MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SlowTao | 2025-07-30 21:15:26+00:00
This is probably why I havent seen YouTube as being a big issue. The algorithm on my account is so tightened up that non of that stuff bleeds through. So while I don't see the issues directly it is because they are kept away from me.

I do get the very occastionally glimpse when I have to log in fresh and the recommendations on the front page are not great.

This whole situation leaves me very torn. Great arguments on both sides. I just hope it isnt a trogan horse to online digital IDs being linked to all content access.
Show HN: Create a Digital Death Certificate for Your Dead Online Habits
by SalzDevs | 2025-07-30 21:15:49+00:00
Hey HN, I built this over a few weekends as a fun side project. It lets you create a tombstone for whatever digital thing you've “killed off” — Twitter Blue, your TikTok addiction, a failed startup, crypto bags, etc.

Choose what died Add lifespan + cause of death Generate a hyper-stylized tombstone Download it or share on social Bonus: There's a leaderboard of the funniest ones

It’s part meme, part internet art. Not trying to “solve a problem,” just making the internet weird again.

Would love feedback or ideas for v2 — I’m thinking social integration or some kind of “cause of death generator.” Thanks for checking it out
by mystraline | 2025-07-30 21:15:57+00:00
> they are a lot of work for no guarantee.

Well, its the assymetry of wanting a 10 year long documented CV with various orthogonal points in your career, versus actually having a 30 minute call.

Unlike an actual interview, which is equal time investment, this 20 page paper gets the commentary and result of "no". "No" what? You can ask an interviewer about concerns, and discussion points. This email from no-mail@ is just nothing.

And its not the sting of rejection. I've been turned down, and I too have turned down. But its the mechanistic, dispassionate, legalistic response after months of a "No". And not even a 'What we're looking for is.... '
by danudey | 2025-07-30 21:16:10+00:00
> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again.

That's ADHD for you.

A former coworker of mine lamented this - "I start so many projects or hobbies, but just when I feel like I've learned a lot I lose interest". I had to point out to him that his hobby isn't - whatever, sheep shearing or book bindery or underwater basket weaving - but rather his hobby is learning things. That's a common thing for ADHD people, absorbing all you can in a rapid amount of time, devoting every minute of thought to something, and then suddenly completely forgetting it exists until you get the domain renewal notice.

At least you (seem to) have (some degree of) acceptance of the circumstance and recognize the benefits of this behavior rather than just focusing on the drawbacks; too many people have this behavior and think it's a personal failing, when really they just have a different hobby than they think they have.
by ozten | 2025-07-30 21:16:16+00:00
> If you lose $100k on cryptocurrency, or you spend $800 on some metaverse thing, it's fine, you can still buy food.

20 - 30% cannot spend $100k per year as funny money, that is more like the top 5% but probably more like the top 2%.

High earners in the 20 - 30% often also live in expensive areas, so their dollar doesn't go as far as some of the more affordable places to live (housing, food, etc).
by zahlman | 2025-07-30 21:16:41+00:00
> (And because people forget, it is not too far off to say that would be like trying to deliver the internet of 2020 on machines with specs comparable to a Nintendo Wii. I'm trying to pick a game console as a sort of touchpoint, and there probably isn't a perfect comparison, but based on the machines I had in 2000 the specs are roughly inline with a Wii, at least by the numbers. Though the Wii would have murdered my 2000-era laptop on graphics.)

It depresses me to think how much of the 2020 Internet (or 2025 Internet) that is actually of value really ought to be able to run on hardware that old.

Or so I imagine, anyway. I wonder if anyone's tried to benchmark simple CSS transitions and SVG rendering on ancient CPUs.
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-30 21:16:41+00:00
"* Full computer access: It's not sandboxed in a browser. Meka operates with OS-level controls, allowing it to handle system dialogues, file uploads, and other interactions that browser-only automation tools can't."

