MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I built this to collect feedback from my website visitors
by PictureRank | 2025-09-15 15:29:54+00:00
Hey Hacker News,

I built this little tool for my own personal projects to collect feedback from my users as they visit my site. So far I've found it pretty useful for collecting feedback and prioritizing my roadmap as I know what my users are complaining about this most.

Please try it out and tell me what you think and give me some feedback, even if you hate it.
by actionfromafar | 2025-09-15 15:30:02+00:00
There's also, in there somewhere, a corollary about how you don't notice the webviews which don't stick out but just don't feel right. Like, someone mentioned Settings app in MacOS might use them because the icons don't load fast enough.

I can't help but lament just a little bit. Apple used to be about insane polish. Just think about the mentality that created the rounded screen corners on the original Mac. That's just crazy and I admire it.
by dentemple | 2025-09-15 15:30:20+00:00
It was 3 people who were replaced for the making of a list.

The number 50 was what Doctorow presumed was the entirety of the department that could potentially have been replaced by AI, of which the making of this list had been only one of that department's overall tasks.

At 3 interns per article, having 30 interns working on 10 simultaneous articles at any given time seems like reasonable output for an online zine.
by edoceo | 2025-09-15 15:30:30+00:00
Or the shovelware vendors are just more willing to jump the hoops. In once case we (our legit app) just stopped jumping - because it wasn't strictly necessary to our revenue stream. Perhaps the shovelware-clones have different view of the payoff-function for the work. And so jump all the hoops, or have lots of practice navigating that minefield.
by Anonyneko | 2025-09-15 15:30:33+00:00
I really need some advice because I feel like I'm missing something, but here in Finland after some basic calculation I just don't see how a mortgage makes sense, especially for someone ineligible for ASP (local savings scheme for first home buyers, but it has many restrictions).

Home prices are not appreciating (which I otherwise consider a good thing for society), tax breaks for mortgages were abolished a few years ago, rates are at about 3%, down payment and collateral guarantees (when you don't have local collateral as an immigrant) make for a pretty hefty lump sum. Throwing the numbers into a calculator and pitting them against a 6% annual ETF over 20+ years seems to be too much in favor of the ETF, even with potentially higher rent down the line.
by anthonypasq | 2025-09-15 15:30:45+00:00
you can try getting into improv comedy to develop this sort of skill. I'm also generally a slow thinker, but i dont actually think we think slower, I think we have too high a barrier for what we allow ourselves to say. We're afraid of making a mistake or saying something stupid, but most people just blurt out the first thought that percolates from their subconscious.
by Gormo | 2025-09-15 15:30:53+00:00
Tax hikes on American consumers and businesses.

Expansions in federal spending against growing budget deficits.

Government pursuing ownership or de facto control of private industry.

Aggressive use of executive fiat to pursue novel policies without clear legislative basis.

Federal interventions that try to direct or challenge state sovereignty on numerous issues traditionally outside the scope of federal authority.

Hesitant foreign policy that seems overly deferential to traditional US adversaries, especially Russia.
by todd8 | 2025-09-15 15:31:03+00:00
My first college girlfriend made me realize that I wasn't a fast thinker. In person our conversations didn't seem problematic to me, but on the phone she would respond too quickly to what I was saying. I wouldn't be able to get into listening mode in time to pick up on the beginning of her replies.

I suppose that different people just have different strengths and mine isn't quick repartee. Another unusual thing I've noticed is my inability to do my best thinking while music is playing. While working briefly at a company to help out some friends I was forced to hear music throughout my time working on location; it was terrible (for me). In school I always did my work in quiet settings.

I was a math major in college and music interfered with my math work more than other subjects. My theory is that math and music both rely on similar mental resources.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-15 15:31:25+00:00
That's another good objection, next to lumping all stuff into one category: some creative output is "content", not writing, or video, or spoken word, or painting, or acting or even "merch", it's all "content". Calling every item sold, from toothpaste to iron pipe to dump trucks "product" is the same: disrespectful of the thought and effort and craft that go in to making ping pong balls or airplanes.

