MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 02:39:05+00:00
This might be tangentially but as a 90's/2000's brat I've always been confounded by the old maxim, "HTML is for markup not presentation" and sure but if that was true why are there clearly a bunch of tags which don't meaningfully markup anything except to tell the browser to display the text some way? I'm thinking, "<i>", or, "<b>."

Your average person building a webpage early on wasn't concerned about markup. I've never met anyone that isn't a LaTeX user or software developer that cared about markup. We cared about how the page would look and how it behaved (how it was, "animated.") Fundamentally there's a lack of appreciation for, "web design as a painterly exercise" and that to me creates the crisis. The humane discipline of designing a webpage is in most respects divorced from the act of coding a website. It's fundamentally a question of ethics and aesthetics; of, "whys."
by fijiaarone | 2025-09-24 02:39:42+00:00
The concept of MESH sits somewhere between course grain components and server islands.

React is for fine grain components and HTMX is for lightweight interactivity — update part of a page.

The classic React use case is an editable, filterable drop down. The classic HTMX use case is click a button and load some text.

The overlap comes in the middle, with a simple form validation. React says make each field a component that handles its own validation and error messages. HTMX says just return a re-rendered form with the error messages. MESH says make the form a component with its own endpoint.
by mayama | 2025-09-24 02:43:09+00:00
> There is no proof of a lab leak and evidence leads to the wet market as the source

Because WHO worked with CPC to bury evidence and give clean chit to wuhan lab. There was some pressure building up then for international teams to visit wuhan lab and examine data transparently. But, with thorough ban of lab leak theory, WHO visited china and gave clean chit without even visiting wuhan lab or having access to lab records. The only place that could prove this definitively buried all records.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-24 02:44:55+00:00
Are these organic?

Do you have a low salt version?

Is there an option for pasteurized or raw?

What about sustainable practices?

What about concerns related to gravitational change from such operations?

Is there a recycling program in place?

Do they come with an MSDS and waste disposal instructions?

What about a warranty? Isn’t that required by federal law?
by maroon_unperson | 2025-09-24 02:46:35+00:00
Quick feedback: it took me a while to understand what this does and why I'd use it. You might want to work on how you describe it or give examples of a use case.

It might have helped to have a demo inline on the landing page so you can try it out before signing up also.

You're competing with OS sticky notes on each platform so you'll need to have a compelling use case or niche for this.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-24 02:47:11+00:00
> They’ve had the technology for over 20 years. The only thing that’s changed in the last 5 is betting.

What has not changed since before both of those timelines is baseball umpires have a union[0].

Maybe, just maybe, their union fought the introduction of this to the bitter end.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Umpires_...
by crazygringo | 2025-09-24 02:47:29+00:00
There's a difference between being in public and being tracked.

Of course they don't have expectations of privacy in terms of people being able to e.g. take photos or videos of them. The same way people can take photos of you or me.

But broadcasting someone's real-time location to the whole world all day long, in real time, is something else entirely. That has never been considered part of being in public. That's targeted surveillance, which is very, very different.
by lbotos | 2025-09-24 02:48:10+00:00
Manfred (Commissioner) started 10 years ago.

He oversaw the last collective bargaining agreement in 2021/22. It’s expiring this year. That’s one of the reasons why the rule change is going through now.

I won’t deny that sports betting could be a factor, but Manfred wants faster more engaging baseball. That’s been his stated goal for a long time as he worked through rule changes.
by hinkley | 2025-09-24 02:48:11+00:00
They are currently building their capacity to do multiple games in parallel.

I suspect not wanting to do BG4 is at the end of the day a negotiation tactic. There’s an amount of money and consideration that will make them put it back in the queue. But it’s likely at least five years out before they start on such a thing.

