MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-08-11 14:58:37+00:00
A more liberal and open Chinese government would be exactly what they need if they want to take the place of the USA on the world stage. Of course a revolution is not guaranteed to produce that. Revolutions often end with a new boss worse than the old boss. But it could. It's a dice roll, a high risk thing, which is why people have to be pushed really hard to do it.

It helps the US for China to have its own "make China great again" revanchist authoritarian CCP. It slows their overall growth and keeps them from engaging with the world. Walls are for losers. Global mercantile empires must be porous and outward facing. This porosity becomes the main source of their soft power and causes them to export their culture globally.

If China starts allowing a little more immigration that would turbocharge their rise, since every immigrant community inside China becomes the terminal end of a line of influence reaching back to wherever they came from.

If they don't liberalize then who knows. Maybe the US will decide to remove the shot gun from its mouth, in which case the window will close.
Tell HN: Search your projects for "git://github.com". Any match is a bug.
by XCabbage | 2025-08-11 14:58:50+00:00
Lots of open-source projects today contain (usually in docs, code comments, or metadata) repo URLs like this:

git://github.com/debug-js/debug.git

These URLs are broken. "git://" is a real protocol, but in 2022 GitHub stopped supporting it [1] so any URLs that purport to use the protocol for a GitHub repo are broken.

They are still quite common. 25 of the top 200 most-downloaded npm packages have such a URL in the "repository" field of their package.json file.

It would be nice if the world would fix these dead URLs (which is easily done by replacing "git://" with "https://"). They are confusing to readers who don't know about the git protocol or GitHub disabling it.

[1] https://github.blog/security/application-security/improving-git-protocol-security-github/#no-more-unauthenticated-git
Show HN: I built an AI tool to find the right investors and automate fundraising
by paulwilsonn | 2025-08-11 14:59:05+00:00
I built an AI tool to make fundraising less painful for founders.

When I was raising for my own startup, I spent months building lists, researching VCs, and sending cold emails that went nowhere. This tool does the heavy lifting:

Finds investors that actually match your stage, sector, and geography

Shows recent deals so you know they’re active

Automates outreach and follow-ups

Investor CRM

Gmail + Outlook Integration

It’s still early - I’d love feedback from other founders on what’s useful, what’s missing, and how to make this genuinely helpful for fundraising.
by givensshirley08 | 2025-08-11 14:59:16+00:00
I’ve been doing the MS-4 treatment from uinehealthcentre. net for about 5 months I am 68 I was diagnosed in 2023 neurologist told me I wouldn’t benefit from any meds right now due to age. I take the MS-4 treatment this has really made the spasticity in my legs basically go away. My right leg was loosing balance and would skip a beat when I walked, this has also been fixed since using the MS-4 formula. So for me it has been amazing! Definitely worth a try! remember you are not fighting alone
by tptacek | 2025-08-11 14:59:41+00:00
People are fixated, across this thread, on a black market of organized criminals buying vulnerabilities, but for the most part criminals aren't the real alternative market buyers for high-end vulnerabilities, and while people on message boards may incline towards viewing IC and LEO agencies as themselves criminal, I think you'll find a pretty substantial fraction of normal people find supplying IC/LEO agencies as more than just decent; praiseworthy, even.

That thorny ethical issue aside, I'm fond of pointing out that the IC's main alternative to CNE intelligence collection is human intelligence, and the cost of HUMINT simply in employee benefits dwarfs any near-term possible cost of exploit enablement packages; 7 figures is a pittance (remember: most major western governments are essentially benefits management organizations with standing armies).

Even given the seemingly vast sums earned by organized crime, government buyers are positioned to decisively outbid crime over the medium term. It's really early days for these markets.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-11 15:00:27+00:00
There is some unquestionable "engineering advice": it needs access to the information/files so it can work on them, and keep a log of problems to fix. The rest is not so clear:

- "I prime the context of the LLM with any extra rules or instructions I want it to follow."

What are "extra" rules - extra to what? How could I tell if I am doing this or not doing this?

