MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bbkane | 2025-08-11 14:34:27+00:00
For personal stuff I ended up with https://mytasksapp.com/

It's simple enough for me to understand but has the following features I want:

nice simple UI where I can add stuff without too many clicks

syncs between phone and browser (requires $1.49/mo which I'm fine with)

Can make multiple lists

Can drag items around in the list

Can add a longer description and reminders

For tech side projects I use GitHub issues as TODO/wish lists

For work I use a Google Doc to plan out the days tasks and meetings (similar to todo.txt). Google docs is really nice for this because I can collapse headers to shorten yesterdays work and use checklists that I check off as the day passes. I can also scribble notes in a freeform fashion at the bottom. I dedicate a whole browser (Safari) just to this page so I can easily tab to it.

For work I use MSFT Todo for stuff I'd like to do "at some point when I get time" (it's approved by my company, unlike my personal Todo app)
by clint | 2025-08-11 14:34:41+00:00
You would be surprised how much people in extremely rural areas are being gouged for really crappy internet.

I have a place less than an hour from Denver and without Starlink there are many, many people on extremely bad, oversubscribed 1Mbit DSL at the end of some gnarly POPs.

There are sometimes local ISPs that provide p2p wifi in extremely limited areas (see: rich neighborhoods) and its fine but for 20/10 you're paying similar prices or more than Starlink for something that's less reliable.
by xz18r | 2025-08-11 14:34:45+00:00
There is a format called todo.txt that works follows very readable syntax (like your own example) and has some minimal bells and whistles if you want it to: http://todotxt.org/

As an alternative: I started using org-mode 5 years ago and have never looked back. This is my workflow (https://karelvo.com/blog/orgmode) although I sync it via Git now, and have an iPhone where I use Plain Org (https://xenodium.com/plain-org-for-ios).
by titusjohnson | 2025-08-11 14:35:04+00:00
For work I use Logseq, but I treat it like a .txt file. 90% of my use is the daily journal pages, adding NOW and LATER todos, notes, whatever. The ability to link nodes to other pages or nodes is just good enough to beat out a .txt.

For my personal life I use Things 4. I bought the Mac and iOS versions. Despite the steep price for the Mac version, I think it's worth it. I appreciate how the app is organized. I like that the "Inbox" dumping ground is totally separate from the "Today" queue, that it pulls in calendar events to the Today queue, and the differentiation of Anytime vs Someday. I would forget to check it too, if I hadn't placed a large widget right on my Home Screen. It's the first thing I see any time I unlock my phone, it helps a lot.

I am also an avid user of post-it notes. I like to keep a stack of them on my desk. These are for things I need to complete _today_, if not _up next_. This is how I stay focused when I'm in deep work. "add test for new sort fn", "better name for site/tenant var", "need new fixture for sortables", that kind of thing. When I leave my desk I should have no sticky notes on it, whatever left ends up in Logseq.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-11 14:35:04+00:00
Particularly with the VSCode extension. I was a loyal Cline user until recently because of how good the editor experience was, but the ability for Claude to go off and run for 10+ minutes effectively autonomously, and show me the diffs in realtime is a gamechanger. The token usage has also gotten much more efficient in the last few months. With proper IDE support now I don't see any reason at all to use anything else, especially not the "credit" based middle-man providers (Windsurf/Cursor et. al).
by gnfargbl | 2025-08-11 14:35:48+00:00
To me, that judgment reads like a fairly strong warning to Ofcom. The outcome section makes it clear that although the request for judicial review has been refused at present, that refusal is predicated on the fact that Ofcom has currently not ruled that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service. If Ofcom were to rule that Wikipedia is a C1 service, the Wikimedia foundation would have grounds to request a review again -- and, between the lines, that request might well succeed.

So, is Wikipedia really a Category 1 service? From https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267174, it seems to come down to whether Wikipedia is a site which uses a "content recommender system", where that term is defined as:

> a system, used by the provider of a regulated user-to-user service in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, that uses algorithms which by means of machine learning or other techniques determines, or otherwise affects, the way in which regulated user-generated content of a user, whether alone or with other content, may be encountered by other users of the service

There's plenty of flexibility in that definition for Ofcom to interpret "content recommender system" in a way that catches Facebook without catching Wikipedia. For instance, Ofcom could simply take the viewpoint that any content recommendation that Wikipedia engages in is not "in respect of the user-to-user part of that service."

After today's judgement, and perhaps even before, my own bet is that this is exactly the route Ofcom will take.
by waldopat | 2025-08-11 14:35:58+00:00
One thing I particularly appreciate about Guillermo Rauch, as an AI founder, is that he's got deep technical talent, especially as the lead on Next.JS. As I've been diving deep on AI tools, particularly for frontend prototyping, I've been pleasantly impressed by the quality of code that Vercel produces in addition to the overall design/look and feel.

