MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knolan | 2025-09-11 15:49:06+00:00
The Dutch model is frequently cited by campaigners here as how things should be done. Unfortunately, as you point out, our government doesn’t really care. Investment is a patchwork of half arsed attempts here and there depending on local pressure. There are only two tram lines in the country and people keep driving their cars into the trams. Bus lanes are clogged with taxis and the Gardai (police) are absent from our roads.

A recent local council attempt to remove a couple of parking spaces and install a shared space in the area I live was met with a wave of anger and vitriolic abuse. In a public consultation people were complaining about how it would prevent them bringing some elderly relative to the GP in the snow, while transporting a fridge. Meanwhile the area is permanently clogged with cars dodging a nearby toll making the place extremely unpleasant to use as an amenity.

It’s incredibly frustrating and saddening to contribute to the problems after trying so hard to do better.
by herbertl | 2025-09-11 15:49:26+00:00
Same! I use Feedbin (https://feedbin.com/) to aggregate new posts. On desktop, I'll sync Feedbin up with NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/).

Substack and Medium both support RSS. You can just type /feed after the URL. e.g., tk.substack.com/feed and tk.medium.com/feed

For other newsletters, I use Kill the Newsletter (https://kill-the-newsletter.com/) to subscribe via RSS.
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-11 15:49:27+00:00
Eukaryogenesis != Multicellularity. There are tons of unicellular eukaryotes. Also, multicellularity has evolved a bunch of times, at least in eukaryotes, so I doubt it's that rare.

If your thesis is specifically that oxygen-powered metabolism fueling multicellularity is rare... that wasn't clear. And I'll still say that endosymbiosis being the shortest path to scaling oxygen metabolism is probably Earth happenstance (with a reminder that cellular endosymbiosis is also common). But some critter had to originally evolve oxygen metabolism before being turned into mitochondria. What if that had evolved in a cell prepared to directly take advantage of it?
by rmhsilva | 2025-09-11 15:50:06+00:00
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by xohails | 2025-09-11 15:50:34+00:00
Over the past month, there’s been a trend on social media called The Great Lock-In (running Sep–Dec). I decided to turn it into an app: The Great Lock-In on the App Store .

The idea is simple: it helps you participate in the lock-in challenge by tracking progress, building streaks, and staying consistent. I built it as a side project, and to my surprise it’s now trending on the App Store.

Would love feedback from the HN community - especially around onboarding, retention mechanics, and whether this kind of lightweight “social trend → app” approach has legs beyond the initial hype.
by justonceokay | 2025-09-11 15:51:04+00:00
This reminds me of a similar rift that happened in the Seattle area subreddits. Many years ago ago there was a mod who was using their position to sell something (I don’t exactly remember it). So a bunch of people left r/Seattle for r/SeattleWA. Ad you might expect that was mostly techies and the terminally online.

Fast forward 10 years later and now r/seattleWA has become the right-wing subreddit. r/Seattle is more lighthearted and full of pictures of the space needle. This wasn’t the original intent, but once a community splits in two both sides are going to further differentiate to fill more user niches.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-11 15:51:13+00:00
> pacifist

That pacifism was very much required though. The whole projection of India as this "mystic peaceful place full of peace-loving meditating sadhus that the Beatles and Steve jobs were so enamored by" was instrumental for the way we got independent with minimal balkanization[1], our ability to stay non-aligned in the cold war (which btw, is the original definition of a third world country!) and maintain strategic autonomy throughout the following decades - which we exercise quite well today. Of course, it was nothing but a political image, and we built nukes behind the scenes (by order of the very same politician nehru), but gandhis pacifist outlook and the heavy marketing of this in western countries (see Nehru's rallies in USA at the time), as well as in soviet Russia, was very necessary. People like to say we shouldn't have been socialist back then, but the Soviet help that arose out of that was really useful. In geopolitics there are no morals, so it is also completely OK that we took a U-turn from all that a while later. The only interest is self-interest.

My point is, a lot of these political positions are simply projections cast in order to achieve a certain goal, meaning to look at it from a moral standpoint is useless.

This is true for any political position held in any country anywhere in the world at any point in history.

[1] If you think the partitions were bad... the rest of india would have had a much worse fate had foreign interests gotten involved. Think: other cold war battlefields of the late 20th century. The number of secessionist states at the time in india...the cia and the kgb would have had a field day.
by paularmstrong | 2025-09-11 15:51:55+00:00
This is all well and good, but the time it takes to install node modules is not a critical blocker for any project that I've ever been a part of. It's a drop in the bucket compared to human (ability and time to complete changes) and infrastructure (CI/deploy/costs). Cutting 20 seconds off the dependency install time is just not a make or break issue.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-11 15:52:11+00:00
> At around 200 sq m (2,200 sq ft), though, tiny forests are seriously small even compared to many urban forests.

