MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somat | 2025-09-19 06:27:28+00:00
Minecraft is wierd because all that amazing modding that is done is in spite of mojang not because of them.

I have not played minecraft in a few years but I think nothing has changed. Mojang, even pre microsoft, has never provided any sort of modding support. I grew up on quake where ID would give you the game code and tools necessary to make mods. Mojang gave nothing. modding on minecraft involved decompiling the bytecode, dealing with the terrible symbols the decompiler gave you then recompiling it back into a jar. It was ugly and unpleasant. later the bigger efforts produced some tooling and libraries to make this better, but mojang had no part in this.

So minecraft is wierd, one of the most modded game in existence, yet the developers have provided no mod support.
by dmesg | 2025-09-19 06:27:31+00:00
Thanks for getting ahead of me. I add their competitor MS doing the same even more openly:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-swiftkey...

Always assume companies will gather, use and share your data in all ways they legally can. The burden of proof is never on the user that companies don't milk us. Calling it "misinformation" as someone further above did is bizarre. This is the default business model of big tech.
by eru | 2025-09-19 06:28:00+00:00
> It is, but at that point why even have that bureaucratic process that achieves exactly nothing?

Well, I was talking about the best strategy from the captive audience's point of view. You are now asking about the strategy for the captor.

Going a bit beyond: getting honest feedback out of subordinates is a hard problem! Both formally and informally. That was always a big concern on my mind as a manager.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-19 06:28:25+00:00
Hey, thanks a lot to you and everyone else who has been kind enough to share their inputs.

I did try Asahi after encouragement from you all. Installation was indeed smooth. I'd say as smooth as it gets (and I am including Mac auth screen and then SIP tweak in recovery CLI - I assume).

However, the UI/UX wasn't what I expected. I think I was looking for something like ElementaryOS (what I had mentioned and I know it might sound like a broken record), but I was looking for an out-of-the-box pleasing and "just works" UI. It wasn't that, sadly.

I first tried Fedora with GNOME, and it was really not good - even in functionality.

Then I wiped it clean and again installed - this time with KDE Plasma. Functionality was much better. But UX/UI left a lot to be desired. For example, the display was scaled to 170%, and I just couldn't bring it to the right size. 185% was closest. Then I had to change trackpad settings, et cetera. I'd assumed Mac hardware-specific DE/OS might come with some initial tweaks done already. I struggled a lot with shortcuts, and the general UI/UX wasn't feeling like home at all. I also think I am a lot biased, not only coming from Mac but stuck on something like Elementary.

Finally, I cleaned it up. Hopefully, there'd be more Asahi Remix distros. Again, thanks a lot to all of you!
by Lammy | 2025-09-19 06:31:05+00:00
I'm using rEFInd (because it's pretty!) and have the UEFI executable priority set, so as long as Windows doesn't reformat my ESP I should be fine. Or if it does I at least know how to fix it. Within FreeBSD it's a simple `mount -t msdosfs`, and shoutout to this utility for the Windows side of things: https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter

The one annoyance was that the Windows installer makes a puny 100MiB ESP by default, which would actually be enough for everything I have on there at the moment, but it felt small so I bumped it up to 1G before installing the second OS.
by defanor | 2025-09-19 06:31:38+00:00
It is quite similar on the Web still: web browsers (at least Firefox) allow to set user CSS or change default colors, but some websites (the percentage would vary defending on the method used) do not play nicely with that.

Likewise on Unix-like systems: most things can be covered with GTK and Qt themes, but some GUI programs would use a different GUI toolkit, and occasional developers would assume a dark-on-light theme, setting fixed colors accordingly.

Even TUI color interfaces suffer from that: when programs use colors outside of the 16 (that are rather practical to configure) or tweak (e.g., dim, reverse/invert) those for a particular kind of theme.

