MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-12 13:30:18+00:00
Are there any ways that I can make games or something

Like I want to make websites about me similar to those in neocities right, those flashy nice (good?) artistic UI

I suck at css. I don't know but I never really got a feedback attention loop and heck even AI can make it better than me

But I want to show the world what I myself can make as well and not just what I prompt or get back.

I want a good feedback loop, can flash be useful for this purpose? Like maybe I want a website like uh something early browser times. I am kinda interested in building something like netscape navigator esque thing even though I wasn't born in that era or maybe windows xp style.

I have mixed opinions about AI tbh. I genuinely just want to learn things right now, it might take me more time, I have been beating myself over using AI and not feeling equal to if writing things by hand. So I want to prove to myself that I can write things/learn things by hand as well. Like I tried using it to study but the lure to make things right away and then trapping you later is definitely there, it feels easy in the start imo and that's the lure and I kinda want to stay away with that lure to develop my skills, maybe not right now, then later.
by sigio | 2025-10-12 13:30:30+00:00
The reduction in warranty from 5 years to 1 when buying these doesn't weigh up to the quite limited reduction in price. This would only cover failures during the first few months of runtime, and while most drive-failures will be in the beginning, or after 5+ years, i've seen enough drives die in year 2-5 to prefer some warranty cover, especially on the $200 drives.
by lifty | 2025-10-12 13:30:33+00:00
Hah. Naive take. I especially love this “Those people need to be pushed out early and often. That's what voting is for. You need a supermajority to force an end to discussion, and a majority to make a decision”. We know what needs to be done, but it’s not being done. There’s no consensus. Consensus take time and effort and has a lot of friction. I am part of a coop and I have seen first hand how this goes. And it’s fine, consensus based systems have other advantages, but they move slower that hierarchies.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 13:32:36+00:00
Yes, presumptions is all of have, it is all we have of anyone since we cannot get inside their heads. But his actions do reveal something, about which I can make assumptions. Even a hermit is known to be a hermit, so he is not ever alone in his hermitage. So he was even a fool thinking his actions would not be debated.

I read a bit about him after I read the article. He was a behavioral economist and he treated his life like a piece of capital. This is why I do not want economists running the world. And I also saw he had a lot of trauma in his life.

His thoughts: "Predicted utility is the predicted experienced utility for a future experience."

Did he see no predicted utility in his life? Should we adapt this to judge others lives or our own? Are we as great reasoners than him? But what kind of fool tries to measure, tries to quantify, happiness! Economics is not a science, and behavioral economics is just a cold psychology.

He evens seems not to be able to live up to his own words: "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

But thank you for making me read more about him. It seems even his friends thought he was a pessimist, and who can blame him living through the holocaust.

Interesting that his son had schizophrenia, I have Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and think this is why it runs in my family. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26198764/)
by thasso | 2025-10-12 13:32:57+00:00
I don't get where my misunderstanding lies. Didn't I point out that the __copy_to_user call returns EFAULT if the memory is unmapped or unwritable? The problem is that some parts of the user stack may be mapped and writable although they're past the end of the fd_set structure.

> there's no formal API for it in the glibc headers

The author claims you can pass nfds > 1024 to select(2).If you use the fd_set structure with a size of 1024, this may lead to memory corruption if an FD > 1023 becomes ready if I understand correctly.
by quitit | 2025-10-12 13:33:15+00:00
What is concerning is the willingness of companies to do these things.

Take Epic for example, on one hand they're heavy in Marketing/PR about user freedom, but in practice they deliberately targeted children for harm with their Fortnite game, while also looking the other way when it came to issues of sexual predation and bullying. Their behaviours led to a settlement with the FTC for over half a billion USD.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...

https://lawandcrime.com/technology/makers-of-fortnite-to-pay...
Ask HN: What's the most interesting free API you've discovered?
by reverseCh | 2025-10-12 13:33:35+00:00
I've been exploring "no-auth" APIs lately - services you can call directly from the browser without registration, API keys, or credit cards.

It's surprising how many useful ones are out there. A few I've found:

- dog.ceo/dog-api - Random dog images (surprisingly well-maintained) - ipify.org - Get client IP in one line - open-meteo.com - Weather data, no limits - randomuser.me - Fake user data for prototypes

What fascinates me is these seem to just... work. No "free tier" with hidden limits, no forced email signup, no credit card "for verification."

I'm curious what other hidden gems the community has discovered?

Especially interested in: - APIs that have been reliably running for years - Unusual use cases (not just another lorem ipsum generator) - Services where you wonder "how is this still free?"

What have you stumbled upon?
by gdulli | 2025-10-12 13:33:42+00:00
Last night I was on a SaaS pricing page that said that some of the info on the page was generated by AI and might be inaccurate. On a static sales page? Who'd do business with an entity that can't be bothered to write its own pricing info, or at least proofread it to the point of not needing the disclaimer?

