MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RumourRider | 2025-07-23 10:40:43+00:00
It is partly the network effect. However all the alternatives having serious issues:

- Odysee - has performance issues and the app is crap and no discoverability. Some niche, interesting content on there but a lot of the time I only used it because someone would upload Joe Rogan stuff while he was exclusive to Spotify.

- BitChute - full of racists and not a lot else, crap discoverability. The website feels like something from the 2000s.

- Rumble - US/UK right wing slop politics and conspiracy rubbish from David Icke wannabes. I don't like the interface at all. Tends to work okay. But there is very few things I want to watch/listen to on there. Discoverability isn't great.

- Daily motion - I remember it being decent a decade ago, but it has fallen behind and turned into something else from briefly looking at the home page.

- Twitch - Streaming platform only, I think. There is a lot of slop left wing politics on it and (for want of a better term) "titty streamers". I have visited the site once, not for me.

- Kick - Basically Twitch but has more permissive T&C. Bankrolled by Stake.com IIRC. I watch one live show if I am awake to watch it. Otherwise I wouldn't bother with it.

I spend most of my time on YouTube watching stuff either about Computers, Repairing 4x4 trucks, Weird Soviet Era vehicles, WW2 stuff by Mark Felton or some sort of Tech related stuff. None of that is catered to on the alternative sites at all. None of that is catered by TV particularly well either.
by closewith | 2025-07-23 10:40:45+00:00
> Almost everyone (very close to literally everyone) uses PIX and we have zero reported cases of mishap, errors or bad faith attacks...?

Earlier this month, hackers using credentials purchased from a C&M employee were able to generate unauthorised PIX transactions on client banks and steal at least BRL$ 500 MM, and maybe as much as BRL $ 5 BN, so it's definitely not fool proof.

> Hope this does not sound dismissive - as a heavy user with no complaints for years, why should I care PIX is a black box?

Brazilians in general are very accepting of government surveillance, with the omnipresent CPF and now complete disclosure of almost all consumer transactions to the State. It's always surprised me, TBH, given the very recent history of dictatorship and unbounded potential for abuse.
by poszlem | 2025-07-23 10:41:21+00:00
I once asked it to read a postcard written by my late grandfather in Polish, as I was struggling to decipher it.

It incorrectly identified the text as Romanian and kept insisting on that, even after I corrected it:

"I understand you are insistent that the language is Polish. However, I have carefully analyzed the text again, and the linguistic evidence confirms it is Romanian. Because the vocabulary and alphabet are not Polish, I cannot read it as such."

Eventually, after I continued to insist that it was indeed Polish, it got offended and told me it would not try again, accusing me of attempting to mislead it.
by thomasjb | 2025-07-23 10:42:04+00:00
This reminds me of a pet idea of mine, to write an interactive fiction / text-based dungeon crawler based around trying to navigate underground tunnels and interacting with various weird computers throughout them to progress (take the TTY from the seismometer and use it to access the ventilation control computer, find the datatape of the plans for level IX to then find the hydraulic controls for the main blast door ect.)
by falcor84 | 2025-07-23 10:42:12+00:00
On an tangential note, I actually found "contextomy" to be a really useful word in its original sense of quoting out of context [0], but I find it to be even more appropriate for the process of cleaning up an LLM's context to reduce "context rot".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoting_out_of_context
by aquariusDue | 2025-07-23 10:42:47+00:00
Hyperbole is the weirdest thing ever (in a good way), I can't exactly describe it to people either because it's a monolithic package that is made up of a number of packages (like the one for window control) but once you start using it and adopting it gradually you reach an epiphany. At that point the usefulness of Hyperbole is evident but until then nada, it seems more hassle than it's worth (though there are moments when it has bugs relating to other packages, like org, but those are quickly fixed by the maintainers in my experience).

