MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-04 08:29:02+00:00
Niches (recesses in walls for statues) and columns in church buildings are actually central features that serve the primary purpose of the building.

Niches provide spaces for statues for remembering the dead, or prayers and veneration (for Catholics), enhancing the link between the spiritual and corporeal realms. Arguably they're also used to encourage payments from patrons for a church building's upkeep or construction.

Columns allow spaces within a building to be connected, ensuring the body of the church (the people) can worship and receive teaching together. They can also reduce material cost of construction.

Yes, for historic church buildings decoration was applied, ornate capitals in the pillars and such; bright, garish paint on the statues and everything -- and expression of the vitality of the building and of worship to God.

I think perhaps your analogy needs buttressing (heh!) to make it clear? All I got really was 'I like the scrolling'.

Maybe a revolving door is a good scrollbar analogue - it's central to access to a space (website), some people hate them, but used properly they enhance access (they're really good for limiting heat exchange with the outside when compared with regular doors!).
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-04 08:30:12+00:00
> The original premise of the site was for startup founders and hackers to discuss startup founder and hacker things.

Good that people finally open their eyes.

> But, also I am not one of them, I am a capitalist, I own a small business

And that's a false-consciousness at its finest. You are closer to these workers than to those that really own capital.
by llmthrow0827 | 2025-09-04 08:30:25+00:00
Go to an event that you have an interest in, and strike up conversations with random people who are unoccupied. You at least have one common topic to talk about, and in my experience the odds you find someone you want to grab a bite or a drink after the even with are pretty high, and at the very worst the next time you go to a similar event you might see some familiar faces.
by coldtea | 2025-09-04 08:31:43+00:00
>Plato's "Allegory of the cave" was uninteresting and uninformative when I first read it more than 50 years ago. It remains so today.

Anything can be uninteresting and uninformative when one doesn't see it's interestingness or can't grok its information.

It however stood for millenia as a great device to describe multiple layers of abstractions, deeper reality vs appearance, and so on, with utility as such in countless domains.
by ggm | 2025-09-04 08:31:43+00:00
$45m seems cheap. I would think this was a discounted deal with a view to longterm GCP and other government service relationships.

Surely most governments do this? The outrage machine is on 11 because of the evils of the Netanyahu government but all governments pay people to put a positive spin on their national strategic message.

Personally I think the focus here should be terrorism, human shields, hostages, the rule of law, just war, war crimes and genocide. Not advertising budgets.
by albertodenia | 2025-09-04 08:31:49+00:00
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by wuschel | 2025-09-04 08:33:00+00:00
Regretably, the Boox Note Max or Remarkable might be a better choice than any Fujitsu reader. I am on my second device from Fujitsu and I will not purchase another one.

Like the Sony DPT readers, the Quaderno is would be great product ... however,

1. there is no customer service in the EU/US markets. Something broke? Bin it. 2. the devices are quite fragile, with poor longevity. 3. the closed source software does not support modern systems such as Apple's M4 Macbook series.

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by monsieurbanana | 2025-09-04 08:33:15+00:00
datomic =/= clojure

Clojure doesn't have much manpower, being a niche language and all, so maybe that's where your impression comes from. It's hardly on purpose, and there's many examples of software that ships with another language as public API.

Rama is written in clojure but the main api is java

Klipse is written in cljs but is marketed as a "javascript library"

Even Datomic maintains a java api
by uncircle | 2025-09-04 08:33:23+00:00
Thank you for this update. I vividly remember a few years ago the excitement of John Carmack announcing he was retreating into his cave to do some deep work on AGI, pushing the boundaries of the current AI research. I truly appreciate Carmack's intellectual honesty now at announcing "yeah, no, LLMs are not the way to go to recreate anything remotely close to human intelligence.". In fact, and I quote him, "we do not even have a line of sight to [the fundamentals of intelligence]."

I'm honestly relieved that one of the brightest minds in computing, with all the resources and desire to create actual super-intelligences, has had to temper hard his expectations.
by tjoff | 2025-09-04 08:33:50+00:00
Took me a really long time to realize that I should scroll. Because why would I? There is absolutely no indication that there is anything to scroll to.

I clicked on the two avatars but that didn't get me very far and the only thing left to click was "by alvin chang" but that was about as fruitful as I imagined it would be.

So I assumed it was a podcast, re-checking that I had audio on etc. But nope, so I checked another browser. Same there... Then I read HN comments, ah ... Great design? ...
by pcardoso | 2025-09-04 08:34:28+00:00
Where I live in Portugal glass eels are a seasonal delicacy (galeota/meixão). There is much confusion about the nature of this fish, as the same name is reused across the country, but I believe it is glass eel.

