MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rapind | 2025-09-07 09:23:09+00:00
Agreed, and I would argue the super quick turnaround time an interactive discussion during a planning phase make this much more enjoyable.

I also enjoy discussing solutions with people in real time too. But writing documentation in a vacuum without any feedback or even knowing if someone will read the spec?? Soul draining stuff.

In fact, the best of both worlds would be having a discussion with someone else (real person) while an AI agent listens, takes notes, and provides feedback / insights using different models. Vetting your ideas etc.
by nunobrito | 2025-09-07 09:23:21+00:00
You could have as easily used String instead of var and there would be no ambiguity. This gets worse for numbers where it is important to know if you are dealing with an integer, long or something even bigger.

I agree with you on switches and do like the """ feature, thought. It was a real pain in the rear to include the multiple + "\n" back in the old days. This is a very clean and intuitive improvement.
by yzydserd | 2025-09-07 09:23:59+00:00
> But who is going to question these decisions, then? Can we trust the elected leaders to do so? I don't think so (not being partisan here, this goes for Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, whomever);

That was exactly the point of the article. Not that the operation was planned or executed, not that it went south and failed, not even that civilians were killed. The point is that there ARE more tiers of “who is going to question” those involved, but it was kept from them.

“The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission.” and “SEALs have an uneven track record that for decades has largely been concealed by secrecy.” And that “ the episode worried some experienced military officials with knowledge of the mission”.

The story is that the some officials (elected and unelected) may keep details from other officials (elected and unelected) who on paper have responsibility in the area, and that experts (military) are concerned enough to whistleblow specifics about one op as an example.
by c0l0 | 2025-09-07 09:24:43+00:00
I see a particular ECC error at least weekly on my home desktop system, because one of my DIMMs doesn't like the (out of spec) clock rate that I make it operate at. Looks like this:

94 2025-08-26 01:49:40 +0200 error: Corrected error, no action required., CPU 2, bank Unified Memory Controller (bank=18), mcg mcgstatus=0, mci CECC, memory_channel=1,csrow=0, mcgcap=0x0000011c, status=0x9c2040000000011b, addr=0x36e701dc0, misc=0xd01a000101000000, walltime=0x68aea758, cpuid=0x00a50f00, bank=0x00000012 95 2025-09-01 09:41:50 +0200 error: Corrected error, no action required., CPU 2, bank Unified Memory Controller (bank=18), mcg mcgstatus=0, mci CECC, memory_channel=1,csrow=0, mcgcap=0x0000011c, status=0x9c2040000000011b, addr=0x36e701dc0, misc=0xd01a000101000000, walltime=0x68b80667, cpuid=0x00a50f00, bank=0x00000012

(this is `sudo ras-mc-ctl --errors` output)

It's always the same address, and always a Corrected Error (obviously, otherwise my kernel would panic). However, operating my system's memory at this clock and latency boosts x265 encoding performance (just one of the benchmarks I picked when trying to figure out how to handle this particular tradeoff) by about 12%. That is an improvement I am willing to stomach the extra risk of effectively overclocking the memory module beyond its comformt zone for, given that I can fully mitigate it by virtue of properly working ECC.
by richardfeynman | 2025-09-07 09:25:27+00:00
There is a wide consensus that the US succeeded in killing Bin Laden 14 years ago. Here is why:

- On-scene & eyewitness identification by the SEALs (including identification by a wife). [1]

- CIA facial-recognition match to known images. [2]

- Rapid DNA testing matching bin Laden to family members. [3]

- Existence of classified post-mortem photos/videos acknowledged in court. [4]

- Official U.S. account of Islamic-rite preparation and burial at sea. [5]

- Al-Qaeda’s public acknowledgment of bin Laden’s death. [6]

- Large intelligence haul from the Abbottabad compound (letters, books, documents).

- Pakistan’s Abbottabad Commission findings and related interviews/documentation.

Taken together, this evidence is certainly more than "a press release." Do you have stronger evidence that he wasn't killed?

