MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-25 18:32:15+00:00
I edited the post to make it more clear: I could see myself having ChatGPT prompt me about the SQL stuff, and the "therapy" (basic dbt or cbt stuff is not too complicated to coach someone for and can make a real difference, from what I gather) would be another way that I could see the technology being useful, not necessarily one I would engage with.
by javierbyte | 2025-09-25 18:32:20+00:00
Author here! I'm so happy to see Brutalita randomly popping up on Hacker News!

I had fun building this small project, there are a few fun things I did to make this work:

- The editor is a textarea with a monospace font, but the text is transparent, the font is rendered on top of it using SVG of the same size and line height as the monospace font behind it. This way I didn't have to recreate a whole editor and got the real-time preview I wanted.

- The way the SVG preview and the 'real font' are constructed is different. I talk about this a bit more on my blog [1] but in short in SVG I can use "thick lines" with rounded corners, and for the font I have to render polygons and I found a great library "mfogel/polygon-clipping" that makes the process of combining them a breeze.

Thank you all for the interest! I might work on an update or two ;)

[1] https://javier.xyz/blog/brutalita-learning-opentypejs
by lelanthran | 2025-09-25 18:32:26+00:00
Okay, let's get back to your original assertion, that FF isn't viable.

It clearly is, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. Maybe it's broken on some specific sites[1]; can you recall which sites those were?

Because it works, right now, on all the mainstream and popular sites, including every banking site I use it on, every shopping site, every wordpress site, every forum, subreddit, LLM/webchat, search engine, LoB and social networking site I used it on over the last decade and a half.

Actions speak louder than words - use FF, and then when you get to a site it doesn't work on, start Chromium, instead of complaining about the hours trying to fix it.

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[1] Note I am not saying that it is broken for you, I am saying that it is broken for specific sites.
by danudey | 2025-09-25 18:32:49+00:00
I live in Canada and the main reason I like Starbucks is that its consistent. It's not great coffee or great pastries or great whatever else, but it's always the same.

We have other chains here, like Blenz, which are franchised rather than corporate, and the quality is hit or miss. I went to a Blenz location once and got a drink far better than anything else I've had in the city, but most of the time I go there I get something mediocre and poorly-made.

Meanwhile, every latte I get from a Starbucks comes out of an automated espresso machine but it comes out pretty much the same every time. The pastries are all pre-packaged and made at some industrial kitchen probably not even in the same time zone, but, again, they're the same every time. And especially when my son was a baby, my wife and I got into the habit of going to Starbucks very frequently because it was one of the only retail anything that always had changing tables in the bathroom, and, if they had gendered washrooms, always had a changing table in the men's room as well. Every other place was hit or miss, and it didn't take long before I got tired of changing my son on (a changing mat on) a filthy bathroom floor.

Back to drinks, though, there are a lot of other small, independent cafes around, and smaller chains like Artigiano which give you better coffee (or pastries or tea or ...), but they're a lot less commonly found.

Now, all that being said, I would kick a (picture of) a puppy if I could get a Te & Kaffi location in Vancouver; the instant I walked into one for the first time in Iceland it reminded me why I originally liked working in a cafe in my twenties - it felt cozy, comfortable, and it smelled deliciously of fresh coffee. It's a lot rarer to get that here for some reason.
by aqula | 2025-09-25 18:33:06+00:00
Playing around with code visualization. Built a vscode extension to generate architecture diagrams for terraform - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=infragra...

Now exploring on extending this to general programming languages. Software is getting increasingly complex, but I don't think we have figured out many ways of navigating large codebases. Would love to hear about your favourite tools in this space and what would you like to see?
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-25 18:33:21+00:00
OK, sure, but there's no reason you can't extend that argument to in-process improper memory accesses either. free() is you specifying that a particular bit of memory isn't supposed to be touched any more, malloc() is you specifying that some amount of memory is legal to access, etc. Language runtimes, inserted/compile-time checks, etc. would be analogous to the OS/MMU here.
by foldr | 2025-09-25 18:33:38+00:00
I don't have a strong personal opinion on this, but the PG essay mentioned in the comment you link to advises people not to start a startup while in college and to do other things in their "early 20s", while Early Decision is targeted specifically at people who are currently college students and (mostly) in their early 20s. I don't think there's a 'gotcha' there, but there is at least a tension, no?

