MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-07-28 14:46:50+00:00
> So do you think if people designed a keyboard from scratch, they would come up with the same traditional layout?

That depends on the constraints. Today's keyboard is a good compromise even today. You can compromise different things, but a full micro-tonal keyboard isn't enough better as to be worth it for most things and once you agree that you must compromise the only question is what. A 9:8 or 10:9 major second are both of rare use and so you probably just agree to get rid of them. The only hard part is 3rds, would you accept how bad they sound in a the current system (in which case a true 5th and a equal tempered 5th are close enough), or try to divide the thirds somehow.
by miketheman | 2025-07-28 14:46:54+00:00
There is an active phishing attack targeting PyPI users.

• Threat: Emails from noreply@pypj.org (with a 'j') link to a fake login page.

• Action: Do not click any links. If you already did, change your PyPI password ASAP.

• Note: PyPI itself has not been breached.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-28 14:47:05+00:00
Nothing like the threat of a meeting to inspire action.

My former boss wanted to have regular meetings because otherwise it is too easy for cross department projects to fall behind. Nobody prioritizes it, so things will not get done. It (should) cause some amount of embarrassment to go to the weekly meeting for N weeks and say you have still not done X task.
by nzach | 2025-07-28 14:47:41+00:00
I'm starting to think about moving to a new city and was considering to build a tool like this. And now I'm excited to see this already exists!

For my use-case the interface you created isn't the best. Now that I'm searching for a new home I'm interested in finding a place that has a bakery nearby, but it doesn't really matter what bakery. The same goes for restaurants, pubs, ... For this case there are too many places to add them "manually".

Thanks for creating this, I will be definitely using this in the the coming months.
by winterismute | 2025-07-28 14:47:59+00:00
I always thought linking all the main things not working in the actual world to the alienation caused by too much digital consumption to be wrong/not really making sense. However, gradually, I am getting closer and closer to that conclusion... In your case, what brought you to the stance "Too much social media is what ails the whole world"? What do you think we could do to solve it?
by jrm4 | 2025-07-28 14:48:02+00:00
A little offtopic, but this headline perfectly illustrates why I (a Black person, perhaps relevant) never much liked the term "micro-aggressions" in the way it was initiated.

Call the person out as e.g. racist or don't. Or call out the statement or whatever as stupid or messed up and make them apologize. But, nitpicking things as "micro-aggressions" and giving them this weird power, meh. Just say, "Hey, get a load of this a-hole" and move on.

Now, here it kind of works because they are micro and because it's not a human, etc.
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-28 14:48:37+00:00
Phones are portable, and thus more likely to suffer from a physical attack. But that's about it.

It is, and always was a flimsy excuse to the strip user of control over his own device.

"Secure Boot" isn't actually there to protect the device from an attacker. It's there to "protect" the device from its own user. It's used to "secure" DRM schemes and App Store revenue streams.
by josefritzishere | 2025-07-28 14:48:42+00:00
Two large scale studies so far. It's worth saying that thus far there have only been two studies on the efficiency gains AI produces and they both report that it's a negative number. Perhaps later studies will rebuke those findings but SCIENCE! At this time we lack findinfs that support the contention that AI is a benefit at least when measures as work hours.
by dmix | 2025-07-28 14:48:42+00:00
The US states are just targeting the big porn sites like Pornhub to add ID checks AFAIK, I haven't heard of them going after random forums like in the UK. But obviously that sort of power always expands, just like how the UK went from arresting a couple people for offensive tweets back in 2010 to doing 12k arrests/yr in 2025
by kazinator | 2025-07-28 14:49:06+00:00
Without a comprehensive test suite you can easily break a recursive descent parser. By adding code into some function to handle something new, you can accidentally prevent some existing syntax from being recognized.

It has been my eperience that if you have a LALR parser that reports no errors at generation time, and you add something such that there are still no errors, you've not ruined any existing syntax. That could be a theorem.
by ebrizzzz | 2025-07-28 14:50:00+00:00
I’ve been working on a project called StoryTerra, an interactive map where you can explore thousands of movies, books, games, and TV shows based on where and when their stories take place.