- "I instruct the LLM in bullet point format for smaller edits. For larger edits I ask the llm to convert my prompt to markdown. Most of my prompts are created by an LLM"

Rough boundaries for 'smaller' or 'larger'? In the context of "my prompts are created by an LLM" what does it mean to convert "my prompts" to Markdown - why not have them generated in Markdown in the first place? Why bring Markdown into this at all? Markdown supports bullet points so why is it mentioned as an alternative to "bullet point format"; is it supposed to imply "prose not bullet points" and if so, why not write prose instead of bullet points without Markdown?

What difference does any of this make, either measurably or in vibes? Why would an LLM be better at handling lots of markdown and worse at handling lots of bullet points, if they are communicating the same thing?

Why create prompts by LLM at all? Presumably you have to start with inputting what you want to happen, so why pass it through two LLMs instead of one?

- "In 90% of cases I only prompt once per chat, and start a new chat each time"

How do you decide which 10% of cases you reuse the previous chat? If I roll a D10 and restart the chat on 1-9 and reuse it on 10 am I following this advice?

- "I use a program called RepoPrompt"

RepoPrompt advertises itself as "Your AI Coding Swiss Army Knife". Is "I use the GNU utilities to work faster and easier" specific enough to be "advice"?

> "They took the trouble to actually give a full prompt."

Did they take the trouble? They say Claude Opus made the prompt. The important bit - how did they get Opus to write the prompt without them writing all those things in the meta-prompt - is missing. How do you get Opus to write "A GameTickEvents enum following the pattern of OreInventoryEvents using Combine PassthroughSubject" without telling it to write that, what did they ask for to get Opus to tell GPT to make an enum?
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-11 15:00:51+00:00
You still didn't address the idea that there is a threshold for all intervention. You said "why not make $100hr minimum?" and the answer is "that's too high".

It sounds like, were you to acknowledge that thresholds exist somewhere for most things you think the threshold for minimum wage is 0 and that UBI and guaranteed services is a better mechanism.

Which is respectable, at least in that you recognize a government role in ensuring humane living conditions for its citizens. Most people who argue against a minimum wage seem to think any government action of any kind to protect or provide for citizens is "theft by taxation".
by turblety | 2025-08-11 15:01:11+00:00
Nice one!

Coincidentally I worked on a large table renderer too this weekend: https://github.com/markwylde/react-massive-table

I noticed you didn't quite get to a million rows. For me, it cut off at 671088.

Same thing happened when I built my one.

I came across the same thing. In the end I just manual made the rows appear at their absolute position. Seemed to work well.
by bbor | 2025-08-11 15:01:17+00:00
Pretty telling what speech on the left and the right looks like.

For the left, it's:

> Eugene Debs, for example, was sentenced to 10 years in prison under the Espionage Act after he spoke at a rally for peaceful workers telling them they were “fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder”... Likewise, in 1919, Schenck v. U.S., the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Socialist Party member after he sent anti-war leaflets to men across the country.

For the right, it's:

> It will not defend the First Amendment rights of pro-life pregnancy centers [...to trick desparate women into receiving useless propaganda instead of the medical care they were seeking] or small religious businesses [...to deny service based on rank bigotry]. It no longer defends religious freedom [...to deny adoptions to LGBT couples[1], to fire employees for receiving or abetting an abortion[2], and to perjure yourself in a senate hearing about your intention to make legal rulings on the basis of religion[3]], although it once did. And in a leaked internal memo, the ACLU takes the position that free speech denigrating “marginalized groups” should not be defended.

If you're ever in a position to write "marginalized groups" in scare-quotes, perhaps that should be a wakeup call...

P.S. It doesn't help that your links are to 1) a libertarian thinktank founded to oppose the New Deal, 2) the Heritage Foundation and 3) an opinion piece by Alan Dershowitz. The first is extremely biased, and the latter two are just plain bad-faith.

