MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by mc3301 | 2025-09-25 00:09:01+00:00
Music lyrics sites used to all do this. You'd copy/paste the lyrics, and every other line was the website name or something.

Maybe because it was easy to scrape the text and make your own lyrics website or something?

I also think that google's song lyrics (on the search page itself) used to be non-selectable. But I jsut tried it, and they are selectable now.
by SpartanJ | 2025-09-25 00:09:03+00:00
I think there's still space in the editor market for an open-source Sublime/Zed alternative. I've been working solo on a code editor with similar characteristics for a few years. It's still a work in progress, but it's already feature-rich (all the basics and some advanced features, like LSP, DAP, multi-cursor, etc.): https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/

ecode can handle big files, though it's not specifically designed for that. I just tested it with the largest text file I could find (760MB), and it worked just fine (searches included). The editor is designed with performance in mind, taking a similar approach to Zed (custom GPU-accelerated renderer, fully native C++ code, heavily multi-threaded, etc.). The biggest challenge is forming a community of collaborators, solo developing such a project in my free time is a huge task. So if anyone is interested, please contact me =)
by jameslk | 2025-09-25 00:09:10+00:00
Hmm I just tried that search and Midjourney's site was at the top.

Regardless, at this point, I consider Google Search "legacy software." I rarely use it anymore. Google's AI mode or ChatGPT Thinking perform much more nuanced searches for me and surface the results I'm looking for much faster.

I used to consider my Google-fu top notch, but even without Google Search "Classic" getting destroyed by SEO spam, it's still more work at the end of the day than AI models. I'm sure spam and irrelevance will be the eventual fate of these AI models too, but for now they're the new Google
by jitl | 2025-09-25 00:09:31+00:00
Many vendors look at the userAgent. I’d be surprised if Microsoft Teams org doesn't have some soft incentives pushing Edge and if not edge Chromium-based browsers.

Then again, there are definitely some Firefox behaviors that differ from the WebKit-derived engines (webkit, blink, etc); for a few years Notion editor had very different UX in Firefox for this reason. They eventually fixed it though! Firefox's profiler is also excellent, I always analyze my Chrome profiles in https://profiler.firefox.com/ when I'm optimizing CPU use.
by godelski | 2025-09-25 00:10:26+00:00
> I'm telling you that Firefox is going to be out of business soon

Do you not think everyone saying Firefox is going to be out of business soon plays a role in this?

Regardless, I think you've ignored the root of my argument. I'm not trying to be a Firefox fanboy here but it's not like there's many options. The playing field is Chrome, Firefox, Safari. So only one of these is not "big tech".

> Metrics can be transmitted without revealing the user. This is well known.

This is not well known and I think you've kinda "told on yourself" here. It is fairly well known in the privacy community that it is difficult to transmit user data without accidentally revealing other information. Here's a rather famous example[0,1]. I'd encourage you to read it and think carefully about how deanonymization might be possible after just reading a description of the datasets they deanonymize.

> You can't suggest anything. I am done with this conversation.

If you wish to disengage then that is your choice. I am really trying to engage with you faithfully here. I'm not even really attacking Brave here, as my critique is over the Chromium ecosystem. I think if you look at my points again you can see how they would dramatically shift if Brave were based off of Gecko or Webkit. Honestly, I would be encouraging Brave usage were it under those umbrella. Or even better, if it had its own engine! Because my point is about monopolization.

[0] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/Archie-Gers...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105
by ropable | 2025-09-25 00:10:38+00:00
I don't entirely disagree, however: it's a far sight easier to live a "virtuous" life if you weren't born into poverty, or with a mental illness, or in a country that is actively at war, etc. These things are all beyond our control, as are so many other things. Luck.

It's obviously always possible to make the best of bad circumstances (and make the worst of good circumstances!) but it's easier to "win" when you're dealt a good hand.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-25 00:11:50+00:00
> instead they got greedier and greedier and made their product worse once they captured most of the market

I wouldn't necessarily put it that way because not Google, nor any company, has moral capacity. They don't have souls. What they do have are incentive structures, and those flip when the stock goes public.

Pre-IPO: the board is mostly founders and VCs holding paper wealth. Their shares aren't liquid, so the only way they get paid is by making the pie way bigger for some future exit. That means "grow, grow, grow." and that means playing nice with customers.

Post-IPO: the board is legally stuffed with "independent" directors, whose pay comes in RSUs tied to the stock price. Now the shares are instantly tradable, and shareholders who can bail in a quarter want to see results in a quarter. Directors translate that into exec comp, and suddenly management's job is "make the stock go up right now."

Some theorists point out the obvious hack: take away the hot potato. Slow the game down. Make shares harder to flip, make earnings less frequent. If you could only trade stock once a year, you'd actually care what the company looks like in a year. If they only reported results annually, you'd be forced to think in years, not quarters.

