MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thecopy | 2025-09-24 12:30:05+00:00
I worked on adding a web-vscode editor in my project (MCP gateway https://mcp-boss.com). Initially i also spun up a container to provide terminal access, package installation etc. It turned out to be very resource intensive, and the cold-start-up UX sucked. This approach also comes with scaling challenges.

Leaning on CloudFlare Containers seems like a good balance though. But im wondering what the limits are, some packages are very large and require more than just Javascript (e.g node gyp).

(Personally I ended up hosting a web-only VS code served as static files. Luckily i dont need to support Deno syntax so the built-in Typescript language server worked fine.)
by thebruce87m | 2025-09-24 12:30:30+00:00
I used to work for a large semiconductor manufacturer and the first time I visited the headquarters in the US I was shocked to see Fox News was on 24/7 in the cafeteria.

Whenever I see a major negative news story about republicans I always visit the Fox News website and you’re lucky if it’s a sub heading at the bottom. If it’s a particular bad story there will always be a Biden or Hillary story dug up as a headliner to change the narrative.
by naasking | 2025-09-24 12:30:51+00:00
> It is still a good idea to censor the people in category two.

I disagree on numerous levels with this position, not just on ethical grounds, but also on empirical grounds. People are simply not as gullible as you think they are, but I don't have time to delve into this, so I'll just leave it at that.

> People in category one were few and far between and rarely if ever censored.

According to whom? The stated policy makes no such distinction, it says anyone who contradicts WHO positions ought to be censored. There is no nuance, and how exactly is YouTube going to judge who belongs in each category? If they could reliably judge who was bullshitting, they wouldn't need the WHO policy to begin with. The policy is a "cover my ass" blanket so they don't have to deal with the nuance.
by CookiesOnMyDesk | 2025-09-24 12:31:24+00:00
It’s covered in the article

>It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News.

>The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades – opening the possibility that earlier treatment could prevent symptoms from ever emerging.
by QQQQQQQQQQQQQM | 2025-09-24 12:31:25+00:00
Your issue with the o-ring reminds me of the time my buddy and I tried replacing the flex-line to one of his rear brake calipers. We rented one of the vacuum bleeder pumps from Auto-Zone, replaced the flex line, slightly loosened the bleeder cap and went to town. Sucked a ton of air out as the new line filled, but then there was a constant stream of tiny bubbles. He wanted to make absolutely sure that the line was clear, so he kept pumping and kept filling the reservoir. At first we thought maybe something about the way his original flex line failed catastrophically had introduced air all the way through the system, but the bubbles just kept coming. A full bottle of DOT3 later, we were questioning and trying to figure out where the bubbles were coming from, which turned into a fine-comb search of the entire brake line all the way back to the front of the car looking for pinholes, weeping, etc. After maybe 2 hours of searching, we found nothing. Continued pumping through a second bottle of DOT3, and then we realized that the air was seeping in through the threads of the bleeder cap and could be safely ignored. We felt real stupid.

It's about time I do a brake flush on my car, so it's good I remembered this story so it's fresh in my mind.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-24 12:31:38+00:00
The existence of platform specific hacks is not interesting. In reality what happens is that software which has at any point cared about being portable doesn't use them.

But yes stdc_count_ones is indeed the intrinsic you'd want here, and only a few years after I stopped writing C, so thanks for mentioning that.

std::popcount is C++ but it's also kinda miserable that it took until C++ 20 and yet they still only landed the unsigned integer types, even though C++ 20 also insists the signed integers have two's complement representation, so the signed integers do have these desirable properties in fact but you can't use that.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-24 12:32:47+00:00
I keep joking that instead of the normal repressive state-controlled media, the West has media-controlled states. Electing a TV host is just a culmination of that. Or a media owner, like Berlusconi. Coincidentally he was brought down by his underage sex trafficking.

Westerners voluntarily tune into their propaganda, leaving the 24/7 news channels blaring.

But there is a critical difference in that elections do happen, they do get counted, and they do make a genuine difference in the political and economic outcomes which affect millions of people.
by dimitri-vs | 2025-09-24 12:33:54+00:00
In the case of AI, it gets even worse when you factor in MCPs - which, to continue your analogy, is like letting random people walk into the factory and adjust the machine parameters at will.

But people won't care until a major correction happens. My guess is that we'll see a string of AI-enabled script kiddies piecing together massive hacks that leak embarrassing or incriminating information (think Celebgate-scale incidents). The attack surface is just so massive - there's never been a better time to be a hacker.
by alberth | 2025-09-24 12:34:01+00:00
It's a touching story that gave me pause in thinking about my own life.

The difficulty is, in many cultures - if you repeatedly invite someone and they don't attend - people view it as disrespectful to them.

