MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-19 06:31:20+00:00
> Religions are to a big extent codified traditions and many traditions emerged and persisted because they benefited their bearers in one way or another.

Religions are a lot more than just codified traditions, but yes, some traditions are have benefits. That doesn't mean that the religion as a whole is good at predicting anything, it just means that they occasionally preserve things that are beneficial. But because what is codified is codified without systematic knowledge of what works or how it works, the preservation of benefit is essentially random with weak selective pressure acting in the aggregate of beliefs, and with a very big "past utility is no guarantee of future utility" even on the bits that are useful, because the utility of the tradition may be tied to conditions that are not preserved, while the tradition itself is blindly perserved.
by jabl | 2025-08-19 06:32:02+00:00
> Open source has been turned against us and used to build hyperscalers that effectively control modern computing.

> Pure open source is also not a sustainable business model. You have to be open core or non-commercial, otherwise anyone and everyone can steal your lunch.

Maybe, but beside the point. The point is "don't call whatever you're doing open source if it isn't open source (per the generally accepted definition which you can read e.g. at https://opensourcedefinition.org/ )". No moral judgement here whether open source is morally superior or not, or whether open source is for suckers because the hyperscalers will co-opt it, or whatever. If you don't want to do open source, then don't, but don't go and call it open source.
by dvno42 | 2025-08-19 06:32:40+00:00
Heh glad someone mentioned 1.5, that was my golden version. Pack friends into my parents garage with a hub and play local. No famas/shield and no STEAMing pile of shit (as we called it then). WOL server days iirc too. Scouts and Knives was my level of choice in those days. "Wanna knife this round?" <3
by kmonsen | 2025-08-19 06:34:27+00:00
The goal of science is to disprove our theories so we can find out if they are true, and hopefully replace them with improved versions.

The goal of religious study is to try to prove that it is not impossible, not that it is a probably reading of what happened. To find some absurd way of reconciling different stories. I have no idea how you can call that an answer.
by lmm | 2025-08-19 06:34:59+00:00
> some overly advanced spices (you can say "god-like")

You really can't. They're very different.

> It's not impossible from a scientific perspective for a planet to be terraformed and seeded with intelligent life by some overly advanced spices (you can say "god-like"). Or to create a simulation with intelligent life in it and to save some resources by starting 6000 years ago from a complex seed state rather than simulating 16 billion years of physics to see the intelligent life emerge or not.

True enough. But such a world would be very different from a world in which the bible was literally true, and a world in which the bible is actually literally true is genuinely scientifically impossible. You would have to redefine an unimaginably large number of things and you would still have a world full of impossible contradictions to the point that nothing could be said.

> Take any religious belief and you can build a scientific world where it is true.

You can't, because the beliefs are fundamentally unscientific and self-contradictory. There is no possible world in which the god that actually religious people believe in exists as they believe in him; there are possible worlds in which an entity with approximately the same gross physical properties exists, but such an entity is nothing like the actual religious god.
by emsixteen | 2025-08-19 06:35:35+00:00
For us the combination of WoW and WC3, then later LoL, are what ruined the thriving LAN centre scene across Ireland. There were 12 or so actual GAMETHEWORLD centres, then other wee franchised ones. WoW especially just didn't lend itself to LAN gaming, absolutely sucked the life out of the centres.
by Frieren | 2025-08-19 06:37:55+00:00
> The feeling of instability she describes is a hallmark of the generative-AI era.

This is by design. Power-hungry billionaires thrive in chaos. God governed countries and the rule of law do not allow for the level of inequality that we are seeing today.

AI is just another tool to sell fear to citizens in the developed world. Fear to lose their jobs, fear to lose the opportunity to invest in the next big thing, fear to be outgun on wars, fear to not be part of “A new era for humanity”.

I love when well articulated and informed journalists put into words things that many of us only understand instinctively.

> Earlier this month, OpenAI released GPT-5, to mixed reviews. Altman had promised “a Ph.D.-level” intelligence on any topic.

When investors put their money on words and fantasy not on sound business we are in for a hard landing of the economy.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-19 06:39:18+00:00
JavaScript has been a backend language long before the web was the dominant platform.

And one of the, admittedly many, reasons why web technologies like Electron and React Native exist is because it’s easier to find JavaScript developers vs Kotin, Qt or whatever.