I don't like it and it seems to be going out of style with younger generations, which is good as its fishing is not sustainable.
by atoav | 2025-09-04 08:34:32+00:00
Actual paper is pretty good, very cheap, has very good haptic feedback and readability, needs no subscription, doesn't restric you to certain pen manufacturers, you can still read the contents when the paper-mill ceases to exiet and has a very well proven track record when it comes to archival, accessability etc.

So if devices like these try to beat paper, even if the hardware is perfect, it comes down to software and how open it is. As a serious note-taker one would think this was the perfect device for me, but I checked out the software side of things and it did not convince me. Paper is still superior.
by laimingj | 2025-09-04 08:35:07+00:00
For teams that live in spreadsheets, getting live data from internal databases is usually a pain — VPNs, fragile ODBC/SQL drivers, endless CSV exports.

QueryStreams uses a lightweight Windows Agent to pipe queries directly into Excel or Google Sheets. No VPN, no firewall tweaks, and reusable queries with dynamic filters. Setup is surprisingly quick if you have at least basic SQL knowledge.

Has anyone tried similar approaches for keeping spreadsheets live with production data? How do you handle security and refresh reliability?
by texeltexel2009 | 2025-09-04 08:37:06+00:00
Can confirm, from Yerevan - Armenia. Internet slow, then slows down to a halt in a matter of 10 seconds. Then it'll work in a burtst of another 10 seconds, and go back to nothing at all, and stay like that for minutes at a time. Internet on a National level is fast. Any connection to the outside seems to go through a bottleneck.
by caro_kann | 2025-09-04 08:38:15+00:00
Even scaffolding a new project is not easy work, especially a new stack or new versions of existing tools. For example, I have never been able to create a Vue 3 project with Vite and Tailwind setup correctly. I tried top SOTA models. Maybe my prompting skills are not good, but everytime it fails to set up a project correctly. Everytime it gives me some old configurations that's not relevant anymore.
by adornKey | 2025-09-04 08:38:24+00:00
That sounds promising. Training muscle memory for a custom arrangement of keys is something I'm not (yet) brave enough to do. Did you arrange everything yourself?

Normal Arrow-Keys on a layer are good. But I need Arrow-Keys usually in combination with Shift and Ctrl. (move to start, end, next instance, declaration, implementation, Select something). This is already overloaded a lot, so I'm not sure, how well this works with a layer.

The thing that's missing for me most are those function keys. I need them a lot - sometimes overloaded in combination with Shift and Ctrl. Those actions are usually something that should be out of reach from normal typing (Terminate something, start a Compiler, mess with Breakpoints, ...).

Those small keyboards never include function keys. But I think I could just build something for that.. Custom button-Panels with a few keys are quite easy to make.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-04 08:38:29+00:00
From a business owner perspective, it can be cheaper to operate a card only business than a cash only business, especially if you intend to do it legally and with a proper bank.

There is no bank on earth that will service a cash heavy (only) business for free. The cost/risk/fees of moving the physical cash around can be worse than what Visa charges.

You could go one step further and think about it from the bank perspective. The cost of physically transacting cash when you could send a packet across the ether to accomplish the same is a wild increase in energy expenditure, etc. Someone had to physically drive to the bank to move the cash. There's no other option. Possibly in a gigantic armored vehicle. Often times multiple times per week. Handling all of this activity is very expensive for all parties involved.
by epolanski | 2025-09-04 08:38:54+00:00
I like autocomplete when it used to be a bit slower and only act on tab.

Right now it's borderline impossible to write code, the autocompletion results are loaded ultra fast and Cursor maps different buttons to autocompleting functionality.

It's no longer usable for me.

I'm fine getting autocompletes, but I decide when to trigger it, ideally after reading it, like this I can't even type.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-04 08:39:14+00:00
They closed off the website to unregistered in the UK too, last time I tried to access content it asked me for a license number (I don't have a TV license).

I used to follow topical comedy podcasts but they put a large delay in their publication cycle so they're no longer topical.

They also nag you to install the app. They seem often to just repeat the worst habits of commercial media.
by reorder9695 | 2025-09-04 08:39:32+00:00
Maybe credit cards are different in Europe but I've never seen one with significant benefits really, granted I could be looking at the wrong ones but I have an excellent credit score and presumably could get one. To me a credit card is smth I have so I can put a few transactions though a month and it pays off via direct debit, for the sole purpose of building a credit score for when I do need a loan
by etothepii | 2025-09-04 08:39:33+00:00
In 45 minutes assuming only the education of the (wo)man on the Clapham Omnibus explaining P vs NP is always going to be extremely difficult.

