MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-07-13 01:35:04+00:00
"Arrived" because any further and we're into the far reich. "Swinging back" because I have to be an optimist that as the blatant autocratic authoritarianism rises there will be mass pushback.

I do know how deep the sophomorically-justified rabbit hole goes, in that I've read a fair amount of dark enlightenment material. I actually credit Moldbug's writing for helping me go from defaulting to fundamentalist-axiomatic analysis (rightist) to leftist-constructive-qualitative analysis (leftist) - top down hierarchy is utterly incapable of responding to the complexity of the world, and only sounds so appealing post-facto when a singular coherent narrative has been written.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-07-13 01:37:04+00:00
Websites I use regularly for banking don't work outside of chrome. I've done the pure firefox forray recently but after 6 months it gets tiresome to have 2 browsers and 3 weeks ago Ive admitted defeat for the second time and went full chrome. Who am I lying to -- market cornered, ggwp. It's like trying to eat food without paying a cent to cargill.
Ask HN: Has anybody gotten a Node.js MCP server to work with HTTP?
by rglover | 2025-07-13 01:37:12+00:00
Spent the day trying to set this up but no luck. Curious what others have found. It seems like there's iffy agreement on supported transports and while I did get the STDIO transport to work, ideally, I can use HTTP(S) (I'd like to just be able to deploy a standalone MCP server that I can hook into chats/apps/etc).

From what I can tell, this is so new that few clients really support the streaming HTTP stuff. The SSE-alternative isn't terribly clear either (and apparently has been deprecated).

Am I being a dum dum or is this just so bleeding edge that it's riddled with issues and confusion? There's a mishmash of answers and only STDIO seems to be stable/working.

Everything I tried was a dud.
by bdcrazy | 2025-07-13 01:37:17+00:00
In my experience there are several ways to look at it. One is the very basic unspoken rule that many feel that you taking time off puts your work on someone else's shoulders, so don't do that. I have also heard the phrase: If we can survive without you for X days, we can survive without you. So taking a proper vacation is not felt to be attainable. Then there is the whole, I gotta get ahead in my work to prevent the feeling of being a burden to others and catching up on voicemails and emails during the trip and then spending the long hours once back to catch up to all the things you missed etc.
by Veedrac | 2025-07-13 01:38:57+00:00
You don't have to go all the way to battery prices scaling to 5% of the price they are today to consider it likely the price continues to fall at all.

Replacing the whole system every 20 years still seems really wild to me, especially in worlds where price doesn't fall past the cost of maintenance, because the only wear part is the battery, and batteries are modular. We could, sure, I just showed the cost is a fraction of today's energy spend, it just seems really weird not to do something smarter instead.
by the_af | 2025-07-13 01:39:28+00:00
Yup, the C64 still has a scene. Both of nostalgics enjoying old games, and of people making (and selling!) new games for it.

There are also communities for making C64 piel art and -- get this -- art doing entirely in PETSCII (sort of like ASCII art, but PETSCII has a more interesting set to work with).
by WaltPurvis | 2025-07-13 01:39:46+00:00
FWIW, these instructions allow you to re-enable uBlock in Chrome 138. A temporary fix, but I needed a temporary fix so I could export my hundreds of custom filters (so I can load them into uBlock in Firefox).

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1itw1bz/end_o...
by whateveracct | 2025-07-13 01:41:25+00:00
I know that's the narrative about the NBA lately but it's just that - narrative.

It's far from proven that the short-lived "parity" that has emerged in the aftermath of the KD Warriors dynasty is the cause of down ratings.

I do personally dislike it though and find the parity via CBA to be artificial. It just causes continuity on a contender to be untenable.

And continuity is what makes for good basketball, hence why dynasties are so fun to watch. It's not just that they win, a lot. It's that they have a consistent style of play with a consistent cast of players (stars and role players) that fans get to know over the course of those dynastic years.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-13 01:41:37+00:00
I haven't had a lot of success so far in getting a diagnosis, there's a lot of different possible things that can be wrong. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one place to start. I'm seeing an allergist about MCAS, I've had limited success taking antihistamines and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Mostly you talk to your doctor and read stuff and advocate for more testing to figure out why you're not able to function like before. Even if it's not "Long COVID" it definitely sounds like something is causing these problems and you should get it looked at.
by rustcleaner | 2025-07-13 01:42:25+00:00
I think the ultimate fix is to make it a felony to pay someone to say a message as if it's his own (meaning an actor Ford pays to be in an ad needs to say "Ford paid me to say ..." at the start of every sentence uttered which states an opinion, if that is not the true opinion of the actor). It must also be a felony for someone to accept money in exchange for stating provided opinions as if they were his own. Customers in ads giving true testimonial reviews must state they are being paid (if so) at the beginning of their statements in the ad. Only quantitative and qualitative content about the product or service advertised should be allowed, anything which sets tone, vibe, or otherwise emotionally communicates to the viewer needs to be banned. This also goes for food product boxes, with the additional rule that 75% of the non-barcode front label area must be nutrition and ingredients, while logo/brand work and propaganda is limited to the remaining 25%. Back label is an exact (maybe B&W) copy of the front. Ads should also mostly be found in directories where people go looking for services or things, and NOT plastered everywhere ready to rape brains for quick nickels. We need an advertising censorship board that keeps records on both ad makers and client businesses, so that chronic offenders get smacked down hard.

