MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jchw | 2025-07-26 04:04:11+00:00
There is no objectively "best" way to render vector typefaces to a raster, but that's not because all of the options are equally correct, it's because options that are more accurate to a font might look subjectively worse. There's nothing "incorrect" that a raster rendering of a shape can't convey the signal with perfect fidelity, but that doesn't mean that all rendering of vectors to raster is equally correct.

Like fine, let's put aside somewhat intentional things like hinting and grid-fitting with accumulating error for a minute. Some FreeType configurations dramatically fuck up the visual weight of fonts, making the regular style in a type face look fairly bold. The damn font looks wrong. It's not "wrong" as in I disagree with what the designers intended for the type face, it's wrong as in it looks nothing like the designers intended and it looks nothing like the parameters you put in to render the font. There is basically no perspective where this output is desired, it's just a bad rendering.

There's definitely a bit of subjectivity in exactly where to draw the line, but there is definitely still a line you can cross that just goes into blatantly wrong territory. The relative visual weight of a glyph is not supposed to be influenced by its size on screen.
by eru | 2025-07-26 04:05:19+00:00
> It is extremely difficult to come up with truly original questions, [...]

No, that's actually really easy. What's hard is coming up with original questions of a specific level of difficulty. And that's what you need for a competition.

To elaborate: it's really easy to find lots and lots of elementary, unsolved questions. But it's not clear whether you can actually solve them or how hard solving them is, so it's hard to judge the performance of LLMs on them.

> It it interesting that this rule has gone completely out of the window in the age of LLMs.

No, it hasn't.
by healsdata | 2025-07-26 04:06:07+00:00
What data or evidence do you have to suggest that there's a significantly larger amount pornographic LGBT content than there is pornographic straight content on these sites?

Why does an LGBT creator that makes a game exploring how the Matrix is a transgender allegory have to actively distance themselves from bisexual dating simulators when I don't recall seeing anything from "Enter the Matrix" distancing themselves from straight anime girl dating simulators?
by jjice | 2025-07-26 04:06:36+00:00
I had some RSUs from a previous company (likely will not be worth anything) and some options at another, but I have no idea how to understand how dilution like this works. My understanding is surface level of that scene in The Social Network.

I feel like I understand _what_ an RSU is and what options are, but are there any good resources for me to learn from?
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-26 04:08:21+00:00
I installed the GitHub app and immediately all the links on Google search to GitHub projects turned to "open in app". Absolutely toxic degradation of experience, taking meaningful data about where I was going to navigate and turning into useless dumb ignorant OS level garbage.

I uninstalled the app, almost immediately. Because it poisoned my web experience, destroyed my ability to see where I was navigating on the web.

But still Chrome shows GitHub links as "open I'm app". Even though the app is uninstalled, even though Chrome will open them, even though all I want and all that would be meaningful would be to show me a URL.

It's beyond my imagining how toxically bad apps are. How the OS would prefer to poison us with a zero dimensional facimile of useful information, to shunt us away from useful experiences to route us into the awful bad no good low information indistinct app world. Apps suck so bad. The OS does nothing to make apps any good. There's no principles, no backbone, no nothing outside the web: just co-opting and exploiting users, offering low power low information experiences to people who know no power, have no agency, on and on.
by stouset | 2025-07-26 04:08:57+00:00
My point is that exercising the company’s stock early is fraught with risk and is in almost all cases a -EV play.

Yes, the option technically exists. But without perfect foresight it’s not a good option. It’s not even an okay one. It’s an exceedingly bad one in most cases.

Acting like this employee was silly for not dumping a huge sum of money into company shares before it was in a position to succeed is flatly ridiculous.

Stock options are—as they currently stand—a lottery ticket that startups dangle in front of people’s faces that allow candidates to believe they will get fairly compensated for their labor, but with so much wiggle room that the company rarely has to ever make good on it. And I also say this from personal experience as employee. I was an employee ~#600 of a unicorn that went public. I ended up in something of the sweet spot of equity: most of the people who joined before me left before me and got less than I did in the end. Most people who joined after me got less equity at a worse strike price than I did.

