MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Duhan | 2025-07-29 16:14:32+00:00
My mom is 67. She loves her space, but every renovation felt like a guessing game—holding up paint chips, imagining furniture, wondering how it would all come together.

She just wanted to see her space before making a decision. No more regrets. No more returns.

So we built it. A simple, powerful tool that lets anyone preview floors, walls, and furniture in their real space—before buying a thing.

No funding. No pitch decks. Just something that works. For her. And maybe for you too.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-29 16:14:36+00:00
Rationing is precisely what we want to do: I have x usage this week; let me determine precisely how much I can use without going over. Hoarding implies a less reasoned path of “I never know when I might run out so I must use as little as possible, save as much as I can.” One can hoard gasoline but it still expires past a point.
by seabrookmx | 2025-07-29 16:15:39+00:00
Containers are native executables (with cgroup rules sprinkled on top). If Android does not let you call exec in the traditional way then you have a problem.

Also you're moving the goalpost with this comment a bit. My original comment says "may benefit from" being run under a "vanilla" kernel, as opposed to saying it would be completely non-functional under Android's kernel.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 16:15:50+00:00
For that matter, how many kids manage their parents' devices. Maybe less so today, but for a long time, a lot of children were far more tech savvy than their parents. The contrast between my grandmothers when they were still around was stark. One never fell for anything... the other, I was cleaning malware it felt like quarterly.

My parents for a long time used their neighbor's wifi, despite having their own, because they didn't remember the password.

That said, having the carrier assign certain devices marked as "child" or "adult" or even with a DoB stamp that would change the flag when they became an adult might not be a bad thing. While intrusive would still be better than the forced ID path that some states and countries are striving towards.
by ianbicking | 2025-07-29 16:15:53+00:00
I wish the doctest approach won over the BDD approach. I still find myself recreating the doctest approach in miniature...

Specifically I try to make a nice string representation of state, and then tests match off that state.

So for instance I don't want to say expect(x.length).toBe(0) (one syntax, Cucumber goes further in that syntactic direction). Because if the length is 1 then 1!=0 is a very opaque failure. Or if you do expect(x[0].attr).toBe("y") then you've tested one thing but you have to have another test for list length, other attributes, etc. Often you'll leave the others out, expecting them to be ok, but sometimes they aren't...

Investing in a good, stable, matchable string representation will give you a great tool for any number of tests, and it's not just a great tool to verify but also to debug your tests.
by panzi | 2025-07-29 16:16:03+00:00
Personally I only really consider glibc as the system library of Linux (), and that supports both variants depending on compiler flags. Both functions are compiled into glibc, I guess the 32 bit one just wrapping the 64 bit one.

However, other libraries (Qt, Gtk, ...) don't do that compatibility stuff. If you consider those to be also system libraries then yeah, its breaking the ABI of system libraries. Though a pre-compiled program under Linux could just bundle all* of it's dependencies and just either use glibc (probably a good idea), statically link musl, or even do system calls on its own (probably not a good idea). Linux has a stable system call interface!

(*) One can certainly argue about that point. Not sure about that point myself anymore when thinking about it, since there are things like libpcap, libselinux, libbpf, libmount, libudev etc. and I don't know if any of them use time_t anywhere and if they do weather they support the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64 stuff.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 16:16:19+00:00
The problem isn't trustworthiness, we know very well what's going on here, "privacy not included", the issue is that if another nation that's not friendly to you controls huge swathes of your infrastructure, they could use that access to cripple you should a "disagreement" occur.

With the kind of infrastructure that holds Chinese technology in the west, they could shut down entire power grids, bring roads to a stand still, shut down entire countries worth of networking, cellular networks and worse. This is leaving out the surveillance and data collection potential as it's not the topic at hand.

To be clear, my issue isn't with China specifically, but as a westerner, they're not a friendly nation (to mine).

The same of course applies the other way around, and I can imagine a scenario of other citizens sitting in their respective nation having this same conversation about western technology.
by nomel | 2025-07-29 16:16:22+00:00
> The standard phrase "institutional knowledge" merely refers to knowledge and skills that are carried by members of the organization.

Yes, that't is my definition. But, that knowledge has very real practical effects and influence on the org, from the weight (those with it usually are in position of seniority/power) and momentum that knowledge carries, especially when approaching new problems, or reconsidering old problems. The mechanism for that can be anywhere from "this is industry standard" to "the director says we should focus on this approach", with the ever present "lets not risk it".

> While that is a common dysfunction of long-running organizations, I think it is an orthogonal characteristic.

I agree that it's logically orthogonal, but not practically. I think the actual killer of orgs is the sum of all the small scale risk avoidance. I think risk is most easily avoided by adhering to the institutional knowledge (what was done and what is known). Innovation eventually becomes a completely foreign concept.
Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
by rcrKnight | 2025-07-29 16:17:14+00:00
It's a web app that uses AI to turn any book into a playable text adventure. Your favorite book, but your choices, hence your story. You can even "remix" the genre like playing Dune as a noir detective story.

