MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-18 10:34:59+00:00
Regarding passwords, I definitely hope that we can have sign in with bluesky option instead of sign in with google and since bluesky can be self hosted or even the pds can be seperated from the server (not in practise right now but still) i feel like it has potential to replace the password issue in the article

Regarding payments, as I had wrote in some another comment here where I basically wrote a article, the gist of it is that I believe that we need a system where stripe's payment integration doesn't need us to have insane kyc requirements and we can just sign up to stripe using a account and then start paying / accepting just as it can happen in roblox. I am pretty sure that stripe had launched some cryptocurrency features and there was this guy on twitter who was requesting a stripe card where they can pay stripe balance to other stripe accounts instead of waiting 14 days to redeem it and then spend it, I don't know the progress of it but seriously stripe just has to do these two things:-

1) make kyc less strict, allow ways to earn money by having a payment method just via having an account, no need to do entire kyc 2) allow payments from those accounts to anywhere stripe is valid.

I am not sure why they don't do it. This thing can honestly put most of my usecases of crypto to bed and I wouldn't even mind a 1-2% cut tbh.
by Doxin | 2025-08-18 10:35:20+00:00
And yet it was easier for me to get a driving license being unmedicated than it would be medicated. In either case I'd need to pay a bullshit fee for a psychologist to glance at me and rubber stamp a form, and take an extra exam which is completely trivial to pass. In the case of being medicated I'd need to additionally get my GP to sign off on it as ADHD meds have the infamous "yellow sticker" telling you to not operate heavy machinery. If I ever did get in an accident on medication the insurance companies would make a meal out of it anyway, despite it being signed off.

The whole process is a complete and total scam that's not making anything or anyone any safer.
by cetinsert | 2025-08-18 10:36:16+00:00
I would love to have people try building these on https://RTCode.io

The playground has lots of unique features, CLI agent integration for AI to let you collaborate with Claude Code or Codex CLI, etc. You can deploy straight to https://RTEdge.net

The playground has HTML I ↔ O iframe with mostly reload-free 2-way IO sync, built-in service/edge workers with URL imports of ESM, and a whole lot more. You can see some examples under Code > New…

Here is a recent one for accessible multi-OS keyboard shortcuts: https://kbd.rt.ht/?io
by cheesycod | 2025-08-18 10:37:22+00:00
Not sure if this counts as a Show HN or not, but I've been working on Go bindings for the Luau programming language. Luau is a programming language made by Roblox and is useful for non-Roblox as well thanks to its heavy sandboxing/hardening and lack of dangerous features/primitives out of the box.

Prior attempts at providing Lua bindings for Go (like golua) have heavy restrictions (like non-working exception handling/pcall/xpcall due to incompatiblities in exception handling) or are pure go ports of Lua (which is great if you're OK with a port but no one has ported Luau to pure Go yet and many times, you want the real thing).

To get around issue 1, gluau makes use of a rust proxy based on the mluau (fork of mlua) crate with errors caught by rust and translated to Result types for Go to then translate to idiomatic Go types. To quote a reddit user, its a "programming language centipede" but it works well and has support for a large part of the Luau language (including interrupts, memory limits, thread resume/yield and userdata) without any big limitations besides potential bugs here/there.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-18 10:39:12+00:00
Could you list some examples of where public infra hasn't "gone well"? Because from my own view of things it's the exact opposite, whenever anything became privatized that shouldn't have been (rail, water, electricity, public transportation, healthcare) it inevitably follows the same churn as all the other things getting enshittified continuously.

The national railway in the Netherlands is a great example of this. They've privatized but with gov't subsidies, yet there's less trains, less people getting moved by the remaining trains, ticket prices skyrocketing YoY, worse service, rail workers getting shafted and basically being forced to go on strike in order to improve conditions. They're (NS) a monopoly too and handle something like 95% of all rail traffic within the Netherlands.

I believe the UK is going through a similar issue, where their railways are now privatized and in turn it's lead to increasingly worse service despite there being plenty of competition in the market in the form of many rail companies.