They’ll want to avoid the Torchlight trap, where the team got sick of doing Diablo clones and the company kind of cratered afterward.
by Spivak | 2025-09-24 02:48:21+00:00
Yep, saying it's an age thing is missing that every homeowner is directly financially incentivized to ensure prices go up. I literally get physical printed mail (against my will) every other week telling me about the health of my neighborhood where higher home sale prices means better. Being older makes a person more likely to be homeowner, they got the causation backwards.
by evdubs | 2025-09-24 02:49:03+00:00
This obscures the fact that umpires are worse than 93% when the pitch is close to the boundary of being a ball or a strike (shadow zone). Obvious balls and obvious strikes are obvious, but umpire accuracy when it is close is only 81%, and their accuracy was even worse 15 years ago.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/strike-three-lets-check-in-on-um...
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 02:49:30+00:00
> According to a court deposition in August 2023, Baccarelli said he had made “about $150,000” as an expert witness in the case.

In flyover states in the US, expert witnesses on cases I've seen are often $400 or more per hour, including correspondence, reading/material review, and meetings.

Courtroom days often cost thousands if not tens of thousands per day in appearance fees, plus travel, food, and a nice hotel.

The average costs when dealing with expert witnesses for New York federal court would be much higher than my low cost state.

$150k seems on the lower end for an expert on a matter that ended up at trial to me and probably indicates a few hundred hours of review, meetings, testimony, plus any trial day costs.
by heffer | 2025-09-24 02:49:53+00:00
Pretty sure we don't know each other. I am a fairly recent addition to the country (2019) but we've worked with Dan and Beanfield during COVID when we put together a server for Folding@Home in our office to help them with the huge increase in load due to interest in the COVID research they were doing. Beanfield sponsors the pipe and we donated the hardware and rackspace. That server (the only Canadian one), by the way, is still running to this day. We also came up with the WiFi@Toronto project which a paper says reduced the spread of COVID in those neighbourhoods by 14.4% (https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/f542d219-7abe-4918-846f-...). Again, Beanfield sponsored the pipe to exit all the traffic onto the internet and we sponsored the networking equipment and were the ones installing the APs on rooftops.
by Cloudef | 2025-09-24 02:51:45+00:00
Yeah, its frightingly common CI not doing static analysis checks on C/C++ code. The compiler defaults being really bad doesn't help either. The nice thing about zig is that it defaults to "safe" behaviour, and even if you use it as C/C++ compiler it has saner defaults and compiles with ubsan.

You can guide compiler to check printf style format strings using __attribute__((format)) btw, also checks you are not using a variable as a format string
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-24 02:52:00+00:00
It definitely is if you have an engine with a DX12 backend but no Vulkan backend. Nothing stops you from detecting Proton and then tweaking uses of the DX12 APIs that translate poorly to Vulkan, and there's no way adding a whole new rendering backend will be easier than writing the extra code paths in the DX12 one.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-24 02:52:25+00:00
You should read up on some details. The defamation claim is because Alex Jones accused the parents of being actors who are part of staging the false flag. The huge judgement is partly because Alex Jones failed to comply[1][2] with basic court procedure like discovery in a timely way so a default judgement was entered.

Despite his resources, Alex Jones completely failed to get competent legal representation and screwed himself. He then portrayed himself as the victim of an unjust legal system.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055864452/alex-jones-found-l...

> Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited the defendants' "willful noncompliance" with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the ruling. Bellis noted that defendants failed to turned over financial and analytics data that were requested multiple times by the Sandy Hook family plaintiffs.

[2] https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-rips-alex-jones-c...

