MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DebtDeflation | 2025-07-16 11:33:12+00:00
It doesn't though. Go to your local Wal Mart, Costco, Home Depot, Target, etc. and try to make a purchase with it. Go to a local supermarket or restaurant and try to buy food with it. Stop at a gas station and try to buy fuel with it. Go to Amazon or eBay and try to make a purchase with it. Go to an airline or hotel website and try to book travel with it. Go into your Uber app and try to pay with it. Call your landlord and try to pay your rent with it. Objectively, it doesn't "work just fine as a currency" or we'd have empirical evidence of it actually being used as such in real life.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-16 11:34:41+00:00
Not really.

WRC isn’t niche. Period. It might not be as big as F1 but that doesn’t make it niche. And your arguments about how it’s “niche” only demonstrate that you don’t know what a niche sport is.

I partake in plenty of niche sports. And compared to them, WRC is massive. Some might even say it’s mainstream in comparison to some of the sports I’ve competed in.

Anyway, to the point at hand:

Speedway racing is niche in comparison and that’s head to head. Thus by your logical fallacy, TT should be more popular than head to head. Clearly that’s not a correct deduction of the statistics though.

Ping n Ford races are head to head and they have extremely small view figures.

In fact I could list dozens of obscure sports that are head to head and get smaller viewing figures than other TT events.

All your arguments prove is that some sports are more popular than some other sports for a variety of reasons which are far too broad to distil down to a single variable.

And this is the point I’ve repeatedly made. To argue that one format exist because of one singular reason is overly simplistic to the point of being stupid.
by v3ss0n | 2025-07-16 11:34:57+00:00
In major cities (Yangon , Madalay , Naypyidaw) , economly was very qucikly developing. from 2010 to 2019 was golden years. Even during covid we are progressing nicely , then after 2021 Coup happened and everything goes south. Our freedom , human rights and rule of law taken away within a day by a blood thirsty , greedy , military dictator.

Now PDFs (the people's defense force) and Ethnic armies fighting back to regain the country . We don't have any support from foreign power but funded fully by the people of myanmar - we regain about 60% of the country but Major cities are far from being touched.

Meanwhile - the Junta (the military in control of the country) and Scam gangs are collaborating , exporting and manufacturing drugs , kidnapping girls and selling them to China as sex slaves , kidnapping boys and using as meat-shield at frontline or sold for Organ harvesting. Appointing local thugs and gangs members , giving guns letting them run amok to create unrest and attack PDF .

Everything become a nightmare - many of talents had moved out side of country and staying in Thailand/Singapore.
by rglullis | 2025-07-16 11:35:03+00:00
> Instead you have to change the game and play with your own rules.

That only works if you can convince the a substantial part of the participants to also play your game.

It's very easy to create an alternative internet where we can take away the power from incumbents. The hard part is creating all the activity that is taking place in the current one.

"Oh, but I can mirror the parts I want from the current internet into the new one!"

Not without playing into the same cat-and-mouse game.
by al_borland | 2025-07-16 11:35:18+00:00
Even without Apple’s help, anytime I’m on my phone I get the 2FA code on the same device as I’m logging in on. It defeats the point. But also, I shouldn’t be required to have 2 devices just to login to a website.

I’ll be traveling later this year and I’m debating buying an iPad mini so I have a 2nd authenticated device that can do 2FA. I broke a phone on a trip once and happened to have an iPad with me. It was the only reason I was able to get my replacement phone setup. I’m not sure what I would have done without it. Print and carry around account recovery details that should likely be kept in a safe? That doesn’t sound great.
by myrtlehinch | 2025-07-16 11:35:20+00:00
Chael Sonnen is a former UFC fighter and current podcaster who, unlike almost anyone in his profession, openly discusses his use of performance-enhancing drugs. In this interview, he details how testosterone, growth hormone and EPO transformed his performance - and how the rules supposedly banning them were riddled with loopholes, inconsistencies and blind eyes. He claims some gyms are dosing athletes without their knowledge using creams and soaps, and suggests that the fight game — like many hyper-competitive, highly monetised domains — isn’t really about fair play. It’s about what you can get away with.
by drooby | 2025-07-16 11:35:31+00:00
What they linked cited sources well. Quote from the original source study.

