MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-12 08:42:32+00:00
> So when the military was deployed to LA due to ICE riots

ICE was the entity acting lawlessly, and tht were sent to support it.

>then they left without incident

They did not “leave withot incident”. Except in the sense that no additional incident was caused by their departure.

But, yes, the LA deployment was both a test and a warning sign (and, like the DC one, also a deliberate distraction from other things the Administration wanted to take a less prominent place in the national discussion at the time.)
by tomashubelbauer | 2025-08-12 08:42:39+00:00
For me it was the constant overloads. Paying 200 USD a month only to open Claude Code and half the time it would get stuck at the initial prompt. Sometimes with an overload error, sometimes just stuck forever. Maybe they improved it now, but it has motivated me to switch to Cursor Agent (also TUI based like CC) with GPT-5 to see if it was a viable alternative to Claude Code and so far it is working even a bit better for my use-cases.
by johneth | 2025-08-12 08:43:24+00:00
> It’s difficult to verify that because Yoti is privately held and its backers are secret.

You can see some of these things on Companies House. This is Yoti Holding Ltd., but you'd have to look at its subsidiaries, too:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

(I'm not defending Yoti/similar, just mentioning in case you weren't aware of CH)
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-12 08:43:57+00:00
I had an all chrome and black pads Diamondback bike with black mags, and the scar tissue on my knees and elbows to prove it.

The road I always wanted to fly down was Harwood Rd (SW end on the Los Gatos side) ever since 1982-3 when I saw Woz's house under construction but didn't realize who that was. Harwood's steepness was an obsessive objective for maximizing bicycle and skateboard speed when I was 5-6 and the local roads and sidewalks in front of my house were somewhat uneven. This was an era when many San Jose and Los Gatos residential streets were smooth blacktop and not yet besmirched with a very rough, gray aggregate bonded topcoat hostile to bicycles and especially skateboards.

(Later, I had a steel frame Miyata that was perpetually too small for me extended by ever-increasing handlebar and seat extension risers. (It was eventually stolen in Davis CA the only time I forgot to lock it. Its wheels had slime tubes and Kevlar linings to defeat California's omnipresent goatheads.))

When I grew older, I would fly down Bernal Rd (down from IBM) on the Miyata and Hicks Rd (on the back side before Alamitos Rd) with my best friend. Hicks Rd has/had a grade so ridiculously steep and pavement so uneven, I had to sit on my bike rack to avoid tumbling over the handlebars. In adult life, I found out he became a Christian metal/rock performer and had an insanely hot SO... that's cool and to each, their own.

In recent years in the midst of my mid-life (crisis?) I found that Kaabo King GT Pro goes 60 mph (96 kmh) while standing. I had to have that. It turned out to be (almost) true (57 mph (92 kmh) on a slight downhill, but I'm probably double the weight it was designed to carry). And it did fly around Austin downtown and surrounding areas 2020-2024.

If I was near the Bonneville Salt Flats as a kit, I would've probably been obsessed with building rocket-powered wagons and bikes. Sadly, all we kids had was gravity and the potential energy of short hills and later, some small mountains. I'm guess that was a blessing because there are sensible risk appetites. There's a bathtub of reasonableness between completely risk-adverse and (un)knowingly Darwin award. The former is result of helicopter parents who turned kids' parks into boring, perfectly-safe, plastic "paradises" no one goes to when there were uneven, redwood telephone pones to jump on, a semi-enclosed vertical steel maze about 15' tall with 3' horizontal sections to crawl up, and a real retired Korean Era jet in a sandbox. None of that cool stuff remains.

These days, my current neighbor won't even let their almost adult son use an electric hedge trimmer because "ooh, too dangerous!" but they gave him an offroad 125cc motorcycle (I would've died for one of those)... which doesn't make any sense at all.
by finaard | 2025-08-12 08:44:02+00:00
> I would encourage everyone to try out emacs with org-mode.

You can even do that, _and_ do stuff from your unholy list.