It's an MBA's way of denigrating everything not presentable in a PowerPoint.
by mxmilkiib | 2025-09-15 15:32:17+00:00
"..summon “unsullied” socialism, a game with ever more variations, which long since has become confusing—and boring."

to quote a comment I found, because it puts it better than I could;

"Murray Bookchin's concept of communalism and his follower Abdullah Öcalan's similar concept of democratic confederalism. It can be summed up as "refocusing politics around local government by popular assemblies, while higher levels of government being confederations of these local units". Thus communalism does mean there would still be a state, although far more decentralised. This was one reason why Bookchin stopped calling himself an anarchist, though his disillusionment with the '90s the anarchist scene was another."

.

libertarian municipalism + communalism, a kind of libertarian socialism

with social ecology as the philosophy framing our situation

Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971);

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post...

some use the meme of "google Murray Bookchin", because once you get into their work, so much of it makes good sense (and their polemic bits are funny too)

a really good podcast on Murray;

https://youtu.be/V0Z2KGudYrA

+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin

.

and there's the adapted democratic confederalism of Ocalan, which is actually used in Rojava (Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria)

https://nybooks.com/online/2018/06/15/how-my-fathers-ideas-h...

this is the group that was US aligned until Trump said no, which allowed Turkey to do a land-grab and dispossess folk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_confederalism

http://ocalanbooks.com
by theYipster | 2025-09-15 15:32:23+00:00
OP here: The README.md assumes the reader knows what CachyOS and Omarchy are. A quick primer for those who are coming to this fresh...

- CachyOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution with built-in performance optimizations tuned to high end computing and gaming. See more at https://cachyos.org

- Omarchy is a Hyprland-based "desktop" crafted by DHH that is slowly turning into its own distribution, also based on Arch. See more at https://omarchy.org

Why would you want to use this instead of vanilla CachyOS?

You want to use Hyprland and want a very strong starting configuration. CachyOS includes its own configuration of Hyprland, but I find it's pretty anemic. There are other pre-packaged Hyprland "spins" to try as well, including MyLinux4Work ands JaKoolit. I've found Omarchy to be the most refined. If you have no interest in Hyprland, neither this script nor Omarchy are for you.

Why would you want to use this instead of vanilla Omarchy?

You prefer CachyOS's defaults and/or enhancements to vanilla Arch, or you do not like all of the out-of-the-box decisions Omarchy makes via its auto-install of Vanilla arch (such as LUKS disk encryption or the enforcement of a single user login.)
by dbl000 | 2025-09-15 15:32:28+00:00
This is kind of one of the points Jonathan Rauch made in his book "Cross Purposes"[0]. He talks about how the common zeitgeist went from being christian and conservative to being christian because you were a conservative and because of that people are treating politics with the same fervor that they would have treated religion in the past.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Purposes-Christianitys-Bargain-...
by anthonypasq | 2025-09-15 15:33:03+00:00
one of you uses more test-time compute before giving your answer :)

is the first person actually incapable of thinking deeply or do they just prefer the other way/have a lower barrier for what is worth saying.

I find i like to sit back and think in a group conversation and chime in at the right moment with something insightful, where other people are just going next token prediction stream of concious blabbering.
by const_cast | 2025-09-15 15:33:06+00:00
The average home is also going to be in a very suboptimal location.

If you compare homes and apartments in the same location, the gap grows even wider. Yes, $4,000 a month in Manhattan is expensive.

But $4,000 might be JUST the HOA cost for buying in the same area. Never mind the 10 million dollar mortgage.

