MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GianFabien | 2025-07-10 08:39:24+00:00
Musk's comments reflect upon what is wrong with our education system. Exams are about assessing students' ability to regurgitate what they have had to read / study. When you look at the typical exam, you'll notice that creativity and synthesis from first principles is rarely tested.

Musk claiming AI being at a PhD level reveals that he has absolutely no idea as to what gaining a PhD entails. In summary: A significant contribution to the body of knowledge. The antithesis of what can be determined by regurgitating what has already been written about any topic.
by kragen | 2025-07-10 08:39:42+00:00
I’m all for solar - but does it really solve the geographical / geopolitical issues of oil, as it’s currently rolling out?

Yes, because if the US blockades you so you can't import oil, your trucks and power plants stop running in six weeks. If the US blockades you so you can't import Chinese solar panels, your power grid stops running in 20 years. Actually, that's just the end of the warranty period, so more like 30. Or 40. The US is gonna have to keep up that blockade for a long time before it starts causing you any pain. Probably after the President For Life dies.
by hamzakc | 2025-07-10 08:41:02+00:00
Thanks for the reply. Interesting that you mention that it should just use Rack. It reminds me of a time a number of years ago where I was on a mission to use a framework which did not have a million and one dependencies, but just Rack.

Not sure you have come across https://github.com/Ramaze/innate (I am showing my age now :) . It is the core of the Ramaze framework. I really liked the philosophy of that project. Its a shame it never caught on though.
by seszett | 2025-07-10 08:41:06+00:00
Well, it's mostly the -aire ending that is uncommon in English, because it comes from French, as far as I know all -aire words in English are straight French loanwords. It's somewhat equivalent to the English suffix -ar.

That makes millionaire and billionaire about as unenglish as milliardaire, I think it just doesn't sound weird to you because you see them more often.
by ahmavia | 2025-07-10 08:41:18+00:00
Over the last few weeks, I experimented with a micro-project that revolves around digital link-sharing ecosystems, particularly how minimal resources can generate surprising traction when the distribution is strategic.

It’s nothing huge, but the early response from small test audiences has been encouraging.

If you're curious to explore it or give feedback, here’s the working prototype: http://ahdnewtrendz.cfd/dgfv

It's meant to be fast, simple, and scalable. Think of it as a base model to test traffic behaviors and distribution funnels.

Would love any insights from fellow builders here — especially around improving lightweight digital launches like this.
by 0xEF | 2025-07-10 08:43:31+00:00
I have a different take on permission license. I offer up what little code I produce under the assumption that anyone can use it for whatever, just give me credit. Why? Because it might result in an interesting collaboration on a project I like. If someone uses my existing code to accomplish something neat and sees who I am, they can reach out to me for more, which I'm open to since it would likely result in some growth for me as an amateur. I'm not particularly interested in making money since I recognize that I am nowhere near that level, yet, but creating a future opportunity seems like a good idea since I enjoy coding.
by dg08 | 2025-07-10 08:43:42+00:00
That’s tough. We also bought a house in a nice suburban community right outside of NYC and it’s been amazing. We know all the neighbors, exchange gifts during holidays, and a ton of kids come out for Halloween. What I really liked about the neighborhood when house hunting was seeing kids ride their bikes around on the streets unsupervised. I don’t know if it had any correlation, but the vibe felt right.
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 | 2025-07-10 08:44:20+00:00
The built-in RSS reader in Firefox was removed. (But extensions exist to add RSS reader to Firefox.)

Google killed Google Reader. (Other products exist you can use instead.)

Facebook removed support for RSS feeds. (You can replace it with third party tools or API calls.)

