MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torginus | 2025-10-09 10:20:03+00:00
Honestly React has no excuse for being this slow - this style of immediate gui it uses was championed by video games, and Dear IMGUI is still doing well in that space.

I think it's worthwhile to compare the 2 - I'm sure one of the major contributors of React's slowness is the crazy amount of objects it generates triggering GCs - desugared jsx code turns into building up the React DOM with React.createElement

There's no reason why they couldn't have just done what Imgui did and each createElement would be a function call, that doesn't need to allocate. Considering the js API is not something most devs use, most folks wouldnt mind if it got replaced.

State management is also another issue - considering React has had a compiler due to jsx since the outset, not using that since the beginning to do a little data flow analysis and figure out which piece of state affects what UI elements is just criminal - an further exacerbates the waste in other parts of framework, by running already wasteful code more often than it needs to.

Tbf, they already fixed the compiler issue with the latest React, but only as a reaction to getting destroyed by Svelte on the performance front.

Just goes to show, that if you don't have competition, there's no guarantee positive change will happen on any time scale no matter the resources you throw at the problem.
by HelloNurse | 2025-10-09 10:20:48+00:00
The different "mentality" is whether sequential execution or lockless parallelism prevails. SIMD instructions in a CPU are very small islands of parallelism that do a strictly limited number of elementary small jobs simultaneously within a single opcode, with trivial synchronization (the next opcode is executed next); SIMT jobs in a GPU are an arbitrary number and arbitrarily long and complex, you don't know whether they are waiting or running or done without explicit synchronization primitives, and in-order execution doesn't extends beyond the boundary of a shader.
by truetraveller | 2025-10-09 10:21:51+00:00
Thank you for acknowledging! Most people I know don't have the guts to. Keep doing this!

Also, I was defending Michael, because I'm not a fan of witch-hunts. I truly believe the article is exaggerated, even if there are bits of truth. The author himself is a master affiliate marketer, it's a grey area to say the least. It wouldn't be difficult for me to "spin" some things he's done in a bad way, and make a 10 page article out of it, but that would be wrong.
by themodisonHN | 2025-10-09 10:22:00+00:00
On a related note, leaving my gripes with one guy aside, a lot subreddits are also just blatant marketing fronts, with the full blessing of the mods.

/u/Turbostrider27 is a shared account between marketing firms. Saying their name in any sub the account is active on will shadow ban your message.
by beloch | 2025-10-09 10:22:10+00:00
“The politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American patriot. In the wake of this tragedy, and amid other acts of politically motivated violence, Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence. To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes,” said Chairman Comer.

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Reddit absolutely does have a moderator problem, as one would expect for a platform that relies on anonymous volunteers, but this might merely be the pretext for a witch hunt. e.g. The Trump administration may actually attempt to track down users who posted anti-Kirk or anti-Trump memes. It might be something even more though. There may be an attempt to coerce these platforms to start moderating in a way that's more favourable to Trump. Reddit is a hotbed of anti-Trump memes after all.

Protest is the bane of authoritarian regimes. That's why the Trump administration moved to lock down colleges so rapidly early this year. However, online social media also has significant capacity for influencing public opinion. This is why so many authoritarian regimes simply cut off internet access for their people. Others (e.g. China) have attempted to censor, manipulate, and control the internet rather than cutting it off.

Americans, and the world, should be paying close attention to these hearings. They should also pay attention to any sudden changes in behaviour of these companies. Merely being summoned to a hearing might be enough of a threat to make them give Trump all he asks for.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 10:22:55+00:00
That subreddit was taken over just like the conservative party in the USA was taken over. If you allow that to happen (both the party and the subreddit) then that's your problem. In other countries Trump would have had to found his own party, he'd still have captured a chunk of the vote but at least the Republicans that once were would not have squandered their identity. Now the house is on fire and it doesn't look like there are any mechanisms to stop it from getting much worse.

You don't let people like Trump near the levers of power if you want to keep your country in one piece. We have a similar problem here in NL and the only thing that saved us so far is that even the most rabid right winger will have to form a coalition. That still was a dime on its side and we'll see what happens at the next elections but single-issue-parties are less of a problem here, as are strongmen (though, like everywhere else, there is a fraction of the population that just wants to follow some glorious leader).
by Antinumeric | 2025-10-09 10:23:03+00:00
I'm not saying I could have come up with the example. I'm saying looking at the example, and seeing how the two unders are connected togther, and the two overs connected together, makes it obvious that there is more freedom to move the knot around. And that freedom, at least to me, is intuitively connected to the unknotting number.

