MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-21 15:15:06+00:00
That's a Fox Affiliate (a broadcast station in the Fox broadcast network) local news source. The much denigrated Fox News is a cable TV station rated for only for Entertainment that purports to be for News and has done much to confuse the boundaries between the two in the US skirting truth-in-advertising and truth-in-news laws/regulations/common decency for the seeming sake of far right propaganda. (I believe the British equivalent is The Sun if it was allowed its own 24 hour TV channel because despite showing "news-like things" "everyone" knows it is only for Entertainment purposes only, why else would they include celebrity gossip.)

Many of the Fox Affiliates are still best-in-class local news. (Though it varies from city to city.) The Fox News cable channel lowered the bar on what Americans think news is supposed to be to historic low levels.
by komali2 | 2025-07-21 15:15:06+00:00
That's extremely annoying when browser issues cause a message to get deleted. I'm so scarred from the same thing happening to me that I type my replies in an emacs scratch buffer and paste them into HN now. I'm interested in this conversation so I'm grateful you took the time to reply anyway. If you're very annoyed about the web ui, my email is in my bio.

It sounds like your critique is one opposed to the gender binary, because you aren't interested in saddling men with gender roles? That's very interesting if so, usually people interested in challenging the gender binary do so in part because of the toxicity around traditional gender roles.

Anyway, I don't think modern critique of toxic masculinity requires "saddling men" with anything that women aren't "saddled with" - simply a challenge to people, regardless of gender, to resist toxic gender roles. The talk around toxic masculinity is simply a reflection of the fact that in the West, men historically have had far more power, and our society still retains the leftover aspects of male culture from that, as well as of course the occasional case of modern misogyny.

I really feel like the thing you're concerned about is not happening, I'm wondering if perhaps your understanding of modern gender critique is a bit of a twitter caricature? Toxic masculinity isn't a misandrist term because not all men participate in toxic masculinity (that's the point...), it's just an accurate term to describe a male-sourced, male-centric culture.

How would you describe the fact that, in 1963, James Bond slaps a woman on screen, and is viewed as the "good guy?" That scene made it out of the writing room, in front of the director, into the hands of the actor, and then through editing and test screenings. To you, what does that say about society at the time, and how would you describe a culture that glorifies male violence against women?

Edit: thinking more on it I guess I'm confused about whether you're grocking that the existence of toxic masculinity implies also the existence of positive forms of masculinity: man as nurturer and protector, for example, or stoicism, dependability, and responsibility. Women can be that way too of course but I specifically mean the masculine portrayal of these traits in popular culture. How else do we describe the difference between the things we want to keep in our culture and the things we want to grow away from?
by seszett | 2025-07-21 15:15:08+00:00
That's not true at all. Individual or terraced houses are not "common property" and owners are free to install what they want.

Apartments buildings with multiple owners are governed by a "syndic" that is comparable to American HOAs (as far as I understand HOAs) and they can put restrictions on AC installations if a majority of owners agree. Usually the most annoying part is that you need to wait a couple of weeks for permission to drill through the exterior wall (which is common property obviously).
by Eisenstein | 2025-07-21 15:15:41+00:00
Oh, I'm not saying anything except that we should a disregard a temporarily panicking market if there is a course of action that is going to be largely beneficial. The article is implying that a plan for affordable housing was working and then the market reacted negatively. The impression given was that this would be a devastating blow to this plan, and my comment was just 'let them freak out, they will get over it'.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-21 15:16:06+00:00
>Installation must have been a bit nerve wracking!

They almost certainly just selected a drywall anchor based on the rating advertised on the package and sent it without any more thought, their ass was covered.

Big picture people who take a step back think about what they're doing don't tend to find themselves installing projectors in hospitals, or if they do they aren't there very long.
by somehnguy | 2025-07-21 15:16:09+00:00
Yeah I believe so. Going through some of my old informed delivery emails I see a few with the crosshatch privacy pattern which seems to work reasonably well. I wonder if manipulating the image in some way (brightness, etc) may reduce that effect.

