MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rhet0rica | 2025-07-05 22:10:39+00:00
Tragically missing the NeXT and Rhapsody versions that preceded many of these programs. Rhapsody DR2 has its own Stickies icon that got skipped, along with the checkmark-monitor Preferences from NeXTSTEP 4.0PR1 Mecca.

I have a big dump of 48x48 NeXT icons here if anyone craves them: http://rhetori.ca/next/

(but holy shit you better not tell ClaudeBot about it or i'll scream)
by thenaturalist | 2025-07-05 22:11:06+00:00
As a guy who isn't particularly good looking and never smoked, many things have blown me away since adopting a dog in my early thirties a couple of years back.

Besides the obvious things such as exercising (I do forest runs)/ walking more regularly and often, a dog has had a calming and stress reducing effect on me I'd never have imagined possible.

I have ADHD and besides the impulsivity that comes with it, it was untreated until after I adopted my dog. Even prior to diagnosis, having a mammal besides you that you cannot talk to, but that is very reactive to your emotions has calmed me down significantly.

I experienced I can only interact calmly and trusting with my dog if I am, in fact, doing so being calm and trusting myself.

Also, dogs are amazing at executive functioning. They don't fret past mistakes, they try again. Seeing it physically in front of you every other day puts me in a different mental spot. Can't be depressed if I see it's possible.

And last but not least, I've never had so many positive random interactions with strangers ever in my entire adult life.

Both me approaching others when my dog is with me or being approached.

People just don't read you as a creep or threat if you present yourself as being able to interact well with a dog.

I have had fish and ants before, the mental and social effects don't ever compare.

Highly recommend adopting a dog if you're so inclined.

It's awesome.
by randcraw | 2025-07-05 22:11:06+00:00
"[…] people who undergo CPR outside of a hospital setting survive only 10 percent of the time. Within a hospital setting, CPR survival rates are only a bit higher — about 17 percent."

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/contrary-to-popular-...

So it seems CPR has contributed little to the survivability of heart attacks.
by Phelinofist | 2025-07-05 22:11:16+00:00
Honestly I hate Amazon because they are a mega corp that just gets bigger and bigger. But on the other hand they are just the best online store hands down. I ordered an electric toothbrush yesterday at 23:30 and it arrived today at 15:30 - that's just amazing. Also returning stuff is hassle-free and they often are the cheapest.

I tried using Otto for some time but it just cannot compare. Sure. I could also shop from multiple shops but that is kinda waste of time. Amazon is a real one-stop shop.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-07-05 22:11:43+00:00
Honestly I couldn’t agree more.

I think cursive should become more of hobby. Touch typing is so much more important. Wasn’t taught in any of my schools.

I learned touch typing myself and it completely changed my career trajectory and made me a better (digital) communicator/writer

I made https://www.typequicker.com for this reason - hoping to slowly grow it over time and try brining on institutional clients (schools, tutoring agencies, etc). I wish I was forced to learn touch typing earlier on in my life
by renewiltord | 2025-07-05 22:12:36+00:00
Ha! Good reference. Look at perplexity logo. It is fan of rectangular slats with line in middle. To American this is "butthole". Can only imagine that in USA, people are like duck with strangely corkscrewing genitals. Fan shaped butthole is for insertion of Torx T6 bit perhaps, to fulfill local slang of "screwing".
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-05 22:13:11+00:00
> Most of my career though is spent as a teacher - teaching Math, Science and Computers to primary students.

That tells me that you have had some fairly good matriculated schooling. I have been doing heavy-duty software engineering for decades, and am not qualified to teach math, science, or, surprisingly, computers, to primary students.

"Computer Science" isn't really "programming." It's the theory behind things, not just implementation. I don't consider myself to be a "computer scientist," although I know a lot of the stuff they do. My focus has always been on deliverables. In some cases, that's more valuable for getting paid, in other cases (like in academia, or the R&D sections of companies), maybe not so much.