Note: Work in progress. Suggestions are welcome.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-29 16:17:21+00:00
> Sure, but I would say that the current dominant strain took form and its volume got cranked up very noticeably October 8

So did the genocide itself, which has always been constrained by what Israel thinks they can get away with based on political conditions (mainly in the US, whose active military support, financial aid, and UNSC veto they want to maintain) and the available pretext’s they can hid atrocities behind.

There is a relationship.
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-07-29 16:17:41+00:00
Every day preteen boys around the world are destroying their premature brains by watching stuff that should be 18+ by simply clicking a single button that says "I am over 18". They form lifelong addictions that stunt their emotional and developmental growth at the click of one button. Many of these kids are never the same after their innocence is stripped.

You can blame the parents for allowing them unfettered access to the internet, but their classmates will show them something while they're hanging out after school or waiting for the bus. This doesn't even include the softer stuff that gets _recommended_ to them every day on tiktok and instagram reels - actively pushing them towards more explicit content.

I don't necessarily agree with the politicians here and I do believe there are ulterior motives at play such as information gathering for blackmail on adults, etc.

What is the solution here? I don't think there is one that satisfies everybody.
by specialist | 2025-07-29 16:17:41+00:00
Same.

I went to Swedish Hospital's Pain Services Clinic. https://www.swedish.org/services/pain-services Transformative.

Funny thing: the techniques and skills they teach work, even if you don't think they will.

I think most (all?) new age stuff -- naturopathy, chiropractics, reiki, whatever -- is BS. But I can't argue with my lived experience of using tai chi, mindfulness, education, and other new skills to proactively manage my disease.

This is my first time hearing (reading) the phrase "functional doctor". WebMD defines them as specialists in digging deeper, seeing the whole picture. Perfect.

--

YMMV. Consult your doctor, etc. Most treatments don't help with treatment resistant conditions. Beware adverse effects. Yadda, yadda.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-29 16:17:56+00:00
What if you’re all in, using these tools every day, bought into the future, trying to automate your job and continually coming up short? What if all your peers are experiencing the same thing? What if you try to look for help online and only find vague stories of influencers talking about how great their experience is with no details in the specifics of how to replicate what they do. What if you abandon all of your skills for a new set of skills that never automate much beyond the 15-20% of tasks they currently automate, and you find yourself surpassed by your peers who show some moderation in their excitement?
by jjani | 2025-07-29 16:17:58+00:00
I'm sorry but that's gaslighting in the face of literally being shown the payment page that shows otherwise. "5x more usage than Pro" and "20x more usage than Pro" cannot be reasonably interpreted in the way you're doing. It doesn't matter how much you preface it with "I don't think it's straightforward".

> clearly their legal team went over it with a fine tooth comb

If their legal team in fact did, they'll have said "yup, that payment page won't fly if you'd get sued in Germany/Australia/anywhere with remotely decent consumer protections" and Anthropic just decided to roll with it anyway as they did while breaking millions of websites' ToS, pirating half the world's books, academic papers and more. As the chance they'll actually get sued and receive meaningful punishment is negligible.

You're either incredibly naive, are doing similar things and justifying it, or have a personal stake in this. There's no other explanation. You can look at my comment history and see that I'm generally nice and don't comment in this manner, but you're leaving no other option as this can no longer be framed as good faith.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-29 16:18:13+00:00
> and frankly parents need to take some ownership.

This. None of this is the state's job, it's 100% on the parents to educate themselves, their children, and be the responsible party for determining and controlling what their kids can or can't do with technology and the internet.

If the state feels like they need to do something, they would be better served providing education and tools to parents. Hell, for the really tech illiterate the state could just offer a managed MDM service that they could enroll their kids devices into if they really can't figure out parental controls themselves.
by tflinton | 2025-07-29 16:18:14+00:00
Websites aren't accountable for user content because of the DCMA and Safe harbor laws protecting them from the risk of what users post [1]. Gun manufacturers are protected from liability by the PLCAA [2]. Police aren't held accountable because of qualified immunity [3].

What i'm saying is no such protections exist for financial transaction that occur on a network. Infact, the opposite exists, laws exist (called Know Your Customer [4]) that specifically hold financial networks (like Visa and Mastercard) liable for allowing transactions related to fraud, money laundering or other high risk transactions like gambling and adult entertainment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law) [2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/397... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
by ryanchants | 2025-07-29 16:19:09+00:00
I've picked up each color of the new metal body Kuru Toga, and they are an extra level of extravagance on an already perfect pencil: https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Kuru-Toga-Metal-Mechanical-Penci...