Upside: management can focus on products and customers instead of quarterly guidance theater. Downside: investors hate being locked up, and capital gets more expensive because people price in that illiquidity. Transparency drops, execs get more room to bullshit.

It's a tradeoff: you can have maximum liquidity and hyper-efficient capital markets, but then you get short-term brain damage. Or you can slow the game down, but then you're basically asking people to trust managers more and accept worse capital efficiency.

Nobody;s found the perfect middle yet. LTSE[1] tried, dual-class shares are a kludge, and otherwise we just live with the cycle: grow like crazy private, IPO, then spend the rest of your corporate life addicted to quarterly earnings.

1. https://ltse.com/
by defrost | 2025-09-25 00:12:35+00:00
I enjoy conversing, but seriously .. are you just generating responses here with an AI chatbot?

> I wonder why you are so sure it is easy & possible

Because I've done projects such as this on tight budgets on and off for many years and I'm familiar with Australia. It's possible, doable, but not by all and not "easy" as it requires planning, application and carry through.

Actual prior experience has already been mentioned, your AI must have missed that - tweak it a bit maybe, it's making you look inattentive.

> but the person in the article failed to even have a habitable space in the time and budget allowed.

there's always a spread of outcomes, this is the story they chose to tell, I'm not sure it serves the thesis of the article.

> it does not change the fact that most retirees aren't able to run their own plumbing for the laundry room Nurse Joan wishes she'd had.

Again, are you using an AI to respond? I've repeatedly pointed out the person who put their hand up to do the work wasn't a retiree.

Also Australia is awash with cashed up retirees, not all by any means, but thanks to superannuation, negative gearing, socialists in the 1970s, and a complex web of factors wealth is skewed toward the elderly.

> It sounds like you have everything you need

If you have a question, ask, spare me the projection.

> to get a great business going in Australia building unbelievably cheap housing by and for the elderly.

Not a business, just spare time stuff, usually with my father who's big on helping out communities; we've done St John's Ambulance (volunteer rural ambulance work, he drove, trained drivers, delivered first aid, general para medic stuff), SES, fire service, all the usual stuff.

Often he hears about people that need a hand via his church friends or other sources, scouts about for funding for materials, plans out work and orders and then brings together volunteers for a day or so of work, then a few meals and back to the regular grind.

> Are you doing something more important than housing the elderly with your day to day life? If not, what is holding you back?

What's with the attitude here?
by sensanaty | 2025-09-25 00:12:59+00:00
I just went through the job hunt circuit and honestly while many companies do have some AI thing they're selling, for the actual day-to-day work and what most teams are working on, there's barely any mention of AI. It seems mostly marketing people and non-technical management cares, the devs I've spoken to in my interviews have not cared about AI much at all, and I had interviews with some large, influential companies.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 00:13:34+00:00
I don't know if curation is really the problem. Nearly every other platform has a search that when you search for "Mr Beast" on YouTube or "Elon Musk" on X they know you mean the popular one and not some 2-bit dork's fan page or parody that happens to have those words in the title/keywords.

I think they just (A) have no idea what they're doing when it comes to search and (B) the scamware that fills all their App Stores makes Apple a ton of extra money compared to people finding the real apps which usually are monetized outside the app store due to Apple's absurd revshare.
by timr | 2025-09-25 00:14:00+00:00
Maybe you're right, but the cited study doesn't provide evidence for your claim. I also didn't misquote the study.

They surveyed ~2200 people, of whom roughly half had pets. Of those, 84% were up-to-date on the Rabies vaccine. Another 5% didn't know.

It doesn't matter why the 84% of the pet-owning respondents were up-to-date on the vaccine, and moreover, you're just guessing. Maybe, as you say, it was "severe penalties" that compelled them. Or maybe they believe in the Rabies vaccine, and answered the other questions generally about all vaccines, since the questions weren't specific to Rabies. Maybe they were answering in theory, but felt differently for their pets.

The only thing you know is that they vaccinated their pets, which means that the entire premise of "vaccine hesitancy amongst pet owners" is unsupported by the evidence in the study.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-25 00:14:03+00:00
> think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges.

It would help if you could expand on this. Is this a "don't want devs to need to mess with their boxes" thing, or a "we're doing shadow IT and can't run things the normal way" thing, or something else?

> Running a resolver locally, or within the LAN, falls outside the realm of "simple".

No, it really doesn't. A DNS server can be a single file binary pointed at a simple text file, optionally pointed directly at a hosts-format file. I suggest coredns personally but there are other options.
by jitl | 2025-09-25 00:14:18+00:00
This is neat, and reminds me of Kagi's browser Orion, since their hero image features Kagi search.