This was a very refreshing interview.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-11 14:36:10+00:00
> If the NG (or ideally another federal LE agency) demonstrably reduces crime in DC, without engaging in particularly political actions, will raise some interesting questions about why things have been so bad for for long.

Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-cri... - August 10th, 2025

Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low - https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-... - January 3rd, 2025 (My note: Published by this admin's DoJ in January of this year)

DC Metro Police 2025 Year-to-Date Crime Comparison - https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-11 14:36:31+00:00
> Is this just bad development? Are these just things could be missed by any developer or team?

As the saying goes, "Human error is not a root cause". A good Five Whys would eventually hit something:

Why did the DL pictures leak? Because the images were accessible via public URL. Why were they accessible that way? Because nobody on the team checked they were not. Why did nobody check?

Maybe not enough red team thinking was employed. It's easy to make an app and say "Look we have a sign-in screen, it's secure", but you need to think from the attacker's perspective and make sure every route to every piece of sensitive data is actually secure.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 14:36:35+00:00
I consulted with several big banks, and while there are some great developers there, on the whole, the devs were largely passionless and were just there for the job. Many of them actively dislike coding, and it really felt like they were just there for the high pay. I think that type of developer really thrives in a move slow, heavy bureuacracy environment where velocity is not something people care about. The high security can be annoying, but everywhere I went they had enough processes and out-sourcing of security to experts and tools that the average dev didn't really have to think about it. On many teams there would be one person or so who (mostly) understood the area they were responsible for and could deliver quickly, but not every team had somebody like that. One thing that I did think was a positive is that (perhaps because of all these things) is that it was a very low-ego environment, and people were generally open-minded about learning new stuff and/or better ways to do things. Overall I really enjoyed working with the people at banks, despite everything taking longer than you would think it should :-)
by guywithahat | 2025-08-11 14:36:39+00:00
Why is this an issue? They had a legitimate technical challenge (pricing 950k unique apartments in varying markets), and so they brought in an outside company. This was so successful everyone stated using them. The justice department then asked greystar, among others, if they could stop using RealPage, and they agreed. There wasn't a conviction as this is a proposed settlement, and there's no reason to break the company up because it looks like everyone is getting what they wanted.
by londons_explore | 2025-08-11 14:36:56+00:00
Doesn't seem to make sense for AOL to shut it down... I'm sure you could set up a dial up ISP in 2025 with just 1 guy who understands telephony and software modems.

Even with 100k customers, I doubt there are more than 0.1% of them connected at a time - the rest will just be paying the bill for a service they don't use.
by janitor77swe | 2025-08-11 14:37:02+00:00
I don't understand such statement. Automation has already created more job opportunities, why should this be any different? Jobs don't go away, they just transform. And since this AI (whatever that means, nobody really knows) isn't a human-like AGI, it will most certainly not replace humans, but it will automate processes and speed things up.

If you're a business that offers 3 services to the public and "AI" could automate one person's salary out of your payroll, why would do that as opposed to keeping your headcount and instead offer 9 services to the public generating more streams of revenue?
by conductr | 2025-08-11 14:37:05+00:00
Same. But I don’t do much on my cars. My strategy has been to just only buy Japanese cars (Honda and Toyota for me) and keep them for about 10 years or 150k miles. I’ve never needed do so anything besides replace a dead battery, fluids, filters, tires, and other basic maintenance which I let the lube shop and tire shop do. Basically the recommended 30/60/90/etc. I could do cheaper but it’s not worth the hassle for me given they can do it quickly.

I’ve bought new 3 times now with this strategy and while I could buy used and save some money or drive them longer, I view this as the cost of avoiding major maintenance.

Anytime I’ve owned a German or American made vehicle the chance of something failing is too high for me. The entire experience of having a vehicle out of commission is a huge hassle I want to avoid altogether.

Against better judgement, I do also own a Tahoe that I bought used just for doing “work”. Towing and doing dirty stuff, Home Depot runs, etc. It’s basically a tool for the DIY stuff I enjoy doing (house construction/work). It’s caused me the most grief, but still not too bad, belts and radiators and alternators, stuff I’ve diy’d because it’s easy but still stuff I’ve never had issues with on Japanese cars.
by cyrialize | 2025-08-11 14:37:25+00:00
I'm a fan of Org Mode with Emacs [0] and using the app BeOrg [1] on my iPhone.

I have 3 main task files:

- todo.org for things I need to do

- backlog.org for things that I don't have to do now but should do in the future

- inbox.org for any random ideas or notes

The concept of an Inbox was taken straight from Getting Things Done [2].

I have different searches set up in BeOrg so that it is easy to view tasks from each different file.

