MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sophira | 2025-09-04 18:43:34+00:00
Good question. I've just tested on the latest ESR version of Firefox (115.27.0esr) and the bypass definitely works there.

I've also been able to do more testing on whether the XHR/frame blocking is bypassed, and I was wrong there - XHR and frames are blocked perfectly fine, even with this bypass. I haven't tested cookies and media blocking, but so far it appears like it might just be scripting that gets through.

I'll send gorhill an email, thank you for the suggestion!
by mrcjkb | 2025-09-04 18:43:43+00:00
His use case is mini.nvim, a huge bundle of plugins where you most likely don't want each plugin initialising automatically.

He and I are on very opposite ends of the "setup spectrum", but we have found common ground, which is that you shouldn't cargo cult it: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/35600/files
by MKuykendall | 2025-09-04 18:43:44+00:00
Shimmy is designed to be "invisible infrastructure" - the simplest possible way to get local inference working with your existing AI tools. llama-server gives you more control, llama-swap gives you multi-model management.

Key differences: - Architecture: llama-swap = proxy + multiple servers, Shimmy = single server - Resource usage: llama-swap runs multiple processes, Shimmy = one 50MB process - Use case: llama-swap for managing many models, Shimmy for simplicity
by Letstalk123 | 2025-09-04 18:44:06+00:00
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it turned into engagement farms — feeds, likes, and algorithms designed to keep us scrolling.

I’ve been experimenting with a different model: instead of endless content, the whole platform revolves around one-on-one, anonymous voice conversations with people around the world.

No likes, no followers, no algorithms. Just two people talking.

The idea is simple: the best parts of the internet have always been the conversations, not the feeds. I wanted to see what happens if you design an app around that principle alone.

Curious to hear what the HN community thinks:

Does this scratch an itch you’ve felt?

What do you see as the biggest risks/challenges with this approach?

If you want to try it, it’s live at mindfuse.io .
by csa | 2025-09-04 18:44:22+00:00
> I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision.

Good!

If they want to give kids the chance to develop the skill of managing unstructured time, that could easily be fit into the school day/week in a variety of ways.

In most K-12 schools, there is a lot of time in the day that is used incredibly ineffeciently.

For my personal experience, college was a time management joke after high school, mainly because I didn’t have to spend so much bullshit/wasted time in classes.

> Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience.

That’s a very privileged stance to take (I usually don’t play the “privilege card”, but it’s appropriate here).

For many/most students, the home is not particularly conducive for doing homework a variety of reasons.

Maybe not for the median HN contributor, many not for the median middle class person in the US, but these groups are not the majority of students.
by cko | 2025-09-04 18:44:29+00:00
I'd argue that the reason for people to do any sort of productive work is to be able to spend it on such "distractions" (as you put it) like Taylor Swift concerts and sports events.

Think about these fantasy sports gambling apps, your coworkers who distract themselves from the drudgery of work by discussing sports, the financial institutions that take a transaction fee from money being passed around, the infinite scroll of content on social media, all because of athletes.

Not me, I spend nothing and invest it all, but all these investments are basically leveraging what society truly wants, among which is leisure and art.

Functionally, as a curmudgeon, my value to the economy is near zero.
by throwup238 | 2025-09-04 18:44:33+00:00
As an extreme skeptic of crypto in general, the uses for stablecoins seem obvious as long as they’re transparently backed or used only for short term transactions before going back into fiat.

Even just paying a foreign contractor is a pain in the ass sometimes so if a bunch of banks and financial service providers around the world manage to make international transfer easier via the coins, that’s great. Not everyone cares about the inconvenience of KYC or reversibility of transactions sent internationally. These usecases feel more like shortcutting the complexity of transactions across state lines rather than the regulations we’ve learned about the hard way in a hundred years. Obstacles rather than safeguards.
by martey | 2025-09-04 18:44:57+00:00
I think that when a wealth of other reliable sources don't describe an economist as Marxist, Wikipedia shouldn't give precedence to a single op-ed in the Stanford Daily from 1976.

You're focusing on when the word "Marxist" was removed in 2024, but you might want to consider when it was added to the article (in August 2020, about two weeks after Harris was selected to be the vice presidential nominee): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_J._Harris&...
by ruszki | 2025-09-04 18:45:36+00:00
Luck. It’s always just luck.

Of course, you need to have other ingredients too, but hundreds of millions, if not even billions of people have those skills too. Who win more among them is pure luck.

And in that, of course a ton of predetermined parameters, like where you born, who your parents are, what your skin color is, etc.

