MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ecb_penguin | 2025-08-01 05:07:26+00:00
"He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."

https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-01 05:08:01+00:00
I'm not on board with age verification at all. Even if it can be done in a private way. I'll just VPN or something, as I'm in the EU and they're dumping this crap on us now.

I'm more than old enough for anything and I have never been 'carded' in my life. In fact I rarely carry ID anyway (even though it's mandatory). Not going to start now.
by defrost | 2025-08-01 05:08:46+00:00
There are a couple of Ron Cobb books, ColorVision gets a mention here, there's also the official Ron Cobb site dating back a few decades:

* Main site: https://roncobb.net

* Filmography: https://roncobb.net/film.html

* Aliens: https://roncobb.net/21-AlienS.html

and a slew of his political, environmental, and political cartoons, including a few choice cartoons about Australia in the 1970s:

* https://roncobb.net/img/cartoons/aus/k5092-on-Tucker_Box-cuu...

* https://roncobb.net/img/cartoons/aus/a7058-on-Road_Kill-rac-...
by herf | 2025-08-01 05:09:03+00:00
Correlation isn't causation - the post here says smaller homebuilders can't get financing right now, and so a supply shortage is correlated with larger actors who can, but it isn't caused by concentration directly. The question is if government can have remedies for broken markets other than breaking up companies, because here it sounds like "fixing builder financing" would help:

https://x.com/NewsLambert/status/1951100530341847343
by strken | 2025-08-01 05:09:42+00:00
I'm not a writer, but I do write, and I also read this advice when younger then promptly ignored it. I think it was from Bukowski.

It sounded, and still sounds, like "Only run if running bursts from the soles of your feet and you feel like you'll go crazy if you don't." Well, no. It might be good advice for a professional athlete -- I wouldn't know -- but you can run whenever you damn well feel like it as an amateur. So too for writing.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-08-01 05:10:07+00:00
> had watched online pornography

This is very broad, we both know what "being too much into porn" means. I doubt that an average girl watches as much porn as an average man. And let me put it this way, most of my friends (guys and girls) are far from being puritan. Consumption type between these two groups is significantly different.

But I might be making stuff up. I just think social media is more damaging, because kids start comparing themselves to everyone else. In this case, everyone else became "global everyone else" rather than "local everyone else" (which was the case back in my middle school days). I feel like that's the biggest problem, because you people see what they're missing out on, which is basically unavailable to 99% of population. That simple thought process would bring down any kid.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-01 05:10:15+00:00
Wild how out-of-bounds it apparently is to say, but even if age verification was empirically proven to protect kids, I’d still be against it.

It's taboo in our culture to say this, but what keeps me up isn't just what people are afraid of; it's how far they’ll go to feel safe. That’s how monsters get made.

We’ll trade away the last scraps of online anonymity and build a legally required censorship machine, all for a promise of safety that's always just out of reach. And that machine sticks around long after anyone remembers why it was built, ready to be turned on whoever’s out of favor next, like a gun hanging above the door in Act One.

But say this out loud and suddenly you're the extremist, the one who "doesn’t care about kids." We’re already past the point where the "solution" is up for debate. Now you just argue over how it'll get done. If you actually question the wisdom of hanging surveillance over the doorway of the internet, you get boxed out, or even labeled dangerous.

It's always like this. The tools of control are always built with the best intentions, then quietly used for whatever comes next. History is clear, but polite society refuses to learn. Maybe the only real out-of-the-box thinking left is not buying the story in the first place.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-01 05:10:58+00:00
The Washington Post is also a public company (before 2013). In their 2009 filing, they state that the newspaper's revenue (in 2008) was 51% ads, with the other 49% not attributed.

At that time operating expenses exceeded revenues by 25 million dollars, though this was not an immediate problem for them because they owned several other more profitable companies.

By contrast, in that same year the New York Times announced that they had managed to stave off insolvency by securing a large personal loan from Carlos Slim, who went on to become their biggest shareholder.