It’s not dead dead, but it did seem to lose some momentum and support over time on several fronts.
by kragen | 2025-07-10 08:45:06+00:00
You're overstating the current price of PV panels by a factor of three to five; it's closer to 3% of the 15-years-ago price than to 13%. That graph ends in 02023, at US$0.31/Wp, toward the end of the solar-panel bubble set up by the price-fixing cartel at the time. The actual current price is €0.11/Wp, or €0.06/Wp for low-cost (low-efficiency, no-warranty) panels: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

€0.11 is 5% of US$2.39 (the Wp price on that graph from 02010), and €0.06 is 2.7% of it. However, my notes from 02016 say that the Solarserver price index for July 02010 was €1.62/Wp; sadly I did not note which module class that was. €0.11 is 6.8% of €1.62, but of course the Euro was worth more at the time...

This three-to-five-fold difference is why you're seeing this article now.
by xisop | 2025-07-10 08:45:34+00:00
>sex workers are seen as victims and those who insist they aren't are not listened to or seen as necessary collateral in order to protect the vast majority who are.

Show me this vast majority. Otherwise, are you claiming that’s the general perception of sex workers?

>Most there are probably "victims".

Even if true, what does that have to do with self-determination? If was an alcoholic due to circumstances outside of my control, that doesn’t mean that i don't have the right, as an adult, to drink myself to death.

I’m not trying to be confrontational, but I am trying to understand what seems to be a Swedish perspective: how does removing agency from the individuals you ostensibly aim to help serve their best interests? From an American perspective, it comes across as quite shitty.
by noirscape | 2025-07-10 08:45:43+00:00
> big tech it does not own

If a company does business in the EU, it's dealing with EU citizens, giving the EU jurisdiction over how that business is conducted.

The EU absolutely has full legal standing for this; if big tech doesn't want to abide by it, they can always leave the EU.

American companies get fined more often for the simple reason that they break the GDPR more often since the US lacks the same legal privacy framework, which means they don't have the same incentive to comply with it and instead try to rules lawyer around it.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-07-10 08:46:02+00:00
No it wasn’t. My impression is it’s nice looking, but poorly implemented. I have near 100 zigbee and z wave devices. IKEA stuff is the only ones that have given me problems. I have their square color light panels and had to write a HA automation to flick them every power cycle because they get stuck and nonresponsive.

Maybe I judge them poorly because they’re the cheapest devices I let myself buy? Idk. They look great though.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-10 08:46:08+00:00
The article doesn't mention a technology that deserves some attention because it counters the biggest and most obvious deficiency in solar: the sun doesn't always shine.

That technology is cables. Cables allow us to move energy over long distances. And with HVCD cables that can mean across continents, oceans, time zones, and climate regions. The nice things about cables is that they are currently being underutilized. They are designed to have enough capacity so that the grid continues to function at peak demand. Off peak, there is a lot of under utilized cable capacity. An obvious use for that would be transporting power to wherever batteries need to be re-charged from wherever there is excess solar/wind power. And cables can work both ways. So import when there's a shortage, export when there's a surplus.

And that includes the rapidly growing stock of batteries that are just sitting there with an average charge state close to more or less fully charged most of the time. We're talking terawatt hours of power. All you need to get at that is cables.

Long distance cables will start moving non trivial amounts of renewable power around as we start executing on plans to e.g. connect Moroccan solar with the UK, Australian solar with Singapore, east coast US to Europe, etc. There are lots of cable projects stuck in planning pipelines around the world. Cables can compensate for some of the localized variations in energy productions caused by seasonal effects, weather, or day/night cycles.

For the rest, we have nuclear, geothermal, hydro, and a rapidly growing stock of obsolete gas plants that we might still turn on on a rainy day. I think anyone still investing in gas plants will need a reality check: mothballed gas plant aren't going to be very profitable. But we'll keep some around for decades to come anyway.
by sparkie | 2025-07-10 08:47:32+00:00
There are alternatives. We can dual license software under a strong copyleft and a proprietary license, so that users (developers) who don't want their derived software to be copyleft can pay the proprietary license fee. IMO this is the approach that everyone should be taking - it rewards the developer rather than them subsidizing your derived works with their free time.