I also have a number of mailings from my bank that include things like account balances & numbers, with no privacy pattern. So it seems hit or miss.
by tapoxi | 2025-07-21 15:16:09+00:00
The author's point is to use an immutable or atomic system. Debian uses a traditional package manager and over time those packages can get in a weird state. Battery runs out during package update? Third party repo disappears? GPG key changes? Distribution eliminates 32-bit library support? Nvidia drivers change? Distribution deprecates Xorg? Your everyday user doesn't know how to deal with that.

An A/B partition scheme is very simple and the system as a whole is integration tested in CI. An OSTree based atomic system is pretty close, although there is some added complexity.

Not to mention Debian out-of-the-box is a pretty miserable experience for everyday users. Their Nvidia drivers won't work, they can't figure out how to install Chrome, videos won't play due to missing codecs, etc.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-21 15:16:32+00:00
> Btw, I think this was actually less true in the past. Compilers used to cost money in the 70s/80s. I think it's actually cyclical - most likely tools will cost money today, but then down the line, things will start getting cheaper again until they're free.

I don't see it as an inevitable cycle. Free tools (gcc, emacs) and OS (Linux) came about as idealistic efforts driven by hobbyists, with no profit goal/expectation, then improved as large companies moved to support them out self-interest. Companies like RedHat have then managed to make a business model out of selling support for free software.

Free LLMs or other AI-based tools are only going to happen where there are similar altruistic and/or commercial interests at play, and of course the dynamics are very different given the massive development costs of LLMs. It's not a given that SOTA free tools will emerge unless it is the interest of some deep-pocketed entity to make that happen. Perhaps Meta will develop and release SOTA models, but then someone would have to host them which is also expensive. What would the incentive be for someone to host them for free or at-cost?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-21 15:16:53+00:00
It turns out[1] that v-strings are strings. So v102.111.111 is a three-character string containing codepoints decimal 102 (f), 111 (o), 111 (o), and v128513 is a one-character string containing codepoint decimal 128513 (U+1F601 GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES).

... Yeah, I don’t know who thought this was a good idea either. I mean, I know versions sort lexicographically and strings do too, but no.

Bonus points:

> If there are two or more dots in the literal, the leading v may be omitted.

So 1 and 1.1 denote numbers, but 1.1.1 and 1.1.1.1 denote strings. I guess there’s a sort of syntactic pun to be had with IPv4 addresses. Still, no.

Bonus bonus points:

> Note that since Perl 5.8.1 the single-number v-strings (like v65) are not v-strings before the => operator (which is usually used to separate a hash key from a hash value); instead they are interpreted as literal strings ('v65').

So v1 always denotes a string, but which string it denotes is context-dependent.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perldata#Version-Strings
by qwery | 2025-07-21 15:16:57+00:00
For what it's worth, I see now how that would read as condescending and I'm sorry about that. I mentioned the "last year's model" thing because, to me, it's a phrase most associated with automobile makers and advertising c. 1950 -- with that business in particular often being cited as the originator (or at least, codifier) of the "yearly refresh" planned obsolescence strategy.

> I would say that it's pretty great that the manufacturer commits to supporting the devices for 7 years.

Sure. Your scenario is describing planned obsolescence, though. As I understand it, you're saying that the device will be practically unusable when the support period ends in 2032. It doesn't matter if it's 7 years or 7 months, that's something that came about because of a decision made by the company -- it was planned. Further, the company releases a new version of the product in 2026. The older model still works, but it has nevertheless been rendered obsolete, by an (arbitrary) action of the company that produced it.
by ben_w | 2025-07-21 15:17:16+00:00
> I can 100% assure you that the world economy in 2100 will be smaller than today.

