MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by olejorgenb | 2025-08-03 08:19:00+00:00
<quote> Over time, these existing URLs saw less and less traffic as the years went on - in fact more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month. </quote>

Really, they use timescale of a mere month as a gauge! I'm sure the wast majority of links would never be used again, but to gauge this I'd say you should measure at LEAST a year.
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-03 08:21:12+00:00
"a bit of ridicule might prevent future scams"

That is something I don't believe at all. Humans are emotional beings and some will react by defending whom them perceive as "the underdog speaking truth to power".

All the previous mocking didn't stop the growth of the anti-vaxx movement, for example, up to some serious levels (see also: the current US government). Even ye olde religion is still quite strong in many, regardless of the absurdity of some of its claims.

Looking at this thread, I get the impression that there are many high-IQ and low-EQ individuals who don't get the societal ramifications of being seen as an "establishment asshole sneering down on people".
by wulfstan | 2025-08-03 08:21:27+00:00
> OK, but this is pure speculation. I prefer not to bear such in mind.

Quote from the second accuser:

Because of similarities in our stories as well as the stories Jon Pretty told us himself, we have reasons to believe that other people in the community have had experiences with him that are similar to ours.

I think either you aren’t reading the accusers’ statements closely enough or you are choosing to discount them - but if they suggest that this is more widespread than just the two of them, I think this moves beyond “pure speculation” and into “quite likely”.
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-03 08:22:05+00:00
I'm not sure about the enforcement part. In Finland we have one of the lowest amounts of policemen per capita, traffic police seriously lacks resources. Moderate speeding is pretty common due to that, despite the fines. Maybe it's better in Helsinki than other cities or the countryside, I don't know.

I regularly drive about 300km trips without seeing a single police car, only one static traffic camera on the way.
by madaxe_again | 2025-08-03 08:22:11+00:00
My truck is used purely and solely for truck shit - getting in and out from where we live, which is absolutely impassible with anything other than a high 4x4 with mudder tyres, and hauling everything from trees to gravel to water to batteries - there’s almost always something substantial in the bed.

It gets washed maybe twice a year, as it ends up filthy within 20 minutes anyway - and the panels all have scratches and dents from forging through brush.

For car shit, I have an (electric) car which I park on the main road.

The idea of waxing my truck is up there with the idea of waxing my legs.
by AngryData | 2025-08-03 08:23:06+00:00
I disagree, food subsidies are the only alternative to the granary system, or foolishly counting on food imports. Agriculture is an industry with notorious slim margins, but yield can vary up to 30% year to year just on random weather patterns and often effects large areas at once. Combined those are a recipe for an eventual shortage unless you pay to over produce. A farm running on 2% margins on a good year can't risk planting 10% extra if they might not be able to sell it and will take it all as a loss, and so farmers without decent subsidies would only try to produce up to the current demand and not a bushel over it. And if a large agricultural area experiences a bad year, as we have seen happen historically many times over, and everyone was already only planning to barely meet demand, all of a sudden you have a food shortage and people starve. And on top of that weather patterns across the globe are changing and becoming less predictable. Famines essentially became nonexistent in places with decent crop subsidization, but in places without it that still rely on large granary stores shortages still happen.
by Nathanba | 2025-08-03 08:23:22+00:00
The divergent views need to be backed by real reasoning, otherwise it's a case of giving value to an opinion just because it's different, not because it has actual value. I'll give you an example, I'd very likely get the same kind of haughty, a bit hurt ego response if I proclaimed that I don't believe that reading books has much value anymore. Which is something I also believe btw. The average human would immediately respond in the very typical, trained societal way via: "well, I suggest you start going to the library and start reading more and engaging with the material because you are clearly not understanding the value of reading." Such a response has nearly no value and comes from a biased position with no attempt to understand my position. They assume that they are correct while spending no energy on thought about it. It's typical of humans and AI is so much superior here.

I actually also disagree that AI cannot push productive conflict, surprisingly the first thing that AI was able to do very well was insults. Of course insults are not productive conflict but it was something I noticed and then I gave a voiced AI (elevenlabs) a big prompt about how it should please be critical, truth seeking, always thinking about how I might be wrong and suddenly I was getting a lot of pushback and almost human-like investigation of the ideas I was proposing. It was still too shallow and unable to evolve but it was giving me some real pushback. You also have to remember that the typical human criticism is always drenched in ego, greed, various self benefit calculations etc. To actually get constructive and professionally informed criticism is really hard to get from humans too, it's not like AI is in a bad spot even now. You basically have to pay somebody to get good human criticism because it's tiring to a human, it's work and it takes expertise. People on average are simply not doing this or doing it well.

