MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by ryandrake | 2025-07-09 22:15:57+00:00
Often the kids like to play together, but the parents are the ones that are just... weird and asocial. I hate to bring agism into this, but there definitely seems to be a generational gap with the adults.

Some of my kid's friends are raised by their parents, and others are (apparently) raised primarily by grandparents.

When my kid wants to get together with friends whose (50-60 year old) grandparents bring them by, the grandparents come up to the door, socialize for a bit while the kid runs inside, and then we talk about when the playtime will be over and they can come over to pick the kid up. If it's an event where we both bring the kids, I find it easy to shoot the breeze with the grandparents, have small talk about how the week went, and so on.

When the parents are, say, 25-35 year old range, it's a totally different vibe. They'll drive up, let the kid out of the car, and then race away without even getting out of their car. When playtime is at a local park or something, they sometimes hang around, but they go off into a corner, engrossed on their phone, totally ignoring the other parents (who, depending on their own ages are either chit chatting or locked into their Instagram).

I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, and not only would we love to get together at someone's house, but the parents would also be happy to get together for a little socialization, maybe throw some steaks on the grill, put on some Sportsball, or whatever. This practice seems to be dead now that I'm a parent!
by iosifache | 2025-07-09 22:16:10+00:00
> I wonder if it would also happily go along with requests for Harry Potter or other copyrighted material?

There's no way to protect against this. Anna's Archive doesn't include licence information in their data fields. It would be helpful to integrate with another data source that could warn MCP server users when they're attempting potentially risky actions. Please let me know if you have ideas on how to achieve this.

On a related note, please see this reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=44515205
by pedalpete | 2025-07-09 22:16:22+00:00
If this $100 million in impact rule is the reason for the judgement, wouldn't that suggest that a scam that takes in more than $100 million would be protected?

That's essentially what these businesses are doing. They're taking money from people who either don't want their product, or didn't realize that they'd be charged continuously.

Just yesterday I cancelled a service, they made it very simple, until I read the very small print that said "this service is paused for 1 month". I didn't want a pause, I wanted a cancel, but how many people are being caught out by this.

I emailed them, and the CEO replied that they are changing this policy. I'll try to follow up on that in a month, but I'm not believing this on face value.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-09 22:16:32+00:00
Blasting sound out of your vehicle into a residential area for hours just because you want to sell something is selfish.

So is defending the behavior and imposing it on everyone around you just because it's sometimes convenient for you to walk 10 meters for some ice cream once a month.

Like TFA says, we have to decide as a society what kind of noise we think is worthwhile. The sound of kids playing seems essential for a culture to stay friendly to family development.

But broadcasting an advertisement jingle to neighborhoods because you want to make money, perhaps not.
by brudgers | 2025-07-09 22:16:50+00:00
On-call issues are staffing issues not tools issues.

Inadequate staff is the only reason on-call exists. Sure, people might be mostly sitting around all night being paid and not being terribly busy.

But if a company needs someone at night, they need someone at night. Companies getting away with not paying for that is why oncall sucks.

In other words oncall sucks because companies don’t pay for solving the problems that require it. There’s no self correcting feedback.

A tool can’t fix that and oncall is not inevitable. Good luck.
Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS
by kushalpandya | 2025-07-09 22:17:31+00:00
I have a large collection of music files gathered over the years, so I was sorely missing a decent offline music player that can serve as a frontend for the collection. I tried several Mac apps over the years, but since streaming music is mainstream now, there aren't good offline music players that meet my needs. So I spent the last 3 months building Petrichor! The idea is to solve my problem and learn Swift UI development along the way, while giving back to the community with this open-source project! Here's a list of features it has, with more getting added in future;

- Everything you'd expect from an offline music player!

- Map your music folders and browse your library in an organised view.

- Create playlists and manage the play queue interactively.

- Browse music using folder view when needed.

- Pin anything (almost!) to the sidebar for quick access to your favourite music.

- Navigate easily: right-click a track to go to its album, artist, year, etc.

- Native macOS integration with menubar and dock playback controls, plus dark mode support.

- Search quickly through large libraries containing thousands of songs.

The app is still in alpha, so things may look unpolished, but I've been testing the alpha builds for the past few weeks and fixing issues as I find them for v1 release. I welcome any feedback (and contributions!) on GitHub repo. Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
by close04 | 2025-07-09 22:18:12+00:00
> Not "replacement", not "superior choice", but "alternative". It's not at all dishonest to suggest GIMP as a bitmap editor, Inkscape for vectors or Blender for 3D meshing.

If anyone told you they need Photoshop for their work you wouldn't feel at all silly to offer MS Paint as "an alternative"?