Don't know if AI had anything to do with this but what you quoted reminded me of it.
by rendall | 2025-10-12 13:34:27+00:00
> ...and Apple is all but refusing, playing games to prevent powerful and safe iOS browsers and the powerful web applications they facilitate. Web applications that can challenge the App Store.

I have been patronized about this for years, but I still maintain that Jobs' opposition to Flash was its conflict with the App Store, and not that it was a security problem as he and his flying monkeys insisted.
by ben_w | 2025-10-12 13:35:26+00:00
I think the comparison here would probably be the Greek archipelago. Or indeed Greece, or even more broadly the Balkans, given how the settlements are mostly in valleys and there's a lot of mountains, but I wrote the next paragraph before thinking of that:

You can go into the absolute wilderness of the states/the waters of the Mediterranean with suitable gear, and there's some dotted isolated communities within the uninhabited territory/EEZ of the greater region.

I don't know if either has good cell coverage. I presume not, given I managed to lose cell coverage even just crossing the English Channel by ferry a few years back.
by evgen | 2025-10-12 13:35:57+00:00
I loved my Ricochet modems so damn much. Sitting in a coffeeshop in Palo Alto with an Apple Powerbook and a second generation Ricochet modem rocking web browsing and ssh sessions at 56k when wifi was unknown to the general public. I still have a couple in a box somewhere and I am tempted to see if I can get them into star mode.
by withinboredom | 2025-10-12 13:36:23+00:00
Sometimes you do have to upgrade. We were using a package that was two years old and the Google APIs it called were renamed one day. I’m sure there was an announcement or something to give us warning, but for whatever reason, we didn’t get them. So that day, everything came crashing to a halt. We spent the afternoon upgrading and then we were done.

To say that you don’t have to upgrade is true, but it always comes at a price.
by reliablereason | 2025-10-12 13:36:50+00:00
The laptop batteries tend to go bad(either just stop working or expand and become a major fire hazard) after a year or two as they are not built to be fully charged for years on end. I tried doing it twice and that is what happened both times.

Would not recommend; if you want a UPS just buy one, the small ones are not that expensive, like 70 USD.
by bouncycastle | 2025-10-12 13:37:08+00:00
The US is not defending Taiwan for the sake of "supporting its people" it or because of TSMC. It's actually because Taiwan is part of the "First island chain", and it's crucial in keeping China away from taking the Pacific Ocean and threatening the US west coast. The US will throw everything it has to defend it. It is absolutely vital to US territorial security. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain
by eqvinox | 2025-10-12 13:38:15+00:00
I'm not a Windows developer, you'll have to excuse my ignorance on that. Pretty sure you're not shipping user32.dll with your applications though.

Also, I didn't claim any tool would give a perfect answer on compatibility. They don't for ELF libraries either, they just catch most problems, especially accidental ones. The goal is 99.9%, not 100%. Just being unable to solve a problem perfectly doesn't mean you should give up without trying.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-12 13:38:29+00:00
The author clearly understands the primary energy fallacy and yet deploys it anyway because it suits his purposes, then excuses himself by saying demand will grow anyway. Well that demand would grow under fossil use too and is irrelevant to the primary energy fallacy.

The discussion in comments about his figures for steel use makes a similar accusation.

I like his site and enjoy reading it but he regularly lets himself down when evaluating renewables, presumably because he wants to enforce "low tech" approaches (though electric arc furnaces appear to have been grandfathered in given this articles conclusion) rather than pursue low carbon or any other goal via whatever technology works best.
by ajross | 2025-10-12 13:38:44+00:00
Once more, the kernel has never been responsible for managing userspace memory. If the userspace process directs the kernel to write to memory it didn't "intend" the kernel to write to, the kernel will happily do so. Think again on the example of the read() system call I mentioned. How do you propose to fix the problem there?

The "problem", such as it is here, is that the POSIX behavior for select() (that it supports only a fixed size for fd_set) was extended in the Linux kernel[1] to allow for arbitrary file descriptor counts. But the POSIX API for select() was not equivalently extended, if you want to use this feature you need to call it with the Linux system call API and not the stuff you find in example code or glibc headers.

[1] To be perfectly honest I don't know if this is unique to Linux. It's a pretty obvious feature, and I bet various BSDs or OS X or whatnot have probably done it too. But no one cares because at the 1024+ FD level System V poll() is a better API, and event-based polling is better still. It's just Unix history at this point and no one's going to fix it for you.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-12 13:39:52+00:00
Do you really want to defend that the search term "socialist dictatorship" means the person searching intends to be schooled on details of Marxist theory, and should be protected from finding Venezuela, North Korea or Cuba?

