MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Asooka | 2025-07-12 22:50:55+00:00
I would say the best option, if there absolutely must be age verification etc., would be to have a registry of sites that comply with all regulations and by default devices shouldn't access sites off that list. Basically a giant allolist for verified good sites. The internet is already effectively shrunk to less than a dozen sites for regular users, so this won't impact them, and the rest of us can have real free speech and unregulated internet back by switching DNS servers or some similar trivial change.

Or we move everything not meant for the sanitised internet to TOR hidden services.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-12 22:51:10+00:00
Because kids are impressionable and easily manipulated.

It's why there is an age of consent that no kid can waive.

It's why kids aren't allowed to do lots of things, like vote, drive, drink etc.

There needs to be a compelling reason to make an exception for one politically charged thing that comes with irreversible physical changes.

There also needs to be a compelling reason why that decision cannot be deferred until age of majority.
by raincole | 2025-07-12 22:52:12+00:00
> I don't feel as strongly about privacy because "community" is what holds civilisation together.

Dude I'm sure most people are okay with their neighbors knowing their names and addresses. We're talking about the governments and megacorps here. Theses are not "communities" in any traditional sense.

> small transparent governments

No developed country has that. Not EU and definitely not the US.

> If you don't trust your government

No one should 100% trust their government.
by madeofpalk | 2025-07-12 22:52:26+00:00
Mozilla is more questionable than Google? By using Brave you're still staying within the Google ecosystem, sending them the signal that their Chromium internet is the better one.

I swear - people have such a hard on for hating Mozilla because it fails to live up to an impossibly high standard, while giving all the other corporations doing actual harm a free pass.
by jraines | 2025-07-12 22:53:12+00:00
The article is wrong. That’s when they changed it for fly/free.

Here is the 92 backstroke final. The announcers mention the rule: https://youtu.be/FTfTyzkSzQs?si=E82rvKql-w9vuwSf

I tried to find 96 and cannot but it was the same.

Here is the butterfly performance in 96 that ultimately triggered them to chamge it for fly/free: https://youtu.be/Zp2NTFjeXQQ?si=e_E-D1ZAvzNmjACe
by dnpp123 | 2025-07-12 22:54:36+00:00
"tabac" feels too restrictive, "Épicerie" feels more like selling fruits/vegetables, "commerce de proximité" feels like it could include things like a supermarket too.

I can think of more unsavory/xenophobic/slang terms for it, but droguerie seems more appropriate.

And on the other end for someone who never been to Québec, "Je vais au dépanneur" sounds like "I'm going to the mechanics (to fix my car)". Very creative.
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 22:55:59+00:00
Last year he wrote in his "techno-optimist manifesto" that anyone delaying roll-out of AI is guilty of murder. Andreesen has tons of investment in AI and stands to make loads of money from it. Completely unrelated, I am sure. He also said that growth through AI has no upper bounds. Obviously not mathematically possible. Maybe he's Jack Kennedy too now.

He is a deeply unserious person seemingly becoming more unserious by the day.
by nicoburns | 2025-07-12 22:57:48+00:00
macOS isn't locked down like iOS. There are things like SIP which prevent some hacking/customising of the system, but:

1. These can all be disabled by advanced users (largely without consequence)

2. They dont prevent things like installing apps or even gaining root access in the first place.

The very fact that you can install Linux is evidence of the different approach taken with macs (you can't easily install Linux of ios devices)
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-12 22:58:23+00:00
The irony of course are stats like these.

From "Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn"[1]:

> So far in 2022, more than 300 anti-LGBT bills have been proposed across 36 states – at least one third of which are directed at trans youth. This surge, especially in anti-trans legislation from Republicans, stands in stark contrast to a startling fact.

> Republicans love transgender porn, a lot.

> With more than 4.7 Million transgender porn related Google searches each month (per Ahrefs.com), do Republicans represent those searching most? The answer seems to be a clear yes.

[1] https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsessio...
by alshival | 2025-07-12 22:58:49+00:00
Don't worry about it. I recommend not working for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or any major tech company. You are disposable at these companies. Rather than take one for the team and put back some of their ridiculous salaries, they'll throw you off the boat and gaslight you to believe you are just inadequate.

Nay. I found education, healthcare, and other industries that are not tech focused to be much more rewarding. You are the expert in those industries and are given a chance to lead.

I build ML for healthcare orgs. Different things. An immunology prize needed a model to filter out applicants because they were overloaded. A nurse staffing agency wanted to measure burnout in nurses using the data they had. A speech therapy provider. A school district. And on and on.

I'd rather work for them than bend the knee to Tesla's Technoking.

