MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-12 02:25:50+00:00
Well to make things worse I was pretty convinced those were faked numbers to push the TilTok ban forward. I really doubt Meta and Google are each taking in this much per user. But my point is more that even if it were that high,

ChatGPT isn't going to capture all the engagement. And even then I don't know whether $300 is much particularly after subtracting operating overhead. I'm just saying I have trouble believing there's gold to be had at the end of this LLM ad rainbow. People just seem to throw out ideas like "ads!" as if it's a sure fire winning lottery ticket or something.
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2025-09-12 02:25:56+00:00
Just this last week, all the major cargo train lines in northern Sweden suffered big derailments simultaneously, and several dozen roads were made unusable. This was all from a single incident of unusually heavy rain. The country will have badly damaged logistics on the North-South axis for weeks to come, maybe months. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/stora-probl...

Preparedness is vital!
by apatheticonion | 2025-09-12 02:26:23+00:00
The deno_runtime crate is indeed easy to use however the exts that provide compat for web apis and Nodejs compat still require forking deno_cli. You can use some of their ext crates https://github.com/denoland/deno/tree/main/ext but not everything.

Also using ops within Workers is challenging, particularly if they share state.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-09-12 02:26:36+00:00
I'm not sure "we" traded anything.

Back in the day an absolutely minuscule portion of humanity read blogs.

Technology Connections has 3 million subscribers. That's over 10x the number of people reading the most popular blogs in the world circa 2010[1]. And Technology Connections is only a moderately popular channel. If you look at the bigger channels like Mark Rober it is more like 350x.

What actually happened was that the first generation of text-loving online people were eventually outnumbered by subsequent waves of "migration" by people who don't like text and prefer images and (especially) video.

It was just replaced by a better product as the online audience expanded to become more representative of real people. Nothing stops people from writing blogs today. They'll probably even get roughly the same (small) number of readers that blogs pulled back in 2010.

[1]: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist...
by YZF | 2025-09-12 02:26:37+00:00
I don't think so. This is the success of the west. It's the least worse of all the other alternatives. Which other option has worked out better for everyone?

Oligarchy would be the rich controlling the countries in the west. Other than in people's imagination and conspiracies there is no evidence of that actually happening. Was Trump the favorite candidate of the rich in the US? I very much doubt it. Do the rich gain more influence with their money - sure. But not more influence then the rest of the population. The 99.9% have more influence than the 0.1% in aggregate.

The west is the only place on this planet where the corrupt rich do not have absolute control (see Putin). Is it perfect, no? Is it better than those failed attempts to make everyone equal, strong yes.

The top 0.1%, 1%, 10% are still a lot of people. This includes many successful small businesses, it includes large businesses, it includes many. Those people have varied opinions on how countries should be run, just like all of us. But they also have a vested interest in having a safe and free and well functioning society.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-12 02:27:19+00:00
This is amazing work. But you ask what are we doing/can't we figure out a better way to consume content and my feel from this is what are we doing here - building AOL? Lost in the Posthog world here, never leaving, numerous windows and even an Outlook forum (is that a UI we think ppl want to be in?). It's an immersive experience for sure. But I'm not sure being in a posthog:keywords world instead of the web is somewhere I want to be.

Nonetheless, take an upvote. It's a heap of nostalgic freshness. And I'd hire you for the effort crafting/building it over that guy earlier vibecoding a Win 95 UI to show off his design skills.
by easterncalculus | 2025-09-12 02:27:23+00:00
> There are still parents that complain. Turns out they are as addicted to texting with their kids all day as their kids are addicted to the same.

It turns out this is basically 100% of parents in that cohort. Similar with TikTok, finding a parent who says "(endless hours of) TikTok screentime is fine for my kids" without having the same or more screentime themselves is almost impossible.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-12 02:29:29+00:00
Yeah. Showing concrete harm from e.g. collection of location data for marketing purposes is a huge challenge. Show even one instance of someone being harmed by specifically what Verizon did (it doesn't exist). We have all sorts of ad tech collecting huge profiles and yet where is the demonstrated harm?

This is coming from someone with a great interest in privacy, enough to know that advocates purposefully conflate privacy in the sense of limiting government overreach and privacy in the sense of limiting the spread of embarrassing information. I want the former and the latter, but neither really interacts with advertising, in an intellectual honest way. If only data were as valuable as people thought it was.

This is a really unpopular opinion and I'm sure it will be downvoted so, you know, there's that. You've "won." If someone could figure out the harm maybe there would be a regulation. It's been a long time and there still isn't, so you can't just wave your hands around and say, corruption, because there are actually a huge number of laws, simply colossal, and I cannot believe that the position you believe in is so true but so corrupt as to have exactly zero consequences for substantive torts.
by ggm | 2025-09-12 02:29:45+00:00
I would be very surprised if a future democrat government dismantled information sources built on palantir contracts.