(Spoiler: fake numbers, actually do the math for your city)
by anishathalye | 2025-09-15 15:33:14+00:00
I think semantic data processing in this style has a nonempty set of use cases (e.g., I find the fuzzy sorting of arXiv papers to be useful, I find the examples in the docs representative of some real-world tasks where this style of data processing makes sense, and I find many of the motivating examples and use cases in the academic work compelling). At the same time, I think there are many tasks for which this approach is not the right one to use.

Sorry you didn't like the wording in the README, that was not the intention. I like to give people a canonical form they can copy-paste if they want to cite the work, things have been a mess for many of my other GitHub repos, which makes it hard to find who is using the work (which can be really informative for improving the software, and I often follow-up with authors of papers via email etc.). For example, I heard about Amazon MemoryDB because they use Porcupine (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3626246.3653380). Appreciate you sharing your feelings; I stripped the text from the README; if you have additional suggestions, would appreciate your comments or a PR.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-15 15:33:36+00:00
Scientology has gone through phases. Up until the revelation of "Operation Snow White" [1] it was oriented towards recruiting large numbers of footsoldiers into "staff" roles and set prices that made their services accessible to a rather broad "public". Notably L. Ron Hubbard had written that it was immoral to ask for donations without giving something in return so it was all oriented around getting people to pay for training and auditing.

I don't know about the exact causality but in terms of chronology they started raising prices rapidly around the time Snow White broke eventually putting the auditing route out of reach for a lot of people.

Under David Miscavige the church made a transition to soliciting donations for "Ideal Orgs" [2] and to the IAS in general. The model now seems to be to get large donations from a few whales and if there is a role for less well heeled members it is to have extras to populate the scene and look as if there was a broad-based movement to contribute to.

One interpretation is that social inequality has increased and that the plain ordinary Joe doesn't have enough money to be worth soliciting and if you wanted to build a cult today it would be oriented 100% around finding people in the intersection of rich and vulnerable. Sometimes I think 'rationalism' is all about that -- there's no point in scooping up aimless students at airports in 2025 and making them live in communal houses making money selling candles when you could make a movement which is all about getting the rich to donate money, e.g. "effective altruism". You don't want people's time anymore, it just isn't worth anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

[2] https://tonyortega.org/2021/12/23/insider-how-scientologys-i...
by Night_Thastus | 2025-09-15 15:33:45+00:00
Yep, MERV13 or MERV14 is more than enough if all you're worried about is dust, pollen and smoke.

Because it's not as fine of a filter, far less air pressure is required to filter the air. This results in much, much quieter purifiers.

The endgame of this sort of goal is PC case fans. They've been optimized for decades now to squeeze every last bit of airflow for less and less noise, and they last for a couple decades or more.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-09-15 15:34:27+00:00
This article is really only useful if LLMs are actually able to close the gap from where they are now to where they want to be in a reasonable amount of time. There are plenty of historical examples of technologies where the last few milestones are nearly impossible to achieve: hypersonic/supersonic travel, nuclear waste disposal, curing cancer, error-free language translation, etc. All of which have had periods of great immediate success, but development/research always gets stuck in the mud (sometimes for decades) because the level complexity to complete the race is exponentially higher than it was at the start.

Not saying you should disregard today's AI advancements, I think some level of preparedness is a necessity, but to go all in on the idea that deep learning will power us to true AGI is a gamble. We've dumped billions of dollars and countless hours of research into developing a cancer cure for decades but we still don't have a cure.
by hippich | 2025-09-15 15:34:28+00:00
I think the difference here is that Bitcoin is predictable deflationary vs fiat being unpredictable. If you can know in advance the rate, it becomes sorta like an investment vehicle, where instead of dividends you get appreciation of the assets.

To look at it another way - why one would spend $100 from their brokerage account if they know a year later they can spend $110?
by jayd16 | 2025-09-15 15:35:10+00:00
It's not so much that 99% go to the landfill, but this product does. Other products that use the same parts might be more reusable.