How are we distinguishing between these two newspapers? What's supposed to be "exceptional" about the New York Times?
by Gigachad | 2025-08-01 05:11:06+00:00
I propose construction approvals be managed by a higher government level than the local council which has so far resulted in disastrous outcomes.

At the state level, planning can be done for the benefit of the whole city. Entrenched groups of property owners holding inner city areas hostage won't be able to push young people to the outskirts where there is no PT, schools or facilities. Medium and high density buildings would be able to be built where they make the most sense, not just where there is the least political resistance.

Young people want to live near jobs, transport, and entertainment. But those areas are currently locked up by property owners preventing construction of appropriate housing.
by creddit | 2025-08-01 05:11:24+00:00
> Well, I'm not really considering you as a person, any more than you could so consider me, we never having met.

That's a really deranged way to approach interacting with people! It does, however, explain a lot about how you post: you're basically arguing with your internal constructions of how people on Hacker News are and not at all with what they say. Your posts, this one quite specifically, are just you disagreeing with your internal construction of posters:

> Well, I'm not really considering you as a person, any more than you could so consider me, we never having met

I do consider you a person, though! That's just a really weird thing you have decided on and it doesn't extend to everyone else.

> For the same reason, I predict your next effort would have been to claim I have no stronger basis to speak on the topic than do you, and demand I distill the experience of ten years and something like a hundred thousand exposures into a tidy, ChatGPT-compatible bullet list which you can then performatively evaluate and find wanting. Oh, you won't do that now, of course. But you thought about it two paragraphs ago.

I wasn't considering doing that at all! I don't care about challenging your photography knowledge. I don't know anything about it other than you claim to have a lot and I only got that because you made sure to tell me.

> It's rare to see someone claim at once that two other people, strangers all, are both lying.

I never claimed anyone was lying! I claimed, based on your reply implicitly asserting we had already conversed, the logical conclusion that you would have to be the other poster and were using an alt. Why else would someone explain to me what they have already said without having ever said it to me? Now you've explained that: you don't talk to people; you talk to ideas of people that you have internally constructed. That's not typical.

> You having spoken as if from great and very confident knowledge of so complex and nuanced a topic, I suppose it seemed reasonable also to expect at least passing familiarity with the actual conversations among which you were doing so.

I responded to one specific leap of theory of mind! It's actually a really narrow and simple topic: can someone infer from the blogpost that the boys were grimacing because the photographer was fiddling with a camera instead of fiddling with an iPhone. The answer, of course, is you can't with the knowledge presented.

> I do have this regrettable habit of assuming people intend to contribute to a discussion when they choose to participate in it, but I realize you're not alone in appearing to have other reasons.

I did contribute! I even went so far as to watch a large portion of the video you claimed showed that the stated theory of mind could be seen in action. I then wrote that the video doesn't show that at all. That's a contribution and a constructive one!
Show HN: Trying to build Chromium UI in HTML to increase prototyping speed
by Advait1306 | 2025-08-01 05:13:58+00:00
I'm not so comfortable using C++ for making UI & I wanted quick prototyping so that I can try things with Chromium. I’m building a way to make chromium UI in HTML/CSS/JS. It’s being made on top of chromium’s WebUI framework, the same way its settings & new tab page are rendered.

This has been done before with an open source browser called Vivaldi & I think Microsoft Edge. Although, in the near future I want to add ADK (Arc Development Kit)[1] like features that allow me to tap into the main Browser’s context without doing a lot in C++.
by cc-d | 2025-08-01 05:13:59+00:00
```

app.build logo Blog User I want optimal seizure inducing html. I need more information to continue Assistant

I cannot fulfill this request. My purpose is to provide helpful and harmless content, and generating "seizure-inducing HTML" would be dangerous and irresponsible.

