MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-07-30 14:43:46+00:00
> that means we are actually incapable of treating each other as people on the Internet

Well, that's because there aren't people on the internet! I mean, yes, us technologists understand that there are often people pulling knobs and levers behind the scenes as an implementation detail, so technically they are there. But they are only implementation details, not what makes it what it is. If you replaced the implementation with another algorithm that functions just as well, nobody would notice. In that sense, it is just software.

> leading to the rise of toxicity and much, much worse.

It is not so much that it has lead to anything different, but that those who used to be in the forest yelling at animals as if they were human moved into civilized areas when they started yelling at computers as if they were human. That has taken their mental disorders to where it is much more visible.
by benterix | 2025-07-30 14:43:51+00:00
> the government would tax your higher than average tech wage till your take home pay would match that of a train conductor's or bus driver's, like in Western Europe

I live in Europe and earn ca. 6 times more than my friend who is a bus driver in the same city. We both have access to free education and, if we wish, also free healthcare, for which I am paying slightly more, but I really don't mind.
by arbitrary_name | 2025-07-30 14:44:17+00:00
Neither party is perfect or even close to it. But there is an enormous difference between the conduct of this administration and all of those before it.

To accept that the conduct of the Biden administration was in any way equivalent to that of Trump is to avoid any critical thinking or consideration of the facts in my opinion.

Biden was a very mediocre president who had troubling tendencies of his own. There is no question about that.

But he did not run a crypto pump and dump scheme. He did not degrade US institutions to the extent that trump has. He did not perform the same level of partisan, punitive pettiness that trump has.

It's very clear, in my opinion.
Tell HN: Google Maps reviews in Germany are basically dead
by tahaygun | 2025-07-30 14:44:19+00:00
I’ve come to the conclusion that Google Maps is no longer a reliable tool for choosing restaurants in Germany. The review system has been quietly but thoroughly broken—weaponized by businesses and their legal teams to scrub away anything remotely negative. What’s left is basically curated marketing, not real customer feedback.

This all started for me about three years ago, when I left a Google review for a doctor saying I felt discriminated against. Shortly after, I got slapped with a legal threat demanding €40,000 in damages. I ended up settling and paying €1,000 in legal fees just to avoid the nightmare of going to court. That was my wake-up call—but back then, I thought it was an edge case.

It’s not.

Lately, it’s hit the restaurant scene hard. In just the past few weeks, I’ve received around 15 emails from Google telling me my reviews were removed. Every single one was a review below 5 stars. No hate speech, no personal attacks—just honest feedback like “service was slow” or “overpriced for the quality.” All gone.

Here’s the kicker: Google now asks me to prove I’m telling the truth about my experience. Think about how insane that is. How do you “prove” a bad dining experience? Am I supposed to film my entire meal in case I need evidence later?

Meanwhile, businesses don’t have to prove anything to claim defamation. All they need is a lawyer who knows how to fire off the right takedown request, and Google caves.

The result? You can’t trust the review scores anymore. Negative feedback is disappearing, and everything looks like a 4.7-star gem—even if it’s objectively mediocre. What used to be a crowdsourced recommendation engine has turned into a polished PR board.

It’s sad. Reviews used to be one of the most useful parts of the internet—messy, flawed, but real. In Germany, at least on Google Maps, they’re now basically fake.
Show HN: Kokoro – A simple app to manage chores and allowances for kids
by csjohnst | 2025-07-30 14:45:02+00:00
I built Kokoro to solve a real problem in my own family: getting kids to do chores consistently and understand the value of money. It’s a lightweight web app that helps parents assign tasks, track what gets done, and automate weekly allowance payouts based on completed chores.

It’s built with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind—lean, fast, and mobile-friendly. I’m not trying to gamify parenting or replace conversations—just give families a tool that makes consistency easier and keeps the mental load manageable.

Would love feedback from other parents or developers working on similar “family ops” problems.
by nailer | 2025-07-30 14:45:03+00:00
> It also could be that Israel propagandists send them to journalists

Yes, it could be 3 instances of a false flag conspiracy, among many more instances, but it could be that the left hates Jewish people. What do you think is more likely?

> evidence of starvation, which is more than abundant

No. That's why they use disabled kids, kids in Yemen, and AI. Jump on Tiktk or instagram and look at the videos posted in Gaza. You'll see markets and cafes and car dealerships. People complaining "there's no bread so we have to eat rice" is evidence of a shortage of some foods. Not starvation.
by parpfish | 2025-07-30 14:45:54+00:00
tangential question for the HN side-project crowd:

i have lots of ideas for fun little side projects that would never be revenue generating.

i'll go on a tear and start building it, but when it comes time to figure out how much it'd cost each month for domains/cloud services/etc I talk myself out of it. I'm not talking about big LLM bills here, just things like $25/month for the database, $10-50/year for a domain, etc.

