MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by graemep | 2025-08-04 11:31:53+00:00
She does seem to have a talent for languages. Not many people pick up that many easily. I have even managed to forget a language I was fluent in (I was bilingual and I spoke Sinhala as well as I did English, and could read and write it to the level expected by schools at my age until I was six) as a child. It has a phonetic alphabet, BTW.

As far as reading goes she sounds broadly similar to us - including the taste for SF. Did you have problems deciding on whether books were sufficiently age appropriate or not? There were quite a few where I had to balance a book being good with whether it was suitable (mostly because of violence).
by notahacker | 2025-08-04 11:32:26+00:00
> Because so much menial labour is currently offshored, the primary benefactor of tariffs is expected to be the poor and working classes.

See, I was with you until this (OK, mostly with you, luxury goods are price inelastic so the buyer definitely pays).

The primary beneficiary of a carefully designed tariff policy might be some working class people in some industries (and some wealthy owners, natch), at the expense of direct and indirect customers of those industries who may or may not be poor themselves. But an idiot imposing blanket unpredictable tariffs with promises to negotiate "great deals" that lift them in future costs far more of those manufacturing jobs than it protects, because on the one hand it creates enormous supply chain risk to US manufacturing, and on the other hand overseas companies aren't investing in building new facilities in the US because of a 40% tariff levied until the POTUS changes his mind in a few months time...
by jjani | 2025-08-04 11:32:47+00:00
The situation in Korea is completely different. There are tens of thousands of jobs available, including white collar, but people don't want to work for those companies - everyone goes for the exact same handful of jobs, the very top. And because unlike in most of the West it's culturally acceptable to live with ones parents for 2 years while continuously applying for those jobs, that's what many people do. It's a tradeoff.

In fact, the parents often actively enable and support this strategy. Unthinkable in the West.

This is nothing like "I sent 300 resumes to every place in the country and can't get a job". Of course, such people do exist, but those are in majors/fields in which it was already near-impossible 10 years ago to get a job in most of the world. If everyone in Denmark would go "Maersk, Novo Nordisk, Carlsberg or bust", you'd see the exact same.

Honestly, your story indicates that your sister-in-law and her friends are likely at least middle class. Those who simply can't afford to sit around for 2 years (lower class) do just get a job straight away.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-04 11:33:07+00:00
If you believe Steam et al, the payment processors are bowing to the card networks in this. So being a payment processor wouldn’t help. You need to sidestep the networks.

In the US that means either dealing with ACH at scale, which is a challenge, building a new card networks (which is hard) or only using alternative payment methods such as bnpl or crypto.

Each of those will limit your buyers, which as a merchant is a tough business decision.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-04 11:33:15+00:00
No, it hasn't been the case. The group in question, Collective Shout, has been pressuring Mastercard. Not Mastercard Australia, not Steam Australia: it's a concerted action to take down things they don't want. It's not a one time thing either: sex workers have been under attack by similar extremist catholic bigots. Furries, porn, anything they see as deviant is being attacked. And MC/Visa are happy to help.

Do I mind that MDMA Date With Hitler was taken down ? No, I don't believe it's a massive loss. However, the way it was done, through payment providers threatening to shut off access to the entire payment system because of their rules, is incredibly dangerous to the whole world.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-04 11:33:33+00:00
Aren't cards last century technology? I'm paying with my phone anyways. Seller can use phone as well. Why does it need to involve incumbent banks and terminal providers at all? If Valve started something like that the banks would bang on its door relentlessly just to not be left out of the loop.

Gaming is the business bigger than movies, music and books combined and Valve is Google of games.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-04 11:33:42+00:00
Free speech can refer to two distinct but related concepts.

1. Free speech as in the US first amendment. This indeed is limited to the government.

2. Free speech as in the enlightenment ideal upon which western liberal societies are built.

It is usually obvious that people mean the second because it is the only one that is even relevant outside the US. Somehow the narrow-minded people who can not conceptualize that free speech is broader than the first definition think it is a big gotcha' to jump into conversations with this kind of "um achtually".

This is becoming tiresome.
by watwut | 2025-08-04 11:34:06+00:00
That is simply not true. Homelessness goes up and down with housing prices. You can see that in the data.

If housing is cheap, mentally sick person or even addict can get one in an easier way. And their relatives have easier time to help their mentally ill relative find a place.

Being homeless makes both addictions and mental illness worst, to the point of unsulvable.
Language Stability vs. Program Stability
by ricecat | 2025-08-04 11:34:12+00:00
In software engineering, we often hear terms like “stability,” but context is everything. There's a subtle yet important distinction between language stability and program stability, and confusing the two leads to flawed arguments, misguided tool choices, and bad engineering tradeoffs.