Obviously this has constraints. The developer must have full rights or ownership to redistribute the work under other licenses. This can be obtained from contributors via agreement, where every developer retains ownership of code they write, but grants permission to relicense it for the benefit the project. Ideally, contributors would also be rewarded for their time via bounty systems, contracts or direct employment.

It's possible to make non-derived works which utilize copyleft software. The license's conditions apply only to the derived works, and not directly to your code unless it unquestionably a derived work such as a fork. If your application is written in a way that it can function without dependency on a copyleft software, but can be augmented using copyleft software using a plugin system, then you're able to distribute your software under any license you chose, and only the plugin which uses the copyleft software would be required to be licensed under a compatible license. The "aggregate" would need to be distributed under the copyleft license - but there are also ways around that - simply distribute your software without the dependency on the copyleft work, and have it optionally download the copyleft plugins separately so that they're not part of the "aggregate".

Permissive licensing won't sustain itself unless the developers who depend on it start donating to the maintainers of the permissively licensed works they depend on. In some cases this happens, but mostly it's just the case that you can make money using software other people have given away and continue to maintain for free. What happens if they decide to stop maintaining it? Is your product still viable if you have to take over the task, or employ someone new to maintain it? Would it be viable if you, or your users, had to purchase a proprietary license fee for an alternative dependency?
by CoolChum | 2025-07-10 08:47:46+00:00
There is no mention of sync functionality. I regularly use 3 different PCs and I cannot sync settings easily. It means I've give up using Thunderbird on all but one of the PCs.

They've also made the usability worse in recent versions and are copying the insanely annoying context menus in Windows 11, which cannot be reverted.
by Merovius | 2025-07-10 08:48:26+00:00
I don't disagree that Go's generics are pretty limited. But I find it a strange complaint, when contrasted with C++ templates. Which, as I understand, are literally not part of the type system and thus there seems to be a far stronger case, that they can not be called generics.

The main difference between Go's generics and C++ templates (and where some of the restrictions come from) is that Go insists that you can type-check both the body of a generic function and the call to it, without one having to know about the other. My understanding is, that with C++ templates (even including concepts), the type checking can only happen at the call-site, because you need to know the actual type arguments used, regardless of what the constraints might say.

And this decision leads to most of the complaints I've heard about C++ generics. The long compile times, the verbose error messages and the hard to debug type-errors.

So, if you prefer C++ templates, that's fair enough. But the limitations are there to address complaints many other people had about C++ templates specifically. And that seems a reasonable decision to me, as well.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-10 08:48:56+00:00
The damage is already done, the American Overton Window was successfully shifted right by that brand of ideology with relentless xenophobia and provincial nativism that began with ex-Nixon administration affiliates and also AM proto-hate radio like Paul Harvey. Furthermore, both the mainstream political left and right have been coopted and corrupted by big money, what Gore Vidal called the Property party. Equivocal bothsidesism between center-left and far-right is disinformational malpractice with gerrymandered goalposts.

Plus, advertising on every Youtube channel makes me suspicious.
by piva00 | 2025-07-10 08:49:06+00:00
In Sweden I've seen quite a few businesses sprung up for that, collecting overpaid rent through a legal firm.

Completely agree that if it's a similarly straightforward process there will be businesses offering to litigate on the users' behalf and collect a fee, I'd be jumping on it if I only had to file a report and wait for the work to be done to collect a couple thousand €.
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-10 08:49:09+00:00
The question is if you see Instagram as a social media or as a feed.

On my own Instagram people who I know make up maybe 1 piece of content every second day.

Otherwise it is Ai generated content that is, unfortunately, very engaging but of a very low quality.

So I understand why there are a lot of people on Instagram.

