MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by econ | 2025-07-26 20:54:15+00:00
> My private collection won't ever compete with Netflix, Google or the like

You are not allowed to do that!

The reality is that with minimal effort and money you can cheaply buy some multi TB drives. Get a 100 euro computer, a 50ish internet connection, a torrent feed and a usenet sub. Netflix has very little stuff by comparison.

You can also set up a crawler with some archiving and crawl that part of the internet that is interesting to you specifically. Feed it the urls you've visited, crawl 1-3 links deep from there and you will be in awe how fantastic the search results are. If you type "banana" in the search box it will give you a surreal page full of interesting pages about bananas. (Interesting to you only)

As the collection grows and time expires you will also be increasingly shocked how many of those website are not around anymore.

I ran a dead link checker on 10k old bookmarks for a niche topic one time. I didn't pay much attention to the topic for 8 years or so. I was very excited thinking I would find all kinds of new developments. In stead it was depressing as f. Something like 50 links worked. Stuff like a link to a Google search result.
by dzink | 2025-07-26 20:54:32+00:00
After using Apple, and OneNote (which suddenly became unusable thanks to syncing becoming paid without warning) and others, I noticed in some cases the software was wiping the bottom of my large notes (or maybe not syncing them). Confirm indeed that the bottom of your increasingly large note is still there. Also need some method to backup or verify integrity of content added, because Microsoft wiping OneNote sync is one of many ways those services betray your memories and leave you empty handed.
by dang | 2025-07-26 20:54:52+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655128 - July 2025 (18 comments)

First fault rupture ever filmed [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44305403 - June 2025 (1 comment)

First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture near Thazi, Myanmar [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959274 - May 2025 (3 comments)
by benreesman | 2025-07-26 20:55:31+00:00
I have no idea what backend developer means to this or that person. It seems to mean "not frontend", so like, directly interacting with a database and possibly using a compiled or even unmanaged language? But still often deploying through something that looks like:

Haswell <- Borg Hypervisor <- Borg Pod <- KVM Hypervisor <- QEMU guest <- docker-compose <- docker <- golang

?

I'm talking about hackers. I remember being like 24 and and a colleague of mine (legend) had never worked in JavaScript or really the web before was on our pod that got tasked with writing a browser for J2ME and BREW that implemented real web pages.

He goes home that weekend, and he comes back on Monday with a stack machine written in JavaScript (ECMA-262, we ran it on Rhino back then because Spidermonkey was a whole thing) that executed a very cute subset of JavaScript, including lambda closure and therefore Church encoding / untyped System 1. I was like whoa, why in JS? "If I have to implement it in a month, I'm already two months late to start learning it."

Is that guy a frontend developer? Backend? Full Stack? He had worked on DSPs and audio before, and on video codecs and embedded.

My comment above about some of this stuff is harder isn't a diss to anyone, it doesn't make me a millimeter shorter that Carmack is so tall, walking around in some rarefied air of genius I can't even formulate a picture of: it inspires me to work harder, try more ambitious things, push every day a little past yesterday's limit, and it has for more than 30 years now.

There's nothing wrong with programming be a job, it's a perfectly reasonable life choice and a very sensible one in light of life's other demands and opportunities. But some of us fucking love it, think about it all the time, live to be good at it. That's a different set of outcomes. And it does grate a bit to have everyone pushing this "it's all the same, we're all the same, it's one equivalent thing", that's my passion you're talking about, I take great pride in my life's singular ambition and pursuit. We're equal but we're not the same.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-26 20:56:24+00:00
Another football in the Verizon Yahoo/Shuffle are those Verizon customers who were sold to Frontier but had verizon.net email addresses.

Verizon kept control of those lightly-maintained email accounts and pushed them into the Yahoo/AOL infrastructure. Users with a verizon.net email address had webmail access at mail.aol.com.

