MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nurettin | 2025-07-16 04:43:00+00:00
By concern I meant performing different actions and owning write access to different tables, not having completely separate code bases you seem to have construed for some reason.

I would also never connect services without a queue unless the message can be discarded (then I can use a pub sub). Using http is one of the most amateurish ways I can imagine to connect two services that I wrote. Even the thought is cringe. Is this common?
by kjkjadksj | 2025-07-16 04:43:00+00:00
All my favorite apps on the app store are ancient. Maybe 5mb. You just don’t see stuff like that anymore. I wish filters were more powerful and you could sort by size on app store. That is the strongest signal for unix like software quality on the app store imo: does exactly what it does and nothing more sort of apps that seem to be a dead breed today in a world of 350mb safari wrappers.
by hattmall | 2025-07-16 04:43:15+00:00
I don't really believe it. It's the big sites that have the monetary backing to employ the dark algorithmic patterns and monetization schemes.

I don't really see much of an issue with the content of the porn if that's what you mean by nastier sites. To me it's more like if you ban cigarettes and now kids are all buying black market cigarettes without nicotine.
by eternityforest | 2025-07-16 04:44:15+00:00
It seems like the "Photo and offsets" approach is pretty commonly used, and I can't personally say I have any complaints, even though the CLI enjoyers might disagree.

Maybe it could be paired with a basic image generator for common layouts?

Or maybe it could just have a set of selectable hardcoded layout engines, since "counterclockwise from upper left" and "across then down" cover a lot of things.

"Base64 of an images plus and offsets table" could just be a layout type, and people could submit PRs for anything else.

Maybe it could be something like: Your pin(or callout) Tables

Your Sections, which could have an image and some text

Your Images, that would either be literal pictures or rendering instructions that reference a table

So you could have a complete cheat sheet for any device on one page.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 04:44:52+00:00
It's not that LLMs are bad, they're very useful. It's that the media they produce is, in fact, slop.

I want to watch Breaking Bad, not AI generated YouTube shorts. I want to listen to "On the Radio" by Donna Summer, not some Spotify generated piano solo. I want to read a high quality blog post about tech with a unique perspective, not an LLM summary of said blog post that removes all the charm.

The gap in quality, when it comes to entertainment, is truly astronomical. I mean, it's not even kind of close. I would expect literal children to produce content - after all, Mozart was a prodigy.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-16 04:45:13+00:00
I don't really understand the angst against the Wikimedia Foundation.

They are transparent. No one's being conned into donating. As long as Wikipedia is running fine, and is not degrading, and they're not actively harming it, I don't care. People routinely spend money on much worse things. Is donating $3 to Wikimedia once a year really worse than giving 50-100x more to Starbucks?
by zamadatix | 2025-07-16 04:46:08+00:00
Honestly I wish I had put "(or maybe a new fangled DVD)" instead of "or DVD" because people seem to interpret that as "DVD wasn't good enough to have any impact on movie sales" rather than "either VHS or DVD at the time were still shit compared to the options now so does a decrease in ticket sales really guarantee a decrease in movies watched?"

DVD adoption (and later Blu-Ray) was certainly a huge factor in the gradual changes and 2002 was when people really started amassing them at home https://i.imgur.com/OHZ9H69.png. I'm sure piracy has a role as well too, but most of the deltas listed were also gradual changes which had their start prior to 2002, same as piracy. The only thing special about 2003 is it's the year the momentum changed, not that it's the year something brand new was introduced.
by bawolff | 2025-07-16 04:46:10+00:00
I think the idea is more that directors have a duty to the company (not the minority shareholder), and minority shareholders can bring suit on behalf of the company to allege that the duty to the company (and not themselves) was violated. When talking informally that feels like it amounts to basically the same thing, just technically slightly different [ianal,i might be out of my depth here]
by ddq | 2025-07-16 04:47:15+00:00
This to me is the most urgent moral issue of the day: our active stunting of our children's development. Our collective misguided and counterproductive approach to pedagogy does not cultivate a learning mindset but rather stifles children's enormous natural aptitude for exploratory play. We are doing it wrong and we know it. The curriculum we use isn't worth paying minimum wage to teach.

