MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-09-20 08:21:58+00:00
Or, he could have said:

A butterfly flapped its wings in Australia at exactly the same time as the chief robot flicked the on switch.

This in turn caused an anomaly in the worlds eco system, which sent unseen electrical signals across half the planet, to interfere with the electrical load, of the switch, said chief robot had flicked.

The red faced chief robot hailed it as a success, and later instructed his sycophantic minions to say it was the butterflies fault.

The red faced chief robot was particualarly upset, because he was told by one of his sycophantic minions that his shiny nanobot facial skin, designed specifically to mimic human skin, could not change colour when he was confused.

This skin had been designed after the chief robot had heard the song "Venus in Furs" by The Velvet Underground. He was intrigued and encouraged by the line in the lyrics;

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, and decided he wanted his face to be exactly like that.

the minions set to work
by Amaury-El | 2025-09-20 08:22:31+00:00
I used to avoid the sun, thinking that staying out of it was the healthier choice. But after spending long periods indoors, especially during the darker winter months, I started feeling constantly tired and low. A blood test later showed I was seriously low on vitamin D.

Since then, I’ve made a point to get a bit of sunlight each day. Over time, I noticed my energy and mood improved. That small, consistent exposure to sunlight really does seem to make a subtle but meaningful difference in both body and mind.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-20 08:22:33+00:00
Thats probably because of your IP address?

Also strangely, I am unable to load the https version of www.orangepi.org even though it was available in the past:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKVPWJVL?ref=myi_title_dp

I also just discovered the dropshipping policy (and necessary requirements and forbidden practices).

Either they had an agreement with Orange Pi or they didn't. Either way this gives leverage to ensure my order gets fulfilled.
by joules77 | 2025-09-20 08:22:38+00:00
They are Attention capture specialists. Nothing else. Even Trump got kicked off social media. No one cried. It was the right decision.

In an Attention Economy where Attention is finite pool, like Land or Oil just allowing random people to suck everyone's Attention makes no sense. Especially when everyone is allowed to Broadcast simultaneously. Monetize their audience. Weaponize content. No reform to any of it.

All this system props up is Attention exploitation. That's how Trump emerges. And everyone is acting as if the emergence of Trump is not a flaw but a feature of this Attention exploitation system.
by brahyam | 2025-09-20 08:23:29+00:00
> This is also the basis for exercise - your muscles and tendons are damaged when you work out, but they get rebuilt stronger

This is an outdated view, evidence shows muscle/tendon growth/adaptation occurs primarily via mechanical tension and metabolic stress, with damage playing a minimal or even counterproductive role. hypertrophy happens despite it, not because of it.

[The development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy through resistance training: the role of muscle damage and muscle protein synthesis. Schoenfeld et al., 2017](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29282529/)
by sebasvisser | 2025-09-20 08:23:56+00:00
Having to select 2 items for 1 sleep intervention is a weird way of keeping things simple..

To help you a bit: 1 is easier… So 1 hardware product working independently is what we want. If you must to appease the shareholders do a subscription…make it add some functionality that would be impossible without a subscription… But locking people in a subscription to “keep upfront cost lower” is devious at best. Add to the world..don’t (cash)grab.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-20 08:24:29+00:00
Really awesome write-up. The OCInception challenge is based around creating a self-replicating Podman image archive that, when loaded, produces another image which in turn produces yet another, etc.

The author digs deep into Podman. The end result is a image down to just 393 bytes by careful minimalism and leveraging internal behaviors.

Learned a lot from this: how small details in archive structure and format can dramatically affect size. The bonus part on the executable is just a huge cherry on top of everything.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-20 08:25:06+00:00
No lol nobody is reading the numbers. Vimeo is $20 / mo. Vimeo + $5 Linode server = $25 / mo, cheaper than the $30 / mo OVH server. The quoted ScaleEngine is $25 / mo, which ($25 + $5 = $30) the same as the OVH server.

Y'all just have two different budgets. For one person $30 / mo is reasonable for the other it's expensive.

But the core claim, that $5 / mo hosts a lot of non-video content but not much video content, holds.
by latexr | 2025-09-20 08:25:44+00:00
> The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible.

If you’re prone to say “you should have known better” about people who use Meta’s products, remember this next time. Remember that most people are not geeks like us, they don’t know that Zuckerberg called them “dumb fucks” for trusting him and every day acts accordingly. Inform them, don’t judge.
by simonh | 2025-09-20 08:25:57+00:00
Overall welfare is about more than just income though. It’s about national security, the cost of living, and the benefits of things like innovation, technology, culture.

