MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahern | 2025-09-04 17:32:06+00:00
Well, modern science wasn't a thing, per se; would have been part of natural philosophy and not well delineated. But philosophy, religion, and magic were broadly speaking understood as distinct, similar to today, at least from the perspective of the learned, and notwithstanding some esoteric cults (which also exist today). This is fairly obvious from the works that have survived, from Plato, Lucian (Syrian satirist), and many others, because they distinguish them similar to how we do today. Even atheists likely were also somewhat common, though it definitely wasn't something discussed as heavily as today. Plato specifically and literally mentions atheism--in Laws he says it's a typical phase for young adults, though it may be more fairly understood today as shirking, loose disbelief, or agnosticism. It's a fair deduction that Lucian was an atheist as we understand that term, and the popularity of his work strongly suggests atheism, or at least skepticism of religion and magic, were widespread.

Point being, while our particular categories aren't perfect fits for the ancient and classical worlds, the general human and cultural dynamics were quite similar. They weren't unsophisticated rubes blind to their own ignorance; not much more, if at all, than we are today. What really distinguishes us is our wealth, and how a much larger fraction of our society has the opportunity to study and debate ideas like patricians and philosophers of yore.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-04 17:33:07+00:00
Games, as an industry, have a lot of overlap with film. One of those overlaps is that it's still an industry where one person, with the right idea and (depending on the idea) the willingness to invest the ungodly amount of time to see it through, can put something out there that competes with the big teams and big budgets.

Sometimes, the idea hits so hard that you don't even need the time investment. Notch got Minecraft from version alpha to version 1 in 2 years. That one was lightning in a bottle; unlikely to be reproducible consistently.
by dmitrygr | 2025-09-04 17:33:14+00:00
Length being a multiple of 2 makes sense. Rgb565 means 2bytes per RLE value. Data stream is half values half lengths. So every datum is 3 bytes. So it makes sense to send number of half words. Worst case: you overlong by one byte. NBD. The alternative means sending one byte extra ALWAYS to have enough bits for length.

Improvement would be to send number of RLE datas (number of 3 byte quantities)
by drudolph914 | 2025-09-04 17:33:22+00:00
I love lit. I've been using lit in production since 2020 and I have never looked back. There is so much to say about lit, but I think the biggest win is that it's built on a very stable foundation. Building apps on top of native web components coupled with all the modern QoL features with Lit allows me to without the fear of some new framework/update coming along to the ecosystem - which in the FE world means the last X years worth of code becomes outdated. Native web components are a stable feature in all browsers and I can just focus on building - more engineering teams need to give it a try

If you're curious about lit and like longer form content - I recommend watching the [0] http 203 video that talks about lit element and other tools like it

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHZJy2n8Qs
by boringg | 2025-09-04 17:33:33+00:00
I mean lets not use China as the example here - they are doing it to reduce their air pollution and use the highly subsidized solar pv arrays. They are are the dominant users of coal in concert with solar. They need to ramp up their energy production to match demand and they front-loaded their solar production with massive subsidized capital from the government.

In the case of geo-politics if the US wanted to install solar to cover its energy load it would essentially be a massive payment to China for the solar arrays since there isn't productive capacity in the US. It would also end up being a long term dependent on future purchases of solar from China when they would need to re-up every 30-40 years at end of asset life.
by danaris | 2025-09-04 17:33:35+00:00
In addition to what others have said, my understanding from Team Cherry's few reveals over the years since HK released is that Silksong takes place in a different location than Hallownest, the setting of Hollow Knight (though within the same world). Thus, given that most of the story of Hollow Knight is about Hallownest and what happened there, it is likely that you wouldn't miss much besides a few cool little connections by playing Silksong first.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-04 17:34:00+00:00
The asymmetry bothers the heck out of me. I've been personally involved in investigations of law enforcement officers abusing access to privileged information. I don't get the sense that it's at all rare.

I sort of wish we could go full ADS-B[0] with cars and have public decentralized tracking (like [1]). Level the playing field for everybody.

Since I don't think we can put the genie back in the bottle I'd love to see what kind of useful applications could be created if everybody had access to the same surveillance data that government and large corporations have.

The "what about stalkers" argument always comes next. I suspect being a stalker would be more difficult if the victim (or their agents) had the ability to react to surveillance data about the stalker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...

[1] https://www.adsbexchange.com/
by cpeterson42 | 2025-09-04 17:34:04+00:00
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We are a GPU cloud provider, building proprietary virtualization software to use our GPUs 4x more efficiently than competitors.

In other words, a systems research lab monetized with a cloud offering.

- Rocket ship, revenue growing 100%+ MoM

- 4-person team, expanding to ~8-10 over the next 6 months

- YC S24, just closed $4.5M of seed funding

If you are looking for a post-PMF team with deeply interesting work and a clear path to scale, here's your chance.