This project brings together over 120,000 titles, including books, films, TV shows, and games, which I annotated them with their narrative time periods and real-world locations or the closest location to their fictional setting. You can explore the world by clicking on cities, regions, or countries, and use a time slider that lets you browse centuries, decades, or individual years.

Would love to have some feedback!

Article : https://medium.com/@ebriz444/mapping-stories-through-time-th...
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-28 14:50:01+00:00
Presumably the app would be able to signal the presence of an approaching car from a much longer distance than the inductive loops you typically see these systems, ensuring cars don't even need to slow down when approaching the intersection. (Saving gas, brake/tire wear, and time.)

It's also probably cheaper than the extra physical infrastructure needed for inductive loops, given that all the necessary equipment (phones, GPS, cell infrastructure) is already in place for most people.
by 9rx | 2025-07-28 14:51:09+00:00
> I believe they grow field corn for animal feed as well as for ethanol.

I grow corn. I grow it to be sold. Whatever the buyer decides to do with it — be that feed it to animals, turn it into tortilla chips, make sweeteners, create plastic for 3D printers, produce ethanol, or even burn it in their furnace — is up to them.
by npteljes | 2025-07-28 14:51:38+00:00
In this domain, things change so fast that I decided to just focus on my next phone, or like the following 2-3 years.

The future is as bleak for the custom ROMs as is their past. They are aftermarket modifications of the phone software, entirely dependent on the manufacturers and Google, and these release new things yearly.

Pixels are a good choice I think because they come with the least amount of bloat, and with Android, the connection to Google is always there anyways.
by resource_waste | 2025-07-28 14:51:41+00:00
Over the last week, I helped 4 people get a piece of software working on Windows.

Something I found mind boggling is that the windows/search button doesnt load every time.

From my nvidia 3060 gpu laptop, to my tiny i5, to cheap refurbished laptops, all computers seem to have an issue displaying the search/windows button's data.

I believe if you wait long enough, it shows up, but sometimes you click off and re-click.

Anyway, its utterly mind boggling that the OS that has 90% of users has this issue.

(My guess is that its doing some sort of online thing and it wont display results until it gets the ads/sends data)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-28 14:52:25+00:00
>It will collapse the EU economies even more.

Europe is going to have to swallow (probably choke) on the pill that the avg US worker works four hundred more hours a year than their German counterparts. Two hundred more than the average Frenchman.

If the EU is going to boost defense spending to cover a gap in the US funding of staving off the EU's bad neighbor, there is going to be pain. Either more working hours, less social programs, higher taxes, or some combination.

They'll probably reach for more draconian regulations to squeeze as much money from industry as possible, and likely kill it in the process. Then they will complain that they are beholden to foreign companies.
Show HN: Side Reader – Better PDF Chat Experience for ChatGPT and Claude
by cyberpanda | 2025-07-28 14:52:26+00:00
Side Reader is a Chrome extension that lets you read and interact with PDFs directly on ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek websites.

I built Side Reader because I got tired of the constant tab-switching between PDF readers and AI chat - copying text, switching tabs, pasting, repeat. It was driving me crazy.

Over time, I added more features like custom highlight buttons, screenshot functionality, and local storage.
by winterismute | 2025-07-28 14:53:08+00:00
Living in the UK but being from another EU country, I definitely see that happening. However, a lot of times it is just due to habits, wrongly-placed mistrust, or not being well settled-in yet because, at the end of the day, there are eg. better GPs and worse GPs everywhere in the world, but if you are still "new" to the country you simply do not know which ones are which, so you prefer to go to the ones you know already.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-28 14:53:27+00:00
That feels like it might have perverse incentives if it were formally tracked. On the other hand, as a low level grunt, I would enjoy having some quantitative metrics about the topic. Who acts like this is a game trying to get the high score?