Pigma Microns and Uniball One are my go-to pens. Previously it was Signo DXs as well. I think I prefer the barrel of the DX, but the wire clip and general appearance of the Uniball sold me.
by salawat | 2025-07-29 16:19:14+00:00
The market is deciding. You just basically agreed with me without realizing you did. The consumer, in buying a covered device must pay the cost for it's production. That cost is set as a function of cost to acquire patent * markup by the patent holder to license out the patent to parties looking to produce it. If an extra tax or fee is implemented to "punish" Non-practicing entities that just hold onto patent portfolios to license, you haven't solved the problem, you've just made it slightly riskier. The cost of that punitive fee will get rolled into the cost to license the patent. That cost will then be passed on by the licensee in terms of price to the consumer/next link in the chain.

The consumer will bear the burden. Either in higher end prices, or less patented things actually being made because "the market" (read: bunch of guys in suits at investment banks) decided the profitability wasn't where they wanted it.

The invisible hand has an effective address these days, in case you didn't notice.
by skybrian | 2025-07-29 16:19:21+00:00
They probably could have explained better what hasn’t changed. Observable Notebooks work like a spreadsheet or makefile. The cells aren’t executed top to bottom (like a Jupyter Notebook). Instead they’re executed in dependency order.

Looks like this is still true with the new system:

> The Build API analyzes cell source code to find unbound references, such that the appropriate variable graph can be initialized using the Observable Runtime. For non-JavaScript cells (such as Markdown, HTML, and SQL), the Build API also transpiles the source into a tagged template literal expression.

This is unlike other document formats. They made the cells look like standard JavaScript now (versus the JavaScript variant they had before) but the file format is necessarily different, because the execution model is different. There is a build step to ensure that the cells will be executed in the right order on page load.
by jchw | 2025-07-29 16:19:38+00:00
The most interesting thing to me is that some people actually prefer the WSL2 experience over using Linux, not just because of the Windows desktop, but because of the WSL2 experience itself.

I think Distrobox gives you the same basic experience but it's even a bit nicer as it's even lower overhead and doesn't have the weird memory management issues that WSL2 has. But this is really interesting to me; Microsoft clearly struck a nerve with the WSL2 workflow. It's more than just a workaround for the fact that some stuff doesn't run or doesn't run well on Windows, which is counterintuitive.

You can also get the same basic experience on macOS using Orbstack, which I highly recommend in general. (Though there are alternatives that are not subscriptions, but I only use macOS under duress at work, so I don't personally pay for it.)
by gojomo | 2025-07-29 16:19:51+00:00
Given that other work shows that models often converge on similar internal representations, I'd not be surprised if there were close analogues of 'subliminal learning' that don't require shared-ancestor-base-model, just enough overlap in training material.

Further, "enough" training from another model's outputs – de facto 'distillation' – is likely to have similar effects as starting from a common base model, just "from thge other direction".

(Finally: some of the more nationalistic-paranoid observers seem to think Chinese labs have relied on exfiltrated weights from US entities. I don't personally think that'd be a likely or necessary contributor to Z.ai & others' successes, the mere appearance of this occasional "I am Claude" answer is sure to fuel further armchair belief in those theories.)
by throw310822 | 2025-07-29 16:19:52+00:00
And "if" there is only occupation, progressive annexation, pogroms, apartheid (in the occupied territories), destruction of houses and villages, of crops, periodic bombardments with thousands of civilian deaths, total blockade- and this goes on for decades with absolutely no recourse to justice (as we see, Western governments have troubles condemning Israel even for the total destruction of Gaza)? Then how do you think the victims should be allowed to fight back? How would you fight back if that were happening to you?
by max51 | 2025-07-29 16:19:54+00:00
Most of the best pens refills are made by japanese companies (eg. Pilot, Zebra, Uni-ball, etc.) and Parker style is nonexistant in that country. If you look at any "top XX best pens" lists online, the vast majority is not avaible in Parker. And when they are, they usually have fewer color and size options.

It's very disapointing to see brand new nice pen designs that only support Parker refills.
by Twirrim | 2025-07-29 16:19:56+00:00
You're talking from a position I don't think many would agree with, at all, and I think the responses you're getting are reflecting that.

Syntax is probably one of the single most important things in any language. It matters for writing, but especially for reading.

Bad syntax leads to all kinds of implementation mistakes. It comes with footguns primed ready to go off, probably at the worst possible time. Bad syntax can also make it hard to re-read code and understand what it's doing (especially if the language leans heavily on "magic"), leading to difficulties when troubleshooting, or difficulties when extending existing code.

