MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-03 04:50:37+00:00
Lots wrong in your comment.

1. Even if one assumes that someone claiming AI will reduce the need for workers decrying population decline is hypocritical, your complaint falls flat because you haven’t shown it’s the same people making the same claim. You’ve fallaciously used the term “leaders” to imply they’re a monolith but “leaders” almost certainly have different views. Some believe AI will reduce jobs and are not decrying a population decline while others believe AI will not reduce the workforce and are decrying a population decrease.

2. Of course one can decry a shrinking population even if one believes we don’t need as many workers. Heck, one can decry a shrinking population even if one believes the population should be smaller depending on why the population is shrinking and how much it’s shrinking.

For example, if the population is shrinking by 2% but if jobs will reduce by 1% that could be bad. If population is decreasing an appropriate amount, that could still be bad if it’s decreasing because of say a deadly pandemic killing people off. Or the population decrease can still be bad because the decrease is in the kinds of people the future economy needs.

3. Just because a smaller workforce is needed doesn’t mean a population decline is a good thing. If that smaller workforce can provide significantly greater output a larger population is a good thing so more people can enjoy the benefits of that greater output.

4. Finally, even if population decline is a good thing thanks to AI and the rate and nature, etc of the population decline is perfect it could still be a bad thing if the timing is wrong and the population decline happens way before AI starts killing those jobs.
Show HN: Basis UI – A Shadcn-Style UI Library for Astro JavaScript
by Zhengyi | 2025-09-03 04:51:04+00:00
I started my JavaScript journey with React and NextJS. But the more I worked with them, the deeper I questioned myself. Because even though React and NextJS are as powerful as hell, most of my needs in my web app development are just Database CRUD + Auth + Markdown Display. (It's my problem, not React's, I know...) And I found myself spending more time tinkering with the toolings and configs of the framework rather than coding the actual design and logic.

There I started my search for the minimum JavaScript framework on which I can focus on what actually matters. I loved Svelte for two months, and then I found Alpine (from a blog talking about the "AHA stack")!

Though Alpine itself is not a complete solution as a JS framework, I love its simplicity and paired it with Astro, which can solve the component issue Alpine has.

But mature frameworks like React and Vue have an unbeatable advantage over my minimum Astro-Alpine stack -- they have prebuilt component libraries like Shadcn, Radix, or NuxtUI.

So I built Basis UI, a Shadcn-like UI library for minimum SSG frameworks like Astro (I'm also considering extending it to 11ty and Nue.js). So we can enjoy the dev experience like stacking LEGO blocks purely in Astro without choosing React/Vue/Svelte.

It's still in beta, so have fun playing with it, but don't use it for anything serious :P
by pseudo0 | 2025-09-03 04:51:49+00:00
The alternative was loading up a Coast Guard ship with guys and sending them out to do an interdiction, seizing 11 men, processing them through the American legal system, incarcerating them for decades, and then eventually deporting them. I bet that costs a couple orders of magnitude more than a drone strike. Arguing cost is not compelling in the slightest.
by bjoli | 2025-09-03 04:53:20+00:00
Support for Hamas has generally been in the mid-30s, but that is also skewed by the fact that Hamas also provides things like health care and food for poor. But why do you think it matters? Israeli support for the genocide in Gaza is more than double that. Should we destroy 80% of civilian Israeli infrastructure, starve the population and stop baby formula from getting into the country, have the worlds most moral snipers shoot Israeli children, and then set up a faux humanitarian organisation that shoots at hungry people?
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-03 04:54:15+00:00
> Plaintiffs overreached in seeking forced divestiture of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints.

This is the problem. It doesn't matter if they used those specific assets to perpetrate these specific acts. The overall market power derived from those assets (and many others) taints everything they do.

There is no way to effectively curtail monopoly power by selectively limiting the actions of monopolists in certain specific domains. It's like thinking you can stop a rampaging 500-pound gorilla by tying two of its fingers together because those were the two fingers that were at the leading edge of its blow when it crushed someone's skull with a punch.

Once a company has monopoly power of any kind, it is useless to try to stop it from using that power to do certain things. It will always find a way to use its power to get around any restrictions. The problem isn't what the monopoly does, it's that the monopoly exists. The only surefire way is to destroy the monopoly itself by shattering the company into tiny pieces so that no entity holds monopoly power at all.
by pkolaczk | 2025-09-03 04:54:47+00:00
The parent comment is right. Rust async is simple state automata structs you can poll explicitly with no magic. Async/await is just some syntactic sugar on top of that, but you don’t have to use it.

An obvious advantage of doing it that way is you don’t need any runtime/OS-level support. Eg your runtime doesn’t need to even have a concept of threads. It works on bare metal embedded.