Actually, there's a rumor that if you punch the world's richest man in the face, his wealth rubs off on you. You will spend some time in jail, but you will be rewarded. Make sure they catch it on camera.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-12 23:00:00+00:00
I find the "switch to Safari" talk amusing because the adblockers available for Safari are functionally equivalent to the MV3 API that everyone's complaining about. The problem with the "static list of content to block" approach that Safari and MV3 use is that you can't trick the site into thinking that ads have been loaded when they haven't, like MV2 allows via Javascript injection. The effect of this is that you'll run into a lot of "disable your ad blocker to continue" pop-ups when using an adblocker with Safari, while you won't see them at all when using an adblocker with Firefox.
by yedpodtrzitko | 2025-07-12 23:00:13+00:00
I'll bite - if you dont use Firefox because of "questionable ethics", then I am quite surprised you decided to use Brave, considering their controversies. Also Brave is still based on Chrome's engine, and I dont think they'll be able to maintain their fork long-term, so if the reason to switch was to break the Chrome monopoly, then I'm not sure this switch really counts.
by zikzak | 2025-07-12 23:00:20+00:00
I recently deleted my Reddit account after a million years because every other post was obviously AI generated "am I the jerk" posts (use your imagination for variations on "jerk").

I used to participate in some subreddits where support is offered for a couple of chronic illnesses I have but even those are "doctor says it's X, am I cooked".

Just over it.
by oceanhaiyang | 2025-07-12 23:02:08+00:00
I stopped using ChatGPT because even though it’s faster I find its answers and ability to do tasks very unreliable. For instance I had a series of references I wanted it to quickly MLA format. It deleted 10/100 then made up 10 real sounding ones. If it can’t help with formatting then I can’t trust it with bigger tasks.

I use DeepSeek both locally and online more frequently and find it more trustworthy but it still frequently makes things up. Maybe because it’s Chinese I’ve found it better at translation and somewhat more nuanced.
Ask HN: Is it still worth applying to YC after raising $1M–$5M from VCs?
by Brandon_Chen | 2025-07-12 23:02:11+00:00
A friend and I were discussing whether it still makes sense to apply to Y Combinator if a startup has already raised a significant seed round — say $1M or even $5M — from institutional VCs.

Would YC still provide meaningful value at that stage, or is it mostly helpful for earlier, pre-traction companies? Curious if anyone has experience with this or has seen it play out.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-12 23:02:58+00:00
I don't think in this case your argument is as clear cut and the use cases that people have today arent solved by the choices out there.

George Carlin: "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them and they're getting it."

The interests of APPLE (who makes money on hardware, and credit card processing) don't align with the interests of Google (who makes money on ad's). I am all for open source, I'm all for alternatives. But honestly if you own an iPhone and a Mac then safari makes a lot of sense. I happen to use safari and Firefox on Mac and am happy to bounce back and forth.

I also keep an eye on ladybird, but it isnt ready for prime time.

And I'm still going to have a chrome install for easy flashing of devices.
by zzzeek | 2025-07-12 23:03:04+00:00
They don't care about deportation, people in these concentration camps aren't leaving. they know immigrants are necessary for society to continue functioning and there's even talk about enslaving the alligator Alcatraz prisoners so they can continue being productive while enjoying none of the benefits.

The goal is enslavement of as many people as possible, through fear, intimidation, if not direct imprisonment in a slave camp. Billionaires love free, terrified labor.
by Asooka | 2025-07-12 23:03:17+00:00
Yes, but "his religion" is over 2000 years old and has found ways to reform itself many times to re-centre itself towards the core teachings of Jesus Christ, namely compassion and piety. The Christians who sold indulgencies are not the Christians who burned witches are not the Christians who help those in need. It has existed for twenty centuries across continents and anyone who can corrupt it effectively wields the power of God. Of course it has been used as justification for heinous acts. Pretty much anything that has existed that long and is that powerful has been used that way.

It is irrational to hate the entire religion because of select elements, past or present. You are in effect committing the same act of hatred you are accusing Christians of.
by cbracketdash | 2025-07-12 23:04:29+00:00
If you're asking about Alex Hormozi, he is indeed quite legit. He of course tries to advertise joining "skool.games" which is a community of entrepreneurs that you do have to pay a hefty amount of money.

Yet, he has plenty of very good advice for free on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexHormozi.

Buying and reading a book won't hurt. Just make sure you are focused on creating something new and/or solving people's problems.

Paul Graham also has some excellent blogs on this topic: https://paulgraham.com/google.html
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 23:04:49+00:00
I remember when the video first came out and EVERYONE was up in arms about it. Left, right, centre, far-right. People normally ranting about Deep State Democratic Nazi Communist Satan cult led by extreme-left Muslim Barrack HUSSEIN Obama were up in arms about it. Everyone. That's because it showed, at best, a wilful shocking disregard for someone in clear distress not just in the heat of the moment, but calmly for ten long minutes.

