MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon191928 | 2025-07-25 09:25:48+00:00
In early 2000s it was IMPOSIBLE for websites to handle millions of visits, except big ones like google and yahoo.

UX for websites was weak, mobile barely existed, https was not used, online payments were limited to certain websites, fraud was common and anyone with CC number could steal from your card.

Internet was not early and Crypto is now at that level. So think bigger and think about process.
by sofixa | 2025-07-25 09:25:58+00:00
That's only in the US. The few other countries that have credit scoring mostly have negative scores (basically, a lender can check if a prospective borrower has failed to pay loans/taxes/etc. previously). And it is only restricted to lenders.

It's a much better system than the dystopian American one where prospective employers and renters check your score, which is built based on a ton of relatively private information, to determine if you're worthy of renting or working. And people have to game the system by minmaxing credit cards to be able to have the chance of renting or even working. It's utter nonsense that doesn't serve anyone other than the credit card companies and credit score bureaus.
by kelnos | 2025-07-25 09:27:00+00:00
Companies charge what the market can bear, not based on their costs. Certainly they will often use some multiplier of their costs as a starting point, and they can't sustainably charge below their costs. But if they double the price of the product and lose more than half of their customers, that's a failure to set pricing properly.

Consider the reverse direction: if a company can decrease costs, they will usually pocket the extra profit, not reduce the price they charge. Price cuts usually only happen for one of two reasons: 1) to avoid losing customers to another company that is charging less (or to entice customers of another company that's charging the same), or 2) to capture more profit if they'll earn more customers at a lower price than they'll lose due to the lower per-unit profit. (Yes, there are other reasons, but these seem to be the main ones.

For goods that are not essential to life, prices are set based on what people are willing to pay vs. how many units can be sold at that price, with the cost as a floor (absent a policy of using a product as a loss leader).
I Built a Visual Novel Engine in TypeScript
by Eshan276 | 2025-07-25 09:27:40+00:00
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Why Build a Visual Novel Engine? As a dev and a fan of interactive storytelling, I always wanted to create visual novels that:

Run smoothly in the browser Use TypeScript for strong typing and modern dev flow Allow simple scripting, branching paths, and rich dialogues Are modular, open-source, and easy to extend So instead of waiting for the perfect engine, I built one. What Makes This Engine Different? Unlike Ren’Py (Python-based) or RPG Maker (closed source), this engine is:

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by vee-kay | 2025-07-25 09:27:59+00:00
I work in Banking, and RBI (India's Banking Regulatory organization) has enforced stringent norms for UPI transactions behind the scenes, especially for chargebacks/disputes, to ensure that the UPI transactions are processed faster and easier by the Banks and intermediary processors, with the aim that customers get transparency and accountability in digital payments.

So stringent in fact, that RBI shut down PayTM Payments Bank which was most popular market leader in that sector, because PayTM flouted the mandated norms for digital payments and payments banking.

That is also beside the fact that UPI platform has high uptime and rarely faces any outages.
by kamaitachi | 2025-07-25 09:29:57+00:00
It’s more than that.

I lived in Boston for a few years back in the 90’s (legal, green card holder) but moved back to Ireland.

My kids wanted to visit NYC this year, but it was a hard no from me.

What Trump has done to the US really puts me off wanting to spend time or money in that country.

Many Europeans (including myself) have been moving away from US companies for online services (in my case, moving from Apple Music to Spotify, and now seriously looking at a FreePhone as my iPhone 11 Pro starts to age). I don’t think I’ve ever seen this broad level of anti-US sentiment before in Europe.

Trump has shown that the US isn’t a trusted ally of Europe and must be considered in the same vein as China. Which is crazy.

It’s a trust issue and it’ll take years to resolve.

On the upside, finally Europe is starting to stand up and fund its own defence.
by a_sydelov | 2025-07-25 09:30:29+00:00
A detailed breakdown of Apache Spark’s internal architecture, including how jobs are structured into stages, how Catalyst and AQE optimize execution, and why shuffles and partitioning matter more than most realize.

