MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjh2539 | 2025-10-01 17:27:14+00:00
I agree. There was (and still is) a trend in technical writing that began in the 2010s to be overly pedestrian and informal (and in many cases explicitly vulgar). The same impulse or geist resulted in many people naming their library or product a cute or contrived or irrelevant word.

Get off my lawn! And start giving things long descriptive names that are aliased to acronyms again! db2, netcat, socat, emacs (editing macros), wget...etc.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-01 17:27:22+00:00
In my opinion the entire structure of scrum and sprints is structured to help people with autism and adhd. Most workplaces that produce creative output are much more focused on soft power, networking, and hard deadlines—things that really don’t work for the “au-dhd” crowd.

It’s easy to remove the locus of control by saying “this environment wasn’t built for me” but do appreciate how much it actually /is/ created for you.
by subroutine | 2025-10-01 17:27:25+00:00
When I was in grad school, I worked in a lab that performed research on children with Asperger's syndrome (AS), mainly through fMRI and DTI brain imaging techniques. AS was merged into Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but at the time was considered a high-functioning form of autism. I met dozens of children with AS; they were typically between 9-13 years old. All the children I met were clearly autistic. I'm not going to attempt to describe what that means here, but the nature of their disorder was evident, compared to other disorders and compared to the age-matched controls [1]. Back then I'd confidently tell you I could easily pick out the kids in a classroom with an AS diagnosis. These days, I have no confidence I could do so (mostly due to false negatives).

[1] anecdote: at the end of explaining the fMRI procedure to the participant children and their parents, I'd ask if the child had any questions. Neurotypical children would usually ask about any reward $ for completing the task. AS kids would usually ask something poignant about the experiment.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-10-01 17:28:14+00:00
Almost certainly not ADHD. "Massively increased appetite" is not a typical side effect of ADHD meds, which are typically stimulants which have the opposite effect (and mine give me nausea on top of that). And "drowsiness and brain fog" are what they're trying to combat.

From the complaints I've heard from friends, those sound like pretty typical side effects for SSRIs. (Bupropion OTOH is both a stimulant and an antidepressant, and may be more effective for people with comorbidity ADHD and depression; the POV character should talk to their psychiatrist)
by Animats | 2025-10-01 17:28:24+00:00
The linked page says that Gmail is discontinuing support for the old Post Office Protocol in favor of IMAP. Nobody has used POP much in years. Decades, maybe.

IMAP can check for mail without downloading. But apparently Gmail doesn't support that.

You can do this the other way round. Use a local email client such as Thunderbird on desktop or FastMail on Android to check Gmail and any other email accounts you have.
by Fender1992 | 2025-10-01 17:28:38+00:00
I built CacheGPT to solve a simple problem: I was spending $200/month on OpenAI API calls, but ~70% were semantically similar to previous queries.

Technical approach: - pgvector for semantic similarity search (0.85 threshold) - Simple embeddings for fast matching - Tier-based cache lifecycle (hot/warm/cool/cold) - Query type classification (time-sensitive vs static) - Context-aware invalidation Stack: Next.js, Supabase (Postgres + pgvector), Vercel CLI: NPM package (npm i -g cachegpt-cli) Results: - 8ms average cache hit response time - 60-80% cache hit rate in production - Zero API keys required (we pool free providers) - Users can optionally add their own keys Just launched on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/cachegpt Open source: https://github.com/Fender1992/cachegpt Would love technical feedback on the caching architecture!
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-10-01 17:28:46+00:00
Something I am not quite able to compute is why they are so rigid. I paid for a house with enough rooms that I turned one into a generous office. My peers tell me my hobby productivity is off the charts. There is / was no price at which I could solve for an acceptable office environment at this company. At any company I have worked with or heard of.

I get that there is back biting and intensive score-keeping, resentment etc, but the act of putting everything on a synchronized linear scale (with sub linear progression) seems cruel. Some people like tchotchkies, some people don't like those esoteric office snacks, some people like mouthwash and shoe polish and fancy towels in the restroom. Why gatekeep it all and shove the same exact bundle of goods down everyone's throats?

If they were really minimaxing your next unit of work, this is not an optimal strategy. It's just lazy, a children's tale of how an office might be.
by dkarl | 2025-10-01 17:29:01+00:00
I agree. It's extremely hard to learn to use someone else's spreadsheet unless they're sitting right there with you watching you fumble through it.

I have a couple of spreadsheets that I use on a weekly basis, and I found it easiest to build both of them from scratch, despite the tons of examples floating around for exactly my use cases, and despite it being my first time building anything with a spreadsheet in 10+ years.

