MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duckdriver | 2025-09-12 11:03:49+00:00
There are many examples of exchanges of ideas. You can hide from them if you want, but they are numerous, well documented, and widely available.

Regardless of how offensive you may find the arguments he made, or the fact that he promoted them and was paid for them, there are tens of millions of Americans who agree with him. What do you propose to do about them? Delete them? Send them to re-education camps? Strip their voting rights? Of course not. Shaming and ostracizing them as “deplorable” has now reached its 10th year as a failed strategy.

There’s only 1 option — we have to talk to each other. Are the conversations imperfect? Yes. Are they often performative yelling where no one will change their mind? Sure. Does it allow people whose views are heinous to articulate those in front of an audience? You bet. Did Charlie Kirk build a business around it with clickbait titles about "owning the libs?" Yep. And does this country need more engagement and dialogue? Unquestionably. There is no alternative.

There’s a deeply concerning, common pattern of radicalized rhetoric on the left rejecting dialogue in favor of “action” (read: violence.). Given the segments of society that are armed to the teeth, you’d think the left would be the side that is eager for dialogue over violence, but instead many on the left are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. Even those who wouldn’t embrace the “violence > dialogue” rhetoric can often be influenced by it, as can be seen in the “He didn’t deserve murder, BUT…” statements.

You may have seen clips of Kirk answering the question of “why are you doing this?” I’m seeing it shared frequently in the aftermath of his death, because it was asked of him a lot. He says it quite plainly: “If we don’t work out our disagreements with conversations, there’s only violence left.” He’s correct on this point, and I believe his legacy will be for being someone gunned down for and in the act of trying to address issues via dialogue. I encourage you to consider that, as I suspect my rant above about the importance of dialogue over violence is actually very much aligned with your own values.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-12 11:04:39+00:00
> makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people

Which it is?

I am from the EU and I don't see what this law has accomplished apart from making the WWW worse, especially on mobile.

I remember back when Opera was a paid browser, last century, it already have options to accept all cookies, refuse them, or set fine-grained preferences per website. No need for handling it at the website level if the client can do it.
by sysguest | 2025-09-12 11:04:51+00:00
..except no one had to "adapt" -- those workers were supposed to go back after the set-up work is over, and Americans would get the jobs after the set-up work.

this isn't some low-skill burger-flipping workers staying permanently and replacing a whole career of american citizens' jobs...

US just had to turn a blind-eye, wait until those workers are done with the set-up and leave for good

And now... things got ugly too quick -- I doubt even Trump wanted this.

My pet theory is... this is a classic example of an political double-spy (Tori Branum) being "cooperatively passive-aggressive" (if party a shouts for A, get inside party a, and go to the extreme far-end of A to show A is bad -- though in reality, some middle-ground was what party a was initially aiming for)
by looperhacks | 2025-09-12 11:05:23+00:00
A man opens a door after the bell rang. Outside is a snail, asking if they can use the bathroom. Annoyed, the man picks up the snail and throws it back to the street. A few weeks later, it rings again - when the man opens the door, the snail asks "what the hell was that just now?"

... That's German humor for you
by geokon | 2025-09-12 11:05:50+00:00
Okay... I thought you had something actually to contribute to the conversation

You start off incredibly dismissive

> Clojure is pretty smooth but there is nothing stopping anyone implementing any interface on any object in most languages; build some sort of adapting whatever

Then i explain how it seems not possible.. I mean maybe I'm wrong and missed some angle. I'm really willing to learn and change my mind here. And yes, the dynamism is part of the whole point.

