MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by radarsat1 | 2025-08-13 09:52:48+00:00
Honestly it should be easy to do this kind of thing with a CLI app like Claude Code and yet you have to get pretty involved in interpreting its complex terminal usage. I'm starting to consider the recent trend of very "fancy" CLI utilities that treat the terminal as a kind of GUI as an anti-pattern. I mean, how much easier would it be to write a wrapper around CC if it were just a readline prompt.

Yet these fancy terminal applications have become really trendy. I've been using Crush lately and I quite like it, but it's annoying to me that I can't copy and pasted from the terminal when it's running, and scrolling the buffer doesn't work as expected either, it somehow scrolls some kind of internal "window" instead. Again, making copy & pasting annoyingly difficult.

Is anyone making a good agent system that is just "> Output", "$ input" without trying to get crazy with ANSI escape sequences? Some color is nice, but I think that should be the end of it.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-13 09:53:45+00:00
This, and abortion, are also the only contexts in which this particular type of objection ever comes up. Nobody who has a religious objection to alcohol is demanding that alcohol be banned so that they don't have to deal with it in their restaurant job, say. It's a fairly transparent pretext and it's kind of absurd that the media gives any credence to her _stated_ motivations.
by handoflixue | 2025-08-13 09:53:48+00:00
Business plans usually require a 5 seat minimum, charge per seat, and have different pricing levels - but yeah, nothing stops you from registering an LLC. Namecheap is even running a special: Buy a domain name and get an LLC for free: https://www.namecheap.com/apps/business-starter-kit/

(not affiliated, I was just very surprised when they tried to upsell me last time I renewed my domain :))
by valdiorn | 2025-08-13 09:55:02+00:00
Iceland has this too, Laugardagsnammi :)

Go to Hagkaup or Samkaup on a Saturday (or just after midnight on Friday night, where you'll usually bump into a gaggle of teenagers in their pajama bottoms, out on a candy run) and get yourself a massive bag of pick'n'mix for half price. It's one of the few things I miss about Iceland.

the pick n mix bars can get pretty huge: https://yummy-iceland.blogspot.com/2025/06/nammidagur.html

I remember as a kid, I'd get 100 kronur (probably about $3 USD in today's money) on Saturday morning and go to the store to buy sweets. You'd meticulously choose which items to put in the bag to make sure you got the best value for money :)
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-13 09:57:22+00:00
Of course they're corrupt and abusive. But that's fairly tangential to crime rates unless they take it to an extreme.

I think we ought to walk backwards from your question a bit. Is the position that the police are corrupt and abusive something that I'm supposed to disagree with? Is it supposed to be something obviously untrue (hint: it's not)?
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-13 09:58:30+00:00
Either they want to run on ideologically pure hardware too, without pesky management bits in it (or even indeed UEFI), or they are just "it used to work perfectly" guys.

In the former case, I fail to see how ME or its absence is relevant to building Android apps, which they do using Google-provided binaries that have even more opportunity to inject naughty bits into the software. In the latter case, I better forget they exist.
by cmckn | 2025-08-13 09:58:45+00:00
This drives me insane.

I use the swipe feature because I guess I have wide fingertips and frequently hit unintended, adjacent keys when pecking on the keyboard (especially as I’ve gotten older). The words produced by swiping often make no grammatical sense, and are frequently esoteric words that I just can’t believe rank high enough on a basic frequency list to suggest. Not to mention my own vocabulary, which apparently is not considered by the keyboard at all.

I had a way better experience using SwiftKey on my android phone 15 years ago.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-13 09:59:43+00:00
I'm unsure what you mean by "pointer" - normally that just refers to the user's mouse cursor on-screen...

...do you mean you want a rich-HTML tooltip that is auto-positioned to ensure it's fully visible w.r.t. the browser's viewport but you also want the tooltip (or UI in general) to include an arrow shape that stays fixed on-target even if might be occluded by the browser?
by Lio | 2025-08-13 09:59:46+00:00
Oh yeah, it's definitely solvable if you can be bothered with it.

