MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by com2kid | 2025-07-09 20:53:25+00:00
I grew up during the 90s, which was the height of home made greeting cards. Magazines ran huge spreads comparing different programs for how well they could make banners and cards, how good their clip art collection was, and how easy they were to use.

I remember as a kid that making personalized greeting cards was just what you did. I had a computer, I had a color printer, every holiday was getting a unique card! Family events had giant banners that I spend hours taping together. One year I did a space themed banner (I use a "space image" generation program that did stars and nebulas and such) and then realized my mistake when it took forever to print out 15+ sheets of paper with a solid black background (oops).

Nowadays I don't even own a color printer (black and white laser), and I haven't tried making custom cards in forever.

IMHO it is just one more example of how PCs have become content consumption devices rather than outlets for creation.
by rafark | 2025-07-09 20:54:06+00:00
> Why do people feel compelled to even consider it to be a battle?

Because words have specific meanings. There’s a specific expectation when using them. It’s like if someone said “I can’t install this app on my iPhone” but then they have an android phone. They are similar in that they’re both smartphones and overall behave and look similar, but they’re still different.

If you are told an api is restful there’s an expectation of how it will behave.
by Metalnem | 2025-07-09 20:54:29+00:00
This is a terrible article. It doesn’t cite its sources and, even worse, invents quotes. It's basically just an ad for some Panto AI tool.

Save yourself some time and just read the official incident report: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

Or the previous Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274563
Ask HN: New RevOps guy wants to switch us from M365 to GSuite+Slack
by 9dev | 2025-07-09 20:55:04+00:00
We are a startup of almost 40 people now; as the first engineer, I started building up our corp infrastructure and am managing that on the side ever since. We use Entra ID as our central identity provider, manage devices using Intune, use Teams Telephone for PSTN calls, office suite, Sharepoint for file storage, and so on. While we’re at GCP for the business infra, internally we’re pretty entrenched in Microsoft services—which works pretty well so far, I might say.

Recently, however, we hired a RevOps guy that set out to discover optimisation potential, apparently, and today I got a surprise meeting where he demonstrated his big idea of switching from Microsoft to Google Workspace and Slack. He suggested that would be a great idea since everyone hates using Teams, nobody knows where to find files in Sharepoint, many SaaS products only support Google SSO out of the box, and Gemini would be included and we need that to be an AI driven company. Also, new hires only knew Gmail and Drive, but had to be educated on Outlook and Excel, and having everything in the browser would be way superior anyway; Workspace apparently is way better integrated with other tools (although I’m not sure what this means).

Now… before going into engineering, I started in systems administration. I’m in tech since 14 years now. I managed to scale our infrastructure and product from day one, with no breaches, downtime, or major productivity issues. It has been clear for a while that we’ll need someone to take care of internal IT management and support, but this was the first time I even heard of major complaints. I’m usually fairly confident in my skills, but this time I started to doubt myself:

Either I’m not up to date anymore, and too deep into my niche knowledge that I’m sticking to stuff that isn’t relevant any longer—or this is just young people disliking something they aren’t used to and thus not comfortable with. I’m really open to improving things that cause friction, but I can’t help the feeling this is just a young sales team that prefers Slack over Teams and has poorly organised folders in Sharepoint.

From a migration perspective, this is going to be a nightmare; finding replacements, making sure we don’t loose anything, keeping emails and telephones running, third party tools available, and so on. But maybe it’s worth it, and Google Workspace and Slack are so much better that we’re gaining it all in efficiency? Has anyone made such a move, or an opinion on it? Has the tech world simply moved to Google, and I didn’t get the memo?
by kyeb | 2025-07-09 20:55:20+00:00
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by theamk | 2025-07-09 20:55:41+00:00
Just not in C++ code. gprc has a bajillon dependencies, and upgrades are a major pain. If you have a dedicated build team and they are willing to support this - sure, go ahead and use it.

But if you have multiple targets, or unusual compilers, or don't enjoy working with build systems, stay away from complex stuff. Sure, REST may need some manual scaffolding, but no matter what your target is, there is a very good chance it has JSON and HTTP libs.
by jamsey | 2025-07-09 20:55:42+00:00
you probably are stacking up technical debt. However every project has some, it comes down to, weather or not you understand what you are doing. If something goes wrong, would you know where and how to fix it? if the answer is yes, then you are fine IMO, if you don't feel confident with what you have built technically, then it might be worth investing more time into some code harding. but my 5 cents is, vibe coding is meant to be fun, so have fun and learn :)
by throw0101d | 2025-07-09 20:56:27+00:00
> Yes, it stays active for 10k+ years, but it's actually not that expensive to store them at specialized storages forever. Because it's a very small amount on a grand scale.

