MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benterix | 2025-08-19 14:21:15+00:00
> People hate ads, they are annoying and provide virtually no value to the end user.

[Today.] In the past (1980s, maybe?) I remember getting these fat volumes consisting of only ads (they had everything, from clothing to electronics to LEGO sets) and browsing them with my siblings for hours on end, and fantasizing about getting some of these.

I believe the old style ads, where the website you visit serves locally hosted ads that are in line with the subject matter, not only are not frustrating but actually provide some value as they help you to discover more about things you are already interested in.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-19 14:22:28+00:00
https://archive.is/tpdTR

The bull case for the UK is that they have an educated, English-speaking workforce and a stable legal system for protecting property rights. As they become poorer and poorer, you will be able to hire their talent cheaply as their standard of living further erodes.

Otherwise, I really don't see a lot of growth possibilities on the horizon. It is crab-mentality of taxing their richest citizens and companies ever more, but the juice is running out of that orange. So fundamental reform will eventually occur, over the shrieks and howls of the left. Reform UK is highly likely to win the next election. This isn't to say they will actually solve anything, but the pivot to the extreme right after a huge win for the left is a symptom of larger societal problems and widespread hand-wringing.
by tsimionescu | 2025-08-19 14:22:35+00:00
Fair enough related to battle, but that's not the only risk of waging war. A fair few kings caught diseases from their campaigns - which they may not have at home. Overall from some light Wikipedia browsing, it seemed to me that around 1/3 of medieval English kings died from assassination or battlefield wounds & diseases. Note that Richard III is basically the last Medieval king, I'm talking about earlier periods.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-19 14:22:47+00:00
I really like the software & systems aspects of this, but I don't understand how homeowners are making the hardware work in non-ideal situations.

It would have to be constantly mowing my lawn in Texas or it would be at risk of trapping itself in a jungle. There is no way a robot mower could deal with 10+ days of growth in the summer. I can stall a 7hp+ 22" mower at practically any speed if I try to cut a full width strip in these conditions.
by rootlyhq | 2025-08-19 14:22:59+00:00
In high-pressure incidents, strong leadership is essential, but sometimes the best move is to step back. Lets explore why well-meaning leaders can unintentionally slow teams down, how trust and clear communication empower responders to excel, and why creating space for rising talent often leads to better outcomes. A must-read for anyone rethinking what true leadership looks like when everything is on the line.
by fleebee | 2025-08-19 14:23:03+00:00
Now that's a blast from the past. Before we had good one-in-all plugin solutions for solo play, I'm pretty sure I ripped the hook code from ProKreedz for my listen server. Then I got a checkpoint plugin from another guy, LJ stats from somewhere else and so on. I could tinker with my server freely and make it work just like I wanted.

That's what I really loved about CS 1.6. It allowed so much freedom in terms of what kind of maps and plugins you could create. We got amazing community-cultivated game modes such as KZ, HNS, surf and so many more out of it. And what's more, it was relatively easy to whip up your own map in Hammer and get it out there for everyone to play.

Community servers were first class citizens back then, prominently displayed as soon as you launched the game. These days someone getting into the game might not ever find out about the rich variety of experiences provided by community servers because they get funneled right into the default 5v5 matchmaking experience.

I tried TF2 recently and it took me a minute to figure out how to play a game without queuing into matchmaking. It's a bit sad.

I honestly think developers undervalue the power of moddability in adding value and especially longevity for their games. Fortunately, and as you pointed out, CS 1.6 is still there, and there's still a lot of active communities around that game. I believe that's because the game allowed the community to carve out a space for the themselves and build whatever they wanted.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-08-19 14:23:30+00:00
Can the liability for damage to property or persons also be open sourced in the United States in case one of these things throws a rock and breaks a window or runs over an errant French Bulldog in spite of it "not supposed to be there in the first place" parameters?

