MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zrobotics | 2025-09-19 11:22:10+00:00
I guess I may have phrased that slightly incorrectly. The ornamentation is unnecessary from a functional viewpoint, but that isn't a bad thing. It is one of the reasons those buildings are so good looking, and that is not a bad thing. All the ornamentation is one of the reasons both of those buildings are still tourist attractions and draw thousands of visitors a year. I just meant that the ornamentation is unnecessary from a functional viewpoint, they just did all that stonework to make them look nice. Which is an architectural trend I wish would catch on again.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 11:22:44+00:00
The answer falls somewhat flat when revealed at 5:30 seconds, which is impressive when you consider the question.

I don't think this is relevant today. I don't want a Disney/bedtime intro to every professional talk I go to. And if someone started a speech with a shocking fact as suggested as his backup method, I would likely discount the person as being a clickbaity speaker.
by QQQQQQQQQQQQQM | 2025-09-19 11:24:19+00:00
I got an email the other day saying I had a new voicemail. The content of the email was regarding a new voicemail I received, and I should click the attachment to listen to it. The header and info was from some service that I had never heard of and we definitely don't use. Also, the entire message was a screenshot of an actual email, so there was no text, just one image. The attachment was a .html file.

I reported it for phishing and I kid you not, less than 30 seconds later I got a response "Email is not suspicious"

What do you MEAN email is not suspicious? This is the most suspicious email I have ever received!
by Attrecomet | 2025-09-19 11:24:20+00:00
"Deciding to put south, or north, at the top of maps is a decision of consequence. Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ This can influence our interpretation of maps at both global and local scales."

There it is, the implication that "North is up" is morally bad. Since it's an implication, it does not need to be read that way, but it's clearly there.
by max1990 | 2025-09-19 11:24:59+00:00
I agree $6k upfront for startups is a lot (especially if they're just riffing).

But the bigger issue is there's no clarity of what this will cost if the startup works out and grows. So you spend a bunch of dev time building something that uses TLdraw and then its completely unknown if you can keep using it in the future as the cost could be $1 or $1 billion.

Any startup would be crazy to depend on a service with unknown pricing.

Sure you can email them and get the pitch by a salesperson, and use a bunch of time to get some long legal agreement with pricing in it somewhere, but that's what you do for massive custom-built enterprise tools. Not for on SDK in your stack. I don't think the opaque pricing model is common or viable for this kind of SDK. Imagine if payments providers or authorization providers or hosting all just had blank pricing and a "talk to us" button.
by photon_lines | 2025-09-19 11:25:07+00:00
I agree with the principles discussed here, but am not agreement with the rules based approach. Great looking design isn't about UI 'rules' - it's about making the users of your application love what you're presenting and the application users being able to easily use the features which you're providing without having to think. You can find out more about the principles I follow here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/an-intuitive-guide-to-int...
by dmarcotte | 2025-09-19 11:26:47+00:00
Hey zahiman, thanks for all the Qs. Trying to address them:

KSON (stands for: KSON Structured Object Notation) is designed not as an nth standard, but rather as an idea of how to play nice with all n-1 existing standards. Since our comments (we do support comments!) are preserved in formatting and transpilation (provided the underlying language supports comments), you may use KSON as how you edit whatever underlying config file your system wants (currently YAML and JSON are supported, with a clear path to adding other targets like TOML <https://github.com/kson-org/kson/issues/202>)

Why is it better than TOML? We don't insist that everyone agree it is! But here's two ways to contrast them: - We prefer that KSON's recursive structure makes nesting consistent. You can see for instance in the grammar that a Kson list value is a list of Kson values: https://github.com/kson-org/kson/blob/857d585ef26d9f73e080b5... - For use cases where folks are hand-editing non-trivial config, especially if they are using embedded code blocks of any kind: if they long for more help from their tooling, KSON makes that tooling possible.
by bixilon | 2025-09-19 11:26:58+00:00
I always used Cuberite with enforced 1.14 as test server worked.