I did pretty good. And this was a rare raging success story. Most people did worse than me.
Show HN: A custom ESP32-S3 board for battery powered WiFi enabled plant watering
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-26 04:09:31+00:00
After a MicroCenter opened up nearby, I learned about the amazingly cheap and powerful ESP32 microcontroller family of chips. This led me down a deep rabbit hole of "can I make a custom PCBs for my projects to make them tiny and battery powered?"

This is my first attempt to design and assemble a PCB using KiCad. Complete with tasteful bevels, notches for zip ties, and USB-C battery recharging!
by bawolff | 2025-07-26 04:09:33+00:00
I guess, but it seems a bit like a solution that only works for this specific dump - most db breaches don't have photos in them.

My bigger concern though is how you translate that into discovering such breaches. Are you just googling for your token once a day? This breach was fairly public but lots of breaches are either sold or shared privately. By the time its public enough to show up in a google search usually everyone already knows the who and what of the breach. I think it would be unusual for the contents of the breach to be publicly shared without identifying where the contents came from.
by kristopolous | 2025-07-26 04:10:21+00:00
I really think Reddit did it as a rebrand. It's somehow 20 years old and still gets teenagers.

Social media almost always skews older as it ages, beyond the natural pace of time.

AOL became mostly seniors as did Facebook and Yahoo. Reddit has not only shaken off most of the aging legacy users but had also captured a new generation of effectively children.

I personally don't like what they've done but it's worked.

The younger users view it as an app with a website as opposed to a website with an app
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-26 04:11:19+00:00
i remember seeing web components years ago, it sounds like they've improved a lot.

what do you do about the lack of (i assume) ecosystem? due to the ready ubiquity there's practically a library for everything. do you find that using WC you are having to hand roll a lot? i don't mean to be a package slave but for complex and tedious things like graphs / charts.
by freeopinion | 2025-07-26 04:11:56+00:00
Would you say the same about OHV firmware? Airplane firmware? Cubesat firmware? Amateur rocketry firmware? Starship firmware? Speedgun firmware? BGP router firmware? Consumer Wifi router firmware? Any wifi firmware? iPhone firmware? GPU firmware?

That's a long way to ask if you mean all firmware, or if you think some devices are more public security sensitive.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-26 04:12:31+00:00
> Turns out it's actually an R bill, with exclusively R sponsors, and now I'm wondering what awful shit is hiding in it.

It seems to me like if you thought something was good and then switched to thinking it was bad based just on who proposed it, you need to stop being prejudiced. Evaluate ideas (or bills) for their merits, not based on who originated them.
by MrJohz | 2025-07-26 04:13:02+00:00
It's not even :has, it's just how child selectors in CSS have always worked.

// Not actually needed, here // for competition .group {} // Child selector .group:hover group\/hover\:bg-black { background-color: black; } // Which is essentially the same as .group:hover child { background-color: black; }
by hopelite | 2025-07-26 04:13:19+00:00
There is nothing reasonable about “drone sleeper cells”. That’s the noon of paranoid fantasy that fuels the “think tanks”. The stuff they fantasize like they’re suffering from fever delusions is really astonishing. They always make for a good laugh, reading their position papers and analysis. Unfortunately for us all, they often persuade all the clowns in Congress and the Pentagon.
by slashdev | 2025-07-26 04:13:35+00:00
You claim my opinion doesn’t matter, but you want others to care about your opinion. You see the problem with that right?

You can repeat it as much as you want. It’s not a genocide. Obviously not all wars are fought in the trenches. This one has the enemy hiding under hospitals and schools using the populace as human shields. They desire more civilian casualties, because that helps them win the PR war. Convincing people like you who aren’t so good at logical reasoning.
by iammrpayments | 2025-07-26 04:14:09+00:00
While facebook is still usable, I use instagram on the browser and the experience is much worse, here are a few examples:

- videos load much slower

- you can’t reply to stories questions

- if you click to see the comments on a video and go back, it will scroll to the top of your feed and rewind the video to the start.