Is that "neutrality"? Seriously?

That's my point: some "fringe" ideas are covered extensively (because if Marxist theory is anything, it's fringe, to say nothing of details like the dictatorship of the proletariat), in situations where people obviously weren't asking for those ideas, with criticism suppressed or at least moved very deeply away. Don't you think it would be at least worth a mention on socialism's page that it has "once or twice" led to repression and dictatorship, not of the proletariat, but of billionnaires, religious lunatics, and worse? (oh right, leftists won't even participate in discussions of the fact that leftist "heroes" like Chavez and even Maduro are billionnaires[1]). And, what exactly is the problem with at least mentioning the viewpoint that what happened in Gaza isn't a genocide? That is not a fringe idea at all.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/anenmt/th...
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-12 13:41:41+00:00
The discussions that led to the renaming to Genocide were interesting, the opposition was very well coordinated hostile actors but in the end there was just nothing they could do, the facts just weren't on their side. They wrote books worth of text, used every procedural trick they could, violated every rule like editing comments of other users in talk pages or spamming so much text it would break the backend, they organized to coordinate editing of thousands of Wikipedia pages to push pro-zionist messages. In the end it was so much that wikipedia topic-banned 8 super-editors over that. Many more users were banned, many were perma banned from wikipedia entirely.

It was an incredible display of the resiliency of wikipedia when faced with a hostile attack by a state-actor putting hundreds of millions $ into spreading their propaganda. Most Governments, universities and news media are much less capable than that. It was such a failure that they now are pushing the us government itself to gain direct control over wikipedia and to cut the funding from the researchers and universities that produced the facts in the first place, going to the "root of the problem" basically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_III/Master_Detail...

https://www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-supreme-court-enforc...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/isr...
by fhonephree | 2025-10-12 13:42:17+00:00
>> All progress starts out as a fringe belief.

> That is not true at all.

> Fringe beliefs don't have evidence behind them, but progress does.

That depends on your definition of fringe and evidence.

I suspect there may be some association between truth and some non-mainstream, cult idea, or conspiracy theory. e.g. it is widely accepted now that the earth is not flat although at one point more accepted that it was flat. That doesn’t eventually validate all fringe ideas, but acknowledges a possibility that when all fringe ideas are considered as a whole, some of them may be true or partially true or be a step towards truth.

A problem with this is that truth seeking and delusions go hand in hand. Delusions seem as real as anything else, and may be evidential but misconstrued evidence or even unknowingly invented evidence. This affects more mundane things like scientific studies, reporting, politics, and Wikipedia as well as “Are they after me” or “Are they lying” things.

Another problem more relevant today than ever is “Should this information be included in Wikipedia, national monuments, museums, libraries, books, or education in-general?” I’ve had articles in Wikipedia that were valid, that stood for years, and then were eventually removed, though they were valid and true, I assume because they didn’t believe it was important enough or relevant to their users that didn’t care as much as I did about preserving history. Is that the right thing to do? I don’t personally think so, but those in-control historically have and will change beliefs to suit their own. We must get involved to ensure that we are not misled. We should not stand idly by and think “Wow, Hitler really f’d up the education of our youth.” We must get involved to stop it. But that doesn’t mean culling or altering all information which doesn’t meet our worldview.
by miiiiiike | 2025-10-12 13:42:19+00:00
It's not a rant. It's a man with several burned fingers and a drifter beard muttering warnings from a corner.

How was the Python 2 to Python 3 migration for you? How many Python libraries are you responsible for packaging? Has that been fun for the past 15-20 years? How heavily do you rely on async?

Almost a decade for Django+major libraries to support Python 3. More than a decade for Django async support. I'm not ungrateful. And, I wish that I believed that throwing money at the problem would solve it.

Python has a large and diverse user base. That brings unique challenges that I don't see in other stacks.
by toss1 | 2025-10-12 13:42:24+00:00
>>Lifting prohibitions on nuclear power and nuclear research

The first thing coming up when I search that phrase is literally everyone but the current administration doing so: 1) World Bank, 2) Denmark, 3) Illinois Gov Pritzger (Dem), 4,5,6,+) Asian Bank. So, perhaps the administration has also reduced regulations in this area, but this is not an economic freedom that reduces concentration of power, particularly as this administration requires a vig to play in every area it can.

As to the rest of the allegations, they are vague, broad-brush, hyperbolic and entirely devoid of any actual examples. No truth at all, or only the kind of "truth" found on Truth Social.

But you do follow well Goebbels' instruction to accuse the enemy of that which you are guilty
by wishawa | 2025-10-12 13:43:13+00:00
Fair point. If Moonshot is holding back the true weights or inference techniques that affect correctness, then providers including Together should call them out on that. I for one would stop using Kimi if that is the case.