For some definition of "active".

The first 6-10 years are quite dangerous, which is why stuff is in cooling pools. After about 200-300 years the most dangerous type of radiation (gamma) has mostly burned stopped, and you're left with alpha and beta, which can be stopped with tinfoil and even paper.

I've heard the remark that after ~300 years the main way for nuclear waste to cause bad health effects is if you eat it or grind it up and snort it.
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-09 20:56:37+00:00
I can't conceptualize exactly what the use case is here, but I get the impression there's a set of steps that have to be done in sequence after installing my light bulb, and that's another step to an already fairly involved process. All to screw in a light bulb. And the light bulb is the easy case. If it's actually two devices and I want them to talk to each other, and one of them is automatically trusted, and the other one is untrusted, I'm skeptical that just pushing the button is going to help. (Actually in general I'm skeptical that it will typically work without extensive research, and this is just one in a long list of potential gotchas.)
by SergeAx | 2025-07-09 20:57:07+00:00
Answering a headline question: Dinosaurs are not patentable. You simply can't make T-Rex part of the studio's IP portfolio. Spielberg's franchise is based on the park's identity, including its font, logotype, merchandise, and more. I am 90% sure he had real theme park(s?) in mind when developing the first movie. The movie industry has long envied Disney's parks, which provide a steady income stream, regardless of whether new movies are produced or not.
by parpfish | 2025-07-09 20:57:13+00:00
News site/app that I’d like to see:

Track major new sites over time and build a portal that lets you see the front page news with some time delay (1 month, 3 month, 1 year) and annotate each story with “what happened since then?”

Too often big stories get ignored and forgotten. Or baseless fearmongering and speculation never confronts the fact it didn’t come true. I think we’d all benefit from this ability to step back from the rapid news cycle and see a bigger picture.
by lysace | 2025-07-09 20:57:31+00:00
PFS:First Publisher was my fav for a while in the 80s on a clone 8086 PC with CGA (running in mono 640x200). Very impressive performance for the time.

It supported loading MacPaint bitmaps (.mac on the PC) and with the “cheap” PC compatibles it made for a poor man’s Mac-workalike DTP tool.

Here’s an 1988 article on the T/Maker company that built it, founded by Heidi Roizen and her brother Peter Roizen:

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/tmaker-tiny-so...
by pona-a | 2025-07-09 20:58:04+00:00
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, still with no hint of the product.
by jbreckmckye | 2025-07-09 20:58:43+00:00
I cannot see how it was a success.

1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error.

2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche.

3. The firings did not go well. X has struggled to ship new features and appears nowhere closer to the "everything app" Musk promised. It posts strange UUID error codes. The remaining developers seem to implement things primarily client side, to the extent I even wonder if they have lost their ability to safely roll out backend changes.

4. The capture of X by far-right agitators has led to long term brand damage for Tesla, Musk's most important business property.

I can't see any positive outcome from it.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-09 21:00:35+00:00
> Recycling plutonium from spent power reactor fuel into mixed-oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel has been economically unattractive everywhere it has been implemented.

All it takes to change that is a federal subsidy supporting the industry. The same was said about wind & solar until it wasn't (due to tax credits). Now that the credits are going away with BBB, the cost of every new utility-scale development just went up ~30% and many, many projects will be killed.
by MillironX | 2025-07-09 21:01:03+00:00
> tests on dead pig organs do not test the robots’ capacity to react to a patient moving and breathing, blood running in the field of operation, an inadvertent injury, smoke from cauterisation or fluid on the camera lens

Really cool tech being demoed here but calling it "surgery" is a bit of a stretch considering how much of surgery time involves dealing with hemostasis, and "the dead don't bleed."
by dylan604 | 2025-07-09 21:01:10+00:00
I'm not sure about this being a new thing. I also think we've gone too far with the anti-karen whiplash and think everything before that was trendy was perfect. When I was a kid that got up to no good or was just being annoyingly loud, I would hear about it. There's always been an acceptable loud, like kids running around and playfully being loud at a park or playground. Going to the same playground with a loud stereo is not the same thing. You're clearly up to no good as a teen smoking and hanging with your friends. You make it sound like kinds "back in the day" never got into trouble. I can assure you, I, er we, absolutely got in trouble for getting up to no good.
by uzerfcwn | 2025-07-09 21:01:12+00:00
> Most web apps today use APIs that return JSON and are called by JavaScript. Can you use REST for such services

You kind of could, but it's a bad idea. A core tenet of the REST architecture is that it supports a network of independent servers that provide different services (i.e. webpages) and users can connect to any of them with a generic client (i.e. a web browser). If your mission is to build a specialized API for a specialized client app (a JS web app in your example), then using REST just adds complexity for no reason.

