MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2025-07-30 15:47:53+00:00
It's not necessarily nostalgia nor a feeling that the thing is mainstream so we are not special anymore.

These heavy websites and apps have many consequences:

- security: supply chain attacks. For the user, difficulties to check what runs in the browser (yeah, most users don't know how to do this and/or will not take the time - all the more reason, I'd say).

- software freedom: you end up running a crazy amount of non-free software in your browser, or you are just barred from basic things

- environment: it's a disaster: this stuff requires powerful devices, and probably leads to the disposal of many perfectly capable phones / computers. CIs are spending crazy CPU ticks building and building the app. Complex CDN-based setups to mitigate a bit the bloat.

- cost for the users: after having to buy newer hardware better have a strong data plan for all these heavy wannabe app websites!

- wait time for the users: it's awful the amount of time we collectively waste looking at loaders and slowly loading pages despite crazy bandwidths of today.

- convenience: all this memory and cpu usage leads to worse battery time. If your network is spotty, you'll need to spend a lot of time retrying to load the thing

- inclusion: if you happen to live in an area where you can only afford slow network access, things will be barely usable.

Environmental costs and user costs for developer convenience. As usual, companies externalize costs.

It's not only irrational feelings like nostalgia, it's solid reasons as well.

I do have hope that we figure out at least more lightweight SPAs at some point though.
by ssutch3 | 2025-07-30 15:47:55+00:00
Yeah, TFA's point is that the basic/inexpensive camera in the hands of an unskilled user can be higher quality than an equivalent iPhone camera shot. In my opinion from the example shots used this is definitely the case. Camera phone distortion is pretty bad (you have to stand back further from your subject offset this, use a higher res setting, and crop in) and the processing has gotten out of hand in recent years to the point where it starts making photos look worse and worse.
by Aachen | 2025-07-30 15:48:08+00:00
> "the best smartphone camera competitions" by mkbhd

Also in normal phone reviews, they always put pictures of different phones next to each other so that people can form their own opinion on what they prefer. How is the reader to know what it really looked like? The reviewer should compare it against what they actually saw and felt the mood was in the moment and give a verdict of which camera captured that

Of course nicer colors look nicer but that's not the camera's job: I can turn that up if I want it. For that to work well, the camera needs to know what's there in the first place

Eyeing the raw results from the pro capture mode vs. the automagic results of my five year old 300€ phone, it does an amazing job of removing sensor noise and improving lighting in ways that I usually can't replicate short of using a tripod and a whole lot of image stacking. The only exception is extreme contrasts, such as a full moon on a dark sky or rays of direct sunlight (at sunrise) on half of a rolling hill when the other half is still in complete shadow. Then the only solution is to take two pictures, one where you can see the dark bit and one where you can see the bright bit, and stitch them together
by lupusreal | 2025-07-30 15:48:54+00:00
> I will try not to recommend any games to any child moving forward, and instead direct them to other hobbies

I think this has always been the correct approach, from the very inception of video games. In the absolute best case scenario, playing video games is a sedentary activity that is educational or facilitates creative expression, but that's the absolute best case and educational games have proven to be a borderline farcical concept and relatively few games allow for any sort of real creative expression at all. What's left is a kid sitting on his ass staring at a screen, and that's without getting into any of the potentially harmful influences.

Restricting access to video games used to be more normal I think. When I was a kid my mom had an egg timer that she'd use to meter me and my brothers. 30 minutes of Sim City a day, then I had to go outside. A lot of my friends, the ones with responsible and engaged parents, had similar arrangements. Somehow our culture seems to have lost this, as it also lost the premise of cellphones not being permitted in schools. At some point our culture seems to have simply surrendered to the commercial interests of tech corps and forgotten about what's best for kids.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-30 15:49:01+00:00
Out in the real world - how much "our countries take action" stuff actually happens when regular & systematic violence is occurring somewhere?

When it does happen, how often does well-intended foreign intervention actually "fix" things - vs. turning into a yet another "park our troops there 'till we finally run out of patience" occupation?

My read is that the many powerful factions which favor (overtly or not) the ongoing violent mess in/around Israel have (generally) very good understandings of the situation and its dynamics. And the benefits & costs - for them - of encouraging it to continue indefinitely. Vs. the opposing side is dominated by sincere but all-too-simple "make horrible things stop happening!!!" emotions.

:(
by brianzelip | 2025-07-30 15:49:09+00:00
Love the blog post with a one-off art direction!

Also love the Oxide and Friends podcast! What strikes me most lately about Oxide since falling into their hefty episode backlog, is their book club culture. I really appreciate the ability to get a fly on the wall experience of it, I learn a lot!