This seems pretty scary. Just recently an AI wiped a company database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...
by munificent | 2025-07-30 21:17:15+00:00
With enshittification, you aren't just coasting on historic brand reputation. You actually have users locked into your product with pervasive network effects.

People don't still use Facebook because of any lingering nostalgia from its halcyon glory days. They use it because that's where their friends are and they can't get away. That's what enshittification is about.

There's no lock-in making boomers buy Harleys. It's just brand nostalgia despite the fact that the bikes suck now.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 21:17:31+00:00
It doesn’t answer it clearly at all.

Do two people hired at the same time get the same equity? Or is there room for one candidate to get more equity due to their experience or simply because they negotiated more?

Obviously early employees get more equity. The question is whether or not there’s room for negotiation. They heavily imply that everyone is paid the same, but all of those claims are about base salary.
by tartoran | 2025-07-30 21:17:42+00:00
> Maybe they target content production, not content consumption?

How can you do that on the internet?

What Australia did may be a bit shortsighted but it's a step in the right direction together. Other countries did all sorts of measures such banning smartphone use in classrooms and such. We will figure out what works and what does not, but at least something is being done.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-30 21:17:46+00:00
> Oh absolutely. This is the way to make a more fair and balanced society.

I understand its purpose, but it does restrict freedom. Personally I am much more a fan of charity because its voluntary nature preserves freedom, but I accept the duality of freedom is the potential for lousy initial conditions in life.

> We don't believe in unrestricted free-market capitalism anyway.

I think we should strive to push society to freer markets. Neither leading party seems to have interest, however.
by Otek | 2025-07-30 21:18:07+00:00
> I bet they felt that later, in the hotel room, in the shower, probably with a bottle of scotch.

Geez, life in my opinion is not so serious. It’s okay to say stupid things and not feel bad about it, as long as you are not trying to hurt anyone.

I bet they felt great and immediately forgot about this bad joke.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-30 21:18:23+00:00
Your political and moral imagination in hampered by the uber-adversarial and totally transactional understanding of human nature that the liberal worldview presupposes (by "liberal", I mean the hyperindividualistic ethos in the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Mill). That's why you flirt with what sounds like socialist-style redistribution as the only option and view capital as an enemy of labor.

In the liberal worldview, private property has prior existence. The common good is understood as a concession, a derivative good composed of that which is ceded from private property. Human beings are viewed as atomized units, and society is consequently viewed as a fluctuating miasma of transactional relationships.

In the classical view, the common good has prior existence, and private property exists for the sake of the common good (we avoid a whole lot of grief and social strife by having private property; properly disposed, it is a successful means of distribution). Capital and labor are not construed as necessarily opposed. Rather, in a society in which cooperative relationships for mutual benefit are the rule (in place of a market driven by exploitation), capital and labor are friends. Both have skin in the game by assuming risk. In the classical view, workers are owed at least a family wage as a matter of justice. If we have a billionaire who fails to pay his employees adequately, then we have someone who quite literally has robbed his employees. Human relationships are not confined to merely the transactional, and we have duties toward society that precede our consent.

According to a liberal view, if a famine strikes ą region and some guy has a warehouse full of food, it would be theft for to take the food in that warehouse to survive, and theft, of course, is not morally permissible (it is absurd to claim otherwise; it's theft!). Meanwhile, according to a classical view, private property is not fixed absolutely. As you recall, it exists for the sake of the common good. So, in such a case, the food in that warehouse is not absolutely determined as private property. Private property is derived and ordered toward the common good. It would not be theft for the starving to take food from that warehouse, as the food quite literally belongs to them! (This is an extreme example, but I include it to demonstrate how the consequences of each stance play out.)
by munificent | 2025-07-30 21:18:24+00:00
I'm not an expert but what I've heard is that the glass isn't as good. I know they say it's because they traded thermal resistance for impact resistance, but I don't know how much I buy that.