Though a downside is that you end up curating a workflow that is so tailored to you that it seems weird from the outside, if it ever leaks, i.e. weird notation in git commit messages. That's due to sprinkling implicit and explicit "buttons" (pieces of text roughtly) throughout text (source code or otherwise).
by soco | 2025-07-23 10:43:03+00:00
I don't get how a payment system - Pix or any other of the many similar others in the large world - is the future of money? For sure it's the future of payment systems, but what it is transacting is still plain old money, just in a faster way.

I also don't see the advantages of a central bank stablecoin, wouldn't it be exactly the same as the actual currency? When I pay with Pix/Twint/BTPay I'm not handling printed notes either, so behind the scenes it could transact anything for all what I care - dollars, stablecoins, gold, potatoes...
by iparaskev | 2025-07-23 10:43:15+00:00
This is a good point. Lately I have been experimenting with phrasing the question in a way that it makes it believe that I prefer what I am suggesting, while the truth is that I don't.

For example: - I implement something. - Then I ask it to review it and suggest alternatives. Where it will likely say my solution is the best. - Then I say something like "Isn't the other approach better for __reason__ ?". Where the approach might not even be something it suggested.

And it seems that sometimes it gives me some valid points.
by whstl | 2025-07-23 10:43:35+00:00
Answering because I know the answer, even though I disagree:

There are some situations where having some animation can "attract attention" to parts of the UI, for guidance ("there's some info text here"), feedback ("operation complete"), state changes, timing. All this of course doesn't apply to decorative animations.

With that said: a lot of the situations I mention above are manufactured. They are often because of changes happening away from the mouse, or because the interface is brittle or too slow, and the user doesn't have confidence that something really happened, or because the organization of elements is not functional and things are too far apart that the user might miss something in a totally different part of the screen.

IMO, with enough thinking you can come up with alternative interfaces that don't require animations at all.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-23 10:43:50+00:00
YouTube isn't a monopoly. Quite a few creators I watch heavily promote their videos on other sites, usually targeted specifically at learning. I guess they get a better revshare there.

Unfortunately for them, I don't watch enough of their learning content to care about subscribing. But it's an option, and if I wanted to spend more time watching videos I could do so.

Operating a site with all the features and scale of YouTube is prohibitively difficult just because YouTube sets the bar so high, but operating a smaller more targeted competitor isn't. There are no barriers to entering the market. And that's largely thanks to Google and how they pushed so much video functionality into Chrome itself!
by tlb | 2025-07-23 10:44:04+00:00
I use it for a web version of some robotics simulation & visualization software I wrote in C++. It normally runs on as an app on Mac or Linux, but compiling to WASM lets me show public interactive demos.

Before WASM, the options were:

- require everyone to install an app to see visualizations

- just show canned videos of visualizations

- write and maintain a parallel Javascript version

Demo at https://throbol.com/sheet/examples/humanoid_walking.tb
by nonameiguess | 2025-07-23 10:44:15+00:00
I had the experience for a few years of having to run all of the self-hosted development and project management tooling for a government project about a decade back, and the integrations part holds up strong to that experience. The CI system that had been put in place was probably the most sophisticated I've ever seen, but that had some unfortunate side effects like Jenkins jobs being kicked off automatically thousands of times an hour, blasting all of the Atlassian tools with network requests, or Nessus remote logging into and spawning 40,000 simultaneous processes on the servers actually hosting the Atlassian tools.

Self-DOSing is exactly what it was.
by closewith | 2025-07-23 10:44:25+00:00
Institutional faith in Pix has been rocked recently, as earlier this month, hackers using credentials purchased from a C&M employee were able to generate unauthorised PIX transactions on client banks and steal at least BRL$ 500 MM and maybe as much as BRL $ 5 BN.

Although funds are already being recovered, it has highlighted the opacity of Pix security, which has flown somewhat under the radar due to the closed nature of the system.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-23 10:44:29+00:00
> A good example of that was the last tech boom which created companies like Meta and felled companies like Blackberry.

Meta (nee Facebook) were already really large before smartphones happened. And they got absolutely murdered in the press for having no mobile strategy (they tried to go all in on HTML5 far too early), so I'm not sure they're a great example here.

