MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-25 04:47:44+00:00
It's pretty direct?

It went from having to go out of your way to locate and operate with a bookie who had little away with the sports organization to... Pulling out your phone and tapping a couple of buttons, paying a legitimate business who can then apply enormous legislative and financial pressure directly against the teams with billions in backing.

It has dramatically changed the state of gambling, sports, and the businesses around them.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-09-25 04:48:39+00:00
You can but they can constantly scan for any open connection that happens by and then dump cached data into it when one is found. Cell modems are becoming cheaper too, as is bulk cellular bandwidth, especially if buffered for periods of low utilization. In those cases, it might be less data since the connection is limited or the data harvester is paying. People with basement laundry rooms will have a built in advantage when dealing with this sort of thing.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-25 04:50:42+00:00
> Between low IQ, impulsivity, addictive personalities, etc., a large fraction of the population needs guardrails imposed by society for the sake of both themselves and the people around them.

I find it telling the the people that have this opinion always seem to believe that they are going to be the arbiters of how other people should live, and that they themselves are without the vices that they would regulate.

And I even agree on the betting bit: it's bad. But then again, so is voting for criminals and yet, we allow it and arguably that causes a lot more damage than betting.
by in_cahoots | 2025-09-25 04:51:13+00:00
This is the part I think young people don't understand. My husband and I worked around 16 years combined in tech. We started pretty late, since we both have PhDs, and we're not engineers so we aren't making top of the market. We still had enough money after that time to buy a house, have 2 kids and go on a multi-year sabbatical. And most of this working period was not at FAANGs.

If you're young, talented, single and bringing home $200k a year including RSUs, you are on track to basically do whatever you want in a decade. Make it to senior manager / Staff level and you should be clearing $400k a year at least. And if you do it smartly you're working 9-5, not some 996 bullshit. That's a ridiculous amount of money.

It's not as sexy as building a startup. But at least for me the ROI has been incredible. And I'm not super smart- my whole college career I looked down at people who spent their lives in front of a computer. I completely missed the trend of tech and Silicon Valley, and I definitely don't work any harder than the next guy. But if you do good work I've found that it tends to pay off.
by cortesoft | 2025-09-25 04:53:28+00:00
Well, in 1979 the people who had the money were the existing casinos, operating in the 4 states that had legal sports betting. This was a way to close the rest of the market, so they could continue to have a monopoly on gambling and wouldn't have to compete with other states.

Then FanDuel and DraftKings arrived with a lot of investor capital, and had the money and power to push through the legalization.

It was never morals that kept gambling from being legalized elsewhere, it was protectionism.
Show HN: Roundtable MCP Server to Use Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini from One UI
by mahdiyar | 2025-09-25 04:54:05+00:00
Hey HN,

Last week, I spent 40 minutes debugging a production issue that should have taken 5. Not because the bug was complex, but because I kept switching between Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini - copying context, losing thread, starting over. The workflow was painful: 1. Claude Code couldn't reproduce a React rendering bug 2. Copy-pasted 200 lines to Cursor - different answer, still wrong 3. Tried Codex - needed to re-explain the database schema 4. Finally Gemini spotted it, but I'd lost the original error logs This context-switching tax happens weekly. So I built Roundtable AI MCP Server.

What makes it different: Unlike existing multi-agent tools that require custom APIs or complex setup, Roundtable works with your existing AI CLI tools through the Model Context Protocol. Zero configuration - it auto-discovers what's installed and just works.

Architecture: Your IDE → MCP Server → Multiple AI CLIs (parallel execution)

It runs CLI Coding Agents in headless mode and shares the results with the LLM of choice.