> There's one very good reason to plant tree patches in urban areas: people who live near them benefit.

That is the critical combination. It means it's practical to do thousands of 'em, putting a few near a large percentage of your voters. Most of whom are probably not real fans of environmentalism. But who are very likely to favor having nice things near their homes. (Especially if they're seen as improving property values.)

Vs. a lot of would-be-awesome environmental projects...which never happen, because voters and politicians don't care enough.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-11 15:52:20+00:00
South Korea is really high. Japan used be high but is much lower now (comparable to the USA). You can make your point more quickly today with South Korea’s suicide rate, which is really really bad. Mental health is important, the higher suicide rates in red states could just be about them being more depressed (eg from higher poverty, or overwork?) and having less access to mental health resources than just having more access to guns. Poverty might explain it, which is why New Mexico (the poorest blue state) is so high, but then you have Utah which is usually the exception red state, and Colorado, which is a richer blue state, in the 20/100k list. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States

Note that Montana, the worst state for suicide, is about the same as South Korea at 28/100k.

I say this sadly as having had a friend kill herself in High School via a gun her dad had lying around. And ya, it was a red state (Mississippi).
by imiric | 2025-09-11 15:52:47+00:00
RSS is not an API, though. It's another content type like HTML, typically XML, but in a specific format that makes it easier for programs to consume.

Generating it is trivial in most web frameworks and CMSs, and sites that don't offer it either never bothered to set it up, or actively choose not to. This is hardly a fault of RSS itself.

What you suggest as a successor is a workaround for such sites, not something that should be the norm.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-11 15:53:13+00:00
I see multiple ex-employers listed at https://staging--atlantic-council-spyware.netlify.app/ | https://mythicalbeasts.dfrlab.org/. I strongly advise avoiding all prospective employers that use these services as they're practically guaranteed to hack your phone.

Report: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/re...

Dataset: https://github.com/ac-csi/mythical-beasts
by wavemode | 2025-09-11 15:53:17+00:00
How much of the speedup you're seeing is modules, versus the inherent speedup of splitting and organizing your codebase/includes in a cleaner way? It doesn't sound like your project is actually compiling faster than before, but rather it is REcompiling faster, suggesting that your real problem was that too much code was being recompiled on every change (which is commonly due to too-large translation units and too many transitive dependencies between headers).
by komali2 | 2025-09-11 15:53:39+00:00
If you shit fast enough and in the dark, you get to shit for free. Speedrunning shit. Losers get to have someone see them poop.

Randomly recalls to me a core memory: adolescent me at my buddy's house. Fat nerd, anxious about everything. My buddy's older brother was playing warcraft 3 with us and I thought he was such a cool guy, he wore jean jackets always covered in paint. We finished a match and both said at the same time, "I gotta take a shit!" He said, "race you!" and ran to the closest bathroom, and I was relieved because the lock was broken on that one and I was super anxious to poop when someone might walk in, so I was happy to use the upstairs bathroom instead. I warned him that the lock was broken. "So what?" he said. "Well, what if someone walks in on you while your pooping?" I asked. He replied, "I'll say, 'Get out of here, I'm pooping!'"

I learned to actually think about my worries. My anxiety was ill defined - someone might walk in on me pooping! But in reality, that's just the whole ordeal, someone walks in and then leaves, you won't explode and die about it.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-11 15:53:46+00:00
Picture languages have all evolved into phonetic alphabets, because picture languages simply do not work. For example, you cannot look up a picture in a dictionary. You cannot look for it in an index. You cannot type it in, you have to search for it by scrolling through pages of them. You cannot tell if an icon for a duck is meant to represent a duck or a bird.

And where does one stop in adding pictures?
by knagy | 2025-09-11 15:53:49+00:00
One interesting thing I learned while I tried to handle local time and NTP on a Raspberry Pico is that the TZ environment variable (that's usually something like "Etc/UTC" pointing to a zoneinfo file) can contain a TZ config as well, like "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3". [1]

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/2.42/html_node/TZ-Variab...
by nomdep | 2025-09-11 15:54:33+00:00
Without knowing anything about the particular person, in what ways a black thumbs-up is different than a non-skinned thumbs-up?

Adding a skin-tone is saying there ARE differences, but any difference you can name are actually prejudices about blacks. What was meant to be a simple "ok", "agree", etc. now is charged with an "I don't think you/others and me are the same kind of humans".