I can't assure you that the moon or the planet Mercury will exist in 2100, because 75 years is much too far ahead to forecast if we do or don't get e.g. von Neumann replicators by 2040 years and spend the next 60 using them to disassemble either or both into a Dyson swarm.
by paffdragon | 2025-07-21 15:17:28+00:00
I think, if you work with logging long enough this becomes common sense at some point. Consider when logging backend performance or subscription gets hit by bursts - e.g. an unlikely code path gets repeatedly hit that logs an error or in the worse case an exception trace. With logging every X occurrence you reduce the total amount, but don't have control about the overall rate. With logging every X seconds, you can manage the rate better, which is useful depending on the logging backend performance or subscription.
by rPlayer6554 | 2025-07-21 15:17:44+00:00
> In a combative speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance argued that free speech and democracy were threatened by European elites.

> Trump has also been critical of the UK stance on encryption. The US president has likened the UK’s order to Apple to “something... that you hear about with China,” saying in February that he had told Starmer: “You can’t do this.”

> US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.

I think that’s exactly why I want encryption.
by esperent | 2025-07-21 15:17:52+00:00
Yes, I'm aware that chickens can be aggressive or even occasionally cannibalistic (although that's never happened to any groups of chickens I've seen).

But that doesn't explain anything about why you're saying an entire hen house can be murdered when you fail to sex chicks. I've never heard that male chicken are worse in this regard, excessive feather pecking is a result of keeping chickens in terrible environments like battery/cage farms and happens in fully female groups.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_pecking
Show HN: Turn any domain into an ai agents’ inbox
by mandarin3d | 2025-07-21 15:18:21+00:00
Hey HN! I've been working on Inbound (inbound.new) - an email system that lets you programmatically manage email addresses and route them to AI agents, webhooks, or forward them anywhere.

The core idea: instead of manually managing email addresses, you create them on-demand via API and route incoming emails to your AI agents or other automated systems.

For AI Agents: Create support@yourdomain.com and emails get sent to your AI agent as webhooks. Your agent can reply using our SDK. Perfect for AI customer support or automated responses.

For Email Forwarding: Set up hello@yourdomain.com to forward to your Gmail, or create email groups that forward to multiple people with custom rules.

For Developers: Full TypeScript SDK with one-line email replies and webhook types. Handles all the AWS SES complexity for you.

I built this because existing solutions were either too complex (raw AWS SES setup) or too limited (basic forwarding). I wanted something that made it trivial to connect emails to AI agents with great developer experience.

Your AI agent gets clean webhook data with parsed emails, attachments, threading info, etc.

It's been running in production for months, handling thousands of emails. The free tier is generous and no credit card required to try it.

You can try the email forwarding at inbound.new, check out the SDK at @inboundemail/sdk on npm, or see working examples in the repo.

Would love your feedback, especially if you're working on AI agents or email automation!
by npteljes | 2025-07-21 15:18:26+00:00
People are not required to think about the food, so they don't. For example, it's widely known that milk comes from cows, but not that the cow needs to be pregnant in order to do so, again and again. It's just not something that one faces in their day to day life. These things just spawn on supermarket shelves, and that's about it.
by benrutter | 2025-07-21 15:18:52+00:00
I think project bluefin has a similarish philosophy of being a "cloud first os", would definitely recommend checking it out: https://projectbluefin.io/

In all honesty though, there's a tonne of easy to recommend distros which don't need set up if you are a "normie" just wanting to get online:

- Elementary - Mint - Ubuntu

I think the real "secret sauce" for ChomeOS' success is basically big coorporate backing and being from-a-store-buyable. I think the truth is that nobody other tham techies is likely to want to install an OS themselves.
by jimkleiber | 2025-07-21 15:18:57+00:00
I love when I come across something super niche on HN where I actually know someone working in it. A friend of mine from college (university), Ibrahim Cissé, now runs a lab[0] in this space, and while the description of his work is way over my head, I imagine some of you might find it interesting:

> Laboratory Ibrahim Cissé > Single Molecule and Super-Resolution imaging in live cells > We leverage expertise in Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution imaging in live cells to study collective behaviors (e.g., protein clustering) emerging from weak or transient biomolecular interactions in mammalian cells. We unveil, often for the first time, that these clusters exist in living cells, and we expand both on the imaging approaches and the cellular and molecular biology techniques to discover the biophysical mechanisms of action and their function in vivo.

