MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-17 10:02:44+00:00
IIRC gmail doesn't support any capabilities from after ~2003.

In order to synchronise with this kind of server, you need to list UIDs and Flags from all mailboxes and perform a full comparison of which items changed. There's no NOTIFY, so you need to do this periodically.

This requires substantially more network and processing, and an entirely different application design. Such a design cannot immediately synchronise new entries either.

ImapGoose doesn't cover this kind of scenario, there are plenty of existing tools that can synchronise legacy servers already.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-17 10:02:55+00:00
> tendonitis issues can heal with 6 weeks of basically rest

Not disagreeing with your larger point, but at least for triceps tendinopathy (still often called tendonitis of the elbow), based on getting this myself and doing some research online, the consensus is that it generally doesn't heal from just rest, and that although techniques like massage and foam rolling can offer substantial pain relief, this is only short term. My conclusion was that the only effective therapy is doing slow eccentrics -- allowing your initially extended elbow ( = straight arm) to slowly "lose the fight" against a force trying to flex it (trying to move your hand close to your shoulder), and gradually increasing the force (weights, bands, etc.) over 3-4 months as you become able to do so without pain.

I hope this random tidbit helps someone with a sore elbow.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-10-17 10:03:03+00:00
> Windows Recall and Copoilot are entirely optional features that are very easy to disable entirely.

And very easy for Microsoft to enable silently. Missing the point here. The fact that they are enabled by default is the concerning bit. You shouldn't need to fight against your OS or worry if the next update will do something to your system that you don't like. This is the crux of it all
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 10:03:11+00:00
You could've called it hoodrat logic, their educational and financial success is on the same order.

Why not call it woman logic? They are famous for strictly using long term planning and cold logic to plan their lives to the point they even joke about it.

You could've subbed in just about any nationality.

But you chose trailer park because the point was to pick a group of people that a bunch of other educated white collar people (I think the trailer park people would use the term "coastal elites" for this group, lol) like feeling better than, hence why the other groups wouldn't do.

If you wanted to make if harmless you could've chose any manner of public personality (politicians are gold mines for peddling short sighted stuff, plenty of examples to choose from) to name it after.
by saghm | 2025-10-17 10:05:19+00:00
Some people just don't find the distinction between "open source" and "source available" to be meaningful, or at least don't find it meaningful enough to warrant the outsized level of attention it gets. I can't speak for anyone else, but at least to me, "open" is pretty much synonymous with "available" in the way it's used in the term "open source", and despite this debate going on for years now I've yet to see an argument for why it makes sense for those terms to mean different things that doesn't essentially boil down to "because that's what OSI says". I don't find the argument that I should have to agree with the definitions from one specific organization for extremely generic-sounding terms to be particularly compelling, and if anything, the backlash anyone gets from conflating the terms purely based on those definitions as if they're the only morally correct ones just makes me even less inclined to buy into them. It's basically an attempt to trademark via astroturfing.
by eis | 2025-10-17 10:05:58+00:00
I think you can absolutely compare them and there is no added flexibility, in fact there is less flexibility. There is added convenience though.

For the huge factor in price difference you can keep spare spot VMs on GCP idle and warm all the time and still be an order of magnitude cheaper. You have more features and flexibility with these. You can also discard them at will, they are not charged per month. Pricing granularity in GCP is per second (with 1min minimum) and you can fire up firecracker VMs within milliseconds as another commenter pointed out.

Cloudflare Sandbox have less functionality at a significantly increased price. The tradeoff is simplicity because they are more focused for a specific use case for which they don't need additional configuration or tooling. The downside is that they can't do everything a proper VM can do.

It's a fair tradeoff but I argue the price difference is very much out of balance. But then again it seems to be a feature primarily going after AI companies and there is infinite VC money to burn at the moment.
by ben_w | 2025-10-17 10:06:21+00:00
1. The part I was responding to was in comparison "to every other form of green energy". None of those other things you list are green energy, and your numbers are incorrect for space purposes anyway as they don't include the mass of the oxygen.

