MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evan_ | 2025-08-12 05:39:17+00:00
if they delay the vote long enough they can say there’s no clear winner and the house effectively gets to appoint the president.That’s what they were trying to do on January 6.

This time it has the neat side effect of letting them cleanly appoint Trump for a third term without him being elected twice, which (it will be claimed) does not violate the 22nd amendment.

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”
by can16358p | 2025-08-12 05:41:49+00:00
I'm actually surprised that it still existed anyway.

Dial-up (not AOL but anyway) nostalgia: I remember the excitement of waiting for hours to download a simple file and watching it go 98%, 99% and 100% as connection drops were frequent and many servers didn't support resuming downloads at that era meaning you had to start over if it failed at any point.

I also remember switching from dial up to a blazingly fast 512 Kbps ADSL, which sometimes (probably due to a bug in ISP) became an "unbelievably fast" 2048 Kbps line, downloading files around 200 KB/s which seemed futuristic.

Good old times.
by g42gregory | 2025-08-12 05:41:58+00:00
And you think OpenAI, Anthropic, and Co. will not do exactly the same, when you engage in a wrongthink?

Larry Ellison said it best a few months ago: "AI will keep you on your best behavior"[1].

[1] Meeting with Sam Altman, President Trump, and Masayoshi Son, announcing $500 million infrastructure deal.
by smnplk | 2025-08-12 05:42:38+00:00
Drunk guys are the easisest to play against. You don't need GTO, you can just play exploitatively and adjust your range against his, so that you still have big range advantige preflop. And you can lower variance and decide to not go all-in with AK preflop, but this also depends on how deep the effective stack is in a given situation.
by ayaros | 2025-08-12 05:43:17+00:00
I think I may have seen this site before; I know I've seen The Tour online before.

In any case as you can see, experiencing this is like seeing the image of God on earth, like stepping into the holy of holies, the innermost part of the temple where God's presence on Earth is present. The Windows XP Tour was handed down by God to Moses and kept in a great ark, and it was lost when the second temple was ransacked. Then in the year 1999, Microsoft employees found it while on holiday and brought it back to the states. The rest is history.

I keep an XP VM in case I need to commune with The Tour.
by verisimi | 2025-08-12 05:45:27+00:00
Wiki isn't the citizenry.

And no one voted for this.

When one votes in this so-called "democracy", one votes for a representative to represent 'you and thousands of others' on thousands of decisions.

And even then, if both parties want to do something, as in this case, there is nowhere to go.

This is force. If you can't say 'no', this is immoral, coercive force, even if the person or party doing the forcing says it isn't.

And no, the forcer (government) won't give back freedoms (the right to privacy) that it takes away.

In the end, the only moral, respectful and free way to proceed, without force, ie where people opt in. Individuals would opt in/out to paying tax for wars/schools/online safety, etc.

"But it is impossible that everyone should be allowed to only opt in to the decisions they like!" .. is only the case because we think it is normal to endlessly abused by governments and because so many citizens are dependent on its handouts.
by mmueller_io | 2025-08-12 05:46:20+00:00
We just launched UptimeEye, built because we couldn’t find a monitoring tool that:

Caught entire flows breaking (login → dashboard → checkout) Didn’t cost as much as DataDog Didn’t strip down to single pings like UptimeRobot

What it does:

Multi-step API & flow monitoring Checks from 6 global regions Instant alerts via Slack, Teams, Webhook, Email No dashboards to babysit - just “flow works / flow is broken”

We’re two indie devs scratching our own itch. Beta is live today - free for 60 days, then 50% off for 12 months if you stick around.

Feedback, questions, brutal criticism welcome.

- Manuel
by Tyrubias | 2025-08-12 05:47:02+00:00
The solution to homelessness is not to bring in the military and “send the homeless far away” (to paraphrase what Trump said). The solution to homelessness is to provide housing and support.

