MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2025-07-11 14:47:33+00:00
I don't want to be rude, I quite enjoy your work but:

If I was Elon and I decided that I wanted to go full fascist then I wouldn't do a nazi salute at the inauguration.

But I get what you are saying and you aren't wrong but also people can make mistakes/bugs, we might see Grok "stop" searching for that but who knows if it's just hidden or if it actually will stop doing it. Elon has just completely burned any "Here is an innocent explanation"-cred in my book, assuming the worst seems to be the safest course of action.
by franciscop | 2025-07-11 14:47:33+00:00
I find Japan a bit strange about these "making profit" topics. I still don't fully grasp how it's possible so many of these business that "poured much of their life savings into opening these places, taken out loans" don't rejoice and raise their prices (a bit? a lot?), making them able to do this thing they are doing, much better. Heck invite the regulars to the 2nd drink with that extra money that is coming in now if you want, or give them a discount.

Here there is the opportunity of a lifetime, and many Japan business are straight out rejecting the money that comes pouring in. Meanwhile Japan economy is the worst it's been in 40-50 years, and virtually every week there's articles about the bleak future. It's too frustrating seeing articles complaining about how business are closing down with no money, and at the same time how these people trying to give them money are being rejected.

Background: living in Japan 5-10 years, I'm from Spain so it's not "in my blood" to think about profit also, but heck it's just too surprising some times.

PS, I'm for reducing tourism overall here actually, I'm just baffled at Japanese rejecting money.
by lbreakjai | 2025-07-11 14:47:56+00:00
These sorts of critics always struck me as elitist and pretentious. If reminds me of those kids gatekeeping music genres and claiming you couldn't call yourself a fan unless you listened to the most obscure album of the most obscure band.

Just a fashionable way to say you've been there and done that, and that you're above the hoi polloi.

Popular cities, and popular attractions within, are popular for a reason.
by dagmx | 2025-07-11 14:48:08+00:00
Well said. I really wish we had a better word for someone who is bullied into suicide. It’s tantamount to manslaughter imho.

Recently, a snark/bullying community on Reddit resulted in the suicide of their target (a woman responsible for rescuing foxes).

That kind of targeting and bullying is horrific for any individual to process, let alone people who don’t have the press teams and training that celebrities do.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-11 14:48:30+00:00
No, 2.5 flash non-thinking was replaced with 2.5 flash lite, and 2.5 flash thinking had it's cost rebalanced (input price increased/output price decreased)

2.5 flash non-thinking doesn't exist anymore. People call it a price increase but it's just confusion about what Google did.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 14:48:47+00:00
But that's the problem, with the way AI lawsuits seem to be going, throwing stuff into AI is allowed regardless of license restrictions. You might as well put "you must pay be $100 every time you use the word 'the' while using this source code" in the license file, the contents don't matter if you can download the source code through legal means.

An anti-AI law might make some big companies wary of including your product for a while, but it'll be scraped up and included in training data the day your source code hits the internet, and I haven't yet seen any evidence that what the AI companies are doing is deemed illegal.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-11 14:48:55+00:00
> I don’t know if his experience was typical or not, but he didn’t think it was a problem at all.

His experience is typical. I know have someone very close to me in AA+12-step. There is no pressure to have your higher power named "God". It could be anything; the point is to have a power higher than the one over you (the addiction).
by qgin | 2025-07-11 14:49:16+00:00
Grok 4 very conspicuously now shares Elon’s political beliefs. One simple explanation would be that Elon’s Tweets were heavily weighted as a source for training material to achieve this effect and because of that, the model has learned that the best way to get the “right answer” is to go see what @elonmusk has to say about a topic.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-07-11 14:49:38+00:00
What is crazy is my last experience with Xfinity (6 months ago) went like this:

Me: You guys upped my bill from $45/mo to $110/mo, I'd like to go back to my old price or cancel.

Xfinity: Are you sure?

Me: Yes.

Xfinity: Okay, we are sorry to see you leave, please stay on the line for a survey.

It was the first time I spent less than 10 minutes on the phone with them. Thankfully they were our back-up internet when our fiber went down.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-11 14:49:39+00:00
The idea of repressed memories is very popular with untrained general public, but it’s not a substantiated research topic.

Like the comment above said, many “repressed memories” are actually false memories or, in rare cases, false stories that get constructed and encouraged by a misleading therapist who is convinced that some repressed memory exists and pushes too hard to get the patient to “remember” something. When the only way to satisfy the other party is to come up with a story, many people will eventually come up with a story and even believe it themselves.

The same thing happens with false confessions.
by amluto | 2025-07-11 14:49:39+00:00
> I really miss the days when it was possible to be welcomed pretty much anywhere as a foreigner and have almost universal expectations of high quality, scam-free experiences

How long ago was that? It was certainly true in fairly large portions of the world, but there are plenty of places where, for as long as I can remember, you could pretty much expect to be scammed regularly. In many cases those scams would be for trivial (to visitors from wealthy countries) amounts of money, but it nonetheless often seemed like a large fraction of local economies would be driven by scamming tourists.