Verizon didn't make life easy. They changed POP/IMAP/SMTP servers every year or so. Just this May they changed again, from smtp.mail.yahoo.com to smtp.verizon.net - but the old servers still worked until the AOL outage 2 days ago.

During the years in between, customers got caught between AOL's mandate to use OAuth and Microsoft's refusal to support it in Outlook.

FF to now-ish and Verizon is purchasing those same FiOS customers back again. One more smack with the Verizon ping-ping paddle.
by im3w1l | 2025-07-26 20:56:24+00:00
Null means nothing, zero. In the context of scientific articles a null result means that the difference is zero. What difference? Well it depends. It could be difference between doing something and not doing it. The difference between before and after some intervention. Or perhaps the difference between two different actions.

In this case the difference between before and after raising the minimum wage.

Furthermore, the thing with a null result is that it's always dependant on how sensitive your study is. A null result is always of the form "we can't rule out that it's 0". If the study is powerful then a null result will rule out a large difference, but there is always the possibility that there is a difference too small to detect.
by j-bos | 2025-07-26 20:56:54+00:00
I attended for the first time this year after wanting to go since the first year. As someone who watches science techy engineering YouTubers, but hardly does anything with hardware, I had a great time. Even though I'm a fan of some of William Osman's work, I didn't really enjoy the panels. Relative to effort of attendance, they were kind of boring, something you could probably just watch as a YouTube recording.

What I did enjoy alot were the exhibits. There's the spectacle of seeing all kinds of weird and interesting builds in person. But what's really, really enjoyable is that because the exhibits are done by average people who generally don't have a big public following; you can just ask them endless questions and they're more than happy to answer and give such a great insight into the build process, the work that is involved, the inspiration and the little details of all the things that they made. Granted, I will agree, many of the exhibitors are not socially dexterous, but because they're there, they're very willing to talk and explain things. Definitely worthwhile. I even got to use a soldering iron for the first time in a decade years.
by enopod_ | 2025-07-26 20:57:00+00:00
According to the article, at least todays retinal-based photosynthesis is anoxygenic and does not invole carbon fixation. At night, these cells metabolism stops. Chlorophyllic photosynthesis with attached carbon fixation allows the cell to build up starch during the day, which it breathes under the use of oxygen at night, so the cell remains active during the night. Looks like a big evolutionary advantage to me. Also, light is not the limiting factor for plant growth, it‘s usually water or nutrient availability.
by ofjcihen | 2025-07-26 20:57:29+00:00
The lack of security around most Salesforce implementations is ridiculous.

That’s partially due to SF devs not knowing enough about the product but also due to Salesforce treating security as an afterthought.

For a poorly configured implementation it takes 2 web requests as an unauthenticated user to know all of the data you can pull down and then do it.

Don’t even get me started on the complete lack of monitoring. I basically had to design an entire security monitoring setup outside of Salesforce using their (absolutely awful) logs to get anything close to usable.

Edit: here’s a guide someone wrote. https://www.varonis.com/blog/misconfigured-salesforce-experi...

Seriously, you can automate this and then throw it at the end of recon to find SF sites. I’ve done it.
by yes_man | 2025-07-26 20:57:43+00:00
Reminds me of this passage from Postgres documentation:

”As an example, 2014-06-04 12:00 America/New_York represents noon local time in New York, which for this particular date was Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). So 2014-06-04 12:00 EDT specifies that same time instant. But 2014-06-04 12:00 EST specifies noon Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5), regardless of whether daylight savings was nominally in effect on that date. … To complicate matters, some jurisdictions have used the same timezone abbreviation to mean different UTC offsets at different times; for example, in Moscow MSK has meant UTC+3 in some years and UTC+4 in others.”