It's absolutely unreal how politicised it became.
by nicoburns | 2025-07-12 23:04:52+00:00
> I legitimately feel there is a grave issue with the internet if one wallet controls all of the actual development of our browsers.

Aside from Ladybird and Servo, it mostly is one wallet. Chrome and Firefox are both funded by Google, and Apple also receives significant funding from Google for being the default search engine in Safari.

Btw, some informal estimates at team sizes (full-time employees) of the various browsers (by people who have worked on them / are otherwise familiar):

Chrome: 1300

Firefox: 500

Safari: 100-150

Ladybird/Servo: 7-8 (each)

Which gives you an idea of why Chrome has been so hard to compete with.
by eternityforest | 2025-07-12 23:05:06+00:00
Everyone has an individual level of random line noise.

There's a whole field of human factors engineering that seems to agree "just being careful" is not a reasonable strategy by itself.

I have one brain, and the world contains multiple objects, which exist at the same time and don't take turns in an orderly fashion.

There will always be something I'm not consciously focusing on, and there is large individual variance in how well people can do things automatically.
by efecan0 | 2025-07-12 23:05:46+00:00
Thanks for the great follow-up discussion, everyone. This really highlights the classic "pragmatism vs. vision" debate in the C++ ecosystem.

You've all made it very clear that from a user's perspective, a single-header library is still the gold standard for ease of use and integration. The ideal scenario is for a developer to just #include "binaryrpc.hpp" and have everything work without touching their build system, and I now see that as a crucial goal for the project. My framework isn't there yet, and the feedback has been a wake-up call that the current multi-header approach creates too much friction for new users.

So, my path forward is clear: 1. First, focus on simplifying the core API based on the initial feedback (e.g., creating wrapper objects for payloads). 2. Then, work towards providing a single-header distribution for maximum compatibility and ease of use.

I agree that modules are the future. But for now, delivering the most practical and frictionless developer experience seems to be the most important priority.

Thanks again for guiding me on this.
by SllX | 2025-07-12 23:05:47+00:00
Using "United States" or "the US" is fine, but where "America" is used in the English-speaking world it still predominantly refers to the United States of America; but Australia is a big country. Given a large enough population of individualistic people—and there are a lot of individualistic English-speakers on Earth whether people such as yourself who share your particular hang-up or just contrarians—exceptions are not notable.
by djeastm | 2025-07-12 23:06:48+00:00
RE Point 1. All it takes is one of those other peers' parents to allow them to view pornography and then that kid just becomes the porn-distributor for the school, just like some kids in my day passed around porno mags. In essence, nothing changes for the kids, but every single adult is at best inconvenienced and at worst at risk of government invasion of their privacy. Not worth doing, imo.

RE Point 2. They could just use a whitelist instead of a blacklist/filter. They exist already, after all. Fill it up with sites showing the wholesome version of the world you want your child exposed to and they can only visit those places.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-12 23:07:01+00:00
It may not violate the OSD, but I would still argue that this license is a Bad Idea. Not because what they're trying to do is inherently bad in any way, but simply because it's yet another new, unknown, not-fully-understood license to deal with. The fact that we're having this conversation illustrating that very fact.

My personal feeling is that almost every project (I'll hedge a little because life is complicated) should prefer an OSI certified license and NOT make up their own license (even if that new license is "just" a modification of an existing license). License proliferation[1] is generally considered a Bad Thing for good reason.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
by twelve40 | 2025-07-12 23:07:43+00:00
> peoples' complaints about javascript type coercion is that they simply never bothered to learn how it works

soo.... if the pesky people keep complaining, maybe it really doesn't make any sense? i for the life of me could never figure out why a bunch of mainstream languages a couple of decades ago decided that typing is no longer necessary and should be abolished. Is there any benefit of removing type checking (and relying on bizarre implicit coercion rules when ambiguity ensues)?
by anondude24 | 2025-07-12 23:07:46+00:00
Are you ok with all devices considering the user hostile and coming with heavy encryption and locked bootloaders?

> There should be a clear exemption threshold for low volume indie products, build your own PC, and open source self-install like Linux - since the purpose is to protect ignorant/apathetic consumers.

Then everyone will just follow a YouTube tutorial to reinstall their operating system and bypass restrictions. There were TikTok videos teaching kids how to steal cars, would there not be easy to follow instructions to bypass whatever client side filtering is implemented?

I get where you're coming from, but mandated client side filtering has been tried and has been ridiculed as a complete failure every time. Attempts have been made to market and provide filtering products to parents with little effect, with them either being easy to bypass or difficult to use.

It's actually kind of interesting to see the people who were fighting against client side filtering are now advocating for it, because server side restrictions are the next logical step.
by raincole | 2025-07-12 23:08:23+00:00
> Parents are expecting the government, and random websites, to raise their kids.