2. Energy-density-vs-mass is relevant for the rocket equation when you burn it as a fuel (and, optionally, use as reaction mass), but not vs. PV where you don't burn it and lose it.

e.g. ion drives, magnetic sails of various kinds, launch loops/space elevators and similar, space stations/bases/almost all planetary industry (which can be PV powered), nor solar sails which directly use the momentum of light (usually the sun's nearly isotropic emission, but in a grand space empire anywhere from here to K2 all bar the entropy losses can be pumped into a single direction by lasers).
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-17 10:07:32+00:00
I think you meant "NOTIFY without an IDLE fallback".

The problem with IDLE is that you need a separate connection for each mailbox. So if you want all email in sync, you need N connections for N mailboxes. Plus separate connections to do the actual syncing, because IDLE takes makes a connection unusable for anything else. Or need to compromise in that some (most) mailboxes will be "polled" ever M minutes.

Fortunately, all of the email providers to which I have access support the required capabilities. Consider asking your service provider to upgrade; the newest standard required by ImapGoose was standardised in 2009.
by mooreds | 2025-10-17 10:07:55+00:00
As someone who is looking into MCP right now, I'd love to hear what folks with experience in both of these areas think.

My first impressions are that MCP has some advantages:

- around for longer and has some momentum

- doesn't require a dev envt on the computer to be effective

- cross-vendor support

- more sophistication for complex use cases (enterprise permissions can be layered on because of OAuth support)

- multiple transport layers gives flexibility

Skills seems to have advantages too, of course:

- simpler

- easier to iterate

- less context used

I think if the other vendors follow along with skills, and we expect every computer to have access to a development environment, skills could win the day. HTML won over XML and REST won over SOAP, so simple often wins.

But the biggest drawback of MCP, the context window overuse, can be remediated by having MCP specific sub-agents that are interacted with using a primary agent, rather than injecting each MCP server into the main context.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-17 10:10:09+00:00
Not exactly. Before smartphones, sure, you weren't able to police the kid 24/7. The kid gets out of the house, comes back in the evening, god knows what happened in the meantime. But nowadays parents actually do have the means to exercise absolute control over their kids. That's a huge game-changer. First, most of interaction happens online. If you ban the kid from the internet, your kid won't have friends, problem solved. And it's not like kids nowadays rush to gather outside.
by ben_w | 2025-10-17 10:10:45+00:00
I can buy that. But even then, I've seen plenty of videos where one person is just commenting on another video, so even for those influencers… they can do it without actually showing up.

Edit: I suspect you're right anyway. Typical mind fallacy on my part, as there have been people giving anecdotal stories of DOGE recruiters offering them a pay cut relative to their current roles just for the chance to do that work and get DOGE on their CVs, recruiters very confused that the response was that DOGE would be seen as a negative by future employers.
by stavros | 2025-10-17 10:12:48+00:00
The experience may be better now than when you were on Android, but it's not better than Android now. I switched from Android to iOS around a year ago, I lasted three months before I went back to Android.

There were many papercuts, but the keyboard being a hundred times worse than Android is what aggravated me every time I had to use the phone, and the straw that broke the camel's back.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-17 10:12:54+00:00
You're right, that was pretty vague.

But it's not actually specific about Apple or even corporations.

All it takes in this case is for the key regulator to recognize and admit that a brand new laptop is destined for the landfill sooner than any old charger.

If they can't keep the devices themselves from prompt disposal, at least save the chargers :\
by TechRecruiting | 2025-10-17 10:13:57+00:00
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- Lead the technical conception of features that support a newly designed business process.

- Take full ownership of the features you build, from the initial code commit to ensuring they run smoothly in production.

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- Ship code with confidence multiple times a day using our CI/CD Pipeline (Gitlab) to our hosting platform (AWS Elastic Container Service)

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- Learn from other developers in a highly skilled team and present your ideas in our regular Tech talks

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by dustingetz | 2025-10-17 10:15:38+00:00
the OO/FP fusion hypothesis resulted in a complicated language on the OO side (too complicated for enterprise application layer) and on the FP side an autistic culture war at the seam between FP frameworks. Functional Scala remains world class at high reliability services such as video streaming at Disney+ and Comcast, and Amazon search but not so much the Java everyman use case that I recall it being marketed for 15 years ago. And now the Scala leadership and the industry frameworks are pulling in different directions, Scala is academically funded.
by themafia | 2025-10-17 10:16:44+00:00
We used to know this inherently and we spent half a century passing really well thought out and actionable laws designed to thwart the darker side of capitalism while still allowing it's benefits to accrue to the masses.