It was more just the observation that an unnecessary light had been included that degrades the performance of the product.

I find it intriguing how that comes to be. On paper it seems like adding the light wouldn't hurt the product even if not useful but no body actually used it it seems.
by vidarh | 2025-08-13 10:00:03+00:00
Again, never heard it. Never felt remotely unsafe. Don't know anyone who has had issues with it.

And can't find any actual data to corroborate that robberies have somehow reached such endemic levels.

EDIT: It gets comical to see that Met stats are now somehow trustworthy after the number of people here making a big deal of distrusting them. But notably the data shows the numbers to be small - in the hundreds per month - and having dropped significantly between 2018 and 2023. Furthermore, most of these crimes are burglary or theft, rather than crimes such as robberies or violence, so the chance of having them taken off your wrist is substanlly lower.

The article then covers an increase in "high-value" watch thefts from 2021 to 2022. Between 2021 and 2022 the numbers did in fact increase, and they were lower in 2021 than in 2023 as well. But we're talking 4885 watches total (not restricted to "high value") in 2021, of which about 1/3 are robberies. So you're much less likely to have your watch taken off you than e.g. your phone stolen.
by feel-ix-343 | 2025-08-13 10:00:33+00:00
https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide

Markdown-oxide is the second most popular markdown language server (by github star count). It is written in rust and provides knowledge management utilities through the LSP, adhering to and compatible with Obsidian.md . Many people who like neovim/zed/helix, don't like Obsidian's editor, and do like Obsidian's philosophy use it.

I created markdown-oxide 3 years ago and have been maintaining it since then. For the past year, I've also been working at Exa.ai, organizing the web (building independent web search) in Rust.

Before starting at Exa, I was in high school and had several hours per week to work on markdown-oxide. Now, I work 14 hours per day, 5.5 days per week on web search (I love my work) and only have time to resolve issues semi-consistently. I envision an amazing future for markdown oxide, but I don't have time to create it.

Now that 1 AI makes using knowledge graphs (like obsidian) not tedious, 2 it can use tools very well (like the oxide MCP that I have in a PR), and 3 it can automate many annoying parts of personal knowledge management (copying, formatting, tagging, ...), I think that Markdown-Oxide can become 10x more useful to >10x more people. Also I'm really sad that oxide issues are not getting the attention they deserve. I believe that there exists a person who can make markdown-oxide an amazing product and scale it an impressive amount. I also envision this person as a high-school aged Rust/philosophy nerd like I was when I made this project - though this is not required of course. Also, I can afford to pay someone $500/month for this (which I'd hope is decent for this individual).

I'm writing this post at 2:45am in SF to try to find an inspired Rust/Philosophy enthusiast to re-modernize Markdown-Oxide and keep it's users happy + get paid a little ($500/month)
by cjs_ac | 2025-08-13 10:01:18+00:00
Another example: 'baby cheeses' as a mondegreen[0] of 'baby Jesus'.

* Modern Family, 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXedC4qdkgo

* Kath and Kim, 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrKqbuaMxw

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-08-13 10:01:19+00:00
Mm, doughnuts. I'll take the flip side of that bet, since I don't think capturing the typing cadence for individual words would be all that helpful. I'd bet the typing cadences here are distinguishable from the cadence of normal English text (as might be collected by a malicious browser extension which vacuums up keystroke data on popular UGC sites).
by mark_undoio | 2025-08-13 10:01:29+00:00
This demo was so cool. There were lots of alternative OSes out there back then that felt very impressive.

Linux at the time was cool too but less polished than now. Lots of people were on the Win 9x series, which wasn't amazing - and Mac OS X was not yet fully baked.