"Housework was defined as “core chores,” or routine housework that people generally do not enjoy doing such as washing dishes, laundry, vacuuming floors and dusting … Routine housework, like cooking dinner or making beds, was captured … . Other activities such as home repairs, mowing the lawn, and shoveling snow were not in the study. Items such as gardening are usually viewed as more enjoyable; the focus here is on core housework."

Obviously completely BS biased sexist study. It doesn't get more blatant than that.
by jsnell | 2025-07-16 11:35:58+00:00
The statscounter data is not reliable, and it is just embarrassing how often these posts make it to the HN frontpage.

You even have a demonstration in this very article, with the surge of classic Mac OS to 7% for several months. The data is obviously nonsense, and when it has errors nobody at the company cares about them. But when they have persistent "data reporting issues", why are we supposed to believe any of these numbers?
by fasbiner | 2025-07-16 11:36:20+00:00
Traveling to california and then becoming a (faux) draft dodger and participating in the summer of love were pivotal experiences in his life and core influences, I'm not sure why his zip code would be relevant to that.

I think we simply disagree: I think plenty of people can capture the past of other places and times as it was and imagine it fairly faithfully with sufficient lack of emotional bias, while nobody has ever written a memoir without a clear agenda.
by whizzter | 2025-07-16 11:36:39+00:00
I think this plays a huge part, is it elders/poorer/others that receive these machines? A new machine for an enterprise or gamer will probably retain windows because it's needed but people not using their computers for more than surfing will be happy enough.

On that side-note I would also not be surprised if people are leaving "computers" altogether in favor of phones, it's a capable enough computer today for most lay-people, my ex and her parents don't have computers anymore and my daughter hardly uses her either.

Those that actually need computers such as developers are more prone to use Linux anyhow (especially when Microsoft is pushing annoying features such as forced reboots for those dropping their computers anyhow onto powerusers).
Show HN: HN v0.2.1 – Native macOS app for reading HN
by 120-dev | 2025-07-16 11:36:47+00:00
Hey HN folks,

Last week I released the first public version of 120 HN — a fully native Hacker News client for macOS. This week, I'm excited to share version 0.2.1 with some essential updates:

The app now remembers window size, position, and sidebar state between sessions

Improved AI summaries: more concise, relevant with link back to the comments, easier to read with short paragraph form.

Minor tweaks to navigation and layout for a smoother experience

Sneak peek: local LLM support is coming in the next release.

As always, the app is free to use. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks for checking it out.
by r2vcap | 2025-07-16 11:37:05+00:00
If I remember correctly, the issue was related to newer APIs like MediaStreamTrackProcessor, offscreen surfaces, and WebRTC–WebCodecs interoperability, as well as the ability to run ML inference efficiently in the browser. At the time, Firefox hadn’t fully implemented some of these features, which impacted Google Meet’s ability to apply effects like background blur or leverage hardware-accelerated video processing.
by ghc | 2025-07-16 11:37:34+00:00
I recently listened to a Ben Horowitz interview (https://muckrack.com/podcast/a16z-podcast-podcast/episodes/9...) and it's hard not to see these people as cowards.

They parrot QAnon conspiracy theories and known Russian propaganda originated on RT, call consumer protections fascism (!!!), and allude to actual ideas from fascism as being "interesting."

Just listen to that interview to see how morally corrupt they've become.
by skissane | 2025-07-16 11:37:41+00:00
> but Algol really does seem dead

Unisys still actively maintains their MCP mainframe operating system, which is written in an Algol superset (ESPOL/NEWP), and comes with a maintained Algol compiler - https://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/ClearPath-MCP... - and they continue to add new features to Algol (even if minor)

So, no, Algol isn’t dead. Getting close but still not quite there. There are better candidates for dead languages than Algol, e.g. HAL/S (programming language used for the Space Shuttle flight software)
by satyrun | 2025-07-16 11:37:51+00:00
You mean it was the giant war the people went through that had all these kids and not that things just happened to line up at that time with my stupid political beliefs?