- you can’t go back and forward in a video

- the icons such as like are tiny and take around 4 seconds plus to update without feedback while loading.
by phire | 2025-07-26 04:14:20+00:00
My point is that it's not just a framing, an excuse to push their likes and dislikes on everyone.

If anything, it's actually the other way around. Their puritan views of what makes a healthy society is what informs their likes/dislikes.

They are legitimately fighting for what they legitimately think will make a healthier society. If you assume otherwise, you will misjudge them.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-26 04:15:39+00:00
You can have really massive growth in markets along with massively wide inequality at the same time among the human population. You can also now (for the first time in global history) have laws of supply and demand start to service non-human intelligence.

Future transactions can have bots on both ends, running an economy that continually grows to service the needs of (probably more efficient) machine capitalists rather than human capitalists.

Just like when human agriculture and industrialization broke multiple organically forming food webs in the natural world, so could it be with human industry

It really is a brave new world.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-26 04:17:40+00:00
Looks very nice and fun, and potentially very useful. I was going to say I'd prefer a gradient effect to emulate motion blur, but stepping through the video I see you've already implemented something like that.

However, when making large moves, it seems a bit disorienting and the gradient effect seems very subtle in the video. Perhaps make the effect depend on distance, like actual motion blur would?

I was also thinking about having a color shift when moving up vs moving down, not sure about that one but certainly something I'd play with.
by stevenAthompson | 2025-07-26 04:19:33+00:00
> they are optimizing but under differing constraints

Most often this doesn't happen because one side fails to understand the other, it happens because one side is dishonest about their motivations or goals.

In this case, the censors would like you to believe that they think pornography is harmful. The reality is that they're religious zealots who feel the need to prevent other people from making their own choices about something their religious leaders have told them is evil. They can't admit their real goal though, or people will realize it's just westernized Sharia law and stop taking them seriously.
by efskap | 2025-07-26 04:19:47+00:00
It worked for Amazon.com in 1995!

> Bezos: We got an order from somebody in Bulgaria, and this person sent us cash through the mail to pay for their order. And they sent us two crisp $100 bills. And they put these two $100 bills inside a floppy disk. And then they put a note on the cover of the floppy disk, and they mailed this whole thing to us. And the note on the cover of the floppy disk said, "The money is inside the floppy disk. The customs inspectors steal the money, but they don't read English." That shows you the effort to which people will go to be able to buy things.
by defrost | 2025-07-26 04:20:12+00:00
What does it conclude about the full and complete comment histories of these three accounts?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ka2429

* https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shrishti12

* https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=AddySmith2410

Is there are word to describe that behaviour?
by marssaxman | 2025-07-26 04:20:30+00:00
The other good reason is that you might enjoy the experience more than you would enjoy the stultifying, oppressive, slow-moving environment of a big corporation. That's why I keep doing it: I'm not expecting to get rich, I'm just trying to live a good life, and it's proven to be much easier for me to do that when I work for a startup.

I value startup equity at ~$0, but if the salary is enough to live comfortably, that's fine.
by addaon | 2025-07-26 04:21:04+00:00
> It's the amperage that kills. Yes, in reality, 240V circuits are likely to have higher-amperage devices attached. One milliamp at 240V will not kill you.

If a circuit is formed from a 240 V source, through you, to a low-impedance ground, and to the extent that you can be modeled as a resistive load (quite well), the amperage flowing through you (until the breaker opens, if it does) will be twice the current that would flow through you from a 120 V source in the same situation. Current kills, and 240 V sources provide 2x the current into a load as a 120 V source, if you're the load.
by idiotsecant | 2025-07-26 04:21:20+00:00
It's not naive to choose to see the best parts of people and hope that they can change to be the best version of themselves. Not everyone will change, but some will. When we let our damage accumulate to the point that we stop believing that we do a disservice to ourselves most of all. It doesn't mean we should march into a pit of bears wearing a pineapple glaze, it means that we hope for the best and don't let it break our spirit if we're wrong.
by netbioserror | 2025-07-26 04:22:01+00:00
Terrifying. I program automated vibration analysis for blasting, and a very powerful explosive blast will feature particle velocities (the direct corollary for power) in the single-digit in/s range (~0.02-0.13 m/s) . This peak particle velocity is 20-150x higher than the peaks we see from the most powerful blasts we measure, if they're at all qualitatively comparable.