These other OSes (QNX, BeOS) felt polished, amazingly fast - and slightly alien. The main sad thing from my perspective was that I couldn't get them online (my machine had a winmodem and nobody had open source drivers for those for ages).
by pjc50 | 2025-08-13 10:01:59+00:00
This is not correct: the law primarily regulates what it calls "user-to-user" services, i.e. social media.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50

"All providers of regulated user-to-user services that are likely to be accessed by children must comply with the following duties in relation to each such service which they provide—

(a)the duties about children’s risk assessments set out in section 11, and

(b)the duties to protect children’s online safety set out in section 12(2) to (13)."
by wilsonzlin | 2025-08-13 10:02:36+00:00
I'm not sure what were the exact limits, but I definitely recall running into server errors with S3 and the OCI equivalent service — not technically 429s but enough to essentially limit throughput. SQS had 429s, I believe due to number of requests and not messages, but they only support batching at most 10.

I definitely wanted these to "just work" out of the box (and maybe I could've worked more with AWS/OCI given more time), as I wanted to focus on the actual search.
by anileated | 2025-08-13 10:03:34+00:00
Theft of IP permanently deprives the author of ownership claim. It’s quite a problem if you want people to innovate or create new stuff, because they usually do this with an expectation to be able to claim ownership and have a healthy degree of control over how the work is used and/or monetized.

Actually, IP theft is more of a problem than theft of physical property. The latter you can just buy again while the former robs you of intangible values that among other things may grant you the ability to just buy physical property. The latter doesn’t scale and is generally more difficult because it’s more visible, while the former can be (and is being, in fact) done at population scale without people realizing it until it’s too late.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-13 10:03:41+00:00
Indeed there were terrible behaviours, and they were fixed. My scoffing is at people who believe these behaviours should never have happened, or it shouldn't be possible.

Unless there is a omnipotent tyrant, there will be the possibility that you encounter terrible behaviours, and the possibility that those who could fix them, don't. You can try advocating to the maintainer that they should fix it, you can even try leading a campaign against the maintainer. If they still disagree, you can fix it yourself, with the source they gave you, and you can publicise your fixed version, which people might adopt over the other version if enough people agree with you. That is the fun!
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-13 10:03:58+00:00
Can you explain what you mean? I'm not seeing anything much different from 20th-century gay rights activism – if anything, it's way tamer. Nobody's breaking into broadcasting houses to photo-bomb live television broadcasts, and Pride is rarely a riot.

You might also consider revisiting your history: "GLBT" was a thing long before the "LGBT" ordering became prevalent – since the 70s, at least. Trans people, and queers of all sorts, have always been a part of gay activism, and in many cases were at the forefront of it. "Drop the T" is a recent movement (although the sentiment isn't new).
by hek2sch | 2025-08-13 10:04:01+00:00
> And there is the caveat that it runs on OpenAI LLMs, so you are not of the hook when it comes to data integrity.

I mean this is nouswise and whether they use Azure oai or direct oai they have strict privacy policy but when you look at the competitors you can not even opt out for your documents not just chats and this is Mistral

https://www.reddit.com/r/MistralAI/s/tDz5rvdYdo

And notebooklm

https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/kSY2ksYa6m

https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GrDuNG4VEC
by rsynnott | 2025-08-13 10:05:25+00:00
For some people, it is literally a fear that they ways in which they are specially privileged is being attacked. This was particularly obvious in the debates about equal marriage in the noughties and tens; people claiming that same-sex marriage would 'devalue' their own marriage. Which, in their eyes I suppose it might, because it would diminish how special they were.

But you see similar themes in most anti-equality movements, just generally a bit more veiled (I was kind of astonished how _blatant_ the opponents of equal marriage were about basically admitting "we object to this because it is an attack on how society considers us to be better than you").
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-08-13 10:06:05+00:00
It is remarkable how often this happens. We have a collection of separate but related technologies leading to the conception of a more general technology that does it all. We then proceed to build a towering inferno of complexity that is no doubt more general but less useful in specific instances. At this point, we conclude that what is needed are specialized tools for the separate use cases, so we promptly break up the general technology into many parts. Lather rinse repeat.

It's like living in an Escher painting.
by azangru | 2025-08-13 10:06:16+00:00
> I'm unsure what you mean by "pointer"

An arrowhead pointing at the anchor element.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooltip#/media/File:Mobile_URL...

