MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-01 16:24:47+00:00
In my experience, Ren Faires tend to run the whole range of early medieval to renaissance times.

In Florida, there is a permanent year round dinner entertainment show that includes horseback stunts called Medieval Times. In my local Ren Faire, it's really all meshed together, if someone wanted to have a viking event or attraction it would fit right in and no one would bat an eye.
by groggo | 2025-10-01 16:24:48+00:00
What about the era of flash cartoons? Remember "End of Ze World"? In a way that's throwaway crap. Or it could have been written as a comic strip, or animated manually. But Flash kinda opened up this whole new world of games and animation. AI is doing the same.

One that comes to mind is a sort of podcast-style of two cats having a conversation, and in each "episode" there's some punchline where they end up laughing about some cat stereotype. Definitely low quality garbage, but I guess what I mean by "barrier of entry" (sorry for the buzzword), is just that this is going to enable a new generation of content, memes, whatever you want to call it.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-01 16:24:53+00:00
>>Wasn't Microsoft Access basically that?

>No because the datagrid in MS Access is too rigid and doesn't have the extensive slice-&-dice features of MS Excel.

i'm not saying it worked or worked well, but i'm pretty sure the point of Access in the office suite was so that you could access Access (get the clever marketing?) data from within Excel and then do all the excel things you were used to.

anyone know if that worked or didn't? DDE and all those other projects were always pursuing this as a dream
by ionwake | 2025-10-01 16:25:10+00:00
I think it depends on the time and place. So in this context it doesnt matter too much, its a billion dollar company, but if it was a guy with a project he just spent all year on, publishing it on HN for the first time, I would expect people to focus less on teh politics and more on the achievement which is something I dont see too often, unless the work is stellar. Perhaps there is just a high bar on HN
by tertle950 | 2025-10-01 16:25:27+00:00
Huh, didn't think I'd ever see anything related to Uxn/Varvara [1] make the front page for myself, though it has been discussed before. Neato.

Haven't yet experimented with it myself, but I like the idea; a runtime that is trivial to implement, especially for low-spec systems.

If you make anything in Uxntal, you can run it on your DS, a GBA, or any other machine that can run a Varvara emulator [2]. So if you want a program to last, that's one way to do it!

[1] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/varvara.html

[2] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/awesome-uxn#emulators
by whstl | 2025-10-01 16:25:48+00:00
I'd blame Social Media. It did more to kill small websites than anything else. Possibly starting with MySpace in 2004.

WYSIWYG never really went away even after Dreamweaver and FrontPage lost popularity. My ISP had a web-based editor in the early 2000s, lots and lots of free hosting providers also had them (HN tends to only remember only GeoCities, but there were hundreds of those providers).

Also: Weebly, Wix and Squarespace are quite old, mid-2000s.
Show HN: Local LLM app with real-time sync (CRDT) and inline tool calls
by reclusive-sky | 2025-10-01 16:25:53+00:00
I spent the last few months creating an LLM app built on conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) and embedded jupyter notebooks. I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all approach to tools/RAG/memory and I wanted a chat app that just yields control to the end-user/developer. The CRDTs are to keep data in sync across devices (collaborative editing + distributed use cases) and they also provide message delivery guarantees so prompts never get eaten by networking issues.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I hope other developers will find it useful for working with tool-calling LLMs!
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-01 16:26:01+00:00
That's not in any way unique to online ID checks. If a jurisdiction decides sex education material falls under "adult", then it does, and you have to handle that if you want to serve that jurisdiction. If it doesn't then it doesn't. Same as someone who wants to run a physical bookstore and wants to carry such things. I'm not seeing the complexity. If you don't like the line a jurisdiction draws, the thing to do is complain about that, not say that online businesses can just ignore laws that everyone else has to follow (and sites like imgur are well-resourced businesses with 10s of millions of dollars backing them. They can absolutely be expected to follow laws).

It's also easy for almost everyone to avoid worrying about the lines by just... not trying to exist right along them. If your photography discussion site just has a "no nudity" rule (or blanket puts nudity into its own adult-only section), then you don't have to worry about whether your photo is tasteful art or porn. These are normal rules anyway because sometimes people want to look at their hobby sites in public or at work and just see bird photos or whatever and not have passersby think they're a gooner, or see a surprise decapitation, etc. Even 4chan moderates their hobby boards and separates which ones allow adult material.
by tguvot | 2025-10-01 16:26:15+00:00
putting aside multiple "incorrectness" in your statement, 89% of palestinians support sharia as law of the land. removing occupation won't make them into society where lgbt live long and prosper. brief look at neighborhood will be a good example.

and just for lols: https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/09/not-all-in-the-same-boat-g...
by tramcaseht | 2025-10-01 16:26:16+00:00
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by Veserv | 2025-10-01 16:27:06+00:00
There is no system in use by a commercial entity in the world that can stop criminals with ~10 M$ from completely bypassing all of their security and doing arbitrary amounts of damage. If the attackers can on average derive more than 10 M$ of return, then you are guaranteed profitable to hit.

