MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swyx | 2025-07-22 16:11:50+00:00
Here’s a quick rundown of Maalvika’s “Compression Culture Is Making You Stupid and Uninteresting”:

- *The frustration with “TL;DR” mentality*

Asking for summaries of profound experiences (like a life‑changing book) feels absurd—akin to bullet‑pointing a kiss or grief.

- *Depth used to be unavoidable* - Pre‑print: people sat for oral sagas, religious services, apprenticeships—no fast‑forward - Medieval scribes literally meditated by copying texts by hand - Early universities thrived on communal, hours‑long disputations - *Modern shift: from wisdom to “takeaways”*

Industrial efficiency and attention capitalism taught us that depth is “inefficient.” We’ve come to expect instant transformation and hacks in all areas—fitness, music, friendship—skipping the messy real work of mastery and character.

- *Brain and body rewired* - We skim headlines and TikToks, mistaking sugar‑rush “knowledge” for real understanding - Continuous partial attention erodes our capacity for sustained focus and deep thinking - Neuroscience (e.g., Adam Gazzaley) shows heavy multitasking impairs high‑resolution thought circuits - *Attention economy fuels compression*

Social platforms reward bite‑sized content; creators chase clicks with “5 key takeaways” instead of nuance.

- *The sacrificial silencing of the pause* - “Um” and hesitation mark genuine struggle to articulate complex thought—but podcast tech strips them out - Heidegger’s “calculative” vs. “meditative” thinking: we’ve become calculation machines, not dwellers - *Bottom line*

True growth—love, wisdom, skill—resists being Amazon‑Prime’d. You can’t shortcut the slow alchemy of becoming.

—Personally, I can’t help but agree that our culture’s obsession with compression is making genuine insight a rare treat.
by shaftway | 2025-07-22 16:11:56+00:00
> I don't do my day-to-day work in the monorepo

Is this one of the repos that uses Gerrit? Does JJ play well with Gerrit?

IIRC Gerrit was super picky about amending commits and I was worried JJ's laissez faire attitude about creating git commits on demand wouldn't jive well.
by owlstuffing | 2025-07-22 16:12:06+00:00
Replace the not-TODOs with NOTEs.

For example, this TODO:

//todo: factor this out in case X

…is a NOTE, albeit a gratuitous one.

Because if X ever happens, the note won’t matter anyway, since you will have had to grok all the related code to refactor. You will see this note while you’re refactoring the surrounding code and smirk, “yep, that’s right”, or “no, it doesn’t really fall out that way.” Either way, most TODOs/NOTEs like this just get in the way.
by kennywinker | 2025-07-22 16:12:06+00:00
FUD designed to allow the genocide to continue.

In short: gazans are all issued ID numbers at birth. The ministry of health has published id numbers of the dead, which means you can do stats and tell if the data is fake. On top of that, so far (afaik since 2009 when hamas came to power) nobody has caught them in a lie. So they’ve a track record of telling the truth, and give us data that we can smell-test for fraud and it passes.

So yes, nobody else is on the ground to produce independent numbers, so the numbers can’t be fully verified. But using that doubt as an excuse for inaction in the face of ethnic cleansing and genocide is fucking disgusting.
by SadTrombone | 2025-07-22 16:12:08+00:00
How so? It's common knowledge that the nascent IDF absorbed terrorist organizations like the Irgun and Lehi into their ranks and gave them autonomy to operate as they had been. Leaders of these terrorist organizations went on to join the highest ranks of Israeli leadership. David Ben-Gurion being one of many (his Haganah cooperated closely with the Irgun and Lehi as they committed kidnappings, bombings and murders).

This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's widely documented by respectable historians.
by pphysch | 2025-07-22 16:12:24+00:00
I think if the US had an intelligence strategy priotized around protecting the homeland rather than interfering in distant lands, it is highly unlikely that 9/11 would have succeeded.

