MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-09-12 06:24:32+00:00
I wondered if "slender man" was this. An unnaturally tall and thin figure, it doesn't have hands, but some sort of tentacles growing from its back. It doesn't strike at you, you're just likely to feel a sudden, crippling pain if you catch its attention and it comes too close, followed by your certain death. It does not move quickly, but it is relentless - you thought you had outrun it, and then it's suddenly right behind you again.

It occurred to me that this could be how a savanna predator views a human hunter. Our hands wouldn't register as hands (forepaws) for them, they would be some sort of super-flexible grasping thing, like a tentacle. Standing upright we would seem impossibly tall and thin. The animal doesn't understand throwing, let alone guns, all it knows is that getting the attention of this creature is related to sudden pain and death at a distance. Endurance hunting is pure horror - you thought you had outrun it, but there it is again.
by jcul | 2025-09-12 06:24:35+00:00
I haven't used LineageOS for a long time, but I remember it being really good. And I used cyanogenmod which IIRC was it's predecessor.

GraapheneOS is a different ball game IMO, especially if you need to use Google play services etc, banking apps etc. I'm not sure what the current state of microg is or Google services on lineage.

I bought a second hand pixel 6, just for Graphene and when that died I bought another pixel.
by fawkesalbus | 2025-09-12 06:24:40+00:00
> Do I find Charlie's death hilarious considering his stance on gun laws? Yes. In fact, I think maybe we should come up to something similar to the Herman Cain award, but for gun lovers.

No one actively made fun of the deaths of school kids or anyone on the left - the Hortmanns or the injury to Paul Pelosi. No one actually celebrates those tragedies.

And yet here you are actively saying you find Charlie’s death hilarious. This is shameful and no sane person should feel happy that a person who advocated for free speech and nothing else has been assassinated.

Also please read the guidelines that @dang has posted at the very beginning of this thread.

May God help you find more peace and less hatred.
by hulitu | 2025-09-12 06:25:07+00:00
> And there are tons of back alley trained BGA repair specialists in China for mysterious reasons

In some countries it is cheaper to repair a phone than to buy a new one. This creates the "back alley trained BGA repair specialists".

When i was first employed in a Eastern Europe country, our computer supplier will "repair" RAM modules this way. Test was simple: insert in PC, see if it boots. It was the only place where i saw Windows 2000 crash more than Windows Me.
by mordae | 2025-09-12 06:25:52+00:00
Sorry, but Russia is a credible threat that keeps killing people in Ukraine and threatens going nuclear.

China is betting on us rather pivoting than engaging with Russian army. If we seem tough enough, we call it.

We can then also negotiate better rate for the US protection racket, becauss the US fuckers decided to more than double the rate recently and we are unhappy about that. Long term we will rearm ourselves on our own terms.
by phatskat | 2025-09-12 06:26:02+00:00
> the delusion that LLMs have thinking capacity

It’s such a strange delusion too, because it’s easy to get caught up in for a moment and it’s easy to remember “oh no this thing is as smart as a bag of bricks”.

What strikes me more is how these companies sell their AI offerings - we watched an OpenAI presentation about spec-driven development recently and the presenter was fairly, idk, fine enough if maybe a bit grandiose. But what really nagged me was the way he ended his presentation with something along the lines of “we’re excited to see AGI continue to grow” and it’s honestly A) depressing and B) downright fraud - there is no current AGI to speak of, it’s all just guessing the string of words that sound best together and this OpenAI rep _knows this_.

They know that no amount of up-front spec writing will prevent bugs.

They know that their LLM doesn’t “know” anything in an actually meaningful way.