So knowing the difference between a friend who needs inclusion, and something else might be hard to discern.

But agree, it's a story that should cause a moment of reflection on your own friends & interactions.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-24 12:34:08+00:00
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056901

From the author himself: "My company had an exit, I did well financially. This is not a secret. I'm extremely privileged and thankful for it.".

Honestly, good for him [for doing well financially] and for admitting that he is privileged, and above all, being thankful for it.
by rixed | 2025-09-24 12:34:27+00:00
Most people in the world have very little economic agency. They don't "choose" to consume rather than to save, they just can't save. And even if the consumer were allmighty, in most countries the state itself is spending a huge portion of the money (https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/...), to say nothing about other big institutions. And I doubt those soulless institutions let themselves be influenced by the local cultural traits.

Regarding the establishment of prices, there are so many schools of thoughts! Those who believe rarity is what matters, those who believe that the marginal price is what matter, or the time to produce, or power relationships, or a target profit rate, etc... I personnaly believe that all of this plays a role, but I regard any theory based on an allmight homo-economicus as hopeless, disproven times and times over, and mostly an ideological attempt to blame shit on the people and justify privileges.

Wages, like any prices, are rarely decided in practice. "dictated by what people demand"? In which theorical world? Most people are not even asked what compensation they expect. There is a market that decide what a "reasonable salary" should be for any job in any place, and this market is set by a lot of regulations, by the level of unemployment, the cost of living, etc, all of which are not decided by anyone.

What I'm claiming is that there exist such rules as economical rules, sociological rules, that very severely limits whatever agency individuals can have on the economy and society.

So of course one can say "any institution is just made of people", and ultimately decompose everything into individual actions. Sure, but it obscures the laws rather than makes them apparent; Like, say, you can reduce the weather as just a bunch of molecules jiggling arround, but good luck understanding weather patterns then. Is it just what our disagreement is about?

The link to outline.com is dead by the way.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-24 12:35:05+00:00
> In parallel I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings.

IMO it's because a lot of these newer games just don't need that much horsepower. BG3 is not one of them, but looking at the broader industry.

A lot of times were seeing maaaaaybe a 5% bump in fidelity or graphics quality in exchange for 400% less performance.

Like ray tracing. Does Ray tracing look good? Yes. But not that good. Its not the PS1 to the PS2. I've seen baked lighting indistinguishable from Ray tracing in 99% of scenes.

Its just not a good trade off with modern games usually. Unless they really optimize them.

The only people still optimizing games is Nintendo from what I've seen.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew before your first startup?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-09-24 12:35:05+00:00
Every founder I’ve spoken with says they learned their biggest lessons after jumping in.

If you could go back to day one of your first startup, what’s the one piece of advice you’d give yourself?

Curious to hear the mistakes, surprises, and insights others here have lived through.
by opan | 2025-09-24 12:35:21+00:00
You've got two trackpads, gyro, 4 extra buttons on the back to bind, and Steam Input lets you make custom radial (or non-radial) menus with entries that can press any keyboard key or key combo for you (which you can bind to the trackpads). It's honestly nothing like using an Xbox controller if that's what you're imagining.

Mario Kart is also a funny example as it's one of the few racing games that makes no use of analog triggers for acceleration, so you really wouldn't miss much playing it on a keyboard.
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-24 12:36:34+00:00
Come on dude it's on the same page just below the initial summary which seems to be the only thing you bothered to read. It's even big bullet pointy for the attention starved...

>> German men’s football remains the most attended sport in the country by far. It is also a key driver of the overall attendance figures, with the top three professional leagues alone accounting for 46% of the growth since 2017/18.
by AOE9 | 2025-09-24 12:37:29+00:00
> It's almost like crime isn't that strongly correlated with the ethnic mix of a place! I'm sorry reality doesn't support your racism.

How is what I said racist? I was agreeing with you but saying London being #2 and pointing to #1 is not really proving your point. You should point to #3 to make your point.

> I pointed out that London is lower than a comparable major US city.

Again, you can not compare across countries you don't know the difference in how the data is recorded. For example is a murder not recorded in the USA for every suspious death where as the UK it is for every murder conviction?

> It's also lower than several areas in the UK.

It is #2 on that 23/24 list.

> Come and visit - don't believe the lies being spread.

I lived on London's outskirts for multiple years and have to visit multiple times a year. I wouldn't describe it as great, I dread going everytime.
by underlipton | 2025-09-24 12:37:37+00:00
>a lot of what we call "not having social skills" is frequently an euphemism for "being mean and then wondering why people avoid me" situation.

