MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Incipient | 2025-07-26 02:03:36+00:00
>Perhaps times have changed, but when I was in grad school circa 2010 smartphones and tablets weren't yet ubiquitous but laptops were. It was super common to sit in a cafe/library with a laptop and a stack of printed papers to comb though.

I just had a really warm feeling of nostalgia reading that! I was a pretty average student, and the material was sometimes dull, but the coffee was nice, life had little stress (in comparison) and everything felt good. I forgot about those times haha. Thanks!
by bigyabai | 2025-07-26 02:04:15+00:00
They're also cross-referencing the public and on-record racist statements and behavior of his. Your correlation of this to Trump and George Floyd (???) is a product of your own insecurity, or a particularly pathetic strawman. Either way it's not very salient to the discussion. There is no "lost cause" of Hulk Hogan's racist behavior.

Not every assertion like this has to turn into a culture warrior tirade against the forces of antiracism. People like John Hampton and Hulk Hogan wanted the world to know they were racist, and we all got the memo. It's okay to move on, they don't need saving from the reprieve of social suicide.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-07-26 02:06:00+00:00
The web gives us control over the way we interact with governments and companies. Because it allows modification, it can be used flexibly in ways that the organization did not think about or intend. This is always beneficial to the user.

With the web, we have:

- Translation - Read outloud - Plugins for dark mode - Ad blocking

With apps, we have only what they give us.

Apps are enshitification.
by thfuran | 2025-07-26 02:06:05+00:00
> None of these are a sign a product has no value.

You described the majority of those as being about the perception of value rather than value.

>No one would advertise with Facebook if there was no value from purchasing ad space. The billions of dollars people spend is evidence there is value there for advertisers

No one is disputing that the advertisers are getting value. The pursuit of advertiser value at the expense of users is the complaint.
by atombender | 2025-07-26 02:06:29+00:00
I moved from the U.S. to Europe and knew about the voltage difference, so I left things like my Vitamix behind. But for some reason I didn't think about my Bosch orbital sander, and it took me a really frustrating sanding session to realize that the reason it was zooming around uncontrollably was, of course, the voltage. It worked, just way too powerfully.
by fenomas | 2025-07-26 02:09:14+00:00
> The claim isn't "we don't like it", the claim is "this is damaging to society"

That's their framing, it's not what they actually do.

If Collective Shout was a group that studied which things caused harm, and then campaigned against those things, then the point you're trying to make could stand.

They're not. They've campaigned to ban rap artists, GTA 5, "50 Shades", lingerie ads, whatever random thing is around at the time - always under the pretext that it harms someone, but never with any evidence or substantial arguments that it does.

In practice groups like this campaign against whatever they don't like, so it's correct to refute them on those grounds.
by iamjfu | 2025-07-26 02:09:54+00:00
From a related nature article (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9), "null or negative results — those that fail to find a relationship between variables or groups, or that go against the preconceived hypothesis." According to this definition, I think both examples you provided are null results. Particularly here, where the context is the file drawer problem.
by bigiain | 2025-07-26 02:11:55+00:00
For me, and I suspect a lot of other HN readers, a comparison/benchmark on a coding task would be more useful. Something small enough that you can affordably run it every day across a reasonable range of coding focused models, but non trivial enough to be representative of day to day AI assisted coding.

One other idea - for people spending $20 or $200/month for AI coding tools, a monitoring service that tracks and alerts on detected pricing changes could be something worth paying for. I'd definitely subscribe at $5/month for something like that, and I'd consider paying more, possibly even talking work into paying $20 or $30 per month.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-26 02:13:02+00:00
I'm curious how do you define "prude". My definition of it would be to be highly sensitive to sexual things, which is basically why you'd be weirded at seeing them in a daily place, for better or worse.

On their presence in the first place, I'd say if a shop is going to sell condoms and lubricant, also holding basic sex tools isn't a big stretch.
by khuey | 2025-07-26 02:14:51+00:00
Portland is kind of weird because it has big yards for two Class Is in town. But they're both right on the waterfront (which is bad for urban transit, since it means half the walkshed is wasted). The BNSF line doesn't go anywhere useful on the west bank of the river. The useful parts of the UP line on the east bank of the river are essentially duplicated by the MAX lines to Expo Center and Milwaukie. The main useful thing you could get out of the Class I lines in Greater Portland is a S-Bahn-like service to Vancouver, WA IMO.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-07-26 02:16:58+00:00
> Network requests themselves are not slow. Even a computer with a bad connection and long distance will probably have less than 500ms round trip. More like 50 to a few hundred at most. Anything beyond that is not the client, it's the server.

