MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igtztorrero | 2025-09-04 13:48:58+00:00
In my family we usually travel to many parts of the world, and we have been compiling a series of anecdotes, when we take a taxi or an Uber, we ask the taxi driver different aspects of the city then always asking him some anecdote, funny or strange, that he has had in his life as a taxi driver.

And we have collected a large number of funny stories that we constantly bring up when we are at a party.

For example, the story of the Argentine taxi driver who, when he received some Danish tourists, they realized that they had forgotten a suitcase at the airport, but since they had an Apple tracker, they started looking for the suitcase with the help of the police and it turned out that the suitcase was in the trunk of a car belonging to another police officer, unbelievable right?

Or the story of the London taxi driver who, being tired after a long shift, picked up an old lady for the last trip and the old woman lay in the back seat and fell completely asleep, when the taxi driver turned to his rearview mirror and no longer saw anyone behind he thought: "What am I doing ? I'm driving alone, I am too tired." so he decided to go home. When he got home the old lady woke up and thought that the taxi driver was kidnapping her, and called the police.

Incredible stories and anecdotes are collected when you start talking to strangers and they feel confident expressing their ideas.

It's part of living, talking to strangers is very satisfying.
by cyphar | 2025-09-04 13:49:36+00:00
No, the point is to stop Amercian technology companies from providing technology to Russian entities.

From the perspective of sanction laws, accepting patches (or arguably even replying to emails) from sanctioned entities is effectively providing technology to them because you are telling them that the patch solves the issue (i.e., you are providing them technical expertise) and are making it easier for them to use the patch in the future (i.e., no need to rebase and shipping software that they have indicated that they will find particularly useful).

The Linux Foundation provided some guidance about this earlier this year[1]. Basically, it is incredibly easy to inadvertently violate sanctions if you are involved in an open source project.

[1]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regul...
by al_borland | 2025-09-04 13:50:07+00:00
I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well.

AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its own dedicated browser. People’s workflows get tied to a browser, especially one like Arc, so to proclaim it done, with no need for any new features after just a couple years, while most expect a browser to carry on for decades, left a really bad taste in my mouth.

I was excited when they launched, but won’t miss them. They felt more like a dev backed hype machine. I’m not sure what Atlassian has planned, but won’t be surprised if they kill the browsers and integrate some tools into their existing product line.
by taylodl | 2025-09-04 13:50:34+00:00
France doesn't use bespoke designs for its nuclear generation units. Instead, it adopts a generational approach, where each unit within a generation is built nearly identically, allowing for minor site-specific modifications. This standardization enables rapid deployment and simplifies maintenance and upgrades. When issues arise, they can be addressed across the entire fleet of that generation. Over time, the fleet improves through iterative refinements, and each new generation incorporates lessons learned from the previous one. This disciplined engineering strategy has allowed France to operate its nuclear fleet with a strong safety record and without any major incidents.

I've never understood why the United States never adopted this model.
by just_human | 2025-09-04 13:50:54+00:00
tl;dr - inventing the wheel wasn’t the hard part, it was inventing the structure to connect wheels to a static system.

I think this is true for a lot of other inventions too. What we usually point to as the invention is really just the surface of a whole system that had to come together. The iPod, for example, wasn’t just a music player. It only worked because mini hard drives, batteries, mp3 compression, etc. The thing we remember as the invention is really the moment when all the pieces finally clicked.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 13:51:06+00:00
Our hearing is more sensitive than we give it credit for being.

We used to play a game in my dojo where we'd toss a "knife" (wooden) around in a circle, as if sending it to an ally. Yes, you could throw it in a way that can't be caught... but then the person picks it up and chooses how to throw it back. You learn quickly not to be a dick about it.

Naturally, we were trying to get better at catching, and eventually moved to a trust version, where I shout "Go!" as I throw the knife. Turns out you can hear the knife leaving someone's hands more reliably than they can shout "Go!" on time.
by jeffbee | 2025-09-04 13:51:41+00:00
There's quite a bit of flim-flam in the video, but the key falsifiable claim is that residential electricity demand is not growing. I am looking at the EIA Monthly Energy Review and it appears that residential electricity grows at ~1% CAGR this century. Which raises the question of whether the bills are now due for past underinvestment in generating capacity.
by causal | 2025-09-04 13:51:56+00:00
This did not go where I thought it was going, and I'm glad. I enjoyed the read. I'm not versed enough in psychiatry to validate the brain-chemistry stuff but my practical experience lines up.

Reminds me of the trick of telling yourself "let's give this my full attention for just 5 minutes, and if I still don't want to do it we can move on". I pretty much always end up wanting to keep doing that thing.
by 5f3cfa1a | 2025-09-04 13:52:20+00:00
> a DYI VPN may hide my home IP but it does not hide my identity unless the server i route through is not owned by me.