And that is why the mirror image had to be taken - you need to make sure that when you join it is over to over and under to under.
by copywriterfilip | 2025-10-09 10:23:29+00:00
Location: Europe, CET timezone (async ideal) Remote: Remote only Willing to relocate: Yes, depends Technologies: Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo, Outscraper, etc Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vXAAi3kpk8OnkNxiYjR8k9luAZZ3hBaf/view?usp=sharing Email: fstanojevic.f *at* gmail dot com

A famous copywriter Gary Halbert told his students if they were to compete with his hypothetical hot-dog stand, "I'll give you every advantage you ask for -- better hot-dogs, better prices, whatever...as long as I can get only one advantage. I want a starving crowd!"

Every week I stumble upon websites of software companies who are just as good as their more famous competitors (or even better), but their marketing sucks, and that's why they never reach the hockey-stick growth phase -- they never find their starving crowd.

Or they have some traction but they don't know how to reach out to more potential customers at scale or what to even say to get them interested and book demos.

Needs some help with those things? Send me an email today.

Cheers, Filip Stanojevic -- Copywriter, Email Marketer, GTM Engineer

P. S. Here's a link to my portfolio with results, testimonials and samples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0sZqni_WGEeRS9A2J25Pd_G...
by sph | 2025-10-09 10:24:08+00:00
I can replicate by googling "sverken.se"

But also: what google shows here is what's being indexed on your website. It shows "porn and prostitution" because at one point that's what your website served. Was sverken.se ever in the hand of shady domain parking services that advertised porn services?

Strangely enough, the Internet Archive only saved the safe-for-work version (records start in Jan 2025, so the misdeed must have occurred before this date) - from a cursory look at the domain registration history, it seems it was expired and unregistered (or parked by someone else) between July and September 2025.

Still not Google's fault or the action of malicious botnets. My suggestion is to try and clear your indexing history for this website through the Google Search Console (https://search.google.com/search-console/)
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 10:24:44+00:00
The fact that she gets a pass from lots of people is somewhat confusing to me. Clearly she is a major cause, whether through incompetence or malice isn't really all that important, though her most recent utterances make me now lean towards 'malice' more than 'incompetence' when before it was the latter (and a dose of hope that this time around it will be different).
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-09 10:25:28+00:00
Further, then the term beef shouldn’t be allowed.

They should call it what it is. Cow corpse flesh.

The concept of calling a food that is meant to mimic another food with an appropriate modifier in front has existed forever.

So, for example, white chocolate isn’t chocolate…but with the appropriate modifier no one is confused about it.
by doikor | 2025-10-09 10:26:09+00:00
You are not supposed to use EUID for age verification. Instead you use the age verification system.

EUID is made for working with government agencies, banks, etc where you need proper identification of the person and the age verification for verifying ones age (it doesn't even say how old you are just that you are over X years old)

https://ageverification.dev/

End goal is to unify them into the same app at some point but the certificates/validation flows are different. Also as the use cases are very different for the proper identification a whilelist is used on who is allowed to request it. With age verification as it is just a certificate that anyone can validate against the public key so no whitelisting possible (or wanted really)
by j1elo | 2025-10-09 10:28:03+00:00
Don't these cars pass the mandatory yearly review? In my country I passed mine recently (yearly, because the car is older than 10 years) and the first thing they said was "ok let me in the vehicle". If there is anything so utterly broken like in the article or the comments here, you got an insta-failed checkup, which means the vehicle's license to drive in public roads is removed, with the sole exception of going to/from a mechanic shop.
by copywriterfilip | 2025-10-09 10:28:59+00:00
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE GTM Engineer / cold email lead generation, email marketer, copywriter, marketing strategist 6 years experience Technologies: Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo, Outscraper, etc Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vXAAi3kpk8OnkNxiYjR8k9luAZZ3hBaf/view?usp=sharing Email: fstanojevic.f *at* gmail dot com

A famous copywriter Gary Halbert told his students if they were to compete with his hypothetical hot-dog stand, "I'll give you every advantage you ask for -- better hot-dogs, better prices, whatever...as long as I can get only one advantage. I want a starving crowd!"

Every week I stumble upon websites of software companies who are just as good as their more famous competitors (or even better), but their marketing sucks, and that's why they never reach the hockey-stick growth phase -- they never find their starving crowd.

Or they have some traction but they don't know how to reach out to more potential customers at scale or what to even say to get them interested and book demos.

Needs some help with those things? Send me an email today.