For example, you could define a new content-type application/restaurantmenu+json and build a JS client that renders the content-type like a restaurant's homepage. Then you could use your restaurant browser JS client to view any restaurant's menu in a pretty UI... except your own restaurant's server is the only one that delivers application/restaurantmenu+json, so your client is only usable on your own page and you did a whole lot of additional work for no reason.

> does REST require a switch to HTML representation ... How such HTML representation can even use PUT and DELETE verbs

Fielding's REST is really just an abstract idea about how to build networks of services. It doesn't require using HTTP(S) or HTML, but it so happens that the most significant example of REST (the WWW) is built on HTTPS and HTML.

As in the previous example, you could build a REST app that uses HTTP and application/restaurantmenu+json instead of HTML. This representation could direct the client to use PUT and DELETE verbs if you like, even though these aren't a thing in HTML.
by palata | 2025-07-09 21:01:18+00:00
Are you trying to say that there are no businesses in Europe at all? Like 100% unemployment?

Or are you saying that you would personally find it easier with fewer regulations? For instance, there are probably laws that make it illegal for people to point a gun at you and make you hand them all your money. Do those hurt your business?

If you can't run a business in Europe, maybe it's the wrong business, or maybe you're in the wrong place. But there are hundreds of millions of people in Europe who have a job, so I think it's safe to say that it's not impossible to run a business in Europe.
by lsommer | 2025-07-09 21:02:15+00:00
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by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-09 21:03:27+00:00
Except economy of scale should have lowered that cost dramatically. The Steam of today is incredibly profitable compared to the Steam of 1994, that means costs have gone down, but their commissions haven't followed, and this is why others want their own store. If their commissions were fair, it wouldn't make business sense to compete with them.

Planting and processing my own wheat for bread would be very resource-intensive, that doesn't mean commercial bread is a luxury article.
by taylodl | 2025-07-09 21:03:30+00:00
Not realistic in today's world. Heck, I can't even park without an app! I'm not saying that's good, it's not, but I'm not in control of it, either.

The way I "protect" myself from my phone is by not have any social media apps installed on my phone. None. Nada. Zilch.

The only "time waster" I have installed on my phone is a news feed reader and a couple of mindless games one can enjoy while passing away time (like waiting at the doctor or dentist office).

The upshot of this approach? I don't have to buy the latest-and-greatest phone, and I can make do with it for several years before having to replace it.
by andriamanitra | 2025-07-09 21:04:19+00:00
Depends on the language! If "if" wasn't a keyword, in Ruby that would be calling a method that takes one positional argument and one block argument, such as `def if(cond, &body) = cond && body.call`. In PureScript that could be a call to a function with signature `if :: Boolean -> Record () -> _`.

But I assume the comment you were replying to was not referring to the conditional syntax from C-like languages, instead referring to a concept of an if "function", like the `ifelse` function in Julia [1] or the `if` form in Lisps (which shares the syntax of a function/macro call but is actually a special form) [2], neither of which would make sense as one argument function.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/base/#Base.ifelse

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Co...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-09 21:05:52+00:00
Wind and solar are still competitive without the credits, and while it'd be great to keep the credits to get off of fossil fuels faster, they are no longer needed.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/01/solar-cost-of-electri...

> Lazard’s analysis of levelized cost of electricity across fuel types finds that new-build utility-scale solar, even without subsidy, is less costly than new build natural gas, and competes with already-operating gas plants.

> Despite the blow that tax credit repeal would deal to renewable energy project values, analysis from Lazard finds that solar and wind energy projects have a lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) than nearly all fossil fuel projects – even without subsidy.

(Lazard is the investment banking gold standard wrt clean energy cost modeling: https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...)
by pona-a | 2025-07-09 21:06:09+00:00
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.
by taeric | 2025-07-09 21:06:19+00:00
It is downright depressing seeing all of the people pile on regarding the food truck. I can almost understand setting a volume limit on it, if there are some that are going overboard. After all, I'll gripe to my kids for yelling while in the same room with me. But banning or justifying a ban!?

