MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theturtle | 2025-08-04 15:33:35+00:00
GE is a major offender. And it's meaningless noise... the little jingle that the oven plays when it's done preheating is the same as the one the dishwasher near it plays when the cycle is done. Zero useful information.

Oddly, that song is a lot like one they used in the 1970s in pantyhose commercials.
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 15:33:47+00:00
What's the situation in the US? You're obviously not talking about direct cost,

Mean house price: London: $753,793 USD USA: $369,147 USD Average rent per month: London: $2,992 USD USA: $1,699 USD

Or being cramped into small spaces,

Average home size: London: 705 sq ft. USA: 1,800 sq ft.

Or homelessness,

Estimated homeless population (% of total population): London: 2% USA: 0.2%

Perhaps you are referring to comments on HN?

Annoying comments about housing posted on Hacker News: London: Not seen USA: Way too many
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-04 15:33:49+00:00
>I don't know what "due process" consists of for immigration violations but I would bet my last dollar that it is an absolute joke compared to the high end of civil

Then let's explore that. There are some rights which aren't fundamental human rights... that is, you don't get them just by virtue of existing. Voting comes to mind, that's a citizen's right only.

The right to be present within the borders of the United States is another such right. If you aren't a citizen, you do not have this right. We might extend the temporary privilege to non-citizens, but it is absolutely at the prerogative of the United States... subject to revocation at any time. The idea that it can't just be subject to revocation (arbitrary or otherwise) is the dimwitted notion that there is a sort of second-class citizenship... that some not-really-citizens can be here permanently and we can't decide that we want them to return home.

So, if they can be deported (for reason, or none at all), the only recourse such people have is "I can prove I'm a citizen". If ICE isn't letting them do so, if they protest that they are a citizen and the ICE agent sticks his fingers in his ears and chants "I can't hear you" repeatedly, then that would be a violation of due process. The process which is due (among whatever other redundant triplechecks they should be doing) is to hear all such protests in good faith and evaluate whatever evidence such a person provides. I haven't heard of any refusing to do such a thing (but if they have, it should be grounds for termination).

I reject the idea that it is necessary or desirable to drag each of these foreigners before a judge to perform this function.

> is going to punish people the same way they punish criminals

I don't want these people punished at all. Punishment would be putting them in prison (where they would stay in the United States). If someone is trespassing on your property and you call the police, the police would punish them by prosecuting, convicting, and incarcerating. When they drag them from your property and tell them to get lost, that's not punishment. It's just removal from where they aren't permitted to be. It's still not punishment even if they cry that they don't want to go home.
by talkingtab | 2025-08-04 15:34:05+00:00
I wonder if DRM is useful for this. The problem: I want people to access my site, but not Google, not bots, not crawlers and certainly not for use by AI.

I don't really know anything about DRM except it is used to take down sites that violate it. Perhaps it is possible for cloudflare (or anyone else) to file a take down notice with Perplexity. That might at least confuse them.

Corporations use this to protect their content. I should be able to protect mine as well. What's good for the goose.
by phkahler | 2025-08-04 15:34:11+00:00
Something I'd like to know for mixing Rust and C. I know it's possible to access a struct from both C and Rust code and have seen examples. But those all use accessor functions on the Rust side rather than accessing the members directly. Is it possible to define a structure in one of the languages and then via some wrapper or definitions be able to access it idiomatically in the other language? Can you point to some blog or documentation explaining how?
by RankingMember | 2025-08-04 15:34:29+00:00
Yep, that's sort of what I'm getting at: people (generally) don't care enough to look past the marketing.

More generally, it's sort of like how on auto enthusiast forums people are like "why don't car companies make cars for us anymore, manual, V8, rear wheel drive" and the answer is that, while there are enthusiasts, their numbers aren't enough to make the economics work compared to churning out a boring crossover that will sell significantly better.
by BoxFour | 2025-08-04 15:34:29+00:00
> The others are very frenetic

I think the pace is because a lot of the episodes revolve around play and games - and any sort of play with children does tend to be a bit frenetic. There’s a good number of episodes that aren’t that, including the two you mentioned, but it would be a bit strange for a show about play and imagination to not be a bit frenetic.

> It also often shows a lot of bad behaviour that kids can interpret as funny (the cousin running away with the phone after being told, the old lady buying the scooter).

There’s bad behavior that is funny, sure, but almost all of those episodes demonstrate the consequences of it even if in a humorous fashion: Muffin is constantly facing consequences for her actions, for example. I think that’s an ok trade off.
by larodi | 2025-08-04 15:34:32+00:00
We need to wake up and understand that all the information already uploaded is more or less a free web material, once taken through the lens of ML-somethings. With all the second, and third-order effects such as the fact that this changes completely the whole motivation, and consequence of open-source perhaps.

