MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yardshop | 2025-10-09 04:33:23+00:00
I found a couple fun ones near the ones you posted:

https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR Volubilis Radio, Ris-Orangis France

seems to play some later 60ish stuff

groovy theme, trombone solo

string section, horn section, rock instruments, sitar, harpsichord, quite a setup!

no vocals so far on the last couple of tracks, spy movie theme song stuff

https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B Radio MEDIA+CI Yamoussoukro 90.2 FM Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire

african rhythms, african and french lyrics, mellower than some of the dance beat stations

nice guitars and vocals

lots of fun bouncing around all of the neighboring stations!
Show HN: nooki.me - I built a distraction-free discussion platform on ATProto
by lakshikag | 2025-10-09 04:33:42+00:00
I built nooki.me, a simple and minimal discussion platform powered by ATProto (the open social protocol behind Bluesky).

The idea is to bring back the feel of old-school forums and early web discussions which slower, calmer, and more personal but with the benefits of a decentralized social network.

Most modern social platforms optimize for engagement, not conversation. I wanted something that felt like a place that is small, intentional, and owned by users. ATProto made this possible because posts, comments, communities and identity are all yours — not locked into one app.

Everything but not limited to posts, comments, communities are stored on the AT network, meaning you can move between compatible apps anytime.

The UI is intentionally minimal and only supports text posts at the moment.

I’d love feedback — especially from those who care about the open web, digital minimalism, or the future of social protocols.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-09 04:34:19+00:00
You know you're on a new domain. However, sites change their auth flow much more often than any patitcular person getting phished. So, if you're using a larger variety of site, you'll likely encounter the benign situation at least a dozen times before you ever encounter your first actual phishing attempt, at which point you'll have gotten used to it.

For example, Twitter relatively recently changed from authenticating on twitter.com to redirecting you to x.com to authenticate (interestingly, Firefox somehow still knows to auto fill my password, but not my username on the first page).
by vmg12 | 2025-10-09 04:34:26+00:00
What's true is that people aren't making as obvious mistakes, especially preflop, so you can't make hundreds of thousands just by knowing that Ace King is a good hand that you can go all in with. Anyone can find preflop poker charts and fix part of their preflop game.

Having a poker solver isn't enough. Let's say you play tournament poker, just having a basic understanding of concepts like ICM give you a massive edge. Let's say you take it a step further and understand concepts like "future game" and actually study them using tools, you're edge has expanded further.

There are a bunch of charts out there that tell you what hands to go all in with if you have 15bbs or fewer. None of those charts take into account ICM. Also how do you adjust the charts if your opponents are calling with too many hands? How do you adjust them if they call with too few hands?

Let's say we are just talking about cash game poker, it's not enough to have a solver, you need to understand how to actually study with the solver. People try to use them like a cheat sheet that tells you what to do, not understanding that a slight change to the inputs of the solver can drastically change the output. The purpose of a solver is to understand how different ranges interact at different stack depths on different boards.

ie: Playing 100bbs deep, on a KK3 flop with a flush draw, what hands should i check or bet as the preflop raiser? What happens if that 3 is a 7? What if it's a J? What if it's 33K instead of KK3? What if I'm 200bbs deep instead of 100? What if the opponent calls too much? What if they call too little?
by andsoitis | 2025-10-09 04:35:09+00:00
Some ideas.

Delete any accounts you have with these services.

When you’re home, put your phone away, don’t carry it on you.

Read the book “How to break up with your phone” by Catherine Anne Price.

Have one or two books that every time you are tempted to go to one of those services you pick up and read that book instead.

Meditate. Exercise. Do gardening.

BUT ultimately… figure out the root cause of your addiction and work on that.
by CSSer | 2025-10-09 04:35:17+00:00
Heh, according to the other guy he could get fired and replaced with AI because of his ego. For the less than subtle, I wasn't implying that it was good or bad. I was just pointing out the irony of criticizing centralized moderation on a site with centralized moderation.

