MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-07-30 12:47:17+00:00
> YouTube is such an invaluable learning resource that I would have serious qualms about denying a school-age child access to it.

Give a 5 years old unlimited access to youtube and witness the cesspool it is. Nobody is saying youtube is 100% bad, but people who don't know better (kids for example) are easily manipulated in watching the most brain rot content you can imagine, for hours and hours. It's an ocean of shit within which you might find a few gems if you know what you want or if you get extremely lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
by handsclean | 2025-07-30 12:47:47+00:00
Legitimately curious, could you tell me more about Pyrex? I only heard that they changed the formula years ago to trade some impact resistance for thermal shock resistance, not that there are all-around better options. I haven’t had issues with mine, though I haven’t dropped them, and the only other options I notice in stores are store brand tempered glass that seems to be competing only on price.
by tomhow | 2025-07-30 12:47:57+00:00
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by b112 | 2025-07-30 12:48:41+00:00
According to the article (with citations), the pictures of starving children are of sick(not starving) children.

Paywalled or not, the subtitle says:

"The Israeli government criticized news outlets for running a photo of an emaciated Palestinian boy in stories about starvation in Gaza despite him suffering ‘from cerebral palsy’"

Note that there are other claims of false Hamas allegations, and a lack of journalistic integrity, with reasons as to why. So no, it's not just about one photo.

The article also alleges that Hamas is actively preventing people from getting aid, now that a US based organization is in charge of distribution, just as it was preventing Israel from distributing aid effectively.

Taking one side's explanation for what is happening, seems dubious at best.
by ajd555 | 2025-07-30 12:49:25+00:00
Great read, and a great example of America's failure to complete infrastructure projects. I agree with the proposed solutions, and I do hope that some local governments start enacting some of them. I'm reminded of the staggering cost for a new railroad in the US, that can go up to $4M/mile near urban environments[0]. We need more articles like these and some political courage to get building again!

[0] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-do-you-want-to-...
by naikrovek | 2025-07-30 12:49:45+00:00
people are just straight up afraid to write their own binary formats, aren't they.

it's not hard, it's exactly like creating your own text format but you write binary data instead of text, and you can't read it with your eyes right away (but you can after you've looked at enough of it.) there is nothing to fear or to even worry about; just try it. look up how things like TLV work on wikipedia. you can do just about anything you would ever need with plain binary TLV and it's gonna perform like you wouldn't believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%E2%80%93length%E2%80%93va...

binary formats are always going to be 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than plain text formats, no matter which plain text format you're using. writing a viewer so you can easily read the data isn't zero-effort like it is for JSON or XML where any existing text editor will do, but it's not exactly hard, either. your binary format reading code is the core of what that viewer would be.

once you write and use your own binary format, existing binary formats you come across become a lot less opaque, and it starts to feel like you're developing a mild superpower.
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 12:50:07+00:00
Why would they? Does starvation not aggravate all pre-existing conditions?

The fact that anyone on earth is splitting hairs about this shows you how desperately messed up everything is.

There is absolutely no moral victory whatsoever in defining down starvation, but that is what is happening, ultimately, whether in this story or in any others.
by jajko | 2025-07-30 12:50:23+00:00
Workaholism is always just manifesting underlying psychical issues, be it some form of OCD, deep unhappiness with one's life and escapism from emptiness or similar. Such state manifests in many destructive behaviors, which then like in case of sleep create their own forces of destruction.

One can't escape psychology, one thing no school taught me (and they should have since we all deal with this in some way! plus its not that complex). Once I grokked the basics, dealing and with people and understanding them became much easier.
by nis0s | 2025-07-30 12:50:35+00:00
Is it socially unacceptable or mentally unhealthy to not have sex?

If you want to, and cannot then it’s a problem for you. But if you don’t want to, and don’t, then who cares?

Note that I am not talking about asexuality or gender identities, but simply a stoic preference to not have sex or engage in mating behaviors. But of course, one could decide to change that perspective when/if they want to have children.

Caveat: From the perspective of some statesman who wants to ensure cultural stability via propagation of like-minded individuals through generations, mating and children are important. But wanting to mate and bear/rear children is a private and personal affair from an individual’s perspective. I am not sure you can ever incentivize 100% of your population to produce children.
by Loughla | 2025-07-30 12:50:37+00:00
I know it's a mistype, but thinking of Warhammer and Gundam existing in the first world war is amazingly hilarious to me.

>Dear Mother,

I've grown a reputation among the men in my regiment as being both fearless and introspective. I never hesitate to go over the top, even when Jerry is close enough that we can smell him. But also the men are impressed with the play of light and shadows that I am able to accomplish on my Eldar Warlock using only mud and dog food.
by tomhow | 2025-07-30 12:50:37+00:00
Their comment is against the guidelines and I've replied to them to point that out and also marked the subthread off-topic.

