MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ItsBob | 2025-08-19 14:30:34+00:00
I remember a time when the internet was ran by techies and hobbyists for zero money, zero expectation etc. Sure, there were some banner ads on some websites but very few mega-corps wanting their pound of flesh like today.

A hobbyist-run internet can still be done today too... no need for mega-corporations to run every website when it costs a few ££ per month to run a web server that could easily handle millions of monthly connections.

Also, it's not my job to validate a scummy business model like advertising: if they (the corporations with ads) want to use them as their primary revenue source that's on them, not me!
Show HN: Make Manga Study Guides on Any Subject
by pk97 | 2025-08-19 14:31:15+00:00
Back in college, I really enjoyed reading The Manga Guide to Calculus and other books in that series. Inspired by that, I recently added a feature to my app AISheets.study that lets you turn any material into a manga-styled study guide using AI. It also supports other styles like xkcd and traditional colored comic styles.

The link I shared is an example I generated from Paul Graham’s essay on fundraising (https://paulgraham.com/fr.html)

Still ironing out a few quirks, but I thought it’d be fun to share this with the community!!
by throw0101a | 2025-08-19 14:31:43+00:00
> Congratulations to Apple on lobbying for its own money. Very noble.

First they came for the Apple fanboys, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Apple fanboy.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

If the UK had 'won' again Apple, do you not think that the Android ecosystem would be next? If the UK had 'won', do you not think that Turkey, India, China, etc, would not be lining up as well?
by KempyKolibri | 2025-08-19 14:31:55+00:00
Yeah, I'm personally very bullish on processed and ultra-processed food. If we make it that far as a race, I suspect in 100 years from now we'll be eating a more processed diet and it will be more healthful than our current diet.

Mix in the benefits you mentioned and it seems like a no-brainer to me.
by bgwalter | 2025-08-19 14:34:19+00:00
This indebtedness of the advanced world supports the bullish case for perceived store-of-value assets like bitcoin.

Yes, please invest in the SPAC set up by the sons of Howard Lutnick at Cantor Fitzgerald that buys 30,000 bitcoin from Adam Back:

https://www.ft.com/content/a4a362a6-cc8b-4188-8658-75183a3d6...

Or buy world liberty tokens from Trump:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/uae-fund-buys-100-m...
by viega | 2025-08-19 14:34:57+00:00
Also, I should say, in user-land you can efficiently enough save thread state, go off and do something else with that thread, then come back to it, never hitting the kernel while something blocks. That's pretty much async in a nutshell (or green threads).

The point of the article anyway is that it's inexcusable to have a modern concurrency textbook and not cover the futex, since it's at the core of any efficient primitive on modern hardware.
by hbn | 2025-08-19 14:35:45+00:00
I think the only one I could agree with exists for upselling is the 16e. I really don't know who that phone is for, it's missing some of the most basic features like MagSafe that will probably disappoint customers who bought it not knowing their iPhone won't work with accessories that previously you could trust work with every iPhone. I guess maybe a grandparent who barely uses their phone it would be fine, but other than that it seems like it just exists so Apple can say the iPhone lineup starts at $599 and then sell you a 15/16.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-19 14:36:03+00:00
I have an electric (though not robotic) lawn mower, and it turns out that it's not much quieter than a gas powered one. No engine noise obviously, but the blades spinning and hitting grass still makes a lot of noise (and indeed in my case it turned out to be the vast majority of the noise). So it wouldn't be a very good idea to run your robot lawn mower at night.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-08-19 14:36:46+00:00
Isn't this the same story as Intel TSX? I remember looking at it when announced thinking it was amazing. As it turns out, it probably never worked anyways because the implementation was too buggy. It was later removed from CPUs that had already been sold via a microcode update ostensibly due to security. Then it was removed from most of Intel's product line entirely.
by saynay | 2025-08-19 14:36:51+00:00
It isn't as bad as some practices, for sure. The question is how likely are the 'upgrades' actually upgrading anything for the user? Will the extra camera on the Pro be $100 of utility for the user over the lifetime of the device? Or are they using the uncertainty that the user _might_ get a use out of that camera to push to a higher model.