Real examples I use daily:

Example 1 - Parallel Code Review: Claude Code > Run Gemini, Codex, Cursor and Claude Code Subagent in parallel and task them to review my landing page at '@frontend/src/app/roundtable/page.tsx' → Gemini: React performance, component architecture, UX patterns → Codex: Code quality, TypeScript usage, best practices → Cursor: Accessibility, SEO optimization, modern web standards → Claude: Business logic, user flow, conversion optimization Save their review in {subagent_name}_review.md then aggregate their feedback Example 2 - Sequential Task Delegation: First: Assign Gemini Subagent to summarize the logic of '@server.py' Then: Send summary to Codex Subagent to implement Feature X from 'feature_x_spec.md' Finally: I run the code and provide feedback to Codex until all tests in 'test_cases.py' pass (Tests hidden from Codex to avoid overfitting) Example 3 - Specialized Debugging: Assign Cursor with GPT-5 and Cursor with Claude-4-thinking to debug issues in 'server.py' Here's the production log: [memory leak stacktrace] Create comprehensive fix plan with root cause analysis All run in parallel with shared project context. Takes 2-5 minutes vs 20+ minutes of manual copy-paste coordination.

Try it: pip install roundtable-ai roundtable-ai --check # Shows which AI tools you have

I'd love feedback on: 1. Which AI combinations work best for your debugging workflows? 2. Any IDE integration pain points? 3. Team adoption blockers I should address? GitHub: https://github.com/askbudi/roundtable Website: https://askbudi.ai/roundtable
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-25 04:54:45+00:00
I have my homepage set to /active, which includes flagged posts. What you're saying here is a constantly repeated justification, that is demonstrably untrue with a single button press.

My feed looks like what an actual, organic tech forum looks like. Discussing topics that are important to people in tech, which obviously includes the important happenings in politics, but is largely interesting stories in the geekosphere.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-25 04:57:22+00:00
This is just kinda more culture war.

This post is assuming that acts of violence, like Charlie Kirk's assassination, are promoted and committed by large groups of people who identify, benefit or agree with parts of a specific framework (wokeism). Which is not true on principle.

You're ascribing agency and belonging to a group based on, basically, vibes. On vague agreements or conclusions, mispoken points, incomplete framings. That is the culture war. You're doing it.

And wokeism was just a corporate strategy to appear more friendly to consumers of alternate identities/perspectives. It wasn't something that came from the masses, it was something that was done to generate more money by corporations.

You're participating in the misunderstanding of large masses of people to gain an in-group identity. Sure there are crazy people who believe its ok to be violent on "both sides". We all understand that these people are crazy, those who don't are themselves crazy.

You're aiding the normalization of extremism and polarization just like some rad-lib is doing right now by calling you a fascist. We're all ignorant, we don't know everything.
by Theodores | 2025-09-25 04:57:28+00:00
As I see it, it is like gambling. If you pay for keywords of a rival brand and you get conversions from it to make it worth your while then you can keep paying for those keywords. So yes, it is a data driven decision.

However, it is also faith based. In e-commerce the guys buying the ads are not the brightest on the team. Same goes for their organic SEO counterparts. Their metrics rarely include the metric that matters to the board, namely profit. Their metrics are in sales at best, but most likely just clicks.

I have never worked anywhere where it has been joined up. You wouldn't believe how much gets sold at a loss with customer acquisition costing more than the product. Imagine paying lots for the ad, some more for the hosting, some more for the affiliate marketing, then discounting the product and then free shipping, all with an outsourced warehouse that costs a fortune.

In regular retail you just don't have this level of waste since there is a different cost structure and growth is unlikely to be double digit.

Meanwhile, money is sucked out of the world and funnelled into ad tech. In the olden days adverts might support the local paper so the money stayed in the community.
by TheDong | 2025-09-25 05:00:13+00:00
"And now let's introduce this video's Sponsor, SpywareVPN"

Yeah, sure, "ad-free plan". As long as you don't watch (what feels like) the majority of videos on the platform.

I pay for premium, but I'd gladly pay 4x as much if Youtube also required creators to mark sponsored segments and let them all get skipped automatically if you paid for youtube "double premium double ad free" or whatever.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-25 05:01:45+00:00
One can still conduct deauth attacks fairly easily, or, if the device just picks the strongest open network signal, one can set up a dummy / honeypot WLAN right next to the appliance that has no internet connectivity, and as you note with the basement reference, faraday solutions can work well, too, not to mention simply removing or disabling the networking hardware.

