MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anenefan | 2025-08-19 09:47:44+00:00
Imagine my surprise when I found out a short while ago and not via an email from them. Since I still use an iinet email for my formal email using my full name ... it's going to suck.

They no longer manage their email service passing it on to another company ... but old costumers are unfortunately affected. [1]

[1] https://help.iinet.net.au/information-on-cyber-incident

I’m no longer an iiNet customer. Why was my information compromised?

The incident involved a system that contained historical customer records. While you may not be an iiNet customer anymore, some of your information remained stored due to legal, regulatory, or operational requirements.
by Anupom28 | 2025-08-19 09:47:50+00:00
I think a lot of it comes down to risk vs. reward. Building truly transformative tech—like next-gen semiconductors or disrupting healthcare—is insanely expensive, slow, and uncertain. Most investors and founders prefer safer bets: tools that are easier to ship, monetize, and iterate on.

AI right now is mostly a 'low-hanging fruit' playground—copying and improving existing processes, automating small tasks—because those yield faster returns. That said, the potential for big leaps is still there; it just takes the patience, capital, and vision to go after the hard problems that actually move the needle.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-19 09:48:38+00:00
Just some casual kids dying of starvation, shelling. Millions of people displaced. Being shunted around. And a genocide live on social media. Funded by the country most represented on this site.

But yeah there are a lot of problems. I think this one is special as it shows we are going backwards, away from the lessons learned and comventions formed from the Napoleonic and World wars. We are going back to all's fair. And that might come for you or me one day.
by anthk | 2025-08-19 09:49:19+00:00
I hate it. It destroys the original concept of hackers, with the original Jargon file, the best relase (1.5). Lisp and Forth hackers are the original thinkerers.

The Jargon File

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

https://hakmem.org/

These are actual hackers and hacks.
by lukan | 2025-08-19 09:49:20+00:00
"I recently learned as well that expressing emotional intimacy can be seen as a dance. You reach out and bravely await a response that might come or not, and that might be positive, negative or indifferent. Your move, their move, and so on."

Maybe try contact improvisation, then it becomes a literal dance. Emotions expressed as body motions. And you act and react to others. Exploring, moving forward, or backward and block yourself again. How you feel it. And also deal with rejection. Cool, that move was too much, I back off. No big deal, I also set my own boundaries. And maybe I open later. But all that I didn't really learn in school or in childhood. There I rather learned to keep my walls up.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-19 09:51:09+00:00
I agree, it's not too bad if you enable strict Pyright checking in CI, and you use `uv` and you don't care remotely about performance.

That's quite a lot of ifs though. Tbh I haven't found anything significantly better for scripting though. Deno is pretty nice but Typescript really has just as many warts as Python. At least it isn't so dog slow.
by mocenigo | 2025-08-19 09:51:51+00:00
If you ask yourself whether this could be depression, go and see immediately a doctor. There is nothing wrong with having it, there is no fault on your side, it something that just gets unbalanced in the brain's biochemistry: diagnosing it will lead to proper medication and improvements. Ignoring it can be very dangerous. I repeat, there is nothing to be ashamed of, it is an illness that can hit anybody at any moment in time. I suffer from depression and handling it has helped me incredibly. You treat it, and you win,

If it is not depression, then you also win, because you have ruled out one hypothesis.
by octo888 | 2025-08-19 09:52:13+00:00
What an Orwellian nightmare. These systems require real-time GPS data.

Just as buying a ticket with cash is becoming increasingly hard in parts of Europe, I can see a near future where having a phone sending constant GPS updates becomes a requirement (a requirement in an strict sense, or the sense that the alternative is unreasonably cumbersome or more expensive)
by echap | 2025-08-19 09:52:56+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m the founder of Brandolia.io, and I wanted to share a quick update about our journey.

