MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberquizpro | 2025-09-14 18:57:41+00:00
We built CyberQuizPro (https://cyberquizpro.com), a platform for cybersecurity quizzes and training.

A few clients are using it now, but we’re running into questions about scaling: - How to streamline client onboarding? - How to handle feature requests without becoming a consulting shop? - What pitfalls to avoid when scaling B2B SaaS in this space?

I’d love to hear advice, experiences, or resources from others who have scaled similar products.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-14 18:58:11+00:00
I love this. Just pretend that no new nuclear power needs to ever be built and it is economical based on the current economics of soon half a century old paid off plants.

Since the EPR2 program is in absolute shambles and the subsidy scheme hasn’t been finalized just pretend that it doesn’t exist!

They are only talking about CFDs, zero interest loans and credit guarantees! Those doesn’t cost money! Not until they start being paid out! Therefore does new built nuclear power does not need any subsidies. QED.

Or the French were talking about it. Until the government collapsed due to being underwater in debt with a spending problem they are unable to reign in.

We all know the one way to solve a spending problem is an unfathomably large handout to the dead-end nuclear industry!

Please. This is getting laughable. Facts be damned, just ignore reality and with a scalpel cherry pick a few disjointed facts.
by Retric | 2025-09-14 18:58:15+00:00
I think you’re missing their point. Many things create value that don’t get tracked by economic measurements. Cooking lunch for yourself creates value, but there’s no way to measure that in terms of GDP.

Subsidizing daycare vs stay at home parents isn’t necessarily a net win, but daycare and ordering takeout look like economic growth even if it’s net neutral. In that context a lot of economic growth over the last century disappears.

Thus AI could be neutral on economic measurements and still a net positive overall.
How do you build friendships online?
by genkoph | 2025-09-14 18:58:31+00:00
tldr: web developer doesn't have any tech friends, he can't find such friends locally, he wants to build new friendships online, he's not sure how to go about it

More than 4 years ago, I got my first job as a web developer where I found a lot of friends that I could talk to about tech, startups, programming, etc. I call those friends "tech friends". At the time we were working in an office but after some time, the company went fully remote and I decided to move back to my hometown and work from there.

As the years passed, the company structure gradually changed, people left and at some point, I realized I had slowly grown apart from and lost touch with my original and only tech friends. I also wasn’t able to replicate those connections with my ever-changing remote colleagues.

A few months ago, I decided that I'd take a break from 9-5 due to a deep burnout and recently I realized something. Now that I’m not employed and don’t have colleagues, I’ve lost my only outlet to talk about tech and that really hurts.

My hometown doesn't have a tech scene so I decided to try building friendships online, particularly on X but I'm open to other platforms. I've heard many people say that they've met friends online but I've never been in that position and I'm not sure how to go about it.

On X, I'm giving people genuine compliments, I try to interact with them, but I don't know how to actually progress from there and try to form a connection.

Should I try joining some communities, doing some hackatons, messaging people directly, etc.?

Any direct or indirect tips would be helpful, thank you!

P.S. If you're interested, I’d be happy to make some new friends! Message me on X: https://x.com/genkoph
by yesfitz | 2025-09-14 18:59:04+00:00
Why would wide applicability be a mark against an idea? Do you feel the same way about gravity and normal distributions?

Your example is an excellent one though because it shows a corollary to the way that quote was intended in this conversation.

How it was meant: "It's OK to not remember everything you've read verbatim, because the important parts mixed into who you are/were."

Your corollary: "We must be careful about what we consume because it will be mixed into who you are."
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 18:59:41+00:00
> Ask Japan, and especially Fukushima's residents, about this.

Yes, let's ask Japan!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-16/japan-see...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/26/world/ger...

>> Germany shut down its reactors for idiotic reasons:

> Reason: "Fukushima"

QED.

> > Japan is reactivating its nuclear plants.

>Some sing this song since 2015

And it still happens to be true. And only in the weird minds of anti-nuclear activists are renewables and nuclear power incompatible. Almost the entire industrialized world is investing massively in both nuclear and renewables.