Again, threat model matters – hide your identity from whom?

You certainly won't hide it from someone who can seize payment records. You will struggle to hide it from someone who has control of enough of the internet to correlate data across sites, like Google or Cloudflare. But if you're looking to be pseudonymous in the face of a single site, or a small set of sites that don't conspire to unmask users? It might work just fine.

(unless as you rightly note they block your hosting service's ASN;-))
by accrual | 2025-09-04 13:52:31+00:00
Same. For me it's almost like a symbiotic thing to me. After using LLMs for a couple of years I noticed I use code blocks/backticks a lot more often. It's helpful for me as an inline signal like "this is a function name or hostname or special keyword" but it's also helpful for other people/Teams/Slack and LLMs alike.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-04 13:52:51+00:00
> lack the endogenous mechanisms

It's not a lack of mechanisms. It's buggy wiring in the brain where at some point in time t some substance or lack thereof forced the brain to reroute blood flow through "paths" that were less impacted by the bug.

if you can increase the blood flow through the originally responsible paths, you can recover any buried mechanism.

people with ADHD and stuff who had only slightly lower blood and or oxygen flow in the PFC, improve the negative symptoms of their ADHD as soon as normal levels of blood/oxygen flows through the PFC. this is true for any area in the brain*.

I'm sure there's studies on post-ischemic recovery that confirm all this.

Identifying entire paths through brain areas is no simple task, of course. But comparing "issues" to normal and extreme behaviors usually draws a more or less unambiguous graph.

*better blood flow and better oxygen supply usually mean better performance for any organism (or part of it)
by loopduplicate | 2025-09-04 13:52:52+00:00
Cheapest? The most expesive part is going to be paying the person or company who sets it up, maintains, and documents it. I'm an expert at Drupal, so for my companies, Drupal is cheap and it can be adapted to grow and change over time as new ideas for the application are discovered; you don't know what your website will need next year so it's nice to have a CMS that is based on having the ability to adapt over time. Wordpress is only cheap if your ambitions for the site aren't big. Trying to do too much with it is a developer's nightmare. Peace.
Show HN: I built a simple site for today's top tech news. What are your picks?
by bingwu1995 | 2025-09-04 13:53:07+00:00
1. The Browser Company Just Got Bought for $610M – And It Changes Everything

2. This Robot Vacuum Can Actually Climb Stairs (Yes, Really)

3. Samsung's Weirdest Product Yet: A 27-Inch TV... With a Handle?

4. SpaceX Just Proved Starship Can Land Like a Feather in Slow-Motion Perfection

5. Adobe's Bringing 'Pro-Level' Video Editing to Your iPhone for Free (Yes, Free)
by wosined | 2025-09-04 13:53:26+00:00
> When do objects need to have function pointers?

You can redefine the methods at runtime. If for example I have a logger that logs on the local drive and another one that logs on a networked drive I can swap the method pointer. This is not polymorphism since the object does have to change. I can also load the function from a shared library that is unknown during compilation and use that as part of the objects methods.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-04 13:53:49+00:00
> Fight misinformation with verifiable factual information.

This doesn't work. As an example the toilet BS. So many times I've tried to explain that that is such an unimaginable scenario that it's completely unrealistic, let alone warrant the amount of anger against the community. But people don't care. They love being angry at someone, they revel in it. They don't want to know facts, they want to be angry and rile against something.

The same with the migrant thing. They're blamed for everything that's wrong in society. Even though these things are actually the result of decades of externalisation to the poorest in society, driven by right-wing pro-corporate policies. They try to convert that into even more right-wing votes.

> These parties are gaining momentum because the parties in power are completely ignoring the will of the people and are cheerfully destroying Europe as we know it.

It's not the will of the people but of a small group of tiktok influencers that are riling the people up without any actual facts.

It's the same in the US, it's not about facts anymore. Most of the things Trump says are provably false. Yet his followers worship him. It's become a religion. You can't fight that with facts. Nor does this 'will of the people' originate with the actual people. Nobody wakes up and thinks "Hey let's cut healthcare today", "Hey, let's hate on all the gay people that never harmed anyone". They're slowly manipulated into it.

What we have to do is stop the algorithms that try to maximise 'engagement' with hate. And the dark forces that publish all this misinformation.
by andrew776 | 2025-09-04 13:54:10+00:00
So I grabbed this domain after thinking about it for a while. I feel like it could turn into a solid product, but honestly I’m stuck on what to do next.

I can code just fine, but I’m kinda blind when it comes to market fit and product strategy. Should I just throw it out there as open source and see if people want to build it with me?

