MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jitix | 2025-09-19 14:35:42+00:00
Google does - Google search and maps have gotten objectively worse over the past 2 years. At least in Canada.

I have 38 locations in my (huge) city saved in Google maps and it breaks when I ask it to find a way from point A to point B. Works fine when logged out.

Maps also put traffic signals where there are none, and while finding shortest path it stopped putting weights to traffic signals. So you could have it route you via a city's main street instead of the freeway because it's 2km shorter but it ignores the 9 traffic signals that wastes 15 mins. Apple maps works fine.

Google search on web has adopted bad UX, and clicking a map or a shopping item has a noticeable delay between. Also right click "Open in new tab" options are gone.

Are you saying all these "enshittification" changes are deliberate?
by jsheard | 2025-09-19 14:35:43+00:00
That's intentional on YouTubes end, they aim to serve more bitrate-efficient codecs wherever possible, even if it's a high burden on the client due to a lack of hardware acceleration. They'll only fall back to older codecs if the client is completely incapable of handling the modern ones. It's annoying but at their scale it no doubt saves them a shitload of bandwidth.
by fidotron | 2025-09-19 14:36:06+00:00
A key question here is if installation of Google Apps can fail verification if the device is offline, or if they have some magic local public key chain of pre-authed all OK keys.

DEVELOPER_VERIFICATION_FAILED_REASON_DEVELOPER_BLOCKED is very clearly the purpose of the whole thing. Presumably this one can be triggered on an already installed app - a key question being how that triggering occurs. i.e. will the Play Store act to push out details of developers that are now blocked so devices can act on it?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-19 14:36:29+00:00
It’s funny that this kind of browser extension has recurred over the years. Originally it was to replace the awful CPU hog flash player with an HTML5 h.264 player[1], then it was to sidestep YouTube’s insistence on VP* codecs, and now it’s to sidestep AV1.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110302145602/http://www.vertic...
by UseofWeapons1 | 2025-09-19 14:37:50+00:00
The post is quite clear? They call on the sponsors to stop funding ruby central, and the employment status bit is a clear concern extending from ruby central’s supposed takeover.

Read the post more clearly before accusing someone of LLM usage. And even if it is, they are still valid points to be discussed, as opposed to trying to bury it with an LLM accusation.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-19 14:37:57+00:00
That’s two major problems baked into one.

First: We hide the symptoms behind a veneer of illegality which allows us to ignore the underlying causes.

Second: We intentionally write laws which has a proportionally negative effect based on social and medical class of citizens. A class which is already facing hardships.

”The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
by ta1243 | 2025-09-19 14:38:26+00:00
10 years ago a couple of sites I occasionally viewed used "agate", which is now called Axate.

https://www.axate.com/

It worked well, I loaded it with about $3 and used it a few times.

Clearly not something publishers are fans of though as it's far easier to carefully select 987 partners to sell your data to.
by thomascountz | 2025-09-19 14:38:48+00:00
I don't think posts like this: an off-topic reply to a post where the same off-topic topic has already been killed, will have the effect you want it to have.

Unless that effect is to make yourself more angry and to have your comments downvoted in order to feel more righteous and to justify your behavior... but otherwise this won't change anything.

Please do write a blog post about, and feel free to share it on HN.
by itissid | 2025-09-19 14:38:50+00:00
A postmortem — software bug fix please. 1. Why did this happen? 2. What was the root cause in billing that caused this? 3. What are you doing to fix the issue that will ensure that if this error was to happen it escalated to the right medium expediently? What is the SLA on disputes?

One would like to know why were https://slack.com/help/articles/204368833-Apply-for-the-Slac... changes not applied to billing this time around?

With great power comes great responsibility.
by afavour | 2025-09-19 14:38:54+00:00
It's been tried many times and it always fails. How can you know if the article is worth 50c before seeing it? As you said, it's a random entity you've never heard of before.

Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism:

https://www.cjr.org/opinion/micropayments-subscription-pay-b...
by yodafx | 2025-09-19 14:39:36+00:00
I would suggest you read about the context of events you're trying strip off its context. It didn't happen in a vacuum. It was a brutal outburst in the context of a British-backed colonial project that was openly planning to take over Palestine. At that point, Zionist colonialism was also in full force and the worst fears of the natives who resisted your colonialism were proven correct. It's like saying "I would suggest reading about the 1939 Bydgoszcz massacre in Poland against the German settlers" without providing any context as to why there were so many settlers there to begin with. The Nakba was the foundational event of the state of Israel and the source of the refugee crisis. That is the subject, and your desperate attempt to derail the conversation with that false equivalence was predictable.
by wrsh07 | 2025-09-19 14:39:41+00:00
As someone who has loved sagrada familia since I went in, I think the experience of Sainte Chapelle is my second favorite (go first thing when it opens to have it to yourself) and is more underrated than sagrada familia^

Related/unrelated, part of my joy in the sagrada familia is that being a tourist feels essentially the same as being a pilgrim. If you get a chance to visit parc guell, you aren't exactly experiencing it as a park, but as a tour through the different ideas in the park. (Compare this with an unguided stroll through Central Park, where you and all of the other visitors are likely experiencing it as a park (the way it was intended)

^ I think! In my experience it's occasionally overlooked in a short trip to Paris, whereas if you're going to just see one Gaudi, make it the cathedral
by fourgreen | 2025-09-19 14:39:54+00:00
[this comment was written manually by me in Polish, and then translated into English by chat GPT]

The problem with the sentence "grow a garden calculator" is that it’s unclear which word is modifying which, or which group of words. Is there something called a "garden calculator" that we are supposed to grow? Or is there something called "grow a garden", and there exists a calculator for that? This kind of ambiguity is a common issue with short English expressions — a well-known example is "police helps dogs bite victim".

There are several ways to resolve such problems. In English, the solution is basically that the reader has to guess. In Lisp, the solution in similar cases is to use parentheses — which means the line of code is an unambiguous tree, and in a tree we always know what is attached to what. In Slavic languages, inflection is much more developed than in English — not only verbs, but also nouns, adjectives, etc. take different forms, often require prepositions, and from this it becomes clear who modifies whom.

In Polish, a sentence meaning "I want you to grow a garden calculator" would be: "wyhoduj ogrodowy kalkulator". And an expression meaning "a calculator that refers to growing a garden" would be: "kalkulator hodowania ogrodu".

Look again at this difference: wyhoduj ogrodowy kalkulator – kalkulator hodowania ogrodu

Btw: if there are any native Polish speakers here — please, don’t start a discussion about the difference between "hodować" and "uprawiać", this isn’t the place for such nuances.
by arghwhat | 2025-09-19 14:40:09+00:00
I do not believe this is a trade-off, I believe this behavior from corporate IT is a primary cause of the problem. I do agree that dealing with users is awful, but that doesn't justify solutions that only make things worse.

The flashing cmd.exe windows are not drivers from Windows Update - this could have been the case as drivers shipped with Windows Update is a total security nightmare running arbitrary code with administrative privileges upon hotplug - but in this context of managed devices, commonly from HP or Lenovo's corporate portfolio, it's usually additional products and changes pushed by group policy or random management software.

The often changing user prompts, looking like they were from some early 2000's hello world example, come from obscure and overlapping management software they remotely deploy which they change at will. You don't need a proprietary solution to remotely upgrade Google Chrome, just specify an enterprise policy with auto-update. You don't need a proprietary solution to prompt users and manage Windows Update, because you have... Windows Update.

The URL checker has no valid benefit, and makes it so people can never learn how to do it themselves. The browser performs the exact same checks with the exact same capabilities through its safe browsing stuff, and corporate IT often has network-level solutions too.

Corporate IT uses emails services that spoof domains and look suspicious, reversing all the phishing training they paid for.

