MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaellzd0303 | 2025-09-14 05:08:25+00:00
I’ve been working on a small SaaS project and just added a new feature: a wedding hashtag generator. The idea is simple — you enter both partners’ names, and optionally add details like your wedding date, location, or even your love story. The tool then analyzes this to generate unique, personalized hashtags. It’s meant to be a fun but useful way for couples (and their guests) to have a memorable, consistent tag for photos and social media. I’d love any feedback — on the product itself, the UX, or just whether you think this is something people would actually use. Thanks!
by fulafel | 2025-09-14 05:09:04+00:00
Nah, you could easily have much more than 10k threads on regular hardware for a long time with the traditional threads.

c10k was coined in the last millenium when a brand new PC would have 128 MB of memory and a single core 400 MHz cpu. And people were doing it with async IO, not threads back then. (Around the same time Java people got interested in Volanomark which is a similar thing but with threads - since Java didn't even have nonblocking IO then).

See eg this about 100k+ threads on Linux in 2002: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1153.html .. which mostly concerns itself with conserving memory address space since they are dealing with the 32-bit 4GB limitation of decades past.

(c10k was also about OS TCP stack limitations that were soon fixed)
by cies | 2025-09-14 05:09:22+00:00
> Is there any reason that Xorg couldn't tack on a permission system, other than that it would be inelegant?

That's the whole reason for Wayland's existence: such things were not "easily" possible...

Linux+Xorg desktop would be hopelessly insecure for ever because these security features were deemed too hard to the point of not being "worth it". So Wayland was started.

Someone is developing XLibre, and Xorg fork. It may be pulled off, but I doubt it. Making Xorg safe was tried many times for many safety-holes.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-14 05:11:30+00:00
> It sounds like you’re saying the job market imploded in the last five years. In that case, it seems like we should halt h1b visas until it recovers.

In tech, yes. In general I don't know and not all h1b's are tech

> I hire people I have to work with, so I am going to do whatever it takes to make sure I get good candidates.

Same, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do the work someone upstream from me has already done again
by CMay | 2025-09-14 05:13:02+00:00
To be fair, Charlie Kirk was probably much higher profile than Hortman. Charlie traveled the nation widely, visited other countries and had online influence outside of his in-person visits. You could say many entertainers and politicians do that too, so what makes him special?

I've heard Charlie's efforts changed the outcomes of elections. Despite some views being unpopular, the overall promotion of face to face debate is seen as generally healthy. He probably lost his temper or cool too much, and in that sense there have been more tactful or calm debaters, but at least he tried in very unwelcoming territory.

No disrespect to any school shooting victims or the Hortmans, but just objectively, Charlie both seems and is evidenced by the internet reaction to be higher profile and of higher concern for the national conversation in respect to the individual event.

That's without even mentioning just how public the footage of the killing was comparatively or that his wife and children watched it happen in person. It's also worth mentioning that he was fundamentally opposing the exact thing that killed him. He wanted to promote life and suppress death.

It's clear to me that he was an imperfect messenger, but he had the energy and the will which he did not waste.
by KrishinAsnani | 2025-09-14 05:13:58+00:00
An analysis of the generation that booted up during India's 1991 economic liberalization (v1.0) and is now running on the Modi nationalism kernel (v2.0). This essay explores the runtime errors and identity conflicts that occur when running legacy cultural scripts alongside a desire to connect to the global tech stack. Can this system find a stable build, or is a fork inevitable?
by _aavaa_ | 2025-09-14 05:15:22+00:00
It’s entirely independent of focal length.

It has to do with the ratio of the subject-camera distance to the background-camera distance.

As others have pointed out you prove this to yourself in one of two ways:

1. Frame with telephoto, then shoot with a wide angle lens and digitally zoom in photo.

2. Frame with wide angle and then shoot a panorama with the telephone and stich.

2 is significantly harder if you are close to the subject.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-14 05:16:32+00:00
Minor correlation? P values are small indicating a strong correlation?