Let’s look at US imports from China. Last year that was $462bn worth of goods. Suppose the development of China never happened and all those goods were manufactured in the USA instead. That’s impossible, the US doesn’t have tens of millions of industrial workers lying around spare to do those mostly low end, low value jobs and if it did they would cost more and the goods would all be much more expensive. So the cost of living would go up, the economy would less efficient because many workers would be doing lower value add jobs than they are now. The country would be much worse off overall. It would basically amount to enormous government subsidies and protections for vast swathes of lower value assembly work than what many people are doing now.

I support global trade because I think it’s best for the west. Not hyper-liberal ultra free market trade. Negotiated, rules based, moderately regulated trade and investment that is balanced to meet domestic and international needs.
by vaxman | 2025-09-20 08:27:11+00:00
Nooo. Wages only jumped in the Tech biz just before the dot-com crash and again before the AI crash that hasn't happened yet (unless you count laying off workers to pay for capX on NVIDIA hahaha). Bottom line: McDonalds is paying $20/hr now in California to flip burgers --YUUUGE, but a whole lot of people lost their jobs when major automobile manufacturers laid them off because they "didn't want to compete with McDonalds for workers"...where is that in your "Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" (I'mma change that to "and LLMs" rofl).

Hey it's iPhone Day, "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"* ---

*-nevermind the $10000 workstation named after a gf or more recently $2000 orange phones (I bought a DEEP Blue because Apple is always threatening to "Care-Deeply" me), $1000 watches and $300 earpieces for errbody. So Hungry. Also, we'll make sure you never work anywhere in Tech again if you even so much as interview for a new job outside of our company and Non-Competes Are No Longer Blocked! But What the Helly..Turtleneck also didn't invent the hungry mantra which is embraced by many other similar brilliant people, from Einstein to Elon'n-on and of course, my dad's gang one of whom brought Turtleneck back to Apple.) Get it? Got it? Good.
by knzai | 2025-09-20 08:27:27+00:00
A bit of useful context for DHH’s response: he’s had beef with at least one of these maintainers before, and tried to get him removed from stuff.

As André Arko’s employer at his day job at the time, I was tangential to it, so I don’t know all the details, and my memory is imperfect.

But as I understand it, DHH either organized or was part of a group of prominent rubyists who wrote a letter to the Board of Directors of the trade guild (or some other similar unusual non-profit structure) that André had organized to help get funding to support the open source work he and some others did for Ruby infrastructure like Bundler and/or Rubygems. I don’t know the exact terms of the sanctions they sought, but in the end it resulted in his orgs work getting folded into RubyCentral, iirc.

For some reason it seems they disapproved of how André had found a way to get paid for working on open source. He was managing to pay himself and some other people a good wage for part-time open source work. He was even managing to get a bit more diversity involved in it than a lot of Ruby open source infra work typically has (employing a black trans woman SE as part of this). Whatever their actual motivations they disapproved of André founding his own org and running it as he did.

The irony of their most prominent signatory getting rich off open source, via a different less direct avenue of monetization seemed entirely lost on them.

Anyway, I think it blew up in their face and things got settled out into what the status quo of rubygems maintenance was since then.

Now, I’ve heard rumors that perhaps this is actually related. RubyCentral has had a rough few years and DHH has more than a little pull with at least one of their largest funders.

It’d be incredibly petty to do something like dangling funding in front of RC if they’d finish icing out maintainers that he didn’t see eye to eye with. But it would certainly fit the way the events happened. I don’t know anything directly enough to swear by this and wouldn’t want to implicate anyone even if I did.

But I guess look at the known character of the people involved and draw your own conclusions. Does this seem in character to prior behaviors?
by padjo | 2025-09-20 08:28:17+00:00
“World Kitchen in 2000, recognized that the cookware didn't need to be quite as strong, and — to make it accessible to the average customer — it needed to be more affordable.”

Some pretty strong bullshit vibes from this section. Feels a lot more like they decided to make the product worse because they knew the brand name would be enough. I doubt price is a significant factor compared to durability for the average home cook.
by dxdm | 2025-09-20 08:28:33+00:00
> It's the literal definition of virtue signaling

You seem to think people are responding here the way they are merely for social standing. At least, that's what virtue signaling is at its core, having looked at some definitions. I think people are upset at the actions of Slack/Salesforce and are responding accordingly. That would be a more organic or genuine motivation (for lack of a better word), while "virtue signaling" discounts the validity of people's responses and reduces them to a hollow show. That is why I called your interpretation uncharitable.

> The issue was less than two days old, in what world do you think a senior leader is going to learn of an issue like this in an org with 3,000 people?

We are commenting underneath a response by the CPO of Slack. There is a sibling comment by the CEO. I think they are aware.

People are calling them out on the things their resposes do not address, which I mentioned in my previous comment. It wouldn't even need to be answers to all the questions people have. The response could have included things like: this is not how we want to treat any of our customers; we will look into what went wrong and why; we will explain when we know and how we will try to prevent this from happening again.