I do know that when I bought a Pyrex measuring cup last year, the labeling faded in months. Meanwhile the old one I inherited from my mom is still usable.
by pron | 2025-07-30 21:20:35+00:00
Programmers (and I'm including myself here) often go to great lengths to not think, to the point of working (with or without a coding assistant) for hours in the hope of avoiding one hour of thinking. What's the saying? "An hour of debugging/programming can save you minutes of thinking," or something like that. In the end, we usually find that we need to do the thinking after all.

I think coding assistants would end up being more helpful if, instead of trying to do what they're asked, they would come back with questions that help us (or force us) to think. I wonder if a context prompt that says, "when I ask you to do something, assume I haven't thought the problem through, and before doing anything, ask me leading questions," would help.

I think Leslie Lamport once said that the biggest resistance to using TLA+ - a language that helps you, and forces you to think - is because that's the last thing programmers want to do.
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-30 21:20:56+00:00
> upload personal health data and medical records on new apps and systems run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness.

Red flags in that. Why would I give my most sensitive data to a profit-driven entity that only respects my privacy at metaphorical gunpoint? That's made even worse by the threat of putting autistic people to "work" at wellness farms.

Also "monitor wellness". As far as I'm aware "wellness" has only vague and squishy definitions, mostly used by ethical grey area operators to separate you from your money.

This seems like something citizens and taxpayers shouldn't do.
by mewse-hn | 2025-07-30 21:21:18+00:00
The Omnivore's Dilemma points out that the food economy doesn't even behave like the normal economy - supply is variable due to weather (bumper crop vs famine year) but demand is inelastic, people generally eat the same amount year-to-year. How do you grow your food business if people only eat so much? One method is to increase portion sizes.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 21:21:18+00:00
> For someone outside of high-cost-of-living tech hubs, Oxide's fixed salary could be life-changing all by itself,

I’ve spent a lot of time looking at compensation tables and reference data. $200K is definitely good salary, but I wouldn’t call it “life changing” relative to what someone qualified to work at Oxide could earn in an average non-tech hub metro area.

The type of candidate who qualifies to work at Oxide has numerous options for high paying remote work, and probably well paying local work too.
by 9dev | 2025-07-30 21:21:19+00:00
Ah, Python. The language where nobody agrees on the right way to do things, ans just does their own instead. Five ways to describe an object of a certain shape? Six package managers, with incompatible but overlapping ways to publish packages, but half of them without a simple way to update dependencies? Asynchronous versions of everything? Metaprogramming that makes Ruby blush? Yes! All of it! Lovely.
by peterlk | 2025-07-30 21:21:28+00:00
I don't think we need to redefine reasoning. Here's the definition of "reason" (the verb): "think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic"

If Claude 4 provides a detailed, logical breakdown in its "reasoning" (yeah, that usage is overloaded), then we could say that there was logical inference involved. "But wait!", I already hear someone saying, "That token output is just the result of yet another stochastic process, and isn't directing the AI in a deterministic, logical way, and thus it is not actually using logic; it's just making something that looks convincingly like logic, but is actually a hallucination of some stochastic process". And I think this is a good point, but I find it difficult to convince myself that what humans are doing is so different that we cannot use the word "reasoning".

As a sidenote, I am _very_ tired of the semantic quagmire that is the current AI industry, and I would really appreciate a rigorous guide to all these definitions.
by abustamam | 2025-07-30 21:21:45+00:00
I used to think (like 10 years ago) that $100k a year was all the money in the world and I'd be able to own a nice house and drive a nice car in Cali.

Now my household income is double that, and I'm not a homeowner (I admit I do rent a nice house in a Norcal suburb) and because of remote work I'm not too concerned about the car I drive (but my wife does drive a Tesla), and after emergency fund savings, retirement, bills, and helping family out, my wife and I are still somehow still paycheck to paycheck.

I'm not sharing this to complain, merely to just express that yeah, $207k in California can be comfortable, but it's not to the "worry not about money."