Depending on how it was implemented, might also be possible to unblind people’s salary. A big no-no for a big corporation where there might be laughable pay disparity.
by rayiner | 2025-07-28 14:53:39+00:00
It’s not “rent seeking” necessarily. That’s just one kind of inefficiency. There’s also overly defensive medical practice. For example, my five year old boy had a run-in with a table and got a black eye. Our pediatrician physically inspected him, decided nothing was wrong, but sent him to get an X-ray and CAT scan anyway. It took just an hour and a half because the U.S. has expensive medical equipment just lying around.

In a sanely administered system, you wouldn’t send every five year old that ran into some furniture to get a CAT scan. You’d just accept the infinitesimal risk of some hidden injury that couldn’t be caught with physical contact examination but could be caught with a CAT scan.

In another example, my wife’s grandmother had a stroke at 87. They medevacced her out of her house in rural Oregon to Portland. Then the doctors wanted to do a bunch of expensive procedures until she passed away a few days later. She was a lovely lady, but no European country would’ve greenlit these procedures on an 87 year old woman who had a quarter of her long missing due to lung cancer in her 60s.

The more you drill down into health indicators to distinguish the effect of medical care from other factors, the less it seems like US outcomes are worse. US overall indicators, like life expectancy, are worse. But those factor in many things that have nothing to do with the health system, such as homicide, car accidents, demographic, obesity, etc.

For example, Americans eat a truly disgusting amount of food compared to europeans. I’m a relatively low resource consumption asian, and even I was always hungry when we visited Paris because the portion sizes were so small.
by 9rx | 2025-07-28 14:53:49+00:00
> The corn varieties grown for industrial ethanol production are mutually exclusive with the corn varieties grown for human consumption

Not exactly. You wouldn't normally eat "industrial ethanol corn" off the cob, which is what you are probably trying to suggest, but it is often used in other corn-based food like tortilla chips, and, of course, its most infamous use: High-fructose corn syrup.
by fabian2k | 2025-07-28 14:53:57+00:00
For me the biggest hurdle with Linux recently was the bad support for fractional scaling and multi-monitor setups with different scaling factors. It looks like this got better now, though on the Notebook I'm using Linux with I'm fighting a bit with the X Window System to Wayland transition. Fractional scaling is only sharp with Wayland, so I have to set some flags for applications like VSCode so that they don't render crappy.

I also had bad luck with drivers and bluetooth/audio issues the last time I tried to switch. That might have been just that particular Ubuntu release though.

I might try it sometime soon again, especially if Microsoft annoys me with Windows 11 again.
by johnmaguire | 2025-07-28 14:54:02+00:00
In fact you have shared your opinion: 'Again, this is a radical internet-libertarian-freedom-at-all-costs view. Normal people do not think that proving you are 18 is notable.'

I would actually argue you've expressed dozens of opinions related to this law and very few facts. Any source on whether Swedish or Japanese voters care for example? What led you to this conclusion?

Furthermore in your last comment you first argue you are only speaking to UK sentiment ('I am speaking specifically about how everyone here is talking as if people in the U.K. care about “draconian” surveillance.') and then double down on your argument that US is the outlier.
by pyman | 2025-07-28 14:54:14+00:00
Regulating porn, guns, gambling, tobacco, and alcohol has nothing to do with authoritarianism or a lack of freedom. It's about protecting people, just like we already do with seatbelts, speed limits, and food safety.

Why do you think shops ask for proof of age when you buy cigarettes? Not because they care about cancer or want to sell less, it's because they're required to by law. Of course, teenagers can still find workarounds. They can ask an older friend to buy it for them, just like they can use a VPN to access porn.

The difference is, regulation shifts accountability. It moves the responsibility from a greedy, insensitive business owner to the kids. And at least with the kids we can guide them, and help them spend their time and money where it actually matters.