This lolbert fantasy of the "free" market being good for literally everything, including critical public infrastructure is a complete farce.
by graemep | 2025-08-18 10:39:13+00:00
To be exact a little under 40% believe in special creation - the mainstream Christian position (and more common even in the US) is that evolution is part of God's creation.

The US is very odd, not only in having large numbers of members of creationist churches, but also in tat a lot of members of churches that oppose creationism and Biblical literalism are quite often creationist.

The good news is that there is a downward trend in creationism.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-...
by wahern | 2025-08-18 10:39:56+00:00
I was curious myself, poked around, and found some references. But I'm still woefully incapable of answering that with any confidence and don't want to risk saying anything misleading, so here's the code and some other breadcrumbs:

1. Apparently OpenBSD gave up on trying to fix desync'd TSCs. See https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/78156938567f79506a923c...

2. Relevant OpenBSD kernel code: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/arch/amd64/am...

3. Relevant Linux kernel code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kerne..., https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kerne...

4. Linux kernel doc (out-of-date?): https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekee...

5. Detailed SUSE blog post with many links: https://www.suse.com/c/cpu-isolation-nohz_full-troubleshooti...

6. Linux patch (uncommitted?) to attempt to directly sync TSCs: https://lkml.rescloud.iu.edu/2208.1/00313.html
by orwin | 2025-08-18 10:40:13+00:00
Four years ago, I wrote that to me, Transformers' most exiting application could be translating whale's songs. I was obviously very wrong (won't be the first time, won't be the last), but I imagine recording of birds should be more numerous than whales', so maybe someday, hopefully, transformers would integrate bird songs to the list of languages they can translate to and from.
by lukax | 2025-08-18 10:40:36+00:00
NVIDIA does not want CUDA development (e.g. flash attention) to move to Triton because Triton also supports AMD and if ecosystem moves from pure CUDA to Triton, that's bad for NVIDIA's lock-in. That's why there is so much focus on CUDA Python (lower level) and Tilus (higher level, more similar to Triton).
by neomantra | 2025-08-18 10:41:09+00:00
You can explore with it here [1]. Still an experiment-in-progress, but it is OSS so anyone can play along. Some agentic loop scaffolding is in there.

Another cool thing is that I was in two simultaneous dev loops, one working on this and the other working on Charm Crush to work on things like this.

I’m trying to figure out the tool to make these “bridge structured data and LLM” MCP tools. I’m circling back to the AgentDank cannabis data work with these learned lessons (same GH org) and then onto the abstraction of all this.

[1] https://github.com/AgentDank/screentime-mcp
by quantummagic | 2025-08-18 10:41:19+00:00
There is no confusion. The name Sophie Wilsion literally did not exist at the time the events transpired. So it makes sense that a documentary, set at that time, would not reference it.

Quoting the OP:

"Notably, no mention of Sophie Wilson"

The OP's question was literally asking about why the name Sophie Wilson was not mentioned or given proper credit for their contribution. Please stop twisting it to make it seem like there has been some transgression or slight, that simply does not exist.
by darajava | 2025-08-18 10:41:28+00:00
I pasted the article into GPT-5 and asked it to come up with a joke based on the content. It came up with:

> Dan Fabulich walks into a bar and says,

> “LLMs can’t tell good jokes because they avoid surprises.”

>

> The bartender says,

> “Yeah, I figured you’d say that.”

I thought it was pretty good!
by cunjieliu | 2025-08-18 10:41:56+00:00
I built style design system, a configurable generator that crafts optimized AI system prompts while enforcing clean design rules. Define colors, typography, spacing, and components in a structured format—like a design system—and it outputs ready-to-use prompts with consistent styling.

Key features:

Generate prompts with controlled visual/UX parameters (colors, spacing, typography)

Export as copy-pasteable templates (like the example in post)

Tweak design tokens (primary color, radii, transitions) to match your brand

Supports responsive rules for multi-format output

Why? Most AI prompts ignore design consistency. This bakes it into the generation process. Feedback welcome!