I think that the real recent change is that the “beaten path” of touristy areas has gotten larger.
by dathinab | 2025-07-11 14:49:44+00:00
if you need transaction across a queue into a normal SQL DB or similar I believe you are doing something very wrong.

Sure you need transaction about processing things in a queue (mark as "taken out", but not yet remove then remove or "place back in (or into a failed messages inbox)" on timeout or similar can be _very_ important for queue systems.

But the moment the "fail save if something dies while processing a message" becomes a directly coupled with DB transactions you have created something very brittle and cumbersome.

To be fair that might still be the best solution for some situations.

But the better solution is to make sure you treat a queue as message passing system and handle messages as messages with the appropriate delivery semantics. And if you can't because idk. idempotency logic is supper unreliable then there indeed is a problem, but its not in the missing cross transactions but how you write that logic (missing ?_tooling_, strict code guidelines people actually comply with, interface regression checks, tests (including prop/fuzz tests, regression tests, integration/e2e tests etc., not just "dump" unit test)).

> just migrate to an Oracle Database.

In my experience while Oracle DB is very powerful but also very cumbersome in a lot of ways and if you need thing only they can provide you most likely already fucked up big time somewhere else in your design/architecture. Sure if you are at that point Oracle can lightly be the cheaper solution. But still preferable you never endup there.

As a side note, there are also a lot of decent plugins which can provide similar capabilities to PG, but they tend to have the issue that they aren't part of managed PG solutions and self managing PG (or most other reasonable powerful DB) can be a huge pain, and then yes Oracle can be a solution.

Still the amount of startups which had a overall good experience are in my experience overall non existing in my experience. (But there are some pretty big companies/projects I know of which have a overall good experience with Oracle.)

> constant stories of firefights

If you mean stories on HN, than that isn't a meaningful metric, you will only hear about the "interesting" stories which mostly are about fire fighting or "using pg for everything is grate" but rarely the majority of in-between stories and boring silent successes. If it's about stories from you carriers and asking dev friends you have what their experience is then it is more meaningful. But in a bubble (like this answer of mine is, without question, in a bubble).

Generally I think people really overestimate how representative HN is, idk. about the US but outside of it _huge_ parts of the IT industry are not represented by HN in any meaningful way. I would say in my country HN is _at most_ representative for 1/4 of the industry, but that 1/4 also contains many of the very very motivated software developers. But also very few of the "that my work but not my calling", "bread and butter" work software devs, which are often 1/3 to over 1/2 of devs in most countries as far as I can tell.
by deadbabe | 2025-07-11 14:50:15+00:00
This just creates trauma that leads to more hoarding behavior as they try to keep things from disappearing in the future.

Instead, you need to complete the lifecycle of a creation. They should know things they make won’t last forever, and you need to encourage the destruction when the time comes, and after that, they can create a new thing to fill the void, and the cycle continues.
by paulluuk | 2025-07-11 14:50:40+00:00
I don't understand what you feel is "protectionist" about this? I would say that the US pressuring the EU on behalf of big corporations is arguably "protectionist", but I don't think that's what you mean.

But even if policies make companies less "capable" and less "competitive": that completely ignores what effect they have on society. I bet that a company that was given a free pass to use slavery would be very capable and very competitive -- but is that what we want for our society?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-07-11 14:50:55+00:00
How much traffic do you think the 404 page gets? or do any 404 pages get these days? With a clean sitemap and only linked pages indexed on search engines, very few actual users/customers are going to hit 404 pages these days.

This isn't about being performative. This is about having fun. Blame a thousand Web 2.0 companies from yesteryear or blame Google for their legacy of little jokey easter eggs. This has a nod to Slack's history and some devs got to blow off some steam and have some fun. Would it be better if they crammed the animation into 1kb? Sure, but this isn't a demoscene comp. And perhaps Marketing gets a positive bump for it when someone shares it saying this is cool (or conversely threads like this).

This is about having some fun. It's part of our internet roots and culture.
by breppp | 2025-07-11 14:51:15+00:00
> I know. You were the one who suggested the converse.