```

If you could find a way to bypass this anti-freedom tech, it could provide a competitive advantage for you.
by govideo | 2025-08-01 05:14:23+00:00
Cool product. I see the need. Many vendors might look like they have similar capabilities on a powerpoint, but when you look one level deeper, they really don't. Eg, webhook notifications at 1 minute intervals with one big json of multiple emails, vs continuous/instant/single.

btw, would love to hear stories of you journey thus far. fwiw, I think you're really onto smtg!
by _zoltan_ | 2025-08-01 05:14:41+00:00
in around 2013ish I've worked on a ZKP based SAML-like authentication scheme where almost nobody knows anything: - you could use your corp ID to log in to pornhub, as the provider doesn't know to whom it verifies the request

- pornhub wouldn't know you used your corp ID

we got as far as a demo out of it but never commercialized as far as I know.

this was after there was a trial project with the UK about ZKP based age verification as kinda the next step where you could verify more than your age online.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-01 05:15:49+00:00
Back then they had the important property, which is what is at issue above, of having known provenance. We knew whence we got them.

The relevant thing here isn't the naff quality of the supposed utilities, but the fact that there's such a plethora of that kind of stuff for malwares to masquerade as. The better analogy to the 1970s and 1980s and 1990s would be that people were impersonating legitimate sharewares back then, even getting onto cover-discs, just as they impersonate legitimate "store apps" now.

The point being (badly and prejudicially) made it seems is that the next step is impersonating legitimate "app stores".

At which point, cue "app store" analogues of all of the Linux-based operating system people and the well-trodden perennial arguments over "contrib" and "UR" and suchlike package repositories, from I'm-safe-I'll-only-use-the-official-app-store to why-should-I-trust-any-store-above-the-original-author.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-01 05:18:28+00:00
> Usually these bubbles pop after the employment market goes crazy. The employment starts to go nuts

Meta has been offering 7 figure salaries for AI talent. This is a very different bubble from the .com bubble. The hiring frenzy in this limited to a very small group of people with unique skills/experience that few people posses. While at the same time thousands of other people are being let go in order to pay those big salaries to a few people (and in order to buy more GPUs). The C-suite has become obsessed with the idea that they're going to need much fewer engineers and they're hiring/firing like it.
by rolandog | 2025-08-01 05:18:54+00:00
> It does not scale. It scales pretty well; but we have let our guard down and naïvely thought the problems would sort themselves out by virtue of voting. We "live in a society", that means casting a vote on a paper ballot won't make the farmer understand the downstream effects of fertilizer runoff, nor the impact to communities of a CEO outsourcing away jobs. We can't go about living our lives without trying to meet each other halfway. And we won't survive without finding a way to make being nice to each other mandatory.

> You're aspiring to something that not only does not and cannot work, but you're trying to make it even bigger [...]

On the contrary, I'm trying to prevent it from getting smaller. And, even better, to improve on it (we're a community of hackers and tinkerers after all, right?)!

We are all much more vulnerable to autocratic regimes nowadays due to the erosion of privacy rights and deregulation (again, the threat of instrumental convergence — the paperclip problem — threatens the fabric of society: censorship in the name of advertising-friendly content, spying in the name of targeted advertisement, and the weaponization of targeted ads and "the algorithm" propping up foreign-state-funded populists/autocrats).
Show HN: Transform static presentations → dynamic AI-guided experiences
by ajabhish | 2025-08-01 05:19:30+00:00
Demo: https://youtu.be/W4uBOTf9KtY

Today we’re rolling out beta access to our AI agent that talks to Google Slides. - Ask a question → it jumps to the right slide - Need a diagram? → “Show slide 3” - Want to rewind? → “Go back two slides”

This can be a game changer for teaching new concepts, employee training (onboarding, explaining playbooks etc) ...

Our agent now has capability to display and navigate Google Slides based on conversation flow, creating truly interactive learning experiences.

