MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ralferoo | 2025-08-08 15:01:56+00:00
Country flag emojis are actually just specialised glyphs for pairs of characters, taken in pairs to form a country-code. If the system doesn't know how to render a given country code, it will just fallback to displaying the country code (often stylised as white on blue tiles) instead.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
by cnst | 2025-08-08 15:02:15+00:00
> AWS is the apex cloud provider on the planet. This isnt about redundancy or best practices.

Sorry, but it is absolutely and undeniably not!

I don't think it's accurate to portray AWS as the underlying infrastructure of the internet on the planet at all.

Speaking of the "planet", here's a sample statistics for .ru ccTLD on web hosting usage across the 1 million domain names in the zone — one of the top-10 ccTLD zones on the planet:

https://statonline.ru/metrics/hosting_shared?month=2021-12&t...

https://archive.ph/7aYVD

Amazon is dead last #30 with 0.46% of the market; the data is for December 2021, so, it's before any payment issues that would only originate in March 2022, and which would take weeks/months/years to propagate.

Hetzner is far more popular, at 4.11%, also, OVH is bigger than Amazon, too, at 1.38%, and even Wix had 2.16%. Even Google managed to get 1.15%, probably because of their Google Sites service. Most of the rest of the providers are local — that's how it should be if digital sovereignty is of the essence. The real reason for the local providers, however, is most likely affordability, reliability, price, better service and far better support, and not the digital sovereignty considerations at all. This is exactly why Hetzner is at the top, because the market is obviously price-sensitive if the unlimited venture capital was never available for the local startups, and Hetzner and OVH provide the best value for money, whereas AWS, does not.

The earliest data this service currently has, is for March 2020, and there, Amazon didn't even make it in the top-30 at all!

https://statonline.ru/metrics/hosting_shared?month=2020-03&t...

https://archive.ph/ciD1X

They have a separate tab for VPS and Dedicated, which covers about 0.1 million domain names compared to 1 million in the prior view, and, there, Hetzner, Digital Ocean and OVH, are, likewise, ahead of Amazon, too, with Hetzner being #2, having over 10%, compared to Amazon's 2%, with Amazon thus far behind:

https://statonline.ru/metrics/hosting_vps_dedic?tld=ru&month...

https://archive.ph/9SPs7

Numbers for 2025 don't look as good for any foreign provider, likely due to a combination of factors, including much stronger data sovereignty laws that may preclude most startups from being able to use foreign services like Hetzner, but Hetzner is still the most popular foreign option in both categories, still having more market share in 2025 than AWS did in 2021, and even DigitalOcean is still more popular than AWS, too.

BTW, I've tried looking up the BBC Radio 4 apocalypse claims, and I'm glad to find out that this information is false.

I'm glad you got your account restored, and I thank you for bringing the much needed attention to these verification issues, but I don't think you're making the correct conclusions here. Not your keys, not your coins. Evidently, this applies to backups, too.
by bongodongobob | 2025-08-08 15:02:48+00:00
I do a multistep process

Step 1: back and forth chat about the functionality we want. What do we want it to do? What are the inputs and outputs? Then generate a spec/requirements sheet.

Step 2: identify what language, technologies, frameworks to use to accomplish the goal. Generate a technical spec.

Step 3: architecture. Get a layout of the different files that need to be created and a general outline of what each will do.

Step 4: combine your docs and tell it to write the code.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-08 15:02:52+00:00
I don't know where you get this from

Unprepared foods, in the US, are much cheaper than prepared foods.

A bag of Cheetos (16oz) is $5.

A pound of chicken legs is $2.

2 lbs of rice is $3.