While you're correct that the comment you're responding to is a bit sloppy in summarizing what PG said ("20s" instead of "early 20s"), its basic point still makes sense.

YC is not the Church of Paul Graham, so I don't see any need to dive into Pauline exegesis and attempt to reconcile YC's current admissions process with everything PG has ever said. YC can do what it likes, and people can note what may or may not have changed since PG was in charge of it.
by dang | 2025-09-25 18:33:51+00:00
It's not a question of what "should" be a divisive topic. Every topic in all the major politically-determined topic sets is divisive, and the proof is what happens in the threads when people try to discuss them. Acetominophen might not have been a divisive topic before it got politically charged, but it is now.

It's not the moderators' job to decide what's true and impose that decision on everyone else. The community would hate it if we tried to run HN that way—it's probably one of the few things that political enemies would come together and agree on.

We don't have a truth meter [1]. It's the community's job to sort out what's true and false. It's the mods' job to (try to) ensure that people (try to) do that through thoughtful, respective conversation rather than flamewar, snark, or attacks, in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's easy and all too satisfying to imagine that if the mods would simply impose your idea (<-- I don't mean you personally, but any of us) of what's true and false, what's lies and misinformation, etc., then the site would get magically and massively better. However, different users have radically different sets of what they consider true vs. lies—why should we select one and not another? This would just be a different way of imposing our own viewpoint on the community. It's not our temperament to do that, and as I mentioned, the community would never tolerate it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by ux266478 | 2025-09-25 18:34:03+00:00
> As an American, it came as a surprise to me that we do not, in fact, have broadly shared values about our system of governance.

It shouldn't, America is two very distinct nations. The shape and nature of those nations vary wildly in classical Baudrilliardian sidewinding progression, but it's rooted in the very early history of British North America. Two distinct primogenitor colonies and societies, Jamestown and Plymouth. Founded for different reasons, in different contexts, by different people. Understanding the disparity is key to understanding a great deal about America. This divide has always persisted. Jefferson was of Tidewater, Hamilton was of Yankeedom. Democrats vs Whigs. Dixie vs Yankeedom. This split persists in history, and is much the reason why America is ostensibly a two party system. Even if the regional divide is not as hard and fast as it once was, even if the matters in which they differ change radically over time, the divide itself will always persist. It's wrapped up in the pre-revolutionary context the country was founded on. America will always be two countries in a trenchcoat, two echoes of wildly different cultures set against each other for dominance. You should always be keen to remember that. The union isn't of 13 distinct colonies, but two distinct cultures always in tension. It's a fundamental structure within our larger cultural blueprint.
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-25 18:34:17+00:00
Thank you! I have preserved this precious cultural artifact:

https://archive.org/details/object-object

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.mp4

Original mp4 files available for remixing:

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.zip

>Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain.

It's objects all the way down!
by sgt | 2025-09-25 18:34:52+00:00
You're right, it used to be a bit complicated. Now you just need to have a reputable and clean IP address, and knowledge of running some services in docker and of course understanding DNS and its crucial role for running a mail server.

I used to run all the components and maintain it (even that wasn't bad), but I changed to mailu[1] about a year ago

[1] https://mailu.io
by austinallegro | 2025-09-25 18:35:05+00:00
Thank God for coffee shops that impose time limits, lest patrons visiting for a coffee and a sit-down have to walk on by because the hipsters in their bollock-strangling denim, plaid shirts and a Crossley turntable tucked under their arm are already hogging the place.

Top Tip: Easily avoid said sofa-hogging hipsters. Look for the bike rack full of Penny Farthings outside.

