MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-15 20:21:18+00:00
"HN works OK on a text mode browser, including find in page."

Perhaps that's one reason why I spend so much time on HN

"95% of the time", I am a text-mode command line user, no graphics layer (note difference between "text-mode" and "terminal"; I'm not using the later)

I make choices in software based on what I think works well for command line use and what fits own aesthetic preferences

TBH I have no idea what are other peoples' preferred aesthetics, I only know mine

Currently,

I submit/reply/edit on HN using tiny shell scripts, no browser (TCP client to send the HTTP, custom text-processing filter to format the request body)

I search HN using a local SQLite database and a shell one-liner

I read HN using links (modified with some personal changes)

In the past I have stated that I use links as an "HTML reader"; I do not necessarily use links to make HTTP requests nor do I necessarily consume all webpage content as HTML; mostly I am using links to read HTML offline, e.g., an HTML file saved to a tmpfs directory

The point I'm trying to make when I mention I'm not using a popular browser is that, according to the design of the www, www users (e.g., me) get to choose the software, not web developers or website operators

As such, I would not expect any other www users to necessarily use the same software; nor would I expect any www user to care about any other www user's personal preferences, particularly mine; others could have different expectations

Each www user can choose whatever software they want, including software that isn't popular

When I mention I'm not using a popular browser, I sometimes get these "what browser are you using" comments

I'm not inclined to answer because I think it distracts from the point I am trying to make; it's a tangent, a red herring

I wish the question was something like "how do you view [example.com]", where example.com is some website the commenter visits that causes them to believe popular web browsers are required for _every_ website

Chances are, I do not visit the same website; every www user is different

But if I knew what this website was, then perhaps I could demonstrate how I might extract the information I wanted from it and read it as a text file
by Terr_ | 2025-08-15 20:22:31+00:00
> The fact that a target _needs_ to be hit is indisputable.

At best, you're confusing "indisputable" with "an input or requirement imposed by the user."

At worst, the software is suggesting who ought to be killed, the user trusts the software, and then the software trusts the user's choice, and the magic of circular-logic supposedly absolves everyone involved of responsibility when murder happens.
by Const-me | 2025-08-15 20:23:22+00:00
Not sure if that’s relevant, but when I do micro-benchmarks like that measuring time intervals way smaller than 1 second, I use __rdtsc() compiler intrinsic instead of standard library functions.

On all modern processors, that instruction measures wallclock time with a counter which increments at the base frequency of the CPU unaffected by dynamic frequency scaling.

Apart from the great resolution, that time measuring method has an upside of being very cheap, couple orders of magnitude faster than an OS kernel call.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-08-15 20:23:24+00:00
> Personally, though, I’ll take the second game’s refinement over any such nebulous quality. If I was coming to Dungeon Keeper cold today, this is definitely where I would start.

This was my feeling, too, having no prior history with Dungeon Keeper and buying both titles on sale on GOG in the past year. DKII is definitely easier for the modern gamer to jump into. It also had some gameplay ideas that were novel and not terribly well-developed, but just fun--like being able to possess an individual grunt and suddenly have the isometric real-time strategy shift to a first-person perspective.
by zeropointsh | 2025-08-15 20:23:47+00:00
How about using on-chain proof-of-work? It flips the script.

If a bot wants access, let it earn it—and let that work be captured, not discarded. Each request becomes compensation to the site itself. The crawler feeds the very system it scrapes. Its computational effort directly funds the site owner's wallet, joining the pool to complete its proof.

The cost becomes the contract.
by epistasis | 2025-08-15 20:24:03+00:00
People lie about high vacancies in new buildings almost compulsively.

There was a big splash of PR for a report on high vacancies in new LA apartment buildings a few years ago, and it had to be retracted within a week because the methodology was pretty much nonexistent, like counting lights in windows at night and not realizing that people visit friends, go to concerts, go out to eat, stay at their girlfriend's place, or any one of many other things that keeps lights off in occupied apartments.