I have a friend who is worse in almost every skills which matter in our work. Not much worse, he is still awesome in his job. But I’m better. Every single person who saw us work in comparable environments would tell you the same thing. His career is still better than mine. And the single reason is that he born in wealth. He had the opportunity to live without income for years, and kick off a startup, and try to start some others, and simply try out, and risk things which I couldn’t do. Nothing else. Pure luck.
by baby | 2025-09-04 18:45:43+00:00
I'll attempt an answer:

Today, if you want to transact between businesses or retail (folks like you and I), you need to find a route between the two entities' banks. This route might take several hops, passing through some central banks, and some of these hops might be instant or might take days to actually settle. On top of that, you need to pay the service that helped you find a route (SWIFT) and potentially the nodes your transaction goes through. Bottomline, it can be slow and a lot of middle men are taxing you.

This is why you see services like (Transfer)Wise, that basically try to bank everywhere, and allow you to send money faster by taking a shorter route (kind of like a wormhole :D). But they have to add liquidity everywhere, which they have to rebalance constantly, and it's centralized (single point of failure). FWIW it's great because for a long time this is the best thing we had.

Now, let's take a look at the other side. Using stablecoin is a matter of just creating a wallet. The openness by default of blockchains make it really easy to integrate with a blockchain as an entity (just use the SDK, it's there by design). Furthermore, it's in many cases instant and cheap (unless you're transacting on a slow blockchain, but then that's your fault).

That being said, the elephant in the room is that one stablecoin (let's say USDC) is now present on many blockchains. So if you have USDC on chain A, and I have USDC on chain B, we're back to our "tradfi" world where we have to find a route between our two chains, which might take us over many bridges, which can be slow and costly. The alternative, like with Wise, is to use centralized players who have liquidity on many different chains and can move things around by just updating their internal (and centralized) database. It's tradfi all over again :D
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-04 18:45:52+00:00
I read once the tsar bomba is actually not very efficient. The problem is the explosion is concentrated on one spot and most of the energy gets dissipated upwards. If you really want to cause huge widespread destruction you are better off using multiple smaller megaton bombs. Still, it would probably ruin your day.

Apparently they could have even doubled its power to 100 megatons? You have to wonder what that would have been like.

In case you were wondering this is what would have happened if they had detonated it under the marinas trench https://what-if.xkcd.com/15/
by jimmyshoes | 2025-09-04 18:46:13+00:00
I’ll never understand why they didn’t even bother to experiment with monetization for Arc.

Normally, I’d scoff at the idea. But they genuinely made the browser useful again in ways for which I’d happily shill $30/mo. Superhuman proved you can do it for email, which was also previously laughable. I guess that ended in a buyout, too, but at least they tried.

Arc also had a solid wedge into team space, especially if going AI-native was their little dream.

You own the browser. Just build a capable browser-first agent that helps teams do work. Make it a shared space (separate from personal ofc) and start charging for teams.

As I write this, it’s pretty clear that’s what Atlassian wants to do with this. The only real loss is: - They decided to roundtrip the entire product story of Arc with Dia, and drag users through 0->1 again - It’s Atlassian, and you know they’re gonna suffocate anything that isn’t related to Atlassian

All in all, this looks like a fear-based sellout. They could have done it on their own but didn’t have the chops to scale into a company of that size. So instead they took the guaranteed payoff and tucked themselves inside this big ** kangaroo’s pouch for safety while they get to play with AI indefinitely.

“We coulda been something real.”

————

EDIT: unironically, they now offer the option to pay $20/mo for Dia Pro… it’s basically comedy at this point.
by agnokapathetic | 2025-09-04 18:46:22+00:00
> Electrical signal attenuation increases with the square of the distance

not true. in standard HV-AC lines, power losses are ~10% per megameter. HVDC gets to 3-5%. So Nevada to Seattle would be at most 20% loss, and in practice 15%, and with HVDC closer to 7%.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/1...
by Wikipedianon | 2025-09-04 18:46:34+00:00
Beeblebrox leaked internal mailing list messages to a forum known for doxxing in violation of the NDA they signed.

i know that Beeblebrox did not doxx anyone and I said that in my comment. my point is leaking information to a doxxing forum sends the wrong message and is dangerous.

Maybe you should create an account and look at the "Wikimedian Folks Too Embarrassing for Public Viewing" forum and get back to me. Or do something about it before the Trump administration uses this as an excuse to censor enwiki. Either way here are some excerpts if you don't want to.

From the first page, here's an active editor (iii, known as jps or ජපස) doxxing someone about UFOs. I took out the names to be polite but it's all there:

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=14172

"Is [username 1] (T-C-L) an alt account of [username 2] (T-C-L)?