The more developers you have involved in any project, the more important good syntax becomes, because you all have to be able to read and understand each other's code, and know precisely what is happening. A lot of the bugs that end up in production tend to stem from some disconnect in understanding of the interactions between sections of code.
by skeezyboy | 2025-07-29 16:20:20+00:00
> have to maintain only one version of the app (no upgrade needed on client-side) Except what happens when it doesnt run the same on Firefox as it does on Chrome? Or what about when Edge is run on Win7 and youre app doesnt render correctly? Yes you only code one version of an app, but you are still obliged to consider the underlying platform - which is exactly compile once, run anywhere is it? its more like compile once but make sure you test it on all the different browser/OS combos before you do.

Distribution aside, its more likely you only know web languages and THATs why youre coding your project on the web stack. Pick the best tool for the job
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-29 16:20:26+00:00
> There are reasonable people who think this merge would be good

No there aren't, unless you interpret "good" as "good for extracting monopoly prices from the people". The US economy is overly monopolized as it is even without this buyout.

More importantly, no reasonable person would skip the $85 Billion (with B) price tag which is a definite proof of my words above.
by qingcharles | 2025-07-29 16:20:35+00:00
I don't know that "a lot" of countries in the Middle East are regularly throwing gay people off buildings, but I agree with your second point that we shouldn't look at their censorship as an example of something great to follow.

I would add that from my experience with the Gulf, at least, the ME has created one of the gayest places on Earth. The separation between genders has led to a disproportionate number of women and men semi-openly sleeping with their own gender in a kind of "don't ask, don't tell" way.

It feels like the "punish them for being gay" is used, like the poster below you mentions, as a way to turn the screws on you when they need something to use against you for another reason.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-29 16:20:39+00:00
This argument assumes equal power of parties involved.

Unless you are an organiziation the size of Temu, you either put up with their bullshit or you don't get to buy whatever it is you wanted to buy.

The way out here is using the power of the democratically elected state to put Temu in their place - using democracy to counteract capitalist abuse.
by kldg | 2025-07-29 16:20:46+00:00
Yes, that very likely would be a run-ender for me, and make me dependent on family and gov't assistance (which is fine; which is something I've planned and plan for; but obviously it'd be nice to not be bankrupt and mooching of my family). I'm glad you got through it; my uncle had a brain tumor found while simultaneously having Alzheimer's (despite only being in his late 50s and a clean and pretty mentally active fellow) -- it didn't work out well.

edit: remainder of original reply removed.
by pc86 | 2025-07-29 16:20:57+00:00
> Not being able to access porn without a VPN is not the definition of "authoritarian nightmare".

Linking your real identity to the ability to load text on a computer you own absolutely is. Not being able to step out onto the street without having 50 government-operated cameras take your picture absolutely is. "Knife control" absolutely is.

> But it isn't on the precipice of losing its democracy altogether (like the US).

Good god come on. I hope I remember to come back here after the next election and accept your apology.
by ndriscoll | 2025-07-29 16:21:06+00:00
The requirement that such functionality be available is likely to preclude FOSS. e.g. in the US, California has a bill[0] that would require anyone distributing software to ensure it hooks into an age verification API in the operating system, and requires device manufacturers to provide such an API, which appears to me to say computer manufacturers can't let you install Linux and developers of any software including FOSS must do these checks.

I can't imagine that it would pass as-is since on its face it seems to apply to all computers and all software including things like nginx or nftables that the entire modern economy relies on, but who knows?

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
by nostrademons | 2025-07-29 16:21:07+00:00
That's a fair way of looking at it.

Bringing it back to the article's point, the government is part of the "blue team" portion of the system. In that if they don't do their job, and their job includes complex regulations that balance multiple competing factors, then large portions of the system...well, "collapse" is a judgy term, but "function in significantly different ways" gets the point across. Inaction or ineffectiveness of the government effectively creates new "blue team" industries, and distributes power in different ways across the economy.
by kulahan | 2025-07-29 16:21:08+00:00
I feel much the same way. This is a real headache of a problem for me because I'm pretty privacy-oriented, but this is a serious, serious problem that needs real intervention.

Way too many kids are rotting their brains away either becoming gooners or clout-chasers. I thank God every day I was born too early to have access to this stuff as a kid. I can't imagine what this "you must always be online and also sexy" culture is doing to our youngest generations.
by mooreds | 2025-07-29 16:22:08+00:00
While most of the contributions I have seen are from Google on the browser side, they are trying to work through the standards process. Here's the first draft of the w3c standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/fedcm/

I know there's a later draft but can't find it right now. Will share when I do.

As mentioned in sibling comments I have seen are least on Firefox contributor and they are actively seeking input from identity providers.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-07-29 16:22:28+00:00
Whoa, the first film poster it presented to me was for Koyaanisqatsi, a 1982 film I was unfamiliar with until I saw it in a Metafilter post just this morning[1]. Baader-Meinhof in action[2].

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/209750/Godfrey-Reggios-Koyaanisqa...

[2] https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...