Let’s clarify what each really means.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/lang-stability-and-prog-stability
by bayindirh | 2025-08-04 11:34:18+00:00
> could have easily made it into the LTS versions had this one curious MS guy not noticed.

LTS doesn't mean set in stone. Debian publishes fixes within 24 hours in most cases, even if the upstream doesn't provide any, plus some packages come with Debian's own security patches on top of upstream patches.

Linux security landscape is very different than Windows' central "we'll patch it when we patch it" stance.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-08-04 11:34:18+00:00
How's the "management" software? I'm planning on replacing my aging home router (which now seems to randomly drop signal) with something like a Ubiquti Dream Router, but I've no experience with the brand. As of now, I run PfSense at home (just as a hobbyist and for personal desires), and I'm curious how their offering compares, especially wrt to firewall rules, VPN support, etc.

From what I've seen it looks far more modern.
Show HN: Fidbaq – A lightweight alternative to Canny, no subscription
by averadev | 2025-08-04 11:34:29+00:00
I launched a small project recently and asked for feedback. I ended up getting:

4 emails

2 DMs

1 bug report on Discord

It was chaotic.

So I built Fidbaq — a public feedback board you can share with your users.

It's like a lightweight version of Canny, but:

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I built this for solo devs, indie hackers, and small teams. Would love to hear your thoughts — feedback on Fidbaq is... welcome on Fidbaq :)
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 11:35:36+00:00
>I'm not in the US, but our inflation data was just as wrong as I've heard the US data was. Official numbers were 10% but literally everything went up at least 20%. Everyone I spoke to had their cost of living increase by significantly more than the official inflation figures.

All the math that underpins the usual idiots screeching about "muh compounding gains/interest" applies to the divergence between real inflation and official inflation as well. You can hide a lot of divergence between the real value of the currency and the official value by "simply" having the official number be low by a couple percent over time.
by zb3 | 2025-08-04 11:35:46+00:00
If there was a law that mandates that payment processors have to accept all transactions, then there'd be no reason to cite "brand damage" because Mastercard could just point out that they're not in control because of the law, and no other processor could censor that content either.

Unfortunately, laws like EU AML law go the opposite direction, where banks are allowed to close accounts only if they deem them "too risky".. this is not good.
by Macha | 2025-08-04 11:36:08+00:00
My experience is that “text is actually images or paths” is closer to the 40% case than the 1% case.

So you could build an approach that works for the 60% case, is more complex to build, and produces inferior results, but then you still need to also build the ocr pipeline for the other 40%. And if you’re building the ocr pipeline anyway and it produces better results, why would you not use it 100%?
by bookofcooks | 2025-08-04 11:36:19+00:00
> For the step update, you can use Out Of Band update

I did mention using OOB, but I preferred swapping the entire Stepper because the logic on the backend was just a little bit cleaner, and the Stepper didn't include anything else anyways.

> I usually solve the second problem by simply saving the state of the individual input fields, you only need a user session.

I believe this is exactly what I did in the article, no?
by brokegrammer | 2025-08-04 11:36:29+00:00
Sure, I could build forms with React only but I found controlled forms to have less performance when there are many fields. react-hook-forms uses uncontrolled forms with refs which has near native performance, so if I had to build that by hand it would be more tedious. AI makes this process easier, but it's still extra code that needs to be maintained and tested, when you can do the same for free if you stick with standard web tools.
by petcat | 2025-08-04 11:37:24+00:00
There are definitely a lot of links in this chain. Maybe leafo can chime-in and say exactly what happened with Itch.io. But I suspect that someone downstream of Visa/Mastercard anticipated that the payment card companies would not permit the transactions and relayed that back up to the merchants, and they shut it off preemptively.

But it's hard to say. Mastercard is now saying that they never said or did anything. So where did the outrage come from? Someone must have done something.
by nottorp | 2025-08-04 11:37:26+00:00
> Is it not strange to see a post with 126 points and zero comment?

Can't speak for everyone, but acoup is regularly referred to here. Some people, including me, read it regularly anyway so we don't even click on the HN posts most of the time.

I read this particular article Saturday on my morning coffee for example. I didn't upvote it when it got posted on HN, but I've done it before on other acoup articles. Without ever going to the comments.

If acoup is new to you, start here:

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/

It's what made it famous originally.

Then it added actual history lessons on top of the media and video game commenting.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-04 11:37:50+00:00
This is a symptom of a deeper problem in medicine, the subjugation of doctors. It used to be that doctors ran their own practices and were the Götter in Weiß, the gods in white lab-coats. What they said was what happened, and healing patients was their purpose. Now, however, doctors are cogs in a much larger healthcare system run by suits for purposes that one suspects have more to do with money than medicine. If computer workflows are optimized for the suits rather than the doctors, that’s a symptom of a problem whose other symptoms, like rampant price inflation, are yet worse.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-04 11:38:47+00:00
> I can't wrap my head around "society failing people" - society is people.

