean at least 20% more

I've no problem telling them my current salary since it's always been in the upper quartile for my area. To get me to switch, the increase has to be significant or else it's not worth the risk of plunging into the unknown and the pain of learning yet another completely different spaghetti mess where generations of architecture astronauts added layers upon layers until the complexity exceeded their mental capacity to maintain it and left.
by stogot | 2025-06-23 03:28:32+00:00
That’s a strange take. Pakistan and India are both nukes and continue to have border wars. Israel has nukes and has had a perpetual war. The UK and Egypt had conflict when UK has had nukes. China had battles with Vietnam, Laos, and the Soviet Union. It’s amazing the restraint these nations have shown. Adding more nations to the pot adds more risk, especially when in the hands of unstable, immature, and emotionally irrational leaders. Russia and NK are threatening nuclear attacks annually. Let’s pray it never comes to that
by andoando | 2025-06-23 03:28:50+00:00
It doesn't take 20 years for humans to train new tasks. Perhaps to master very complicated tasks, but there is many tasks you can certainly learn to do in a short amount of time. For example, "Take this hammer, and put nails in top 4 corners of this box, turn it around, do the same". You can master that relatively easy. An AGI ought to be able to practically all such tasks.

In any case, general intelligence merely means the capability to do so, not the amount of time it takes. I would certainly bet a physical theorist for example can learn to code in a matter of days despite never having been introduced to a computer before, because our intelligence is based on a very interconnected world model.