Also, I still miss having the Qwerty real keyboards on blackberry, they were great.
Show HN: Limit – Android content blocker which can't be bypassed
by richardgill88 | 2025-07-23 10:45:29+00:00
I've been building Limit, it's an Android app & website blocker that (really!) cannot be bypassed.

I'd attempted a bunch of blocking in the past, but kept finding trivial ways to disable the blocking. In the end I built Limit as a blocker I couldn't just disable.

It has pre-configured block lists for:

- Social media (algorithmic feeds) - Adult content - Gambling

Recently we added a 'hands off' mode for parents of ~teens - you can set up the device once, let Limit block social media, but without invading their privacy.

More technical explanation: https://limitphone.com/how-it-works
by carderne | 2025-07-23 10:46:39+00:00
Do you feed the LLM additional context for the commit message, or it is just summarising what’s in the commit? In the latter case, what’s the point? The reader can just get _their_ LLM to do a better job.

In the former case… I’m interested to hear how they’re better? Do you choose an agent with the full context of the changes to write the message, so it knows where you started, why certain things didn’t work? Or are you prompting a fresh context with your summary and asking it to make it into a commit message? Or something else?
by MoreQARespect | 2025-07-23 10:48:03+00:00
Orgmode has standardized primitives for the things which exist in some markdown note taking implementations but differ from implementation to implementation.

Markdown doesn't have a built in concept of todo or tag or scheduled event, for instance. It wasn't built for that.

I hate emacs but orgmode is still the file format which contains all of the primitives I need for my notes which looks like it will have the most staying power. I hope to be able to edit the same files in 2035 using whatever brain-connection device everybody is using in the future that I used in 2015 running on a netbook with 1GB of RAM.

Markdown files from the note taking flavor of today will have to be migrated somehow.
Victim of an NFT Scam or Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud? Take Action Now
by charityjonathan | 2025-07-23 10:48:04+00:00
At APEX Intervention Limited, we are a trusted private investigation and funds recovery firm. As financial regulators and ethical hackers, we specialize in:

Cryptocurrency scam recovery

NFT scam investigations

Fraudulent investment schemes

Let us show you the true art and integrity of ethical hacking. Our team is fully equipped with industry-leading recovery tools to handle your case from start to finish.

Reach out to our team today: Email: info@apexintervention.online WhatsApp: +1 (365) 740-5227 Website: https://apex-intervention.online

Your recovery starts with the right team. Choose APEX Intervention Limited – trusted, transparent, and relentless.
by zikzak | 2025-07-23 10:49:53+00:00
When I was in cooking school, it was assumed we would not have the time or equipment to constantly be monitoring temps with a thermometer so we had techniques for determining fairly precisely the temp of things.

Poaching liquid was evaluated based on the quantity and rate of bubbles rising from the bottom of the pan.

Milk was scalded (e.g. for bechemel) when the milk foamed but was shut off before it boiled over.

A knife inserted in a steak, chop, or roast could be tested for temp against your lower lip or wrist (yes, yes, hygiene and so forth).

The techniques you are talking about all came about because of all understanding of food that led to science asking "why does cheese happen the way it does". The precise techniques leading to a sharp, hard cheese or a soft, fresh cheese were well understood long before instant read thermometers.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-23 10:50:46+00:00
This course has been a _huge_ help to me in my current project (a G-code previewer and programmatic 3D modeling system written for (Open)PythonSCAD).

I would recommend pairing it with:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...

and some additional online resources which I've found very helpful:

- https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

- https://www.motionmountain.net/

and of course https://librivox.org/ and https://www.gutenberg.org/ --- for a benchmark on why, well, when my father retired to a rural Virginia county, the library was a metal carrel of books in the basement of the old courthouse, and my favourite books during the summer (when I didn't have access to the school libraries) were Hal Clement's _Space Lash_ (which my father found in a tower at the prison where he worked where reading material was forbidden) and an English textbook containing a number of short stories which my mother purchased from a table of remaindered books in a department store in a town 26 miles away to which we might drive once a month or so.
by rambambram | 2025-07-23 10:52:17+00:00
I always wondered if this would be the case. All non-tech-nerd people I know share Spotify links that I can't open (yes, I can download another app, no I'm not going to do that).