An annoying thing is that in most those cases things would have been fine if the developers simply did not touch colors. Even the linked article would have been more legible if it had no CSS, with either the usual defaults or a sensibly configured web browser: now it has a text-to-background contrast ratio slightly below the minimum of 7 recommended by WCAG.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 06:32:03+00:00
X doesn't have a usable interface for the casual click-through audience that HN caters to. The static content is deliberately (and pointlessly) stripped to prioritize bilking X engagement over the user's engagement.

In aggregate, people will choose to submit the option that abuses users less. Xcancel keeps the original X link unobstructed if you need it for some reason.
by incr_me | 2025-09-19 06:32:08+00:00
I've always been averse to this sort of Jungian schema (it's a Freudian baggage I have -- Mourning and Melancholia has much value on the present topic!), but more and more I'm seeing how much wisdom was lost in the historic disavowal of myth and archetypal thought. Since having a child, my wife and I have been repeatedly stunned at how incapable our own parents are. I don't mean a mere absence of help with babysitting (although they suck at this, too), I mean they just have no idea how to deal with us or our kid as living beings. They shrink at the first sign of difficulty. They want absolutely no relationship with death. We've had to find new elders elsewhere; they really aren't easy to find but they do exists.
Show HN: I Made Personalized Summary Tool for You(Built in 1.5 Months,from Zero)
by EthanSeo | 2025-09-19 06:32:51+00:00
Hey HN,

My dream is to become a solopreneur and build something meaningful and helpful for others. This tool is the very first step toward that dream.

I’m a university student in South Korea. In my general education classes, there’s a constant need to summarize assignments and readings. Honestly, I’ve never been good at summarizing, so I always relied on AI. But each time, I had to repeat the same instructions like “make it formal,” “shorten it,” or “change the tone.” That felt frustrating.

So I decided to make a tool that removes that repetition. With my app, you can quickly choose your tone, format, and focus, and get a summary tailored to your needs—without having to re-prompt every single time. I believe this can help not just university students, but anyone who needs faster and more personalized summaries.

I built this in just 1.5 months, starting completely from zero. It’s my first product, and I know there’s so much more to learn and improve. Your feedback would mean a lot and help me grow further.

Thanks for reading!
by elcritch | 2025-09-19 06:33:51+00:00
The important piece missing from both of these comments IMHO, is that sunburns are the problematic piece.

There's always going to be some risk from UV exposure, but as the parent comment points out we're evolved to deal with it and even to rely on it. There's research showing that low amounts of cellular damage is actually beneficial as it triggers cellular repair mechanisms or aptosis of senecent cells. Even here other commenters point out how exposure improved their skin or vision.

However that natural evolved state doesn't include sitting inside all week and then going outside on the weekend and getting completely toasted sunburnt!

Doing that and getting completely sunburnt overwhelms our normal cellular repair mechanism, the immune system response, etc. It's much more likely a rogue cell evades the immune system when it's swamped with such cells.

Personally I avoid sunscreen if possible for short excursions but will use it if going to the pool as I'm indoors more these years and paler.
by throw310822 | 2025-09-19 06:34:22+00:00
Yes. Well, it doesn't really "see" the ascii art it's producing because it's blind and it's just reading and writing it as if it were text- so the task is much more complex than it seems to us. I do notice a difference between the first attempt (and your sitting penguin) and the small art at the end. If you've used gpt5, it's possible that it decided to engage its full capacity only at that point, and that the previous answers were less thought through.

But yes I do believe these things understand. There is no other way for them to do what they're doing.
by Animats | 2025-09-19 06:35:01+00:00
Second Life is switching over from Linden Scripting Language to Luau. It's working out well. The existing system compiled to Mono, and with Mono being deprecated (abandoned?) something new was needed. Amusingly, not only is Luau being supported, the LSL compiler is now targeting the Luau execution engine, and that works. Performance has improved slightly.

Second Life runs on hundreds of thousands of tiny programs, all event driven and running on the servers. Managing that is tricky, since server side resources are limited. Yet it works well, even if user programs are compute-bound. Actually, the biggest problem is that each idle program uses about 1us per frame, which adds up.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-19 06:36:14+00:00
With one exception, HFCS is lower in fructose than common natural alternatives. Cane sugar is 50% fructose. HFCS used in food is typically 42% fructose. Fruit juice is extremely high in fructose, whence “fructose” got its name. The HFCS used in sweetened beverages is 55% fructose, which is only marginally higher than cane sugar.