The U.S. government has been broken for years (under both parties). We can’t sweep our problems under the rug by making D.C. look good. Also, I’m pretty sure the majority of people from Wisconsin or Idaho who vote for Republicans don’t do it because they went on a trip to D.C. and thought it was terrible.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-12 05:47:34+00:00
Wow, I wasn't expecting this. These are fair critiques, as I am only somewhat informed about what is clearly a very sensitive topic.

For transparency, I attended ICML2025 where Ollama had set up a booth and had a casual conversation with the representatives there (one of whom turned out to lead the Ollama project) before they went to their 2nd birthday celebration. I'm repeating what I can remember from the conversation, about ten minutes or so. I am a researcher not affiliated with the development of llama.cpp or Ollama.

> for a project you root for

I don't use Ollama, and I certainly don't root for it. I'm a little disappointed that people would assume this. I also don't use llama.cpp and it seems that is the problem. I'm not really interested in the drama, I just want to understand what these projects want to do. I work in theory and try to stay up to date on how the general public can run LLMs locally.

> no one realized until after it shipped.

I'm not sensing that the devs at Ollama are particularly competent, especially when compared to the behemoths at llama.cpp. To me, this helps explain why their actions differ from their claimed motivation, but this is probably because I prefer to assume incompetence over something sinister.

> as promised previously...

I don't think I made any such promises. I can't cite those claimed breakages, because I do not remember further details from the conversation needed to find them. The guy made a strong point to claim they had happened and there was enough frustrated rambling there to believe him. If I had more, I would have cited them. I remember seeing news regarding the deprecation of multimodal support hence the "I could swear that" comment (although I regret this language, and wish I could edit the comment to tone it down a bit), but I do not think this was what the rep cited. I had hoped that someone could fill in the blanks there, but if knowledgeable folks claim this is impossible (which is hard to believe for a project of this size, but I digress), I defer to their expert opinion here.

> llama.cpp had early access to it just as well.

I knew this from the conversation, but was told Ollama had even earlier discussions with OpenAI as the initial point of contact. Again, this is what I was told, so feel free to critique it. At that time, the rep could not explicitly disclose that it was OpenAI, but it was pretty obvious from the timing due to the delay.

> avoiding information pollution

I'm a big believer in free speech and that the truth will always come out eventually.

> I'm seeing more of a gish-gallop than an attempt to recalibrate your technical understanding...

> I sense a passionate but youthful spirit, not an astro-turfer,

This is pretty humbling, and frankly comes off a little patronizing, but I suppose this is what happens when I step out of my lane. My objective was to stimulate further conversation and share a perspective I thought was unique. I can see this was not welcome, my apologies.
by decimalenough | 2025-08-12 05:49:42+00:00
Quite the contrary, the story is rather fascinating. (Or did you mean to say "more interesting"?)

If you want even more gruesome details, the story of how this all unraveled plus all sorts of info about Woodard, a positively creepy while supremacist, can be found on the English article's talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David_Woodard/Archive_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David_Woodard

And with this anomaly removed, the list of articles in the most languages is back to what you'd expect: the top 10 is all large countries and Wikipedia itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikiped...
by goosejuice | 2025-08-12 05:49:54+00:00
The vast majority of what people use a phone for works perfectly fine as a PWA on cheap hardware.

Apple is essentially responsible for the shit show that is react native, flutter and all the other cross platform crap. Just let us build for the web with basic support for a native like experience. Works fine on every platform but iOS and iPadOS.

I as a small business don't want to write three separate fucking apps. I don't want to charge customers more to cover that. It's a waste of everyone's time and money.
by js8 | 2025-08-12 05:50:05+00:00
While I agree that labor theory of value is wrong, I believe that theory of value based on utility is even less descriptive of the real world (and in that sense a regress).

People are not utility calculating machines. I would say these utility theories (I would call them theories of subjective value) have several flaws:

1. There are some things that all sane humans objectively (universally) value (things like survival, not being harmed, time and energy expenditure).