Effectively, societies are Boomers and older generations. These form the majority of the population that is of voting age and they hold most of the financial (in stocks and real estate ownership) and executive power.

So yes, it can be said that society fails the younger generation.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-04 11:39:15+00:00
>The holocaust did not happen because Jews were sneaking into Berlin and murdering innocent people in their homes. When the current conflict begins in that way

At the risk of repeating myself: you're not interested in discussing in good faith and are pretending this all started because of Oct 7. But sure, let's play that game: Some jews did kill nazis in Berlin. Maybe even mistakenly killed their innocent wives. Collective punishment was the only option to respond to this behavior, and all the jews needed to suffer from the actions of some.

I don't believe that's a game you want to play, because that's straight up nazi propaganda. It coming from the mouth of an Israeli and targeting Palestinians does not make it any less nazi behavior.
by whizzter | 2025-08-04 11:39:42+00:00
Gave it a simulation-run and I think I really like this layout!

Working I usually prefer to have 2 normal + laptop screen when docked instead of a single extra-wide ones some at the office use when docking their laptops.

Part of it is that much software today is designed for 16:9 or 16:10 layouts and work less well in 4:3 squared form fashions (why splitting an external wide-screen is often less optimal than 2 "normal" 16:9 externals).

Now, for on the road use I've bought an external 16:9 screen but sitting next to the laptop the head-turn to the left/right is a tad too large to be fully comfortable (When docked I sit a tad further away so the 2+1 screens give a smaller angle).

Finally, coming back to this one, if as the article mentions you get 2x 16:9 layouts stacked on top of each other it'll be pretty neat for coding/debugging/testing. Top part for browser or other target environment and lower part for debugger/code editor without needing to lug anything apart from my computer with a reasonable head-turning.

Just physically tried the layout when writing this with my external USB-screen and it's probably as comfortable as goes without external keyboard+external screens, probably even an improvement over just regular laptop screen since you can look more straight ahead on the top part than with a normal laptop on a table!
by graemep | 2025-08-04 11:40:10+00:00
Thanks, I did not know about that term, but it fits in with other things I have read and my own experience.

While the effects fade, the advantages gained thereby can last. Being ahead of age norm for reading allowed access to more books, and both learning opportunities. More for my kids who were home educated up to 16[1] so had more time to read stuff they chose, than for me. It also formed a liking for reading.

Parental influence can have a lasting impact. My older daughter is now an electronic engineer, which is the result of an interest that started with making circuits with me as a child.

[1] This makes sense in the British system where the usual age for finishing one set of exams (GCSEs) is 16 (which is the end of compulsory school age) and you then do more specialist exams (A levels in my kids case, there are qualifications too) after that.
by lan321 | 2025-08-04 11:40:18+00:00
As per their rule 5.12.7, this is forbidden:

"The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark."

Any movie or game with rape or mutilation is against the rules, as per their example. Mutilation is everywhere. Even It Takes Two has you mutilating a plushie elephant. Serious artistic value ignored, since they decide on that one and art quality is subjective.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-04 11:42:31+00:00
> When planes get holes does the inside pressure equal the outside.

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: It depends on the direction. If the hole is in the forward direction the pressure will be higher. If it's on the side or the back then the pressure will be lower. But fluid dynamic is hard so there may be weird exemptions. Anyway the difference can be measured but is small to be relevant in this case.

> say ~ +20° C vs exterior. Could the air pressure be higher?

If you have a sealed container and you increase the temperature ~ +20° C, the pressure will increase, somewhat like 7% (with a lot of guesses and approximations).

But if it's unsealed, when instead of raising the pressure the air will just escape slowly. You can test it with a microwave with a glass of water. When you open it after 1 minute the temperature inside is higher, but it will not hear a pop as a balloon.

The hot air will have the same relative O2 pressure but a lower absolute O2 pressure. I guess this is bad for the survival rate.
by jmpz | 2025-08-04 11:42:42+00:00
I've gotten the sense that many of the doctors I've encountered in Germany, who are busily typing at their computer, are frequently documenting their billing items.

