MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kolektiv | 2025-09-24 15:52:05+00:00
For me the objections in the UK is not really about the principle (although there are always going to be some privacy/liberty/etc. concerns in that sense), but about the likely implementation.

If we could be assured that whatever was put in place was genuinely privacy/security focused, had open and transparent governance, and wasn't susceptible to capture by corporations/other powerful actors, I suspect many people wouldn't be too bothered. But that's not really the offer, it never is with public IT infrastructure in the UK. The likelihood is that it would be farmed out to one more private corporations to build and maintain, generally for a lowest bid, and overseen by people without sufficient expertise to avert many/any of the potential harms from a poor implementation.

There are good ways to do things like this: public ownership, open governance, security/privacy baked in, all based on a reflective national conversation about trade-offs and the valid fears that many have. What people don't trust is not really the concept of ID cards, it is instead the track record of this and previous governments with both IT and privacy impacting legislation, and even more so the potential inclinations of future governments, particularly at a time when far-right parties are floating ideas like mass deportation of people legally entitled to be here.

Digital ID and a free society are not inherently opposed, but there is no sign that this or other administrations are sufficiently interested in, or aware of, the complexities involved to produce anything other than a semi-permanent disaster.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-09-24 15:52:05+00:00
> Yeah, because fuck people who require additional accessibility options, right?

Just do whatever you want and then listen to your actual users' feedback.

I worked on an application that I had to make button text not selectable because the old people using it kept selecting text on the buttons by mistake instead of clicking/activating the button and getting stuck during a clinical trial.

Should I have left it selectable to pass the HN accessibility shamers purity tests, or listened to the users?
by yszhu | 2025-09-24 15:52:26+00:00
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by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-09-24 15:52:34+00:00
Yeah, I removed the "glyphs" thing from my comment, because I realized they were SVG backgrounds, not actually text, but that is a common place to use user-select: none, on elements with font faces that are symbols.

I am curious what operating system you can select text from the buttons on though. I might spin up browserstack to experiment.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-24 15:52:39+00:00
Type hints and their behaviour are part of the Python language. Kotlin and Scala is not Java. I did not know that checkstyle + SonarQube adds static null safety to Java, but I appreciate that you will share a citation that it adds static null safety. I think everyone coding Java should really learn to use this so they don't create null pointer exceptions.
by keepamovin | 2025-09-24 15:53:06+00:00
i love you, rolph. you will get through this. we can all have our own experiences, and you will too. belief will come. try not to worry about when. you got this! i believe it :) peace and love, brother. Check out r/empaths and r/remoteviewings for relatability. who convinced you you are not capable? You are!
by xphos | 2025-09-24 15:53:07+00:00
> No, it's not sad that you need to justify the use of public money.

You don't ask your plumber which computer network you should build for a fortune 500 company for the same reason I don't ask a computer programmer how to fix leaky pipes. People who study in an area actually have much stronger basis for having opinions rather than keyboard warriors who are upset that there mythological studies have been debunked time and time again. That's not science that is cult behavior. If you want to influence that decision process work in that field and provide justifications for that vaccine research and some new angle that's been missed. The American public is not a intelligent member of the medical community there opinion should not have the same weight in day to day operations as the medical community. They can allocate an amount we want to do research and should ask the NIH to do board research because that is effective and has an overwhelmingly strong record having done the background research for basically ever medical advancement made for a long long time.

So, no I think we should allow a panel of experts to evaluate what is worth funding in research. Give the NIH a budget to hire a panel of field experts like they have been for a long time and fund research that panel says is worth it. Autism and vaccine linkage is studied and has been shown several times to have no strong correlation with vaccination. The idea we need to study that more is stupid and experts say it is stupid because it steals funding from actual research into other environmental factors that haven't been studied yet. Maybe its PFAS chemicals maybe its something else.
by aabajian | 2025-09-24 15:53:29+00:00
If you're looking for a company to blame for the endless Google results of "top-10 ways of doing X" or "the best new vacuum cleaners review", look no further than HubSpot. Their business model was based on helping small business gain traction by writing a a lot of verbose blog posts. So now when you're looking how to fix a leaking faucet, you first have to read about the history of faucets.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-09-24 15:53:57+00:00
From the EB-1 page on USCIS [0], under "Extraordinary Ability" category:

> You must be able to demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim.

