MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-20 11:03:04+00:00
My apologies. I misunderstood your position.

I was under the (apparently incorrect) assumption that you believe folks should either watch ads, pay for the content with cash money or stay away from any site that one is unwilling to do so. Further, I got the sense (incorrectly) you were in support of not using defensive tools, as that would deprive the website owner of revenue -- especially upon first arriving at the site -- even if the content of the site was unknown prior to visiting.

If I seemed less than positive in my reply to you, it was due to the (apparent) misconceptions I listed above. My mistake.

Again, apologies and thank you for clarifying and setting me straight.

Unless I continue to misunderstand (and I hope not), I think we're pretty much in violent agreement here:

1. Content creators deserve to be paid for their work;

2. in support of (1), website owners have property rights which empowers them to require (or not) viewing of ads, paying of fees (whether those be subscriptions or single item sales) and/or other business models;

3. Sadly, ad networks (and many shady websites as well) aren't very good at blocking and/or want to distribute malware and abusive content to be run client side, requiring (or at least strongly incentivizing) end users to use ad/script blockers to protect themselves against those malicious actors;

4. End users also have property rights which empowers them to decide for themselves what code is permitted to execute on their (client-side) systems, and to restrict the access of downloaded code to limit data exfiltration.

Edit: I'd add that unless and until both the website owner and the client accessing the website can come to a "meeting of minds" there can be no contract, implicit or otherwise -- especially if there has been no previous interaction between those parties.
by sambuccid | 2025-08-20 11:04:49+00:00
I'm not sure why no one mentioned it yet, but the CI tool of sourcehut (https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/) simplifies all of this. It just spins a linux distro of your choice, and executes a very bare bone yml that essentially contains a lot of shell commands, so it's also easy to replicate locally.

There are 12 yml keywords in total that cover everything.

Other cool things are the ability to ssh in a build if it failed(for debugging), and to run a one-time build with a custom yml without committing it(for testing).

I believe it can checkout any repository, not just one in sourcehut that triggers a build, and that has also a GraphQL API
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-20 11:05:16+00:00
I didn't interpret GP as trying to give necessary and sufficient conditions for human exceptionalism. I think it's just supposed to be a (perhaps) humorous and ironic example of a way in which humans are exceptional. So yes it's an extreme example because it references the whole of modern science and technology, but it also brings out the irony: the paper challenging human exceptionalism is dependent on this whole network of scientific and technological development which is as far as we know unique to humans
by hackrmn | 2025-08-20 11:06:01+00:00
Plenty of circumstantial evidence pointing to the fact NVIDIA prefers to hand out semi-tailored documentaion resources to signatories and other "VIPs", if not the least to exert control over who and how uses their products. I wouldn't put it past them to routinely neglect their _public_ documentation, for one reason or another that makes commercial sense to them but not the public. As for incentives, go figure indeed -- you'd think by walling off API documentation, they're shooting themselves in the feet every day, but in these days of betting it all on AI, which means selling GPUs, software and those same NDA-signed VIP-documentation articles to "partners", maybe they're all set anyway and care even less for the odd developer who wants to know how their flagship GPU works.
by ForHackernews | 2025-08-20 11:06:03+00:00
> Would any other species on earth, in a billion years, ever develop the ability to travel to other celestial bodies, let alone even know what they are?

A billion years is a very very long time. Humans and chimps diverged about 7-8 million years ago. Given no human competitors and a billion years there's no reason some other great apes or raccoons or something couldn't develop a space programme.
by flas9sd | 2025-08-20 11:06:24+00:00
addressing that concern, the dev blog roadmap[1] lays out the plan to commonize in the 1.4 version cycle with completion in v1.5 to

> .. establish our own apt software repository, managing all changes directly via dpkg. [..] This also allows other Linux distributions like Debian to install AnduinOS's customizations easily

[1]: https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/21/anduinos-future-dev...
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-20 11:07:41+00:00
Oh wow, that looks a lot more complex than I expected for something that's supposed to be extremely "stripped down" from a genomic POV.

I mean, I know the article mentions it "has its own ribosomes, cellular structures that synthesize proteins, and it can replicate itself without the help of a host" but that doesn't always translate to complex structures plainly visible underneath a microscope.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-20 11:08:45+00:00
In my view, the CI system is supposed to run builds and tests in a standardized/reproducible environment (and to store logs/build artifacts).

This is useful because you get a single source of truth for "does that commit break the build" and eliminate implicit dependencies that might make builds work on one machine but not another.

But specifying dependencies between your build targets and/or sourcefiles, is turning that runner into a bad, incomplete reimplementation of make, which is what this post is complaining about AFAICT.
by K0balt | 2025-08-20 11:09:18+00:00
For me, email has become a cesspool of garbage. It’s like receiving letters in a dumpster parked in front of your house that the whole neighborhood dumps their trash into.

