MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beedeebeedee | 2025-10-11 16:59:28+00:00
Jesus, Socrates, et al, are extreme examples that clearly debunk the comment made above. There are much more mild versions of that everywhere and everyday. Being ‘good’ in no way guarantees you will be loved. In fact, if you have integrity you will probably end up butting heads with people who are ‘not good’, and those folks will likely not hesitate to do underhanded and manipulative things to make you hated by others and not just them. Thankfully that is not everyone, but it is childish to believe that somehow being ‘good’ will make you beloved. If that were the case, being ‘good’ would be the easy choice that everyone makes. It is not.
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-11 16:59:38+00:00
My dishes were designed for humans, but my dishwasher handles them just fine.

Okay, maybe that's a special case. Maybe we should think of a task we haven't solved yet, like folding laundry. Why would a laundry folding robot need legs or a head? Why limit its arms to articulate only at the wrist, elbow, and shoulder? Why limit it to only two arms? Five fingers?
by dangus | 2025-10-11 17:00:10+00:00
What if the “good old experience” is Microsoft in the late 1990s with a nearly 100% marketshare? You don’t know anyone who uses another system and you assume that all other options either don’t exist or can’t possibly be as good. There’s almost zero word of mouth and you haven’t bothered to consult a directory since you’re 100% confident that the only operating system in the world is Windows [1]

Do you not recognize how this scenario can work to preserve monopolies?

How does Apple come back from the brink of bankruptcy without their iconic iMac and iPod marketing campaigns?

And how do you flip the switch to making advertising illegal when incumbent companies have already enjoyed the benefit of legal advertising for hundreds of years? We ban advertising, and I start my new soft drink company, but Coca-Cola got to advertise for 100+ years already. The cat has been out of the bag for thousands of years.

[1] https://www.overclock.net/threads/teacher-calls-linux-%E2%80...
by hearsathought | 2025-10-11 17:00:23+00:00
> Buy the dip.

We've truly arrived at a strange time in history where a 1% drop is a considered a "dip".

> My prediction is we'll be at all time highs again a month from now.

If a global pandemic and a global trade war can't stop the market, seems like nothing will. The market will be bid up until whoever is in charge decides times up.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-11 17:00:56+00:00
Is this https://pegasos-association.com the one?

> Pegasos, a non-profit based in Basel, Switzerland, believes that it is the human right of every rational adult of sound mind, regardless of state of health, to choose the manner and timing of their death.

I found this bit "regardless of state" really interesting.

I wonder what their views would be for someone who wouldn't have a family and nothing much to do or explore after a certain age? Does it matter what nationality they are from? What if someone's reason is - they had savings and now they have run out of it and area already 55-60 or more and have no intention or plan to work anymore and don't want to go through the struggle of life? (Of course they would have had paid the euthanasia fees)

How does it all happen?
by hollowturtle | 2025-10-11 17:01:01+00:00
The discussion of past years instead of being focused on "what we could do next to make developing apps for the web better?" has been focused on which semantic meaning the x tag has and where it should be used, creating just a lot of confusion and disagreements, vs the reality: people just use divs, you can still specify aria attributes there, why not giving us an api to specify semantic meaning as well the way we want? I'd like to have something like flash back, html5 was a step back, partially has already been achieved by flutter and react native. Please Browser vendors just give us a goddman drawing api that doesn't feel limited as canvas is with a semantic, accessibility and input apis that don't suck!
by jstanley | 2025-10-11 17:01:38+00:00
This isn't about 30-year mortgages in the general case, this is about the US specifically, where a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage is typical, with a good rate and no early repayment penalty.

And yes it's insane, because if rates go up you leave it alone and if rates go down you remortgage at a lower rate.
by watwut | 2025-10-11 17:01:44+00:00
People with leukemia want treatment and are willing to suffer uncomfortable treatment to get cured.

Paranoid schizophrenia have lower compliance rates and fairly large collateral damage. Psychopathy is a trait not a disease, but again, issue is that they do not cooperate and dont want to "cure". Psychopaths are fine as they are from their point of view.

It is just their victims who mind.
by csvance | 2025-10-11 17:01:57+00:00
Everything I just read makes me thankful that I never had to touch one of these apps before I got married. Out of all social media, dating apps have to be the most dystopian. Technology can be a force for creating deeper human connections, but this ain’t it… and I say that as someone who first connected with my wife in an online community before meeting in real life.

With that being said, I’m thankful if this hack is the start of a wonderful relationship for someone out there :)
by tombert | 2025-10-11 17:02:06+00:00
I'm saying that when I would go back to the home screen, I still think it was using the same amount of power as if it were in the foreground. I think it was using the full amount of processing for each tab the entire time. This is not the behavior that anyone wants for any mobile app ever. I think the app is poorly made, or at least it was in 2023 when I last used it.

