MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macNchz | 2025-09-25 02:48:53+00:00
In my view a lot of this hinges on how well the results are identified as ads, and whether they’re vectors of fraud.

I’m not inherently opposed to ads that are relevant to a user’s search query, but I am opposed to watering down their visual differentiation until they look just like regular search results. Once upon a time Google put ads on a yellow background labelled “Ads”. Now they’re “Sponsored results” and they look mostly identical to the rest. This is simply not about providing interesting and relevant alternatives, but about tricking the user into clicking the ad so Google can charge the advertiser.

What I truly can’t abide, though, is the volume of fraudulent and malicious advertising circulating their network. Given Google’s $100 billion profit in 2024, the amount of fake/scam versions of real websites that they allow to appear in search ads, or deepfake Elon Musk bitcoin giveaways they allow in YouTube prerolls is a calculated choice, not an inability or lack of resources to prevent it. At the end of the day it would eat into their profit if they were to make it harder to post deceptive ads.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-25 02:50:18+00:00
The article notes that according to wastewater testing, nicotine consumption in Australia is at an all-time high.

I'm no fan of tobacco, I think taxing it heavily is good, and Australia's policies were (IMHO) working well until quite recently. But, as the article explains at length, the price difference is now so extreme and the legal risk of illegal sales so low that drug dealers are muscling in and we're getting drug dealer competition tactics as a result.
by hmokiguess | 2025-09-25 02:51:44+00:00
Well ripgrep can be just a backend right. Just like your terminal is how you invoke it, you could have your editor do that.

In fact, I believe that is what vscode uses.

Apparently there’s been a neglected issue about bringing it to Zed. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4560
by eru | 2025-09-25 02:51:49+00:00
How are buybacks defrauding anyone?

They just return money to shareholders. The only material difference with dividends is the tax treatment. Even all the incentives are the same.

> It's also unsustainable, in that you can only do this for so long before you've bought up all the open shares and there's so few remaining that your company is no longer effectively tradeable.

What makes you think so?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_split might blow your mind.

> To the extreme, we end up with all the large companies doing this becoming effectively private, owned by a small group of folks rich enough to keep their holdings while everyone else sells out during the buybacks. That's not good.

You can tell your broker to automatically re-invest dividends for you.

Similarly, if you just don't sell when there's a buyback, you own more of the company afterwards. No one is forced to sell.

Btw, most companies (including Apple and Google) keep issuing shares to employees. Buying back some of them in the open market is just an indirect roundabout way of essentially handing employees cash.
by jemmyw | 2025-09-25 02:52:09+00:00
Well different people on this very site want very different things. So you can't really ask us to decide what we want. Probably most folks commenting here want to be paid a good wage, but their view on H1B visas is then going to depend on their own situation. I personally live outside the US and contract for a US company, I hope that whatever happens doesn't interfere with my work or my relationship with that company.
by AznHisoka | 2025-09-25 02:52:29+00:00
A variety of sources, not just web scraping. Including DNS records, DNS traffic and more. All collected by us.

As for trends, while we dont have something like Builtwith trends, you can easily collect all the data yourself via the API see how its trending using your favorite BI tool.

And yes we are missing some JS frameworks like nextjs and react. We chose to focus more on paid products instead. Builtwith (and its competitors like Whatruns, Wappalyzer and Similartech) is missing data on a lot of backoffice/backend products which we have data for
by DaveZale | 2025-09-25 02:52:40+00:00
sure, like a study of tylenol plus probiotics supplement (kefir might work) to restore healthy gut microbes that might have been compromised by tylenol consumption?

Also, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and others might also be trying to curry favors from rfk jr and the big guy?

Occam's razor - favoring the simplest explanation - may explain mob-like social media behavior.
by krapp | 2025-09-25 02:52:52+00:00
Biden actually delivered a lot, and it didn't matter to the left. Once they galvanized around Palestine, his and Harris' intransigent position on that was all that mattered. The only thing Biden could have delivered that would have saved the left was drone strikes on Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile Trump delivers almost nothing of substance and it doesn't seem to matter to the right. They even stopped caring about Epstein as soon as Charlie Kirk's murder gave them something to froth at the mouth about.

