MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pogue | 2025-08-02 06:32:24+00:00
The author of this article appears to be a bit on the "unhinged" side. The search engine they're looking for is not one that provides good results for the user, but one that falls in line with their biases and worldviews.

For the Brave Search they write "The censorship is exactly like Google's - meaning you will never find the truth about the moon landing or COVID vaccines there even if the query asks for exactly that. What you will find - though - is a bunch of irrelevant "fact check" or "science loving" sites, or ones shitting on "conspiracy theorists". [...] But everyone can easily verify the censorship for themselves, with a query such as "9 / 11 was done by the government". And just with that, this brainwashing facility pretending to be a search engine should be trashed."

So the problem is not with the search engine itself, but that the results they find do not fall in line with whatever route of confirmation bias they hold. They're experiencing a severe cognitive dissonance that has come after going down rabbit holes of deep, deep falsehoods they've now come to believe.

If I believed the earth was flat, and I opened Google Earth to find it shows me a round globe, it's not Google's fault for showing me that.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-02 06:32:38+00:00
If $1 million in cash means you can get a $4 million plot of land, spending 90% on T-bills means you have only $900k in bonds and a measly $400k farm (25% down). So you have 1/10th of the land and your bonds are yielding $22,500...

What really happens is as you pay off equity on your land and equipment, you leverage that into buying more land and more equipment.

Successful restaurateurs buy more restaurants, successful tech startups hire more devs and buy more servers, successful farmers buy more land.

Actual (successful) business activity yields more than investments, which is why they reinvest in themselves over stock markets.
by davydm | 2025-08-02 06:33:00+00:00
There's a call to arms to step up and just start doing extra stuff for your corporate overlords.

It's a trap.

If you aren't appreciated now, you'll just be garnering more profit for the company, and they'll keep smiling until you realize that it's all just for their profit and you're still just a cog in their machine.

Rather do stuff that you want to do, for you.

For instance, I'll jump on a task if it means I can extend my own opensource software (which we rely on), but I'll be less hasty for something dumb like adding analytics to spy on user activity to produce cold stats like "conversion rate". And honestly, a lot of business "requirements" fall into this dumb category where profit is is prioritised over the users.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-02 06:34:35+00:00
Had a coworker in the 90's who had the DataHand Pro II and used it with Dvorak layout. Apparently, it also had integrated mouse emulation. I recall they had platforms installed on their office chair to allow for less strain than tabletop and lap use.

I used the Microsoft Natural for a while because I was poor and couldn't afford $600 USD for a DH. If they priced it at $150-250 then, they probably would still be in business today.
by zulban | 2025-08-02 06:35:08+00:00
> Even if they do make that breakthrough I don't see how that will equate to that kind of valuation

The superintelligence breakthrough..? I don't think you realize what that word means. Every single white collar job could be automated immediately with a worker better than any human. Yes, superintelligence sounds fantastical because it is. Try to have some imagination. It's worth far more than 300 billion. Whether they'll get there or not is the valuation question.
Show HN: I built a tool to make screenshots better
by melvinzammit | 2025-08-02 06:36:44+00:00
In the last few months I was trying to up my presence on x (twitter), mostly by sharing my app dev experiences. I quickly noticed that just about everyone shares screenshots framed with a gradient background as if they were shot on a mac.

Initially I started creating my versions with Adobe XD (I know its deprecated and all, but I love it), but this was a bottleneck. So yesterday, I decided to spend an afternoon creating this super simple tool to solve my problem. I already started using it and the process is fast.

The tool is 100% free & web based. Feel free to try it and let me know what features you need. I will be adding redact, browser & mobile mockup frames next. I want this to be a tool you use for 1 second and forget until you need it again. Any feedback is greatly welcome.
by tsoukase | 2025-08-02 06:37:14+00:00
Definitely agree with you. It might be my wording due to being a foreigner.

In the distant past and in a different situation I almost abused a girl with the same 'vibe' as Jon. Definitely it's not a crime. But it opens the can of worms if the other party does not like it and it might escalate. It should have stopped for him at the stage of public berating (again the wording)
by kennywinker | 2025-08-02 06:37:39+00:00
> Visit our website. Create an account. Verify your email. Create a project. Add your credit card. Go to settings. Create an API key. Add it to your password manager. Drop it in your .env file. Download our SDK. Import it. Pass your env var in.

This is the pitch. But it seems like you fixated on the next part of the paragraph where it talks about api keys in version control.

