MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pyrale | 2025-08-11 14:40:56+00:00
On one hand, I agree with you that there is some fun in experimenting with silly stuff. On the other hand...

> Claude was trying to promote the startup on Hackernews without my sign off. [...] Then I posted its stuff to Hacker News and Reddit.

...I have the feeling that this kind of fun experiments is just setting up an automated firehose of shit to spray places where fellow humans congregate. And I have the feeling that it has stopped being fun a while ago for the fellow humans being sprayed.
by jerieljan | 2025-08-11 14:41:02+00:00
I have a similar setup in Todoist, it's just a reminder for scheduled recurring tasks like bills.

Funnily enough, I was quite savvy with the features several years ago but as my work changed and things aren't as easy to list down like a routine or in neatly defined projects and such.

And when regular tasks becomes freeform, it's no surprise that a plaintext file is sufficient.
by rendernos | 2025-08-11 14:41:06+00:00
Hi! I've been working on this project for a couple of years, and recently decided to launch it with a simple, rushed homepage and design. I initially focused heavily on building the product's core functionality without gathering much early feedback. Now that it's live, I'm looking forward to hearing what people think. To clarify the goal: the platform is designed to speed up charting and analysis of financial markets. For example, I used the integrated AI Copilot to create the indicators you see on the platform, which, as a programmer, saved me significant development time.

The vision is to enable traders and investors, especially those without technical expertise, to bring their ideas to life with a simple prompt. It isn't about building an AI that tells you when to buy or sell, but about providing tools that help people make smarter, faster data-driven investment decisions. The approach has already saved me considerable time in my own work, I'm eager to explore additional use cases that could deliver value for others
by Kokouane | 2025-08-11 14:41:10+00:00
Surely this would be easy to fix with a simple script that runs on a VPS to alert you on a platform of your choice, maybe using something like Apprise (https://github.com/caronc/apprise). Get the notification as an email, on Discord, Signal, etc.

This does complicate the system a bit, but still low overhead in my opinion.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-11 14:42:33+00:00
Cheap second hand rubidium frequency standards may be worthwhile, unlike new rubidium oscillators, which are not that good in comparison with good OCXOs to make their much higher price acceptable.

Traditional rubidium frequency standards still have an aging rate that is high enough to be non-negligible. While from the datasheet of a rubidium oscillator it appears that it is better than an OCXO, that can be misleading, because many OCXOs have very predictable aging drifts. If you compensate the aging in software, you may reach a similar performance to a rubidium oscillator.

In recent years there have been invented several new kinds of rubidium frequency standards, with much better performances than the traditional models. However these are either not available yet as commercial products or they may have a single provider which demands a steep price.
by protocolture | 2025-08-11 14:42:52+00:00
>I personally find it rather frustrating that Wikimedia is suddenly so willing to bend over for fascists. Where did their conscience go?

I absolutely abhor the "Kids these days" sort of argument, but it does seem the case that we lowered the barrier of entry sufficiently in the tech sector that people who simply dont give a shit, or actively want to harm our values, now outnumber us greatly.

What has happened previously was we would rally around corporations and institutions that would generally work in our best interests. But the people driving those social goods in those entities are now the villains.

Not to mention all the mergers and acquisitions.

In Australia, during the internet filter debate, we had both a not for profit entity spending money on advertising, but also decently sized ISP's like iiNet working publicly against the problem. The not for profit was funded by industry, something that never happened again. And iiNet is now owned by TPG who also used to have a social conscience but have been hammered into the dust by the (completely non technical, and completely asinine bane of the internets existence and literal satan) ACCC and have no fight left in them for anything. When Teoh leaves or sells TPG, it will probably never fight a good fight ever again.

Its the same everywhere. We cant expect people to fight for freedom when the legislation just gets renamed and relaunched again after the next crisis comes out in the media. We lost internet filtration after christchurch, for absolutely no justifiable reason. And we lost the Access and Assistance fight despite having half the global tech industry tell our government to suck eggs.

The only real solution is to prep the next generation to fight back as best as possible, to help them ignore the doomsayers and help the right humans into the right places to deal with this shit.
by bbor | 2025-08-11 14:43:10+00:00
I share your general frustration, but as an unabashed Wikimedia glazer, I have some potential answers:

1. They lost this legal challenge, so perhaps their UK lawyers (barristers?) knew that much broader claim would be even less likely to work and advised them against it. Just because they didn't challenge the overall law in court doesn't mean they wouldn't challenge it in a political sense.

