MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by screye | 2025-08-01 15:13:53+00:00
> slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing, or the critical need for direct public housing to serve low-income communities

Your claims are unsubstantiated. I've only ever seen vague critiques by anti-abundance commentators. If you think YIMBY is wrong, then be specific in your criticisms. There is nothing special about direct public housing. It is housing built by the govt. The govt gets caught between regulations, is slower, wasteful & pays higher wages to workers. It's market rate housing but worse in every way. Chicago [1] is contemporary proof that Govt. can't build housing.

On the other hand, YIMBY Austin [2] has seen slower rent growth despite rapid migration over the last decade.

> gentrification and displacement

You realize this is a home ownership problem right ?

YIMBY doesn't cause gentrification. It is a balm to reduce the pain of inevitable gentrification. A neighborhood gentrifies because increased economic opportunity draws new transplants in. If housing supply is limited, then existing residents are going to get priced out one way or another. As a neighborhood starts to gentrify, YIMBY redevelopment projects roll in & existing landowners see large windfalls. It's great if you own. Gentrification is only bad if you rent. Even then, YIMBY redevelopment projects increase housing supply, giving locals an option to move to home ownership and reduce the magnitude of rent spikes. It curbs the supply crunch.

Anti-abundance people don't have a coherent alternative other than rent control. Rent control has an unbeaten track record of failure in the western world. Either, prices diverge [3] and create a rental class system between new tenants and old residents. Or, they turn dilapidated like America's famous inner-city 'projects'.

There are 2 ways to look at it: the empathetic lens vs the pragmatic lens.

We've looked through the empathetic lens for the existing residents. But, from a pragmatic lens, why do they deserve to live exactly where they want to ? Yes, A city should provide sufficient housing to earning families within its boundaries. But, why should a person deserve to live on a specific block over another ? The existing renter had a choice to lock a spot down by buying it, and they didn't. Now, the renter is owed no such right. The newcomer and the old renter both have a valid claim to reside on the land, and rent control takes an unequal stance by favoring the older renter over the newcomer. Even in its best rendition, rent control is discriminatory. And rent control's best rendition lives in the same realm as Santa Claus or True Communism, called 'things that never happen'. At least YIMBYism buys time and opportunity for the older renter to figure out their next move.(opportunity to buy new housing, time because rents creep up slower)

[1] https://citythatworks.substack.com/p/construction-costs-for-...

[2] https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-with-the-la...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/30/rents-...
by mind-blight | 2025-08-01 15:14:18+00:00
Because those other companies actively violated agreements they made with the government in the 2000 to offer those services for free. They regularly tricked people into paying and lost a class action lawsuit over it.

It's also weird that we have to file taxes at all. Other developed countries have their revenue agencies automatically calculate the taxes for you and send a return. The only reason we don't is because of Intuit and H&R Block lobbying like crazy to prevent this. It's rent seeking at it's worse
by Zak | 2025-08-01 15:14:19+00:00
> a statement like “we should stop young kids watching porn” is so agreeable that only the nuttiest amongst us could even begin to disagree with it

I mostly disagree with it. I don't want prepubescent children watching porn of course, but the vast majority of them aren't doing that with any regularity, nor do they have any desire to. It isn't a problem that demands a robust solution with serious downsides.

I do think an HTTP header saying "no adult content" that can be turned on via both simple browser settings and password-protected parental controls is a good idea. That would reduce accidental or casual exposure to porn and have no meaningful downsides.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-08-01 15:14:26+00:00
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by altruios | 2025-08-01 15:15:00+00:00
How does irrelevant information supplement the point? It's only a distraction.

Your interpretation of their post seems quite generous. They made a single statement, and didn't back it up with anything like what you are saying they did.

So it really is a whataboutism: "Whataboutism is a rhetorical tactic that attempts to deflect criticism or avoid addressing a point by responding with a counter-accusation or question about someone else or something else, often unrelated to the original issue".

"Weapons manufacturing" has nothing to do with "website creation". It is a whataboutism.
by lisper | 2025-08-01 15:15:12+00:00
Saying that people are voting against their best interests assumes that you know what those interests are. Maybe what they really want is not what you think they want, or what you think they ought to want. This is an attitude common among liberals. They know best, and if you disagree with them, you are simply wrong.

Electing Trump was a big FU to that attitude. The astonishing thing is that liberals are so cocksure of themselves that they have not yet figured out this simple truth and are still carrying on as if Trump were simply an anomaly rather than a predictable response to their own actions. The magnitude of the tone-deafness in the Democratic party is simply staggering. And I'm a Democrat, or at least I was until I realized how utterly incompetent they are.