I don't know what the future of the left should be but to me it doesn't seem like economic policy is driving either side - even the "price of eggs" thing seems like a post-hoc rationalization for votes people were already going to make. If anything the problem seems to be that the Democrats aren't channeling the outrage of their base as effectively as the Republicans, and there isn't a third option for leftism in the US at that scale. Maybe the left should abandon all hope for the White House and just focus on state-level activism, and build up support for an actual leftist party and agenda.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-25 02:54:03+00:00
Pretty sure personal use of WiFI was banned (along with other RF devices) until the carries started selling WiFI service in planes.

Airplane mode is to satisfy the FCC, not FAA.

The whole restriction about “large electronic” devices (like laptops) below 10000ft has nothing to do with RF or radar — it’s simply because they are bulky and hinder movement.

The whole thing is stupid.

They seem to have no problem with someone laying out as Monopoly board game below 10000ft… Or read a newspaper… But God forbid someone use an iPad…
by recursivedoubts | 2025-09-25 02:54:30+00:00
Well, I don't know. Reorder-style drag and drop works OK:

https://htmx.org/examples/sortable/

But if you really want a component-based system then htmx can be a battle.

I outline when I think htmx is a good fit here:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
by oefrha | 2025-09-25 02:55:19+00:00
On iOS App Store at least, my observation is they just show you a random irrelevant ad at the top if there’s no one specifically bidding for the term. Well that’s my assumption for why I get irrelevant <app with deep pocket> ads when I search for obscure terms. But maybe they don’t show an ad if there’s no bidder at all for garbage spots in <country>?
by shipitto | 2025-09-25 02:56:20+00:00
This is great in principle. A word of advice:

Life is short. Play long term games with long term people. While a batch bakes in a season, a cap table rests like a boulder in a hillside. If you’re smart there are better ways to find a lever with which to move the world.

Consider incentives. Don’t accept a hammer when you need a bulldozer. Don’t ask which paths exist: find where you want to be, ask what needs to be done. Do it.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-25 02:56:56+00:00
Just forget autism for a moment. Acetaminophen is well known to be associated with neurodevelopmental harm in fetuses, and that's enough reason to avoid it during a pregnancy. Here are some random scientific articles on it:

Association of Cord Plasma Biomarkers of In Utero Acetaminophen Exposure With Risk of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Childhood (2019): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

Association of Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure Measured in Meconium With Risk of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Mediated by Frontoparietal Network Brain Connectivity (2020): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Examining the relationship of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with early language development in children (2024): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-023-02924-4

It is possible that there are correlated causative factors, e.g. fever, infection, etc. This makes the flu shot more important than ever in advance of a pregnancy. Even so, is the repeated use of acetaminophen really a risk worth taking? It probably isn't. We seem to lack the vocabulary to make a 10-20 year national experiment of avoidance to see what happens, if the rates go down or not.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 02:58:16+00:00
Flash went from within 2x the price of DRAM in 2012 or so to maybe 40-50x cheaper today, driven somewhat by shrinking feature sizes, but mostly by the shift from SLC (1 bit/cell) to TLC (3 bits) and QLC (4 bits) and from planar to 300+ layer 3D flash.

Flash is near the end of the “S-curve” of those technologies being rolled out.

During that time HDD technology was pretty stagnant, with a mere 2x increase due to higher platter count with the use of helium.

New HDD technologies (HAMR) are just starting their rollout, promising major improvements in $/GB over the next few years as they roll out.

You can’t just look at a price curve on a graph and predict where it’s going to go. The actual technologies responsible for that curve matter.
by daemonologist | 2025-09-25 03:01:07+00:00
The base model X2 Elite has memory bandwidth of 152 GB/s. M4 Pro is a modest win against the Extreme as mentioned, and Qualcomm has no M4 Max competitor that I'm aware of.

https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...

