MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-18 03:56:37+00:00
I had used a Prusa MK3 in the past and had a good experience with it. When I went looking at printers again Prusa was what I assumed I'd get but after looking at Bambulab, their A1 is about 1/4th of the price while being better than the Prusa MK4.

It's almost impossible to justify buying their printers today. The issues and concerns about Bambulab seem to be primarily driven by disappointment with how a new company that didn't open source their hardware was able to absolutely steamroll the entire market, rather than actual real issues you as a user will have.
by jhatemyjob | 2025-09-18 03:58:23+00:00
Even if it doesn't get a jailbreak it will still be a gamechanger. It's far more of an open platform than iOS ever was. Sideloading Android apps on the Meta Quest doesn't require any hax, I imagine it will be the same on the Meta Display. An SSH client on this thing will be a huge boost in productivity for me. Can just randomly sit on a park bench and write some code w/ my pocket bluetooth keyboard. This will reduce 90% of my need to bring my laptop out of the house.
by hannieliu | 2025-09-18 03:58:43+00:00
Sometimes, you hit the big milestones early, and afterwards, it's a year (or more) of figuring out what you really want next. I’m grateful I didn’t have family/kids yet, it gave me space. But I see friends with families still searching for their next vision and mission. It’s never easy to recapture the hunger we had in our early 20s.

What helped me is that treat “finding your vision” less like a high-pressure quest, more like playing a game—keep asking yourself honest questions (no pressure), make a bucket list, and use first principles to understand what really matters to you. For me, it took 18 months... This process is a lot like starting a company from scratch.

Keep exploring, stay curious, and don’t be hard on yourself if you don’t have big desires right now. That’s okay too.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 03:59:43+00:00
Not the sane ones.

My wife and I are conservative. My neighbor and his wife literally worked in the Obama White House. I have a Trump-era kid and 2 Biden-era kids, as does he.

Both our wives care about election outcomes and yet neither would look at 2016 or 2020 or 2024 and decide "never mind" on their life-long commitment to family. And neither would anyone else. Nobody was trending in the good direction and then was derailed by an election.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-18 04:00:32+00:00
Along with the factors listed by others, I wonder to what degree that a pervasive dysphoria about the present and future is leading to a conscious decision to not usher more humans into the chaos and uncertainty that has become the American norm. I’m in my 60’s, secure and reasonably set; but even I feel an undercurrent of anxiety that pervades American life.
by novatea | 2025-09-18 04:00:43+00:00
Hack Club had a $5,000/year contract with Slack (renewed in May iirc), but Salesforce just suddenly told them to pay $50,000 within a week and $200,000/year, without warning, or they would deactivate the whole workspace. That's how the HC founder told it in the Slack announcement, anyways.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-18 04:01:38+00:00
It's not the democrats job to fix this. It's the voters job.

The voters decided to vote democrats out of office. They are the ones with the power here.

Democracy is about majority rule. Blaming the minority for not fixing the problem is to miss the whole point of voting.

The public decided that this guy, this party, should win the last election. The public will decide who wins the next one.

The really ugly truth is that a significant slice of the public think this is going well. Another significant slice thinks this is OK, let's do more of this. You might not like it. I might not like it. Welcome to the minority. (And Democracy does not treat minorities well.)
by phs318u | 2025-09-18 04:01:56+00:00
Any kind of proof? Because at this stage, you're reminding me of the scene in the Monty Python film "Life of Brian" when poor old Brian keeps denying that he is the messiah only to be told by his followers that "Only the true messiah denies his divinity".

We may as well go ahead and get the People's Front of Judea banned as a terrorist organisation.
by safety1st | 2025-09-18 04:02:08+00:00
The ability to block any network request I want is an essential feature of the general computer and I will promptly abandon any service which tries to impinge upon my security as well as my freedom to use what I own in the way I wish, to obstruct that. Now sure, they could perform some kind of tracking that doesn't generate additional network requests. But they know how the open Web works and the tradeoffs even if they may not like it, so I would guess their architecture is deliberate.
by palmotea | 2025-09-18 04:02:48+00:00
> Are we going to be putting government-appointed directors on all social media companies?

That wouldn't be a bad thing. How good has unchecked Zuckerberg been for us, really?

> Or just the one that used-to-be-Chinese?

Or the one where there's some level to force on them, like here. If Zuckerberg starts needing government cash to keep Facebook going, I'd expect a similar deal.
by yibg | 2025-09-18 04:03:15+00:00
Leaving aside impact to the rest of the world, America being the "leader of the free world" has benefited it immensely. Majority of the global systems were built by Americans. Everything from military power projection to global reserve currency status to pop culture has not only given the US clout and power but also a lot of wealth.