That's why using skin-tones in emojis is actually racist.
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-09-11 15:54:43+00:00
Not crazy. Caring about the business without caring about the people who literally are and empower the business is simply dehumanization.

It's been done to death. Literally.

Edit: People seem to think I'm proposing businesses keep operating how they are. I'm suggesting businesses that truly care need people running them who know how to care, not the normalized psychopathy that's become corporate culture. I'm not suggesting current or past harmful relationships with businesses continue or that even those businesses should continue.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-11 15:54:47+00:00
There's still a few compatibility sticking points... I'm far more familiar with Deno and have been using it a lot the past few years, it's pretty much my default shell scripting tool now.

That said, for many work projects, I need to access MS-SQL, which the way it does socket connections isn't supported by the Deno runtime, or some such. Which limits what I can do at work. I suspect there's a few similar sticking points with Bun for other modules/tools people use.

It's also very hard to break away from entropy. Node+npm had over a decade and a lot of effort to build that ecosystem that people aren't willing to just abandon wholesale.

I really like Deno for shell scripting because I can use a shebang, reference dependencies and the runtime just handles them. I don't have the "npm install" step I need to run separately, it doesn't pollute my ~/bin/ directory with a bunch of potentially conflicting node_modules/ either, they're used from a shared (configurable) location. I suspect bun works in a similar fashion.

That said, with work I have systems I need to work with that are already in place or otherwise chosen for me. You can't always just replace technology on a whim.
by jbstack | 2025-09-11 15:56:00+00:00
Ok, so how do you categorise a country like Norway (typically viewed as a "good" country by most people) which knowingly invests money from its sovereign fund into companies which are linked to the Israeli military which (in many people's view) is currently causing genocide and widespread starvation?

At what point does the "good" cross over into the "bad"? Is it ok that having a highly regarded government comes at the price of dead children? How about the sizeable group of people (e.g. in the US and Israel) who don't believe there is any genocide at all? Doesn't that make the whole thing subjective?
by throwaway091025 | 2025-09-11 15:56:09+00:00
"On September 10, 2025, at approximately 12:24PM, Conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at the Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. Mr. Kirk was speaking at the University as part of the American Comeback Tour. Multiple SLC I and III agents responded immediately. The suspect fired one shot from an elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building on the campus and surveillance video shows the suspect, jumping off and fleeing the area on foot. ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus. The location of the firearm appears to match the suspects route of travel. The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology. An emergency trace has been submitted an ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions. Upon completion of forensics, the firearm will be disassembled for additional importer information. Multiple people of interest having contacted or detained because of eyewitness testimony and review of video footage. The primary suspect is yet to be identified. ATF is assisting the investigation with multiple other federal, state, and local partners and the case is co-led by the FBI and Utah SBI."
by Apreche | 2025-09-11 15:56:16+00:00
I don’t use those other sites, but YouTube, here ya go.

https://chuck.is/yt-rss/

Worst case, pretty much every modern client has features that let you subscribe to things that aren’t RSS friendly. For example Feedly (which I don’t use) has the ability to subscribe to Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Facebook, Telegram, Google News search queries, etc.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-11 15:56:25+00:00
>The majority of "mass shootings" are gang related. Just from gang members with many prior felony's shooting each other (and maybe innocents getting hit in the process sometimes)

>This is kept from you purposefully.

Right. And since "gang members" are, of course largely ones with a higher melanin content than you and are either foreign born, the children of immigrants or the descendants of folks kidnapped and enslaved here, they're all obviously sub-human and therefore their deaths don't count as much as folks like you, right?

Don't be shy. It's okay to speak up about it these days. That's a good bigot. Nice bigot.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-11 15:56:27+00:00
> Currently, the amount you put in social security over the years determines how much you get when you retire.

Currently, there's also a maximum amount of benefits. That could easily stay.

> Why would anyone support a system that is suppose to be to help you in retirement where you are paying an unlimited amount into a fund and then capping how much you get out?

Same reason people pay school taxes if they don't have kids. Because we live in a society, and we tax people to fund things like this.
by duxup | 2025-09-11 15:57:24+00:00
It's amazing to me how smooth the existing mechanical door handles work.

It's hard to beat them...

I recently had to replace the windshield on my old mini van. It was inexpensive and done the day I called the glass repair place.