Or for a quick layman's explanation, here's a YouTube video of him describing his work when he won a MacArthur Fellowship [1].

I'm grateful for HN for reminding me of him and giving me an excuse to look up his work a little more in-depth.

[0]: https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/cisse

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYof3RQ_WU
by rtkwe | 2025-07-21 15:19:03+00:00
It's mercifully fast but it's still absolutely mass wholesale slaughtering of chicks because they're economically inconvenient. Also as quick and near painless as the death is it's hard to get the image of the chicks going into the grinder if you've seen it, no matter how much you know that it's fast and the chick doesn't have time to feel anything it's pretty affecting.
by RansomStark | 2025-07-21 15:19:35+00:00
hormone testing was first and can work from 9 days (eggs hatch at day 21). Optical means (tend to work at a later point in the process around day 13-15), including various forms of spectroscopy (NMR, IR, etc): shine a light at the egg and look for differences.

Egg should be absolutely fine, but there will be a chick in there, so if you wanted to eat it like an egg, you might end up closer to balut than you want / expect.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-21 15:19:48+00:00
After Elon bought Twitter, they ended up losing something like 10% of their users. That's going to be made up mostly of highly ideological ostensibly left-leaning Americans, likely with a much higher than average "engagement." And the lion's share of that happened long before there were any meaningful algorithmic changes. That alone is going to create a meaningful shift in the status quo on overtly political topics.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-21 15:19:52+00:00
I think this is neat, but only in a Rube Goldberg machine sort of way. The instructions are:

1. Open the scale

2. Rest your finger on the trackpad

3. While mainting finger contact, put your object on the trackpad

4. Try and put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact. This is the weight of your object

That is, the pressure sensors only work if it detects capacitance, so you need to be touching the track pad (but not too much!!) while weighing something.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-21 15:20:00+00:00
I can go to FINRA and the SEC if someone does not deliver or properly custodian my security. Who do I go to when the blockchain doesn't? The value is not in the technical implementation, the value is in the trust and legal framework around ownership and counterparty transactions.

(paper stock certificates are no longer a thing except in rare circumstances, digitization took place long ago ["dematerialization"] at the clearinghouse)
by zdragnar | 2025-07-21 15:20:01+00:00
> The goal is banishing any and all questions of what to download, what desktop, what apps, packaging formats, software stores, user accounts, backing up, all of it: run the browser locally, sync the data – and only the data – to the cloud.

ChromeOS is dead simple. So much so that my otherwise computer-illiterate wife can (and does) use it regularly. There's no way that I'd get her to use debian, though, unless I set everything up for her in advance. Choosing the desktop, setting up PPAs / flatpack / whatever (if you don't want the stock firefox browser), tweaking power settings, there's all sorts of faffing about in comparison.

I'd have to set up syncing in Firefox for her (or whatever browser) but to be fair, I helped her set up her account in the chromebook too.
by froh42 | 2025-07-21 15:20:12+00:00
Years ago, I was maintaining a huge XML->XML transformation in XSLT. The input format was the XML based config file of the system, that was created by the configuration tool. Output was a XML that has the same information in a way that is optimized for the system to read in efficiently. (Changing order of things, introducting redundancy by replicating similar information for different parts of the system, etc.)

(It was a Building Information System, Fire Alarms, Access, Lots of business rules stored in XML)

While the XML was easier to transform in XSLT than in the native C++, and yes, XSLT was probably the right tool at that time I developed a deep hatred for XSLT at that time. It felt like a functional language that had just all the important parts removed.