They might change aspects of oversight. They might diversify to avoid contract capture.

Sorry to be blunt, but government tends to be amoral when it comes to public noise about things, and actual choices made. Agencies of all kinds from LEA out to health will ask for retained access to the joins over disparate data.

The same across the UK, Europe and the OECD. Plantir is going to do very well, into the future. Some politics will force change. The EU will eventually get robust, onshore, self controlled data analytics and management.
by CivBase | 2025-09-12 02:29:55+00:00
> This seems to be what ICE/The current administration are using as the justification for the masks, but I'm not sure it matches reality.

This thread is literally about an assassination of a political figure. It's a very believable justification.

> What about the targets of violence coming from ICE?

As I've already stated, I am firmly opposed to what ICE is currently doing and what they've been ordered to do. I'm not justifying what they are doing. It's abhorrent. But I don't see what this question has to do with my point.
by apatheticonion | 2025-09-12 02:29:58+00:00
It's more that it's an abstraction that models JavaScript rather than v8. I'm actually planning to have a swappable engine with an implementation for QuickJS. It will be enabled with `JsRuntimeOptions { backend: JsRuntimeBackend::QuickJS }`.

The public API should remain the same, as will the extensions, so swapping out backends is an interesting idea to explore
by foobar1962 | 2025-09-12 02:29:58+00:00
The "old" internet still exists and is alive and well on what I'll call "single issue" web based forums. Photo.net is still here, as are similar groups for cars, bikes, and rabbit holes I have yet to break my ankle in.

Unlike social media, few of these forums have mechanisms to "like" or upvote posts so there is no reward for posting just to attract attention, whether it be positive or negative. That changes the dynamic IMHO. People post to seek answers to their questions, or to share their knowledge and answer other people's questions. This is the way.

I'd include HN in this group of ye olde internet forums. It does have a mechanism to vote, but it's different and the expectation of the readers are brutal to frivolous posts (of which I have made only couple and paid for dearly).
by yuye | 2025-09-12 02:29:59+00:00
>If you work in tech, you’re part of the American bourgeoisie. If you have a college degree, you’re bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are the middle class.

What does the middle class even mean nowadays?

By Marxist definition, the bourgeoisie are the business owners, the landlords. The class that owns the means of production. If you need a salary to survive, you're working class.

A lot of people in tech are salaried employees. They might have some money in investments, but not enough to live off of. Many tech workers are just highly compensated members of the working class.
by backscratches | 2025-09-12 02:32:14+00:00
I have been using google phones since the nexus and have never given google any money or paid more than $300 far a device. I am essentially pirating billions of dollars of expert development from them and they get nothing in return. In a real way I am actively siphoning value from google making them lose money (they get none of my data, which is what they hoped to actieve by producing the hardware).
by jrowen | 2025-09-12 02:32:48+00:00
We used to use our curiosity to find stuff we liked, which felt more satisfying than any algorithm's statistically-determined aggregation.

Today's kids will still do that, in their own way. I'm not convinced there's anything here other than old man and cloud. We did it our way, in our time. I don't think this generation is actually for-reals-this-time the one where technology finally neutered human curiosity and wrecked it all.

In the days you speak of the internet was the frontier for the curious and early adopters. The rest of the world caught up and now it's a fully commodified and industrialized space. Nostalgically trying to recreate the early internet isn't the way forward. I don't know what is but I know the kids will find it.
by shermantanktop | 2025-09-12 02:33:37+00:00
Both, plus absence of seat belts. Rear facing with no head support is a good way to snap your neck if you are wearing a belt, but because we weren’t, we’d probably be flying forward to the windshield.

https://www.automobile-catalog.com/img/pictonorzw/plymouth/1...

Looking at that picture, I see belts, but I do not recall those belts and suspect they were deeply wedged into the seat and forgotten about.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-12 02:33:46+00:00
I spend most of my time on maintenance and routine tasks. Spot checking logs and reviewing aggregate log analyses, client communications and requests, invoicing and accounting.

The rest of my time I’m writing Ansible or contemplating architecture enhancements, or working on change implementation.

I don’t do a whole lot of marketing right now. Most of my client base has been built through word of mouth/referrals and we are busy enough for our available time right now. We don’t have a lot of design/artistic or collateral needs. We aren’t using AI in the business, but we are using automated data analysis tools for things like logging, alerting, etc. One of my cofounders has been using LLMs in his personal projects though. He’s having fun with it building a very specific local news aggregator for a local topic of interest.

The analytical work we do isn’t really something an LLM would help us with. We’re already experts in our respective fields and we’ve already written code that does what we need. A lot of the analytical work I do is directly applying technical knowledge to specific situations. The questions I have to ask are mostly answered by running tools to find the answer or asking a human, and then making a context-dependent decision based on the responses.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 02:33:51+00:00
Much of the political disaster unfolding over the last several years can be boiled down the deliberate breaking of often-informal peace treaties.