I’ll agree with you in as much as this isn’t a massive change - but i like the approach for being an incremental improvement - and for challenging the status quo
by physicsguy | 2025-08-02 06:38:46+00:00
I’m working on this sort of thing right now in a SaaS product that previously didn’t have support for vibration data. One competitor is all ML-d up to the hilt but customers don’t like the black box and keep finding it gives false positives with no explanation. I think one problem is those buying not understanding problem; they just want to plug in a sensor and insights to happen, but without information about the machine that’s never going to be able to provide useful insights
by MikeHartman | 2025-08-02 06:38:56+00:00
Fun, but really frustrating to spend a ton of time making a detailed fish, get a fish probability of 67.2%, submit it successfully with no note about it needing moderation, and it still never shows up.

And I don't mean "I never noticed it show up in the public tank". I mean my profile says "8 fish created", but if I "view my fish" there are only two in the list. If I go to my default fish tank I see all 8, but if I click on one of the missing ones and try to add it to a different tank or vote on it I get "Failed to <do whatever>: Fish not found".

They exist but they don't exist. This isn't a tank, it's a window into purgatory.
by TheCapeGreek | 2025-08-02 06:39:39+00:00
Where'd all the remote Laravel gigs in Europe, Middle East and Africa go?

I'm your guy. Worked as IC and tech lead, meetup organiser for various PHP related meetups over the years, passionate about the Laravel ecosystem.

Prefer: Remote, collaborative environments on real product teams - if your SaaS revenue is mostly from enterprise contracts dictating your every move, that's not a product but an agency in disguise.

Location: Cape Town / sometimes Athens

Remote: Yes

Relocation: Maybe, within EU

Technologies: PHP/Laravel, Livewire, Vue, all that good stuff.

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaos-spyratos / https://nik.software/
by arkokoley | 2025-08-02 06:41:22+00:00
This is a fascinating project! It's exciting to see the application of multi-agent simulations to a real-world problem like optimizing marketing messages. Your approach of grounding the AI personas in public data and focusing on social influence is very insightful.

I recently authored a paper on a related topic that might be of interest, particularly concerning your challenges with accuracy and long-term simulation stability. Our work, "SALM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Language Model-Driven Social Network Simulation," introduces a novel framework for integrating language models into social network simulations.

I specifically focused on achieving long-term temporal stability in multi-agent scenarios.[2] A couple of our key contributions could be relevant to your work:

I developed a hierarchical prompting architecture that enables stable simulations beyond 4,000 timesteps while significantly reducing token usage.[3]

To address memory growth and maintain agent consistency, I implemented an attention-based memory system that achieves high cache hit rates with sub-linear memory growth.

I also established formal bounds on personality stability, which could be a useful concept for ensuring the accuracy and predictability of your AI personas over time.

Our validation against SNAP ego networks demonstrated the capability of our framework to model long-term social phenomena with empirically validated behavioral fidelity.[3]

It seems like there's a lot of synergy between our research and your product. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on our paper and explore if any of our findings could be beneficial for the continued development of Artificial Societies.

Here's the link to my paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09081
by fbteixeira98 | 2025-08-02 06:43:07+00:00
Good evening, everyone!

I recently developed an app that is essentially a social network focused on the entertainment niche.

Some features include creating lists, watching movies, commenting on them, following other users, communities (coming soon), and much more.

It's an ambitious project, and I'd like to ask for your help right now with a few simple steps that probably won't take up much of your time. It would be great if you could create an account, try it out quickly, and give me feedback. Maybe even share it with a friend who enjoys anime or dramas.

The link to the app is in the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hooneyplus...

Or you can access our website through the following link:

https://hooneyplus.com/en/login

Thank you in advance for your attention. I wish you all a good evening and a great weekend.
by kashunstva | 2025-08-02 06:44:14+00:00
The paper being referenced was a systematic review and meta-analysis rather than new data. Given the inherent methodological and population differences between original studies , I doubt that much could be said about causality; it’s pretty conclusively an association though. And that’s probably enough basis on which to be vigilant and target support if you’re a therapist. But, yes, I suspect it’s more complicated than A->B. It was in my own case that nearly could have been a subject of this study.
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-02 06:44:25+00:00
The more representative the warmup set the better the result but even a quite simplistic approach is helpful since much of what you want to optimise is not page dependent: the React rendering infrastructure, router, server, and in the case of Deno the runtime level code written in JS.

I suspect harvesting VM state from a production workload would be counterproductive to the goal of isolation.
by parineum | 2025-08-02 06:45:03+00:00
> or one of them, it's genuinely a stretch to call it "HSR"

How fast is California's HSR?