For instance, in the 2023 casino hacks of MGM and Caesars, Caesar paid a random of ~15 M$, making them profitable. In the JLR hack, JLR has incurred ~500 M$ of damage to date. These attacks cost less than 10 M$ to create and deploy guaranteed.

However, most commercial systems are vastly easier to hit than even 10 M$. I would venture that most of these high profile attacks are on the order of merely ~10-100 K$ to actually create and deploy making them wildly profitable with a ROI in the 10-1000(!) range. And, if you have the choice of spending 100K to get 15 M$ or 10 M$ to get 15 M$, it is pretty obvious who you would prioritize.

It is like the story of two people and the hungry bear. Even if you can not outrun the bear, if you can outrun the other person then the bear will tear you apart second.

So it is both. Everything is shoddy. Some are dramatically more shoddy than others. And the hungry bears are breeding so they can eat all the dodos.
by btown | 2025-10-01 16:27:27+00:00
I think that what this game tries to convey is that these challenges, while perhaps universally present, have a distinct and punishing effect for a subset of people. I think that it takes an interesting approach at communicating that even someone who might seem to be functioning “effectively” could be essentially living their life on a knife’s edge of dueling energy/masking mechanics.

If your response to the game is to argue about the usefulness/value of the autism label, and to insinuate that it normalizes some kind of “bandwagon” effect, rather than feeling empathy that a colleague sitting next to you might be in mortal fear of what happens if their “energy bar” dips beyond their control - then perhaps we need more of this type of experience and conversation, rather than less.
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-01 16:27:54+00:00
The difference is that "I put it all on black 3 times" is purely up to chance, whereas business is generally not. There is luck involved, but skill or at least expertise about what the market will support still comes into play.

Someone who knows what they're doing has a much greater likelihood of success, unlike when you put it all on black.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-01 16:28:13+00:00
It's tradition to warn first-year psychiatry students about over-diagnosing themselves and everyone around them. There is a well known phenomenon where as soon as students start reading about conditions and symptoms they start seeing it in everyone at rates far too high to be accurate. Fortunately for them, their professors are there to warn them about this effect. They also realize how foolish it was to diagnose everyone with everything based on generic symptoms when they get into practice and see what these conditions look like in real patients.

Unfortunately, these psychiatry terms have spilled over into social media without the same warnings. This leads to extreme over-diagnosis by people who learn basic symptoms and start spotting them in everyone.

> I estimate that at least 1/8 of all people I have ever met are on the autism spectrum.

Unless you are only meeting people in an environment that is extraordinarily biased toward Autism Spectrum Disorder and you’re avoiding mingling with the general population, this simply isn’t possible.

> Around 1/4 to 1/2 of all people I have ever met have some form of executive function disorder.

You are grossly over-diagnosing.

When you see a characteristic in half of all people it’s no longer in the realm of something considered a disorder. You are literally just describing the median point in human behaviors.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-01 16:28:42+00:00
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by colcoder | 2025-10-01 16:28:52+00:00
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by nis0s | 2025-10-01 16:28:58+00:00
> As with most mental things, because people can’t see or sense it, they don’t understand and it gets very very difficult to even acknowledge or respect it.

Compounding this issue is the fact that people often refuse to accept that a mental thing is actually a physiological thing, albeit harder to fix because it’s currently poorly understood. People’s mental models of brain-related conditions often create a separation of the person from their physical self, either due to some subconscious or conscious belief in a metaphysical representation of the condition.
by mtalantikite | 2025-10-01 16:29:04+00:00
By learn another language I mean getting to C1 or equivalent. Being able to comfortably spend time in a country that speaks your target language. Having regular, improvised conversations of various depths. Reading literature in that language. Things like that. I really don't think Duolingo can get you there on it's own, but hey, I'm open to being wrong.

I've just have seen many friends keep their Spanish streak for a year or two and I would say they'd still test around the A2 level. I've said it in this thread that that is of course not nothing, but there are much more efficient ways to get to A2 or B1.
by encom | 2025-10-01 16:29:05+00:00
Had a "people" guy at a previous employer. At every corporate social thing, he'd run around with his huge DSLR camera and take pictures to post on the company social media, to show how this is a great place to work.

