MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lunias | 2025-09-25 14:33:38+00:00
The "old web" to me was GeoCities and Angelfire, it was customizing your NeoPets shop, it was hosting a web server on your home network on port 8080. It was mailing a check to an address you found on a website in hopes that you'd receive a bootleg anime VHS in the mail a few weeks later. It was webrings, banners, and websites reviewing and promoting other sites through a "links" section. It was right-clicking to copy an image and getting a Javascript alert telling you the image was "copyright". It was learning that you could copy it anyway if you spammed enter. It was hotlinking those same images in protest. It was waiting 5 hours to download a 37 second 320x240 RealPlayer video. It was having a password "protected" area where the password is base64 encoded in the source. It was trying the same search query in multiple search engines because they would return different results. It was typing random URLs in to see if you could find something interesting yourself. It was playing midi files on loop in the background. It was Macromedia Flash, explicit popups, pure yellow text on black backgrounds, and reformatting your computer to get rid of viruses.

The "old web" was McDonalds in the early 90's. This looks more like McDonalds today, maybe tomorrow it will be a Starbucks.

I run my own blog on AWS for ~a dollar a month.
by nicksergeant | 2025-09-25 14:33:41+00:00
Yep. Self-reviewing your own PRs is a large boost to both yourself and the team, and often one of the first things I encourage new-ish developers to do.

- 90% of the time when you self-review your own PR, you're going to spot a bug or some incorrect assumption you made along the way. Or you'll see an opportunity to clean things up / make it better.

- Self-reviewing and annotating your reasons/thought process gives much more context to the actual reviewer, who likely only has a surface level understanding of what you're trying to do.

- It also signals to your team that you've taken the time to check your assumptions and verify you're solving the problem you say you are in the PR description.
by epolanski | 2025-09-25 14:34:24+00:00
> “The DMA means the list of delayed features in the EU will probably get longer, and our EU users’ experience on Apple products will fall further behind,”

That's an Apple problem, they're the ones going to lose market share to competitors offering those experiences.

Samsung already has live translation, including in calls.

In any case, I find it interesting that Palantir and Thorn are much better at lobbying the EU against its interests than Apple and other companies on much smaller and less relevant issues.
by __loam | 2025-09-25 14:34:47+00:00
Yes we know execs are going to drink as much kool-aid as they need to to join this group of people and they'll probably love the process, especially when they're getting sweetheart liquidity deals earlier than everyone else at these firms.

I'm not really concerned with that. I'm more interested in the aggregate effect of putting a significant amount of the industry in the hands of a few ignorant twenty somethings and the small group of wealthy people from the bay area who are on all these boards. That is a frightening level of power concentrated in the hands of a small and anti-democratic structure.
by jacomyal | 2025-09-25 14:34:55+00:00
It's functionally very close to https://colorbrewer2.org, which has been online for more than 15 years. I think it's not a coincidence, and some credits wouldn't have hurt anyone...

Also, I have personally been using iWantHue to generate large palettes for more than 10 years now, and I'm still very happy about it: https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/
by maratc | 2025-09-25 14:35:49+00:00
An improvement over Pi 500 in many ways, but adding keys to the right of heavily-used (r) Shift / Enter / Backspace would make it much harder to find these keys without looking at the keyboard.

The previous version also had half-height arrows that had some negative space ("not keys") above them, and so it was easier to position the fingers over the arrows just by feel; this one makes it harder.

I'd hope the next generation returns to the previous keyboard layout (which was almost perfect for me.)
by gjm11 | 2025-09-25 14:36:07+00:00
"Used to" isn't actually a weird metaphorical thing.

To "use" can mean (though in most contexts this meaning is obsolete) to do something regularly or habitually. So "I use to do X" means "I am in the habit of doing X", and "I used to do X" means "I was in the habit of doing X". The implication that you don't do it any more is a Gricean thing -- if you were still doing it you'd say "I use to do X" rather than "I used to do X".