I think the pure hardware specs compare reasonably against AS, aside from the lack of a Max of course. Apple's vertical integration and power efficiency make their product much more compelling though, at least to me. (Qualcomm, call me when the Linux support is good.)
by leidenfrost | 2025-09-25 03:01:09+00:00
I agree with you on the Windows side.

Linux is different. Decades of being tied to x86 made the OS way more coupled with the processor family than one might think.

Decades of bugfixes, optimizations and workarounds were made assuming a standard BIOS and ACPI standards.

Specially on the desktop side.

That, and the fact that SoC vendors are decades behind on driver quality. They remind me of the NDiswrapper era.

Also, a personal theory I have is that have unfair expectations with ARM Linux. Back then, when x86 Linux had similar compatibility problems, there was nothing to be compared with, so people just accepted that Linux was going to be a pain and that was it.

Now the bar is higher. People expect Linux to work the way it does in x86, in 2025.

And manpower in FOSS is always limited.
by al_be_back | 2025-09-25 03:01:09+00:00
The verbosity of Java may certainly annoy/put off new devs a lot, but with advanced tooling and ai, that's not a biggie i think. Personally, i think a live-reloading feature would make java very popular again, and rapidly so. In my internship (mid-00s), a senior consultant said to me "remember, we don't sell Java, we sell Sun". I thought that was backward, preferring "we sell English, and England offers an implementation, or you could chose the US, or a Canadian alternative perhaps? etc". Little did i know.

Java's from the era [1] of virtualization : machines, languages, web (with applets, flash etc) where you focus on writing code once, and delegate the running to a VM, reaching an ever growing list of platforms/devices the VM knew.

But then came Steve book of Jobs and vajazzled so-called phones and desktops, far better than Bill electronic Gates. Why write an App in java and have that run [2] on Phones, Web, Desktop and Server when you can create N-code bases, one for each platform and device?? Oh and why would you want games in Flash [3] when you could be saving your battery to watch a cat tumble over a dog in 8K definition???

Seriously though, I think, the vm era is going to come back in the next few years, and expand into new areas, such as UI vm to deal with os/platform specifics. A healthy-level of tech decoupling is a good strategy, for everyone, but not full isolation. The vm model is much better for consumers and devs - far less lock-in, more future-proof [4], more freedom to innovate and try new markets. Usually, the vast majority of consumers and most devs have ordinary / run-of-the-mill issues. Most popular apps/sites are about shopping, basic entertainment, library-functions (search, referencing, reading), and chatting.

[1] 80s/90s [2] with slight platform variations [3] Flash or some alternatives. Jobs banned Flash for security+energy consumption reasons. [4] abstract/wrap intricacies of lower layers
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-25 03:01:13+00:00
> How are buybacks defrauding anyone?

Mr Doctorow's point is that the company is taking money from its operations, which it should be spending on expanding those operations and increasing its value, and spending that money on artificially inflating its share price, by effectively wash trading the shares, creating artificial demand, and artificially reducing supply.

If you bought shares in the company as a long-term position in order to receive dividends then you do not benefit from buybacks, and arguably lose out (because the money used on the buyback could have been distributed as a dividend). It only benefits short-term speculator shareholders. And, of course, the executives who are incentivised on share price, for whom a buyback is a much, much, easier way to get those incentives than actually doing their jobs and using the money to grow the company.
by groceryheist | 2025-09-25 03:01:30+00:00
The huge fee won't solve the cheap labor problem, only shift the equilibrium. The USA Tech job market faces increasing competition from Canada and Eastern and Southern European countries with lower wages but competitive talent better than available from generalist outsourcing. The new policy accelerates this trend as companies will seek to transplant workers from the USA into other countries. This is bad for American workers whose status as the geographic center of the organization declines.