Nah, Dunning-Kruger is in effect here. People are frequently far less emotionally-intelligent than they believe themselves to be, and will misinterpret the actions and intentions of others, often projecting onto them their own hang-ups, insecurities, and vices. There is also an erroneous conflation of comfort and prosociality, where someone who merely makes another individual (or, more likely, someone of the social group that individual is a part of with large amounts of social capital) uncomfortable is branded as "mean" or "an asshole", while another person - who is charismatic, but actively harming the people around them - is accepted, or even admired.

IME, "nerds" (frequently neurodivergent) tend to be observant, but have difficulty wearing social masks. This is where the above comes in: they actually have above average emotional intelligence, but because their attempts to be prosocial are considered rather than instinctual, they come off as "unnatural", their efforts are misinterpreted as malice, arrogance, apathy, etc., and they themselves begin to believe that they're socially-inept. Meanwhile, they are, unfortunately, surrounded by people who are often incapable of identifying or acknowledging this dynamic.

The irony is that this comment is meant to elucidate and inspire empathy, but it will itself likely be misinterpreted as condescending.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-24 12:38:10+00:00
i assume caring and acting here you mean in the context of larger issues. bc effort spent on your immediate world definitely does change reality

there is no mechanism past voting to change the big picture. Nor should there be. The person going around with the megaphone convincing other people their right inherantly feels their feelings are more right than others'

And you dont need to care an aweful lot when it comes to voting. Any caring past that is basically like getting worked up about the weather
by kakacik | 2025-09-24 12:38:19+00:00
Trillions is a ridiculous claim. Billions $ easily, budgets of GRU and FSB during last 11 years of war against the west have ballooned.

The situation is, people don't need billion dollar bribes. In my backwardish central european country they caught one government official who was physically handing over state secret material to a russian spy, straight from their embassy, for 500 euros a pop. There is a a video record with good audio from that, the conversation is really absurd yet real. You just need to find one gambling or alcohol addict, or some other failures and press few buttons.

Also, for russia undermining literally whole western world is mission with priority #1 for last 20 years. Eastern european countries who intimately know how bad russian terror actually is were warning about this repeatedly whole western world, to be very effectively ignored and laughed at by western leaders till SHTF.

Sure, those were not plans for F-35 or new aircraft carrier but people take surprisingly little to get corrupted, some even do it for free for ideological purposes.
Show HN: I made an interactive tool to plan tomorrow in minutes
by guusvanrees | 2025-09-24 12:38:26+00:00
Hey product hunt!

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The app asks for your preferences and gives you a daily recommended planning. You can easily change the planning and download it as PDF.

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Hope it will help you get more structure into your day quickly and easily.
Show HN: PlantYourTip, a link-in-bio tools that plants a tree with each tip
by MohammadRMZ | 2025-09-24 12:38:47+00:00
Show HN: PlantYourTip — simple tipping pages for creators & SMBs (plants a tree)

I built PlantYourTip: a super-simple tipping page for creators, influencers, and small businesses. Supporters tip you via a shareable link-in-bio or QR, and a small portion of each tip funds a verified tree through Ecologi—so every tip says “thanks” and plants a tree.

* Homepage: https://plantyourtip.com * Example creator page (no login): https://plantyourtip.com/moh * Video walkthrough (no signup): https://plantyourtip.com/videos/vJgSK-GdXxg

A few details:

* 100 early adopters are already using it. * Pricing: no monthly charges; 5% platform fee per tip.

I’m especially keen to hear from influencers/digital creators/small business:

* What would make you actually put this link in your bio? * Which metrics/exports do you need (e.g., per-platform attribution, top tippers, monthly summaries)? * Any deal-breakers around payout, fees, or branding?

No marketing fluff—just looking for blunt product feedback and bug reports. I’ll be in the thread to answer questions.
by mc32 | 2025-09-24 12:39:00+00:00
All sides and i mean all sides with one tiny sliver of an exception will be hypocrites about freedom of speech. I’m not an absolutist as I think there are things we know produce harm in people, specially susceptible young populations, but definitely strictly political speech should be protected and allowed. How can we not have debates about efficacy of medical products or about trustworthiness of the data?
Show HN: Chrome extension that suggests replies directly in Twitter
by shashankshukla | 2025-09-24 12:39:11+00:00
Hi HN, I kept wasting time overthinking replies on X.com (Twitter). So I built XInsight AI, a Chrome extension that lives inside X, suggesting thoughtful replies in seconds and no copy-paste, no leaving the site.

It’s just me building this, and I’d love feedback from people who actually use X.
Show HN: Brief introduction to C2PA and using Exify to view Content Credentials
by antonpodolsky | 2025-09-24 12:39:22+00:00
I recently added the ability to read and verify C2PA Content Credentials in the Exify extension.

