MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-30 19:48:30+00:00
The only thing I've found that LLM speeds up my work is a sort of advanced find replace.

A prompt like " I want to make this change in the code where any logic deals with XXX. To be/do XXX instead/additionally/somelogicchange/whatever"

It has been pretty decent at these types of changes and saves time of poking though and finding all the places I would have updated manually in a way that find/replace never could. Though I've never tried this on a huge code base.
by legulere | 2025-07-30 19:48:44+00:00
There are several logging libraries for .net as well, microsoft even lists them: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/log...

Libraries getting swallowed up is not so bad as it sounds. For instance for web frameworks there was a phase of experimentation with projects like Nancy that inspired changes for asp.net core. There is still alternatives like fast endpoints.

Also you have things happening like integrated system.text.json replacing newtonsoft.json that over time took on some cruft.
by wolpoli | 2025-07-30 19:48:48+00:00
WordPress isn't just for blogs and I think it might fit your use case for documenting a set of API endpoint. There is likely a free swagger plugin in WordPress that would help you, although I hadn't really looked.

Other than that, you could look at using a static site generator like MkDocs or Docusaurus. It'll generate a site of HTML pages, and you could either manually upload them to your host, or you could set up an automation that updates your host when you merge changes into git.

I think my response illustrates another problem with modern tools compared to the 90s - there isn't any single tool that edits HTML/CSS and upload them. You now have to glue together several tools.
by cyberax | 2025-07-30 19:48:49+00:00
> I'd like to understand why that regulation was written before getting rid of it.

It's simple. Getting a commercial pilot license is a much more involved process than getting a private pilot license.

A private pilot needs just around 30 hours of flight time to get a license. A commercial pilot needs at least 250 hours and a medical certificate that needs to be renewed periodically.
by neutrinobro | 2025-07-30 19:49:14+00:00
These days you don't have to worry about endianness much (unless you dealing with raw network packets). However, you do need to worry about byte-padding. Different compilers/systems will place byte padding between items in your struct differently (depending on the contents and ordering of items), and if you are not careful the in-memory or on-disk placement of struct data elements can be misaligned on different systems. Most systems align to a 8-byte boundary, but that isn't guaranteed.
by SatvikBeri | 2025-07-30 19:49:21+00:00
At 6 out of 8 companies I've worked at (mostly a mixture of tech & finance) I have always had to fight to get any time allotted for performance optimization, to the point where I would usually just do it myself under the radar. Even at companies that measured latency and claimed it was important, it would usually take a backseat to adding more features.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-30 19:49:26+00:00
>any civilian casualties are part of the horrors of war and are purely the fault of Hamas

They started the war, but Israel should be expected to behave at a higher standard than terrorists. They are causing the starvation and death that is not needed to protect Israel's interests. The deaths are now on them.

>And so until the hostages return, there's not much reason to stop the war

I don't believe that one minute.

Your own defense ministers have said there is no military value in continuing the war, and there is no getting the hostages back without a deal with Hamas. This war continues because of far-right bloodlust from the Israeli government, and Bibi's desire to stay in power and out of jail.

Aid could get in, and the starvation could stop, if it was the will of the Israeli government. Hamas is militarily FUBAR, and Oct7 only happened because of the decisions made by Bibi to move IDF to the West Bank and ignore warnings from intelligence. Oct7 will not happen again, even if the fighting stopped this instant.

Instead, they want to see Palestine starve so they can take over Gaza.

Great summary of recent status: https://crooked.com/podcast/tbd-2/
by poszlem | 2025-07-30 19:49:27+00:00
15 years ago, I lost 32 kg. Ever since, I've been keeping a weight diary, weighing myself almost every day. I've now regained those kilos, plus an additional 15. The funny thing is that the yo-yo effect took 9.5 years to fully happen, and looking back at the entire 15-year span, it's perfectly clear. But year by year, I couldn't even notice it happening. I’d gain a few kilos, lose a few, gain again, lose again, except each time I'd gain slightly more than I'd lost.

I don't have much more to add, other than it being really eye-opening how my body seemed to play the long game, eventually regaining all the weight I'd initially lost.
by oceanhaiyang | 2025-07-30 19:49:28+00:00
> Whatever you think HN is, it isn't. People are not represented by a subdomain of an accelerator.

This is like something my racist grandmother says when I tell her a historical fact and she says you can’t tell me all plantation owners are racist because you didn’t meet them all or something similar ridiculous.

People can make statements from experience. Claiming HN doesn’t love blogs is out of touch.
by quantummagic | 2025-07-30 19:49:34+00:00
How does any of that change anything I've said?

They explicitly negotiated the electoral college to protect their ability to not be overwhelmed by more populous states, and forever maintain their voice in the union. It is working exactly as intended, and is essentially a contract we are all a party to.