And, I'm fine that we disallow extreme things such as sonic booms. Yes, that should remain banned. For really good reasons. No, that does not extend to sounds of life.

Does it somewhat suck to live near a ball field during playoff season? I guess? Isn't exactly a hidden part of life, though. It also somewhat sucks when the chickens are upset about something out back. Or, heaven help you if you have frogs nearby.

Reminds me of the hilarity of people that want to point out how horrible fireworks are for pets. You aren't wrong, but fireworks are nothing compared to a standard storm in many places. So, maybe tone down the bitching about it a bit?

Edit: Amusingly, I'm currently working from basically under an airport at the moment. Also a very loud place.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-09 21:06:24+00:00
When it comes to government reps that field calls like this, there's some variation of a formula saying for every one phone call translates to X number of people that feel the same way but do not make the call. It used to be different weightings for someone calling vs writing a letter. Either way, it was more a statistics reaction. Not sure if this comes into play or not.

It could also be that the single person that did complain happens to be a close friend or even related to someone else powerful, or is just influential in the area in other ways. That tilts the weighting as well.
by deepsun | 2025-07-09 21:06:31+00:00
Sorry, but you're wrong. I took some radiation safety classes, and the main point I got from that is that "it depends". For example, alpha- and beta-radiation are often more dangerous than gamma, because gamma is easier to detect and measure.

People often focus on "radiation" part forgetting the "contamination" part. You can literally walk into the Chernobyl reactor active zone today for up to 2 minutes. But you cannot produce any food in soils around it for thousand years. And there's dozens of dangerous isotopes, each one accumulating and affecting human tissues differently.

Public generally only knows about Geiger counter. Yes, it will scream if everything is FUBAR, but it's useless for estimating safety of a food product.
by thadt | 2025-07-09 21:06:31+00:00
> The framing of the server as just "storing ciphertext" would suggest trustyworthyness of that hosting provider isn't relevant.

In point of argument, it should not be relevant - beyond metadata exposure or failure to provide service. Metadata exposure is mentioned in the post, and is a rather important aspect to consider. Having service turned off when you need it also might be an important consideration depending on the threat model. If I were cabinet members planning military operations, it is quite likely that I would care about both of those.

Beyond that, the 2025 table stakes for a 'secure' messaging service are: "a totally compromised server should not be able to read messages or inject messages that will be acceptable to legitimate clients. It should also not be able to undetectably remove, reorder, or replay messages." [1]

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9750.html#name-delivery-se...
Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive
by iosifache | 2025-07-09 21:06:38+00:00
I was looking around for an MCP server that could connect Anna's Archive to Claude Desktop, as I wanted to be able to search and download books directly through the interface.

I couldn't find any public implementations, so ended up building one myself.

What it does?

- It searches Anna's Archive by keywords. - It downloads books from search results. - It works directly in Claude Desktop through MCP.

Check out the repository's README for detailed installation and configuration instructions.

The code is fully open source and builds run on GitHub Actions for transparency.

I figured I'd share, since I couldn't be the only one wanting this functionality!
by cyberax | 2025-07-09 21:06:40+00:00
> There has been no lack of heavyweight, pre-declare everything, code-generating, highly structured, prescriptive standards

Care to list them? REST mania started around early 2000-s, and at that time there was only CORBA available as a cross-language portable RPC. Microsoft had DCOM.

And that was it. There was almost nothing else.

It was so bad that ZeroC priced their ICE suite based on a PERCENTAGE OF GROSS SALES: https://web.archive.org/web/20040603094344/http://www.zeroc.... Their ICE suite was basically an RPC with a human-designed IDL and non-crazy bindings for C/C++/Java.

Then the situation got WORSE when SOAP came.

At this point, anything, literally anything, that didn't involve XML was greeted with enthusiasm.
by klank | 2025-07-09 21:07:07+00:00
It'd be nice, but I can't see it being effective at changing broad consumer behavior. Giving people more information to make a choice doesn't do much value when they're already making poor choices based on the already existing information.

Put another way, I wish we had the nuanced shit to sift through where some nice multi-dimensional analysis could save the day. But the issue is people are consuming shit that is demonstrably shit from the first whiff/taste. I can't see how having some pretty vectors to showing them where their shit lives in shitspace is going to be helpful.