It seems mostly an exercise in price discrimination. You always have a slightly higher price point, and some extra functionality to justify it, and the customer will likely push themselves up to the maximum they are willing to spend instead of settling on the cheapest option that meets their needs.
by icy | 2025-08-19 14:36:52+00:00
tangled being in alpha has no bearing on the submitted content whatsoever. i’m confused by this comment.

the author being anonymous doesn’t matter either? there’s tons of good software written by pseudonymous authors.

i don’t understand what the “federation risks” even means so i won’t bother.

the last point is a bit of a giveaway that this is llm generated and you didn’t actually click on the link yourself. fwiw the code is entirely available for you to look at.
by entropi | 2025-08-19 14:37:02+00:00
> Web Environment Integrity was so heavily criticized at the time that it made Google itself backtrack. The same Google that forged ahead with Manifest V3. There is no realistic way the German government could get websites to implement an even worse version of that.

I don't think this is a good comparison, though. Google cannot force people to use WEI -yet-. The government can.

>The whole Web would simply become incompatible with Germany.

I think the ad-supported web would just LOVE this idea and would become compatible with Germany ASAP.

> So this would be trivial to bypass on a technical level

I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, there will always be a way for the tech-savvy. But all the trivial ways can very well be blocked.

> unacceptable on a social level

In Germany, you cannot install security cameras in a building unless all the owners agree, on grounds of privacy. But the ISPs keep all of your traffic logs, law firms get these logs, and mass-send cease-and-desist letters using automated systems. This is also not particularly acceptable, but it happens everyday and looks like it is very enforceable.

Lets not be naive and think this is unenforceable on the grounds of being "socially unacceptable".
by bilog | 2025-08-19 14:37:30+00:00
Because those neglecting it are the same that want to remove it. So it's not “we want to remove it because it's neglected”, but “we want to remove it so we'll neglect it”. This is a pretty standard M.O. for the destruction of the commons.

If you look at the WHATWG GH issue, you'll see that two distinct, modern, maintained implementations of XSLT, one of which in Rust (so considerably less likely to be affected by memory bugs) have been proposed as alternatives to what's currently used in WebKit and Blink. The suggestions has been ignored without a motivation, because the neglect is the point.
by koverstreet | 2025-08-19 14:37:42+00:00
The problem with green threads, historically, was that there was no way to do arbitrary syscalls async; if your syscall blocks it blocks all your other green threads. Doh.

io_uring is supposed to be about solving this, but it's quite the kitchen sink so I have no idea how complete it is on the "arbitrary syscall async" front.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-19 14:37:50+00:00
Yeah, in astro, the quality of the lens shows in much more disappointing ways that regular photography. Any softness from the lens can be part of the art in regular photography, but in astro is a lesser image.

Maybe I missed it, but where in Europe are you? Are the temps part of your softness issue? I'm in Texas, and during the summer when it's prime time for central part of the Milky Way the seeing is horrible from the extreme high temps and the disturbance it causes in the air.

I've been looking at getting a dedicated astro camera as well to reduce that weight as well as free up the camera body to go back to its primary mission of time lapse. I've already gone down the rabbit hole deep enough to have a secondary scope and camera to use as a guide scope to overcome any of the slight mis-alignments during polar alignment. The hole is deep and easy to fall into. Be careful when looking down that hole wondering how far you'd be willing to go as you'll be deeper than you expected before you realize you've left the edge.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-19 14:38:03+00:00
> It disturbs me to think that this is the kind of world we live in. Where people lack such basic curiosity. The problem wasn't that optimization was hard, (optimization can be extremely hard) it was just because nobody gave a shit and nobody was even remotely curious about bad performance. They just accepted bad performance as if that's just the way the world is.

