MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fricken | 2025-08-15 09:36:27+00:00
Locally we recently had a 9 year old girl die while skateboarding in front of her home. Like the vast majority of fatal skateboarding injuries, she was run down by a motor vehicle right in front of her home. The article didn't say whether she had a helmet on, it wasn't relevant.

It's what kills most kids on bicycles as well. I myself witnessed 2 children die on separate occasions because they were run down by cars. Automobiles and firearms are the leading killers of children.
by CopyOnWrite | 2025-08-15 09:37:01+00:00
IMHO there are a lot of problems with the advice from Eskil.

His ideas about abstraction of the platform made a lot of sense in the past decades, but IMHO are not that applicable nowadays: It is well understood to separate domain logic from UI and storage, and a desktop application has a very different UI from a mobile app or even a web app.

My next critic point is, that Eskil assumes all domain knowledge is there from the beginning and will not change over time (his idea of having perfect APIs from the beginning).

No mention about error handling, reliability, response times, atomic operations etc.

To make it very clear: I believe Eskil gives his advice in good faith and his advice served him well in his own projects. In my opinion most of his advice is just not good advice in general.

(Besides having modules as black box building blocks if possible).
Ask HN: Who's working on a non-tech startup?
by fideli0 | 2025-08-15 09:37:30+00:00
Hi HN,

After spending many years in tech as a full-time employee, I’ve reached a point where I’m no longer fulfilled by the work. I’m now exploring a new path — ideally something entrepreneurial — but I feel strongly about moving away from tech-centric products and services.

I’m curious:

Are you currently building a non-tech startup?

What kind of problems are you solving?

What challenges are you facing compared to tech startups?

I’d love to hear about your experience, whether you’re running a local service business, building a physical product, or working on something completely different.

Appreciate any insights you’re willing to share!
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 09:37:50+00:00
> I just wish I could know how many times I've watched it too.

I exported all my private data from Netflix and it had very detailed information on exactly when I (or anyone else in the household) watched what.

Sadly it only went back a few years. Either they do not keep older data or they pretend not to. My Spotify data seemed to be complete for all years I have used it, listing the exact time and location, what device etc, I listened to any track there ever.
by CommanderData | 2025-08-15 09:38:14+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3l0e4vr0ko

I strongly suspect it's also meant to curtail growing support among youth for Palestine in the Israel/Gaza conflict.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/665564933022223

Essentially creating an internet for children/teens that echos the government narrative.
by jeffhuys | 2025-08-15 09:38:27+00:00
Ah, I guess it makes sense you're not crazy then, haha. For me it's probably 80/20 (80 being programming on a macbook). I've subscribed to your channel by the way, 7.8k videos is insane; you started when you were ~58! I was 13 then... I'd wager Humphrey isn't there anymore, but they'll always be there to look at!
by stevezsa8 | 2025-08-15 09:38:52+00:00
I interviewed at Palantir London about 10 years ago.

I am based in Europe and one of the younger interviewers let-slip that they will all be working during the local public holiday. lols. No thanks.

Also, I grew up in a mixed ethnic environment. For the last few decades there has been a focus on trying to make society more inclusive. Such that my school exam papers would have questions like "Susan has 6 apples and gets 6 more. How many does she have" or "Rohit is travelling at 50mph ...." So a variety of names and genders etc to reflect the people who live here.

Well, my Palantir interview information was about "networks of people that need to be tracked"... all Muhammads, Omars etc. These names were my school colleagues and friends, so this didn't sit well with me (just to be clear, I didn't want to work somewhere that seemed to be making software to track entire groups of people).

They really should have sanitised their material and made it about helping Susan and Rohit track financial crime or some such. Instead I got vibes of that tv show Homeland.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-08-15 09:39:03+00:00
> The basic idea is that The Netherlands would rather help a big corporate avoid paying 10% tax in another country, if it means they pay 1% in The Netherlands. Or even 0% corporate taxes and only some payroll tax for the people working at the Dutch office (job creation for tax lawyers who, as established earlier, lead a stress-free life).

This is actually pretty smart on their part.

What most countries don't want to accept is that when the cost of business is too high, companies will either pack up and leave or pay tax advisors on how to move every cent of profit to another country that is business friendly and their dreams of collecting billions in tax remain just that, dreams.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-15 09:39:40+00:00
> obviously, they're not

No, you are just tracked when you access them - «cigarettes» being, of course, all """controversial""" expressions.

(Already putting children as an excuse for that...)

*** They have censored lobste.rs . The "for adults only site" lobste.rs ***

https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
by NDxTreme | 2025-08-15 09:39:45+00:00
It should be included in the :OS section, the tty defaults. From the docs.