Once advertising is dead, you will see a much more free and level internet.
by dminik | 2025-07-13 01:42:36+00:00
Well, it's not really a joke. That's a valid strategy that languages use. In Go, every function is "async". And it basically blocks you from doing FFI (or at least it used to?). I wonder if Zig will run into similar issues here.

> 1. Code can't be reused because the async keyword statically colors a function

This is fair. And it's also a real pain point with Rust. However, it's funny that the "What color is your function?" article doesn't even really mention this.

> 2. Using async and await opts you automatically into stackless coroutines with no way of preventing that

This however I don't think is true. Async/await is mostly syntax sugar.

In Rust and C# it uses stackless coroutines.

In JS it uses callbacks.

There's nothing preventing you from making await suspend a green thread.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-13 01:43:39+00:00
> remember that the great classical composers were the rock stars of their day.

I don't have a source for this but I hear it a lot and I strongly suspect it is a historiographical myth. Pretty much only a very small minority urban (relative) elite had access to live professionally performed classical music during most periods when it was being composed. This is also the group whose writings form most of our current knowledge base about these periods, and whose writings are of course focused primarily on their own interests. We can't really see what they didn't see, or didn't care enough to write about.

But contemporaneous with this elite music there were european folk music traditions, taught and performed ad hoc by individuals or small ensembles in homes and gathering places of the vast majority of "normal" people (peasant farmers, later urban laborers), and including some traveling performers who were known by reputation.

So yeah the great classical composers were wildly popular among the people who listened to the kind of music that they composed, but that was an extremely small part of the population. We don't have very much information at all about what was going on musically with the greater part of the population, but it appears to have been a completely separate thing, it's doubtful the great composers had any name recognition among the vast peasant masses.
by kevingadd | 2025-07-13 01:44:57+00:00
The Hertz from this article is a company you should never do business with, unless you like getting falsely accused of a felony, arrested, and imprisoned for no reason:

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...

I personally use other companies when I rent a car... but I'm also paranoid about the kind of nonsense described in the article, so I just buy the damage coverage when I rent the car. It means renting a car is far more expensive than it should be, but it saved my bacon the last time I rented when someone dinged the paint.

It's funny that the AI bogeyman is used in the article to make this new tech seem scarier. The problem is the general practice of trying to milk you for money over regular wear and tear.
by SllX | 2025-07-13 01:45:42+00:00
> I will normally call it “the US”-the only time I ever call it “America” is when speaking to our 7 year old, because I know she knows what “America” means but I worry “the US” might confuse her; but with older children (such as our 12 year old) and with adults I say “the US”, because calling it “America” feels incorrect to me.

It’s not wrong nor incorrect to call this an individualistic choice, and I mean, I’ve always perceived Australians as fairly individualistic people, but perhaps you feel differently? I’ll defer to you if that’s the case, it’s not a point I wanted to argue about, nor is it intended to be derogatory or disrespectful.

You are going out of your way to refer to America differently in different contexts though, and claiming that one variation feels incorrect. I stopped short of calling you specifically a contrarian because you didn’t express yourself like one, but that’s still a personal hang-up. It might be a shared personal hang-up with some of your cohorts, but it’s not one that any other Australian has ever confided in me, especially unprompted, and I don’t go around prompting people for terminological preferences on this subject. Most Australians I know or have known just call America “America” unless it’s like, the news.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-13 01:46:11+00:00
Well, I wasn't passing judgement upon their forking of Chrome; that's a business decision whether it gets them where they want to go. What I'm saying is that IF you're going to try that stunt, it's just like adopting one of those exotic animals: you need to understand what ongoing upkeep cost you're incurring, not just "oh, hey, I found a jaguar on the side of the road! here, kitty, kitty!"

It's also not a rando library that changes 3 times a year and who fucking cares if it has vulns: this is one of the biggest attack surfaces known to mankind given what it does for the user

Merely as a "for comparison," rebuilding Firefox takes about an hour on a developer class workstation, which IMHO sure would make tracking upstream a lot less expensive
by ta8645 | 2025-07-13 01:47:24+00:00
I've been watching the new CEO's videos for a few years. He seems like a genuine person who isn't cynical about this at all. I don't think it's a cash grab, but a real hope that a community and something wholesome can be created around this nostalgic company. Either way, it's never going to be a huge cash cow, only a quiet niche.
by delfinom | 2025-07-13 01:47:48+00:00
Hah, don't need LLMs for that.