Cheers,

Filip Stanojevic -- Copywriter, Email Marketer, GTM Engineer

P. S. Here's a link to my portfolio with results, testimonials and samples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0sZqni_WGEeRS9A2J25Pd_G...
by jpfromlondon | 2025-10-09 10:29:24+00:00
It is unscientific nonsense given there is no proven causal link between "pRoCeSsEd FoOdS" whatever they might be and longterm adverse health.

The countries that consume the most processed foods are also the longest lived, obviously such a correlation does not imply processed foods lead to longevity, just that any accusation of cause and effect is more easily explained by abundance and affluenza (sic).

How long before the UPF cult proclaims vaccines are poison, I note than some of their number already do.
by elktown | 2025-10-09 10:30:04+00:00
> I would prefer not to link my Reddit account to my HN account

Understandable, no worries.

> I have voted D66 [..] during the last elections

I've been seeing sentiments like this before but I don't value them high because what matter is what people do and decide when things becomes hot and their professed principles need to be actually proven.

As an anecdote, and yes, I know it's an extreme example, but it's interesting to me and brings the point home: When listening to an audio book (it's on Audible if interested, recommended!) a while back that compiles a bunch of interviews with defendants of the Nuremberg trials, a surprising amount of them suggested, paraphrasing; "I was actually a liberal before the war!" (and also a strange amount of teachers curiously!).
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 10:30:38+00:00
Bread is a bit of an exception here, as it undergoes extensive mechanical (milling), biochemical (fermentation) and thermal (baking) processing. Yet it does not count as ultra-processed.

Bread is made from dough, which is mainly made from flour (the "minimally processed" food), which is made from grains (the unprocessed food)
by fwn | 2025-10-09 10:32:10+00:00
It's also easy to spot ChatGPT's distinct writing style. Take a look at the other comments from the HN account Lumoscore:

> ... It doesnt fully solves the trust issue — it just shifts it.

It doesn't [context-based goal word] - it [adjacent, slightly similar context-based goal word] it. That's an overused AI pattern.

All of the Lumoscore comments seem to have been written by AI.

edit: And all submissions appear to link to a vague crypto service named like the user which is filled with slop content as well.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-10-09 10:32:44+00:00
As someone who is self taught at debugging, knows my way around an interactive debugger very well but could undoubtedly be better (with a good roi on investment) this is of significant value!

I would suggest spelling out the purpose of the book - is it about /using/ debuggers or /writing/ one? The first paragraph implies the first, but the 100 lines of python or 10k lines of C implies the latter.

Also, on ios16, the top menu is unclosable - once it’s open the only apparent way to collapse it is to pick an option or refresh the page. Edit: the sections under news such as the title and paragraph for ‘the debugging book’ jan 14 2025 are white text on a white bg also.

I’m looking forward to reading this book though!
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-09 10:32:56+00:00
Netflix is making video games available for play on televisions for the first time, introducing party games that subscribers can control using their mobile phones.

Co-Chief Executive Officer Greg Peters announced the expansion at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, reports Bloomberg. The streaming service is offering games including Boggle Party, Pictionary: Game Night, Tetris Time Warp, Lego Party and Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends.
by boikom | 2025-10-09 10:33:07+00:00
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by mnky9800n | 2025-10-09 10:33:16+00:00
Yes but this is by design. Wealthy people want bubbles, when they pop, you can gobble up all the value at all time lows. Then you hold until you don't feel like it anymore as the market goes back to growing. You see this as how private equity has bought up real estate across the USA to turn into rentals after 2008, for example.
by cs702 | 2025-10-09 10:35:01+00:00
> By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-09 10:35:36+00:00
I was more commenting on the uses of xanthum gum to be helpful, but reading through the Nova classifications... They seem problematic in the exact way you're describing here and are at best a proxy for nutrition that can be manipulated, using words like "simple food products" and "rare culinary use" is ripe for interpretation.

The bill itself calls out using USDA databases for various ingredients and various sections of federal regulations, so I can't comment too much about how they'd feel about xanthum gum without diving deep. Not to go off on a tangent, but just from the bill's text, I can say for sure they don't like nonnutritive sweeteners, which I think really hurts diabetics choices at reducing their reliance on insulin while still enjoying nice treats. Although not too important for a school meal, it's definitely part of the ultra processed conversation and why it's not a simple thing to categorize food into groups.
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 10:36:08+00:00
> (i) The food or beverage contains 10 percent or greater of total energy from saturated fat.

Interestingly, dairy products like butter are explicitly allowed, despite the fact that 50%+ of its fats are saturated

> I'm not a nutritionist, but there are some basics that are braindead simple that don't involve banning Sucralose.