I use Youtube extensively for discovering new music and new artists. Sometimes (1 out of 100 times) I find myself on Soundcloud for a song that's not on Youtube, but for the rest Youtube is just perfect. I always wondered how many people use Youtube for music streaming... apparently a lot.
by Torwald | 2025-07-23 10:52:28+00:00
Elisp, but not really elisp, more the environment of elisp. It's a LISP machine. Hard to explain, it's a different way of computing. Another living instance of this model of computing is a Smalltalk image. Others have written about how LISPing makes you a better coder much better than I could. Try it out!
by nialse | 2025-07-23 10:53:13+00:00
”And then there’s the visibility problem. If you block AI bots from your site, your content may not appear in agent-generated summaries or answers. You’re protecting your rights—but possibly disappearing from the next frontier of discovery.”

The move hinges on AI companies agreeing to a sweetheart deal, which might happen due to their incentives to block newcomers to the scene. The current content of the web they already have. Less competition may be the end result.

Talking about incentives, where are Cloudflare going with this? A hunch is that they are now in the position that they aim to become the paywall of the web. Making AI companies pay is the foot in the door, the end play is of course making users pay for content. Doubt that will happen. Maybe as a consolidation of the current flora of different ways to pay for content, and making broader subscriptions. Think Netflix style.

Keen to hear other takes.
Show HN: E2EE Messaging with a Decentralized Microfrontend Architecture
by Screen8774 | 2025-07-23 10:53:26+00:00
Decentralized Architecture: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/decentralised-architect...

While my approach here could be considered overly complicated (because, well, it is), I’m trying something new, and it’s entirely possible this strategy won’t be viable long-term. My philosophy is “there’s only one way to find out.” I’m not necessarily recommending this approach, just sharing my journey and what I’m doing.

Potential Benefits I’ve identified some interesting benefits to this approach:

Statics as Chat App Infrastructure: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/statics-as-a-chat-app-i... While I often see module federation and microfrontends discouraged in online discussions, I believe they’re a good fit for my specific approach. I’m optimistic about the benefits and wanted to share the details.

When serving the federated modules, I can also host the Storybook statics. I think this could be an excellent way to document the modules in isolation.

Modules and Applications Here are some examples of the modules and how they’re being used:

Cryptography Modules: https://cryptography.positive-intentions.com/?path=%2Fdocs%2... P2P Framework: https://p2p.positive-intentions.com/?path=%2Fdocs%2Fe2e-test... This setup allows me to create microfrontends that consume these modules, enabling me to share functionality between different applications. The following applications, which have distinct codebases (and a distinction between open and closed source), would be able to leverage this:

P2P Chat: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/ P2P File Transfer: https://file.positive-intentions.com/ Sharing these dependencies should make it easier to roll out updates to core mechanics across these diverse applications.

Furthermore, this functionality also works when I create an Android build with Tauri. This could streamline the process of creating new applications that utilize these established modules.

Considerations and Future I’m sure there will be some distinct testing and maintenance overhead with this architecture. However, depending on how it’s implemented, I believe it could work and make it easier to improve upon the current functionality.

It’s important to note that everything about this project is far from finished. Some might view this as an overly complicated way to achieve what npm already does. However, I think this approach offers greater flexibility by allowing for the separation of open and closed-source code for the web. Of course, being JavaScript, the “source code” will always be accessible, especially in the age of AI where reverse-engineering is more possible than ever before.
by cess11 | 2025-07-23 10:53:47+00:00
The US bailed from the Red Sea a while ago. The US just looked on while Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan starved and ethnically cleansed Artsakh.