Setup in 3 steps: 1⃣ Get the embed URL from Google Slides (File → Share → Publish to web → Embed) 2⃣ Enable the tool in scenario settings and paste the URL 3⃣ Add slide instructions to your AI prompt (e.g., “Show slide 3 for the architecture diagram”)

Create your own: https://app.toughtongueai.com/advanced-scenario-create/

Try the one I used: https://app.toughtongueai.com/run/paris-tough-tongue-ai-pitc...

Or the one that teaches: https://app.toughtongueai.com/library/product-design-intervi...
by imgabe | 2025-08-01 05:21:58+00:00
That is about .01% of the US land area, and I’m guessing it’s not downtown in major cities or other places that people want to live. It’s probably mostly undeveloped wilderness for conservation, right? That has zero effect on home prices.

There is no shortage of land in the US. There are huge, huge empty spaces. There is only a shortage of housing in places where people want to live because local governments won’t let anyone build new housing.

Edit: Looked this up, and Bill Gates owns farmland, which is producing food, so this also wouldn't be available for people to live on anyway.
by 4b6442477b1280b | 2025-08-01 05:22:29+00:00
it is designed to be a privacy footgun. this wave of age verification bullshit is their foot in the door for "login with your government-issued ID". anonymous rabble congregating on the internet, spreading malinformation and expressing illegal opinions are extremely dangerous to our democracy. the ETA is 5-20 years until another wave of "safety" laws that will require your real identity to be linked to every clearnet website you interact with.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-08-01 05:23:54+00:00
Why are you looking at 2009? Is it because you think it fits your narrative? What happened in 2008 I wonder that may cause companies to be struggling? NYT is a profitable company with majority of their income coming from paid subscriptions. Does that answer your question about how they are different or do you wanna check their revenue split and financials in 1928 too?

A business secured a loan from a billionaire after the GFC and paid it off in 6 years. The billionaire also acquired a significant position in the business that he has mostly exited with a significant profit generated from the business subscription model. More on this crazy story as it unfolds at 11

It's no different -> Paid subscriptions have never been a significant source of revenue to newspapers -> well, they were struggling in 2009 -> ...
by gboss | 2025-08-01 05:24:36+00:00
This is not the problem. We should not castigate people who want to build homes and earn a rightful profit from that endeavor. The problem is the undemocratic process that is the town hearing. It is unreasonable to expect working families and young adults to attend week day, day time hearings to state their position on the construction of new homes or anything else for that matter. The atrocities of urban renewal by Robert Moses and his followers in the 50s and 60s which wrecked many urban and black urban communities, many of which still haven’t recovered, led us into this mess. The antidote was that all movements towards progress must be debated by citizens (mostly seniors as they are the only ones with the luxury of time) in a hearing format. The citizens able to participate are most likely not going to live long enough to see the results of their positions anyways. It’s a disaster.
Two static websites generated $41,000
by mddanishyusuf | 2025-08-01 05:25:14+00:00
These two static websites generated $41,000 in last 12 months.

July Updates: iconbuddy.com + freesvgicons.com

$2,065 revenue 291,000 pageviews 36.7k visits 41,239 registered users (41 + 20) DR 3.8% average CTR

These website get traffic 100% from organic search and word of mouth.

AMA.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-01 05:25:30+00:00
"The Most Beautiful Wife" - "La moglie più bella"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31l-cZaSoE

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232114/

Here's one of my favorites, based on a true story. If it isn't a Poliziotteschi, it is directly adjacent to the genre. I would consider it in the genre, but perhaps open to debate. It also challenges some of the reviewer's preconceptions:

>On the other hand, if I had seen any of these films back then, I would almost certainly have hated them. Poliziotteschi is the most politically incorrect subgenre I can think of – invariably right-wing, vigilante violence, rife with appalling misogyny, racism & homophobia – very much the opposite of my tender 1970s feminism and Rock against Racism sensibilities. But seen at a safe temporal remove – forty years later, for example – they’re brilliant, full of amazing action and astonishing car chases, and viewers can reassure themselves (not entirely justifiably, because plus ça change) that they’re looking at primitive social and sexual mores through the lens of a more enlightened era.
by anonnon | 2025-08-01 05:25:42+00:00
Canada's real GDP growth has been flat for a decade and its cost of living, especially of housing, has exploded, to the point that the median home price in Canada is almost $700k. The idea that Canadians in general (not just the rich boomers who own a home and maybe a condo on the side, and live off generous pensions) are better situated to weather a trade war with the US than Americans is the height of delusion.