[1] https://www.lgbtmap.org/kids-pay-the-price

[2] https://laist.com/shows/take-two/heres-the-last-of-the-bills...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/feinstein-the-...
by andrewla | 2025-08-11 15:01:29+00:00
My understanding of cigarettes is that while nicotine is responsible for the addictive effects of tobacco, it is a very minor contributor to the overall health impact of smoking, which are mostly the other tobacco ingredients, primarily particulates.

So while you may consume more nicotine, which has some deleterious effects, the overall risk is literally orders of magnitude lower. You'd need to consume 100s of vapes to get enough nicotine to have health risks on par with what you get from a cigarette.
by kergonath | 2025-08-11 15:01:40+00:00
> in addition to taking more time, was not very comfortable for the people living there.

That’s quite the understatement. I remember taking one hour to get to the bottom of the valley from the Larzac, and then one hour again to get back up on the other side. We’d often stop for lunch or a coffee in Millau just to do anything at all that was not sitting in the car, but the city was entirely choked by this overwhelming traffic. The viaduct was a massive improvement. And sure, it affected local restaurants and bars, but the city is much more liveable now.
by graemep | 2025-08-11 15:02:46+00:00
I think part of the reason is that management usually know enough about accounting that they know enough to hire the right people, ask the experts in the area the right questions, and ensure someone implements best practices.

> if I tried to send my brother in law a million dollars I doubt I could do that (not that I would)

If you did it would almost certainly be noticed and you would face consequences. That is why something more complex than just a transfer (very often something very elaborate) is required for fraud.

Then again everyone accepts you need to do things to stop fraud, that the trade offs (things taking more time and effort, not being able to do somethings) from the necessary precautions.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-11 15:02:51+00:00
The price is going up $6-10 on the All Products Pack. Individual products are going up $6-30. The lower priced products are going up $6-10, the more expensive ones like IntelliJ Ultimate are going up $18-30.

It's a price increase, but not excessive. They also let you pay now for several years ahead which means you can lock in the current price and save a bit of money. I think they started doing that the last time they raised their prices, back in 2022, IIRC.
by jlokier | 2025-08-11 15:03:03+00:00
Here is "ping 8.8.8.8" showing latency over cellular internet some of the time, and I live in the centre of a city:

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6145 ttl=114 time=363613.635 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6175 ttl=114 time=334289.726 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6176 ttl=114 time=333689.274 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6177 ttl=114 time=332851.621 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6178 ttl=114 time=332673.845 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6179 ttl=114 time=332618.215 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6180 ttl=114 time=331634.496 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6181 ttl=114 time=330736.758 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6182 ttl=114 time=331050.087 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6183 ttl=114 time=330813.820 ms
by jacquesm | 2025-08-11 15:03:16+00:00
For me it doesn't really raise any interesting questions at all: things are statistically not 'bad' per se, besides, you could trade your democracy for an autocracy or a dictatorship and end up 'safe' from small crime but meanwhile have your whole country looted.

Maybe some people prefer that but I would rather have garden variety criminals and a trustworthy government fighting them than some kind of re-invention of the USSR, which didn't really bother with collecting crime statistics, and where crime was - so they claimed - very low (this really wasn't the case, especially not if you consider the behavior of lots of highly placed individuals, who could get away with just about anything, except of course stealing from their bosses).
by abbadadda | 2025-08-11 15:03:44+00:00
> Go look at the clouds, or better the stars, for some time. But don't do it tool long because you might start wondering why the fuck you're wasting so much time and energy fulfilling other people's TODO lists

I tend to agree. I’d like to live a different lifestyle than the one I have today, but that would require rolling back the clock about 20 years at least and learning 1,000 lessons I have now that I wish I’d known back then. Don’t marry the wrong person. Figure out how to marry the right person. Have kids with the right person. But also you don’t HAVE to have kids. Avoid divorce. Avoid debt. Know myself, truly.

Now I’m on the “hedonic treadmill” and struggling to get off. I’m reading The Happiness Trap, it is good so far. But there are bills to pay, mouths to feed, and so it goes. The TODO list keeps growing, and I can only keep doing the job in front of me.