I see it with every single new multistory building in my small downtown. People complaining about a building being fully empty shortly after it has been built, when in reality it's filling up faster than planned and there are only 20% of the units left.

Yes, there are lies, but in my experience the lies are only for too many vacancies.
by maxwellg | 2025-08-15 20:24:47+00:00
SSO chaining is super common in large corporate environments. Different orgs might have their own SSO IDP, acquisitions often bring their own, etc. Once a provider is in use, it is quite difficult to tear out later while keeping everyone in their proper accounts in all the apps that tie in. Many apps are really bad at SSO migrations, or deduplicating multiple SSO identities to a single user account.
by mtalantikite | 2025-08-15 20:24:50+00:00
Acknowledging is not the same as dwelling. We must acknowledge because it is reality and it is our duty to look reality in it's face. And because it is a reality that others in this present day experience the effects of, it affects all of us.

By acknowledging and understanding the suffering of others, we touch the suffering within ourselves, and vice versa. As my meditation teacher [1] often says in closing, "just as the right hand helps the left without thinking "I'm helping other", when we sincerely take care of others, we take care of ourselves. When we sincerely take care of ourselves, we take care of others".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@ThuptenPhuntsok
by eyelidlessness | 2025-08-15 20:25:14+00:00
Only personal anecdata, but I’ve observed that I’m far less accident prone since I was diagnosed and have had consistent treatment. I noticed it without prompt, and it never occurred to me before that there would be any correlation.

I’ve also noticed I’m much less accident prone since I’ve been sober, which came a couple years later. I couldn’t say for certain which event correlates with a more pronounced improvement, but both have been quite pronounced.

That said, yes, I can still relate to bruised shins! I’m less accident prone, but still pretty far from immune.
by epistasis | 2025-08-15 20:25:56+00:00
There's theory and there's data, and both agree that building more housing lowers prices.

Sure, take care of all that other stuff too, but the data does lot match your theory, and it does match what you call "Econ 101." And I would point out that you haven't even attempted to show that these other things come close to cancelling out Econ 101 effects, you merely have hand waving on the theory without any substance.
by Karsteski | 2025-08-15 20:25:57+00:00
Beautiful article. I've started reaching out to friends from university or even secondary school that I lost contact with. Sometimes it works out and we eventually meet up, but other times it just fizzles out. I've only ever regretted not reaching out to people. It's scary to do every time but I want to keep at it. Perhaps I'm too sentimental but I genuinely miss some people, and from what I've experienced, sometimes they missed me too.

One of my fondest memories from only a few years ago was when a friend that I was reasonably close with but hadn't seen in a long while messaged me on birthday. Probably didn't mean much to her but it still means a lot to me to this day. I should text her.
by Keyframe | 2025-08-15 20:26:28+00:00
This happened with cyrillic to me. During Yugoslavia we had to learn both latin and cyrillic. Since I'm from Croatia, I didn't have a need much for cyrillic (or at all). Today, I can read _at speed_ (including subtitles) cyrillic just fine, but I probably couldn't write a thing if my life depended on it. It's weird when I think about it.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-15 20:27:06+00:00
The basic problem is that a list of guns is the holy grail of the gun banners. Is it any wonder that the pro gun crowd is afraid of it?

And the reality is that legally purchased guns account for a tiny fraction of gun crime. Stopping every gun purchase by even a would-be criminal is going to do very little except to the suicide rate.

And the "unremarkable" measures often have nasty hidden details. Mandatory safes? Just exactly what do you count as a safe? Doesn't take much of a requirement on a safe before it becomes something that can only rest upon a proper foundation--thus completely prohibiting many apartment and condo dwellers. Put a bolt-down requirement on it and you have disallowed all renters.