The problem is, you don't get rewarded for curiosity, for digging down into problem heaps, or for straying out of line. To the contrary, you'll often enough get punished for not fulfilling your quota.
by wzdd | 2025-08-19 14:38:14+00:00
Weird. I bought the first iPad and loved the big keyboard. I was much faster using it than I was on a phone. Particularly with the magnetic case, I found I could set it up like a physical keyboard and take notes in lectures, but unlike most keyboards it was silent. I made lots of mistakes, but autocorrect fixed most of them.

I don’t really get what the iPad is for either, but you should at least consider that Apple decided that “big keyboard” was the best option.
by leosanchez | 2025-08-19 14:38:41+00:00
> I know you are trying to express that the annexation is supported by the Sikkimese

Do you have any sources that say they don't support being part of India ?

> Even more so, when South Asia

Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in 1975 and lost in 1977. If there was widespread election rigging she wouldn't have lost the election.

> By the same logic, Crimea should "rightfully" be under Russia's rule.

Can you point to a separatist movement from the people of Sikkim, 1975 to today ? Without that, your comment just doesn't make any sense. You come across as CCP shill.
by rapjr9 | 2025-08-19 14:39:10+00:00
Seems I'm not the only one thinking along these lines:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-is-power-hungry

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happens-if-ai-hits-a...

Some of the comments there call out the lack of chip fabs and express a similar suspicion that this might be a ploy to increase fossil fuel demand.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-19 14:39:19+00:00
> Firmly, without reservation: if you deliver to me content A, I am under NO OBLIGATION to actually consume content B, merely because you included it in the same package.

The legal view here seems to be that a third party removed content B while delivering content A, and therefore violated the copyright of the provided work.

It's not even framed as redistribution of copyrighted works, it's violating the "exclusive right of modification available under § 69c"

I'm curious how this will play out.

The only content you're interested in is content A, and the supplier chose a business model which requires you to consume content B against your will. Now they sued a third party which is stripping content B as a service to you.

I believe a case needs to be made that content B is not part of the original work provided.

Not easy though...
by mmastrac | 2025-08-19 14:39:50+00:00
I think the coolest part of the futex is that it's a handle-less concept. There's no allocation or deallocation via syscall, just a kernel-based memory watcher that turns out to be incredibly useful as a primitive.

Everything goes cleanly away when there are no more waiters, and the kernel never even sees a mutex where there's no contention.

I would be interested in a technical deep dive of how the kernel manages these in a performant way, however.

EDIT: TIL about futex2 as well: https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/futex2.html
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-19 14:40:04+00:00
> So just build in Ruby and when you hit a bottleneck, rewrite that bottleneck in C or Rust...

This is basically what we do at my startup. Though, some things we build elsewher from the start, knowing they need language specific tooling (like Python is best for working with LLMs).

You just can't beat the speed at which you can build business logic in Rails. Most features never hit the point of needing actual, raw performance so on 95% of what you build, you get to work incredibly fast. That still makes up for the 5% of features that you rip out and move elsewhere.
by foldr | 2025-08-19 14:40:45+00:00
The UK has a lot of problems, but taxing the rich too much isn’t one of them. This is a shallow analysis.

If I had to pick one obvious economic problem with the UK it would be the vast economic disparity between London and most of the rest of the country and the unwillingness of successive governments to invest any significant amount of money in tackling it.

There is no cheap solution. Cutting taxes on the rich won’t magically grow the economy. That requires actual investment. However, as Liz Truss showed while trying to do something different, it’s very hard for the government to invest when any increase in borrowing leads to panic and a crash in the markets.
Ask HN: Do you need to promote a job board?
by rrmdp | 2025-08-19 14:41:03+00:00
I built JobBoardSearch.com (a meta directory of job boards)

to help job board owners to get exposure, traffic and make money

with 50K+ p/v in the last 30 days and a huge audience on Reddit with 19K memebers or the newsletter with 15K subs.

A 37 DR domain to give you a juicy targeted do-follow backlink.