I loved email. It was perfect. Now, for me, it’s basically unusable. I can unsubscribe from ten garbage subscriptions a day, and it doesn’t even make a dent.
by Neywiny | 2025-08-20 11:09:19+00:00
So a note on the capacitor bank. Basically the power cable from the USB-C supply acts as an inductor. Meaning, it has an LC (C from its capacities) filter which acts as a low-pass. The capacitors on-board basically are here to counteract that. If you think about it, let's say the motors do start taking a high amount of current. Where would it come from? In an instant, an inductor can't change how much current goes through it, so it'll basically look like an open. That's where the capacitors come in. They'll provide the current while the inductor is responding. Eventually the inductor will allow current flow out of the supply's capacitors.
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-20 11:10:01+00:00
> Next time you're at a party go take a third of the cake and then tell everyone you just took "a sliver". See what happens...

Fine, I'll concede it's the wrong word used. But:

> Honestly, there's no point in trying to argue with you. Either you're trolling, you're greatly disconnected from reality

Wait. I'm disconnected? Selling millions of unit (Half life) is amazing success and tens of millions is stellar success by any measure (Baldur's Gate, Call of Duty, Skyrim). But selling hundreds of millions (Minecraft, GTAV)? That's top 10 most popular game of all time.

So according to you, one of the top 5 best-selling game in history is somehow missing a huge part of the market? You can argue a plethora of things, but you can't speculate that GTA V could have done much better by saying "you're trolling"/"no point arguing".

And saying that optimizing the DLC JSON loader could have given them a bigger slice of the pie is incredulous at best.

You're extrapolating your preferences to 6 billion people. It's like watching a designer assume everyone will notice they used soft kerning, with dark grey font color on a fishbone paper background for their website. And that they cleverly aligned the watermark with the menu elements.
by jeltz | 2025-08-20 11:10:29+00:00
Yeah, it is usually not about blaming the engineers in my experience. It is about so they can make a descion they want to make without having to think too hard or take any accountability. If nobody knew at the time it was bad everyone can just act surprised and call it an accident and just go on with their lives making similar uninformed descisions.

In their dream world the engineers would not know about it either.

Edit: Maybe we should call this style vibe management. :D
by CMay | 2025-08-20 11:10:38+00:00
Prediction: this means extra work for developers. it also means extra potential abuse and risk through agents. the agents.md will sometimes be outdated or inconsistent with the readme. even the readmes are sometimes outdated or inconsistent with the code. some developers will interpret agents.md as compiling code for the agents to use, not for the user's to use, so maybe you're not even compiling the same code the same way a human should and expectations are broken. it's only a contextual efficiency if it's reliable too, because errors can mean having to use even more context accounting for it.

better idea since agents will already be cursed to do these things:

- any decent readme should have titled sections unless it's small

- if it's small, just feed the entire readme into it

- if it's large, provide it with a list of readme sections and let it choose which ones are relevant.

- also highlight which parts of the markdown include code blocks.

- if all else fails and it's huge without sections, just use RAG.

- if your model runs fast enough, then even if it's huge, just feed the whole thing in so you avoid the risks of RAG. setting up new software can be important enough that you may as well get it right.

people couldn't be hassled to make things accessible to the blind or visually impaired really, why suddenly should they be all excited to make everything accessible to AI? besides, agents.md comes with psychological baggage like, "i'm presuming my project is interesting enough to be used by agents!". just use the readme. it's basically always there and then in most cases you won't have to do 2 requests, you can just do 1.

if "agents.md" is supposed to be anything, it should be a locked file or special URL generated by github for your repo that always mirrors the relevant instructions in the readme so there's some higher reliability. then anyone that specifically wants to improve agents.md can simply follow some conventions in the readme file to make sure understanding is maximized. essentially, a github agent generates agents.md for other agents. if the github agent can't understand the readme well enough to produce an agents.md, what chance would your agent have? if the github agent feels like there are contradictions or confusion, it can automatically report that to the developers so they can sort it out.

besides, github themselves could have motivation to do this if they are destined to be slammed with tons of bot traffic they have no way to sufficiently block. at least this way maybe they can make it more efficient and it becomes another valuable feature of the platform.
by nicbou | 2025-08-20 11:11:06+00:00
It's a myth. Germans are methodical and risk-averse, but definitely not efficient. Things to get stuck at the precise point in time when they were over-engineered, and never move from there.

As a result, German bureaucracy tends to rely solely on paper and in-person appointments. With every state, every city, every office and every employee having their own interpretation of a procesd, you get an unpredictable, opaque, drawn out process that drives people mad.