Nowadays no one uses "use to" in the present tense and no one is thinking of the above when they use "used to" in the past tense. But that's where it comes from.

[EDITED to add:] I see that this has got some downvotes, but I'm having trouble figuring out why. If you read this and didn't like it, I'd be very grateful if you let me know what problem(s) you see. Thanks!

(Of course maybe it's just random drive-by haters, but more likely there's something it would be useful for me to know. Maybe something I wrote is wrong, in which case I want to know. Maybe to some readers it looks like I'm insulting the person I was replying to or something, which wasn't at all my intention and if that's going on then I should probably clarify or apologize or something. I dunno.)
by rubymancer | 2025-09-25 14:36:40+00:00
Cisco employee here, this is spot on.

I was at a startup they acquired ~4 years ago, by now it's just about milked completely dry.

Even though our product is close to industry-leading, they laid off our product manager, then another one, the QA team, and half of the devs. Unsurprisingly the product is falling apart.

It's not a company that attempts to produce value, as with so many others the product is the stock price.

The MBAs are showing some kind of savings on a spreadsheet somewhere though, so I suppose all the sacrifices are worth it.
by palmotea | 2025-09-25 14:36:56+00:00
> Where would you expect bananas to be cheaper: a town with five grocery stores, or a town with one?

I'm not defending the "Certificate of Need" regulations, but your thinking is sloppy: healthcare is not a product like bananas. That analogy will mislead more than it will inform.

If every person has to buy 10 bananas a day or they will die, the town with 5 stores may have more expensive bananas, because they can just raise prices to cover the excess capacity and people will pay.
by matula | 2025-09-25 14:37:25+00:00
Remember FriendFeed? It was unironically a pretty cool thing. Subscribe to RSS feeds, displayed in a Twitter-like timeline, and could comment and share and follow people and see their feeds... and all of that had their own RSS feeds.

The current FeedLand gets close, and is nice for reading, but there's not a huge "social" aspect to it.
by mrngm | 2025-09-25 14:37:40+00:00
Ideally, participants in an internet exchange purely exchange routing information, usually using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This implies that devices connected to an internet exchange are routers. These devices receive routes for other autonomous systems (AS), and (selectively) publish their routes to other parties on the internet exchange.

(Internet exchanges typically offer a route server, such that every participant of the IX can easily publish routes for other participants, and simultaneously receive published routes of all other participants.)

The _effect_ of exchanging routing information is that IX-local participants know where to send traffic destined for certain IP ranges from other participants.

An autonomous system internally "knows" where each of their routers are located, and all these routers are typically connected with each other. When several routers of an AS are connected on different IXes, this means they can take informed decisions on where to send traffic destined for other ASes. It could be that AS 64496 is only present in IX-A, while AS 64510 is only present at IX-B. Suppose AS 64499 is connected to both IX-A and IX-B, traffic sourced from AS 64499 (e.g. endusers or "eyeballs") and destined for either 64496 or 64510 knows, through internally exchanged routes, where to send that traffic.

Scale this to even more autonomous systems and IXes in different geographic reasons, and you'll find it becomes a network of networks, or: the internet.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-09-25 14:38:01+00:00
I thought the S-Curve piece was interesting, but not complete. It's definitely true that Europe, Japan etc. are experiencing slowing wealth growth, but this specific visual makes it seem like once a society is wealthy, you're absorbed into a list of wealthy countries and that's it.

Meanwhile, many countries have gone from some of the world's most prosperous to countries people want to emigrate from (Argentina, Venezuela come to mind).

the S-curve doesn't end there.
by wiether | 2025-09-25 14:38:33+00:00
Thank you for taking your time to reply to my comment.

I want to clarify one thing first: I don't have anything special against your platform, it's just that it seems I see at least one article a week about it on HN lastly and I'm wondering why.

I'm sure you are well intentionned and you'll do your best to keep the plaftorm as true to the mission you have chosen to take and described in your manifesto, no doubt about it.