As for whether or not pay makes a difference, I think you probably have a point, but I'm sure there's still wiggle room there.
by signatoremo | 2025-10-09 04:35:31+00:00
Why not? A lot of technologies exist despite no clear application initially, only taking off decades later. Lithium ion battery research started in 1960s, yet no commercial applications until at least 20 years later, and only really took off with smartphone - [0]

HN crowd often criticizes big tech for milking ads and the lack of innovation. Meta deserves credit for sinking their own money into future techs like VR.

By the way, Exxon the oil company funded early research of lithium ion battery tech by Dr. Whittingham, clearly not for short term benefits.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat...
by Terr_ | 2025-10-09 04:36:23+00:00
If I had my 'druthers, there would be a kind of physical vending machine installed at local city hall or whatever, which leverages physical controls and (dis-)economies of scale.

The trusted machine would test your ID (or sometimes accept cash) and dispense single-use tokens to help prove stuff. For example, to prove (A) you are a Real Human, or (B) Real and Over Age X, or (C) you Donated $Y On Some Charity To Show Skin In The Game.

That ATM-esque platform would be open-source and audited to try to limit what data the government could collect, using the same TPM that would make it secure in other ways. For example, perhaps it only exposes the sum total of times each ID was used at machine, but for the previous month only.

The black-market in resold tokens would be impaired (not wholly prevented, that's impossible) by factors like:

1. The difficulty of scaling the physical portion of the work of acquiring the tokens.

2. Suspicion, if someone is using the machine dozens of times per month—who needs that many social-media signups or whatever?

3. There's no way to test if a token has already been used, except to spend it. By making reseller fraud easy, it makes the black-market harder, unless a seller also creates a durable (investigate-able) reputation. I suppose people could watch the vending-machine being used, but that adds another hard-to-scale physical requirement.
by 4bpp | 2025-10-09 04:36:34+00:00
There were any number of less pejorative comparisons you could have made if that was all you wanted to say. I regularly see grandiose claims of life-changing benefits on everything ranging from mildly pointless and overpriced meditation retreats down to Toastmasters, and yet you chose the one entity whose main claim to publicity were things that got its leader-guru sentenced to 120 years in a max security prison.
by necovek | 2025-10-09 04:39:24+00:00
The title is misleading, just like the comment from the submitter: "Mongoloian idiocy" inappropriatelly suggests Down's Syndrome has something to do with Mongols, whereas early researchers thought people with Down's resembled Mongol faces.

So while one could apply the comment to the term-treadmill on "idiot", "retard", "moron", etc, the article has no support for it and is a case of inappropriate name in the first place.
by noduerme | 2025-10-09 04:39:31+00:00
I'm gonna be a little mean here... I don't think it's about hipsters, urban cores, or even money. It's about whether or not the market cares. I mean, here in Oregon, where the urban/rural divide is very sharp and where hipsterish craft foods and locally sourced ingredients completely dominate Portland: Yes, go a little into the suburbs and most restaurants are fed by Sysco. But pretty much every small town west of the Cascades will have at least a couple restaurants that do everything local and make things from scratch. Some tiny podunk burgs in this region sport restaurants that truly deserve Michelin stars, and breakfast cafes that would be at home in Paris. And they're not just for tourists. Yes, you need money to eat there, but my contention is that whether or not local people go to those places versus predictably bog-standard Sysco cafeterias is not really based on the price point, because they're not necessarily much more expensive. It's based on whether or not people care about what they put in their mouths, and whether they're curious or scared of trying new things. Some of it is purely cultural - people who know how to behave in a Red Lobster may feel freaked out being at a real restaurant with unfamiliar choices. Sysco has become the comfort food of the masses, and a majority of people want comfort and are afraid to stray outside it. You don't have to be a hipster to want fresh food... lots of small town people will go to a locally sourced restaurant if there is one. Just not the majority of them.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-09 04:39:59+00:00
> While I'm sure [bumping the stack pointer atomically] makes sense, I don't think I've ever seen that be enforced. At least in C/C++.