This is definitely more complicated than a single file, but I like it mainly because it keeps my main task file (todo.org) organized. I also don't go through organizing my files that much either.

inbox.org is just a great place to dump anything, so I usually do a quick scan and either delete everything or refine it to the backlog.org.

For backlog.org, I'll usually just let things sit there and build up. After a while I'll realize that if something has been there for a long time, it probably isn't worth doing - or I already did it, so I delete it.

[0]: https://orgmode.org/

[1]: https://www.beorgapp.com/

[2]: https://hamberg.no/gtd
by the__alchemist | 2025-08-11 14:37:33+00:00
I don't remember the company, but I believe the gist was, you could pay your rent "any time in the month", and/or split your rent into multiple installments each month. They suggested this to everyone over email, and while trying to figure out how to pay rent on time the first month after they took over. There are back-and-forth over if they'd take a regular check, or if they needed a Cashier's Check. They were threatening people with fees and evictions if they didn't get a cashier's check, or use the scammy service. (From the way they pushed it, I'm almost certain they share the proceeds with Greystar)
by microsoftedging | 2025-08-11 14:37:41+00:00
In principle, not at all. But there is no way to do this properly at all. No matter how secure the companies that do this say it is, it's another possible vulnerability.

You can't play whack a mole with the internet. People will always find a way to move smut or whatever on the internet. It takes no time at all to spin up more and more sites, and there's a million ways around them (vpns, etc).

All it does it just push people to more and more fringe sites, when moderation is likely to be lax and the content more extreme. Ideally it wouldn't be viewed at all, but it's just how the internet is.

It also sets a terrible precedent for censorship- in the UK, we've already seen, on Reddit for example, subreddits dedicated to quitting addictions being age gated, and it'll only get worse.
by clydethefrog | 2025-08-11 14:37:51+00:00
>Completely wiped out by the internet

It's not at all, although we can discuss the nature of the medium.

>Last year, the Teletekst app was used daily by an average of 690,000 people. They opened the app an average of 2.4 million times per day. The news index on page 101 was accessed 1.9 billion times in 2024, making it the most visited page, followed by the football index 801, with 530 million visits.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2561892-informatief-en-zonder-poppenk... (Dutch news article)
by rsynnott | 2025-08-11 14:38:00+00:00
> For years, the blasts had been linked to organized crime and drug traffickers using hand grenades to settle scores.

This seems... _not likely to be effective_, honestly.

Can't help thinking of the Monty Python sketch about gangsters (a Kray twins parody iirc) using increasingly absurd weapons, culminating in nukes.

EDIT: Oh, read on. Confusingly written article; the tl;dr is that while it was traditionally organised crime using hand grenades, it is now just random people using big fireworks in petty disputes. Utterly bizarre.

> In Vlaardingen, a Rotterdam suburb, a plumber was targeted with explosive devices at least 28 times over many months. The explosions ended in August 2024, when the plumber died of what the Dutch news media described as a heart issue. The people behind the bombings were never identified or arrested.

I mean, what. (Given that it seems to be about 1000-1500 incidents per year nationwide, that plumber was likely the target of _over 1% of all of this_.)
by lousken | 2025-08-11 14:38:06+00:00
AI is way too slow when searching docs, debugging issue etc. Also falls short with anything new or poorly documented. Even with Cerebras speed I do think I can search docs faster than asking AI a question, waiting for response and checking if it is valid or not.

It's nice as a passive thing like meeting transcription, or extra brainstorm head but that's about it.
by cnst | 2025-08-11 14:38:17+00:00
It's fine to think this will never happen to you because you're not important enough, or not controversial enough, or have the most mainstream ideas that would guarantee that you won't be a target…

Until it does happen…

The situation here is also a bit different from moderating "a public website".

Noone's saying that everyone should have the right to have their presence and reach amplified.

But these bans on LinkedIn and GitHub apply to the entire account and the entire identity of the user, meaning, you could now be precluded from doing the most basic things compared to all of your peers.

LinkedIn ban precludes you from connecting to employers at in-person events unlike every other attendee. GitHub precludes you from working at any startup that uses GitHub in their workflow.

Plus, as the example shows, causing any sort of disruption isn't even a prerequisite to getting banned by these services.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-11 14:38:27+00:00
I worked on a help desk from 2013-2016 for an MSP that served some rural telcos. A couple of the clients still offered dial-up internet, so there were a few hundred people with dial up at that point. They were largely people with very rural homes that they didn't even have DSL. They were largely older people. And they just made a steady profit, the equipment and lines basically just worked and they had a FAR lower rate of calls than the DSL, Cable, Fiber, etc customers.
by acka | 2025-08-11 14:38:48+00:00
Just leaving this here, in case things really start going south and people realize they need to stack up on knowledge supplies (note: I am not affiliated with them, I just think that Wikipedia, among other resources, is too valuable to let it fall through the cracks):