The only way to avoid fructose is to avoid natural sugars. HFCS is created by taking a low-fructose sugar and modifying it to have fructose levels more similar to natural sugars.
How common is it for employers to lay off employees for non-performance reasons
by ranjha | 2025-09-19 06:36:53+00:00
I see a lot of news regarding big corporations like Google, Microsoft, etc laying off employees due to 'strategic reasons', 'overhiring', etc.

I wanted to understand how common is it in the industry? Do startups and mid-sized companies do it often?

If this happens very often, is it then wrong from employees to treat employers instrumentally. That is, should we frown upon people who leave after a few weeks of joinig a company because they got a much better offer? Or they did not join the company whose offer they had accepted because they got a better offer?

Founders of HN, what do you feel about this?
by trhway | 2025-09-19 06:40:41+00:00
>good sun exposure helps my skin feel softer and less inflamed.

The UV light polymerizes collagen in presence of vitamin B. They did experiments by repairing cornea that way:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3018104/

"The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of riboflavin-ultraviolet type A (UV-A) light rays induced cross-linking of corneal collagen in improving visual acuity and in stabilizing the progression of keratoconic eyes.

...

The eyes were saturated with riboflavin solution and were subjected for 30 min under UV-A light

...

Cross-linking was safe and an effective therapeutical option for progressive keratoconus."

I think that this is probably one of the reasons why suntanned skin usually looks like it is in better condition mechanically-wise.

Another my favorite Sun exposure related correlation - vitamin D deficiency and autism, as couple studies on Somali immigrant population in Minnesota and Sweden - where such dark skinned population naturally gets very low on vitamin D - showed such correlation as autism rates in that population is higher than back there in Somali (and that would explain the correlation of low sunlight expo.

And my favorite pet theory is that Neanderthals with their large eyes adapted to the Northern latitudes were significantly impaired by spike of UV radiation - getting highly increased rate of early cataract and other eyesight damage - during that thousand years of magnetic field polar swap 40K years ago, and that caused them to lose to the Cro-Magnon who was coming out of Africa with more dark and smaller eyes more adapted to higher UV levels which are natural to Africa.
by amlib | 2025-09-19 06:41:48+00:00
That trick will work on android until one day google decides to ban all other browsers from it.

iOS locks you down to safari already.

Then web attestation and platform attestation/drm for mobile apps is eventually firmly in place and it means you can only use either android or ios for paying your bills (already a thing for most banks where I live...) or even doing mundane government bureaucracy.

god, what a timeline... and even if you don't live in the country responsible for this mess you still have to suffer these consequences and everyone is so apathetic and shuts their brains off when mentioning any of these problems.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-19 06:41:56+00:00
Back in the olden days, Microsoft and Apple did a lot of actual UI research, and for a resource-limited open source project there was no shame in piggybacking on those research results IMHO. But with the 'UX mafia' taking over big companies, nowadays it's reversed, the resource limited open source projects often have better usability.
by sizzle | 2025-09-19 06:42:22+00:00
Hey I’ve been getting these sketchy Delivery Status Notification (Failure) emails too with my gmail handle but @google.com

“ The response was: The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. For more information, go to https://support.google(.)com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser”

Then it has a phishing email copied below trying to look legitimate.

Can I create a filter to block this spam for good? It’s been happening for over a year now and makes me think one of my emails failed to send so I jump to open it ugh.
by keyle | 2025-09-19 06:42:22+00:00
As a designer first turned developers in the early 2000, I beg of you to learn the gestalt.

Frameworks, languages, computers, come and go, but the human body doesn't change and the knowledge I have in design, I carry every day and have barely changed over the years. Sure there are new patterns now... "hamburger buttons" and swiping, but the logic remains the same. Human's don't change quickly. They discover things the same way.