This is also true for cars - it's often not terribly difficult to pull the fuse for the cellular modem provided you can procure a manual.
by delusional | 2025-09-25 05:03:44+00:00
I like that a lot. My favourite leaders haven't sought out my opinions much, but they made their intentions and basis clear. If I wanted to change something in their plan, I could do the work of making an argument from their basis. Most people aren't going to do the work of actually making an argument, so they get brushed aside. The few people who do bother to make an argument are the ones with a lot of conviction and motivation toovercome the new obstacles.
by roamerz | 2025-09-25 05:04:00+00:00
>>I think swinging should not be manual.

I disagree and here's a couple of reasons why I say that:

1. What am I going to do with the time between releasing control and regaining it from the autonomous control?

2. In that break of workflow my first thought is it will cause a break in my concentration.

3. When I am swinging back from the truck to the trench the bucket is naturally in my control. It seems that in autonomy mode the transition from autonomous to my control would be very unnatural and choppy. I suppose with time it would be okay but man seems to violate the whole smooth is fast concept.

I'll shoot you an email.
by jinjin2 | 2025-09-25 05:04:07+00:00
I usually start with PostGIS for single-node workloads and then switch to Exasol when I get to truly massive datasets (Exasol has a more limited set of spatial operators, but scales effortlessly across multiple nodes).

It will be great with some more options in this space, especially if it makes a smooth transition from single-node/local interactions to multi-node scale-out.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-25 05:04:07+00:00
Not just Russian. There have also been a few cases recently where spent Centaur upper stages -- which were thought to have been completely passivated -- broke apart for unknown reasons. These were in a geosynchronous transfer orbit (with apogee near geosynchronous orbit, perigee down near LEO) so the debris won't decay any time soon.
by KaoruAK | 2025-09-25 05:04:30+00:00
The Partition Problem: given integers, decide if they can be split into two subsets of equal sum.

Example: {10, 10, 100, 100} → solvable since {10, 100} and {10, 100} balance.

Now extend this to duplicated powers-of-ten: {10, 100, …, 10^n, 10^n} with n = 10000.

For the larger instance with duplicated powers-of-ten up to 10^10000 (size m = 20000), the algorithm completed in n = 10000 greedy moves. Runtime remained remarkably efficient, completing in ≈ 2.87 seconds total in Colab Basic CPU.

Implications: P = NP. RSA and modern cryptography collapse.

Pandora’s box is open.
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-09-25 05:04:37+00:00
Francis Fukuyama mentions this in one his books -- The Origins of Political Order or Political Order and Political Decay, I can't remember which -- and argues that this is an important part of how American democracy was workable (and British democracy too, by the way).

Other thinkers with related ideas are mentioned by other commenters:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364562

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365419

As far as I can remember, Fukuyama's idea was that small organizations gave people a way come together as members of a certain community of practice or interest -- a trade, religion, a hobby -- and to gain first hand experience with self-governance. The organizations also provided a way give the shared concerns of their members a public voice. It's not feasible for a political candidate to visit every tradesman of every stripe in his shop, but when the horseshoers have a regular meeting at their hall, a candidate can often arrange to visit the hall for an hour or two. The same is true for ladies' charitable societies, religious groups, libraries, map collectors and many other groups that represent certain interests or powers in the society. These organizations were often (though not always) chapters in larger organizations, which provided a way to really focus people's voice at higher levels of government.

I believe the absence of these social organizations is more or less the cause of the imbalance in US democracy today. It simply is not workable for the individual to face off, toe-to-toe and unmediated, with the state.
by Agentlien | 2025-09-25 05:04:54+00:00
This was actually a really neat refresher.

The name feels like such a near miss though... Kvick (beyond being my surname) does mean quick and I see they changed to it from kwick to make the title "more Swedish". Great! But sört? That's not a Swedish word and feels very "trying to seem Swedish without knowing any Swedish". That letter would be pronounced somewhat like the u in blur.