Another advantage is that it’s fully cooperative model. No magic preemption. You control the points where the switch can happen, there is no magic stuff suddenly running in background and messing up the state.
by dog5pk | 2025-09-03 04:55:00+00:00
Thanks for reading—here’s why Trivacy matters, and why D-Bridge™ changes the game.

I launched Trivacy because the privacy coin space has gotten lazy. Forks, clones, and endless “roadmaps” that never deliver real advances. Trivacy is being built from scratch—new codebase, no Monero/ZCash DNA, and no compromises on privacy, utility, or resilience.

Trivacy in a nutshell: - Full original blockchain, no fork. - All core features live at launch: adaptive ring sizes, self-destructing wallet addresses, proof-of-care mining, and zero-identity mining. - Built to survive in adversarial environments (darknets, censorship, and beyond). - Everything open source from day one (public GitHub soon).

But here’s what really sets Trivacy apart: D-Bridge™. Most coins hand-wave at privacy, but they still push transactions and peer data through the regular internet. D-Bridge™ is Trivacy’s answer to that problem: a native, built-in, always-on, onion-routed mixnet—purpose-built for block propagation, wallet sync, and (crucially) off-chain debit protocol operations. - It’s not “optional”—every transaction and handshake is D-Bridge by default. - There are no central relays, no reliance on Tor, and no “turn on privacy if you want it.” - D-Bridge is built for hostile conditions: censorship resistance, active adversaries, and plausible deniability. - The tech: ephemeral routing, multi-hop paths, zero peer persistence, adaptive decoy injection, and real-time relay failover. - It’s the foundation for Trivacy’s debit protocol, enabling real private spend and settlement—something no other privacy coin has solved for real-world payments. - I’ll be releasing the D-Bridge protocol spec and source for review as soon as the MVP is stable. If you’re a privacy/networking diehard, I’d love your eyes on it.

Trivacy isn’t about “just another privacy coin”—it’s about setting a new standard. - No dev tax, no ICO, no VC control, and no unearned emission. - Focused on giving people a true choice: real privacy, real utility, and a lasting alternative to surveillance-by-default finance. - The genesis block includes an unapologetic privacy manifesto and a permanent dedication to those we’ve lost. This is legacy tech, not just another crypto hustle.

How you can help: I’m pushing the MVP to GitHub soon. I’m looking for contributors who care about privacy, usability, and beating the system on its own terms. - What would make you switch to a new privacy coin? - What’s the biggest thing holding privacy tech back? - What would you want to see in a truly private debit protocol?

If you’re ready to build, break, or audit something that could actually move privacy forward, drop a comment or DM me.

Step Forward or Step Aside. Dog5pk Presents: Trivacy (True-Privacy)
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-09-03 04:57:09+00:00
IEEE Hot Interconnects just wrapped up and they discussed latency performance tuning for Ultra Ethernet where it looks smooth on 2- or 5- sec view but at 100ms you see the obvious frame burst effects. If you don't match your profiling to the workload a false negative compounds your original problem by thinking you tested this so better look elsewhere.
by kqr | 2025-09-03 04:57:35+00:00
It might be a lie, but it surely is a practical one. In my brief foray into site reliability engineering I used CPU utilisation (of CPU-bofund tasks) with queueing theory to choose how to scale servers before big events.

The %CPU suggestions ran contrary to (and were much more conservative than) the "old wisdom" that would otherwise have been used. It worked out great at much lower cost than otherwise.

What I'm trying to say is you shouldn't be afraid of using semi-crappy indicators just because they're semi-crappy. If it's the best you got it might be good enough anyway.

In the case of CPU utilisation, though, the number in production shouldn't go above 40 % for many reasons. At 40 % there's usually still a little headroom. The mistake of the author was not using fundamentals of queueing theory to avoid high utilisation!
by btschaegg | 2025-09-03 04:58:04+00:00
Note: If you're going to use an SBC _only_ for wake up signals, you might want to look into alternatives for the RPi such as the Radxa RockPi S [1]. My home server, for example, runs continuously at 7W, which beats many RPi models. Of course, a Pi to wake things doesn't need that much power and could be an older model, but even then, you'd still be burning "empty Watts".

Of course, the RockPi doesn't give you any KVM like functionality, though.