The article covers: – Execution model and DAG structure – Memory and shuffle management – Optimization strategies for queries, caching, and data layout – Deployment patterns (local, Kubernetes, cloud) – Practical guidance for tuning Spark jobs at scale

Written for data engineers and architects working with high-throughput pipelines or production-grade Spark workloads.
by tlamponi | 2025-07-25 09:30:56+00:00
Note that I'm neither a "sales people", nor is the one that made the original post, as that is Olaf from the Perl foundation, who reached out to me after I made a contribution to one of his Perl projects, if you must know. Tbh. I didn't even know that he would post this on some channels like here or reddit before getting pinged by a colleague that we were mentioned on the front page of HN. And for a fact, I actually know (and enjoy!) several people from the QEMU and libvirt developer community actively posting on other sites comment sections, or is that now a bad thing too?

And FWIW, I tried several times to point out that QEMU itself is only a small part of what we provide–even if not, just providing a good API abstraction around that is significant work, especially if it should allow two decades (and counting!) of stable upgrade paths and _without_ libvirt. And we nowhere hide the underlying technologies, we're proudly building upon–and trying to give back–to all projects we use, be it Debian, QEMU/KVM, LXC (which we co-maintain), Linux kernel, FRR, rust, or–like here–Perl...

But as you're rather dismissive and now even start to call people trolling I hardly see any need to take your writings as serious discussion, they do not seem to be done in good faith, and IMO doing it this way certainly won't help to promote FLOSS, that should be possible without being dismissive to others work.
by tenthirtyam | 2025-07-25 09:31:14+00:00
I can understand the GOS' rationale in choosing only the most secure phones. However, I'm more concerned about privacy, and not so much about security. It'd be great to have something like a "GOS-Lite" which accepts some security compromises in order to bring privacy to more people. (And yes, I understand that lower security means less privacy from targeted attacks but even GOS depends on OEM blobs, right?)
by pyrale | 2025-07-25 09:33:08+00:00
> But all of them feel videogamey and none of them would pass for a film or a photograph. Or even a reasonably good offline render. Or a painting. They are instantly recognizable as video games, because only video games try to pass off these trashy contrast curves as aesthetically pleasing.

Author is fumbling the difference between aesthetics and realism. Videogames feeling videogamey? What a travesty.
by zapzupnz | 2025-07-25 09:33:08+00:00
> Have you seen the settings in the new Xcode? This iPad-ass crap keeps infesting various apps.

Yes, and I agree that it's bad. Though, I did say the System Settings app was crap, and it's taken a leaf from that.

To be honest, I think that Apple could do this split view settings window well in macOS. Other operating systems have had something like it for years. Apple just shits the bed repeatedly here for some reason.

> Overall, the current Apple seems to be very scared to lay things out in two dimensions.

I'll grant you this to be true. Though, I noticed this a much longer time ago than just now. Specifically, the way that they removed the context-sensitive toolbar in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers '09 and shoved it all into the sidebar. When they revealed the iPad and web interfaces, though they look similar, much of the mobile interface is actually radically different from the macOS design.

> The combined title bars and toolbars that were introduced in Big Sur are not an aesthetic change. It's a very visible downgrade.

I'm not sure that those are particularly iPad or iOS inspired, though. That feels more like Dye doing his "trying to get rid of the UI" thing rather than anything indicating a platform merge.

That said, I'm a bit scared we'll get the iPadOS '26 traffic light window controls (that are tiny until you hover them) in macOS…

I take your point that this change was functional, not just aesthetic, but I still don't see it as part of any conspiracy to displace the Mac. Just a lack of care.

> That is a welcome change. But that's about the only one.