There is a famous Asterix and Obelix scene about an office that drives people mad with bureaucracy. The protagonists are hunting for the Pass A38. This scene is better known in German than in its original French for a reason.
by hannesfur | 2025-08-20 11:11:33+00:00
I don’t have a recommendation on how to coach them but i read that some of them are North Korean operatives (https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/08/05/world/north-korea...). It’s a real problem and depending on your industry you might be targeted more. In that case a thing that actually works is asking them to say something bad about Kim Yong Un.
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-20 11:12:05+00:00
I’m not so sure about that.

“In part, he puts this success down to BitTorrent, as he saw a huge increase in sales when his books appeared on sites such as The Pirate Bay.” [1]

The fact that people wanted to buy his books, when they could have had them for free, does not negate his or anyone else’s beliefs.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140422024114/https://torrentfr...
by mnw21cam | 2025-08-20 11:12:07+00:00
In this case, a precision transit instrument can be the two corners of two houses (or some other structure that won't move) that are separated by a reasonable distance, an eyeball, and an accurate time. Stand at one and sight along both edges looking South past the other wall, and mark the exact time when a star disappears behind the far wall. That'll give you a load of pretty accurate relative right ascension values. If you can measure the time the the star disappears to within about a second, that gives you an accuracy of 15 arcseconds. If you use a video camera and frame-count, you can get better than that. It'll be best if the far wall is accurately straight and vertical and accurately due South from your observation position. You can get declination values by marking how high on the far wall the star was when it disappeared, or indeed the position in the video when it disappeared, and that accuracy will be the zoom level of your camera. (Make sure you calibrate out the distortions of the camera lens. Creating a panorama in daytime and processing it in something like hugin will give you this.)
by veeti | 2025-08-20 11:13:13+00:00
Many such cases. Remember when the Chrome team seriously thought they could just disable JavaScript alert() overnight [1][2] and not break decades of internet compatibility? It still makes me smile how quietly this was swept under the rug once it crashed and burned, just like how the countless "off-topic" and "too emotional" comments on Github said it would.

Glad to see the disdain for the actual users of their software remains.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 [2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/05/google_chrome_iframe/

(FWIW I agree alert and XSLT are terrible, but that ship sailed a long time ago.)
Ask HN: What to do with a pure mathematics degree?
by mareoclasico | 2025-08-20 11:13:17+00:00
I'm going to finish a degree in mathematics next year (in Europe).

The catch: I'll be 37 when I finish. I had a change of careers later in life.

I'm a bit lost on what to pursue professionally. I've looked into getting a Master's in quant/finance or AI research but I've read you need to be a young genius in order to get an interview in most of the prop shops, and for AI I don't know how feasible that path is right now for a regular guy like me.

I get the impression that I need some graduate program after my degree in order to pick up programming and other "useful" skills, and to be honest, I'm kinda looking forward to it.

If you are in some sort of industry that uses math or math-adjacent skills I'd love to know what would you do in my situation, any advice will be golden.

Thank you!
by blablabla123 | 2025-08-20 11:14:01+00:00
> They are removing XSLT just for being a long-tail technology. The same argument would apply to other long-tail web technologies.

That's a concise way to put it. IMHO this is also the main problem of the standard.

However I think XSLT isn't only long tail but also a curiosity with just academic value. I've being doing some experimentation and prototyping with XSLT while it was still considered alive. So even if you see some value in it, the problems are endless:

* XSLT is cumbersome to write and read

* XML is clunky, XSLT even more so

* yes there's SLAX, which is okay-ish but it becomes clear very fast that it's indeed just Syntax sugar

* there's XSLT 2.0 but there's no software support

* nobody uses it, there's no network effect in usage

I think a few years ago I stumbled upon a CMS that uses it and once I accidentally stumbled upon a Website that uses XSLT transformation for styling. That's all XSLT I ever saw in the wild being actually used.

All in all XSLT is a useless part of the way to large long tail preventing virtually everyone from writing spec compliant web browser engines.

> The promise is, "This is HTML. Count on it."

I think after HTML4 and XHTML people saw that a fully rigid standard isn't viable, so they made HTML5 a living standard with a plethora of working groups. Therefore the times where this was ever supposed to be true are long over anyway.

So indeed the correct way forward would be to remove more parts of a long tail that's hardly in use and stopping innovation. And instead maybe keeping a short list of features that allow writing modern websites.

(Also nobody is stopping anyone from using XSLT as primary language that compiles to HTML5/ES5/CSS)
by b_llc | 2025-08-20 11:15:07+00:00
The code is 100% mine. The architecture and code evolved over 5-years as Axon adapted for a number of projects. I started to revamp the project 2-3 weeks ago. Throughout that process, I used Claude to check for logical errors and simplification opportunities. Claude generated the readme and shell scripts in entirety and commented the codebase for clarity.