That’s because the C ABI supports unwinding with a fairly expressive set of tools for describing stack-pointer state on a per-instruction level. Even the simpler Microsoft ABI essentially uses bytecode for that[1]; and on the more complicated Itanium ABI, you get DWARF CFI instructions, which make the correct way to preserve a(n x86) register in the function prologue look like

push rbx .cfi_adjust_cfa_offset 8 .cfi_rel_offset rbx, 8

which are impossible to miss when reading compiler-generated assembly because of the sheer amount of annoying noise they create.

The Go authors decided to sidestep all of this complexity, which is understandable to a degree, but apparently they did not think through all the ramifications of doing so.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/exception-handli...
by felipeerias | 2025-10-09 04:40:38+00:00
Meta tried to make VR into a mass-market product but currently VR technologies are only successful in very specific niches and use cases.

One of those use cases is training in industrial settings like factories, mines, or construction sites. It is a lot cheaper and safer to have workers take their first steps in a VR environment rather than on the actual location.

At the moment, a lot of this training is implemented as custom 3D applications using e.g. Unity. I imagine that something like Hyperscape would make it much easier and faster to create and share VR environments for this purpose.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-09 04:40:55+00:00
So..Swiss citizens familiar with their direct democracies' traditional but informal stance on 'revolving doors' please correct me.

It has 'worked' (for centuries--especially in finance & export sector below 'ministerial level'), but recently there has been a renewed focus on formalizing policy due to some 'scandals'

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/switzerland-must-improve...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/revolving-doors_swiss-...

(Imho revolving doors are a pillar of a functional state, so the analogous (single-design-multiple-rotor) Jesus pin must be analyzed through a policy lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:42:53+00:00
> while slower speed participants have an improved experience

Wall Street lobbies to ban HFT every few years, hoping people who don’t like how it looks will back them up.

Slower participants in equities are block traders. Folks moving hundreds of millions if not billions at a time. Large institutional investors. Dealers. Retail, on the other hand, would get hosed, though it would also become much more profitable to execute, so maybe that brings some service perks for larger retail traders.
by lmm | 2025-10-09 04:43:25+00:00
> This feels gross. If the manufacturers are not held accountable, then they will never stop making shite products. If the retailers are knowingly selling shite products, then sure. But most of the time, retailers are just selling products they think customers will want to buy. Lots of shite products get returned to the manufacturer when the retailers cannot move them, or other issues arise from the products.

Retailers shrugging their shoulders is what I would call gross. You shouldn't sell a product to the public that you're not willing to stand behind. Retailers have a lot more ways to protect themselves from from shoddy manufacturers - and, fundamentally, operate at the kind of scale where they can do so - than customers have to protect themselves from shoddy anything.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:43:59+00:00
> point isn't to make something 'wall street hates' it's to make something that doesn't get money eaten away by automated computers

Wall Street lobbies to ban HFT because HFT’s computers eat away less than traditional dealers would.

Retail investors railing against HFTs are sort of like those San Francisco types who protest new development to the benefit of their landlords.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-09 04:44:33+00:00
“PWA” is a bit of a nebulous concept, but it basically grew out of this blog post by Alex Russell, who was working at Google at the time:

https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t...

When Apple launched the iPhone, Steve Jobs told people that if they wanted to build apps for the iPhone, they should build them as web apps. This wasn’t specifically about PWAs, just web apps in general. Users demanded native apps, so Apple launched the iPhoneOS SDK and App Store the next year.
by helloplanets | 2025-10-09 04:45:05+00:00
Yeah, not sure what the author was thinking there. Definitely not 'reaffirming of both your and their humanity'.