> You must meet at least 3 of the 10 criteria* below, or provide evidence of a one-time achievement (i.e., Pulitzer, Oscar, Olympic Medal) as well as evidence showing that you will be continuing to work in the area of your expertise. No offer of employment or labor certification is required.

There is also a category for professors and researchers. In this category one must have an offer of employment. No labor certification is required.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
by svieira | 2025-09-24 15:54:06+00:00
I think what the OP is asking for is an article _like this one_ about where you go in-depth into what you tried, where the system went, and more specifically what went wrong (even if it's just a list of "undifferentiated issues"). Because "we tried a thing. It didn't work. We bailed out." doesn't show off the rough edges of the tool in a way that helps people understand "the shape of the elephant".

Or, in the vein of https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-... - "here's a place I wouldn't use an AI tool because _other thing_ is far better"
by daemin | 2025-09-24 15:54:13+00:00
This 1kb os json still sounds like a modern thing, where you need to download many MB of JavaScript code to execute and display the 1kb json data.

What you want is to just download the 10-20kb html file, maybe a corresponding css file, and any images referenced by the html. Then if you want the video you just get the video file direct.

Simple and effective, unless you have something to sell.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-24 15:54:41+00:00
Not reading such motives is not a sign of neurodivergence. If people are jumping to these types of conclusions, it's their deficiency. Plenty of normal, non-neurodivergent people refuse to read much into these things.

I've read a number of books on effective communications, and they all emphasize not to read into these signals, and when you do, to go and have a conversation about it to confirm them. I found, as many have, that the error rate is about 50% (i.e. half the time you read the signals wrong).

These books are for normal people - not neurodivergent folks.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-24 15:54:49+00:00
AI is part of China's 5 year plan and been given special blessing by Xi Jinping directly.

That pretty much translates to blank checks from the party without much oversight or expected ROI. The approach is basically brute forcing something into existence rather than organically letting it grow. China is notorious for this approach, ghost cities, high speed rail to nowhere, solar panel production in the face of a huge glut.

Ultimately though, there is an expectation that AI will serve the goals of the party, after all it is their trillions that will be funding it. I guess the core difference is that in the US AI is expected to generate profit, in China it is expected to generate controlled social cohesion.
by Ocerge | 2025-09-24 15:54:55+00:00
Golf. I understand the image it has, and it's somewhat well-deserved, but the munis are teeming with fascinating people from all walks of life. I've made more friends in the past 5 years since I picked the game up than I did in the previous 10+ years of my post-college life combined. I love the ego check it gives me while rewarding real practice and patience. I also carry my clubs every round which makes it effectively a 5-7 mile hike each round.
Show HN: My Board Dashboard – MCU Boards from the Browser
by eezZ | 2025-09-24 15:55:00+00:00
I’ve been tinkering on a small side project: a web dashboard that lets you plug a board into your laptop and get an instant serial monitor + real-time plots. No IDE, no driver hunt—just Chrome/Edge and a USB cable.

- Built mainly for people who occasionally need to check an Arduino/Teensy/Rpi etc. (engineers outside firmware teams, workshop hosts, makers on the go). - Shows serial logs, lets you send quick commands, plots any numeric streams automatically, and even flashes a precompiled firmware without leaving the page. - Currently very beta: battle-tested only on a Teensy 4.0 so far. It should work with Arduino UNO and friends, but I haven’t had the chance to test every combination yet—expect rough edges. - The plan is to expand compatibility (ESP32/ESP8266, more upload backends) and maybe one day offer browser- based compilation/upload for non-specialists. If you don’t have a board handy yet, click “Run Demo” for a full tour of the serial monitor and plotter :) If that sounds useful—or you just want to smash it until it breaks—try it here: https://nodeloop.org/projects/my-board-dashboard/ Feedback and bug reports are more than welcome!
Show HN: Focus Streak – simple, privacy-first streak habit tracker (Android)
by vigneshnu | 2025-09-24 15:55:03+00:00
Hi HN — I built Focus Streak, a lightweight habit tracker for Android focused on streak-based motivation and privacy-first design.

Key points: - Streak-based motivation + calendar view and stats - Custom habits, multiple reminders, and offline-first (no account required) - Minimal UI designed to reduce friction and help users actually keep daily routines - Built with React Native + Expo; recently published to Google Play

I’d love feedback on: - UX: what frustrates you on habit apps today? - Growth/ASO: best tactics we should try next? - Any crash/bug reports (device model + android version helps)

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.focusstrea...