I know that kernels are preemptive and have multiple processes running. Feel free to look at my post history if you don't believe me.

Sorry I said the word "closed" when I meant "backgrounded" if that upsets you, but it was pretty obvious what I meant and I am pretty sure you knew that, so I think you're being needlessly pedantic.
by macNchz | 2025-10-11 17:02:40+00:00
This is a misconception—research has found that people entering hospice often live longer than those who do not:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088539240...

There are many who will raise their hands with anecdotal counters to this, but I think much of that is borne from misunderstandings about end of life generally, which is a charged and difficult topic lots of people would rather not learn more about.

I highly recommend the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande for anyone who wants to explore the topic further—or really for anyone who has loved ones at all!
by buildbot | 2025-10-11 17:02:41+00:00
Yeah that'll happen when a good chunk of a mountain basically drops into your body of water, lol:

"The large mass of rock, acting as a monolith (thus resembling high-angle asteroid impact), struck with great force the sediments at bottom of Gilbert Inlet at the head of the bay. The impact created a large crater and displaced and folded recent and Tertiary deposits and sedimentary layers to an unknown depth."

With updated modeling showing that impact triggering the glacier to lift and subsequently release even more material, it's shocking anyone in the bay survived at all.

Edit - found a video with said papers modeling implemented, pretty neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1axr5YGRwQ
by jesse__ | 2025-10-11 17:03:51+00:00
So, you're saying they built a novel storage architecture that competed with state-of-the-art consumer hardware, at a lower price point. Five years later, laptops are just catching up, and that at the same price point, it's faster than what you'd expect from a PC.

The compression codec they licensed was built by some of the best programmers alive [0], and was later acquired by Epic [1]

I dunno how you put those together and come up with "isn't really fast" or "not particularly innovative".

Fast doesn't mean 'faster than anything else in existence'. Fast is relative to other existing solutions with similar resource constraints.

[0] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/about/ [1] https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-acquires-rad-...
by skrebbel | 2025-10-11 17:04:43+00:00
> * I think "act like it's ridiculous" is pretty hyperbolic here.*

Fair. I might’ve read more snark in the “Apparently,” than the commenter intended to convey.

For what it’s worth, the comment you read is the toned down version of what I had initially come up with. I really don’t think being dismissive of accessibility concerns is good style.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-11 17:05:13+00:00
There's a couple of problems with that.

1. For some reason it only talks in terms of the USA, there's a whole world of manufacturers that could have stepped up to create flying cars if the market was interested.

2. There was, for a very long time, a thing called a "microlight" which allowed people to own their own snap private air craft (although not generally VTOL)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 17:06:45+00:00
Is working on Windows itself that bad with WsL 2.0? I had to use Windows for one year at a shitty consulting company before I left out of the 5 years since I’ve been AWS focused. My workflow wasn’t that different with VSCode, Docker and WSL than on my Mac.

And honestly before ARM based Macs, Mac laptops sucked about as bad as Windows laptops and near the end of the x86 run, they were actually worse.
by rasengan | 2025-10-11 17:06:50+00:00
Ad hominem does not change the fact that ProtonVPN admits to monitoring their users: "we check the network traffic on the server in question in realtime to verify the abuse report. If we see a VPN connection engaged in abusive behavior when we check, we find the userid associated with that connection and terminate the account." [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/93pp40/comment/e...

Edit: Archived for posterity https://archive.is/xi92E
by econ | 2025-10-11 17:07:09+00:00
OT

> Half of tech YouTube has been sponsored by companies like...

It just struck me that the product reviews are a part of the social realm that is barely explored.

Imagine a video website like TikTok or YouTube etc where all videos are organized under products. Priority to those who purchased the product and a category ranked by how many similar products you've purchased.

The thing sort of exists currently in some hard to find corner of TEMU etc but there are no channels or playlists.
by sjdjsin | 2025-10-11 17:07:20+00:00
> This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents

Because I have a coworker who is pushing slop at unsustainable levels, and proclaiming to management how much more productive he is. It’s now even more of a risk to my career to speak up about how awful his PRs are to review (and I’m not the only one on the team who wishes to speak up).

The internet is rife with people who claim to be living in the future where they are now a 10x dev. Making these claims costs almost nothing, but it is negatively effecting mine and many others day to day.

I’m not necessarily blaming these internet voices (I don’t blame a bear for killing a hiker), but the damage they’re doing is still real.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-11 17:07:22+00:00
I find it really weird. So someone pays CHF 10K to be given a lethal injection then it becomes dignified and the other way isn't? I think it is an insult to the departed if you question the path they choose - because then both the choices can be questioned and judged.