> When there is No Internet, there is Kiwix Access vital information anywhere. Use our apps for offline reading on the go or the Hotspot in every place you want to call home. Ideal for remote areas, emergencies, or independent knowledge access.

https://kiwix.org/en/
by dannye | 2025-08-11 14:39:09+00:00
What the MDN documenation doesn't make clear, is the relationship between Inline Event Handlers and Event Handler Properties

<div id="DIV" onclick="console.log(1)">CLICK!</div>

<script>

DIV.onclick = (evt) => console.log(2) DIV.addEventListener("click",()=>console.log(3))

</script>
by hiq | 2025-08-11 14:39:10+00:00
What do you mean by coming up? Like a deadline?

For event-based things I tend to have a reminder on my calendar. If things are relatively important, you'd assign them some kind of priority; in a simple .txt file, I'd expect them to be at the top for instance.

If the file has too many important tasks (such that I lose track of them), it means that at least some of them are not actually important and they should be revisited. IIRC that's the point of the weekly review mentioned in the GTD book: don't assume your workflow keeps working as you use it, there is some regular maintenance involving taking a step back and revisitings tasks, prioritizations etc.
by wmanley | 2025-08-11 14:39:26+00:00
I visited it last year. It’s 2.4km long and at its highest point the Eiffel Tower could fit under the road. Remarkably the construction cost was only €394 million.

For comparison the planned 4.2km Lower Thames Crossing has already cost £1.2bn (€1,400 million) just for the planning phase with nothing built. The French know how to build.
by eschneider | 2025-08-11 14:39:27+00:00
I've been running a text based todo/status doc for about that long and my hack for that particular problem is to occasionally do a scan and copy anything 'active' to the top (or bottom if you append to the end :) of the file. Yeah, there's a bit of duplication there (I usually just copy a short description and a pointer back to the date of the original so not so bad..), but it works for me.
by xtracto | 2025-08-11 14:39:49+00:00
Just a comment: One of the reasons why offshoring is increasing and will likely increase in the following year, is because CXOs are being sold that a cheap Mexican, Tico, or Indian using AI can be as performant as a local.(also Language barriers are decreasing also due to AI)

I'm Mexican (in Mexico) and I've seen this firsthand. There may be some truth to it, but soon enough these new companies will find out what several others found in the 90s (when the first wave of tech outsourcing came): The bottleneck is in communication and culture, not performance.

Anyway, point is, in a way AI is pushing the outsourcing trend a bit.
by Quarrel | 2025-08-11 14:39:50+00:00
While you're correct about Ofcom, the real distinction isn't really to the objective, but to the classification of its employees.

Ofcom, Gambling Commission, and the rest of the quangos are independent statutory bodies, and (this is a big distinction!) their employees are not civil servants.

Quangos include judicial tribunals and places like the BBC, or the Committee on Climate Change- it is a broad umbrella.
by torgoguys | 2025-08-11 14:40:17+00:00
I had an elderly friend that still subscribed to AOL dialup until he died a couple of years ago. He had built his small business, which was very dependent on email, using an old AOL email address. The type of business he was in could involve old contacts suddenly appearing out of the blue again (via an email message) and so he wanted to maintain the AOL address to not lose that business.

Long ago, when AOL stopped requiring an AOL subscription to maintain an AOL email address, I advised him to cancel the AOL subscription. After explaining to me how important that exact address was to him he declined, stating that by paying the monthly fee he felt very assured the email address wouldn't go away and without paying for he felt like that assurance just wasn't there. So for years he knowingly paid for dialup he no longer actually used.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-11 14:40:20+00:00
During my Ph.D., I worked very intensely with the help of a Pomodoro timer. After 4 to 5 hours of productive work (8-10 pomodoros), my brain just shut down, but I did a ton of work during that time.

Human body has its real limits. Respecting your body is essential for living a healthy life.
by duxup | 2025-08-11 14:40:39+00:00
The battery powered bikes and scooters are getting out of hand.

A friend's wife went for a walk on a pedestrian path last year and woke up in the hospital. This path often has bikers on it. Nobody saw the accident but police said that debris found at the scene indicated it was a bike that hit her, and folks at a nearby bar reported seeing someone(s) on ebikes going faster than traffic on the street on the path before people who found her came running to get help.

These things travel at crazy speeds relative to the driver's ability to control them.

She still is suffering from headaches and memory issues.
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-11 14:40:45+00:00
It's an easy way to spin up wine prefixes, and it also installs known working environments for many applications.

In that sense - it's actually incredibly similar to docker/snap. It's isolating the application with all the needed dependencies in it's own prefix, with a nice user experience on top.

It also distributes a large number of things: https://usebottles.com/database
by chuckblake | 2025-08-11 14:40:45+00:00
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