And once again: The law that required nuclear reactors to be closed was passed by the Red/Green coalition in 2002. Governments are bound by the law of the land.

Now other governments should have scrapped those laws, but they didn't. So they bear some responsibility for this disaster, but the main responsibility is still with Red/Green (2002) in general and the Greens in particular, because they were the ones pushing it.

It is also really telling that for some reason everyone wants to ascribe this huge "success" to their political enemies...
by api | 2025-09-14 19:00:16+00:00
It’s hard to visualize how weird and extreme black holes are.

A black hole with the mass of the Moon would be smaller than a BB but would have the mass and inertia of the Moon. It would be basically immovable as far as we are concerned. Chuck stuff at it all day and its trajectory change would be so small we probably wouldn’t be able to measure it.
by bluGill | 2025-09-14 19:00:33+00:00
Just be careful. Often there are goals other than efficiency. If you get the dishwasher unloaded while cooking - but burn the meal that was a loss. you might be able to do something else while unloading the dishwasher if your sort order is less effient. Or sometimes sorting is less efficent as there isn't enough to do as to make up for the overhead of sorting.
by coffinbirth | 2025-09-14 19:00:58+00:00
This whole 'Young activists' story is so preposterous. Don't believe anything the write, it's all U.S regime change propaganda. How the regime change in Nepal was (and is) funded and engineered by U.S government entities is explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgZXwXIVZTk

Take the time (to watch the video), look at the evidence and draw conclusions.
by mr_mitm | 2025-09-14 19:01:06+00:00
You are in no position to throw accusations considering the amount of misinformation you are spreading.

You could have spent two minutes to find out the actual arguments from scientists regarding the safety of the LHC, but chose not to.

Here it is: https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider...

> Although theory predicts that microscopic black holes decay rapidly, even hypothetical stable black holes can be shown to be harmless by studying the consequences of their production by cosmic rays.

Note that the article cites critics as well as technical refutations. Your claim that critics were dismissed is baseless.

I believe a healthy dose of humility would be in order.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-14 19:01:19+00:00
The report with a discount rate lower than the inflation and a 40 year pay back time.

For anyone even having a slight economic understanding the writers of that report are shouting from the top of their lungs that investing in nuclear power is pure lunacy.

But shrouded in a language allowing lobbyists and blindingly biased people to cite it.

Any understanding of economy and shilling for nuclear power seems to be a very disjoint set given what we are seeing in this thread.
by sonofhans | 2025-09-14 19:03:24+00:00
Generations hence, I see a future where school children are taught their lessons:

“Now that we’ve studied the classic American authors, like Emerson, let’s learn about the next generation. Their leading light was cantor_S_drug, who brilliantly updated a classic author with modern sensibilities. Just look at those double ellipses — truly a poetic legend.”
by arp242 | 2025-09-14 19:03:46+00:00
Pretty much every atrocity in history that I know of has included a framing of "we must defend ourselves against $evil_group, we have no choice, it's them or us". A framing of victimhood – whether real or not – and need of defence is always a big part of the justification of denying the rights, or even killing, of $evil_group. Maybe there are exceptions, but I'm not aware of them.

The right-wing persecution complex is not a new phenomenon. Bill O'Reilly and the likes were constantly going on about it in the 90s, and Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" – which more or less created the Christian Right – already had elements of it in the 80s. But this really takes things to a new level, and is at least potentially laying the groundwork for something rather ugly.
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-14 19:04:20+00:00
And yet they'll also spend literally millions writing just the company name 100 times around the periphery of a sports field. That's not creative, that's just repetition.

On the graph of spend over the spectrum between that to a genuinely creative live-action advert that is actually memorable for being real (maybe the guy doing the splits between two Volvo™ lorries?) there is a lot of area representing of dross that can be replaced by minimal-input advertotron output. For example 100 million TVs and radios playing in the background while embedding the actual advertising payload of "did anyone say just eat?" into 100 million brains.