In my view, the real problem with the H1-B program stems from the sponsorship system which ties each employee to a particular company and role. Unable to leave their position without threatening their residency, they are more willing to demand abuse (e.g., long working hours, poor leadership, subpar compensation) than the labor market requires.

An improvement to the program would make it easier for people to change job. Perhaps the government could permit highly skilled individuals to qualify personally for the visa so long as they sustain employment in their field.
by setsewerd | 2025-09-25 03:02:29+00:00
I love Kagi as a search engine but the Orion UI feels too similar to Safari to really enjoy it as much.

I do enjoy vertical tabs, faster browsing, better privacy obviously. But "largely" is doing some heavy lifting in your mention of chrome extension support. I use about a dozen chrome extensions typically and about 4 of them are supported by Orion last I checked. Although of course #12 in Chrome is the Kagi search extension itself :)

The bookmarks bar seems consistently wonky though, with bookmarks showing the wrong logos (like Google Sheets showing up with the Google Docs logo, or ChatGPT showing some weirdly cropped version of itself), inability to rearrange bookmarks in a folder without opening the dedicated bookmark manager page.

If some basic usability things like this were fixed, along with adding tab groups (also big for me when I have 50 tabs open), I'd probably give it another go. Kagi search engine has largely replaced google search already for me so I'll definitely give it another go once these things are updated.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 03:03:00+00:00
Oh, and no one has a solution to make HDDs faster. If anything, they may have gotten slower as they get optimized for capacity instead of speed.

(Well, peak data transfer rate keeps going up as bits get packed tighter, but capacity goes up linearly with areal bit density, while the speed the bits go under the head goes up with the square root.)

(Well, sort of. For a while a lot of the progress came from making the bits skinnier but not much shorter, so transfer rates didn’t go up that much)
by tyre | 2025-09-25 03:03:25+00:00
> And make it a company you respect and want to emulate

Personally I would caveat that they be a small company. Large companies are a very different beast. What it takes to get ahead and succeed at there is often very different from a startup, in ways that don’t become obvious until you’ve worked at a startup.

Rather than learning which wheels not to re-invent, you have one data point and reflexes that you’d need to deprogram.

Working at the company I most highly respect and would want to emulate (Stripe), I don’t think the skills would have been at all the right ones. (Admittedly I was in a highly toxic and political org.)
by molteanu | 2025-09-25 03:03:31+00:00
Yes, I can. I get deevid as a first result occupying the whole screen (on mobile) as it lists the sub-links, too (one of them being a sub-link to the "AI kissing generator")

Then comes PixVerse, a sponsored result for a google play app.

Then difuss.me.

Then comes midjourney.
Ask HN: Any orgs that build/use "Policy SIM" that model effects of legislation
by hnNdsThrwAwy | 2025-09-25 03:03:56+00:00
There are Dynamic models to predict complex systems, from SIER models for disease spread to Bayesian networks for medical diagnostics. But are these sophisticated, data-driven approaches applied to public policy? For instance, when a government adjusts H1B visa fees, does any institution model the likely downstream effects on university master's programs, especially those at schools that rely on international students? It seems like we're constantly reacting to policy outcomes, but are we building the computational frameworks to anticipate them? Are there governmental/think tanks that build such models, to what extend do they build it.

More general question: Compare this to a company, today we run very data driven orgs with selective feature release, A/B testing etc. Are there any tools being used at the meta level planning in Government, or even outside even in software companies or other product companies.
by extraduder_ire | 2025-09-25 03:04:27+00:00
The second to last comment in the linked thread is an FAQ with some good explanation of their reasoning. I suggest anyone who hasn't read it yet to do so as it answers a lot of questions I've seen in this thread.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...
by shib71 | 2025-09-25 03:04:51+00:00
My first thought was that it would be explaining Quicksort using an Ikea warehouse as a metaphor, to show how different algorithms suit different constraints.