Note: I know people who love guns or porn are probably going to downvote this, but someone has to say it.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-28 14:54:23+00:00
Microsoft makes it hard (impossible) because they don't want normal users using LTSC. They try very hard in their marketing to make it seem like LTSC is not good for general purpose computing since it removes many of the features they are trying to push and their ability to show ads.

That being said, check out the WindowsLTSC subreddit. All the information on how to get it is there.

You don't need any sort of crack make it work and don't need to go anywhere shady to get the ISO. And if you are concerned from an ethical standpoint, buy a normal Windows license and just install LTSC instead.
by Silhouette | 2025-07-28 14:54:37+00:00
There are some rules that exist for very good reasons - and which have been widely undermined by front-line healthcare services though this does at least seem to be improving a bit over time.

There are also plenty of rules that exist for dogmatic reasons and impose absolute requirements that don't always make much sense in context instead of stating principles that should be appropriately applied.

I understand that those administering these rules don't want to leave loopholes where people or cost-conscious suppliers will cut corners for convenience and/or to save money. There is obviously a danger of that happening if you don't write everything down in black and white.

But you have to remember that the starting point here is receptionists at medical facilities asking people to email over sensitive health information or casually discuss it on the phone when they don't even know who they're talking to and what information is appropriate to share with them. Doctors are trying to read vital patient information from scrawled handwriting on actual paper in potentially time-sensitive life-and-death situations. Expensive scanning equipment in hospitals relies on software that runs on 20-year-old versions of Windows from a supplier that shut down long ago.

In this context you probably win a lot just by having clear policies and guidelines that really are short and simple enough for rank and file staff working in a wide variety of different jobs to understand. A reasonable set of basic technical measures would be far better than much of what is in widespread use today. Trying to make everything perfect so we have fully computerised health records and integrated diagnostic and treatment systems and everything is 100% secure and privacy-protected and supported is a laudable goal that would obviously be much better for patient outcomes and also for the daily lives of everyone working in healthcare. And in 50 or 100 years maybe we'll be able to do it. But not today and not tomorrow.
by h3half | 2025-07-28 14:55:30+00:00
As someone totally uninformed, are you saying that all those YouTube ads about e.g. Private Internet Access (et al), which specifically cite getting around geo restrictions in the ad copy, are BS?

Which sounds like a silly question ("of course the marketing is BS") but why even bother marketing if the core value proposition of your billed-monthly service doesn't work? Seems like a waste of money since you'll at most get people for one month when they cancel after realizing they can't watch Canadian Netflix from Florida, or whatever.
by twbarber | 2025-07-28 14:55:34+00:00
Anecdotally, the low time to prototype has had me throwing usable tool projects up on my local network. I wrote a meal planner and review tool for our weekly vegetable share, and local board game / book library that guests can connect to and reference.

It scratches the itch to build and ship with the benefit of a growing library of low scope, high performance, highly customized web tools I can write over a few hours in an evening instead of devoting weekends to it. It feels like switching from hand to power tools
by bitwize | 2025-07-28 14:55:52+00:00
There are a few things being conflated here: general gen Z slang like "rizz"; "algospeak", or euphemisms to avoid demonetization or other disciplinary action from online platforms (e.g., "unalive" for "kill", or "S.A." for "sexual assault"); and replacing vowels with asterisks which is usually done to avoid attention from searchers for disfavored people/things, e.g., "El*n M*sk".

Even in the realm of gen Z slang, gen Z/alpha people don't generally talk as obnoxiously as depicted in the Rizzler song or the infamous Walmart ad with the bus driver. And there are certain things attributed to gen Z that I think are completely made up and then picked up and propagated by gullible journalists and marketroids. A few years back, a number of online outlets began repeating the rise of the term "cheugy" among gen Z, meaning roughly "cheesy and outdated, like something a millennial would find cool". But I could never find actual live examples of "cheugy" being used this way, either online or IRL, outside of thinkpieces about gen Z slang. I'm pretty convinced that "cheugy" is a phenomenon similar to the hoax jargon of "grunge speak" of the 1990s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

I think it's important to separate and clarify the different linguistic phenomena going in here, to avoid brainrot regarding how Kids These Days speak and use language.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-07-28 14:56:15+00:00
> In addition, he said the EU would spend an extra $750bn on US energy products, invest $600bn in the US and buy military equipment worth “hundreds of billions of dollars”.