On the bright side, after using these spreadsheets for a week, I lost all desire to write apps to do the same things. Google Sheets is a good-enough UI and solves sync across different computers and mobile.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-10-01 17:29:02+00:00
Fellow asthmatic here:

>I should have thrown away my inhaler years ago because I was never using it?

Inhalers expire after a year, so yes, you should have, and you should have gotten a new one. I only learned this after getting a fresh one at the start of COVID because I hadn't had one in several years. Pretty sure growing up I had the same inhaler for like 8 years, so obviously it still works OK after a year, just relaying what my doctor told me 5 years ago.
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-01 17:29:07+00:00
One way I've seen it presented is that the early Greek philosophers were grappling with how to reconcile two basic facts: somethings stay the same (constancy or regularity), and some things change.

Heraclitus was before Parmenides and said that everything changes. Parmenides said that nothing changes, and then the atomists, most prominently Democritus, synthesised these two points of view by saying that there are atoms which don't change, but all apparent change is explained by the relative motions of the different basic atoms. Plato was influenced by all of these. But I would say the theory of forms accounts more for constancy or regularity more than change, no?

Btw, the central concept of Parmenides' philosophy is always translated as "Being", but I couldn't find the original Greek word. It isn't "ousia"?
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-10-01 17:29:11+00:00
I carry silicone putty ear plugs with me pretty much all the time.

They are very squishy and I can place then in my ear and depending on how thick I make them, they have varying levels of blocking out sound. Super useful if I want extra blocking or just a little light blocking so I can still hear things around me, but dampened.

They have been a life changer for me. The best kind I've found are Mack's. Maybe they would help you too.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-01 17:29:14+00:00
You need to give people a class below them that they can be better than. That is the permanent criminal class in the US.

Our foundation was built on offering second chances to groups marginalized or persecuted in Europe. A place those cast aside by the old world could start anew, contribute to society, and reshape their destinies away from the strictures and conflicts that had defined their past.

In the American wild west, criminals could go on be to lawmen. People were given a second chance. Second chances are what made America strong (that and opening our country to immigrants to give them a first chance).

Modern America doesn't believe in those things. It doesn't believe in it's foundation myth on immigration and second chances. It doesn't believe in it's 'wild west' myth of immigration and second chances. We have become something very angry and ugly.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-01 17:29:25+00:00
Ah, you might be right!

Contention is what can be parallelized, right?

So with roughly 100-200 requests/s you end up with 1-0.5 contention if I understood that right.

That moves me even further towards agarlands points, though - if I plug that into the equation, I end up with >50k qps.

The used numbers create an insanely distorted idea wrt real world performance
by internetter | 2025-10-01 17:29:26+00:00
> JavaScript is like that.

JavaScript has gotten drastically better, especially since ES6. The lack of venvs alone is such a breath of fresh air. The baseline typing sucks more than python, but typescript is so much better. It still suffers from legacy but the world has mostly moved on and I don't see beginners learning legacy stuff much anymore. Modern javascript is amazing. I do my work in Elysia, Kysely (holy crap the python database situation is awful) and everything just works and catches tons of errors.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-01 17:29:51+00:00
> I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't.

Aside from previously established dominance and associated network effects, a whole lot of individually little things which add up to a lot.

> It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

So long as the AI firms operate under the assumption (and courts so far in the US at least seem inclined to favor this view) that training AI on copyright-protected material isn't infringement, any publicly-exposed code is going to be subject to AI piggybacking, not just code hosted on Github.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-01 17:30:07+00:00
I treat it pretty much like bash. it's good for scripts. and it's great for serverless tasks like running as an AWS lambda. if you want to run some simple script that queries a DB and/or hits an API on a schedule or triggered by an event, Python is arguably the best way to do that because the handler and interpreter work so well together. even still, you'd get better performance with Node.

I don't like Python for "applications" as much. I was at a place almost 10 years ago now that had Python "microservices" running in Kubernetes. managing performance and dependencies for Python in production is just unnecessarily futile compared to something like Go that's also very accessible syntactically.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-01 17:31:18+00:00
> Second, I think it's an interesting question to ask if people craved this particular past or if they just craved a space where everything is vastly different and settled on this period because it's pretty firmly embedded in our cultural mythology and everyone has an idea, however historically inaccurate, of what this time period was like.