"This module configures Emacs for use in the terminal, by providing:

System clipboard integration (through an external clipboard program or OSC-52 escape codes in supported terminals). Cursor-shape changing across evil states (requires a terminal that supports it). Mouse support in the terminal."
by account42 | 2025-08-15 09:40:06+00:00
> This is exactly the attitude that has left us with only three complete extant implementations of the web, two of which are controlled by an ad company.

No, adding complex new interfaces and then demanding that every browser implement them quickly is what does that. Google is not proposing to reign in that behavior.

> a) freeze the standard

Yes, or rather new features should become rarer over time.

> and with the web as a whole, we are firmly headed towards option c)

Which has nothing to do with backwards compatibility but with Chromes appetite for adding new APIs, presumably with exactly this outcome being their goal.
by mustaphah | 2025-08-15 09:40:26+00:00
I think this can be easily implemented with the Distill Web Monitor browser extension [1]. Just monitor the post listing page, set a CSS selector for the post titles, and add a text condition (e.g., "Awesome Blog Post Series").

From there, you can choose how often it checks and how you want to be notified (e.g., browser notification, email, etc.).

You can run it for free on your browser or pay for the cloud version.

[1] https://distill.io
by icarouse | 2025-08-15 09:40:50+00:00
This is unfortunately quite a common tactic being used by people opposed to the OSA. Recently there was an article in the i newspaper which claimed you have to show ID to order pizza online, and it's because of the OSA. Turns out their source was a misleading tweet by a political activist who had ordered from Deliveroo or similar and were seeing the usual message shown to people who order alcohol. Nothing to do with the OSA at all.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-15 09:41:36+00:00
That’s not what poaching means. Poaching describes the comportement of one company towards another. Employees are entirely accessory to what is being described here.

What’s meaningful is that Apple was hiring them because of the work they did for Massimo and doing so en masse at a single point of time.

If they had just hired experts on blood monitoring to staff a team and some of them happened to be working for Massimo before, it would just be hiring as usual and not described as poaching.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-15 09:41:46+00:00
> after all, that's how standard UI components have worked on e.g. Windows

Standard UI components on Windows are in user32.dll, and that's guaranteed to exist on each Windows installation all the way back to Windows NT.

And to just get an empty decorated window all I need to do is call CreateWindowEx() (which will always look consistent), all the rendering inside that window can then be done through one of the 3D APIs.

Same on macOS, I don't need any optional dependencies to create a decorated empty window which I can then render into with Metal.

For that same scenario (3D rendering into an empty window), Wayland only guarantees me a bare undecorated rectangle I can draw into with GL or Vulkan (and I wouldn't be surprised if even that is an optional feature I need to query first lol). And even if both GTK and Qt would be guaranteed to be installed on each Linux desktop system (so that I can pick one of two frameworks to give me a dedorated window, that would be overkill if I just want an empty window for 3D rendering - and even then I don't know if a window created through Qt would look consistent on a GNOME desktop or vice versa).

Of course that topic has been discussed to death without anybody who could fix that problem once and for all (by making the server-side decoration extension mandatory for desktop Linux systems) even recognizing that this is an issue that needs fixing.

Tbh, I don't even understand why desktop Linux needs more than a single Wayland implementation. So much wasted redundant work which could be put into actual improvements.
by victorp13 | 2025-08-15 09:42:29+00:00
Small nuance, but the term ワープロ馬鹿 actually is unrelated to software like MS Word, and refers to the at one point ubiquitous ワープロ (Word Pro) dedicated hardware device that many Japanese people owned in the 80s/90s to write letters. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor#Japanese_word_p...

Interestingly the English Wikipedia page above only mentions Japanese word processor devices in a small section, but the Japanese version of that page is almost entirely dedicated to these hardware devices: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3...

I was lucky enough to live with a Japanese family in the early 90s and used one to learn how to type Japanese but also write letters home in my own language. I guess you had to live through this age to understand the difference of how Word Pro is used and the hardware association it has in Japanese.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-15 09:42:34+00:00
I don't think it's a cheapening effect, but I do think there's been a lack of boldness and originality compared to handmade graphic design.

I'm a big fan of 60s-to-80s graphic design, including posters, album covers, and game art. Some of it is kitschy and terrible, but the best has a dynamism and enthusiasm that is missing today. It captures and fires up the imagination and literally colours outside the lines. As a metaphor using a device with hard edges and a limited toolset discourages you from doing that.

https://indieground.net/blog/the-20-best-videogame-cover-fro...
by mrkeen | 2025-08-15 09:42:53+00:00
6:55> "C98"

7:05> "It's faster to write five lines of code today, than to write one line today, and have to edit it in the future"

This is my experience writing C as well, which is why I now avoid it.