I'm merely trying to see this whole AI situation as objectively as I can and likewise I try to see the value of humans as objectively as possible. Obviously humans have value, but many seem to like overestimating the value of humans a lot. We've been at the top of the food chain for so long, we've been the strongest species on the planet for so long.. we can't even think of a mental model where humans aren't inherently valuable. Similar to how people cannot think of how books couldn't inherently be of value. Because we were immersed for centuries in a system where books were the best way to get the highest quality information. Now suddenly it changed and people cannot grasp it, it's a non grata thought - simply an unwelcome thought.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-08-03 08:24:13+00:00
You are misunderstanding OSC 52. A malicious/compromised SSH host can simply repeatedly print the OSC 52 paste command, causing the compliant terminal to repeatedly send any copied text to the remote system.

Everything in your comment is true regardless of OSC 52 support, though. OSC 52 just increases the attack surface for the sake of convenience.
by nicbou | 2025-08-03 08:25:36+00:00
In my friends group we regularly go coworking together. Sometimes we close our laptops and go get dinner or drinks after work. We are vaguely aware of what everyone is working on because we rant about it and ask each other for help. I use them for informal UX testing.

I also have a small audience on social media that lets me work in public. They are very supportive.
by Culonavirus | 2025-08-03 08:27:18+00:00
I mean, isn't it obvious? There is no demand for massive SSDs. The current "average consumer" capacity has stabilized at 1-2TB for a system drive. It's also what you buy for your PS5s etc. There's just not that many (popular) use cases for larger SSD. Even with gaming, which is probably the most widespread use case for "fast and big" drives, people found out that there's only so many AAA 150GB behemoths that they can play at the same time...
by microtonal | 2025-08-03 08:27:57+00:00
I have both and would say that they just have different priorities. ThinkPad is an open platform, so you can run Linux. If you want to run Linux, modern MacBooks are no good. Yes, you could run Asahi on an M1/M2, but things like DP-Alt and Thunderbolt are still not supported. Whereas I could plug in my T14 Gen 5 AMD with Linux to a Thunderbolt display and it worked on day 1.

ThinkPads are also much more upgradable and serviceable than a MacBook. I popped in 64GiB RAM, 2 TB NVMe SSD, and a WWAN modem and it cost me almost nothing. However. doing so requires a less flat, less glued, etc. system, which requires other compromises. Getting a MacBook with similar memory and storage would cost 5300 Euro (compared to ~1400-1500 for the ThinkPad) and I still wouldn't have WWAN (far better CPU/GPU though, but I especially want the RAM/storage).

I fully agree though that for the price MacBooks have far better screens, cooling systems, and the unibody aluminium case is pretty much unbeatable. CPU-wise, AMD APUs have caught up a lot.

clunky, ugly, plastic, noisy with a crap screen and crap battery life

I think that's not really a fair characterization. There is are wide gap between a good ThinkPad and e.g. a cheap Acer (to which your description would apply). My T14 even gets 6-7 hours on Linux (which isn't exactly known for great battery life), so it would probably do 10 hours on Windows. I only head the fan when I load the system a lot and even then it's fairly quit. And the case, even though it's not aluminium is still pretty nice/robust.

I have M1 Pro and M3 Pro MacBooks to compare to. IMO MacBook and ThinkPads are great in different ways. Ideally I'd want to have a MacBook with the upgradeability/repairability of a ThinkPad that can run NixOS with all peripherals supported.
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-03 08:29:31+00:00
Yet most deadly months for traffic in Finland are summer months, when more people are driving, drinking alcohol and having a lot of free time.

At least in the countryside a stereotypical summer month death is one where bunch of young men go to a party with their old BMW or Merc, and then drive back in middle of the night at a crazy speed and hit a tree. Bonus points for the driver being drunk/on drugs and nobody wearing seatbelts.
by 9rx | 2025-08-03 08:29:57+00:00
> Most tests are happy path tests, a few error handling tests if you're lucky, for a few example values that are going to miss a lot of edges. And let's be honest, it's common for parts of the code to have no tests at all...

This seems like a roundabout way of confirming that what you are actually saying is that half-assed type systems are much easier to grasp for average developers, and thus they find them to be beneficial because being able to grasp it means they are able to use it correctly. You are absolutely right that most tests that get written (if they get written!) in the real world are essentially useless. Good tests require a mindset much like formal proofs, which, like writing true formal proofs, is really hard. I did already agree that this was a good point.

> Not sure why you call them that.

Why not? It gets the idea across enough, while being sufficiently off brand that it gets those who aren't here for the right reasons panties in a knot. Look, you don't have to sell me on static typing, even where not complete. I understand the benefits and bask in those benefits in my own code. But they are also completely oversold by hyper-emotional people who can't discern between true technical merit and their arbitrary feelings. Using such a term reveals where one is coming from. Those interested in the technical merit couldn't care less about what you call it. If someone reacts to the term, you know they aren't here in good faith and everything they say can be ignored.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-03 08:30:53+00:00
That was probably true a long time ago, but I bought software using that model that did not have any physical releases and at least one had frequent minor releases adding new features.