$200k salary for a single person living in the Midwest? That person can probably retire early in a few years.
by ilyakaminsky | 2025-07-30 21:21:47+00:00
Hmm… That's a good point. I recall a few instances where I went too far to the detriment of production. Having a trusty testing and benchmarking suite thankfully helped with keeping things more stable. As a solo developer, I really enjoy the development process, so while that bit is costly, I didn't really consider that until you mentioned it.
by waldopat | 2025-07-30 21:21:54+00:00
I've got a question! I'd say what's happening with viebcoding is really an acceleration of move fast and break things. Uber and Snapchat both had major security vulnerabilities, resulting in millions of user records leaked, in their hey day of the mid 2010s. And that was WITH whatever DevOps pipeline, code review or other best practices likely in place.

What's unique about Tea or Base44 (or Replit founder deleting his codebase) is A) the disregard for security best practices and B) the speed at which they both grew and exposed vulnerabilities.

So my question is, how do you see the balance of cybersecurity and AI as everything moves faster than ever before?
by zamadatix | 2025-07-30 21:21:55+00:00
Bringing these points back to ones made in the previous comments:

- Is there a meaningful difference of some people being able to actively hit 30 mph vs everyone being able to passively go 30 mph the whole way

- Should vehicles capable of those speeds just be licensed in some way based on that rather than whether or not they have an ICE and 4 wheels

- Is there a way to separate the classifications so devices which are more truly "e-bike" in typical speed do not need to follow the same regulations as something more "electronic motorcycle".

Your friend going to work and back bike lanes and streets at 30 mph sounds a lot closer to the "electronic motorcycle" side of things, so doesn't necessarily say one thing or the other about more truly "e-bike" types of devices or why they should be considered the same.
by Balgair | 2025-07-30 21:22:17+00:00
I guess I meant it as more of a longer term solution.

In that, given a few years/decades of a two state solution, you'd have a partition occur, whether by force as was in India/Pakistan, or by more natural processes over time.

Honestly, I could see a partition occur as a condition for a two state solution. One side for the muslims, one for the jews.

I guess I should amend my comment to say theocratic ethno-nationalist / ethno-religious states, but I am likely messing up my greek/Plato (?) here. Suffice to say, the state of Palestine would have a super majority of muslim Palestinian citizen voters (currently-ish 87%, ~6M people total, though hard to define really), and the state of Israel would have a slight majority of jewish citizen voters (currently 48% jewish, 48% arab, ~14M people total, but Israeli Arab enfranchisement is a thing). Though 'steady state' numbers would likely shift the voting blocs towards the representative religions due to some partitioning as I described. Just FYI, there are about 6.3M jews and 4.5M muslims in the US currently.

The total numbers of jews and palestinians that would be 'in theatre' is hard to determine, but think about 8M jews and about 9M palestinians for guestimations.

So, I think I'm on pretty stable ground calling the likely resultant two state solution an ethno-religious solution. Other commenters are right in that the definition of 'nation' is a bit difficult with these two groups.

Look either way, the two state solution is like, maximally bad. Having these two people with their histories and hatreds literally sharing walls is just crazy as it stands. Then giving them both access to the global arms market, let alone just Israel, is so crazy.

And no, I haven't the foggiest idea what the hell to do. No one does.
by danudey | 2025-07-30 21:22:46+00:00
This is only mildly offtopic, but I wonder if the following is true:

Software developers who...

1. Experienced actual instruction on software development;

2. Learned to write software in C/C++/FORTRAN/Pascal/whatever; or

3. Spent a lot of time in more niche situations like system programming, embedded programming, enterprise systems, etc.

...are familiar with using debuggers as part of their workflow to inspect internal state and diagnose. In contrast, developers who...

1. Were entirely self-taught;

2. Grew up on interpreted languages (JS, Python, PHP, Perl, etc); and

3. Generally tend to write smaller, self-contained projects

...tend to just add debug logging and re-run the program.

I definitely have used debuggers in the past, but as someone who almost exclusively has written in interpreted languages (or languages where the write-compile-run loop is fast, e.g. Golang), my habit is to add debug logging to more places to validate internal state as the program runs, rather than attaching a debugger and inspecting specific things manually.