We started Brandolia with the goal of [short mission e.g. making high-quality digital design tools accessible / creating timeless fashion with transparency / helping creators launch brands more easily]. Over the past months, we’ve been growing faster than expected, and we’ve learned a lot from our early users.
by Pxtl | 2025-08-19 09:54:09+00:00
Python was established as a fun and sensible language that was usable and batteries-included at a time when everything else was either expensive or excruciating, and has been coasting in that success ever since. If you'd only coded in bash, C/C++, and late-'90s Java, Python was a revelation.

Lists comprehensions were added to the language after it was already established and popular and imho was the first sign that the emperor might be naked.

Python 3 was the death of it, imho, since it showed that improving the language was just too difficult.
by netsharc | 2025-08-19 09:54:45+00:00
I don't think that's the implicit assumption. She ends with:

> But what I do know is when I see my peers rolling their eyes at someone or deriding them for being “shameless”, there’s a good chance that, instead of writing them off, we should examine their actions a bit more closely.

What about Donald Trump shamelessly bragging about sexual assault? Incidentally he even has "shame" and is trying to disassociate himself from Epstein - so, it seems he still needs some social acceptance, but that's a curious point about LGBTQ and shame, because many cultures have made these things something bad and to be ashamed about - although I wonder where they've come from, homosexuality wasn't a big deal in Ancient Greece, and they were even the kind where adult men had relations with adolescent boys.
by Karliss | 2025-08-19 09:55:22+00:00
Haven't done that in a long while but you used to be able to use Haxe as a compiler in combination of tools like swfmill converting and importing resources. Targeting flash was actually one of them primary usecases when haxe was initially released.

It's a bit different workflow than what the adobe tooling provides and in no ways a replacement for adobe animation tooling, but for a more programmer oriented workflow especially if you are using sprite based graphics it's not bad.

There was also FlashDevelop and later HaxeDevelop as IDEs (.NET based) that integrated the corresponding tooling. Both seem currently unmaintained. If you are on windows you might still be able to run the old builds. Otherwise for non flash based projects the vscode haxe extension is quite good, but might need a bit more manual build scripts for the flash stuff compared to prime time of FlashDevelop.
by pyman | 2025-08-19 09:55:52+00:00
I'd argue that shamelessness and countersignalling are different things but share the same foundation: confidence.

Shamelessness is acting without embarrassment and countersignalling is deliberately downplaying because you're so confident you don't need to prove yourself.

Using the example from the article, another person who comes to mind besides Paris Hilton is Trump. He uses countersignalling as a strategic tool, and sloppiness as a Swiss knife. The followers of both Paris and Trump interpret that sloppiness as confidence and authenticity, which is why it's so effective. And to pull off being deliberately sloppy, you need to be shameless.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-19 09:56:03+00:00
> Renting has no direct impact on the development of local housing prices.

Ehh??? Sorry this is wholly untrue. Landlords get easy, often zero-deposit mortgages on houses and then let them out to make money. Of course this affects local house prices, because it absorbs housing stock.

Particularly in long-established, geographically bounded, attractive European towns and cities where there is no possibility of growing the housing stock fast enough to compete.

More to the point, the reason we know the arrival of digital nomads will drive up house prices is that they absolutely already have done, everywhere they have been courted.
by notahacker | 2025-08-19 09:57:43+00:00
Clearly an operations lead tasked with exponential increases in mantra output.

In all seriousness, I don't think the average person could have actually read the books when the concept was conceived anyway, so automating the trick of the recipient receiving all the blessings in the book without someone having to read them out would have saved a whole lot of monks' time....
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-19 09:58:04+00:00
My experience with the Czech NIMBY crowd is that when I talk to them directly, they are quite open about "we don't want anything to change and we don't like new people".

More constructive reasons like "there is not enough buses to the area" can be usually solved by reasonable compromise, but this sort of intense conservatism "wait until I am dead, then build something" cannot.
by aschampion | 2025-08-19 09:58:14+00:00
Like all AAA media in the age of supposedly social media, games became hostile to self-organizing communities that sustain themselves, because they want a push model for consumption where the producers decide what you see, when, and whom with. It commodifies media into generic content, emphasizes short lived novelty, naturally structures around subscription (and increasingly fragmented and numerous ones), and as a bonus keeps all of your activity observable so you also do the labor of saleable data creation for them.