Orion is WebKit based, so it uses less battery and feels faster to me compared to Chromium browsers, yet it largely supports Chrome extensions via a compatibility layer; like Helium uBlock Origin is included by default. It also has vertical tabs which is essential for me, and open-url routing between profiles.

However, I tried it in January 2025 and gave up on using it after a few weeks of sporadic bugs. I didn't lose data or anything but some actions in the UI didn't produce any result, or they produced a confusing unintended result. I hope they get better - I will probably give it another go in a few months, especially since Arc (my current browser) is now owned by Atlassian.

https://kagi.com/orion/

Anyways, great to see a Chromium browser improving on the privacy of ungoogled-chromium.
by octo888 | 2025-09-25 00:15:18+00:00
> Prices are down ~50% after inflation since the airlines were deregulated

On a like-for-like basis? Seat pitch, seat comfort, customer service, meals, drinks, included baggage, ticket flexibility/conditions etc?

EDIT: found some example historical fares from Flyertalk:

1. A 1972 BA flight to JFK in economy. I imagine economy in 1972 was more like Premium Economy today. It was ~£80 then (£944 in 2025), whereas a Premium Economy ticket sells for more like ~£800 today, which is cheaper (but still not 100% like-for-like if you consider BA is a very different company now). Also that's an extremely competitive route and an unusually cheap PE fare. A less competitive route, LHR-SFO, you're looking at £1,700-£3,000 for PE !

2. BA, LHR-BRU, economy, non-refundable fare, £40 in 1976, which is £268 now. I'd wager BA european business class is similar to economy back then, and that usually sells for £200-400 on that route (~£600 last minute...), so taking an average, we're not close to it being 50% cheaper
by cultofmetatron | 2025-09-25 00:15:20+00:00
> You can go an entire career without seeing how a functional company works.

having worked at a few dysfunctional companies, there's value in it. you learn to spot red flag decisions and the kinds of people that tend to cause organizations to explode from within. a Lot of the success at my current company can be attributed to decisions I've made that came from experience at failed startups where we did the opposite.
by pierrec | 2025-09-25 00:16:17+00:00
Very cool, but this page is just not ready for prime time. I tried it on a few different devices/browsers and it either crashed or lagged so much I couldn't scroll down to read the content. And I'm saying this as someone who's read and written articles about raymarching! Just add a "start" button to the demo and don't render anything until the user presses it. Perhaps some lower-performance defaults would also help (number of raymarching steps, number of metaballs) but that's secondary.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-09-25 00:16:25+00:00
My recent research:

- Canon has a REST API, and the most affordable API supporting cameras.

- Fujifilm has an API, but not REST based, but it goes all the way back to the X-T3. Unfortunately, using it voids your warranty if there is a warranty.

- Sony has an API as well but mostly newer cameras.

- Blackmagic (video cameras) has a REST API, but their most affordable API-supporting cameras are meant for studio use, which isn't ideal for general use.
by westurner | 2025-09-25 00:16:47+00:00
From "Ask HN: How to Price a Product" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180492#41220971 :

> Asset Value = Equities + Liabilities

> /? startupschool pricing: https://www.google.com/search?q=startupschool+pricing

/? site:startupschool.org pricing: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:startupschool.org+prici...

> Startup School > Curriculum > Ctrl-F pricing: https://www.startupschool.org/curriculum

YC Library: https://www.ycombinator.com/library

/? YC Library : pricing: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/search?query=Pricing
by FabHK | 2025-09-25 00:17:02+00:00
Of course it was the quality of the search results thanks to the algorithm (Page Rank) that at the time was unmatched and amazingly resilient, compared to the competition, against the primitive SEO tactics of the day (key word spamming etc.).

However, the lean interface without blinkentags and ads was definitely a selling point. Also, IIRC, the guarantee that you'd only get sites that actually contained all the words in your search query (that feature is long gone, too, of course).
by sensanaty | 2025-09-25 00:17:07+00:00
IntelliJ IDEs are fine with huge files and projects. At certain sizes it'll disable intellisense in active files, but IME stuff like find and replace works fine regardless of size and you can still turn intellisense on if you want.

They'll index for a long time on huge codebases, but I only go through that like once a month max, I just have the editors as always open
by runako | 2025-09-25 00:17:24+00:00
Yes, but then you still have to trust the counterparty enough to bother investing in anything like this. And so far, the main counterparties are demonstrating that they are not very trustworthy when it comes to paying for training data.

Maybe that will change over time. But to hear OpenAI and Anthropic tell it, paying for training data will be the death knell of the industry[1].

