MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by explodes | 2025-08-24 12:23:41+00:00
This tech is incredible but it will be very divisive. Leadership of the current leading company notwithstanding, novel implants such as pacemakers have also undergone a stage of social caution that I would very much expect to surface for brain-interface devices as well, if not more fervently due to an increasing mistrust in technology's utility in our lives.

I am personally hopeful for this technology. I know it will be able to improve the lives of loved ones who both need and want it. I am also afraid of a technology that can decide my thoughts one way or another...

That said, I'll take two.
by afro88 | 2025-08-24 12:24:33+00:00
This is the key to getting decent feature work out of Claude Code. I've had good success recently using GPT-5 High (in Cursor) to write the plan, then take that to Claude Code to implement.

You can get an extra 15-20% out of it if you also document the parts of the codebase you expect to change first. Let the plan model document how it works, architecture and patterns. Then plan your feature with this in the context. You'll get better code out of it.

Also, make sure you review, revise and/or hand edit the docs and plans too. That pays significant dividends down the line.
by beAbU | 2025-08-24 12:25:18+00:00
You are arguing in bad faith. You are also creating a straw man argument attempting to rubbish a feature that works acceptably well in 99% other use cases even if your scenario is legitimate.

If there is a blind corner you should slow down enough that you can safely stop if there are obstacles in the road. You don't know what's in the oncoming lane, so you can't assume that it'll be safe to blindly swerve into it to avoid something in your lane.

Secondly, lane keeping does not lock your steering wheel preventing you from changing lanes if you need to. The additional force required to override it is the difference between steering with your pinky and gripping the wheel with your hand.
by Pooge | 2025-08-24 12:25:22+00:00
> Cookie law banners are almost never full-screen. They do often impede clicks on a website ("why can't I click? Oh, I'm zoomed in and the cookie banner is below the viewport now") but very few are as outright obtrusive as a screen-dimming "you have an ad blocker!" or "please join our mailing list!" prompts. At least in my experience.

At work I—unfortunately—cannot install uBlock Origin on some devices and the few times I need to use that device I have the opposite of your experience. Do you live in the EU?

I understand your point but GDPR was not here to ban data harvesting. If anything, I'd call cookie banners a win because it exposes bad websites for what they really are: pieces of garbage riddled with dark patterns trying to force you to consent to give your data by profiting off of your lack of attention. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure the "Reject optional cookies" option is mandated by law. That's why GDPR was successful within the scope it was given.

Thinking it was either pop-up banners or nothing is a false dichotomy.
by Ekaros | 2025-08-24 12:26:27+00:00
Lot of last minute(day) demand is very price insensitive. Say a company needs to get engineer on certain site. Or in general business travel where someone else is paying. In such cases you can get a few times the lowest price. So not fire selling seats makes sense.

On other hand if someone like travel agency has pre-paid for seats in block, selling them at any price will lower the losses. So different actors have ways to act differently.
by buran77 | 2025-08-24 12:27:32+00:00
What about all the propaganda sites you like?

Would you ban all propaganda? Russian propaganda? Propaganda from countries engaged in illegal wars? How many social media or news sites survive? Heck, how many sites that allow comments and user interaction survive?

Yours is the "think of the children" argument, makes you feel warm and fuzzy when it aligns with your interests but you won't have a leg to stand on by the time it's used against you. Banning is just sweeping some of the trash under the carpet. The ones wielding the ban hammer don't care that most of the trash is still out in the open (social media?), they just need to open the door to arbitrary banning. The ones applauding the ban hammer are lacking the same critical thing that would otherwise handle propaganda and misinformation very well: education.

If you want your child to not smoke you don't just hide the cigarette pack on a higher shelf, you teach them what smoking is and does.