2. Sometimes humans simply value things that other humans value, as a shortcut to expending energy in figuring out what to value.

3. Any reasonably good theory value has to incorporate incomplete information that people have, and thus might value something that is not valuable and vice versa due to lack of information.

Some of these lead to nonlinear behavior which is really not well captured by an additive theory such as marginal theory of value.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-12 05:50:37+00:00
I mean yes, technically, but really no that's clearly not what was being objected to. Finding adds in arbitrary interfaces seems dystopian to me. Whereas having a discreet "suggested" or "promoted" tab or bracket for software in the app store - the place I go to get software - doesn't bother me. There are certainly ways they could screw it up but they don't seem to have done so yet.

Also as it happens I don't even see those because I exclusively use FDroid at this point. So ironically I see no ads when using a device designed and sold by an advertising company and haven't for years.
by runsWphotons | 2025-08-12 05:51:16+00:00
No, I think the answer is that is only different in that Americans in DC are more criminal. Both places have strict gun laws with licensing requirements. In both places you can get illegal guns, and these are the ones used in crime if a gun is used, otherwise it will be an illegal knife. However in the Netherlands the laws are followed and/or policed better. Maybe now in DC the laws will be enforced better too, and maybe Americans just need a little more show of police force to behave. I predict that few people lose any liberty and that this experiment reduces certain crimes (like street murder, assaults, random robberies/muggings) a lot.
by k310 | 2025-08-12 05:52:07+00:00
Not to make light of the protagonist, but this reminds me of a Lil Abner comic, in which, if memory serves, Pappy sees a lot of signs saying, cryptically: Are you ready for Betty?" Intrigued by all these, he announces: "I'm ready for Betty!" and then everyone treats him splendidly.

Like Mr. Awuah-Darko?

Spoiler alert, if you can even find that comic ...

many frames later, he finds out that Betty is an undertaker, J. Paul Betty, and he declares that he is not "Ready for Betty."
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 05:53:00+00:00
I found this a while ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jofu7d/ac...

It's a great illustration of how people are valued. As for those wealthy people not even giving you water: they were making a whole pile of assumptions there because (1) in their world nobody ever would appreciate being given water, they've had their own supply since the day they were born and it never runs out and (2) they weren't tipping you because they didn't have to and that's how they got to be wealthy in the first place: by taking advantage where ever they could.

small aside: /. had this 'friend' feature and I really liked it (I would have liked a blocking filter for drivel even better), you are one of my favorite commenters on HN and have been for a long time, you spend enormous time arguing your points and I find myself appreciating the arguments and sometimes being swayed by them so thank you for all that hard work.
by ontigola | 2025-08-12 05:53:14+00:00
"Thanks for the article. I found it interesting, though the 'vibe coding' method isn't something I can apply in my own IT environment, mainly due to its complexity and technology stack. The piece makes a strong case for why LLMs are so good at coding. It's clear they excel with the technologies and patterns most common in their training data—the same ones their own developers likely use. While their performance drops off with less familiar tech, it's undeniable that for certain types of tasks, they are very effective."
by readthenotes1 | 2025-08-12 05:53:29+00:00
I think you mean authoritarian, not conservative.

Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. -- Robert Caro

https://apnews.com/general-news-political-news-9426bc09f958a... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8463949/Neil-Fergus... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-12 05:54:28+00:00
I completely agree with you.