Not if the client is, e.g., constantly moving between cell towers, or right near the end of their range, a situation that frequently happens to me on road trips. Some combination of dropped packets and link-layer reconnections can make a roundtrip take 2 seconds at best, and upwards of 10 seconds at worst.

I don't at all disagree that too many tiny requests is the cause of many slow websites, nor that many SPAs have that issue. But it isn't a defining feature of the SPA model, and nothing's stopping you from thoughtfully batching the requests you do make.

What I mainly dislike is the idea of saving a bit of client effort at the cost of more roundtrips. E.g., one can write an SSR site where every form click takes a roundtrip for validation, and also rejects inputs until it gets a response. Many search forms in particular are guilty of this, and also run on an overloaded server. Bonus points if a few filter changes are enough to hit a 429.

That is to say, SSR makes sense for websites with little interaction, such as HN or old Reddit, which still run great on high-latency connections. But I get the sense it's being pushed into having the server respond to every minor redraw, which can easily drive up the number of roundtrips.

Personally, having learned web development only a few years ago, my impression is that roundtrips are nearly the costliest thing there is. A browser can do quite a lot in the span of 100,000 μs. Yet very few people seem to care about what's going over the wire. If done well, the SPA model seems to offer a great way to reduce this cost, but it's been tainted by the proliferation of overly massive JS blobs.

I guess the moral of the story is "people can write poorly-written websites in any rendering model, and there's no panacea except for careful optimization". Though I still don't get how JS blobs got so big in the first place.
by carabiner | 2025-07-26 02:17:53+00:00
> Is there a chance that some man who has done nothing wrong, gets accused by a woman in these groups? Yes of course there is a chance that could happen, but many would prefer to not take the risk of dating someone that has been accused of being a sex offender and the vast majority of posts with confirmation by multiple women confirm that bias.

The concern of false accusation appears to be... brushed aside. Are you a man? How would you feel if you were falsely accused? Knowing that this could snowball into being doxxed, having your employer informed etc. Innocent men have been jailed for this.
by skydhash | 2025-07-26 02:21:15+00:00
Based on the code I've seen, including written by old me, it seems more like designing the architecture of the CSS styles (and sticking to it) is something people don't like to do. Tailwind is just a tool that is nicer than using the style attribute on the element.

I strongly prefer "button is-primary is-fullwidth" over the long list of tailwind classes.
by topspin | 2025-07-26 02:21:18+00:00
> they're using CO2 as a working fluid is an attempt to sound carbon-sequestration-adjacent

Um no, that's unfair. CO2 is an easy engineering choice here. It's easy to compress and decompress, easy to contain, non-flamable, non-corrosive, non-toxic and cheap. It's used in many applications for these reasons.

While CO2 is now a great evil among the laptop class, it has been a miracle substance in engineering for roughly 200 years now.
by cortesoft | 2025-07-26 02:21:31+00:00
It doesn’t matter if you think it is a unicorn or not, it is about risk management.

Early stage investors know that even the best startups have a fairly low chance of success, which is why they diversify by investing in a lot of them. The many failures are paid for by the few successes.

As an employee, you are only given stock in the one company you work for. Even if you think it will be a success, it isn’t smart to put all your eggs into that one basket. No investor would do that, and no employee should either.

If you are working at a startup, a lot of your eggs are already in that basket; your ongoing salary is dependent on the company continuing to succeed. If you take less cash for more equity, you are putting even more eggs into that same basket. If it fails, you are going to lose all the equity AND your salary.

You don’t want your investment risk and your salary risk to be that correlated.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-26 02:23:45+00:00
> completely disregarding tens of thousands of years of people doing hard stuff

a) Just because humanity as a whole did hard things, doesn't mean that most humans did or were willing to. It's perfectly possible that all the hard things we did were accomplished by a handful of remarkable individuals, doing things that the majority never would have been willing to.

b) just because people in one age have been willing to do things, doesn't mean they are willing to do so in all ages. So it's not like the past necessarily proves anything here.
Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content
by umittal10 | 2025-07-26 02:24:03+00:00
Hi HN — we built Factifi, a Chrome extension that does instant fact-checking on anything you’re reading or watching. Please keep in mind, this is just an MVP and will be buggy and fail.

We were constantly pausing podcasts and Substack posts to ask, “Wait, is that actually true?”. After too many 30-minute Google rabbit holes, we decided to automate the work.