Open roles:

- Systems engineers (C++, performance optimization close to the metal)

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by rewgs | 2025-09-04 17:34:06+00:00
100%. I'm _very_ hesitant to use LLMs _at all_ when programming, as the speed/learning trade-off so far hasn't proved itself to be worth it (especially given that it often _isn't_ faster on balance).

However, one place where LLMs have proved to be incredibly helpful is with build tools, dependency hell, etc. Lately I've been trying to update a decade-old Node/Electron project to modern packages and best-practices, and holy hell I simply was not making any meaningful progress until I turned to Claude.

The JS world simply moves too fast (especially back when this project was written) to make updating a project like that even remotely possible in any reasonable amount of time. I was tearing my hair out for days, but yesterday I was finally able to achieve what I was wanting in a few hours with Claude. I still had to work slowly and methodically, and Claude made more than a few stupid errors along the way, but dealing with the delicate version balancing that coincided with API and import/export style changes, all the changes in the bundler world, etc simply could not have been done without it. It's the first time that I was 100% glad I relied on an LLM and felt that it was precisely the right tool for the job at hand.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-04 17:34:08+00:00
To me the key highlight of the article is the finding that editors generally start fairly radical and neutralize over time. Only really passionate people are willing to put the effort into Wikipedia articles which correlates well with radical opinions. But over time working as Wikipedia editors tends to de-radicalize people's work.

Contrast that with the rest of the internet, which mostly rewards radicalization and nudges people towards it.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-04 17:34:34+00:00
Oof, I'm grandfathered in, but this sounds bad for me.

I host all my static sites on Netlify currently paying $19/mo for up to 1 TB of bandwidth. I typically use 300-500 GB and about 4M HTTP requests per month.

This plan change seems to be them metering every little thing I do on Netlify, including charging me every time I publish a new version of my site. If I'm understanding correctly, they're charging for every single HTTP request now.

It looks like when they decide to quietly end grandfathered pricing, I'll be looking at a 3x price hike.

I find it surprisingly difficult to find a host for simple static sites. I just want to host my website and not crash or spike my bill if there's a surge in visitors sometimes. But all the hosts are like, "No, we include geo-redundancy! We include AI cloud functions! Move your build system to us, and then we'll bill you for every minute of your build!"

This is something Bunny CDN should do well, but they have terrible tools for atomically replacing the contents of a static site.
by bhouston | 2025-09-04 17:35:20+00:00
> The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform.

Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that the "Browser is the Operating System" and people have been doing riffs on that since then.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/04/22/always...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/09/software-...

This was also the idea behind Chromebooks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS
by randycupertino | 2025-09-04 17:35:29+00:00
He cannot be the only person named Mark Zuckerberg who is having this issue! I would think it's probably actually a very common name.

From the attorney with the same name:

> "Normally you would say, well, it’s just Facebook and it’s not a big deal, but this time it’s affecting my bottom line because I was paying for advertising for my business to try and get clients.

> So they took my money, but then after they took my money, they shut me down for what they say is impersonating a celebrity, not using a true name and violating their community standards. And it’s the same message I get every time they shut me down.

> I think it’s offensive that a company that is supposed to be so tech savvy in the world can’t figure out how to flag my accounts and keep this from happening. It’s like they’re almost doing it on purpose, but I’m sure they’re not but it feels like it."
by Eextra953 | 2025-09-04 17:35:59+00:00
No, not the ones with the highest crime but the poor/black/brown neighborhoods, at least in my city. I know, I live in a majority brown neighborhood and I've mapped the flock cameras in my city. There are more cameras in my neighborhood by about 3:1. To me this really shows the bias in my local PD because while there are pockets of high crime in my neighborhood, it is a huge neighborhood and the crime rate outside of those pockets is about the same as the rest of the city nevertheless, the cameras are not concentrated in the high-crime pockets but throughout the entire neighborhood.
Ask HN: VSCode AI Autocomplete Woes
by blinkbat | 2025-09-04 17:36:06+00:00
hi, tab used to work mostly fine in vscode, but with the integration of copilot, AI has co-opted many situations where I simply want to indent or otherwise press tab without autocompleting via AI. I am looking for a way to restore this previous behavior and shift specifically AI autocomplete/suggestion complete to a new hotkey (not all autocomplete, just AI).

please only reply if you're aware of the various options and have a good solve, and not just guesses.
by whartung | 2025-09-04 17:36:12+00:00
I think it's the bandwidth, or lack there of.

A lot of it happens in out of band posts like these.

It seems to happen less in interactive (i.e. chat, etc.). Make no mistake, it absolutely happens there.

But not as much as in async posts (I don't think).

I don't think it happens much at all with video.