It could be different. It must be. We have role models to imitate, better methods to follow, resources and tools galore. What is needed now is organization toward common purpose. How does the internet bystander locate effective organizations to disrupt the march of folly? This is a situation where the pilot has gone mad and we must seize control of the aircraft but are too paralyzed by social forces to act.
by brucehoult | 2025-07-16 04:47:44+00:00
> The lack of vector support really shows, as most geekbench benchmarks use SIMD

Despite that it's beating the newer gen 1.8 GHz Pi 4 (my Pi 4 is 1.5 GHz) single-threaded on everything except Image Compression and Machine Learning ... nice.

If the SG2380 had happened (US sanctions prevented it, for those who don't know) we should have a RISC-V board beating the Pi 5 by now, and be less than two years behind Arm. (or three years for RK3588 Rock 5)

I think we'll have something competitive with Radxa Orion O6 in the next 12 months, only 1 year behind -- and ARMv9 and RVA23 are *really* comparable in features.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-07-16 04:48:17+00:00
NewsWaffle gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/

takes a url to a regular webpage and spits out a gemtext version that is much more sparse and, for me, is much more readable.

For example, here's this very website:

gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/feed?https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss

it's honestly the only reason I still use gemini since the rest of it is abandoned gemlogs, rehosts of web content I don't care or ersatz social media
by somenameforme | 2025-07-16 04:48:35+00:00
I did not mention Starship, because I'm not comparing the SLS against future tech, but against tech that was finished 7 years ago and is commercially available at this very moment. And I'm contrasting this against SLS cost "projections", which invariably end up lowballing reality. I'm steel-manning the argument for the SLS as much as I can, but it's still just nonsensical.

The idea we need to compete against ourselves is something that came straight from Boeing after they lost their bid for commercial crew, leading to them to use their connections to Congress to force NASA to make an unprecedented decision to give bids to 2 different companies. SpaceX succeeded at commercial crew putting astronauts on the ISS in 2020. Boeing, by contrast, was allowed to skip parts of the testing phase (for Commercial Crew), failed others, and was still greenlit because of corruption. And that's precisely how you ended up with the two astronauts put on their first human launch stranded on the ISS for months, only to end up getting rescued by SpaceX.

It's a nonsensical argument - we didn't create two Apollo programs, because there's no justification. And in any case, Boeing is clearly incapable of producing anything resembling a "horse" for this race. Instead we get a 3-legged mule sold at 5-time Kentucky Derby winner thoroughbred prices.
by progmetaldev | 2025-07-16 04:48:45+00:00
I spent many hours experimenting with Fractint, trying to get the inner and outer coloring just right, along with the zoom magnification that I could handle walking away from the computer for long enough to get something interesting. The worst was zooming somewhere that looked interesting, and coming back many hours later to find out you had nothing of value.

I spent my early teen years addicted to Fractint, before I could even really show off my creations except in person to my friends. I still look back at those days as more interesting with computers than now. Maybe I need to go back and write my own software to render fractals (or work on existing fractal software and see if I can improve it). In the mid-2000's, I was using GnoFract4D to render fractals, and the results were far more impressive. A change in GNOME or Ubuntu created an issue with the render window for me, and I ended up abandoning it.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-07-16 04:49:55+00:00
I'm a long time Vim user, and I really liked Helix when I tried it last year. On one hand, I very much like the cleanliness of the whole project. On the other hand, I'm one of those people who find AI assisted coding useful (not vibe coding, just auto complete, auto edit suggestion, possibility to select block and make it do change on it). This is why I eventually started to move to VS Code with Cody, despite being way more comfortable in modal editors.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-07-16 04:50:45+00:00
Very detailed explanations. I learned a bunch about the syntax highlighting and code understanding in Helix & friends just from reading this.