I have my org folder synced via syncthing to every device I care about. I used to do automated git commits on that folder, but eventually stopped it years ago as commit messages like "daily automated commit" are not better than regular backups.

But thanks to LLMs I went back to that - now I have a systemd timer which calls a script that calls Emacs (because I have all the LLM bindings set up in there already) with the git diff to generate a commit message. That does a pretty good job at summarising my changes.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 08:44:36+00:00
So, your answer to cherry picking - by your claim - is more cherry picking?

> El Salvador recently proved that you can more or less solve homicides by just putting a small fraction of the population in prison.

Right, and Washington DC is just like El Salvador? You've got to be joking.

> That's just untrue. Puerto Rico has very few guns, and is an island so it's hard to get guns, but has a very high homicide rate. Meanwhile, half the people in Idaho have a gun, and Boise is has a homicide rate comparable to Toronto.

Puerto Rico, in spite of the name, is poor and has a huge divide between poor and rich. It's not quite Johannesburg but - and I've been there - the divide is massive and in places like that you get a lot of crime, and some of those crimes will involve homicide. The way to address this is to reduce that gap.

Incidentally, the United States also has a massive wealth gap and this is set to further increase. Of course, as an affluent person you'd end up being scared of the unwashed homeless masses so the solution is to put the blame on them, forcibly incarcerate them (and never mind due process) or to simply get rid of them.

'Putting a small fraction of the population in prison' -> that, historically speaking never ended the way it was intended, unless it was done with all of the rules of due process in place. If you propose to abolish those think about how bizarre it is what you are suggesting here. We can solve all homicides (except the ones in prison, I guess) by putting everybody in lockup. So all we have to do is find the line between 'good' and 'bad' people so that there never will be any more first offenders. Problem solved!
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-12 08:44:48+00:00
Don't use it as a solution machine.

You use it when you know how to do something and know exactly what the solution looks like, but can't be arsed to do it. Like most UI work where you just want something in there with the basic framework to update content etc. There's nothing challenging in doing it, you know what has to be done, but figuring out the weird-ass React footguns takes time. Most LLMs can one-shot it with enough information.

You can also use it as a rubber duck, ask it to analyse some code, read and see if you agree. Ask for improvements or modifications, read and see if you agree.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-08-12 08:46:30+00:00
Sorry to bother you but I have so many questions! Like, did you actually do it or was it just a middle joke I didn't detect? If the former, wasn't you afraid the printer won't be usable after that experiment? Didn't that worry you? Do you often experiment in this way? (Just stopping there to give otherwise the list gets too long.)
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-12 08:47:40+00:00
Copyparty[0] is amazing. I've noticed copyparty+webdav is a lot faster for browsing my NAS than smb or nfs from macOS.

I've been meaning to build a gallery application (or simple web page) that can browse pictures from a copyparty instance and sort/organise them with an UI fit for my purpose.

Any pointers how I could make one that self-saves to copyparty?

[0] https://github.com/9001/copyparty/
by pro_weather | 2025-08-12 08:48:26+00:00
I’ve been working on ProWeather — a simple tool that takes your WeatherLink.com weather station data and turns it into a complete, hosted website.

It works with all WeatherLink API tiers (Free, Pro, Developer), supports multiple languages & units, auto-updates in real time, and comes with hosting + SSL included. You just connect your account, choose a template, and your site is live.

The MVP is already functional, but I’m now building the multi-tenant architecture so it can scale to more users. I built it because I wasn’t happy with the current options for displaying WeatherLink data — they were either too basic or too much hassle to set up.

Would love any feedback — on the product, positioning, or whether you think there’s a market for a niche SaaS like this.

Special offer for early adopters: First 50 signups get 50% off their first year (49 spots left).
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-08-12 08:48:48+00:00
> Second - the lack of information. … But with poker, the lack of information is so severe that one has no hope of reconstructing the game state.

To me, full-information games feel immensely boring, they all look like a harder version of Tic-Tac-Toe that require a bigger brain. Just don't make mistakes and you're guaranteed to win. Harder games like chess just make it so incredibly expensive and attention draining that only a special kind of people get really good.