Learn about visual hierarchy, visual rhythm, visual grouping, visual contrast, visual symmetry; the golden rule; the theory of colours etc. Think "subject" first, like in photography. Design for first glance & last glance.

Go beyond "do these align".

Think in the eyes of your user as if it's their first visit, there is no content yet, etc; as well as if it's their 1000th visit; cater for both cases; first and power users.

Understand the gestalt, understand the psychology behind design... Why does bright-red jumps at you, at a visceral level?

Feeling that something feels right is great, but understanding deeply why it feels right is a superpower.

Understand the human brain, its discovery process (how do babies discover the world), "why do westerners look top left first"? And you might innovate in design, instead of designing to not offend anyone; or worst, copying dribbble and other sources because "they spent the money".

Trust me if you can learn React or Kubernetes, you surely can learn the gestalt and understand "the design of everyday things"! That knowledge won't expire on you, you'll start seeing it everywhere and you'll carry it for the rest of your life.
by crote | 2025-09-19 06:43:35+00:00
Probably because we've seen goofy-looking AI glasses before.

Google Glass was released in 2013, the Snapchat Spectacles date back to 2016. Meta's glasses might be better (at first glance, I honestly can't tell), but they aren't some kind of revolutionary product we have never seen before.

The innovative part here is supposed to be the AI demo. That clearly flopped. So what's supposed to be left?
by larusso | 2025-09-19 06:44:33+00:00
I have no official source but know that this happens a lot. Also the arguments with the employer about the letters afterwards. Some are so fed up and let you write the first or final draft. There is also the hidden code. So instead of writing something negative which is forbidden you just use different words or leave out some intensifications. Like “zur größten Zufriedenheit” vs “zur allergrößten Zufriedenheit”. One means your work was Ok the other it was great. There is also intensification by adding time adjectives like “always” or “often” etc.

This code is known by people in the HR and hiring departments. It’s a very weird praxis. I have to explain this to my non German colleagues because for them even a mark F letter sounds awesome ;)
by minki_the_avali | 2025-09-19 06:47:49+00:00
Minetest is pretty awesome but it has some harsh limitations like a -32k -> 32k block world size limit in all directions as well as not being world file compatible (i know that experimental converters exist but half the blocks never load in and these are as old as 1.2.5 blocks so no chance it will even attempt to work with 1.12.2 maps) so for someone trying to get close to vanilla, I still think reimplementations are the way to go.
by d--b | 2025-09-19 06:48:01+00:00
Ok, I’ll be the one criticizing. I am a big fan of Gaudi in general, but it shouldn’t stop us from honest criticism. While visiting the inside on a sunny day will leave you in absolute awe that you’ll remember all your life, the outside is not great.

Maybe it’s the execution or the change in technique or materials over the years, or maybe it’s because it lacks patina but it honestly looks like a patchwork of stones cobbled together with no global uniformity. It’s a giant mess.

The (current) main entrance with the 4 tall towers look awesome, but the sides, oh boy, they really look quite bad. I thought someone else had designed them.

anyways maybe my expectations were too high, or maybe it’s because I am one of the few foreigners who prefer Madrid over Barcelona. I don’t know... Definitely worth the trip if you havn’t seen it though.
by rishi_rt | 2025-09-19 06:49:32+00:00
Such checklist/rule based approaches do not help anyone. Trying to understand why the said rules work from the standpoint of visual perception is much more beneficial in the long run. Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson (of Xerox PARC) is an introductory book on the why behind UI design guidelines that I often recommend to entry level designers.
by kimixa | 2025-09-19 06:49:38+00:00
The company I used to work for had the same thing - everything was a rewritten URL (this was a Microsoft shop so it was rewritten to something like "safe.protected.outlook.com/?random_spew". From what I remember, yo)u couldn't even see the original URL in that (or it might have just been long enough random arguments to be completely impossible to find).

Nothing raises my suspicions quite like something calling itself "safe".
by avian | 2025-09-19 06:49:53+00:00
Recently I've received an email from my eye specialist addressed to all her patients urging people not to look at the sun. At the same time I've also seen a similar public warning published in local media.