We don't let one party unilaterally change other contracts, why should we here? It seems you'd have to be a very big hypocrite to support such a thing. You should honour the deal or find a way to renegotiate it that makes everyone happy, not just yourself.
by teraflop | 2025-07-30 19:49:38+00:00
I think what they mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow" is just what you ordinarily get in a terminal window. You run command A, and below it you see its output. You run command B, and below it you see its output. And you can easily use the scroll bar to look at earlier commands and their output.

The parent commenter seems to be asking for the same thing, but with rich text/media.
by halJordan | 2025-07-30 19:49:39+00:00
This hype is overstated. There was a tranche of models released in July that overtook the previous gen of open weight llm. Cool it happens. It largely brought open weight llms into punching distance of closed source american weak llms. Not even the flagship products. Again cool.

This crowing also largely depends on how Meta flubbed their last release. Again cool, no one is perfect.

It doesnt follow that somehow china has overtaken america. Let it happen consistently, but its inappropriate to say right now.
by gspencley | 2025-07-30 19:49:58+00:00
> children screeching and yelling, provided that it isn't going on for hours at a time

But it does often go on for hours at a time. And I'm not talking about a school zone or a park. As another person pointed out, if you move next to a school or a park you know what you are signing up for. But in a quiet suburb, if the issue is new neighbours that weren't there when you bought the house.. or who just started a family recently. That's something that's being imposed on you that didn't exist before.

And we don't tolerate this when it is barking dogs or loud music. Most cities have noise ordinances and I even read mine because of problematic neighbours. Not because of children, mind you. The man was an alcoholic who would get drunk early in the morning and go into his backyard where he would have loud screaming matches with hallucinations which terrified our small daughters so I wanted to know if the noise ordinance covered it. Answer is, technically yes but the police don't enforce yelling and hollering despite it being spelled out in the letter of the bylaw.

Why is it acceptable to expect people to keep their pets quiet, their music at a reasonable volume, their power tools and machinery at bay and to not have extremely loud parties where people are screaming and blasting noise ... but the second it's loud children we're talking about oh no ... you just need to learn to "live in a community"?

You can make the same argument about anything. Living with neighbours who have tall grass is part of "living in a community." Some people don't care about well trimmed lawns. Motorcycles with extremely loud engines, just part of "living in a community." Barking dogs. Honking car horns etc. etc. etc. We have noise ordinances for a reason; noise directly affects other people.

And I say all of this as a parent who raised two daughters to adulthood. I don't understand this weird standard. We (their mother and I) always expected our children to be respectful of our neighbours.
by mft_ | 2025-07-30 19:50:01+00:00
Drafting’s a factor on many climbs at the crazy speeds they achieve, and it can be enough of a benefit for a slightly slower rider to keep up with a slightly faster one. That’s why it’s rare that people ride away from others on a climb without an attack to break the draft.

A few hundred extra watts for a few seconds could be the difference between a failed attack and a stellar attack, then allowing the attacking rider to ride away.

(Of course, the weight of the batteries and motor would have to be considered as it would slightly impair the climbing performance.)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-30 19:50:15+00:00
You're getting at a deep point of disagreement - should we expect a modern or near-future LLM to be limited by the intelligence of the people who generated its training data? I don't think anyone claims to have a provably correct answer. There's one intuition that says yes (why should it be impossible to make new insights from data collected by people who didn't have those insights?) and another that says no (how can a statistical average of N people's most likely responses be smarter than any of those N?)
by crote | 2025-07-30 19:51:35+00:00
So who will be in power? You've got to remember that Hamas was democratically elected back in 2006, and its main rival Fatah isn't exactly pro-Israel either. Given the circumstances, I don't think there could possibly be a democratically elected government in Gaza which is pro-Israel or even neutral-Israel. Your only option is a puppet dictatorship government installed by Israel - but that's not really going to improve the situation, is it?

Besides, you've got to remember that a country is more than its government. What's going to stop its citizens from independently creating their own underground Hamas 2.0 terror group? What's going to stop the kids currently growing up and seeing their parents die due to Israeli actions from wanting revenge?

The situation is too far gone. Either Israel is going to learn how to live with the possibility of an attack (which is going to decrease over time as generations grow up who don't inherently hate Israel with every bone in their body for what it has done to them), or Israel is going to have to kill every single person in Gaza to make sure there's nobody left who could hate them. They should probably continue with Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt - because they all could attack Israel, after all...