Zorin's page doesn't name any alternative, just a lot of names of commercial software. They sure do suggest that the alternatives are reasonably equivalent to those, which is a huge stretch. I can think of 2-3 paid Office alternatives that would give MS Office a run for its money but that's not what Zorin offers and I have to find this out on Reddit instead of their own page. They bundle the free stuff that also comes with a most other Linux distributions.

> You're kinda splitting hairs, here.

I'm not the one trying to debate word definitions when the complaint was very clear. The vagueness and the framing of the comparison are intentionally misleading to sell a product. Bending over backwards to defend this behavior just draws even more attention to its sketchiness.
by degamad | 2025-07-09 22:18:14+00:00
> if a user were to bookmark /todos/123 or press reload in the browser, the browser would ultimately ask the underlying HTTP server for that file. As you mentioned, you would need a 404 page configured to fetch that - but that requires a configuration in the HTTP server (nginx etc.). So you are not just a static html+js+css+images deploy, you always will need server support.

> use query params: /todo?id=123. This solves all the quirks of the above solution, and is exactly what any server-side app (without JS) would look like, such as PHP etc.

We had PATH_INFO in virtually every http server since CGI/1.0 and were using it for embedding parameters in urls since SEO was a thing, if not earlier. Using PATH_INFO in a PHP script to access an ID was pretty common, even if it wasn't the default.

By way of example, here's a sample url from vBulletin, a classic PHP application <https:/ /forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-sales-and-feedback/vbulletin-pre-sales-questions/4387853-vbulletin-system-requirements>[0] where the section, subsection, topic id, and topic are embedded into the URL path, not the query string.

[0] https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-sales-and-feedba...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-09 22:18:30+00:00
Jail, mostly

I just think that "our company got caught doing seriously illegal / negligent shit but don't worry we fired the CEO who oversaw all of it after paying them 10s of millions of dollars" is really not a punishment to either the company or the CEO

It's kind of a rigged system that ensures no one is held accountable

Oh, "the company" gets fined a fraction of the value they gained from behaving illegally, the shareholders get a ton of money, the executive team gets a golden parachute, and society gets fucked

Honestly we should be putting people to death for this behavior, instead many of us applaud what great business sense everyone involved has
by luckydata | 2025-07-09 22:18:42+00:00
I see this SO MUCH, I wonder if you're also in California. I find this state particularly difficult to have a social life in. Everyone is "friendly" but nobody wants to be your friend, always chasing something else and never making time (exceptions apply). It's been exhausting to live here and I can't wait to go back to Europe where social life was not nearly as difficult.
by const_cast | 2025-07-09 22:18:53+00:00
But the weather is ass.

I live in Texas, and I often hear about people moving here for the weather. And I can't help but think... why? I've been to NYC, the weather is better.

Yes, the cold is inconvenient. But the heat is debilitating. I can wear a coat and boots and go outside in the north, but you can't do jack shit about the heat. I mean, we get 6 months of summer in Texas. You can't do anything.

Forget physical activities like golfing or jogging, even going to the grocery store practically saps all your will to live right out of your body.
by Apreche | 2025-07-09 22:18:57+00:00
This article isn’t wrong, but it neglects to mention real estate, transportation, and lodging. A party needs a venue, and it needs guests. And the guests need a way to get to and from the venue. If they stay a long time, they need a place to sleep.

People these days don’t own real estate. Wealthy people own it all. Normal people are renting apartments or portions of homes. It’s kind of hard to throw a big party without a big home, a yard, a big kitchen, etc. Small apartments are for small get-togethers that probably don’t register as parties.

Likewise, the larger someone’s home is, the more likely it is to be location in an area with low population density and little to no public transportation. Congrats, you can throw a party, but who are you inviting? All your friends are far away. How can they get there? How long can they stay? Can you accommodate them sleeping there? You aren’t friends with your neighbors who can party easily. You are friends with people on the Internet who are strewn about the world.

And of course, if you live in a major city with lots of friends, small apartment strikes again.

This is part of the reason we have seen the rise of more public events like conventions. There’s a hotel involved. It’s a multi-day event worth traveling to. A lot of people you know will be there. It costs everyone some money, but it’s not out of the realm to go a few times a year. Best part, nobody’s home gets trashed!
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-09 22:20:15+00:00
We enjoy seeing art in person because it better transmits the essential human creative spirit of whoever was behind it, in a way that photographs of an artwork simply don't do. This is one main reason why people want to see art in person, those who can't understand that maybe don't have the same emotional notions about art. I wonder if some of them are similar in mind to those who think an AI-generated drawing is no different than anything made by a human creator for their sterile, impersonal apartment walls.