> Bellis reportedly said Jones' attorneys "failure to produce critical material information that the plaintiffs needed to prove their claims" was a "callous disregard of their obligation," the Hartford Courant reported.
by _wire_ | 2025-09-24 02:52:34+00:00
Building on his campaign bragging that the war will be over in 24 hours when he's elected, Trump stroked Putin for 8 mos, until his tongue went numb. Putin, being a master negotiator and practiced in the art of receiving pleasure from many at once, made a total fool of Trump, denied Trump a happy ending and jilted him. In keeping with his theme of gross gub'ment efficiency, Trump's gambit now is to funnel billions of other people's money to Zel in exchange for the personal services of Zel's tongue and escalate war against his ex-BFF. Expect Zel to help Trump ceremoniously spluge all over Europe once the checks clear. This is all typical cucked Republican grift. Musk will shortly return to Trump's harem as a tech eunuch.
Show HN: Gradle-less APK builds on Android
by mujeeeb | 2025-09-24 02:53:55+00:00
without access to a pc, i still wanted to build android apps on my phone. this meant i needed to find a way to do it without android studio, on a cli. the internet said that was easy, use gradle with android sdk cli tools. turns out gradle and android sdk relies on official x86 binaries from google servers. maybe there is way to override that, and use our own cross compiled binaries, but i dont know how to do that. also i wanted as much as control as possible over the build process. this led me to create my own build script for usage in termux.

it uses a combination of ninja files and shell scripts. all the tools necessary for building the apk has already been cross compiled and remains as a package in the termux repos(thanks). the shell scripts act as a meta build system, as that builds ninja files dynamically if files have changed. this gives me free parallelism and incremental compilation (i think so). this is definetely not a general build script for all android apps. if it needs to be built by my method, there are a lot of implicit hardcoded file paths, and the biggest issue being that the apps should rely only on platform apis(the ones available in android.jar).

do note that if it wasnt obvious from my tone or my profile, i am a beginner, who has no idea what is going on, so instead of doing push requests or bug reports, i would much appreciate if you just voiced your reasons down below and start a discussion, instead of doing technical stuff on github, i am still learning on how to use all of that. this is the first project that i am showcasing on the internet(only because of my friends forced me to).
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-09-24 02:54:05+00:00
Well the funny thing about abstractions is they are physically real in our imaginations even if only ephemerally.

Human imagination allows us to explore as a simulation anything we want with a form of physicalized internal coherence.

Does internal coherence align with repeatable external coherence? That's what we call empirical.

Humans are the known meaning generators of the universe, we are interesting and special and our unique/random walks are important in an uncomputable and unbound sense. Who knows what casual chains will lead us, where they'll take us or how they might save us (from asteroids let's say) or might reshape the topology of spacetime.

It's early days yet.
by on_the_beach | 2025-09-24 02:54:21+00:00
Not a Go programmer I'm guessing.

Go can be made to run much faster than C.

Especially when the legacy C code is complex and thus single threaded, Go's fabulous multicore support means you can be exploiting parallelism and finishing jobs faster, with far less effort than it would take to do it in C.

If you measure performance per developer day invested in writing the Go, Go usually wins by a wide margin.
by toomanyrichies | 2025-09-24 02:54:21+00:00
> This takes as axiomatic that people with incompatible beliefs in one area cannot work together in a different area.

"Beliefs" are when you think The Strokes are superior to The White Stripes, or that Giordano's deep dish pizza is superior to Lou Malnati's, or that IPAs are better than lagers. I'll happily work with people who espouse those beliefs, despite my beliefs to the contrary.

I won't work with people who describe a Tommy Robinson march as "heartwarming", or who use terms like "demographic nightmare" [1] to describe immigration, or who amplify repeatedly-debunked [2] claims of "Pakistani rape gangs", all of which DHH did. That's bigotry, not beliefs.

British culture isn't being eroded by immigration. It's being shaped by it, just like it has been for thousands of years. Where do you think your culture came from- thin air?!?

- Romans gave Britain roads, baths, and Christianity.

- Anglo-Saxons gave Britain Old English.

- Vikings gave Britain laws and half its place names.

- Normans made French the language of power and fused it with English.

- The Crusades brought new foods, science, and art.

And so on and so on.

It's the height of ignorance to look at that incredibly diverse history, and then say "OK, but right now is the moment in time where we 'lock in' our culture for the rest of time." Culture has never stood still, and no one, not even DHH, gets to freeze it in place. Well, they can try, but they'll be pissing in the wind, just like the Tommy Robinson marchers were.