Go to a Workday for your 'co-working vibes'. Take your Macbook Air and Crossley portable turntables with you as well.

Sincerely,

All the other coffee shop patrons.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 18:35:05+00:00
So the criticisms from the 90s that I mentioned in my other comment? Yeah, I prefer to live in the modern world. It isn't Microsoft that needs to be hit with antitrusts in 2025. It's Apple and Google. Live moves on, and in 2025, Microsoft is one of the more ethical tech companies around, unless you're one of the many sheltered people in tech that think targeted advertising is manifest evil that's on par with enabling a genocide.
by degamad | 2025-09-25 18:35:08+00:00
I have an engine with a 50mph speed limiter on it.

I open the hood and add a resistor across the input sensor so that it thinks I'm going 20% slower than I really am.

I start driving at 60mph.

How does society enforce the speed limit regulation against me? (Hint: the threat of, and eventually the use of, violence.)
by basilgohar | 2025-09-25 18:35:08+00:00
It is not a lie. It is so extreme that it has merited its own Wikipedia page [0], but don't trust that, read the citations. Leaders[1] statements[2] have been chronicled calling for genocide. It is happening in both word and action.

Resisting an occupying force is not genocide.

[1] https://amnesty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Amnesty-Intern...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250916081026/https://www.ohchr...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_and_incitement_in_the_G...
by xwowsersx | 2025-09-25 18:35:27+00:00
Being late to ship doesn't erase a structural edge. Google is sitting on everyone's email, calendar, docs, and search history. Like, yeah they might be a lap or two behind but they're in a car with a freaking turbo engine. They have the AI talent, infra, data, etc. You can laugh at the delay, but I would not underestimate Google. I think catching up is less "if" and more "when"
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-09-25 18:35:40+00:00
What kind of pressure campaign are we talking about here? And what kind of reward? Are we now buying Microsoft products because Microsoft's cloud storage is no longer allowed to be used in genocide, only Office and email? That's absurd. What this is about is public opinion, and that takes years and decades to change. And that's a good thing. If you change your tune after every Microsoft PR release, it's not you who's holding the carrot and the stick, it's Microsoft.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-25 18:35:59+00:00
I expect this to continue to be the conflict of responsibility and capability in the 21st century.

Alfred Nobel was known as a "merchant of death" for enabling the use of combat explosives that could do (by the standards of the time) preposterous damage to people, but his argument was that he just sold the dynamite; he wasn't responsible for the anarchists getting it and bombing something twice a week in New York. And even then, his conscience weighed on him enough that he endowed a Peace Prize when he died.

The story is different when the data conversion is being done on machines you own, in buildings you own, in a company you own (for practical reasons in addition to moral / theoretical; if someone wants to stop those computations, they're now going after your stuff, not trying to stop a supply-chain).
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-09-25 18:36:34+00:00
I have noticed for well over a decade or more, perhaps 20 years or longer, really, I'm not sure when it started, but companies are reluctant to call people "employees."

Edit: I'm too young for this, but it's along the lines of Personnel from the '60s becoming Human Resources in the '70s and '80s, and Human Resources from the '90s and '00s now becoming People Operations in the '10s and '20s.

I suspect in the '30s it'll change again. Maybe one day there will be a culture change towards boring and we'll just call people "customers," "employees," and the departments responsible for hiring the "Hiring Department."

And people will get mad about that, too, because the HD will be responsible for the paperwork required to fire people, too.
by ethagnawl | 2025-09-25 18:36:39+00:00
I absolutely believe that the Reserve location in Seattle was busy and can second that those locations had a halo effect for the larger brand.