Sources: [1] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB410/docs/UBLDocument...

[2] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB410/docs/UBLDocument...

[3] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB410/docs/UBLDocument...

[4] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/1...

[5] https://www.cpf.navy.mil/Newsroom/News/Article/2755760/bin-l...

[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/al-qaeda-confirms-os...

[7] https://www.dni.gov/index.php/192-dni/resources/1198-bin-lad...

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-...

[8] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/7/8/document-pakistans-b...
by bartread | 2025-09-07 09:25:31+00:00
It’s neat: I like it a lot actually.

But the problem with you billing yourself as a graphic designer and reimplementing Windows XP is that you’re copying a design that already exists rather than showcasing your own design skills, so I can’t immediately tell how good a designer you are[0].

I can look at your projects under the IE icon, which gives more of an impression, but some of the visuals there do look decidedly AI generated, which isn’t super-encouraging.

The UX is also weird. For example, the back/forward history controls behave like carousel controls through your portfolio, whereas when I hit back/previous I expect to be taken back to the menu of projects.

If you applied to me for a job with this, would I interview you?

Yes, I would, simply because I can see you’ve put a lot of effort in and created something high quality. But I’d have some reservations because of the concerns I’ve raised above and, in particular, I’d want to dig in to how user-centred your approach is, because that isn’t really demonstrated here.

Sorry if this sounds discouraging. What you’ve done is cool, and I like it, and it would certainly get you a foot in the door of many interview processes, but that will be when the real work of showcasing your skills begins.

I hope that makes sense?

[0] Literally, I could do this, and I suck at design. It’s very similar to the process of implementing a design passed to me by a UX Designer, which I’ve done loads of times.
by mcny | 2025-09-07 09:26:15+00:00
I don't know who is to blame for this -- I think it should be the entire team, not just the developer for every time I click a link from a message somewhere on my phone and a website opens which opens an app and it says "congratulations, you have performed this operation (that isn't idempotent)". Like ok, but why are you doing stuff with a get action... Shouldn't you prompt people to ask in the app hey I am about to do something, do you want me to?
by nunobrito | 2025-09-07 09:29:47+00:00
Those writing in python and javascript don't honestly know any better. They grew in a world without unit testing or without products that need to grow into gigantic systems maintained over the next decades.

This reminds me of a developer writing in jRuby because "it was better". While he was in the company he'd still give support to his own works, after leaving nobody else wanted to pickup those "better" things and would prefer to write workarounds to the tool, it effectively became a black box that few could improve and even worse to test. As result, those portions had to be rewritten in proper Java so that we'd be able to deeply measure/test and improve.

Never again.
by pjjpo | 2025-09-07 09:30:03+00:00
AFAIK there isn't currently any surveillance on search - searching for how to make a bomb does not lead to police at your doorstep the next day. But the police raid after a mass shooting generally brings up plenty of similar searches.

Maybe it could be good to have some integrations between this data and law enforcement to reduce leading to tragedy? Maybe start not with crime but suicide - I think a search result telling you to call this number if you are feeling bad saves far less lives than a feed into social workers potentially could.

Just a thought, and this isn't have a computer sentence someone to prison but providing data to people to in the end make informed decisions to try to prevent tragedy. Privacy is important to a degree but treating it as absolute seems to waste potential to save lives.
by goku12 | 2025-09-07 09:30:38+00:00
> I was under the impression that the scientific consensus today was that multicellular life only appeared once.

If that's the case, then the relevant Wikipedia article [1] will need a major correction. They reference multiple sources which are more likely to interest you.

Multiple independent emergence of multicellular life didn't really surprise me, considering how often unicellular life mutates. I'm actually surprised by the suggestion that the opposite is the current scientific consensus. Do you have any sources for that? (Not a challenge. Just want to understand the situation and misconceptions if any.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#Occurre...
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-07 09:31:42+00:00
Oh man it was fucking great.