(personally, I prefer to ruin my health with i IPAs over doom scrolling)
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-10 08:49:35+00:00
Same with Facebook / Meta; the "metaverse" they tried to pivot the company to cost them billions and failed spectacularly. Google is still Google, not Alphabet, although separating the overarching org from the search engine / internet services branch was logical. They tried to pivot to social media with Circles, upheaving the whole company. The only good thing that (from an outsider's POV anyway) came out of that was unifying their logins across services.
by nikitaeverywher | 2025-07-10 08:50:03+00:00
"Performance collars 2.0" is an oversaturated comparison. If you feel enslaved to the system when you sit and cherry-pick what every website gets from you (instead of, to simplify, just opening an incognito tab), that's your choice. In reality, nothing really changes for you personally — except that good feeling of going against the system and saving a bit of bandwidth on blocked requests. I’ve explained in other threads that some basic data is inevitably collected server-side, and network filters just make it feel like you're outsmarting the system — trying to change how physics works while withholding website data like "how long did you keep your tabs open", for instance.

In contrast, what actually makes me "feel my food coming back up" is the fact that some privacy browsers advertise how they block (for instance) YouTube ads. On one hand, I think: "Well deserved, YouTube – your UX with 1-minute unskippable ads is more than terrible." On the other – what a piracy leader move. Reminds me of the 2000s when I was buying game disks with cracks that cost almost the same as legit ones. Anyways, this market has to exist and be used – it's a law of nature and I have nothing against it to be honest. One day, maybe, we’ll release a new kind of privacy browser or similar product – just not one that strips a web app down to its bare, minimal functionality like plucking a chicken.

On subscriptions:

If someone doesn't want to pay a subscription (for a car), they'd probably just buy another car. We live in an open market. If a fraction of people hates subscriptions, there'll always be alternatives. Same with the cited article: Chrome dominates, but if they kill off extensions like ad blockers (which BTW work fine even now with Manifest V3 etc), they'll lose a chunk of market share to competitors. It's an open market, and most people choose Chrome today — because it's just a good browser. Numbers say it, not me.

Software businesses chose subscription models for a reason – mostly predictive budgeting. Sure, there are cases when subscriptions feel super-odd (like warming up a car seat), bad monetization design. There are also "lifetime subscription" examples. Too broad to dive into here. I will just conclude that if subscriptions are everywhere, there's a reason for it. Denial or Anger it is normal (as per Five Stages of Grief).
by sfn42 | 2025-07-10 08:50:17+00:00
Yeah so this is mostly just a difference of definition. When I say extinction I mean what you describe, essentially a total collapse of modern society. I don't care whether/how long a few people survive somewhere, your scenario is apocalyptic enough for me to label it an apocalypse.

I also think this process is likely to trigger a new world war. When nations start collapsing there will be two possible outcomes - other nations take them in or they go to war. They won't just sit down and die. And everyone else won't be able to handle the number of refugees even if they want to.
Show HN: StopAddict – Quit addictions using XP and streaks
by skyzouw | 2025-07-10 08:51:29+00:00
I built StopAddict, a minimalist tool that helps people quit addictions by turning the process into a game.

Each day you resist your addiction, you earn XP and build a visible streak, helping you track small wins that add up over time. The idea came from struggling to quit bad habits myself and realizing that seeing progress, even in a simple form, made it easier to stay consistent.

The app is distraction-free and focused on giving users a clear sense of progress. It’s currently live, and I’m looking to get feedback on:

– Whether XP/streak systems actually help you stay consistent – Pricing strategies for this kind of tool – Any ideas on channels to reach people who need this

You can try it here: https://www.stopaddict.net

I’d love your honest thoughts, whether it’s on the concept, UX, or ways to improve so it truly helps people quit.

Thanks for your time!
by LoveMortuus | 2025-07-10 08:51:58+00:00
Microsoft naming makes sense if you imagine that the person that came up with the names was stoned, like high on weed.