The best answer I can give myself to your (perhaps rhetorical) question is twofold: - tech companies, for whatever reason, seem to need millions and millions of funding upfront to get started. Despite a tech company not needing essentially any asset (besides a few workstations and internet connections?). The VC era inherently created a huge distortion so that it's virtually impossible to start something without selling your soul to those who want you to be exactly like the others. You will be laughed out of the door from banks if you try to get some credit. Since the tech economy has been essentially a proxy for financial speculation, building a sustainable business that doesn't aim solely to IPO and "growth" is an idea that won't get any money to anybody. All of this to say, if workers today want to fund a co-op, as I want to, they need to wait until they have enough money saved to bootstrap it themselves. - until now, and for maybe a while longer, the job market for tech workers has been fairly comfortable, with perks and high wages. Things are clearly changing, as the streak of layoffs post-2021 shows. For a sector with low unionization and with the extreme pressure from companies to reduce workers power, I think in the next 5-10 years tech jobs will become closer and closer to other regular office jobs. Once that will be the case, the incentive to do effectively a bullshit job in a big(ger) org - which many of us do, building products that are useless when not harmful, with no social value - will not be there anymore, and I want to hope more people will choose alternative paths like co-ops and to develop products with different goals.
by dazzawazza | 2025-08-12 05:55:26+00:00
When I was in my 20s I realized I had lost the thirst signal. I never felt thirsty. I guessed this was because I lived a comfortable life and I had lost this signal in the noise of modern life.

So I set about deliberately retraining myself. I stopped drinking everything but water (and beer, because life) I'd exercise (and sweat) and then drink water. I retrained my body/mind to savour the pleasantness of drinking water when dehydrated and after a year of conscious effort I more or less recovered the sense of "thirst" and would pre-emptively desire drinking water.

We are pretty simple machines.
by rastignack | 2025-08-12 05:55:47+00:00
Mr Torvalds has already said “we’re done”.

And Mr Overstreet’s behavior is still unprofessional.

I think this thread is really insightful to teach highly skilled individuals that people skills are as important as technical proficiency.

I have been this arrogant and abrasive dev. It’s bad and learning how to behave, mainly through parenting, was a net positive for my career.

People, please read and learn from this thread.
by js8 | 2025-08-12 05:55:51+00:00
No, first you need to make a formulation of the theory that you're trying to falsify.

What economic advice would the theory of comparative advantage give to China in the 1960s?

If it is "just do the free trade", it would have been wrong. China started to implement its market reforms with dual pricing to protect its own citizens from the foreign markets.
by Zizizizz | 2025-08-12 05:56:31+00:00
I would assume he means creating a foreign key relationship from the posts and users table. Doesn't rails or prisma have a SQL migration tool? (Upon looking it looks like it's Active Record)

