MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LikesPwsh | 2025-09-16 19:47:40+00:00
Nuget, Powershell gallery, the marketplaces for VSCode/VS/AZDo and the Microsoft Store too. Probably another twenty.

They collect package managers like funko pops.

I'm not quite sure about the goal. Maybe some more C# dev kit style rug-pulls where the ecosystem is nominally open-source but MS own the development and distribution so nobody would bother to compete.
by adrianmonk | 2025-09-16 19:47:43+00:00
They can also improve that balance by adjusting the qualifying times from year to year, and they do.

They could even make a projection of future cutoff times and take that into account when setting the baseline qualifying times. In other words, be a little more generous with the 18-34 group initially knowing that you'll like penalize them more with your one-size-fits-all cutoff. I'm not sure if they do that.

Also, the current qualifying times are all multiples of 5 minutes. If they really want to improve balance between groups, the low-hanging fruit is to make those more granular.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-16 19:48:03+00:00
> Always use a third party like 1Password or similar.

Or even better, don't rely on a third-party hosted service.

I've been a Codebook[1] user since the old-days when they used to call it Strip.

They are old-school, local-system storage. With sync/backup done how you like it (all three encrypted before it leaves your computer):

- Dropbox - Google Drive - Local folder (which you can then sync with using your own mechanism) - Recently (only this year) they introduced a totally optional hosted subscription cloud-sync option for those who want it

[1] https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-16 19:48:05+00:00
There is definitely not one single standard. If you look at the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" (LSB standard, which is not universal), on the section about the home directory, you can find this:

> A number of efforts have been made in the past to standardize the layout of home directories, including the XDG Base Directories specification [9] and the GLib conventions on user directory contents. [10] Additional efforts in this direction are possible in the future. To accomodate software which makes use of these specifications and conventions, distributions may create directory hierarchies which follow the specifications and conventions. Those directory hierarchies may be located underneath home directories.

So one standard saying you should look at other standards. XDG from freedesktop.org is the most popular (and probably the one you are referring to). However, it relate to Linux desktops, it says nothing about non-desktop applications (ex: bash, ssh, git, ...). About git, it would a bit ironic for git, made by Linus himself for working on the Linux kernel to not follow the "one standard".
by chris_wot | 2025-09-16 19:48:21+00:00
Gotta love the "if an under-18 user is having suicidal ideation, we will attempt to contact the users’ parents and if unable, will contact the authorities in case of imminent harm."

Oh brilliant. The same authorities around the world that regularly injure or kill the mentally ill? Or parents that might be abusing their child? What a wonderful initiative!
by perihelions | 2025-09-16 19:48:46+00:00
By way of contrast, America's current top "doctor" organized a class-action lawsuit against the HPV vaccine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... ("Kennedy played key role in Gardasil vaccine case against Merck")

> "Details of the Gardasil litigation show how Kennedy took action beyond sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines in the court of public opinion and helped build a case against the pharmaceutical industry before judges and juries."

> "Kennedy, a longtime plaintiffs' lawyer, became involved in the Gardasil litigation in 2018 in collaboration with Robert Krakow, an attorney specializing in vaccine injury cases, Krakow said"
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-16 19:48:59+00:00
It's not as simple as good vs bad. Imagine if this discussion were framed in some far more gray context FBI vs EPA.

>I am not defending at all the actions of the FBI.

"I am not defending the EPA, the overzealous enforcement arm of regulatory capture, I am defending the FBI who work closely and collaboratively with many industries, including ours to benefit society as a whole"

Now, obviously that's not a serious opinion, but surely you see what I'm getting at.

>The problem is this exact mindset where we insist that everything is on one massive slippery slope and there's simply no way to differentiate from proper, needed regulation, and the boot of law enforcement being deployed to fuck with the working class at scale.

How exactly does one differentiate at the margin?

>We can tell the difference and it isn't difficult, it simply requires thinking which an unfortunate number of voters don't like doing.