Trump may have stupidly launched a trade war against the whole world, but his underlings cleverly engineered it as a prisoner's dilemma, where while it's in the interest of the world collectively to unite against the US, it's also in the interests of the individual to defect, and the sooner, the better, since the US made it clear that the longer you wait, the worse terms you'll get.

Canada should have made a deal early, e.g., before the UK. This will become painfully obvious soon enough.
by 00N8 | 2025-08-01 05:26:14+00:00
It sounds like a fun & challenging record. Falling off a scooter at 110 mph would certainly shake you up, but it'd probably be a little safer than moto gp if you used similar safety gear. I wonder how it feels at high speed though - I've never ridden one anywhere near that fast, but the scooters I've ridden didn't feel like they'd be very stable at high speeds.
by verisimi | 2025-08-01 05:32:55+00:00
> I think a large part of it is that major news organizations too often don't do this kind of reporting, and often just seem to chase the same hot button topics as the rest of the crowd over and over again. And even then, few really dive into the details.

The point of most media is to drive agendas, not uncover the truth. Doing proper reporting would create a problem and get in the way of what you want people to do.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-08-01 05:33:12+00:00
You will like “Carbon Black CHOU Kuro.” It is, I think, currently the father of all Black Inks. If you wish to read up, here is an article I found searching — it compares Chou Kuro’s Platinum against the Carbon Black.

https://www.penchalet.com/blog/platinum-chou-kuro-vs-carbon-...
by NewJazz | 2025-08-01 05:33:42+00:00
Musharbash left a meaty reply in the thread:

In any event, my argument was also that three other factors — particularly financial policy changes starting in the 1980s that deprived small builders of bank capital, helped Wall Street to exert control over large builders and impose production discipline on them...

https://xcancel.com/DKThomp/status/1951089471501508766#m
by codedokode | 2025-08-01 05:34:07+00:00
That's so wrong, putting more and more stuff into the kernel and expanding attack surface. How long will it take before someone finds a vulnerability in QUIC handling?

The kernel should be as minimal as possible and everything that can be moved to userspace should be moved there. If you are afraid of performance issues then maybe you should stop using legacy processors with slow context switch timing.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-01 05:34:22+00:00
>We're often so down on journalism on HN, and I believe a big part of that is we tend to read so much opinion and analysis and so little basic reporting.

The average article posted to HN is actually of far higher quality than the average newspaper article. Sit down and read many of the “big names” cover to cover. You’ll cry. Contrast them with the same newspaper twenty years ago and you’ll lose hope entirely.

I have a hypothesis. In the 2000s it became more common to Google things instead of asking people. For years, this worked out well, but today the quality of Google (and websites!) is terrible. Today we have an entire generation of journalists that know to do their research with the internet, and surprise, when your inputs are garbage, so are the outputs. The inputs are also homogenized content slop, so there aren’t any real different perspectives. Take any topic, say road construction or a controversial bill or new technology, and read articles about it twenty years ago and now. Twenty years ago you might see some really off the wall ideas - but now, all the articles will be the same. Left, right, whatever, nobody really has any new perspectives, they just have their specific bias projected onto the same universal set of 5 thoughts. If you’ve read one, you’ve read them all.

Back to this article, it seems well written and I have no bones to pick - but what the author did (pick up the phone and call people) would have been entirely unremarkable not long ago. The fact that we’re remarking on it now is an indication of how deeply fucked the profession is.