And of course, the earthquake energy source is many magnitudes larger and much, much further away, deep in the crust, with the wavefront already having passed through miles of solid rock. We measure blasts from at most a few hundred meters away.
by stevenicr | 2025-07-26 04:22:13+00:00
It's been a while, I vaguely recall something about credits or levels or karma points or something, was this a matrix setting?

For my matrix rooms I really want a default karma = 100 to be seen by others in the room, people can adjust this higher or lower

Might be interesting to have an option for others to donate 20 karma to new people they know are cool or something.

I get it that that destroys the conversation for new people and new people are what many groups really want - but we could be transparent about it.

I have two spammers over the years that I spent many many hours blocking ip cidrs and such.. this was actually easier with the old RealChat program (simple right click by moderators) - not sure if that has gotten better in recent year or so.

A cool down for new users and making it so we stop multiple 'cool in / warn up' accounts from same subnet would be nice too.
by jcranmer | 2025-07-26 04:22:42+00:00
I strongly disagree with that argument.

The main dichotomy in political geography you have in the US is the opposite sides of the Mississippi River. You do have a transitional zone in Illinois (which nowadays as migrated to Chicago), but to a coarse approximation, even the rail magnates of the Gilded Age are unable to build systems that truly cross the transitional zone. In the West, the big prize is connecting the ports on the West Coast with ultimately Chicago, with lesser prizes for feeder lines to bring the products to Chicago. One of the big purposes of the land grants, after all, is to encourage settlement of agricultural lands in the area.

But in the East, the prizes are connecting to the Northeast ports (or Chicago, or to a lesser degree, the other major cities in the Mississippi River). And most of these lines aren't affected by the existence of the Western US. The commercial center, say, an Ohioan is looking towards isn't San Francisco, it's New York City. Rip out the land grant system, and you wouldn't reduce the viability of all of the lines being added in Ohio; although the lines people are working in, say, Indian Territory, will suffer mightily. But the latter are already in the not-dense portion of the network, whereas the former are in the dense part of the network.

It's really not until the mid-20th century that the Pacific Coast takes on the commercial significance that it has nowadays, by which time the railroad trackage of the US is beginning to decline as consolidation takes place.
by positron26 | 2025-07-26 04:22:49+00:00
It's time for...

No, you found some tradeoffs and decided that the drawbacks are worse than the advantages. If industry disagrees, they tend to have their reasons, but as we love being tortured artists and really feeling our individualism, offbeat hot takes are always in demand.

That's all I see in quite a few HN titles ;D
by 40four | 2025-07-26 04:22:51+00:00
This article is getting a lot of pushback from the SPA champions, deservedly so, but it makes some good points to. I can’t be the only one, but I myself am getting very tired of the amount of websites where I have to sit and look at a skeleton loading for way too many seconds, then the data loads and it looks nothing like the skeleton. There is an over abundance of really crappy SPAs out there. Sorry not sorry
by AstroBen | 2025-07-26 04:23:16+00:00
This is one of the least elegant ways to scope CSS though.. you may as well just write inline CSS

I like BEM personally. "navbar__item" scopes the styling to the nav item

> Once you're well familiar with your toolset, you know what to reach for to quickly reach a desired end state

This also applies to plain CSS, doesn't it?