And yet, it is hard not to read this article and feel a bit, what’s the word, perhaps melancholic, about the direction we’re heading as a species. I’ll raise my son the best I can, and be the best person that I can be. And maybe build some stuff to leave the world a little better than I found it. None of us asked to be here. But given that we’re here it makes sense to try and do what we can to make things better. For now that means commenting on HackerNews about the current state of affairs and lamenting the direction humanity is going in. We’re burning the planet, pursing instant gratification, and “late-stage capitalism” is the status quo we live with. All we can do is what we can do. It is easy to think “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” but I’ll keep hoping for a better world where we take advantage of each other less and do a bit more to help each other though this thing called life.
by surrTurr | 2025-08-11 15:04:18+00:00
shameless plug: I also got fed up with todo apps (and note-taking apps in general), so I built "Zettel"[1]. It's a simple piece of paper, but on your phone. It's amazing what you can get done with such a simple tool.

[1]: https://github.com/AlexW00/Zettel
by mdaniel | 2025-08-11 15:04:26+00:00
I didn't dig through the infinite scroll (ironic on a page about designs) but I'm surprised more than half of them weren't dedicated to obfuscating the prices, as has been the vast majority of my experience with trying to figure out how much money I need to give anyone

<font size=small>call us</font>

<h3>let's talk!</h3>

or my other pet peeve https://lucidic.ai/#:~:text=Get%20started%20for%20free aka don't worry about it until you like it!
by smiley1437 | 2025-08-11 15:04:45+00:00
One useful addition for text file users: on Windows, create hotkey\macro timestamps using something like Autohotkey (https://autohotkey.com/)

3 letter hotkeys seem to work well - long enough to be unique without overlapping real words.

for instance, when I type ddd it automatically stamps this:

20250811 10:57 AM

then I type my note and can look back at what time\date it was.

sometimes I just need the date so that is dds (date-date-short) which gives

20250811

occasionally I just want the time so that's ttt

11:02:02 AM

I have many other 3 letter codes using Autohotkey to bring in frequently typed things too, useful in emails and such.

Since I think through typing, autohotkey has been a QoL helper.
by watwut | 2025-08-11 15:04:57+00:00
I am so much not willing to listen to what heritage specifically has to say on the topic. Could you pick less hypocritical and less eager to lie resources to "definitely not pick up on left totally both side"? Heritage foundation literally where Project 2025 was created and published.

Also, I definitely love the track record of "the measure of free speech is your willingness to defend nazi and never use words to support the left":

> To be sure, the ACLU will still occasionally take a high profile case involving a Nazi or Klan member who has been denied freedom of speech, though there are now some on the board who would oppose supporting such right-wing extremists. But the core mission of the ACLU — and its financial priority — is to promote its left-wing agenda in litigation, in public commentary and, now, in elections. If you want to know the reason for this shift, [...]

Yeah, their litmus test is always willingness to defend nazi AND not have left like opinions. If you are aligned with right wing specifically, you are fine. Just dont you dare to have left like opinions. Total neutral.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-08-11 15:05:51+00:00
> Just because they didn't challenge the overall law in court doesn't mean they wouldn't challenge it in a political sense.

That's my point, though. This is the perfect opportunity to do so, and they aren't doing it. Instead, they are picking the smallest possible battle they can. That decision alone makes waves.

> Certainly Reddit et al have similar general concerns with having to implement ID systems as they did about policing content for IP violations, but the biggest impact will be on minors.

That's ridiculous. ID systems endanger everyone, particularly the adults who participate. This issue isn't isolated from capitalism. These ID systems must be implemented and managed by corporations, whose greatest incentive is to collect and monetize data.

> We can call it fascism all we like, but at the end of the day, people do seem concerned about children accessing adult content.

The think-of-the-children argument is the oldest trick in the book. You are seriously asking me to take it at face value? No thank you.