The fun part of Poker for me is exactly the psychological game of reconstructing the hidden info. Tuning your intuition when you know you still lack it is also fun and revealing.

Regarding teaching children: bluff and lies are rampant in real life. Poker teaches to take it into account and to do it yourself in a no-consequence conditions. Even if you never resort to it you need to know what it feels like to understand others.

It's the first time I've been classified as suspicious, to my knowledge. Cool.
by ElectroBuffoon | 2025-08-12 08:49:50+00:00
I wanted to see it too... o_O

Can someone figure the other hats? Gulf of America, USA, 4 More Years, Make America Great Again, but the one top center is hard to read, something with Everything? Trump Will Fight About Everything? The black one top right is even harder.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2093383/trump-unveils-new-...

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/11/white-house-gift-sho...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-house-g...

https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/416701726407...

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/08/11/trump-and-his-dictator-gu...

White House should be painted with vertical white & red stripes. Blue flag at the top and some gold trim. Elephants already in.
by dijit | 2025-08-12 08:50:18+00:00
Eh, this is annoying because I agree with you in principle except there's a handful of things you're simply wrong about.

I'll start with the most eggregious one to save time so you can just click away but: Microsoft wasn't sued for bundling a browser, it was sued because it used one monopoly position to aid another. Apple mobile devices are 57% of the market in the US (which is the highest percentage globally from what I can tell at a glance) and a far cry from 1997 Windows which was a staggering 96%+ of all desktop operating systems in the US. That is a monopoly which is not explicitly forbidden in the US unless you use it to further domination in some other field: Web browsers were considered another field.

That said, while I agree with you in principle, in practice I really don't like the idea of a browser monoculture. We already see the effects of it with WebUSB (for real) and Manifestv3 which nobody really wants but is essentially foisted on us.

There are two types of people: those who think the web is an application delivery platform, and those who think it's a window into information.

The more leaky the sandbox the worse security will get over time (even if we put a lot of eggs into the basket) and the more bloated things will get. But the people in the first camp cannot see passed their next meal for want of a "better" application delivery system. Anything that keeps them at bay is welcome to me, even if it's something I also don't agree with.

The lesser devil.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-12 08:50:28+00:00
What is Boom's current plan to make the engines that they need? How is that going?

IIRC, the last news was that Rolls-Royce noped out of that (1), which is an indicator that it's either not technically or commercially feasible.

Are they still planning to design the engines in-house?

I'm not an expert, but this seems like it's on the critical path to success, and also high chance of failure.

i.e. Without engines, they have nothing, and if Rolls-Royce can't do it, then who can?

1) https://www.space.com/boom-supersonic-rolls-royce-engine-spl...
by iainmerrick | 2025-08-12 08:50:55+00:00
Wow, I'd be curious about the details if you can remember.

I was working from cafes in London at that time, and I would have loved to find a place like that. I had to either use actual cafes (free besides getting a coffee and maybe a sandwich, limited privacy and security) or pay for a dedicated space, generally with too much tedious bureaucracy. Maybe I misremember, but to get prices as low as £10/day I think you had to commit to a large number of days per month. I don't recall anyone offering low prices a la carte.
by Xelbair | 2025-08-12 08:51:00+00:00
eh, they had short blip in the relatively recent history, especially with developers, in mid 2010s.

With dotnet core 1-3 - open source cross platform .net, that was modern, fresh and clearly a project done by developers for developers. add vscode to this and it seems nice.

but as soon as 5 hit, if you look into details, they went to their usual bullshit, starting with stapling together winforms and wpf to it. the feel of the project shifted from 'developers for developers' to usual top down management.

vscode is also a weird case - it looks open source, but isn't at all(the builds you get aren't just from the same codebase + no access to extensions legally if you build your own, or fork it)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-12 08:51:11+00:00
Interesting couple of guys. Loved the story.