2. The Protests against SOPA and PIPA[1] were in response to overreach by capitalists, and as such drew support from many capitalists with opposing interests (e.g. Google, Craigslist, Flickr, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, etc.). 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, which AFAIK are far from the most popular advertising demo. Certainly some adult users will be put off by the hassle and/or insult, but how many, and for how long?

3. Wikimedia is a US-based organization, and the two major organizers of the 2012 protests--Fight for the Future[2] and the Electronic Frontier Foundation[3]--are US-focused as well. The EFF does have a blog post about these UK laws, but AFAICT no history of bringing legal and/or protest action there. This dovetails nicely with the previous point, while we're at it: the US spends $300B on digital ads every year, whereas the UK only spends $40B[4]. The per-capita spends are closer ($870/p v. $567/p), but the fact remains: the US is the lifeblood of these companies in a way that the UK is not.

4. 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". We can call it fascism all we like, but at the end of the day, people do seem concerned about children accessing adult content. IMHO YouTube brainrot content farms are a much bigger threat to children than porn, but I'm not a parent.

The final point is perhaps weakened by the ongoing AI debates, where there's suddenly a ton of support for the "we're protecting artists!" arguments employed in 2012. Still, I think the general shape of things is clear: Wikimedia stood in solidarity with many others in 2012, and now stands relatively alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

[2] https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

[3] https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-cases

[4] https://www.salehoo.com/learn/digital-ad-spend-by-country
by mesotron_dev | 2025-08-11 14:43:54+00:00
Another way to solve this is to use Fossil. Fossil has a built-in wiki. You can launch Fossil UI and use the built-in wiki with Markdown. Have legacy txt files? Just open a new fossil project and add them to it. And if you set up the admin and user correctly, you can mirror your notes to GitHub. So, it's not that text files are not a good option. There are many vastly superior options with almost no effort.
by joshmarinacci | 2025-08-11 14:44:02+00:00
I love this article. The magic of todos is that it's really about the process, not the apps. An app can facilitate the process, but it's not required. I personally use Things and an ongoing Google doc. It requires me to copy between them every day, but I find that forces me to do the process of prioritizing and paring down, which is the magic part. A text file would work as well.

There are a few things I wish I could magically add to the text doc, though, like inline alarms and calendar events.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-11 14:44:09+00:00
That's the spell. It's proffered soley because it "compiled and worked on the first try". This only flies as engineering advice in the software world because our version of engineering is "just try this out and see if it works. If it does, ship. Bugs be damned we'll patch them live!", which has resulted in... well I guess acceptance of this current push toward vibe coding.
by akkartik | 2025-08-11 14:44:20+00:00
I use the Unix way and multiple tools.

If something has a date attached, put it on the calendar.

If something is time sensitive add alarms as needed (calendar notifications have not been doing it for me in the last 5+ years)

20 years ago it was text file + Unix calendar + crontab + something custom.

These days it's text file + calendar + clock app + something custom.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-08-11 14:44:25+00:00
Neither the left or the right wants anything. People inside each group do. This is an important distinction that pundits love to invert.

I have a very hard time taking any of your sources seriously, particularly when it comes to any categorization of "the left".

FEE is a conservative libertarian think tank. Heritage Foundation is the most infamous conservative think tank. Alan Dershowitz is most famous for defending Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein, and decided to leave the Democratic party as soon as it showed signs of becoming a bit less Zionist.

These are prime examples of pundits who love to frame the "the left" as a singular cohesive boogeyman. You may not intentionally be picking on the left, but the sources you have cited make a living picking on a version of "the left" that they invented.
by daemonologist | 2025-08-11 14:44:26+00:00
Lots of "information extraction" tools - basically taking in a bunch of documents and other natural language material and pulling out a few key pieces of structured data. This isn't 100% reliable but is useful as a first pass (where a human can investigate further) or a backstop (against a human missing something important and obvious but buried in a long file or huge volume of files).

I also put together a half-baked web extension to try to steer the Youtube algorithm. It basically scrolls through shorts and tries to watch+like high quality content and skip+dislike junk (and worse) to scrub it out of the feed as much as possible. It's only looking at the transcript and a couple of thumbnails, so it's not super accurate, but in the short term it's been working pretty well. I figure that Google can probably tell that it's not a human though, and might disregard its inputs (or ban me) in the long term. Time will tell.
by roscas | 2025-08-11 14:44:29+00:00
Like anything else in life, if they see business, they increase price. It was Vmware and many others.

I see no wrong on doing that, so you if think it brings value to you, pay the price.

Most of the times, you will do well with open source products that are also free.

Vscodium is nice, Zed is also good, but you can use Vim for programming.
by f311a | 2025-08-11 14:45:07+00:00
After using Evernote for 10 years and seeing what they did to it, I'm never switching from plain txt/md files for notes and todos. For simple and daily todos, I just use iPhone notes (They don't have anything long-term or important, and the sync is nice).