Come on, you must have seen a delivery food ad recently. Did the protagonist really have food in their hand or was it AI? What were they wearing? What model was the car in the background? Who cares, that wasn't the purpose of the ad.

Obviously if a creative is bring hired the hiring manager will want to have the best creative they can have for the same money and have the applicants compete with each other for it. But the company board would rather still just not employ that creative in the first place if all they're going to be doing is boilerplate forgettable delivery vehicles for the brand name and you can get 90% of the filler content for that to pop out of your enterprise tier adverts as a service subscription for $50 a month per user.
by coolhand2120 | 2025-09-14 19:04:57+00:00
I'm not at all surprised that the majority of top level comments are saying things in the spirit of "Trump is trying to kill us to make money!" when if you were following along this _multi decade long regulatory battle_, and knew about the not-so-recent Chevron Deference rulings you could have predicted this. You wouldn't even need to leave HN to keep up, it gets posted here all the time!

And these comments have an air of erudite smugness about them that can only come from a person completely without doubt of their convictions - even while being completely devoid of any value to the conversation.

The title is at best hyperbolic and at worse at outright lie - in any case the pattern of the title was intended to stoke whatever mental illness we see at play here: "I speculate endlessly on my own world view to the theme of the article title so I can signal to my peers that I'm doing righthink.".

But this is what makes the article get engagement, so to hell with communicating ideas, let's stoke division and get those clicks!
by daemonologist | 2025-09-14 19:05:36+00:00
Just serving a whole SVG file directly never even crossed my mind as an option, very cool.

A while back I used a giant interactive SVG as the UI for a site I was prototyping, albeit wrapped in a normal HTML page. It was easy to set up and worked reasonably well, but I found that in Firefox performance started to degrade beyond a few thousand elements and so converted everything (except some accessibility features) to use a canvas instead. (The core of the old version is still deployed here if you want to see how far you can push it: https://freeclimbs.org/wall/demo/edit-set )
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-09-14 19:05:39+00:00
It also takes me longer to understand things and it takes me longer to get to delivery than many of my peers.

However, I have consistently noticed that the quickness comes at the price of a shallow understanding, and the delivery is also often lacking in those who move fast.

For me, I have to really grok the thing I'm focussing on. I have to internalise it somehow and build a mental model. Once I've done that I am actually faster and more productive than the ones who leap on things quicker.
by daveguy | 2025-09-14 19:06:14+00:00
If 30% more people vote it won't just be people in "blue states". That's the goddamn point. It'll mean we, as a country, get closer to the things we have 60%+ agreement.

You're discouraging voting with failures of logic, Mr 4 Month Raw Anon. "BuT wHaT iF tHeY OnLy vOtE iN bLuE sTaTeS?!" Seriously? ffs, a child could see through you.

To everyone else -- remember this. Vote in numbers that can't be eclipsed by nihilist propaganda asshats like this tool.

Let's make the margins huge in blue and purple states, miniscule to none in red states. The US can show the world a massive rejection of Trumpism if we all vote.
by truelson | 2025-09-14 19:06:48+00:00
In addition, being able to see when dopamine is rising, feel it, label it, engage your parasympathetic nervous system and know that a dopamine spike is temporary, the craving for TV, news, sweets, social media, or other will pass... that is liberation.

We live in a culture where everything is gunning for our attention, trying to engage a dopamine loop and "relieve" us from dealing with often important but difficult emotions just below the surface. We have to train ourselves to deal with this environment.

It's not mindfulness training, it's how to operate our brains in the modern world.
by mmis1000 | 2025-09-14 19:07:44+00:00
I think the power efficiency of AMD graphics is improved by a lot in the past 10 years. If you compare Rx580 and Radeon 890m. They are 7 years apart, with almost the same performance, and 12X power usage difference (the new one is so low so it can be put into a mini pc and used as igpu). It's unimaginable if you said this 7 years ago.
by epcoa | 2025-09-14 19:07:51+00:00
> as a sibling commenter writes, well-studied cases of this are so rare that

And yet not a single cite in sight. A random commenter on orange site is not evidence

However I know the paper they are referring to - it is from 1999 in J Pathology, famous at the time, and it is woefully out of date.