I have always been skeptical of dependency (both libraries and connected runtime services), but there’s a balance.

There’s things that we just can’t do, without a dependency. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Right now, I’m developing and refining a demonstration client/server app, for a future article on implementing PassKeys on iOS. I require two dependencies. On the server end, I use the PHP lbuchs/WebAuthn library, and on the client end, I use KeychainSwift.

The first dependency is a requirement. Implementing that functionality myself, would be prohibitive. The second dependency is one that I could do myself, but that would add a lot of complexity to an already fairly complex project.

The moral of the story is that I always have to justify every dependency that I use, and that justification involves a lot of figuring out the pros and cons. I’m always a bit discouraged, when I see folks throwing in dependencies, willy-nilly.

I remember once, attending a class on GraphQL. It hardly mentioned the standard at all. It was a class on the abstraction dependency (A JavaScript library. Maybe something like Pandas). The class was worthless to me, as I don’t work in JS. I wanted to find out about the standard.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-12 08:51:27+00:00
> But in better circumstances, there is enormous social pressure (at least on mainstream parties) to be much higher functioning, and willing and able to lead the nation toward a positive future.

No, there isn't, and comparative study of democracies has shown that there is a pretty direct relationship between effective degree of proportionality and a wide range of positive democratic outcome measures, as well as producing a richer national dialogue.

A two-party system doesn't just break down into an us-v-them negative dialogue in bad conditions (it pretty much gets permanently stuck there because it works in a two-party system, and it is consistently easier than deepe discussion of issues), it also narrows the space of of potential solution sets that are even available for discussion to an approximation of a one-dimensional space. Multiparty proportional systems leader to a search space with greater dimensionality, as well as making “well, they are worse” politicking generally ineffective.
by gargan | 2025-08-12 08:53:27+00:00
The revolution in the 1600s was reversed - as far as I know the UK is the only country in the world to have reversed a revolution.

If you want more healthcare security you're more likely to get that in an uncodified system like the UK. Yes your healthcare rights can be reversed but better that, than never happening at all like in the US.

A codified system also hands vast power to lawyers. The US is a lawyer's paradise of everyone suing everyone, rising political violence due to inflexibility, and more risk of revolution.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-12 08:53:37+00:00
In a true CMOS cell (i.e. not in the so-called 4-transistor CMOS SRAM cell, which is actually an NMOS RAM cell), the transistors have leakage currents, but the existence of those leakage currents is irrelevant for how the RAM cell functions.

The storage capability of such a CMOS SRAM cell is determined by the electric charges stored in the gate capacitances of the transistors. If the transistors had no leakage currents, the state of the memory cell would be maintained indefinitely, without any current.

As it is, the leakage currents slowly discharge the gate capacitances, but then the positive feedback very slightly opens some of the transistors, enough to pass currents that compensates the effect of the leakage currents on the electric charge stored on the gate capacitances.

So the existence of currents in a true CMOS SRAM cell is a second order effect that would not be present with ideal components and it is not inherently necessary for the function of the cell, like it is for NMOS/PMOS/bipolar SRAM cells. Designing the value of the cell current in a non-CMOS cell is very important for determining the cell characteristics. For designing a CMOS cell, the leakage currents have little importance, even if they will determine the power consumption of the cell, when idle. The information storage capability of a CMOS cell is determined by the electric charge stored on the gate capacitances, which must be great enough to prevent changes in the gate voltages due to electrical noise or radiation events.

Both in DRAM cells and in true CMOS SRAM cells the information is stored as electric charge on capacitors. In a DRAM cell the charge decays continuously due to leakage currents, until it is refreshed. In a CMOS SRAM cell, the decay of the charge is prevented by the positive feedback circuit, which compensates the leakage currents, so no refresh is necessary, at the cost of a more complex memory cell.
by pjc50 | 2025-08-12 08:53:46+00:00
A constitutional monarchy is not something which has a "point" in some sort of intelligent design sense. You wouldn't design one that way.