I mean, they are. But I've never seen a similar reaction on HN or any forum when social media require age verification. Actually, I think most HN users would cheer if the government required Facebook to only allow users over 18.

I feel the general opinion about something on the internet basically comes down to this simple rule: !(do American Christians want that thing?), no matter what that thing is.
by lyu07282 | 2025-07-12 23:09:28+00:00
> But a lot of people still expect a functioning social contract, and they're going to become increasingly angry as that disappears

I would argue that was happening way before Trump, it's precisely why he was elected. He didn't just scapegoat but also pretended to take their economic grievances seriously and was the only permitted political outlet to people's grievances.

I think what happens is just the natural course of neoliberalism in the west, not any conscious long term strategy. That's why you can see the far-right gaining ground in every western country.
by NPC82 | 2025-07-12 23:10:04+00:00
Putting aside that MDs trained in medical ethics should be the ones to decide the end-all debate of HRT for those under 18y/o (or maybe 24 by your standard) -- I would imagine "tips" here is mostly about logistics of navigating the US health system and filling in health-effect anecdotes where science has yet to affirm/study (which encompasses more areas of health than you might think). Also, "Invasive" and "non-invasive" are usually reserved for surgical contexts so I'm not sure I would apply that here.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-12 23:10:11+00:00
Tenets.

A tenant is somebody who has a lease, for example to an apartment or one of those big metal sheds for a supermarket, and by analogy, customers of something like Microsoft's "Entra ID" (what was "Azure Active Directory" at least the new name is less confusing)

A tenet is a belief or principle that you believe in absolutely, I think we'd say that this "protects but does not bind / binds but does not protect" idea isn't a tenet of Fascism but instead an observable trait.
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-12 23:10:42+00:00
That is because the false balance is complete bullshit. Free speech means free speech. Obscenity is just special pleading "but it is icky!". The same thing has been happening for centuries. They came across a good idea as a foundational principle and the dumb fuckers wearing dresses we call judges refuse to see it. They then prove that they are all lawyers by constructing elaborate rationalizations. They also did the same thing to the Fourteenth ammendment's equal protection under the law working as grounds barring corruption and injustice.
by al_borland | 2025-07-12 23:10:47+00:00
The HN comparison doesn’t really hold water. There are a lot of options for tech news and forums. Lots of platforms, self-hosting options, with many business models, or simply self-funded.

That is very different than a world where every browser relies on Google for the core of their browser… and those who don’t rely on Google for funding (as they pay a lot of money to be the default search option in major browsers). Even Microsoft gave up on making their own browser, and now depends on Google. They used to own the entire market not so long ago.

People are saying this is a psyop, but I’m not sure what Google stands to gain from giving off the impression that they are seeking to control the entire market so they can steer the direction of the web for their own profit. That doesn’t make them look like the good guy, and should keep them neck deep in anti-trust filing from various governments. Where’s the upside? People feeling like they don’t have an option, so they give up and settle like Microsoft? Is that the angle?
by cocacola1 | 2025-07-12 23:14:17+00:00
Not really. The Supreme Court believes some rulings to be wrong the day they were decided:

> “The dissent’s reference to Korematsu, however, affords this Court the opportunity to make express what is already obvious: *Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided*, has been overruled in the court of history, and to be clear ‘has no place in law under the Constitution,’” Roberts said, quoting Justice Jackson’s 1944 dissent.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-12 23:14:46+00:00
> Your first list of sports are all single participant because of safety.

That’s irrelevant in terms of spectators. Which was the GPs point.

If the spectators can watch solo runs in X then they can watch it in Y.

> The second list are not judged by racing against the clock

I know, I said that already.

> and therefore pointless to compete simultaneously.

There are plenty of point-based competitions which are still competed simultaneously. Like Paralympic races. Darts. Shooting. Dancing competitions. I could list plenty more.

You’re conflating requirements with tradition.

———

The real crux of the matter isn’t any arbitrarily defined condition. It’s just what people are conditioned to expect.

Certain sports and even specific competitions within certain sports are structured a certain why because that’s how the organisers have decided. Yeah ticket sales will always be a factor in the decision making, but that doesn’t mean that one format is inherently incompatible with spectators than another format.

The real reason I think swimming is unlikely to ever be swam solo is for the same reasons Paralympic swimming races combine people with different disabilities: there just isn’t enough time in the calendar to fit every swimming event in if everyone swam solo. There are a multitude of different strokes and distances that get competed. It’s not like mountain biking where there’s only one way down the hill.
by api | 2025-07-12 23:14:58+00:00
The replies here are disturbing for their lack of concern or even awareness of the fact that some parents have, you know, economic pressures? Like they have to work long hours or multiple jobs? Both parents have to work?

This site can be really gross sometimes. I want to think it's just that the site skews young and people just don't know. I might have said similar things when I was 20.