"Yo dude, to use the spreadsheets you've got to like excel and stuff. ", "When you make your point it's gotta be powerful. ", "Ain't my point having a database if you can't access it. ", "A: I need a tool to write my book, it's gonna change the world. B: Word bro, word. ", "Bro, you have to connect with people to expand your outlook on life, the world and stuff. ".
by skyzouw | 2025-07-10 08:52:10+00:00
Thanks for checking this out.

I’m curious for those who have tried quitting an addiction: what helped you the most? Was it seeing progress, having accountability, or something else?

My goal with StopAddict is to keep it minimal and genuinely useful, but I know gamification doesn’t help everyone. If you have thoughts on what would actually help people quit, I’d love to learn so I can improve it.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-10 08:52:27+00:00
That was a factor, but his CV stating "I cut Twitter's expenses and staff by 80%" or however much was probably a big factor too. Of course, he's the only one actually bragging about that being a success.

Twitter's takeover also helped him get a number of loyalist goons that he sent out to various US federal agencies to extract data from.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-07-10 08:52:42+00:00
Are you sure you want that? It's possible to use whitespace and conventions to denote s-expr. For example, have each line implicitly start with a ( and use \n for ). More complicated schemes involving counting indentation also available. Anything you like that parses to a tree really.

The price will tend to be that working out what the code parses to gets much more difficult for the programmer. The parser won't care. Guessing what the programmer might have meant for error messages gets harder. Copying code around in a file will tend to change the meaning.

Worth noting that dear python, whitespace enthusiast, still has spurious : scattered around to give slightly better behaviour on syntactically invalid input, and they managed to compromise the semantics of lambda to keep the whitespace magic working.

An alternative you might like is colouring parens light grey (or dark, whatever mostly matches the editor background) and have the editor insert them for you.
by lawrenceduk | 2025-07-10 08:53:13+00:00
We usually drive to work. That means that when the sun’s shining, the car isn’t home.

Conversely, if we didn’t drive to work, we probably wouldn’t have a car.

On the other hand, we have a big solar array at work so if we had on-site parking (we don’t) we could drive our power home.

It’s probably impractical in reality though, the tax treatment would be chaos and we use the power we generate at work during the day on-site.
by camgunz | 2025-07-10 08:53:16+00:00
This is maybe true for 2016. In 2020 and 2024 Trump/Biden/Harris were just part of larger trends that saw Western incumbents worldwide lose their seats.

As a thought experiment, do you think X would have made the difference if Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis were the GOP nominee? I would bet either people think X couldn't have helped enough (candidates didn't have the rizz) and ultimately they'd have lost, or they wouldn't be as toxic as Trump and wouldn't need whatever theoretical help X would provide.

Or if you like stats, Harris broadly lost on all social media platforms [0].

Years ago now I predicted Musk would burn through Twitter's attention capital and it'd become less and less relevant over time. I think that's happening: all the stats I can look up show declining users, usage, and revenue. A lot of people use X as "write only" now, or have very sporadic interactive use.

Another way of saying this is Musk bought the peak, and is running this new Nazi-friendly version as a short position against American democracy. The only way he gains attentional or financial capital from that position is if something even more illiberal happens to society and this far-right version of X is suddenly as relevant as center-left Twitter was in 2016, like Nick Fuentes becomes president or something.

[0]: https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-a-ma...
by Jenk | 2025-07-10 08:53:22+00:00
It's a delimited string. There are many fields within that string already.

"2025-07-10T09:48:27+01:00"

That contains, by my quick glance, at least 8 fields of information. I would argue the one field it does not carry but probably should is the _name_ of the timezone it is for.
by rpozarickij | 2025-07-10 08:53:35+00:00
> Solar power is now growing faster than any power source in history, and it is closely followed by wind power—which is really another form of energy from the sun, since it is differential heating of the earth that produces the wind that turns the turbines.

It's interesting to realize that the vast majority of the energy used by humans comes from the sun (with the exception of nuclear and geothermal energy). Even hydro power comes from the sun, because the sun evaporates the water which then becomes part of rivers or other water reservoirs that power hydroelectric generators.