MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noirscape | 2025-08-27 14:05:52+00:00
There's exactly three reasons for people to stick to Twitter:

* They don't care/agree with the policies of the guy running it.

* Legacy reasons; either they have no reason to leave (automated org accounts keep running until something in the workflow breaks) or they have an existing community that doesn't want to move. This group will eventually leave but is currently stuck with inertia. Most "public service" accounts are in this category.

* And finally, for artists, Bluesky is undesirable as a platform because it has some very aggressive image compression compared to Twitter (2000x2000 is the absolute limit). Some are dualposting to Bluesky, but are unlikely to fully leave Twitter for this reason.

Finally, I'll note that while accounts are generally abandoning Twitter, this doesn't automatically mean they're moving to Bluesky either. A lot of those service accounts just up and vanished and just said "well, go visit our website".
by ModernMech | 2025-08-27 14:05:52+00:00
$2.5M is not a blip, it's a bribe by any measure. We need to call things what they are. Trump has done worse for less.

Anyway, the $2.5M isn't the point, it's bending someone like Tim Cook to your will so that they would just give it to you and thank you while bending over. To some degree, he's now directing Apple Inc, since he can get Tim Cook to act according to his will.

How much is that worth to Trump?
by adrian_b | 2025-08-27 14:05:56+00:00
In my opinion, NOP and MOV, which are recommended in TFA for slowing down, are the worst possible choices.

The authors have tested a rather obsolete CPU, with a 10-year-old Skylake microarchitecture, but more recent Intel/AMD CPUs have special optimizations for both NOP and MOV, executing them at the renaming stage, well before the normal execution units, so they may appear to have been executed in zero time.

For slowing down, one could use something really slow, like integer division. If that would interfere with the desired register usage, other reliable choices would be add with carry or perhaps complement carry flag. If it is not desired to modify the flags, one can use a RORX instruction for multiple bit rotation (available since Haswell, but not in older Atom CPUs), or one could execute BSWAP (available since 1989, therefore it exists in all 64-bit CPUs, including any Atom).
by andunie | 2025-08-27 14:05:58+00:00
It's so odd that they still get to enjoy their status as a "decentralized" "open" social network when it's really just a centralized platform by definition (and it's not even their fault, there is simply no way to do what they want to do without centralization).

Sure, someone may say "the AT Protocol is open", but that means nothing because the AT Protocol is not Bluesky, Bluesky is one centralized platform that happens to "talk" that protocol (well, of course, since the "protocol" is literally defined by whatever they happen to be doing), it still controls who can be inside and who can't.

TL;DR: Nostr is a much better option for most use cases, sadly for some unfortunate reason it never got to enjoy too much attention from a wider technologist community.
by nicce | 2025-08-27 14:06:00+00:00
Rewrite is usually about learning about all the past mistakes and problems and designing your architecture in a way that you prevent all the previously known issues. It is iterative process on the design level. If you end up repeating all the same bugs, it went very wrong from the beginning. So if you don’t have the information about all the previous problems, then it is likely mistake.
by djtango | 2025-08-27 14:06:09+00:00
Ultimately Twitter is timely and has almost universal mindshare.

A few weeks ago when there was the pacific earthquake, I had family who were very close to a danger zone vacationing. Google was not sufficient for finding good local timely info as an outsider but twitter was.

I would never even think to check BlueSky or Mastodon, and my family will never have heard of them.
by clutchdude | 2025-08-27 14:06:27+00:00
I feel this disregards of scarcity economics.

Let's say we have a finite amount of cheap water units between us. After exhausting those units, the price to acquire more goes up. Each our actions use up those units.

If restrictions on water use do not exist, you can quickly use up those units and, if you can easily afford more units, which makes sense as you have enough for robots, you are not concerned with using that cheap water up.