Anything we give power to for good gets co-opted by interests that can't stand garner support on their own because such interests must find things that have good marketing and credibility to advance their causes under.

Furthermore, this failure mode is basically the story of our time. Tons of out institutions suffer from this sort of co-option by entrenched interests, big business interests, etc, etc.

>Reactionary movements have existed for every time the Government says don't do anything

And their existence can be used as a canary. I don't see a lot of people making complaining about or simping for the <shuffles cards> Office of weights and measure or <shuffles cards> state fire marshall's office. Those sort of functions aren't questionable so they don't have pushback arising out of basically nowhere and they don't need constant simpin to fight that pushback like micromanaging what people do with their cars after sale (EPA) and breaking encryption (FBI and friends) does

Now, obviously that's a bullshit statement, but surely you see the reflection.

The whole premise is flawed. We can't just pick "things" for government to enforce or do. That doesn't scale to a nation of 300+mil.

>there is ALWAYS reactionaries because there is ALWAYS a segment of the population that never matures past the age of ten.

I'd ask if you saw the irony in calling the reactionaries ten year olds immediately after thinking you can cherry pick which enforcement beurocracies are good(ish) and bad(ish) as if that's not too subjective of a task to be tractable, say nothing of the fact that they all influence each other, draw from the same talent pools at the higher levels, etc, etc.
by rectang | 2025-09-16 19:49:13+00:00
It's not unreasonable to trust large numbers of trustworthy dependency authors. What we lack are the institutions to establish trust reliably.

If packages had to be cryptographically signed by multiple verified authors from a per-organization whitelist in order to enter distribution, that would cut down on the SPOF issue where compromising a single dev is enough to publish multiple malware-infested packages.
by sholladay | 2025-09-16 19:49:46+00:00
To be fair, I think this is partly because ChatGPT went viral long before they had an official app. I remember thinking, "Why the heck haven't they made an app yet?" And it was notable when it was finally released. So many people had already been using unofficial apps by that point.

GPT-3 came out in June 2020, that's when a lot of developers started talking about it and early implementations using its API started to appear. The ChatGPT web UI came out in November, 2022, at which point it quickly went mainstream. By January, 2023, they had one hundred million users. They still had no app at this point. GPT-4 came out in March, 2023. Still no app. It wasn't until May, 2023 that they released an iOS app, followed by Android in July, 2023. It was a whole extra year until they released a Mac app in June, 2024. So many developers beat them to the punch on making a UI for their own product in the meantime.
by next_xibalba | 2025-09-16 19:49:48+00:00
Don’t forget Zip2, PayPal, Neuralink, OpenAI, and The Boring Company.

There are large swaths of people that accept headlines as fact and/or cannot or will not grapple with nuance and complexity (“I think Elon’s a jerk and he is a formidable engineer.”) Perhaps it’s a sign of these polarized times, or, as I believe, people have always been like this. We just have more time and resources to dedicate to outrage and flamewarring than we did in the past.
by archagon | 2025-09-16 19:50:03+00:00
$20+ per ride is affordable? Waiting 10m+ for your ride and slowly sifting through traffic is quick?

In London, Paris, or St. Petersburg, I pay a few bucks to hop on a train that runs every few minutes and rapidly end up across town, roughly in the area I need to be. It's literally the cheapest and fastest way to get from point A to point B, not to mention tested at scale and thoroughly battle-hardened over the course of a century.

Not every city has this privilege, of course, but surface trams are 80% of the way there, especially if they have right-of-way. And they don't make pedestrians' lives a living hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNTg9EX7MLw
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-16 19:50:13+00:00
This is now a global problem. The guy who started it, Andrew Wakefield, is British, and we have long had antivaxxers in Europe too.

Prior to Covid, the antivaxx scene was vaguely left-and-green oriented, biomoms, vegans and other "very natural" people; you would expect them to vote for Greens or even more alternative parties. This changed abruptly and now the antivaxx scene is mostly rightwing, but the common base is still the same distrust.