Keep in mind 9/11 was a godsend for the latter strategy. PNAC was begging for a new Pearl Harbor to increase defense/IC spending just months before it happened.
by perihelions | 2025-07-22 16:12:34+00:00
It's not a telescope[0]; it's a spectrometer that takes in local air samples. It's far more useful if it's at high elevation (else you're drowning in local/regional effects as noise), which is why it happens to be colocated with several astronomy experiments—but they are not the same equipment.

> "We have other ways to measure atmospheric CO2"

It's destroying the continuity of the world's highest-quality and longest-running dataset.

edit: Also, this CO2 observatory closure reflects the entire NOAA climate observation budget being zero'd out[1], so I don't know what where else you'd like us to look instead.

[0] https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/about/co2_measurements.html

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/climate/budget-cuts-clima... ("But President Trump’s proposed 2026 budget would put an end to Mauna Loa, along with three other key observatories and almost all the climate research being done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.")
by mandevil | 2025-07-22 16:12:58+00:00
The thing I keep worrying about is the fate of the store clerk.

Retail store clerk was a medium skill/medium prestige job up through the 1970's and 1980's. You needed someone who knew all of the prices for their part of the store (to prevent tag switching), who could recognize what was the expensive dress versus the cheap dress, and remembered all of the prices so they could work quickly without having to look things up (1). There would be stories of retail clerks rising up to CEO, and even if you weren't that ambitious it was a career path that could provide a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.

Then the laser/upc system came in and hallowed out the career path. UPC codes could be printed in a more permanent way (don't need to put 10c stickers on every orange) and then it was just a DB lookup to get the current price. And there was a natural language description that the register printed so you could do a quick confirmation.

This quickly hallowed out and destroyed the career path: once the laser/UPC/database system meant that almost anyone could be an okay retail clerk with very little training, companies quickly stopped caring about getting anyone above that level, experience no longer mattered- or was rewarded with pay increases, and it created the so-called "McJob" of the 1990s.

Karl Marx had actually written about this all the way back in the 19th Century, this was the alienation of labor, the use of capital investment to replace skilled labor with interchangeable repetition that kept people from feeling satisfaction or success at their jobs- and the pay and career satisfaction of retail clerks in 1990s America followed almost exactly the path of skilled weavers being replaced by machines in 19th Century Birmingham.

Will that happen with SWE? I don't know. But it is a thing that preys on my mind late at night when I'm trying to sleep.
by stouset | 2025-07-22 16:12:59+00:00
It is evangelism. Unabashedly. I think the Plato’s cave analogy is honestly apt.

Git was fine. I used git for ages. I loved its underlying model, and I think it’s brilliant. But it has a lot of sharp edges and a lot of tasks that are painful or frustrating, and people either opt to restrict themselves to a tiny subset to avoid the pain or they carefully curate a workflow that mostly does the job over the course of years.

Suddenly within a week of trying a new tool you just… don’t carry any of that any more.

It’s like going from GOTOs to structured programming with encapsulated functions. People made many useful programs with GOTO. Some people were more principled than others, but we all got by. But it turns out that functions and loops are a way better mental model for control flow than GOTO. Nobody had to switch and there were plenty of holdouts. But eventually the benefits were impossible to ignore.

People like Dijkstra evangelized structured programming because they “saw the light”.
by HaZeust | 2025-07-22 16:13:47+00:00
Jury is really the ontologically-vested check and balance that “The People” receive, the rest are implied through negative rights (right to guns BECAUSE congress can’t infringe, right to speech BECAUSE congress cant abridge)

Jury is a positive right within the right of due process - AND the right of citizens to participate in - and is therefore treated as a compelled responsibility on members of the populace, that exists to quell concentrated power from legal proceedings. In my opinion, we should have had more of those - and “The People” should have been an enumerated institution within the political structure that offers more comprehensive positive rights, negative rights, and compelled (and tensioned) checks and balances against the other institutions (executive, legislative, judiciary, “state”)
by brokencode | 2025-07-22 16:13:48+00:00
Most popular business books are like this. They have an idea that could fit in like a single chapter, but have to write a whole book about it to get paid, so they pad it with numerous anecdotes and their entire life’s story.