[1]: https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS
by splitbrain | 2025-09-03 05:00:23+00:00
No, the traffic is not caused by client requests (like when your chat gpt session does a search and checks some sources). They are caused by training runs. The difference is that AI companies are not storing the data they scrape. They let the model ingest the data, then throw it away. When they train the next model, they scrape the entire Internet again. At least that's how I understand it.
by searene | 2025-09-03 05:01:45+00:00
Me too. I’ve been playing with various coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot for some time, and I would say that their most useful feature is educating me. For example, they can teach me a library I haven’t used before, or help me debug a production issue. Then I would choose to write the code by myself after I’ve figured everything out with their help. Writing code by myself is definitely faster in most cases.
Google has added more value to my life than any other top company
by prajwal-s-x | 2025-09-03 05:02:57+00:00
Keeping aside privacy, data, bla bla, which really does not matter when you come from the lower part of the pyramid, Google has added so much value to my life compared to any other so-called top companies with respect to market cap like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple. So I really don’t get it when people show so much hatred towards Google compared to other companies.
by barchar | 2025-09-03 05:06:31+00:00
Well, if everyone is unemployed there won't be much of a market for these newly AI enabled companies to sell into. Also, in the extreme, you'd have deflation such that it's worth hiring again. This would be very painful.

More likely automatic stabilizers and additional stimulative spending would have to happen in order to fully utilize all the new productive capacity (or reduce it, as people start to work less). It's politically hard to sustain double digit unemployment, and ultimately the government can always spend enough or cut enough taxes to get everyone employed or get enough people to leave the labor force.
by kelthuzad | 2025-09-03 05:07:03+00:00
You're right, I am making a bigger argument. That's because pbiggar's point about voting is impossible to understand without it. It's a symptom, and you are trying to discuss it while pretending the disease i.e a system of apartheid, as defined by international law, is "irrelevant". And this system isn't just a feature of the occupation. It is foundational to the state itself, a reality even zionists are forced to admit. As a Jerusalem Post op-ed concedes, "No honest Israeli citizen can claim that the Palestinian citizens of Israel live as equal citizens in the State of Israel."[0]

Your apologia that Israel is "simply following international law" is perverse. Everybody knows that Israel has never in its entire history, since its inception, ever given a fuck about international law, which makes your apologia extra comical. Furthermore, you are elevating a single procedural rule above one of the gravest prohibitions in the entire legal order, the crime against humanity of apartheid. The rule you cite is not a shield against this crime, it's a tool used to facilitate it. By forbidding political integration, the system enforces the very demographic separation required to maintain an apartheid state. Your claim that "other countries do the same" is a baseless false equivalence that ignores the unique permanence and stated demographic goals of the Israeli apartheid system. And your deflection that we should "change international law" is an unserious diversion. The international community doesn't need to change the laws, it needs to hold these genocidal zionists accountable for violating the most fundamental ones that already exist. Your entire response is a performance of pedantry to avoid acknowledging a criminal reality which, for almost a century, has been inflicting hell upon the natives whose land zionists have been brutally colonizing with absolute impunity - culminating in the predictable conclusion of Genocide[1][2][3][4][5].

You are defending the apartheid system by pointing to a single, well-oiled gear, while deliberately ignoring that the entire machine is designed to make a mockery of international law.

[0] https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-734439

[1] https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/prof-amos-go...

[2] https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

[3] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-c...

[4] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committ...
by sroerick | 2025-09-03 05:07:34+00:00
This would not be wildly out of place for a small to medium business running a business card website. On the high end, certainly, but not unheard of.

But if it's also including the cost of all the CI and build steps for the entirety of Zig infra?

That seems pretty reasonable for me. Although maybe my cousin Katie could do it for 1/10th the price in WordPress
by dhx | 2025-09-03 05:08:08+00:00
Just to add a bit of history--there was a little known software product, a name which I cannot remember or find, in the early 2000s for Windows NT based operating systems, which hooked API calls of Windows applications to implement seccomp-like filtering for random Windows applications. I recall it allowed users to restrict an application to not perform certain system actions, access certain folders/files, etc. It was well ahead of its time for early 2000s operating system hardening and I think may have been an inspiration arising from early 2000s rootkits.

It predated https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie but Sandboxie is an example (from 2004) of a similar project that has a longer development history. There have been other similar projects that have come and gone over the years too.
by protocolture | 2025-09-03 05:08:53+00:00
I dont know what you pay for either scenario. But where I am, sleep studies are heavily government subsidised, and cost me less than the oral appliance, which did not attract any subsidy.

The issue there is that theres an extreme incentive to push you back to another sleep study. The people who run the sleep studies also sell/rent government subsidised CPAP machines. And the sales pitch is very forceful.

On my large treadmill of doctors doing anything they could possibly do to not send me to a psych for an ADHD assessment, I was offered the option of the oral appliance. I found that gentlemans practice, knowledge and understanding of the issue to be quite thorough.