France still has to live with the risk of Germany invading. It's fairly unlikely by now, but that risk exists. Germany has invaded multiple times in the not-too-distant past and done some pretty atrocious things while there. Germany still has a pretty large military, and I would be quite surprised if they didn't have some kind of invasion plan lying around in a drawer somewhere. Yet somehow, I don't think the average French citizen in 2025 loses any sleep over it. If they can live with the risk, why does Israel require absolutes?
by sophia-martinez | 2025-07-30 19:51:37+00:00
We’ve been thinking about what federal procurement might look like if it actually prioritized working software over perfect paperwork. Picture this: instead of writing a 100-page RFP response, you ship a functional prototype. Instead of needing a SAM registration and three layers of past performance just to be heard, you’re asked a simple question — “Can you solve this?” — and judged by what you build, not how well you mirror government jargon.

We wrote a piece exploring what that world might look like — where contracting officers are treated as users, proposals are replaced with real feedback loops, and speed to deploy matters more than speed to comply.

It’s part frustration, part thought experiment, and part call to start building like the system already works that way.

Would love thoughts from folks who’ve built for gov, around gov, or despite it.
by edwcross | 2025-07-30 19:51:37+00:00
TVs back then supported a given standard (NTSC, PAL) and a lower resolution. CRTs couldn't "buffer" the image. Several aspects made it so that "cheating" was not possible.

It was either fast, or nothing. Image quality suffered, but speed was not a parameter.

With LCDs, lag became a trade-off parameter. Technology enabled something to become worse, so economically it was bound to happen.
by stillsut | 2025-07-30 19:51:38+00:00
Currently working on a python package: agro.

It helps devs build parallel agents from the cli. (think claude code, gemini, aider)

And simplifies the git workflow for testing and accepting the best solution.

Check it out: https://github.com/sutt/agro

I keep a little text file pr.txt and try to link my project to HN / X / other aggregators once a day...

This way I spend a few hours each day coding, and a few minutes each day promoting and refining me message.
by ender341341 | 2025-07-30 19:51:41+00:00
I think they mean that rm could check the folder you're trying to delete and see if it has whatever attribute and if so don't delete it's contents. so "rm -rf /" would see that '/' has it and be a no-op, but '~/home/foo' doesn't so it would recurse and start deleting. It could go further do that check for each sub directory recursively, so say '~/home/foo/bar/baz' that 'bar' does have the flag so `rm -rf ~/home/foo/` would delete everything else from the foo folder but leave bar and it's descendants alone.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-30 19:51:48+00:00
I would hazard a guess is that a generation of youth has been addicted to gambling by mobile game companies and even some desktop game companies like Valve (which has worked to limit it, but only when it was forced to by bad publicity.)

Gambling is a dangerous addiction for some people. I don't think victim blaming is an effective response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_gambling
by pjmlp | 2025-07-30 19:52:28+00:00
That has certainly played a role, however that is common to Windows development culture in general.

The 3x "Developers !" meme isn't for nothing, Microsoft just like Apple (and NeXT), always a full stack development experience story.

Everything that one needs is there on the full Visual Studio Professional, and then there was the ecosystem of small indie developers and MS Partners building on top of that.

That is quite different from UNIX FOSS culture, and has also been a friction point to those that went Apple without understanding that also have that on their DNA, regardless of OS X foundations.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-30 19:52:29+00:00
>what will ever give Israel confidence that Oct 7 will never happen again

Why are you asking "what will give the genocidal state confidence", and not bothering for a single second about what will give the hundred of thousands of permanently traumatised, hurt and dead Palestinians confidence that their genocidal neighbours will not do it again ?

>still in Gaza with no options to leave and resent Israel who they will consider to be effectively their jailer.

Which, yes, is the reason for October 7. Seems like oppressing a people (that already doesn't particularly like you for various reasons) has consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences land on civilians. Breeding the conditions for Hamas (and soon enough Hamas 2 provided the Gazan population isn't dead from famine within the next few months)

> I don't like to think that the result of Oct 7 is a more open Gaza but I don't really know what other options Israel has.

Why do you not enjoy the idea of giving a group independence and ownership over the land that has been theirs for centuries ?

>Hamas obviously started this but Israel won the war a long time ago.

Opening history books would tend to show that it started over 70 years ago with the forced resettlement of Palestinians already living within the protectorate (land already stolen from them), the colonization of Gaza, Golan heights, the nakba and the repeated offensives on Gaza and Cisjordania as well as the assassinations of multiple political leaders (both Palestinian and Israeli), but I guess the Israeli propaganda that Oct 7 started it all has taken root.

>The world deserves an end.

Your feelings about seeing this ongoing conflict doesn't really matter. Palestinians deserve an end to this suffering. The Israelis not supporting the ongoing genocide deserve an end to the conflict. The world has nothing to do with this.

>The longer it goes on the more Hamas will actually have achieved some kind of lasting positive image of Gaza which is rooted in their actions on Oct 7th and that would be an incredibly bad outcome for all.