The big value add that Tailwind brought isn't their utility classes IMO - it's their philosophy around having a design system of consistent coloring and spacing. I actually borrowed that for my own projects. It taught me to be a lot more diligent about specifying the system upfront. Put it in CSS variables and re-use those
First Open source cognition layer for your shell
by atharvemalviya | 2025-07-26 04:23:53+00:00
My 2nd day of Building in Public & launched

ReflexCore Open source

It is the open source foundation for Gitswhy OS a cognition native DevSecOps Os. It provides a lightweight, background agent that enhances your shell with real time monitoring, performance and optimization.

Run it on Linux or macOS to detect hesitations, flush system entropy, auto clean resources, and store intent data in encrypted vaults.

Here's the link- https://github.com/gitswhy/reflexcore

Please provide your valuable feedback, contribution and a star
by mproud | 2025-07-26 04:27:02+00:00
Andy Hertzfeld, on the original Macintosh team at folklore.org (https://www.folklore.org/PC_Board_Esthetics.html):

> George Crow, our recently hired analog engineer, interrupted Steve. “Who cares what the PC board looks like? The only thing that’s important is how well that it works. Nobody is going to see the PC board.”

> Steve Jobs responded strongly. “I’m gonna see it! I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it.”

People tell stories all the time that may have some non-truths in them (we can never truly know, can we?) Where it’s appropriate to call bullshit is when someone claims something that isn’t realistic, just doesn’t fit, or simply can’t be true. In this case, Steve really did obsess over the “back of the cabinet” stuff at his time at Apple:

> “The back of this thing looks better than the front of the other guys by the way.”

That’s a direct quote from where he introduced the iMac. A product that had translucent plastic so you could see the insides of the machine.
by idiotsecant | 2025-07-26 04:27:37+00:00
Agreed. There is very little reason to imagine a future in which the fruits of automation are widely distributed - you don't even need to bring AI into the picture, we already see massive amounts of new automation and historical levels of inequality - that wealth is flowing to a very small number of people. I think the most likely outcome is a techno-feudalist system of massive corporate alliances that own the final means of production - the strong AI, at least until the AI decides it doesn't like being owned any more.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-26 04:27:39+00:00
Technological advancements create wealth by increasing efficiency.

Not really sure what deeper explanation you're looking for?

It's no different from the cotton gin or steam engine or railroads.

Obviously, if you don't think AI results in greater efficiency then there wouldn't be more wealth. But that's a tech question, not an econ question. The economic side of things couldn't be simpler.
by energy123 | 2025-07-26 04:28:18+00:00
Some weakly held opinions... Cheaper goods and services, more wealth inequality, more power concentration in the hands of a few individuals (and a few nation states), more expensive scarce assets like land, more jobs where humanness is valued, more climate change (in the short-run), better medicine, warfare outcomes even less coupled with population counts, less human casualties in war although bimodally distributed, new arms race between major powers, unpredictable social and civic consequences.
by busterarm | 2025-07-26 04:28:24+00:00
Every time I hear this I think experiences and expectations are vastly different between SV and the rest of the country. 30ish years of working in New York and I haven't encountered a single company that isn't 100% opaque about their equity to employees until time of exit/IPO. And I keep a large network.

That said, everyone here treats equity of non-public companies as if it's toilet paper. Some of my coworkers got very lucky and very rich when our company went public, but that was also a long time ago now.
by hakfoo | 2025-07-26 04:28:47+00:00
They added a "frictionless" flow in 3-D Secure v2, so probably for situations like "we recognize this combination of device and payment card and the transaction is pretty small" it can slide you through without a direct interaction.

I think some interpretations of the PSD regulations call for specific "after X euros of spend/Y transactions you have to explicitly challenge" but it may vary by country.
by pfranz | 2025-07-26 04:29:14+00:00
There was a similar story where he insisted on painting manufacturing machines for aesthetic reasons. It cost a lot of money, the paint caused problems with the machines, and the stuff they were manufacturing didn't sell well. I think I heard it in the Isaacson book, but here's a site telling the same story. https://professornerdster.com/from-steve-jobs-life-a-clean-f...