As for the actual Ikea-style instruction pamphlet... I suspect that making it was very helpful for the author. But I don't think the result would have helped me as a novice. It took some work for me to understand the diagram, and I've used Quicksort.
by brianphan1803 | 2025-09-25 03:05:14+00:00
I ran into the same wall, and I built a browser extension to solve it for myself: https://pickvocab.com/features/anki-integration

Now I just click any word or phrase when browsing the web, and it shows me the exact meaning in context, thanks to an AI-powered dictionary that works for any language. I save the word along with the sentence, add a quick note if I want, and later export everything straight to Anki.

It’s cut out all the friction of card creation for me. I use it daily for English and Chinese, and it’s made sticking with Anki sustainable again.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-25 03:06:42+00:00
Just a suggestion from someone who's worked on industrial robots and autonomous vehicles, but I think you're underselling a lot of difficulties here.

Skilled humans have a tendency to fully engage all of their senses during a task. For example, human drivers use their entire field of vision at night even though headlights only illuminate tiny portions of their FoV. I've never operated an excavator, but I would be very surprised if skilled operators only used the portion of their vision immediately around the bucket and not the rest of it for situational awareness.

That said, UI design is a tradeoff. There's a paper that has a nice list of teleoperation design principles [0], which does talk about single windows as a positive. On the other hand, a common principle in older aviation HCI literature is the idea that nothing about the system UI should surprise the human. It's hard to maintain a good idea of the system state when you have it resizing windows automatically.

The hardest thing is going to be making really good autonomous safety layers. It's the most difficult part of building a fully autonomous system anyway. The main advantage of teleop is that you can [supposedly] sidestep having one.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2371048
by 827a | 2025-09-25 03:06:59+00:00
We issue 85,000 H1-B visas every year. Last year, there were 442,000 applications.

Its supply and demand. If you think any of these changes will cause fewer than 85,000 H1-B applications, then that is a good reason to believe that these changes might negatively impact the United States as a migration destination. However, with that added context and framing, I hope you'll agree that it won't; there's still going to be a smaller, but growing, number of people applying for the H1-B every year.

Increasing the number of H1-B visas has very little support from both sides of the isle. The 65,000+20,000 number was set, if you can believe it, 35 years ago. There were one or two temporary increases, but since 2005 its stayed at that 85,000 number.
by MBCook | 2025-09-25 03:07:58+00:00
I trust MS in this. NT has been multi-arch since day one. x86 wasn’t even the original lead architecture.

They also know the score. Intel is not in a good place, and Apple has been showing them up in lower power segments like laptops, which happen to be the #1 non-server segment by far.

They don’t want to risk getting stuck the way Apple did three times (68k, POC, Intel) where someone else was limiting their sales.

So they’re laying groundwork. If it’s a backup plan, they’re ready. If ARM takes off and x86 keeps going well, they’re even better off.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-25 03:08:01+00:00
It's a hallucination, as it's derived in placing thoughts about things into other brains and then "acting on them", which is nothing like what brains do and how our behavior manifests.

So it's imposing a narrative on reality. As we're at a particular threshold in neuroscience where the contents in brains are known to not be about things, that ideas like desire, intent, motivation are seen now as false retrofits from folk psychology, challenging cog-sci, CS and AI as to their entire relationship to intelligence AND we're at the memetic-culture chaos throwing a monkey wrench into the general narrative culture, Thiel's approach is like a last hurrah for coding/value that probably feels like for him a new beginning.
by setsewerd | 2025-09-25 03:08:12+00:00
Not the parent commenter but

1. Great if you have a wider screen (could never do it on my old 13" Macbook Air, for a 15" it's pretty good but for a 24" iMac it's perfect). But if you need the space youjust have it set to minimize by default, maximize on hover.

2. See the titles of your browser tabs, which is great when you are like me and never have fewer than 30 tabs open at once.

3. Easier to select browser tabs when you have many of them open (ie they don't get squished unreadably small)