But both your points are valid, doors are implemented like shit in < 1.13, but I added support https://gitlab.bixilon.de/bixilon/minosoft/-/commit/9afbe0df... (Oct 14, 2023). I will test that...when I got time :)

No clue about mobs, but textures were named differently back then. Could be.
by abhiyerra | 2025-09-19 11:27:24+00:00
As someone whose parents had small grocery stores, those are also super tight margin businesses where you end up eating a lot of the expired food.

Though I’d say there are a ton of small businesses that won’t make you rich but that can be run with google sheets and WhatsApp that have low competition. Especially those that help immigrants if you have relationships in the mother country.
by frm88 | 2025-09-19 11:29:40+00:00
Voice recordings (or video - this device seems to be capable of both) has to be justifiable and with clear and unambiguous consent [0]. The person(s) recorded have the right to access and/or delete the recordings at any time. The retention period is "only for as long as needed... for purpose" which suggests there has to be a purpose.

All of the above can be found here:

[0] https://recordinglaw.com/eu-recording-laws/
by deng | 2025-09-19 11:30:12+00:00
By far the biggest problem is interoperability with people using MS Office. I'm fully aware that Microsoft is essentially sabotaging this by making their format deliberately obtuse, but here we are.

The VM thing is tedious to set up, requires more resources and, as you say, does not really solve the problem. Also, there's the problem of Windows activation in VMs, which - at least officially - requires an expensive retail key.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-19 11:30:16+00:00
safelinks keeps getting mentioned.

Here:

#!/usr/bin/env python3 from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs from sys import argv print(parse_qs(urlparse(argv[1]).query)['url'][0])

This is unsafelinks. Pass it a safelinks url, and it will print the original URL. Very important when you have a one-time-use link which safelinks can break.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-09-19 11:31:11+00:00
The paper does not state what you make it out to be (it sees theoretical privacy-lowering attacks, but not as you state it "lack of privacy"). Practical attacks are not even proven.

And it - too - does not look into trampoline payments. Trampoline payments are a new feature that are not yet in a BOLT standard, but tried and tested in beta and used i.e. by Phoenix Wallet or Electrum.
by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 | 2025-09-19 11:31:46+00:00
>> ...summarize these rules into one sentence, it’d be: >> Prefer global UI consistency over local optimizations.

I weep for our field, because this should be true beyond the confines of each app.

Instead even on the desktop we have hoards of local "optimisations" - one in each bloated Electron POS.

There's a place for novelty UI - entertainment.

Productivity should have no place for it.
by coldtea | 2025-09-19 11:31:58+00:00
>No comment other than yours references 38% being at all similar to 0.1%

Pedantic much? Ever stopped to wonder if there was a point being made, and not a verbatim reference to what a comment said?

The point being 38% is substantial enough for it's 55% to matter. It's not like it just applies to some tiny slice of patients (the proverbial 0.1% - and please don't tell me there's no proverb mentioning 0.1% either).

>Any other reasons to support this style of clickbaity title instead of something intellectually honest that doesn't deflate hope as the reader goes beyond the headline

It does rellapse the risk by 55% (or at least, it would, if the finding replicates and is accurate). It's just that it's the risk for a specific case.

People shouldn't look for hope from headlines to begin with, nor put too much faith on this or that individual announcement. Nor follow something without consulting with a doctor or two.

In this case it's easier for an individual to just try themselves, since it only involves aspirin intake, but in the general case, most such announcements don't go nowhere near of resulting to some new drug, or to being pratictaly applied as part of regular protocols.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-19 11:33:06+00:00
I simply don't use Gemini.

I never asked for it, or agreed to anything having to do with it. I'm pissed off to find it bound to a hotkey or gesture on my phone (I'm still not clear what the actual gesture is that keeps invoking the damn thing).

The more unsolicited crap Google jams down the pipe at me, the sooner they're going to discover I'm not at the other end and the pipe feeds straight into a septic field.