For the rest, I just use plain files that are encrypted locally and stored on GitHub and Google Drive.
by troyvit | 2025-08-11 14:45:18+00:00
> People are still free to criticize Trump all they want. The First Amendment is pretty clear on this.

I guess it depends on how you define "person."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist_deportations_in_the_s...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-g...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregion/ice-arrests-pale...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oRiQz7mOY6A
by rsaarelm | 2025-08-11 14:45:38+00:00
> Thinking about the things you say isn't faking it - it's just using your brain and being considerate.

I guess what gets me with this stuff is that there are multiple things going on that are getting conflated. Considering your words is pretty straightforwardly good, it's learning to not say things you yourself wouldn't have wanted to say.

But then this stuff tends to show up in the context of work, or business, and it starts turning into selling. You are the seller, the other people are buyers. Buyers have no expectations on them, they react as they react and they want what they want. The seller must contort themselves to please the buyer and then close a sale to get one over the buyer. And this is where it gets corrosive for me. It feels like there's no common ground being built, the relationship is adversarial in both directions, and both sides are a bad model for a person to be. People are being split into feckless buyers who express immediate wants and judgments with no thought or development, and conniving sellers whose main order of business is to get themselves in front of the buyer and get noticed, no matter what the real value of what they are offering is. People might make money if they internalize this system and get good at it, but are they going to make lasting friends?
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-11 14:45:41+00:00
Most harnesses provide this as a "plan" vs. "act" mode now. You first "chat" in plan mode (no access to tools, no instructions to write any code basically), you then can optionally write those plans in a memorybank / plan.md, and then say "now go implement it", and it moves to the "act" mode where it goes through and does it, updating progress in plan.md as it goes.
by yndoendo | 2025-08-11 14:45:45+00:00
Wikipedia is a moving target. Content today is not the content of yesterday or tomorrow. This is like saying all knowledge that humanity can gain has already been accomplished.

My personal test usage of AI is it will try to bull shit an answer even when you giving known bad questions with content that contradicts each other. Until AI can say there is no answer to bull shit questions it is not truly a viable product because the end user might not know they have a bull shit question and will accept a bull shit answer. AI at it's present state pushed to the masses is just an expensive miss-information bot.

Also, AI that is not open from bottom to top with all training and rules publicly published is just a black box. That black box is just like Volkswagen emissions scandal waiting to happen. AI provider can create rules that override the actual answer with their desired answer which is not only a fallacy. They can also be designed to financially support their own company directly or third party product and services paying them. A question about "diapers" might always push and use the products by "Procter & Gamble".
by Bender | 2025-08-11 14:45:46+00:00
China is going through its own issues at the moment. Larger numbers of people are rising up against the CCP and recent events are becoming more and more frequent. Their government is predictably cracking down harder on its citizens. But you could be right, just not with the CCP but rather whatever government takes its place soon. The riots have not yet reached their precipice but it's getting nasty.
by JohnBubliner | 2025-08-11 14:45:49+00:00
I'd like to take a moment to recommend UnDatas.io to anyone who needs a professional or academic-grade document parsing pipeline. After comparing it with numerous alternatives (including home-made solutions), I can confidently say it has saved me countless hours. It's clearly one of the best tools in its category, with tremendous potential.

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However, what truly sets UnDatas.io apart is the team behind it. They are fully committed and working hard to improve the product continuously. Since purchasing an LTD three months ago, I've witnessed remarkable progress—far exceeding my expectations. This track record gives me complete confidence that they'll address current limitations and keep enhancing the platform.

Most importantly, they genuinely listen to their customers. I've had numerous exchanges with the team, reporting bugs and suggesting improvements, and they've consistently responded quickly and either fixed the issue or implemented the enhancement.

In today's world, where waiting 10+ days for support responses has become normalized (even when paying $20+ monthly), this level of customer care is the real differentiator—more so than any current technical limitations.

I wholeheartedly recommend giving UnDatas.io a try—they offer a generous free tier to test the waters.
by abemiller | 2025-08-11 14:46:38+00:00
My journey has been identical, and I have a suspicion that this inability to use an app with bells and whistles might have something to do with ADHD.