> Von der Leyen confirmed that the EU would seek to buy an extra $250bn of US energy products each year from now until 2027.

> At the same time, she acknowledged that the 15 percent tariffs would be “a challenge for some” European industries.

Let me remind you that Von der Leyen survived a no confidence vote a few weeks ago. You reap what you sow.
by MSM | 2025-07-28 14:56:19+00:00
Completely agree re:leadership.

I worked in a couple companies with the "agenda rule" but I worked at one company in particular where it was successful. In that company, leadership had a "no nonsense" type approach and it only took a few reply alls from leaders to meeting requests with "Where is the agenda?" for everyone to fall in line. It also helped that every meeting they sent out contained an agenda.
by epiccoleman | 2025-07-28 14:56:37+00:00
Long ago I used to read i-hacked.com with great interest. They had an article about a DIY "MIRT" which produced the right infrared signal to trigger these:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060317013200/http://www.i-hack...

Of course this article came with many disclaimers that to actually do this would be very illegal.

I was more than a little sad when I typed i-hacked.com into the browser and got redirected to some etsy page. Thank goodness for the Wayback Machine, I guess.
by skybrian | 2025-07-28 14:57:13+00:00
I don’t know of any comparisons, but anecdotally, I play both piano and button accordion and my guess is that piano keys would be easier for beginners, due to the direct mapping to sheet music. Beginners start in C major using just the white keys and then added sharps or flats are the black keys. (Then you learn to play in other keys, but gradually.)

A chromatic button accordion has other compensating advantages but I don’t find either one easier overall. They’re just different. You get better with practice.
by gruez | 2025-07-28 14:57:45+00:00
>To me, Facebooks’ entire business model seems like spyware and selling personal info to third parties.

"seems like" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. I'm not aware of instances where facebook was "selling personal info to third parties". It does use personal info to sell ads to third parties, but characterizing that as "selling personal info" is a stretch.

>We know those scammers use Facebook to gather info and target victims, all without any actual breach taking place.

This just sounds like "scammers are viewing public facebook profiles and using facebook messenger to communicate with victims", in that case I'm not sure how facebook deserves flak here.
by jeremy_k | 2025-07-28 14:57:47+00:00
I'm working on a mortgage scenario planning tool. A simple mortgage calculator can give you an estimate as to how much a mortgage payment will be but there are so many other inputs that must be taken into account on a per individual basis. For example someone could input that they want to put 20% down and see the monthly payment amount but there are other fees, such as closing costs, which must be taken in account to determine how much cash on hand a buyer will need to actually transact on the mortgage.

My friend and my lender has built up a giant Google Sheet which he uses with his clients and I've been slowly working to translate the logic in that Sheet into an application. It's been a lot of fun as I've been learning how to replicate the multiplayer aspects of Sheets into a React application.
by kazinator | 2025-07-28 14:58:40+00:00
Sounds like they never heard of Goodhart's law. They rigged a system which measures behavior (distance of approaching vehicle) and tied it to decision making (controlling a traffic light) in order to create an incentive toward a certain desired behavior. That's a prime example of something where people will learn the system and game it to optimize their own advantage instead of the desired behavior.
by openmarkand | 2025-07-28 14:58:41+00:00
I think removing a joke to be considered as corporate is a bit exaggerated.

It's okay to have "fun". I consider a software more corporate when it has a large website with dozen of MB of Javascript, analytics, XML documentation, ten automatic bots with CI checking every part of a merge request and a contributing guide larger than the whole got documentation to be more corporate than a clean and simple UX without jokes.

Remember: a clean UX should present output only when necessary. This is exactly where I prefer a lot hg status than git status for example.