MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-08-04 12:45:11+00:00
Click on the article link at the top of this page and find out. Let me quote the article for you:

> In a statement provided to PC Gamer, Valve said that it had tried to work things out with Mastercard directly prior to removing the games, and suggested that Mastercard did have at least an indirect influence on the outcome.

> "Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so," a Valve representative said. "Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution.

> "Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand."
by chamomeal | 2025-08-04 12:46:09+00:00
On a separate note, I’ve found that LLMs have been writing me really shitty tests. Which is really sad cause that was the first use case I had for copilot, and I was absolutely smitten.

They’re great at mocking to kingdom come for the sake of hitting 90% coverage. But past that it seems like they just test implementation enough to pass.

Like I’ve found that if the implementation is broken (even broken in hilariously obvious ways, like if (dontReturnPancake) return pancake; ), they’ll usually just write tests to pass the bad code instead of saying “hey I think you messed up on line 55…”
by bargainbin | 2025-08-04 12:46:33+00:00
I’ve attempted to use HTMX a few times (as a React-hater, its hype lures me in) and every time I’ve come away feeling like I’ve wasted my time implementing a subpar solution.

From reading this, I’ve decided I will never attempt to use it again. All I could think was, just use Go’s HTML templating. What is HTMX adding, really?
Show HN: XSpeak – on-device app that helps contribute effectively in meetings
by tseylerd | 2025-08-04 12:47:45+00:00
Only Mac and iPad with M-series chip

Hi all, I'm Dimi, the author of XSpeak (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xspeak-ai-meeting-assistant/id...).

It is a fully on-device meeting companion that helps you follow conversations, spot what matters or what you might miss, respond with confidence, and get the most out of every meeting.

I started building it to help a close friend who often went through stressful meetings and would talk them through with me afterward, asking for support, validation, and advice. We once joked about how great it would be if I could attend with them. That's when the idea for XSpeak was born: a real-time, on-device meeting companion that stays by your side.

XSpeak is special in the following ways:

- 100% on-device, no accounts, no data collected.

- It shows meeting transcription in real time with speaker separation: you can see what you said and what others said.

- It uses on-device AI to analyze the transcript and deliver insights and suggestions when you need them.

Real-time transcription is free. AI analysis requires a subscription ($3.99/Month, $19.99/Year) with a 7-day free trial to experience all features.

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If you activate the free trial, don't forget to cancel the subscription if you don't need it later.

I'd love to hear what you think.
by msgodel | 2025-08-04 12:48:10+00:00
We're already at the point where participating doesn't make sense for a lot of workers, that's why tax increases (which must happen if we don't aggressively cut spending and even with the minor cuts we've had there's been incredible wailing) are coming from tariffs instead.

It's very unlikely the federal governments future obligations will be met in real dollars. I've said before "at the end of the day all retirement plans are effectively market driven." I wouldn't want to be depending on social security right now.
by ddingus | 2025-08-04 12:48:22+00:00
Max Impact was the first workstation I used that delivered solid model rotation at 60Fps. I remember literally feeling that smooth movement and how it made a significant difference in assembly and some interactive surfacing / sketching workflows.

The O2 Copper unified or shared memory design was the first machine I used that could deliver large image and or video manipulation via surfaces. Was amazing to see a huge satellite image and be able to zoom way in, composite other images to sub-pixel accuracy, or model a product featuring high resolution reflections at 60fps.

At the time, PC cards just did not yet offer GB of RAM, but would soon.

The O2 chipset got used in the 320, 540 visual workstations too. The shared memory performed great on some texture memory demanding games, but all the cool features went largely unused. There was going to be Linux X Window support, essentially creating an Intel O2 type computer that could be fast, dual CPU, and big memory capable, but Microsoft cried about it and basically flexed their ownership of the ARC loader SGI used on those distinctive PC's and it all got buried. Not even a leak...

Years later, Apple improved on those concepts with the M1, which feels remarkably like what could have been earlier, ar least graphically.

I agree a Pi4 feels 90's era workstation like. Faster, but not so fast that the feel of that era is gone.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-04 12:48:25+00:00
Peter Thiel. He says "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

The beginning of the essay

> I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.”

> But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. By tracing out the development of my thinking, I hope to frame some of the challenges faced by all classical liberals today.