Edit: The hello-world.html was also generated.
by jam_cha123 | 2025-08-20 11:16:26+00:00
This is called chartly and its a no code chart creator that uses chartjs https://www.chartjs.org but without having to write much code.

Its just a basic proof of concept tho.

web app: https://chartly-aeb23.firebaseapp.com

source code (if you want to check the html first): view-source:https://chartly-aeb23.firebaseapp.com

feel free to give feedback. bye
by unwind | 2025-08-20 11:16:35+00:00
Same, I had to Google it too but didn't even understand the pictures since they were so alien.

Eventually found this page [1] which includes a basic description:

A baseboard heater is a convection heater. In such heaters, cold air coming in from a window enters the heater through a vent and hot air is dispersed through metal fins that are heated through electricity.

But it's still confusing because if it's cold outside (=you need heating) why would you have your window open to let in the cold air? That would also make your already-heated air escape ... duh.

Agreed, it's amazing how something that "feels" like it would get the same solution everywhere it's needed still does not, due to cultural differences, history, and stuff.

[1]: https://www.cadet.glendimplexamericas.com/en-us/articles/ele...
by Neywiny | 2025-08-20 11:16:48+00:00
The other thing they'll need to do is not get bought out. Reportedly, Figma is competing with Adobe which was worse than an oligopoly. And there was an attempted buy-out that didn't go through. Only by staying on their own could it work.

I do understand a lot of startups just burn VC funds waiting for a buy-out, though. Maybe if the big Google and Microsoft were the buyers it would be better.

It's also a bit funny that these incumbents seem to spend more effort buying companies than they do improving their own tools.
by awongh | 2025-08-20 11:17:52+00:00
The details on what the architecture of this aren't clear, but I can see that the big feature is deeper integration into the browser.

To me this is an obvious direction for all coding agents to go in. Right now the cursor chrome browser MCP server doesn't work very well, but it's very obvious to me that this is the direction things need to go in.

I'm not sure why focusing on a framework would fundamentally make this any better than the generic approach to getting good context directly from the browser.
by Krssst | 2025-08-20 11:19:40+00:00
From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed.

I don't have strong opinions on this, I was mostly a bit triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". (I assumed "only reason" implied that they thought it was a safe drug without side-effects or risks; all (medical/non-medical) drugs have side-effects and risks so not being 100% safe isn't a reason for banning by itself, but that's a factor in the risk/benefit balance).
by defrost | 2025-08-20 11:19:45+00:00
You asked

> I don't know who y'all is.

and while I suspect the meconium account that made the GP comment you responded to was aping being a non-US citizen (by referring to "you all" regardless of aisle affiliation) and implying that any 2028 elected POTUS would avoid prosecuting Jan 6 charges for fear of fallout, I also took the opportunity to remind ourselves of some of the notable nom de guerre's coined to ridicule various US quasi-militias of the pro Jan6 persuasion.

Y'all Qaeda was gem of a description for the Vanilla ISIS types.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-20 11:20:04+00:00
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
by joegibbs | 2025-08-20 11:20:46+00:00
It's in Cursor as well, I've been using it today and I can't say I'm that impressed with it. Definitely not Sonnet 4 or GPT5-high level. It's fast for sure, but it seems to pay no heed at all to instructions. I tell it "no fallbacks" and it makes a file full of fallbacks, and it looked at an error and said that it had fixed it about 10 times before I gave up and gave it to Claude which fixed it first try.
by gattilorenz | 2025-08-20 11:21:08+00:00
Not sure about now, but last year your only way of getting a digital vignette for the Austrian highway that is valid “today” was via a third party (from outside Austria, I think).

Austrian ASFINAG would only sell you one that is valid in ~2 week at the earliest, since that’s the time you are guaranteed by law to return it. Not very handy if you are already on the road, and don’t want to stop to buy a physical vignette.
by gausswho | 2025-08-20 11:21:33+00:00
Lomborg knows how to chase a limelight and put on a serious aspect, but his reasoning is plenty flawed. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-closer-examin...

Ultimately, we are Team Earth. The scarce-mongering behind tribalist features does not bring pragmatism but rather sabotage.
by close04 | 2025-08-20 11:21:40+00:00
Yes but you are talking about the threshold of existence, and the cell is alive as soon as it starts existing. For a virus you also have the threshold of "application", when the viral code is applied to something alive. Before that the virus exists but is not alive itself. After the application it's modifying other life which maybe technically can be considered alive.

This is why I said "to come alive" instead of "to be created". The virus is something that just exists but only becomes alive when mixed with something that's already alive.