MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcims | 2025-09-22 05:52:37+00:00
Off-topic but I used to do security assessments and had a bunch of small banks for customers. One of them was still running the banking software they had when they first got computerized and it ran on an HP3000 from the 70s. Over the years reliable hardware became impossible to find, so they bought some emulator software and ran it on Windows. I don't know why but it always made me chuckle.

That thing did *not* like port scans. (I warned 'em! :D)
by elros | 2025-09-22 05:52:54+00:00
In my experience, if you get a dog you go to the government and pay the dog tax. The dog needs to have id, be chipped, and comes with a token you put on the leash. Part of the process is enforcing vaccination. If a dog has no such token, it’s considered a stray dog.

To so many issues, watching as a bystander from the outside, solutions exist, but the US seems to have a penchant for ignoring them and then claiming their problem is somehow not comparable to everyone else’s.
by linmob | 2025-09-22 05:53:05+00:00
> "USB-C 2.0" in the specs reveals that. DisplayPort Alt Mode requires at least USB 3.0, the PinePhone Pro would be a Linux phone supporting that.

That's not quite accurate IMHO, as the OG PinePhone also supports the feature, despite being USB 2.0. The fact that PINE64 only got it working in PinePhone hardware revision 1.2a maybe also reveals why few phones (whether they support USB 2 or 3.*, e.g., the Pixel 8 was the first Pixel phone to support the feature) actually support DisplayPort Alt Mode: It does not just add cost for parts, but also makes the design more complicated (and may require multiple design iterations to get right, which are expensive).

So: If DisplayPort Alt Mode or somthing like "USB-C video out" is not mentioned, you can usually safely assume that the device does not support it.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-22 05:53:07+00:00
> The short-term effects of relaxing vaccine requirements won’t be obvious right away, but the consequences will likely compound over time. I don’t know how much time of lower coverage it will take before we start to see measles, rabies, or others become regular problems again.

Rabies vaccines have never been required. You're only expected to get them after being bitten by a potentially-rabid animal.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-22 05:53:10+00:00
Indeed, we already heard that in 2001:

- Bush was hated and considered a national shame.

- The invasion of Iraq while lying about WMD and against the UN vote, eroded international trust.

- The Patriot act was supposed to be temporary be was extended again and again.

- We got the reveal of mass spying by Snowden.

And... nothing. Obama didn't do anything about the wars, mass spying, or the patriot act. He was an elegant break from the dumbness, but didn't stop the elevator to keep climbing after him, just paused it for a few years.

All of it was just stepping stones after stepping stones.

It's not a one-time aberration; it's a sign of the times.
by carlosbaraza | 2025-09-22 05:55:35+00:00
I live in Spain. The main problem is that your internet becomes patchy and things stop working for a few hours during the match. People notice the incident, but they don't understand what is happening, they just move on and come back few hours later for it to be resolved. Only some people understand the depth–usually tech people like us that get paged–and complain, and then the president from LaLiga call us a "bunch of freaks".

I have personally sent letters to everyone, including the court that ruled and allowed this whole mess. The judge in question must be either extremely incompetent or corrupted. The court response to this problem wasn't acknowledging it, but to double down, because it seems like some egos were hurt.

The only way I can imagine this situation stopping is by someone dying from a core healthcare system malfunctioning and a court case becoming viral. In the meantime, a single private institution can destroy the internet whenever they want, with full legal backup. Just insane.
Show HN: I built a website blocker with a dynamic timeout that actually works
by academic_84572 | 2025-09-22 05:56:20+00:00
Like many of us, I struggle with staying focused and avoiding distractions while browsing the web. I’ve tried all the website blockers out there – Blocksite, Freedom, you name it. Most of these tools failed for one of two reasons: they were too strict, so I ended up disabling them permanently, or they were too lenient, so I would quickly find a way around them.