Quote: Of the bacteria detected, oral viridans group streptococcal DNA was the most common, being found in 42.1% of coronary plaques and 42.9% of endarterectomies. Immunopositivity for viridans streptococci correlated with severe atherosclerosis (P<0.0001) in both series and death from coronary heart disease (P=0.021) or myocardial infarction (P=0.042).
by 0_____0 | 2025-09-14 05:16:41+00:00
This is why I qualified my experience with being 'occasional.' Basically I do long distance bike races where you're biking for like 18+ hours a day for 2-6 days depending on event. It's an insane thing to do and an insane comparison to make when talking about normal people's diets, but it does illustrate that there is a limit to 'you can't out-exercise the calories.'
by ModernMech | 2025-09-14 05:18:49+00:00
Such a powerful message Trump sent when the very first thing he did in January after the inauguration was to pardon the people who tried to murder his vice president and did beat cops with an American flag. He pardoned people convicted in a court of law of seditious conspiracy against the United states. That was a permission slip.

So I agree, there's a direct line from the political violence on J6, to the political violence we see today. If there is any lingering doubt, the the message from the President is clear: he literally said he doesn't consider violence from the right to be a problem. Right wing extremists are just people trying to reduce what they see as crime, according to him.

Therefore we will see more of it.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-14 05:19:02+00:00
> "Unicode" here means the OG Unicode that was supposed to fit all of past, current and future languages in exactly 16 bits.

Well... it explicitly wasn't supposed to fit all past characters when they decided on 16 bits.

And they weren't sure on size for a while, and only kept it for a couple years, so I would make the fact that you're complaining about the 16 bits more explicit.

But also it did turn out to be forward compatible. That's part of why we're stuck with it!
by jchw | 2025-09-14 05:19:23+00:00
The point with 1. isn't that it's interesting that such APIs could be made, it's that a whole bunch of non-sense discourse has flourished because people don't understand what it means that Wayland can't do screen capture.

That said, there is a standard way to capture the screen now, via XDG Desktop Portals + Pipewire. For better or worse, that is the standard that works whether you're on GNOME, KDE, COSMIC, Hyprland, etc.

Anyway, I really feel I said enough regarding the "17 years" thing. I think Wayland definitely was much closer to a hobby project for about half it's life, and while we have some big names investing in it, frankly I doubt the investment in Wayland desktops really compare to pretty much any other commercial windowing systems and probably still nowhere near the effort put into X11 over the years. But regardless, it's not really about that. The point is that the investments made by each party is not unilateral, they all had specific things they were working on. This is very different, IMO, than having a full time team. The closest you will see to that is Red Hat, but Red Hat also doesn't invest in all of the important areas for a full proper desktop.
by mcdeltat | 2025-09-14 05:20:03+00:00
Interesting, different tastes I guess. I find the wide mountaintop shot to be pretty lackluster compositionally because everything is oddly spaced out and half of it is empty (sky). I often have this problem when shooting wide angle - because of the perspective distortion, the high density centre area is small and the edges are super low density.

I would agree with the author that telephoto makes it easier to get a clean composition... Walking around with a 35mm I end up taking almost no shots.
by simonw | 2025-09-14 05:20:22+00:00
My prize for worst time zone UI still goes to Google calendar.

If you want to create an event in a different time zone from your default the select picker it gives you is utterly incomprehensible.

I can't even find the time zone for New York/US eastern in it!

Screenshot here: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/google-calendar...
by indigoabstract | 2025-09-14 05:20:44+00:00
For some reason while reading this, I thought of Erlang, a language I know nothing about, except that it's not a visual language and it's build out (many) processes, kind of like a tiny internet with server and client nodes that can be taken down anytime for repairs or updates.

Maybe there's an unobvious way to make visual programming actually useful?

Probably quite a few people have wondered that throughout the ages. I know I have.

In the meantime, this AI thing happened, emphasizing even more the use of text/voice as a mode of creative expression.
by toast0 | 2025-09-14 05:21:22+00:00
> Our entire society suffers because a bunch of people want to freeload on media, in a way that doesn't jibe with the US laws and social contract.