Images with embedded Content Credentials are few and far between and it remains to be seen whether wide adoption of the C2PA standard will actually happen, but in the rare cases where the data is available, it can be easily viewed using Exify.

You can try Exify here (no need to install it first): https://www.exify.io/
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-24 12:40:06+00:00
Doing some light googling aside from Ceph being listed, there's one called Gluster as well. Hypes itself as "using common off-the-shelf hardware you can create large, distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks."

It's open source / free to boot. I have no direct experience with it myself however.

https://www.gluster.org/
by athrowaway3z | 2025-09-24 12:40:30+00:00
I'm sorry to be blunt here, but the fact you're looking at idiotic use of Claude.md system prompts tells me you're not actually looking at the most productive users, and your opinion doesn't even cover 'where we are'.

I don't blame people who think this. I've stopped visiting Ai Subreddits because the average comment and post is just terrible, with some straight up delusional.

But broadly speaking - in my experience - either you have your documentation set up correctly and cleanly such that a new junior hire could come in and build or fix something in a few days without too many questions. Or you don't. That same distinction seems to cut between teams who get the most out of AI and those that insist everybody must be losing more time than it costs.

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I suspect we could even flip it around: the cost it takes to get an AI functioning in your code base is a good proxy for technical debt.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-24 12:40:34+00:00
Look, I disliked football for the reason that it made me an outcast. All males in my class in elementary school played football on a regular basis. I did not. It made me associate more with another guy (only 1, yeah) and girls. It made me just pick up a book and read while others were playing sports (happened to be football).

... but I did make myself an outcast as I was growing up as I would rather use my PC (for programming) than go outside.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 12:40:40+00:00
In some cases, yes.

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

> Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that any non-citizens who celebrated Kirk's death would be immediately deported…

> Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated on Katie Miller's podcast and in subsequent Department of Justice announcements that she intended to "target" speech against Kirk following his death as hate speech…

Plus teachers in public schools and universities.
by Steltek | 2025-09-24 12:40:53+00:00
There are twin goals: total freedom of speech and holding society together (limit polarization). I would say you need non-anonymous speech, reputation systems, trace-able moderation (who did you upvote), etc. You can say whatever you want but be ready to stand by it.

One could say the problem with freedom of speech was that there weren't enough "consequences" for antisocial behavior. The malicious actors stirred the pot with lies, the gullible and angry encouraged the hyperbole, and the whole US became polarized and divided.

And yes, this system chills speech as one would be reluctant to voice extreme opinions. But you would still have the freedom to say it but the additional controls exert a pull back to the average.
by sofixa | 2025-09-24 12:41:09+00:00
> I hate that football is the default sport

It is the default sport because the barrier to entry is basically having a ball. Random rocks, backpacks, whatever you have can serve as the goalposts.

Most other sports require other equipment too (volleyball needs the net, basketball the hoop, etc. etc.).

It's also easy to understand, and being the most popular sport by far in most countries, allows for an easy appropriation to a community and sense of belonging.

> was forced myself to play it in my childhood

So you're just trauma dumping your childhood issues?
by dabeeeenster | 2025-09-24 12:41:22+00:00
Related (7 years ago):

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8q1j0o/la_liga_uses...

- Bars, pubs and other public establishments have to pay around 200€/month in order to show football on their TVs while the household package goes between 10 and 30€/month.

- The official app, with over 10 million downloads, asks you for microphone and GPS permissions.

- La Liga remotely activates the microphone and tries to detect if the sound matches with that of a football match. In addition, it uses the geolocation of the phone to locate exactly where the establishment is located. That way they can locate bars and other establishments where football is being pirated or showed without paying for the bar package.

Still amazes me this just sort of went by and no one really seemed bothered. Absolutely insane.
by dcre | 2025-09-24 12:42:38+00:00
“This doesn't make sense as long as LLMs are non-deterministic.”

I think this is a logical error. Non-determinism is orthogonal to probability of being correct. LLMs can remain non-deterministic while being made more and more reliable. I think “guarantee” is not a meaningful standard because a) I don’t think there can be such a thing as a perfect prompt, and b) humans do not meet that standard today.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-24 12:42:39+00:00
i think when it comes to big picture stuff it makes sense that everyone has proportionate input. just bc you care a lot, doesnt mean you should have more say

just make your opinion, cast your vote and let other people make their own decisions. Feeling youre right and gotta go convince all the wrong people is sort of inherantly a bad selfrighteous place to come from

EDIT:

I think there is a broader sentiment that we all just have to care more and everything will get sorted out. I think recent history hasn't bore that out. People seem to care and have extremely strong emotional opinions about everything now a days.. and I don't think in the net it's brought anything positive