Training is looking at it backwards. We have a perfect model of how it should be handled: just look at driving. You pass a test of knowledge and a test of proficiency.
by maxwellg | 2025-08-15 20:27:07+00:00
For extra security, an intermediary can set Content Security Policy (CSP) headers that instruct browsers to only connect to certain domains. CSP headers aren't a total solution, but they're a good tool in the toolkit for redundancy against exfiltration.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...
by scubbo | 2025-08-15 20:27:35+00:00
A barrier-to-entry isn't necessary if no non-geeks want to join in the first place (which is, IME, true of Mastodon). Mastodon has successfully made itself a place that no non-geek would ever _want_ to spend time on anyway, so no barriers-to-entry are necessary to maintain that state.

(You can decide for yourself whether this comment is praising or criticizing Mastodon)
by extraisland | 2025-08-15 20:27:45+00:00
It annoys me when people claim this. It depends on the game, distro, proton version, what desktop environment, plus a lot of other things I have forgotten about.

Also latency is frequently worse on Linux. I play a lot of quick twitch games on Linux and Windows and while fps and frame times are generally in the same ballpark, latency is far higher.

Other problems is that proton compatibility is all over the place. Some of the games valve said were certified don't actually work well, mods can be problematic, and generally you end up faffing with custom launch options to get things working well.
Show HN: Add "gist" to any YouTube URL to get instant video summaries
by sh4jid | 2025-08-15 20:28:51+00:00
Hello HN!

Between academics and everything else on my plate, I still find myself watching way too many YouTube videos. So I built `youtubegist` - just add `gist` after `youtube` in any video URL to get an instant summary.

Before: https://youtube.com/watch?v=<...> After: https://youtubegist.com/watch?v=<...>

I know there are other YouTube summarization tools, but they're either cluttered, paywalled, or don't format summaries the way I need them. So I made my own that's free, open source, and dead simple.

One cool thing, if you install it as a PWA (on Android using Google Chrome), you can share YouTube URLs into it from the YouTube app, and it should summarize the video for you!

Please leave your feedback if you tried it out! Thank you!
by SR2Z | 2025-08-15 20:28:56+00:00
You get a $500 bill for using 1000 kWh/mo - that's just leaving a 5000W AC on for 200 hours. My apartment AC is probably 2000W, but similar principles apply.

Add in a fridge, cooking equipment, water heating, leaving a server on, etc., and it should be straightforward to get to that number.
by ben_w | 2025-08-15 20:29:10+00:00
> Or does rationality goes out the window and a less-rigorous argument is made when it comes to defending its honor?

Honour is irrelevant.

If you have better stats, please actually suggest them rather hypothesising bad faith.

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Edit: This was all at the top initially, but it's just an expansion of that core point of "provide better stats if you want to change my mind":

> Is that homicide rate equally applicable to all groups within the population? Or is a large chunk of it applicable to gang and drug crime, low income counties, and so on, and thus the expected baseline rate here (given the rationalist group's life circumstances) should have been much lower?

Dunno. What even are the mean "rationalist group's life circumstances" here? Is e.g. Aella's use of LSD unusual or representative? I have no knowledge of these things, so the only thing I can reach for is gross population statistics.

Should I also account for the homicide victimisation rate being 3.51 higher amongst USA men than USA women, and that according to first search result that's massively out of date because 2009* that says the rationalists' gender split is male-biased?

Should I instead be making a better estimate for where the rationalists actually live, because if they're all in Germany the average is about 7x lower and the gender ratio is close to 1?

What's the age effect? What's the age distribution, given young adults have the highest risk?

Should I be integrating over community size per year given it's been around over a decade?

etc. etc.

> And is comparing to the baseline even relevant, when we're not talking about common homicide motives, like that that occurs to the general population, but homicide specifically motivated and attributed to the ideology emerging in "rationalist" groups?

What else should I compare it to if not that? Consider that at the numbers due to the actually named cultish sub-group (Zizians) is a single digit, surely the correct position is "how many murderers do you expect in a group this big?"?

* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-...
by dakial1 | 2025-08-15 20:29:55+00:00
Watching here from outside the US this is really what it looks like. The very same tactics of pressure and terror used by the brownshirts.

