MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-10-01 17:36:04+00:00
No, it's relevant to your assertion. It's the term used by the infographic for, at the minimum, projects without a publisher. And it turns out that it's the overwhelming majority of games.

It's fairly safe to say that very near 100% of the chaff is going to qualify as a hobby project, but the great thing about development today is that hobby projects can also see basically unlimited success as well. For the obvious example - Minecraft was a hobby project by every possible definition of the term - no marketing, no publisher, single dev in his spare time after work - and it's one of the best selling games of all time. Lots of really great looking games today would also qualify as hobby projects. Advances in development tools/engines (and marketplaces) have really made some wild things possible.
by cardanome | 2025-10-01 17:36:14+00:00
No. It got stricter.

With the DSM-5 and it's removal of Asperger's as a separate diagnosis the diagnosis criteria has been made stricter. People that would have formerly been diagnosed as Asperger could theoretically not be anymore under ASD.

The percentage of people with autism in a population is very stable and we know there is a huge genetic component to it.

People are getting diagnosed more but the amount of people with autism has likely stayed stable.

Which is really, really good thing. A diagnosis is live changing. The earlier you get diagnosed and the more supportive your network is, the better the outcome.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 17:36:31+00:00
> Most other people would say, for example, there was a big brown table with metallic legs in the middle of the room, and the person that came in had a blue T-shirt.

I would only take that seriously from thoughful, detail-oriented, intelligent people who have demonstrated critical introspection abilities before. Otherwise I'd assume they are making it up post-hoc. People often swear up and down in witness testimonies about what they saw and it just turns out to be complete post-hoc fabrication of their mind, even if it seems true to them. Similarly I think they post-hoc think it was a big brown table but this is like a language model completing the sentence.

It's been shown how in split brain patients the language center of the brain can make up totally unsupported justifications for actions that "explain" its experience, fully unrelated to what actually happened.
by satisfice | 2025-10-01 17:36:57+00:00
I guess you are having a problem reading what I wrote. Maybe you are reading someone else’s message and accidentally replied to mine.

I said that a community must be a place where every member’s feelings matter. My feelings matter. Your feelings matter. But that doesn’t mean you can’t say things that annoy me (which you just did and I bet you don’t regret it).

You can say hurtful things as long as you are acting in good faith— saying what you believe is true and helpful.

You might think you are disagreeing with me. Nevertheless, you are demonstrating part of what I’m talking about: social life is unsmoothable without draining it of meaning and impact. Let’s instead develop resilience.
by imiric | 2025-10-01 17:37:18+00:00
There's something deeply hypocritical about a blog that criticizes the "SaaS Industrial Complex"[1], while at the same time praising one of the biggest SaaS in existence, while also promoting their own "AI-first" strategy and marketing company.

What even is this? Is it all AI slop? All of these articles are borderline nonsensical, in that weird dreamy tone that all AI slop has.

To see this waxing poetic about the Unix philosophy, which couldn't be farther from the modern "AI" workflow, is... something I can't quite articulate, but let's go with "all shades of wrong". Seeing it on the front page of HN is depressing.

[1]: https://www.alephic.com/no-saas
by dylan604 | 2025-10-01 17:37:21+00:00
I've mentioned this story before, but we had massive drive failures when bringing up multiple disk arrays. We get them racked on a friday afternoon, and then I wrote a quick and dirty shell script to read/write data back and forth between them over the weekend that was to kick in after they finished striping the raid arrays. By quick and dirty I mean there was no logging, and just a bunch of commands saved as .sh. Came in on Monday to find massive failures in all of the arrays, but no insight into when they failed during the stripe or during stressing them. It was close to 50% failure rate. Turned out to be a bad batch from the factory. Multiple customers of our vendor were complaining. All the drives were replaced by the manufacturer. It just delayed the storage being available to production. After that, not one of them failed in the next 12 months before I left for another job.
by moralestapia | 2025-10-01 17:37:25+00:00
Can we do the math? I know that burden's on me but I feel I might be wrong, my back of the napkin calculation puts them within 10-100x.