I wonder if this is the price we pay for radical informational transparency. Nowadays, democratic countries with reasonable freedom of press cannot really prevent their own fuckups from surfacing in the worst possible way. Some people react by complete rejection of anything that comes from "official" channels and become ripe for manipulation from other actors.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-16 19:50:25+00:00
This is a common piece of misinformation. While the parties have changed over time, republicans have transitionally always been representative of natural rights and on the right, while democrats were more focused on egalitarianism and other more left-wing topics. Freeing slaves was a republican policy because it was focused on natural rights, the civil rights act takes natural rights while producing a more egalitarian society (i.e. to ensure everyone is allowed in your water fountain I must require it through law, and close your store if you refuse). Certainly the parties have shifted over 200 years, but I don't think you're fully caught up on your history.

That said, this article is about removing references to slavery in national parks, so I'm not sure where your point is going.
by lossolo | 2025-09-16 19:51:05+00:00
It's not only WaPo and WJS but investigations in Sweden and Germany. Read the reports.

"Nord Stream sabotage: Berlin issues arrest warrant for Ukrainian man"

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/14/n...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-known-about-nor...
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 19:51:09+00:00
There are lots of principled people that you aren't hearing from. Please be aware of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity fallacy.

Regardless, the current situation doesn't prove much about intellectual consistency. It's perfectly reasonable to put endorsement of political violence in a separate category, and it's not valid to conflate all cases of "cancel culture" with each other and consider it as a "is this okay y/n" question.

If a leftist were saying "this rightist who glorified the murder of a leftist should be fired" and had previously said "this leftist who said nasty things about white men shouldn't have been cancelled by the rightist mob", would you see any hypocrisy in that? I would not.

So today, as rightists tell me "this leftist who glorified the murder of a rightist should be fired", while I don't necessarily agree, I don't go reminding them "remember that time you thought a rightist who said nasty things about black women shouldn't have been cancelled by the leftist mob?", because it's not actually relevant. (And in reality, I have seen people get cancelled for far less objectionable things.)

It's very hard to find people who take "free speech absolutism" so seriously as to oppose the SCOTUS standard of "incitement to imminent lawless action". And I can't recall ever seeing one who would agree, in as many words, that employers have any kind of moral responsibility to ignore what their employees say, even from work accounts.
by lerp-io | 2025-09-16 19:51:12+00:00
ok good job sure but lets be real, cant they just paste their info into gpt and have it just generate a resume on the fly as html or something and if they can just do that then why would they even bother using a form builder at that point...im not saying ppl not gonna use ur tool or whatever and maybe its good opportunity to learn and bond with ur wife on a project together like that, is cute, but idk how much of an edge it will give you on the market. like maybe you can just craft some clever prompt to make the resume look pretty (like eg use tailwind and make it look like shadcn with X color) and have different styles and just have some ui wrapper for that but when u just building a form builder with bunch of random options kinda just feel like bloat when someone can just paste their shit in gpt and get resume super quick without even registering.

just food for thought to give u an extra edge, not saying ur product is bad or anything. maybe like 5 years ago it would actually hit but these days you are now competing against like x100 ai slop and also when applying for jobs many corpos force the people to fill out their own webforms anyway so maybe like somehow streamlining that or trying to attack from a more utility angle would also be good idea
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-16 19:51:21+00:00
Please don't "publish" on Zenodo. If you think your work has merit, go arXiv -> peer review -> open access journal. Otherwise, put it on your own website. Zenodo is a repository for artefacts (mainly datasets): if you try to put papers on it, people will think you're a crank. It's about as damaging for your reputation (and the reputation of your work) as a paper mill.

Of course, make sure you've done a thorough literature search, and that your paper is written from the perspective of "what is the contribution of this paper to the literature?", since most people reading your work will not read it in isolation: it'll be the hundredth or thousandth paper they've skimmed, trying to find those dozen papers relevant to their work.
by _wire_ | 2025-09-16 19:51:34+00:00
//I mean, objectively you should kill that one dude to save five, right? Right?//

No. A person's life is their own.