Nearly all my worthwhile experiences in multiplayer games were related to permanent server communities (CS clan servers, 2fort2furious, SWG emulator servers, ridiculous minecraft servers that were effectively collaborative volumetric databases for external design tools).
by rhodeon | 2025-08-19 09:59:59+00:00
> it would be great if the app offered an option to hide its files from other apps by locating them in the app's private storage area

For what it's worth, you can do just that now. Not sure when it was introduced, but on the current Android version, you are prompted to select either "Device storage" or "App storage" when creating a new vault.

You can also change the location of existing vaults from app to device and vice-versa.

With that now available, the one thing missing for me is a biometric lock option. Or even any kind of locking at all. There's a community plugin for that, but it's quite unstable and no longer maintained.
by Nextgrid | 2025-08-19 10:00:26+00:00
But those apps don't actually care about the phone number beyond the initial registration? Once registered, they work entirely via IP and don't know nor care which SIM is in your phone.

You will however have a problem with registering on those with a VoIP number - those ranges are generally blacklisted due to bad actors misusing those numbers for nefarious purposes.
by ksec | 2025-08-19 10:00:35+00:00
I am hoping we have even more surprises in Rails World in two weeks time.

And may be a glimpse of ZJIT? It is not just Ruby and Rails has gotten faster, CPU performance and core count has been getting cheaper.

One thing I forgot to post last time in the GitHub CEO step down thread. I am hoping Microsoft won't force GitHub to move away from Ruby Rails. I remember there were some noise early on during the acquisition M$ wanted to get rid of it.
by wjnc | 2025-08-19 10:01:10+00:00
I even think there are a lot more geeks 'out of the closet' now. Gaming, board games, reading scifi/fantasy, programming and general tech interest - I think they've all massively increased in popularity when compared to the 90s? I for one have found that I can find 'regular people' sharing with me what used to be pretty much solo and online hobbies. Might also have been that life has forced me to develop new friendships and so I had to open up on my hidden hobbies.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-19 10:01:37+00:00
Your exemples are not very good.

Nintendo has always been an innovative company. They have gone against the rest of the industry time and time again. What they don’t do is follow. They don’t go for ever increasing performance. They don’t chase ports. The Wii with motion control, the switch merging handheld and tv based, both were very new idea.
by Aherontas | 2025-08-19 10:01:39+00:00
The paper has to do about: UWB-Based Indoor Navigation in a Flexible Manufacturing System Using a Custom Quadrotor UAV

We tested whether it’s feasible to build an indoor heavy duty UAV for warehouses, and even deploy swarms. Using Marvelmind's UWB sensors(we also compared with Decawave's) on a large manufacturing floor with CNCs and lathes, we achieved reliable navigation accuracy. Blog post with details coming soon: https://www.petrostechchronicles.com/
by davedx | 2025-08-19 10:01:45+00:00
Really cool!

I wonder what Duo Lingo are using behind the scenes. I've been busy with the Chinese and Japanese courses, and one thing I quickly noticed is how there are two different 'grades' of practising drawing hanzi/kana: when you first learn how to write it (with your finger, in the app) it constrains your movements so they perfectly follow the guidelines. But then later, it relaxes the constraints totally, or almost totally, so your hiragana can really be a shorthand squiggle. They then assess it quite liberally too, so as long as the general gist is correct, your kana will pass -- but it's also easy to fail it if you're just guessing.
by Nextgrid | 2025-08-19 10:03:00+00:00
> Don’t underestimate how cheap it actually is to buy politicians

But if your idea becomes an extinction-level threat for a well-funded industry, surely they will also try to buy the politicians, getting into a bidding war with you, throwing their entire war-chest at the problem if necessary (knowing that thanks to their monopoly they have effectively forever to get it back).
by vidarh | 2025-08-19 10:04:33+00:00
I don't question Bach's genius, but most baroque music doesn't interest me. Some of Bach's music I still enjoy enough that I could see myself listen to AI generated tracks made to generate music specifically similar to those pieces of Bach (and others) that I like. Though not enough that I'd seek out that in particular, and so I think the combination of what you say, with the general low-level of interest of those who would if it just happened to appear in my playlist still explains why it's not really a thing.

