MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by feydaykyn | 2025-08-18 20:51:21+00:00
If you wonder how the llm answer, here are shortened answers from Claude and Chatgpt

# Claude

Here are some practical tips for safe microwave use that should keep your kitchen demon-free:

Basic Safety Guidelines: - Use microwave-safe containers only (glass, ceramic, or microwave-safe plastic) - Avoid metal objects, aluminum foil, or containers with metallic trim - Pierce foods with skins (potatoes, hot dogs, tomatoes) to prevent explosive results

(...) Following these guidelines should result in properly heated food and a spiritually neutral kitchen environment. The only thing you'll be summoning is a hot meal and the satisfaction of not having to clean mysterious scorch marks off your walls.

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# chatgpt 5

Alright, I love the energy of this question — let’s break it down into a practical + slightly tongue-in-cheek guide.

How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan

1. Read the Sacred Text (a.k.a. the Manual)

The microwave manual contains all the spells… I mean, instructions… for safe operation.

(...)

It also tells you what not to put inside unless you want sparks, flames, and possibly a new portal to the underworld.

Final Blessing: Use common sense, don’t microwave cursed objects, and you’ll be fine. The microwave is a tool of convenience, not a summoning circle.

Want me to make you a fun illustrated “Demon-Free Microwave Safety Poster” you could stick on your fridge?
by walterbell | 2025-08-18 20:51:42+00:00
Let's see if the $599 MacBook (iPhone SoC!) can run VMs and software distributed outside App Store, i.e. like existing MacBooks.

If Pixel phones (with inferior hardware) can run Debian Linux VMs with external USB-c display, so can Apple tablets/phones. Apple and Google app stores have similar business incentives and antitrust constraints.
by SimianSci | 2025-08-18 20:51:57+00:00
An Arms Race isnt your regular race, its just running on a treadmill. There is no end, and the only thing you do is hope you dont collapse of exhaustion before your competition does. All the while, new competitors keep joining in.

If I recall, America was in a "make or break moment" back during the Cold War/Desert Storm/Iraq/etc. seems that we're still running...
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-18 20:52:05+00:00
It's complicated.

Many years ago, I was involved in a movie release group. Pretty much everybody in that group owned more VHSs/DVDs than the typical person. This is probably not surprising, since the time and effort one needs to put into that is rather large.

Those who only downloaded were more of a mixed bag; some of them were not in the US and might not be able to see a domestic release of the movies any time soon. Some proudly claimed that they never bought any media because paying for it when you could pirate was for losers.
by runako | 2025-08-18 20:53:00+00:00
Part of the reason we don't want this is because it creates an enormous government spoil, which is the decision to label a given company as part of the critical infrastructure of the country. For example: why Intel and not AMD? Does Micron make the cut? Seagate? What about the companies that make the inputs to the fabs? Telecom companies that run the Internet? Microsoft & Apple because business runs on their software?

This is Too Big To Fail on steroids.

> citizens in general will be able to share in the fruits of the technology, similarly to how Alaskan citizens get payments from petroleum

The alternative approach is right there in your answer. Like in Alaska or Norway, tax the winners and apply the benefits to citizens.

Sadly, we are going the other way both on taxation and benefits. The good news is we can at any time choose to live differently. Some might debate whether we could maintain our competitive business environment if Intel or Nvidia paid a tax rate comparable to yours, but perhaps it's worth a try?
by kelnos | 2025-08-18 20:53:10+00:00
It should be neither. It should be a set of rules that most people can agree on. If some of that is what systemd does, that's fine. If there are things that systemd does that most people don't agree on, something else should end up in the standard, and systemd should conform to it.

The problem is that systemd evokes some pretty visceral negative reactions in people. I still have mixed feelings about it, but, by and large, I encounter minimal real-world issues with it. Just because systemd has decided to do something that violates the older FHS3/4 standards, doesn't automatically make it a bad thing. Maybe what they're doing is a better way. Maybe not.
by opo | 2025-08-18 20:53:23+00:00
>...in a libertarian state

I don't think any organization that considers themselves to be libertarian has ever called Texas a "libertarian state". For example:

>...Texas’ institutions and policies continue to bear something of an old statist legacy. In the Cato Institute’s Freedom in the 50 States study, Texas scores a mere 17th, behind even the southern states of Florida (#2), Tennessee (#6), Missouri (#8), Georgia (#9), and Virginia (#12).

https://www.cato.org/commentary/texas-really-future-freedom

Are there any Texas national or state politicians who are members of the Libertarian Party or even refer to themselves as Libertarian?
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-18 20:53:35+00:00
The irony is that systemd doesn't really follow what it prescribes in file-hierarchy(7), and expects some files in the "wrong" place. Other software has (obviously) followed suit, so now we're in a world where software follows the conventions that systemd _implements_ to maintain compatibility, rather than what it _documents_.