> they’re below our sensitivity of detection/technical error rates.

Hogwash.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14/7/668

> There are ways to do this, and, should they be attained, would be published in a reputable journal based on their novelty.

There are plenty of papers on HPV independent cervical cancer based on actual gene expression methods published in reputable journals in the last 30 years.
by SRKDan | 2025-09-14 19:07:54+00:00
I’ve noticed a lot of early-stage startups treat branding as an afterthought. They’ll launch with a decent logo, but within weeks their site, socials, and pitch decks all look like different companies. It’s subtle, but to customers or investors it can feel like three separate businesses.

The counter-argument is that early customers don’t care — they only care if the product works. But I wonder if inconsistent visuals quietly kill trust before people even give the product a chance. Investors too — I’ve heard more than once that a messy deck can sink an otherwise solid pitch.

This led me to start building something in the space (called Brandiseer) — an AI tool that generates full brand systems and keeps assets visually consistent as you scale. Still early, but it’s been eye-opening how many founders resonate with the “our brand looks different everywhere” problem.

Curious to hear what HN thinks:

Do you believe consistency in brand design actually impacts adoption, trust, or fundraising?

Or is it just “nice to have” polish until PMF is nailed?

Have you seen inconsistent branding actually hurt a company you worked with?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-14 19:08:02+00:00
Yes, being against a society without artists is totally a luddite argument. Being against AI entropy stopping societal progress, stagnating culture at 2025 when humans started stopping contributing to the training set is a luddite argument. Please stop, you are not responding in good faith.

Saying 'I think society should have artists' is not Luddism.
by bluedevil2k | 2025-09-14 19:08:10+00:00
Tourism is one of the best “products” a country can produce. It’s almost all a service industry which doesn’t strain natural resources, doesn’t cause physical health issues for its employees, incentivizes a higher level of education, and brings in large amounts of foreign currencies, helping to stabilize their own currency. The positives FAR outweigh the negatives. Countries like Saudi Arabia have embraced tourism as a great way to diversify. A country like Thailand is able to “thrive” relative to its neighbors because it derives far more economic power from its tourist trade.(20% of GDP compared to Cambodia’s 9%, Malaysia’s 15% and Myanmar’s 3%)
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-14 19:08:19+00:00
Absolutely.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019- 02/documents/pfas_action_plan_021319_508compliant_1.pdf

Trump's first term. February of 2019. Andrew Wheeler's EPA.

You'll also notice that the document lays out planned action dates bleeding generously into Biden's term, and for which Biden later took credit in the document you shared. This is shameful, and sadly normal presidential behavior, taking credit for their predecessor's wins.

If you'd truly like to learn if you're wrong, it's recommended to seek information that disproves your hypothesis rather than proves it. Both this and the previous article I shared were very easy to find and within the first 2 or 3 results.
by close04 | 2025-09-14 19:08:40+00:00
> The incumbent produces an innovative gadget. It may even be good, but its Sales Dept earn their quarterly bonus from the existing product line sold to the existing customers.

In a rare feat, Apple managed to do just that with the iPhone, which ate the iPod’s lunch. This at a time when the iPod was a core product, directly responsible for their revival and success, that could have been milked for years to come.
by jfengel | 2025-09-14 19:09:00+00:00
I have a really hard time doing gratitude. Most days are pretty much like any other day, especially with work. If I journal the same thing over and over ("lunch was fine" "the podcast I listened to was slightly interesting") it feels grim.

I feel like I'm already aware of the good things in my life. I'm actually quite fortunate. But even that forms a baseline: "I was healthy today in a world where not everyone is" grows repetitive. Saying it every day means little even if I write it down, and the writing itself feels more like a burden than a help.