I wish there were more reliable ways to monetize for authors between clickbait and published book. I know there are many paid Substacks and newsletters out there, some of which are really great. But I feel like you need a lot of luck or self promotion skills for this to work.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-22 16:13:59+00:00
> I'm here and I don't see it.

You mean in Ukraine, right? It's quite normal to not see something that's been carefully designed to be invisible.

> It sounds like a kind of American provincialism to think that everything revolves around them.

Those words are a sure sign of serious brainwashing, similar to the Russian side. In the meantime the dead keep piling up... Quo bono?
Show HN: OS Yamato – A Wabi-Sabi OS Just Got an Upgrade
by tsuyoshi_k | 2025-07-22 16:14:11+00:00
OS Yamato is a poetic, minimalist OS built on the idea of impermanence — inspired by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.

Now available in Spanish! Plus: New chat reactions (long-press to react with one emoji, gentle and expressive)

OS Yamato lets photos, notes, and messages fade naturally if untouched for a year — no hoarding, no anxiety. A cherry blossom fades, not because it's broken, but because it's alive.

Recent Highlights: - Spanish language support added (now available in 4 languages) - Chat reaction feature added (1 emoji per message, replaceable) - Seasonal message effects (e.g. cherry blossoms, rain, wind) - Auto-fade system for unused data (starts fading around day 330) - "Wind Messages": send letters to the future that arrive months later

Read more about the philosophy: https://krispitech.com/os-yamato-and-the-art-of-gentle-tech-...

GitHub (open source): https://github.com/osyamato/os-yamato

Official page: https://hanaco875.com

Letting go can be gentle. Feedback welcome.
by xchip | 2025-07-22 16:14:18+00:00
Then why do they have 1300 issues open? Good luck to you but it looks like a land mine to me. They are 420 pull requests not merged, so that is a lot of disappointed developers.

They need to test the whole ecosystem, that is the usual interaction with typical peripherals (I2C, I2S, SPI, Serial, interrupts...) and for every bug fixed there should be a unit test to make sure future changes don't cause regressions.

I had this conversation with them but they take every opportunity to justify/ask for more funding.

They are also prioritizing adding support for new chips but they quickly get eaten alive by chaos, regressions and platform fragmentation.
by Leftium | 2025-07-22 16:14:25+00:00
Two similar Show HN projects:

- This python one is more amenable to modding into your own custom tool: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/44353447

- Another bash script: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/41473379

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They all seem to be built on top of:

- yt-dlp to download video

- whisper for transcription

- ffmpeg for audio/video extraction/processing
Show HN: Runtime Defense Against Prompt Injection in Supabase MCP
by anand-tan | 2025-07-22 16:14:53+00:00
I wrote this after studying the Supabase MCP prompt injection issue. The blog shows how I built a working defense using an open-source AI agent runtime I’ve been building called Tansive ( https://github.com/tansive/tansive )

Instead of just filtering malicious prompts, I implemented role-based policies with runtime input validation that can scale across combinations of different AI tools (GitHub, Stripe, Linear, etc.).

All the code referenced in the blog is in the examples/supabase_demo folder.

I welcome your feedback — especially from folks working with AI toolchains or security.
by nradov | 2025-07-22 16:15:19+00:00
Regardless of the financial and administrative issues, dentistry is still far more an art than a science. Go to 10 different dentists for any serious condition and you'll likely receive 10 different treatment plans. In most cases they're making good faith recommendations but there's a huge amount of subjectivity and personal bias involved.

Physicians have recently started embracing evidence-based medicine with documented best practice treatment guidelines so hopefully a similar cultural change will come to dentistry in time.
by qq99 | 2025-07-22 16:15:25+00:00
Just because you have Tailwind in your codebase doesn't mean you can _only_ use Tailwind. I often use a mixture of both when it makes sense. The Tailwind classes are often terser. Tailwind is not great for all things.