As for why these pieces should be preserved even if their creators were sometimes sloppy about doing the original legwork. Well, in the case of many famous works, they're literal pieces of history dude. Choosing how often and when to display them isn't just about "optimizing viewership". These aren't blog posts or IG reels. It's also about saving their literal existence for as long as possible.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-09 22:20:38+00:00
I'm sorry to go off-topic, but since when hydrating web pages with JavaScript became a thing? First time I've heard the term.

Edit: according to WP history, around December 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hydration_(web_de...

Second edit: "Streaming server rendering", "Progressive rehydration", "Partial rehydration", "Trisomorphic rendering"... Seems I woke up in a different universe today.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-09 22:21:09+00:00
Highly recommend Celebi's K-Means, weighted square means.

It feeds the results from a box cutting quantizer (Wu) into K-Means, giving you deterministic initial clusters and deterministic results. It leverages CIELAB distance to avoid a bunch of computation. I used it for Material 3's dynamic color and it was awesome as it enabled higher cluster counts.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-09 22:21:18+00:00
Rich has many great ideas and he founded Clojure. I respect him deeply. On typing, however, we do not agree entirely.

For a practical example of a Clojure-like language with a completely static type system (with affine typing), see Carp. https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

I don't see why there can't be a Carp mode in jank, with bridges in place to connect the Clojurey world from the Carpy world. This would allow jank users to develop interactively to start with, figure out their shapes, use the REPL, etc. Then, if they want, they can lock down some parts of the code for both performance and correctness gains.
Show HN: I added A/B testing to my cold email generator – does this add value?
by ZeeeTH | 2025-07-09 22:21:33+00:00
I built ColdCopy (coldcopy.xyz) a few days ago to solve my own cold email writing struggles. Initially it just generated one personalized email, but I kept wondering "should this be more direct or more friendly?" So I added A/B testing - now it generates 3 versions (Professional, Friendly, Direct) side-by-side so you can compare and pick the best approach. Early users seem to like having options, but I'm curious if this is genuinely useful or just feature bloat. Does having multiple versions actually help with cold outreach, or does it create decision paralysis? The technical implementation was straightforward - same form data, three API calls with different prompt variations, display in a responsive grid. But I'm more interested in whether it solves a real problem. Built with Next.js 14 + OpenAI API. Currently free with daily limits. What do you think - is A/B testing for cold emails useful, or am I overthinking this?
by alexjplant | 2025-07-09 22:21:38+00:00
> Americans these days won't interact with their neighbors unless it's to complain or they want something transactionally.

It certainly depends. I had great neighbors when I lived on the river in a non-HOA community... many parties were had with sunset beer hangouts on the dock or beach. Military communities are also notably close-knit so what you say makes sense.
by the_snooze | 2025-07-09 22:22:09+00:00
What you say is true if "online game stores" were fungible commodities. The reality is that Steam has a long-running reputation of generally (but not entirely) pretty good for gamers. Buying games on Amazon, Epic, EA, Microsoft, or most any other storefront is risky because they don't have ~20 years of good pricing and good-enough governance. The only storefront that meets or exceeds Steam's reputation is GOG, mainly because they sell DRM-free games that work with or without GOG's continued existence.

Maybe if the other big-monied game stores were to have a similar show of goodwill towards players would Steam feel some real competition.
by luckydata | 2025-07-09 22:22:29+00:00
nah, we partied plenty when we rented and not knowing someone for long is not a reason not to hang out. What has been eroded is the habit of hanging out because there's no easily accessible third spaces. I'll give you an example: when I lived in Spain I would just walk in the corner bar for a quick beer or a coffee or something to eat, I would very likely run into a neighbor and would chat. The chat would lead to "hey let's do something". In the USA it's almost always the case that people need to make plan, the lack of spontaneity kills most plans.
by analog31 | 2025-07-09 22:22:34+00:00
One factor may have to do with birth rates and construction. I grew up in a neighborhood that was all built up within the span of a few years, and populated by young families, in the early 60s. There were kids all over the place. Anybody who wanted to play would just go out and holler, and they'd have a few other kids almost instantly.

Where my wife and I raised our kids, there was one neighbor with kids, and that's it.

Also, kids are more occupied now. "Back in my day" elementary school kids didn't have homework, and it was pretty minimal even through high school. My kids had homework starting in first grade. Naturally you want it to get done early while the kids are still awake, but this cuts into the prime hours for play. We should simply have revolted against it. But that's hindsight.
Show HN: YUPE – AI-powered app that removes language barriers from restaurants
by drakochack | 2025-07-09 22:22:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched YUPE, an iOS app that helps travelers understand and order from restaurant menus—even when they can’t read the local language.

Why I built it

Food is one of the best ways to experience a culture, but language barriers often make it hard to know what you’re ordering. I wanted a way to explore any country’s gastronomy confidently—even if I couldn’t read the menu or speak the language.