Amazon has been hiding behind "it's a marketplace" for more than a decade. There's an insane amount of shit that should never be sold. Including, but not limited to, fake fire alarms sold as real ones. The CPSC tried going after Amazon but are stuck only going after listings once in awhile. I can't imagine the deaths caused by Amazon are only in the single digits.
by homebrewer | 2025-07-13 01:48:57+00:00
Maybe take a look at Vivaldi, it's a continuation of the old Opera, with basically the same development team. It's the most user-friendly and configurable option at this moment, they're very responsive to feedback, and are the only organization that doesn't have some horrible privacy violations in the past (maybe excluding Apple, I don't know and don't care, 90% of users on this planet can't run Safari).

Also they are in Norway if you care about that sort of thing.

It's not FOSS, though, at least for now.
by Intermernet | 2025-07-13 01:49:40+00:00
Yep, awesome stuff. Call it "fair source" if you want to. Don't call it open source. I'm an absolutist about very few things, but the definition of open source is one of them. Every bit of variation given in the definition is a win for those who have ulterior motives for polluting the definition. Open source isn't a vague concept, it's a defined term with a legally accepted meaning. Very much like "fair use". It's dangerous to allow this definition to be altered. OpenAI (A deliberate misnomer if ever there was one) and friends would really love to co-opt the term.
by dundarious | 2025-07-13 01:49:44+00:00
What does "favored" mean if event loop and direct blocking are relatively trivial and provided also/ If I can trivially use them, what do I care what Andrew or someone in core thinks? The control is all mine, and near zero cost (potential vtable indirection).

And would Rust be "all-in" if tokio was in std, so you could use its tasks everywhere? That would be a very similar level of "all-in" to Zig's current plan, but with a seemingly better API.

I understand the benefit of not being in std, but really not a fundamental issue, IMO.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-13 01:50:37+00:00
This happens at every level of society. It's over 100 degrees where I live today. That would have been exceptional 20 years ago, but now it's normal. I have air conditioning in my house, I have air conditioning in my car. The homeless guy on the corner? He's gonna die from heat stroke. He didn't contribute to global warming but he's going to pay the price, while I can afford to insulate myself
by kristoff_it | 2025-07-13 01:50:47+00:00
I should have specified that better, of course async and await can be lowered to different things (that's what Zig does afterall), what I wanted to say is that that's how it works in general. JS is a good counter example, but for all other mainstream languages, async means stackless coroutines (python, ruby, c#, rust, ...).

Which means that if I want to use a dependency that uses async await, it's stackless coroutines for me too whether I like it or not.
by vrosas | 2025-07-13 01:51:56+00:00
I'm an Avis person myself, and their response at the bottom of the article gives me a little hope that they've at least thought about this tech for more than 8 seconds. I once drove into the rental center with part of the car dragging along the ground, as it had been for the past 100ish miles. The conversation was as follows:

Avis employee: "Sounds like you got part of the car dragging."

Me: "Yeah I noticed that."

Avis employee: "Don't worry about it, here's your receipt."
by the_af | 2025-07-13 01:53:24+00:00
True, but it just doesn't hit the same nostalgia spot.

Emulators are all about running the software. This is more about the full package, you know? The breadbin in all its glory. Going clickety-clack with its keyboard. It brings back memories.

I own a TheC64 by RetroGames just for this. All the convenience of HDMI and instant loading software with the form factor of the C64 of my youth, with a working keyboard with PETSCII characters!

If you just want to play games, agreed, you just need VICE.
by Projectiboga | 2025-07-13 01:53:29+00:00
The national death rate went up in 2020 & 21, a mix of died with covid, died due to covid delaying medical procedures minus less road accidents.

From US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic | SPH https://share.google/RSjwObWdN7bwwJ5od

The COVID-19 pandemic sharply exacerbated the rise in US deaths in 2020 and 2021, more so than in other countries, and with long-lasting consequences that continue to be realized. But the persistent disparity in US mortality in comparison to its peers is largely driven by crises that began long before the pandemic.
by Jon_Behrendt | 2025-07-13 01:53:54+00:00
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by worik | 2025-07-13 01:54:07+00:00
> Websites I use regularly for banking don't work outside of chrome.

What countries banks?

I am in New Zealand and have not had that problem in years.