To solve this for myself, I built DecayBlock, a browser extension based on the principle of adaptive friction. The mechanism is simple:

1. When you visit a site on your distraction list, a brief timeout is applied before the page loads.

2. This timeout accumulates with each visit, so repeated or habitual access becomes progressively more difficult.

3. Over time, the accumulated timeout decays with a configurable half-life when you stay away from those sites.

The goal isn't to enforce a ban (although you can permanently block websites if you choose), but to introduce a small, increasing cost to the act of procrastination. That brief pause is often enough to break the subconscious loop of opening a distracting tab, without ever fully locking you out. You can configure the timeout growth rate and decay half-life to match your own habits.

I've been using this system daily for several months, and it has been significantly more effective for me than any other tool.

DecayBlock is available now on both the Chrome and Firefox web extension stores. Currently it’s only on desktop but I’m hoping to release a mobile version at some point in the future.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/decayblock/lpljcnal...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/decayblock/

I'm here to answer any questions and would love any feedback!
by lazycatjumping | 2025-09-22 05:56:22+00:00
Thanks to Wireguard and basically 0% battery overhead on Android I always keep it activated. If you don't have a Wireguard endpoint just use Orbot to route it through Tor.

Did that several times using cheap eSIMs while traveling.

Never had a single problem with it (but increased latency because of weird routings around the world).
by peepee1982 | 2025-09-22 05:57:27+00:00
I have had such bad experiences with psychiatrists and psychologists being contrarian and demanding filling in generic tests leading to no working solutions (aka you're depressed here's a prescription for an SSRI. Still depressed? We'll up the dose).

My current psychiatrist figured out my main issues after talking to me for 15 minutes. Sent me off to a psychologist back up his assumptions before prescribing anything. Recommended therapists who specialize in the area I needed support in.

The psychologist I went to was great as well (after seeing one that was a terrible). She did a lot of testing (three sittings lasting around two hours) but said the tests were really just to rule out other things. The important part were the conversations.

My life improved tremendously after that.
by thesmtsolver | 2025-09-22 05:57:48+00:00
> diagnosed whilst sharing only 3 of the 9 symptoms, whichs admits that each of the symptoms can have a cause that is not from ADHD

It does not logically follow that different symptoms -> different causes.

(Fire can cause smoke, heat, soot, etc. Depending on the wind and other conditions, only some of them may be observable.)

One root cause can manifest in different ways depending on interactions with other factors.

The genetic basis for ADHD is well studied and points to a single set of core causes.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-22 05:58:27+00:00
No but him and his crowd have been keen on denying reality on a daily basis, and it's scary how well it works. I have people around me who drink this BS, and will argue in support for it because the arguments against it requires nuance thinking. At least, with a paper, it's harder to do this. You have to admit he pretended the sky was red, when it's obviously blue. There is less nuances if you get something clear in writing.

It's not much, but it's better than the alternative.
by Underphil | 2025-09-22 05:59:11+00:00
I echo this sentiment. Whilst I completely understand that developers are doing this in their own time and largely for no other reason than it being a labour of love, it would really help lower the barrier to entry.

Oftentimes when the tool is typically used as part of a useful stack, the other components have documentation that can also be difficult to decode. So it becomes an order of magnitude more difficult to understand.
by vintermann | 2025-09-22 06:00:42+00:00
A saying I like, apparently first made by Quine: "I always think I'm right, but I don't think I'm always right."

In other words, for every belief I have, I think it's right. Clearly, otherwise I would have abandoned it already. But I don't think that the set of all my beliefs is 100% free of errors or inconsistencies.
by rdrd | 2025-09-22 06:01:01+00:00
> Its just another form of marketing and it should be illegal to go around spamming posts advertising a product

I think this is the dogma that holds a lot of devs back, the belief that sharing your work, the product, the thought process, the journey, the mistakes, the wins etc is “spammy”. Would save your rhetoric for those who actually spam - ai slop generators, bots, link farmers, paid shillers etc. Not indie devs on HN trying to build something for the world.
by growse | 2025-09-22 06:01:11+00:00
I'd be extremely wary of asserting that privately educated kids are any more successful at university than state-educated kids (on the same course) when there's no evidence to bear this out.