Since then we've forgotten how to enforce anti monopoly and media ownership rules. Similarly we've somehow completely turned campaign financing into an open competition for bribes.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-10-17 10:16:54+00:00
> There's a few video editing tools on Linux

went through this process a couple of times. Kdenlive, Openshot, Shotcut. Sadly never found one i really like. problem for me is that i edit videos once every 2 years on average, so i never get to develop muscle-memory for these indie-linux-tools. with Davinci there's at least a ton of resources online to help me. i think i liked Kdenlive the most, but i also vaguely remember being really annoyed by the workflow and lack of a bit more advanced things. but as with proton, i should probably not loose hope and just try again the next time i "need" a video editing tool.

> My daughter who's now 6yo has only ever used Linux

that's really cute, glad that you're enabling these skills for her :)

> they're just not competing in the top end with Nvidia

i have the advantage of being a power-gamer but at the same time being concious of what i really need, so i'm sure a flagship AMD card will be more than enough for me. i of course don't care about ML and other use-cases, so get that it's not an option for everyone.
by everdrive | 2025-10-17 10:16:58+00:00
George Orwell really never could have imagined that people would flock to purchase or otherwise use the methods of their own surveillance. (smart phones, social media, smart cameras, modern cars, etc) I think it paints government surveillance policies in something of a different light. There is definitely a constituency which believes that the evil central government is pushing for surveillance in a purely unilateral way.

I'm not really pro-government, but modern surveillance capitalism really pushes against this view. Put to their own devices, the public will generally (and apparently) flock towards mass surveillance all on their own, and I think one possible implication is that the government surveillance policies are more popular then some folks in HN circles would suspect.
by bonesss | 2025-10-17 10:17:54+00:00
You’re describing core features of Domain Driven Design.

Innovating, evolving, creating, and capturing new domain concepts to create Blue Ocean solutions inside and outside the Enterprise. Iterating on core concepts, via subject matter expert led/involved discussions and designs, and using new concepts to better articulate the domain. Managing that change over time and accounting for ontological and taxonomical overlap versus Enterprise System development needs.

That’s the foundation that can actively copy insights, and doesn’t rely on Immaculate Specification or premature data modelling. No need to start over, thanks to clearly separated concerns.

Note: copying an insight is a far cry from having the wherewithal to make that insight, there are numerous downstream benefits to articulating your business domain clearly and early.
by theothertimcook | 2025-10-17 10:17:58+00:00
Interesting, I didn’t know it was a publication.

I learned recently that meanjin, pronounced meen-in, is a word meaning spear head and has been adopted as the place name for Brisbane.

The name refers mainly to a spear shaped spur of land in the Brisbane River roughly where the botanical gardens are.

There doesn’t appear to be any evidence there was a single word for all of Brisbane so calling the whole city Meanjin is like referring all of Melbourne, Fitzroy.

We have the olympics coming up, it sounds like the government is looking to swallow the surrounding cities into Brisbane for better international recognition, I wonder if they will be Meanjin too?
by majke | 2025-10-17 10:18:14+00:00
In simplest scenarios software is not aware of the IP space. Like you bind to 0.0.0.0:443 and move on.

In more sophisticated configs adding / removing IP's or TLS certs requires restarting server, configuring applications. This gets out of hand quickly. Like what if your server has primary IP removed, because the IP space is recycled.

At CF all these things were just a row in database, and systems were created to project it down to http server config, network card setting, BGP configurations, etc. All this is fully automated.

So an action like "adding an IP block" is super simple. This is unique. AFAIK everyone else in the industry, back in 2012, was treating IP's and TLS more like hardware. Like a disk. You install it once and it stays there for the lifetime of the server.
by PostOnce | 2025-10-17 10:18:27+00:00
I had a kindle with buttons once, and it was good.

Then, I bought a touchscreen kindle paperwhite, and found out that every time you change books it complains that it cant find the cloud, and won't let you categorize anything unless you register it and be online.

That's enough Amazon for me, no point in finding out a second time for hundreds of dollars that they still piss me off.
by phba | 2025-10-17 10:19:07+00:00
The legislation simply says if you collect more data about your users than necessary, you must inform them and they must consent. This has nothing to do with cookies or any other tech.