Thanks — I’ll be around to reply to comments and answer technical questions.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-09-24 15:55:09+00:00
by pointing your phone at it

by screenshotting it and copying the text out of the screenshot

by putting a screenshot itself into chatgpt

I'm curious what real world scenario you've imagined yourself in with a kanji button that you don't understand within the rest of a website in kanji that you do understand, but don't know how to type kanji?
by hermannj314 | 2025-09-24 15:55:10+00:00
I peaked at around 21st but stopped playing because it seemed to be a lottery.

I ran simulations with perfect information and found the lower bound for scores. Scenario 2 was mean 3743 rejections with 265 std deviation. This is the curve formed from simulated data and a strategy that had with perfect information, i.e. you could build the best possible strategy after knowing the random assignments.

So winners had scores that I could not even theoretically achieve unless I could see 1000s of scenarios.

So I ran my code locally and was happy that my code was always just a few rejections off of optimal and called that a private success.
by 6gvONxR4sf7o | 2025-09-24 15:55:37+00:00
> Not particularly, no. What I want is for you to purchase the seats your family needs ahead of time, not ask me for them for free.

What happened to "if you want it, then you have to pay for the privilege?" If you want to be sure you aren't next to a kid, just pay for a first class ticket, instead of making other people pay extra for your comfort. You knew your preferences when you bought the ticket, after all. Select the seat you find necessary. /s

The point being that the status quo rolls dice that make everyone unhappy, and there are options for everyone to avoid it by paying extra. Those options are priced by the people creating the situation in order to make a maximally profitable 'pay to avoid this' scenario. I always pay for my family to get together, but blame the airline for making you uncomfortable, not the family.
by harshreality | 2025-09-24 15:55:41+00:00
When you run an app from the taskbar or start menu, you single-click on the app icon, or single-click on the Start menu button and then single-click on the app.

Sure, icons on the desktop, or just about anything in a file/app explorer window, require a double-click by default, because the lineage of the main desktop area is just a file explorer window without the window decorations.

I think it might be about stakeholders wanting the web to "feel" more native and interactive. Double-clicking to "go" feels too much like you're interacting with the web as if it's a file browser. They want it to feel more immediate?

In principle I'd prefer the consistency of double-click or double-tap everywhere, but I'm used to adjusting based on context. Wouldn't double-tapping annoy everyone who primarily uses mobile devices?
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-24 15:56:14+00:00
>We could have social media that no central entity controls, i.e. it works like the web and RSS instead of like Facebook. There are a billion feeds, every single account is a feed, but you subscribe to thousands of them at most. And then, most importantly, those feeds you subscribe to get sorted on the client.

The Fediverse[1] with ActivityPub[0]?

[0] https://activitypub.rocks/

[1] https://fediverse.party/
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-24 15:56:19+00:00
The problem is that in our collective hurry to build and support social networks, we never stopped to think about what other functions might be needed with them to promote good, factual society.

People should be able to say whatever the hell they want, wherever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want. (Subject only to the imminent danger test)

But! We should also be funding robust journalism to exist in parallel with that.

Can you imagine how different today would look if the US had leveraged a 5% tax on social media platforms above a certain size, with the proceeds used to fund journalism?

That was a thing we could have done. We didn't. And now we're here.
by mothballed | 2025-09-24 15:56:22+00:00
Right. Anyone with a block house or foundation has cold joints everywhere, sometimes tied together with rebar, but sometimes not. IRC allows straight up plain masonry (no rebar) for houses in most regions of the US, which gives you hundreds of cold joints in running bond.

IRC will even allow you to use masonry as a footing, although you rarely see it.
by f_devd | 2025-09-24 15:56:36+00:00
If you read the guidelines they actually want to implement a double-blind approach with ZKPs, which imo is significantly better than a challenge-response pub key system in term of privacy.

If you're not familiar this would mean the verifier doesn't learns anything except a statement about attributes (age, license, etc); and the EU doesn't learn what attributes have been tried to verify or by who.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-24 15:56:58+00:00
This is pretty much false. If you compare inflation adjusted cost you now get a far better service for the same price, and you get access at a price that literally wasn't possible before.