Even though I have put zero thought into most of my political beliefs, I just repeat what my social media programs me to believe, that can't be true. I can't be full of shit.

Look how much I get paid to write javascript!
by hu3 | 2025-07-16 11:38:20+00:00
This is why documenting is so crucial. Even on a software architecture level.

A few months from now, I'd love to have written down decisions for my current project:

- Why did I decided to use Kysely over Drizzle, Knex, Prisma, TypeORM or other ORM/SQL tool?

- How am I going to do migrations?

- Why am I using one of Deno/Bun over sticking to nodejs?

- Why did I structure the project as a directory per feature over controllers/models/services directories?

- Why did I fork this library and what are the steps to keep this thing updated? Do I plan to upstream my changes? Is there a GitHub issue or PR about it?

- Why am I hosting in one of AWS/GCP/Azure? Why not lambda functions? Why docker?

- Why did I pick this specific distribution of kubernetes over the other also lightweight alternatives?

- Why did I even start this project and what do I aim to accomplish with it?

So I created a # Decisions section in README.md

This way I don't keep doubting my own decisions and wasting time opening 20 documentation tabs to compare solutions yet again.
by ryandv | 2025-07-16 11:38:30+00:00
Based on the history of the tech industry, Linux adoption should be kept at this level and advanced no further. This is already the sweet spot for the "year of the Linux desktop," which should be celebrated by experts, technical users, and the sufficiently motivated.

Once the unwashed masses start coming in, the software and its interaction patterns pander to the lowest common denominator and the quality of the medium degrades.
by kamaal | 2025-07-16 11:38:41+00:00
>>To begin with, this would be a non issue if HN just introduced something like user provided tags and users can vote for/against (to circumvent abuse)

HN's power is its simplicity. We don't need any of those features.

This is one of those rare old internet places that still has no feature clutter, ads and other distracting and irritating UI elements.

Sometimes something works fine and it doesn't need to be changed.
by em-bee | 2025-07-16 11:38:54+00:00
there are to many top level domains that look legitimate:

https://putty.app https://putty.at https://putty.click https://putty.cloud https://putty.codes https://putty.co.uk https://putty.com https://putty.computer https://putty.dev https://putty.digital https://putty.domains https://putty.engineer https://putty.host https://putty.hosting https://putty.info https://putty.io https://putty.media https://putty.net https://putty.network https://putty.online https://putty.org https://putty.software https://putty.solutions https://putty.tech https://putty.technology https://putty.website

i could not tell which one of these should be more legitimate than any other. registering even just a few of those is going to add up to a sizable yearly bill.
by mettamage | 2025-07-16 11:41:07+00:00
It showcases they have done some leetcode. Or it showcases they can write code when someone is looking over your shoulder. There are company cultures where these skills are needed.

Companies that don't fall into a culture like this are indeed deluded.

I would do the following:

1. Write a tax calculator that reads in data from a CSV, or a similar question to showcase programming ability.

2. Do a small paid project. If it was good enough, hire them. If it wasn't, then give feedback and do another one in a week, tell them to learn as much about the topic as possible.

3. Do a small paid project a week later. If their learning agility is high, then hire them still.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-16 11:41:51+00:00
You're right, I was underestimating the cost of running Facebook! $30B spent / ~3B users = ~$10 per user per year. I'd thought it would be closer to 10¢.

Do you know why it's so expensive? I'd thought serving html would be cheaper, particularly at Facebook's scale. Does the $30B include the cost of human content moderators? I also guess Facebook does a lot of video now, do you think that's it?

Also, even still, $10 per user has got to be an order of magnitude less than what OpenAI is spending on its free users, no?
by alexwasserman | 2025-07-16 11:42:06+00:00
What’s he a whistleblower of? He didn’t work at JS, so it’s not there.

