MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alberth | 2025-08-20 17:12:42+00:00
I loved Digg back in the day, and as such - I paid to be a Digg Groundbreaker.

I am still confused what the new Digg is (on the web)

When I login, I don't see any news/articles/content.

I only see the ability for me to post (and the meme image below)

https://i.imgur.com/kBOAlZS.gif

Note: this doesn't seem to be a problem in the app ... but why do I need to run an app when this could easily just be available on the web.
by decentrality | 2025-08-20 17:12:44+00:00
Not sure what this guess is based on. Would that be a guess for git also, if mentioned by a company versus an individual?

My read was that they are pulling a Linus Torvalds with the Linux->Git move where both are innovations on their own, but work great together ( without dystopian universe instantiation )

CRDTs mentioned: https://zed.dev/blog/crdts
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-20 17:12:53+00:00
> Cursive is actually only a couple of hundred years old.

You must mean modern cursive, which is definitionally true. The ancients used cursive writing of various forms, of course (for example, hieratic)

But fret not! Reputedly, only a few scholars in the world are able to read the scrawl of Thomas Aquinas!
by wolfgang42 | 2025-08-20 17:13:04+00:00
From the article:

> there are about 230 billion* links that need visiting

> * Thanks to arkiver on the Archive Team IRC for correcting this number.

Also when running the Warrior project you could see it iterating through the range. I don't have any logs handy since the project is finished but they looked a bit like

https://goo.gl/gEdpoS: 404 Not Found https://goo.gl/gEdpoT: 404 Not Found https://goo.gl/gEdpoU: 302 Found -> https://... https://goo.gl/gEdpoV: 404 Not Found
by gyomu | 2025-08-20 17:13:40+00:00
Funny, it’s actually after I come back from a week of backpacking that my “internet quality time” is highest - there’s a bunch of new, meaningful content for me to go through.

After a few hours of catching up tho, that’s when my internet usage devolves to reading pointless faff and refreshing my timelines in a loop.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-20 17:13:45+00:00
2/3 of the US population lives within the border zone (defined as within 100 miles of any border or entry point). Likewise, every major city is basically one giant border zone.

So, you could conceivably be a citizen, but CBP/ICE think you might be here illegally, so they can stop you without a warrant. How are you going to prove you're a citizen? There is no national ID, passports aren't required nor are they held by the majority of citizens, and unless something has changed, green card holders / permanent residents aren't required to carry their papers.
by techcode | 2025-08-20 17:13:45+00:00
I didn't get the scam feeling in restaurants in Croatia.

Might be due to us (wife born in Croatia, myself in Serbia) being "effectively local".

The only unusual (though turns out it's the new norm) thing was brown skinned (probably from Southeast Asia) fastfood employee pronouncing our order number and telling me "Dobar tek!" (Enjoy your meal).

For me peak tourist scams are things like: - hop on hop off busses/boats (that cost more, and are usually worse for getting around than normal public transport) - all the hustlers like stereotypical Amsterdam RedLight or Barcelona Rambla "drugs" dealers, or random people (not waiting staff) trying to get you to enter way overpriced clubs/restaurant/etc. - restaurant selling €3-€5 frozen pizza as a "Real Wood Fired Italian Pizza Oven"

Otherwise - same as back home (used to be Belgrade Serbia, now Amsterdam NL) and when traveling.

I try to go into restaurants or fast food where locals go. Often recognized by police/ambulance/firefighters/taxi cars and uniformed clients, bunch of school age kids or student going there during scheduled breaks.
by jandrese | 2025-08-20 17:15:09+00:00
> Don’t forget Digg’s demise wasn’t just the revamp, it’s that most of the front page was dominated by a few people who were literally posting all the damn time.

This is true of all social media platforms. People who have all day to post/reply and figure out how to game the system will always dominate the discussion. This is also why online propaganda works so well, it is literally their day job. People who have a life will always be at a major disadvantage. In some ways Reddit is worse off because those people also become moderators. The only thing that saves it is the ability for users to flee a subreddit if the moderator becomes a tyrant and start a parallel subreddit with hopefully more sane moderation.