So youre not wrong but you’re also downplaying the network effect that led to the web becoming dominant. And a part of that was because developers didn’t want to learn something new.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-19 06:39:30+00:00
It's just regular old G, defined in mass-of-sun units: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant (fourth item in the first table: NASA also uses meters whereas Wiki uses km)

Gauss's constant k is defined as sqrt(G), but for a while the international standard was to define k and then compute G as k^2, which is why NASA refers to it that way.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-19 06:39:42+00:00
What problem are you pointing out? The only thing you’ve done is severed the audit trail, which removes any trust in the image that was imbued in it by the original poster. Now when people wonder if the image is authentic, they can only rely on how trustworthy you are, not how trustworthy the original source was. This is working as the GP intended as far as I can see. You can’t add unearned authenticity this way, only remove it.
by LinchZhang | 2025-08-19 06:43:29+00:00
OMG I'm so glad this review might have an impact! Please do check out Story of Your Life and then read the other stories!

Without giving too many spoilers away, the short story's plot is simultaneously extremely similar to and extremely different from the movie. YMMV on which one you prefer, fans are divided.

In my experience people who read the short story first prefer the story, and people who watch the movie first prefer the movie. But you might be different! Just read it first and report back what you feel!
by 9rx | 2025-08-19 06:45:09+00:00
> You can write the relational algebra operators in any order you want

Ultimately, yes, you can express relational algebra in any notation that gets the point across, but the parent is right that

π₁(R)

is what is commonly used.

(R)π₁

not so much. Even Codd himself used the former notation style in his papers, even though he settled on putting the relation first in his query language.
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-19 06:45:17+00:00
My father just picked up a Husqvarna 430x to do his yard, and it's a pretty great piece of equipment. It runs basically around the clock and handles his acre on a hillside with relative ease... It finds a couple of the garden beds a bit tricky to navigate, but that'll be a software issue that likely improves as time goes on.
Show HN: Skilfut – 138 UI components to help devs build faster and prettier
by cesargstn | 2025-08-19 06:45:56+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m César, a non-developer who started building prototypes using vibe coding (AI + prompts instead of code). While doing this, I realized a big issue: it’s incredibly hard to get a good design. Most sites end up looking the same.

So I built Skilfut — a SaaS that provides a library of 138 UI components, each with its associated prompt. You can copy/paste them into your no-code or AI-coding workflow and get functional, styled blocks right away.

Already 138 components available New components added every week (+200 planned) Designed in collaboration with designers from companies like Uber Goal: help vibe coders / indie hackers ship faster while standing out visually

I soft-launched on Reddit and was surprised: over 100 people joined the waitlist in just 2 days. Now the V1 is live: https://skilfut.com

I’d love your feedback: – Do you think UI libraries like this can really help vibe coders / AI devs? – What would you want to see improved or added?
by bashwizard | 2025-08-19 06:46:24+00:00
You sound like me. I disliked CS because of how slow and campy it was compared to Quake and we always had this banter in my friend group about Quake vs CS vs Unreal Tournament and which game requires more skill. I ended up playing for one of the best clans in Sweden and competed for a few years until Q3 eventually died.

I did try playing CS more serious for some time but I just couldn't stand it and I never had the patience. Got to respect that.

Quake requires more skill btw.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-19 06:46:52+00:00
Their recent filings show that they’re planning $100bn/yr in AI expenditures as early as 2027. They’re raising debt, rather than spending from revenues, because they get a better multiplier there.

They’re also acting as a guarantor to lots of infrastructure project - meaning the debt is their responsibility, but not on their books.

If the creditworthiness of any of the hyperscalers slip, even a tiny amount, the tech and banking sectors are in some hot water.
by isodev | 2025-08-19 06:47:56+00:00
I hope this integration does not mandate one to use Claude from within Xcode. Claude Code in a dedicated terminal session with tools like https://vibetunnel.sh has been quite transformative for my workflow (and very much IDE independent).

Recent Xcode 26 betas also included additional SDK documentation intended for agents (/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDEIntelligenceChat.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AdditionalDocumentation) which is a good step forward.
by joha4270 | 2025-08-19 06:48:04+00:00
Alternative explanations (pick and chose any you like)

* High demand but limited supply

* Unable to externalize costs that wild/farmed fish doesn't pay

* R/D investments that needs to be recouped

* Small production with a lack of economy of scale

Oh it could obviously be this is a terrible product where its more important to appear environmentally friendly than to actually be so. But lets see where it is in a decade, with my current limited data it looks like a step in the right direction.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-19 06:48:20+00:00
> But because what is codified is codified without systematic knowledge of what works or how it works, the preservation of benefit is essentially random with weak selective pressure acting in the aggregate of beliefs

But you agree this must be much better than random? Evolutionary pressure on species is also rather weak: unfit specimen survive and fit specimen die due to chance all the time. But look where it got us when averaged over long periods of time.

I don't buy the "systematic knowledge of what works or how it works" part. That's what NLP scientists used to say about neural nets while building monstrous systems based on "systematic knowledge of grammar". You definitely don't have to understand "how it works" to be able to make good predictions.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-19 06:50:13+00:00
Well these "answers", whether absurd or not, were good enough for societies to live by them and survive for millennia.