It seems to me like the "subscription model" is exactly the same, except for the use of DRM and cloud dependencies to force users to pay for new versions. The only thing that changed was that the option to remain on an old version was taken away from users.
by userbinator | 2025-08-03 08:31:45+00:00
From the horse's mouth: https://americas.kioxia.com/content/dam/kioxia/en-us/busines... (See graph on page 2.)

https://www.macronix.com/Lists/ApplicationNote/Attachments/1... (See graph on page 3.)

Then look up the retention specs for enterprise drives and compare to consumer ones, and the conclusion is obvious.
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-03 08:32:38+00:00
Yep. Something worth considering is also building long-term parking spaces to the outskirts of cities, accessible with public transport. I know lots of city-dwellers who pretty much never use a car for intra-city transport, but need to own one anyway to reach other important places that are beyond reach of public transport.

In case of Finland summer cottages are one such case. They're extremely common, and located in areas that usually have no public transport. Lots of people have also older relatives who live in middle of nothing.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-03 08:33:55+00:00
Even if EU and UK wanted to block the deal, it doesn't make it the right thing to do. Free market.

I don't have a popular opinion on HN. I don't think Google should be broken up because new technology has made Google search much less needed. I don't think Apple should relinquish control over its app store because it's Apple's platform and they should do what they want. I don't think Adobe should be stopped from buying Figma because even if Adobe buys it, maybe some rich ex-employees might quit and make another competitor or make an open source alternative. Who knows.

People on HN wants the government to weaken tech companies but not when it's the tech company they're working in.
by sunshowers | 2025-08-03 08:37:10+00:00
> It’s simply a “looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck” argument.

Look, I'm not an expert in the field and I think you're making some kind of real point here. But for many organizations, there is no acceptable substitute to physical possession of the hardware, and sometimes even running it in an airgapped environment. You can synthesize a financial instrument of some kind, maybe, but it appearing the same from a financial perspective isn't the same as actual possession.

> You guys just raised $100m, you should be able to engage over questions of arb or whatever, and just know this stuff, and be able to talk to bankers and talk like a banker.

Both Steve and I are mere software engineers :)
by explodes | 2025-08-03 08:38:34+00:00
I am currently a few months through a planned and budgeted break from my career to focus on traveling specifically for treating burnout. As such, I've had a similar experience to yours so far. I've been travelling and volunteering around the world, I'm also back to coding as a hobby again, and also working on other projects like robots, rc planes, and welding. Also exercising. I'm just living the life I actually want. And so fortunate to be able to live it with my partner.

This break, like for you, has been one of the most rewarding things ever in my entire life. On the days I really get to experience the spice life one way or another, I feel as much if not more accomplished than I ever did even shipping the largest projects.

I also try to remind myself every day to be grateful for the opportunity to pause my career as it is such a gift. I believe gratitude is critical for staying grounded as the person I want to be.

But it is also countered by the soul crushing job hunt. I haven't been fully focused on finding a job yet, but I have applied to many interesting opportunities already and not getting responses from these companies, despite me believing I have a somewhat strong resume, puts a pit in my stomach for the reasons you stated so well: questioning my own competence, and worrying about the future.

That said, the positives have been so huge, though, that I have to at least try to recommend a break like this to people who feel burnout, especially if they are burnt out yet again.

I would urge anyone to always be evaluating what is really important in your life and work towards that as an alternative to working to the bone for promotion and bonuses because we think we should. I wish we all could take the breaks our brains deserve, yet we have to do what we have to do. As one final thought, I will say that soon after quitting my job for this adventure, I was already feeling refreshed and better, and to anyone reading this, your life is worth more than money.
by daymanstep | 2025-08-03 08:41:20+00:00
Correct me if I'm mistaken but it looks to me like your graphs are talking about the number of P/E cycles accumulated, rather than the number of P/E cycles that a drive is rated for?

What this seems to suggest is that as a drive gets more "worn out", its data retention gets worse.

But I don't see how that can be taken to imply that enterprise drives have worse data retention than consumer drives. Nothing that I've seen suggests this.
by mycatisblack | 2025-08-03 08:41:48+00:00
Slightly different take: first you get te generation of caution, followed by the generation of all-in. As with any novelty that replaces “something requiring effort” with “something low barrier”, it’s going to result in people that followed the wrong learning curve.

The sci-fi fan in me wonders if this is the faulty sprocket that mis-taught the social skills that lowered Japan’s population numbers.
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-03 08:42:06+00:00
For someone who believes in free market, how is it acceptable to have consolidated monopolies? The market is free when there is competition. If there is no competition there is no freedom. Of course I know that for many "free market defenders" "competition is for losers" (was it Peter Thiel?), and ultimately nobody cares of the abstract value of freedom.
by latexr | 2025-08-03 08:42:44+00:00
I agree with you on a personal level. I also collected a bunch of different things but eventually threw them all away and am now extremely selective about what I keep. I even avoid hoarding digital stuff.