I had a shitty pentium or mmx, with fuck all ram, my dad however had a DUAL PROC P3 monster just a network hop away.

I could SSH in and run GIMP on his machine and run https://logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal in a quarter of the time.

But that time has passed now. Perhaps web APIs are the best way to do that kinda offload.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-07 09:31:55+00:00
It was a simple way to highlight impulsive behavior common in modern users, and the trivial encoding function should be obvious to those who are minimally empathetic. Ask the LLM handler if being lied to makes people feel worse than getting robbed... then consider if you would hire such individuals.

If you are ever unsure of someones motives, than politely ask for context. Have a wonderful day =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Causa...
by dijit | 2025-09-07 09:36:34+00:00
The issue I tend to have with redistributors is that ultimately: it might not end up being a valid license.

What's the difference between outright piracy and buying an invalid (but functioning) CD key? Legally: nothing.

If a key is minted to be used only in certain areas or for certain purposes (healthcare, education) and it's sold to me- I don't have a right to use it.

That's the really annoying thing about these CD key online things, they give the illusion of doing the right thing but ultimately it's the same issue.

Truthfully I don't think any of us will be audited, but it's an annoying situation I continually see. People think just because money changed hands that they're legal.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-07 09:36:47+00:00
The plots to XCOM were never very strong: it was the gameplay that set them apart. Gollup’s earlier games (the subject of the article) developed turn-based, grid-constrained tactical simulation out of board games; plot was just polish added to that. Using roughly the same mechanics, you command a death squad on search-and-destroy missions, terrorists doing direct action against the government, and, in Chimera Squad, cops. The story is just window dressing for the mechanics.
by imiric | 2025-09-07 09:36:59+00:00
Hey, thanks for sharing. As someone who uses QEMU via rudimentary shell scripts, this looks interesting.

Unfortunately, I'm reluctant to trust a 26KLOC vibe-coded app[1] for something like this, so I'll pass.

But if a polished React/Next.js app, with a CLI, HTTP/WebSocket API, authentication, and libvirt integration, truly took you a couple of hours to produce, and it solves your problem, that's a commendable achievement. I'm not sure if I should be praising you or the LLM, but it's notable nonetheless.

[1]: https://github.com/ccheshirecat/flint/commit/eb90847db9da56c...
by shakna | 2025-09-07 09:38:29+00:00
Probably worth noting that there's already an SRFI for this. [0] And that macro will work on any Scheme implementing the standard since about '98.

(define-syntax rec (syntax-rules () ((rec (NAME . VARIABLES) . BODY) (letrec ( (NAME (lambda VARIABLES . BODY)) ) NAME)) ((rec NAME EXPRESSION) (letrec ( (NAME EXPRESSION) ) NAME))))

[0] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-31/srfi-31.html
by jventura | 2025-09-07 09:38:29+00:00
If you're still working on this, you can add a "Pedantry mode" ou "Really faithful" switch that turns some of the suggestions on. It could work as a way to show that you're really aware of the shortcomings of the first implementation without messing too much with what you've got already done. And it can also work as a way to show some kind of "appreciation" for the feedback you're getting here..

Personally, I've used XP a lot back in the day, but don't remember much of the details like most users are reporting here, so I really liked to play with your website, and would definitely hire you if I was in such position.

Good luck!
by KomoD | 2025-09-07 09:38:55+00:00
Bad data. A bunch of links just lead to 404, the filters aren't correct (since when is organic pumpkin seed protein powder nut flavored?)

$239.95 for 9068g with 16g serving size (60 calories, 10g of protein) is not 4 servings and is not 0.2g protein/$1, 1 cal/$1?