Sticking to solve their own problems is how the Chinese declined into being the "sick man of Asia" hundreds of years ago.
by novatea | 2025-09-18 04:04:19+00:00
There are 102,500 members in the Slack right now (though not nearly all are active), and Hack Club is mainly focused on getting teens interested in coding. It needs to be approachable for non-technical teenagers. Also, as someone else said, we build many integrations around Slack, like how users update their password and SSH keys on a VPS through a Slack bot.
by larusso | 2025-09-18 04:04:21+00:00
When the first wave of null check operators came out our code bases filled up with ? operators. I luckily had used the operator in swift and rust to somewhat know what it can do and what not. Worse the fact that unlike rust the ? operator only works on null. So people started to use null as an optional value. And I think that is at the core the problem of the feature. C# is not advertising or using this themselves in this way. I think the nullable checks etc are great way to keep NPE under control. But they can promote lazy programming as well. In code reviews more often than not the question comes up, when somebody is using ? either as operator or as nullable type like ‘string?’, are you sure the value should be nullable? And why are you hiding a bug with a conditional access when the value should never be null in the first place.
by anonymars | 2025-09-18 04:04:24+00:00
Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch in PTSD from reading all of Raymond Chen's tales of depending on undocumented code, e.g.

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10...

*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...
by Syntonicles | 2025-09-18 04:05:10+00:00
I first saw this effect in a video from Branta Games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw

The effect is disrupted by introducing rendering artifacts, by watching the video in 144p or in this case by zooming out.

I'd love to know the name of this effect, so I can read more about the fMRI studies that make use of it.

What I've found so far:

Random Dot Kinematogram

Perceptual Organization from Motion (video of Flounder camouflage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VO10eDIyiE
by tdeck | 2025-09-18 04:05:13+00:00
The reason is that Braille can't really be resized and still be readable, so letter cells are fairly large. A normal letter / A4 sized paper fits maybe 28 columns of text, so Braille is often embossed on legal size paper. And Braille pages don't lay flat against each other, so the books end up being enormous. The paper itself is also thicker because it holds dots better, so the books are quite heavy. This is why so many contractions are used in printing Braille.

Some languages use few or no contractions in Braille, but I think many of them also have very few Braille books available.
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-18 04:06:02+00:00
Oh great now Americans get to talk about things the US government could care less about while at the same time losing the ability to criticize Israel or the current administration. Does not sound like a great win. There were plenty of platforms to talk about those topics already. What didn't exist was a platform that expressly talked about things the US does not like. It could be argued that the rise in pro-palestine awareness post Oct 7 is in part to TikTok. Thats likely going away now so Americans on the whole are left worse off.
by nine_k | 2025-09-18 04:06:40+00:00
The author of "Choose boring technology" regretted the choice of the word "boring" [1].

Anyway, boring is bad. Boring is what spends your attention on irrelevant things. Cobol's syntax is boring in a bad way. Go's error handling is boring in a bad way. Manually clicking through screens again and again because you failed to write UI tests is boring in a bad way.

What could be "boring in a good way" is something that gets things done and gets out of your way. Things like HTTPS, or S3, or your keyboard once you have leaned touch typing, are "boring in a good way". They have no concealed surprises, are well-tested in practice, and do what they say on the tin, every time.

New and shiny things can be "boring in the good way", e.g. uv [2]. Old and established things can be full of (nasty) surprises, and, in this regard, the opposite of boring, e.g. C++.

[1]: https://boringtechnology.club/#30

[2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
by bix6 | 2025-09-18 04:07:13+00:00
No I’m not. Hermes and Ferrari are one off brands not massive conglomerations of multiple brands. LVMH is also monopoly-like. Ferrari is not even close to 1% of global auto sales, they aren’t moving the market the way Luxottica can. Sure Ferrari has luxury pricing but it’s not boxing you out at Sephora.
by SigmaEpsilonChi | 2025-09-18 04:07:29+00:00
I work for this foundation, I can guarantee that nothing has changed about our status or Slack's policies. We qualified before and we qualify today, which is why earlier this year when Slack took us off their free plan the rate they negotiated with us was so low. Slack was extremely reasonable during that process and we have no complaints about them.

The thing that changed is that we aren't dealing with Slack anymore, all of a sudden we're dealing with Salesforce. I can only assume they are shaking the money tree at all levels of the organization since their recent disappointing earnings report (I guess they've had a lot of those lately).

I appreciate the nuanced perspective you're bringing here but it really is as scummy as it's written in the post. They are asking us to pay $50k in the next 5 days, just for the privilege of not having our 11 years of history deleted. They don't owe us continued access to their platform on the cheap, but to demand this much money on that kind of time frame? I don't know what to call that other than extortion.
by thepryz | 2025-09-18 04:07:46+00:00
A civically informed and engaged population also has a choice to organize against the political establishment, run their own candidates, or create political action committees. The PAC can endorse and otherwise work to support a better candidate to win a primary (See David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve PAC), or if you don't mind getting a little dirty, the PAC can raise enough money to buy the politicians and bend them to their will.