The default subreddits are mostly a writeoff at this point. Terminally online people latched on to them and are never letting go. Or they were useless from the start like AITA.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-20 17:15:14+00:00
This is bad, and the erosion of rights at the border is a serious issue of liberty in our modern age, but in many powerful ways the US is still ahead of many Western countries in terms of rights at the border, for both citizens and noncitizens.

For example, in New Zealand, you can be fined $5000 if you do not unlock your phone at the border, and later still compelled to unlock it. The US does not have any fines or laws to compel access. Of course, in any country, refusing the orders of a customs official will get you banned from the country, so that's a strong enough incentive for most tourists.

In terms of frequency: New Zealand searches 671 devices per year on 3M tourists, the US searches 46k/yr on 72M tourists, Australia 8.3k/yr on 6M tourists. That works out to 671/3M tourists is 0.02%, 46k/72M tourists is 0.06% and 8.3k/6M tourists is 0.14%.

Personally, I have fought against these searches for nearly my entire life. But to pretend that the US is on some sort of unique authoritarian slide is laughable. In the UK, today, most forms of protest are illegal. The EU has mandated cellular devices which record your car's location - on every new car. We should stand united against authoritarianism worldwide, not divided and pointing and laughing at each other in some sort of sad petty tribalism. I don't want to score cheap points on the internet, I want all people worldwide to enjoy liberty and privacy. United we stand, divided we fall.
by babypuncher | 2025-08-20 17:15:25+00:00
I think algorithmically curated social media feeds should be regulated the way we do tobacco. Massive education campaigns and obnoxious labeling laws so that everyone and their dog knows it's toxic. Maybe take away their safe harbor while we're at it. The algorithm is a form of editorial control after all, so it can no longer be argued that these sites simply function as a "public square".
by Syzygies | 2025-08-20 17:15:44+00:00
I make little use of .NET; my hand-coded atomic queue is faster than .NET work stealing for parallelism, for example. I like the slightly cleaner syntax and twice as fast for my applications.

I'm escaping the black hole of Haskell. If one can code in Chez Scheme, one can code without parametrized modules, as much as I admire them. And there are also F# additions OCaml could admire.

I held back for all of your reasons, and finally caved. I never saw myself in the .NET ecosystem, but prejudices are a funny thing.
by xp84 | 2025-08-20 17:16:00+00:00
> if you optimize for engagement, they will radicalize themselves very quickly.

Agree completely

> without ads, you will get something a hundred times worse than Facebook, because there will be no pressure to moderate content at all.

Disagree: without ads, moving the needle from “quite enjoyable” to “utterly addicting” doesn’t make your site twice as profitable. With ads it does. So the need that all social media has today, to promote ragebait and drive them to obsession is far, far less if you weren’t on an ad-based monetization.

> pressure to moderate content

We didn’t have censors in every living room in America before FB making sure you don’t say anything doubleplus ungood and yet political discourse is horrifying now compared to before. I question the need for “moderators” to combat wrongthink by deleting it.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-20 17:16:26+00:00
It seems to be more often correct than wrong for multilingual translation tasks(source text from[1][2]). Rough, but probably useful as traveler's phrase books.

You Translate to English: Рошешуа́р (фр. Rochechouart) — місто, муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Нова Аквітанія, департамент Верхня В'єнна. Населення — 3637 осіб (2022)[1]. Муніципалітет розташований на відстані[2] близько 360 км на південь від Парижа, 34 км на захід від Ліможа. gemma-3-270m-it-qat Here's the translation: "Rochechouart is a city in France, a municipality located in the region of New Aeterna, department within the Upper Vienne Province. The population is 3637 people (2022). The city is situated at a distance of approximately 360 kilometers from Paris, 34 km from Lyon. You Translate to English: Bộ Công Thương đề xuất hỗ trợ hộ gia đình lắp điện mặt trời mái nhà, có hệ thống lưu trữ tối đa 2-3 triệu đồng, hỗ trợ lãi suất vay trong tối đa ba năm. Nội dung được Bộ Công Thương đưa ra tại dự thảo lần 3 Quyết định của Thủ tướng về chính sách hỗ trợ cho hộ gia đình lắp đặt điện mặt trời mái nhà tự sản, tự tiêu và hệ thống lưu trữ điện. gemma-3-270m-it-qat The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes supporting households with solar panels in their homes, with a maximum savings of 2-3 million đồng, providing loan assistance for up to 3 years. The content of the Ministry's decision at the Third Review of the Government's Policy on Support for Households Installing Solar Panels in Homes, approved by the Prime Minister about the policy support for households installing solar panels themselves, and the system storage capacity is maximum 2-3 million đồng.