And for another product your site says 18 servings, the listing says 16 servings
by majewsky | 2025-09-07 09:39:04+00:00
If this were true, then a 10fps movie clip would be indistinguishable from a 24fps or a 60fps one. I have written several years ago about how optimizing my shell prompt from 50ms to 5ms was definitely a noticeable impact on how snappy the shell felt: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters.html
by antegamisou | 2025-09-07 09:40:53+00:00
> 'If I were better at math, I would have been better AI researcher

This is the first time I've seen someone claim this. I don't if it's display of anti-intellectualism or plain ignorance. Otoh, most AI/ML papers' quality has deteriorated so much over the years, publications in different venues are essentially beautified PyTorch notebook by people who just play around randomly with different parameters.
by brynet | 2025-09-07 09:41:15+00:00
What's interesting is that the syscall-compatibility layers in the BSDs began with SunOS binary compat on NetBSD m68k/32-bit sparc-- which was created by Theo de Raadt.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/6ce3f21

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/1a68594

He also came to the same conclusion compat layers were a dead end (OpenBSD removed all compat_*(8) support, including Linux).
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-07 09:42:09+00:00
> Get help.

This might seem harsh or personal, but I don’t mean to direct this entirely at you, or even a little bit, but at the collective you, at your argument, and the logical and illogical conclusions that believing as you do can lead you to arrive upon.

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

What I mean is this: self-help justice just doesn’t work. You will likely not be seen to be a good actor in the moment due to others not knowing what you know, nor can you count on them to share your opinion on proper interventions in exigent circumstances then or after the dust settles.

You can be right or wrong, but I care about you. I hope that comes across. I don’t want you to suffer injustice, nor do I want you to intervene in such a way that now we have two or more problems instead of one fewer or none at all.

I don’t want you to be dead wrong, or even dead right. I want you to live to fight another day, and I want you to need never raise arms against another, especially for cause. It’s not fair, but that’s life. Discretion is the better part of valor. Self-help justice is the tail wagging the dog.

I have been in a position to engage in the very actions you advise or advocate for, arguably for cause, and I had to actively engage in principled inaction instead, and I only narrowly avoided ruin despite my best efforts. I literally have done nothing wrong, and still been found fault with until others could properly adjudicate wrongdoing, and found me concomitantly lacking in culpability. I know whereof I speak.

If you find yourself in a position to decide whether you must engage in self-help justice, I will trust your judgement on the matter, but I may also stand in judgement of you all the same after the fact. I myself ought to have asked for help sooner than I did in an unforeseeable interpersonal emergency I was unable to set right despite my best efforts. I’ve been to the brink, came back, and got the tshirt.

Ask me how I know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013205
by sublinear | 2025-09-07 09:42:37+00:00
The topic of chaos is underrated when people talk about deterministic systems, but I think it's at least (usually?/always?) a tractable problem to draw up a fractal or something and find the non-chaotic regions of a solution space. You have nice variables to work with when you draw up a model of the problem.

Maybe someone can elaborate better, but it seems there is no such luck trying to map probability onto problems the way "AI" is being used today. It's not just a matter of feeding it more data, but finding what data you haven't fed it or in some cases knowing you can't feed it some data because we have no known way to represent what is obvious to humans.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-09-07 09:42:40+00:00
You're wrong. You can clearly see a difference between 20ms reaction time (as instantaneous as it gets because of what you say, 1/60 = 16.6666...), whereas 150 ms is a fast reaction but it definitely is a noticeable lag. I wish your opinion didn't exist because how can we expect to get rid of the lag everywhere if some people even claim it doesn't matter.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-07 09:43:21+00:00
We were told that things really were different then too. And they were different by definition because they weren't the same, but that is not really evidence of anything. We were promised he colluded with Putin to hack the election and would become a dictator, that WWIII would be started, economy would be ruined, international trade would be stopped, undesirable citizens would be put into camps, etc. He really did not need courts or legislature on your side for that if you can control the military and a sizable portion of the country is on your side too. So that all turned out to be another cry wolf situation.

Things are different now too because they are not the same, sure. I don't know that people who got it quite wrong are the ones to trust when it comes to predictions of trading and economics this time around.

> Just look at the tourism figures for an idea of the current sentiment.