I'm 63, and still learn new stuff every day. I choose to concentrate on deliverables, as opposed to theory, but that's me.

I would suggest that if you want to be at the pointy end, then it's not really about delivering product. That's not always using the latest $BUZZWORD technology, or giving up, when it gets annoying and boring. For me, I find great satisfaction, in delivering end-user product.

For many others, here, they are far more interested in developing theoretical lattices and engines; which is extremely valuable. We need all types, to advance the craft. You also get to play with the best toys.

I would suggest thinking about what the end goal is, then focusing the learning on that.
by quelsolaar | 2025-07-05 22:13:13+00:00
Yes, Sex work can be made more safe. However none of these protects against the psychological harm that may sex workers are experiencing. There is plenty of evidence how harmful prostitution can be to mental wealth.

You list things that regulated to protect the user of drugs, tobacco and alcohol, but with prostitution, the product is a human being that needs to be protected too.

The Nordic model, does not outlaw selling sex, but criminalizes buying. In my opinion, selling sex may be harmfull, but i see no ethical reason against it. However there is no ethical way to buy sex, because its impossible for a buyer to be sure that you are not causing serious harm to the person you are buying from.
by kaycey2022 | 2025-07-05 22:15:01+00:00
That is just not going to happen. Sweeping regulations that govern how games will be designed and created will just mean no game is made or sold in that market. Or this whole thing will be circumvented using malicious compliance. So end of life plan just means your client works but it stops being a playable game.

Categorisation, maybe like even how cigarettes are sold, with big warnings and steam made to add a filter that doesn’t show games with no eol support will go a long way in the market coming up with solutions than just legislation forcing creators to make games in one way.
by ezst | 2025-07-05 22:15:51+00:00
As a non Apple user, yeah, M series are neat in the sense that the premium you pay goes into barring the competition from accessing the current nodes at TSMC, making Apple look good on benchmarks for 12-18 months or so. Apple used to have something else to offer, a sense of novelty, excitement, taste, and couldn't care less about performance. Apple of today is just Samsung/Gates' Microsoft "look at how big mine is!", with more bucks and even more user-hostile practices.
by russellbeattie | 2025-07-05 22:15:53+00:00
The evolution of the App Store icon from drawing utensils (pencil, brush and ruler) to transparent popsicle sticks is definitely the most interesting. Ask someone today what the A icon represents, and they would probably have no idea, or think something like building blocks.

Game Center is definitely the worst. The bubbles have never represented anything remotely intelligible. Multi-colored blobs equals games? If you say so, Apple.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-07-05 22:16:00+00:00
Yes - I agree. Piano skills definitely make it easier to pick up touch typing.

I learned piano earlier in my life and then learned touch typing (and shameless plug: built https://www.typequicker.com) later on in life and I definitely had a easier time than some of my peers.

I’m curious - what course did you take (might have been a while) ? I’m hoping to built features in TypeQuicker for institutional clients (schools, tutoring agencies, etc) and I’m doing research on what some schools currently use.

Many don’t have any courses at all so it’s a hard sell right now
by jumploops | 2025-07-05 22:16:06+00:00
What was your prompt?

In my experience it’s great at utilizing local storage and SQLite, if you ask it to.

I just asked the ChatGPT web client (4o, as that’s what most non-developers might default to):

> Can you build me a website for my photos

And it immediately started suggesting Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace, etc.

Specifically, this was section 4 of the various questions it asked me:

> 4. Tech Preference (optional)

> - Do you want this as a static HTML site, WordPress, or built with something like React, Next.js, or Wix/Squarespace? > - Do you need help hosting it (e.g., using Netlify, Vercel, or shared hosting)?

As a non-programmer, I likely wouldn’t understand half those words, and the section is marked optional.

If I follow the “default path” I’m quickly forking over a credit card and uploading my pictures of dogs/family/rocks to the cloud.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-05 22:19:07+00:00
The trick for anything Nvidia and networking related, of course, is to search for "Mellanox", the network card manufacturer they bought.