Ironically, it's one I can't stand! I missed being able to do the pinch gesture to bring up Launchpad and then find my app icons without having to type or scroll a ridiculously long list in a teeny tiny window.

Launchpad made sense to me, but it should've had an option to automatically sort or tidy up the icons in the style of the App Library or the new Spotlight-based interface.
by sofixa | 2025-07-25 09:33:16+00:00
> Sure, but the question was specifically regarding credit cards, not debit cards. In which case, they would be correct in that penetration is appears lower for credit cards in the EU no?

Yes, but that's because credit cards aren't needed in the EU (you don't need to build credit, and you get the same protections on both). So it's useless to try to focus on credit cards in particular, it only makes sense to consider debit+credit.
by ranguna | 2025-07-25 09:33:22+00:00
Quite a lot of detail on this comment, thanks for that!

But I'm still left a bit confused about the future devices GraphaneOS will support:

Because you said discussion are being done with an OEM, will GraphaneOS switch from pixels to a different device?

You also said that not having the device tree won't be a major hurdle in building GraphaneOS for the future, does that mean we can expect the pixel 10 to have GraphaneOS or it's too early to know ?

Thanks again!
by zapzupnz | 2025-07-25 09:34:01+00:00
Only ping me if it's in the next five years, which was the claim from the other poster. ;-)

We have until 2030!

That said, if macOS continues to receive such shoddy treatment from its design team, I may not be using macOS by then to even care if it's going out the door. I may already be gone.
by vee-kay | 2025-07-25 09:34:31+00:00
Fun fact: UAE's "Jaywan" cards (currently Debit Cards only) is UAE initiative to replace Visa, Mastercards, etc., and Jaywan itself is based on India's NCPI org's technology stack used for RuPay. So Jaywan is RuPay tech implemented in UAE! Other countries are following suit as NCPI has taken extraordinary efforts to make this technology stack versatile, scalable, interoperable, robust, resilient and easy to implement and customize.

So India is becoming the world leader in digital payments!
by j0hax | 2025-07-25 09:34:44+00:00
Interesting to see someone writing a blog post and explaining issues they've encountered with their laptop, I participate in the official repository of Nix configurations covering these kinds of hardware quirks [1].

I also have a InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 9 (Intel Version) and began adding support for this laptop in NixOS Hardware in early March of this year, including settings sane defaults, loading drivers, and even refactoring/backporting modules for other InfinityBook versions.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/tuxedo/i...
by kelnos | 2025-07-25 09:34:49+00:00
For all their flaws (including those plaguing the US right now), I would still much rather live under a Western-style democracy than an autocracy.

Purchasing products made under autocratic regimes strengthens those regimes and gives them more power on the world stage.

I think "moral obligation" (a phrase the GP did not use, for the record) is a bit over the top, though.
by tarkin2 | 2025-07-25 09:35:51+00:00
If something happens to Taiwan, the USA will have given a huge military advantage to its biggest adversary.

It's going to take decades for the USA to catch up with Taiwan, and once China has its grip on the fabs they'll only further advance them.

In an existential crisis, the chances of Taiwan's leadership doing a deal with China when it's military protector retreats from its former declarations is in no way low.

It'll be the end of American military dominance but in fitting with the US's repeated isolationist trajectory.
by ringeryless | 2025-07-25 09:35:54+00:00
Thomas, Alito, even Roberts, and 2 of the 3 Trump appointees = they are acting as if conspiring WITH the Trump admin and a MAGA congress in a vast conspiracy you would never be foolish enough to believe was possible, were it not happening in real-time in front of our faces.

This lawless corrupt Supine Court is making it up as they go along, and then Alito and Roberts have the nerve to be outraged when their blatant corruption is pointed out. I wish they would be subject to that ancient Persian remedy for corrupt judges.