I've only been to the Reserve location in Midtown Manhattan once and it was very different experience than your run-of-the-mill location. Specifically, I had a drink replaced without asking because the barista said it had "died" while I was in the (nice, clean, great smelling) restroom. Overall, it was just a nice, pleasant experience and I definitely would have frequented that location if I was working in that area regularly. I wonder if this shop was a union one? That might explain why everyone was so pleasant and why it seems to have been closed.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-25 18:36:56+00:00
There's lots of ways that market forces that should normally work don't. For instance:

* the amount billed to individuals is often wildly different than the bill an insurance agency would negotiate with a provider. (I'm not an expert, there may be more layers of indirection there; this is simply my mildly-educated impression.)

* Depending on the sort of care you seek, a provider may have a de-facto monopoly in the area.

* There's no obligation (or indeed incentive) to be up-front about costs—we've all had the experience where we were charged for a service that wasn't even presented as a clear option, let alone one that would cost money, let alone anything approaching a reasonable charge for the service rendered.

* When you need care the most is often when you're least able or inclined to play providers against each other/shop around.

* Deductibles are so high we're essentially pitting high regular premiums against worst-case scenarios, which is deviously difficult to reason about, even for actuarial experts.

...etc etc. It's not easy to proactively think through costs in the world of American healthcare even as a cost-conscious, pessimistic actor. And on top of all this, the sheer bureaucracy necessary to manage negotiating payments and insurance coding adds a significant amount of overhead (inefficiency) to the provider's end bill and to your premiums—how on earth can you audit a provider's or insurer's efficiency? It's all opaque, and most of us don't want to think about it at all.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-25 18:36:57+00:00
I don’t know if it’s complete fearmongering to imagine a scenario in the future where chemical or biological weapons are easier to manufacture and therefore execute attacks. Hundreds of people died in Europe last year due to terrorist attacks, and compared to where our species will eventually be, many of the technologies used in these attacks are still in their infancy. The world may evolve, but the scriptures that evangelize future jihadists won’t, so the incentive to be a martyr will always exist. I just looked it up and Europe has a very bad track record at stopping attacks—of 54 planned terrorist attacks in 2024 only 19 were averted by intelligence. 35 were carried out successfully. The threat may come from factions other than just jihadists in the future, too. I agree that this is not something we have to worry about now, which is why I stated that I’m hypothesizing in the original comment. But I think it’s a bit less far fetched than a near term alien invasion :-)
by bell-cot | 2025-09-25 18:37:28+00:00
If a magazine for parents of severe-peanut-allergy children ended every "may contain undisclosed peanut" recall article with a "Here's our current top 3 brands for child peanut safety: ...", would anyone refer to that as reeking of journalistic bias?

How 'bout if Consumer Reports published a "We Tested 17 kitchen garbage disposals" article, and their 1-paragraph summary of the worst-rated model said "buy one of our 3 top-rated models instead"?

(Yes, I know you're giving a "proper" response. And that very few journalists might say "buy X, Y, or Z instead" about a 900 lbs. gorilla like Cisco. Recall my "Daydream" disclaimer.)
by jzebedee | 2025-09-25 18:37:31+00:00
Interestingly, this was the marketing behind Koala Kare's rise to a monopoly over the bathroom baby changing station:

> Business owners just couldn’t see the use case for changing stations. Hilger says he was trying to sell the device to “men in their 50s who never changed a diaper in their life.”

> A new brochure — this one depicting a woman on her hands and knees changing her baby’s diaper on a disgusting bathroom floor– did the trick. “We had to make them feel guilty,” Hilger says.

https://fortune.com/2014/08/13/koala-baby-changing-station/
by Dumblydorr | 2025-09-25 18:38:01+00:00
Block all news sites? I Just did that, it does help! I like HN because it’s pure text and the community is good. At least here people disagree and try to use some evidence or logic and engage with each other.

I was thinking I could buy an hour or so of time in my day cutting this all out, surely then I’d be shredding music practice way more… so hard to get down to it after work and kids.
by dpcx | 2025-09-25 18:38:09+00:00
This will be great. I only noticed two issues with the mobile app, and one of them had to do with performance - it would get "stuck" uploading an image to the server, and no amount of waiting would let it complete. So I'd have to restart the app, and it would always start over and check every image that was in the library before uploading would begin again.