If, however, you want to convince yourself that the amount of money you've spent on your child's education means they're smarter than the rest, go right ahead and believe that.

Universities don't select for whether a candidate has "reached their full potential". They select for what that potential is.
by rgovostes | 2025-09-22 06:01:47+00:00
> Uber driver Juan Prado made six figures in 2021, often shuttling passengers in town for job interviews and doing frequent drop-offs near downtown tech offices. Now, he said, demand is much lower. “There are moments where you can be online, and in certain areas, it shows nothing.”

"Seattle has the nation’s most expensive Uber rides" (Seattle Times). Rides to the airport have increased 50% for me in the past year, to about $75, and it's at best twice as fast as the $3 train. I doubt it's just fewer tech jobs suppressing Uber activity since 2021.
by throw834949977 | 2025-09-22 06:01:50+00:00
Have you talked to average American dog owner? They leave their "kids" locked in tiny apartments alone for 10 hours a day, while working. Are not bothered if their "pet" is neurotic mess. If it becomes too annoying, it gets dumped into shelter or on streets. If it dies, it gets replaced in weeks!

You are really giving dog owners too much agency!
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-22 06:01:58+00:00
to save you from loading the pdf:

> This paper presents an empirical investigation of how eSIM adoption affects user privacy, focusing on routing transparency, reseller access, and profile control. We first show how travel eSIMs often route user data through third-party networks, including Chinese infrastructure, regardless of user location. This raises concerns about jurisdictional exposure. Second, we analyze the implications of opaque provisioning workflows, documenting how resellers can access sensitive user data, proactively communicate with devices, and assign public IPs without user awareness. Third, we validate operational risks such as deletion failures and profile lock-in using a private LTE testbed.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-22 06:02:03+00:00
Venus is arguably the worst place in the solar system

From another perspective, its atmosphere is "one of the most Earth-like in the solar system", and scientists long ago postulated the idea of establishing floating cloud cities.

Big balloons filled with nitrogen and oxygen would naturally settle at the right altitude, 30 miles above the surface, where gravity, ambient pressure, and radiation aren't far off that of Earth, and temperature hovers around a balmy 86°F.

Since the pressure inside and outside is matched, punctures wouldn't cause explosive decompression, providing time to repair damage or leaks. You wouldn't need a bulky pressure suit to venture outside, just some comparatively simple breathing apparatus, and of course protection from the nasty sulfuric acid in the atmosphere (akin to acid rain). The habs would be coated in Teflon to resist it.

More about this crazy idea here:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-clou...
by oddmade | 2025-09-22 06:02:17+00:00
c-suite person here...my job is "influence to empower" my team and others - to unlock opportunity for the company I represent.

My advice would be: Stay honest with yourself. To influence IS to manipulate.

Playing squeamish is a slippery slope into avoiding accountability for your actions.

In other words - don't judge the tools - judge your motives and the outcome.

Accept there is always a trade and balance.

If you can be honest about your motives and actions with yourself your friends and colleagues - chances are that you can achieve your goals with ethics and empathy intact.

If you can't, then it's time to take a look at yourself - not the tools.

Good luck
by devjab | 2025-09-22 06:02:46+00:00
> Had to explain to him public, private, internal, and also static the other night.

Access modifiers are sort of a dying breed in a lot of places aren't they? We use Go, so we're obviously still using the two it comes with, but it's public vs module only and fairly intuitive. Every other language we have in production, doesn't make use of access modifiers. Similarily while static is a thing in Python, it's hard to see what advantages it brings compared to a free function if you're using a programming language that doesn't require you to have object instances to call non-static functions. Obviously access modifiers will stick around in a lot of organisations, but there will be plenty of jobs where you never have to work with them.

The way Go handles modules, is frankly one of the few language feature of any language I've ever worked with that I wish was in every language I work with. It's so easy to use and so hard to mess up. Ok, I guess it's not hard to mess it up, but it's not intuitive.
by dijit | 2025-09-22 06:02:50+00:00
You’re being downvoted by idealists.