All the tree-sitter features and datastructures seem ideal for a query language to be bolted on - something that generalises beyond symbol search or “find all references” - guess since there’s an API this is a DSL for writing queries about your code.

Does something like this exist?
by dralley | 2025-07-16 04:50:49+00:00
It is completely unreasonable and (willfully) ignores the long, long list of places where Mozilla has fought against the other vendors including (especially) Google on privacy grounds.

It's the sort of thing people say mostly for their own self-satisfaction, without actually thinking about it or trying to figure out the answer. Like: "both parties are the same" or "what have the Romans ever done for us"
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-16 04:51:20+00:00
You know, I really don't appreciate this coy "I'm not attacking your position, I'm just simplifying it to a tradeoff between liberty and safety and what's that quote about liberty vs. safety again? Ah well, the reader can draw their own conclusions." Your whole "all opinions are valid, who can truly say which is more defensible?" schtick is the last refuge of people who are unable to defend their views.

It's pretty obvious what you're trying to say here, man. Don't piss on my leg and tell me that it's raining.
by 299exp | 2025-07-16 04:53:02+00:00
Just because something can be described mathematically doesn't necessarily mean it's physically possible. It's entirely plausible that our existence is limited to this specific place and time. As I understand it, time travel to the future seems achievable through relativistic speeds or by utilizing strong gravitational fields.

However, my layman's theory for personal time travel to the past relies on a bit of chance. It suggests that if your current existence were to cease, your information could, by random chance, be 'picked up' by a "past" scientist recreating (random) life somewhere/when else (for whatever reasons). This wouldn't involve information transfer in the traditional sense, avoiding a break in causality, and would feel like the very next moment you experience after ceasing to exist here and now.

Of-course the chances for that happening would be crazy low but just the possibility of it seemed intriguing to me.
by nkozyra | 2025-07-16 04:53:12+00:00
I think peak Perl was before then, but that's about when Perl fell off the map and started getting replaced by Python or PHP to replace CGI since it had some syntactic overlap.

This is when I started professionally and we were asked to replace "slow, old Perl scripts" As a new entrant, I didn't ask many questions, but I also didn't see any of the replacements as improvements in any way. I think the # of devs left to take over messy Perl projects was shrinking.

As you might imagine, this job involved a lot of text processing. People still point to that as the arrow in Perl's quiver, but it seems especially quaint today since any language I'd reach for would blow it out of the water in terms of flexibility and ease of use.
by 4b11b4 | 2025-07-16 04:53:44+00:00
I have ran into a few situations where there's some console error that is fixed by rewriting the thing from scratch. Artifacts are awesome for being able to display some sort of interactive tutoring tool I've made on the fly, but realistically I could just have that HTML/CSS/JS file myself and push it to my own site relatively easy. For others though, it's hosted there easily
by ryao | 2025-07-16 04:54:47+00:00
There is a difference between understanding a book’s contents and being able to read the book without having it rewrite your understanding of the English language such that you have no idea what is correct and incorrect because your grasp on that was tenuous in the first place. Children are expected to avoid being rewritten at stages where they are extremely impressionable and are easily rewritten and then they are blamed for it. It is fairly sadistic thing to do to children.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-16 04:55:34+00:00
I have never heard of sound bars falling apart after a couple years, is that common? Every piece of sound equipment I've ever bought has lasted at least 15 years, my sound bar is 5 years old.

In general I think the sound bar audience is different from the hi-fi audio audience. I was fine with using the TV's built-in speakers until LCD TVs took over from CRTs and the built-in speakers became much tinnier and quieter because they couldn't fit quality speakers in a flatscreen TV case. I suspect most people who buy sound bars are in a similar situation.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-16 04:56:29+00:00
Ollama isn't an inference engine, its a GUI slapped onto a perpetually out-of-date vendored copy of Llama.cpp underneath.