And then you just handwave it away, making some vague analogy to Python and ML.. and don't actually have any technical input at all. What a frustrating waste of my time
Ask HN: Best way to get daily top HN stories and comments on a Kindle?
by tarunupaday | 2025-09-12 11:06:10+00:00
As part of my digital minimalism practice, I avoid “bright screens” (TV, phone, iPad, etc.) in my bedroom. The only exception is my (black and white) Kindle reader, which I use for a few minutes before sleep. I’d love a way to catch up on the top Hacker News stories each day on Kindle—including the top comments, since those are often more valuable than the articles themselves. I don’t want to roll my own RSS + Python pipeline, and I imagine I’m not the only one with this need. Has anyone built a free or paid product that delivers HN top stories (plus comments) in a Kindle-friendly format?
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-12 11:06:10+00:00
Lazarus[0] has a Gtk 1.2 backend that i occasionally fix (though it has been a while since i tested it), but you need to install the Gtk 1.2 libraries from source[1] since no current distro aside from Slackware (from where i got the sources and patches) packages it. Even Slackware though doesn't provide gdk_pixbuf (which Lazarus needs) though, so you'd need to compile that.

I'm not sure if GTK1 (the linked one) is backwards and/or binary compatible with Gtk 1.2 though.

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/pages/badsector/gtk12/
by spwa4 | 2025-09-12 11:06:57+00:00
Problem is, paying for it with resources taken from the rich requires 10% of ALL the resources the rich have (not from their income, everything). Per year. Which would cannibalize most businesses in France in the process.

Leaving aside how moral this is or isn't, and the practical problems (like destroying businesses, and the fact that capital can't actually be sold at the price it is valued), it would block the state's ability to lend, which would immediately force the state to save 20 times more than what the protests are about.

Actually doing what every party is screaming they want to do (pay for the state using the rich's resources) would cause an immediate disaster. But this is France, that doesn't mean they won't do it.
by croon | 2025-09-12 11:07:45+00:00
> Israel isn't committing genocide except in the minds of pro-palestine activists, many of whom refer to Hamas terrorism as "resistance" more than the more suitable description

What do you make of Netanyahu himself in regards to Hamas support?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

> In a cable leaked by WikiLeaks in 2010, Amos Yadlin, former general of the Israeli Air Force, said in 2007 that Israel would be "happy" if Hamas take over Gaza and regarded it as a positive step, so they could treat Gaza as a hostile state.[37][38]

> In an interview with Israeli journalist, Dan Margalit in December 2012, Netanyahu told Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Netanyahu also added that having two strong rivals, this would lessen pressure on him to negotiate towards a Palestinian state.[11]

> In an interview with the Israeli Army Radio in August 2019, Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001, said that Netanyahu's main strategy is to keep Hamas "alive and kicking" in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority, even at the expense of "abandoning the citizens [of the south]."[48]

> Bibi made a deal with Qatar and they started to move millions and millions of dollars to Gaza."[49] At a Likud party conference in 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu said:

> "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas ... This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."[50][51]

> Gershon Hacohen, former commander of the 7th Armored Brigade and an associate of Benjamin Netanyahu, said in 2019 in an interview:[54]

> “Netanyahu’s strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it’s an ally.”[55]

> Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right lawmaker and finance minister under Netanyahu Government, called the Palestinian Authority a "burden" and Hamas an "asset".[56][57]
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-12 11:08:01+00:00
So the throttling was because they found that the old hardware and batteries weren't keeping up and so, instead of letting the devices become completely useless they throttled them.

Butterfly keyboard isn't great but it works better without being crammed full of cheeto dust.

Play store has no barrier to entry and it's a slop filled garbage shithole. There's garbage slop on Apple's Appstore too but nowhere near as much.

The flipside to the 3rd party parts that nobody talks about is that if there was a sudden flood of apple devices repaired poorly with sheapo shit parts then buying used apple devices would be a terrible experience. I bought a lot of my Apple stuff 2nd hand and it all works great. Nobody said that anything had to be cheap, you want cheap go buy something else. Price is what you pay but value is what you get.

The planned obsolescence is not even a thing, they have by far the best record for supporting their old devices. I have an '09 Macbook Pro that is able to run El Capitan and the last security update for that was 2018. Iphone 6s is STILL receiving security updates. If you want to easily upgrade your components then don't buy apple devices, if you don't want to maintain winblows but still want serious applications to be able to run natively then buy apple. Older devices slow down because literally nobody cares about writing software that's lightweight and only uses actually necessary system resources.