His approach was more engineering than science for sure. I don't doubt the sleep studies results, in that I was getting extremely poor sleep. I doubt the interpretation of the results towards a diagnosis of extreme OSA.

What really got me my best sleep was ADHD stimulants. Its like I have a normal humans circadian rhythm now. But spending 6 months on the oral device, learning about jaw positioning, sleep positioning and other things, probably did me better than a CPAP machine would have.

Probably some important context, is that the doctor who referred me to 2 sleep studies and a whole bunch of other shit, had diagnosed me with subclinical thyroid problems. And on the basis of that diagnosis was unwilling to ever refer me to a psych because he believed his diagnosis explained all of my symptoms that OSA did not. I do have subclinical, treated, genetic hypothyroidism. My current doctor is inclusive of that diagnosis, and doesnt use it to exclude others.

YMMV.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-09-03 05:09:00+00:00
Chrome became successful for the same reason Firefox became successful

enshittification of IE -> Firefox's rise

enshittification of FF -> Chrome's rise

Any unbiased person can verify the timeline

https://www.wired.com/2005/02/firefox/

https://visionarymarketing.com/en/2008/09/03/chrome/
by kataklasm | 2025-09-03 05:10:36+00:00
That's the kind if short-sighted view that's the root issue in a ton of enshittification happening around: the belief that short-term gains or benefits are all it's about. It's not sustainable to leech off of wikipedia content to fuel your own (ad in Google's) knowledge pop-ups, even if it benefits the user in that they save a single click, because that means long-term wikipedia will die out because users no longer associate the knowledge gained with wikipedia but with Google even though they had nothing to do with it apart from "stealing it".
by bjt12345 | 2025-09-03 05:11:11+00:00
Some motherboards disable power to their ethernet port upon sleep and so WoL will not work.

This is particularly common if the NIC is a power hungry 10GbE port.

However, in the particular case I found, the motherboard also disables oower to any usb GigE adapter attached.

The solution I found was to attach a USB hub with (empty) SD slots and integrated GigE port. As SD cards require power to remain mounted, the motherboard did not shutdown power to this adapter and WoL worked.
by nomoreofthat | 2025-09-03 05:11:11+00:00
It’s entirely possible. Claude’s security model for subagents/tasks is incoherent and buggy, far below the standard they set elsewhere in their product, and planning mode can use subagent/tasks for research.

Permission limitations on the root agent have, in many cases, not been propagated to child agents, and they’ve been able to execute different commands. The documentation is incomplete and unclear, and even to the extent that it is clear it has a different syntax with different limitations than are used to configure permissions for the root agent. When you ask Claude itself to generate agent configurations, as is recommended, it will generate permissions that do not exist anywhere in the documentation and may or may not be valid, but there’s no error admitted if an invalid permission is set. If you ask it to explain, it gets confused by their own documentation and tells you it doesn’t know why it did that. I’m not sure if it’s hallucinating or if the agent-generating-agent has access to internal detail details that are not documented anywhere in which the normal agent can’t see.

Anthropic is pretty consistently the best in this space in terms of security and product quality. They seem to actually care about doing software engineering properly. (I’ve personally discovered security bugs in several competing products that are more severe and exploitable than what I’m talking about here.) I have a ton of respect for Anthropic. Unfortunately, when it comes to sub agents in Claude code, they are not living up to standard they have set.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-03 05:11:36+00:00
Didn't you find the verbose style readable when you opened a project after a long time?

For me the time spent coding is the last step. The more important task is always in identifying a problem worth solving and formulating what I hope to be a coherent design.

The actual typing, while tedious, is the least important part. Just the same, I am sometimes feeding a snippet to a LLM and having it fill out the tedium. Results vary, but the verbose style and longWindedDescriptiveNames seem to help. A few inline comments pick up the rest. The LLM will also expand these into Javadoc type comments.
by te | 2025-09-03 05:12:40+00:00
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that number is not actually employee income tax, even though the report seems to suggest the same. Employee income tax is an expense of the employee, not the employer. If it is income tax withholding, it's way too small for $150k+ of employee comp, which is another reason I don't think it's that. Instead, I expect this tax line item to be primarily the employer share of FICA tax, which is typically considered a payroll tax instead of an income tax.
by captainepoch | 2025-09-03 05:13:15+00:00
It's useful, but it's a meaningless feature.

We've been asking for a good JS and HTML engine, faster than what Firefox uses, and for better compatibility with websites (there are webs that don't work properly with Firefox). And to not put the Manifest V3 into Firefox (which it's done already, besides we still have uBlock Origin working as intended, for now, because nobody knows what's going to happen with that in the future).

And I think that's way more important that being able to group tabs.