I can't even afford to "toil" with my dishwasher now.
by flyinghamster | 2025-08-27 14:06:28+00:00
And in addition, DEC made its name in the 1960s by selling computers at unprecedented low prices. A complete PDP-8/S system was quoted at $25000 in 1965 [0], equivalent to over a quarter of a million dollars today, for a computer that barely had an instruction set. These days we can buy supercomputers for five of today's dollars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8
by gchadwick | 2025-08-27 14:06:42+00:00
Potentially it happened so quickly the pilot had no way to respond before they lost control of the aircraft and had to hit the eject?

Still you'd hope transitions between major operation modes could have some manual confirmation. Is there some essential reason the aircraft has to automatically transition to 'automated ground operation mode' when it thinks landing is complete? Could you not just expect the pilot to punch a button to do it instead?
by csomar | 2025-08-27 14:07:22+00:00
> As a small business owner, I spend a lot of my time doing things by the book.

You are an exception.

> I use a double entry accounting system in an ERP.

Not only this requires someone knowledgeable enough but it is also time/energy consuming. If you force this on every small business, you'll probably kill something like 95% of hair-dressers.

Honestly, I don't think this is a problem. If we are scrutinizing a bakery, I'd rather the scrutiny to be put on health/food concerns rather than employee hiring practices. That is assuming the bakery employs less than 6-7 people.
by mapt | 2025-08-27 14:07:47+00:00
Biodiesel is an oil plus an alcohol (usually 80% vegetable oil + 20% methanol) reacted using an alkaline catalyst like lye.

Methanol is also known as "wood alcohol", and can be made at ~40% yield by cooking down wood ("destructive distillation") in a specific fashion, or made from too-cheap-to-meter natural gas if you've got it. Anything you can do with natural gas can also be done with anaerobically fermented methane. You can also use ethanol (fermented from any carbohydrate crops) instead of methanol, creating a biodiesel with slightly different but still usable properties.

...

Sunflower, rapeseed, and soybean oil have very well-established agricultural workflows which require very little labor input.

Palm oil is substantially higher yield, but more labor intensive and is associated with tropical rainforest destruction.

...

You don't necessarily even need to react your vegetable oil. The original Diesel Cycle demonstration engines ran on straight peanut oil, and there are some truck engines out there (like the 12 valve Cummins) that will happily run on filtered waste fryer oil all day long. It's just a matter of tuning, viscosity, compression ratios, seal materials, and the like, being slightly different from petrochemical diesel fuel. Reacting vegetable oils into fatty acid esters ("biodiesel") does attain some modest engine benefits, but mostly it's to match compatibility with petrochemical diesel grades so that you don't, eg, need to replace your fuel lines & pumps with different diameter fuel lines & pumps.
by FatalLogic | 2025-08-27 14:08:04+00:00
It's a fun idea. Though it would have to be a really small R2-D2 that could work from the inside.

The fictional R2-D2 had a big advantage of being in vacuum so it could work from the outside, without disturbing the airflow, and without having its work disturbed by the airflow.

Envisage what happens at 900km/h in atmosphere, if R2-D2 tries to lift up an exterior wing panel to troubleshoot a blocked line?
by triceratops | 2025-08-27 14:08:57+00:00
> If eco-activists made sensible decisions, fossil fuel power could have been curbed back then.

It's about the money. "Eco-activists" can't achieve shit if there's no money in it. Think about all the other things they've been trying to kill - meat, fossil fuels, jet travel - and are nowhere near succeeding. Why do you think that is?

Fossil fuel interests killed nuclear. "Eco-activists" took the rap. And everyone else fell for it.
Ask HN: Crypto Payment Gateways?
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-08-27 14:09:03+00:00
Hello,

I've been thinking about this since these threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679406

I decided to go ahead with a crypto payment. Solely for the fact that Stripe and credit card processors get to decide which businesses are allowed. I can, of course, just do nothing, but... I genuinely have fun working on the dating site mentioned in the thread above, and am up for the challenge of integrating some crypto payment system. And I think it helps in the long run, especially if more sites adopt such systems.