1: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%88...

2: https://vnexpress.net/lap-dien-mat-troi-mai-nha-tu-dung-co-t...
by hobofan | 2025-08-20 17:17:06+00:00
Yup, reads like the typical announcement from the Apache Foundation era, where projects just go to wither.

This leaves me quite bummed out. After Oso[0] went from a superb open source policy evaluation solution to one that's completely closed, OPA is what I'm typically reaching for now, but now it'll likely be on life support.

[0]: https://www.osohq.com/
by einpoklum | 2025-08-20 17:17:14+00:00
> that can itself perform actual SIMD instructions?

Mostly, no; it can't really perform actual SIMD instructions itself. If you look at the SASS (the assembly language used on NVIDIA GPUs) I don't believe you'll see anything like that.

In high-level code, you do have expressions involving "vectorized types", which look like they would translate into SIMD instruction, but they 'serialize', at the single thread level.

There are exceptions to this though, like FP16 operations which might work on 2xFP16 32-bit registers, and other cases. But that is not the rule.
by moi2388 | 2025-08-20 17:17:29+00:00
The problem is likely that you never started at the basics, and never learnt what you needed to solve your problem. You also have a clear idea, and try to build all of it at once. A common mistake.

You want to build a todo app? Fine.

You are going to need to have some website. Cool. You only need to google how to display “todo list” on the page. 5 minutes of html will teach you that.

Then a list. Again 5 minutes of html.

Then add an entry. 10 minutes of JavaScript.

You don’t need react. You don’t need to know closures. You don’t need lambdas. Nobody needs tailwind ever.
by phire | 2025-08-20 17:17:36+00:00
I was an early refugee from Digg, been on reddit for 17 years now.

Aggressive curation of subreddits did help, but I fear the decent subreddits are slowly dying out. The modern iteration of site (It's more of an app these days) appears to attract the wrong type of users for the healthy conversations that I enjoy.

I am surprised how long reddit lasted, but I get the feeling it might not hold on to me for much longer.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-20 17:17:42+00:00
In the late 1970s to early 80s, I learned a more or less standard cursive for the time. My high school, college, and even graduate school education relied a lot on "blue book" exams, short essays written in class, in cursive. Over that period, my cursive declined into an illegible scrawl simply because I was optimizing for speed. I did develop a 100wpm typing speed, but that probably wasn't a major contributing factor.

Years later (early 2000s) I decided my handwriting was unacceptable (was still using it for note-taking), and taught myself cursive Italic, which I still use today. Both prettier and less fussy than the cursive I was taught, works well with fountain pens, which in turn reduces muscle cramps.
by krapp | 2025-08-20 17:17:45+00:00
But the "you're posting too fast" filter is applied by the mods. I know because I've had one for a while. The expectation is that you either apologize for your behavior and have it removed or get frustrated and quietly leave. But like many of HN's operant conditioning features it doesn't really work as intended.

And the aggressive and demeaning tone of a lot of your comments seems intended to invite downvotes. Are you surprised that when you call people simps and angry and selfish that you get downvotes?

The validity of your comments matter far less than your tone and demeanor around here. I don't know if this is your first account here but if it isn't you should know this place is aggressively and mercilessly tone policed.

edit: also editing your comments like that is just lame. For someone who constantly calls other people butthurt you really do seem to be the most butthurt and triggered person here. Sorry I tried to engage with you like a person. Bye.
by scott_w | 2025-08-20 17:17:56+00:00
> If so, then as the wise man says: "well, there‘s your problem!"

Of course, I wouldn't defend this! To be clear, it's not possible to know how every AI Agent works, I just go off what I've seen when a company promises to unlock analytics insights on your data: usually by plugging directly into the Prod DB and having your data analysts complain whenever the engineers change the schema.