Apparently there has been an sharp rise in people coming in with retinal damage from staring at the sun. They didn't go into details why someone would do that, but reading this on HN I can start to guess.
by trabant00 | 2025-09-19 06:52:04+00:00
> It feels like we have sometimes accreted an amalgam of these pithy takes based on very small, one off, studies (never replicated) that let us comfortably assemble an affirmation of our broader takes.

The patterns are there and are hard to deny. The reasoning and explanations of these types of books? Don't take them for granted, do your own research if anything is of particular interest, think for yourself, etc. The books can be of value without being 100% correct.
Show HN: Sifted³ – A Professional Social Network
by cs02rm0 | 2025-09-19 06:53:27+00:00
I feel like an idiot. This may be half Show HN, half seeking free therapy.

I've had an account on here since 2012, I've been a professional software engineer since 2005. I try and read and learn and yet I keep putting myself in the same holes.

I've built out what is essentially a LinkedIn alternative, I've got ideas about how to improve it beyond that, but it's the simplest way of explaining it for now. The key differentiator is that it limits the number of applications a candidate can make (3 in 7 days). Twitter for applicant count seems to convey what I'm trying to do to other engineers. I'm also trying to allow for candidates to receive feedback and generally improve the process.

It's all to try and address what I see is an issue with roles receiving thousands of applicants within hours and how that and the tools to deal with it are failing both candidates and those recruiting. Obviously, OpenAI have just announced their offering is in the pipeline, which perhaps confirms what I see as an issue, even if we have different approaches for fixing it.

I have form for this; writing software, thinking it has some value, but not being able to figure out how to get even the slightest bit of traction. Watch this thread die as yet more proof! :)

This time, I've outdone myself. Knowing that it's particularly an issue in Dubai, with a relatively small, condensed market, but a sought after location, I jumped on a plane to Dubai thinking I would track down some recruiters and plead with them to post some roles, which I would then try and promote, and perhaps I'd get feedback I could use to refine and iterate. I've spent the week in a hotel room with flu, and not managed to get to speak to a single recruiter. Every post I've tried to local facebook groups gets rejected and I can feel myself walking the same path towards abandoning it, even though I don't think that's going to bring answers.

Is it a terrible idea? I have zero sign ups so I don't think I can know if it's terrible execution (it's certainly early, there's bound to be bugs). Am I just terrible at marketing? How do people do this?!
by croon | 2025-09-19 06:54:01+00:00
I have never seen that photo, and the one supporting source for the claim that fake news was spread is someone who apparently runs this[1]?

I was not familiar with the term before either, but afaict it was based on the the shell casing engravings, halloween costumes etc, which I don't believe have been refuted [2]?

Not that this matters to the topic at hand as that isn't a claim Kimmel made either way, nor does it play into how tragic any murder is.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trending-politics/

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/17/how-charli...
by b112 | 2025-09-19 06:54:16+00:00
You always know what you are going to get in a chain

I agree this is one main way McDonalds won, and others like it. Yet I feel as of late, the last 5 to 10 years or so, this is gone. I see terrible service in McDonalds. A lack of cleanliness where I'd never see it before. I feel that those policing franchises have just stopped, or don't fine as much.

I used to eat there when traveling a lot, but not so much now. And I used to eat there from time to time locally, but never bother now. The food is just too inconsistent.

And that's very bizarre, and sad, and while McDonalds has seen a drop in sales due to price hikes, I think this is part of it too.
Show HN: LLMS.Page – Public LLMS.txt Endpoint
by davidswb | 2025-09-19 06:54:34+00:00
We're sharing a free and public llms.txt generator and endpoint.

Our approach: we crawl your main page, then parse metatags and links to construct the llms.txt. The key is that this process happens without relying on any LLMs, which keeps it very fast and our operational costs extremely low. This allows us to offer it completely free.

Check it out on the homepage, or just send a GET request:

https://get.llms.page/{yourwebsite}/llms.txt

We'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions for features/improvements.