Yes, pattern matching is a good thing, but hey - I can do pattern matching for rules in any decent language. It was just the amount of existing code that prevented me from porting it to another language.

(And I remember a few ugly hacks, where I exposed "programming language" stuff from C# - which we also used - to the XSLT processor)

However, with all the XSLT ugliness: XPath is amazing! I love that.
Show HN: Kuvasz Uptime 2.3.0 – Added Discord integration
by csirkezuza | 2025-07-21 15:20:15+00:00
A long-awaited Discord integration has been added to Kuvasz Uptime, from now on you can get notifications on that platform too if your monitors are down.

Quick start guide: https://kuvasz-uptime.dev/setup/installation/
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-21 15:20:38+00:00
Tech: "ok we're done here"

Wide: "honey can you come in here and help me since I don't have my walker"

<dude walks right in and gets dead>

Not hard to imagine something like that happening too fast to be stopped, especially if staff is distracted by the transition from running an MRI to getting the patient in/out.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-21 15:20:47+00:00
Monotonically increasing housing prices is a privilege not everyone has. TONS of people, even in the rich western world, own houses that essentially lose their value due to inflation. Me and my siblings inherited a house in a rural town, which sold for less than what it was purchased for 30 years ago. Most houses in that town have seen stagnating prices, even brand new ones.

People still pour money into them every 10-15 years. But have to invest their money in other assets.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 15:21:10+00:00
Hey, I have not recommended anything yet (besides PHP). :D

I like "PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja" quite a lot. I have used it more so than the other books, so I definitely recommend it. You can find the code archive (code from the book) here: https://github.com/spbooks/phpmysql7.

FWIW I recommend these books (in no particular order):

├── Modern PHP Security (2020).pdf ├── PHP 8 - OOP.pdf ├── PHP 8 - Quick Scripting Reference (2021).pdf ├── PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices (2021).pdf ├── PHP MySQL - Novice to Ninja.pdf ├── PHP and MySQL for Advanced Learning.pdf ├── PHP in Action (2007).pdf ├── Programming PHP (2020).pdf └── The Art of Modern PHP 8.pdf
by Igwe_404 | 2025-07-21 15:21:13+00:00
The tie-break between producing better products and why some organisations get out competed even with better facilities and product fine-tuning is this, when starting out one should not think only of trying to change the world,if you have what it takes to be the great one,fine but a better approach is this, for every project,idea,invention etc try to find the utility delta of the state of the art in that field and how your product is going to affect the people under the curve. Your product may not change the world but it sure does make a lot of sense to start out from a well understood and occupied niche, and as we continue to transition to synthetic data these kind of planning will prove indispensable as products/brands get reinvented,replaced or legalese opaque reporting obfuscation gets the better part of our collective pretentious studies
by B56b | 2025-07-21 15:21:18+00:00
The increase in supply he advocates for is a viable solution because it is sensitive to different things.

Small, local development gets built and becomes profitable based on demand of the local housing market, but almost all housing today is built by large developers. These large developers are responding to the demand not for housing, but for the mortgage itself. Thanks to nationalized mortgage securitization the buyers the market cares about are those buying these securities: banks, pension funds, insurance companies, etc. When prices fall these securities become less attractive financial products, which decreases the demand for large development.

Chuck advocates for local building, which can ignore this macro-level demand and instead respond to the actual local demand for shelter.
by oarla | 2025-07-21 15:21:34+00:00
This is an epidemic in my community. At least twice a month I walk over to my neighbors and deliver their mail left in my mailbox. They do the same to me. We’ve complained to the local post office, but they’re dealing with staffing issues and can’t guarantee anything.

I feel it’s a major invasion of privacy. I don’t want to know stuff about my neighbors like who they bank with, have student loans with or which doctors they go to. They also find out those things about me. But not much we can do about it.