If you think I'm kidding, I'm in Texas. If robotic mowing was in any way shape or form viable, it would be at an Enterprise Level here. IT IS NOT. Fields still take tractors and industrial level maintenance to avoid creating a public liability, aka, fire hazard. All these projects do in the short term is devalue the human who would otherwise be the one mowing the yard.

Want to impress me? Create a mobile Open Source AI / Tech powered MOBILE DENTISTRY SYSTEM that fits in a MB Sprinter Van and can come to communities and provide services at scale. My bad. I almost forgot solving problems is secondary to drumming up bullshit narratives to get funding.
by aitchnyu | 2025-08-19 14:23:37+00:00
These formats must have made sense with Notepad (no autocomplete balanced tags, indentation, syntax highlight) and custom parsers in C.

Eric Raymond's, in his 2003 book, advocating terse text formats in chapters 5 and 18 https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/graphics/taoup....
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-19 14:23:49+00:00
There was also the whole branch of Surfing, which exploited a glitch in the physics engine that caused standing sloped surfaces to generate forward velocity. Flying around massive expansive maps gliding on slopes while blasting people with shotguns was so much fun (or sniping them mid air with an awp).

There was also a whole sub-genre of skill surf, with mechanically challenging courses to complete.

Oh and then kz maps too, which was just for climbing up huge structures.

Good times
by card_zero | 2025-08-19 14:23:56+00:00
I assume (tell me if I'm wrong) this only applies to published origami duck versions of newspapers, because they're still copies. Or (?) published tools with the purpose of folding a specific newspaper up into an origami duck. Or (?) for folding any newspaper. Because, I don't know why, makes no sense. But anyway it doesn't apply to things you do privately. Or does it?

Edit: a sibling comment points out that it's about editing the text, not folding the paper, but I still have the same questions: is it supposed to be a copyright violation (even if too small to sue over) if you cut and paste with a newspaper you bought, in private? And is a tool with the specific purpose to help you do this - "newspaper scissors" - also a copyright violation?
by abduhl | 2025-08-19 14:24:10+00:00
I didn't choose the data set or the link, perhaps your admonishment should be levied against GP.

I agree that people should look at the data before making conclusions, which is why I posted that the data directly contradicted GP's claim that the 9th "usually has the lowest, or among the lowest, reversal rate of any district." It doesn't. Based on the data, it has not only the highest reversal rate but also the highest amount of reversals. I take no position on whether the 9th's reversal rate is significantly different than any other circuit's other than to note that it is the highest by all reported metrics and that when you hear that fact, it isn't a "lie" (as characterized by the GP).
by jasode | 2025-08-19 14:24:18+00:00
>A direct analogy here would seem to be a newspaper publisher arguing that if a reader chooses to fold up the newspaper into an origami duck,

No, that type of manipulation isn't the legal argument Axel Springer is trying to use. It has nothing to do with re-using newspapers/books as birdcage liner, or fireplace kindling, etc.

Instead, Axel is focusing on the manipulation of the text/bytes itself (i.e. the HTML rewrite). A better direct analogy would be the lawsuits against devices deleting ads or muting "bad words" from tv broadcasts and movies. E.g.: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/child-safe-viewing-a

That's the legal angle they used to pressure ReplayTV to remove the automatic Commercial Skip feature from their DVR.

And yes, sometimes us nerds really want to slippery-slope those lawsuits into wild scenarios such as ... "But doesn't that also mean that when I shut my eyes at a tv commercial during a baseball game or go the bathroom during an ad it's a copyright violation?!?" .... No, the courts don't see it as the same thing.

Probably the more convincing analogy to justify ruling against Axel is the more prosaic "Reader Mode" in browsers that analyze HTML and rewrite it. Is Apple Safari Reader Mode a "copyright violation" ?!? I hope not.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-19 14:24:46+00:00
> but I really love your work

This is your point of confusion. The people you're talking to are indifferent to your work. If it's there and someone links it to them, they might read it, but if it's not, that's fine too. They're sure as hell not going to run malware for the privilege though.

