MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by exe34 | 2025-07-01 15:42:14+00:00
So the fact that we have unions in the UK and Europe, <40h weeks, >25 paid days of annual leave and 8+ days of public holidays, employment rights and don't beg for tips, free healthcare and, shockingly, free enterprise.... makes us communists? Do you even know what communism is? Sounds like you deserved to lose these internet points.
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by makeitdouble | 2025-07-01 15:42:37+00:00
This happens in Mexico, but the level of access they got is pretty staggering IMHO:

> The hired hacker [...] was able to use the [attache's] mobile phone number to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data, associated with the [attache's] phone."

> the hacker also used Mexico City's camera system to follow the [attache] through the city and identify people the [attache] met with
by jimlikeslimes | 2025-07-01 15:42:47+00:00
Sorry yes, I'm in the UK and lentils/beans commonly come pre-cooked in 400g cans which usually equates to around 240g drained weight. E.g. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/262490576

Soy beans pre-cooked in cans don't exist in the UK.
by slau | 2025-07-01 15:42:54+00:00
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by jeffreygoesto | 2025-07-01 15:43:34+00:00
We used to relay messages in a mailbox once per day and got all new ones (called "Maustausch" https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MausNet). It was pretty cheap because all group and personal messages came in one compressed batch and you had stuff to read and respond for a day. The BBSes exchanged all messages in a tree call hierarchy, you could reach everybody within that one day hop.
by joshdata | 2025-07-01 15:43:34+00:00
Is the goal to make good ORM queries easier or to prevent bad queries? It's not clear there's really a compiler solution to the latter. If you're inside a loop in which a database cursor is in scope, then further database queries are prohibited? It's hard to see how that could be enforced other than something like What Color Is Your Function (https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...) with some functions marked as making queries and others as not.

To solve this, maybe instead best practice would be to ensure the database connection is not in a global variable and must be passed down. That would make it more obvious when a database is improperly used within a loop.

The same problem exists for any expensive operation within a loop (say, a database query while parsing the results of an API call, or vice versa).
by Davidzheng | 2025-07-01 15:43:49+00:00
OK I, like the other commenter, also feel stupid to reply to zingers--but here goes.

First of all, I think a lot of the issue here is this sense of baggage over this word intelligence--I guess because believing machines can be intelligent goes against this core belief that people have that humans are special. This isn't meant as a personal attack--I just think it clouds thinking.

Intelligence of an agent is a spectrum, it's not a yes/no. I suspect most people would not balk at me saying that ants and bees exhibits intelligent behavior when they look for food and communicate with one another. We infer this from some of the complexity of their route planning, survival strategies, and ability to adapt to new situations. Now, I assert that those same strategies can not only be learned by modern ML but are indeed often even hard-codable! As I view intelligence as a measure of an agent's behaviors in a system, such a measure should not distinguish the bee and my hard-wired agent. This for me means hard-coded things can be intelligent as they can mimic bees (and with enough code humans).

However, the distribution of behaviors which humans inhabit are prohibitively difficult to code by hand. So we rely on data-driven techniques to search for such distributions in a space which is rich enough to support complexities at the level of the human brain. As such I certainly have no reason to believe, just because I can train one, that it must be less intelligent than humans. On the contrary, I believe in every verifiable domain RL must drive the agent to be the most intelligent (relative to RL award) it can be under the constraints--and often it must become more intelligent than humans in that environment.
by Lerc | 2025-07-01 15:44:11+00:00
That's a lot of stuff connected to the one RP2350.

I can't help but feel that you could make almost the same board with 2 or 4 RP2350's without a significant percentage increase in cost.

Couldn't you wire most of the GPIOs together, they start off at high impedance, then let them work out who does what with plenty of options for weird processor sharing arrangements.

I guess if it's open source, I could take a look at doing one myself. What's the worst that could happen :-)
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by 98codes | 2025-07-01 15:44:40+00:00
Primarily because LinkedIn has to bother with complying with their privacy policies and other T&Cs, and your site has none of that.

Why should I take all of my data and give it to you, a rando on the internet? Is it being stored? Will it be shared? Sold? Maybe, as there's nothing that says you won't.