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
by kassner | 2025-07-30 15:49:23+00:00
Thankfully I got domain-sober before the 2012 gTLD round, otherwise I’d have gone bankrupt from renewal fees.

A tip to everyone: subdomains are free, and you can set up a 301 redirect once the project gets some traction. As others have mentioned, I only buy a domain once there is some traction, or when I start getting organic/indirectly referred traffic.
by ptsd_dalmatian | 2025-07-30 15:49:44+00:00
Any advice how to make it sustainable as soon to become father? I’m experimenting with one business idea atm. I want to bootstrap it. I have solid runway. I don’t want to return to job that is killing my soul. I wanted to give my self a couple of months of building my ideas. Then the news came, we’ll be parents :)
by JohnBooty | 2025-07-30 15:49:44+00:00
If a person really craves "fizzy sweetness"... here's what I do for myself.

4 parts seltzer water + ice

1 part lemonade

It's 50 calories, or something like that (obviously depends on lemonade, size of drinking glass, etc)

fulfills my sweetness craving and is also filling
by sofixa | 2025-07-30 15:50:32+00:00
They're a perfect example of why the old adage of "do one thing and do it well" often doesn't scale as a business.

If platforms can provide a competing service, bundled within their package, many will pick it, even if it is worse quality. Dropbox had to expand (like Proton are - they started with email, then added calendar, Drive for file storage, Docs for collaborative editing, Pass for password manager, etc. Even if I would prefer they spend more time to fix gaps in their Android email app, I completely understand why they have to expand their stack).
by AIPedant | 2025-07-30 15:50:34+00:00
The big difference with Stephen Hawking is that he was not born disabled, he became disabled during graduate school. Even in 2025, a human who is born blind and severely paralyzed (so they cannot speak or sign) will probably never learn calculus, regardless of innate ability. Perhaps in the medium term technology will improve.

That said, another major difference is psychology. Switching animals, it seems plausible to me that chimpanzees are theoretically capable of doing basic calculus as a matter of pattern-matching. But you can't force them to study it! Basic calculus is too tedious and high-effort to learn for a mere banana, you need something truly valuable like "guaranteed admission to the flagship state university" for human children to do it. But we don't have an equivalent offer for chimps. (Likewise an Isaac Newton - level dog might still find calculus exceptionally boring compared to chasing squirrels.)
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-07-30 15:50:57+00:00
Much of what Hoare says here is right -- we need not even pick on the bits that are incomplete or off-level. The problem is that much of what he advocated was impractical on (? most of) the machines of his time, for lack of resources, but then even when the resources became available, the principles that he enunciates here were not revisited, and would have required breaking changes to running systems if they had been.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-30 15:51:11+00:00
I'd argue that what's generally considered "reasoning" isn't actually rooted in understanding either. It's just the process you apply to get to a conclusion

expressed more abstractly: is about drawing logical connections between points and extrapolating from them.

To quote the definition: "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way."

I believe it's rooted in mathematics, not physics. That's probably why there is such a focus on the process instead of the result
by jug | 2025-07-30 15:51:14+00:00
My favorite .NET 10 feature so far is not within the .NET library itself, but `dotnet tool exec` to run C# files as scripts without a build step. This has been available in F# for a long time via `dotnet fsi`, and for C# also via the third party cs-script tool. It took a surprisingly long time to officially reach the primary .NET language!

I only really wish C# would’ve been directly integrated as an alternative scripting language in PowerShell. You may balk at the idea for causing a ton of cruft for people who don’t need it; ”a whole new scripting language!” But the thing is — PowerShell already builds upon .NET so supporting a new language is a rather small effort (relatively speaking) if it happens to be a .NET language. And C# just feels so much better for me to code in when the scripts grow in size. I’m not sure I’ll ever become friends with the implicit returns. C# has become particularly suitable for scripting with the recent developments in the language: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...
by graemep | 2025-07-30 15:51:14+00:00
> Aside from all the claims with no sources/references whatsoever (claims which are not at all self-evident), blaming "corporate greed" for hiring employees? Isn't it also "corporate greed" to lay people off?

Both can be true depending in circumstances. The management of companies are primarily motivated by increasing their share price, as that is what remuneration is most commonly linked to, nor profits. For example, by options.

When things are good they will over hire to make future growth look at good as possible, to increase investor confidence.

When things are bad they will be focused on making numbers look better in the short term.
by kierangill | 2025-07-30 15:51:23+00:00
I applied in early 2021. Getting rejected from any company carries a sting, but I was grateful to have gone through the process.

I didn’t realize at the time, but Oxide’s application process was the best form of interview prep I’ve done. The process forced me to thoroughly document my values and career accomplishments. In later non-Oxide interviews, I effectively recited what I had written my materials. In that way, it has felt less one-sided than every other company application process I’ve gone through. I was able to take away an artifact from the experience, versus being filtered out via a coding challenge. It’s also been rewarding to reflect on my submission from years ago to see how my mindset and skills have evolved.