I actually ended up making an app as a side project which is just todo.txt with one extra feature: if you start a line with a "!", it turns that line to a push notification on your lock screen. just keeps the important things in your list just a bit closer to awareness without overwhelming

https://www.whatistoday.net/2024/06/scratch-paper-minimal-mo...
by bcantrill | 2025-08-11 14:46:45+00:00
It took all of my self-control to not put "plan" in quotes in the submission: this is a sloppy, sorry excuse for a plan that involves somehow magically extracting a $40B bailout from Intel's customers, which Barrett confusingly names as "Nvidia [sic], Apple, Google." What do these three companies buy from Intel, exactly? (Ask Google about their affection for Intel after how Mt. Evans was treated!) Or is it that Barrett knows that these aren't Intel customers, but that they are TSMC customers should conscript them to bailing out Intel?

But wait, there's more: not only are "customers" shaken down to the tune of $5B (you only need 8 of them!), Barrett's "plan" also calls on 50% (!!) tariffs for semiconductors. This plan is a joke, and an example of the toxic Intel exceptionalism that got them so deep into the mess they find themselves in.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 14:46:45+00:00
> As an European who worked with US companies, my experience with work communication there can only be summed up as being heavily biased towards toxic positivity

This is definitely true, and is something that I've noticed that really annoys me. I have noticed that it varies quite a bit by region and industry, so not universal to the US or monolithic. The west coast of the US seems to be the most extreme in my experience
by Levitz | 2025-08-11 14:46:49+00:00
I'd like to add, it's fine and dandy to have the stance that huge corporations in general shouldn't throw their weight around to shape politics, that's still not the world we live in and that must be acknowledged.

Even if I'd rather have Wikipedia stay put, it does matter to me if they push for something I support as opposed to something that I'm against.
by mesotron_dev | 2025-08-11 14:46:54+00:00
Another way to solve this is to use Fossil. Fossil has a built-in wiki. You can launch Fossil UI and use the built-in wiki with Markdown. Have legacy txt files? Just open a new fossil project and add them to it. And if you set up the admin and user correctly, you can mirror your notes to GitHub. So, it's not that text files are not a good option. There are vastly superior options with almost no effort.
by qualeed | 2025-08-11 14:47:11+00:00
>Why would you not want people trusting their data with SaaS apps?

Mainly because after years and years (and hundreds and hundreds) of data leaks & breaches... every single person would be significantly better off by defaulting to not blindly trusting companies & applications with their data.

>Smaller developers building software benefits users assuming their data is protected

That assumption is simply incorrect. As has been proven literally thousands of times now.

Ideally, apps would be built to purposefully reduce the amount of data collected to the greatest amount possible (and only hold data for the shortest amount of time possible). Rather than now, where they collect as much data as possible, hold on to it forever, and then inevitably leak it.
by teo_zero | 2025-08-11 14:47:22+00:00
How strange! I was about to add a comment that I would probably stick to SSE2 or something like that to be sure my code suits as large an audience as possible, including CPUs from more than 10 years ago, ARM, etc.

Case in point: I've been very disappointed lately when I wanted to try Ghostty on my laptop and the binary compiled for Debian failed to run due to an invalid instruction. I don't want to force the same experience to others.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-11 14:48:13+00:00
"The four tenets of Modern Mercantilism include:

- The state has a large role in orchestrating the economy to increase national wealth and strength.

- Trade balances are an important determinant of national wealth and strength, and trade deficits should be avoided.

- Industrial policy is used to promote self-reliance and defense.

- National corporate champions are protected."
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-11 14:48:25+00:00
Gather 40B in collection money, throw it at the foundry and hope for the best?

Recent news[1] is that the 18A node isn't doing so well, another node that seems difficult to get going it would appear.

Are there other aspects at play here, besides physics and chemistry being hard?

[1]: https://www.techspot.com/news/108949-intel-18a-process-hit-l...
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-11 14:49:34+00:00
I've used all three that you've listed (plus several more).

I generally stick to Bottles whenever I can. It's a very general solution for running windows software on linux, with a nice UI.

I've used it for both gaming & non-gaming applications. Everything from running battle.net on my steam deck, to Alan Wake 2 on my desktop, to running specific Victron configuration software on my laptop for programming my solar inverters.

It's not perfect (occasionally recipes get out of date, and sometimes you still need to go get a specific version of Proton-GE, or download some of their dependencies manually, for example) but generally speaking... It's a pretty good interface.

Keeping all the configuration/dependencies alongside the individual apps is great.

It's much less "Game specific" than either Lutris or Heroic.
by splatter9859 | 2025-08-11 14:49:37+00:00
Preach.

This has got to be the most user-blind self-imposed preference in a modern operating system outside of Microsoft's BS.

If you're going to use an OSS operating system, the control of what is placed on the system should be inherently with the user. If the developer has a question if a new package should be added or is required, throw a prompt and ask -- with a default to not use application containers and the default packaging system.

Really not hard.