I'd suggest you instead argue that low income people work multiple jobs and therefore have no time to cook. I've had this debate a lot before.
by anonymars | 2025-08-08 15:03:11+00:00
Probably this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933

I definitely thought that was less than two years ago...sigh

That video touches on something else that drives me crazy: the decay of keyboard shortcuts

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All that being said, I will play devil's advocate for at least one modern luxury that I wouldn't want to live without that I can understand makes performance more difficult: per-monitor DPI that can change on the fly. But still: 8.1 (with ClassicShell) was fairly snappy
by thruflo | 2025-08-08 15:03:26+00:00
> Electric’s approach is compelling given it works with existing Postgres databases. However, one gap remains to fill, how to handle mutations?

Just to note that, with TanStack DB, Electric now has first class support for local writes / write-path sync using transactional optimistic mutations:

https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/07/29/local-first-sync-wi...
by jameslk | 2025-08-08 15:03:28+00:00
The progressive movement is not representative of the whole Democratic Party (it’s widely liberals vs conservatives, not progressives)

Republicans also don’t simply roll everything back that democrats do, as you can see with tariffs

Moderates can be found to have ideas from more than simply two camps. In fact there are many different ideas and movements in the US (liberals, conservatives, progressives, libertarians, neolibs, neocons, social democrats, classical liberalism, …)
by surajrmal | 2025-08-08 15:03:32+00:00
This definition really only work for monolithic kernels. Just because you move a filesystem or network stack into user space doesn't make less part of operating system. Those components are certainly not necessary for the kernel to function. Linux already chooses to place many things like display and rendering stacks in user space despite them fulfilling a similar role for the hardware they interact with to that of a networking stack. I personally think an OS is everything that helps abstract and multiplex hardware for applications that sit above it, providing a consistent API to build on top of. Different OS may choose to abstract different layers and defer ownership of the hardware to things built on top of it, but that doesn't ultimately challenge the definition.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-08 15:03:36+00:00
>Trump's policies are clearly intended to push manufacturing back to the US

Trump's tariffs are clearly designed to move manufacturing out of the US. If you wanted to increase US manufacturing you would decrease tariffs on raw materials and increase tariffs on finished products.

Trump has increased tariffs on raw materials like steel, aluminum, copper & lumber by much higher numbers than it has on finished products.

If you want to encourage US manufacturing you would try to lower energy prices. Instead, Trump's war on renewable energy is going to allow other countries to get a sizable energy cost advantage on the US.
by zwnow | 2025-08-08 15:03:38+00:00
Food is a solved problem? You cant be serious. How many animals are unnecessarily slaughtered every year for food? How many people still cant access clean drinking water? How are we going to provide for a ever growing population? Food is an insane issue we have no real solutions for without causing incredible amounts of suffering to animals while also heavily damaging nature in the process. Solved problem my ass.
by inerte | 2025-08-08 15:03:42+00:00
A few months ago I had a persistent irritation on my right eye, as if some dust was stuck there. Worried about it, I went to Urgent care and got billed $3400 (dollars) for antibiotics, WHICH WERE WRONG, an actual ophthalmologist said I had it scratched and just had to apply some drops. $250 for the ophthalmologist and about $50 for the drops.

This week I am in Brazil for vacation, and my mother-in-law had a lot of back pain. We went to a private "urgent care" (or equivalent here), and it was R$ 200 for the visit, R$ 300 for the X-rays, and R$ 80 for the medicine. That's about $100 dollars. And the only reason why we went to private is because the public hospital wait was about 3 hours, otherwise it would have been free (yeah I know taxes).

And I have good health insurance in the US, but navigating co-pays vs. deductibles vs. in network vs. this particular person isn't on network (like the anesthetist for my wife's C-Section which we only learned about when we were already there at the hospital for the surgery) and just overall everything is so freaking expensive... The system is broken, and no amount of startup trying to shave off 5% of some random administrative cost using AI will save it.
by innerlee | 2025-08-08 15:03:50+00:00
The singular defects (or high-norm tokens) [1] may be related to attention sinks. It is interesting that the direction of all high-norm tokens share the same direction. Maybe the theory behind is not very complex and the issue can be fixed cleverly during training.