Not to mention that Corporate IT might deploy network-wide solutions like Cisco Umbrella, which is a TLS Man-in-the-Middle attack where you install their root CA on all machines and let them control DNS to randomly redirect all traffic to their servers, effectively undermining the basis of all modern web security for the entire organization.

In general there's a fetish for buying products that has significant negative impact to security, user experience and possibility of training users, usually for the purpose of feigning progress and meeting some targets. Say, they had a ransomware incident, and now they're buying every ransomware product for a few years. Stuff with such buggy kernel code that it deadlocks and makes it impossible to create new processes until you hard reboot. I'm sure that's not a security problem!
by nchmy | 2025-09-19 14:40:54+00:00
What an absolutely tragic worldview you have... There's no doubt that there are disingenuous people (let alone complete grifters). But the fact that you can't conceive of anyone doing anything good just for the sake of it - let alone making genuine self-sacrifices, which happens ALL the time - is utterly shameful.

Moreover, if you are properly-aligned in life, whats good for others/the world is ALSO good for you. Even those who make genuine self-sacrifices would say so - at the very least, NOT having done it would be the real, unbearable, sacrifice.

I really hope you'll reflect deeply on this, and perhaps that it even haunts you - even if just out of pure self-centeredness, since the only people who you would ever have in your life with a mentality like this would necessarily be completely self-centered as well.
by hedora | 2025-09-19 14:41:11+00:00
I wonder if it’s proof of work bullshit. For those to be effective, they have to slow down whatever machine is running in an LLM farm.

That generally means they have to peg a desktop GPU for long enough to make a dent larger than LLM inference time.

Browsing with a 2 core box is like using a musket to blow a hole in a wall that’s optimized for armor piercing rounds.

Is this dumb? Of course. Your best recourse is probably to work around the anti-LLM blocks by having an agent read and summarize the page for you.

Are there any decent cloud based web renderers yet? Something like vnc or rdp backed by a shared 4090 could solve the problem. For static content, it’d only have to run proof of work once, then serve the result from cache.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-19 14:41:18+00:00
Sure but if that is a reasonable solution, why even bother with distinct forums like HN? Just subsume every UGC site into something like a single global Usenet like group called “general” with the expectation that every user is responsible for fine tuning their own personal filters to their liking.

Having different sites focussed on different topics is very useful to people, and I don’t think the world would be better if we got rid of it.
by Daishiman | 2025-09-19 14:42:07+00:00
> And it's not a thin pretext--every hospital is a Hamas base.

This is a claim made exclusively by an aggresor army that has no credibility whatsoever, given that we've seen them lie through their teeth about double tapping attacks and because they have explicitly stated that their purpose is to destroy Gaza no matter what.

What exactly do you pretend to defend?
by HaroldCindy | 2025-09-19 14:43:07+00:00
One thing that was immediately apparent upon switching VMs was that a lot of the existing overhead was in scheduling, context switching and the implementation of the actual library functions like `llDoWhatever()`.

We haven't even used Luau's JIT at all yet, but preemptive scheduling of what's typically trivial glue code is much cheaper and easier with a VM that supports it as a natural consequence of its design versus transforming everything into a state machine at the AST or bytecode level for a VM that doesn't.

> Actually, the biggest problem is that each idle program uses about 1us per frame, which adds up.

More scheduler overhead to resolve :)
by j4coh | 2025-09-19 14:43:54+00:00
If you're sitting on the opposite side of a table looking at a map that a person on the other side laid out in front of them, you don't just see the map from the other side? You instead see details about volume, shape, distance between points, geometric similarity, colour, and so on? I sincerely just see the same map even if I'm across the table, except flipped. I'm not sure how it would impact my drawing a map, though that isn't really what the article talks about.