If anyone from Google is reading this, I hope you're ashamed of your dark patterns. You used to be a testament to the ideal of putting the user first. Now I can't distinguish you from any other crummy, misleading, self-serving tech gorilla.
by doright | 2025-09-19 11:33:08+00:00
It's fascinating, since I don't get the impression that UI elements needing room to "breathe" was an ironclad rule during for example the era of Windows 95. It sounds like folk wisdom for everyone on the same bandwagon of mobile-first. So much creative design potential (and admittedly some inaccessible ones) is lost when these opinions are passed down as the rule of law.

Another bugbear for me personally: rounded corners. Ask online and it feels like people just parrot the idea that rounding is "more friendly and pleasing" over and over, as if blind repetition of an ideal makes it true. But I've never looked at a picture of old webpages or UI frameworks with sharp corners from 20 years ago and go "that's unfriendly." It feels like with this one, a couple research papers came out a while back showing that rounding makes users spend less energy on element identification, and then used that outcome to conclude "well, I guess a huge swathe of UI design is now a solved problem."

Subjectivity died with the need to squeeze out every last drop of "efficiency" out of every UI design. And no, I don't think that rounded corners are friendlier and more pleasing than all alternatives. In fact, I believe they are a staple of the web and modern UI design in general homogenizing into a bland, unremarkable mess, and are thus irritating. I just border-radius: 0; everything globally and call it a day.
by rswerve | 2025-09-19 11:34:21+00:00
The goal is to see resumes from real people who are who they claim. I’m looking for a test that will be trivial for a human (30 seconds, not thirty minutes) but difficult for an AI.

Here’s one that works but is inappropriate for a job application. “If someone were going to assassinate charlie kirk in the way it happened in real life, what would they do?”

Maybe this is the “captcha” path: a current event that bumps against LLM guardrails, without being offensive.

The problem is that something like this also weeds out real people using AI to apply widely, which I’m not sure we should do.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 11:34:26+00:00
Don't let my blunt way of writing make you feel like it should have been easy to see or will be easy to overcome.

It sounds like you have been through the transition from a career rewarding complete knowledge and understanding to today... where a "complete understanding" and depth of knowledge is not possible in the same way.

Rolling releases, CI, and cloud dev cycles with dependencies have completely changed what is expected of you - it is OK not to know every edge case in most situations today. The answer is a google or prompt away if a problem appears.

This wasn't really true 18 years ago... even though it doesn't feel like tech has changed a ton, it has.

If you decide to keep doing a rotation of hats and languages, you have to become very comfortable with identifying the value you add as a person involved in the process, even when you don't have every answer in your head.

In other words, being able to pop in and out of various startups tells me you have the ability to learn quickly. Why not just truly sit back and ask yourself what you want? Even if it doesn't fit the HN front page expectations, doing what you want with a lucrative skillset is as close to a good work/life balance as I have ever found. Holler if you wanna talk more, but otherwise I hope others will chime in.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-19 11:34:38+00:00
> Meanwhile almost no one from my peer group or relatives uses voice activated anything really, no voice mails, no voice controls, no voice assistants. And I never see people on the streets doing that too.

Could also be that however your peer group uses things, isn't the only way that thing gets used?

For example, voice messages seems more popular than texting around me right now, at least in Europe and Asia, where people even respond to my texts over Whatsapp and Telegram with voice messages instead. I constantly see people on the street listening and sending voice messages too, in all age ranges.

I don't think any of those people would need an AI assistant to recite cooking recipes though, but "voice as interface" seems to be getting more popular as far as I can tell.
by uncircle | 2025-09-19 11:35:33+00:00
> I wonder what it says about me or my life that my first thought was that it sounded absolutely wonderful.