And did you just go to eating more fibre from euthanasia in the same few sentences? :D
by tptacek | 2025-10-11 17:08:57+00:00
I don't think you read the sentence you're responding to carefully enough. The antecedent of "this" isn't "coding agents" generally: it's "the value of an agent getting you past the blank page stage to a point where the substantive core of your feature functions well enough to start iterating on". If you want to respond to the argument I made there, you have to respond to the actual argument, not a broader one that's easier (and much less interesting) to take swipes at.
by tcdent | 2025-10-11 17:09:00+00:00
> Never lose context again. Amplifier automatically exports your entire conversation before compaction, preserving all the details that would otherwise be lost. When Claude Code compacts your conversation to stay within token limits, you can instantly restore the full history.

If this is restoring the entire context (and looking at the source code, it seems like it is just reloading the entire context) how does this not result in an infinite compaction loop?
by nixass | 2025-10-11 17:09:11+00:00
Found this sub recently as WTC buildings for some weird reasons fascinate me in rather uncanny way, whether as a 911 event or before that

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinTowersInPhotos/s/cnyHzBE47C

Some photos form Sun Microsystems offices inside the WTC https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinTowersInPhotos/s/qYMuq6LG4W
by slater | 2025-10-11 17:10:21+00:00
Endless dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500485 (main discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542745

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45489794

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487935
by burnerRhodov2 | 2025-10-11 17:10:30+00:00
Again, since revenue is the denominator in sales ratio, you are conflating what the OP said...

The difference here and between the .com bubble is these companies have high earnings. They are literally walking cash cows and are printing money... AKA the earnings, with revenue not being important here because that's what CAUSED the .com crash. (High revenues, but absolutely burning money).

NVIDIA is in the business of selling shovels to the gold miners in this scenario, not the gold miners themselves.

One exception i will grant you, is they started giving away some of their tools on equity (investments in openAI, stargate, etc. are very circular), and then will turn around and sell that back to them at their prefered COGS+Profit.
by foldr | 2025-10-11 17:10:44+00:00
A 'plot'? That must be some kind of weird online conspiracy theory. Apple Maps worked poorly on initial release for reasons that are entirely unmysterious (the lack of comprehensive and accurate geographical data). Forstall was of course fired as an eventual result of this, but the idea that the whole PR disaster was engineered as part of a scheme to oust him is just daft.
by eustisic | 2025-10-11 17:11:01+00:00
Location: Portland

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Resume: https://eustisic.me/assets/IanEustis2025.pdf

Email: eustisic@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Ian.

I am an algorithmic thinker and I like to build things. I find abstract things even more exciting because the possibilities are endless.

I have experience in Ruby, TypeScript and Go but consider myself language agnostic.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 17:11:23+00:00
> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host

Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise?

> and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship

Corpo sponsorship required for success? I guess I better tell all the open-source projects being used by millions that they're just hobbyists now.

> The problem [...] everything digital [...] Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?

I have heard of analog world nostalgia, but you refer to the pre-digital age as if you didn't live through it. It's easier to locate someone today than ever before.
by rectang | 2025-10-11 17:11:32+00:00
In my experience, those get downvoted or flagged (they also aren't in line with the guidelines). Let alone shallow dismissals, even good Reddit-esque short, pithy jokes often get downvoted, because a discussion thread where everybody's just trying to be funny doesn't tend to lead to where most HN participants want to go.

Talking about downvoting also violates the guidelines (meta-discussions are boring and repetitive), so this comment could arguably succumb, haha. If so, it won't be the first or the last time a comment of mine gets poorly received!
by chrisweekly | 2025-10-11 17:11:43+00:00
Orion (from Kagi) is a strong contender. It's not (yet) fully open-source, but Kagi has bona fides when it comes to privacy. Orion blocks trackers and ads by default, has no telemetry, and is designed to avoid sending any user data to its servers. Lower memory footprint and battery consumption (reportedly; citation needed). And it can run FF extensions.
by lollobomb | 2025-10-11 17:11:47+00:00
I use Graphene OS and I like it a lot, but 1) I have the feeling that, with Android's Decree coming, they are counting their days left to live. Unfortunately they built an amazing OS on very shaky foundations, it's not their fault, it's the mobile OS ecosystem that sucks. And 2) They (or, better, their benevolent dictator) tend to be very silly when it comes to threat modeling, as in "my way is the only one that makes sense". Personally, I prefer to use a browser like Firefox that allows me to block every annoying ads and to customize my experience as I want, rather than a super-secure fully isolated browser like Vanadium that a) does not replace Chrome anyway for many websites that require strong attestations (e.g. Wise's verification works on GOS with Chrome but not with Vanadium), and b) it's still based on Chromium, so still built on shaky Google foundations. With Mozilla's questionable choices over time, I keep my fingers crossed for Ladybird or Servo, or similar.
by 827a | 2025-10-11 17:13:05+00:00
Tesla, because they are the closest company to having a nation-sized fleet of autonomous taxis earning them some amount of revenue. Their autonomous driving system is roughly on-par with Waymo, but requires significantly less hardware, is already installed and running on millions of cars shipped since 2023 (HW gen4), and they have an established path to subsidizing the capex cost by selling these cars to consumers, then taking a percentage of self driving revenue (in addition to any centralized Waymo-like strategy they may concurrently run, like their pilot program in Austin). This is a wicked combination that has tons of stairstep potential lasting decades, as they work with regulators (well, whatever regulators are left) and expand the technology into other domains like semis.