You do realize that Hamas is getting a positive image despite being literal terrorists embezzling money and food from the Gaza population and establishing a dictatorship because the "only democracy in the middle east" is committing a genocide, right ? Genocide supported by the vast majority of the Israeli government, as well as the Knesset ?

This situation ends in two ways: either the Palestinians disappear, or Israel disappears. With their recent actions, they've ensured that a two state solution is impossible. Of course, the likelihood of Israel being destroyed is almost nil, so the only way this happens is a single state where both arabs and jews live equally and freely (and most likely under HEAVY international peacekeeping missions), but the ethnostate proponents are slightly iffy about this proposition.
by egypturnash | 2025-07-30 19:53:22+00:00
I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page.

"OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy

“A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe
by dylan604 | 2025-07-30 19:53:28+00:00
It's about stats, not head-to-head play against the rival. Each week the teams are not playing against each other, but the rivalry still exists. Also, these come into play with fantasy leagues. You want your player to have a good week while the others have bad weeks. That Ronaldo v Messi you used as an example also doesn't happen on a weekly basis. Maybe a couple of times a year at best, yet they are still rivals. I'm also confused on when you would have sen Ronaldo track back to be competing for the same ball that Messi would have been playing.
by malfist | 2025-07-30 19:53:39+00:00
The opposite is true here actually. The less trained you are the easier it is for you to gain muscle and lose body fat at the same time.

It's not that difficult for a newbie to do, there's a reason it's called noob gains, usually the first year of weightlifting you can see insane increases in muscle mass that you just won't see on someone who is better trained and closer to their genetic maximum.

Jeff Nippard recently did a year long program with his untrained, overweight brother and put it all up on youtube.
by chaps | 2025-07-30 19:53:51+00:00
This is such an important principle to me that I've spent a lot of effort developing tooling and mental models to help with. Biggest catalyst? Being on-call and being woken up at 3am when you're still waking up... in that state, you really( don't want things to go slowly. You just want to fix the damn thing and get back to sleep.

For example, looking up command flags within man pages is slooooow and becomes agonizingly frustrating when you're waking up and people are waiting for you so that they can also go back to sleep. But if you've spent the time to learn those flags beforehand, you'll be able to get back to sleep sooner.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-30 19:54:07+00:00
> I suppose if you want to be pedantic and say mortgaged homes are owned by the bank

Well, pedantically, you own the home, but the bank has a lien, and contractual rights in the event of default. But the title is in your name.

Contrast to a vehicle, where the lender is the Legal Owner on registration docs, and retains title (in all but two states, I believe).
by ilyakaminsky | 2025-07-30 19:54:30+00:00
Fast is also cheap. Especially in the world of cloud computing where you pay by the second. The only way I could create a profitable transcription service [1] that undercuts the rest was by optimizing every little thing along the way. For instance, just yesterday I learned that the image size I've put together is 2.5× smaller than the next open source variant. That means faster cold boots, which reduces the cost (and providers a better service).

[1] https://speechischeap.com
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-30 19:54:49+00:00
Cambridge does not have the best definition, imo, but even going by that the first definition would mean any plurality would qualify as "most" - setting the threshold potentially lower than 50%.

I prefer Merriam Webster, which is far more clear. Definition 2 (defn 1 does not apply in this context): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/most
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-07-30 19:54:50+00:00
There are a lot of people using the internet with different physical and mental disabilities that make it difficult for them to identify these scams that might seem super obvious to you or I.

When I had cancer and I was in the hospital getting chemo I fell for a scam for the first time. It was an instagram ad for a cool steampunk looking keyboard with a price that was too good to be true. It was almost christmas, and I had felt guilty for not shopping, but my brain fog made it difficult to reason about. I ordered it and forgot all about it until it was too late to challenge. It was only $60, but it made it very clear to me how easy it would be to fall for something like this for a significant part of the population.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-30 19:54:54+00:00
That doesn't scan. In which Western European country is that massive difference?

Either you have a FANG wage or your friend has a poverty wage because here's how it's in Austria SW Dev wage 3k net/month, bus driver 2,5k. There's no 6x difference here.

So you're proving my point that it works for you when income distribution is not egalitarian because you wouldn't be very happy if you earned the same as your friend.
by gowld | 2025-07-30 19:55:09+00:00
Did the author never watch Silicon Valley?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFTaEenaHM

Richard, listen--

No, you listen to me Jack. You promised me that you would never compromise the product, so do you feel like taking some action and backing me up on this because me and my product feel pretty compromised right now

Richard, I don't think you understand what the product is. The product isn't the platform, and the product isn't your algorithm either, and it's not even the software. Do you know what Pied Piper's product is, Richard?

Is--is it me?

Oh God no no how could it possibly be you? You got fired! Pied Piper's product is its stock.