I do admit that this is more difficult for Presidential elections, but certainly this can be effective at the state and local level and arguably could be used effectively within Congress if done right. In fact, we might be seeing some of that begin to happen in states like Maine given the response Graham Platner has already received. Kat Abughazaleh is another example. She's a progressive who is taking a somewhat novel approach to her campaign in Chicago. And of course you have Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
by paul7986 | 2025-09-18 04:07:51+00:00
I own two pair and love them yet hate them also because they are not durable and my 1st pair bought Oct 2023 stopped being smart in April so I bought a 2nd pair. After some big-ish water splashes the second paired died in June.

Smart glasses are great for ppl who wear some type of glasses and use their phone to take pics. Also, when I was in Europe asking about my surroundings enhanced my trip per my learning of about many sights I explored in Berlin and Amsterdam.

I do love and miss them but I’m not buying another pair til they are rock solid durable! Also the Ray Ban stores need to act just like Apple stores in terms of tech support but they do not ..and thus both Meta and Ray Ban are just selling a toy that easily breaks / doesn’t last. Even a Ray ban customer service rep said these things break I get so many calls.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-18 04:08:13+00:00
> even though these things are NOTHING compared to what people dealt with in history and still had kids

Until recent human history, though, humans had far less control over childbearing than now. And children in the past were relied on to provide supplemental labour to maintain the household which was, much more often than now, a farm. So at times there were very practical reasons for childbearing.

But agree, deeply held values enable some to overcome obstacles.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-09-18 04:08:39+00:00
This is more my thinking as well. How many big tech companies are working on their own internal TPU chip? Google's started using them in 2015. It sounds like the basic theory of getting silicon to do matrix multiplication is well established. Sure you can always be more efficient, but getting a working chip sounds very approachable. AMD hardware has been ~competitive the entire time, but they have squandered all good will with their atrocious software support.

If China sees an existential risk to getting compute capacity, I can easily see an internal decree to make something happen. Even if it requires designing the hardware + their own CUDA-like stack.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-18 04:09:00+00:00
Adblock isn’t allowed or disallowed somewhere in the ten commandments or fabric of the universe or whatever. Personally, my outlook would dictate that it’s bad if it causes harm, so prove that harm is done to someone. Even then, if the harm is sufficiently small, I’m alright with doing it for my convenience, e.g. there’s some small risk I hit someone when I drive but I choose to drive even when sometimes I could walk.
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 04:09:28+00:00
> Firing someone for making a political statement is business.

Except that he was fired right after the FCC chair threatened ABC. That feels more like government censorship than business.

Unless now "business" encompasses "it's better for business to not criticize the government". Which I suppose it does, under Trump. But that's not something we should accept or allow in a free society, under the constitution we have.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-18 04:09:44+00:00
> but a culturally dominant app being leveraged by an authoritarian state goes in the not good colunm.

I think political scholars will debate on what the net effect of this is actually going to be. As in, are we better off with the GOP or the CCP controlling the algorithm? Certainly, the CCP has anti west incentives that the GOP does not, like trying to confuse us as to how we should feel about protecting Taiwan.

But in the past, the CCP has been interested in sewing discontent in the US and the method by which they have done that is by propping up the GOP. And many ways by which both the CCP and GOP would presumably manipulate the algorithm would be similar—owning libs, promoting radical right wing views, etc. But having the GOP control TikTok is a different thing entirely, they are much more incentivized to propagate their own flavor of politics to skew the nations narrative to their liking, in a much more controlled way than I think the CCP would. See twitter for prior art here.

At least if TikTok is owned in the US there might be some oversight into what’s going on. As bankrupt as Mark is as a person it doesn’t seem like hes pushing his own political views into instagrams algorithm, unlike the case at twitter. I think we have yet to see how Ellison will treat the great power of controlling the TikTok algorithm but I’m cynical.
by casq | 2025-09-18 04:09:47+00:00
Hi, I’m Christina, cofounder of Hack Club. We just announced this news to our community, and this post is from one of the teenagers in Hack Club. It’s an accurate description of what’s happened, and we’re grateful to them for posting. Slack changed the terms of a special deal we were given last year to charge us for staff and volunteers (not for every teenager coding), and we built programs around that special rate. Then this spring they changed the terms to every single user without telling us or sending a new contract, and then ignored our outreach and delayed us and told us to ignore the bill and not to pay as late as Aug 29