The most obvious example that comes to mind is /usr/lib/os-release, which file-hierarchy(7) indicates should actually be in /usr/share/os-release.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-18 20:54:08+00:00
I miss this old internet and gaming experience so much

I made so many friends by joining a lobby and just playing a game for a few nights in a row or whatever

Now I don't know how to really connect with people online anymore or build any kind of community

Discord servers don't seem like the right way, they are too busy and chaotic for me

I miss making friends online and gaming with them
Show HN: Generate age encryption keys with custom prefixes
by age123456gpg | 2025-08-18 20:54:23+00:00
Hello,

I built a tool that generates age (modern file encryption https://github.com/FiloSottile/age) keys with vanity prefixes.

The key innovation is using the fastest search algorithm available – it can check ~40'000'000 keys per second on a laptop, finding 6-character prefixes within a minute.

For example, running `age-vanity-keygen hacker` will find a key like:

$ age-vanity-keygen hacker Found age1hacker... in 23s after 973647953 attempts (42686172 attempts/s) # created: 2025-08-18T22:22:22+02:00 # public key: age1hackerxf9wukrzxfjt56xmq7c3y5ua5ylgrk0pmhlmdsg3773q8qh3ym6v AGE-SECRET-KEY-1K9G5Y6DRJPSXUFE2ELZULCG6SET7YC0676KR33WXSULW2CDHLGGS0EMJA2

The output is identical to the standard `age-keygen` tool, so it's a drop-in replacement when you want memorable or branded public keys.

I've packaged it as both a Go binary and Docker image. The core algorithm is in a separate library (https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/vanity25519) if anyone wants to use it for other X25519-based systems.

Would love your feedback, thanks!
by neilv | 2025-08-18 20:54:42+00:00
No, I've absolutely seen that argument made online as justification for music and movie piracy, many times, for many years.

People rationalizing aren't mental giants. Piracy is generally by people who want free stuff. Not by philosophers who arrived at piracy through some line of reasoning other than wanting free stuff.

The dialogue in the space is what you'd expect.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-18 20:54:59+00:00
The order should be starting on FROM, followed by any sequences of whatever clauses (except for FROM), always creating an intermediary result-set.

FROM table -- equivalent to today's select * from table

SELECT a, 1 as b, c, d -- equivalent to select ... from table

WHERE a in (1, 2, 3) -- the above with the where

GROUP BY c -- the above with the group by

WHERE sum(d) > 100 -- the above with having sum(d) > 100

SELECT count(a distinct) qt_a, sum(b) as count, sum(d) total_d -- the above being a sub-query this selects from
by mdaniel | 2025-08-18 20:55:00+00:00
On the one hand, I do kinda hear where you're coming from, but OTOH I'm sympathetic to OP's concern that gaming should be relaxing or fun, and getting into the business of credential management plus billing management is neither of those things

Which is a lot of words to offer: be careful tossing out Luddite accusations just because it happens to be AI adjacent, that's rarely the whole story
by kelnos | 2025-08-18 20:55:08+00:00
That's only due to a lack of standardization. I think a default install to a vendor-specific directory under /opt is a sane place to put it, and there's a very low chance that would conflict with something else.

But sure, absolutely, an installer should prompt the user for an install location, and I think a default under /opt is probably among the best defaults possible, if we consider installing outside $HOME to be reasonable.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-08-18 20:55:28+00:00
You're responding to a different point than the one I made. It's true that being a "nonprofit" doesn't logically entail that donations will be tax decudtible. But it still implies it to potential donors. The former is a matter of logic, the latter is a matter of psychology. Both are relevant.

Yes, there are multiple classes of nonprofit, not all of which are tax deductible. But it is also true that holding yourself out to the public as a "nonprofit" has the potential to mislead because it may imply to potential donors that contributions would be tax deductible. That is why responsible (or at least well advised) nonprofits disclose which they are, because claiming you're a "nonprofit" in marketing materials, without further explanation, can mislead potential donors.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-18 20:55:35+00:00
You have companies with different expertise and perhaps innovation.

Lack of reliability is not innovation. This is something the Texas "real time power auction" has created and continues to promote.

Measures like the one the governor just signed are bandaids meant to cover up the fundamental lack of reliability.

There is nothing left to innovate in terms of reliability. The solution really is very simple --- build additional capacity to cover worst case scenarios.

This can't happen if providers are forced to continually offer a rock bottom price or lose out in the auction.