With the difference that they were a paramilitary/militia kind of group and here they are part of the government (probably they have the same cult mentality, but they are using public funding and government power to do those things

And observe how they are being more agressive little by little to see if someone will react. I'm here waiting to see if someone will.
by tom_ | 2025-08-15 20:30:20+00:00
For the record: the cmake profiling data did help a bit. On macOS it seems that the configure stage does 200+ try_compiles, largely due to SDL2, and each one somehow takes ~2.3 seconds. So that's 460 seconds right there. And regarding the total time, it's actually more like 480 seconds. (I must have misremembered! Or perhaps my laptop is measurably faster when its integrated GPU isn't driving 2 external displays.)

On Windows: 50 try_compiles, about half and half SDL2 and libuv, and each one takes ~1 second.

I don't think either of these try_compile turnaround times is acceptable (what is it doing?! I bet it's like 50 ms on Linux) but the total figure does now feel a bit less mysterious.
by petsfed | 2025-08-15 20:30:22+00:00
I suspect that people conflate "buying a house as an investment" with "investors bought a house", which is leading to the incorrect idea that hedge funds or private equity are somehow cornering the market.

I think the reality is that the main component of investor pressure is from people who hold onto an overly large/well placed home far past the point of utility, because they want to sell as late as possible and maximize their return. Follow that with small-time landlords, and then finally actual explicit investors buying homes as some kind of commodity. A lot of the dysfunction of capitalism (so-called "late stage capitalism") is induced by people trying to outsmart the market, time the market, etc. when they really don't have the knowledge or information to play such games.
by Herring | 2025-08-15 20:30:43+00:00
Going by this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_moat

Those are all anti-competitive things. The article even links to "natural monopoly" and "barriers to entry".

It doesn't matter if they're used defensively or offensively, honestly or otherwise, the eventual distribution of power is what matters: a monopoly. At the end of the day you have very few vendors, with all the power to set prices at will, and get Buffet his massive return.
by rikroots | 2025-08-15 20:31:17+00:00
Complete tangent ... but whenever I see something like this waiting list sign up thing, my mind goes back to the famo.us debacle - now 10 years ago. That one didn't end happily: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10520181

Slightly more on-topic: yes, WebGL/WebGPU canvas shader backgrounds are wonderful to behold, but the question I always ask is: are they worth it? Could something less snazzy but coded in HTML/CSS (and maybe a touch of 2D canvas) perform just as well for pulling potential customers into the funnel? Has anyone ever AB tested their animated backgrounds to demonstrate the effectiveness of the investment?
by kazinator | 2025-08-15 20:32:49+00:00
> I always avoided statistics subjects.

I don't believe you. Even if you had a good control group, the fact that one subject engaged in fewer statistics subjects than the control group doesn't lead to the conclusion that there is an avoidance mechanism (or any mechanism). You need a sample of something like 30 or 40 more of you to detect a statistically valid pattern of diminished engagement with statistics subjects that could then be hypothesized as being caused by avoidance.
by danaris | 2025-08-15 20:33:43+00:00
> per capita people are consuming far more square footage than they used to

^ This...

> demand housing is much, much more elastic than people realize

^ ...does not imply this.

If the only housing that is available is 3000sq.ft. for a family of 3, that family doesn't have the option to split it up and only buy 1500sq.ft. of it. They need to be able to afford the whole thing.

(Also, I question the extent to which this premise is true, at least in cities. Everything else I've been seeing is that people are living in much less space than they used to, due to the rising prices. Taking a studio apartment rather than a 1-bedroom, living with roommates, etc. But even if the premise is true, it doesn't imply your conclusion.)
by andirk | 2025-08-15 20:33:58+00:00
Prediction that has been right 100% of the time (so far): Bitcoin's value will be more in the future.

Now that stonk people are in to BTC and it's worth is much higher, it's volatility is far less. It's still a speculative asset and with plenty of risk, but it's definitely a store of value for at least some % of one's savings.
by tines | 2025-08-15 20:34:12+00:00
> (Also strictly speaking, "I'm critical therefore I'm right" isn't always valid, but "I'm uncritical therefore I'm right" is always invalid.)