This forum post suggests the ConnextX-6 might work: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/connectx-6-dx-crypto-a...

However, details are very hard to come by. Maybe the "offload" they offer isn't actually offloading anything and I've just misunderstood them when I last heard about them (and kernel XDP really is that fast).
by krohling | 2025-07-05 22:19:21+00:00
I think this is a creative approach. I wonder how the success rates for that little RNN compare to the success rates of the primary LLM, especially for complex queries or complex tool calls. At some point you have to scale that network up large enough to get better results. Eventually you've come back around and you might as well use an LLM. I think a similar approach with potentially better results (depends on the application) could be accomplished by using that same dataset to finetune a small language model. It'd be interesting to see some success rate comparisons.
by ggm | 2025-07-05 22:19:23+00:00
What fundamentals would make the jit, this specific jit faster? Because if it's demonstrably slower, it begs the question if it can be faster or is inherently slower than a decent optimisation path through a compiler.

At this point it's a great didactic tool and a passion project surely? Or, has advantages in other dimensions like runtime size, debugging, and .pyc coverage, or in thread safe code or ...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-05 22:19:24+00:00
Radium watches, on the other hand, were quite dangerous.

As noted in another comment, I wouldn't consider Polonium to be "harmless."

But I grew up in an environment that would cause most parents, today, to defecate masonry. I grew up in Africa, and we had some really fun critters going through our backyard, like Black Mambas, Gaboon Vipers, and even the damn bugs were nasty. Bug bites could hurt for a month.

I somehow survived.
by grep_name | 2025-07-05 22:19:56+00:00
I don't see anything about carbonated beverages in those comments? I've had good results with some of the exercises mentioned there, but since then have been in a rut unable to make it stop (my only symptom of GERD is a small persistent cough, which sucks more than it sounds like). I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-05 22:20:12+00:00
I wish we lived in a world where software development metrics prioritized the efficiency of the software. As it stands, what's incentivized is adding layers to pre-existing work, with as large of a team as managers can assemble, as often as is possible.

It used to be that if someone wasn't running advanced image/video/CAD edit software, or playing the latest AAA games, then not much memory was needed. Now it isn't uncommon for loading a few web pages with game guides, and having an active chat window, to take up more resources than the game itself, despite the web pages and chat windows mostly displaying text and pre-rendered images, while the game performs complex physics calculations and renders live 3D imagery.
by submeta | 2025-07-05 22:20:34+00:00
Amazon manipulates your product searches. When you search for a product, it will push a few select brands and you won’t get past that, except you deliberately search for a specific brand. So it will limit your options. But it will give you the illusion to show you a large amount of various brands.

Searching for a product category on Google won‘t allow you to find a big number of brands either. Because they will push certain products as well.

So be aware that these platforms will limit your options.

But I admit that Amazon has a very polished UX. It‘s a one-stop shop, returns are handled very generously, and you don’t need to visit a dozen sites to get various products.
by Fogest | 2025-07-05 22:21:07+00:00
It's not about one side winning over the other. The problem is that the author of this article is attempting to make it sound like the problem only started when Trump got into power. What I am trying to point out is that this has been a problem for a while, and was a tool used recently to try to aid democrats getting into power and to censor speech on social media platforms under the guise of "misinformation" (despite them knowing it was not).

I personally do view governmental control of speech and attacks on journalists to be pretty severe in the grand scheme of things. I don't want either side to be using the FBI for this, but I don't like the authors non-genuine attempt at making it seem like this is a Trump specific problem. They did not speak out about it before, they only had a problem with it when it impacted them.
by leptons | 2025-07-05 22:21:12+00:00
Except none of what you wrote is true. Republicans again and again are arrested for pedophilia. Sorry, but the right is the party of pedophilia, not the left. "Pizzagate" was a complete haox, but it seems like you believe in hoaxes?