There are many artists, across the spectrum, like that for me, from geniuses that are just outside my own taste, to mediocre "one hit wonders" where I realise why they only had one hit when I listened to the rest of their catalogue but reallly would like more like that one hit (or handful)

And even when you like a broader selection of a composers music, there are time you might want "more of the same" of a specific piece. E.g. I quite like Beethoven, but I love the Moonlight Sonata, not just for what it is in itself, but the general systematic exploration of repetitive and slowly shifting of it.

There are other pieces by wildly different composers that invokes similar systematic exploration of patterns [1], but I'd also love to be able to hear more new "improvisations" over specific instances tuned very specifically to the aspects I like.

[1] On the extreme other "end" of these types of shiting repetitive patterns, I love Rob Hubbards Delta in-game theme of 11+ minutes of patterns repeated and iterated over as an illustration of the wide range that I like for much the same reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOpIbm_XX-k

You can also find a slightly less shrill modern remake, though it also adds a bit too much for my taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WE6av3g_8I&list=RD-WE6av3g_...

Or a somewhat more faithful arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHpYBGW41gw&list=RDAHpYBGW41...
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-19 10:04:41+00:00
Funny, but no. I've merely watched smaller companies evaporate because they fell for the cloud trap. Wish I could have helped them, but they were very gung-ho on the cloud being the future. Many I've discovered because of their goodbye message got linked here on HN, they imploded not because they failed to launch or failed to find a following, but they failed to overcome AWS eating all their profits.
by kldg | 2025-08-19 10:05:55+00:00
I can't really argue this except to say trust me, bro, I've been an Amazon customer for over 20 years, and there has never been an issue, no matter how unusual, the CSR was not able to resolve inside about five minutes. The LLM was completely on rails with only specific whitelisted actions available to it. Even if a human couldn't do the specific action, they could explain why instead of word-for-word repeating an irrelevant part of their script.

They don't trust the LLM so they cripple what it can do, would be the generous interpretation. I actually think they're intentionally crippling the LLMs' access to accounts, though, to reduce their spend not on CSRs, but on CSR actions for, for example, refunds, where the LLM becomes an excuse for the change; they can hide behind what they'll call technical issues or teething pains.
Show HN: 23KB Template Language
by aanthonymax | 2025-08-19 10:08:47+00:00
Hello everyone! With this comment, as a starting point, I would like to mark a new stage in the development of the product and show the whole Hacker News, and the world in general, what we have done in the last 6 months of work!

Working like ants, efforts were made on a product that made it easier to work with the server and clients on the web. It is a open-source template language that extends the capabilities of HTML.

The main tasks that it solves are:

- Creating web applications with the same interface as if they were written on modern frameworks, but with a significantly smaller bundle size, which will allow you to load sites faster.

- Building a server-oriented application structure that is almost independent of the client. This will allow you to share components across multiple sites without using the Microfrontend methodology and generally not depend on files on the server (in repositories, for example).

- Unlike similar ones, this module is easily integrated into other web applications, and also has extensive customization, which will allow you to send requests to the server not pre-prepared by the module, but completely custom, with the use of fetch!

The essence of the module is simplicity. It combines different approaches to working with the server and provides a kind of middle ground when you are working with either javascript or HTML markup. This principle allows you to combine code with other architectures without building your own completely on it. It can be implemented both in the Vue application and in Angular, Wordpress, self-written sites and much more!