They know that calling what they have “AGI” is aspirational at best and lying at worst.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-12 06:26:24+00:00
A lot of the time I find myself highlighting things in NeoVim before I delete/copy them. Probably from years of interacting with text in GUI applications, it just feels more natural. I've heard about Helix's approach before and it seems like it would fit well for me, but I can never bring myself to switch. Probably a little sunk cost fallacy because of how much I put into learning NeoVim, and a little about being able to customize it. I don't do a lot, but I like what I've done, and more importantly I like that I have the options.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-12 06:26:54+00:00
Spotify, et. al., are wonderful for discovery but the chances your esoteric finds will stick around are precarious.

Their entire economic model relies upon providing the least amount of money possible to the rights holders. This seems to often mean removing access to "expensive" content in customer libraries.

I don't think it's a simple coincidence that some of the best tracks wind up getting removed arbitrarily. It's almost like I can trigger this to occur by listening to anything "not mainstream" too many times.
by cturner | 2025-09-12 06:27:21+00:00
I tend to run my tmux session for months at a time on my office workstation. When I remote in to that computer, I can type ‘tmux attach’ and all my context is there. I might have four long arc dev projects running at once, and my planning system, all within those windows.

On our datacentre servers, I also have tmux running. It is fast to connect to these hosts, attach tmux and continue from where I left off.

Another use case: it is common for corporates to require devs to use windows desktops, but to then give them a headless linux host in a datacentre for development work. Here, you use putty to connect to the linux host, fullscreen it, run tmux. On your desktop you have outlook and office and putty and a browser and no dev tools. You can do all your planning and dev work on the linux host, using your favourite ten thousand hours text editor and building your own tools, and this becomes your hub. You lose awareness that you are connected to this from a locked down windows host. Corporate security reboots your windows host for patching several nights in a row, and it does not cause you any hassle because your work context is in the tmux session on another host.
by daemontus | 2025-09-12 06:27:51+00:00
One detail most comments seem to be missing is that the O(1) complexity of get/set in hash tables depends on memory access being O(1). However, if you have a memory system operating in physical space, that's just not possible (you'd have to break the speed of light). Ultimately, the larger your dataset, the more time it is going to take (on average) to perform random access on it. The only reason why we "haven't noticed" this yet that much in practice is that we mostly grow memory capacity by making it more compact (the same as CPU logic), not by adding more physical chips/RAM slots/etc. Still, memory latency has been slowly rising since the 2000s, so even shrinking can't save us indefinitely.

One more fun fact: this is also the reason why Turing machines are a popular complexity model. The tape on a Turing machine does not allow random access, so it simulates the act of "going somewhere to get your data". And as you might expect, hash table operations are not O(1) on a Turing machine.
by rmunn | 2025-09-12 06:27:58+00:00
It's not that hard to set up Audacity to record the audio loopback input on your computer; https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_compu... is a way to do it on Windows, and if you're on Linux you probably already know how to do it so I don't need to explain it. (Which I wouldn't be able to do immediately without looking it up, as the last time I needed to do that it was on my wife's Windows computer).

I'll refrain from explaining the rest of the steps to commit what some people would consider to be copyright violation, though IMHO if you paid for the music you should have a right to download a DRM-free copy as long as you don't distribute it to others.

Though of course, that does factor into the "time expense" you mentioned. But it's something you only have to do once, and you don't have to do it for your whole library at the same time.
by Semaphor | 2025-09-12 06:27:59+00:00
Interesting that they prefer syncing. I went the other way and stream everything, but locally. Music acquisition is 95% bandcamp (5% is Amazon or Qobuz or physical CDs I rip), the FLACs gets transferred to the N100 server in my living room, where it gets picked up by Navidrome[0]. Navidrome then streams it to the kitchen (via Music Assistant to a pi3 with USB-connected speaker), to my phone (via Symfonium), and to my browser (via the web app). The server has tailscale for remote access as well.

[0] Until recently I used Jellyfin, but the performance of Navidrome is far superior.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-12 06:28:34+00:00
I would hope that security critical parts of the OS that can't be exposed as an API aren't being used to communicate with the apple watch. Why would the apple watch need access to these APIs that can't be publicly exposed? Is there any reason beyond apple wanting to make sure other smartwatches are second class citizens in their ecosystem?