I'm in favor of banning artificial sweeteners. Just look at why they are used in animal farming to see why it is a bad idea to randomly add them to human food.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-09 10:37:05+00:00
Theoretically you could have anyone sign and attest to your age at any time. So maybe the government gives you an attestation of 0 at birth, with timestamp (allowing age to be calculated at any time), as part of the normal new-human bureaucracy. And/or maybe you can separately hire an accredited (co-signed?) lab to perform carbon dating on you later on :)
by jjcob | 2025-10-09 10:37:30+00:00
I went on a trip to South Korea recently. There are very few overweight people there. But the food that people eat doesn't seem healthy at all.

- every meal is served with white rice ("empty calories")

- every meal is served with Kimchi (high sodium)

- most dishes are flavored with soy sauce, gochutan, rice syrup... they are extremely high in sodium + msg

- people love fried chicken with syrupy sauces

- korean barbeque is popular, with very fatty cuts (pork belly etc.)

Pretty much all of those foods would be considered unhealthy, but somehow Koreans don't seem to suffer from obesity like US + Europe do, I have no idea why.
by vladms | 2025-10-09 10:37:35+00:00
But the reasons can be very different. East Europe had severe food shortages until the fall of communism. The result? People eating too much after the fall of communism, which become a cultural thing ("you don't have huge meals => you are poor / is like during communism"). Add to that car ownership ("public transport => only poor use it") and you get what happened probably in USA due more to lobbying and industry.

One good thing in my opinion is that is much easier in EU to at least choose. I was amazed in USA how badly marked are the components (in EU you have at least on each thing sugar/100g, fat, salt, etc.) and how unavailable are fresher things (even if they would be expensive). So while in EU I would say "repeat more to people to eat varied and not abuse salt/fat/sugar", that would not work as well in the USA (or, you need to teach them math and unit conversion as well :-p)
by binaryturtle | 2025-10-09 10:37:52+00:00
For example there's also something called "ghost leeching" (side channel entirely bypassing tracker reporting) which can lead to other peers reporting upload for which there's no opposite account of download on the tracker. Making it look like peers over-reported upload and cheated when they are in fact entirely innocent. There's no way for a private tracker to be really sure about stats. The most the moderators can do is to check for repeating suspicious usage patterns across many torrents of a particular peer under scrutiny.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 10:38:13+00:00
I don't see too much appeal to AR, but VR has a very fun/enjoyable immersive aspect to it.

One of the things I very much hoped for was to be able to "hang out" with friends who have grown geographically distant in a space that felt more our own.

But I don't think that makes it truly "huge" in a mass market way unless it's at a very affordable price point.

There are some pretty cool AR demos out there too, but for me they're not worth wearing the headsets I've seen.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-09 10:38:51+00:00
I’m critiquing the term “vibe engineering” by highlighting that because of the random, chaotic, black box nature of LLMs it is very difficult to distinguish valid techniques from superstitions.

Thus what you are doing is closer to pigeons bobbing their heads to attempt to influence the random reward machine than it is to engineering.

For example saying things like “It is critical that you don’t delete working code” might actually be a valid general technique, or it might have just been something that appeared to work because of randomness, or it might be something that is needed for current models but won’t be necessary in a few months.

The nature of LLMs makes correctly identifying superstition nearly impossible. And the speed with which new models are released makes trying to do so akin to doing physics in a universe where the laws of nature are constantly changing.

You’re an alchemist mixing gunpowder and sacrificing chickens to fire spirits, not an engineer, and for the foreseeable future you have no hope of becoming an engineer.

I’m also highlighting the insanely addictive nature of random rewards.
by konart | 2025-10-09 10:39:59+00:00
>A mild, dull pain had developed in the patient's right lower abdomen and back. Nine days later, a fever and body aches also developed. The next day, he went to urgent care, where clinicians gave him intravenous fluids and an intravenous pain reliever.

Seriously? All this and you just get some painkillers?
by hgomersall | 2025-10-09 10:41:36+00:00
No, it's about processing. The food industry has demonstrated that it doesn't give a crap about producing healthy food if that impacts the bottom line, so they pull every trick they can to increase profits whilst hiding the changes from consumers' ability to detect them.

Not unsurprisingly, most of those changes use fancy processes and ingredients to mimick other ingredients and processes.

Legislation like this is saying "enough, you can only use the following set of processes". If that results in some hypothetical healthy food being banned, so be it, but really this is about a loss of trust.