History will NOT look kindly upon how the Supreme Court of the USA gave a government employee the power of a king.
by mid-kid | 2025-07-25 09:35:56+00:00
In my experience, too many of these curl scripts are a bootstrap for another script or tarball which gets downloaded from somewhere else, and then downloads more stuff. Looking at just the main script tells you nothing. Consider for example the rust install procedure: It downloads a binary rustup, for bootstrapping, which then does the installation procedure and embeds itself into your system, and then downloads the actual compiler, and you have no chance of verifying the whole chain, nor really knowing what it changes until after the fact. Consider also systems like `pip` which through packages like puccinialin do the same inscrutable installation procedure, when a rust-based python package needs to be compiled.

Suffice to say, it's best to avoid any of this, and do it using the package manager, or manually. I only run scripts like this on systems that I otherwise don't care about, or in throwaway containers.
by Semaphor | 2025-07-25 09:37:38+00:00
Been using it for a while, now all other tools feel lacking. The multistep process with manual refinement options after every step just works so much better for keeping LLMs in line. The only times I’ve used anything but kiro since, has been when the Sonnet 4.0 was once again overloaded (tried it with 3.7 for a bit, but it went way off the rails of kiro’s tasks structure every time).
by Expurple | 2025-07-25 09:37:45+00:00
Unlike Firefox, Safari has another huge corporate backer (Apple). Apple is drowning in cash. They don't need Google's money to keep developing Safari. It's "just" a good, low-effort deal for them. Apple doesn't have a competing search engine, or an intention to develop one, or an intention to promote a free web and "save" their users from a search engine monopoly.
by netfortius | 2025-07-25 09:38:06+00:00
I have been using US credit cards for years, all over Europe, taking advantage of points/rewards/car rental insurance/money back on challenged purchases, and I pay no more than the Europeans with their debit cards, be it services or products. And I pay the entire balance once a month, from a HYSA US account, thus making a little interest on that part, also, rather than debiting at the time of each purchase, from my non interest bearing European account
by fabian2k | 2025-07-25 09:38:34+00:00
For Horizon Zero Dawn I'd argue that the colors are clearly an artistic choice. They're not going for realistic colors at all. And the original game and its sequel do look very, very good.

There do seem to be plenty of issues around HDR for sure, in some games I had to intentionally disable HDR on my PS5 because it just looked bad on my setup.
by other8026 | 2025-07-25 09:38:57+00:00
There's way much more to it than what you said here.

> extremely hostile and threatened Rossman

At the time, he was very upset. You know, because he was swatted multiple times. Of course he was upset when Rossmann showed his true colors and was trying to talk to him. Rossmann saw this as an opportunity and recorded it as it was happening. He tries to portray Daniel as crazy and people who attack the project and his friends on Kiwi Farms lap that stuff up.

It's not true that he stopped using GrapheneOS, though. He continued using GrapheneOS for months after that video, which you can see by watching his later videos.

> hallucinates

Repeating baseless claims that he's crazy.

> You have to be aware that you give that person root when you use Graphene.

What? This is a very strange way to say it. Either way, it's literally impossible for someone on the GrapheneOS team to target someone like what was claimed in the video. GrapheneOS devices don't send identifiers when they contact the update server. The update servers also only host static files.

> Calyx seems to be the best alternative right now without such a risk factor.

The "risk factor" is completely false. It's all made up to attack GrapheneOS, making the founder look like a crazy person, then people are scared of using the OS. CalyxOS is not a hardened OS and rolls back security in some ways. It's not the next best alternative for people who care about these things.
by prein | 2025-07-25 09:39:09+00:00
What would be a better alternative than LaTex for the alt text? I can't think of a solution that makes more sense, it provides an unambiguous representation of what's depicted.

I wouldn't think an LLM would have issue with that at all. I can see how a screen reader might, but it seems like the same problem faced by a screen reader with any piece of code, not just LaTex.
by HelloNurse | 2025-07-25 09:40:03+00:00
This is a broken regexp, with deliberate ambiguity: nondeterministically choosing the groups according to one of several matching alternatives is an implementation-defined ambiguity "resolution" that should not happen.