So the equivalent of

`rails db:migrate` after doing what you suggested in the interview. You could write in SQL as..

``` ALTER TABLE posts ADD COLUMN user_id INT, ADD CONSTRAINT fk_user FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id); ```

I don't know if that's what he was after but that's what my mind jumped to immediately. I'd recommend learning a bit as sometimes I've found that orms can be a lot slower than writing plain SQL for some more complex data fetching.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-08-12 05:57:09+00:00
No, DC and Chicago are not Fallujah. I travel to DC frequently and have never had any reason to fear violent crime. I take the metro. I walk long distances, including late at night. I have relatives who live there. They do not worry about violent crime. They certainly don't consider it "Fallujah". I've also seen aides to the same republican politicians who spout all this fear mongering rhetoric out at night at DC bars without any apparent fears for their safety. Frankly, it's an incredibly insulting to say that DC is Fallujah. There is literally an article on the Department of Justice website from January with the title "Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low". The statistics that you quoted are several years out of date and you conveniently neglected to mention the decline after 2023. You chose a number from 2023 of 40 per 100k, but the number from 2024 was 27 per 100k. That's cherry-picking data to make a point. It's dishonest. You also neglect to mention the differences in data collection practices between the United States and a country like Haiti or Iraq. Exactly how trustworthy are wartime homicide statistics in a country undergoing complete social collapse? https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-...

If you look at the actual list of homicides in a major American city, the victims are often people who are involved in the drug trade. Homicides are often highly concentrated in small areas. A large portion of the city sees no homicides at all in a given year. I don't know if an equivalent map exists for DC, but you can look at a map of homicides in Boston in 2024. There are a few areas where there are clusters with 2-3 homicides within a few blocks. Then there are whole neighborhoods where there are no homicides at all, or just one or two. https://www.universalhub.com/crime/murder/2024

Typically a tourist to a major US city doesn't have much reason to fear violent crime. People commuting into the city to work or living in more affluent neighborhoods don't have much reason to fear violent crime. People living in poorer neighborhoods often do have reason to fear violent crime, but it really depends on the neighborhood and things can vary from one block to another. People involved in the drug trade in particular neighborhoods have an extremely good reason to fear violent crime.

For decades now, the media has painted a sensationalized picture of big cities. I was traveling once and was talking to an older couple from a rural area. When I told them where I lived, they were genuinely concerned for my safety. I was completely mystified because in the years that I've lived here, I've never had any reason to feel unsafe.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-08-12 05:57:40+00:00
> of course a dictionary program will include code to talk to dictionary-providing web sites.

I wouldn't say that is just a given, if I've apt-get installed a dictionary I might expect that is the whole thing on my machine. It's not like we haven't had dictionaries in physical books for centuries... It seems like stardict is very much an online thing, which I suppose could be legit, but the whole thing does seem like a trap.
by icameron | 2025-08-12 05:58:10+00:00
Everything you say is not wrong. But despite being so horrible, the business world still runs on excel. Finance, underwriting, accounting, engineering tools, fantasy football leagues… Excel is a highly used tool possibly the most used tool and enables many users who do not consider themselves programmers to be productive with their PCs. It’s timeless and hated by many for valid reasons, but its impact is vast.
by troupo | 2025-08-12 05:59:16+00:00
> Your conclusion is not the same as the article you link.

My conclusion directly derives from the article. If your app relies on Javascript, it will be non-functional/broken/unusable for a huge number of people while their devices struggle to download, unzip, parse and run your JS bundles.

BTW. It's worse with web components built with default assumptions (without bundling). Since `import` statements will cause a long waterfall as each component loads its dependencies.
by Ray20 | 2025-08-12 05:59:54+00:00
> It's very difficult to oppose a law ostensibly designed to fight CSAM. But once the law passes, it'll be easily expanded to other things like scanning messages to prevent terrorism.

Oh, look, you did it in literally two sentences. It turns out it's pretty easy to to oppose such law. Only there's simply no need to do it when you're the main beneficiary.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-12 06:00:25+00:00
The problem is, if you are trying to optimize for the JVM, you are already down the wrong path. The JVM is useful in a very small niche when you want something that is faster than Python/Node , but still want cross platform support and somewhat rapid development. The cases where this applies are very niche.

It may allow closer to JVM access, however the entire ecosystem is a colossal mess. The main() implementation in having a class that wraps it is pretty dumb, standard stuff like Lombok hacks the AST (not to mention in general the annotation preprocessors work by printing code strings to file), and the whole dependency injection frameworks are very much separated from actual processing with how much stuff they do in the background.

And then there is the whole Apache foundation with its software being used widely as standard. The same foundation where someone wrote the code that allows log statements to pull arbitrary code from the internet and execute it, and that change made its way past multiple eyes before being merged to production without a single person realizing how crazy it is.

If you want speed, write stuff in C/Rust/Clean C++ (without templates, no C style memory access, e.t.c). If you want to be efficient, write stuff in Python/Node.
by gethly | 2025-08-12 06:01:07+00:00
> Feels like it might be very useful since a lot of new technologies came out since spinning disks.

The MVCC that Postgres uses(and no one else) is like 50yo outdated concept they still cling to. So just by virtue of that, it makes PGSQL the most archaic db on the market nowadays.

I never understood why PGSQL had so many fanboys, yet every major tech company always ditches it for mysql... i guess it is the case of "Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king." type of thing. People have to make a lot of noise to excuse their bad choices so they don't have to admit making a mistake.