The full essay https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
by bko | 2025-08-04 12:48:28+00:00
I can't understand why the government has to be so involved in gambling. I'm pretty much okay with the lottery, it's kind of silly thing you can play with friends or coworkers, you pretty much know you're not going to win. But scratch off tickets are worse because it's kind of unlimited. Most people wouldn't blow $100 on lottery tickets, but might on scratch off. There's no delay, just buy immediately to lose. And then they have the apps. Why? Are they really necessary? And to top it off, there's advertisements. It's one thing to say people want to gamble and this is a way to take a reasonable profit and use it to pay for public services. It's quite another to actually try to encourage people to play.

Do we really have to optimize everything?
by fvdessen | 2025-08-04 12:48:31+00:00
That is just the location of a page, and indeed that should be put in the URL. But a modern js app has much more state than that: partially filled fields, drafted documents, scroll position of lists, multi-path navigation history, widget display toggles, etc. etc. In react/vue you have 'stores' to hold and manipulate those info. In HTMX you need to choose between the url, the session cookie and the dom. And what you can usually keep just keep in the dom with client vue/react can't be with HTMX since the backend needs to be aware of the state to correctly render the new widget.
Show HN: Notion-like editor for formal docs
by kevintouati | 2025-08-04 12:48:42+00:00
Hey HN!

We’ve been building HERO – a collaborative workspace designed for teams working on formal, structured documents like legal contracts, technical specs, SOPs, and policies.

This project is the result of many years as corporate lawyer and mega-project specialist, navigating through the maze of complex legal, financial & technical docs.

HERO isn’t a word processor or another note-taking app. It uniquely combines the flexibility of text, the structure of databases and the power of integrations.

Think of it like Notion, but purpose-built for teams that write compliance-heavy, technical, or legal content – where structure, consistency, and version control really matter.

What makes it different?

- Structural Hierarchy: Notion does pages within pages, HERO does sections within sections (sub/sections, sub/clauses, sub/paragraphs, schedules/appendices, etc.) to reflect the real structure of formal writing.

- Dynamic Variables: Notion has pages and databases (sometimes a database within a page), HERO can embed specific data points within the text for powerful, fine-grained templating and dynamic content reusability.

- Defined Terms & Acronyms: Reference and auto-manage key terms across large documents and projects.

- Project-Based & Context-Aware: HERO can reference, update, and respond to changes across multiple files in real time for consistency, efficiency & accuracy. It turns static files into interconnected systems of living documents & records.

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- AI-Powered Workflows: Auto-draft clauses, explain sections, check for inconsistencies, and restructure content across multiple files simultaneously using integrated AI tools, much like in Cursor.

- Collaborative & Secure Workspaces: Organize your teams for collaborative & adversarial settings.

It also supports:

- Markdown - LaTeX/KaTeX - Charts & graphs - Code blocks (or inline) - Callouts - iFrames & Embeds - Footnotes - Tables & Columns - Math Blocks (or inline) - Images - Buttons - Quotes - Location, Date & Time - Signature Blocks

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by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-08-04 12:49:07+00:00
Rule of thumb: If a corporation mostly sells to consumers or other corporations, the government can save a lot of money and get a great result by buying from it at consumer prices. If a corporation mostly sells to the government, the government can steal every last taxpayer penny while delivering shit by buying from the corporation at government prices.

See for example (and yes I’d get cancelled for pointing this out) govt purchasing from ULA vs govt purchasing from SpaceX
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-04 12:49:11+00:00
Yep, HSBC (UK) only does statements in PDF now and not CSV. I'm not sure that they've done this on purpose but it certainly feels like it. I'd like to be able to analyse my statements and even started writing a parser for them but the way they've done it is just so fucked, I gave up out of pure rage and frustration.
by agent_turtle | 2025-08-04 12:49:58+00:00
> I do not have enough information to definitely say whether it’s good or bad.

Usually when I don't have enough information on an issue, I take it upon myself to learn more about it before stating an opinion.

> Most of the things in life are neither because they have good side effects, and bad side effects to them.

You don't have to be a doctor to understand that the downside of cancer probably outweighs the upside of not having to save for retirement. Economic instability is the cancer in this metaphor, and the cause of it is Trump changing his mind on tariff rates every other day. Economists, like doctors, are trained on how to treat this illness, and all of them are saying "stop doing that". Trump can either listen to the experts or continue on his path, destroying the American economy in the process.
by chromatin | 2025-08-04 12:50:03+00:00
The author makes the following assertion:

Let me illustrate a common code organization issue some programmers run into on their first day. The novice writes terminal.print("Hello world") Then they decide they want to make the text red, so they edit their program to terminal.print("Hello world") terminal.setPrintColor("red") And then they're confused that it didn't come out red. They haven't internalized that the first line of code happens before the second. They just get a soup of code on the screen that kind of has the ingredients for a program, and expect the computer to do what they want.