I think this framing is useful for people who care about integrity, consistency, and morality. It provides a model to talk about what you want to achieve without becoming a victim of those who would exploit your goodwill.

For example, the First Amendment is an agreement that nobody will abuse government power to hurt people just for saying things a politician doesn't like hearing, yet it's being broken quite a bit now. [0] Or the idea that Congress would impeach a President that violates the laws, instead of ignoring him as long as they are laws Republican legislators didn't care much about.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/writing-an-op-ed-is-no...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-12 02:34:13+00:00
Years ago I called it right here on HN. He was already guilty and it was only a matter of time before he was arrested and jailed by his political enemies. That was never in doubt. This is just a meaningless circus meant to pass this country off as "civilized".

What's truly shocking is the kangoroo court they put this guy through. The entire Lula corruption case was thrown out on infinitely lesser technicalities than what transpired here. It really cements the fact that in this country judges = gods, as an actual lawyer told me years ago. Truly disgusting.

> The same requirements they had for social media companies led to young Nepalese overthrowing their government in a few days time.

Yeah. Huge respect for them. Fuck censors.

> But I guess the Brazilian population has accepted their new authoritarian rule from the judicial bench.

This circus is what happens when you resist the judge-kings. Thousands of people have already been sentenced to decades in prison for protesting them. Some have already died in their judicial concentration camps. People routinely get softer sentences for cold blooded murder.
by chongli | 2025-09-12 02:34:15+00:00
You say that, but then you probably won’t like it when it happens. Some creators post way more than others. Low frequency posters tend to get swept away by the current.

Some of my favourite YouTube channels post very infrequently (one video every few months) whereas others post every single day. The YouTube algorithm seems to know this and pins the low frequency guys’ new videos right to the top when they come out.
by rmunn | 2025-09-12 02:34:52+00:00
BTW, I'm aware that yt-dlp is against Youtube's terms of service, but in America, the right to timeshift a broadcast was well-established in the days of VCRs by multiple court precedents. It has never been tested in court whether that right would also apply to Youtube and downloading videos from Youtube for the purpose of timeshifting, but IMHO it would apply, so I'm doing it.

Also, while Youtube claims that adblockers are also against their Terms of Service, if you actually go read https://www.youtube.com/t/terms you'll see that their claim is not supported by the actual language of their ToS. They forbid you to "access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content" without their express permission. But adblocking is not altering the Content of the service, it's blocking certain videos while letting other videos through. If there was a service that detected "here's a word from our sponsors" parts of the video and removed them, that would be altering Content. But the ads are not part of any given video, rather they're external videos inserted at certain points into the video you're watching. Selectively blocking video A while watching video B is not forbidden by any part of Youtube's Terms of Service.

So go ahead and use uBlock Origin with a clear conscience, unless you can find the part of their Terms of Service that actually forbids blocking certain videos while letting others through.
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 02:35:33+00:00
In practice, desktops and servers are quiet secure because you don't need to download random closed-source firmware and apps to use your device.

iOS and Android are a security nightmare. Downloading a random-ass executable to pay for parking is asking for trouble. Relying on millions of lines of proprietary Google code that you-don't-know-what-it-does is asking for trouble.

This code could have, and almost certainly does have, spyware, keyloggers, and various other forms of malware. You're simply trusting that it doesn't, because it's unverifiable.

And this doesn't even TOUCH on all the vulnerabilities associated with cellular networks, the baseband, SS7, etc. Good luck auditing that code.

At least on a server I can have some baseline guarantees about what software I'm running and what it's doing. Whereas on a phone, your location could constantly be triangulated, your phone identity spoofed, your cellular traffic sniffed, and on and on and you'd never know.

I mean, just this week we saw a post on here about ICE using fake cell towers to identify protestors. That shit is truly trivial to do, and people have been doing it for almost two decades. You wanna talk CVE? Start with that.
by amarant | 2025-09-12 02:35:39+00:00
I sure am! And as a strategical prepper, I've left the entire continent behind well before shit hits the fan.

Hopefully I'll have my new life sufficiently set up to help those I love and left behind, and even more hopefully they'll be able to get out, once the shit actually hits.

I'd like for them to come to me earlier, but I don't think I'll get more than visits until bombs start falling. If I'm lucky some of them will already be here visiting me when that happens. Then they can just stay. The rest will at least know they have a safe haven if they can just manage to get here.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-12 02:35:47+00:00
In hindsight “escape” was a poor choice of word, but I did explain it and you omitted that from your quote: “meaning, in HTML terms, insert <br>”. And that’s not what reStructuredText does. Rather, at the end of a line, backslash acts like a line continuation character (… that only works in certain circumstances), a behaviour commonly found in programming languages inside at least string literals, but such languages aren’t using backslash as “escape the next character”, but rather they have a fixed set of escape sequences like \n or \uXXXX.
by n8henrie | 2025-09-12 02:36:32+00:00
Nix is the escape hatch!