Yeah, why don't FM radio listeners or OTA programming watchers pay up!!!!

FM broadcasters only became liable for royalties to artists this decade. Big bunch of freeloaders; but not as bad as the listeners. :p
by atonse | 2025-09-14 05:22:33+00:00
For all of its current very high profile issues of uncertainty in the US, who would actually trust China in any way shape or form as an alternative?

It’s a totalitarian state who has been jailing its wealthiest businesspeople on a whim, causing many to flee, and it’s about to embark on an invasion of its peaceful neighbor.

Which part of any of that screams “that currency will be a stable place to store my money?”
by petre | 2025-09-14 05:22:34+00:00
Not only designed decades ago (which the PWR also was) but the designers also cut corners, ignored its faults and pushed it through politically because it was cheap and the Soviet governments could meet their 5 year targets easier. Early incidents were treated with cover-ups.

"The RBMK was considered by some in the Soviet Union to be already obsolete shortly after the commissioning of Chernobyl unit 1. Aleksandrov and Dollezhal did not investigate further or even deeply understand the problems in the RBMK, and the void coefficient was not analyzed in the manuals for the reactor. Engineers at Chernobyl unit 1 had to create solutions to many of the RBMK's flaws such as a lack of protection against no feedwater supply. Leningrad and Chernobyl units 1 both had partial meltdowns that were treated, alongside other nuclear accidents at power plants, as state secrets and so were unknown even to other workers at those same plants."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
by rendaw | 2025-09-14 05:23:32+00:00
There's a ton of positivity here, but on the balance there are some significant issues with pass that I think bear mention:

- The fact that it's essentially unstructured data makes it hard to work with generically. If you have a username + password and need to use those in a script, you'll need to implement your own parser in your shell language in every script you need it in.

- `pass generate` to generate new passwords, maybe thanks to the above, replaces everything in the pass value by default. So if you had e.g. a password + secret question answers, if you use `generate` to get a new password it'll wipe out your secret question answers.

- It's very difficult to review history. I stopped using it a while ago, but since everything's encrypted `git diff` won't give you anything useful and IIRC the command line tools were very hard to use for reviewing/restoring passwords when you mess up updates, etc.

- The name makes it nearly impossible to search for

I've been working on something similar... although with slightly larger scope (intended to be used within containers/sandboxes) https://github.com/andrewbaxter/passworth
by krrishd | 2025-09-14 05:23:51+00:00
It's a good question - Stripe's Stablecoin Account documentation is good reference here (they denominate balances in USDB, one of these "custom stablecoins" from Bridge): https://docs.stripe.com/crypto/stablecoin-financial-accounts...

"It’s always backed one-to-one by the equivalent value of US dollars held in cash and short-duration money market funds at BlackRock."

So while there are other (potentially novel) sorts of counterparty risks - the backing is definitely more robust than (and pretty much entirely decoupled from) Bitcoin/the rest of the crypto sphere, and is closer to dropping funds off in a Fidelity money market.

Another good (early - 2023) read on this topic: "There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other " https://www.moneyness.ca/2023/09/there-are-now-two-types-of-...
by Void_ | 2025-09-14 05:25:23+00:00
I have mixed thoughts about audio journaling.

At first I was in love - I made an app around Whisper transcription model the weekend it came out. (Still working on it - https://whispermemos.com)

But when I try to read those recordings, they seem long and uninteresting.

I think the slowness of writing forces us to transform the thoughts/ideas into a format that has more substance.

So typing creates better distilled version of the text, and writing with one even more.

Recording audio just makes a raw stream of consciousness.

The process isn’t as therapeutic. It’s like stuffing food in your face instead of slowly chewing.

What are your thoughts on this?
by WalterBright | 2025-09-14 05:26:00+00:00
My dad visited Machu Picchu. He was doing poorly and the guides put him on oxygen. They were well prepared for it, as it happens a lot and is not very predictable.

It's at 8,000 feet.