> which emulates class based styling

IMO, what DaisyUI does is how you are meant to be using Tailwind. You aren't supposed to use _only_ TailwindCSS classes in HTML directly (although you can). It's faster for prototyping, then once the prototype solidifies and becomes a pattern, you can extract your long tailwind string into a nice utility class.

It happens to use things like `@apply gap-2` internally in its src, so that if you want to override "how large the gaps are" in Tailwind, Daisy will also inherit that override.
by rayiner | 2025-07-22 16:15:32+00:00
> If you bring in a bunch of immigrants it'll still have recognised centres to the distributions. That is literally how the US population was built.

Yes, but the center of the distributions along various axes will shift. To give an example: I grew up in Northern VA, which in the 1990s was quite WASPy. One aspect of that culture was austerity: it was hard to tell the people worth tens of millions apart from upper middle class doctors and lawyers. Now, the influx of immigrants from Asia and the Middle East has totally destroyed that norm. Relatively discrete brick mansions are being turn down and replaced with enormous and ostentatious displays of wealth.

> Indeed, if we assume that migrants migrate to places with cultures that promote success then change the culture that'd suggest that migrants cause mean-reversion for the worse.

That’s the concern. And it’s not just “success.” But orderliness, egalitarianism, democracy, etc. Most societies are much less successful on all those fronts than America. The only direction we can really go is down.
by jibe | 2025-07-22 16:15:43+00:00
Here is a link for the first article: https://archive.is/mlzx4

Not sure what the outrage is,

Chinese scholar from UM Chengxuan Han expected to plead guilty in smuggling case

"During the secondary inspection, Han made false statements that she had not sent packages to members of the UM Lab," an FBI agent wrote in the court filing. "When pressed, Han admitted that she had shipped packages to members of the UM Lab. Han initially stated to (Customs and Border Patrol) officers that the packages were plastic cups (rather than petri dishes) and a book (omitting the envelope with suspected biological materials concealed in it)."

The FBI counterintelligence case against UM scholar Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, involves allegations that Jian received money from a Chinese foundation funded largely by the Chinese government to conduct post-doctoral work. That includes research on a fungus known as Fusarium graminearum, a biological pathogen that can cause devastating diseases in crops.

Maybe these students are getting overcharged, but they were clearly caught smuggling.
by xnorswap | 2025-07-22 16:15:55+00:00
I have definitely felt a dramatic downturn in reading comprehension and the ability to deal with nuance in the past few years. I have learned to be extremely explicit in my communication to ward off getting sucked into an argument with someone who didn't understand the point I was trying to make.

This isn't just needing to be better at "effective communication", which I accept is something I'm not great at. What has surprised me instead is the level at which I feel I have to aim has been consistently lowered.

There has always been a risk on the internet of getting dragged into an argument of semantics, but what feels new and fresh, is the risk of getting dragged into an argument with someone who couldn't comprehend the point at all.

I also despair at the crowd who desire to absorb all knowledge (often via summary), rather than enjoy the journey. The crowd who think a novel like "Consider Phlebas" is better handled by reading,

> A shape-shifting agent allied with the Idirans, is sent on a mission to retrieve a fugitive AI Mind that has gone missing on a forbidden, war-ravaged planet. His journey takes him through a series of perilous encounters—including space battles, cannibal cults, and a doomed mercenary crew—as he races against time and enemies to complete his objective in the midst of a vast interstellar war.

Than reading the novel itself. Content with their summary they move on to devour the next knowledge-goal.

I do kind of get it. I get that it's easier to get along in life having a wide basis of knowledge-hooks with a few niches of real interest. It's easier to feel smart if you feel you have context for conversations, rather than risk appearing "ignorant" by asking the conversation partner to themselves expand and inform you.

I also look at my own impatience. My own diminishing attention span, and my ever decreasing ability to juggle work without distraction and constant consumption of the HN news ticker.