I think it's mostly a case of the printing press solidifying all that cultural mythology right around the tail end of the Renaissance. King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable was an especially popular theme among early printed fiction (think mass market paperbacks of today) which is where I think most of this began. The motifs introduced in those books have been pervasive since the common people started learning how to read and evolved into a lot of different cultural features like renfairs.
by jancsika | 2025-10-01 17:31:55+00:00
Do you do the same with emotions? E.g., a) What is this emotion, b) no, that's the undue amount of stress from this particular encounter, c) larger, basic emotion that is the reason you're ruminating about a total stranger taking 20 seconds at the counter to decide on a coffee order after waiting 10 minutes in line... :)
by eqvinox | 2025-10-01 17:32:08+00:00
I dub thee… Artificial Agency.

AFAIK, nobody has figured that out currently, and… considering it's vaguely related to the "purpose of life" question (why do humans want anything?¹), I don't see how making an artifice of it is achievable in the short run.

¹ please don't give in to the temptation to post an answer. The topic is as old as philosophy.
by ajross | 2025-10-01 17:32:26+00:00
The walled gardens go up around paid app stores because of the way court decisions landed in the US[1]. PWAs are an open standard, they aren't really part of the analysis.

But yes, if you want them to stick around maybe consider using platforms that best support them.

[1] Apple disallowed open access and so couldn't be a "monopoly" per the court and could charge whatever license fee they wanted; Google let people sideload their own apps and so was forced to allow entire third party app stores. Yes, this is just as insane as it sounds.
by squigz | 2025-10-01 17:32:50+00:00
> This interaction? Honestly much much harder to list the positives.

Well while I appreciate that, I'd urge you to dig a little deeper; I'm sure you can think of many things. The Internet has enabled creativity, the sharing of knowledge, scientific advancement, and international cooperation & communication (I'm speaking mainly between citizens) on scales unimaginable a few short decades ago, to name just a few things!

Certainly, there are issues that comes with it - and we can and should solve them! - but ignoring the massive good it brings is not good. I'd also point out that many of the issues you outlined certainly predate the Internet, and were in fact much easier to accomplish - genocides happened and were easier to hide (or at least shape the narrative of) when information was a lot harder to distribute. People believed in all sorts of crazy things too, with little or no hard evidence.
by thyristan | 2025-10-01 17:33:29+00:00
Any psychological disorder is treatment-worthy iff the patient suffers from it. So not just "you were diagnosed", but "you were diagnosed, have problems caused by it, suffer from those problems, and want relief". So yes to both, treatment can be intended to fix a problem that a patient suffers from that is just related to his perception of things. But it can also be intended to support your interactions with a hostile environment that you suffer from.
by g413n | 2025-10-01 17:33:34+00:00
oh we use cloud gpus, infiniband h100s absolutely aren't something we want to self-host. not aws tho, they're crazy overpriced; mithril and sfcompute!

we also use cloudflare extensively for everything that isn't the core heap dataset, the convenience of buckets is totally worth it for most day-to-day usage.

the heap is really just the main pretraining corpus and nothing else.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-01 17:33:34+00:00
(2024)

https://radicle.xyz/

Some various discussions:

Radicle 1.0 – A local-first, P2P alternative to GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509713

Jujutsu and Radicle

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900455
by kdolsonUNC | 2025-10-01 17:34:32+00:00
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by actionfromafar | 2025-10-01 17:34:36+00:00
It's easy to forget how big Perl was before the 10 Year Stall happened. (I.e. when development on Perl 5 was stalled in wait for Perl 6 which never happened. By the time Perl 6 was renamed to Raku, it was too late for Perl 5. It now lives on, but it lost a lot of momentum.)
by riedel | 2025-10-01 17:34:39+00:00
When I studied our dorm was connected to the campus network via a laser uplink (and the Internet, with each room having a public IP address). I still remember the foggy daya when people, you normally did not see, gathered in the bars, because the network went unbearably slow. It was nice days with every CS student having a server rack in their closet. I had a VT520 hooked up to it be able to read emails and IRC chats bed without having to wait for my PC to boot.
by saltyoldman | 2025-10-01 17:34:55+00:00
Both media apparatuses are pulling the extreme to the center of the conversation.

Perhaps both "sides" should first vet some rando's online comment, poll the center (privately - there are a lot of ways to do this for free) and if the rando comment happens to be agreed by the mainstream, then sure, write an article. But from what I see, most of the reaction to articles or statements like this is:

"It's not mandatory to mourn him. People aren't being fired because they aren't mourning him."

Which is true.

Perhaps the other article they could write is:

"Take this Vaccine, Or Else!"