Can you read upside-down or does it become a jumble of lines? I can read upside-down with no special effort so maybe this is canceling something out.
by stefs | 2025-09-19 14:43:57+00:00
regarding "go beyond 'do these align'":

> This system is about achieving the best possible design with the least amount of effort. There’s no need to know about the psychological impact of colors, which fonts are best for which purpose, golden ratios, etc. This is expert-level design knowledge that is just distracting if you’re not on that level. The key is to focus on the few important aspects, and not try to optimize every tiny detail.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-09-19 14:44:00+00:00
1. You lock everyone out of the org for whichever valid but idiotic reason. 2. The instant you do, you send them all an email explaining the situation.

That’s how you do it in those cases. You don’t blindside them and then wait for them to react, restore their access back (which totally negated and nullified the “I wanted to preempt a takeover attempt” argument) and continue to skulk around instead of being open about it.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-19 14:44:48+00:00
If we don't destroy ourselves, mankind is perhaps 100 years from going post-human, post-biological. At a relatively early stage in our technological development -- ~10,000 years since developing agriculture -- we're leaving behind the paradigm where we require biomarkers that are (supposedly) common to Earthlike life. A "highly developed technological society" is unlikely to require plate tectonics, lol.

Ganymede's an extreme example as it's quite literally next door, and we still have absolutely no idea what swims in its 60-mile-deep oceans, save to say that they're not shooting lasers through the ice or launching satellites. Do you know from what distance we'd be able to detect an Earthlike planet with extraterrestrials who are at a current-Earth tech level?

> none of them talking about advanced extraterrestrial life are built upon any known scientific testable principles that we have today.

And what testable principles are those?

Last I checked, biopoiesis is an unsolved problem, and chemical space is extremely vast -- there are many different ways to organize CHONS life, and there are also ways to organize other forms of life entirely.

Surely "they have to be just like us" is one of the most annoying scientific fallacies.
by righthand | 2025-09-19 14:45:01+00:00
You don’t but you have to put a base price on content for it to work. The point of a $0.50 access fee is that all articles individually would cost $0.50. Then you charge a subscription to unlimited access.

No one’s successfully done this because when they do they want to individually price articles and consumers like you for some reason want to attach a per-word-price for each article.

Implement a legitimate system and people will use it. Implement a system with work arounds and people will use the work arounds.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-19 14:45:11+00:00
> Realistically, how could anyone be okay with the level of power this administration is wielding? I struggle to see a peaceful transfer of this specific set of powers. Unless the assumption is just that the left will always behave "more responsibly."

As with all authoritarian regimes, their assumption is that this is the end of history and those in power today will be in power forever. You're also right that they believe liberals will never do what they're doing now.

But the old guard is dying. Trump, Bush, Biden, Clinton, Obama are all boomers+ who will be dead sooner rather than later. The younger generation realizes the pendulum is about to swing, power will be ours to take, and you can be damn sure we will not behave like our parents and grandparents did.

So me personally, when I see them take Kimmel off the air for "not serving the public interest", all I hear is permission for the first progressive millennial president to shut down all of right wing AM talk radio on that same basis. And you know who else sees it that way? Right wing AM talk radio hosts, who have been the only ones on the right asking MAGA to pump the brakes on what they're doing (see: Tucker Carlson).
by probably_wrong | 2025-09-19 14:46:39+00:00
First, small detail: "família" is not Spanish but rather Catalan. In Spanish it's "familia".

As for Sagrada Familia / Familia Sagrada: putting the adjective before the noun is sometimes done in Spanish to reinforce the importance of the adjective. "La blanca nieve" places focus on the color of the snow while "la nieve blanca" focuses on the snow itself.
by Coffeewine | 2025-09-19 14:46:40+00:00
It's a pretty rough headline, clearly the author had fun performing the test and constructing the thing.

I would be pretty regretful of just the first sentence in the article, though:

> I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago.