But having been through a certain number of hype cycles around tech, I tend to become suspicious when I see too much people pushing something. That's why I understand people complaining about Kagi's omnipresence here, even though I'm totaly on the hype train here.

Furthermore, the article looks like a promotion for the platform. It probably isn't, and you don't control what people publish, so it's not your fault. Yet, it reads like "bearblog is the solution to "Resurrect the Old Web".

Which, to me, can't be, since it's a platform like the hundreds that previously came and went, no matter their creator's promise.

So, sure, bearblog exists, it offers people a way to publish content in an _old fashioned_ way, and, according to its manifesto, it will stay like this as long as it exists. Which is nice. And can be part of a solution, but it's not the solution. I don't think there is, actually.
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-25 14:38:47+00:00
Oh, well that's BS. Urgent care clinics have proliferated like crazy over the post decade or so. The supply to fill the vast majority of urgent medical needs which hospital ERs used to have to carry alone is there. But it's true that that supply often goes unused. Why? Because ERs HAVE to tend to and stabilize patients when they present; UCCs can turn you away if you can't demonstrate the ability to pay.

The problem is not restrictions on medical facility construction, it's inefficient use of what we already have.

In general, America has an issue with defaulting to "building new", as if we have an everlasting greenfield, rather than careful provisioning of the already overbuilt infrastructure base. Capitalists love being freed of prior obligations, with no regard for how they contribute to an even more unwieldy set of obligations in the future. Enough. You can't just do as you like. Help solve the actual problem.
by redbell | 2025-09-25 14:38:55+00:00
Google got misled by the term mid journey so, it put the result mid page :)

An interesting search term that, at least for me, always returns the four top results as sponsored is "web hosting": https://www.google.com/search?q=web+hosting

Also, searching for "netcup", I got two sponsored cloud services before seeing "https://www.netcup.com/": https://www.google.com/search?q=netcup
Ask HN: Why topics are getting flagged when it is about Israel?
by throwaw12 | 2025-09-25 14:39:57+00:00
Recently I noticed many news or comments getting flagged if it discusses Israel, why don't we see similar pattern when people bash about Chinese people or companies, Russians, Iranians or North Koreans?

Platform should either censor equally all of them, or not censor at all, please stop this selective censorship or ban all Israeli bots flagging topics related to Israel
by turnsout | 2025-09-25 14:40:26+00:00
This is conjecture, but I'm fully expecting a correction, if not a recession. Fortune 500 has gone all-in on AI and set high expectations for increased efficiency. So far, that boost has not come, but Wall Street has been patient. But if you fast forward a few quarters, I wonder if investors will lose their patience and wonder why we're all still burning cash.

BTW, I'm long-term bullish on AI, I just think companies have gotten over their skis in the short-term.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-25 14:40:29+00:00
1. Don't buy your kids a cell phone until they are ready to drive.

2. Force all home network traffic through a DNS service you manage, for example a PiHole.

3. Back up the PiHole with a commercial DNS point that also filters like CloudFlare Family DNS (its free).

4. Every few months inspect your children's devices for their internet activity, VPNs, and other things.

I suspect there will be many excuses about how children cannot possibly live life without a cellphone or about how draconian these rules are. The reality is you are either being an active parent or you just don't really care.
by jimmydoe | 2025-09-25 14:40:32+00:00
Trump essentially rebuilt GOP, so this is a brand new party taking over governing a large county, you will expect a lot of inexperienced people put into the positions. things will get better in the next 1~2 decades as they learn.

btw I don't like Trump or MAGA, but this is what happens when the regime changes. When CCP won civil war and took over China, they had a lot of stupid policies, but decade later they are able to grow China to a super power.
by xsh6942 | 2025-09-25 14:40:47+00:00
I've been talking the a bunch of tech execs recently in and while they all talk exclusively about AI, they seem to have blinders on to the fact that their staff is using their personal GPT all day long... meanwhile the early messy adopters have already started to pull ahead and get results, mainly in tackling the bottom of backlog pain in the ass tasks, automating ops, SRE, improving safety, DevEx, and more. What's the story in your workplace?
by mrtksn | 2025-09-25 14:41:31+00:00
There are claims that Israel considered hitting Turkey but backed off and went ahead with Qatar as they feared the destruction of NATO(US would have been obligated to support Turkey but considering the thing? between Israel & USA, the actual US response could have totally destroyed the alliance) which could lead to unconfined wider consequences to Israel.