Furthermore, even though you can argue that science can give some answers, it definitely under-delivers on questions like "what is good and evil" or "why you should have kids". Some of those are covered by the "humanism" neoreligion, some of them aren't. This whole experiment is very modern, it's not clear what are long-term survival rates of societies that completely give up on religions in a classical sense. It could turn out that societies that believe in nonsense have an edge over the ones that don't, after all this matches our experience all the way up until the 20th century.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-19 06:53:23+00:00
> You can't, because the beliefs are fundamentally unscientific and self-contradictory. There is no possible world in which the god that actually religious people believe in exists as they believe in him; there are possible worlds in which an entity with approximately the same gross physical properties exists, but such an entity is nothing like the actual religious god.

Why not? I don't think it's likely and I definitely don't build my life under an assumption that this is true.

However I just can't see how this can be ruled out by scientific means. Our world doesn't have to follow any laws at all, this whole thing can be a bad dream of a sleeping giant.
by Animats | 2025-08-19 06:53:32+00:00
The person who popularized "famous for being famous" was Angelyne.[1] Her boyfriend had a display printing business in LA, and, in 1984, arranged for billboards in LA, with just Angelyne and her picture. By 1995, over 200 billboards. She wasn't a movie star. Or a TV star. She'd done some singing. Yet she became famous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne
by Frummy | 2025-08-19 06:55:20+00:00
I bought a tibetan prayer wheel on auction. It's a common thing. You press it to your forehead, say om mani padme hum, then spin clockwise, every spin counts as saying everything written in the wheel once, if it has 50 000 prayers written out that's 180 * 50000 mantras per minute, 9 000 000 mantras per minute. You can see how a lot of good karma is accrued. It's more like an exponential system than a linear one so yeah. A big number system. Many layers to the world, many reincarnation levels, big time spans. High level beings live for a very long time. But not permanently.
by chii | 2025-08-19 06:55:28+00:00
> during sensitive travel.

if your location data is continuous, but happens to "switch off" when you're doing something sensitive, then it's like a blaring alarm that this is the period of time that is "sus". It gives any sort of LEA/feds a time period to investigate, and might even be the evidence they need for a search warrant.

Therefore, you should not just hide your signal only when you are doing sensitive things. You should periodically hide it going to groceries, going to the shops etc. You might want to do it regularly, as part of your daily life. Camouflage only works if it cannot be used to tell apart your activities.
by k310 | 2025-08-19 06:56:21+00:00
Tell me that Cloudflare ISN'T the de-facto web. I use reading glasses to see the monitor, and I have had it with these all-day eye exams.

And yes, I was "there" before the world wide web, with uucp, and this constant interruption sucks even worse.

Who remembers jplvax?
by chilldsgn | 2025-08-19 06:57:41+00:00
I'm not yet financially comfortable, but once I am, this is definitely how I see my life going. I love my work, but I don't love the job, I've gotten burned out too many times.

For people who want some more freedom with their time, part time is ideal. I want to have more time to experiment and learn. Currently there is just no time for it.
by gethly | 2025-08-19 06:57:56+00:00
Good times. I think my first CS was 1.0 beta. I played thousands of hours of this game, even seriously considered going pro back in the day, haha. Well, i was actually on that route, not just considering it - i was actually doing it. Clan wars, tournaments, lan parties...yeah, it was great.

Though looking back, I think they killed the joy for me with version 1.6 where the guns started firing all over the place and precision became more of a random thing than anything else, unlike previous versions.

I never understood the newer versions, like Condition Zero, Source and others. They look nothing like the original CS and played differently as well.

Anyway, good times :)
by sshine | 2025-08-19 06:58:20+00:00
With open-weights models reaching a level where they can sufficiently be used for agentic coding, the price can be directly compared to the price of GPU rentals: https://vast.ai/ has an H100 at $1.65/hr. which can support ~40 concurrent sessions at 40 tok/s. Depending on your agentic workload, you can stretch that any way you like, but let's say it might support 10 active developers at a speed comparable to Claude Code with Sonnet 4 (which I've read is 90 tok/s) who aren't going crazy with sub-agents.

Let's scale that up: $1.65/hr. is ~$1188/mo. (assuming you're renting the GPU 24/7 which you can speculate to not do, which is probably fine as long as there's not scarcity), and divided by ten is ~$119/mo. per user for 10 users.

Add the service layer on top in order to make this a convenient software service, I think $100/mo. is a bargain for unhindered (as far as it goes) access to a high-quality (as far as they come) agentic coding framework.