I recently got a new laptop. Firefox informs me I've visited HN 7,765 times. That's not healthy. Many of those is simply opening and immediately closing it, or navigating to and from comments, but it's a very unhealthy habit, born of a desire to constantly consume information without actually putting in what would be hard work and effort of fully reading all the articles.

Including this one. I managed a few paragraphs and skimmed the rest.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-22 16:15:56+00:00
The whole point is to collect time-series data at a location that's isolated from individual sources of CO2 emissions. That way we can see how CO2 concentrations are changing over long periods of time.

Your comment doesn't make any sense. If you shut down the measurement, you don't have any data going forward, so the data cannot be "everywhere". And you cannot substitute data collected in another location if you want to measure changes over time - which is a really important thing to measure.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-22 16:16:02+00:00
Ohh it's definitely cars.

In more ways than one. A lot of "poor" countries have life expectancies comparable to the US. The big difference is they don't have a culture of every single person needing to own a car that spray carcinogens all over the place.

Obesity, which is its own massive wrecking ball, is also significantly lower in these "poor" countries.

The arrogance of laughing at poor people riding bikes to work when that would create a drastically healthier society.

Imagine if you had a 4km x 4km city with no consumer vehicles ( emergency and delivery exempt). Just walking paths and bike lanes. The people living there would be drastically healthier.

Or hell, it might just be luck. A lot of smokers live until there 80s enjoying a fat cigar once a day
by baq | 2025-07-22 16:16:06+00:00
> JJ adds changes to random old commits instead of the newest one? Yikes.

jj adds changes to the current commit, which is the staging area, which is the index, which is the working copy. I get you don't like it, no need to be an ass about it, but denying that it works is just that, denial.

> > rerere by default

> Takes space and time.

doesn't take my time. I'll take it.

> > --update-refs by default

> Maybe sensible, don't need it most of the time.

No reason to waste time thinking when it's needed.
by alfonsodev | 2025-07-22 16:16:13+00:00
My experience with DaisyUI has been great, is the type of library that:

- Is super useful, and keeps adding value over time.

- It doesn't get in the way when you don't need it.

Gives you prebuilt standards and semantics, (e.g https://daisyui.com/docs/colors) and you can extend it like tailwind easily.

Bonus: The way it implements themes, it makes sense to me, super easy. Love it!
by launchzilla | 2025-07-22 16:16:19+00:00
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by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-22 16:16:29+00:00
> Then I would expect a number of articles from 2020-2024 as well.

I wish.

For some &%*# reason, news orgs natural instinct is to defer to LEO/IC agencies - to rarely-if-ever vet agency PR and immediately forget every lie told by agency leadership.

For LEO/IC in republican admins, the press will sometimes do their jobs and hold these agencies somewhat accountable (and thereby honor press' extra 1A protections).
by abakker | 2025-07-22 16:16:51+00:00
I bought an Airthings radon monitor because of that stat, and one thing that I have learned is that those mitigation systems do not necessarily work. I have a system that works, but initially, even though my house had a system, it did not reliably keep the radon levels below the federal action level.

Barometric pressure, temperature, and HVAC all seem to have some bearing - tightening the house for air leaks actually did a lot of good in keeping levels low. Also, sump pump failures or ground water levels can "push" radon into the house. I dug a deeper sump pit and also put a secondary radon fan to pull air out of my sub-foundation drain pipes to ensure the air below the house is cycled.

Still, in Boulder County, my house will fail its radon test after a 2 hour power outage.

I am an evangelist for continuous radon monitoring, alerts and tests.
by JoeDaDude | 2025-07-22 16:16:53+00:00
Thanks for posting, will have to try it out later. I hope it works with my HP Reverb through Windows MR and/or Steam VR.

Re: pedagogy. Here is an anecdote. The very old Java game linked below is a 4d puzzle where players would have to rotate a tesseract to pass a ball through a hole. Comments made at the time were that players would fumble for a while but would eventually "get it" and after that the play was simple and obvious. I never got to that point. Maybe I'll fire it up and see if I can do better now.

http://harmen.vanderwal.eu/hypercube/