Again with the Appstore and the 'user choice' you have choices, dont buy Apple products if you want the freedom to bloat your stuff with crap software. There's a massive market of winblows and android devices with all the pointless unsupported-open-source-with-the-last-update-to-the-project-made-in-1234BCE software your heart desires out there for your slop and e-waste buying pleasure. What security do you gain from installing random shit beyond the security that Apple builds in by default?

ALL tech currently sucks massive donkey cock but at least if you buy an iphone then you know that it'll reliably perform the duties of a small pocket based social media based computer/car audio brain until such a time as you choose to replace it. If you buy a macbook then you know that it'll do the job of portable computing for you as long as your needs don't esceed what 99% of people actually use a computer for besides playing videogames (just get a console for those, seriously how the fuck is a weird RGB chair in an RGB room better than a couch with your cat/dog/friends/family) for over a decade of your life. At least when you buy Apple products you know that you're paying out your ass for something that will 100% deliver on all the promises it makes.
by lucideer | 2025-09-12 11:08:05+00:00
> making the WWW worse

You can argue that the law might not have improved things (at least not as much as intended), but nothing about this law has made the WWW worse. If you believe that, you've fallen for the concerted efforts of the advertising industry spreading misinformation about who's idea the annoying consent popups were & (like this website) perpetuating the myth that they're a legal requirement.

None of the new annoyances on the modern web that you're thinking about are mandated by EU law. It benefits the ad industry massively to scapegoat the EU for these annoyances.
by urbandw311er | 2025-09-12 11:08:06+00:00
On the Posthog dashboard, you can activate a chatbot 'hog' which walks around the screen, but you can control it with WASD, and even jump up onto 'ledges' that correspond with the divs of the page you're on. There's a hidden "party mode" where you can see/chat to your other team members' hogs!
by darkwasp-pl | 2025-09-12 11:08:29+00:00
Thanks for the feedback

The main focus right now is privacy + zero signups/installs - just drop a GPX, see the map, basic stats and share a link. I even added a direct open on the phone with Strava, Kamoot and Garmin - so people can open the gpx in other apps if they prefer.

It’s mainly useful for groups (like bike clubs or casual trips) or beginners who just want to see the trail without creating accounts or installing anything.

I’m also experimenting with:

Monetization → creators could sell individual routes or bundles.

QR codes → print and post on a trail so anyone can scan and access it without login.

AI → for now it enriches routes with tags/descriptions (SEO), but in the future maybe even auto route planning from a text prompt (e.g. “bike trip with hills + 3 coffee stops”).

For now though it’s just a simple uploader, and I’m still figuring out which direction to focus on next.
by lproven | 2025-09-12 11:08:52+00:00
Very interesting. Thanks a lot for this! I will experiment and see if I can get it working.

I use older Thinkpads with Optimus switching, so using the Intel GPU is not opotional: it is always on, but the OS offloads GPU-intensive stuff to the nVidia GPU.

In my testing with Debian 12, I could not get my nVidia chips recognised at all. In some distros, this has the side-effect of disabling the Displayport output, which is a deal-breaker as I use an external monitor and the machines do not have HDMI.
by tekne | 2025-09-12 11:08:55+00:00
Much of my PhD thesis was/is done traveling in places with poor, poor Internet. Currently on my laptop in rural Calabria, where I pull a blazing fast 60 kbps, sometimes. Would be very irritating waiting for the compiler/theorem prover to go brr, remotely… I can hardly edit a Google doc out here!

This doesn’t contradict your minority point, but it really does make me appreciate local-first.
by ezst | 2025-09-12 11:12:12+00:00
> As I said, there is something here beyond just aesthetics. And one of the conclusions may be that our current UI/UX philosophy has inadvertantly become user-hostile.

It's almost like, "marketing", itself, as a concept, is user hostile. Most sites' purpose isn't to be efficient, or informative. It's to give the impression that they are "making a statement" (we matter because XYZ), while looking dependable and professional enough to compel calling sales for more.