I remember staying overnight at Estes Park, 7500 feet. I got a headache. I didn't try anything strenuous.

I recall reading about Mt Everest climbs. Even on supplemental oxygen, your brain measurably dies a little. No thanks. People who climb it repeatedly are, in my not-so-humble opinion, idiots.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-14 05:28:14+00:00
The reason why certain cities get entries is because sometime after time began (1970-01-01), the region they're in changed their timezone (usually adopting or dropping DST or changing when it began). Those changes need to be recorded in the timezone database. The largest city in the affected area is typically chosen to be representative of the area.

Boise has its own entry because in 1974, the Emergency Daylight Time Act shifted when DST began in Southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Boise is the largest city in the region.

Technically, if you're in Salt Lake City, you should be using America/Denver, not Boise because of this, otherwise if you say, opened a calendar from 1974, everything will be off by an hour.

If Utah made DST there begin a day earlier this year, Salt Lake City would probably get an entry too.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-14 05:28:38+00:00
> hearing it from a host on the most popular “news” station in the country, with neither of his co-hosts even pausing to go “uh, haha, wait now” is… something else.

Meanwhile, another Fox News host has been promoted to Secretary of "War", and is busy drone striking random boats and straight up murdering people.

While yet another Fox News host has been charging people with crimes that juries refuse to indict because they're so preposterous.

It seems we have a serious problem with Fox News hosts and podcaster bros running this government and directing policy. Remember, Fox News isn't just talking to its audience -- it's talking to the President, he watches religiously. He pays more attention to them than all his cabinet and advisors combined.
by roenxi | 2025-09-14 05:29:46+00:00
Wayland, traditionally, has not believed that. It believed "applications shouldn't be able to spy on or manipulate each other" and doesn't give users any mechanism to suggest that they might have permission to do so because the idea of that happening was just not on their radar.

I'm not sure about the modern state of Wayland but last time I saw it the situation was terribly messy and I was forced back to X11 because I rely on screensharing to do my job properly.
by ZhongDongLong | 2025-09-14 05:31:47+00:00
Ha ha ha

"The Dragon Dildo is a handcrafted adult toy shaped like a majestic dragon's head, complete with intricate scales and fiery details. Upon penetration, the dildo emits gentle wisps of smoke that simulate a mythical breath attack. Users report heightened intimacy experiences due to the intense fantasy simulation.

As users reach climax, their partner receives subtle telekinetic nudges guiding their touch. This innovative feature enhances mutual pleasure by predicting and adapting to individual desires."
by bubblethink | 2025-09-14 05:31:56+00:00
> different case by a different organization means this case is also political.

It's the same issue - the DOJ is going after companies and their ads. In SpaceX's case, the ads said citizen/LPR only due to export control, and DOJ got mad that it would exclude asylees and refugees for some of these positions which may not actually have export control requirements. Your complaint is also about ads and whether they are in print media or online or obfuscated etc. If you think that ads in print media violate the law, you need to prove that in a court of law. Note that the law explicitly requires ads in Sunday newspapers, whereas online ads are not mandatory. There is a check list of what is and is not required, and the lawyers are following the text (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/20/656.17). The government doesn't think that there is positive EV in taking it to trial, and hence settles. You, as an individual, can still pursue a civil suit if you are injured.

>For all I know you might not even know what does "good faith" mean

There are thousands of bogus laws in the books and the government is not your friend. Good faith in this context means doing the minimal amount of work needed to comply with the law. Innocent until proven guilty, and the government has the burden of proof. This is how I view all interactions with the state.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-14 05:32:59+00:00
> Rust just shifts the effort earlier in the development phase, where the costs are often orders of magnitude lower.

That works fantastically when you're rewriting something - you already have the idea and final product nailed down.

It works poorly when you don't have everything nailed down and might switch a lot of stuff around, or remove stuff that isn't needed, etc.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-14 05:33:07+00:00
People generally become tour guides because alternative jobs don't exist. It's extremely common for the local workers who help with excavation to become tour guides for the areas they've helped excavate. Many of these people are more knowledgeable (in certain respects) than the archaeologists they're helping.