I was an idealist, so I understand the position.

Ideally, you explain your position and they explain theirs and it’s an open dialogue. Truthfully, you could be wrong about any number of things you have resolute conviction about- even things you believe are well evidenced.

The cynic in me is aware that actually us as individuals have finite time and mental energy to keep debating things which are base, and our lives are improved by just accepting some base assumptions and engaging our energy at higher levels instead of litigating the basics.
by watwut | 2025-09-22 06:03:47+00:00
There is massive difference between Obama and Trump. Between project 2025, MAGA and literally anything Obama. The way Republicans back then acted, refused literally any cooperation and made bad faith putrages ober everything was also something else.

Remember when tan suit was not presidential enough? When saying that Martin Trayon looked like hypothetical Obama son in tepid statement somehow crossed taboo of what preaident can say?

America did not became like it is during Obama and not even Bush. It did lost some trust due to Iraq, sure, it was still not what it is now. But Obama being black did broke conservatives minds.
by oooyay | 2025-09-22 06:03:54+00:00
A lot of intellectually lazy comments on this post.

Yes, there is a rise in rabies cases. In 2021 we experienced 2008 levels. The rise mostly has to do with domestic animal contact with bats: https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/media/releases/2022/p010...

It is also true that 40% of dog owning households don't get their dogs vaccinated because they don't believe animal vaccines are medically necessary or effective. 37% of dog owners also believe vaccines can give their dog autism: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/nearly-half-of-dog...

There is no scientific evidence vaccines give dogs or humans autism.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-09-22 06:05:12+00:00
The DSM is not designed as a list of questions to use to ask patients, it’s designed to describe disorders.

Asking you “do you have trouble concentrating?” is lazy (at least, on its own. Asking a patient to perform a self-assessment is not bad medicine necessarily). A doctor should also be evaluating your concentration in other ways.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-09-22 06:05:52+00:00
I got the CED collecting bug in 2010 when I came across a player. I keep it to show as a curiosity, a reminder that you can do things (video) in weird ways (a vinyl disc).

I have one memory of renting the SelectaVision player when I was very young.

This article on the SCM was new for me, and will be part of what I tell incredulous visitors in future!
by upmostly | 2025-09-22 06:06:12+00:00
Right now we're totally bootstrapped so it's a combination of:

- Davinci Resolve (free)

- Epidemic Sound (for music and sound)

- ClearAudio.ai for VO processing

I then give myself the whole week to produce the video and honestly that has increased the quality by 10x. I'm not rushing it and can properly spend 2 days putting the video clips together, and another day on just the voice over alone.
by nneonneo | 2025-09-22 06:06:44+00:00
This is the result if you do it in radians, but the test actually requires that you set the calculator to degrees mode first.

Note that all of the inverse trig functions are multivalued because the trig functions are periodic. Here, Wolfram Alpha is giving you one of the possible answers. The entire family of answers should be +/-9 + n*pi for any integer n; the sign on the 9 is due to cos being an even function.
by dotcoma | 2025-09-22 06:07:20+00:00
Paid for lifetime 10 minutes ago, not sure I'm happy.

Imho it needs to be MUCH simpler.

I don't have many subscriptions, certainly less than 10.

I don't want a weekly reminder.

All I want is a way to tell Vexly, for every subscription for which I want a reminder, that you need to send me a reminder on "day X" that I choose manually.

Could you please add something like this? Thanks.
by davedx | 2025-09-22 06:07:20+00:00
Used it for about 2 years at a growing startup. What I liked:

* Threads are way better than in Slack. They're top level instead of just a bolted on afterthought. This means all your various conversations scale way better and are way easier to find than in Slack. I can't overstate this enough, it's a killer feature and genuinely improves the overall organisation of your communications

* Font size is just slightly smaller. My eyesight isn't what it used to be, but I still think they get the balance of legibility and information density spot on, whereas Slack feels cartoony in comparison.