So, if you're trying to actually count LLama.cpp downloads, you'd combine those two. Also, I imagine most users on OSX aren't using Homebrew, they're getting it directly from the GH releases, so you'd also have to count those.
by linmob | 2025-07-16 04:56:46+00:00
It did not get far in market share, sure, but it never stopped going like Big Screen did and made the transition to 6 at the same time as Plasma Desktop.

Here are some recent developments:

1. https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/07/08/releases-25-07/ (also explaining that most software is part of 'Plasma Gear', which makes sense as it is software for both mobile and desktop, but has the downside of making Mobile less visible)

2. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chuggin... and look for Plasma Keyboard in this post. (Personally I am a bit sad that they are seemingly abandoning Maliit, which is also used in Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch and is IMHO fine, but hey, at least it shows that Mobile is not dead.)
by Mindless2112 | 2025-07-16 04:57:02+00:00
Interesting that traffic didn't return to completely normal levels after the incident.

I recently started using the "luci-app-https-dns-proxy" package on OpenWrt, which is preconfigured to use both Cloudflare and Google DNS, and since DoH was mostly unaffected, I didn't notice an outage. (Though if DoH had been affected, it presumably would have failed over to Google DNS anyway.)
by hattmall | 2025-07-16 04:57:07+00:00
>The argument as raised above stands: why is circumcision — done at birth and without the consent of the patient — permissible,

Because we make a lot of medical decisions for children and this one is extremely minor with wide raining results.

The same paper you linked showed multiple pathologies that are significantly reduced by circumcision including penile cancer and HIV. That paper also cuts off at 1999. More recent studies show even greater effects.

> the claim is absurd. There's no science to support it.

No it's not, compare the rate of cervical cancer in countries with and without circumcision. It's considerably higher in countries where the majority of males are uncircumcised, even when those countries have higher vaccination rates and better overall health care.
by cogencyai | 2025-07-16 04:57:35+00:00
Just shipped v0.4.1 — major simplification under the hood.

Swapped the custom planner architecture for a leaner ReAct loop (reason → act → observe). It’s not new, but it works. Cleaner logic, better streaming, easier to debug. Less magic, more stability.

The core idea remains: separate cognitive operations from tool orchestration. But now it’s battle-tested, pip-installable, and (more) production-ready.
by mirekrusin | 2025-07-16 04:57:39+00:00
Newborns need constantly mom, not dad. Moms need husbands or their moms to help. The way it works is you agree what to do as a family (to do it or not to do it) and everybody is happy with their lives. You can be a great dad and husband and still do all of it when it makes sense and your wife supports it etc. Not having kids in the first place could be considered ego driven, not this.
by benbridle | 2025-07-16 04:58:13+00:00
I had a hard time figuring out whether Bedrock counted as an 8-bit or 16-bit computer, because it doesn't line up so cleanly with the usual criteria as does a physical CPU. I decided that the 8-bit label fitted best because it has an 8-bit data path, an 8-bit instruction format, and the stacks hold only bytes. It also has a 16-bit address space and can perform 16-bit arithmetic, but so can the well-known 8-bit Z80 processor.
by ryao | 2025-07-16 04:58:19+00:00
Reading level is ambiguous here. Are you referring to whether someone can read the book, comprehend what it says and discuss it, or whether they can do all of that without having their understanding of the English language rewritten? Young children can easily do the former if you do not mind the latter happening. However, it is rather sadistic to put them in such situations and then expect them to pass exams for proper English. It is even more sadistic to do this to them, when they are at a point in their lives where they still need to gain a firm grasp of what is correct, such that it affects their test scores and can affect their prospects for getting into good universities.
by busymom0 | 2025-07-16 04:58:20+00:00
I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it.