I'll just leave this here: the folks in this Instagram reel [3], wearing the St. George's Cross flag and clearly on their way to the march, decided to stop and get a curry first. With the caption "When you're on your way to the racist march but the immigrant food is popping."

1. https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

2. https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

3. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOlJ_JAiKTG/
by dzungfz | 2025-09-24 02:54:23+00:00
This is really heartwarming. To be honest, I’m the kind of person who always wants to include others—invite them, reach out, make sure they know they belong. But sometimes when people reject the invites, I feel like “maybe someone like Anna in the story doesn’t really want to be with me.” Today I learned something from Alexei: “I know she’s always going to say no, but that’s not the point. I invite her so she’ll always feel included in the group.”
by ryandrake | 2025-09-24 02:54:28+00:00
Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with my wife about this. She likes doing girls-night with her friends, but she gets frustrated that nobody else prompts it. They always say yes, and they always have a good time, but she complains that it’s always her doing the inviting, and that it’s one-sided.

To me, a relationship doesn’t need two people to maintain and keep it going: it only really needs one, so be that one person!

I realize people are busy and have their own lives, but I still call, I still ask how they are, I still ask what they’ve been up to. Gestures like these are tiny, tiny investments that pay off in the form of a rich, robust social life.

Nobody has ever told me stop reaching out, stop trying, but if they did, of course I would.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-24 02:56:54+00:00
No, I'm not criticizing the officials for failing to reach the correct decision or adopt the correct viewpoints faster than they did. Institutions are large and risk-averse, data was incomplete, and people make mistakes.

I'm criticizing them for suppressing the dissemination of ideas that did later turn out to be correct. I hope the distinction is clear.

If you're going to impose a ban on the dissemination of ideas, you'd better be ten thousand percent sure that nothing covered by that ban later turns out to be the truth. Not a single one, not even if every other idea that got banned was correctly identified as a falsehood. Otherwise, the whole apparatus falls apart and institutions lose trust.

I'm not forgetting ivermectin overdoses. I don't believe my picture is rosy. I'm aware of all the garbage ideas out there, which is why the measles is back and all the other madness. But I'm firmly of the opinion that trying to suppress these bad ideas has only redoubled their strength in the backlash, and caused a rejection of expert knowledge altogether.
by mef | 2025-09-24 02:57:08+00:00
They had this during spring training and it was fantastic. The challenge limit meant it was used rarely, but when it was used it added a fun dramatic element. Players getting to stick it to umpires when they got it wrong, and umpires getting to smirk at players when they got it right.

And at the end of it all, some missed calls get to be corrected.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-24 02:58:03+00:00
I think this might be a cultural mismatch. Expert witnesses in the UK can be paid, but the sums involved are pocket money by American standards. Legal proceedings there also tend not to run as long, notwithstanding the Bleak House stereotypes.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/expert-witnesses-in-legal-aid-ca...
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 02:58:09+00:00
Do you specifically want Android?

It takes a lot of work to have a secure device when you're using a carrier-subsidized Android device.