Feel free to correct my napkin math, it's done very quickly.
by AngryData | 2025-08-19 06:58:45+00:00
I think part of the question though is also, would they have been as popular as they were without piracy, which does provide some advertising benefits through audience exposure. It is easy to say a really popular game would still be popular without piracy, but some lesser known games might never have gained any attention at all if there weren't enough people spreading word about it. Of course trying to quantify the sales and word-of-mouth benefits from that sort of thing is extremely difficult.
by masklinn | 2025-08-19 06:59:14+00:00
> where you start with "I need a product name and minimum price" before thinking about where they come from?

Sure, and pretty much every time the names I wrote up were not the ones in the table so that was a complete waste of time.

> the SELECT is your function return type declaration

That might be true if “select” only contained aliases, bur that’s not the case at all, so what it is is complete nonsense.
by godelski | 2025-08-19 06:59:42+00:00
Sometimes they get there but a lot of times not too.

I'm pretty sure there are a lot more types and the two you wrote aren't the copy-pasters either. Me, I try to follow the Unix philosophy[0] though I think there's plenty of exceptions to be made. Basically just write a bunch of functions and make your functions simple. Function overhead calls are usually cheap so this allows things to be very flexible. Because the biggest lesson I've learned is that the software is going to change so it is best to write with this in mind. The best laid plans of mice and men and all I guess. So write for today but don't forget about tomorrow.

Then of course there are those that love abstractions, those that optimize needlessly, and many others. But I do feel the copy-pasters are the most common type these days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
by KempyKolibri | 2025-08-19 07:00:02+00:00
The thing is, we don’t even have good evidence that UPF is necessarily harmful. Whey protein is UPF, but is associated with positive outcomes. Mass produced wholemeal bread is UPF, but is associated with good outcomes.

I’m not convinced that the “UPF” category adds anything useful over “HFSS” at this point. Happy to be pushed off my view, but seen nothing that would do so thus far.
by teekert | 2025-08-19 07:00:15+00:00
Nitpick (and overall I agree with tfa): "In Exhalation, thermodynamics appear to work differently". I'd say it works the same, but in a very simplified universe, so it gives you a much better understanding of the concept. Which is again, pretty genius.

Oh and "I think he doesn’t understand the power of this singularity-level technology he just introduced." <- I think he does, but this take would make for a much more boring and less powerful story.

Not addressed in tfa but there is one story where writing is first introduced in a society, and before that they had 2 concepts of truth: "The real truth" and "What all parties find convenient". So powerful, I think we do this more that we think, see also that story about that guy that needs coming to terms with his own memory.

Read Ted Chiang people. Any new book of his is an insta-buy for me. I think Greg Egan is up there with Ted Chiang btw, his stories are much longer but still have this high level of scientific and thoroughly structured imagination.
by MasterYoda | 2025-08-19 07:01:27+00:00
In Sweden's northernmost city, Kiruna, north of the Arctic Circle, the city must be relocated so that the mining company LKAB can continue mining iron ore because the mining undermines the existing town centre. [1]

¨SVT is broadcasting live coverage of the unique relocation of Kiruna Church from the old city centre to its new location five kilometres away. The major church relocation will take two days and is part of the extensive urban transformation. The iconic church is 40 metres wide, 35 metres high and weighs 672 tonnes. The work requires extreme precision and nothing can go wrong.¨

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Moving_the_town
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-19 07:01:57+00:00
> Quake requires more skill btw.

+10

I still get a buzz watching the old Q2 / Q3 frag videos.

I was never that good, but have scored a handful of ridiculous flick rails over the time. I think Rocket Arena 3 was peak for me. I'm nearly 20 years out of practice now though. Feels like I'm getting closer to picking up some light hardcore PC gaming again though ;)

My niece is looking forward to having a crack at Portal 2 in the near future (yes, it's old, but it came up somehow or other recently, and she knows it from memes), so I'm aiming to enjoy that together. Gotta refresh myself through Portal 1 first.
by arkh | 2025-08-19 07:02:03+00:00
My intuition is it still exists.

This "old internet" sentiment is due to the fact it was mostly academics in their world and geeks in theirs on internet at the time. Then it made it easier for everyone to use so everyone used it.

But I bet there are still the same proportion of geeks in the population. Which are still socializing on niche area of internet. We don't see it because we're old farts and have jobs and habits so we won't be trawling what are the current young geek channels. It was forum, IRC, ICQ and their ancestors for us. It is some other things for them. The story about the group of teenagers embedding messages in the One Million Checkboxes database shows "the old internet" is still alive.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-19 07:03:54+00:00
I know "secops" guys tend to not really understand what's going on, but you can sell it as just a different computer. You could compromise and install whatever handbrake^w security product they like. Bonus points for that computer being separate from the one where you usually browse the interwebs and such.

However, in practice, at least for the kind of compiling I do, AWS EC2 VMs tend not to be faster than my cheap HP Elitebook. Maybe if you can leverage a hefty number of cores, the situation is different. For regular email pushing, the laptop is good enough.