More packages than any other package manager you're likely to encounter.

If something isn't packaged for nix, it's often simple to package yourself. Even when this isn't simple, it's often simple to use nix to bring the build dependencies into your environment and then follow the usual (non-nix) build instructions.

I'm a lowly self-taught hobbyist who works in an entirely unrelated industry. If I can do it, you can.
by theOGognf | 2025-09-12 02:37:16+00:00
It’s ironic that HN threads, arguably one of the forums where the majority of users should understand a tech company and its tech, about Palantir always devolve into some weird speculative and conspiracy-like discussion. Palantir’s docs are pretty open too - it’s not like it’s a black box that you can only see if you have a contract with them. So one would think the HN crowd would know something and have an interesting discussion on how it compares to what they’ve seen, etc. But it somehow always turns mostly political and less about the tech
by 000ooo000 | 2025-09-12 02:37:32+00:00
I can't be bothered doing more than the first paragraph but you can see where I'm going..

>Why do solo game developers tend to get into fights with big tech engineers?

Do they? Often enough for it to be recognised as more than simply two loud, opinionated members of each set each having a twitter account?

>Why do high-profile external hires to large companies often fizzle out?

'Often'? More vibes-based analysis?

>Those two types of engineers often assume their counterparts are simply incompetent, but they’re really just working in different fields.

'Often' again?

If one wants to make generalisations about an entire field of diverse individuals working in diverse roles, that themselves can vary significantly in scope, I think I need more than some flaky premises cobbled together from cherry picked scenarios and assertions based on, realisitically, minimal exposure to those individuals and roles. Look at the author's resume on his site: 2 employers. Don't get me wrong, he's free and should continue to pontificate, but I'm also free to reject it as naive and unconvincing.
by simonh | 2025-09-12 02:37:45+00:00
The fact is adapting a service to provide and support a generic API for the long term that others can hook into is extra work, compared to a private API tailored to their own hardware and that they can change whenever they like. It may be they could provide this as an open service in future.

On the other hand, what is to prevent another ear bud manufacturer writing an iPhone app their ear buds connects to that provides translation? Is this really a hardware feature in the phone? If it’s just software at the phone end, as long as other manufacturers have the feature access to implement this themselves, surely that’s their problem? Why should apple offer translation software as a service to other companies for free? I can see the argument for hardware but not software that others could implement themselves on iPhones.
by jchw | 2025-09-12 02:38:06+00:00
> Technology Connections has 3 million subscribers. That's over 10x the number of people reading the most popular blogs in the world circa 2010

That's what's kind of insane, community forums took maybe 20-30 people to feel "active", but you can't get a big enough slice of attention from that many people to actually use forums, even though the Internet has grown massively. Discovery is really hard: it used to be that community websites were able to claw their way up Page Rank, but these days it's just hard to compete with major websites and SEO slop. Even if you manage to snag a few people, they are very likely to drop off quicker, and the "feel" is a lot different when they're all social-media-brained anyway. The proof is in the pudding: most forums are dead, and forums that are still alive are mostly ancient and very obviously less influential and smaller than they once were. People are too distracted by things that actively claw away attention, and people who are drawn in by social media tend to bring a bad kind of energy to traditional forums anyways.

It is true that you have bigger audiences nowadays with modern social media. Part of that is just the fact that the Internet is bigger (somewhere between 2x to 3x bigger) but another major part of that is the consolidation. Though, it's also worth noting that comparing YouTube subscribers to blog readers may not give the best representation. Entirely different concepts, for entirely different media.
by cyberax | 2025-09-12 02:38:06+00:00
And?

Apple also benefitted from third-party developers writing software for its platform. Remember the "there's an app for that" ads?

I think developers deserve to be treated fairly by Apple, not exploited four different ways. Because to develop for Apple you need:

1. Buy Apple hardware, because Apple doesn't provide cross-platform development tools (unlike Android or even Microsoft).

2. Pay $100 a year just to be able to publish the software.

3. Pay 30% of the app income to Apple (this changed only recently).

4. Have to endure odious restrictions imposed only because Apple wants to keep control of its platform.
by clipsy | 2025-09-12 02:38:57+00:00
So now all of us on the left must police our speech for fear of what some lunatic might do? Why?

Charlie Kirk himself said that gay people should be stoned to death -- do you think perhaps that might have incited a few deranged people? Why don't people like you ever demand that the right curtail their own speech for fear of what the lunatic fringe might do?