If you have any interest in working in the pediatric telemedicine space, I encourage you to email me your application. We accept Oxide materials. I’m happy to provide feedback as a hiring manager. My email and our company website are in my bio.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-30 15:51:45+00:00
"Men" and "being a man" sure as hell is a protected class, and there are plenty of lawsuits to back it up. e.g.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/texas-man-settles-discriminati...

like it's literally a 5 second search on the google or bing to prove
by doomroot13 | 2025-07-30 15:52:01+00:00
As of today (and going forward), there are two different flavors of Blazor server-side rendering. There is the original version where the component is rendered on the server and interactivity is provided via websockets. Now there is also static server-side rendering, which works very similarly to razor pages, pages/components are rendered on the server and there is no interactivity. You can then, of course, add interactivity wherever you'd need it with server-interactive or webassembly interactive sub-components.

I wouldn't necessarily say there's any benefit of Blazor over HTMX, it just depends on what you're most comfortable with and what works for you in your project. But you could architect your front-end in a similar way where you have small blazor components in your pages with interactivity.

I think Blazor is in a nice state now, where I can iterate very quickly on projects with just static server side rendering and add interactivity whenever it's needed. It gives me a very fast website, rendered on the server, and the option to add some interactivity whenever I need.
I Need Your Help
by arshinvests | 2025-07-30 15:52:10+00:00
Hey! I am Arsh

Building Cates (An AI Catering Platform) has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my life in the last month, and helping restaurants generate more revenue has been an integral part of it.

The problem is that I have been building this from my understanding of the needs of users while taking some feedback from restaurants.

Now, I want your opinion on the product. I want to make the product better for the users. And that's why I need your help.

If you have some time to critique one of the best things that has happened to the restaurant industry in a long time, please comment below or reach out to me on X @arshinvests, and we'll schedule a time.
Show HN: Vibe Foto editor, no mouse, just prompt
by zigakerec | 2025-07-30 15:52:39+00:00
I created (mainly for myself) a vibe foto editor.

You can use it to: - remove people from the image - change the style of the photo - remodel your kitchen (my main usage) - add objects to the photo - change the color of your hair - whatever you want :)

This is just a first version, I'm always adding things.

Please let me know if this is even useful for anybody else, or if you have any suggestions.
by Hilift | 2025-07-30 15:52:42+00:00
Deet works on most things except deer flies. One bite is usually enough to itch for hours. They feed during the daytime.

"Their mouthparts include two pairs of cutting "blades" that lacerate skin and cause flow of blood out of the wound, which females lap up with a sponge-like mouthpart."

https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/publichealth/insects/taban...
by benreesman | 2025-07-30 15:52:51+00:00
That's not what I said, you know that's not what I said. I said people who talk like that on HN are doing so from an unrelated personal experience.

This sub-thread is about the habits of speech that make a certain breed of armchair public policy economist jump out like a lump on plate glass. Get Patek in here and we could start a convention.
by pablovincy | 2025-07-30 15:53:15+00:00
I was drowning in the tedious task of manually adding affiliate links to specific keywords on my new travel blog. Scrolling through endless pages, hunting for keywords, manually hyperlinking each one felt like a never-ending chore. I remember thinking, There has to be a better way

And then it hit me—what if I could automate this?

That spark of frustration led me to build the contextual link feature at ProofWidget.com a tool that does in less than 1 minute what used to take me hours.

If you’ve ever wasted time on manual linking, I’ve got your solution. Say goodbye to the grind and hello to more time creating!

Oh and...if you want to add tooltips to any texts on your website this also works like a charm
by csa | 2025-07-30 15:53:53+00:00
> Is the theory here that the previous owners were altruistically pricing below what the market would bear?

As someone who has done research on pricing in a range of sectors, it’s usually some form of ignorance rather than altruism.

In case you think I’m just picking on child care providers, I will provide an additional example — non-VC SaaS services were often wildly mispriced/underpriced until the “charge more” mantra became more widespread (thank you, patio11).
by ang_cire | 2025-07-30 15:53:57+00:00
Good for them! I used to walk my dog past their (office? warehouse?) in Emeryville, and when the weather was warm they'd have the doors open and the giant server stacks just sitting there, looking awesome. I guess it's not really a concern that someone will steal something that looks like it'd take a forklift to move.

The ultimate aspirational homelab setup, ngl.
by ben7799 | 2025-07-30 15:54:28+00:00
This article is mediocre because smartphone is perfectly happy to take pictures that look like the "beginner photographer" pictures. You just have to know what you're doing.