No, you misread. I said if Chomsky wants to tackle mainstream ideas he needs to show why they are wrong. not just say they are popular and are therefore wrong because they were shoved down by the ether of "power"

> The idea is just that the media has incentives to go along with what powerful people want them to say because there are real material benefits from going along

Yes I understood, and that's why I said the same can be said about Chosmky, who has material benefits in academia to hold opinions which are new, are politically aligned with the academic mainstream and are in a field where the burden of proof is not high (although LLMs have something to say about Chomsky's original field). This is a poor argument to make about Chomsky as just like Chomsky's argument it does not tackle an idea, just the one who is making it
by em-bee | 2025-07-11 14:52:27+00:00
some developers who use GPL licenses interpret these requirements differently and permit certain uses that the FSF does not. A notable example is the Linux kernel, which allows proprietary kernel modules under specific conditions.

this is not necessarily a different interpretation of the license but it is an exception the authors make. and they can do that because they are the authors.

the interesting question is if they could change their mind and remove the exception. i believe they could. should they though? that's another question altogether.
by ryandv | 2025-07-11 14:52:50+00:00
Yes, thank you for calling this out. Really tired of whites prescribing their morality upon other cultures; this is how the Philippines became almost 90% Catholic, and the original indigenous religions were eradicated.

Despite all the secular garb and atheist aesthetic, religious proselytization and vicious inquisitions against heretics or non-believers are still very much alive and well today. There's a very long and unbroken history of it, and no - just like the creationists and their "proofs via banana," [0] they do not listen to reason.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXLqDGL1FSg
by peterldowns | 2025-07-11 14:52:53+00:00
I walked the Kumano Kodo after reading Craig's essay about it. I like to think I was one of the 15% he talks about here. One of these days I'll go back to Japan and I'll make sure to go to Morioka.

My favorite line in this article:

> I’ve come to see overtourism as a kind of natural disaster. How can you get angry at the earth for having an earthquake?
by Aurornis | 2025-07-11 14:52:57+00:00
It’s actually not very helpful, because it entirely externalizes the problem.

It can get people started on therapy because it uses therapy speak and therefore feels like therapy is an obvious solution. However, it also makes the person into a victim of external trauma while minimizing their own role in the choices that led to the addiction.

It’s really appealing for people who need something external to blame, but it’s less helpful in getting at the root of behavioral issues that aren’t really external.

For the narrow slice of patients who actually have severe trauma response issues, it can be helpful. For everyone else it’s becoming a big distraction.
by stacktrust | 2025-07-11 14:53:00+00:00
The smallest capsule of pregabalin/lyrica is 25mg. After reducing to that minimum, it still took months of further tapering by dividing capsules, before withdrawal symptoms ended in one elderly patient. Pregabalin suppresses nausea, which means nausea is a symptom of withdrawal, requiring ginger tablets or other anti-nausea assistance during tapering.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/an-anxiety-drug-killed-m...

> An investigation by The Sunday Times has revealed that pregabalin has the fastest-rising death toll of any drug in the UK, based on figures compiled from official data across all regions. It is detected in a third of all drug-related deaths. In 2012, pregabalin was indicated in nine fatalities. A decade later, in 2022, the number had risen to 779, with almost 3,400 deaths in the past five years.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-07-11 14:53:21+00:00
> There is no pressure to have your higher power named "God". It could be anything; the point is to have a power higher than the one over you (the addiction).

The rejection of any "higher power" is precisely what being an atheist is for a lot of us. Accepting that we are just the result of random thermodynamic processes in a cold and uncaring universe that provides no evidence that there is any form of "higher power" than uncaring entropy could very well be the definition of modern atheism.
by felarof | 2025-07-11 14:54:00+00:00
This was definitely a hard choice.

We spoke to folks who had built browser on top of webkit and they spent nearly 2years just fixing random bugs and getting sites to work. I'm sure firefox/gecko engine would probably work better than webkit, but the point still is: if we don't use chromium, a lot of work does have go into fixing website compatibility issues, adding support for extension. We're 2 person startup and chromium codebase was easier to build on top of and provides a solid baseline.

And Brave has shown that you can build a privacy-focused browser on top of chromium still.

In the agentic browser era, I think there are so many low hanging fruits on privacy which are more important to address -- sending all your sensitive data to Perplexity Comet to sell ads is a pretty bad option right now. Supporting local LLM, letting folks bring their own API keys is crucial.
by lstamour | 2025-07-11 14:54:06+00:00
I vaguely remember that being the start of the browser prompts to set your current browser as the default. It was so hard to just configure that they had to build a way to set it within the browser.

You saw that again in more modern times when Microsoft removed support for the APIs they provided to set browser defaults, forcing browser makers to write step by step instructions on what to click to set the default browser.

I believe they walked that back, but it left such a bad taste that I switched my installation of Windows from default mode to EU mode in order to avoid it. And come to think of it, I haven’t used my windows machine for much outside of AI in about 6 months.