That all being said, I have no idea what this article is about, I'm just surmising as it's pay-walled for no reason (advertising exists).
by DonHopkins | 2025-10-01 17:34:55+00:00
But Google Sheets remote procedure calls are vastly slower than local OLE/COM dispatching. (And VBA/Excel presumably uses the optimized tighter COM interface binding instead of the slower high level COM IDispatch. Sure there's some overhead but it's nothing compared to Google Sheet's network overhead.)

Not only is scripting Google Sheets indeterminently and syrupy slow, it also imposes an arbitrary limit on how long your code can run, making a lot of applications not just inefficient but impossible. Running your code in google's cloud doesn't make spreadsheet api calls any faster, it just limits how long you can run, them BAM!

To get anything non-trivial done, you have to use getSheetValues and ranges to read and write big batches of values as 2d arrays.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsh...

It's easier to just download the entire spreadsheet csv or layers and bang on that from whatever language you want, instead of trying to use google hosted spreadsheet scripts.
by OJFord | 2025-10-01 17:35:05+00:00
No, they're discontinuing POP 'import' (so mail ends up stored in Gmail) configured in the web app and available everywhere, in favour of IMAP client access from the mobile clients only.

Fine for some people, not at all equivalent for others. (I'm disinterested, fwiw, haven't used Gmail other than an alumni forwarding address for years.) It's not just a protocol change.
by enkrs | 2025-10-01 17:35:08+00:00
I'm wondering, now almost three years in after the Forgejo/Gitea fork, which side of the fork ended up better. Both still seem very active with thousands of commits each.

I run a Gitea server (since long before the fork, constantly updated) that handles issues, pull requests, signed commits, CI/CD, actions, and even serves my containers and packages. It's been amazing.

Of course Forgejo can do the same. For those who’ve followed both projects closely — which fork would you say has come out ahead? Codeberg being Forgejo's SaaS offering likely gives them more resources, but I also wonder if that means their priorities lean more toward SaaS than self-hosting.
by malthaus | 2025-10-01 17:35:27+00:00
i have aphantasia and extensive experience with psychedelics

for me, as long as my consciousness is still in control, i have no closed-eye visuals akin to what others see. the more i lose control/consciousness, the more visuals i get but only over a certain (high) threshold.

dmt is the only substance that consistently gives me visuals but only at close to breakthrough dosages where i effectively lose consiousness. and they are never "things", they are always the known patterns, ie just raw signals and nothing meaningful - but my mind interprets them in whatever it thinks sensible.

otherwise i hallucinate like i dream or think - in an abstract, non visual way, the only thing i "see" are white flashes in nothingness
by Night_Thastus | 2025-10-01 17:35:55+00:00
It's a problem because there's no evidence the population will ever stabilize. Wild animals form some natural equilibrium based on the available resources, humans do not. If there aren't enough resources we find ways to get more.

If the population dips, it won't add any pressure to have more kids, not on an individual level.

And a lot of humanity only works at scale. Global shipping, for example, only really works at the enormous scales we're doing it at. Same goes for communication networks.

If the population dips low enough, things like that start to break down. If we slowly dipped from our current to say, ~500 million, our chance at being a space-faring race is over. You may think that's a lot of humans - more than enough to accomplish everything. But they'd be spread too thin, with too little demand for industry and innovation to make it work.

Humanity isn't some great gift to the universe now. It's full of selfishness and greed and fear and arrogance and ignorance. But maybe, one day, it could be. I want to believe in that future.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-01 17:35:55+00:00
I had codeberg account before github account.

I really created a github account to star other people's project and my keepassxc had got deleted by me messing around in my linux so I had lost access to my codeberg previous account and I think even my previous github account too but I went around to create a new github account but never a new codeberg account untill just recently (literally 1 hour ago lol)

for me I could star a lot of projects and show support and there is even github donations. Its not as if I like github but I am giving my reasoning as to why I think the reason is that github won and codeberg hadn't.

There are still a lot of people which use codeberg but a lack of awareness is also one part and the lack of people on codeberg. To me, like, I thought that if my project is on codeberg then it would get less stars (I was really chasing stars back then lol) and it would get less visibility and less people contributing and so on I think...

Doesn't also help when you need a github account anyways to contribute to a git project in the sense that you ask them an issue.

IIRC I wanted to ask a github issue on some project and that's why I had created my original account but then started hosting some code between codeberg and github from exclusively codeberg to then all code on github...

Now I am starting to take back on that by hosting things on codeberg again from a fresh account.