I mean, I get that it's supposed to be just a general pointer or something, but that phrase is word for word what an LLM would say when it's self censoring... Or something lifted out of an episode of Severance.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-09 04:46:21+00:00
I mean, yes, I agree with you conceptually. I will myself to run ~30 miles a week, lift three times a week, meal prep all my foods after planning out my macros, quit drinking alcohol, caffeine, smoking, and have been dedicated in my work ethic to rise sufficiently high in software engineering. I'm not a stranger to the idea. I even enjoy reading about behavioral psychology.

But surely you can also agree that environmental factors play a role in determining whether willpower is effective or not. When I was quitting smoking marijuana I didn't keep paraphernalia adjacent to me all day and tell myself to just deal with it. Same with alcohol. Exercise routines were easier to establish when paired with audiobooks, pre-committing to the activity socially or at least by laying the clothes out, etc.

The digital stuff has just been really challenging. I've been on a computer basically daily for 25+ years. I've used Reddit and Facebook daily for 15+ years. My profession, and, frankly, my identity, puts me on a computer all day and thus adjacent to my digital addictions. That has made it a lot more challenging.

I'm not even looking to use the computer less. I just want to be able to focus on long-form writing, software development, and less dopamine-inducing forms of online media.
by twibs_io | 2025-10-09 04:47:58+00:00
Pretty shocking that someone whose business is being actively attacked on a subreddit, one that is not only relevant to them but is one of the biggest drivers of student interest and a major recruiting tool, has no recourse in this situation. A lot of people mentioning the legal angle don’t realize what a nightmare that kind of litigation would be. It’s frankly outrageous that Reddit doesn’t take the time to investigate such a flagrant conflict of interest and just chooses not to respond at all. I understand not wanting to police every subreddit but now you’re talking about potentially millions in losses for a business. All because of one unhinged asshole who’s trying to promote his own competing business. If this doesn’t turn into a lawsuit hopefully it makes enough noise for Reddit to pay attention and help resolve the issue.
by jakobnissen | 2025-10-09 04:48:43+00:00
This was absolutely not "fixed" in 1.9, what are you talking about. It was improved in 1.9, but that's it. Startup time is still unacceptably slow - still tens of seconds for large codebases.

Worse, there are still way too many compilation traps. Splatted a large collection into a function? Compiler chokes. Your code accidentally moves a value from the value to the type domain? You end up with millions of new types, compiler chokes. Accidentally pirate a method? Huge latency. Chose to write type unstable code? Invalidations tank your latency.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-09 04:49:24+00:00
> Only e-bikes in the city, haha! Banned by order of the wife since we have a young newborn.

This seems to be how it goes. My own father used to ride a motorcycle back in the day - until it almost fell on me and my sister when we were screwing around on it.

Off that motorcycle went, never to be seen again after that.
by Sam6late | 2025-10-09 04:49:28+00:00
This is How Larry Elisson beat Musk for a short while although Oracle was struggling.' The deals among Oracle, Nvidia, and OpenAI have raised concerns about their circular and potentially risky nature. Oracle is reportedly spending tens of billions on Nvidia's advanced chips, Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, and OpenAI uses Oracle's cloud infrastructure through Microsoft's Azure, creating a closed loop of financing and business. Some analysts warn this creates a reflexive loop or "dangerous bubble" where valuations may be inflated artificially by the circular flow of capital and resources, reminiscent of past booms that ended in sharp market corrections.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-09 04:49:40+00:00
This read to me like a poorly-chosen phrase from a non-native speaker. I had no impression OP intended to communicate hostility, just rejection of the corporate practice.

But we aren’t talking about just telling your manager. There are so many layers of management and bureaucracy with larger corporations, especially ones with a structure like McDonalds’ franchise model, that these complaints will not make it to the decision makers.