It's been a running joke for decades in discussion forums that people don't read the articles. They don't pay for it because it's actually not worth anything to them.
by Bender | 2025-08-19 14:24:47+00:00
Why don't feral software developers include code to fix the vulnerabilities they use to gain access in the first place?

These were hacktivists and were mostly grey-hats. In the early internet there are far less monitoring and logging. The risk of being a grey-hat was lower and there were less legal precedent for what happens when caught.

Logging and monitoring is very common now and there are a myriad of court cases that show hacktivists what happens when they are caught. The older former-hacktivists now have something to lose and the younger ones don't want to spend a portion of their life in jail whereas criminals that spread malware for financial gain are often in locations that first world countries can not easily pursue and they have accepted the risks vs. rewards.
by Devasta | 2025-08-19 14:24:57+00:00
There are other implementations of XSLT available besides libxslt, some even in Javascript. Security is something that could be overcome and they wouldn't need to break styling on RSS feeds or anything, it could be something like how FF has a js for dealing with PDFs.

It doesn't need to be some big conspiracy: they see the web as an application runtime instead of being about documents and information, don't give a fuck about XML technologies, don't use them internally and don't feel anyone else needs to.
by omarfigueroa_10 | 2025-08-19 14:26:12+00:00
Omar here, co-founder of Ooln. I'm the psychologist from the title.

My background is in performance psychology, where I've worked with top athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and MLS to help them master their mindset under pressure. My co-founder, Andri, has a background in Machine Learning and is a CFA charterholder.

The hard truth was, even with our combined expertise, we kept blowing up our personal trading accounts.

That failure was the catalyst for Ooln. We realized that the difference between winning and losing wasn't knowledge or analysis; it was the ability to manage your own psychology in the heat of the moment.

We found this was a universal problem when we spoke to professional hedge fund managers. They admitted that while they were disciplined at work, they made the same emotional mistakes with their own money.

So, we decided to build the solution we all needed: a real-time decision engine for traders.

What it is:

Ooln is a decision engine that scans the market and distills the chaos into a single, clear, actionable trade plan based on your risk profile. It’s designed to provide a rational, data-driven framework right when your own psychology is working against you. It's the tool that finally got us, and our early users, to trade with consistency.

The hard part (how it works):

The biggest challenge was delivering this analysis in real-time ML model. Our lead engineer from CMU, Seva, designed a distributed architecture on Google Cloud Run to solve this. It splits the work into a few layers: a pool of Cloud Run workers process all the tickers in parallel, writing results to a GCS cache. The FastAPI endpoint that you hit only ever reads from this cache, which allows for sub-second responses. A scheduler then triggers a full market refresh every 30 seconds during trading hours. This setup keeps the user experience fast while the heavy lifting happens in the background.

The Offer for HN:

We have a standard 5-day free trial. But for the Hacker News community, we wanted to offer something more valuable than just a longer trial.

10 people from the first 100 HN sign-ups will be randomly selected for a free, private 1-on-1 mental performance session with me.* We can talk about trading psychology or whatever is on your mind.

We're a small, funded team trying to solve a problem we're deeply passionate about. Our business model is a $20/month subscription after the trial.

We're launching here first for the honest feedback. You can try it at: https://app.ooln.ai

Andri and I will be here all day to answer your questions.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWKPbETzFYY&list=LL&index=1
by rep_lodsb | 2025-08-19 14:26:27+00:00
Not sure if it's 100% slop, but as someone knowledgeable about older x86 processors, I can say after a casual look through "src/emulator/cpu.c" that the code is pretty terrible and often wrong.

For example, "subtract with carry" simply adds the carry to the second operand before doing the subtraction, which will wrap around to zero if it's 0xffff; this doesn't affect the result, but the carry out will be incorrectly cleared. Shift with a count of zero updates the flags, which it doesn't on real hardware. Probably many more subtle bugs with the flags as well.