Meanwhile all the RT type crap is flooding social media under thousands of names. But that's fine as long as enough rubes are tricked into thinking banning one site did anything to solve the propaganda issue.
by poniko | 2025-08-24 12:28:45+00:00
Pretty much every time Claude code is stuck or more or less just coding in circles i use Gemini PRO to analyze the code/data and feed the response into Claude to solve it. I also have much more success with Gemini when creating big sql transforming scripts or similar. Both are quite bad on bigger tasks, they get you 60% and then i spend days and days to trying to get to 100% .. its such a time sink when i select the wrong task for the llm.
by Xelbair | 2025-08-24 12:28:48+00:00
I see no way to have censorship and freedom and common good at the same time, so good of society is out of question - unless you don't value freedom at all.

It is a tool that entrenches current powers that be, system wise. Who decides what the "common" good is? the one in power.

It also hides societal problems and signals that could be used for policymaking.

The acceptance of censorship honestly scares me, and i grew up on stories of oppressive communist regime - full of censorship, secret police etc.

and frankly, commercial censorship might be even worse - it is a "for profit" enterprise, common good be damned.

and one last thing - even if you fully trust your current government, you're just one elections away from something vastly different. They will have access to the same powers that you've granted them(indirectly, by voting).
by vitus | 2025-08-24 12:31:23+00:00
> • The curved sides of the projection suggest the spherical form of Earth. > • Straight parallels that make it easier to compare how far north or south places are from the equator.

Okay, we've now added a constraint that this should be pseudocylindrical [0].

So why pick this over, say, Eckert IV or something from the Tobler Hyperelliptical family?

There is perhaps an additional argument (present on the wiki page [1], and elaborated on the paper introducing the projection [2]) that the equal earth projection is computationally easier to translate between lat/long and map coordinates, as it explicitly uses a polynomial equation instead of strict elliptical arcs. (This is the main argument presented against Eckert IV.)

The paper also lists some additional aesthetic goals: poles do not converge to points (ruling out Tobler Hyperelliptical), and meridians do not bulge excessively.

In fact, the paper describes Equal Area to be a blend of Craster parabolic and Eckert IV (then aesthetically tuned to avoid being stretched too much in either direction). It is also notable that the Equal Area paper measures both lower scale distortion and angular deformation for Eckert IV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections#pseudo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=doi.org%2F10.1080%2F136...

edit: I found https://map-projections.net/singleview.php which you can view a bunch of other possible candidates by selecting Pseudocylindric + Equal-Area.
by garciasn | 2025-08-24 12:32:31+00:00
We have Google Workspace at work and I find Gemini is awesome at “academic style” writeups but less good at writing code compared to CC.

So; I have Gemini write up plans for something, having it go deep and be as explicit as possible in its explanations.

I feed this into CC and have it implement the change in my code base. This has been really strong for me in making new features or expanding upon others where I feel something should be considerably improved.

The product I’ve built from the ground up over the last 8w is now in production and being actively demoed to clients. I am beyond thrilled with my experience and its output. As I’ve mentioned before on HN, we could have done much of this work ourselves with our existing staff, but we could not have done the front end work. What I feel might have taken well over a year and way more engineering and data science effort was mostly done in 2m. Features are added in seconds rather than hours.

I’m amazed by CC and I love reading these articles which help me to realize my own journey is being mirrored by others.
by breppp | 2025-08-24 12:32:38+00:00
No, the yellow badges were a way to single out an ethnicity as a way to enforce racial laws such as confiscating their property, removing them from their jobs, allowing other citizens to boycott their businesses and a large target for harassment in the streets. Finally, to achieve the goal of genocide by having identification said ethnicity

While what you are comparing this to, prevents you from entering a website, presumably until you change your DNS to 8.8.8.8
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-24 12:32:43+00:00
IMO, recommending RabbitMQ depends on what language you are using and how well suited the available client libraries are to your use case.

I used RabbitMQ a few years back on a C++ project, and at the time (has anything changed?) the best supported C++ client library seemed to be AMQP-CPP which isn't multi-thread safe, therefore requiring an application interface layer to need to be written to address this in a performant way.