This report seems off. From other more trustworthy sources (eg BBG/Levine) JS were trading the illiquid stock market to move options prices. This says large options volumes were moving options markets. Even if manipulated, and that’s not clear, he has it backwards.
Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation
by oleksandr_dem | 2025-07-16 11:42:17+00:00
I built DataRamen, a local-first SQL explorer that helps you get the data you need fast, without writing repetitive queries every time.

You run it locally from the CLI (no cloud version yet), connect your databases, and you're ready to go. The goal is to let you explore and query data like you would in a spreadsheet: intuitive, fast, and without friction.

Key features:

- Automatic joins & related data navigation: Right-click any row to instantly see related records in other tables (based on foreign keys or references).

- Keyboard-driven UI: Hit N to jump to a table, F to filter, and so on, it’s optimized for speed so you can go from question to insight in seconds (this point is still in progress, I find it confortable, but the goal is to make it even better).

- Named tabs with saved queries: Keep multiple tabs open with different queries, useful for comparing or cross-checking data. Tabs are saved, so you can get back to your queries at any time.

- Instant edit & insert: One click to edit or add rows, no need to write full queries.

- Multi-DB support: Connect several databases and search across all of them.

- Search across all columns: Find what you need even if you don't know the exact column.

If you've ever felt slowed down by writing the same SQL over and over just to explore your data, this might save you a ton of time. I’d love feedback or suggestions, especially from folks who wrangle data often.

Find more information on https://dataramen.xyz

PS. don't be harsh on the logo, I did my best :)
by CommenterPerson | 2025-07-16 11:43:05+00:00
Central NJ was a great place to buy, at least until Covid. A great way to build wealth here has been: start at a young-ish age at a low end. Over time, sell / rent that out and keep moving up slowly using a mortgage for your primary residence. Over the decades one can own their own residence and have one or more rental properties. Those bring in steady retirement income, which does not depend on daily stock market gyrations.

These rent vs. buy calculators all end up in paralysis by analysis. Everything depends on assumptions. Yes, in the Bay area the calculations may work one way. But there are so many ways around that. A remote job. Starting with a rental property 100 miles away.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-16 11:43:22+00:00
It's not whether you can solve it right away, it's how you approach the problem solving process to reach a viable solution. If "try to prove that this code is actually correct" is part of that process, that's the kind of "trivia" that can really be widely applicable even in a working environment, in a way that random leetcode algos often aren't.

I vote for making "how would you think about proving this correct?" a question in all algo-focused interviews.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-16 11:43:35+00:00
I keep waiting to see ambitious webgames that could match the experience of Infinity Blade from 2010, used to demo iOS new OpenGL ES 3.0 capabilities, the foundation of WebGL 2.0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Blade

Game demo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2CXudqc6c

The only thing I like in Web 3D APIs, is that outside middleware engines, they are the only mainstream 3D APIs designed with managed languages in mind, instead of after the fact bindings.

Still waiting for something like RenderDoc on the respective browser developer tools, we never got anything better than SpectorJS.

It isn't even printf debugging, rather pixel colour debugging.
by mgaunard | 2025-07-16 11:44:02+00:00
> how do you know what timeout to use?

adjust based on your minimum expected latency, potentially with exponential backoff. Potentially account for scheduler overhead of the spurious wake-ups.

Basically if you check every millisecond to every 10ms, you should be fine.

> in C++26

it's a library, language support is not necessary.

There are implementations you can use right now.
by wryoak | 2025-07-16 11:44:36+00:00
It looks like Bicha did his time for the crime. So I don’t care about his guilt anymore. He paid (still pays, via the registry) his debt to society. Author should have led instead with Bicha’s harassment of people forking open source projects. That would have rallied me. But the author’s insistent opposition to the functionary intent of the rule of law depleted my sympathies with their cause.
by themgt | 2025-07-16 11:44:36+00:00
Just do a quick skim of China's reusable rocket projects: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1lncgi8/status_of_ch...