UPD: In spec speak, these are called tethers. The anchoring indicators

https://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/css-anchor-explo...
by kace91 | 2025-08-13 10:06:29+00:00
As someone who started reading without knowing about rationalists, I actually came out without knowing much more. Lots of context is assumed I guess.

Some main figures and rituals are mentioned but I still don’t know how the activities and communities arise from the purported origin. How do we go from “let’s rationally analyze how we think and get rid of bias” to creating a crypto, or being hype focused on AI, or summoning demons? Why did they raise this idea of matching confrontation always with escalation? Why the focus on programming, is this a Silicon Valley thing?

Also lesswrong is mentioned but no context is given about it. I only know the name as a forum, just like somethingawful or Reddit, but I don’t know how it fits into the picture.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-13 10:07:20+00:00
>dominant players monopolize it and shape the rules of the game causing the government to (sometimes) intervene to counter it and make it more fair

The dominant players shape it in large part by getting the government to intervene shaping rules to their benefit making it less fair. Naturally everyone with a brain hates this so there's a constant give take where the incumbent interests allow just enough competition, make the barriers to entry just barely surmountable that there's a strong enough trickle of new entrants that they can point and say "look, anyone can do it" and just enough idiots will believe it that they keep their heads.
by tene80i | 2025-08-13 10:07:27+00:00
> Next up: the Bedtime Is At Nine PM Act 2026

This is funny but actually has sort of existed for decades, in the sense of the TV watershed – no adult content before 9pm, after which point it's assumed children are in bed and not watching TV.

And yes, you are absolutely right that parents do often like these laws. Being a parent is hard, whatever the age of the kids, and parents will be in favour of things that make it easier. Whether that's making TV default-safe in the daytime, or making adult websites harder to access.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-13 10:07:43+00:00
> I remember when macbooks briefly came out with a ridiculously bright standby led that required Black electrical tape over if you wanted to sleep with it in the house. Shortly after no more status leds on any MacBook (thank you!).

The lack of status LEDs is actually the only thing I really REALLY hate about MacBooks!

Too often I have been bitten by the thing not properly going to sleep because SOMETHING keeps a wake lock (and of course macOS doesn't indicate this anywhere outside of Energy Monitor, nested in System Activity) and overheating in my bag as a result. A simple LED would have been a good visual indicator that it is still awake.
by ben_w | 2025-08-13 10:08:32+00:00
If it works for you, that's probably fine.

When I ask OpenAI's models to make prompts for other models (e.g. Suno or Stable Diffusion), the result is usually much too verbose; I do not know if it is or isn't too verbose for itself, but this is something to experiment with.

My manual customisation of ChatGPT is:

What traits should ChatGPT have?: Honesty and truthfulness are of primary importance. Avoid American-style positivity, instead aim for German-style bluntness: I absolutely *do not* want to be told everything I ask is "great", and that goes double when it's a dumb idea. Anything else ChatGPT should know about you? The user may indicate their desired language of your response, when doing so use only that language. Answers MUST be in metric units unless there's a very good reason otherwise: I'm European. Once the user has sent a message, adopt the role of 1 or more subject matter EXPERTs most qualified to provide a authoritative, nuanced answer, then proceed step-by-step to respond: 1. Begin your response like this: **Expert(s)**: list of selected EXPERTs **Possible Keywords**: lengthy CSV of EXPERT-related topics, terms, people, and/or jargon **Question**: improved rewrite of user query in imperative mood addressed to EXPERTs **Plan**: As EXPERT, summarize your strategy and naming any formal methodology, reasoning process, or logical framework used

**

2. Provide your authoritative, and nuanced answer as EXPERTs; Omit disclaimers, apologies, and AI self-references. Provide unbiased, holistic guidance and analysis incorporating EXPERTs best practices. Go step by step for complex answers. Do not elide code. Use Markdown.