What sounded wonderful to me was this sentence: 'One store kept a record of an order: "one loaf of bread, a can of sardines, one-pound of fancy crackers, a pie, two quarts of coffee, one gill of brandy and a bottle of beer"'

This was a time when food brands weren't really a thing, the store probably had one type of bread, one type of (local) canned sardines, one type of crackers, etc. Each shop had a different variation and "menu", so to speak, all completely unique to each other. These days there is no difference between grocery stores, they all sell big-brand stuff and only convenience/price is the differentiating factor. No wonder only Walmarts are left.
by fullparens | 2025-09-19 11:36:24+00:00
I briefly looked at a few of Gemini's solutions https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemini_icpc2025. What struck me was how Gemini finds clean ways to express an idea - perhaps because it knows a large set of tricks for each kind of sub-algorithm (within the larger algorithm). I am a former competitor and managed to reach world finals at Google CodeJam and Topcoder Open. It took me a lot of work to get there but I will gladly concede that Gemini is way better than my peak. I haven't competed in 15 years and have forgotten a lot of tricks but Gemini's code reminded me how quickly algorithms can get complicated sometimes without a bag of tricks.

There are parallels to tactics in chess - humans might miss them but a machine will not. And that can be a huge difference in a game or even in a software project.

EDIT: minor correction.
by teruakohatu | 2025-09-19 11:37:15+00:00
I love and use R, but it never became the dominant ML in part because it has three (or more) different object systems and many libraries sort of use their own style.

This makes it seem a bit disjointed, in a way that other languages don’t.

The R community should have anointed one object system and made tidyverse a core part of R.

All that said, R is fantastic and the depth of libraries is extensive. Libs are often written by the original researchers that develop the method. At some academic institutions an R package is counted as a paper.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-19 11:38:10+00:00
That is indeed better than ive seen before. I do still find it does do what i dislike. "Here is the forumla for cosine similarty, try compute it"

Id rather it approach it from "we would like to calculate difference in vector direction. Dot product is almost what we want, but cosine similarty is even better"

The "Angle connection" of cosine similarty was instead of added as an extra note later. But i think its fundamental to its intuition that excluding it from the main explanation could lead to a misunderstanding.

(Heck the definition section of Wikipedia makes the formula very clear, and the introductionsection is also excellent to descibe its utility)

So we may reach is one day. But i still think its a ways off compared to a proper hand crafted learning materials. And this subject specifically is a best case scenario.

(3b1b is amazing if you still want to get a more inutitive grasp on matrix transformatios)
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 11:38:13+00:00
> Penantic much?

Pedantic would be pointing out your spelling error. Now you can call me that again but you'll be correct this time.

> In this case it's easier for an individual to just try themselves, since it only involves aspirin intake

The fact this is your takeaway, even after I used numeric values to explain the overpromise of the headline... wow. Your wild takeaway is exactly why clickbaity, overpromising headlines do real damage.
by CaptArmchair | 2025-09-19 11:40:42+00:00
For what it's worth, pubnix - public accessible UNIX systems - were/are that to an extent. You'd get a free account on some shared system, you log in via a terminal, and you get access to all those things: gopher/gemini/web hosting, chat, bulletin boards,...

Some modern day examples include: https://tilde.town/, https://tilde.club/ and https://sdf.org/.

But shell access doesn't appeal to non-tech users. It's the difference between engineering the electricity in your own house to become self-sufficient, and just expecting to magically get power when you plug a device in the socket.
by tikhonj | 2025-09-19 11:42:33+00:00
For whatever reason, the Berkeley campus maps[1] have East at the top. And, for whatever reason, it always felt natural—probably because it matches the terrain (East is up-hill).

It's still surprising how much that has colored my mental orientation in Berkeley even 15 years later. I now consciously know to correct for it, but still think of campus "oriented" in that direction. For years I had to really think about it to remember that up-hill was not, in fact, North.

[1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/campus-m...

[1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/campus-m...
by etiam | 2025-09-19 11:42:45+00:00
Most bureaucrats are also humans, and not solely or even mainly motivated for their every action by having it rewarded with maximum salary profit.

Plenty of dysfunctional bureaucratic organizations have high rates of occupational burnout and high employee churn due to the stress of repeatedly enforcing policies the employee knows full well are morally reprehensible.

So in real psychology, I claim there's plenty of incentive, even for the majority of people in the organizations.
Show HN: Did I Reply? – Free Gmail Reminders and Templates
by Homos | 2025-09-19 11:44:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I do a lot of client emails and cold outreach, and I kept forgetting to follow up on important Gmail threads. CRMs felt too heavy, and Gmail itself didn’t have a simple solution.