This isn't exposing business logic, this is an operating system vendor deciding what it exposes to vendors. There is clearly an API that the apple watch is using to communicate with the OS, why shouldn't other vendors be allowed to access this?
by xquce | 2025-09-12 06:29:23+00:00
You seen to have failed to understand both solutions and changes you mention... the technology stack of our digital post and the change of letter delivery (I don't blame you, many of my fellow Danes don't understand it either).

But Eboks is not holding all digital post of all our citizens, it's one of at least 3 services who we can choose from to read our mail from the governmental organizations. It's a freemarket compromise with multiple private and public solutions the public can choose from.

Also while yes the private company that did deliver physical mail no longer will, another have taken its place for physical letter... Isn't that freemarket capitalism? Why should one private entity have the contract for all time?

Your post does read like the old "Denmark is a specialist hellhole" posts from the conservatives when Bernie Sanders dared using the country as an example of doing Social Wellfare + Free market right.
by fifticon | 2025-09-12 06:30:05+00:00
I don't agree. It is the main way I am being informed that some sites I attempt to use, share my data with thousands of external partners, for no relevant function. I do not believe this information would be divulged to me and the public, if voluntary. The public is mistreated in innumerable ways, starting by not letting them know it is happening.
by selcuka | 2025-09-12 06:30:14+00:00
> this should logically be incredibly low on our priority list.

0.00006% every year...

Why should there be a priority list? Why can't we improve multiple things simultaneously?

> we solve this by raising the gun purchase age to 26, because this is mostly school-age children shooting younger school-age children

This won't solve the problem. A Secret Service study of school attackers (2008–2017) [1] found that "Many of the attackers were able to access firearms from the home of their parents or another close relative."

[1] https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Pr...
by motorest | 2025-09-12 06:30:43+00:00
> Or you could read the linked BBC article and form your own opinion.

If you by now aren't aware of the likes of Tucker Carlson being a Russian asset, either you have been living under a rock or you are purposely playing dumb.

Do yourself a favor and spend a couple of minutes googling the topic and you will find a wealth of sources on how the Russian regime has been financing Tucker Carlson and other extremist propaganda agents. Even Canada's prime minister went Publix with the information.

This isn't anything exceptional either. Russia has been for many years financing all kinds of extremist organizations throughout Europe, including bankrolling neonazi/fascist political parties.
by mordae | 2025-09-12 06:30:53+00:00
Yeah. The way we run our countries is idiotic. Zero resilience. First concern after floods is getting back to job, even before all the water is drained and mud cleaned, because working people live paycheck to paycheck and so on.

Businesses try to keep minimum stock. Single disruption in integrated circuit supply disables whole industries. And so on.

Capitalism is incompatible with resiliency.
by pbasista | 2025-09-12 06:31:03+00:00
Your post has some fair points. But it also makes statements that seem illogical to me. For example:

> I don't want $10 aliexpress smartwatches to be able to seamlessly connect to my phone

Why? What is an objective reason for something like that?

You are the gatekeeper of your devices. You choose which accessories to pair. If you only want Apple-made devices to connect to your phone, fine. You do that. No one is suggesting or even implying that customers should be forced to use non-Apple devices.

The main point is to give the customers a choice. And let them decide what they want.
by yoz-y | 2025-09-12 06:31:31+00:00
For me the hard question to answer is whether I have aphantasia because people describing “actually seeing” things like with their eyes is an absolutely wild concept.

To answer the question I imagine an apple with three dots in a triangle, closely together. There is no color because there is no real image, it’s just an idea. As other have said if prompted the idea gets more detailed.