Commercial transparency goes against that goal (why would I call if I have all the price details I need?). Technical transparency goes against that goal (why would I call if I can tell precisely how this compares to market leaders and competitors?).

So, in many (mostly despicable) aspects, this site is terrible. Unfortunately.
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-12 11:12:48+00:00
Well, yeah, it doesn't fit all applications and web browsers are a case where MDI doesn't really work. The linked site is more of a gimmick, at least as far as the documents go.

But my response was about calling MDI an anti-pattern in general. Just because it doesn't fit all cases, it doesn't mean it is an anti-pattern.
by grigio | 2025-09-12 11:13:18+00:00
> Ironic to start with it, given that "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" is a running joke, essentially playing on the fact that it probably won't happen anytime soon.

Sure, Linux Desktop/Mobile will never be an alternative for all until it is preinstalled and top apps are developed for it.

> Is the argument here that what's missing to Linux on mobile is official support from Google?

No, it was just to mention a reference hardware

> Of all the things missing on Linux on mobile (and there are more than enough), this does not sound like one. Firefox is fine. The low battery efficiency and the lack of many important apps is much more of a problem.

Most of modern web sites are just tested for Chromium, but also Firefox is fine if it became well optimized in Linux Mobile.

> And most other apps, too.

The essential apps are already almost there, just need more optimization for mobile UI. Most of apps in the Play Store are just wrapped web views. It's more a quality issue than a quantity issue.
by amai | 2025-09-12 11:13:42+00:00
I‘m a bit disappointed that the article doesn‘t mention the link between low dopamine and autism. Here is just a recent study:

https://news.ki.se/new-study-links-dopamine-to-autism-sympto...

From the study:

„ This suggests that increased Ca2+ levels can compensate for deficits in β2-nAChR function and restores DA release.“

Calcium plays an important role here: https://www.stridesaba.com/calciums-role-in-supporting-indiv...
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-12 11:14:14+00:00
Makes sense - but I'm still not clear on why it would need to be humanoid in form-factor or indeed self-contained/autonomous and not a more flexible, mobile, multipurpose robot-arm-like-thing?

Like is there any particular reason for it to be about 6' tall with exactly two 3' long, three-jointed arms rather than any of the other possible permutations for those things?
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-12 11:15:08+00:00
You can “know” because we have decades of polling and election outcomes.

It’s not black and white “know”, 70% is the mean of a probability distribution.

It’s more accurate to say, this model predicts “Foo” because historically polls like this favor Foo 70% of the time. But these are probabilities and have wide errors. It’s on the reader to have a level of statistical knowledge.

These are more handicaps than “predictions”. The same way we predict whether it might rain tomorrow, who might wins tomorrows game, without a Time Machine.
by komali2 | 2025-09-12 11:15:12+00:00
> Saying whether it's better or worse than slavery is like playing the oppression Olympics, they are both atrocities and demonstrably evil actions.

I'm not trying to engage in oppression Olympics, I'm just saying, slavery is basically the worst things people can do, so far beyond the morality of whether or not it's ok to kill animals, or even torture them, that I'm just confused why it's brought up as if it's relevant.

I don't think killing animals is a great thing to do, and factory farms are awful. But humans are humans, and constantly just hitting this "what about animals" things is bizarre to me. I'm not trying to be rude, I just simply don't see the relevance. Slavery being just about the worse thing humans can do means that all the other bad things pale in comparison.

I'm not saying it's always valid to apply modern ethics to people from various time periods - it's bad, but understandable, that people used to beat their kids, or waste food by sacrificing animals and leaving them out to rot "for the gods." My point is that slavery simply is a massive exception, it's second-to-second murder, taking a human and trying to make them not-human. So that's why anything you could throw at me that we do today that people in the future might say is wrong - jailing people, not housing the homeless, killing animals for sport, engaging in capitalism, you name it, none of them come close to slavery in terms of sheer evil. And my point is that this isn't modern ethics, this is as self-evident a moral fact as is possible for morality. Many things in morality are grey, debatable. Not slavery. It's the One of Two things that are bad in every century, alongside rape. The wrongness of slavery, and rape, are immediately evident no matter what culture or era you come from.