> and flying is miserable

It isn't. I have flowing with budget airlines in Europe and its, basically fine. Not luxury but really its incredibly value.

On the same price as you did before, you now get luxury.

> Crashes are way up this year.

What the fuck does 'this year' have to do with it when we are talking about something that happened in around the 1980s.

Total safety is up massively, and per passenger safety is up by an absurd amount.

Any counter-argument to this is literally not credible.

> Airlines profits are basically zero per ticket.

So capitalism works? Not sure what your point is.

> Deregulation badly broke this industry.

Based on what?
by catapart | 2025-09-24 15:58:29+00:00
Thank you! Feels great to hear from another dev whom clearly has some shared experience with me. I can't count the screen-reader and keyboard-navigation based tickets I've had to field, but when it comes to translations, I haven't had a problem one.

I empathize with translation, as I have to do it to pretty much every chipset firmware documentation I come across. So I just don't really understand where all of these issues are occurring with people not being able to translate stuff. Feels like a lot of people are maybe using a lot of websites that they aren't the target users for...
by milch | 2025-09-24 15:59:00+00:00
I've heard lots of people complain during the "exploratory" phase of writing code - maybe you haven't fully figured out how to write the code yet, you're iteratively making changes and restructuring as you go. Most languages make this easy, but with Rust e.g. if you add a lifetime to a reference in a struct it usually becomes a major refactor which can be frustrating to deal with when you're not even sure yet if your approach will work. More experienced devs would probably just use Rc or similar in that case to avoid the lifetime, and then maybe go back and refactor later once the code is "solidified", but for newer devs - they add the &, see the compiler error telling them it's missing a lifetime annotation, spend 30min refactoring, and that's how these stereotypes get reinforced
by akudha | 2025-09-24 15:59:19+00:00
What you say is true for most companies/software, but YouTube can play a nasty game for a very long time before it withers into irrelevance (if at all). They have enormous moat, one would need enormous resources to take on YouTube, I don't think anyone has that kind of patience or resources to even attempt. Like it or not, we are stuck with YT for a while.

I have learned so much from YouTube - I wish it was more open and friendly to its creators and users :(

In the meantime, all we can do is support smaller alternatives like https://nebula.tv/
by tiagod | 2025-09-24 15:59:22+00:00
Gov app uses the "Chave Móvel Digital", which can be used in the browser, as well as in a variety of mobile apps. This CMD can also be used to digitally sign documents.

I believe it's still possible to use the physical card with a reader for many things.

I think some services still don't work with the CMD. Recently, I had to ask for changes to my car's document, and it seems it's only possible with the card itself. (https://www.automovelonline.mj.pt/AutoOnlineProd/)
by searine | 2025-09-24 15:59:28+00:00
Most 'misfit research' is funded by the government through broad training grants or broad departmental level support. Parts of those grants get used to fund early career researchers and students. Most often it is funding mainstream science but sometimes it is used just to keep these people on board. So it isn't about funding any one weird thing, but instead giving people the freedom to explore ideas and develop skills. Even when supported by specific grants, PI will use that money to let students / fellows explore more broadly.

The idea that VCs or DAOs would give a penny for R&D is a sick joke.
by dombama | 2025-09-24 15:59:55+00:00
Hey friend, I just lost someone close to me from Parkinson's coincidentally the same exact day as the woman in the story and just a few miles from her. If you have any servers you want to keep running for a while or any EOL tech logistics your family won't understand I'd be happy to help. I can post your memoriam page wherever it belongs. My email is in my profile.
by zerkten | 2025-09-24 16:00:15+00:00
You would think that this is an odd question. It's such an odd question if grant a degree of anonymity. I've seen a similar type of question, as it relates to affordances for parents in the workplace, like no on-call for a time when a newborn is on the scene. I don't know if this is just happening because people are feeling unfairly impacted when folks on teams become parents, but I'm always bracing for these comments now.
by nradov | 2025-09-24 16:00:20+00:00
You are spreading misinformation. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook actively buried and hid posts related to the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. We can argue about whether Facebook did the right thing based on the information they had at the time but let's be clear about the facts: the CEO literally stated that they did it, so it's not BS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532

Twitter's Vijaya Gadde also admitted that they blocked users from sharing the story. That's not BS either.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54568785