A constitutional monarchy is what you get starting from an absolute monarchy and gradually draining the power out of it and transferring it to democratic institutions. It then satisfies the demand of the public who want the roleplay of an absolute ruler, and are scared of a fully egalitarian system, but without letting them actually do any absolutism.

King Charles does not have operational control of the military. He only has a large amount of personal loyalty, which is not quite the same thing. He holds a number of operational ranks from his service, from which he is retired, and a number of honorary senior titles.

The UK is just as vulnerable to troops-on-the-streets fascism as anywhere else. (Bloody Sunday etc)
by latexr | 2025-08-12 08:53:52+00:00
> After all we don't blame people using IDEs, code completion or other tools that have become the norm.

Because those don’t have the same issues. It’s not like IDEs, LSPs, and other tools were the target of warranted criticism and then we stopped. Rather, they never received this kind of backlash in the first place.

No IDE has ever caused millions of people absolutely unrelated to it to have to ration water.

https://archive.ph/20250731222011/https://m.economictimes.co...

To use an exaggerated analogy, it’s like saying “people are complaining about arsenic being added to food but we need to overcome that sentiment, after all we don’t blame people adding salt and pepper which have become the norm”.
by jama211 | 2025-08-12 08:53:52+00:00
Well said. Some of the best engineers I know looked up syntax whenever they needed it because there’s not much point in wrote learning everything. As long as they understand what they’re doing, that’s the main point.

I’m honestly so sick of interviews filled with gotcha questions that if you’d happened to study the right thing you could outperform a great experienced engineer who hadn’t brushed up on a couple of specific googlable things before the interview. It’s such a bad practice.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-12 08:54:04+00:00
> Dude I lived in that world. A fair amount of developers explicitly opted into strict parsing rules by choosing to serve XHTML.

No they didn’t, unless you and I have wildly different definitions of “a fair amount”. The developers who did that were an extreme minority because Internet Explorer, which had >90% market share, didn’t support application/xhtml+xml. It was a curiosity, not something people actually did in non-negligible numbers.

And you’re repeating the mistake I explicitly called out. Opting into XHTML parsing does not transport you to a world in which the rest of the world is acting as if you are in a strict parsing world. If you are writing, say, PHP, then that language was still designed for a world with lax HTML parsing no matter how you serve your XHTML. There is far more to the world than just your code and the browser. A world designed for lax parsing is going to be very different to a world designed for strict parsing up and down the stack, not just your code and the browser.

> I'm assuming that developers would make sites which appeared to work with their test content, but would produce invalid XML in certain situations with some combination of dynamic content or other conditions. Forgetting to escape user content is the obvious case, but there are many ways to screw up HTML/XHTML generation in ways which appear to work during testing.

Again, you are still making the same mistake of forgetting to consider the second-order effects.

In a world where parsing is strict, a toolchain that produces malformed syntax has a show-stopping bug and would not be considered reliable enough to use. The only reason those kinds of bugs are tolerated is because parsing is lax. Where is all the JSON-generating code that fails to escape values properly? It is super rare because those kinds of problems aren’t tolerated because JSON has strict parsing.
by Lutger | 2025-08-12 08:55:23+00:00
Not really. They still have the same sales tactic as they always have: make an inferior product that barely ticks the boxes, then manipulate everyone to ditch their competitors in all kinds of ways except for making a better product. These manipulative tactics are sometimes fair game, most are quite unethical and some even illegal.

You can make a product that pleases its users, or just cater to the interests of the ones with the buying decision, for enterprise users they are almost never the same. Microsoft, like Oracle, leans heavily on the second strategy. Their developer tools are often (not always) an exception to this principle. I think this is the true reason Microsoft is so disliked as a brand.
by jama211 | 2025-08-12 08:56:22+00:00
I’ve written huge queries and CTE’s in my career. But I haven’t done it recently. Personally, I’d need 10 minutes of google time to refresh my memory before being able to write much sql on paper, even with bad syntax. It doesn’t mean I’m a bad engineer because I don’t bother to memorise stuff that’s easily googleable.