The point is that, most likely, the controller existed before this vape. Buying an off the shelf part can be cheaper than trying to bring up some custom part, both in cost and possibly in overall resources.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-15 15:35:20+00:00
I ran Bazzite for a little while on my desktop to see how it was for gaming, and it was great, but I do a lot besides gaming, gaming is a small percentage of my time spent on the PC, and I as a full-time Linux user, work and home, I needed something more traditional, I've switched over to CachyOS now which meets my needs well.
by JadeNB | 2025-09-15 15:35:25+00:00
I think that's arguably an a posteriori explanation: you can find orthogonal coordinates with respect to which the L^2 norm has a nice form, but you can also single out the L^2 norm in various ways (for example, by its large symmetry group, or the fact that it obeys the parallelogram law—or even just the fact that "orthogonal" makes sense!) without ever directly referencing coordinates.
by Sesse__ | 2025-09-15 15:35:39+00:00
Some are bit-by-bit (e.g. the PPM family of compressors[1]), but the normal input granularity for most compressors is a byte. (There are even specialized ones that work on e.g. 32 bits at a time.)

[1] Many of the context models in a typical PPM compressor will be byte-by-byte, so even that isn't fully clear-cut.
by flippyhead | 2025-09-15 15:35:55+00:00
Super happy customer here. We've been using trigger.dev on various projects for over a year now. It's been a great experience and awesome to see them grow. I don't know how long it will last, but I regularly get answers to questions from the founders on Discord, often within hours. I am sure there are a bunch of competitors, but we've never really felt the need to even research them as trigger has consistently met our needs (again, across a range of projects) and seems to be anticipating the features we'll need as we AI more and more of our projects. We're cheering for you Trigger team ;)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-15 15:35:59+00:00
> The framing you quoted (“these liberals who want to ban free speech”) is often used by one side to pitch the other side as falling outside the traditional liberal consensus.

I disagree, at least a bit. I think "liberal" here is just used as "the bad tribe". It's not saying that they're not living up to their values, it's just saying that they're "them".
by fsckboy | 2025-09-15 15:36:02+00:00
if that trick doesn't work, then either 1. your viewfinder is not showing what you will shoot which is what everybody expects because otherwise how can you frame your shot, 2. you are not using a 50mm lens or 3. you are not using a 35mm SLR

the point of a "single lens reflex" system is that you can see what the picture will look like by looking through the same (single) optics
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-15 15:36:11+00:00
> You may not receive any interest on your stablecoin balance, but the issuer certainly does

A bunch of zero marginal cost capital funding purchases of U.S. debt would absolutely push down rates, possibly lower than inflation, because if you’re a stablecoin issuer you’re not constrained by yield.

This is a dumb-money venture. And if there is this much money that is this dumb, Treasuries aren’t the worst place for it to go.
by firesteelrain | 2025-09-15 15:36:11+00:00
I have launched raspberry pi based PicoBalloons and had one fly for over a year at 40k ft. They are remarkably resilient.

I have used CubeSats in LEO to make amateur radio contacts. AMSAT is trying to get one to MEO/HEO. New cubesats are being released frequently. Not all RPi based and usually custom PCBs. You can buy desk based CubeSats for STEM
by valadaptive | 2025-09-15 15:36:15+00:00
I was going to wait to post this until I've finished the CLI and documentation, but this seems like a relevant time to plug my web font subsetting/self-hosting tool: https://glypht.valadaptive.dev/

It lets you pick from the Google Fonts catalog, and comes with various options for further reducing the fonts' sizes if you're as obsessed with webpage size as I am.
by duxup | 2025-09-15 15:36:15+00:00
This has a knock on effect where US farmers are struggling, and that leads to US manufacturers of farming equipment struggling and so on. Willy-nilly tariff fights are not a wise decision as the second order effects can be surprising.

>White House officials have been considering rolling out federal aid to keep farmers afloat like they did during the 2019 trade war.