Parsing datetimes indeed sounds like a challenge in collecting, knowing and maintaining all these warped out standards and compromises. ”Bad hard” is a great description
by MrJohz | 2025-07-26 20:59:21+00:00
I meant "now" in that sentence to refer to the internet era in general, in comparison with other technological leaps. But still, these protections are usually very limited, and fairly easy to circumvent. Most people I know might not be able to convince their laptop to let them screenshot Netflix, but they do normally know how to find pirated copies of the TV show they want to watch. Paying for the convenience of Netflix might still be worth it for them, but the ability to step beyond that should that convenience disappear is definitely there.
by skissane | 2025-07-26 21:00:31+00:00
Not in homes, in institutions (workplaces, schools, universities, government agencies, etc). In the early 1990s, a lot of places were in the process of replacing 10Base2 with 10BaseT, so there was still heaps of 10Base2 installs around. 10Base5 had mostly been replaced wth 10Base2 already, but as with any legacy technology, pockets of it survived initially-in 1992, 10Base5 was only 10 years old, absolutely you would find places still stuck on 10 year old technology. Nowadays? I doubt there is any 10Base5 left anywhere. Maybe, maybe, buried deep inside some super-legacy embedded system, but even that’s dubious.
by somat | 2025-07-26 21:02:18+00:00
Iptables suffers from the common "it's a command line program so we are going to use getopt to parse it" I find the getopt style... tolerable at best for short commands. But for long expressions in a dsl(like find or iptables) it is noisy and ugly. Iptables would have been twice as nice to use if they got rid of all the pointless dashes(and I have written preprocessors to do just this).

The clearest example of this was the megaraid command for lsi raid cards. It's commands are documented in the getopt style but I accidentally found out that the dashes were optional. And while the syntax was still sort of ass, my scripts were much easier to read.
by pininja | 2025-07-26 21:03:14+00:00
The balance during the first two years felt amazing. I was so energized by the first days that I spent the second days revisiting to a ton of makers I’d met the first day to talk more. And I still didn’t see everything.

This year my friends and I felt it swayed a bit far to sponsored booths. There were fewer cool experiences (like the mini-golf) and I’d seen everything in one day. We wondered if the cool booths got denied in favor of ones that could pay more.

We still had great conversations and met incredible people, but felt we had to work harder to find it.

That said.. I think William’s team has been in a deficit each year and he said in his OpenSauce+ video how he is trying to be more sustainable.. I still remember buying the $69.69 early early bird ticket on the way out of 2023 for 2024 just to help them cover existing costs.

I really hope they figure it out. It’s such a great environment and has a great team behind it
by afro88 | 2025-07-26 21:04:44+00:00
It's crazy to me that someone can write a post called "How We Rooted Copilot" when in reality they got root in an ephemeral python sandbox container that was locked down so much that they couldn't do anything.

I read "rooted copilot" and I think they got root on a vm that is core to copilot itself.

A much more accurate title would be "How We Rooted the Copilot Python Sandbox"
by sedatk | 2025-07-26 21:05:18+00:00
Despite having been organized on the former grounds of Maker Faire, the whole thing felt smaller. Exhibit halls were very poorly ventilated, and doors left open didn't help. Only the main conference hall was breezy enough. Panels were hard to follow due to bad acoustics of smaller halls.

Retro related halls were mostly about NES/console Retro, not 8-bit in general.

People were fantastic though. I liked seeing many different robots and cosplayers. I got to play many great games, looking forward to their release. Not many mindblowing stuff but, were I a kid, I would be blown away for sure. Robot fights were also exciting (maybe outdoors would be better for it though).

I saw Ken Shirriff, and thought to myself "oh he must have left his assistant in his place". I'd never guess he'd be that young which impressed me even more given his phenomenal work. So, I missed my chance to thank him in person. Next time!

Had good time in general. I hope to see it get better in upcoming years.
by astrange | 2025-07-26 21:09:02+00:00
Nobody in the UK cares about "criticism of the government". That's a paranoid concept that only makes sense in a presidential system like the US.

In Westminster systems you can kick out the government all you want and often do. The point of the constitutional monarchy is to separate the people you "shouldn't criticize" from the people who actually have any power.