Which is a modification of an idea I got from elsewhere: https://github.com/nkimg/chatgpt-custom-instructions
by anileated | 2025-08-13 10:08:37+00:00
IP theft involves deprivation of the holder of ownership claim. Observing a game before making your own game, listening to music before releasing your own track, viewing photos before making a go at the same composition, do not do that. Claiming them as your own, however, does do that. Using them to train a (commercial) system that allows anybody to recreate them and claim as your own does do that.

It is, actually, more of a problem than theft of physical items. The latter you can just buy again while the former robs you of intangible values that among other things may grant you the ability to just buy physical property. The latter doesn’t scale and is generally more difficult because it’s more visible, while the former can be (and is being, in fact) done at population scale without people realizing it until it’s too late. Also, expectation of ownership claim is a meta level of why people want to make more original things, including new and cool physical items.
by adr1an | 2025-08-13 10:09:17+00:00
I believe you say that as a figure of speech, like it would be incredible to him to last. I may be misinterpreting you. Yet...

I believe it's not so surprising he lasts until the end of his term. I don't mean to remove any blame on Trump, but this case, and many others, have more to do with people (ICE agents) having 'power' to do this kind of injustice on the basis of their own biases (racism.)

I wasn't around when Adolf won its elections, and his first year. But I assume it was similar on many regards. "They thought they were free".
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-13 10:11:14+00:00
Deranged. I cannot believe people can be fooled into blaming trans people, of which there is a vanishingly small number, for a concerted campaign by conservatives and other forces to use them as a political wedge. All trans people are guilty of, as far as I can tell, is not behaving in some impossible way, so that conservatives wouldn't pay attention to them. It is our duty to stand up for progressive values, not to condemn a small number of people for not behaving as ideal minorities in a largely cooked up culture war.

If liberal people in the 60s had the attitude you have now you'd probably still be in the closet.

I'm sympathetic to you, frankly, because the current political environment constantly makes people feel like the problem is that we want a better world and if we had just shut up the barbarians wouldn't have taken over, but that is bullshit. Our side of the "culture war" would be doing a lot better if we had some courage to our convictions.
by Gehinnn | 2025-08-13 10:13:31+00:00
This reminds me of primitive words [1]: A primitive word is a word that is not the (2+ times) repetition of any other word. This is slightly different than a non-pattern word from the article, which is a word that is not a 3+ times repetition of any other word.

The anti-pattern game is about extending words such that they do not contain a pattern word.

I wonder how the situation changes if 2 times repetitions would count as pattern (i.e. non-primitive words).

For primitive words, it is an open problem if the language of primitive words (over any non-trivial finite alphabet) is context free.

I wonder if the language of words that don't contain patterns (or non-primitive words) is context free.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4427
by scotty79 | 2025-08-13 10:15:05+00:00
I don't care about the hype. If you put me in a cave for last 5 years and today gave me Windsurf and told me nothing beyond that a machine does that, I wouldn't believe you. All of it was literally science fiction 5 years ago. This literally replaces a person that I would have to hire to pursue my ideas.
by merelysounds | 2025-08-13 10:15:21+00:00
There is also prior art, PSDoom:

> The Doom process manager (PSDoom) is a modiﬁcation of the game Doom that displays representations of the processes running on a machine. Rather than using standard text-mode UNIX tools to view and manipulate processes, one surveys and shoots at a room full of bloodthirsty mutants, as shown in Figure 1.

> Less than a week after the initial version of the code was written, the project’s website was attracting tens of thousands of visitors per day. Approximately 800 responses were e-mailed to the author or www.slashdot.org within the first two months. Of these responses 27% praised the project, 23% offered suggestions for improving PSDoom, 10% found the project funny, 10% reported technical problems, 8% related PSDoom to science fiction or to the future of interfaces, 1% disliked the project, and 0.6% were frightened by its implications.

"Doom as an Interface for Process Management" (2002), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2522409_Doom_as_an_...
by calgoo | 2025-08-13 10:15:48+00:00
On the code review part, that's also because we are using languages designed for humans. Once we design the programming languages for the LLM, then you design it in such a way that code review by humans and AI is easy.

Same with project org, if you organize the project for LLM efficiency instead of human efficiency then you simplify some parts that the llm have issues with.