> More fundamentally, I strongly suspect that "big business is trying to ruin the internet by hoarding their property" is an easier sell for the average voter than "big government is trying to ruin the internet by protecting children from adult content".

If people really are blind to the change that has happened right in front of them, then we should be spelling it out at every opportunity. This is my biggest concern with how Wikimedia is behaving: they are in a significant position politically, and are abdicating this crucial responsibility.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-11 15:05:51+00:00
Fwiw, this is pretty much a slam dunk usecase for current LLMs.

Vibe code a script that parses your existing text file and creates events in your chosen calendar app. Then run this script on a schedule

Explicitly tell it to add a tag or anything else identifiable so it can Auto remove/update the events on changes etc.

You'll have a PoC in minutes and will likely be happy with the result within an hour, if you're using Claude Code
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-11 15:05:52+00:00
This reminded me of BBS'[1], which again reminded me of the older days where you sent letters and got one back a week or three later.

I had programmed a lot in Delphi before I started programming in C++, and the orders of magnitude slower build times caused me to program very differently.

I would re-read several times and reason much more about my code before issuing a build command. Whereas in Delphi, the almost instantaneous builds meant I used it almost like a spell checker.

Back in the BBS days you left a message and checked back in a day.

Perhaps its rose tinted glasses I've got on but I feel todays instantaneous communication isn't always for the better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
by gillyb | 2025-08-11 15:06:10+00:00
Yeah, I'm aware, but didn't bother yet to go further... I have been thinking about hosting my own git server to work on.

I'm not a prolific open source contributor anyways, but i'm wondering if the tides are changing in regards to open source.

I can imaging that many people in the open source community - even if they're giving away their code for free under the most permissive licenses, still somewhere enjoy the fact that people know they're looking at their code on github or wherever it may be hosted. But now that slowly people shifting to only looking at code via LLM chat apps, then they might want to contirbute less to open source... just wondering... ?
by hliyan | 2025-08-11 15:06:25+00:00
On a slightly related note, has anyone else noticed an increase in social media attacks on Wikipedia, kind of like this? https://x.com/benlandautaylor/status/1954276775560966156

Post reads: "Periodic reminder that Wikipedia has a squillion times more money than they need to operate the actual website, and all marginal donations go to the fake paper-shuffling NGO that attached itself to the organization for the purpose of feeding on donations from rubes."

Quoted post reads: "I have no interest in giving Wikipedia money to blow on fake jobs for ovecredentialed paper-pushers, but if the banner said “Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia and he’d like to buy a yacht” then I’d pull out my wallet immediately."
by suninsight | 2025-08-11 15:06:28+00:00
I think if you use Cursor, using Claude Code is a huge upgrade. The problem is that Cursor was a huge upgrade from the IDE, so we are still getting used to it.

The company I work for builds a similar tool - NonBioS.ai. It is in someways similar to what the author does above - but packaged as a service. So the nonbios agent has a root VM and can write/build all the software you want. You access/control it through a web chat interface - we take care of all the orchestration behind the scene.

Its also in free Beta right now, and signup takes a minute if you want to give it a shot. You can actually find out quickly if the Claude code/nonbios experience is better than Cursor.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-11 15:06:57+00:00
Yep. When we started an ISP about 1994, we gave the users a floppy that installed Trumpet Winsock, Netscape, and a handful of other programs for things like IRC and Usenet. Trumpet Winsock provided the dialup and networking which Windows 3.1 didn't have. AOL would have had to provide something similar, though all custom for connecting to their network.
by morkalork | 2025-08-11 15:06:57+00:00
Ok! The one I can find only goes back to 2016 and I was applying a bit before that. The grid has a lot of missing data since Waterloo probably doesn't have enough data for each cohort and HS to make a good estimate, I guess that would make a province-wide system like in Québec superior since they can adjust based on outcomes from all universities.

After seeing the list I'm kind of sad, I had the choice between two schools at 10 and 13, and chose the one with 13. A 3% difference can make or break an application in any competitive program... Well, at least it wasn't one of those schools with 20 point factor, wow.