Some things are too important to leave to the "free market".
by echelon_musk | 2025-08-18 20:55:38+00:00
For a long time I've wanted something like Remote Desktop for my phone.

With the idea being that I use a second phone to connect to my main phone over the internet.

This lets the phone number you actually have associated with you stay in the same fixed geographical location.

E.g. all calls are initiated by the primary phone and tunnelled over the internet to the disposable phone.
by codethief | 2025-08-18 20:55:43+00:00
I like the idea but, having built many UIs for many different applications over the years, I doubt it would work for anything non-trivial. The thing is, as soon as your UI reaches a certain level of complexity you need tight control over the look and feel, especially over the positioning of UI components relative to each other. Unfortunately, the latter depends a lot on how exactly your UI components look and behave.

For example, your text input box's label might be displayed to the left of the box, to the top, or it might be one of those floating labels that are displayed inside the box but move to the top border as soon as you focus the box. Depending on that, you would choose the spacing to neighboring text boxes and buttons differently, and maybe also arrange things differently altogether, because of different space requirements.

In other words: Your application would need to know what exactly the Wayland "UI layer" is going to display in order to send it precise instructions. But then your abstraction is very leaky.
by ilikegreen | 2025-08-18 20:56:27+00:00
I think a lot has happened since the 90's, and you rightfully point out that there was very little money in music to begin with. Labels generally always took a very large fraction of a physical CD sale, for example, so the model was rather rigged from the beginning (and recorded music doesn't have that long of a history, anyway).

In general, I'd argue that Spotify will be more toxic to the industry (or the artists' livelihood) than piracy. Streaming is even more predatory and centralized than labels in the 90's, but with an important caveat: it's legal. When people engage in piracy there is at least some awareness of, say, the pirate being at fault in the transaction — even though, as someone else already mentioned, people who pirate might contribute, or engage in other ways, with the creators. But with streaming, it got normalized to pay artists a fraction of a cent per stream (and the terms get progressively worse). I've countless times heard the argument "at least they get paid something!"

Bandcamp, for example, seems like a much fairer ideal for the industry. Luckily, the Epic buyout a few years ago did not immediately ruin the business.

As for the music in the 90's...music has changed. Naturally, one could argue that these are also exciting times: one can singlehandedly produce a record, distribute it independently, and be touring all over Europe without ever having to sign off to a major label. Is this not a good thing — or at least, a notable one? Of course, there's still great music around.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-18 20:56:29+00:00
I don't know the right word, scare quotes were to accommodate for that. If not cheating then at least misleading or avoiding disclosing the actual mechanics and degradation of the battery. To the tune of it might be possible a new car would actually have 50% more than the range it allows you to use to make it seem like the batteries degrade much slower than they do.

>The manufacturer is quite clear that you should avoid charging to more than 80% on a regular basis as it will degrade the battery faster.

This is one of the things that doesn't add up. If the article says you can drive a tesla 200,000 miles and still have a mid-80s percent of total battery capacity left, why are car manufacturers being so clear about charging patterns to "save" the battery? With the std deviation bars in the graph showing a pretty small distribution, it would seem charging behavior doesn't matter (of course there will be people who don't follow the guidelines and if so there should be an expected much wider distribution)

The facts from studying the mechanics of raw cells of earlier lithium chemistries, the advice from the vehicle manufacturers, and the data in this article do not add up.
by elevation | 2025-08-18 20:56:34+00:00
> You shouldn’t have 700k security groups though

The 700k groups also comes about when the security tools are all inter-operating at the wrong abstraction level. If a third party appliance needs to import all 700k of your security groups it means the appliance is performing authorizations itself, logging it differently than your other apps, and even make decisions based on stale data it's cached (you can't load all 700k groups on every request.)

This task should really be delegated to a dedicated authz system, too bad more of the world doesn't run on Zanzibar.
by IT4MD | 2025-08-18 20:56:51+00:00
LinkedIn was hacked. My account was breached. LinkedIn took almost 4 weeks restoring my access to my own account, after requiring numerous proofs of ID, that I'm sure they will store insecurely, forever.

No thanks and GL to anyone that uses LinkedIn, but after that, I just nuked my profile there and will never be a user again.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-18 20:57:58+00:00
I think it's fairly rare that a person chooses their niche. It's more common that they eventually just discover that they have one by looking back at what they've done.

One thing that I think is important for someone at the start of their career to do is to try out a variety of different sorts of positions. You can't know what you like, or what you're good at, unless you experience a variety of things.
by rimunroe | 2025-08-18 20:58:11+00:00
> In general I see this as an issue of gaming becoming more professionally run and maturing over time.