Anyway, Novita is doing significantly better on the vendor verifier chart than Together, so the low quality must be partially Together's fault at least.
by theshackleford | 2025-10-12 13:44:43+00:00
> Surely that 20+ year old CRT didn't run at more than 240Hz?

It didnt have too.

> Something other than framerate is at play here.

Yes, sample and hold motion blur, inherent to all modern display types commonly in use for the most part.

Even at 240hz, modern displays can not match CRT for motion quality.

https://blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur/
by Qem | 2025-10-12 13:44:53+00:00
> I would love to have an air conditioning / cooling solution that is directly linked to solar panels with no batteries involved.

I think that would be very viable with fridges, that represent a large share of electricity consumption among the poorest. Before electricity, people powered fridges by constantly buying ice blocks. They were just isolated boxes where food was stored together with the blocks. Perhaps it's just necessary to go back at the roots, and make fridges that take energy from solar panels and generate a lot of ice by day, and uses it to keep cold at night, with no need for batteries.
by peterpuzzle | 2025-10-12 13:45:13+00:00
Recently I designed a calendar puzzle with 10 tetris-like pieces. When you place all the puzzle pieces on the board, three squares/rhombuses are still open and together they form a date. Can you arrange the puzzle pieces in such a way that it shows todays date? See https://praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_rhombus Disclaimer: I sell these puzzles for a little more than the raw material.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-12 13:45:39+00:00
> I always wonder at the logic that leads the these kinds of statements. What alternate universe do people come from… without Apple?

Apple is not an alternative for my needs.

> Apple and Microsoft are imperfect, sure. But they do exist, and they’re perfectly viable options for … checks notes … billions upon billions of people.

There is no Microsoft smartphone OS (and back when one existed, it was a piece of turd).

I know that there is are Linux smartphones. Unfortunately many apps I need do not support that.

Currently, my options are limited to Lineage OS. Graphene or e/OS may be a possibility once I switch cell phones again.

As much as I despise Google, that sentiment pales in comparison to my hatred and disgust for anything Apple. Having to use their awful laptops for work is enough annoyance.
by eloisant | 2025-10-12 13:48:18+00:00
They would have gotten another modern OS instead of Next as the base for MacOSX (then iOS).

Another possibility they were exploring was buying BeOS, which would have been pretty interesting because it was an OS built from scratch in the 90's without any of the cruft from the 70's.

Also, the only thing specific to Next that survived in MacOSX and iOS was ObjectiveC and the whole NextStep APIs, which honestly I don't think it a great thing. It was pretty cool in the 90's but when the iPhone was released it was already kinda obsolete. For the kernel, Linux or FreeBSD would have worked just the same.
by trzy | 2025-10-12 13:48:24+00:00
It’s completely overstated. The article is a bit ridiculous — like, oh no! They had to put up some English signage at temples! Foreign guests aren’t finishing their traditional breakfast!

I’ve spent considerable time in Tokyo in recent years as well. It’s largely the same as it ever was. “Incidents” with tourists are clearly blown out of proportion by local social media. Yes, there are visibly more foreigners than in 2008 (mostly immigrants who work and speak Japanese). No, the character of the city has not changed.

On my Shinkansen from Kyoto to Tokyo most recently, a noisy quartet of drunk guys chatted loudly for over a hour on the late evening weekday train and spilled a beer. Can you imagine the horror? They were Japanese restaurateurs from Osaka.
by derektank | 2025-10-12 13:49:15+00:00
>For something to be considered "progress" it has to provably improve upon something. But if your belief is provably an improvement, it's not a belief anymore, but more of a fact.

This isn't true. For example, the Caloric theory of heat was a huge improvement over the existing heterodoxy (the phlogiston theory), made several testable predictions that were true (improving upon Newton's calculation of the speed of sound), and made it possible for Carnot to make serious advances in the field of thermodynamics with the postulation of the Carnot engine.

However, the theory was not a fact. The self-repellent fluid called "caloric" that the theory was predicated upon never existed. We need a bit more epistemic humility.
by odo1242 | 2025-10-12 13:50:03+00:00
Among many many issues: Apple used neural networks to compare images, which made the system very exploitable. You could send someone an image where you invisibly altered the image to trip the filter, but the image itself looked unchanged.

Also, once the system is created it’s easy to envision governments putting whatever images they want to know people have into the phone or changing the specificity of the filter so it starts sending many more images to the cloud. Especially since the filter ran on locally stored images and not things that were already in the cloud.

Their nudity filter on iMessages was fine though (I don’t think it ever sends anything to the internet? Just contacts your parents if you’re a minor with Family Sharing enabled?)