Why HN might care:

Solves "AI chaos" in design-heavy workflows

Uses programmatic design tokens (like 8px grid)

(Template inspired by design systems like Material UI/Tailwind, but for prompts.)
by bluGill | 2025-08-18 10:41:58+00:00
markdown is great for a single short page. It doesn't have good links to the middle of a page (some extentions do but not the popular ones), nor can it generate tables of contents, indexes, and the other things a large site should have. Rst will do all that and because it is a site generator if you reorganize the links get fixed - or at least you get a warning onia dead link.
by greg_V | 2025-08-18 10:43:24+00:00
Google is already killing itself. The search experience has been getting steadily worse and worse on one end, but on the other, they're slowly strangling the incentives that were offered to publishers (ranking, traffic & monetization) to develop content for the "open web as dominated by Google".

Now, everyone who's running a website for a living is doing platform-native content for traffic and pairing it up with a newsletter-backed website or straight up investing in brand advertising campaigns to have access to their own audiences still, without relying on Google to deliver them.

My guess is that we're in for the second wave of Big Aggregators, but it's tough to say what the technological twist behind it will be, so it's not just a reddit 2.0.
by defrost | 2025-08-18 10:43:26+00:00
Awww, look at you comparing temps on the cool coastal fringes of the Pilbara.

The interior gets hotter, Marble Bar for example.

> Pilbara is sparsely populated, Arizona's had much larger urban centers since the 70s

I fail to see how this is relevant to the design of individual buildings and the choices regarding passive Vs active cooling.

> A couple years ago Phoenix saw daily highs of over 43 for a month straight.

That occurs roughly every five years or so in interior (not coastal) Pilbara locations.

This year a W.Australian wheatbelt town much further south (cooler, and not in the Pilbara) saw a month of ~ 40 temperatures peaking at 45 .. a month of over 40 in the interior is expected yearly.

> It's an unforgiving environment, and while there were people who lived there in pre-Columbian times they didn't do so in large cities.

Much like the Pilbara, save for the "pre-Columbian" marker - before European colonization people lived in all parts of Australia, including the Pilbara, the Tanimi, and other desert regions, for tens of thousands of years.
Show HN: Engagerly – Turn Discord Members Active with Gamified Rewards
by roy_w | 2025-08-18 10:44:25+00:00
Hi HN!

Keeping Discord communities active is hard — most members join and quickly disappear. Engagerly is a bot that helps community builders turn passive members into active contributors using gamified tasks and automated rewards.

Set up custom tasks (e.g. post content, follow on X/Bluesky, react to messages) and automatically reward members with points, roles, or items. Everything is configurable to fit your community’s style and goals.

Key Features

- Custom Tasks & Automation – Reward Discord activity, social posts, invites, or wallet-linked actions.

- Points & Leaderboards – Fully customizable points and rankings to track engagement.

- Points Shop & Giveaways – Spend points for roles/items; gamified, skill-based giveaways.

- Optional Minigames – Coin flip game to wager points for fun and prizes.

- Dashboard & Commands – Manage the bot via web dashboard or Discord commands.

- Growth Tools – Role-gated missions, invite tracking, and retention monitoring.

Engagerly is already in use by early communities, and we’re iterating based on feedback. Not open source yet, but open to collaborations and integrations.

Try it here: https://engagerly.bot

We’d love to hear what the HN community thinks — especially if you’re building community tools or care about user activation/retention.
by graemep | 2025-08-18 10:44:28+00:00
> I would not be 100% surprised if people in the future accepted things like 'ghost experiences' as normal things.

Even if the experiences becomes accepted (although i think it unlikely) but not necessarily as really being what people who believe in ghosts think them to be.

it is quite common for things to turn out to be real observations but not to be what the observers thought they were (e.g. flying saucers).
by arkey | 2025-08-18 10:46:13+00:00
> I don't think most people engaged in traditional medicine care about it actually being healthier, again because they are first and foremost interested in the ritual and cultural aspects rather than the effectiveness of the active ingredients.