1 micrometer (1E-6) to 50,700 km (1E6)

90 meters (1E2) to 2.8 billion km (1E12)

Edit: Oh yeah but size/distance does not decay linearly ...
by OJFord | 2025-10-01 17:37:27+00:00
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by opudrovs | 2025-10-01 17:37:33+00:00
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by knomyllib | 2025-10-01 17:37:38+00:00
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by triceratops | 2025-10-01 17:38:22+00:00
> The sooner we force middle class people and up move to EVs—which they can afford to do—the sooner we can create a robust market for used EVs for the bottom quantile.

Completely agree.

> And in the lowest income quantile, households spend over $6,000 per year on transportation.

And that's a much bigger impact on personal finances, proportionately, than higher-income people.

> because the alternative is paying much more money in rent and losing the flexibility to pursue job opportunities in different places

Because that's how American cities are built. Destroy yourself financially (and healthwise - 1h/day in the car is awful) driving, suffer through terribly long commutes on a bus route that drives everywhere, or rent shitty "luxury" shoeboxes near work. I agree it's not practical to fix it in the short-term. I just resent middle- and upper-middle class people opposing government incentives to switch to EVs because "it'll hurt the poor". Like no, the poor are screwed either way, you just don't want to pay up.
by opudrovs | 2025-10-01 17:38:26+00:00
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In addition to React/Next.js and Node/Express.js development, I also have experience with cloud-native workflows (Golang + Kubernetes), OpenAI API integration and agentic workflows, native iOS development, and game development. Thanks to my multi-platform experience, I can help you port large products across different platforms.

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by carabiner | 2025-10-01 17:38:27+00:00
Are they all just focused on sex, debauchery, lots of drinking today? I went to the one near Pasadena around a decade ago, maybe related to the OG faire, and there was so much sexual humor in the open air (like jokes shouted by storekeepers, and in the play being run) where I'd consider it an adult environment. It was a little disappointing because I was expecting something like a live-action museum, sort of like colonial williamburg in VA, but it was more like a party with expensive shit (I think a bottle of water was like $7?) being sold and drunk people stumbling. The highlight was just talking to a blacksmith who was making nails by hand who seemed serious about his craft.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-01 17:38:37+00:00
The statement was qualified, if you have objective evidence for species propagating long term complex meaning that we have observed as the written word or other externalized means please demonstrate. I do not understand why a person would say that demonstratably dolphins have done more meaning generation than people?

The universe is full of possibilities, I'm trying to establish an empirical/observable floor not the ceiling.

Other species are also intelligent and create meaning, but I don't know of any proposed metric where their impact is remotely close to ours, though it's not 0 and beyond that they are part of our causal chain as well.

I personally wouldn't mind if we kept giving dogs and dolphins and other animals tools for long term complex communication but some people think we shouldn't interfere in that kind of way in the development of other species. I'd be interested in hearing if you hold an intentional development/don't interfere position.

It's ok and true to say people are empirically special and unique in actual observed reality. If there is a dolphin universe where they are the dominant species and have libraries and journals and satellites than that's fine, but we haven't observed that to be the case.

Again, there is a world of possibilities and everyone should explore that, but I am talking about the one universe we have observed and our empirical observations within it. I like to delineate between extrapolative and speculative ceilings and empirical floors.
by mikikian | 2025-10-01 17:38:37+00:00
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by dkarl | 2025-10-01 17:38:44+00:00
Because they don't know it's programming. Seriously. I dated a woman for five years who was an accountant and a spreadsheet wizard. I told her that doing what she did with Excel, she was just as much a programmer as me, and she flat-out refused to believe that she had the mental capabilities required to be a programmer.

Years after we broke up, a new company she joined required her to take a VBA training course, and she texted me and told me I was right, VBA was easy and her biggest challenge was being patient while the other students struggled.
by tshaddox | 2025-10-01 17:38:52+00:00
> With iOS 26 they’ve put it yet another tap deep!

Yes. By default iOS 26 Safari has a new "Compact" tab menu which requires tapping the ellipsis menu button, then Share, then Add to Home Screen. Previously the Share button was located directly on the tab menu.

I've gone into Settings -> Apps -> Safari -> Tabs section and switched from "Compact" to "Bottom". This switches to a larger tab menu with single-tap access to the Share, Bookmark, and tab switcher buttons.
by gopalv | 2025-10-01 17:38:52+00:00
> Python is never the best language to do it in, but is almost always the second-best language to do it in.

I've been writing python from the last century and this year is the first time I'm writing production quality python code, everything up to this point has been first cut prototypes or utility scripts.