Either way, I think it's two separate approaches and I think in different circumstances there are definitely benefits to one or the other. In most of my Python scripts it's faster to add a `print(f"variable is {variable}")` than it would be to attach a debugger; also for a small script that's only going to run a few times, or run very occasionally, writing unit tests is often overkill because often the entire script is effectively a unit.
by DrewADesign | 2025-07-30 21:23:24+00:00
Speed is an important usability consideration that gets disproportionate focus among many developers because it’s one of the few they can directly address with their standard professional toolkit. I think it’s a combo of a Hammer/Nail thing, and developers loving the challenge of code performance golf. (Though I never loved stuff like that, which is in part why I’m not a developer anymore.)

Figuring out the best way to present logically complex content, controls and state to users that don’t wrangle complexity for a living is difficult and specialized work, and for most users, it’s much more important than snappy click response.

Both of these things obviously exist on a spectrum and are certainly not mutually exclusive. (ILY McMaster-Carr) But projects rarely have enough time for either complete working features, or great thoughtful usability, and if you’re weighing the relative importance of these two factors, consider your audience, their goals, and their technical savvy before assuming good performance can make up for a suboptimal user workflow.

Thanks for enduring my indulgent rant.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-30 21:23:32+00:00
What's wrong with a single domain and a $5/m VPS that keeps both DB and application on it?

I ran a paid business app on a $5/m VPS. No complaints.

If your $5/m VPS cannot handle some load, then that's when you upgrade it. And, TBH, at the point that your $5/m VPS is at 80% load on a paid product, you're already getting a few thousands of dollars of revenue from it anyway.
by sc077y | 2025-07-30 21:24:03+00:00
I tried installing and setting up the project today, it was miserable. I finally got it to work only to find out that the mistral models' tool calling does not work at all for claude code. Also, there is no mention anywhere of what models actually support anthropic level tool calling. If anyone knows if there are some open weight models (deepseek or others) I can host on my infra to get this to work out of the box that would be amazing.
by jeffybefffy519 | 2025-07-30 21:24:51+00:00
Youtube has gotten so much worse in the last 6 months tho, introduction of shorts has devalued the platform terribly and it seems like all the good educational creators are moving off it anyway and now its just ripped crap that is often AI produced. Hopefully this move makes some actual competition show up for Youtube, because it sorely needs it.
by dboreham | 2025-07-30 21:25:32+00:00
I don't know the parent story at all, but generally drug companies are allowed to charge $$$$ for certain drugs that are affective for rare conditions, on the basis that it won't be patients who pay for them. Rather payment will ultimately come from government, possibly via an insurer. The idea being that the drugs get made and brought to market when otherwise they would not, because nobody can afford a $20K drug.
by paulpauper | 2025-07-30 21:25:48+00:00
I think he put it through GPT?

In this week’s newsletter, I want to give you some personal insight from my own experiences that I think will help explain where true personal satisfaction comes from—it comes from many places, not just one—and how you create it every day, win or lose, by the way you show up in each part of your life.

Note the em dashes.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-30 21:26:44+00:00
Yeah, I think it would have been more useful if the Tribune had been able to determine "how many people are farming on land which they do not own" whether directly or through an LLC/company.

The amount of land owned by "out of state" owners may help answer this question but they don't give a number for that either. (A local farmer could also register their LLC out of state though I'm not sure whether that's beneficial or not.)
by KPGv2 | 2025-07-30 21:26:49+00:00
The one and only thing I'd do is make the font bigger and increase padding. There's overwhelming consensus that you should have (for English) about 50–70 characters per line of text for the best, fastest, most accurate readability. That's why newspapers pair a small font with multiple columns: to limit number of characters per line of text.

HN might have over 100 chars per line of text. It could be better. I know I could do it myself, and I do. But "I fixed it for me" doesn't fix it for anyone else.