I find this _extremely_ surprising???
by masfoobar | 2025-08-04 12:51:09+00:00
I enjoyed reading this. It follows a similar experience with our first htmx website, away from using modern frontends, or just simple jQuery with ajax json data.

I remember, working with a co-worker, we planned out the process (a step-by-step on the application like this post) and it made sense to me - but this journey was much harder for my co-worker.

Why is this? Simply because he is familiar with MVC pattern of sending json data back and forth, and getting the frontend to update and render it, etc. The idea of html flying with htmx as the behaviour (inside html tags) was just too much.

For me, I always preferred the old school way of just letting the server-side generate the html. All htmx does is adds extra functionality.

I tried hard to explain that we are sending html back, and to break things down one at a time but each new task was left scratching his head.

In the end, our website had somewhere around 20-50 lines of javascript! Much smaller footprint than over 400 lines in our previous project (that being generous). Sure, our server side code was larger, but it was all organised into View/PartalView files. To me, it made really good sense.

In the end, I dont think I won htmx over with my co-worker. As for another co-worker, who had a chance to build a new project with htmx, decided on some client javascript tool instead. I dont think I got a legit answer why he did that.

With all this above, I learned that some (perhaps most... perhaps all) struggle to adapt to htmx based on their many years building websites a particular way, with popular tools and javascript libraries. Overall htmx does not really change anything - you are still building a website. If anything htmx just add an additional layer to have website really work.

Yoda's words now have new meaning :- "No! No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned."

For some its just not happening. I guess Luke Skywalker really shows his willpower, being able to adapt to htmx easier than others. :-)
by yorkie | 2025-08-04 12:51:53+00:00
Hey, If you have a Rokid ARLite, it comes with JSAR by default and can be used directly. For other AOSP-based devices, such as the Meta Quest, you may need to use the JSAR SDK to develop a new Unity applications yourself: https://m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime/manual/referenc...
by codedokode | 2025-08-04 12:53:10+00:00
> Russian losses in fighting for just 1/10 of Ukraine have long surpassed German losses

You should be careful with this numbers because Western media reported numbers seem to be inflated and not agree with other statistics. And obviously nobody who knows real numbers will publish them.

Also you should remember that many of those who died were convicted criminals. So if you count only non-convicts the numbers would be even lower.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-04 12:53:25+00:00
I don't believe this is true. The idea that the US should be non-democratic is very fringe. It's frequently expressed online, but a lot of that is not from human Americans.

If you know of a high quality poll showing a majority of people support turning the US into a non-Democratic form of government I'd be very interested to see it and I would be legitimately surprised.

The polls I see have at least 70-80% endorsement of the importance of democracy across the political spectrum.
by 93po | 2025-08-04 12:53:28+00:00
treasuries are overwhelmingly impacted by federal reserve policy, not sure why you think trump would have much to do with it. if you compare US vs european treasuries since 2016 it's sort of a wash - the european ones are barely outperforming US ones, but the US ones consistently had better yields. and the big impact on US treasuries was interest rate changes, something trump has no say in
by pbronez | 2025-08-04 12:53:31+00:00
Hmm you could do a bunch of crazy stuff if you assume it will stay digital.

You could have an arbitrarily large page size. You could use color to encode more data… maybe stack QR codes using each channel of a color space (3 for RGB, 4 for CMYK)

There are interesting accessibility and interoperability trade offs. If it’s print-ready with embedded metadata, you can recover the data from a printed page with any smart phone. If it’s a 1 inch by 20 ft digital page of CMKY stacked QR codes, you’ll need some custom code.

Playing “Where’s Waldo” with a huge field of QR codes is probably still way more tractable than handling PDF directly though!
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-04 12:53:39+00:00
At least half of the articles I see about young man problems says essentially, "Men creating their own problems/women most affected" and this has ALWAYS been the case for my entire life. If you accurately diagnose problems, such as a bad economy, divorce laws, outsourcing, immigration, cultural decay, inflation, fat acceptance, a blatant anti-male bias in every part of life, etc., then you are labelled toxic, a sore loser, incel, misogynist, probably a Nazi, so on and so forth.