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=4yBnUokU2v
by huhkerrf | 2025-08-08 15:04:00+00:00
> Progressives, by definition, want 'progress'. Conversely, Conservatives do NOT want progress; if anything, they want regression and thus their desire to roll everything back done in the name of Progress(ives).

I don't know what this logical fallacy is called, but it's a logical fallacy nonetheless.

I'm going to take you at face value, and assume you're talking about the idealized state and not the parties as they stand right now. (Because the Republicans are increasingly reactionary and not at all conservative in their governing.)

Saying that someone called conservative means that they, by definition, do not want progress is silly. First, it's better to say "change" than progress, because a lot of what has been put in place by the "progressive" party is not necessarily better and a direction forward. Second, you can want change in a conservative manner, and you can be of the belief that small changes are better for society than massive changes, Chesterton's Fence, all that.

This kind of thinking is something most people leave behind after freshman year in University.
Show HN: Starter Repo for Rust CLI with built in database
by nickisyourfan | 2025-08-08 15:04:28+00:00
Hello HN!

Build your next CLI in Rust with Clap and Deeb for data persistence!

I have made this starter repo that takes care of everything from simple commands, data persistence, logging, and environment variable setup!

Let me know what you think!
by piva00 | 2025-08-08 15:04:28+00:00
> The poorest have additional grants, so life is not that bad for them, even if they don't work.

Have you ever been poor? From this statement alone I'd guess not because saying life "is not bad" when it's a constant stress about how to make ends meet, not only next month but many times the next week or even next day, is far, very far from "not bad".

> In your world, the worst place to be is to be the middle class, because they don't deserve any grants, but still they earn just barely enough to sustain themselves.

If they earn just barely enough to sustain themselves they're poor, not middle class. Middle class can afford their housing, food, leisure, etc.

In my world the rich would be paying much more, they depend on the whole societal machinery to be able to even accomplish being rich, not paying their due share for that is unjust and undeserved. That requires people thinking more collectively though, and the current system doesn't incentivise people to behave that way, you get ahead by being an individualistic asshole instead of someone who is trying to make society better through your businesses, products, and skills.
by ajkjk | 2025-08-08 15:04:43+00:00
They're not exactly lies; being a lie would imply it was claimed to be true in the first place. Whomst among us still believes thinks that a company saying "use our platform to network productively" is an assertion of truth? It's slop (AI-generated or not): filler text that goes where the filler text goes (website copy, CEO's mouths) in order to not upset the mysterious pipeline by which ads make money magically appear. It is not functionally different from "Lorem Ipsum" text.
by stackskipton | 2025-08-08 15:04:46+00:00
>Did everyone just forget what it was like before Obamacare?

Nope, I was adult working at IBM. I had very good medical insurance where it was small copay every time I saw the doctor. I had to get minor surgery on my foot and it was 50 bucks total. I think total cost billed to insurance was 500.

Condition returned in 2023 and I was forced to get surgery again, I ended up paying ~750 dollars because of my Out of Pocket Maximum was not met.

I found IBM health care benefits online (https://www.scribd.com/document/685377925/IBM-Benefits-Summa...) and looks like I would have paid similar if I was still working there.

ObamaCare made things much better for those who could not get healthcare. For most, High Deductible plans becoming the norm left people in much worse state and that's why you see a ton of grumbling about it. Also, since it kept health insurance, it didn't fix root problem so many people are like "We have Health Care Reform? WTF did it reform?"
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 15:04:53+00:00
Related to multiple .zip formats: I've found macOS Archive Utility sometimes refuses to extract early pkzip .zips created on MS-DOS, but yet Info-ZIP handles them just fine.

And, the macOS Archive Utility will complain that a proper .tar.bz2 is "corrupt" created using bzip2.

In general, be liberal in input and be conservative in output. Sometimes, this means using less features or certain older formats so that all/most things work without issues.
by jrmg | 2025-08-08 15:04:56+00:00
> being forced to buy insurance with a premium so high my risk adjusted return for self insuring is actually higher

This is how all insurance works though. Everyone pays in, and those unlucky enough to experience catastrophic problems get a way bigger payout than those who don’t.