He was an irritating person even without his camera. I hate having my picture taken, and I don't consent to having my face posted on social media. Later, when the company realised that setting money on fire isn't a solid business strategy, he was thankfully fired.
by nneonneo | 2025-10-01 16:29:14+00:00
This is just a really bad AI summary of the script.

You may as well just pop the script (mirrored here: https://gist.github.com/nneonneo/9caabf7c9d2f94711bce005e144...) into your own AI of choice and tweak the analysis to your liking.

(Note the giveaway "likely via argparse in Python" and similar constructs; the script obviously does use argparse so there's no need for hedging)
by jdkx | 2025-10-01 16:29:16+00:00
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by esquire_900 | 2025-10-01 16:29:37+00:00
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by eitland | 2025-10-01 16:29:45+00:00
Maybe you have aphantasia as well. I had without knowing it.

Some observations:

Someone told me to close my eyes and think about "an apple at a table".

Then I was told to open my eyes and tell what color the apple was.

The question didn't make sense to me:

I only thought about about the concept of "an apple on a table". When my eyes are closed it is black. Absolutely black. Blacker than a Norwegian winter night with cloud cover and no moon. There is nothing.

Until then I thought all this talk about seing things was just a metaphor for what I had also done.

But when I talk to others they will often immediately say it was green or red. Because they saw it.

Two extra observations:

Sometimes just before I fall asleep I can sometimes think images of stuff that doesn't exist: think 3d modeling with simple shapes.

And just after waking up I can sometimes manage to see relatively detailed images of actual physical things.

Both these only last for a few seconds to a few minutes.

Does this help?
by vel0city | 2025-10-01 16:30:09+00:00
This is already the case with the myriad of streaming services and choices of what people will let their kids watch or not. With my little kids, we tend to mostly watch PBS Kids content with a bit of Disney shows mixed in when it comes to screen time. We try to avoid seemingly empty hyper-stimulating content like Paw Patrol and others. But in the end a lot of the other kids in school/daycare talk about these shows and others, which can lead to the kids not having that kind of shared context. For instance, my four year old loves Wild Kratts, but practically nobody in his class knows the show. Meanwhile, he doesn't have any context for the various characters of Paw Patrol.
by ncruces | 2025-10-01 16:30:12+00:00
I encourage you to read (at least) this section of this blog before making simplistic suggestions: https://thephd.dev/just-put-raii-in-c-bro-please-bro-just-on...

How do you mandate initialization, handle copies, move objects, prevent double frees? What's RAII without any of that?
by immibis | 2025-10-01 16:30:22+00:00
Maybe persons and families should stop using email services that refuse to deliver them the emails they want. If I personally use /dev/null as my inbox does it become your problem to ensure mail delivery?

I recommend that whenever you know someone cares about receiving an email much more than you care about them receiving it, just send it. They'll do what they have to, and this way we can weed bad providers out of the market. Some websites with email verified sign-up have a simple FAQ to let you know what's causing the problem.
by deepfriedchokes | 2025-10-01 16:30:32+00:00
I don’t think it would be possible, as a lot of what ASD people process consciously is processed subconsciously by neurotypical people (which contributes greatly to ASD burnout).

Something I’ve thought might be a helpful AI app, for a product like smart glasses or earbuds with integrated cameras, if it were possible, is a live nonverbal communication translator, to help with the cognitive load of ASD people, as cognitive empathy is often a performance issue socially.

I’ve seen a lot of criticism that using AI as a cognitive crutch is unhealthy, but the same argument could be made about mechanical advantages, beasts of burden, or machines, reducing humanity’s physical fitness. AI’s potential to be a cognitive force multiplier is its killer app.
by sarachilton | 2025-10-01 16:30:38+00:00
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by jszymborski | 2025-10-01 16:30:39+00:00
Most societies have decided that some speech should be illegal. The classic example is yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theatre in the absence of a fire.

I think it is good and healthy to have conversations as to what should and should not be protected speech, but I think that there is this rote reaction that kinda boils down to free speech absolutism. But of course, all the free speech absolutists find at some point or another there is some speech they want made illegal.

A great example of this is in the US where Republicans often outwardly took such as stand when they weren't in power, but recently tried to use the FCC to take a comedian who made light criticism of the regime off the air.

So, silencing speech might not always be the oppressive regime, but it sometimes is.

EDIT: OK, I get the fire/theatre example is a bad one. Instead, consider incitement more broadly. For example incitement to discrimination, as prohibited by Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-01 16:30:51+00:00
Getting "old internet" vibes from this one. Good job.

I'm not at all familiar with Autism, and I have no idea what "Masking" means at all, but every option I choose seems to lower that stat, to the point where I never make it to day 2. Is there a cheat sheet that lists the "correct" selections at each step?
by dlazarov | 2025-10-01 16:30:55+00:00
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