I can't edit my comment any more, but I should have said, "The opposite of being 'critical' isn't being 'optimistic,' it's being 'uncritical.'"
by forty | 2025-08-15 20:35:45+00:00
Well, without SSO, we (people making password managers for business) are in a weird position where we tell people "you won't have to remember passwords" then the first thing we do is to ask to remember a new password (the master password).

SSO also has the benefit that admin can impersonate another account, which is generally a good thing in a corporate environment (think of employee turn over, bus factor, etc)
by atmavatar | 2025-08-15 20:36:07+00:00
> Just find someone ... who would be loyal

That's much harder than you realize.

Something close to half of all marriages fail. Significant numbers of men and women cheat. Roughly 30% of children given paternity tests or even those who use ancestry services discover their assumed fathers... aren't. Significant numbers of men and women are abusive, both physically and emotionally.

People suck.

And, the rugged individualism (bordering on objectivism) cultivated so strongly within the US doesn't help things.

You may as well be telling someone not to be poor.
by Arturo525 | 2025-08-15 20:37:21+00:00
There has been no repeatable method discovered to make the p320 discharge without a trigger pull. The airforce arrested and charged someone with homicide in the most recent incident. Lacking evidence and repeatability all these incidents represent subjectively reported anecdotes.

It reminds me of the spate of reports of people dying while cleaning a gun. If you know anything about firearms you know this is not possible. People I know in law enforcement said it was a way of not saying someone committed suicide.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-15 20:37:42+00:00
And herein lies a clear demonstration of the problem.

A firing pin is designed to slam metal into metal. Do you really think a detailed pattern on the end of the pin will not soon become too blurred to be useful? Even if somebody doesn't take an abrasive to it.

And it's not like a firing pin is somehow unique to the gun. They are wear items, in time they get replaced. And you have to be able to take the moving parts of a gun apart for cleaning, there's no way to ensure a given pin doesn't get swapped to another gun.

And this once again comes back to at best only being useful in the cases where the gun was legally purchased, which is a very small part of gun crime.
by overfeed | 2025-08-15 20:37:46+00:00
For Linux desktop gaming, Steam bests GoG all day, everyday.

Before Valve sponsoring/partnering with Code Weavers on Proton, running anything-but-old-and-stable games via Wine was a fraught affair, now even games that update weekly/monthly run perfectly, without having to fiddle with config files or downloading specific DLLs. For the large and growing library of supported games, Steam made Linux gaming painless.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-15 20:38:06+00:00
I'm on Ritalin - which works for me. Where I'm from (Norway), getting a diagnosis is no walk in the park. Very extensive process, if you're adult.

At least the doctors I've seen, have all been very precautious in prescribing anything other than the basics. If Ritalin doesn't work for you, they'll obviously try something other...but my doctor told be straight up that it is a red flag when some patients will ask specifically for Adderall, as the potential for misuse is much higher. And for him, it was a last resort.
by shermantanktop | 2025-08-15 20:38:07+00:00
Word. It’s true until events overtake them. But until then, the dominant understanding of a problem is that which preserves the current power structure.

And that’s why the C-level AI mania is so fascinating - preserving the status quo usually means rejecting or controlling change. But with AI they are embracing something that could eat their status, presumably out of legitimate fear of the alternative.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-15 20:39:13+00:00
It used to be normal for steam sales to be somewhat rare and surprising, but the tradeoff was that it was the norm for big and popular games to have staggering discounts.

In 2012, Terraria went on sale for 25 cents. Valve sold the entire Half Life family for like two dollars. AAA and big name games would go for 80% off or more, back when that actually got you a full game without microtransactions or significant DLC to buy.

People got excited about the sales because you might wake up to find the game you really wanted for $60 was now a few dollars.

Objectively "Incredible" deals are a lot less common, and old stuff doesn't have massive discounts anymore, sticking with "just" very good discounts.