Meanwhile sort in Swedish is sortera. Sort itself does mean sort as in kind/type. So perhaps Kvick Sort would be the best version of the name?
by Loocid | 2025-09-25 05:06:53+00:00
Not as much as traditional bookmakers but they absolutely care. Betfair has a "premium charge" where if you earn over a certain amount in a year, you get charged a fee equal to a % of your gross profit.

Its the same as poker. An exchange wants a bunch of equally skilled players betting against each other. If everyone has zero edge, all the money stays on the exchange betting over and over and the money eventually all goes to the exchange in commissions.

Players with a strong edge dramatically reduce the time before the losing players run out of money, meaning less commissions for the exchange.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-25 05:07:14+00:00
How about if we imagine this at a grander scale? The article I linked suggests:

"A one-kilometre diameter spherical [balloon] will lift 700,000 tons – two Empire State Buildings. A two-kilometre diameter [balloon] would lift six million tons”

With that massive a city I expect you'd be talking like < 1% delta from a rocket launch.
by umpalumpaaa | 2025-09-25 05:08:02+00:00
First hand knowledge: ERGO and MunichRE both have a lot of cobol still doing the core business. You will most likely never run into the system because they just run batch jobs - sometimes configured via a “nice” web UI… you configure your job, submit and the next morning you have your report… that’s why you never actually see COBOL.
by exidy | 2025-09-25 05:08:10+00:00
I think it's better to steelman rather than assert ignorance on the part of the person you're replying to.

It is true that people these days associate the DSLR form-factor with professional photography, despite the heavy use of rangefingers by those such as Robert Capa etc not that long ago. And it is also true that both rangefinders and mirrorless ILCs avoid the need for retrofocus designs which in theory should make for higher-quality lenses at the same weight, or similar quality and a lower weight.

As for "better" this is often a matter of preference and it's okay for people to have different preferences. For me personally, I wish there was more experimentation in ILC form factor, it seems most (with a few notable exceptions) ape the pentaprism hump even if they don't contain one.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-25 05:08:21+00:00
I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that executives are actually capable of taking feedback constructively

In all cases they have eventually just told me to shut up, no matter how diplomatic I try to be, and in some cases it has led to me being terminated

Feedback is just taken as a sign that you aren't aligned with their vision, so you have to go
by milch | 2025-09-25 05:09:23+00:00
They seem to have fixed that, at least for me all the top results are Pinboard clients or other products with Pinboard in the name.

With the ads it really feels like Apple is playing all sides, they almost always show the competitor first. When you search the competitor it's a different competitor at the top. You can keep going until you terminate at some app that presumably pays top dollar to appear as an ad for themselves right above their app in the search results. The only thing I'm surprised by is that they even allow people to put ads over their own first party apps
by Agentlien | 2025-09-25 05:09:37+00:00
I think sort would be even better because it's less Swenglish. It's the base for sorting in Swedish (sortera) after all. Sört does really bother me since it sounds so wrong (almost like the u in blur). Sårt use closer to how Swedes would pronounce the English word sort, that's true.

At least they changed the first word to Kvick because it means the right thing and sounds about right. And it happens to be my family name.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-25 05:10:55+00:00
Why do you expect someone who hasn't yet become a citizen to say otherwise? My sister assimilated, got used to the idea that she would settle in the US and live like an American, then her green card application got rejected (something about repeated errors by either her employer or attorney). 2 years later, she's still gradually recovering from the mental health impact and rebuilding her life elsewhere.

You can't both have a system that can kick people out on a whim with zero recourse AND expect those people to be fully devoted to being American before they actually become citizens. They have to avoid committing fully before them, and especially nowadays with the unnecessary cruelties of the current administration (the entire "fly back within 24 hours or pay a fee that we don't yet have a process for" thing)
by musicale | 2025-09-25 05:11:13+00:00
Interesting and cool books, and they have been promoting them recently:

https://www.cyoa.com

As others have noted, another interesting series of interactive/game books is the Fighting Fantasy series, some of which have been converted into smartphone and console games/apps:

https://www.fightingfantasy.com

(There are at least two prominent Steve Jacksons in gaming. Somewhat amusingly, and confusingly, American Steve Jackson, of Steve Jackson Games, happens to republishing the Fighting Fantasy books by British Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, both of Games Workshop fame.)