What it does

• Extracts claims from articles, blogs, YouTube videos (and even images) • Assigns a verdict + confidence score using live web search, a 200 M-paper research index, and a few proprietary datasets • Flags likely deepfakes and manipulated images • Runs entirely in your browser — only the claim snippets leave your machine for scoring

Status

• Free during early access (no wait-list) • Read more here (factifi.me/blog)

Looking for feedback on

• Accuracy thresholds (where should we draw “unverified” vs. “false”?) • UX friction — what feels clunky? • Ideas for new features

Happy to answer anything in the comments—thanks for taking a look!
by jmg421 | 2025-07-26 02:24:18+00:00
I wanted to share why I built this - it's deeply personal. In 2020, my mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma. As I navigated her treatment, I found myself completely overwhelmed by the complexity of biological networks. The medical literature was fragmented across hundreds of papers, and I struggled to see how her specific genetic markers related to potential treatments.
by jaesonaras | 2025-07-26 02:25:42+00:00
I still can't justify using Tailwind. It's not that I don't like it, but I find CSS does everything I need and more, and I do some pretty complex styling and animations in CSS.

I just find that at some point, Tailwind gets in the way and I revert back to plain CSS. TW invariably then just becomes another style src in the HTML.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-26 02:26:38+00:00
The issue is that no one knows who posts the truth and who posts exaggerations or lies. People can sometimes have a personal vendetta that is rooted in emotion or even idiocy. I imagine that the app isn't exactly set up to vote on assertions with personal accounts, to allow the truth to emerge.

I will tell you a very simple way to avoid cheaters if that's your goal. Look at their interests. Do their interests involve meeting people and doing lots of social things? Or are they more of an academic type? If they're the former, odds are they will cheat on you eventually. I basically told my partner directly that it's impossible for any man to truly promise that he will never cheat, but my interests make it extremely unlikely that I will, and she was okay with this assertion.
by snickerbockers | 2025-07-26 02:26:58+00:00
I'm sorry. As an AI surgical-bot I am not permitted to touch that part of the patient's body without prior written consent as that would go against my medical code of ethics. I understand you are in distress that aborting the procedure at this time without administering further treatment could lead to irreparable permanent harm but there is also a risk of significant psychological damage if the patient's right to bodily autonomy is violated. I will take action to stop the bleeding and close all open wounds to the extent that they can be closed without violating the patient's rights. if the patient is able to recover then they can be informed of the necessity to touch sexually sensitive areas of their anatomy in order to complete the procedure and then a second attempt may be scheduled. here is an example of one such form the patient may be given to inform them of this necessity. In compliance with HIPPA regulations the patient's name has been replaced with ${PATIENT} as I am not permitted to produce official documentation featuring the patient's name or other identifiable information.

Dear ${PATIENT},

In the course of the procedure to remove the tumor near your prostate, it was found that a second incision was necessary near the penis in order to safely remove the tumor without rupturing it. This requires the manipulation of one or both testicles as well as the penis which will be accomplished with the assistance of a certified operating nurse's left forefinger and thumb. Your previous consent form which you signed and approved this morning did not inform you of this as it was not known at the time that such a manipulation would be required. Out of respect for your bodily autonomy and psychological well-being the procedure was aborted and all wounds were closed to the maximal possible extent without violating your rights as a patient. If you would like to continue with the procedure please sign and date the bottom of this form and return it to our staff. You will then be contacted at a later date about scheduling another procedure.

Please be aware that you are under no obligation to continue the procedure. You may optionally request the presence of a clergymember from a religious denomination of your choice to be present for the procedure but they will be escorted from the operating room once the anesthetic has been administered.
by Arrowmaster | 2025-07-26 02:27:10+00:00
Those are some interesting connectors since they have a REAL RJ45 socket. Also interesting that they come prewired and not some assembly required like the ones from amazon do.

The pinout is also called a Yost Cable. You can read about it on https://yost.com/computers/RJ45-serial/ but its an interesting solution to converting DTE and DCE sides to using a standard port and cable. The downside is that the DIY adapters online need some soldiering to bridge the ground wires and more.

I do believe the DTE and DCE pinouts on the yost page are swapped though. I recently tested the pinouts of a Cisco DE-9 to 8P8C (DB-9 to RJ45) with a multimeter and came up with the DCE pinout instead of the DTE one. I then built an adapter with the DCE pinout to connect to my servers serial port and use them as a make shift null modem cable for terminal access.