[UPDATE] Ironically, the fact that this comment is being downvoted into oblivion actually demonstrates the very point I am making.

[UPDATE2] With regards to my saying that Democrats are incompetent, this is manifestly true at least with regards to 1) winning elections and 2) controlling Donald Trump. Maybe they are competent at other things, but that seems like a bit of a moot point to me under the present circumstances.
by yencabulator | 2025-08-01 15:15:22+00:00
I set up an electric utility account online. Later, I get a bill from them, that has my name misspelled. I use as hell did not misspell my name like that. In the back office somewhere they are employing people who read text from one application and type it in another.

The US is stuck in time somewhere along the 70-90s.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 15:15:32+00:00
I'm convinced a bunch of things like this, which create expense and nickel-and-diming and wasted time for tons and tons of ordinary people, are why the US feels a lot poorer than it is on paper.

Like, Intuit and Turbotax contribute to GDP but their existence, at least at the size they are and in some of their roles, is purely a drag on QOL.

(of course, the biggest part of this is the healthcare system, which is great at making sick people and their families, not to mention HR folks and such, waste tens to hundreds of hours on things that aren't about healthcare itself at all, while also costing far more than it ought to—but there are lots of other things like this, see also the tipping-culture thread today, it's all part of that, little bits of bullshit that make life worse)
by zamalek | 2025-08-01 15:15:46+00:00
The GL.iNet Flint 2 came highly recommended (near cult following) from my own pretty extensive research for offboarding ubiquity. It comes with a OpenWRT fork pre-installed, but flashing mainline OpenWRT is officially supported. I've been happy so far.

The Flint 3 just launched, and the headline feature is WiFi 7: that should be less of an issue if you're going with separate APs.
by jimmydddd | 2025-08-01 15:15:50+00:00
Don't you think it cuts both ways though? I saw a video where a guy was asking (presumably liberal) NYU students about quotes relating to immigration policy. He initially said they were from (republican person T), and they stated that they thought the comments were racist. Then the interviewer said, oh wait, sorry, they were actually from (democrat person O), and the students immediately shifted their opinions and said the comments were reasonable.
by em-bee | 2025-08-01 15:16:03+00:00
but it's non-trivial to copy that selection to the outside of vim to another app.

i can select a column in tmux too, using tmux commands, and then it's the same problem. i can't use that selection outside of tmux.

i simply want the GUI to be aware that there are multiple columns in the terminal and let me select text within one using the mouse and then copy that to a different window/app.
by hopelite | 2025-08-01 15:16:09+00:00
Also technology has made psychological neutralization easier by various means including amusement, satisfying the hierarchy of needs in general, and of course scaling and expanding tyrannical surveillance and clandestine and targeted subversion of self-determination (see Alex Karp bragging about Palantir defusing the "rise of the far right" in Europe). And even this OP measure of banning the "Internet Archive Open Library" is in actuality a kind of outlawing of the modern from of the printing press, the control of information, consciousness, awareness, thought, and speech.

It is an anathema to the very foundation of America, especially in the year of the 250 year anniversary of the American Revolution. 250 years ago today, Americans were already killing British for the human right to free speech and freedom from this kind of aristocratic despotism of the hereditary ruling class.

> "[...]unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries [...]. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action."

Is that any different than the King's decree to smash the printing presses to disseminate information beyond the control and censorship of the aristocracy and treasonous merchants that enabled their web of control?
by RamblingCTO | 2025-08-01 15:16:11+00:00
I know. But they're not banning libraries. They're banning access to an entity they can't enforce local laws for.

I think we need law changes around digital ownership for sure, but I don't think this applies here.

PS: big fan of the internet archive. I'm just arguing that we need to do things correctly. And we need to let the authors be able to make a living from their work.
by nicoburns | 2025-08-01 15:16:15+00:00
> I guess it's difficult to avoid if the whole rust community is on it (which I didn't know, that's quite bad news for me xD)

The actual compiler development is also on Zulip (https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/). And I still consider the /r/rust subreddit the real hub of the rust community in genreal. But I'm about 20 different Discord servers for various specific Rust projects (help!).

> I wouldn't mind installing Zulip (actually, I'm quite interested in trying it at some point) should I start working on these stuff one day.

A quick mention that you don't actually need to install Zulip: you can just use the web version, although you probably do want the app on mobile (the desktop version is just a wrapper of the website, but the mobile app is Flutter-based).