So far, I've found Coinbase Commerce, and I have that working on my site, but I don't completely trust it yet. Is anyone using it? If so, how is it?

Are there similar, but maybe more trusting services?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-27 14:09:16+00:00
I'm just thinking, I'd always prefer to run one tool to verify if a phone has been compromised. If mvt used ELEGANTBOUNCER as a plugin/extension/backend that'd be superb. But, not a big deal, I'm glad I found about this tool, thank you.

I am interested in finding out more on why Yara can't be used to find structural patterns? it is supposed to do a lot more than simple string and byte-pattern matching. Maybe ELEGANTBOUNCER requires keeping/maintaining a complex state machine to evaluate/analyze content?
by jollyllama | 2025-08-27 14:09:20+00:00
Fair enough, I suppose I was being hyperbolic, but nevertheless...

It would be interesting to see the graph before 2019. For a decade, all of the investment money, talent following behind it, piled into Uber, etc.

> has resilient even in a broader VC pullback

Yes, people are starting to catch on now. Even so, investment is at best a leading indicator. In terms of existing on-the-ground domestic infrastructure, we're sorely lagging in real-world capabilities, but the better part of the last fifteen years was spent creating a vast Grubhub-type delivery infrastructure across the US while the amount of resources dedicated to peer or near-peer conflict logistics and long term agricultural production were relatively ignored.
by ptx | 2025-08-27 14:09:31+00:00
I always used "adb install" to install programs on my phone from my PC. I never heard of the "adb sideload" command, but my search results [1][2] indicate that the second command is for installing things from the recovery mode, when you don't have the full Android system running. So "install" is the command for installing programs under normal circumstances using the Android installer.

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/a/84248

[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-use-adb-android-3260...
by richardblythman | 2025-08-27 14:09:48+00:00
Last week we made it to the front page with our post about benchmarking how well coding agents interact with libraries and APIs. The response was positive overall, but many wanted to see the code.

For those just catching up: The problem is that existing benchmarks focus on self-contained codegen. StackBench tests how well AI coding agents (like Claude Code, and now Cursor) use your library by: • Parsing your documentation automatically • Extracting real usage examples • Having agents generate those examples from a spec from scratch • Logging every mistake and analyzing patterns

You can find out more information about how it works and how to run it in the docs https://docs.stackbench.ai/

Next up, we’re planning to add more: • Coding agents • Ways of providing docs as context (e.g. Mintlify vs Cursor doc search) • Benchmark tasks (e.g. use of APIs via API docs) • Metrics

We're also working on automating in-editor testing and maybe even using an MCP server.

Contributions and suggestions very welcome. What should we prioritize next? The issues tab is open.
by hnfong | 2025-08-27 14:09:49+00:00
When you mention that you're used to rendering HTML on the server side and don't use React on the frontend to do things, modern web people just look at you like you committed a crime or something (VanillaJS! the horror! Those thirty lines of Javascript would be unmaintainable without a deployment tool!!!!).

It's really hard to fight the trend especially in larger orgs.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-27 14:11:02+00:00
I don’t know that “AI hostile” is quite accurate. It’s more like it’s not blindly accepted and praised, which is different. Generally any hostility comes down to cases where it’s replacing or could replace people instead of bringing a new capabilities to the table — AI helping detect cancer or discover new treatments for example is a lot more accepted than AI taking the jobs of book cover illustrators, for example.

That… kind of makes sense? It’s logical that applications with significant downside, particularly that which impacts peoples’ livelihood, would get greater questioning and pushback. If anything I’d call into question a platform where nobody is asking these questions and wants to charge ahead with zero regard to potential ramifications.
by vesinisa | 2025-08-27 14:11:08+00:00
But is that really happening? If that was actually true, Trump would obviously have no leg to stand on. But what we have seen instead is exactly the opposite - countries are scrambling to strike "trade deals" with Trump no matter how terrible terms they get (like the one-way 15% tariff EU "achieved".)