The reason they're doing this is that British people hate themselves, hate their children, and the purpose of the country is to take everyone's money and give it to pensioners.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-26 21:10:07+00:00
> So, no OSS contribution is valid unless you are using this very library?

You said Microsoft contributes to my start-up. That's only true if we actually use it.

> Now you sound like you have a beef against large companies and would find any argument against them.

I certainly have beef with Microsoft in particular yes. And most big tech. I work a lot with Microsoft people and they're always trying to get us to do things that benefits them and not us (and I hate the attitude of a mere supplier trying to tell us what to do). Always trying to get us to evangelize their stuff which is mostly mediocre, dumping constant rebranding campaigns on us etc.

I'm not looking for arguments but I do hate the mega corporations and I don't believe in any benevolence on their side. I think the world would be much better off without them. They have way too much influence on the world. They should have none, after all they are not people and can't vote.

I also don't appreciate their contributions to eg Linux and OpenStreetMap. There's always ulterior motives. Like giving running on their cloud a step up, embedding their own IP like RedHat/IBM do (and Canonical always tries but fails at). Most of the contributions are from big tech now. I don't believe in a 'win/win' scenario involving corporations.

But I'm very much against unbridled capitalism and neoliberalism yes. I think it causes most of what's wrong with this world, from unequal distribution of wealth, extreme pollution, wars (influenced by the MIC) etc. Even the heavy political polarisation. The feud between the democrats and republicans is really just a proxy war for big corporate interests. Running a campaign requires so much trouble that it's no longer possible with a real grassroots movement.

But anyway this is my opinion. Take it as it is or don't. You have the right to you own opinions of course! I'm aware my opinion isn't very nuanced.

> This behavior is actively harmful to the rest of the world. You are depriving good actions from a “thank you” and hence you are depriving recipients of good actions from more of them.

Nah. Microsoft doesn't care what I think. I'm nothing but an ant on the floor to them.

Besides, they are doing this for reasons. The thank you isn't one of them. Hosting npm is peanuts for a big cloud provider, just advertising really. And it gives them a lot of metrics about the usage of libraries and from where. And VS Code, I'm sure they had a discussion about "what's in it for us in the long term" with some big envisioned benefits. You don't start a big project without that.

With most of their other products it's more clear. Like edge, they clearly made this to lock corporate customers further into their ecosystem (it can be deeply locked down which corporate IT loves because they enjoy playing BOFH) and for customers for upselling to their services. It's not better than Google's, they just replaced Google's online services with their own.
by mjacques | 2025-07-26 21:10:21+00:00
Hey everyone,

Saturday night, me and some friends are experimenting with a small fund for solo builders and indie teams building on Solana.

The idea is simple: - We fund solo founders and small teams with 5 to 10k - Anything related to dev tools, useful, weird or early software - You got to keep the full ownership and we share a small % of the revenue when you got there - Everything tracked on chain

We're putting together our first batch. If you're building something or want to back the next wave of crypto-native founders, we'd love to hear from you.

Would love any feedback, especially from people who’ve bootstrapped in crypto.
by Lyngbakr | 2025-07-26 21:11:49+00:00
> And the truth is, there is a lot a person can do to adjust or mitigate these things, through simple lifestyle changes like diet and exercise.

This is spot on. I'm 46 and I've been fortunate to be healthy and in decent shape my entire life; however, a check up that was fine but trending in the wrong direction prompted these lifestyle changes.

I lift run or lift daily, have reduced my carb intake significantly, stopped drinking, perform a short yoga routine each morning, and spend some time on the cushion each evening. I only wish I'd done this earlier because I feel so much better than I ever have.
by garciasn | 2025-07-26 21:12:14+00:00
Happens here in MN too. I own a vacation home that used to be a fishing resort in the 40s-70s and now shares water / septic with 5 other cabins; we turn the water off mid-Oct to end of April because the lines are only buried about 2 feet deep.