The idea is something in the investing space (BTC/etc.), and my gut tells me it has potential. But I don’t know if I should treat it like a serious startup idea, or just a community project.

Would love some real product feedback from people who’ve been there.
by al_borland | 2025-09-04 13:54:19+00:00
That’s what’s supposed to happen, but in my 20 years of using a credit card I can only recall having my signature checked like this one time. I assumed the person was new. She ended up getting the manager and I had to show multiple forms of ID to prove I was me. It was a whole thing.

Now that we sign electronic pads, it’s even worse. There is no record of the signature on the back of the card to compare to, no one looks at it, and most of the pads are sensitive enough to sign properly. It’s a really expensive rubber stamp.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 13:54:38+00:00
Autistic people have in part answered that question. Some of them feel actual pain at unwanted touches or undesirable textures.

Pain, like vision, resides in the brain; like vision it is mostly determined by reports from our (non-brain) nervous system, but pain, light flashes, even objects and people can be created whole-cloth by the brain itself. And "real" inputs can be ignored, like a mild pain you're desensitized to, or the gorilla walking amongst the ball-passers in that video.
by roryirvine | 2025-09-04 13:54:43+00:00
I'd say that the momentum in the 1999-2001 timeframe was almost overwhelming, with a lot of buzz around the likes of Eazel and Helixcode, together with the excitement of Sun choosing it for Solaris.

It was certainly enough to push GNUstep/Windowmaker and Enlightenment into "also-ran" territory.

If Gnome 2 had come out a year before the dotcom crash rather than the year after, I think it probably would have definitively overtaken KDE as well. In the event, it didn't work out that way - and, as you say, KDE did enough to hang on (thanks largely to Konqueror!)
by AndrewStephens | 2025-09-04 13:55:09+00:00
There are several reasons that you cannot just count the number of times your server has served the page.

The biggest is bots - on my site (and I assume most others), legitimate requests are far, far outweighed by bots. Sometimes you can tell that they are bots but it is very common for bots to pretend to be real users. Oftentimes you can't tell from a single request but only but looking at the pattern of requests.

Some bots do take the trouble of running scripts on the page but thankfully they are in the minority so far.

Caching would certainly break the system as well, in the other direction.
by freedomben | 2025-09-04 13:55:19+00:00
I largely agree, but I do think it's worth noting that they do actually have a screen sharing feature.

I don't use the screen sharing feature, and have no desire to use it, so it is quite irritating that they require the subscription to automatically sync my under a megabyte documents on the occasion that I need that.

Fortunately, it does still have Google drive integration which does not require a subscription. It does require a bit of manual work, but it's not bad
by dkrvchnk | 2025-09-04 13:56:08+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-09-04 13:56:09+00:00
> The very fact that you can't have any political party of the CCP makes it undemocratic.

That is only undemocratic if it is against the will of the population. If the population is choosing to only allow selecting employees from one party, then that is perfectly in line with democracy. A "political party" is just a labor union by another name, after all.

Western countries by and large value free and fair elections, but that isn't what defines democracy. Hosting free and fair elections to select the autocrat of your choosing would not make a democracy. What ultimately defines democracy is the population at large having control. How they choose to use that control is up to them.

There are plenty of good indicators revealing why China isn't democratic, but that statement in isolation isn't telling. Keep in mind, though, that the claim wasn't being strictly democratic — rather, it claims that on the spectrum it is more democratic than the alternatives in use.
by dkrvchnk | 2025-09-04 13:56:31+00:00
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Location: currently in Danang (Vietnam), but overlapping with CET/CEST work hours, EST/ET daytime, PT mornings. Availability: 25-35 hours per week Rate: 70 EUR/hr

I'm a motion lead & 3D generalist with 8 years of experience. I am also a founding director of my own design studio, where I am responsible for the visual direction and strategy.

Interested in web3, AI and FinTech industries.

Services I provide: 3D and motion design.

I work mainly in AfterEffects, Blender and Rive.

Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18sqi7_vgSS98kJdeZu7dIJ8TDh3...

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by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-04 13:56:34+00:00
Because it is the exact opposite? Power management and drivers are a shitshow on Linux. When I want my Lenovo (RIP IBM) Thinkpad to last more than 2 hours, I have to boot Windows.

But is is no question: the Apple Silicon chips sip power. If you're looking to minimize watts consumed, a MacBook Air is still on top (or bottom), even if OS X has many pain points too.
by Mumps | 2025-09-04 13:57:01+00:00
You activated a memory of a passage in one of my favourite books ( Blindsight, Peter Watts. it's amazing and free online):

I await further instructions. They arrive 839 minutes later, and they tell me to stop studying comets immediately.