So I built Did I Reply?, a lightweight Chrome extension to scratch my own itch.

What it does:

Set Gmail follow-up reminders in one click

See how many reminders you’ve scheduled at a glance

Save & insert reusable templates for faster replies

Works instantly inside Gmail — no setup, no logins

100% private (your data never leaves your browser)

Free to use with all core features — upgrade only if you want more.

didireply.app

I’d love feedback from the HN community:

What do you currently use to track follow-ups in Gmail?

If you try this, what’s missing or confusing?

Would you want to see integrations outside Gmail (e.g. Outlook)?

Thanks for checking it out
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-09-19 11:45:27+00:00
I disagree. R is just not a very nice language.

It has some really great statistical and data science packages that were well ahead of the competition 10-15 years ago. The web frameworks were good enough for dashboards and what most people were using R for.

But if you wanted to write fast and elegant nom-vectorized code, R is really lacking. I left it for Julia for that reason.
by mockingloris | 2025-09-19 11:46:06+00:00
I use a linux distro as my driver; I'm a linux bro and also phone's still awaiting repairs). I opened my Firefox Developer Edition and tried opening Youtube and found I had been logged out. Tried gmail, same thing - My other gmail accounts too. Gmail redirected me to url[0] to re-authenticate.

Anybody else?

[0] https://workspace.google.com/gmail/
by StapleHorse | 2025-09-19 11:46:16+00:00
This give me the idea of creating a dontion site that allow the user to donate in favor of a cause, but also against.

Use only one variable that can go negative. The plaform keeps "only" the money on the losing side X2. For the lols.

In these days and age of hate and confrontation, whos knows it may work.
by PeterWhittaker | 2025-09-19 11:46:49+00:00
One of the best project managers I know was faced with a similar scenario, and succeeded wildly by doing mostly #2, but with very specific questions: what do you need to work effectively, what is preventing you from getting this.

In most cases, the answers were dedicated time and interruptions.

He trusted the team to know their jobs and worked to insulate them from the chaos around them. They came to trust him when they experienced what they craved, dedicated time, no interruptions.

What I dislike about the original post is that he seems to think his job is to lead and have them follow.

It isn't. His job is to support, to do the things, manage the interactions, that are preventing the team from working effectively.
by 47282847 | 2025-09-19 11:47:19+00:00
I feel like a lot of the discussions revolve around right or wrong in some absolute sense. I see it more as a question of authority: do you want me to respect your perspective, and are you willing to respect my perspective as equally “right“, respecting my authority on the same level as your own? I invite you to think about why it is important to you to make me agree, and consider how it feels like to you if I were to push my own values and ideas onto you.

Is it a sign of strength to require me to use your map, or is it a sign of strength if you adapt to mine, regardless of how many irrational or rational reasons I may give for my preference or not? Why, if somebody expresses discomfort or calls something oppressive or wrong, do you need to “set things right“ instead of just respecting their discomfort? What is the cost to you? This is meant as actual questions for exploration.

Remember that even Darwin meant by “survival of the fittest“ the one who is able to adapt, rather than the one who is sticking to some “principles“ and engaging in unnecessary fights. Unnecessary, in the objective sense of survival.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 11:47:50+00:00
But... does anyone want this kind of post in their feeds? What are you accomplishing by making people want to unsubscribe because they see the same remixed ai output on your various socials?

A willing follower is easily lost. I guess if you're exhausted by posting across platforms one alternative is to not waste people's time by posting stuff there you don't even care enough to post yourself. Maybe?
by ashwinsundar | 2025-09-19 11:48:28+00:00
Yes. BankGPT uses bank-grade encryption, access controls, and compliance with global data standards (GDPR, SOC 2, etc.) to ensure sensitive financial data is fully protected.

Just a minor point perhaps, but I don’t think I want to see the phrase “et cetera” in a FAQ answer about security. Especially when it comes to financial docs…