It can't really be called a 286 emulator either, because it only runs in real mode! For some reason there is already code in there to handle the 32-bit addressing of the 386, but it can't have been written by someone who actually understands how the address size override works - it changes both the size and the encoding of the address register(s), "AX+BX" is never a thing, nor is "EBX+ESI" (etc) used if there is only an operand size override. Also what looks like a (human?) copy-paste mistake with "EBX" in a place where it should be "EAX". At least all that code is #ifdef'd out.

And rather than running a real BIOS, it appears to handle its functions in the INT emulation code, but what is there looks too incomplete to support any real software.
by volkk | 2025-08-19 14:26:28+00:00
i played CS competitively and the cheating was horrendous. if i had to put a number to it, i would guess that 50% were cheating in some form simply because it wasn't very difficult. I would ultimately be relying on checking the number of digits in your Steam ID to tell whether this account was fresh (higher probability that you bought a new one and were cheating). I think the anon matchmaking is the horrible part, not the anti cheat software.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-08-19 14:26:42+00:00
Using current state of tech parts, including US sourced batteries with 10 year performance guarantees, I designed a "clean sheet" electric UTV constructed with bio-composite materials that would put the John Deere Gator out of business. The NEV carve out is fascinating. I learned how to scale RC cars up so I look at this differently than Lincoln or Tesla thinking EV is a reason to stuff more and more and more things in it - simplicity is the best use case for EV.
by actinium226 | 2025-08-19 14:26:54+00:00
I appreciate your efforts :)

I think what gets me is there's 6 paragraphs in a row that either start with "Modernism" or have it in the first sentence, and it comes along with words like "transcends", "echoes", "essence", "exude", "crafts." They're good paragraphs by themselves and make good points, I just think that together they come out a little breathless, and maybe some consolidation is in order :)

I notice from your profile that you haven't submitted your site to HN, I think you should do so, I think it would generate some interesting discussion.
by BlitzGeology91 | 2025-08-19 14:27:16+00:00
> Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.

> I can't find anything documenting that saga[…]

You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: <https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby>. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page.

> (And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/assassin
Show HN: Can an AI replace your nutritionist? I built one to try
by falcon_ | 2025-08-19 14:27:24+00:00
I’ve been messing around with the idea of having a coach that actually keeps up with you day to day. Most apps either make you log every crumb manually or just spit out generic meal plans. So I built this: a chat-based AI coach that logs your meals, and workouts, then uses that info to give you daily nudges and plans.

It’s still rough around the edges (bugs, UX quirks, the usual), but it’s already way more helpful than the spreadsheets and calorie counters I used before.

Would love feedback, feature requests, or “this sucks, here’s why.”
by wink | 2025-08-19 14:27:25+00:00
Back when you couldn't buy most idSoftware games here I had to go out of my way to let an online buddy of mine with a non-German Steam account buy and gift the collection to me. So it does happen. And I even got quite some duplicates as I had managed to buy some, just not all of them.

> you are supporting the people you like as opposed to whose work you want to read

TBH personally I find that a much more convoluted reason. It might be an edge case of "I will watch this clip of horrible person to get the original source" but actively seeking out material for free just so that they get nothing, but I can consume it in whole? That sounds really rare to me.
by cynic_ | 2025-08-19 14:27:36+00:00
Would they? Gun game has been an official game mode is CS for a long time, 2 of the maps follow the same layout fy_iceworld. COD had/has it as well.

I've even stumbled upon fy_pool_day recreation in Roblox.

Almost anything your nostalgia can think of is available "current" games like Fortnite and Roblox.
by strangecasts | 2025-08-19 14:28:02+00:00
Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit [1] is the standard recommendation, I believe - I've also seen animation courses recommend Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Cla...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560100842/
by anenefan | 2025-08-19 14:28:33+00:00
Typos happen, parrots copy.