In our case we wanted to migrate a large legacy system from CORBA (point to point) to a more flexible bus-based architecture, so we also had to implement a CORBA-like RPC layer on top of Rabbit, including support for synchronous delivery failure detection, which required more infrastructure to be built on top of AMQP-CPP. In the end the migration was successful, but it felt like we were fighting AMQP-CPP a lot of the way.
by simonask | 2025-08-24 12:32:45+00:00
They do educate people to do that already. But the power of narrative is much stronger than the motivation to do the actual work of checking your sources.

It’s very easy to convince anyone to support your cause. Just tell them they are the real victims, that they have been deprived of their rightful privilege, and that it is someone else’s fault. Give them undue credit, take away their inconvenient responsibilities. I promise you, they will have zero motivation to uncover your lies.

We have a collective responsibility to protect the truth - the actual, messy, complicated, real-life truth.
Show HN: I Made a Website Where Every Possible URL Exists (With AI)
by kuberwastaken | 2025-08-24 12:33:42+00:00
you enter any URL after the website and AI generates a fresh page about it if someone else hasn't generated it already.

If it's a new page - you can put in your x @ and it'll show you generated it! or you can choose to be anonymous

there's a leaderboard of most visited sites at https://www.thiswebsiteisnot.online/stats
by maymoonty | 2025-08-24 12:34:12+00:00
I built a minimal, privacy-friendly online tool to generate QR codes for Wi-Fi sharing. No ads, no tracking, no signups—just enter your SSID and password, and it instantly gives you a QR code compatible with most phones.

It’s useful for:

Guests at home

Café/restaurant owners

Airbnb hosts

IT admins setting up office Wi-Fi access

Would love feedback on the UX and features you think are worth adding!
by SXX | 2025-08-24 12:35:25+00:00
If your game is not on Steam (or big consoles) it doesn't exist. Platforms like Itch are only useful for part-time solo developers who trying to earn their $100 or $10 for ramen. Can be good marketing for solo developers too, but you only make money when release on "real" platform.

Gamedev is a hit industry. Even of released games 90% never make back the investments. Then 1% hits make 90% of money.

And situation is as bad for $3,000,000 game studio as it's for one like mine that makes $300,000 games.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-24 12:35:44+00:00
If you think the masses are too susceptible to unapproved propaganda to the extent we have to censor it, it’s not clear to me that you can consistently believe democracy should be your form of government, as opposed to some sort of rule by experts/the rich/the educated/aristocrats/something else. It’s effectively saying the masses get a choice unless it’s the wrong choice.

I believe in democracy. If people want to listen to ridiculous and false Russian propaganda or support Russia against Ukraine they should be able to without hindrance, even if their politicians or the better informed don’t like it. It’s their job to persuade their fellows. They shouldn’t get to declare their beliefs are right and beyond democratic contestation.

Sometimes democracies make really bad decisions. Alciabiades conned the Athenians into the disastrous Sicilian Expedition. That’s the tradeoff you get for having a democracy. Declaring some subjects out of bounds is taking away democracy and installing something else instead, with those tradeoffs, that we as a society decided we weren’t going to make, without consensus.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-24 12:35:50+00:00
They will just put a dumb copyright filter on the output, a la YouTube or other hosting services.

Again, it's illegal for artists to recreate copyright, it's not illegal for them to see it or know it. It's not like you cannot hire a guy because he can perfectly visualize Pikachu in his head.

The conflation of training on copyright being equivalent to distribution of copyright is so disingenuous, and thankfully the courts so far recognize that.
by BubbleRings | 2025-08-24 12:35:55+00:00
So the app is free to download from the Apple site, and will run free, and is open source, but you have in-app purchases, and certain features can’t be used until you pay for them, is that right?

What are the paid features and what are the costs? Do I have to install the app to see the list of paid features and costs?