> we should not judge the potential of a technology by the mistakes of the most boneheaded implementation.

I agree.
by underdeserver | 2025-08-20 17:20:03+00:00
I think this is for the best.

I used Pytype at Google years ago and while it's well written and the team was responsive, ultimately Python is not well suited for type checking Python. It's compute intensive.

I think the Ty people at Astral have the correct idea, and hope it'll work out.

https://docs.astral.sh/ty/
by AdamJacobMuller | 2025-08-20 17:20:11+00:00
Same here. I (proudly) had my account there banned for posting the AACS key.

Went to reddit and was not unhappy there for many years, but, aside from some targeted subreddits (/r/beagle!) I rarely spend any time on reddit anymore. The new reddit changes just feel user-hostile and they are aggressively pushing users away from old.reddit.com, it feels like a matter of time before they announce that they are killing old reddit.

Perhaps we are getting old but I also find happiness is inversely proportional to my time spent on social media.
by csdreamer7 | 2025-08-20 17:20:12+00:00
> This has major "poll test" energy: a transparent attempt to deny people their rights with an intentional bureaucratic hurdle.

Or a way to reach people (and reduce fraud) when your mailbox is destroyed and you are in temporary housing. Same with people who rent. There was a case where the Supreme Court heard that requiring postage and stationary to mail a form to access government services was a poll tax and they rejected it. The courts may view email as the same way.

Protonmail does not use sms verification, but a lot of places block @protonmail.com without telling you. Happened to me with British Airways and stranded me in Europe until I bought another ticket. Never heard from BA, but another service told me it was because they offer a VPN service.
by parpfish | 2025-08-20 17:20:27+00:00
My ideal social media site would be a slight modification of the link aggregator model.

Instead of a centralized repository of links with comments, it would be a sort of overlay on top of every other website that would create a comment section that isn’t owned or moderated by the original host. It would encourage folks to actual read the original articles and visit those sites, but allow you to have discussions with a particular demographic cohort (e.g., have a discussion among HN crowd on a nytimes article)
by dpoloncsak | 2025-08-20 17:20:28+00:00
Until recently with openAI, I would not have assumed that sharing a chat privately with my friend would make it 'public'.

> If you share a conversation and google is made aware of the link

The issue, as I see it, is that google is made aware of the link without the user's knowledge. Its trivial to prevent Google from indexing /chat/* (or whatever the actual path is), and pressing 'share' and texting a url to a buddy does not immediately present itself as an action that Google would be aware of.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-20 17:20:31+00:00
I've seen a suggestion that a signature is now nothing but a signal. An agreed-upon way of communicating "this is serious and binding". Being able to point out that a signature was faked in some cases is a rare side benefit at best.

If papers were signed, then something was agreed upon. A trade performed, a commitment made. If no papers were signed, then it's just idle talk.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-20 17:20:33+00:00
I had a similar conclusion about C++. C++ takes forever to compile, but C++ is truly insanely fast, its just the compilation process is insanely inefficient. Look at Go or even D (iirc with parallel compilation). It's a night and day difference. C++ is not slow, but its compilers sure as heck are.

Edit: Another honorable mention, look at Delphi in its prime, millions of lines of code, compiles in under 5 minutes.
by metalman | 2025-08-20 17:21:23+00:00
the article links the decline of cursive writing and the rise of the AI cheat happening at the same time as a definitive moment, and suggests bieng locked in an exam room with blank(unlined) paper might be a good way to force peoples hand(accidental pun) and seperate the knowlegable from the rest. my personal feeling, that as you so well illustrate, is that a significant number of academics and hobbiests will want to study and experience past practices as to keep the undestanding of cursive alive into the forseeble future unlined, just for the extra test of focus
by 8b7875ff | 2025-08-20 17:21:58+00:00
> As long as not ALL the data the agent hat access too is checked against the rights of the current user placing the request, there WILL be ways to leak data.

This is the way. This is also a solved problem. We solved it for desktop, web, mobile. Chatbots are just another untrusted frontend and should follow the same patterning to mitigate risks. I.E. do not trust inputs, use the same auth patterns you would for anything else (oauth, ect.).