(also true of Discord, although it remains less free and open)
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-01 15:16:25+00:00
… they could only use openai api and I don't think that they would really switch now, because I think switching would be hard.

Do they have exclusive APIs? I thought more or less everyone had the same interface and switching might be almost as easy as changing the endpoint.

Given how many players are in this space, I am incredibly dubious that anyone will win. Market is going to be sliced between multiple big companies who are going to be increasingly squeezed on margin. Unless someone can produce some magic that is 10x more reliable, consumers are going to price compare. Today, all of the options can occasionally produce brain dead output -why pay a premium?

Especially bad for OpenAI, because they have no fallback revenue. Microsoft and Google can subside their offerings forever to eliminate competition.
by James-K-He | 2025-08-01 15:16:27+00:00
Very sorry that it came across that way for you! We built Societies in the hope that the better people can understand each other, the better we can innovate solutions that meet people’s wants and needs - much of bad policymaking and bad product designs came from not being able to foresee the unintended consequences, and we hope that one day we can help flag those risks in an artificial society first, before taking the bet that could impact real people in real life :)
by liveoneggs | 2025-08-01 15:16:44+00:00
I was thinking about the "against their best interest" argument recently and connecting it to the democrats.org "who we serve" page made it even worse than it seemed. Rational people not on the list should avoid them?

It appears that they have (finally!) removed that stupid page but it's still linked-to (https://democrats.org/who-we-are/) on their website. Here's a copy from June https://web.archive.org/web/20250615042752/https://democrats...
by general1726 | 2025-08-01 15:16:56+00:00
There is a FOMO especially around younger developers who wants to use latest, newest and upgrade all frameworks the moment they pop out on Microsoft website.

Older developers (like me) have opposite problem and I have been fighting for months to not upgrade .NET4.8 to .NET8 due to compatibility with our current deployment chains etc. In the end I had to admit that using .NET8 for everything is going to work too and is going to give us access to better tools and new tech either through some teething problems.
Show HN: IsAgent – Detect agents like ChatGPT Agent on your website
by bobbiechen | 2025-08-01 15:17:04+00:00
Hi HN! I’m Bobbie Chen, Product Manager for Fraud and Security at Stytch. Today we are launching IsAgent: a lightweight JavaScript SDK that tries to detect agentic traffic on the frontend, enabling you to build agent-friendly experiences. You can try it out on our site at IsAgent.dev or install it via:

npm install @stytch/is-agent (requires registration to use)

Try viewing IsAgent.dev as a human. Then try using ChatGPT Agent to view the page: "Visit IsAgent.dev, wait a few seconds, and then take a screenshot." (or, toggle the switcher at the top)

We built this because we’ve had a lot more conversations lately about "good bots" like AI agents and how to recognize and serve them better - just as we might internationalize a website or create a mobile-friendly version, can we create more agent-friendly experiences?

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I’ll be the first to say: the detection is not perfect, and even noisy at times. We prioritized ease-of-use with a lightweight frontend-only SDK, and that means that there are limited signals we can actually use to identify agents. In the long run, I expect most "good bot" operators like Browserbase to offer the option to self-identify through web standards, which will make agent detection much more reliable.

A personal note: a couple years ago, I was a generative AI skeptic. But I’ve come around to cautious optimism: the technology is genuinely useful and different, and I think it makes sense now to try to identify AI agents and experiment with agent-ready experiences including LLMs.txt, MCP servers, and auth-on-behalf-of-end-user methods.

I’d love your feedback, especially if you:

* Are building AI tools or browser automations

* Have built out mobile, internationalized, or accessible experiences (curious on how this compares)

* Or, have opinions on the future of the Agent Experience

I’ll be around in the comments here, or feel free to email me at bchen@stytch.com !

-Bobbie

Some links:

1. IsAgent.dev - demo and docs

2. Announcement blog including thoughts from Browserbase, Orb, Freestyle Cloud, and Mintlify: https://stytch.com/blog/introducing-is-agent/
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-01 15:17:05+00:00
> but something about strangers standing over my shoulder judging me, determining my financial future by providing or withholding a job, like the sword of Damocles, turns my stomach inside out ... I'm not a stage performer.