But your reply also breaks the guidelines, notably this one:

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-30 12:50:52+00:00
There really seams to be two kind of "feminists": The first claim it's all about equality and the second which is some weird, kind of reverse sexist, ideology. But they are not distributed equally. The latter seams to be what actually defines feminism, is very vocal and is the one that comes up whenever you hear about feminism, while the former seams to only come up when you start to argue against the latter kind.

I also don't get what the former kind is getting from calling themself feminists, when they really only seam to promote common sense.
by strken | 2025-07-30 12:51:13+00:00
Which leftist circles? The one US leftist circle I'm in (a random discord) was calling him "based" last week for writing an NYT article about the generational difference in attitudes towards Zionism within Jewish families, and seems to mostly hate NIMBYs and be bored by committees.

Examples might make this a lot less inflammatory by ensuring it's targeted at the people who deserve it.
by TorKlingberg | 2025-07-30 12:51:19+00:00
> the camera photos were stuck on the camera

I'm surprised no camera manufacturer has created an easy way to get all your photos to Google Photos / iCloud/ Dropbox / etc. They have some wireless photo transfer things, but they're clunky and unusable. Just connect the camera to WiFi and auto-upload everything to the service of my choice. I'm guessing it's a mix of:

* Camera manufacturers are hardware companies and can't do software and cloud stuff.

* It wouldn't interact well with swapping SD cards, which is what all the pros want.

* The camera would need to stay powered when off to upload photos. Current cameras have a hard power switch.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-07-30 12:51:27+00:00
When we don’t sleep, we can lose sensory and cognitive coherence. Mild visual hallucinations begin and reality can start slipping.

Sleep itself is characterized by coherent neural activity— the large number of brain regions with synchronized neural activity. The slow waves where huge numbers are all firing close together in a rhythm. Low frequency and high amplitude delta brainwaves (1-2 hertz).

Complex adaptive brain activity requires more complex firing than a simple rhythmic frequency. So, in a way, the complex activity must be stopped in order to support global synchrony.

Why would our neurons want to all fire synchronously? Well, it is healthy for neurons to fire together in a causal manner— neurons release growth hormones then. That neural growth during synchronized firing is the basis of “neurons that fire together wire together.” And it doesn’t seem coincidental that a successfully predicted model feels good, as in the case of successfully throw a ball in a basket. Neurons are trying to predict other neuron firing and respond to it. If they are unable to effectively, they may become like the 1/3 of our baby neurons in the cortex — they will be pruned and die.

Good feelings is positive reinforcement—behaviors leading to good feelings get reinforcement. The feeling of harmony or harmonization, where we have to balance a broad set of internal neural impulses, feels good when we do it well. We feel harmony in music — and in our own internal sensory resonance to the world.

Hypothesis 1: the harmonization of neural activity might cause conscious feelings due to the convergence of the activity to platonic forms (see Platonic Representation Hypothesis in LLM research).

Returning to sleep — this is a proposal for why sleep feels good. Synchronization might intrinsically feel good. But because the sleep also disrupts your working memory contextual attunements (ie, whatever your day was about) - taking your brain into deep synchrony — it strengthens the overall dendritic connections between the synchronizing neurons.

And, because it wears off the edges of your previous experiences — you can return refreshed.

In this way, sleep seems to contribute to the overall integrity of the operation of our intelligence. Without it, we lose integrity and internal harmony.

And yet, not sleeping is one of my favorite drugs. Can be a major performance enhancer, even if it is variable.

Hypothesis 2: Not sleeping increases the (statistical) temperature of the brain.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-30 12:51:55+00:00
I think it's a fair illustration of what irresponsible disclosure looks like.

I expect Project Zero will be monitoring carefully; for all their good intentions, this policy trial has the potential to go as badly wrong as the atop disclosure did, for everything they announce.

You can reasonably expect massive, worldwide scrutiny in anything P0 announces has a vulnerability in it without also disclosing the vulnerability, and this extra attention has the potential to overwhelm FOSS maintainers, even if they have fixed the vulnerability and are waiting for coordinated disclosure.
by bojatlawgroup | 2025-07-30 12:51:57+00:00
Holding your phone while driving in Los Angeles—even just to check GPS—is now a clear violation of California law. As of June 2025, the state’s hands-free rule is being enforced more strictly than ever, and drivers across Los Angeles County are already facing citations.

What changed in June 2025? California Vehicle Code § 23123.5 has prohibited handheld phone use since 2017. But on June 3, 2025, the California Court of Appeal ruled in People v. Nathaniel Porter that simply holding a phone—without even touching the screen—is a violation. This closes a common loophole drivers relied on and reinforces that any visual or mental distraction is dangerous.