You might get a better response from HN if you give us more info up front.
by 9rx | 2025-08-24 12:40:13+00:00
It boils down to whether or not we can figure out how to get LLMs to reliably write code. Something it can already do, albeit still unreliability. If we get there, the industry expectations for "AGI" will be met. The humanoid-like mind that the general public is picturing won't be met by LLMs, but that isn't the bar trying to be met.
by divan | 2025-08-24 12:40:22+00:00
That might be true for large dev teams with an established culture. But a lot of development is happening in different settings - solo projects, small teams, weekend side-projects, personal tools crafting, quick POC coding, etc. Not all software is a complex product that needs to be sold and maintained. One thing that I always loved about being a developer is that you can create any custom piece of software you need for yourself – even if it's for a single-time task - and don't care about releasing/supporting corner cases/other users.

In almost all these cases, development process is a mix of coding & discovering, updating the mental model of the code on the go. It almost never starts with docs, spec or tests. Some projects are good for TDD, but some don't even need it.

And even for these use-cases, using AI coding agents changes the game here. Now it does really matter to first describe the idea, put it into spec, and verbalize everything in your head that you think will matter for the project.

Nowadays, the hottest programming language is English, indeed.
by zahlman | 2025-08-24 12:40:30+00:00
I must ask sincerely: do you know of concrete instances where RT has been shown to claim things that are objectively untrue, that they reasonably ought to have known were untrue? Or is this just about them using the same techniques (selective reporting / emphasis on stories salient to particular worldviews, editorialization etc.) that everyone else uses?

For that matter, in most cases where RT has been linked to me, I couldn't see any clear way that the story advanced Russian interests, except perhaps by trying to paint the USA as full of internal social and cultural conflicts. But, frankly, American media does a pretty good job of that, too. (And many of those media outlets have also grossly misrepresented many events relevant to those conflicts — including ones where I know very well that they were misrepresented because I witnessed them first-hand. For example, I watched the Rittenhouse trial live-streamed, and then read media coverage describing something barely recognizable as what I just saw.)

(Besides, it's not like they're trying to hide that "rt" stands for Russia Today.)
by dtnewman | 2025-08-24 12:40:51+00:00
> I almost always book the minimum flight, basic economy, whether or not I am paying. There is so little to be gained from moving up compared to the price.

I recently had a five month period where I took a plane ride every single week for work. A “frequent traveler” so to speak.

To me, the big difference between basic economy and regular is the ability to cancel (for a credit) up until the flight takes off. When you travel once in a while, this isn’t worth that much. When you travel every week, it’s huge. For example, when I travel (round trip) 3-5 times a year (which is my normal cadence), I’m not gonna really care if I booked an 8pm flight but last minute decided that I have time to get on a 6pm. An extra two hours not-at-home is no big deal, maybe even a good thing. When you travel every week, the ability to change later minute is huge (and contrary to popular belief, I found that it is often the case that last minute flights are the same price or cheaper, depending on the route, though it can also be wildly more expensive).

In addition to changing my mind about when to leave, don’t get me started on delays. If I saw my flight was delayed two hours (which often means that it’ll end up cancelling or taking off 6 hours late), I’d immediately book an alternative (if I could find one at a decent price) and then cancel one of them right before departure.

Aside from this, seat selection is important, especially if you travel a lot (the lifestyle is hard enough to begin with). You can usually buy seats in basic economy and the whole thing will be cheaper, but assuming you are going to do that, then the difference is gonna be $25-30 which is basically the “right to cancel” fee.
by jules | 2025-08-24 12:41:43+00:00
USB-c is absolutely not good enough. The connectors are often incompatible due to tiny manufacturing tolerances, cables from different manufacturers often fall out of the port after longer term use, don't make good connection so you have flaky charging, the cables and connectors look the same but are actually incompatible due to supporting only USB 2/3/4 or thunderbolt, whether displayport/hdmi alt mode is supported, etc. This small short-term gain at the cost of locking in USB-c forever was a terrible idea, brought to you by the same hypercompetent group that mandated cookie banners.
Tell HN: Where are we going? An inversion of the interaction paradigm
by keepamovin | 2025-08-24 12:41:47+00:00
AI inverts the traditional interaction pattern of the internet. A consumption-based, user-driven, search-focused discovery interaction.