It is also only a matter of time scrapers once again get through walls by twitter, reddit and alike. This is, after all, information everyone produced, without being aware of it was now considered not theirs anymore.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-04 15:34:38+00:00
"Stealth" crawlers are always going to win the game.

There are ways to build scrapers using browser automation tools [0,1] that makes detection virtually impossible. You can still captcha, but the person building the automation tools can add human-in-the-loop workflows to process these during normal business hours (i.e., when a call center is staffed).

I've seen some raster-level scraping techniques used in game dev testing 15 years ago that would really bother some of these internet police officers.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver2/

[1] https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/
by stego-tech | 2025-08-04 15:34:47+00:00
Quite a few folks already are - it’s why MasterCard felt the need to issue a statement trying to obfuscate their role in things, meanwhile Visa is doubling down in the UK by trying to push laws banning content with consenting adults wearing “childish clothes”, a category so vague that it’s designed to be abused by the powers in charge.

This is why companies shouldn’t be allowed to engage in politics or lobbying: a handful of for-profit entities are abusing their capture of western finance to push personal agendas regardless of popular opinion or actual legality.
by ben0x539 | 2025-08-04 15:34:48+00:00
I just wrote a "program" (ok, tiny utility) that behaves like you describe, but don't worry, it's for my personal use so you you won't have to deal with it :)

(i run it when I have an image in the clipboard and it shows an always-on-top window with that image. i can drag it around but it doesn't take focus. it's so on my single monitor setup (aka laptop on the couch) I can take a snapshot of something and then easily reference it in a maximized/semi-fullscreen application). I honestly mostly wrote it to see how fiddly winapi stuff from rust is but I actually end up using it a bunch)

I see where Wayland is coming from but I've come around to preferring the chaos of every app getting to do whatever it wants over hoping that various compositors are willing to support some obscure special case some app or other might want. Like, it sucks if apps are misbehaving but it sucks more if you can't reasonably fix an app to behave like you want it at all.
by yawaramin | 2025-08-04 15:34:55+00:00
> this is probably the weakest part of it.

This is not a 'part of' htmx. Htmx doesn't prescribe how you handle errors. You can easily respond with 400 or some other appropriate status code on error, and plug in to an htmx hook on the client side to handle it appropriately.

Eg here's how I handle form validation errors with a 422 response status: https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg
by ipaddr | 2025-08-04 15:35:08+00:00
It could be my server keeps going down because of llms agents keep requesting pages from my lyric site. Removing that site allowed other sites to remain up. True story.

Who cares if perplexity will never notice. Or competitors get an advantage. It is a negative for users using perplexity or visiting directly because the content doesn't exist.

That's the world perplexity and others are creating. They will be able to pull anything from the web but nothing will be left.
by short_sells_poo | 2025-08-04 15:35:10+00:00
This would likely require completely new forms of physics and interacting with matter I'm afraid. It simultaneously requires extremely high resolution and high penetration (we need to see deep into the brain). You'll need to be able to measure the state of neurons and connections - probably down to the quantum level - and do this real time, and then record the data that you collected.

I suppose you could flood the brain with nano-machines which would latch onto all the bits and pieces and collect the data? But where would they store it? How would we get them all back out again?

I don't think it's possible to do this with our current understanding of physics. This is not a question of needing better technology, but needing a whole new universe with different physics altogether.

I'm not even sure what is more far fetched, this or superluminal travel. I'm actually leaning towards the former :D
by Uehreka | 2025-08-04 15:36:09+00:00
“using AI tools to write code” is too clunky of a phrase. Unless someone proposes a sticky two/three-syllable verb (that people actually want to use, inb4 some sarcastic person suggests “poop-coding” or something) then people are going to fall back on vibe-coding because it’s quick to say, its definition will become blurred, and we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.
by savanaly | 2025-08-04 15:36:18+00:00
I mean this out of genuine curiosity, not as criticism: did she consider telling claude code to look for any duplicate functionality and remove it? Or even edit CLAUDE.md to tell it to check for duplicates after major refactors and remove them? I use CC every day at the moment and I would expect these sorts of instructions to work extremely well, especially in what appears to be relatively small codebase.
by harimau777 | 2025-08-04 15:36:18+00:00
I think it's likely going to be more complex than a one size fits all solution.

For comodities like potatoes a mixed economy seems to work pretty well.

For healthcare it seems like single payer is the best option.

For housing perhaps we should implement something similar to the Works Progress Administration to massively increase building.

Perhaps internet should be a public utility.

More generally, a combination of private industry and a strong welfare state seems to work well in much of the world.
by catigula | 2025-08-04 15:36:38+00:00
This is very ignorant of a modern Corolla in a lot of ways.