Most of it is surrounded by context (or lack of). How difficult it is to communicate (typing like this is not easy, and certainly not for the impatient).

I have to keep telling folks when they get that Look in their face because of what someone said or didn't say over email or an instant message to not judge on that. If it's that important to you, CALL them. TALK to them, you simply can not rely on typed conversations for anything that impacts you emotionally.

"What do you think they meant by that?" Oh no.

It's just an awful medium.
by hinkley | 2025-09-04 17:36:21+00:00
My bigger problem with stuff like this is the people left behind. Every firing and layoff becomes a commentary on what the company actually values versus what they should value. It’s one of the reasons I prefer to be laid off in round 2. It means they didn’t think you were the worst, but also there’s still severance and they haven’t yet rewarded the most loyal employees with the most pain.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-04 17:36:22+00:00
> The US has maintained steep tariffs on solar panels.

Because the US should be doing it domestically, just like China is.

The incentive to do is partially based on tariffs, but the incentive hasn't spurred the private sector and supply chain maintainers into action, and a more comprehensive strategy would need to be done. There is no consensus for further subsidies from the national government to spur this production either.
by krrishd | 2025-09-04 17:36:24+00:00
> It's all a speed run to slowly realize that the terrible system we had, in fact had some good ideas / rules of the road that even empowered the little guy to some extent.

I think this is true of all reinvention, including the good stuff - reinvent for expedience/simplification/modernization, and recognize the things that were lost and re-integrate them as you learn of the consequence.

From Walter Isaacson's Elon biography: "Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn’t delete enough."[0]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11871764-delete-any-part-or...
Show HN: Pinblocks – Pin collaborative data blocks to your chats
by p2hari | 2025-09-04 17:36:24+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been frustrated with how chats (like WhatsApp or Slack) and data (like surveys, to-do lists, or shared notes) often live in separate places—either buried in threads or scattered across links that get lost. So I built Pinblocks (https://pinblocks.io), a tool that lets you pin interactive blocks of data directly to your chat messages. Anyone can collaborate on them in real-time, from anywhere, without leaving the conversation.

Think of it like Notion meets chat: Each "canvas" (pinned to a message) can hold multiple blocks, and users can edit, vote, or interact with them collaboratively. For example, my team used to send badminton surveys in WhatsApp groups, but incoming messages would push them down and clutter everything. Now, we pin a survey block right in the chat—it stays visible, updates live as people respond, and doesn't get drowned out.

Another use case: For my kid's birthday party, I created a canvas with blocks like an event scheduler for RSVPs, a to-do list for tasks (e.g., buy cake, decorations), a survey for game preferences, and even a text block that generates daily quotes or jokes to keep the planning group engaged and fun.

Key features:

Easy and Different block creation: /todo for a shared to-do list, /survey for polls, /event for scheduling, /table for spreadsheets, /text for notes (which can auto-generate daily quotes, jokes, etc.), or even /tictactoe for fun games.

AI-powered generation: Integrated AI lets you create blocks on the fly. Say "Generate a to-do list for our weekly meeting" or "Add a joke of the day block"—it pins instantly for more engagement in groups.

Cross-platform collab: Works in any chat app that supports pinning or linking; changes sync across users.

Tech stack: Frontend with React, TanStack Router, and Tailwind CSS; backend powered by Supabase.

Early stage, but I'd love feedback on usability, more block types, or AI integrations. What do you think—does this solve a pain point for your groups? Try it at https://pinblocks.io.
by triceratops | 2025-09-04 17:36:33+00:00
The Shawshank Redemption has a similar story. Didn't do well when released. Its video release fared a little better, maybe because people could re-watch it at home. Then Turner picked up TV distribution rights cheaply and showed it again and again.

Now, just like It's a Wonderful Life, it's considered one of the best movies ever made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption#Criti...

Groundhog Day is like this too. Although it was a "modest" box office success its critical reputation grew massively as the years went by. To the point that again it's consistently on best-ever movie lists.

"[12 years later] Ebert raised his original score for the film from three stars to a full four stars [saying] that he had underestimated the film"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)#Post-rele...

It's befitting that watching Groundhog Day again and again makes you like the movie more.

Btw I mentioned It's a Wonderful Life's copyright situation in my original post.
by latchup | 2025-09-04 17:37:00+00:00
As with all forms of verbal abuse, the presence of a power imbalance is paramount. And since we abolished slavery, it is about as high as it gets here.

What an employee says about their boss generally has zero implications on their career and lives, so long as it does not outright accuse them of a crime. When's the last time someone called you to provide a reference on your boss? I thought so.