* Search felt a little better, I can't exactly put my finger on why or how, just that finding things in Slack always feels comparable to the iOS Mail search feature: very basic.

Drawbacks:

* There are less out of the box integrations I think.
by peepee1982 | 2025-09-22 06:07:28+00:00
I wish this were more common knowlegdge. Every time I see someone whether ADHD "exists" I think to myself "Dude, we decided that certain traits falling in a certain range on a spectrum warrant their own category because it might facilitate research and treatment. Whether it's real or not isn't even a question."

I just want to know whether my issues are normal and I'm gaslighting myself into thinking I'm broken or a loser, or if my specific issues are actually falling outside the norm. This way I know what treatment modalities might help, and which literature I can peruse instead of wasting my time reading up productivity advice meant for neurotypical people that will try to solve the wrong issue for me and just make me feel worse.
by andoando | 2025-09-22 06:08:01+00:00
I have symptoms 1-6, you have symptoms 4-9. We only share 4,5,6. Or I have 1,3,5,6,7,8, you have 2,4,6,7,8,9.

Surely then, each of the symptoms (precieved, subjective symptoms) at that, can exist without ADHD.

So my question is, how do you know I simply dont have multiple completely independent things that together present the 6 symptoms? Even if we are to agree its a genetic condition, the diagnosis of sny particular individual isnt based on genes so theres room for criticism of the diagnostic process
by Veedrac | 2025-09-22 06:08:06+00:00
> and they allow you to support a whole family of things that look like "Promise<T>" and async functions, all using the same framework.

You've highlighted here the part that would actually explain the purpose of a monad, but not explained it. You don't need a monad abstraction to have things with monadic properties, and indeed often reality isn't quite perfectly shaped to theory, so forcing your object to fit the abstraction can be costly. One very obvious cost is that you no longer get descriptive names of what the monadic bind does; you have to infer it from what you know of the type.

The one thing a monad abstraction definitely gives you is the ability to write code that's generic over all monads. This is weird because this almost never happens outside of strongly functional languages.

If you'll forgive linking to a decade-old Reddit post, I've talked about this before.

https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4t6a6q/functional_...

(also, parent for context: https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4t6a6q/comment/d5f...)
by ehnto | 2025-09-22 06:08:09+00:00
AI will empower the service industries, but I don't see it having much impact past administrative efficiency in all other industries relevant to international trade. It won't make minerals more abundant, it won't make farmland more available, for example. It could empower manufacturing a bit but they are bottlenecked by physical resources, supply chain access and other physical constraints as well so there are limits there.

I also think AI is ubiquitous now, no one country will "win". Maybe someone has a breakthrough, but information is globalized, it wouldn't take long for the technology to spread.

Again the actual constraints I believe will be physical. Who has the most chips, the most power, the most space etc, to run the AI.
by komali2 | 2025-09-22 06:08:15+00:00
The potato trick.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/parmentier-made-potatoes-popu...

> Still, even after all of Parmentier’s work, the French feared and hated potatoes. But Parmentier was undeterred. Determined to prove to his people that potatoes were, in fact, good, he started holding publicity stunts that included potatoes. He hosted stylish dinners featuring the maligned tuber, inviting such celebrities as Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier. Once, Parmentier made a bouquet of potato flowers to give to the King and Queen of France.

> With the publicity stunts failing to popularize potatoes, Parmentier tried a new tactic. King Louis XVI granted him a large plot of land at Sablons in 1781. Parmentier turned this land into a potato patch, then hired heavily armed guards to make a great show of guarding the potatoes. His thinking was that people would notice the guards and assume that potatoes must be valuable. Anything so fiercely guarded had to be worth stealing, right? To that end, Parmentier’s guards were given orders to allow thieves to get away with potatoes. If any enterprising potato bandits offered a bribe in exchange for potatoes, the guards were instructed to take the bribe, no matter how large or small.

> Sure enough, before too long, people began stealing Parmentier’s potatoes.

I've never known if the myth was true, but I've always wanted to try the trick with something to see if it works.