That's rough.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-19 14:46:40+00:00
> the biggest corporate users of both Java

I bet AWS would give them a good run for their money on that metric. I got the impression that Google was predominately a C++ shop, whereas the rumor mills tell me that most of the AWS control plane is in Java (I am pretty sure I've actually gotten a stack trace from an AWS API once or twice, but foolishly I didn't save it)
by ryandrake | 2025-09-19 14:46:57+00:00
Retirees are more likely than not to have built up at least a small pension or 401(k)[USA]: money sitting there earning interest and capital gains. You don't think the Aging Industry is going to just sit around and not try to grab as much of it as they can? They are going to do their best to ensure the system is set up to let them harvest those accounts dry.
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 14:47:07+00:00
The articles are not necessarily written for a software engineering audience. Going through the lambda calculus would be a necessary prerequisite for the part he actually wants to tell you about at the end. Especially for physicists and mathematicians who primarily study things other than computation.

If you found the visualizations pointless, then you aren't the intended audience. This is a straightforward continuation of his existing research into computation, which started with cellular automata. If you're reading a Wolfram blog, then you're in part coming for the pretty pictures.

> The probably invented term "ruliology" is not even explained anywhere.

The "ruliad" is what he calls the "space of all possible rules" where a rule is like a program that dictates the next state of the system. The ruliad is one of the few rigorous approaches to answering why the laws of physics are the way they are. Stephen's theory is something like "every possible rule for evolving the system is in fact happening, and we are likely to be observing phenomenon that are convergent among more than one rule".

His physics project is a good example of what real physics looks like outside of academia. Stephen is financially independent. He can research whatever he wants and doesn't have to worry about tenure, or sucking up to department heads or people with grant money. Even so, he's not a crank, other physicists understand and engage with what he's doing, and all the math involved is very real.
by bravetraveler | 2025-09-19 14:47:28+00:00
Wow that's a lot of scratch for... scratch. Pays for itself, I'm sure: effective bait :)

'Worth it any more'? At this size, never. A Pi is a Pi is a Pi!

A few are fine for toying around; beyond that, hah. Price:perf is rough, does not improve with multiplication [of units, cost, or complexity].
by homebrewer | 2025-09-19 14:47:30+00:00
Nobody forced them into this, they poked the bear thinking it will get them an easy win and good publicity, and are now slowly falling into the abyss.

You're wasting your money. I honestly can't believe the number of people here thinking this is anything but a marketing stunt gone too far. We just had a series of major packages being infected with malware, how about putting $200k towards solving that?

Now that, if successful, would bring real immense benefits to all JS users.
by julik | 2025-09-19 14:47:48+00:00
* Get appointed as paid managers of a non-profit * Get advice from legal * Legal suggests removing long-term maintainers without liability contract the same way people get fired: immediately and instantly, and screw the consequences. "Open-source? Never heard of it. Protect your entity legally" * Instantly follow the advice of the lawyers to the letter.

Well done, well done.
Show HN: DataStore4J A thread-safe, high-performance key-value data store
by theuntamed000 | 2025-09-19 14:47:58+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m excited to share a small milestone. This project began as my engineering final year project about 3 years ago. Back then, it wasn’t anywhere near what I had envisioned, so I dedicated my free time during weekends towards this project and finally I think I have elevated it to a level, brought it to a stage I’m proud of

DataStore4J is a Java-native key-value store built on an LSM-tree architecture, inspired by Google’s LevelDB.

I’ve also put together some benchmarks comparing it against similar databases (https://github.com/theuntamed839/DataStore4J/blob/main/Bench...)

Some information on the internals (https://github.com/theuntamed839/DataStore4J/wiki)

I’m the sole developer on this, so I’m sure I’ve misused Java in places, missed edge cases, or even obvious bugs. I'd love to hear any feedback, and issues.
by j4coh | 2025-09-19 14:47:59+00:00
Okay, forget gravity. If you stand on your head and look at the mug, do you get lots of insights about a mug that you wouldn't have had standing upright? Does it look different, or is it just an upside-down mug? For me I would just get the upside-down mug.

I suspect I don't have this thing the article mentions where I associate the bottoms of things with badness, so I don't get this effect where the bad bottom suddenly becomes the good top if I flip it or myself over. There's just no effect except perhaps getting dizzy.