This resonates. I'm now in my early 60s. Oddly, in my 20s and 30s I could interview reasonably well. But as time went on, I think the interviewing styles became more confrontational.Whereas earlier on they were trying to find reasons to hire you, later on it was more that they were trying to find reasons not to hire you. Possibly this is somewhat attributable to ageism, but I think it was a change in the industry as well. Over the last 15 years or so I found interviewing to be increasingly unpleasant. Started having panic attacks in interviews. Somehow I still managed to get hired places (and I started doing more contracting where interviewing wasn't required because they were familiar with my work). When the startup I was working in lost it's funding at the end of '22 I decided it was time to hang it up and retire. Not because I don't like the work (I really do) and not because my skills were out of date (in the last startup I was working on optimizing AI algorithms to various hardware - CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), but because I just couldn't face interviewing anymore and I really didn't need to.
by xedrac | 2025-08-01 15:17:35+00:00
This is why I start with something very simple. If I detect the candidate is getting paralyzed with nerves, I'll reassure them and give little hints to help bring them out of it. After successfully completing a simple exercise, they usually feel more confident and relaxed. Only then will I give them a more challenging problem, with the caveat that I'm mostly interested in seeing how they might approach the problem and what things they can tell me about it. If they solve it, great. If they don't, did they show an ability to reason about the problem well, or identify key aspects of the problem that make it challenging? Can they communicate their thoughts as they think about it?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-01 15:17:39+00:00
I was in the same boat then I discovered this thing called a GUI and inside this GUI I could use this thing called tabs. It was revolutionary technology.

It’s just too bad I suffer from a lack of common sense and insistence on trying to believe that all archaic terminal text based tools are better than anything else. I’m a developer and developers have insight on the best UI and we know that terminals are better than anything in the known universe. If you use a mouse you’re an ass hole.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-01 15:17:44+00:00
I concur that ultimately you have to decide which party to vote for (and I happen to vote similarly to you).

What I am asserting is that it would be better if we were able to judge ideas based on the merit of the idea rather than who it comes from. That is, in my experience, not happening and the electorate for both dem and rep are guilty of this behavior.
by hkhanna | 2025-08-01 15:17:48+00:00
I get it, your perspective is totally fair. Part of the reason Democrats care only about donors (the Israel lobby is one of those donors) is because of the influence of money in politics, which is a direct result of Citizens United. If they don't care about their donors, they lose. The incentives are pretty straightforward.

There were great campaign finance laws on the books, but Republican-appointed judges have steadily eroded those over the years, culminating in Citizens United. We have to overrule that awful case if we are to ever have working campaign finance laws in this country again. There's only one way to overrule that case, and that's with Democrat-appointed judges. Those judges typically do not answer to donors and so don't have the same incentives you've identified.
by vipul_18 | 2025-08-01 15:18:08+00:00
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by holysoles | 2025-08-01 15:18:20+00:00
Its a custom license apparently, but its public domain for the US.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/LICENSE

Was required to be open-sourced from the SHARE IT act. One of the most common-sense bills in a long time.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9566
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-01 15:18:22+00:00
Given their current product offerings, I really don't see a way they could ever justify a $300B valuation unless they get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan.

I'm calling it now: investors are gonna get burned hard on this one. Cause right now all they have is "well we are working on superintelligence" and to that I say "great, then what?". Even if they do make that breakthrough I don't see how that will equate to that kind of valuation, especially considering that Anthropic and Google are both hot on their heels.
by devmor | 2025-08-01 15:18:32+00:00
I don't know about trends among young developers, but I can tell you that the majority of the fintech world that isn't Microsoft centered (or ancient COBOL hieroglyphics) runs on PHP these days.

I ended up finding myself in finance because I had so much PHP experience from bespoke ecommerce and never left because it's everywhere.

Other language ecosystems have things I like better personally, but if you master PHP, you will never have a problem finding work.
by chad_strategic | 2025-08-01 15:18:34+00:00
This debate comes up every month.

I have been working in code for over 12 years. (self.taught(php,python))

I refused to take these types of tests. (yet I have no problem writing profitable financial algorithms) Hence I went to the management side.

I will be hiring some developers soon, I will be looking for desire to work, personality and previous verifiable experience. I will also ask if they believe Kim Jung Un is fat.

At my previous job, I didn't get a chance to hire people they were sent to me. It was my job to ensure they were trained and a team player. I would like to thank the Marine Corps for 20 years of experience.
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-01 15:18:43+00:00
> Either way, that first step is enough to improve your life a lot

Clearly you've never tried being left-handed.

(I joke, but I also wish fountain pens wouldn't fundamentally be incompatible with my way of writing. And I was taught to write with a fountain pen using cursive in school, so it's not like I didn't try.)