Having a three-season place is pretty common here.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-26 21:12:17+00:00
My argument was that because women can not rely on the justice system, you can't blame them for resorting to talking to each other on the internet about potential predators.

That's not a "strawman argument", it's just basic common sense - if the law isn't protecting you, then you have to protect yourself. As someone else itt put it: Women being vigilant is rational behaviour".

And while you lambast my source (despite the fact that any set of statistics you like will say that rape has heinous reporting, referral and conviction rates), you say yourself in a sibling comment that the only way to fix this is by improving the justice system. You admit, in your own words, that the justice system is inadequate here and not fit for purpose.

Your beef, as generously as I can interpret it, seems to be that allowing women to talk to each other about potential predators could result in false accusations (that's what a "think of the children" argument looks like btw). You then repeatedly conflate this forum with "torture", "mass surveillance", and an organized bullying group that has caused at least 3 suicides - that part I can't wrap my head around. You even compare this forum to "censorship" - the rank irony is giving me a headache.

All the crazy things that have happened in the last 6 months, and this is what has you up in arms. Women talking to each other, trying to protect themselves from assault and rape. Absolutely wild.
by giovannibonetti | 2025-07-26 21:12:34+00:00
Most indexes people hear about are like that. However, there are indexes that work the other way around, like Postgres' Block Range Indexes (BRIN). They are mostly useful as skip indexes - for a given block, they have a summary that tells whether some given data may be there.

The trade-off this kind of index makes is that it is more optimized for (batch) writes than the more popular B-Tree indexes, but it is less optimized for reads on the other hand. If the write throughout of a given table is very high, you might want to remove all B-Tree indexes that are not strongly correlated to the insert order and have BRIN indexes instead. Combine it with table partitioning, and you can add B-Tree indexes in the cold partitions, or even migrate them to columnar storage if available (with the Citus extension).

By the way, a few years ago a Bloom BRIN variant was added, not to be confused with Postgres' Bloom indexes which are something else.
by apelapan | 2025-07-26 21:12:36+00:00
I had to go back and check regarding "Urminnes hävd" (ancient custom). The creation of new instances of this for property rights was blocked back in 1970.

You can still use it, but then you must prove that the property right was an established ancient custom already before 1970. Anything that started after that will never qualify, no matter how much time passes.
by nicwolff | 2025-07-26 21:13:29+00:00
I'm not chatting with the LLM – I'm giving one LLM in "orchestrator mode" a detailed description of my required change, plus a ton of "memory bank" context about the architecture of the app, the APIs it calls, our coding standards, &c. Then it uses other LLMs in "architect mode" or "ask mode" to break out the task into subtasks and assigns them to still other LLMs in "code mode" and "debug mode".

When they're all done I review the output and either clean it up a little and open a PR, or throw it away and tune my initial prompt and the memory bank and start over. They're just code-generating machines, not real programmers that it's worth iterating with – for one thing, they won't learn anything that way.
by clayhacks | 2025-07-26 21:13:53+00:00
Is there stats to back this up? I imagine not every kid who watches these creators becomes an engineer, but do more become engineers than non watchers? Or less? I’d be willing to bet more do, even if it’s still not a huge majority. I mean anecdotally I know a lot of engineer friends of mine who like these creators too. I’m a professional software engineer now after watching some of these people when I was younger and being involved in my high schools robotics team. I went to open sauce and saw a bunch of local robotics teams there too. Again maybe they won’t all be engineers but I’m sure more will than the average
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-26 21:13:58+00:00
There was another recent study that made the front page of HN (would have to search to find it) that found two "peaks" of aging, at 44 and 60. As someone in my late 40s, I certainly identified with that.

I was in fairly good shape and feel like, despite some grays and some crows feet, my body was relatively the same from my early 20s to my early 40s. 44 really did hit me like a ton of bricks though - working out got considerably harder, and my face started to show more permanent signs of aging, like loss of facial fat and neck banding. Can't say I was thrilled to later discover I was "right on schedule".