There are plenty of times where writing something in C seems like it would be simpler and more reliable than in other languages. But I found I couldn't edit it. Too many of my assumptions get baked into the code and I can't see them later.
by jeffhuys | 2025-08-15 09:43:03+00:00
The quality is already insane if you think about how thin it has to be, with "glass" in front of it and the alu behind it. Pinch it with your fingers, imagine a CAMERA being thinner than that...

I feel like the only one that's still amazed by tech sometimes. I still look at planes and feel amazed we puny humans did that. It's never good enough.
by microtonal | 2025-08-15 09:43:40+00:00
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it is requested and/or greenlit by Apple managers who only use their Macs for Safari or Mail. There can't be another way, because the menu splitting and icon disappearance is pretty infuriating.

Luckily I have mostly used Macs on external screens the last few years. But it ticks me off every time I actually use a MacBook as a laptop.
by jddj | 2025-08-15 09:43:56+00:00
Not to take away from your general point (which I agree with), but that depends where local is.

> Identity technology used at a county's pubs and nightclubs since 2023 is to be extended for a further three years.

> Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) Danielle Stone has agreed to provide funding to keep the scheme at 25 venues that open beyond 01:00.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm28lmk474o
by kleyd | 2025-08-15 09:44:09+00:00
Current LLMs look a lot like a very advanced 'old brain' to me. While context engineering looks like optimizing the working memory.

What's missing is a part with more plasticity that can work in parallel and bi-directionally interact with the current static models in real-time.

This would mean individually trained models based on their experience so that knowledge is not translated to context, but to weight adjustments.
by gxs | 2025-08-15 09:44:34+00:00
To be honest you sound super defensive, not just in a classic programmer when someone invades on their turf sort of way, but also in the classic way people who are reluctant to accept a new technology

This sentiment of, a human will always be needed, there’s no replacement for human touch, the stakes are too high, is as old as time

You just said, quite literally, that people leveraging LLMs to code are not doing it at your level - that’s borders on hubris

The fact of the matter is that like most tools, you get out of AI what you put into it

I know a lot of engineers and this pride, this reluctance to accept the help is super common

The best engineers on the other hand are leveraging this just fine, just another tool for them that speeds things up
by jongjong | 2025-08-15 09:45:08+00:00
I'm convinced that different people process handwriting (and movement) differently. This is true with latin languages as well.

I think this may explain the difference between recognizing shapes versus drawing them for some people.

I remember when I was in school, some people had really neat handwriting, they could write fast and all their letters looked exactly the same with apparently little effort. On the other hand, I had to focus hard to ensure that my letters were all the same style, shape, size and slope... Also, I didn't have a single 'handwriting style' I could write in a number of different styles. I couldn't have both speed and nice looking, consistent letters; it was one or the other.

The interesting thing though is that I was always quite good at drawing... Conversely, I noticed that the people who had beautiful, effortless handwriting would typically be quite bad at drawing... They were the kinds of people who had to start out every drawing as a bunch of circles, triangles and crosses before joining them together to form the final drawing.

I feel like these people automate their hand to some extent. It's like a reflex to them. It lets them render common shapes without much thinking or effort.

It reminds me of that time I did a drawing class and the teacher kept reminding students to "stop thinking in symbols and just draw the different shapes and shades as they appear."

This probably has parallels in a number of areas like sports (e.g. tennis) where being able to offload certain movements to muscle memory can free up your brain for more strategic aspects of the sport.

This also reminds me of Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking fast and slow." I suspect it would be interesting to try to categorize people based on what kinds of mental activities they offload to system 1 vs system 2 thinking.
by notarobot123 | 2025-08-15 09:45:14+00:00
I don't think this is likely to be a real issue in the grand scheme of things.

SaaS customers pay for a product that provides a workflow and a structure for solving their problem without them having to think too hard about a solution. They are outsourcing the problem-solving work, not just the programming effort.

If you must worry, you should be thinking about the new wave of competitors and copycats using LLMs to replace their programming effort. They are the ones coming to eat your lunch if you don't have a defensible market position.
by dspillett | 2025-08-15 09:45:17+00:00
It varies, but in many places you couldn't sell a device without proper shielding, but unless you are causing disruption to a public service or safety equipment there is nothing that stops a person owning and running one. Just think of the world full of rPi units, other SBCs, and other PCs, running completely caseless or in cases without much/any thought towards EMC shielding - it obviously isn't a problem, or it would be a big problem.

Most rPi units and similar are fine as they can be argued to be sold as parts rather than devices just like any other motherboard¹. The Pi400 presumably gets away with it, as something this is conspicuously sold as a device not a part, because that chonky heatsink² is enough to disrupt any errant EM fields outside the ranges that it should be emitting (those around 2.4GHz and 5GHz).

There are many grey areas, and indeed those where the letter of the regs is broken but not enforced. To cut a long story short wrt “Is this "legal" to run a pc open like that?”: yes running a PC in a case like that with no extra shielding is legal pretty much everywhere, though selling a complete PC with a case like that probably breaks regs and maybe even laws.