They will eventually. Years ago Starbucks used to insist that customers specify 'tall, grande, or venti' for their medium, large, and x-large cups, to the point of arguing with the customer if they just asked for the large. They abandoned the practice some years ago, presumably due to feedback from their counter staff.
by 4bpp | 2025-10-09 04:49:48+00:00
Even if we accept all your claims at face value, your behaviour in your capacity as the moderator of that subreddit was still immoral. However you feel about it, being a moderator is a voluntary responsibility which comes with an expectation of impartiality and service at the expense of, not in furtherance of, your personal goals.

At best, if everything you say is true, what you are doing is akin to proudly volunteering as a firefighter so that you can slow-walk the response if a fire is ever reported at the NXIVM HQ. Your crusade against NXIVM may be righteous, and it might even be universally considered a net good if its HQ were to burn down, but it would still raise a lot of eyebrows if it came out that you intended to use your position in that fashion.

edit: To be clear, I sympathise with your claim that you are being subjected to a one-sided hit, and am starting to feel uneasy with the dogpiling atmosphere that is building in this subthread. However, it is understandable to me why this is happening - fundamentally, Reddit has become a town square that is really not engineered correctly to be one. In a town square, people want to choose their leaders, but subreddits are by design "storefronts", in which leaders (moderators) choose their people. This tension is resolved by a very unpleasant jerry-rigged substitute for democratic control: the one way you can "vote out" a moderator (who has the backing or indifference of everyone above him) is to apply psychological pressure, or other harm (such as the reputational damage your company is no doubt taking as we speak), until they crack and resign. This is sort of democratic because larger fractions of the "electorate" can achieve it more easily, but even turning up to such a "vote" that you ultimately lose entails social violence.

It doesn't seem like you are willing to resign, nor to put your moderator status up for a community vote (if that could even be made fair, after you presumably banned a lot of would-be voters, and conversely could accuse the other side of botting/brigading). What other options do those who do not want the town square to be moderated by you have?
by sandreas | 2025-10-09 04:51:37+00:00
Technically YAML is a superset (or subset?) of JSON.

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2-old/spec.html#id2759572

However, I find the toml language somehow the better tech, while I still think that configuration should not be a "format" but a language.

I think at least the recomposition of values with other values should be possible:

CONFIG_PATH="$MAIN_PATH/config"

And why would you configure:

DEV_PATH="dev" PRD_PATH="prod"

when you could do

MAIN_PATH=env.IS_PROD ? "prod" : "dev"
Show HN: EchoMode – A stability layer that prevents persona drift in LLMs
by teamechomode | 2025-10-09 04:52:07+00:00
Hey HN! I’m Sean, and I built EchoMode to solve a frustrating problem with long LLM conversations: persona drift — when models slowly forget their intended tone, style, or role after multiple turns.

The Problem: Even well-prompted models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) start to lose persona after ~8 turns. Studies like Measuring and Controlling Persona Drift (arXiv:2402.10962) confirm that tone consistency decays fast with topic shifts and long contexts.

The Solution: EchoMode is a middleware protocol that keeps LLMs consistent by monitoring tone drift in real time and repairing deviations automatically. Think of it as TCP/IP for language stability.

How it works: – Finite-state machine (Sync / Resonance / Insight / Calm) tracks conversation state – Calculates a driftScore between each output and baseline persona – Triggers a repair loop if deviation > threshold – EWMA smoothing (λ≈0.3) prevents overcorrection – Works across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral APIs

Tech Stack: TypeScript SDK • Drift telemetry dashboard (soon) • Apache-2.0 open core + commercial observability layer

Use Cases: AI agents that must stay on-brand, compliant, or emotionally consistent over long sessions.

Try it: github.com/Seanhong0818/Echo-Mode
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-09 04:52:10+00:00
Seems pretty self evident that many people would just smile and nod and mask thru these interactions in the past ..And that people are tired of this same saccharine pr corpo babble invading every aspect and niche of their lives. And this is the straw that breaks the back.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Otherwise get sorted with the other parasites.