That would have acknowledged the damage this issue does to the public perception of their business practices. Instead, they simply ignore all of that. Hence, people's reactions in here.

> We agree in spirit but not execution.

I agree that a lot of comments in here are quite emotional. I would be more wary if they were directed at a single individual acting in a personal capacity, instead of the representatives of a well-resourced corporation. The power imbalance matters a lot, and I think it makes a difference if someone rather more powerful is called out by more, rather than fewer, people.
by AirMax98 | 2025-09-20 08:28:49+00:00
I really disagree with this too, especially given the article's next line:

> ...You’ll be forever tweaking individual lines of code, asking for a .reduce instead of a .map.filter, bikeshedding function names, and so on. At the same time, you’ll miss the opportunity to guide the AI away from architectural dead ends.

I think a good review will often do both, and understand that code happens at the line level and also the structural level. It implies a philosophy of coding that I have seen be incredibly destructive firsthand — committing a bunch of shit that no one on a team understands and no one knows how to reuse.
by tennisflyi | 2025-09-20 08:30:47+00:00
> With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.

Not uncommon at all. I'd also say her parents are prolly millennials, the supposedly "tech fixer" generation. Next, if their (young women) IG account is a business account they know their metics/audience... You can type in literally any name and an attractive women is going to be the first result on search. Go see who follows their public profile and it'll bear out the quoted metrics above. Finally, this is almost all IG is
by sedatk | 2025-09-20 08:31:02+00:00
I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to try all the floors close to 64 (considering the topmost one below the tower was 86). I really didn't have the patience for that, especially the possibility of missing to mark an overflowing pixel line, etc.

Also, I hit a bug at the AI challenge which prevented me to pass it. So I had to spent at least 5-6 more tries to pass it.[2]

Fun, but wouldn't go near it again :)

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 08:32:09+00:00
Surprising to see negativity here. I send all my LLM queries to 5 LLMs - ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek (local), Perplexity, and Grok - and Grok consistently gives good answers and often the most helpful answers. It's ~always king when there's any 'ethical' consideration (i.e. other LLMs refuse to answer - I stopped bothering with Gemini for this reason).

'Ethical' is in quotes because I can see why other LLMs refuse to answer things like "can you generate a curl request to exploit this endpoint" - a prompt used frequently during pen testing. I grew tired of telling ChatGPT "it's for a script in a movie". Other examples are aplenty (yesterday Claude accused me of violating its usage policy when asking "can polar bears eat frozen meat" - I was curious after seeing a photograph of a polar bear discovering a frozen whale in a melted ice cap). Grok gave a sane answer, of course.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-20 08:34:14+00:00
Why can't existing American businesses invest in these individuals while they live abroad, and then the US government can tax the profits the investors make?

Why must it be that they must live here, taking desk jobs and barista jobs from Americans? How many hundreds of thousands of Shockleys got their start working as baristas, nurses, and mechanics (yes I know they are not H1B)? Do you believe that any American who fails to compete with the entire world deserves it? Why can't I move to India and become Shockley over there?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-20 08:34:24+00:00
"Von Rosen's happiness with his second wife, Hanny, ended with the outbreak of World War II. She joined the resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in Germany. After the war, she committed suicide[citation needed] in 1949."

What a bizarre way of phrasing things. His happiness with his second wife ended with the outbreak of the war? They say this specific thing as if they were referring to some marital breach, not seeing their time together be destroyed through arrest by a genocidally monstrous secret police agency, internment in one of its concentration camps and later suicide, probably from the trauma of surviving those two events. Yes, such a thing will destroy.... marital happiness, to say the least.
by bitwize | 2025-09-20 08:35:01+00:00
Once again.

There is no future for "general purpose computing". The market won't sustain it. The future of computing is a signed, vetted path from boot firmware to application code. Everyone benefits from this, except devs.

Platform vendors benefit because they can collect license fees and exert control over the platform. Control is not necessarily evil; it also allows the hardware vendor to manage their reputation. People tend to blame the vendor when malware, or just poorly written software, makes things go awry; look at the flak Microsoft caught from poorly written third-party drivers causing Windows crashes back in the day.

Content and service providers benefit because the locked down platform provides reasonable assurance against compromise—hacked bank accounts, piracy, etc. which can result in losses.

End users benefit because now their computer or smartphone is as convenient and risk-free as a game console. iPhone is still the #1 brand in the US, despite being almost completely closed. NOBODY in the end user market gives a shit about being able to run arbitrary software. They would rather have safety, and iPhone gives them that.