For those who are not aware, [username2] is the name of an account used by one [redacted] on various platforms up until about 2024 when he more or less abandoned them. That account also was involved in the ongoing game of accusing [redacted] (T-H-L) of being [redacted] (T-C-L) which is about as fairly ludicrous an attempt at matching a Wikipedia username as I've ever seen.

Anyway, I feel like maybe he thought "If [__] can do it, so can I." And maybe that's the origin of the VPP.

Oh, this is about UFOs. Yeah, I'm in the shit. Maybe someone can link to some other stuff for you to read, but I just want to drop this here because I have nowhere else I get to speculate on these matters and everyone loves a good conspiracy theory data dump from time to time "

Here's the thread "Who is Wikipedia editor i.am.qwerty"

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=13821

"I.am.a.qwerty (T-C-L) gathered up a bunch of those articles and some earlier material to create Wikipedia and antisemitism..."

It goes on:

"But who is I.am.a.qwerty? Let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that I.a.am.a.qwerty is a PhD student named [real name]. Specifically, this [real name]:"

"[real name] is a PhD candidate [major] at [university name]. He received his BA (Hons) in [major] from [university]. Previously [real name] received his rabbinical ordination from the [other school] in [location] in [year]. [real name] is also the [job title] at [organization]."

I can't imagine any other community tolerating its members going on KiwiFarms and encouraging doxxing of other community members, so long as they didn't technically engage in it. But Wikipedia does.
by squigz | 2025-09-04 18:46:48+00:00
Beyond the obvious (medical care, accessibility, etc), I think technology has a huge amount of untapped potential to make the end of our lives a lot more bearable, and a lot less lonely. TV is one thing - and whether it's a net good or not has been discussed to death, so I won't here - but I wonder how video games might be used. They're a lot more engaging - both generally and cognitively - than TV, you can build and achieve things and feel a sense of accomplishment (yeah yeah pride and accomplishment), there are communities around them, you can play with your family, etc. Even online board and card games would be an option. Have you ever considered showing your dad some simple games?
by daseiner1 | 2025-09-04 18:46:51+00:00
via your choices you "become" aligned with one of those options

parent commentor isn't entirely off-base because much of the narrative in the game is about the state of the fictional society after a failed communist revolution so much of the "vibe" of the game is grounded in a populace whose dream failed. the game is more sympathetic or at least more interested in leftism. i chose to play as a fascist art critic who believes he's a famous disco star.

disco elysium is definitely not advocating for collectivism or any other ideology, though. great game, one of the best i've ever played.
by emursebrian | 2025-09-04 18:47:32+00:00
Anki is great for what it is, but it has some annoyances when studying languages. They were annoying enough for me that I build some tools for Anki to try to address the problems. Eventually, I migrated my SQL scripts and JavaScript code to a lightweight .NET Core app that replaced Anki entirely.

This app was the starting point for presenting interactive content in Emurse. We're currently focusing on filling in areas of language learning that are missing - like phonetics.

If anyone is interested, they can checkout Dogen's Phonetics Course on Emurse: https://emurse.io/courses. There's also an "instant demo" for the Thai Course where you can try a demo without creating an account.
by andruby | 2025-09-04 18:47:40+00:00
I love Arc. I tried Dia. I wanted to like it but don't see how it's going to be valuable for me.

The browser features are _much_ worse than Arc (no sidebar, bookmarks are a dropdown, ...) and most of the time the AI can't even "see" or "read" what's on the page I'm viewing, so it's just worse than using Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini.

I'm still using Arc and will probably continue until there's another browser that copies its UI/UX improvements.
by freedomben | 2025-09-04 18:47:57+00:00
Some key points from the article:

> An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has been jailed for two years and eight months for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography.

> The extreme pornography offences were connected to videos of body mutilations that Hopper had purchased online and did not include children, the court heard.

It sounds like he was mainly jailed for insurance fraud? The porn sounds shocking, but not illegal (though IANAL)
by pessimizer | 2025-09-04 18:48:18+00:00
It certainly does not. It is not dependable for any subject that anybody or any government that commands any significant resources has any interest in. I'm sure there's somebody right this second guarding distortions on some obscure page about some scientific phenomenon that 99.999% of people have never heard of because their investment depends on it.

The political model doesn't work at all. If you just count the votes of the people who show up to vote, the Party will hire buses and empty the retirement homes and homeless shelters. Maybe you can fight this irl if everyone knows there's an election, but nobody knows when there's a war on a talk page.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-04 18:48:25+00:00
> there's nothing special about carbon offsets that makes them entirely fraudulent

The problem is that what gets exchanged in the marked is a certificate but the purpose of the market is to create a positive externality. This means the buyers and sellers don't have an inventive to be honest.