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[1] putting the responsibility with the purchaser, where it isn't enforced unless it is a problem (I chose not to shield my TV-box Pi4, not the company, and it isn't putting enough junk out to disrupt anyone else's anything else)

[2] everything else about the case is plastic
by aikinai | 2025-08-15 09:45:23+00:00
My children are Japanese-English bilingual and can read far more advanced books in English. Initially I took this as an imbalance and suggested they read the same books (or something very close) in Japanese. But their native Japanese language teachers said, no, because of the different learning curves you can't expect them to read the same level of Japanese texts; the equivalently educated/advanced Japanese reader will be behind, at least in the elementary school years.

Japanese as a whole are extremely avid readers, so I don't think there's a gap at the top, only the shape of the learning curve.
by trinix912 | 2025-08-15 09:45:30+00:00
If the aim is to have an elegant, OS-wide solution, changing it to the Windows/Meta key makes more sense semantically than keeping it in the realm of program-specific Ctrl shortcuts.

Windows already has WinKey+V which brings up the clipboard manager.

> If we are talking about changing all keyboard shortcuts to use windows/option key instead of CTRL is even worse, you are suggesting we should suddenly change all shortcuts for everyone, because some people can't remember to press the shift in the terminal?

I only said that we should not subtract using Win/Meta key as an option just because some people have fancy setups that already use that. You implied the rest.
by icarouse | 2025-08-15 09:45:32+00:00
Your local pub will have CCTV and some have names and photos of banned patrons behind the bar. Some bars and clubs have digital ID scanners upon entry.

Most online service providers who verify age are using third-party suppliers who don't provide any details of one's identity, just whether the user has been age verified or not. And much of that is done by recording a selfie, not handing over identity documents.
by robertkoss | 2025-08-15 09:45:51+00:00
I dont get it. Foundrys documentation is completely public, you can even sign up for the dev tier and try it out. It is not secretive at all. If there is one word to describe their products it would be ontology and literally no one has mentioned that.

And even on Gotham there is countless footage etc. on Gaia, Dossier, Meta Constellation etc.

They had to disclose this during the IDO, why are journalists just scratching the surface when discussing Palantir.

It is obviously a tech company that has a clever business model, deploying their engineers and PMs into the board room of Fortune500s and solving their problems.

Not trying to defend Palantir, but the journalistic work is just poor.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-15 09:46:03+00:00
I haven't researched the topic in detail yet, but looking at official data in Norway the _average_ puberty age is 13,2 years and has remained stable for 70+ years. There's a lot of simply intuitive factors to consider with older data: It was, for example, beneficial to _hide_ puberty because of older societal norms about consumption of marriage. I'm not sure we can trust older data.

My instinct tells me that _if_ the age is sliding, then the first place to look is where we've made the biggest human interventions already. Vaccination -- and no I'm not anti-vaccines, but like any medicine, these have various side-effects -- and likely significantly more important, food and additives. In Norway we do not allow growth hormones in feed for livestock that is to be consumed by humans; could that be a contributing factor elsewhere?

Before we even start contemplating compounding these things with even more interventions we have to seriously look at what we've been doing already. This is a fundamental flaw in a lot of western medical practices these days: We see a symptom. We treat the symptom with a new intervention instead of first changing habits like food, activity, etc. The new intervention then has side effects causing symptoms we treat with another intervention. And on and on.

I've experienced this myself, with side-effects of antihistamines being treated with proton pump inhibitors which causes digestive issues that led to other problems. Eventually I just had to read up on everything myself and figure out the root cause because the doctors -- and I went to _many_ -- just kept sending me to new investigative procedures and added more medication. When the solution all along was to just taper off antihistamines at the end of allergy season.

I see the same in my entire family, and with friends. And Norway's healthcare system is apparently among the better of the world, which I find hard to believe.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-15 09:46:05+00:00
This is exactly the sort of brain-dead take that my comment was meant to correct.

The Gaza Health Ministry is a professional organization that has been found again and again to work reliably. Even Israeli intelligence has determined that the Gaza Health Ministry is reliable. Look, I don't like the fact that a far-right political party (founded by a literal terrorist, Menachem Begin) that wants to annex the West Bank and Gaza runs the Israeli government, but I still trust morgue data that comes out of Israel. The same goes for Gaza.
by everyone | 2025-08-15 09:46:14+00:00
Notches are dumb as shit. Eg. when making a cross platform mobile app, you just have to leave a portion of the screen at the top completely empty. Cus various different phones could have a notch or a front facing camera in any position up there. On mobile where screen real estate is tight we just have to give up a really important fraction of the screen because of this madness of non rectalinear screens.