I don't think it's just that I'm being cheap, it's that I don't like the idea of having to pay for something in perpetuity. Because that leads to me thinking about how long I plan to keep it active and when I'll sunset it. And once you start thinking about that before you've even launched, it's pretty easy to conclude it's not worth the time to build it given its limited shelf life. If I could just do a one-time upfront payment I'd probably go through with it.

The solutions to this are either buying a server and self-hosting (no thanks) OR making peace with having a recurring 'goofy computer stuff' monthly bill.

So... how much do yall spend each month on your side-projects? Having some numbers would help me contextualize and justify this
by tayo42 | 2025-07-30 14:45:57+00:00
Child care is incredibly expensive, idk how anyone who isn't incredibly rich does it. Like 1k a month to get your child watched for 3 half days a week.

Who has a spare 1-2k laying around per month?

Also annoying this article introduced Baumol effect without mentioning what it is and just plugging a their book.
by mindcrash | 2025-07-30 14:46:10+00:00
> Lots of people keep mentioning these conspiracy theories but I still don't buy it.

EU is actively working on "age verification" through a digital wallet.

Once that is in place it is a small step to wall off the entire Internet unless you verify yourself through your digital ID.

Since Trump is as borderline fascist as von der Leyen there's no fucking doubt in my mind the United States will follow the EU as soon as there are signs of success or even earlier.

Proof: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

Especially note "The objective is to develop an EU-wide solution to age verification that reinforces the Digital Services Act (DSA) objective to ensure safe, secure, and trusted digital space and the Louvain-la-Neuve Declaration, which promotes a safer and more trustworthy online environment."

Whenever those in power talk about "security", "safety" and "trust" they talk about other things entirely which, for the larger public, have nothing to do with these topics at all.
by piva00 | 2025-07-30 14:46:10+00:00
Since I'm past the window to edit my comment, here's another example of the abhorrent behaviour from Israeli forces[0] which has been all too common for decades, not very different from Amon Göth, and just check the article's date (2018).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/10/video-appears-...
by jmclnx | 2025-07-30 14:46:22+00:00
Yes it is rising and how would one stop it ? In reality there is no way to stop it outside of what the article recommends. Plus this also applies to many other labor intensive industries.

People who work in these industries want to be paid and deserve to be paid enough to live on, so the money needs to come from somewhere.

Lets pretend a way is found to make things real cheap, doing that means many people will not be able to purchase other items, thus harming the bottom line of many other industries.

Add to that the very rich is hording wealth. It seems today's economic society is racing to a big crash, unless a way is found to release that wealth to subsidize these activities. I think the wealth is there, but it is locked up by the very rich.
by krapp | 2025-07-30 14:46:34+00:00
There is no "Biblical narrative." The Bible consists of numerous books written over a vast span of time, evolving cultural and religious contexts, and reflect the often conflicting points of view of their authors, and whatever agenda under which the whole was being edited at the time. There isn't even a single canonical "Christian" Bible - Catholics have one version, Orthodox have another, Protestants have another.

What you're describing is a Christian reinterpretation of the Old Testament employed to justify the argument that Jesus was the Jewish messiah, which is a Biblical narrative, but only one of many, and not one that Jews particularly care about, or that Muslims entirely agree with for that matter.
by K0balt | 2025-07-30 14:46:38+00:00
We were about 50 miles offshore, off the continental shelf (in very deep water) we got the information of the wave from our regular meteorological diligence, since it was my job to get our satellite weather and any notices to mariners on a 6 hour rotation.

I saw the wave on radar first, since it lifted ships that were below our horizon up to where they could be seen again for a few sweeps. But it just felt like A gentle lifting. I didn’t even feel the subsidence of the wave. Interestingly, ships 20 miles away from us but near the edge of the shelf reported isolated severe and chaotic waves.
by _1tem | 2025-07-30 14:46:42+00:00
> Yes, a well-engineered SSR webapp could be indistinguishable from an SPA. However, it is much harder to build a well engineered SSR with the tools we have.

Clearly you've never used Laravel + Livewire. Modals, forms, wizards, sidebars, I have all of that in my app without writing any client-side JavaScript. And it works better than most SPAs. I actually get gushing praise for how "smooth" the app experience is.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-07-30 14:46:51+00:00
iPhones can definitely garble text, although it's not clear whether they can substitute some text for another. Seems possible but unlikely (in a purely statistical sense).