What it does

- Scan a menu - Chat with it — Ask questions like “Is this spicy?” or “Which dishes are dairy-free?” - Get personalized suggestions — Based on your preferences and allergies - One-tap order — Generates a polite, localized message you can show to the waiter

Currently supports 150+ languages. Designed for travelers, digital nomads, and curious foodies.

Privacy

- No sign-up required for core features - Your food preferences are stored anonymously to personalize responses

Links

- Website: https://yupe.app - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yupe-dine-anywhere/id6743195643

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by taeric | 2025-07-09 22:23:18+00:00
What happened is that everything turned into playdates? When we were kids, the general direction was GTFO, and don't be late for dinner. Who did you go play with? Whoever was at the park. When you got older, you hopefully had access to the skating rink. Or maybe a bowling alley. Before that, kickball at the park. Pretty much every day. Maybe see if you can over shoot the swing again.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-07-09 22:23:20+00:00
There’s no way to say this without coming across as extremely rude, but…

> I give my kids business cards with my phone number to pass out to their friends to give to their parents

If this isn’t the only thing you/your kids do that’s well outside typical social norms, that’s probably the reason nobody else is inviting them. This is almost on the level of parents accompanying their adult kids to job interviews and then wondering why their kid didn’t get an offer.
by iosifache | 2025-07-09 22:23:28+00:00
It's doable, as you'll also find MCP servers for reading files [1].

Claude Desktop also has a built-in file reader [2], so you can ask it to read the file and process the content (e.g., generate a summary or even a meta-summary [3]).

[1] https://github.com/sylphxltd/pdf-reader-mcp [2] https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr... [3] https://x.com/iosifache/status/1942247320302547175
by crabmusket | 2025-07-09 22:24:07+00:00
Brb, I'm off to invent another language independent IDL for API definitions that is only implemented by 2 of the 5 languages you need to work with.

I'm joking, but I did actually implement essentially that internally. We start with TypeScript files as its type system is good at describing JSON. We go from there to JSON Schema for validation, and from there to the other languages we need.
by yibg | 2025-07-09 22:24:34+00:00
There are probably tones of ideas that would be viable businesses if executed. One problem though is between "scratching my own itch" and "payroll bigger than my old day job" is working "4-6 hours every night after work, entire weekends, holidays". And even that is no guarantee of getting to a big payroll (another thread is discussing persistence vs stubborn).

Not many people are even in a position to do this (family, health etc), or have the mental and physical energy to do this for years. This is one of the potential benefits of something like UBI. It allows people to pursue these ideas without having to work another 9-5.
by LeanderK | 2025-07-09 22:24:47+00:00
Purely anecdotal, but I was recently reflecting at the current trend of people posting really extensive morning routines. Waking up, meditation, yoga, gym, shower, eating breakfast, meal-prepping,....having a whole day before your day starts. While they should impress you with their healthiness and discipline, I just thought how utterly lonely and sterile most of them look like. And you're completely done after work if this is your morning, you can just go to bed and repeat the same the next day. I found it quite sad, actually.
by impossiblefork | 2025-07-09 22:27:49+00:00
I remembering seeing this with a Swedish SocDem politician, many years ago.

She was pretty well educated, academically sound background, married to a competent academic, and then she wrote an article that was completely unsound. One can have different positions, but you don't suddenly reason badly because you change your mind.

She became a top name either soon before or after this.

This is a different thing than what the article talks about though, there's nothing wrong, after all, with precise language; unsound thinking and arguments aren't the same as this claimed increase in complexity but I think parties often force people to take views that make no sense and then a person without integrity agrees and becomes a 'leader'.
by ryukoposting | 2025-07-09 22:28:20+00:00
Seems like a no-brainer to me. This is an accurate characterization of my entire adult life. My wife and I are looking at buying a house, and we've concluded that we can't despite living in Wisconsin and making far, far more than the median income around here. There's no end in sight.

Our social structure isn't built around neighbors. I could name 2 people I've shared an apartment building with in the last 5 years. Incidentally, they were a couple in the same 3-flat as me, who were there for my entire time in that building. I think the lower density and shared spaces (in that case, a garage) made the difference.
by conception | 2025-07-09 22:28:21+00:00
Some good answers but also American parents are stretched thin but also perhaps want to be a larger part of their kids lives?

During the week I get maybe 10-30 minutes of quality time with them outside of the routine of weekly life. Maybe?

So if I want to do something with my children and have a relationship with them, the weekends are all I have.

Aaaand of course,quality of life in America is generally in decline and parents usually have no support structure (family etc) so no one has interest in the extra work of doing playdates.