Examples: https://hmpl-lang.dev/examples

Demo Sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/basic-hmpl-example-dxlgfg
Show HN: Bells and Whistles – a new type of daily logic puzzle
by _usefulcat | 2025-08-19 10:09:04+00:00
This is a new variant on nonograms (or picross) I have designed. Like nonograms you fill in rows and columns based on the number clues that indicate how many cells to fill and their groupings. My original concept is that there are two possible icons to fill each cell with. The rows indicate bells and the columns whistles.

The puzzle is daily and is always logically solvable. There is also a 'mini' mode for a quicker, smaller puzzle.

I've named this nonogram variant a kanogram
by ajuc | 2025-08-19 10:09:06+00:00
> without language, your thoughts are just emotions

That's not true. You can think "I want to walk around this building" without words, in abstract thoughts or in images.

Words are a layer above the thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. You can confirm this if you ever had the experience of trying to say something but forgetting the right word. Your mind knew what it wants to say but it didn't knew the word.

Chess players operate on sequences of moves dozen turns ahead in their minds using no words, seeing the moves on the virtual chessboards they imagine.

Musicians hear the note they want to play in their minds.

Our brains have full multimedia support.
by rs186 | 2025-08-19 10:09:09+00:00
I have seen that with both Linux and Windows. And there are bugs like this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808039 that prevents sleep on Windows, but somehow does not exist on Chrome, or when you use Linux/Mac. I have determined that if battery is really important for a certain occasion, I just manually power the laptop off. Thankfully, these days laptops are fast enough to start make it tolerable.

Of course, I can't understand why Microsoft or Linux distribution contributors along with software vendors never manage to truly "fix" such important usability issues.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-19 10:09:13+00:00
It was thought to likely be an electrical fire in the offices at one end of the building, but it had lots of flammable things inside it, but also no real fire breaks/containment like you'd have in a modern building. Wooden floors, wooden furniture, lacquered surfaces, lots of potted trees, cluttered exhibits and low budget concessions. The fire became unmanageable really quickly and presumably once glass is falling from a great height, it becomes unsafe to tackle any individual aspect.

But it was also really a neglected building by then; it was not the glamorous event space it was designed for when it was on the Hyde Park site. The money was running out for the company running it at Sydenham.
by egorfine | 2025-08-19 10:09:15+00:00
Croatia is beautiful. Yesterday I have returned to Warsaw from a week-long vacation in Croatia.

There is this one thing I can't seem to grasp: Croatia and Poland have almost the same GDP per capita, but why are the prices in Croatia roughly 2x compared to Poland while the infrastructure and quality of life are visibly way lower than those in Poland? What is the proposition? Like, just the sea and the weather?
by willvarfar | 2025-08-19 10:09:58+00:00
Perhaps explore plotting the Ulam spiral too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral

Of course the pressing question is, if this is the start field for a Conway game-of-life, do any interesting patterns evolve?

It would be fun to brute-force a few starting grid sizes and seeing how long the game continues. Games that last more than a few steps can be set aside for human evaluation.

Because if it turns out that some particular smallish grid or spiral of primes causes something interesting to happen in game-of-life, then you can imagine HN melting down!?
by pogue | 2025-08-19 10:11:23+00:00
In the replies to the reddit thread, I'm seeing a lot of people they tell me they moved to Control D. Some people had complaints about latency of the service and other factors, as it seems Control D doesn't have very extensive worldwide coverage.

But, it definitely seems to be the superior option. It's $40 a year more for the full plan, which is unfortunate, but if they offer more options, better customer support and etc it is probably worth it. NextDNS is $20 and standard Control D is the same price. NextDNS does work, but there is seemingly no support whatsoever.

I came across a Stacksocial coupon that offers $40/yr for the standard plan, so I'm tempted between the two options. The standard option doesn't offer changing location via DNS. That may not be important if you're already using a DNS, but it would be nice to have.

I bought a RPi5 with the intention of turning it into a PiHole but never got around to it, and I don't believe you can use your PiHole's DNS outside of your LAN (for example, if you use it on your mobile device and leave your local wifi, it can't connect to it's local IP).