Do you have any thoughts on how I might reframe that more beneficially?
by samgranieri | 2025-09-14 19:09:17+00:00
Homebrew is pretty nice. I think it's better than Fink (mac DPKG), and MacPorts (mac Freebsd-based). I'm actually using homebrew right now on ubuntu 25 for a few packages that I don't feel like compiling from source or installing from some random PPA or apt source.

All that being said, I've spent some time on Arch, and I really like pacman and the AUR setup. And all that documentation is just amazing. I really didn't understand systemd before I read the archwiki article on it.

SystemD I think was a bit inspired by Launchd.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-14 19:09:35+00:00
The jury is very much out on that. Market’s up, unemployment rising but relatively low. Our place in the world stage not as good as 30 years ago, but arguably a tad bit better than the days between our Afghan withdrawal and Putin’s blitz on Ukraine, or the dark days of pandemic lockdowns. Sometimes the darkest hour is before dawn. To be sure I ask myself your question nearly everyday and the concerns are obvious: a declining superpower (ensured by demographics) leaves a lot of room for the devil to take hold. Nuclear war has never felt more close or inevitable to me. Hatred reigns in many places, forgiveness, unity and love quite scarce compared to 30 years ago when soft power meant something. The Cold War years seem comfy in hindsight.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-14 19:09:39+00:00
A man argues that we don't need to salt roads in the winter. Argues it for years. Argues that nature takes care of roads and that actually it's important we leave them in their natural state. When people note that means people will die driving in icy road conditions, he declares that's the price you pay for natural roads and, anyway, it doesn't matter because most road fatalities are bad drivers anyway.

He drives one winter, slides right off the road, his car wraps around a tree, and he dies.

Did he cause his death? No. Conditions did. Conditions and some bad luck.

Is his death a predictable consequence of the conditions, the conditions he argued were necessary to preserve? Yes.

Do I feel sorry for him? It's hard for me, personally, to feel sorry for someone who got to drive on those icy roads he loved for so long before the dice rolled bad for him. But I've known too many, personally, who died on these roads, so my empathy on that specific topic is a bit burned out. It's reserved for those who advocate strongly that we could plow and salt these roads and then die anyway.
by sublinear | 2025-09-14 19:09:40+00:00
I'm going to propose an alternative explanation. This distinction doesn't exist, or at least not the way it seems.

The "fast thinkers" aren't thinking. They're just doing. Everyone is not only capable of this, but probably behave this way several times a day on certain tasks without realizing it or how it seems to others.

This is beyond mere practice towards a narrow goal. Certain topics just click better due to seemingly unrelated, yet deeply integrated life experiences.

It's not something to worry about since, as the article states, it doesn't affect outcomes much. If anything, "fast thinking" creates blind spots.
by adiabatichottub | 2025-09-14 19:10:39+00:00
To add to OP: It helps to pay attention to physical symptoms of stress as well. If you find yourself constantly tensing your jaw or your shoulders, take a moment to focus on relaxing your muscles and breathing. Overcoming negative automatic responses just takes consistent practice.

To further add: being able to acknowledge an emotional response to a situation and then divert to objective thinking is a superpower. Sustained anger, sadness, or fear will quickly drain your energy and leave you unable to act with intent.
by dtagames | 2025-09-14 19:13:55+00:00
A fantastic long read and chock full of wonderful quotes from inspiring smart people: Asimov, Feynman, Dyson, Einstein, Curie, and more.

Everything here applies to business, too. These "scientific virtues" were used successfully by Edison, Disney, and Edwin Land (of Polaroid) who all made impossible, funny, arrogant, beautiful, and wildly successful creations. That's what makes them my heroes.
by jeffbee | 2025-09-14 19:13:56+00:00
Didn't PA-RISC lead MIPS, and everyone else, on those? When the already-obsolete machine being discussed in the OP was finally marketed in mid-1996, its int/fp socres of either 8/10 or 9/11 depending on the clock speed were not great compared to the available PA8000 workstations that scored 12 on SPECint95 and 17 on SPECfp95. People bought SGIs because there was some critical app they needed that was only available on IRIX, and they tolerated the bad CPU performance because they didn't have a choice.