I am to commence a controlled precessive tumble that sweeps my antennae through consecutive 5°-arc increments along all three axes, with a period of 94 seconds. Upon encountering any transmission resembling the one which confused me, I am to fix upon the bearing of maximal signal strength and derive a series of parameter values. I am also instructed to retransmit the signal to Mission Control.

I do as I'm told. For a long time I hear nothing, but I am infinitely patient and incapable of boredom.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-04 13:57:04+00:00
I feel that the remedy at the end of the trial was really just unworkable.

If you want to break up google, you should break it into workable coherent profitable business units like youtube, maps and geo, search, adsense, android, google cloud (including email) or some combination of the above.

I think it makes little sense to sell off their loss leading platforms that don’t make up coherent business units.
by cheeseface | 2025-09-04 13:57:07+00:00
Government pension funds are a part of it, but it’s a combination of many things, like:

- The US has been a single market for a much longer time than the EU, and the EU still is not a single market, primarily due to language barriers (Germany, France, and Italy are large enough markets to have their own localized, but slightly worse SaaS options)

- European societies are more arranged around the common good and have lower income differences between people and super-wealthy individuals by design. The US is built around being the place where talented people can make the most money out of their skills, which results in many people worldwide choosing it as the place to go to, as the talent market is a global one.

- European values tend to value making as much money as possible or competing and being the winner less, which results in people grinding less and being happy when they become rich enough to focus on other things.
by cyphar | 2025-09-04 13:57:14+00:00
Which part of this comment:

> Maybe the article is dumbing it down too much, but the conclusion seems unsurprising. Why shouldn't a single unknotting do double-duty in some cases?

is them "explicitly stat[ing] they might be misunderstanding"? At best they said that the article is at fault for oversimplifying the topic.
by lumost | 2025-09-04 13:58:13+00:00
I will venture my 2 cents, the equations kinda sorta look like something - but in no way approach a derivation of the wall. Specifically, I would have looked for a derivation which proved for one of/all of

1. Sequence Models relying on a markov chain, with and without summarization to extend beyond fixed length horizons. 2. All forms of attention mechanisms/dense layers. 3. A specific Transformer architecture.

That there exists a limit on the representation or prediction powers of the model for tasks of all input/output token lengths or fixed size N input tokens/M output tokens. *Based On* a derived cost growth schedule for model size, data size, compute budgets.

Separately, I would have expected a clear literature review of existing mathematical studies on LLM capabilities and limitations - for which there are *many*. Including studies that purport that Transformers can represent any program of finite pre-determined execution length.
by pxoe | 2025-09-04 13:58:26+00:00
There's being "pro-copyright" and then there's just the topic of paying artists, and then choosing not to pay them.

Which sometimes is bizarrely and belligerently defended like some moral stance (barely even in relation to copyright/piracy), and sometimes bubbles up like tools that not just avoid paying artists, but make it harder to pay artists, even when those artists have something set up that's a far cry from ad driven platforms. Like, it's not just 'removing third party ads', it's removing any surface and any mention that may have artist selling their music. Is that even about copyright? The music is available to listen either way so it's hardly even infringing that way, it's just that something like this app chooses an active stance (how else would one describe actively removing everything about paying aspect) that's against paying artists, at all and in any form.

It's not even about 'what does downloading music entail', it's just 'fuck paying artists'. Music has been beaten towards kind of just giving up and making things free to stream and just kind of hoping to get their money elsewhere (concerts, merch, music sales), and yet still some people want artists to shrink with their "paying for art bullshit" even further as to preferably have artists not even mentioning that and themselves not seeing any of that at all.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-04 13:58:27+00:00
> simply due to the more favorable business/investment policies of the US.

It has nothing to do with policies, or pension system or whatever, and all to do with market size: when building an American company, you have access to the whole US from the start, then you can build an international product (with all the hassle that comes with it). If you're “European”, you have 27 different markets to address and except your own, none of them is easier for you to get than for an American company.

The second hottest tech market after the US (and not that much behind) is China, and don't tell me that's because they have favorable business policies, ask Jack Ma! It's literally a totalitarian state where CEOs can get abducted if the CCP thinks they're getting too powerful. Talk about incentivizing risk taking. But that's a market of a billion people, the second highest GPD on the planet, and American companies can't monopolize every markets because they are being heavily restrained by the government.

The only way for Europe to thrive technologically, would be to close the doors to the American corporations, that's how you can have Alibaba or VKontakte.

I'm not holding my breath though.
by Centigonal | 2025-09-04 14:00:06+00:00
nah, stephen miran doesn't want us to default on US debt. Instead, the goal is to devalue the US dollar to reduce the cost of debt service (with the convenient side effect of reducing real incomes while maintaining the wealth of asset holders).

see: https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...