I think you're repeatedly resorting to all manner of generalisations. Maybe that's your experience, and all that you've seen. While I've seen a bit of that too, I've also seen quite the contrary, very smart and learned people scientifically exploring fringe approaches in order to obtain results.

I could give you some personal and near examples of that if it were to mean something.

There's also quite a lot in natural medicine (including papers and proper scientific studies, if that's the only thing that matters to you) if you look into it.
by muspimerol | 2025-08-18 10:46:40+00:00
How does versioning work? After you fork an HTML app, is there a way to update it and get newer features without manual intervention?

I'm thinking about the Kanban board example I saw in the demo video. It looks like column re-ordering wasn't supported yet. What if I fork the app, put time into creating my Kanban, then I want to update to a new version that supports column re-ordering?
by PicassoCTs | 2025-08-18 10:48:00+00:00
Well, that area was 200 years conquered at the time- the usual decay had not set in yet? So my guess is that there where still competent military powers around and working states & organizations. So - better to trade with these then rob a powerful enemy? The vikings where traders/mercenaries when encountering formidable opponents and robbers when they did not..
by ajb257 | 2025-08-18 10:48:49+00:00
"Advocating" isn't necessarily just praising their team. Managers end up in rooms that their reports don't, so the manager needs to effectively represent the team's interests in those forums.

For example, if a manager is in a project allocation meeting and sees a project that would help their reports reach their career goals, the manager should be "advocating" for the project to be assigned to their team.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-18 10:49:14+00:00
It's MSC 5.10, MASM 5.10, LINK 3.65, NMAKE 1.00.05, and some other stuff.

Comes down to around 2 MB after cleaning up a bit. 1.4 MB if only keeping support for one memory model. Runs fine in DOSBox, so this is an easy way to make a project self-contained, building from within the target platform with no external dependencies.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-18 10:49:25+00:00
Nice writeup! A few years ago I proposed to a friend that he should try rendering accessibility trees and fine-tuning a model to issue tool calls over them; I don't know if this has been tried and failed or if nobody bothered trying because so few people know desktop APIs anymore. The main advantage would be accuracy/speed and avoiding the need for too many image tokens (you still need them for things that are actually images, though).
by frsanti | 2025-08-18 10:49:28+00:00
In a similar vein, it looks like there is a working group for linked web storage at:

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/

That would likely have some overlap.

If you were to have an accepted w3c proposal and working implementation in local browser forks, you could potentially chat with the browser teams to add the experimental feature first through a flag users would manually have to turn on, and then later potentially it could get integrated.
by lukan | 2025-08-18 10:49:50+00:00
Oh and I am saying placebo effect is a psychological effect. Really, really hard to quantify by definition. So placebo and a placebo ain't the same thing. It depends what the person connects with it deep down in their minds. So for whatever complicated reasons the homeopathic placebo alone might have been more effective than the placebo effect of the antibiotics plus the antibiotic effect. (Maybe because their mother recommended it, and mother is connected to deep sense of trust and care)

Still, all speculation of course. I also don't rule out the possibility that (some) homeopathics do have a real efffct because of undiscovered quantum fields (whatever) and hard to quantify. But current studies do imply strongly otherwise. And I consider them sugar. But I do occasionally take some if people I like give them to me with a genuine feeling of care. That effects my mind.
by rishav_sharan | 2025-08-18 10:51:07+00:00
> Why did Rust break through, for example, while so many other excellent languages didn't.

Unfortunately, a lot of this is just enterprise sponsorship. Rust had Mozilla's backing. React had FB's backing, while Vue doesn't. And so on.

There are of course, many other reasons as well, but to me this seems to be a critical one.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-18 10:51:24+00:00
I can imagine a different UI. Instead of a browser with tabs and an address bar, you have a series of infinitely scrolling "terminals" with a chat bar at the bottom. Each one is just a chat session into which objects like web pages, images, etc can be embedded and they scroll horizontally a bit like multiple desktops do. You could zoom in and out as much as you want, the goal is to let you easily monitor many parallel tasks.