Looks neat, but strong pass because of the above.
by imwoody | 2025-07-01 15:44:47+00:00
What I mean is recently, on TikTok and Twitter, there’s been an increasing amount of AI-generated content. However, on one hand, these social media platforms don’t allow others to intuitively see the prompts and models used for these impressive AI creations. On the other hand, creators are using various other AI tools to complete their work before uploading it to these platforms. Although these social media platforms are integrating AI creation features, their integration with existing create feature is either too simplistic or too bloated. When we got better smartphone cameras, people didn’t just post photos on Pinterest,Instagram emerged. People didn’t just upload short videos shot on their phones to YouTube, TikTok was born. So, my question is: will the new creative capabilities brought by AI spark an explosion of AI-driven content narratives, and give rise to a new kind of social media platform.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-01 15:44:50+00:00
> How is the 30% tax different than other platforms?

Because it doesn't have to compete with third-party distributors like MacOS? The App Store on MacOS is almost entirely empty, every real developer abandoned it years ago. It's almost impossible to buy professional Mac software on the App Store, because real developers like Avid or Adobe or Affinity don't think Apple's deal is fair either.

> Finally, do you believe Apple should be compensated for the services and marketplace that they are offering

They already are, through their developer fees. If Apple can't compensate themselves without forcing people to use their services, then they need to redesign their business model.

Installing software is not a service, arguably Apple has no right to demand compensation for it in the first place.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-01 15:45:21+00:00
Binary/cpu instructions -> assembly -> fortran -> c/pascal -> c++/java/python -> english.

Syntax has been always drifting toward english. The newest programming language is english.

Does this mean someone will be able to just use claude and code an entirely new web browser from scratch without knowing any programming language?

I doubt an experienced programming team could each use claude to develop a new web browser from scratch.

If you dont know how to program properly, claude isnt going to get very big or complicated.
by tromp | 2025-07-01 15:45:22+00:00
> BYD, China’s biggest EV maker, famously sells the Seagull hatchback for under $10,000 domestically. It costs around $26,000 in Europe, where it recently debuted.

BYD started a price war in China by selling these cars near or even below cost. Then why do they cost 160% more in Europe?

BYD does pay a 27% tariff on BEVs it sells in the EU, and EU prices are usually inclusive of sales tax of 20% or so and there's the cost of compliance and shipping the cars to EU, but that doesn't explain even half of the difference?!

If they can make more profit from a car sold in the EU, doesn't it make more sense to grab more market share there?

I'm personally quite enamored by the Xpeng MONA M03 (with aerodynamics superior to a Lucid Air Pure), which costs about $18K in China. I hope they can sell them in EU with less than a 100% markup...
by gs17 | 2025-07-01 15:45:43+00:00
> not all commenters realize that the original post has been translated

Does it actually say it is somewhere obvious? My girlfriend and I both looked something up and each got the same Reddit thread, but one in English and one in Chinese. She had no idea hers was translated.

But I also thought it was supposed to do the reverse if someone comments in the translated language, adding an original-language comment instead of a translated-language one.
by strogonoff | 2025-07-01 15:45:48+00:00
Some of it is more specific to social media, where it is a vicious circle. I wouldn’t latch to voting with your wallet, it’s merely one symptom of a complex issue.

For social it’s key to communicate with others, so as long as you use it you kind of have to be where everybody is, and everybody is where the free stuff is. If you can’t easily leave and continue communicating, because the platform attracts advertisers by the number of figurative eyeballs so it’s not in their interest to let yours go, then you can’t vote with your wallet unless you make yourself an outcast, which humans—extremely social beings—tend to find extremely stressful, which makes it is not really in their best interest no matter their media and marketing literacy.

On the other hand, even if you do make this difficult near-suicide move and leave, you have hardly anywhere to go: because of this phenomenon, any honest competition where you can pay for better service that works in your interest and has actual customer support (remember when that was a thing?) has no chance. All viable competition remains mostly free to use—we have been conditioned that it’s got to be free, but of course if neither users nor advertisers are paying then no one can really demand things that we take for granted from commercial services (like uptime, availability, well-supported convenient clients and so on), and the amount of resources that goes into development and support of these services is much smaller and much less coordinated.

With non-social ad-supported products it’s not as bad, at least in terms of lock-in. I personally would prefer a paid app from a somewhat reputable developer than risk installing a tracking machine from a shady SDK. However, still, most people default to free, and if platform fee is reduced and that honest app costs slightly less but is still not free, will it make any perceptible difference? I doubt it (maybe you’re right, most people lack media/marketing literacy, they can see that with free their economic utility per dollar approaches infinity and are unaware or not concerned about the intangible damage, including to the ecosystem of developers who try to make an honest living) and so I think ad/data mining based model should be fought on another level.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-01 15:45:50+00:00
You're right --- what the article describes and what proponents have in mind is actually more extreme and far worse.