15 years ago I had to edit my user agent string to look like IE (IIRC) for the University of Otago's website (PricewaterhouseCoopers getting lots of money for doing a really bad job)

Makes me wonder have you tried that trick? Less tiresome than switching browsers....
by mingus88 | 2025-07-13 01:54:10+00:00
It’s a kinda meaningless statement, tbh.

Pull requests to delete dead code or refactor are super common. It’s maintenance. Bravo.

What was actually changed, I wonder?

And the system prompt is imporant and good for publishing it, but clearly the issue is the training data and the compliance with user prompts that made it a troll bot.

So should we expect anything different moving forward? I’m not. Musk’s character has not changed and he remains the driving force behind both companies
by manquer | 2025-07-13 01:55:33+00:00
All we know is the pilot flying is only asking whether the pilot monitoring if he cut off

- We don't know if he meant the switch specifically at all. He could also have meant engines or thrust in general. There are many other visual signals and UX indicators to know if engines are spinning down. Thrust levels, to RPM to falling speed, change in angle of attack, rate of climb, even engine noise, vibrations you expect at full thrust etc.

- We also don't know if the switch was physically in cut off position in the first place or even if was the pilot noticed that specific visual signal and meant that when he spoke.

If it was a software issue, it is possible the switch was properly positioned, and software issue cut engine was cutoff, the display screens and other lights would show that.

In such a scenario, the pilot(s) would have likely checked with each other first if they did something as in the audio and manually tried restarting the engine as they seem to have done.

I am not saying it is a bug or any specific fault scenario, Just that it too early, we don't yet have enough information to say what is likely at all.
by uv-depression | 2025-07-13 01:56:56+00:00
Not the person you were replying to, but the Cass review was quite clearly bunk. Its main thrust is essentially: "there are no double blind studies on the effects of affirming care for minors, so we should stop prescribing it immediately". Aside from the fact that the conclusion does not follow from the premise, how exactly could one do a double blind study on puberty blockers? So the report throws out essentially the entire body of research for failing to meet an impossible to meet standard.

Here's more information: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-025-02581-7
by LexiMax | 2025-07-13 01:57:56+00:00
> Depending on your jurisdiction, there are messages you can't target to kids. Why should there be a special exemption for this?

Because the idea that the only acceptable gender norms a kid is allowed to be exposed to and express is the one tied to their genes is frankly a ridiculous concept.

There's nothing wrong with boys wearing dresses and playing with dolls. If you don't believe that harmless message should reach the ears of kids, then why? What is in that sort of message that you're afraid of?
Show HN: FluidAudio – Swift Speaker Diarization on CoreML
by Wayve | 2025-07-13 01:58:39+00:00
We needed a speaker diarization solution that could run every few seconds alongside transcription on iOS and macOS. But native Swift support was either limited or locked behind paid licenses. Since diarization is a common need in speech-to-text workflows, we decided to open source our work and give back to the community.

We initially tried sherpa-onnx, which works, but running both diarization and transcription models slowed down older devices. CPU-only inference just isn’t ideal for near real-time workloads, so we wanted the option to offload segmentation and speaker embedding to the GPU or ANE. Supporting M1 Macs in particular meant pushing more of the workload to the ANE.

Instead of shoehorning the ONNX model into CoreML with C++, we converted the original PyTorch models directly to CoreML. This approach required some monkey-patching in the PyTorch and pyannote code, but the initial benchmarks look promising.

We’d love feedback! We're currently working on adding VAD and integrating Parakeet for transcription, but still wrestling with CoreML model conversion.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-13 01:58:41+00:00
Right, this is more or less this blog author’s riff on (PuTTY author) Simon Tatham’s old page on coroutines using switch[1], which itself indicates that Tom Duff thought of this (which makes sense, it’s only a half-step away from Duff’s device) and described it as “revolting”. So in this sense the idea predates the standardization of C.

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
Show HN: A modern alternative to traditional fantasy name generators
by qinggeng | 2025-07-13 01:58:51+00:00
As someone who spends a lot of time on world-building and TTRPGs, I've always found a gap in the tools available. Existing name generators are great at combining syllables based on rules, but they can't capture a feeling or a vibe. You can't ask them for a name that sounds like "an ancient, sunken kingdom." Nomenus is my attempt to solve this. It's an AI-powered tool built around a single prompt, allowing you to describe the name you want in plain, natural language. For example, you can ask it for names for "a grumpy but loyal dwarven blacksmith with a secret love for poetry," and it will generate results based on that specific context, often with a bit of lore attached. The site you see is the first MVP. It's built with Next.js (App Router), Supabase, and runs on Cloudflare Workers. I'm launching it here on HN to get honest feedback from a community that appreciates how products are built. I'm particularly curious about: Is the core concept genuinely more useful than traditional generators? Any thoughts on the UI/UX? What features or generator types should I prioritize next? It's completely free to use. Looking forward to hearing what you think!