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1m5zsj7/ai_photo_ga...

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1jbcl1l/iphone_16_p...

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/17bxcm8/iphone_15_n...
by keybored | 2025-07-30 14:46:57+00:00
> We're both from the country where most of the planned un-living of the First Holocaust were performed. We recently discussed how in a street poll, half of Polish population couldn't solve a simple math task, a simple language task and one more simple task, placing Poland in the second last position from all the countries taking place. (For comparison, in Norway and Holland only 9%). And how it was likely a consequence of genetic holocaust performed on Poles by both German and Russian nazis during the 2WW. That systematic destruction of elites can behead a country for years to come.

Objecting to the Holocaust because it eugenicized the wrong way is a thing I guess.
by westurner | 2025-07-30 14:46:58+00:00
Did they swap ours with a banana republic idiot that thinks more money now is more important than long term environmental sustainability? Where is the birth certificate!?

I guess we all have to choke down poisonous mass air pollution now due to this policy.

I think people will remember having been able to see the mountains in Mountain View for awhile during COVID.

UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists has cited studies which show over 97% consensus on climate change.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change > Assessment reports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...

Scientific consensus on climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

I'm not sure what use of force in self defense is justified in response to regression to mass poisoning by industry and government policy - in castle doctrine stand your ground states at least - in regards to greenhouse gases.
by JimDabell | 2025-07-30 14:46:58+00:00
Previously:

CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603378 - Aug 2019 (71 comments)

Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229259 - Mar 2025 (78 comments)
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-07-30 14:47:57+00:00
> One thing that an HOA might actually be good for

I've gotten nothing but benefits from living in neighborhoods with HOAs. Basic stuff like funding for landscapers to keep up the shared grassy areas along the streets, to plowing the access roads in winter time. But the main benefit has always been that it provides a legal mechanism to force everyone to maintain their yards and property. No need to drop passive-aggressive notes in a mailbox about people parking their cars on their lawns.

10/10 highly recommend

edit: apparently you guys don't like HOAs haha. Well I love them. Keeps the neighborhood from looking like a dump.
by gishglish | 2025-07-30 14:48:11+00:00
> I pay $100/hr for a union journeyworker electrician in a metro area of ~3 million, $106 for a foreman, and $112 for a general foreman.

Genuine question: Why?

I picked the Cincinnati MSA, as an example, as it’s both bigger than yours and is likely to have unionized work.

BLS says the 90th quartile is still only ~90k which while certainly not bad, is only the top 10%.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-30 14:48:18+00:00
There’s a lot of PE activity in this sector imo.

They buy out all these established places and jack up the prices. It goes from calling them to book to some polished booking portal.

It’s mostly catered towards those who can afford it, so the 200k base SWE x 2 family can afford the 2x jacked up prices, and they continue increasing the prices every 1-2 years.
Show HN: Made my own app switcher because ⌘-Tab wasn't cutting it [video]
by segev_s | 2025-07-30 14:48:26+00:00
Meet Dory - A quick way to cycle through apps without moving your hand from the mouse or keyboard - and without needing to remember any shortcuts.

Click your middle mouse button - or the right Command key if both hands are on the keyboard - and type the first letter of the app’s name.

Find apps using the first letter, middle letters, acronyms, or similar names.

If multiple apps share that letter, just keep tapping it to cycle through them.

You can also press the middle mouse button and start typing the app’s name directly.

Prefer tapping over holding? No problem. With Press Mode, you can open Dory’s sleek UI using a global shortcut.

Dory works right out of the box - and over time, it learns which apps you use most and prioritizes them.

No extra shortcuts.

No setup. Nothing to remember.

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It's currently $3.99 on the Mac App Store (One-time purchase. No subscription.)

Also, just a heads-up: the current price won't last much longer.

If you've been thinking about getting Dory, now might be the perfect time.
by rypskar | 2025-07-30 14:48:56+00:00
I did probably not formulate myself good enough. By calling it ID theft you are blaming the person the ID belongs to and that person have to prove they are innocent. By calling it by the correct words, bank fraud, the bank have to prove that the person the ID belongs to did it. No ID was stolen, it was only used by someone else to commit fraud. The banks don't have enough security to stop it because they have gotten away with calling it ID theft and putting the blame on the person the ID belongs to
by goda90 | 2025-07-30 14:49:15+00:00
> Many explanations have been offered for rising child care costs. The Institute for Family Studies, for example, shows that prices rise with regulations like “group sizes, child-to-staff ratios, required annual training hours, and minimum educational requirements for teachers and center directors.” I don’t deny that regulation raises prices—places with more regulation have higher costs—but I don’t think that explains the slow, steady price increase over time. As with health care and education, the better explanation is the Baumol effect, as I argued in my book (with Helland) Why Are the Prices So Damn High?