Pooling risk is the entire point of insurance. Without that, it’s not insurance, it’s just a payment system, and those unfortunate enough to have big problems have to pay more.

Perhaps your views of what a society should be ‘for’ means you think that the unfortunate just having to pay more is fair, but I don’t.
by rocketpastsix | 2025-08-08 15:05:02+00:00
as someone with a pre-existing condition (that I didn't ask for), Obamacare was such a huge relief. Before I got into tech I was teaching guitar lessons and really enjoying things. My condition requires more than a once a year physical and my specialist got on me about not having health insurance because we weren't able to get the full panel of bloodwork done. I was routinely denied healthcare because of the condition. I had to pivot into tech as it was one of the few paths available that gave me health insurance. As you said its not perfect but its so much better than what we had prior to Obamacare becoming law.
by rtkwe | 2025-08-08 15:05:03+00:00
> financial incentive to give accurate numbers since that's they're business

The Trump admin has already shown a complete willingness to exert financial pressure on companies and organizations to compel compliance and our hypothetical private BLS replacement is not magically insulated from those pressures and threats.

> you could just trust the government numbers for free.

They're clearly in the middle of an attempt to cook the numbers to make the President look good.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-08-08 15:05:47+00:00
Yes? If that's the primary selling point for a project manager versus being just a really damn good project manager with good visibility?

I've never used a project manager and thought to myself "I want to switch because this is too slow". Even Jira. But I have thought to myself "It's too difficult to build a good workflow with this tool" or "It's too much work to surface good visibility".

This is not a first-person shooter. I don't care if it's 8ms vs 50ms or even 200ms; I want a product that indexes on being really great at visibility.

It's like indexing your buying decision for a minivan on whether it can do the quarter mile at 110MPH @ 12 seconds. Sure, I need enough power and acceleration, but just about any minivan on the market is going to do an acceptable and safe speed and if I'm shopping for a minivan, its 1/4 mile time is very low on the list. It's a minivan; how often am I drag racing in it? The buyer of the minivan has a purpose for buying the minivan (safety, comfort, space, cost, fuel economy, etc.) and trap speed is probably not one of them.

It's a task manager. Repeat that and see how silly it sounds to sweat a few ms interaction speed for a thing you should be touching only a few times a day max. I'm buying the tool that has the best visibility and requires the least amount of interaction from me to get the information I need.
by TOGoS | 2025-08-08 15:06:08+00:00
> We have <!doctype html> but why not add other doc types as time goes on

We do have older ones!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">

and

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Unfortunately the "be liberal in what you accept" principle, in combination with general incompetence and anti-competitive practices by certain browser vendors, meant that all the browsers kind of ignored it and treated everything as quasi-structured tag soup regardless of the doctype, which is why WHATWG tried to codify what the browsers were already doing and decided we should all just <!doctype html>.

Have we collectively learned the lesson? If so maybe we could have a new doctype for [X]HTML 6. I won't be holding my breath for it.
by colesantiago | 2025-08-08 15:06:08+00:00
"The first thing recruiters say when they see my profile is it's very expensive"

Recruiters want talent that is close to free and Stanford / Oxbridge level of prestige and intelligence.

In the past the recruiters would just scan the school / FAANG employer and just put you on the "potential" pile to get your toe in the door in front of the other 500 applicants that applied with you.

Now today it is 1 position 2000 applicants and AI ATS systems now looking at the applications.

Why hire anyone when the recruiters and existing managers can just use GPT-5 / Grok 4 or Claude to get the job done for less than $20?