Just write /(a)b/ or /a(b)/ or /ab/ or /(ab)/ or /(a)(b)/ which mean five slightly different things.
by nirui | 2025-07-25 09:40:04+00:00
> It's actually best to do most of your activity undernourished, as it helps develop true intuitive nutrition feedback sensation. You'll start to sense how every macro and salt feels when you ingest it.

Not exactly my experience.

My did a exercise schedule involves climbing a mountain every week. The mountain is about 400 meters (that's ~1312 feet, or more than four American football fields laid end-to-end) tall, and the exercise was usually done during afternoon (1 or 2 hours before dinner) without eating lunch.

After two mouths of that, I've noticed:

1. My weight or belly size don't really changed much. I also notice that some people who also frequented the mountain have big bellies.

2. I got very hungry after that, which triggers me to eat more during dinner, usually salty food.

3. The delight of salt becomes craving, probably due to the lost of liquid/electrolyte through sweat (and tears, probably).

4. For comparison, I stops craving salty thing the next day.

I guess you need to actively suppress some of your inner urges to really make the "nutrition feedback sensation" work. Otherwise, exercise more only leads to consume more.

P.S. Also, doctors really can't recommend doing heavy physical activity with empty stomach, as it might increase your heat rate or something (I might be hearing it wrong). I've since changed the schedule so I can eat something before start climbing, though my belly size still remained the same, and I'm still craving for salty food if uncontrolled.

But maybe it's just because I don't know how to do it correctly.
by vee-kay | 2025-07-25 09:40:43+00:00
RuPay is debit/credit card as domestic alternative to Visa and MasterCard, while UPI is the digital payments platform. Both technology stacks are owned and managed by NCPI (National Payments Corporation of India is an Umbrella Organisation that facilitates services like UPI Payments, Bharat BillPay, RuPay Cards, FASTag, NACH, etc.).
by elp | 2025-07-25 09:41:25+00:00
I feel you.

I've got a 13 year old daughter with DS. We don't have 6 hours of screaming but she has definitely thrown her share of hissy fits. My personal favorite was driving into my son's snooty private boy's school while she was sitting in the back without a shirt on (She was 12 at the time).

Or the time she decided to sit down in the middle of a busy street while we were trying to cross it and we ended up dragging her across the road skinning her feet and almost getting hit by a truck.

Usually she is happy and has tons of personality but it really does make things harder at times.

I should probably add my that my usual comment when anyone asks is that having a kid with DS sucks but not as badly as a lot of other disabilities.
by poulpy123 | 2025-07-25 09:41:55+00:00
> Something you hear often in the jazz community, especially from experienced pros is "everything you need to know about theory is in the songs".

The advice of just listen/play music that I often read is imho a bad advice. You would not give people data about orbits and expect them to discover by themselves newton's law without never teaching the laws.

Of course music theory is not a scientific theory, and not only theory by itself is not enough (in both cases) but too much theory before practice is bad. And of course listening and practicing a lot of music is extremely important.

But who is going to progress faster: the student that knows what a chord is and how they are built or the student that is just listening to music ?
by jemmyw | 2025-07-25 09:42:22+00:00
I notice that some of the teens my kids are friends with are pretty weird in ways that would have invited extreme bullying when I was their age and they don't seem to have the same troubles. However, I still hear about some bullying cases. Maybe that's changing for the better too though, when I was their age we seemed to actively hide that we were bullied from adults and now adults are often (ineffectively) involved.
by imtringued | 2025-07-25 09:42:37+00:00
This reminds me of this paper:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-021-09425-5

They do the convergence analysis on the linear system Ax = 0, which means any iteration matrix (including a zero matrix) that produces shrinking numbers will converge to the obvious solution x = 0 and the genetic program just happens to produce iteration matrices with lots of zeros.