The second issue is still related to timestamps from iCloud photos. The date that's on the photo in iCloud is not respected when uploading to Immich, meaning photos tagged from 40-90 years ago show up as being taken today.
by caltonji | 2025-09-25 18:38:11+00:00
On a simple dataset (that can be answered by a single table in a single Wikipedia page) it seems to overthink https://www.webhound.ai/dataset/57a5c745-909e-466d-bcac-1dd7....

Quickly hit your limits but on a complex dataset requiring looking at a lot of unstructured data on a lot of different web page, it seems to do really well!https://hn.webhound.ai/dataset/c6ca527e-1754-4171-9326-11cc8...
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-25 18:38:30+00:00
> In the US specialty coffee shops may be just as expensive or more expensive than Starbucks.

That was the case where I live for the longest time. Starbucks wasn't great, but it was a pretty big step above McDonalds and the others, and the local shops, while great, were way more expensive than Starbucks.

But now that's no longer the case, really. Plenty of local, really good coffee shops here that are now the similar pricing to Starbucks now that Starbucks has been consistently jacking up prices. Starbucks has no right to be asking $15+ for a triple shot 20oz drink when I can get a much better tasting one for the same price at the local shop across the street.

Where Starbucks still won was availability and consistency. They are literally everywhere, open later, and the recipes are so formulaic now that I know exactly what I'm getting no matter which shop I go to.

They do need to go back down in price though and settle back into that happy middle place.
by bogtog | 2025-09-25 18:38:59+00:00
> Today, we are releasing updated versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite, available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, aimed at continuing to deliver better quality while also improving the efficiency.

Typo in the first sentence? "... improving the efficiency." Gemini 2.5 Pro says this is perfectly good phrasing, whereas ChatGPT and Claude recognize that it's awkward or just incorrect. Hmm...
by baalimago | 2025-09-25 18:39:00+00:00
I don't see how they can come after anyone who's using a specific protocol [0] by law. Expanding on this thought: if Chat Control passes, it will just be the death of social media as a chat platform. People will swap to something more rudimentary where it can't be enforced. Primary reason why being that it simply will be so much faster/more convenient than the apps which are forced to use chat control.

The same reason as why streaming services are being ditched in favor of piracy will happen to social media.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
by spiderxxxx | 2025-09-25 18:39:01+00:00
From what I've seen (at a fortune 100 company) they made the supposedly "best" employees fully remote, and they neglected to tell the others that there were "limited slots" for fully remote and thus they had to come in to work. After a few months of coming in for work, they then laid off those employees, as not enough people quit for that to happen. To be fair, I was given a severance, but it still sucks. And the office was in bad shape, bathrooms poorly maintained, cafeteria in disarray, with substandard food (compared to before). The reason they're trying to get rid of employees is to make their stocks look good. We did better during covid by all measures, when everyone was working remotely.
by jayd16 | 2025-09-25 18:39:05+00:00
They have passable coffee but I think they actually did a good job of curating a good place to simply be.

They served as a pub, in the public house sense, for young professionals.

I think covid really derailed that and the vibe never quite returned. I'm not sure what people are using for a 'third place' (not home or work) these days but Starbucks is out of fashion and sometimes generally hostile to customer loitering now.
by klik99 | 2025-09-25 18:39:12+00:00
I agree the coffee at starbucks isn't great, but I feel the coffee at dunkin and mcdonalds are both better than starbucks. I like black coffee though, and Starbucks drip or americano just isn't good - I see starbucks more as a desert place than a coffee place, and judged on that they're good. I think more people want sweet milky coffees, and that's fine. That plus the environment is a big pull of Starbucks. It's not my thing, but I get why people like it

EDIT Also, I'm pretty sure the better coffee at mcdonalds happened after starbucks, IIRC they put a lot of effort into improving their offering after starbucks exploded