In comparison: Waymo has awesome technology, but logistically, they open, like, a small subset of one new city every year. Tesla has the logistics; Waymo doesn't. And there's no third company in the west that's even close.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-11 17:13:07+00:00
I really respect Mitchell's response to the OpenAI accident, even if it is seen in positive light for ghostty. Can't think of any software vendor that actively tries to eliminate nag / annoyances (thinking specifically of MS Auto Update), so this is welcome.

Also this article shows responsible use of AI when programming; I don't think it fits the original definition of vibe coding that caused hysterics.
by jayd16 | 2025-10-11 17:13:19+00:00
Imagine living in a reality where the studio exec picks the engine based on getting screenshots 3 years later when there's something interesting to show.

I mean, are you actually talking from experience at all here?

It's really more that engines are an insane expense in money and time and buying one gets your full team in engine far sooner. That's why they're popular.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-11 17:14:22+00:00
Somehow, the producer of Godspell got permission to film one of their musical dance scenes on top of one of the unfinished towers. A good writeup of how that happened is here: https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/godspell-and-construct...

The actual scene from the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6d0ASmvfs

The camera work for that was stunning.
by bingbing123 | 2025-10-11 17:15:38+00:00
Hi HN — I built a small web tool that extracts downloadable video files from public social media links (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, etc.). It’s free to use and designed primarily for creators who want a quick, no-login way to back up their own content or grab clips for fair-use editing.

What it does • Paste a public post URL → returns a direct video download (MP4) or a high-quality stream link. • It's free;No optional credit/subscription tiers for heavy use. • Server-side fetching to avoid CORS issues and to provide stable downloadable URLs. • Lightweight: designed to handle single-file downloads and short clips; large files handled as links rather than uploads.

Why I built it • I was tired of screen-recording or chasing platform-specific quirks when I needed my own content or short clips for editing. • Wanted something minimal and fast that creators could rely on without installing CLI tools.

Important: legal & ethical note • The tool only works with public posts and is intended for personal backups and legitimate editing (fair use / creator-owned content). Please respect platform terms of service and copyright law — don’t use it to redistribute or claim others’ copyrighted works. If you’re unsure, ask the content owner or rely on platform-provided download features.

If you’re interested in trying it out or giving feedback: https://nanobananas.site (demo). I’d appreciate any technical feedback — performance, edge cases, or suggestions for safer defaults.

Happy to answer questions about implementation (fetch strategy, link signing, rate-limiting) — I can share more details if it’s useful.

— ray sun
by alganet | 2025-10-11 17:16:31+00:00
> "I have more ideas than time to try them out" — The problem we're solving

I see a possible paradox here.

For exploration, my goal is _to learn_. Trying out multiple things is not wasting time, it's an intensive learning experience. It's not about finding what works fast, but understanding why the thing that works best works best. I want to go through it. Maybe that's just me though, and most people just want to get it done quickly.
by 1000100_1000101 | 2025-10-11 17:17:04+00:00
Typically "Cost Of Living" increases target roughly inflation. They don't really keep up though, due to taxes.

If you've got a decent tech job in Canada your marginal tax rate will be near 50%. Any new income is taxed at that rate, so that 3% COL raise, is really a 1.5% raise in your purchasing power, which typically makes you worse off.

Until you're at a very comfortable salary, you're better off job hopping to boost your salary. I'm pretty sure all the financial people are well aware they're eroding their employees salaries over time, and are hoping you are not aware.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-11 17:17:09+00:00
By all means I can imagine the 30-year fixed loan could be driving up prices of the land itself (the lots). There is of course a non-trivial cost for materials and labor, below which you would never expect see the price of a new home fall.

I suspect though, for better or worse, if we had to pay cash for a home, builders would simply be putting up inexpensive mobile-home style houses on tiny lots. Suburbia would look very different from what it looks like today.

It also seems likely that if the 30-Year Fixed went away, only the truly wealthy would be able to buy homes … to rent to the rest of us of course.
by scott_w | 2025-10-11 17:17:34+00:00
The person implementing the system for the hospital is accountable. I don’t see why this is difficult because it would be the same if that person built their own product from scratch.

There’s no vendor here that they can sue if they were paying for a product and deploying that, but that’s a different situation and the hospital, frankly, won’t care about that. Who their supplier subsequently sues isn’t their problem.