From the AI's perspective a filesystem that vector indexes data on the fly would make sense, perhaps, along with an ability for the user to share out fine-grained permissions with it.
by defrost | 2025-08-18 10:51:53+00:00
Counterpoint:

Delulu made it to Hansard*, the official government record of a G20 five eyes nation.

As an example, the Cambridge University Press cited a 2025 speech in parliament where Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used the phrase "delulu with no solulu" during the last sitting week before the election.

* https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard
by orwin | 2025-08-18 10:52:14+00:00
That's arguably the most interesting about the discussion on LLMs. Can't they reason? If they do, reason is an emerging fonction. 2 years ago, before inference was truly added to LLMs,a Honk Kong university paper wrote that ChatGPT 3.5 reasoning was correct 64% of the time on a specific task (you asked it to make the same reasonning 100 time, 36% of the time it would be wrong for no reason). I'd like to see how modern LLMs with added inference matrices and a lot of helpers before the actual transformers perform on this test.

If a consensus arrives in 5 years and we decided that yes, LLMs can in fact reason, reasonning would be an emerging capacity, and that would be incredibly interesting.
by account42 | 2025-08-18 10:53:48+00:00
> Rejecting useless or white space-only PRs is quick and easy.

No, it really is draining.

> I’ve gone through a few projects and updated the documentation as I explored the codebase. Reception ranges from thankful to people scorning me for attempting to make contributions that weren’t code changes. It’s frustrating when maintainers are more interested in keeping people out than in considering actual code or doc improvements.

It's frustrating when people make "contributions" that take more effort to review than they put in and then get mad when they don't get thanked for it. This attitude is exactly why dealing with drive by pull requests is not "quick and easy" - suddenly you need to do social and public relations stuff when all you want to do is code.
by Gravityloss | 2025-08-18 10:55:02+00:00
I guess that's also a natural evolution of many industries and societies, which has happened many times.

First you have rapid iteration and lots of innovation.

Then the projects become more complex, there's less quick wins, and cycles get longer.

Then it gets so bad you won't have anyone working anymore who has finished any new projects during their career, everybody's been working on the same decades long projects since time immemorial. Some new ones are started, some are cancelled every now and then but none are finished.

Then the organization will not even try anymore and accept to live in the ruins created by past generations.

Then it could happen that all artifacts crumble, all documentation disappears and even the people propagating the intergenerational verbal history forget or die and nobody will even know that anything existed.
Mozilla Firefox Is Dying
by leonixyz | 2025-08-18 10:55:21+00:00
We are undoubtedly witnessing a rapid decline of Mozilla and its products: the question we should be asking ourselves is: how long before the total collapse? And furthermore: are those Linux users (like me) who are still relying on Firefox for doing their development job ready to abandon it?

Let me list at least three facts to support my thesis:

1) Over the past year, there have been various controversies announcing a radical change in the core values of the Mozilla Foundation

2) After its rewrite (Project Fenix), the Firefox Mobile browser has never regained the completeness it had before, despite the passage of years

3) One of the web extensions developed by Mozilla (and marked as “official”) was recently removed from the store because it violated Mozilla's own add-on policies: this suggests serious internal disputes.

I wonder what is your opinion

[1] https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/111usm9/years_after_fenix_release_of_android_browser/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked-addon/%7B6003eac6-4b07-4aaf-960b-92fa006cd444%7D/3.0.1/
by deafpolygon | 2025-08-18 10:57:00+00:00
Fedora as easiest dev distro; all you gotta do is choose a spin, then you’re off. If you like customizing, you cannot go wrong with Arch. I currently use Arch with KDE.

Stay away from tiling WM: most people don’t ever really need them. KDE and XFCE offer full keyboard shortcut customisation out of the box.
Ask HN: Forums for devs interested in systems, like kernel dev/ networks etc.?
by zephyruslives | 2025-08-18 10:57:17+00:00
Hi, this is my first post, so forgive me if this isnt the right way to go about this, but is there like a forum for people super into finding/implementing new stuff about systems, like either about the kernel or networks or compilers or something. Basically like a HN but just for systems devs