If you run a job site don't miss it!
by robenkleene | 2025-08-19 14:41:06+00:00
I want to just say "yes, obviously". But "obviously" is carrying a lot of weight there. For a TLDR: I think Apple has already gone too far in prioritizing security over the priorities of multimedia editors (e.g., https://insydium.ltd/support-home/manuals/x-particles-video-...).

But something like the After Effects plugin ecosystem I don't think could ever be sandboxed. So it makes sense to have sandboxing conditional based on certain criteria, e.g., the Mac App Store. But even there I'm not sure it makes sense, I suspect we'll never see a Mac-first tier 1 new creative application like Sketch (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketch_(software)), purely because it's to detrimental to the priorities of that kind of app.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-08-19 14:41:12+00:00
The bull case, given the US betrayal* of the notion of an order that includes Europe, is that the UK establishment will figure out their way to leverage their middle position between Europe and the US to act as a middleman for the U.S. looting the vast quantity of unsecured wealth in Europe and find a way to do this profitably enough to account for their uncompetitive resource import costs without giving cause for the U.S. to cut out the middleman. Like Hong Kong was for China in the 20th century, but with more extraction. Taxes are a red herring.

The workforce and legible but only occasionally officially perverted legal system are valuable, sure, but it's the 2020s. Plenty of places can offer that. As for the pivot to the right, it's a net gain for all UK citizens who don't outwardly present as a minority or can hide it, since they can suck up to one of the few big petroleum and food exporters at a discount.

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* footnote: It should go without saying, but Trumpism is just an expression of pre-existing vast sociocultural forces.
by jonalgarve | 2025-08-19 14:41:12+00:00
I came across a piece that struck me. It describes how aging sometimes isn’t gradual but can be felt all at once, in a single moment of stillness.

It isn’t about birthdays or calendars but about noticing the silence, the dust, the light in a room, and realizing that time has already moved.

Have you ever experienced a moment where aging felt sudden instead of slow?
by zokier | 2025-08-19 14:41:47+00:00
Brahe did have large quadrants (and armillarys) though, which in this context is not all that different especially when you factor in how much light pollution impacts observations.

Not to take away from Brahes exceptional ability at naked eye observations, but the key here is having some sort of instrument that enables precise measurements, be it telescope on a mount or huge mural quadrant.
by Someone | 2025-08-19 14:41:57+00:00
Hm, I guess you aren’t old enough to know what a pen plotter is. They’re drawing a line with a pen. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter:

“Pen plotters print by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper. This means that plotters are vector graphics devices, rather than raster graphics as with other printers. Pen plotters can draw complex line art, including text, but do so slowly because of the mechanical movement of the pens. They are often incapable of efficiently creating a solid region of color, but can hatch an area by drawing a number of close, regular lines.”
by sheepscreek | 2025-08-19 14:42:54+00:00
OpenSCAD is genuinely great for the right kind of user. If you’re familiar with CSS and have experience with animations in the past, you already possess the skills to be productive with OpenSCAD. In my opinion, the most challenging aspect is getting accustomed to the disconnect between visualizing something and manipulating it, as it’s done through code.
by sneak | 2025-08-19 14:42:56+00:00
It’s not really a secret; it’s by design and it’s public. iCloud is not end to end encrypted by default. Apple and the state can read the on-by-default iCloud Backup which contains your iMessage sync keys and all your historical iMessages and attachments. iCloud Photos, Contacts, and Mail are all similarly not e2ee and trivially readable by Apple, DHS/FBI, and anyone else under FAA702 (aka PRISM, aka the #1 most used US intel source) without a warrant.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-apple-droppe...

Apple processes FAA702 orders on upwards of 80,000 Apple IDs per year per their own annual transparency report.

Snowden himself said that they see so many nudes that they got desensitized to it.

This clever setup allows them to claim iMessage is e2ee while still escrowing keys in effective plaintext to Apple in the iCloud Backup, rendering the e2ee totally ineffective.