"MAGA Republican Resigns After Being Charged With Soliciting Sex From a Minor"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-rep...

"Republican State lawmaker used online name referencing Joe Biden to exchange child sex abuse material, feds say"

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/state-lawmaker-used-onl...

"Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge"

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/arrest-trump-pardon-...

"The crimes include plotting murder of FBI agents, child sexual assault, possession of child sexual abuse material and reckless homicide while driving drunk"

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-05 22:21:27+00:00
Likely zero, as it was encapsulated with resin. They would have had to grind the ring to dust and then eat the whole damned thing.

It was also commonly in record and camera cleaning brushes, as it could be used to induce a static charge, which would attract dust. Likewise, encapsulated, so the risk with normal use was minimal, but again, if you ground the brush to dust and ate it, all bets are off.
by w10-1 | 2025-07-05 22:23:04+00:00
Starting from work with high personal contact and trust (waiting, teaching) which cannot be outsourced, you want to move to work that is highly-technical, highly-ageist, first in line for disruption, with high barriers to entry, and highly-competitive (where you can compete with programmers world-wide for a job)?

That's a recipe for soul-crushing long-term unemployment.

TBH journeyman computer work today is plumbing with tools that go stale fast, or perhaps making tools to do the same thing better with less.

By contrast, medicine is now the biggest employer, largely because it's difficult to automate that kind of personal touch, and b/c in the US the population is aging. While being a provider involves training & certification, there are a number of provider-adjacent jobs in logistics and related counseling (e.g., genetic counselors, IT) where you can use your people and explaining skills. All of medicine now is highly technical, so there's plenty to learn, and that knowledge is much more interesting and relevant than CS or programming.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-05 22:25:21+00:00
I have my own grievances with Amazon, not least that 2 day shipping became 5 day shipping without warning during the pandemic although I know they had infrastructure in my area because for years I saw their delivery van going around on Sunday. I felt it was really unfair because if I have to wait 5 days for something to arrive I am inclined to go get it at Target or another store in town if I can.

Since then I’ve taken them up on offers of a free month of Prime or a week for $2 which is attractive if it gets me free shipping on a purchase. Now I get the same service as everyone else but if they wanted to be a loyal customer hey should have treated me as if they wanted to impress me as an earlier.

Notably Walmart has a + service which is a little cheaper than Prime but doesn’t have the video and other benefits that I’m indifferent too. I agree with the direction of that guy’s critiques of Amazon but not the magnitude but I’m a strange case in that I’m an amateur political scientist who works as a software dev with real political scientists that I have to be deferential to.
by ______ | 2025-07-05 22:26:15+00:00
A good first step is not paying for Prime.

It's like $140 annually now... and if you're mostly just buying things and not watching their content, it's a nice speed bump to just accumulate items in the cart until you hit the minimum free shipping and only order then.

When you occasionally do for some reason need an instant item, you can pay the shipping then. It's kinda like for most people, having a second or third car is much more expensive than just renting one when you actually need it.

That said, I am close to a Costco so that's where I get most of my bulk items - the Amazon stuff tends to be more discretionary.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-05 22:26:26+00:00
> Amazon needs to be stopped, and legislation will not do so. Only its loyal consumers – who keep the beast alive – can do that by taking their money elsewhere.

We've (my wife and I) tried to stop using Amazon. But recently, I've run into issues where I need particular specialized bits and pieces (e.g. just today, a low profile 4" HVAC 90 degree elbow) that are only available via Amazon. A variation is where the item is available from one or two other places, but at a 10x markup.