I've never made the mistake of thinking that after a 45 minute episode of in our time on, say, Cyrus the Great, that I'm now in a position to write an essay on the man. I would assume that none M/NS/CS types don't make that mistake after listening to the episode on P vs NP.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-04 08:39:37+00:00
I agree the display part is probably challenging, the exact location likely isn't recorded and the density could make it an issue to show on the map; regarding collecting it, I'd be surprised if there wasn't some public-ish record of it somewhere, we do all have to register with the DNO etc as micro-generators so it'd be interesting to know if someone makes an API with that information available.

Aside from that, my real wonder was whether residential solar is factored into national renewables or if it's simply too little to be worth it.
by coldtea | 2025-09-04 08:40:55+00:00
>Also, isn't that what's actually scary about AI, in a nutshell? The fact that it may radically simplify our world to facilitate e.g. paper clip production?

No, it's more about massive job losses and people left to float alone, mass increase in state control and surveillance, mass brain rot due to AI slop, and full deterioration of responsibility and services through automation and AI as a "responsibility shield".
by Doxin | 2025-09-04 08:41:05+00:00
> Related, where they're drinking coffee from a disposable cup, you can almost always tell it's empty by how they handle it.

NCIS has a running gag about that. In the show they invariably drink... some mysterious caffeinated product, I don't know if I'd call it coffee, with a straw. It always makes a slurping sound like the cup is nearly empty. Even when just handed a fresh cup.

That show is often lampooned for the silly "two idiots one keyboard" scene, but I am convinced they are doing dumb stuff like that on purpose.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-04 08:41:16+00:00
> It's regulated by the voluntary choices of all market participants.

So, what do you think would happen when the biggest market participant makes a choice incompatible with choices of the smaller participants? I can tell you - the biggest player would win. Or it would slowly destroy competitors (slowly mean just a few years), and then start imposing it's rules. Basically any free market would turn to feudalism, which would then turn into a bloody and crude proto-government. Basically the same we have today minus any pro-human and pro-free market policies we have managed to carve for ourselves over centuries. It is impossible that free market would be anything different.

So yeah, because humans are shit at governing, the only viable way (until someone invents something new) is external control.

> Virtually all monopolies, historically, have been due to government intervention in markets to give special privileges to certain players.

Correct. And do you know why that happened? Because there was no control and biggest market players could simply buy the poor politician they wish. And in the free market you describe these two step would be simply combined into one - the biggest market player would also perform as a pseudo politician, ultra monopoly with zero oversight.
by stevoski | 2025-09-04 08:41:19+00:00
You could see this coming with his voice weakening over the years. It’s nice that he was able to continue for as long as he did.

My weekly dose of highbrow-ness from the UK:

1. In Our Time

2. University Challenge

I highly recommend the back catalog In Our Time if you want some good brain fodder on an amazingly wide range of subjects.
by setopt | 2025-09-04 08:42:08+00:00
> If you track your config with git, you can track plugins with submodules. This has the added advantage of pinning the exact version (and tracking that version in for).

I did this for a year or so, with the motivation that submodules could replace all tool-specific package managers (for vim, tmux, zsh, etc.).

But honestly managing Git submodules felt like a chore compared to my old `vim-plug` setup. Basically because submodules are a neat concept but not implemented very ergonomically in Git. Eventually I just went back.

If someone has a setup using built-in vim pack that feels more ergonomic than vim-plug et al. then I’m very interested to hear.
by coldtea | 2025-09-04 08:42:54+00:00
>Nature didn't first make the human body and then go "that's perfect for filling the dishwasher, now to make it talk amongst itself" and then evolve intelligence. It all evolved at the same time, in conjunction.

Nature didn't make decisions about anything.

But it also absolutely didn't "all evolved at the same time, in conjunction" (if by that you mean all features, regarding body and intelligence, at the same rate).

>You cannot separate the mind and the body. They are the same physiological and material entity

The substrate is. Doesn't mean the nature of abstract thinking is the same as the nature of the body, in the same way the software as algorithm is not the same as hardware, even if it can only run on hardware.

But to the point: this is not about separating the "mind and the body". It's about how you can have humanoid form and all the typical human body functions for millions of years before you get human level intelligence, after many later evolution.

>Trying anyway is of course classic western canon.

It's also classic eastern canon, and several others besides.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-04 08:43:37+00:00
The problem with K&R is that there never was a third edition that covered C99, which compared to C89 is almost a new language.