There is really no downside at all for Trump. If it actually starts hurting US economy at any point, he can easily just signal reversing the policy and everyone will let out a big sigh of relief and markets rebound. If it causes some long-term harm for US, he will be long gone by then. But if he is succesful in establishing a new US-first world order he will be forever remembered as one of the greatest American presidents in history.
by Gracana | 2025-08-27 14:11:20+00:00
Alex Jones made his money by convincing people that the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary were actors in a conspiracy, which resulted in them bein harassed endlessly. He even continued to attack them during the defamation trials. I think it's unfair to say he was merely "the closest vile person around with big pockets," he really was the cause of a lot of pain.
by suobset | 2025-08-27 14:11:28+00:00
Constructive criticism:

1. As other comments have already pointed out, the fact that you have AI plastered all over (including your demo video) does not bode well for the "real developers" claim. I would suggest doing some internal testing/surveys with real developers and get them in the demo instead. Best case, your product is a hit and people genuinely love it. Worst case, you learn about your own pitfalls.

The way this is priced and presented feels it's not a alpha/beta product. But, I need the confidence that it actually is not still in alpha/beta.

2. Why this and not Cursor/Claude/Zed? In fact, your slogan ("Code at the Speed of Thought") is a DIRECT rip-off from Zed (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

3. Why should I bother with the switching costs? When you mention "better understanding of your codebase", do you mean Cursor-style code indexing and context windows? Do you try anything new here?
by haolez | 2025-08-27 14:11:38+00:00
As a former Delphi developer, this is very far from truth, in my experience. Nothing modern beats the ease of RAD with Delphi, where you had actually business people making complex software (with a huge amount of tech debt, of course).

I'm not saying it's better - Delphi sucks for a lot of reasons - but this is the only aspect where it really shines.
by ralfd | 2025-08-27 14:11:54+00:00
You mis-copied the numbers for one launch. Wiki says:

> Project cost US$6.417 billion (equivalent to $33.6 billion in 2023)

> Cost per launch US$185 million (equivalent to $969 million in 2023)

That a manned Apollo mission would/did cost under a billion dollars (todays money) is surprisingly cheap. A single Artemis launch using the Space Launch System (SLS) costs an eye watering $4 billions.

Different metric:

> [1966] NASA received its largest total budget of $4.5 billion, about 0.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States at that time.

Using that metric NASA yearly budget would with todays GDP be $150 billion dollars.
by mariocesar | 2025-08-27 14:11:56+00:00
I've been in SaaS for about 17 years, and a pattern I've seen is that for companies customers actually love, customization shows up as a milestone. It helps them find their own way of doing things, but eventually they settle into that way.

When it resonates with customers, it feels great.

Customizable SaaS is really just a side effect of the deeper need for control, because with control you can execute better. And when that lines up with capital, market fit, and a clear purpose, it creates more than efficiency, it creates meaning.

The companies that never settle, always chasing new patterns, usually end up with customers who don't enjoy them and employees who don't enjoy the software either.
by scottLobster | 2025-08-27 14:11:59+00:00
I was a Computer Engineer, so not quite the same, but we got taught about Therac-25 in our Engineering Ethics class when I took it over a decade ago.

Unfortunately Computer Science is still in its too-cool-for-school phase, see OpenAI being sued over recently encouraging a suicidal teenager to kill themself. You'd think it would be common sense for that to be a hard stop outside of the LLM processing the moment a conversation turns to subjects like that, but nope.
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-27 14:12:17+00:00
It's exploding, just look at my post history if you will i just asked about it yesterday that it climbed from 183 to 10th place in the tiobe index in just 5 years! It's absurd, I don't hate it but the 'oject pascal' is just too alien if you come from C, C++ or even C#/java or even PHP background. In fact I don't even know what it resembles? Is it fortran? ok, i googled it: so it's simula, I mean if we pretend object pascal = Delphi and they are very similar or the same thing, right? Is anyone using Simula in 2025? It's not an easy learning path...but I'm not against it, hope it becomes alternative to the "C"-influenced languages.
by exDM69 | 2025-08-27 14:12:57+00:00
The same applies to any Makefile, the Python script invoked by CMake or pretty much any other scriptable build system. They are all untrusted scripts you download from the internet and run on your computer. Rust build.rs is not really special in that regard.