I have a prediction: Antisemitic conspiracy theories are in the pipeline to get mass popular appeal and the wider Jewish communities will suffer greatly of this. It honestly disturbs me deeply because some of the nicest and smartest people I ever met are Jewish and I developed respect and admiration towards their culture. Which puzzles me seeing what's happening in Palestine. Are they captured by cabal or something?
by hedora | 2025-09-25 14:42:07+00:00
No: It’s “I booked 33A and 33B and took a screenshot of the receipt. At checkin, I got 60C and 22D”.

Also, screw airlines that create a financial incentive to make everyone else on the plane miserable.

The last time I flew Alaska, their seating algorithm needlessly separated parties, then jammed everyone into crowded, no legroom aisles, while leaving the comfortable seats empty.

I know it was intentionally splitting parties because I was flying solo and ended up with a center seat. The person next to me was separated from someone that the airline put in a center seat. A naive greedy algorithm would have swapped me and their companion.

They wanted something like $80 for non-malicious seating assignments.

They even made the flight attendant lie and claim was a safety issue, and the plane would fall out of the sky if people switched rows or were evenly distributed throughout the plane. Presumably, management did this so they could charge you with ignoring safety instructions, which is a crime.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-25 14:42:18+00:00
I, too, felt the old web was much more creative and limitless. But to be blunt, these attempts to resurrect it feel like the opposite: another collection of 90s-style HTML and artwork about generic "old web" stuff (or about the old web itself, which makes no sense - you don't hear people today reminiscing about 2025).

I think a big problem is desensitization. When I was young, MSPaint art looked good, bitcrushed music sounded fine, and simple flash games were fun. Then the art, music, and games kept becoming more complex and higher quality, so the novelty and perceived opportunity was sustained. Now it has tapered off, so the novelty has run out and the next improvement is hard to imagine.

However, the world is so complicated and technology is still improving such that I suspect (and hope) we'll find more breakthroughs within the next decade. Personally, I'm still optimistic about VR: right now good VR is too expensive and development is too hard, but those are incrementally-solvable problems, and few people have experienced good VR (especially with motion) but I can imagine it.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-25 14:42:23+00:00
This reminds me that recently I was trying to find any and all headsets that implement well into the Apple Ecosystem, then I remembered that Apple owns Beats, while I dont usually care about Beats, I wanted over the head headphones that were not an arm and a leg, only one out of all their headsets going on years now has some support, and it was really confusing figuring out if its even the latest ones. This is a product wholly owned by Apple and even that doesn't get access to Apple's Bluetooth magic? Wild.

I'm not spending the cost of an entry level Mac (nearly) on headphones, that's just insane to me. An entry level Macbook Air is $50 more. That is wild to me. I've never spent that much on Headphones, and if it aint a DAC headset, I just can't justify it.

I do wonder, how much of what Apple is doing is proprietary, and patented? Or is the fear that Apple could not patent it, and competitors will realize they could do the same for other ecosystems?
by Master_Odin | 2025-09-25 14:42:30+00:00
I'm a strong believer that PRs should be merged via a "squash and merge" strategy, with the singular commit being descriptive of the overall change and having a link back to the PR for deeper story analysis as needed. I'm also a staunch believer at this point that PRs should really focus on one thing as well. If when working on a bug you discover another semi-related bug? Open two PRs.

Let main be the story of how code got from point A to B, and PRs be the story of how each incremental step was made.
by fzwang | 2025-09-25 14:42:44+00:00
Generally, less classrooms/traditional schooling, and more exposure to the real world. Taking more time to meet people and expand the social horizons.