Then, suddenly, they called us 2 days ago and said they are going to de-activate the Hack Club Slack, including all message history from 11 years, unless we pay them $50,000 USD this week and $200,000 USD/year moving forward (plus additional annual fees for new accounts, including inactive ones)

For anyone reading this, we would really appreciate any way to contact people at Salesforce to discuss time to migrate because deactivating us in 5 days destroys all the work of thousands of teen coders at Hack Club and alum unnecessarily. We are not asking for anything for free. This was an underhanded process by the sales team to raise our rate exorbitantly from a qualified educational 501(c)(3) charity serving young developers or destroy all their projects, DMs and work forever. If Salesforce’s goals have changed- ok. Give us a reasonable amount of time to migrate- and don’t club us over the head like this. We have had an 11 year great relationship with Slack- and have introduced the company to many many future engineers and founders. My email if you can help us: christina@hackclub.com
by NaOH | 2025-09-18 04:10:10+00:00
>There's another important aspect that I wrote about... and still haven't explained very well. In that post it's called "the temporal decay of interestingness in any sequence of related stories"—a clumsy phrase....

I think your immediately following phrase captures the idea well: "Curiosity withers under repetition," and that's compounded by topical subjects inherently being ephemeral.
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 04:11:56+00:00
> Kimmel was straight up spreading misinformation about the shooter.

... which is free speech, regardless of whether or not we agree with it.

But sure, I guess this sort of misinformation is fine when the president says it in support of his own ideology, but not ok when someone like Kimmel does it (and read a sibling poster's quote of what Kimmel said... that wasn't misinformation, or even false).

You're correct that defamatory speech isn't protected, but the remedy for that is a civil suit, not threats from a FCC commissioner.

This is absolutely government censorship.

And not to play the whataboutism card, but if Kimmel should be taken off the air for misinformation, then all of Fox "News" should have been taken off the air years ago.
by rolph | 2025-09-18 04:12:06+00:00
ballistic plates, and accesory layers help a lot.

the kinetic trauma is difficult to deal with, and not a lot can be done about that with so called hi power rifles.

ricochet is a problem for design. a round can ricochet the surface of the plate redirect and exit the edge striking upperlimbs, or head/neck area. this is mostly a consequence of hit from front. rear not so much but hitting someone nearby is very possible.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-09-18 04:12:14+00:00
It’s all open source and even their methods are published. Berkeley could replicate the reasoning principle of R1 with 30$ compute budget. Open-R1 aims to fully replicate R1 results with published methods and recipes. Their distill results look already very impressive. All these open source models are based on Meta Llama and open to everyone. Why should western labs and universities not be able to continue and innovate with open source models?

I don’t see why we have to rely on China. Keeping the open source projects open is however extremely important. And for that we should fight. Not chasing conspiracy theories or political narratives.

https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
by jdprgm | 2025-09-18 04:12:46+00:00
I remain convinced VR gaming is niche because despite these companies being willing to drop boatloads of money on all kinds of things they for some reason never decided to just allocate a few billion to create a handful of true AAA games and jumpstart the industry. I think even just 3 proper games with several hundred mil budgets and VR gaming might be in an entirely different space than it is now.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-18 04:13:03+00:00
Network traffic and machine load don’t usually impact the output of a pure (in the CS sense of purity) math function (which is what an LLM is) unless you’ve written your system to be sensitive to that.

> to have a graceful degradation state instead of becoming unavailable. That wouldn't be possible in a system that's completely deterministic.

What does this even mean? I see no incompatibility between determinism and your ability to perform the same function more slowly. Determinism just means that the output of the system is solely dependent on the inputs - feed the same inputs get the same outputs. If by degraded state you’re intentionally choosing to change your inputs, that doesn’t change the determinism of your system.

When it is said that LLMs aren’t deterministic, it’s because the output token is dependent on the inputs context and all other contexts processed in the same batch because the kernels are written non-deterministically. If the kernels were written deterministically (so that the output only depended on your input context), then there wouldn’t be a problem and it also wouldn’t change the ability for the system to degrade; it would be deterministic because capturing the input context and random seed would be sufficient. As it stands you’d have to capture the interim states of the other inputs being processed in the same batch and that interim state problem is what makes it non deterministic.

As for Google search, it’s not clear to me it’s non-deterministic. When you Google the exact same thing twice you get exactly the same page of results and selected snippets. That suggests there’s more determinism in the system than you’re giving it credit for.
by Sabinus | 2025-09-18 04:13:26+00:00
There's a belief in the western left that Israel was set up by Western countries as colonialism. That way they can more easily call for the dissolving of the illegitimate country for a 1 state solution. If you acknowledge that the Jews were elbowing their way into the area of their own desire for a state, against the wishes of the Ottomans and then British, it makes it more difficult to paint them as evil invaders.