That's both sarcasm and an actual question. It doesn't go anywhere now but I keep hearing it's speed get downgraded as they encounter the real world. Plus, the goal of LA-SF is practically abandoned and now it takes you from a place you don't want to be to a place you don't want to go.

You really can't compare the two because one exists only as a goal and the other is an accomplishment.
by thisisit | 2025-08-02 06:46:14+00:00
The mental gymnastic of a MAGA supporter. Shocked by the guy who wouldn't accept that he was wrong about the weather and drew a new path with a sharpie. These guys don't like the weather for Chrissake and blame the "other side"!

> downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure

But I guess not far from the mental gymnastic of "this is not happening due to flip flopping on tariffs".

I am sure as things get worse many people will use this same excuse of "But I didn't know he was going to do this" excuse to distance themselves for the mess which is coming.

For now yay! for massaged data going forward.
by utkarshohm | 2025-08-02 06:46:20+00:00
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by BrenBarn | 2025-08-02 06:52:11+00:00
There's certainly some truth in this. When I was in grad school, another grad student made a sort of questionnaire for undergrads who were considering going to grad school (and I later made it into a flowchart). It was a bunch of things like "are you willing to spend 5-7 years being paid starvation wages" and "are you willing to move anywhere in the country or possibly the world to take whatever job you're offered", and any "no" answer led to "consider a different path". It's harsh but likely true.

There are a couple caveats though. One is that the chance to make these kinds of choices is a privilege. I don't think most people working as supermarket checkers or delivery drivers are there because they had a desire to do it and then unpacked it and decided yeah, this is the job for me. A lot of people don't get to choose jobs because they want to do them.

On the flip side, a lot of people have jobs that they didn't choose with too much deliberation --- but still like their job. And that's partly because when you unpack many jobs, you get something like "would you like to hang around with a few pretty good people while you all do X?" Not that those people are part of the job per se, but if you wind up in an environment where your co-workers are reasonably fun to be with, and/or the customers are friendly, and the job itself isn't super demanding, it winds up being okay.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-02 06:54:37+00:00
Gaawd I'm so tired of this discussion. Of course coding interviews measure coding skills, if you can't code you can't complete the interview. Are other factors also present? Sure! But no amount of zen will help you if you can't program.

Okay maybe a tiny minority of people are simultaneously great programmers and also incapable of proving it by solving some simpleish tasks. But I'd wager that's a very small minority.

Most people who actually know programming will breeze through the interview questions I've encountered, they won't complain that this isn't representative of their job because it is - programming is their job, and completing a simple well defined task is the best case for the job. Normally it's less defined, less simple, and much bigger. Oh but it's not the exact type of task i normally do well then brother you don't really know programming. You just know a tiny niche of exactly the specific thing you normally do, you don't actually know the language. You're likely not a very good developer and exactly the kind of person these interviews are supposed to weed out.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-02 06:54:39+00:00
There are sports stars who are paid similarly - rare talent that is in demand. Luckily there aren’t “software unions” like there are players’ unions to cap the max payment.

Any left wing / socialist person on HN should be ecstatic - literally applauding with grins on their faces - that workers are extracting such sums out of the capitalist class. The hate for these salaries is mind boggling to me, and shows a lot of opposition to labor being paid what they are due is more about envy than class consciousness
by ReadTheError | 2025-08-02 06:55:39+00:00
Thanks a lot for the reply, I actually was expecting far worse. I feel like my enunciacion is quite poor, sometimes I cant even understand myself over the mumble and loose speaking, but I try to notice and do better.

I knew that was a bad idea. I wanted to keep the video under 30 mins, and I sped the entire thing up abou 118%, as well as cut like, almost my entire introduction out of the start.

Thanks for pointing all these things out, now I know from the other perspective why and what I should and shouldnt cut out. Because I honestly was second guessing cutting all my introduction out to save 3 minutes, but I wasnt sure if 3 minutes was too long of just talking and I would lose attention, and also I needed to cut just a ton of content out to get below 30 mins.

Thanks a lot for the feed back.

Do you think videos like these need more animations/ visuals to be more entertaining or understandable? Or do you think content like this doesnt require those kinds of attention keeping tactics? I mean I try to be visual with code output and stuff like that, but I wasnt sure If i need to up my editing skills because its lacking important audio/visual production qualilty.