I started to think this after seeing the bills from multiple visits, where it's often broken out, in detail, what they had done. It's probably not as bad as that, there probably is some record-keeping happening in there. But considering how overworked most doctors are in the public health system, and how little time is commonly allocated for each patient, it can feel a bit like you didn't actually interact with a human doctor.
by benterix | 2025-08-04 11:42:44+00:00
> In the US that means either dealing with ACH at scale, which is a challenge, building a new card networks (which is hard)

Which is why someone has big interest in keeping it this way as in Europe practically every country solved this issue a long time ago and people do daily shopping completely omitting Visa/Mastercard. They try to fight back without much success.
by Yizahi | 2025-08-04 11:43:02+00:00
It wasn't insulting in the slightest. Maybe people shouldn't be offended at the smallest imaginary slights everywhere? Phrase "that one terrorism 25 years ago" notably doesn't have any adjective words at all. Like none. Maybe you can tell us which exact world do you consider insulting here? Word "that"? Or word "one"?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-04 11:43:35+00:00
It’s not regardless of government intervention. There have been numerous bailouts and interest rates deductions specifically to backstop SP500.

It is a stealth tax that targets the young (or those too poor to be beneficiaries), because leaders need to maintain purchasing power for their voters’ benefits (the vast majority going to the old) and the solvency of taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions.
by ubermonkey | 2025-08-04 11:43:57+00:00
The last time I wrote code every day as part of my job, it was in Perl as part of some site development using the Mason framework.

I am unapologetic about my love for Perl. Something I learned in that role was how much more important transparency is than cleverness. Perl has a way of enticing you to do very "clever" things -- there's more than one way to do it, as the saying goes, and some of those ways are VERY NEAT! Unfortunately, a large number of the "neat" approaches also approach brainfuck-levels of oddness.

Most languages don't have that rabbithole, or at least the hole isn't that deep. But with perl, man, you can do some ridiculous and awesome things that even YOU won't immediately understand six months from now.

About the 2nd or 3rd time you get bit by that particular snake, though, you start to build your code much more conservatively, and with much more of a long-term intentionality built in. The code I wrote in that job after those lessons took root is still probably the best work I've done as a programmer -- neat, clean, consistent, and above-all understandable to whomever ended up needing to work on it later. And I put a lot of that down to just how easy it is to write HORRIBLE Perl.
by chrisrhoden | 2025-08-04 11:44:00+00:00
In addition to the sibling comment about safe harbor hours, the FCC regulates not speech but the shared airwaves. Print is irrelevant, and that’s why you can do whatever you want on cable.

Also, the FCC does not directly set standards and instead responds to complaints from the communities in which the broadcast is available. So it’s conceivable that in an environment where nobody cared, you could do this at any time of day.
by ryukoposting | 2025-08-04 11:44:13+00:00
Some of the benefits the author lists make a lot of sense. The elevated sightline helps with posture, and improves the webcam angle. I use my laptop as a secondary display when working from home, and the idea of getting more real estate from the same 14-inch footprint is appealing.

I think it's telling that they aren't rolling this out in a ThinkPad-branded device. The bendy screen tech isn't really there yet. The screen surface is still wiggly, and reliability still isn't what it should be.
by perihelions | 2025-08-04 11:44:30+00:00
> "which will fissile out in a few months"

A tangential nitpick: it's fizzle out, from a Middle English etymology meaning "to fart"; not to fission (fissile being an adjectival form), from Latin "to split".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fizzle#Etymology ("Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.")

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feist#Etymology

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fissile#Etymology ("From Latin fissilis.")
by boomskats | 2025-08-04 11:44:30+00:00
> how on earth as a regular human am I supposed to make sense of it?

By wanting to, and then choosing to?

> Now I have a rollable screen, what does it even mean..

Did you.. click on the link?

There are plenty of brands with a more limited product range and simpler market positioning, as you just pointed out. If those are a good fit for you and you like them, that's great. There's a reason macbooks and chromebooks are so popular.

I honestly don't get why someone would feel compelled to publicly complain about the very existence of products that they don't want or need or understand.
by bernardoortega | 2025-08-04 11:44:43+00:00
Over the past year, I’ve been writing a book focused on securing Kubernetes Security. Rather than just covering tools, it dives into practical topics like RBAC misconfigurations, admission controllers, runtime protection with Falco/Tetragon, audit log monitoring, and incident response strategies in Kubernetes-native setups. Specially interesting is the third-party plugins for securing the cluster and doing real attacking stuff, like container escapes and some more. Wanted to share here for this security community. Enjoy guys

I wrote a short post summarizing the intended audience, structure, and what I learned along the way:
by isodev | 2025-08-04 11:45:19+00:00
It's funny to see ATProto as an example of openness, while we're yet to see a real-world example of a viable project which doesn't rely on Bluesky. And I don't mean whether they're "decentralized" or not - the entire AT Proto stack actively works against interop with other standard protocols for various functions of the stack. It's like "open core" at protocol level, only we don't know exactly how they plan to monetize.