Governments benefit because if app development requires a paper trail, app and smartphone vendors can be more easily strongarmed for law enforcement and surveillance purposes. Governments are requiring increased tracking by online services, including age verification laws in the US, UK, and elsewhere; "chat control" proposals in Europe, etc. Some governments (e.g., Brazil) are even implementing these requirements on end-user devices and operating systems. We are going to be living in a digital world that's more regulated, transparent to government, and accountable soon.

My advice is: get used to it. The free-wheeling hacker days are over, and they're not coming back. No one is going to listen to a bunch of nerds whinging that their toys have been taken away; those nerds will be told that it's time to grow up.
by omnimus | 2025-09-20 08:35:17+00:00
Make two blocks sized as business card. Extrude your graphic in one and make inverse hole of the graphic with some tolerance in the other. You will get better results that's easy to model, print and align.

Just pushing two blocks by hand and adding your weight will most likely be enough to make nice impression. The reason is that you have the inverted side - normally you would have just one plate pushing against some softer rubber so the paper has nowhere to go and you need a lot more force.

Tbh this roller design is needlesly complicated for business cards. Printing the rolls with overhangs will require supports. Roller press for graphics has some advantages like consistency of force and pressing of different sized/long pieces. None of which are useful here. Besides you wouldn't have emboss on the roll (unless you were printing infinite patterns) - you would press plate and paper through smooth roller press.
by jzelinskie | 2025-09-20 08:36:47+00:00
I watched a video recently that dove deep into this as well[1]. It turns out there's not an easy way to figure out if it's borosilicate other than if it has "made in France" on it or if you know it was purchased in Europe. AFAICT, you can't really buy borosilicate Pyrex in the US.

The video does also show off a cool "mineral oil test" to tell the difference, but probably is only effective if you had something to compare it against.

My takeaway though was that I need to thrift some Corningware, though!

1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2DKasz4xFC0
by freehorse | 2025-09-20 08:39:36+00:00
The problem with pinning dependencies is clashing transitive dependencies over a bunch of dependencies. For me this happens in python every third time I try to run sth new even though version numbers are pinned (things can still fail in your system, or you may want to include dependencies with incompatible transitive dependencies). I have never happened with R, and now I know why.

The actual trade off is end user experience and ease, vs package developer experience and ease. It is not about updating R or a package; it is when somebody tries to create or run a project not getting into a clash of dependencies for reasons that can hardly be controlled by either them or the package developer.
by ggambetta | 2025-09-20 08:40:02+00:00
St Peter's Basilica is probably the most mind-blowing for me, even just because of the scale. The intricate facade of the Duomo in Milano, the green and while marble exteriors of the Duomo in Firenze, the (neoclassical?) architecture of St Paul's, the unusualness of St Francis of Assisi, Notre Dame (haven't gone back after the fire yet), the bright golden interiors of pretty much any Orthodox church,... Hagia Sophia if I may stretch the definitions a bit :)
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 08:40:31+00:00
I created a workflow using Alfred on macOS [0]. You press command + space then type 'llm' then the prompt and hit enter, and it opens the 5 tabs in the browser.

These are the urls that are opened:

http://localhost:3005/?q={query}

https://www.perplexity.ai/?q={query}

https://x.com/i/grok?text={query}

https://chatgpt.com/?q={query}&model=gpt-5

https://claude.ai/new?q={query}

Extremely convenient.

(little tip: submitting to grok via URL parameter gets around free Grok's rate limit of 2 prompts per 2 hours)

[0] https://github.com/stevecondylios/alfred-workflows/tree/main
by testfrequency | 2025-09-20 08:42:37+00:00
It has been so rewarding and timely to see this post.

I just decided on Thursday after years of covering my ears and eyes from my obsidian-obsessed friends and coworkers that the tool just didn’t make sense to me, and I felt like I’d be in plugin purgatory on my computer for eternity.

I’ve ended up going with Reflect, after ~forever using Apple Notes primarily. So far so good, but I genuinely felt for so long I was supposed to love Obsidian because that’s the trope - appears that’s changing.
by krisoft | 2025-09-20 08:42:47+00:00
I don’t know what you mean. The technique of stamping the numbers on credit cards was literally called embossing.

Here is a video of a desktop scale embosser used for just that purpose: https://youtu.be/5ZQHSsFnACs?si=DWwgTScwl5HXkwGP

The part where the embossing daisy wheel is shown is at 18:10.

Here are machines used at an industrial scale: https://www.maticagroup.com/technologies/embossers/

They are nevertheless called “embossers”.
by brynet | 2025-09-20 08:43:36+00:00
Longer than two years, for pre-COVID reasons mostly. Not coping too well..

It sure would be nice if one of those bitcoin millionaires came out of nowhere willing to sponsor me. I'd love to focus on open source, without worrying about making rent or eating this month.

Shameless self-promotion, sorry..

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html