In turn, what a boss says about their employees can be entirely career-ending and therefore life-altering, even if said in jest or later retracted. A higher standard exists precisely because the stakes are so much higher.
by nitwit005 | 2025-09-04 17:38:56+00:00
> There’s no doubt that Sinbad, Home on the Range and other projects did poorly in theaters during the ‘00s — or that CG films (even some that critics panned) did well. The numbers tell the tale.

If even the poorly reviewed CG films do well, of course the executives only funded that. People, unsurprisingly, prefer a guarantee of making money to a chance of making money.

Focusing on theatrical releases creates a bit of a false impression. There are clearly still cartoons in production, it's just that it's intended for TV or streaming. I suppose Spongebob Squarepants getting a 15th season isn't very romantic, but I'm sure the artists working on it appreciate the work.
by drewbeck | 2025-09-04 17:39:04+00:00
I'm a huge fan of Arc and generally not a fan of TBCNY due to their abandonment of the browser for their AI hype machine, Dia. What's odd about this acquisition is that the move to Dia was (publicly) presented as a move toward the consumer; that consumers weren't ready for a radical reinvention of the browser interface so it made sense to revert to something more standard if you wanted to do something new with the browser.

I always saw Dia as fundamentally a move toward AI investor bux, but I did find the "Arc was too novel for large uptake" a reasonable perspective.

Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

My dream for Arc, from the beginning, was that it could act as a middle-man between all the various SaaS platforms we use daily at work. Imagine: your Shortcut tickets link automatically to Slack and you can one-click open the relevant Slack channel in a side-by-side view.

We do so much switching between contexts and imo the browser could be a great surface for improving our workflows.
by nashashmi | 2025-09-04 17:39:09+00:00
Resource allocation? Yes, normal socioeconomics. But did it have rapid growth trajectory? No. It lacked the ambition needed to drive humanity to maximum consumerism.

Before capitalism and communism was a thing, we had normal economics. And the worst part of this in some places was the bourgeoisie. They kept the resources in their control. And communism was supposed to be a banging of the piñata that shook the tree. Capitalism was a response to communism, yet installed a basic transition to a socialist education system and for educational wealth to be added.

I guess a good antidote to bad actors is for a wealth tax. Unused or underutilized wealth gets taxed until the net tax is reduced to whatever financial return it has.
by boringg | 2025-09-04 17:39:32+00:00
So they don't make net zero but they still continue to improve their operations and have a lighter green footprint while maintaining themselves in the great AI race.

Can anyone shed any light on the difference between net-zero and what they will actually be able to achieve? Will be hard given that the workloads for AI have sucked up all available energy resources. I have to think at the margin it is getting very expensive to acquire those resources.
by righthand | 2025-09-04 17:39:32+00:00
I’m not attacking you. I was pointing out why you were strongly downvoted.

Mostly because of this sentence fragment:

> can't remember if the Biden DoJ was the first to talk about breakup, they probably were, but Trump DoJ carried on with it

You can’t remember but you also can’t be bothered to confirm details either. How do I interpret the rest of your comment then? Honest or uncertain about details?

To me this kind of a thing is okay in conversation in the physical world where you don’t have access to the information. When one writes a comment online though…
by edu | 2025-09-04 17:40:23+00:00
Well, I was one of Arc users but they abandoned it in favor of a new browser with an integrated AI agent that t can work on tabs, Dia. Now I’m using it, but to be honest I use almost none of the AI features beyond some summaries for pages and YouTube videos, but I see a lot of potential there (I.e. make it check the calendar to propose a time in a newly composed email) for the less technical users.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-09-04 17:40:28+00:00
I never really "got" control theory until about 10 years after graduation.

I was working as an SW Engr and taking a set of courses towards a Mechatronics certificate (my employer did a lot of motion control work) and I had to basically take updated versions of the same classes. The lab instructor was an about-to-retire engineer from Schunk, and he did an amazing job of explaining what the theory meant in terms of real-world behavior. That's when it all finally sunk in and I could look at the math and "see" how a mechanism would respond.
by jerlam | 2025-09-04 17:40:30+00:00
Garmin literally says that elevated stress levels can be from good or bad experiences in its description of the feature. The author started from a faulty premise.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/health-scienc...

> For example, elevated stress levels may stem from pressure at work, social anxiety or from something as simple as encountering an aggressive driver on the highway. Elevated stress levels could also be the result of happier situations, such as the excitement of a new job, the thrill of a first date or the jitters a runner feels the morning of a big race. Keep in mind that excessive exercise, consumption of stimulants, poor nutrition and getting sick can also produce higher than normal stress levels.
by Apocryphon | 2025-09-04 17:40:31+00:00
There’s Orion, Zen, plenty of minor browser projects that aspire to better experiences than the majors’. Brave is likely much more widespread than Arc, though that one is monetized via the previous trend (crypto). Never even heard of a lot of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxhVA5NVQ4