I hadn't heard of Lone Wolf gamebooks (https://magnamund.com) or Way of the Tiger (which was also apparently converted into software) until now! Are there any other interactive/game book series of note?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-25 05:11:18+00:00
> Even in my exit interview, I’ll say everything was great.

This is really understandable. Don't burn bridges and such

I can't help but wonder if we're just screwed though. We can't hope to course correct without this sort of honest feedback but we're conditioning ourselves never to give it or receive it by ... Never giving it or receiving it
by drnick1 | 2025-09-25 05:11:58+00:00
Yes, and sadly this is very commonplace. At this juncture, Linux builds don't make a lot of sense anymore, especially if they are not going to receive much attention when it comes to debugging. The performance penalty of Proton is small enough that it rarely matters. The worst I have seen is perhaps -20% FPS in Helldivers 2 (with an Nvidia GPU), but normally the impact is in the 0 to 10% range, so negligible for all intents and purposes.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-25 05:12:38+00:00
Orion was a very unstable/buggy app. I don't know how it is now. The funny thing is when I had reached out to their support with a detailed bug report, they asked me to go to GitHub issues instead (or their feedback forum; not sure whether they had moved). I asked them to pass it to the team since I had already shared it and these were easily and always reproducible; I had added proper steps as well. They said - nope. At that point, I realised what a mistake it had been trying to "contribute" to yet another closed-source software. Mail thread deleted, browsers - both iOS/mac - uninstalled. End of story.
by gamer191 | 2025-09-25 05:12:49+00:00
Youtube’s tv app is actually just a website (youtube.com/tv, although you need a tv user agent). So yeah, I think most tvs are using JavaScript and the rest are using the tvlite api which has less formats than web_safari (which will continue to work in yt-dlp without Deno if you’re willing to accept 1080p downloads with inferior codecs)
by csin | 2025-09-25 05:13:43+00:00
Thanks for this reply. This comment chain sent me through an existential crisis.

OP made it sound like tabs in the title bar was a new innovation.

"The parent post is overly strongly worded, but I agree with the meat of it: tabs should not be in the title bar of the window. It's worse usability for a space savings that really isn't relevant because it's so small."

I was nodding to this.

But I'm also someone who cares about vertical screen real estate (enough to call it vertical screen real estate).

So I was in a hypocritical conundrum. Do I care about the title bar, or do not care about the title bar?

Check firefox. Wait wtf, my firefox has no title bar! Did I customize it myself, I don't remember removing it???
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-25 05:14:03+00:00
I suspect that this actually is something they think is a "good idea", for their particular idea of "good". It'll get used for "deals" like everything else, but they don't need to introduce new pretexts just for that.

("They" being the Trump admin in general, since I'm not at all sure who in that morass is actually in charge.)
by adrr | 2025-09-25 05:14:04+00:00
Couple main reasons: 1) BSD license vs a CopyLeft license. Edge, Opera etc don't want to push their changes back up. 2) Compatibility and performance is why Brave switched from Gecko to Chromium. 75% of the marketshare is chromium based browsers so sites will more than likely work with chromium browsers.

I don't why webkit is more popular. Maybe because it(Apple) is slow to adopt standards.
by lesuorac | 2025-09-25 05:14:32+00:00
IIUC, that article is written in 2025 and cites stuff pre-2023.

IN 2023 the city threatened them with violating the terms of their liquor license [1] (which doesn't prevent you from refusing service to anybody short of actually illegal behavior). I can't really find any follow-up about this.

[1]: https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/business/msg-could-lose-its-li...
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-25 05:16:07+00:00
This is not my experience.

In fact, I just tried searching for "Microsoft Word" in the Mac App Store, and it was the first hit (with other Office apps coming next).

I did a search for "Instapaper" and again, first hit.

On my iPhone I did the same thing, there was a single sponsored app as the first item (and oddly completely unrelated), and the first app after that was the one I typed.