The question a user should ask is why is this website collecting my data. Marketing and adtech companies are trying to shift this question to why is the EU making websites worse.

> there is no need for government regulation here

You don't need to care about this if you respect users' privacy in the same way you don't need to care about waste water regulation when you don't pump waste into rivers.
by Aachen | 2025-10-17 10:19:13+00:00
These are mappable in OpenStreetMap with the tags surveillance:type=camera + camera:mount=doorbell

Data query around the Netherlands shows about a hundred are mapped so far as specifically doorbell cameras: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2dQw (the tag does not yet seem established in the USA). There are also many thousands of cameras mapped that are either not doorbell-mounted, or simply not tagged to such detail. This is a convenient map to see all of them: https://sunders.intri.cat/
by benterix | 2025-10-17 10:19:29+00:00
I have 3 rules:

1. If possible, buy from the author directly (I mostly read tech books, so that's often an option).

2. Otherwise buy from elsewhere, without DRM.

3. If all other options fail, buy from Amazon but immediately download a DRM-free copy from libgen and use that.

This is both ethical and practical.
by sparkie | 2025-10-17 10:20:19+00:00
> Before Raymond, the phrase 'open source' had a definite meaning in computing which is quite different from the sense it has now. In 1990 when you said a program was 'open source', you meant that you could read the source code; the actual code the person had written to create the program.

> Raymond's usage of the phrase was so influential that it has now transplanted the original usage.

The term "open source" wasn't used until the late 90s. Christine Peterson is credited with introducing it in 1998[1]. We called it free software, source available, or whatever else, but not "open source". They wanted a new term to separate themselves from "free software" and the FSF, whose ideas they partly disagreed with, which became the the OSI and the "Open Source Definition".

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-17 10:21:48+00:00
I don't suppose you have any tips on how to get this going in an org? I love where I work and I love the products we make, but my team (phone apps) are treated very often like an afterthought; we just receive completed products from other teams, and have to "make them work." I don't think it's malicious on the part of the rest of the teams, we're just obviously quite a bit smaller and younger than the others, not to mention we had a large departure just as I arrived in the form of my former boss who was, I'll fully admit, far more competent in our products than I am.

I've worked on learning all I can and I have a much easier time participating in discussions now, however we still feel a bit silo'd off.
Open Deduction – a new probabilistic pricing engine for marketplaces
by mertbirlik | 2025-10-17 10:22:24+00:00
Title: Open Deduction™ – a new probabilistic pricing engine for marketplaces

Text: We’ve been working on Open Deduction™, a patent-pending pricing framework that blends dynamic e-commerce pricing with probabilistic rewards.

Instead of fixed discounts or static coupons, every buyer interacts with a real-time probability curve (we call it Mert’s Curve™). Each purchase carries both: • A guaranteed path to eventually buy at a lower price (“deduction”), • And a probabilistic chance to get the product for free.

The system is powered by the I.L.G.N.™ engine (Interactive Lottery – Gamified Nucleus), which governs the probability parameter p and ensures fairness, licensing compliance, and marketplace integration. We’ve been simulating behavior with Monte Carlo runs and developing modular integrations (Shopify app, marketplace APIs, POS terminals).

Our patent (PCT/TR2025/050782) covers a wide range of real-world use cases: e-commerce, second-hand markets, streaming platforms, payment systems, and even probabilistic loyalty programs.

Why this matters: • For sellers → new conversion & retention mechanics, higher ARPU, viral pull. • For buyers → gamified purchasing, transparent odds, and the thrill of “risk-reward” without needing to gamble. • For platforms → licensing-compliant, modular plugin logic, adaptable to any market.

We’re releasing the first demos soon at opendeduction.com, and we’re looking for feedback from developers, marketplace operators, and anyone interested in how probabilistic systems can reshape online transactions.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-17 10:23:39+00:00
The part everyone leaves out is that the entire operation will contribute to the estates of every participant but one: the person who grew the organ. And, in fact, you will find that median donor estate is far lower than that of every other participant: the nurses, the OPO employees, the surgical team. They have the rarest part. They get nothing. And they’re poorer.

Matthew 25:29 comes to mind

> For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.