Thanks again so much for the feedback, Im going to keep all that you said at the for front of my next videos and try to eventually be a bit more digestable.
by earthicus | 2025-08-02 06:56:34+00:00
I recently started learning the piano as an adult, and from what i've gathered from reading and watching videos, the 'folk wisdom' about how to avoid rsi-type injuries is to minimize tension in your wrist by maximizing relaxation of your fingers and wrists (especially the thumbs, which tend to get locked into a permanent state of mild tension on the piano keyboard). So you want to do your best to develop more finger independence, so that you can press with one finger while keeping the neighboring fingers relaxed. It's really hard.
by efitz | 2025-08-02 07:00:49+00:00
I don’t get the sense that Ground News is trying to influence what news stories I select; I think they are presenting metadata that allow me to look at the story from my preferred frame of reference and from the opposing frame of reference. I find it valuable; you might not.

I think that the media bias ratings on Ground News are slightly biased and the factuality ratings are highly biased, not intentionally but due to flawed methodology of their sources. I have contacted their support to raise that issue.

I still find the site tries really hard to make you aware of your own predilections, and I think it does well as that, and if you find yourself gravitating towards one set of sources you can always sample the “other side”.

I agree that left-right doesn’t capture the richness of American politics but for better or worse they are convenient labels for our two party system.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-08-02 07:01:06+00:00
Yeah, I’ve used mosquito dunks experimentally but we have a pond behind our house and in front of it, and a lake nearby. It’s Minnesota, after all. I did try to chuck some dunks into the ponds but they have a lot of cattails in the way so I was unsure if they even made it in the water.

Our attic was such a good habitat for bats we had to do something about it ;). But we’re also surrounded by woods.
by M4v3R | 2025-08-02 07:01:51+00:00
The high TTFT (around 5-6 seconds) is what kills the excitement for this for me. Sure, when it starts outputting its crazy fast so it’s good for generating single file prototypes, but as soon as you try to use it in Cline or any other agentic loop you’ll be waiting for API requests constantly and it’s a real bottleneck.
by adi_hn07 | 2025-08-02 07:02:48+00:00
I just created a Linear account to test out LinCal's onboarding, which seems smooth mostly. I recommend LinCal sync all issues (with and without due date) automatically on connecting with linear account of the user. Right now it requires a manual button click and also there's a seprate button for loading the issues without due date. Upto you.

Awesome idea overall, would love to have LinCal on https://superlaun.ch !!
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-02 07:02:59+00:00
Hard numbers for market cap is a difficult measure - Apples price earnings is 33 currently, which is high but not over high. Ie. Apple has revenue to back their market cap.

The issue with high salaries is that there is a latent assumption that these people provide the multiples in additional value. That they are so smarter than everyone else.

This is simply not true, and will lead to a competitive disadvantage.
by anthk | 2025-08-02 07:03:01+00:00
I used mosh when my data plan plumetted to 2.7 KBPS (~ISDN/2G speeds).

I connected to a public Unix server and read news, IRC'ed, IM'ed and such like crazy. Also, without being connected to a Pubnix, IRC and Gopher did it fine, the web with patience, and the same with Gemini (gemini://gemi.dev has been really useful to read news and scrap a 95% of unneeded scripts and trackers from web sites).

Usenet was slow on fetching, but totally readable the next morning, and, better, offline.
by solatic | 2025-08-02 07:03:12+00:00
> All kinds of places overcome these things

Yes, but it requires political will. America is rather characteristic (I want to say unique, but that's probably false) in its lack of political will to increase density anywhere that isn't already dense. Like I said, you're not going to suddenly see 50 story towers blanket San Francisco. This is why, as cities develop suburban and exurban sprawl to the point where the distances no longer become feasible to commute in an automobile, we need to develop new cities, with a strategy for reducing commute time between them (i.e. high speed rail).

> some level of new tech

I mean... it's not going to be datacenters, seeing as how they require a minimum of people and lots of power generation. So unless you have a suggestion, I would go with tried-and-proven approaches, yeah? A master plan for high-speed rail, with the budget to boot, is already a big spend of the innovation budget, the rest should be boring choices, right?
by lawik | 2025-08-02 07:03:57+00:00
Well I applaud their ability to get that bag. But in terms of raising the floor for a lot of people, this is not that.

I don't feel strongly about these salaries beyond them being an indication of deep dysfunction in the system. This is not healthy, for a market or for a society. No-one should be paid these amounts but I don't care about these developers because they don't run the system.

I've benefited from devs being paid well. Not that well. But same thing in concept.