On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099

If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the Sandbox issues or having it published on the Mac App Store?
by georgeecollins | 2025-07-16 04:58:23+00:00
I disagree. Claude may fail at running a vending machine business but I have used it to read 10k reports and found it to be really good. There is a wealth of information in public filings that is legally required to be accurate but is often obfuscated in footnotes. I had an accounting professor that used to say the secret was reading (and understanding) the footnotes.

That’s a huge pain in the neck if you want to compare companies, worse if they are in different regulatory regimes. That’s the kind of thing I have found LLMs to be really good for.
by Taniwha | 2025-07-16 04:59:32+00:00
Algol-68 gets a bum rap here - it brought us 'struct', 'union' (and tagged unions) a universal type system, operator declarations, a standard library, and a bunch more - Wirth worked on the original design committee, Pascal reads like someone implementing the easy parts of Algol-68.

The things it got wrong were mostly in it having a rigorous mathematical definition (syntax and semantics) that was almost unreadable by humans ... and the use of 2 sets of character sets (this was in the days of cards) rather than using reserved words
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-16 04:59:40+00:00
I agree that lower up front expenses means less need for investment. I'll also note that it opens up the playing field to more people which increases competition. So it might or might not make your life easier.

However the technology that is expected to reduce labor requirements (and thus expenses) has an uncertain endpoint. It seems plausible that at some point a threshold could be crossed beyond which the human labor that you are able to add on top becomes essentially irrelevant. It is this second occurrence, or rather how society might react to it, that should be cause for at least some concern.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-16 05:02:04+00:00
Now I'm doubly confused... where did I assert what about 2003? My comment is about why you can't look at movie theater ticket sales between 2022 and 2002 as evidence alone to say people have stopped watching movies as much. I don't think I ever said anything about why ticket sales peaked in 2002 specifically?

If I had to throw a guess at the largest contributors I'd say 2002-2003 is when people really started buying lots of DVDs for the first time as well as the start of the modernization of TV sets. Even though much better versions of these were common 20 years later I feel they very likely helped make the absolute peak of ticket sales be 2002. This is getting more into speculation of what did happen rather than saying ticket sale data is not enough to support the conclusion though, which is what my comment was focused on.
by masklinn | 2025-07-16 05:02:35+00:00
I’m sorry to report your friend is a complete dumbass.

Being a democratic government does not mean you can’t be proactive and have emergency services. Does he think Switzerland has a public consultation every time there’s an avalanche?

In the US the latter used to be FEMA’s job, and with respect to the former the feds allocated flood (and more generally disaster) mitigation funds, for the day decade or so Texas has systematically ignored those funds or tried to route them elsewhere, and in 2021 under ARPA the county was awarded millions which could have been used for flood alert and prevention but decided to not do any of that for political reasons, and send most of it to the PD instead.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-16 05:03:12+00:00
The administrator is definitely one of the weakest links in the system. Bridenstine was looking amazing for NASA then at one point he did a hard 180 and suddenly just became an unthinking Boeing cheerleader, and is largely responsible for the catastrophe that is Boeing's Starliner. And then as soon as he left office he suddenly is in a senior advisory role for some military industrial complex orgs, probably pulling 7 figures for a Zoom call now and then.

But Isaacman? Well he's already a billionaire, and highly ideological towards progress in space. Yeah 0 chance he gets appointed.
by gfdjghd | 2025-07-16 05:03:21+00:00
Firefox Android:

The address bar has become cluttered with buttons THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE: "home" (useless), "translate" (won't go away no matter the setting), and now "share" (for real!?), "reading mode"; remove them from there, I can barely see the first few letters of the address! Also way too much spacing around them I always have to manually close the previous tab when tapping on a link, let us reuse them instead, you may call us owls or wharever, but we don't like having zillions of tabs open to be closed automatically after x time Improve speed, it's currently the slowest browser out there Allow more customization (like about:config) and extensions, and for ex. to be able to remove the useless buttons from the address bar