The US decided the policy of turning the 2022 Ukraine invasion into a slowburn and sacrifice of the ukrainians to the obviously ludicrous expectation that Russia wasn't able to move over to a war economy and make territorial gains. This is right now rupturing the EU, which is a rather explicit US policy aim, and also why US groups are financing and coddling european fascist movements.

Clearly not an ally worth appeasing on these reasons alone. Then there's the genocide in Palestine and promotion of societal collapse in north Africa and large portions of the Middle East. I also expect the US to shield genocidaires in Sudan on the behest of gulf emirs. Today the US is also waging economic war against the EU and NATO states, as well as the UN. It's a rabid, belligerent state that makes the hawks of Moscow, disgusting and terrifying as they are, look comparably sane and reliable.
by jajko | 2025-07-23 10:55:30+00:00
I don't think you get it. And also this is an universal response from all women I ever talked about exactly this topic (and several guys too who had no idea about cars in general but knew about those famous football players or other celebrities who had suvs so they also needed one).

The root cause is plain and simple - your wife just needs to learn to drive better, then she wouldn't be scared regardless of her seating position. No amount of high position can compensate for overall crappy driving style and corresponding fear of driving and thus the 'need' for high SUVs. To keep her distance from car in front of her (which is basically why she feels the need to be sitting so high so she can anticipate braking earlier), and quick reflexes on the brake while 100% focusing on situation around her (which she should have anyway since there are other bad situations where higher positions doesn't give any advantage, in contrary).

I went the other way - very low-positioned bmws, with correspondingly much better and quicker handling, of course much lower consumption and much more rolling resistance. Its wagon so trunk space is massive and if not enough I can put on biggest Thule roof rack and still fit in our garage and low entry points like store garages (1.9m is the limit with it, never saw entry limiter lower than that). My wife learned to drive properly over time and has exactly same opinion, aka suv never ever because why.

Suvs and variants, at least those who don't go offroad (so most of them) should be reserved for physically challenged people due to easier entry/exit to/from vehicle. And that's about it for real objective advantages, the rest are just emotions which adults should manage to their advantage, not the opposite.
by hansmayer | 2025-07-23 10:56:37+00:00
I am not sure what tests LLMs are passing these days. Every day its some other metric of no practical usage. You know we make money by delivering working code and features. What I do know is that for myself and people working for me at my company, we hit the limits of their practical usage so often,not even counting the casual removal of entire parts of code, that we recently decided to revert back from agents to using them again only in the conversational mode and only for select tasks. Whoever claims these tools are revolutionary is clearly not using them intensively enough or does not have a challenging use case. We get it, they can quickly spit out a react app for you, the frontend devs and people who were never good at maths are finally "good" at something vaguely technical. However -try using them for production-ready products over several months every day, your opinion will likely change.
by dathinab | 2025-07-23 10:56:55+00:00
honesty depending where you are such allegations might be very baseless & meaningless for many reasons like

- high base humidity of the place (e.g. the city where I live has a yearly avg. humidity of 70%, but specific to my apartment and ignoring the dry seasons over 80% is the norm (also for context not tropical but central EU, it's stuff like 20C+85% humidity). So airing out your room might increase air humidity...

- in small apartments it's the quite often norm that the side effect of taking a show can temporary rise humidity quite a bit, even if you ventilate properly. Most bathrooms in small appartments are just not well designed wrt. this (context I'm not speaking about long hot showers, but short normal warm showers).

- in small bed rooms night sweat can rise humidity by quite a lot, mostly if you are slightly sick but anyway

- just basic flowers can raise humidity, too

excluding dry areas IMHO for most no large apartments the landlord has forsaken any right to claim it's your fault if they don't provide reasonable measurements against humidity (even if it's just a half way decent (noise wise) air humidifier. Reason: Just standard normal expected usage will cause to high humidity level even if you do air out the apartment twice a day (which depending on weather conditions you might not even be able to do)

Sadly that isn't necessary the local laws/regulations POV.