What’s now illegal? Los Angeles drivers cannot:

Hold a phone in their hand for any reason

Use a phone for navigation, music, or calls unless it’s properly mounted

Glance at a phone while holding it, even at a red light

Swipe, tap, or unlock a phone except through minimal hands-free use

The only legal option is using voice commands on a mounted phone or integrated system like CarPlay.

Enforcement is ramping up The California Highway Patrol is heavily enforcing this “No Touch” standard. Officers are targeting busy routes like the 405 and 101, and citations are increasing. As attorney Sasha Bojat of Bojat Law Group explains:

“We’ve seen firsthand how distracted driving can ruin lives. This law makes it clear: if your eyes are on your phone, they’re not on the road.”

Penalties and risks Base fines start at $20 for a first offense and $50 for later violations, but fees push the cost higher. More serious is the risk of causing a crash. A quick glance can lead to devastating injuries. According to NHTSA, distracted driving killed more than 3,300 people nationwide in 2022, with 148 deaths in California alone.

Stay safe and within the law Set routes and music before driving

Use Do Not Disturb While Driving

Pull over if a call or message can’t wait

These simple steps prevent crashes and costly citations.

Injured by a distracted driver? Holding a phone while driving is now clear evidence of negligence in a personal injury case. If you or someone you love was hurt by a distracted driver, Bojat Law Group can help you recover medical costs, lost income, and compensation for pain and suffering.

Call (818) 877-4878 or visit our website for a free consultation. Our team has the experience and resources to hold negligent drivers accountable so you can focus on healing.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-30 12:52:25+00:00
The original idea of a "liberal education" was an education appropriate for a free person, as opposed to learning a trade, which was for slaves.

Translating to today, what you are describing is appropriate for people who don't have urgency to get a job that pays the bills. I mean, it's nice if that's you. If it's not, though, you either need a degree that is going to help you earn money, or you need a job that's good enough that you can get without a degree.

What you say is a nice ideal. (I mean that sincerely.) Not everyone is in an ideal position, though, and for many people, what you are saying is out of reach.
Show HN: Kobo Pocket Replacement
by marklar423 | 2025-07-30 12:52:54+00:00
I use(d) Pocket a lot on my Kobo, and with Pocket shutting down, I wanted a self-hosted alternative that kept it working on the Kobo too. This project is two parts:

1) A device mod to redirect Pocket URLs to the URL of your choice 2) A proxy server to translate Pocket API calls into a different backend's API

Currently only Readeck is supported as a backend (since that's what I use), but please feel free to contribute if there's another read-it-later service you like better. And of course any feedback is appreciated.

Note: Kobo has announced they're eventually replacing Pocket with Instapaper, but even when they release the update I'm going to update the proxy to translate Instapaper API calls too - this saga has made me want to stay on something self-hosted that can't be shut down.
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-30 12:52:57+00:00
Terrible headline. From the article:

> Microsoft has admitted it cannot guarantee data sovereignty for customers in France or other European Union countries under the US Cloud Act

I had to go read the article to figure out if this was Microsoft falling under Trump's spell and doing things specifically for Trump that it wouldn't have done for Biden, like many oligarchs have done, of if Microsoft would have to do this for any US ruler because of legal restrictions. It's the latter.
by skeledrew | 2025-07-30 12:53:38+00:00
What you're saying doesn't really pan. If the work is pleasing, there's no preference. And I've seen a couple of articles in the last several months where humans thought that AI-generated works of art were created by humans. And the quality will only improve over time. Eventually it'll be the case that the only way to tell something was generated by AI is by labeling it as such.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-30 12:53:48+00:00
G100 is introduced in 2020, and is a mirrorless camera with significantly higher processing power. D-Lighting and other similar post processing stuff came at least half a decade before.

Modern cameras like Nikon Z6/III can also do similar processing on camera during shoots to reduce post-processing load after the shoots to accelerate the production pipeline.
by pu_pe | 2025-07-30 12:53:52+00:00
The legitimate criticism I read against "Abundance" is that for the most part regulations and due process emerged to protect public interests from private capture. In the article the author says we should use "pre-approved vendor lists" or "streamlined approvals" and that sounds great in principle, but could also easily be exploited.

One of the reasons American and German cities are made for cars is because of the influence of their car industry. However, this also pushed out investment in competing alternatives like public transport infrastructure.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-30 12:53:58+00:00
Good article. There are 3 observations I'd add:

-I think we underestimate the impact of the cultural assumption that anything the government does will be 10x as expensive, take 10x as long and then not work properly, with nobody ever being held accountable, but lots of people having been paid along the way.

Of all the ambitious, smart people I know, a single one has said he even believes it's a good thing to work for the government. And he doesn't do it because he thinks the experience would be so miserable compared to working in tech.

-Most people don't seem to understand that regulations don't just add up, but compound.