But Microsoft is not alone in these sort of defaults games - every OS or browser maker, Apple, Google, Firefox, wants to create moats so they can more easily monetize your usage of a product. I never thought I’d prefer the business model of free to play games, where they just outright ask you for money and have to keep finding new ways to entertain instead of relying on hard to change defaults and selling your data.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-07-11 14:54:21+00:00
> I really miss the days when it was possible to be welcomed pretty much anywhere as a foreigner and have almost universal expectations of high quality, scam-free experiences

you can still have that. I'm a fulltime traveller. the key is to stay in a place longer. I usually stay in a country for at least a month. that gives you time to meet and actually get to know locals. thats how you get invited to the really cool spots and get a view the daytripppers and resort goers don't get.
by ajross | 2025-07-11 14:54:35+00:00
> When you drive a couple thousand physical nodes with a some-petabytes sized volumes

You aren't doing that with ZFS or btrfs, though. Datacenter-scale storage solutions (c.f. Lustre, which you mention) have long since abandoned traditional filesystem techniques like the one in the linked article. And they rely almost exclusively on RAM behavior for their performance characteristics, not the underlying storage (which usually ends up being something analogous to a pickled transaction log, it's not the format you're expected to manage per-operation)
by lelanthran | 2025-07-11 14:54:36+00:00
> However I’ve looked inside myself many times to find said trauma or suffering and I just don’t really see anything of note.

Don't worry about it. The trauma diagnosis has been ludicrously poor at treating addiction.

From what I've read, it performs worse than placebos, random chance, etc.

For treatment of substance abuse, therapy is literally at the bottom of the performance chart, below things like hypnotism, alternative medicines and plain old prayer.
by lynndotpy | 2025-07-11 14:54:37+00:00
I hope it does build that momentum. But after the US presidential election, Disney, IBM, and other companies returned. Then Musk did a nazi salute, and instead of losing advertisers, Apple came back a few weeks later.

It's still the largest English social media platform which allows porn, and it's not age verified. This probably makes it indispensable for advertisers, no matter how Hitler-y it gets.
Show HN: GitHub View Counter I used with 100k Clicks went Down, so I made my own
by kuberwastaken | 2025-07-11 14:54:51+00:00
The GitHub Profile View Counter I used with 100k+ Visits went Down today, so I spent made my own and I pinky promise it won't ever be down :)

Can be embedded in Markdown and HTML directly and updates on every refresh :)

7 Different Themes including Glassmorphism, Terminal and my favorite - CATS

Use it completely for free and spice up your GitHub profile, would love any and all feedback!
by NoSalt | 2025-07-11 14:54:52+00:00
Does anybody else find things like this frustrating?

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-1

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-2

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-3 ← NOPE

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https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-1

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-2

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/tandy-corporation-part-3
by haswell | 2025-07-11 14:54:58+00:00
> Attributing a suicide to anyone other than the actor starts to appear oxymoronic very quickly.

No one is an island. We’re all deeply intertwined/interconnected. We’re the sum total of our lived experiences and without a doubt some have lived far more challenging lives than others and are influenced by factors that would lead just about anyone down a dark path.

The grief felt by those left behind is the result of that aforementioned interconnectedness.

Getting back to the quoted bit, isn’t this a bit like saying “attributing grief to anyone other than the person experiencing it is oxymoronic”?

My point is not to diminish the impact on those left behind in any way. Clearly this is a traumatic event that causes excruciating grief.

But I think we also need to be honest about the environmental factors that lead to suicide. Hopelessness is one of the large causes. If there are systemic reasons causing people to feel hopeless, and if those systemic problems could theoretically be changed/improved, and such improvement lowered the suicide rate, there’s a strong case to be made that the systemic factors share the responsibility.

> Yes life is complex and whatnot -- that's a given, we don't need a reminder every time anything happens.

I don’t think it’s a given. Clearly some lives are far more complicated than others. There exists a subset of people for whom that complication will become an insurmountable problem. Often those people have been traumatized, or have never learned the tools necessary to work through their feelings.

Some people are bullied into killing themselves. Should that be attributed wholly to the person who was bullied?
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-11 14:55:10+00:00
I think you might be slightly confused. Wouldn't the issue be not that the parks themselves are expensive to the owner tax (not only is thr landscaping not that expensive, as LVT excludes your own improvements), but instead that they are effectively discouraged by increasing the tax on everyone adjacent and thus peversely encouraging NIMBYism of towards a common good by imposing a negative externality which does not exist otherwise? The issue wouldn’t be that it would add a tax burden upon the park owner, but that it turns operating a common good into a 'sadistic' act that pushes costs onto others.

A LVT could thus accidentally wind up like a window tax in that it could wind up discouraging efficient improvements to human conditions out of a misguided attempt at improving perceived fairness.
by seanalltogether | 2025-07-11 14:55:24+00:00
LVT should be incorporated with an occupancy tax, it's the only fair way to fund government services. If I own a farm, and my neighbor sells their farm to turn into a housing estate with 99 single family homes, then it is fair to say that my land is now more valuable and I should pay more to keep you it, but it isn't fair to say that my taxes should rise to cover half of the local budget just because I own half of the land in region