As an example, since 2023, the standard base level Corolla has an automated suite of driving assistance technologies that blow away anything Mazda offers even at their highest level of expense.

There is only one car that passed testing for automatic emergency braking from 62mph to a dead-stop (future standard) - the Toyota Corolla.
by fourside | 2025-08-04 15:37:38+00:00
> companies who want AI to recommend their products need to turn this off before it starts hurting them financially

Content marketing, gamified SEO, and obtrusive ads significantly hurt the quality of Google search. For all its flaws, LLMs don’t feel this gamified yet. It’s disappointing that this is probably where we’re headed. But I hope OpenAI and Anthropic realize that this drop in search result quality might be partly why Google’s losing traffic.
by ben0x539 | 2025-08-04 15:37:42+00:00
I bet there's concerns with users who don't have a robust mental model of what applications/windows are currently alive or starting up or whatever just losing track of a window completely if it doesn't grab focus, and getting annoyed at programs seemingly failing to start up at all (because they only create a window hidden behind a newly focused window).

One-size-fits-all woes I guess.
by renewiltord | 2025-08-04 15:37:43+00:00
The websites don’t nag you, actually. They just send you data. You have configured your user agent to nag yourself when the website sends you data.

And you’re right: there’s no difference. The web is just machines sending each other data. That’s why it’s so funny that people panic about “privacy violations” and server operators “spying on you”.

We’re just sending data around. Don’t send the data you don’t want to send. If you literally send the data to another machine it might save it. If you don’t, it can’t. The data the website operator sends you might change as a result but it’s just data. And a free interaction between machines.
by efitz | 2025-08-04 15:37:44+00:00
We need Congress to make a law here in the US that businesses involved in facilitating financial transactions in the United States are considered “common carriers” and must not discriminate against, cancel or disadvantage any customer or legal transaction, without a court order.

We can write language to allow booting people for fraud, hacking, etc if “legal” + “court order” are insufficient.
by hyperbrainer | 2025-08-04 15:37:49+00:00
That's the first thing on the page.

> Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?”

> Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)”
by Izkda | 2025-08-04 15:38:21+00:00
> If the user asks about a particular page and Perplexity fetches only that page, then robots.txt has nothing to say about this and Perplexity shouldn’t even consider it

That's not what Perplexity own documentation[1] says though:

"Webmasters can use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity

Perplexity-User supports user actions within Perplexity. When users ask Perplexity a question, it might visit a web page to help provide an accurate answer and include a link to the page in its response. Perplexity-User controls which sites these user requests can access. It is not used for web crawling or to collect content for training AI foundation models."

[1] https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
by lostlogin | 2025-08-04 15:38:44+00:00
That ship has sailed. And that isn’t the only use of AI in medicine. Radiology gets AI generated referrals that the referrer (apparently) reads before sending.

The MR images has signal added by AI in k-space. Then the frequency domain data is transformed to images and AI doubles the resolution (Thanks Siemens deep resolve). Then PACS checks for various things depending on what radiology paid for (stroke, lung lesions, fractures, breast lesions).

The report goes out, ready for your follow up appointment.
by keiferski | 2025-08-04 15:38:46+00:00
Well it’s in Estonia but isn’t really what I meant, as it’s comparing urban and rural, as far as I can tell. I am interested in the idea that urban design which brings social classes together (in cities) has some (or doesn’t) effect on genetic distribution. Maybe it does, or maybe the intellectuals end up pairing up with intellectuals anyway.
by nullc | 2025-08-04 15:38:56+00:00
Something doesn't need to be perfect to be an escape valve.

So for example, when backpage's speech was unlawfully suppressed by the US government via payment processors cutting them off in Operation Chokepoint, they successfully adopted Bitcoin.

... and then Kamala Harris aggressively prosecuted them for 'money laundering' for the evading the payment processor blockade, even though her own internal staff report said they were guilty of no crime and were a treasured asset of law enforcement in the fight against human trafficking ( https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-governme... ). So aggressive was the prosecution that they caused a mistrial by flagrantly disregard of the court's orders, then prosecuted again leading the the suicide of one of the founders following a decade of vicious harassment by the state.

uh ... so maybe not the best example.

Or maybe it is the best example: The root cause in the abuse by payment processors is the US government leaning on them to abuse their subjective discretion to suppress lawful activity that the government is constitutionally prohibited in interfering with. This is both what underlies the schizophrenic response by mastercard, which likes money and would generally just prefer to process everything profitable, and is also why Steam would be taking a huge risk to route around them with alternate payment means.
by ckitchens87 | 2025-08-04 15:39:02+00:00
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Things I've enjoyed working on..

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I'm actively looking for new full-time employment. Remote work is preferred, but I'm open to hybrid work in Portland, Oregon.
by kingstnap | 2025-08-04 15:39:14+00:00
There are genetic predispositions for everything.