It's not that each individual, well-intentioned regulation is bad (though some are), it's that many regulations intersect and create edge cases.

And when there's regulation/paperwork at every point, it starts to look like an insurmountable barrier. This is true with entrepreneurship in Europe. People aren't against a specific regulation, the perception is that whatever you want to do, you'll have to ask permission from someone, somewhere, fill out 5 pages of paperwork and wait 3 months before you get to talk to a notary and finally change your business' mailing address (real example from Germany)

-It's hard to make a rational case for this because humans are wired to weigh danger more heavily than upside.

We don't have counterfactuals (the cafe that didn't open because of zoning laws, the parks that were never built, etc.)

Even when politicians admit this problem, they then proclaim they want more housing, innovation or whatever, but getting rid of a regulation has some amount of risk.

So then they try to find the "free lunch": a solution that has none of the downside, but all of the upside.

That free lunch doesn't exist and the resulting solution only gets even more complex.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-30 12:54:01+00:00
You seem to have drawn conclusions based on your assumptions:

> So Congress creates agencies and also selects who runs those agencies? Can Congress fire the heads of these agencies? The management team? Or all employees of the agency?

> So what role does the executive branch have? Should we amend the US constitution to state that federal agencies are now run by the legislative branch?

The second set of questions are irrelevant unless the first set of questions are answered affirmatively (hint: they’re not and you didn’t understand the point you were replying to). I agree that others are being rude in their interactions with you here but I also don’t really see your questions worth engaging more than I already have.
by jgalt212 | 2025-07-30 12:54:19+00:00
> The company’s platform is built on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others,

> Ramp predicts and completes employees’ expenses using transaction data, historical patterns, and context from tools like Gmail and Google Calendar, it said.

So you subscribe to this service, and not only Ramp, but also OpenAI, Anthropic and others can read all your corporate email. No wonder they were able to raise so much money.
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-30 12:54:23+00:00
By Qwen3-32B you mean the first released version from late April? I don't think Qwen3-32B-2507 has been released yet.

I agree with GP that since Qwen is now releasing updated Qwen3 version without hybrid reasoning, and experience a significant performance boost in the process, it likely means that the hybrid reasoning experiment was a failure.
by jacob_a_dev | 2025-07-30 12:54:30+00:00
This is a routine thing that happens on social media in regards to Israel. A child with a terrible disease, or a child from a different conflict like Syria, will go viral with a headline "look how terrible israel is causing this disease"

At a time when most of the world is critizing Israel's food distribution program in Gaza (who its at war with), correctly stating the child is diseased and not simply suffering malnutrition is relevant.

Unrelated

I live in NYC, Occasionally walking around with my dad (doctor), well see someone who is skin and bone.

My impulse is the person has anorexia, he says no, that person has late stage X disease. Just incorrect to think the woman has anorexia due to a mental disorder when she has organ failjre happening due to something else.
by mgkimsal | 2025-07-30 12:55:19+00:00
Thank you. I feel this frustration about the 'both sides'ing of every political argument. There is a huge difference in the quality and quantity of the basic political/social norms (and laws) being broken under this administration compared with previous administrations. Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden had faults, but none were so blatant about power, control, retribution and self-enrichment, and none had surrounding supporters so eager to push a self-serving agenda. It's not even a close comparison.

People got riled up when Biden was 'violating the Constitution' with multiple attempts at loan forgiveness. Some of the same people who hated Biden for this 'unconstitutional' behaviour voted for Trump because he promised to get rid of the Department of Education, in the misguided hope that their own student loans would be eliminated with the department. I don't quite know how we got to this level of stupid in the US - it may have always been there, just easier to see via social media?
by bell-cot | 2025-07-30 12:55:27+00:00
I'd say that when human societies are longer-term stable, and not divided by powerful competing interests or culture wars, they can be very good at planning ahead. Doing so tends to be a signifier of legitimacy and status for the ruling class.

In some ways, you could describe the climate-change mess as a broad social class, of well-to-do academics/scientists/progressives, imagining themselves to be the undisputed ruling class. They tried to order the whole world to do as they wished on the climate issue. That failed, because they pretty much live in a social bubble - not realizing that their "authority" ran very thin outside of that bubble, among peoples who they neither knew nor cared much about. So they doubled down on "But We're Right!". Now failing to realize (if not willfully blind to) the fact that "it's Science, and we're Right!" is a very good signifier of authority within their bubble...but not outside of it.

From there - the climate believers are eager to compete for social status among themselves. But too anti-authoritarian to have or want any strong leaders - who might impose real discipline, or do some big-picture thinking. So the whole thing devolves into a stupid mess. The climate believers are busy arguing and posturing and proclaiming their creedal piety and one-upping within their own narcissistic bubble. Outside of that bubble, the climate believers look more like a bunch of callous creepy dangerous delusional nut jobs.