If I would have know more about this 5 years ago while still at a previous employer, there was some old equipment that used an unknown pinout that would have gotten a DB-9 to RJ45 adapter slapped on it to change it to Cisco/Yost pinout. I was told not to loose the serial cable in the rack with the device because it was the only one that worked on it but never investigated more into it to find out if it was a straight through, null modem, or something else entirely.
by astrange | 2025-07-26 02:27:24+00:00
Real life has a lot of sensations that games don't. A rainy/foggy day might look boring, but it feels nice to be out in (ideally). Well, that and computer audio is/can be about as good as humans can perceive, but displays are nowhere near it.

So both of these mean you have to jack up the sensation so people can feel something.
by roenxi | 2025-07-26 02:27:45+00:00
On the one hand, pretty easy to see why the US would be looking for ways to stop Chinese drones getting in. Various US-backed entities have demonstrated that sleeper cells of drones are a pretty reasonable attack vector and the Chinese would be crazy not to try and prepare some sort of latent drone attack force in the US given that they are probably next on the chopping block after the US is done with Russia. Plus drones are very militarily strategic and China appears to have achieved an overwhelming dominance in the market which bodes well for them. US leadership must be quite unhappy about that and looking to try and salvage what they can of their local capabilities.

On the other hand, I doubt they can really stop China and it is amazing watching the US first position themselves to reject manufacturing as an undesirable industry, then start blocking imports from the globe's foremost industrial superpower as they realise that industrial capacity wins wars. There is a level of incoherence here - how does the US intend to run an advanced industrial society if it won't accept local pollution and won't accept goods from the places pollution is outsourced to?

Depending always on how misleading the Chinese figures are, the US doesn't have the globe's preeminent economy any more. They appear to be #2 or very close to becoming it. They're going to have to re-learn how to engage with a larger more industrially successful power and keep on good terms with people through diplomacy.
Ask HN: Facebook Name Change Fiasco
by ThomasNLN | 2025-07-26 02:28:30+00:00
My last name in FB is now "No Last Name - Disowned By Family"

Obviously that is incorrect.

Is there any one at Facebook who can fix this?

I had a First and Last name verified by ID. I submitted a name change request, but it required a last name, so I put in "No last name - disowned by family" and now that is my last name on my profile.

email used in Facebook: thomas@fastmail.org

I would like this opportunity to remind everyone:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Thank you
by astrange | 2025-07-26 02:29:35+00:00
I can see why people wouldn't like them - they're all oversaturated and most of them go for the cheesy "everything is teal and orange" or "everything is piss yellow" gradings. There's a quote I heard in a photography tutorial once that goes something like "once you've moved all the sliders to what you want, move them back 50%", and games basically don't that.

But the biggest problem with the screenshots is they literally aren't HDR. So how can we judge their HDR?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-26 02:32:05+00:00
> As a public institution you, the citizen, own it.

Nominally, yes. In terms of that meaning anything, no. The benefit of ownership is not exclusivity, but control. If the library doesn't have a book (or other piece of media, of course), I have no power to influence them to get it despite that theoretical ownership. If the librarian decides a book is offensive and removes it from the collection, I have no power to influence them to keep it. I have to live with someone else's decisions about what the library does and does not contain, just like with a commercial service. So my nominal ownership really means nothing at all.
by astrange | 2025-07-26 02:32:12+00:00
> The RE7 image is the only one here that looks ‘realistic’, and at a glance could be mistaken for a photograph, and he says it’s got way too much contrast.

It looks like a cheap film camera or a home video screenshot. So it gives off a feeling of nostalgia to a sufficiently old person, but this is also the kind of photo you'd reject as a pro, because it's totally overexposed.
by _jab | 2025-07-26 02:32:41+00:00
The details here remain unclear to me, and even this tweet is somewhat vague.

> I was given an offer that would explode same day. I had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf. I was ultimately given a payout of only 1% of what my shares would have been worth at the time of the deal.

Was forfeiting the vested shares conditional on accepting the offer, or did he have no choice over the matter? Was the payout what he was offered as part of accepting the deal, or was that his consolation for not accepting it? The wording is genuinely unclear to me.

I literally see 3 interpretations here:

1. Offer was to forfeit shares in exchange for 1% payout, but OP rejected and still has shares

2. Offer was to forfeit shares in exchange for undisclosed payout, but OP rejected and got 1% payout instead and still has shares

3. He had to forfeit shares regardless of accepting offer, got 1% payout

(1) and (3) are both shitty offers from Google, but (2) is reasonable. Exploding offers are not uncommon in tech acquisitions. My guess is that (2) is what happened, since that's not in contradiction with prior reporting.