It is solved and not new.
by braza | 2025-08-20 17:22:12+00:00
At least in some sort, this new venture market dynamics in those private markets is looking more similar with the Art market. I remember that J used to follow several private auctions where most of the auctioneers had some sort of ring where in time to time someone needed some liquidity.

Even in some situations where some artworks could have way less value at the public auction houses (Christie’s, Phillips, Sotheby's) their preference was to market between in this circuit of private auctions.
by kwillets | 2025-08-20 17:22:21+00:00
My company is doing the dbx thing, and the best I can tell my manager is that I'm neutral on it.

My working theory is that the UI, a low-grade web-based SQL editor and catalog browser, is more integrated that the hodgepodge of tools that we were using before, and people may gain something from that. I've seen similar with in-house tools that collect ad-hoc/reporting/ETL into one app, and one should never underestimate the value that people give to the UI.

But we give up price-performance; the only way it can work is if we shrink the workload. So it's a cleanup of stale pipelines combined with a migration. Chaos in other words.
by netcan | 2025-08-20 17:22:22+00:00
Im not sure that advertising specifically is the issue.

I think a lot of the ills of social media are ills of the medium itself... once it reaches "everyone scale," game theory maturity and whatnot.

Anyway the way past it is probably to go past it... and onto the next medium. Back is rarely an available option.

On that note... its curious that Digg now describes itself as a "community platform," not a social network. Ironic, considering they bought the name "digg."

Speaks to the "late stage social media" meme.
by dronf23 | 2025-08-20 17:22:28+00:00
I mean, I love digg, I even worked there for years....but digg didn't make it for a reason. It wasn't the new release of digg that killed it, it was the fact that reddit was just better in every way. I don't know what digg can do that is worth the views it will need to survive. GenX nostalgia can only take you so far.
by graypegg | 2025-08-20 17:22:36+00:00
I noticed more people telling me about Ruby after 3.0 and YJIT. Rails 7 also made a big difference. I’ve since made a few things and really enjoyed coming back to it! I’m still somehow 10x more effective in Ruby than anything else, for little utility scripts to web apps.

I will say that HN has always talked about Ruby a bit more than other forums. It might be that there’s more to talk about with Ruby recently, but the same people are talking. (Not an issue really!)
by aleinin | 2025-08-20 17:22:40+00:00
Cool project! How do you think about targeting hardware-specific ISAs directly? There’s an interesting paper from Citadel (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.06826) that highlights inefficiencies in nvcc for the Volta architecture. Do you see Luminal’s search-based paradigm eventually extending beyond outperforming handwritten kernels, towards actually competing with NVIDIA’s compiler optimizations at the PTX level?
by kbolino | 2025-08-20 17:22:47+00:00
I doubt the traffic ever actually leaves AWS. Assuming it does make it all the way out to their edge routers, the destination ASN will still be one of their own. Not that the pricing will reflect this, of course.

The other problem with (interface) VPC endpoints is that they eat up IP addresses. Every service/region permutation needs a separate IP address drawn from your subnets. Immaterial if you're using IPv6, but can be quite limiting if you're using IPv4.
by neilv | 2025-08-20 17:22:56+00:00
There are specific philosophies and missions behind various kinds of software for which you might have access to the source code.

The most formalized and principled original one, was unfortunately named "free software". (Where RMS expects to be able to explain that it doesn't mean "you don't have to pay money for it" like everyone already thought, but he wants it to actually means "free as in freedom". And he imagines having this conversation, and people being intrigued by the wordplay, etc.)

Of course what happened is that everyone wanted stuff without paying money for it, which is fine, but most people never learned the principles behind the various philosophies, nor why they are that way. Installing a Linux-based software distro is the same as downloading a freebie "community version" of software decidedly not in the same spirit, is the same as downloading a cracked version -- it's all just "free".

A related thing happened with the Internet, in a sense. The early people tended to be egalitarian and principled, and actively onboarded new people into the culture, etc. But when the dotcom gold rush happened, most of that was quickly swept aside. And most of what was already known and taught about cooperative online behavior was never even learned.