That said, when I tried to learn building mind palaces it has worked. I can “walk through” places I know just fine, even recall visual details like holes in a letterbox. But again, there is no image.
by oceanplexian | 2025-09-12 06:31:33+00:00
I'm in Utah and the idea isn't that you're going to be a lone wolf and somehow survive in a bunker then come out in 6 months. The point is that you should have plenty of extra supplies on hand for your family, friends, and neighbors. Instead of a mob people are more likely going to work together instead of fighting over a bag of rice.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-12 06:31:57+00:00
Yeah, and only when (I think) Google got a hefty fine did the banner implementations start to add an instant "opt-out" button. The tech companies really try to skirt the rules as closely as possible.

I'm glad I'm not in EU legal, it's gotta be like dealing with internet trolls ("I didn't ACTUALLY break any rules because your rules don't say I can't use the word "fhtagn"")
by olalonde | 2025-09-12 06:32:01+00:00
Given he preceded that with "I blame the decline of American men" and followed it with "as testosterone rates go down and men start acting like women", it seems that in his worldview, the decline of masculinity started in the 70s. A high school swimming coach from the 1950s or 60s likely wouldn't have permitted a biological male in the women's locker room.
by corywatilo | 2025-09-12 06:32:40+00:00
Hi, OP here. I was employee #13 at PostHog, joining as a designer (who now moonlights as a design engineer). I'm responsible for the website. I've been part of crafting the brand for 4.5 years – joined when the company just started monetizing.

There are only two of us who work on the website, myself and a front end engineer. (He was hired to work on the website and doesn't directly work in the product.)

We've spent roughly half of the last six months on this site. Other than our incredible graphic designer, no other resources were brought in.

A lot of our time is spent on brand-related side quests – they're consistently a net positive for the brand. You can see some examples under "Some things we've shipped" at https://posthog.com/teams/brand

This was a passion project of mine. I'm the one who ultimately chose to spend time I did on it. I think what we built is really cool, and I hope it serves as inspiration for other designers to think outside the box when it comes to solving their unique challenges.

Every company operates differently. Yes, many companies do have employees with too much time on their hands. Others do waste a lot of money in advertising. And a lot of companies are stagnating.

But I can assure you, PostHog is none of those.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-12 06:33:03+00:00
The big losers with AI are people who try to monetize user contributions. Users themselves were already making contributions to Reddit, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia for free. Traditional bloggers (not the Google AdWords people) wouldn’t care where you read your ideas, so long as you were reading them.

In this day and age, a blog is like music; if I can’t engage with it for free, I’m probably not going to engage with it at all.
by WA | 2025-09-12 06:33:12+00:00
So, this story is from people who heard things? I can guarantee you that regulators have zero time for proactively looking for MISSING cookie banners. If they had time, they'd crack down proactively on the cookie consent management systems used by thousands of websites that do not comply with the regulation, because they implement the reject option as a dark pattern. Furthermore, this weird fantasy request you just described can easily be dismissed by the website operators with a single sentence: We don't use cookies, hence no cookie banner.

Individuals and other businesses have to complain to regulators about others not complying with the GDPR.
by voodooEntity | 2025-09-12 06:34:04+00:00
Im struggling to find the words but ill try:

Sir : you did a fantastic job.

As someone who worked many years in web development and always was annoyed by bad UIs, this one is outstandingly good. And im not just talking about the "lookalike" itself, which is very clean and structured. Also the usability and how it "feels" to use the website is the closest to any "browser fake os" page i've ever tried (and i tried many...) - literally the only thing i was missing (and thats nitpicking on the highest level) - was when i right clicked the background that the context menu didn't have a "refresh" that i could click which sure would have no usefull effect but it would have my "using a desktop" feeling 100% round :D

So basically: great job, great website !
by clan | 2025-09-12 06:34:14+00:00
Around here it is quite common to do with dairy products.

I however choose not to do so quite deliberately. I want to avoid food waste. I just check the date is "good enough". My regular shop has a good enough flow that I usually pick from the front.