While I agree regulation probably doesn't explain the whole price increase, I wonder if governments can do a better job preventing regulation from causing price increases without cutting corners on the regulation itself. Subsidize training for example. Make the child-staff ratios and group sizes a more dynamic factor based on age and needs. Maybe set aside funds to subsidize targeted special needs child care so the kids with fewer needs can be cared for more cheaply(I imagine this is controversial just like schools having separate special needs classes was).

Of course there's the catch all approach of adding childcare to the public schools budget and rolling the cost into taxes.
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:49:33+00:00
Not finding a ton of information about it, was curious about it too. But the "smallest system" seems huge, like 16 sleds and a HN comment from 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840) says:

> An oxide rack has a minimum cost of something like 600k not including all the infra you need to run a rack, maintenance, and then needing to upgrade

So maybe not super useful for people who are looking to do some home-lab stuff or even setups for SMBs.

Edit: Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552556

> My guess is that a base config would be somewhere between $400K to $500K but could very definitely go up from there for a completely "loaded" config.
by NoThisIsMe | 2025-07-30 14:50:06+00:00
From the article

> What this code does is read an index file that contains the list of R packages from CRAN, and subsequently download the description files of the first 200 packages to the user home directory (which is actually a virtual filesystem in WebR [1]). > [1] https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/mounting.html

So I think it's a virtual filesystem in browser memory.
by niklasbabel | 2025-07-30 14:50:24+00:00
tldr: looking for a partner

i know how to start. i know how to ship. i don’t know how to pick what’s worth staying with.

and i still don’t know what my next thing is.

i’ve shipped real SaaS apps.

– https://truereviews.co // OAuth-based verified customer reviews.

– https://refersend.com // Referral tracking via email for non-digital industries.

– https://postpov.com AI-powered content machine for professionals with AI content simulation.

if you’re also in that “smart but tired” phase, DM me or reply. maybe we can get out of it together.

here’s the pattern: i sprint hard. i get it live. i stall.

not because I’m lazy. b/c promotion/selling burns me out way more than building.

i’m not some weekend hacker. i’ve been a Chief of Staff, a founder, a fixer, a builder. i’ve managed up, down, and sideways in a real company. i’ve coached teams. i’ve been coached. it’s helped friends escape the corporate treadmill.

i still don’t know what my next thing is.

i’m not writing this for pity. i’m writing it because i see myself in this post, and maybe someone else sees themselves in mine.

niklasbabel.com
by tristor | 2025-07-30 14:50:24+00:00
> Because it’s really about putting one’s thumb on the scale of market participation, not actually about China at all.

I wish this were true. It is not. Huawei has very famously (and publicly admitted) to stealing intellectual property from US tech companies, in many cases through conducting corporate espionage. Huawei has also had many of their products independently audited by various governments and found to contain intentional security flaws or backdoors.

You could easily make the argument that clearly US companies are just as bad, after all most US tech companies got funding to start from the CIA and clearly the intelligence community is really involved w/ Juniper and HPE (Dual EC anyone?). Both sides doing something doesn't absolve anyone who has to make a decision from understanding the implications of it, though.

This is more than just putting the thumb on the scale, it's a battle between a world of Pax Americana and a world where China runs things.

> We all know the US as a unit is totally incapable of catching up to Chinese technology output or development pace (save for isolated pockets like Apple and SpaceX who thrive despite being in the US, not because of it).

You mean the same US tech industry that has invented basically every modern computer technology, including the most cutting edge technologies available now? Are you kidding me? Nobody can possibly take this statement seriously. China has leg irons on because of US sanctions, but nonetheless the historical record is pretty clear that China excels at copying and scaling, but not so much invention. Creativity requires freedom of thought, something in horribly short supply within China.
by Permit | 2025-07-30 14:50:30+00:00
On the other hand, it kills me when people think having a unique taste in music is representative of anything other than having a unique taste in music (i.e. that one's taste in music has anything to do with being original or contrarian).

It seems sensible to me that the people who spend a lot of time doing something like creating a successful business do not spend much of their time curating a unique taste in music.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-30 14:50:43+00:00
That seems to work -- I can say though that off the top of my head I don't know the name of any of those fonts, though typing in "Tre" turned up a whole lot of them. Helvetica vs Arial is about as good as Batman vs Superman (though a New Yorker thought that my use of Arial to simulate signs from the New York Subway was an outrage) but you should have some example that just works for everyone.