However, in your examples, the fact those things eventually became available in other forms is not necessarily a counterpoint to your acquaintances having kept them. The specific counterpoint being Marion Stokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes
by CrossVR | 2025-08-03 08:45:08+00:00
> We did not evolve to discover solid truths. Just to navigate natural and social environments full of correlations, unlikely ever to be well understood, and statistically survive.

This is the important part. Evolution prepared us to build and maintain social groups that help us hunt for food and survive. Maintaining that social group is much more important to our nature than our ability for rational thinking.

Thus our rational thinking will readily make way for any beliefs that are required to maintain the social group, even if they are entirely contradictory and easily disproven.
by rsanheim | 2025-08-03 08:45:39+00:00
The top folks at big ai labs and research can't even agree on what AGI means or if it is a useful term or taget. I guarantee the folks building opus 5 or GPT 6oMiniPlus5.5++ are not concerned about if the new model 'achieves AGI', regardless of how much marketing and PR folks want to throw that term around for every new release or blog post.
by lmpdev | 2025-08-03 08:45:58+00:00
I mean it’s very very much not free

You can buy and sell x-year leases from the crown. Any with a commercially viable site sell for just below or even more than freehold land (depending on supply)

Farming logistics also works radically differently than in America: the reason our farms are orders of magnitude higher larger than American ranches spatially is because it’s only somewhat profitable at the largest possible scales

The valley I’m from originally (The Tweed) is cane country, and not a single company is viable independently. Hell we only have one mill left nationally that’s not-megacorp owned (note we have no land leases though, it’s all freehold where I’m from)
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-08-03 08:46:08+00:00
This argument does not resonate with me.

I'm in my mid 20s, far from being a grumpt old man, and I used to frequent Facebook back in the early 2010s (remember all those games?)

What became clear is how the landscape is filled to the brim with scammers and grifters. These newer applications of technology are akin to cigarettes, or heroin, or opium. They're designed to inflict misfortune for profit.

Years ago my parents would chastise me for spending too much time othe computer/phone, now I'm the one begging them to uninstall those garbage applications from their phones.

Around me, more older people than younger ones are susceptible to lies and scams perpetrated by LLMs.

The younger generation around me (kids 10 to 17 yo) are falling for the same traps I fell for when I was their age, and people my age are stil falling for: addictive online games with scummy lootboxes (especially Fifa) and gacha games.

I believe there are more than enough studies detailing the extreme negative consequences of Instagram and/or tiktok usage, so much that we don't question that anymore, and treat it like ye olde tobacco addiction. It's addicting and fucks up your health but here yo stay.
by franga2000 | 2025-08-03 08:46:15+00:00
My point is that is is the right thing to do and multiple countries' regulators agree. Monopolies have proven themselves to be bad and consolidation is how they are created. The "free market" (as if there is such a thing) does not take care of this, because it's not profitable to compete with such a powerful incumbent. Any attempt to compete would require insane capex and have a higher price tag for consumers, who would likely have to pay it not instead of but alongside the current incumbent's price, which very few would accept. If instead, you intervene and block the merger, the company can (and is incentivised to) grow and branch out, competing with the one that tried to acquire it.

Obviously this is a YC forum and many people have a startup bias, but I'm nowhere near that scene. Many startups do even worse things than some of the big guys, because they aspire to become them. The "burn investor money to get market share at a loss, kill all competition, become a monopoly, then enshittify and make infinite money" strategy wouldn't be nearly as effective if we had proper antitrust enforcement.
by 9rx | 2025-08-03 08:46:30+00:00
All languages with exceptions...?

Let us introduce you to the concept of checked exceptions. That is one of the few paradigms we've seen in actually-used languages (namely Java) where communicating which specific errors will occur has been tried.

Why is it that developer brains shut off as soon as they see the word "error"? It happens every time without fail.
by messe | 2025-08-03 08:47:52+00:00
> A not in use bed, or a not in use back seat?

A not in use back seat takes up far less space in a sane car than a pick-up truck with a bed.

> Much better visibility than any other vehicle I have, too.

At the expense of others. And good luck seeing a small child in front of it if you're driving in a moderately pedestrianized area.
by aranypucek | 2025-08-03 08:50:16+00:00
I discovered that the Omron Connect iOS app uploads all historical Apple Health data (not just data from their devices) the moment you grant it access. This includes third-party entries, with zero disclosure in their privacy policy. I confirmed it via a GDPR request — they’re storing years of unrelated health records. They also claim they can keep it forever, even if you delete your account.