My neighbor had to have their windshield replaced too, took weeks because the windshield detects water to activate the wipers and it's very expensive. Seems so silly / costly for such little benefit.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-11 15:57:45+00:00
For an article that claims to advocate making good use of your time… this feels like a waste of my time. It’s a lot of words to just end up at “carpe diem” and has big “thanks I’m cured” energy to boot.

Consider spending those 52(38) hours not worrying about scolding people about how they spend their own discretionary time.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-11 15:57:58+00:00
> it would be pointless for me to try to code an optimized quick sort in it.

Perhaps more so than you've realised. Hint: Rust's old unstable sort was its take on the pattern defeating quicksort. The article is talking about the new unstable sort which has better performance for most inputs.

Rust uses monomorphization and its function types are unique, so the trick you're used to with a macro is just how everything works all the time in Rust.
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-09-11 15:58:17+00:00
I know you put the caveat "mostly" in here but it's important to state that this is not always true.

I was diagnosed with T2 a couple of years ago. During that time I was cycling 25 miles a day. After the diagnoses I completely eliminated all carbs from my diet. My blood sugar was still not under control. My fasting blood sugar (first thing in the morning, and 18hrs of fasting) was the highest point of the day. (14-18 mmol/L) I fasted (water only) for 1 week. no difference.

I was on a bunch of medication, none of it helped.

It wasn't until I started taking a GLP-1 drug that my sugar came under control.

So medication (ozempic) was critical to me getting my blood sugar under control. Diet didn't fix it. Exercise didn't help.

I've lost ~90lbs since then. I'd probably have died/gone into a coma if not for GLP-based drugs.

My anecdote does not contradict wide-spread science and medically derived knowledge. But it should help temper the fat and diet shaming that exists in society.
by thegrim33 | 2025-09-11 15:58:38+00:00
The future for the people able to break free, sure, but I believe that'll always be a minority of the population.

However, even the private enclaves become corrupted over time, especially if they ever grow in popularity. I mean, look at HN as an example. What was once a niche place for tech people and STEM related topics, now any given day the front page is 30% pure sociopolitical content, 50-75% mainstream media content; comment threads full of partisan rage baiting and emotion-driven debate.

Also, once a niche place becomes in any way important/popular, the propagandists will swoop in and work their tricks to start controlling the messaging on it.

At this point I'm feeling that niche places can only exist long-term as long as they have some sort of dictatorial control by a truly moral admin, who forcefully keeps the community in check by viciously moderating content. Of course, such a person is eventually corruptible, and finding a successor later for such a person is its own issue.
by ambicapter | 2025-09-11 15:58:49+00:00
Should business also care about their employee's diets and fitness regimes? There are things that are outside of the purview of a business and the healthcare of their employees, outside of the direct impact of the business's work environment on the employee's health, should not be part of it.

Another way to say it, there is more to health than how an employer affects a person's life, and those things are none of the business' business.
by cs702 | 2025-09-11 15:59:32+00:00
Very funny, because it is true:

> Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners?

I love how this fake organization describes itself:

> We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums ...

> Fiercely independent, we are backed by philanthropic funding from some of the world's biggest AI companies who also form a majority on our board.

> This year, we interfaced successfully with one member of the public ...

> 250,000 AI agents and 3 humans read our newsletter

The whole thing had me chuckling. Thanks for sharing it on HN.
by samiv | 2025-09-11 15:59:33+00:00
No, what I mean with XFCE and Englightenment is that they admit being alpha.

Yeah, well the reality is that NVIDIA drivers are the drivers one wants to use on NVIDIA hardware (which many of us have.

And somehow they work fine on X11.

It's always nice to blame the driver vendor, but what has the Linux community the kernel team, the graphics team done to promote Linux and make it simple to write correct performant drivers for the platform? How many graphics memory allocations are there? How many buffer sharing APIs, are the kernel driver interfaces stable?
by nradov | 2025-09-11 15:59:49+00:00
If something is unsustainable then eventually it will stop. US healthcare costs have been increasing at faster than the rate of inflation to the extent that it now consumes about 18% of GDP. The majority of people are on employer sponsored group health plans and employers have absorbed most of the cost increases but they're reaching a breaking point. I predict that more employers will simply drop medical benefits and choose to pay the penalty instead, forcing employees to purchase their own health plans on state ACA exchanges.

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/employer-responsibil...
by jonas21 | 2025-09-11 15:59:53+00:00
> Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less.

Assuming "we" means the United States, this isn't really true. Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been remarkably stable, not just since the 1980s, but since the end of World War II [1].

The long-term average since 1945 is 16.85%, the average in the 1970s (i.e. the decade before the 80s) was 16.76%, and the average in the 2020s is 16.96%.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S