No doubt a lot of people have changed their minds about visiting US due to Trump -

"Overseas arrivals fell 3.4% in June compared to a year ago, bringing the YTD decline to 1.2%."

But I don't think those kinds of swings are much evidence for larger trade and investment and data sovereignty etc issues.

Everybody, EU, UK, China, Japan, India, Australia, well really just about all countries -- have made a lot of noise and care a lot about relying on US tech, having US companies and by extension the US government control their data, etc. This isn't something they've just started to try fixing in 2016 "because Trump", or in 2025 "because this time he means it". It's been much longer than that. With the exception of probably only China, nobody has been able to make a great deal of progress on it.
by Koaisu | 2025-09-07 09:44:27+00:00
Looks great and I thinks it’s a nice way to review vocab I learned some years ago now that I will be in Japan for vacation. Thanks!

However, it would be great if it was easier to select multiple vocabulary sets at once. Right now, I have to minimize many sets to get to let’s say set 20 and then select a maybe 20 to 25. That’s a lot of clicking here I would say. Maybe include a button that’s like select all sets of one level.

A second thing, I haven’t found is furigana or some pronunciation hint when doing the vocabulary test exercises. I know the meaning of the most of the words but it would be great to see also the pronunciation (maybe after clicking the right answer? Or as a tool tip). Or include a practicing mode for default word -> hiragana or something like that.

Otherwise, looks great I love the default font.
by dcminter | 2025-09-07 09:45:05+00:00
The declarative form of clap is not quite as well documented as the programmatic approach (but it's not too bad to figure out usually).

One of the things I love about clap is that you can configure it to automatically spit out --help info, and you can even get it to generate shell autocompletions for you!

I think there are some other libraries that are challenging it now (fewer dependencies or something?) but clap sets the standard to beat.
by lifeformed | 2025-09-07 09:45:33+00:00
> versus the lives of potentially hostile people who show up in your mission area?

So what? Then you fight the people proven to be hostile or run away. At no point is executing innocents an option that should be on the table in that situation. If things go wrong and escalate to a life threatening situation for you, then that's one the risks YOU consented to. It's not a risk that civilians are responsible for.

Maybe you get killed, or there is political fallout, but both of those situations are a better outcome than killing civilians.
by rendall | 2025-09-07 09:46:09+00:00
Unfortunately, Fielding's dissertation itself alone gives inadequate guidance to construct or even fully identify a REST API, and so a over the subsequent years a mishmash of sometimes contradictory blog posts, discussion forums, militancy, angry flame wars, and books fleshed out the REST.

The 2007 book RESTful Web Services was wildly influential in popularizing the standard by clarifying and presenting a set of further guidelines or constraints that it called Resource-Oriented Architecture.
by gf000 | 2025-09-07 09:46:11+00:00
Though it's probably easiest understood in a non-web world.

The web makes it quite a bit more involved with a separation of client- and server-side state - plus you have a given frontend "framework" in the shape of DOM, which people often leave out of the picture.

This latter necessities the 'escape hatches' in React and alia.
by andreasmetsala | 2025-09-07 09:46:58+00:00
The EU has a homegrown tech industry that could pick up the slack, though it would be expensive.

The real problem is that the US would leave Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia which has a real chance of turning into WW3. Most likely this isn’t discussed in the US media but feels like every week some notable politician or high-ranking military is warning that Russia will invade NATO after Ukraine. Trump knows our weakness and is squeezing hard.

The mood here in eastern Europe is very much that we’re talking when, not if, Russia attacks us.
by dcminter | 2025-09-07 09:48:14+00:00
You do you, obviously, but "now let npm work its wicked way" is an offputting step for some of us when narrowing down which tool to use.

My most comfortable tool is Java, but I'm not going to persuade most of the HN crowd to install a JVM unless the software I'm offering is unbearably compelling.

Internal to work? Yeah, Java's going to be an easy sell.

I don't think OP necessarily meant it as a political statement.