AI changes all that. It drives the discovery. We're more like guides. We're not searching for information anymore. AI is searching for, and frequently, interacting with systems to discover, what it is we need to accomplish our goals.

This inversion of the traditional, human driven, "data entry" pattern is fundamental, and will change everything.

With people freed up to be guides, to direct or produce the experience and creation in collaboration with the internet, rather than wandering around seeking, we see a transformation in what the Net means and what is possible online.

I'm excited about this. A lot of you are probably already there. I wanted to share my joy at realizing this.
by simonask | 2025-08-24 12:41:49+00:00
A crucial component of democracy is free and accurate media. Every single functioning democracy in the world has institutions that can apply some amount of sanctions against newspapers and other media that do no live up to the expectation of accuracy.

They are struggling to figure out how to do this in the Information Age, but that doesn’t mean it’s not reasonable or important. Blocking propaganda posing as “news” is a stopgap measure, but we can’t do nothing if we want democracy to work.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-24 12:42:02+00:00
>We need outlets for free speech, but who those outlets are controlled by matters.

What kind of nonsense is this? Have you considered the logic of your comment? Free speech is good, but let's reserve the legal right to control who builds platforms for it so that its the "correct" Kind of free speech. Of course there's no risk at all of that being grossly misused to crush real free speech.

For all the Murdoch fear mongering, there's no shortage at all of progressive, left-leaning media publications, news channels and organizations, globally or in any developed, more or less democratic country you care to look at. Would you support a conservative government shaklling them because of claims about their impact?
by torginus | 2025-08-24 12:42:42+00:00
I smile with glee when these people fail. The fundamental issue of modern capitalism is that its a coerce and exploitative system, true believers (who are in charge unfortunately) ignore this, and think money and value are the same thing.

Let me show you what I mean: Let's someone runs a grocery, and they want to make it more profitable. After looking at the value chain, they conclude the person growing the lettuces makes 10% of the profit, logistics makes 40%, and retail 50%.

So they conclude that the best way to improve the business, is to optimize the retail side.

Then you walk into the store and see the tiny withered lettuce on the gleaming fancy shelves.

If they decided to focus on where the value is created, and helped the farmer grow better groceries, everybody would've been happy.
by drfridg | 2025-08-24 12:43:11+00:00
I’m in the U.S. and am not aligned with what’s happening to freedom.

Taking a step back, I support the ideals (the good ones at least) of what I’d perceived that our country was founded on. I also support the individual people in our police and military, but not the fascist orders that they’re having to fulfill. I think the majority of these people joined to uphold law and order or to protect all people in-general, I don’t think they want to be doing these things some of them are being ordered to do, and I think that continuing to do bad things is how fascists are able to take hold.

This is a predicament, because it’s like you’re driving the bus and a fascist jumps into your lap with a gun to your head and takes the wheel, while he has others put guns to the head of your family and others on the bus. No one asked for this, and I still feel like there are many that believe that there is nothing we can do and that it will take care of itself. But the gerrymandering law that just passed in Texas, on top of everything else that was already in place, is another warning that this won’t go away on its own.

I get what you’re saying about sending people to space, but I think that being able to get off our big rock if we can do so without destroying other life and other places in the universe is worth time and effort. Even natives that lived with the land and life that existed had to move sometimes, life and all that exists physically that has space is to some degree nomadic.
by Grimblewald | 2025-08-24 12:43:12+00:00
Furthermore, many apparent discontinuities can be removed or smoothed by choosing a more appropriate domain, codomain, or topology. This means a neural network can not only approximate any smooth function, but can learn to approximate many discontinious ones as well, provided these arent fundamentally discontinious.

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