Food waste is a trending concern around here. But I think you and I who cares about shelf life belongs to the same minority. The majority has enough other worries and does not spend bandwidth to care as it is usually good enough.

I consider fish a "fresh" item and care more for looks and smell.

Same as with vegetables. But I hate people who prod everything - that is detrimental to the product.
by Frieren | 2025-09-12 06:34:51+00:00
> The squatting thing is seen by many as a measure against speculation on living space and at the same time giving young kids a cheap place to live and get on their feet.

This is true for abandoned empty buildings. If the owners are not using a building and someone starts to live in there, they are allowed. The idea is that the right to housing is greater than the right to own empty buildings just for speculation.

In cities were housing offering is lacking this is seen as a measure to push speculators to sell or rent their properties.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-12 06:35:01+00:00
I have an offline music library that I use with Apple music app. It's the only way I can have Siri play playlists by name when using CarPlay; despite this functionality being broken for me since iOS 17 (have a longstanding bug report with escalation with engineers that have been saying they'd fix the bug for about 2 years now). Synchronisation is awful because it can't reconcile multiple copies of the library on different devices, so you're essentially tethered to one mac (or windows) for synchronisation.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-12 06:36:13+00:00
The "malicious" compliance came from the trick that accepting / opting-in was fast and almost instant, but rejecting / opting-out was a slow and arduous process, and it required lawsuits and fines [0] for companies to comply.

I found a website that lists all fines handed out for violating the GDPR: [1]

[0] Google fined €325 million by French CNIL for placing cookies without consent https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-and-advertisements-inserted-b...

[1] https://www.dsgvo-portal.de/gdpr-fines/gdpr-fine-against-goo...
by hliyan | 2025-09-12 06:37:26+00:00
Why this feels so incredibly appealing compared to prevailing designs is probably something for a psychologist / cognitive scientist / neurologist (?) to answer -- there is certainly something here that warrants better study than what we in the software industry do in rushed blog posts.

But I can personally speak to at least one aspect, having worked for a company that does high end web sites and strategy for large SaaS products, and also being the target audience for such websites (director or VP Eng): the speed and ease with which I can find what I want (as a potential customer) using that top navigation menu is superior to anything I've seen done so far.

I could see immediately they have 34 products under 7 categories; 5 are popular, 4 are new. If I want to try out one: Docs > Product OS > Integration > Install and configure > Install PostHog.

And if I wanted to learn a bit about their engineering: Company > Handbook > Engineering > Internal Processes > Bug prioritization.

Pricing: Pricing calculator > select product > set usage, select addons.

Each of these interactions took only seconds. And I could switch between the product overview page I opened earlier and the pricing page I just opened, without waiting for any entire website to reload (or having to right click, open in new tab, and then scroll).

As I said, there is something here beyond just aesthetics. And one of the conclusions may be that our current UI/UX philosophy has inadvertantly become user-hostile.
by tern | 2025-09-12 06:37:53+00:00
I had a look at Petrichor and Doppler, but the feature-set is incredibly limited. Foobar2000, while strange to use, at least allows me to do basic things like navigate my library by genre.

Try this in: View > Layout > Edit Layout

splitter horizontal style=thin splitter vertical style=thin splitter horizontal style=thin tabs albumlist tab-name="Album List" refacets tab-name="Refacets" playlist splitter horizontal style=thin tabs splitter horizontal style=thin tab-name="Now Playing" albumart selection-properties sections=metadata playlist-picker tab-name="Playlists" playback-controls

https://www.foobar2000.org/mac
by vintermann | 2025-09-12 06:38:06+00:00
Well, it's not exactly their honey, because they have no notion of property or propriety. They'll just as soon die trying to kill to take your sugary snack.

If they don't have the capacity for considering themselves wronged, and won't get it, can you really wrong them? Are there really even two parties here?

Now it may still be wrong for other reasons to keep bees, like destroying nature by wiping out native pollinators etc.