There was another NYT article that indicated farmers were not perpendicularly happy about this either as that aid tends to float farmers and keep prices low for the larger companies they sell the product. Farmers are aware that in a way they're just being used to support very large food companies who control the market.
by kpil | 2025-09-15 15:36:26+00:00
I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.)

One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing. But extrapolating the trends, yes Islam will probably become the largest religion in the coming decades.

Or at least maybe - looking at birth rates, it seems as second generation muslim immigrants to Western countries have even lower birth rates than the native population. That might happen also in regions say like Pakistan and Indonesia and other fast growing regions, depending on economical or other changes.
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 15:36:41+00:00
it will be very difficult to make any huge centralization unless one company delivers an incredibly good product for a very good price, which also satisfies creators.

not true. all they need to do is to buy up their competitors if they have any and remove them from the market, so that you end up with no choice. or take microsoft. they never had any competitors for a long time, and they defend their marketshare with all tricks they can think of.

here are just a few articles about this issue. they focus on tech companies, but the same is happening in every industry:

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wave-of-acquisitions-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/rep-ken-buck-big-tech-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54443188

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-big-compan...

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22550608/how-big-business-expl...

https://reason.com/2021/07/07/how-big-business-uses-big-gove...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-lie-fair-share-how-compan...
by pm | 2025-09-15 15:36:50+00:00
What were some of the technical challenges you experienced while reverse-engineering the wallpaper system? I've been reverse-engineering (for lack of a better term) some of macOS' and Xcode's poorly-documented functionality prototyping a personal developer tool. My investigation isn't sophisticated by any means; it's just been trial-and-error, but I haven't found much online in the way of resources for people going down this route.
by righthand | 2025-09-15 15:36:56+00:00
I am hoping ex-WaPo writers can start a new publication and push WaPo down in value. This happened to the local Nyc blog during Trump’s first term. Wnyc was not supporting the writers if Gothamist so the staff up and left and started Hellgate.nyc with a different take on modern journalism. It has been a big win for those writers and local coverage.

We really need to replace these corrupted institutions and at least boost our freedom of choice back up. Nothing needs to be a complete mega-hit 1:1 replacement in the world of news IMO.
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-15 15:37:00+00:00
>The fact that selling such a thing is profitable means that we lack regulations somewhere.

It's the exact opposite. Tobacco is so heavily regulated and taxed that these become profitable. If cigarettes were 3-4$ a pack (which they would be without sin taxes and regulatory overhead), the vape market would come down as well and there's no way these could be profitable. As it is, they retail around $20 and contain the same nicotine as multiple $10 packs of cigarettes.
by dijit | 2025-09-15 15:37:00+00:00
I'm not sure I agree here.

There are "right wing issues" and "left wing issues" and there is friction between them.

What concerns me most is political "slurs" where everyone forgets the meaning of the term but constantly throws it around as if it's just a bad word. Then the conversation just goes off the deep end as soon as they're invoked.

"You're a wokie" or "you're a fascist"; as if either of the people using those terms even knows what they're referring to primarily, they just decided it's bad and because the person they're talking to is bad they must be whatever bad word I have in my vocabulary.

PS: I will say that "woke" has a more concrete definition than fascist to many, but I don't want to be accussed of being for (or against) any particular side when writing this comment, and I can't come up with many off the top of my head that the right wingers use against the left wingers... so, sorry.
by baggachipz | 2025-09-15 15:37:04+00:00
I could never go back to not using a smartphone; texting on-the-go, maps, contactless payments, and ride-sharing are too important to miss out on. That said, it's possible to avoid most of the bad things about smartphones: Don't install any Meta products, and discontinue their use entirely. Don't use any Google products. Be extremely judicious and stingy about which apps you install. If it can be done in the mobile browser, do that. I've also disabled news alerts and most other alerts so that it's a pull rather than a push. It's greatly improved my mindset and freed up a lot of time.