The buyer of the carbon credits doesn't actually need the carbon to be captured. They just want a certificate for X credits, so they can emit elsewhere or get some other benefit.

The seller doesn't actually need to capture the carbon. As long as they can make a convincing enough case to the buyer that they did capture the carbon, the buyer is happy to buy.

This is unlike a typical market where the seller does have an incentive to fool the buyers into a buying a subpar product, but the buyer has a lot of economic incentive to actually not be fooled.
by LeFantome | 2025-09-04 18:48:36+00:00
I use a different MUSL-based distro and do not find it an issue. A bigger problem on Alpine for me would be the limited package selection. In both cases, the solution for me would be Distrobox.

I tend to install an Arch Distrobox but Debian would work too. Both have massive software repos all running on Glibc. Anything not natively in the Alpine repos can be installed from the Distrobox repo instead. If it is a command-line app, it is just opening a terminal and typing. And GUI apps can be exported to the host app launcher where they launch and run normally.

I guess there is some “friction” but it is very minor. And if you like the distro otherwise, the overall experience is net positive.

Personally, I dislike Glibc. I am happier without it. And, when I have to use it, I can easily.
by Wikipedianon | 2025-09-04 18:48:40+00:00
it's a hit-and-run because I don't want to get doxxed.

I dont want a world in which Trump regulates Wikipedia but pretending it's sunshine and rainbows is a joke at this point.

And the person you're replying to is strawmanning. I never said Beeblebrox doxxed anyone, just that they leaked secret information on a doxxing forum in violation of Wikipolicy and possibly privacy law.
by hgaddipa001 | 2025-09-04 18:48:53+00:00
Oh I used Screen Studio :)

Thanks for the compliment.

Not worried about browser agents, as we actually have pretty deep integrations (we include semantic search as well as user action graphs).

Naturally apis will always be better than browsers as apis are computer languages and browsers are human language.

The sale of Browser Company today too I think shows there's not that much of a ceiling for agentic browsers.
by dcposch | 2025-09-04 18:49:16+00:00
Many skeptics assume that stablecoins are just about regulatory arbitrage.

That's part of it, but:

1. Progress often depends on evolving obsolete regulation.

Uber works much better than taxis (once upon a time, people could "call a dispatcher" an hour in advance, wait on hold, etc) and yet in the early years they had to work around taxi regs.

2. Blockchains are a fundamentally more robust way to run a ledger.

If any of you have ever written software touching tradfi custody you'll know about "reconciliation"--start of every business day, you get a dump of files in your FTP server in various proprietary formats. You parse the transactions and they don't add up. The Recon team hand-corrects and recategorizes edge cases so that the balance deltas match transaction totals and everything ties out.

This type of absurd duct tape is ubiquitous, and it's a major reason why trad rails have multi-day settlement times and even longer for international. Inflates team size and cost required to run a product. SWIFT is a messaging system -- bankers use it to essentially text each other about wires to figure out issue resolution. Some lower-level trad payments regulations are written assuming that this level of manual oversight is required to prevent ledgering errors and ensure sound accounting.

Stablecoins run on transparent, precise ledgers with machine consensus. This doesn't solve everything, but there are large categories of issues that can occur in trad payments that do not exist onchain.

3. Control is liability.

Some important regulations actually encourage blockchain-based payments. For example, money transmitter law places significant requirements on custodial money transmitters (you take money from Alice, with a promise to give it to Bob) that do not apply to noncustodial channels (you give Alice a mechanism to send directly to Bob).
by ShayNehmad | 2025-09-04 18:50:02+00:00
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by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-04 18:50:22+00:00
I… am skeptical of your numbers.

$100k invested in 2017 turning into $2m in 2025 implies a 46% annualized return over 8 years.

Those numbers are not realistic from even the world’s top hedge funds.

That begs the question of what magic well of oil you struck to yield those numbers? The only public investment I can see is TSLA. And I would not recommend an average Joe YOLO $100k into TSLA.
by viridian | 2025-09-04 18:50:35+00:00
I think input strategy probably accounts for the difference. Usually I'm just asking a short question with no additional context, and usually it's not the sort of thing that has one well defined answer. I'm really asking it to summarize the wisdom of the crowd, so to speak.

For example, I ask, what are the most common targets of removal in magic: the gathering? Mistral's answer is so-so, including a slew of cards you would prioritize removing, but also several you typically wouldn't, including things like mox amber, a 0 cost mana rock. Gemini flash gave far fewer examples, one for each major card type type, but all of them are definitely priority targets that often defined an entire metagame, like Tarmogoyf.