>When this gets talked about and women directly state "I don't like how men my age talk to/about me", people often act like the women are being unreasonable and unempathetic - as if the men are owed relationships and women just need to compromise and see things from the other person's shoes.

Every time men talk about their problems, I have to hear about how it affects women while they have essentially zero interest in how it affects men. That includes your whole comment. You piped up just to say men cause their own problems. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe women don't know more about what men think or experience than they do? I will admit that some of the figureheads of the manosphere are bad influences and not likeable. But nobody else more reasonable tends to get mindshare with the mainstream media. The mainstream is all about blaming men and pushing its agenda, and showing the most awful view from the other side is basically setting up a straw man.

>But rarely is the answer that young men have a crisis of self-selecting bad role models, putting less (or no) effort into their appearance and education, holding gross sociopolitical beliefs, and not developing the emotional and household maturity an adult woman expects. And they simply aren't willing to change that.

The only role models put forward by "polite society" are absolutely terrible in other ways. As far as attention to appearance, a 7 out of 10 man has about the same amount of options to get sex as a 4 out of 10 woman. They get endlessly lectured about emotional maturity by women who can't figure out (or don't care) that the hot guys they can sleep with will NEVER settle for them. They are expected to be on the same level of "emotional maturity" as women who have easily 10x as much romantic experience as them on average. Men are blamed for everything wrong with women's lives. As for education, college increasingly costs more and pays off less, especially in the DEI era where men (especially white ones) are actively and blatantly being discriminated against.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-08-04 12:53:55+00:00
Yes agreed. The challenge with any risk mitigation (harm reduction) strategy like this is that it is super super implementation specific. I'd agree based on the description given in the article that the program as currently run is probably not being particularly successful at risk mitigation.

That being said, without real numbers, it's super slippery to argue anything. One could argue that the on base gambling problem introduces (say) 3x the population into gambling. But then perhaps it decreases the of severe financial distress by 10x on an individual basis. That would be a net win. Then one might say that it lowers to risk of off-base unsavory behavior (getting into fights, owing money to local gangs/organized crimes, etc etc) by 1000x on an individualized basis. Perhaps that further tilts the field.
by octopoc | 2025-08-04 12:54:26+00:00
I’d like to constrain the output of the LLM by accessing the probabilities for the next token, pick the next token that has the highest probability and also is valid in the type system, and use that. Originally OpenAI did give you the probabilities for the next token, but apparently that made it easy to steal the weights, so they turned that feature off.
by dmix | 2025-08-04 12:54:32+00:00
> Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead.

Just swapping different big consulting firms around.

I remember when Booz Allen was the bad guy. I just checked and apparently this is what they call themselves these days "an American company specializing in digital transformation and artificial intelligence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
by ddingus | 2025-08-04 12:54:40+00:00
Yes it was. And through about IRIX 6.5.12 the Online Books were amazing!

Run a workstation on one extreme, deliver multiple displays and or multiple users, each with their own keyboard and mouse on another, and also scale up to 2048 CPUs running NUMA style, on a single OS image.

Nothing else like it.

Yeah, hope you do talk to it. Those serial input devices were great.
by XorNot | 2025-08-04 12:54:43+00:00
Do you even know what Palantir actually do? Because I see so many people talking about Palantir, but it seems apparent they've no idea what the business does, or sells, or how it even makes money except "through the government".

Like...they're a software firm. They specialize in government contracting. They sell software to the government, to fulfill tenders and requests asked for by the government (which is its own subset because government contracting generally sucks and is it's own skillset).
by IncreasePosts | 2025-08-04 12:54:45+00:00
Sure, but you're just deferring moderate yearly maintenance cost for a rig that will need to be totally overhauled in 5 years due to battery degradation with current battery tech offered in mowers

At least, that's the conclusion I came to this year when researching ride-on battery mowers vs ICE. Electric push mowers seem like a no brainer though
by layer8 | 2025-08-04 12:54:52+00:00
> It might sound absurd, but on paper this should be the best way to approach the problem.

On paper yes, but for electronic documents? ;)

More seriously: PDF supports all the necessary features, like structure tags. You can create a PDF with the basically the same structural information as an HTML document. The problem is that most PDF-generating workflows don’t bother with it, because it requires care and is more work.

And yes, PDF was originally created as an input format for printing. The “portable” in “PDF” refers to the fact that, unlike PostScript files of the time (1980s), they are not tied to a specific printer make or model.
by WASDAai | 2025-08-04 12:55:03+00:00
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