The real reason why it has stuck to me while others came and went is because of the REPL-first attitude.

A question like

>>> 0.2 + 0.1 > 0.3 True

is much harder to demonstrate in other languages.

The REPL isn't just for the code you typed out, it does allow you to import and run your lib functions locally to verify a question you have.

It is not without its craziness with decorators, fancy inheritance[1] or operator precedence[2], but you don't have to use it if you don't want to.

[1] - __subclasshook__ is crazy, right?

[2] - you can abuse __ror__ like this https://notmysock.org/blog/hacks/pypes
by mddr | 2025-10-01 17:38:59+00:00
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-01 17:39:16+00:00
I was lazy and asked Claude, although I didn't check the math.

**

Uranus subtends a much greater angle than a microbe at 90 meters. Let me work this out: Microbe from 90 meters:

A typical bacterium is about 1-5 micrometers (let's say 2 μm = 0.000002 meters) Angular size = (size / distance) in radians = 0.000002 / 90 ≈ 2.2 × 10⁻⁸ radians Converting to arcseconds: ≈ 0.0000046 arcseconds

Uranus from Earth:

Uranus is about 2.6-3.2 billion km from Earth (depending on orbital positions) Its diameter is about 51,000 km At closest approach, Uranus subtends approximately 3.7 arcseconds Even at its farthest, it's still around 3.3 arcseconds

So Uranus appears about 800,000 times larger in angular size than a bacterium at 90 meters away! This is why we can see Uranus through telescopes (and technically with the naked eye under perfect conditions, though just barely), but we absolutely cannot see individual bacteria without a microscope—the angle they subtend is far, far too small for our eyes to resolve.
by fabian2k | 2025-10-01 17:39:16+00:00
My understanding is that there are somewhat more restrictive regulations on food dyes in the EU compared to the US. But that overall there isn't a big concern about the majority of these dyes.

There also isn't a fundamental difference between a synthetic and a natural dye. Okay, humans are more likely to have encountered a natural dye during their evolution and adapted to ingesting them. But that is unlikely to matter to all kinds of dyes, and also wouldn't filter out any health effects that don't affect reproductive fitness.

Treating a whole category of molecules this way does not make sense. It makes sense to evaluate the health effects of individual dyes. But that is not unique to synthetic dyes.
by themafia | 2025-10-01 17:39:29+00:00
> It is no different than stealing a laptop.

I reject this assertion.

> In fact, it's worse!

It is not. If I can copy your laptop: You still have a laptop. I also have one now. So it's actually the opposite of worse. It's not nearly as bad.

> Do you believe stealing laptops and selling them is criminal?

Do you still have a laptop? Then why should I be punished in a jail cell? If you want to settle for cash, we can talk, but if you intend on threatening my life over copies then you have lost the plot.
by YouWhy | 2025-10-01 17:39:32+00:00
I think Python's centrality is a consequence of its original purpose as a language intended for instruction.

Yeah, some of its design decisions required immense cost and time to overcome to make for viable production solutions. However as it turns out, however suboptimal it is a language, this is quite made up by the presence of a huge workforce that's decently qualified to wield it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-01 17:39:47+00:00
Wait really? is that the case, I didn't know that!

I actually went and found the source as I wanted to ask you but I felt like HN police might come saying to give a google search so I am going to paste it here to save someone else a google search but also here is the main thing

> Our mission is to support the creation and development of Free Software; therefore we only allow repos licensed under an OSI/FSF-approved license. For more details see Licensing article. However, we sometimes tolerate repositories that aren't perfectly licensed and focus on spreading awareness on the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.

https://codeberg.org/magicfelix/Codeberg-Documentation/src/b...

Funny thing is that I found this through by copying the statement from the hackernews comment and I was only able to find this through HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35480056
by blibble | 2025-10-01 17:40:22+00:00
> For many it isn’t easy to just up and abandon what they built on GitHub, especially if they have a big community and open issues and PRs.

it's really easy because the codeberg importer is really good

it correctly imports all your pull requests and issues, preserving usernames, everything

you then put the new URL in the GitHub description and archive the project

and then a year down the line you delete the GitHub repository entirely

I moved about 70 projects, half a dozen with several hundred stars and forks

and each major project that leaves does n^2 damage to GitHub, it's the network effect in reverse!