I think “backdoor” is probably an appropriate term for it, but they have made no secret whatsoever of it.

It’s terrifying to think that the US federal government can read every iMessage in the entire world across a billion devices (except China, where the CCP can do the same) in effectively realtime. The power that that enables (if only in blackmail ability) is staggering.
by peterfirefly | 2025-08-19 14:43:05+00:00
There is emulation code for the PIC (interrupt controller) and PIT (timer) + various other stuff. The intcall86() filters out and handles INT 10h/13h/etc but everything else is emulated "for real": ip/cs/flags are pushed, new cs:ip set, etc.

There is an 8KB BIOS of some sort defined as a big array which should handle boot and hardware interrupts.

> Probably many more subtle bugs with the flags as well.

Sure. And lots of subtle bugs in general. Which is fine for someone's personal fun side project.
by Semaphor | 2025-08-19 14:43:06+00:00
I tried Zen for a while (1-2 months). It certainly has some cool features. But in the end, I returned to Vanilla FF and installed Sideberry [0] with custom userChrome.css [1]. It gets me 99% of what I used with Zen (tree tabs, workspaces), but without annoyances/anti-features (inconvenient url bar for editing, frequent UI changes, cute animations that ignore prefer-reduced-motion, performance, security worries etc.).

I’m relatively happy with my setup [2] now, what I miss most from Zen would be the 2-level pinned tabs (pinned per workspace, and globally pinned), and the design of globals pins (instead of a line on the side as in [2], it’s a grid at the top for Zen), but not even close to enough that I’d want to return.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

[1]: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp...

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/v9a6VRw.png
by NikxDa | 2025-08-19 14:43:06+00:00
Zen still has some annoying shortcomings, like missing Widevine DRM or the dev tools opening up annoyingly slow. The potential is there, but it wasn't quite daily drivable as a developer for me just yet as of a few weeks ago.

Once it gets there, I too will finally leave Arc behind. Until then, while it is on life support, Arc actually works. I really wish The Browser Company would just own up to their fuck up and revive it.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-19 14:43:52+00:00
> Reform UK is highly likely to win the next election.

No it is not highly likely at all.

People who say this simply do not understand the depth of the structural challenge involved in getting from four MPs to 326 (or 325 or so if you delete the odd non-active MP).

Even if they get close but no cigar and secure a coalition it would be with the Conservatives, whose failures will not be forgotten soon.

I think it is wholly possible, alas, that Reform will see a hundred or so MPs and be the official opposition. But it should not be overstated that the Liberal Democrats will sooner offer to be in a coalition with Labour, and the country tolerate that again from them, than allow Reform the chance to undo Labour's work.

And that is before you consider that, ahem, the shine is off Reform's chums in the USA already and that situation is not going to get better soon. Reform would need a massive amount of money -- Musk money and sketchy crypto money, basically -- to get anywhere, and Trump's orange thumb on the scale with US social media firms. And we don't like that stuff. I cannot stress enough how badly that kind of intervention would go for them.

There are not many people in the UK who would say that Starmer's win was a "huge win for the left". Especially Labour voters. The "left" doesn't have much to do with it. Centrism, sanity, and the hope for an end to grift and stupidity and cruelty do. The failings of the right -- of idiots like Liz Truss and Brexit -- have more.

Reform fielded a candidate in essentially every constituency in 2024 and got five elected. One of them is sitting as an independent already because he's under investigation for corruption.

Yes, Reform got a huge swing in the local (council) elections, and some people think that is predictive. But historically it's nowhere near as predictive as Reform voters would like.
Show HN: I built a simple restaurant bill splitting app with receipt reading
by shawnconecone | 2025-08-19 14:43:59+00:00
Hi all, made this simple app with no frills just to calculate bills easily when splitting with friends. I fight with friensds on how to split bills too often so this app just calculates it and noone needs to choose which method of splitting.

I hope it's useful for you too. Let me know if you like it / don't like it, enjoy!