It's not just engineering or management graduates that cannot find jobs.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-08-08 15:06:12+00:00
And they do $150B - $200B of gross per year. It's a massive business. I worked at Kroger Central Marketing decades ago when they rolled out the savings cards (which was a way for them to raise prices across the board AND track purchases in real time per shopper) and the strategizing over milk prices for a 1/2 a cent per gallon change was insane.
by elehack | 2025-08-08 15:06:18+00:00
The article is about a mechanism for the OS to validate focus requests. The application with the link requests a focus token, and passes it to the browser along with the open-link request, and the browser can then request focus.

It isn't perfect, because there's no way to know that the browser isn't using the token to request focus for something else, but maintaining and validating chain of custody for focus across applications is exactly the problem it looks like they are working on solving.
by miroljub | 2025-08-08 15:06:22+00:00
> That said, it was amazing to just see it go through the requirements and implement modules full of organised documented code that I didn’t have to write

Small side remark, but what is the value added of the AI generated documentation for the AI generated code. It's just a burden that increases context size whenever AI needs to re-analyse or change the existing code. It's not like any human is ever going to read the code docs, when he can just ask AI what it is about.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-08 15:06:31+00:00
Like the sibling comment points out.

I drank the WinRT Kool Aid between Windows 8, Windows Phone and the clear failure of Project Reunion.

Still I keep myself around, expecially to warn newbies that whatever Microsoft is selling for WinUI, regardless of the shiny cover, the book inside is roten.

Whatever I have learnt from community calls and endless Github discussions, is that most new interns never did Windows development before landing on Windows team.

The calls are available on YouTube, mostly young, puzzled looks when questioned about feature XYZ coming to Windows, not even understanding issues that come from Windows 8 and 8.1 UAP model, that predated UWP, among other possible examples.

I would dare to say they did all their studies in UNIX world, Apple, Google devices, before landing a job at Microsoft.

So Web technologies it is.

Note I am not blaming them, each one gets to learn what they can, how they can.

The blame lies on upper management of a 4 trillion valued company, that isn't able to put in place the resources and learnings, so that the team can actually deliver, as it used to be during the 3x "Developers!" dance.
by piva00 | 2025-08-08 15:06:45+00:00
> So being just barely above the line means that you pay, not that you get. This is the worst place to be in.

Why do you think that's how it would work? That's the most simplistic way of thinking about it, instead try to apply the same model of progressive taxation in reverse, you get less benefits the more you earn up to a threshold. Or just implement some form of UBI, there are many models for it as well.
by falcor84 | 2025-08-08 15:07:42+00:00
> Tech was a sector that made us think of humankind moving forward, possibly into some happy Star Trek like future where no one needed money and pie magically appeared in your wall if you said “Magic wall, pie me!”

Am I too naive in thinking that the AIs we're working on are a prerequisite step on the way towards Star Trek's post-scarcity future?
by Spunkie | 2025-08-08 15:07:44+00:00
It reads as straight up intentional ragebait to me.

Especially when they say in the middle they already don't read email threads and use AI to summarize. But they still place a call to action at the end to not send email threads. Why would they want less context to feed their AI?

If mods on high granted the power I would certainly downvote this submission.
by swsieber | 2025-08-08 15:07:50+00:00
Yeah... true p2p is pretty hard though, to the point that even stuff like WebRTC requires external servers to setup the data sync portion. It would be nice to develop something that worked at that layer though.

IIUC, InstantDB is open source with a docker container you can run yourself, but at this point it's designed to run in a more cloud-like environment than I'd like. Last time I checked there was at least one open PR to make it easier to run in a different environment, but I haven't check in recently.
by throwanem | 2025-08-08 15:07:58+00:00
You ask me explicitly to address myself to the individual, and then object when I do so. I was trying to do you a favor with "don't agree with," and I have no idea what anyone's ethnicity is meant to do with anything or why you bring it up, but according to you I'm arrogant and unreasonable. You want credit for not being a "rationalist" or an "EA" any more, now that the other Scott has officially declared those words smell funny, while changing only your taste in axioms and leaving the ubiquitously and shamelessly tendentious method of ratiocination wholly intact. You call yourself a Christian and know nothing of humility. Sure. So long.