And the reason people do this is usually to justify slavery. "Well they didn't know any better, so they had slaves." Justifying slavery with ANY reason is also bad. So I refuse to accept any attempt to do so, including comparisons to other things that happen to be bad, or possibly considered bad in the future.
by dspillett | 2025-09-12 11:16:07+00:00
> GDPR requires informed consent before collecting data.

And this is a good thing, no? I certainly think so.

> It's a wonder we don't have to force everyone through an interstitial consent page.

If the information being tracked is truly essential to the site/app (session management and authorisation data for instance) then no consent is needed, for anything else ask before you store it, and most certainly ask before you share it with your “partners” or anyone else.
by Delphiza | 2025-09-12 11:17:13+00:00
I agree. You have to be a certain age to remember that a big part of Microsoft "Longhorn" was WinFS (Windows File System), which was intended to completely rework storage into a relational file system (or object-oriented depending on your view). "Longhorn" was supposed to do away with NTFS and failed miserably at that objective. I believe that WinFS delayed things considerably and eventually didn't ship with Vista.

Microsoft Longhorn's failure to be the next big thing was largely due to the bad implementation of a storage subsystem. The result was Windows Vista, which was derided as a bad OS (at least until Windows 8). Due to that history, I would not name any file system 'Longhorn'. It may not be the same as naming a cruise ship 'Titanic', but you wouldn't name it 'Iceberg' either.
Show HN: Built a Real-time sentiment LLM tracker
by eric_khun | 2025-09-12 11:17:36+00:00
Hey HN!

I love those moments when LLMs are just working right away, but I'm also quite frustrated when they can't complete a single simple task. In those moments I'm always wondering "Is it just me or...?" So I've built AI Daily Check.

Made the frontend with Node.js under Cloudflare Pages (with Functions for SSR). Took the opportunity to learn how to make a lightweight SSR engine (Claude Code was incredibly helpful for this!). The backend in on Cloudflare Workers.

The challenge is getting votes, so I've started to scrape Reddit, running a small sentiment analysis on the posts and storing them if relevant. But I hope the upcoming integration will help!

I've also created a Claude Code extension where you can vote, but also shows Claude's current sentiment right when you start it! [1]. A Chrome extension is coming soon for browser-based LLM users. Next step would be to pull incident reports if any [2]. I still have issue on how to represent better the summary we see on the homepage. If anyone has any idea, would love to take it!

Would love feedback from the community! Try it here: https://aidailycheck.com

[1] https://github.com/aidailycheck/claude-code

[2] https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/h26lykctfnsz
by muzani | 2025-09-12 11:17:37+00:00
I often find myself disagreeing with HBR recently, and some of the articles don't even use reliable data. I feel it's a little above mainstream sources like Forbes/Business Insider.

There was some good stuff; it had the best explanation of the Business Model Canvas and how business models worked, but that's the one memorable thing I got from HBR. I'd say pick one of the others - I'd second the recommendation for Financial Times.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-12 11:18:33+00:00
For ascii to look right, not messed up, the generator has to know the width of the div in ascii characters, e.g. 80, 240, etc, so it can make sure the lines don't wrap. So how does an LLM know anything about the UI it's serving? Is it just luck? what if you ask it to draw something that like 16:9 in aspect ratio... would it know to scale it dowm so lines won't wrap? how about loss of details if it does? Also, is it as good with Unicode art? So many questions.
by xpe | 2025-09-12 11:18:39+00:00
Reminds me of some often-repeated suggestions that take the form of "every developer should build their own X" where X might be: blog, ORM, key-value store, database, OS, distributed computation framework, neural network, decentralized currency. But the one that you really have to be afraid of, in terms of time-spent followed by a new life-long obsession is "your own keyboard".