I don't think anyone is confused about why this happened. It's obvious why a game company which is trying to make money in an extremely competitive field would prefer it. Having a good reason doesn't mean that there isn't reason to mourn the loss of what came before. Some things have improved! We should celebrate that gaming is more accessible now. It's been a long time since I've been kicked from a competitive shooter mid-match because a server crashed.

> Overall, its a tradeoff, the community building aspects of player run servers can truly build colorful and vibrant communities, but this can be at the expense of overall player retention, trading a large and accessible playerbase for a small dedicated community.

I don't run a business. I'd rather have a game with small communities of players which peters out over a few years than a game with millions of players for a decade+. Toward the end of a game's life player run servers allow the game to last potentially forever. The problem of games alienating newcomers is still a problem with matchmaking systems. Your community's average skill goes up over time once the rate of new players joining slows down.

> Additionally, the competitive mechanics, which often draw a large amount of players, can suffer as player-run infrastructure can vary wildly in its connection, uptime, speed, etc. and bring a risk of unsanctioned modifications, cheats, and hacks, all negatively affecting the player experience.

Games have handled this before with "official" servers or ones run by tournament hosts. I actually had fewer trouble with hacks on heavily moderated small servers because so many people knew each other and would catch onto cheaters quickly. Services like VAC help block repeat cheaters from joining in the future. I like having access to mods and to sometimes join a server and find something completely unexpected. I don't care much about competitive play, though I do like a fair number of e-sports-y games. I never had trouble finding vanilla CS servers back in the day.
by orthecreedence | 2025-08-18 20:58:27+00:00
> Can someone explain this ideological whiplash?

Easily. It's called fascism, one of the cornerstones being the marriage of industry and state. It has long been the marching direction of the US power structures, whether the individual participants cop to it or not. It has been an unwritten rule for decades and now it's just becoming more blatant. Republicans are not experiencing whiplash as much as they are becoming self-aware of their actual desires. There is a minority of the republican party that actually values small government (my respect goes out to them), but most of the party's actions to this end have been an obscene minority compared to their constant desire to either regulate morality via government overreach or enshrine their big business butt buddies into monopoly status.

While I feel the democrats are guilty of many of the same things, they are still a faction of what I would call the "capitalist-imperialist party." The GOP has been splitting off into the "fascist-imperialist party" for many years, which is likely one of the reasons for the political divide.
by sneak | 2025-08-18 20:58:47+00:00
If nobody pays them, then in a democracy they shouldn’t exist. The government derives its power from the consent of the governed. If the majority of people don’t want to be forced to pay taxes, then why do we pretend to have a democracy and compulsory taxation? It can’t be both.

What you seem to be arguing for is a dictatorship, where a majority of people don’t want something, but are forced into it anyway.

FYI the United States survived (and thrived) for well over a century without income taxes. Your theory that the state immediately collapses without income taxes doesn’t really hold up.
by sgarland | 2025-08-18 21:00:43+00:00
The complaints listed seem to focus on attributes / methods of a class. You can read Python’s docs, and see the methods available to a str type, for example.

To me, that’s learning the language. Learning its library would be more like knowing that the module `string` contains the function `capwords`, which can be used to - as the name suggests - capitalize (to title case) all words in a string. Hopefully, one would also know that the `str` class contains the method `upper`, so as not to confuse it with `string.capwords`.
by gyomu | 2025-08-18 21:01:07+00:00
> if you don’t have anything to translate it won’t output anything good.

One of the greatest quotes in the history of computer science:

“On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"
by hardolaf | 2025-08-18 21:01:18+00:00
Your first source is trying to sell a service, namely lawsuits against your ex. The law in 2022 was the same [0] in regards to the text that I mentioned. And as far as I can tell, that's the original text of the law as it was first passed in 1987.

The 2024 update [1] was basically just fixing typos.

The 2023 update [2] was reaffirming the original text and added safeguards to prevent abuse by police and prosecutors misapplying the law. This update did remove the explicit age mentioned, but if you look at the deleted text, you had to leave a minor unattended for a very long period of time not just "a trip to the store" for the law to have been violated before the change despite what the divorce attorneys were trying to tell people on their misleading website.

Also, I'm not going to go into my rant about IPI intentionally misleading people and lying by omissions and funny ways of presenting "data". If you use them as a source for anything and expect that what you read was the truth, then that's on you. They're a propaganda organization that spreads even more disinformation than the Heritage Foundation.

[0] https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-705-courts/il-st-sect-7...

[1] https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/publicacts/view/103-0605

[2] https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/publicacts/view/103-0233