More than a lack up updates, personal choices like which apps you install/behavior like what websites and extensions you use/uses of the device like what type of network you connect to has more potential for security risks than the immediate lack of updates.

~~~

Request a copy of your data from Samsung via the account data request, open it in Excel, and tell me if you want to use anything they make for your personal confidential communication. I loved my Samsung device but a single request of my data export made me close my account and get rid of all the Samsung devices I owned.
by zenmac | 2025-09-24 02:58:33+00:00
For mac, wouldn't it be just easier to use lima from cli? How does Podman compare to that? Docker unless on Linux has always being a bloat.

Or are there any lightweight hypervisor on top of firecracker alternative? At this point with the way systemd is going, we should just switch back to VM? Everything is just more mature on native OS install. Docker to Linux, just feels kinda like SPA reinventing the html parsing on top of a rendering engine.
by dabluecaboose | 2025-09-24 02:58:41+00:00
I wouldn't brag about that if I were you.

That sub is mostly pictures of "jUsT bOuGhT a StEaM DeCk", sob bait, random steam sales, and rarely ever anything useful related to the Deck itself.

Every now and then I go to check top posts from the past month to see if anyone has posted anything significant, like the DeckMate or EmuDeck or actual useful stuff. Inevitably, it's all standard reddit garbage.
by anonymousiam | 2025-09-24 02:59:12+00:00
Fauci was trying to prevent a run on masks, which he believed were needed by the health care workers. So he probably justified his lie to the US to himself because it was for the "greater good" (The ends justify the means is not my view BTW).

It turns out that masks ARE largely ineffective at preventing CoViD infection. It's amazing how many studies have come up with vastly different results.

https://egc.yale.edu/research/largest-study-masks-and-covid-...

(Before you tell me that the story I cited above says the opposite, look at the effectiveness percentages they claim for each case.)

There's also this: https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1970565993169588579
by bentt | 2025-09-24 02:59:36+00:00
I asked as a chance (a challenge even) to reframe an arbitrary situation.

Even the one you mention, at this exact moment, a win/win could be framed around the benefits of stopping the war. While it's entirely reasonable to pick a perspective that focuses on the awfulness that has occurred, looking ahead, a peace deal would benefit all sides. Certainly it's closer to win/win than continuing down the current path.

My point is that the perspective we take is a choice.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-24 02:59:46+00:00
> How hard would it be for law enforcement today, before chat control, to get chat logs out of discord?

Not sure, speculating: somewhat hard.

Discord must comply with government subpoenas, so if you're the FBI it's easy. If you're law enforcement, I imagine they tell you to go kick rocks if you don't have a warrant.

Law enforcement is pretty bad and mostly lazy. They can't be bothered to pull people over going 20 over, let alone get a warrant for every wannabe punk.

If you're not in the US, then I imagine the effort is insurmountable.

> If the effort is low, and they're not doing it today, they're not going to do it after chat control either.

No - but it can be automated, which is the issue.

Sort of like how the US was wire tapping virtually all internet traffic at one point with PRISM.

Then I imagine the "law enforcement" is done using machine learning and heauristics.

Do you use black slang? Put him on the list. Is your name not that white sounding? That's right, the list. Are you on hacker news? You guessed it - the list.

I mean, that's pretty much how automated facial detection works now. And yeah, it sucks.
by mercurialsolo | 2025-09-24 03:00:03+00:00
Good pointers on decompositing and looking at implementation or fixing in chunks.

1. Break down the feature or bug report into a technical implementation spec. Add in COT for the splits. 2. Verify the implementation spec. Feed reviews back to your original agent that has created the spec. Edit, merge, integrate feedback. 3. Transform implementation spec into an implementation plan - logically split into modules look at dependency chain. 4. Build, test and integrate continuously with coding agents 5. Squash the commits if needed into a single one for the whole feature.

Generally has worked well as a process when working on a complex feature. You can add in HITL at each stage if you need more verification.

For larger codebases always maintain an ARCHITECTURE.md and for larger modules a DESIGN.md
Show HN: Clipboards.pro – A simple clipboard manager I built out of frustration
by quangpl | 2025-09-24 03:02:08+00:00
Hey HN,

I put together Clipboards.pro because I kept running into the same problem: I’d copy something important, then lose it the moment I copied the next thing. Most clipboard tools I tried felt either too heavy or outdated, so I decided to build my own.

Right now it does a few simple things well:

- Keeps a history of everything you copy. - Lets you pin the stuff you reuse all the time. - Has a quick search so you can find that snippet you copied yesterday without digging. - Works across devices, so you’re not emailing yourself notes anymore.

I’ve mainly been using it for code snippets and terminal commands, but I’ve also found it handy for writing drafts, notes, and even copying multiple links at once.

If you want to give it a try, here’s the link: https://clipboards.pro/

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

- Do you already use a clipboard manager? - What do you wish yours did better? - What’s the most annoying “copy/paste” problem you run into?

Lastly, I am proving a peace of mind, not just a clipboard manager.

Thanks!