Your genes are what separate you from being a dog, so if you can do something a dog can't, like reading, you were predisposed to doing so by your genes.

You might think it's not like that, and there's some sort of discontinuity in it, but there's a genetically smooth way to arrive at the ancestors of you and a dog.and there is the exact same sort of genetically smooth way to go between any two humans, just with a much shorter path.
by Manik_agg | 2025-08-04 15:39:18+00:00
Claude is incredibly powerful but it's limitation is no persistent memory hence you have to repeat yourself again and again.

I integrated Claude with CORE memory MCP, making it an assistant that remembers everything and have a better memory than Cursor or chatgpt.

Before CORE : "Hey Claude, I need to know the pros and cons of hosting my project on cloudfare vs AWS, here is the detailed spec about my project...."

And i have to REPEAT MYSELF again and again regarding my preferences and my tech stack and project details.

After CORE: "Hey Claude, tell me pros n cons of hosting my project on cloudfare vs AWS."

Claude instantly knows everything from my memory context.

What This Means - Persistent Context: You Never repeat yourself again - Continuous Learning: Claude gets smarter with every interaction it ingest and recall from memory - Personalized Responses: Tailored to your specific workflow and preferences

Check out full implementation guide here - https://docs.heysol.ai/providers/claude
Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database
by merencia | 2025-08-04 15:39:49+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm the maintainer of node-cron (5M+ downloads/month), and I recently built Sidequest.js, a background job runner for Node.js inspired by Oban (Elixir) and Sidekiq (Rails).

It solves some common problems I saw with libraries like node-cron:

- Jobs don’t block your API: they run in isolated worker threads

- No Redis or vendor lock-in: use Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, or MongoDB

- Supports retries, uniqueness, concurrency, snoozing, prioritization

- Comes with a CLI and a simple dashboard

- Works great in monoliths and doesn’t require extra infra

Quick start (no signup needed): https://docs.sidequestjs.com/quick-start

GitHub: https://github.com/sidequestjs/sidequest

Would love feedback or feature suggestions. Happy to answer any questions here!
by al2o3cr | 2025-08-04 15:39:58+00:00
I don't understand what one long line of Verilog in a repo is supposed to demonstrate.

Also, your "solution" of the halting problem amounts to "run the program and see if it halts", which ISN'T A SOLUTION. A machine that for each step puts a 1 on the tape and moves right, repeat forever, would never "match the current savestate".
by trinix912 | 2025-08-04 15:40:16+00:00
I've disabled the entire notification stack on macOS and Windows 10 with some tweaks and couldn't be happier. It's not like I'm going to miss out on anything of value as Slack, Discord, Mail will just indicate new messages with a dock/taskbar icon change.

But it's sure as hell annoying to have unsolicited popups randomly appearing ("Java update available! Apple Music now 50% off! GeForce Experience driver update! Windows Defender scan results! USB drive not ejected properly!..."). They're also often embarrassing when screen sharing.
by wjnc | 2025-08-04 15:40:21+00:00
(I am not an AI bull.) I'd say current AI is already there. It's just that the personality of LLM is not what we would have expected from scifi. It's like an average IQ person with pleasing problems, problems being fair, trouble listening, problems in estimating what it can and cannot reasonably accomplish (overconfidence bias, very human indeed) and a very large, if somewhat shallow knowledge base. I'd argue it's human right now. The superhuman part, that will be akward. The Turing test isn't a good metric, now that we're close. Humans are bad at judging humans - we think too small from our personal beliefs.

A thought experiment. With an energy budget of about 20 euro a day, could a current level AI/LLM without the moral boundaries make money _anywhere_? Would it start robbing, stealing, spamming, phishing, lying? Hey, that's what a subset of humans is doing right now! Would it start an AI porn site? Would it find niches for fully vibe coded SAAS-applications? If AI isn't there yet currenly, it should fail on every dimension (not just some!). For the sake of discussion (too instrumental for my moral taste), about 5-10%? of humans in my country are actively and solely supported by other people. I think current AI could beat that hurdle.
by theSuda | 2025-08-04 15:40:30+00:00
"Flat Pack" (S2 E24) and "Baby Race" (S2 E49) Are my most favorite and bring out tears every time.

Then there is "Granny Mobile" (S3 E33) which cracks me up every time.

Even my 7 year old daughter knows this and uses Bluey to cheer me up if I am in sour mood.

Don't even get me started on Shaun the Sheep. My daughter and I have re-watched everything there is about Shaun the Sheep and laugh in anticipation before the funny things actually happen.

Edit: I absolutely love the minisodes where Bandit tells kids bedtime stories (Goldilocks and Three little pigs). I wouldn't be surprised if the voice actor just went off and made up bunch of stuff which they animated later.