There's over a dozen! They're blatantly ripping off SpaceX, which is very smart and what everyone else should have been doing. It's absolutely insane that the US is going to throw another $10 or $30 billion at SLS. Our leaders will go on TV with a straight face and say "China competes unfairly, everything is state run!" but China is probably doing FIFTEEN reusable rocket projects for less than the amount of gov't money we're lighting on fire with SLS rocket to nowhere.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-16 11:45:36+00:00
Virtualization really helps. We have a lot of weird software which requires hardware dongles, but they're all USB dongles and they're all virtualized, one of the DC racks has a few U worth of just USB socket -> dongle wired up so that if we spin up a VM it can say "Hey, give me a USB socket with a FooCorp OmniBloat dongle on it" and get one unless they're all used.
by hnbad | 2025-07-16 11:47:13+00:00
> I'd be more worried about the guy

Or you could realize what those guys all have in common and be worried about the systems that enable them because the problem isn't a guy but a system enabling those guys to become everyone's problem.

I don't mind "Vito Corleone" joking about a volcano lair. I mind him interfering in my country's elections and politics. I shouldn't have to worry about the antics of a guy building rockets that explode and cars that can chop off your fingers because I live in a country that can protect me from those things becoming my problem, but because we have the same underlying systems I do have to worry about him because his political power is easily transferrable to any other country including mine.

This would still be true if it were a different guy. Heck, Thiel is landing contracts with his surveillance tech in my country despite the foreign politics of the US making it an obvious national and economic security risk and don't get me started on Bezos - there's plenty of "guys" already.
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 11:47:28+00:00
>I feel that the real job is to be a "product developer", and it always has been. (...) Whether I'm a "glorified code monkey" or a "glorified prompt jockey", I'm still just trying to create a product as quickly as I can and add value to the process along the way

I dunno, I didn't get into IT to be a "product developer" or to "solve business problems" in the abstract sense.

I got to it because I liked coding, computers, algorithms, solving problems with code, and all the rest.

If I had such little regard for coding and so much regard for solving business problems and developing products, I'd just start out to be a manager :)
by rhelz | 2025-07-16 11:48:29+00:00
I remember when I was learning how to read, and I complained to my father how unphonetic English was. "Why can't we just write the words the way we say them?"

He said, "Well, which pronunciation should we use?" His point is illustrated in the option you have to get the phonemes for English vs. American pronunciation.

Each of those options, for example, should have thousands of sub options :-) e.g. I was born in Indiana, and we said "coffee" something like "k-awe-fee". I went out to Silicon Vally (pronounced "Sili-kun" valley, not "Sili-kon" valley, and they pronounce "coffee" something like "kuffy".

Then I moved to Manhattan, and the barista asked me if I wanted some "k-ah-ow-ah-fee. She managed to fit at least 6 more vowel sounds in between the "K" and the "f" in "kahowahfee", and honked out half of them through her nose.

Currently, in elementary education, we are having a very strong push to teach reading phonetically--the (so-called) "Science of Reading" methodology which is being mandated by educational regulators. English simply cannot be spelled phonetically, it is a much too rich of a language for that.
by fghjl | 2025-07-16 11:49:02+00:00
I assume the problems still are that (1) no Desktop Linux is at the level of macOS or Windows, and (2) the only one close is still RedHat, but most want Debian-based or something else.

MacOS is the best model for a successful desktop Linux to use. Trim down the kernel/drivers to just what runs on that spec hardware, only support that spec hardware, focus effort on the OS and ecosystem, keep it stable, make upgrades trivial, and give it freedom to run other software, terminal apps, etc. And most of all- focus resources on these efforts and charge a lot of money for it!
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-16 11:51:07+00:00
> Then later they even have the balls to complain how kids these days are unruly, never acknowledging massive gaps in their own care.

My favorite is ‘I can’t understand why my kid didn’t turn into a responsible adult!’

Cue look back on what opportunities the parent put them in to learn and practice those skills, over the last 20 years.
by goku12 | 2025-07-16 11:51:28+00:00
I came to say this as well. The market share of Linux in the US is 5.03%, while the same for Firefox is 4.23%! [1]

It's not an apples to apples comparison. But the userbase is largely the same, and it's easier to switch a browser than it's to switch an OS. So it does have a significance.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...