1 - there are a number of statements to this effect on the record, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-25 00:17:25+00:00
(6-7) Bro I think you're too emotionally obsessed by these "academic shitposting" talking-heads.. (unless you're replying to these lowviz threads purely in self-therapy.. which, I approve!) hidden "fraternal" envy?

Reform in governance has to start with learning specific processes from Swiss, Irish (the country), Latin American and even Chinese/Korean institutions (eg Cuba medical training from that nice thread) -- and not from divining ideological positions originating from European countries -- that unfortunately get the bulk of the "humanist" attention

It'd be like reading a Design magazine and getting upset with the editors' fixation on Balenciaga

(5) though is an interesting observation, please do those statistics. I think what STEM academic types that don't thrive on Bs and X (like you and OP) have, broadly, that is undervalued by technocracies- a hidden talent for cognitive plasticity that translates better to agency

(Edit: what silver calls "decoupling")
by gerdesj | 2025-09-25 00:17:26+00:00
"I agree, IKEA instructions are great"

They are until you hit one for something that is so simple it does not really need instructions, then you will end up in a tail spin! We bought a window shade puller thing and it had instructions!

Lego are also superb at instructions, for obvious reasons. I've put together a couple of modern Lego models with a lot of pieces and they are still as good as I remember 40+ years ago. I have to say that the model of the Chinese Year of the Dragon beastie from 2024? was pretty tricky.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-25 00:18:53+00:00
I don’t want basic economy because it means my kids will end up scattered across the airplane instead of sitting with me. So I always have to upgrade to the “normal economy” seats. I’m willing to bet a large chunk of money that a huge fraction of the airlines’ customers do the same “upgrade” because their sites are more or less built around the idea of funneling people into it. Yet on Google Flights there’s no easy option to specify that I want this popular product: the only options are Economy, Premium Economy (a very different product), Business and First.
by shirro | 2025-09-25 00:19:29+00:00
With udm14 and ublock origin on Firefox my first link is the official midjourney.com, then the subreddit, then the official discord, then wikipedia, then the offical Facebook page. That is just about perfect and covers what most people would want.

No ads. No LLM BS. While the experience google is pushing is terrible, the underlying tech still works in cases like this.
by qianli_cs | 2025-09-25 00:19:32+00:00
I think it was likely caused by the cache trying to compare the tag with Docker Hub: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/image-library/mirror/#wha...

> "When a pull is attempted with a tag, the Registry checks the remote to ensure if it has the latest version of the requested content. Otherwise, it fetches and caches the latest content."

So if the authentication service is down, it might also affect the caching service.
by mcbridematt | 2025-09-25 00:20:25+00:00
Aside from the changing pint glass color and level, the Sky set top box / decoder, will also overlay the subscription ID at random intervals and locations.

I don't know if Sky does it, but Foxtel in Australia, in addition to the pint glass watermark, have a separate set of channels for public venues, which have different ad breaks/content to residential subscriptions. (https://www.foxtelmedia.com.au/foxtel-media-network/fox-venu...)
by eddythompson80 | 2025-09-25 00:21:03+00:00
Status pages stopped being automated a long time ago because they are bad PR.

Often you’d have dozens if not hundreds of services on a status page. If you have a major networking outage for example, then everything is technically down. Someone screen shots the sea of red that your automated status page is showing and tweets “lol everything is down at [insert company]. Then you get a million imverysmart people posting about single point of failure or whatever.

As a result status pages, in every place I know, require a human to actually declare the outage there. Internal ones are usually automated, but if your service is down due to dependency on another service, you don’t mark yourself as down.

Also most places I know of have moved away from public status alerts anyway. You get a customized alert in your account or email if you happen to be impacted by a particular outage. The public ones are for the very very _very_ bad outages.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-25 00:21:41+00:00
As a curiosity, this is a common strategy for advertising! But people still disagree whether it is the best investment. You can generally win on your own name with comparatively low bids, because it is obviously the most relevant search term, and relevance is often factored into the price you pay for ad placement. So you may choose to bid defensively, to stop competitors from advertising on your name. Even so, the obvious counter-argument is that the person searched for you _explicitly_ by name, so how likely are they to click on your competitor's ads? I don't have a ton of experience, so perhaps some orgs make the decision in a data-driven way, but I suspect most make the decision in a mostly faith-based way.
by sanswork | 2025-09-25 00:23:06+00:00
I'm not sure I see what they did wrong here?

They paid you close to $10k to work with them on a project related to your OSS. It should have been clear there would be a ton of overlap or a relicensing at this point. You still got to keep your open source stuff open source.

They didn't ask you to quit your job and with a single contract of unspecified scope you really shouldn't have. Did you ask your former employer for your job back?

You made a bunch of bad choices, it happens, you're young, I know I made a ton of my own at your age but they were your choices and not anything done to you.