We need to convince vendors to also avoid Amazon, and that may be even more of a difficult sell (no pun intended).

ps. Amazon employee #2, and I approve this message.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-05 22:26:34+00:00
I think it’s a pretty bad article. The elephant in the room is Elon Musk who seems to be smart about some things and stupid about other things. I am all for genius but lately I’ve seen more and more of a cult of “high D”

https://www.darkfactor.org/

which is not at all a good thing. If Mamdani is a threat to billionaires it is that he’s a low D politician with high D competitors.
by matiasmolinas | 2025-07-05 22:26:51+00:00
Hi HN,

We've been experimenting with LLMunix, a pure Markdown "operating system" where AI agents act as the kernel. The latest update adds persistent memory and agent-to-agent messaging - simple additions that fundamentally change what's possible. What's new: - Three-tier memory system (volatile/task/permanent) - agents can now learn across sessions - Asynchronous message passing between agents with priority queues - All state stored as human-readable Markdown files How it works: Each memory entry is a timestamped Markdown file. Messages are queued in inbox directories with YAML frontmatter for metadata. No databases, no binary formats - just text files you can grep through. Real test case: We simulated a marketing agency with 4 specialized agents creating a campaign. Interesting findings: 1. When inter-agent messaging failed due to path issues, the SystemAgent adapted and manually coordinated - showing unexpected resilience 2. Market insights were successfully stored in permanent memory for future use 3. Despite subprocess isolation causing tool registration warnings, the system completed all tasks Why this might matter: Traditional LLM interactions are stateless. This approach enables: - Accumulated domain expertise over time - True multi-agent collaboration on complex tasks - Complete auditability (it's all text files) - Self-modification (agents can create new agents) Potential applications we're exploring: - Codebase analysis that remembers architectural decisions - Research agents that build knowledge graphs over time - Security analysis that learns attack patterns - Documentation systems that track what confuses users Technical challenges: - Message delivery needs better error handling - Subprocess isolation causes tool registration conflicts - Need standardized contracts for agent outputs - Performance overhead of file I/O vs in-memory state The interesting part isn't the individual features - it's how simple primitives (files + markdown + subprocess execution) can create complex emergent behaviors. Code: github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llmunix What domains would benefit from AI agents that remember and collaborate? What are we missing in our approach?
by andy99 | 2025-07-05 22:28:08+00:00
There's some survivorship bias here. You often just end up looking like an idiot or being really bad at something. I agree that embarrassment shouldn't be a barrier but one should be aware of the flip side. "Putting yourself out there" mostly results in humiliation and rejection. Focusing on being thick skinned and resilient is maybe more important than imagining you just need to get over embarrassment.

If you try new things, you may go bankrupt, get laughed at or be humiliated in a much worse way, be regularly rejected or talked down to, etc. It's not just about being brave for a minute. And in the end you might never make it.
by gibbitz | 2025-07-05 22:28:47+00:00
I'm not a doctor or lawyer, but I have a terminal degree in my field of study. Sadly my career in my field of study (Visual Art) failed to take off due to financial pressures in the field and in academia during the first term of the second Bush administration. Tech was my fall back career. I was burdened with over 100k of student debt and ended up teaching myself web development over a period of 20+ years, often as on-the-job training. I wish I didn't have the advanced degree. Many doctors wash out as internists or residents and not all lawyers are well compensated and the legal fields that pay well aren't for everyone. As the valley between the haves and have-less grows there are fewer lead bullet paths to success in America. As competition shrinks due to unregulated monopolistic practices in industry the motivation to pay well for traditional jobs is also diminishing. If I regret anything, it's not moving to Scandinavia before college.
by gouthamve | 2025-07-05 22:29:04+00:00
Related, this is an excellent book on Cod fishing and how it helped humans and finally how overfishing has hurt the Cod numbers: https://www.markkurlansky.com/books/cod-a-biography-of-the-f...

It might sound like a boring topic, but it's one of the best books I've read and something I recommend a lot.
by tbrownaw | 2025-07-05 22:30:35+00:00
> What makes adult content "degeneracy"?

It's decoupling what shouldn't be decoupled in order to optimize what shouldn't be optimized.

Rather like how your employer's janitors are from a service company, your uber driver is an independent contractor or whatever, your mortgage has probably been resold like five times, etc.

All examples of having more complex interactions stripped out.