Maybe go build doesn't allow this but most other language ecosystems share the same weakness.
by lnsru | 2025-08-27 14:13:03+00:00
Once I had well paid job at American company in Germany which paid nice salary. Consider Apple’s iPhone. You have it, I have it and it’s a technical mega project. When you do a teardown, there are hundreds of different components. There was dozen engineers working on the smallest part. Hundreds if not more on the processor. Thousands on manufacturing, logistics and retail. These people don’t dig dirt all day long. But trust me, design, build all the parts on time, assembly and ship the phones to stores on time is absolutely a mega project. But outsiders don’t see this. Imho that’s real large scale global project.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-27 14:13:05+00:00
We are using NX heavily (and are not affected) in my teams in a larger insurance company. We have >10 standalone line of business apps and 25+ individual libraries in the same monorepo, managed by NX. I've toyed with other monorepo tools for these kind of complex setup in my career (lerna, rushjs, yarn workspaces) but not only did none came close, lerna is basically handed over to NX, and rushjs is unmaintained.

If you have any proposal how to properly manage the complexity of a FE monorepo with dozens of daily developers involved and heavy CI/CD/Devops integration, please post alternatives - given that security incident many people are looking.
by layer8 | 2025-08-27 14:13:05+00:00
Moderators sometimes demote submissions they deem shouldn’t be ranked that high. From https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html:

“Of these four interventions (deleting, killing, burying, and downweighting), the only one that moderators do frequently is downweighting. We downweight posts in response to things that go against the site guidelines, such as when a submission is unsubstantive, baity or sensational. Typically such posts remain on the front page, just at a lower rank.”
by kristenfrench | 2025-08-27 14:13:32+00:00
People with phantom limb experience vivid sensations, and often pain, in the missing extremity. Based on animal studies, scientists have long believed that this phenomenon arises because maps of the missing limb in the brain get scrambled, with healthy body parts taking over for the missing ones. But now, a team of scientists looked at the actual brains of people with the condition, before and after a limb was amputated. They found that, in fact, those maps of the now missing limb remain the same. This challenges notions of plasticity in the adult brain and will change how clinicians try to treat it. Read more about it at Nautilus: https://nautil.us/how-phantom-limb-tricks-us-1233795/
by epistasis | 2025-08-27 14:13:39+00:00
I don't believe that's true, in that visibility only disappeared after Musk's takeover. It's hard to find old news with modern search engines, but here's one article from 2023, post-Elon, that matches my memory:

> If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-u...

It looks like it was pushed through by claiming the site was under attack, and then access was never restored. In any case, it was one of the things that pushed me off X.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-27 14:13:49+00:00
> "Quality" is an arbitrary definition that means nothing, that's one of the problems we're talking about in psychiatry.

Why is that a problem? It's not completely objective but it's the best we have. That criteria is typically combined with more objective neuropsychological testing for a well rounded assessment.

> The OP clearly mentioned that there was minimal impact on academic, professional, or social functioning other than internal discomfort, for example, yet was prescribed anyway.

They didn't say that, they said that they weren't suffering "catastrophic failures", which is distinctly different from "minimal impact". They also said they had high intellectual abilities which is entirely consistent with the ICD-11 description:

> The degree of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity is outside the limits of normal variation expected for age and level of intellectual functioning

High-IQ can mask ADHD, but that doesn't mean they haven't been experiencing challenges associated with ADHD.