There's no objective scale for weighing lives against each other.

Unless you want to play god.

The trolley problem is not an investigation into pragmatic distribution of life, it's a foil for examining authoritarian patterns of thought.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-09-16 19:51:42+00:00
During the days of slavery, the Dems were the party pushing to maintain the status quo and the existing power structure. The Republicans were those fighting to change it.

Coming out of the civil rights movement, it was the democrats who wanted to change the status quo and the Republicans who wanted to defend it.

In the present period of endless culture war and polticization of everything, it seems that the democrats are the ones on the side of the status quo and existing power structures. They want to shove everyone into identity groups, put those groups into hierarchies, they want to shame certain groups and grant new privileges to others.

A lot of people are exhausted by the culture war, tired of having every aspect of our lives coopted to remind us to feel bad about ourselves and to hate each other. I don't think Trump is really offering a new path here yet, but he's recognizing what people say all the time in private and which the democrats refuse to accept.
by okanat | 2025-09-16 19:52:11+00:00
> Windows cannot do custom dpi per monitor, only a single custom dpi that gets applied to all monitors.

This is wrong. Windows supports per monitor DPI since Windows 8 and have an improved API since Windows 10. I find it the only good implementation among desktop OSes. It is the only one that guarantees that font renders align with the pixel grid.

Many old apps do not support this API though. It is opt-in and while there is a hybrid mode to let Windows scale fonts and Win32 components via API hooks, without implementing DPI change callback most apps turn into blurry mess.

Usually browsers have the gold standard implementation of those callbacks hence why Electron is used everywhere.
by tomhow | 2025-09-16 19:52:32+00:00
It all depends on how close it is to becoming a real law. If it's an official policy of the party that's in government and the bill is a complete piece of legislation [1] whose passage is inevitable and imminent, then it can be considered an "interesting new phenomenon" and warrants a discussion.

That doesn't seem to be the case here. As far as I can establish, the bill's sponsors don't have any leadership roles in the state legislature and it's not an official policy of the party's leadership. It looks every bit like routine activism and headline-seeking by low-ranking members of the legislature.

Dang has commented about this routinely over the years.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by Ethee | 2025-09-16 19:52:43+00:00
The problem is there obviously isn't any discussion happening. People are so entrenched on one side or the other and that's pretty apparent by this comment section. Everyone wants to virtue signal without taking any responsibility. The unfortunate reality of this situation is that it's extremely complex and weaves in a lot of historical context. But nobody cares about nuance anymore it's all just "killing bad!" within the framework of whatever controversial event is on the inciters mind. Well duh, but how did we get here? If we can't stop and consider both sides constructively then clearly we're never going to get anywhere and shit like this will just continue.
by bingboingbang | 2025-09-16 19:53:07+00:00
There's a non-zero chance someone can just roll a new key and it happens to be yours, and poof, your money is gone with no recourse.

It's a tiny, infinitesimal chance: but it's a heck of a lot greater of a chance than the same thing happening with a bank account, especially the "no recourse" part.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-16 19:53:12+00:00
Sure, but it starts with the impractical version to kick off the other side.

The hearthstone house demonstrated the value of a central power source homes could draw from. The electric lights at the time were not much better than candles in terms of output, but it generated interest enough to get more people on board.

Now, electric lighting is present everywhere, and a practical solution for all but mass agriculture (where the sun remains more efficient).
by levihanlen | 2025-09-16 19:53:40+00:00
Hey HN,

I built WriteRush to help solve my writer's block, and also because I was frustrated with typical writing softwares. I wanted something that was fun, but not a gimmick; something distraction free, but still powerful. I wanted something built for writing fiction, not for writing corporate memos.

Nothing like that existed, so I built WriteRush.