I'm fairly certain you weren't taking him away from something more valuable that he would have been doing in your absence.
by avazhi | 2025-09-14 05:33:50+00:00
Maybe the chilling effect is the point, and maybe it's been demonised unfairly.

To be clear, I think freedom of speech is a bedrock foundation of intellectual society and should be the starting point for modern societies.

But perhaps we really should outlaw anonymity when it comes to expression. Allow people to express themselves, but it shouldn't emanate from the void.
by imposterr | 2025-09-14 05:34:16+00:00
>If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose.

I don't think this is entirely true. In a lot of cases vibe coding something can be a good way to prototype something and see how users respond. Obviously don't do it for something where security is a concern, but that vibe-coded skin cancer recognition quiz that was on the front page the other day is a good example.
by MarkusQ | 2025-09-14 05:35:02+00:00
You are totally missing the part about rocks from Mars reaching Earth all the time. If it were an issue, it is already too late. Plus, we have already brought back samples from other bodies with out bothering with such precautions. Also, nothing in scientific findings (nor in the popular press articles you cited as "science") suggests that this is anything other than mineral traces of life that has been dead for millions (more likely billions) of years.

Finally, you may want to drop the ranting tone if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
by chii | 2025-09-14 05:35:03+00:00
> ironic if AI actually ended up destroying economic activity

that's not destroying economic activity - it's removing a less efficient activity and replace it with a more efficient version. This produces economic surplus.

Imagine saying this for someone digging a hole, that if they use a mechanical digger instead of a hand shovel, they'd destroy economic activity since it now cost less to dig that hole!
by erulabs | 2025-09-14 05:35:19+00:00
Lower power consumption on a desktop monitor is an interesting technical challenge but I do wonder “Cui bono?” - obviously I’d want my gaming machine to consume less power but I’m not sure I’ve ever considered mouse-idle monitor-on power consumption when considering eg AMD versus Nvidia for my gaming machine.

Don’t get me wrong this is very interesting and AMD does great engineering and I loath to throw shade on an engineering focused company but… Is this going to convert to even a single net gain purchase for AMD?

I’m a relatively (to myself) a large AMD shareholder (colloquially: fanboy) and damn I’d love to see more focus on hardware matmul acceleration rather than idle monitor power draw.
by novok | 2025-09-14 05:35:23+00:00
IMO it depends on the field and her scholarships. If it's tech, just go to waterloo, it's a great school, has a great reputation and you get the Canadian discount, if it's not, you have more research to do. With her professors not having as much grant work to do, they might actually focus on teaching for once! As an undergrad, research doesn't matter much and no 17 year old is certain they want to become a PhD researcher type at that age.

Otherwise as dual citizens it's overblown. There is a lot of hot air in Canada that doesn't match the on the boots on the ground reality of life in the USA (for citizens / green card holders) because Canada is pissed off that America caused a downturn in Canada's economy and Canadians feel the pinch because the downturn is about 25% worse in Canada as a result.

But IMO it's self inflicted wound and has been a very, very long time coming. Canada has kept on kicking the economic can down the road for decades now and it's toll is collecting interest more and more.

The political worker class in DC is also very pissed off because the administration there initiated the equivalent of extreme mass layoffs in a sector that is not used to that.

In the USA, people are kind of mopey about the downturn, but in democratic areas the level of emotion is far less than it was with trump was the first time, while in Canada, it seems like it's more intense than it was in California with trump for the first time.
by exoverito | 2025-09-14 05:35:41+00:00
First of all, you misread the figures. The correlation between identical twins reared together is 0.85, while adoptive parent and child is 0.19.

Second of all, correlation coefficients do not scale linearly. A correlation of r=0.85 means r^2 explains 0.72 of the variance, while a correlation of 0.19 explains 0.03 of the variance. In other words, adoptive parents have 0.03/0.72=4% of the effect on IQ as being an identical twin does.