I feel like I just didn't know what I didn't know. And I was making decisions on very little experience/information. The "adults"/"experts" didn't know what they were talking about or at least were not aware of their own biases/limitations.

Looking back, almost all the useful/important things I learned were self-directed.
by throwaw12 | 2025-09-25 14:42:59+00:00
If not blackmail and subsequently lobby group activities, which should have been registered under FARA act already, what keeps US officials attached so much to Israel?

Do they invest so much? Do they help Americans so much? What's there I don't know?

US is giving all possible excuses, just to whitewash Israel's crimes. By now we have seen attacks on:

* Iran

* Qatar

* Lebanon

* Syria

* obviously genocide in Gaza (according to UN, genocide scholars, Amnesty international and many others)
by inetknght | 2025-09-25 14:43:04+00:00
> This sounds bogus right? If all the headphones can do is transmit audio via first party operating system features how is this creating a data privacy issue?

Wait until third parties "require" an app to be installed, and the headphones send audio as data to the app instead of calling itself a microphone, and the app then sends that data to wherever you don't want it to.

Bose, for example, "requires" an app to be installed. For "updates", they tell you. Updates... to headphones...?!
by asimpleusecase | 2025-09-25 14:43:11+00:00
There is so much online to help jumpstart a young entrepreneur- they can have some small sense of what they are in for. As far as start a company vs get a job, just being told that is an option can be super empowering. I agree that burning up a few years in a failed company as a young entrepreneur does not have a good monetary outcome, but it does help them gain a ton of real world experience that can serve them well their whole life.
by resters | 2025-09-25 14:43:19+00:00
i'd be curious about other metrics in addition to death rate...

- health adjusted quality of life metrics and the way they are impacted by various diagnoses

- healthspan metrics

- patient satisfaction

- employee satisfaction

Ultimately, capitalism is not necessarily at odds with providing efficient high qualty healthcare. But we have to decide what matters. If death rate were the only relevant metric, medicine would be practiced much differently.
by wojciii | 2025-09-25 14:43:39+00:00
"In breaking news, Russia is extending the complete ban on all petrol exports through the rest of 2025 for producers and distributors, and is banning diesel exports for distributors. Fuel shortages have spread to almost all of Russia, with the Ministry of Energy insisting that “all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the timely and uninterrupted supply of all essential fuel.”"

This story is getting better and better.

The above quite is from Malcontent News.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-25 14:44:08+00:00
I believe wholeheartedly that these "breakdowns" are just manufactured deniability. Someone knew about this, or at least knew that there was something they didn't know about and didn't want to know about. I think it benefits the US immensely to have bad things happen to middle eastern states that she's not directly responsible for or even provably aware of, which is why we keep buying bombs for the guy who is continually bombing several middle eastern states at once then not asking what they're gonna do with the bombs.
by theamk | 2025-09-25 14:44:13+00:00
> What if every service had a price tag. No ads, no data harvesting, no “free tier”. Would you pay for YouTube. Would you pay for it and Spotify and cloud storage and messaging apps. At some point you’d run out of money and you’d have to choose.

> That constraint would make the internet look very different. Instead of sprawling mega platforms where you can dip in and out of anything, we’d have something smaller.

That does not follow, if anything this'd made internet much more centralized. People hate to pay, so most households would have a single "youtube" subscription, and all the other video hosters would have zero chance of getting exposure. People would choose one or two "news" subscriptions, and the rest, like regional newspapers, would have zero chances of independent operations. A lot of people would likely have facebook subscription, so that's where the traffic would be .. and all the self-hosted forums and individual websites would be a great disadvantage. That's a true commercial hell.

(This assumes there is some sort of draconian law requiring payments. If there is no such law, then we might go back to "old internet" setup: making webpage is a way to share the info, so people are _paying_ for the privilege of having their webpage up. But then what stops well-read blog author from having a sponsorship deal? Likely nothing, so we'll slowly move back to the current status quo)