- Don't use the super wide lens and stand too close to people

- Use the super easy edit features to fix distortion

- Pay attention to lighting & exposure

- Don't just accept the iPhones default settings

If you want toned down contrast and color smartphones are perfectly happy to do that.

Otherwise.. I do configure my fancy digital camera to capture reduced contrast and color saturation compared to the defaults on a smartphone. So a lot of the time my samples would look like his.

Average people want contrast + saturation turned up like crazy. This is why the defaults ship that way. This is why a lot of the beginner non-phone digital cameras often shipped with the defaults that way. This is why TVs ship with the brightness/contrast/saturation boosted. The average person might look at your more subtle photo and appreciate it as better than theirs but then they will go right back to being super happy with their high contrast/saturation images.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-07-30 15:54:30+00:00
Oh I don't live in Nevada or Arizona, if that's what you were implying. Also, this thread is about the utility of HOAs, so in the example you're giving, then HOA can actually be more beneficial since they often include bylaws to restrict or prevent landscaping and watering during periods of water conservation. It goes both ways.
by skydhash | 2025-07-30 15:55:45+00:00
> *Treating one big function handling 10 different scenarios is not what I would call functional components, much less simpler in nature.

That’s an antipattern. Like the 200 lines function in imperative or the god class in OOP.

Your components should be small and composable. Before directly using the standard hooks in the components, you should think first if it would not better to write a custom one. Scenarios should be handled by custom hooks and component should just get data from them. If you cannot test scenarios apart from your views and vice-versa, you’re doing it wrong
by throwanem | 2025-07-30 15:56:02+00:00
From your perspective of course it has benefits. From mine? Getting stack ranked wasn't even in my top 10 as concerns went, but I'm really good at my job, and I keep quality notes that make it easy to recap a quarter or half. (But like I said, I'm good at my job.) I don't really see what that has to do with focusing your rhetoric on 10% of startup comp as though it were 100% - especially now that your tax discount on cash comp has been restored! - but you're welcome, of course.
by muzani | 2025-07-30 15:56:06+00:00
There's other anecdata that 1 in 7 of students are attending classes. This is a little extreme, but it looks like even the students have lost faith in it. Students are using ChatGPT for assessments; professors are getting better at writing assignment-prompts that trip it up.

When people drop out, the ones with a complete degree will be the outliers. It hasn't been about what you learn, uni's main purpose is a form of certification. You can cheat in every other kind of certification too.

Assignments aside, universities at least certify that you have spent time with peers in the same field, both students and professors. Unless you took an online one.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-30 15:56:11+00:00
How do you define this group of people? Most Palestinians have more of the blood of Abraham than the European Jews who displaced them. The idea that the Jews fled Palestine after the Romans conquered it is a myth that can be verified by genetic testing. Many stayed and Hellenized and then converted to Christianity and then converted to Islam. Now these people won't do the rational thing and "convert" back to Judaism to continue to stay in that land because of Pascal's wager and lack of education to see through it. For that, they have their land taken, are excluded from participating in the democracy that governs the country they live in, are starved, and are dehumanized.
by westurner | 2025-07-30 15:56:17+00:00
What could they do to pull it out with the broader market so abandoned?

Make a throwback truck or trucks. Wheel well flares.

You're a friend to the EV conversion axial torque and other rebalancing methods community, which is seeking to retrofit legacy trucks with batteries and torque

Bioplastic for the superstructure and bioplastic for the relatable ding-resistant panels.

To safety spec injection molded bioplastic panels would be a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_moulding

Fusion induction welding as necessary.

Anode disconnect on thermal runaway by melting, swelling

Twisted SWCNT have sufficient density the lab to compete with Li(FEPO4) and sodium ion out of just carbon; it just needs a controlled process to scale it up.

Are you compatible with other accessories on the market?

What do AI analyses of hypercritical videos about the product say, in summary?
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-30 15:56:37+00:00
> You find a circle interesting.

Yes, but finding something interesting is a thing that humans do, that's only relevant here if humans are the study object.

> Do you also find ovals interesting?

Yeah they are quite like a circle, but not exactly. Also why do planets "know" how to move? Why isn't it random?

> do you find a few atoms blowing in the wind interesting?

If have the time and the means to study them and I can learn something through that, then sure?

> Why are some things more interesting than others?

To us humans? Because some things are more accessible than others, some things are more generalisable than others, some things are more useful than others. Humans are curious, they like to know properties about things. Why? I have no explanation grounded in natural-science, (only in economics, behavioral science and religion). But that doesn't matter, because these properties stay true no matter what we do. Humans can't know them all, because we are finite and only have access to limited resources.

It's just that these things exist. And they behave. And they are describable by descriptions that are way simpler then they are large. These are complex systems and they are describable by a single number. That's what makes pi special.