As for Ytterbium - since there doesn't seem to be any stainless steel (SS) alloy for sale or even described / designated a code, it was possibly a one off project. Wikipedia [1] refers to it as a dopant when used in stainless steel alloys - but I think manufactures would still want to know if the SS metal they purchased was treated as such. But there's a lot of secret sauce BS in the manufacturing world.

Some things though are just in error. I used to late teens, refer to and spent much time reading an old but rather technical late 50s or 60s inorganic chemistry book - one of the things that stuck with me was where it mentioned Titanium would decompose boiling water into hydrogen and oxygen ... when I finally got my hands on some pure Titanium I found out it wasn't going to do that like I expected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium
by zamadatix | 2025-08-19 14:28:50+00:00
I think the biggest wrench in the works was just that UHD BD was effectively a dud due to streaming https://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/be/uploads/Screenshot_from_2025_0.... I think I hear/see more about it from pirating communities and notes about the death of SGX than actual players and disc in stores or friend's houses.
by afr0ck | 2025-08-19 14:29:16+00:00
It's not that deep. The futex was developed just to save you from issuing a special system call to ask the OS to put you on a wait queue.

The whole point is that implementing a mutex requires doing things that only the privileged OS kernel can do (e.g. efficiently blocking/unblocking processes). Therefore, for systems like Linux, it made sense to combine the features for a fast implementation.
by elieteyssedou | 2025-08-19 14:29:23+00:00
That's a great question. Actually, I am not really worried. This new pattern of coding felt like a shift for me, I just needed to learn this lesson the hard way. Some others would likely learn it a softer way, by learning from others experience. Vibe-coding is such a no-brainer, that's the future of coding... I guess that a kind of natural selection will happen for those who won't learn to use this new great tool properly. And you?
by KempyKolibri | 2025-08-19 14:29:45+00:00
I'm not sure I understand this argument. The point is that there are some serious issues with the production of meat that are not (or may not be in future) issues with lab grown meat.

It's true that you could solve this by only eating legumes, but you then go on to say you don't even eat only legumes yourself, you also consume meat. So for those times where you do consume meat, lab grown meat would solve the issues that come with that.

Totally get that you may have dietary/taste preferences that preclude consumption of these meats, but that sounds different to the OP's point that they potential solve a lot of issues with our current food supply.
by dkarl | 2025-08-19 14:30:23+00:00
Pretending not to care what other people think is the least authentic thing imaginable. Everyone knows that the people obsess about not giving a fuck are the people who are deeply unhappy with how they're perceived and are fantasizing about a fix.

For secure people, caring what other people think doesn't have to mean being neurotic and miserable about it. It doesn't mean being so cringe that you lose people's respect.

Imagine caring what other people think and not being miserable because of it.

Imagine caring what other people think, and they respect you more for it instead of less.

Top performers care deeply about the opinions of people who matter. CEOs in particular obsess about it. If a CEO acted like your opinion didn't matter, they were probably right, and they were probably too busy thinking about the board and the COO who was angling for an eventual interim job to give you the time of day.

Plenty of documentaries about sporting legends who collected slights and obsessed over proving themselves every day. They cared, and it fueled them.

Trump and Paris Hilton are playing a part for a mass audience who don't know how elites act because they don't know any. Nobody is suggesting that Trump and Paris Hilton don't actually personally care. If they really didn't care, they wouldn't put in the effort. In the years when Paris Hilton was shooting reality shows, she was working a hell of a lot harder than a society heiress needs to. Trump had to keep a president's schedule (a version of it, at least) for four years and came back for more because he wanted to prove he could win again. Being on TV and running for public office are the ultimate forms of caring what other people think. I think the part they play is a part they learned by living it, and is authentic in that sense, but if it was really who they were, instead of being something they act out because they know the masses are impressed by it, we wouldn't know their names.