But just like in "company towns", corporate overlords are the only real authority as they proclaim their independence yet still mooch services from the surrounding area as needed.

The take away discovery from similar experiments in the past has typically been --- there is no free lunch. Isolated authoritarianism (masquerading as libertarianism or mislabeled as "freedom") is just as far from a utopia as any other system --- and maybe even more so.

Slowly but surely, even the cowboys on a cattle ranch come to realize that the ranch isn't being run for their benefit. And being branded a "company man" doesn't really impart "freedom" but instead takes it away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera
by Kimi_livekit | 2025-07-01 15:45:52+00:00
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by Chyzwar | 2025-07-01 15:46:34+00:00
> May I know what is so "terrible" about those protocols ans what "technical debt" are you talking about?

POP is pretty archaic and lack support for multiple clients accessing the same account.

IMAP is complex, slow and lack modern email futures threading, contacts. Clients often implement it in inconsistent matter, given there are plenty of extensions.

SMTP is not a single protocol but collection of bolted on protocols (DMARC, DKIM, SPF). Lack delivery tracking, and it is very opaque when it comes to spam filtering.

All these protocols are build on top of raw TCP. It is harder to implement any things we take for granted in http like: encryption, compression, multiplexing and debugability are not there by default.

> That has nothing to do with actual email protocols. Generic email protocols are extremely reliable and resilient to any sorts of disruptions. I wish any of modern protocols exhibit similar simplicity and reliability.

People spend decades building infrastructure, but even then only hardcore graybeard will self-host email.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-01 15:46:34+00:00
FWIW one of my rules is to instantly close any article that starts with an anecdote/story like that. It's hard to explain, but it's an easy way to know that they're more interested in manipulating/influencing you into believing their point rather than proving their point with facts/logic/argument. They'd rather tell fanciful stories instead.
by gruez | 2025-07-01 15:46:37+00:00
>I don't know the ecosystem, but seemingly Stripe themselves lists some projects/products/organizations that themselves have "Stripe" in their name, as part of the "Stripe Partner Ecosystem": https://stripe.partners/?search=stripe&sort=relevance

The issue isn't having "Stripe" in the product name, it's having it in a way that implies it's by Stripe, mostly by putting it first. The top 3 hits from your linked search don't really have that issue. "Stripe Move" makes it sound like it's a product from stripe, "Move for Stripe" would not.
by chii | 2025-07-01 15:46:50+00:00
> large, profitable startups have grown into long term private companies with no need to go public

which i think is a real problem - it prevents "mom and dad" investors from partaking in the wealth creation process, as they are not sophisticated investors and thus barred from being able to invest in these PE investments.

Public listing has become a cashing out operation, rather than a fund-raising operation, if this continues to happen more and more. And the public becomes the bag holders.
by wkyleg | 2025-07-01 15:47:10+00:00
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by bee_rider | 2025-07-01 15:47:18+00:00
Are we talking about, like, legal liability or just a feeling of social obligation?

I think with software supply chain, we’re talking about the former, and I don’t think Canonical has any legal liability toward me (who hasn’t paid them anything; although because I expect nothing I didn’t read the license in detail). In terms of feelings of social obligation it is much more complex, of course.
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by LoftCompare | 2025-07-01 15:48:10+00:00
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I started it after my own painful experience getting quotes for a loft conversion. Everything felt vague, overpriced, and inconsistent. So I did what any SEO/content-obsessed founder would do: I built a niche site around it.

How it works:

We provide clear, practical guides on all types of loft conversions (Velux, Dormer, Hip to Gable, etc.)

Visitors can compare options, understand costs, and request free quotes from vetted builders

Monetised via leads, no ads, no fluff

What's worked so far:

SEO-led content strategy (grew to thousands of monthly visitors with <100 articles)

Pinterest (surprisingly great traffic source for visual project ideas)

Internal tools like a loft conversion cost calculator

Local landing pages that outperform national competitors on some terms

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Built in Webflow

Custom quote system via Typeform

Analytics + GA4 tracking on key CTA events

Lightweight automations to handle quote submissions

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Expanding into comparison verticals (e.g., conservatories, garage conversions)

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