K&R is an interesting historical artifact about the basic design decisions of the C language and definitely recommended reading material, but you're not doing yourself a favour using it as reference or for learning the language. For that it is vastly outdated, C ist a much more enjoyable and powerful language since C99.
by riedel | 2025-09-04 08:43:40+00:00
I wonder if the main effect is that it is readable for people with begining presbyopia (like me). It seems that this is a problem particularly for pilots and it can be compensated heavily by optimizing visual processing [0]. I at least have the feeling that the small font could be perfect for packaging as it seems to be better readable with my age related farsightedness and could relieve my struggles shopping.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269891...
by rkttu | 2025-09-04 08:43:52+00:00
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by hanslub42 | 2025-09-04 08:45:05+00:00
For me, with a STEM background (and, I, suspect for many people here) the science episodes were never the most informative (though I would still learn a great deal about the history of the subject)

I'm not sure whether someone with a background in arts or history would say the same about the other episodes.

For those who want something entirely outside the STEM-heavy HN sphere of interest, there is another great BBC podcast about social science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Allowed
by nullwriter | 2025-09-04 08:45:56+00:00
For me personally has been a good productivity tool. Mostly if I'm doing a side project, I can get up to speed with pretty much any language/framework and have it running in FAR less time than if I had to go through docs and set up my dev environment for said project.

There's really a lot to get from this "tool". Because in the end its a tool, and knowing how to use it is the most important aspect of it. It takes time, iteration, and practice to understand how to effectively use it
by OskarS | 2025-09-04 08:46:03+00:00
The thing that makes it work (aside from Melvyn's excellent hosting) is that they have an unspoken but fundamental assumption about the audience, which is that the listeners are intelligent. Like, it's ok to have nuance, to dig deep into topics, it's even ok for listeners not to follow every point precisely. But the listeners are smart people that appreciate hearing from people who know what they're talking about.

That's a very rare assumption in modern media, when most mainstream things seemed to be aimed at some sort of lowest common denominator.
by yshklarov | 2025-09-04 08:46:19+00:00
That's pretty neat. I wonder how it works. It's not obvious to me at all how to build something like this, as the program doesn't know the sequence in which the player will reveal the tiles.

I also once made my own variant of this (just like gregfjohnson's idea): A "lucky minesweeper" where luck can be toggled on/off at any point during the game: https://github.com/yshklarov/minesweeper
Show HN: AddVenture – a minimal, fast mental-math game
by sarthaksoni | 2025-09-04 08:48:58+00:00
I built a tiny browser game that throws rapid-fire addition puzzles at you and tracks your best streaks. Each round is just 5 problems, so it’s all about speed and focus.

Instant guest play (no signup) with a Real-time top-10 leaderboard (shortest time as tiebreaker) and a personal game history.

You can check out the code here: https://github.com/sarthaksoni25/AddVenture
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-04 08:49:59+00:00
> Participants who consumed any type of low- or no-calorie sweetener on a daily basis showed a significantly faster decline in memory, language, and overall cognitive function compared to those who consumed sweeteners only occasionally or not at all.

They can’t all have the same effect, they’re wildly different chemically!

Either the conclusion is actually: sugar preserves intelligence OR being overweight is correlated with use of diet drinks, disease, and brain damage caused by those diseases.

Diabetes for example is known to cause neurological damage.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-04 08:51:23+00:00
I’m not familiar enough with some of the background here.

Per Wordsworth, Talfourd said (and Wordsworth agreed) that English common law had acknowledged perpetual heritable and transferable copyright.

What period of history is that talking about? Before the Licensing of the Press Act 1662? Before the Statute of Anne (1710)? Before the Copyright Act 1814? And is it talking about the sort of thing now called moral rights, or authors’ rights?

Because from what I’ve ever read, it didn’t sound like there was really anything in the way of copyright, no intellectual property law. If you had a manuscript, you could do what you wanted with it, including copying it.

Of course, the printing press upset that balance, by making mass duplication practical, and so ultimately something had to be done. I’m sure there was more depth to the arguments than I can perceive now, but in desiring to go back to perpetual heritable and transferable copyright, it feels like Wordsworth was hankering for an era that was no longer realistic, due to technological development.

We’ve seen a reflection of this issue in the last thirty years, as the cost of mass duplication of digital artefacts has again plummeted, this time to essentially nil.

The genie is out of the bottle.

I’d be curious to know how mainstream among authors Wordsworth’s feeling of perpetual heritable and transferable copyright being a right was.

I wonder how he’d react if he saw what copyright has become. Maybe where it’s ended up isn’t quite what he had in mind. I don’t know. I know nothing of his character or nature.

I do know that I would like the copyright system to be burned to the ground, and go back to something closer to the Statute of Anne. I like this scheme: ten years of free protection, then costing $10 × 1.5ⁿ⁻¹ for each subsequent year—$10, $15, $22.5… you ramp up to a million dollars per year by year 40, so that if it’s actually lucrative you can keep it a bit longer, but otherwise it lapses. Because in practice, copyright is the instrument helping very few people after even ten years.