The app is built in TS/Vite/React. It uses TipTap for the rich text editor, and Dexie for IndexedDB. I'm releasing a desktop version soon via Electron, and a mobile app via Capacitor. I originally built it in vanilla JS/HTML a few years ago, and have recently returned to it and rewrote the codebase.

Since I made it, it's helped me write over 150,000 words for my own projects. I'm incredibly passionate about making this the best tool in the world for writers.

I'd love to hear your feedback, or answer any questions you have!
by bob1029 | 2025-09-16 19:54:04+00:00
> C# and Nim love that style, and it makes them almost unreadable without a good IDE.

I think a lot of what turns people off to the C# developer experience is not using full-blown Visual Studio. VSCode is great but I would never open csproj or sln files using it unless I needed to manually edit their actual XML contents.

It's not broadly advertised that you can buy a perpetual & fully licensed copy for $500 [0]. No subscription or other cloudy scam stuff is required, although Microsoft's product pages will initially lead you to believe it is.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/visual-studio-professional...
by yoz | 2025-09-16 19:54:07+00:00
"The StandaloneWindow module provides a way to create a separate window to display custom content. You are able to control a full-sized webview inside the window, therefore you can use HTML, CSS, and advanced techniques like WebGL to render the contents." [1]

So... someone could make a Webamp[2] plugin?

And Butterchurn[3] for viz? (Assuming one can plumb in a compatible audio node)

[1] https://docs.iina.io/interfaces/IINA.API.StandaloneWindow

[2] https://docs.webamp.org/docs/intro

[3] https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
by nycticorax | 2025-09-16 19:54:14+00:00
So, first off, it seems like Jonathan Riddell not working on KDE anymore is a huge loss for the KDE community.

But I'm not sure I really understand what happened. AFAICT, Valve had a contract with Blue Systems, specifically a subunit of Blue Systems that does KDE development. Blue Systems decided to sell that subunit to Techpaladin, Nate Graham's company. Riddell was unhappy about this, and proposed that... I guess that Blue Systems not sell to Techpaladin? Or that Techpaladin reorganize itself into a worker-owned company? And then when Graham declined to do this, stuff happened, and eventually Riddell got fired from Techpaladin, or not hired by Techpaladin, and now Riddell is not getting paid to work on KDE. So Riddell has (not unreasonably) decided to stop working on KDE. And the other people who once worked for Blue Systems and now work for Techpaladin have decided to keep working for Techpaladin.

Am I missing something? Being unfair to someone?
by michael-0acf4 | 2025-09-16 19:54:33+00:00
This is my attempt at creating a prototype of a decentralized store-agnostic file system. More importantly, it runs over HTTP, making it very easy to deploy.

I've been using it for a few days now, mainly for backups and easy access across some of my folders (Video Game Saves, Pictures, ..) on my local network.

It is very similar to a peer-to-peer sharing system, but you almost never know exactly which user created which data. It is simply there. It enables file sharing across a network of nodes, each node will simply synchronize its state from a peer.
by const_cast | 2025-09-16 19:54:51+00:00
This is programmer thinking, laws aren't algorithms.

The laws regardless this almost always make a distinction between intentionally surveillance and by chance background noise. Taking a picture of the street with people on it doesn't matter, recording the street 24/7 probably does, and purposefully singling someone out and photographing them definitely matters.

We already kind of have this. Think about it - stalking is illegal, but you've walked behind people right? You've glanced into someone's window before, right? You've taken a picture of a random person before, right?

So why aren't you in jail? Because laws aren't algorithms
by squigz | 2025-09-16 19:54:57+00:00
> I wonder if this is the price we pay for radical informational transparency. Nowadays, democratic countries with reasonable freedom of press cannot really prevent their own fuckups from surfacing in the worst possible way. Some people react by complete rejection of anything that comes from "official" channels and become ripe for manipulation from other actors.

Such people have always existed, unfortunately. I don't think it's a result of anything particularly new.