MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-03 03:04:19+00:00
New? For a country this infantile? Our utterly questionable engineering is the closest thing we have to history.

With the appropriate amount of sarcasm: the Mayflower included several variations of "stock" and countless untold mistakes in the wake! We surely beat those Soviets and Socialism, gosh darn it. Just don't pay attention to the social fabric or what the CIA has done. Nevermind the particularly Aryan scientists, where we found them, or what might happen when they get fat/bored/lazy and procreate. We need The Bomb.

Long way to say the absurdity is the joke/point.
by zzzeek | 2025-10-03 03:04:42+00:00
> A feeling of incompleteness will motivate you to come bac

Yeah this is exactly it but I cannot relax or sleep or anything when I have a bad case of that "incomplete" feeling. So I try not to get too embedded in code at all these days (I'm old and dont work for crazy startups anymore). But got pretty coded up this week and was all grumpy last night in one of those "just 20 minutes more" situations (which yes kept me coding til about midnight).
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 03:05:08+00:00
I don't think you read my last comment. Hundreds of embedded reporters living in Gaza have died, the only remaining perspective is the famously biased hasbara news, subject to the Israeli Military Censor unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Military_Censor

We can't take Israel's word for it, since the IDF controls their media. We don't have much independent reporting since Israel suppresses it. You can pretty easily read between the lines to figure out who's hiding what.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-03 03:05:50+00:00
All of these teens use Google Docs instead of OpenAI Docs, Google Meet instead of OpenAI Meet, Gmail instead of OpenAI Mail, etc.

I'm sure that far fewer people to go gemini.google.com than to chatgpt.com, but Google has LLMs seamlessly integrated in each of these products, and it's a part of people's workflows at school and at work.

For a while, I was convinced that OpenAI had won and that Google won't be able to recover, but this lack of vertical integration is becoming a liability. It's probably why OpenAI is trying to branch into weird stuff, like running a walled-garden TikTok clone.

Also keep in mind that unlike OpenAI, Google isn't under pressure to monetize AI products any time soon. They can keep subsidizing them until OpenAI runs out of other people's money. I'm not saying OpenAI has no path forward, but it's not all that clear-cut.
by its-kostya | 2025-10-03 03:06:49+00:00
All good points.

> ... build checks and balances to avoid sleepwalking into a dictatorship.

This resonates well with me. I don't personally know the checks and balances that need to exist so that Cloudflare, or any big influential company, refrains from becoming evil. I find CF relying on open protocols for interoperability with vendors a very positive sign. I don't ever see them (or any company) backtracking of supporting some open standard once they already have support for it. I'm not aware of them having "custom" solutions that also don't have a spec for them. For example, they are absolutely best suited for the pay-per-[ai]crawl business model and if they wanted they could have easily taken advantage of their position. Instead they are relying on open standards and contributing to them. Paint me naive but this gives me a good deal of confidence of the short and medium term.

But I confess that I don't follow the company/market closely enough to know if that is enough or more is needed. More check and balances always seems good but I have no creativity in this regard. Perhaps that was one of my criticisms with the author's post - to collect all the bad press and identify the shortcomings but to stop short of digesting all those findings into a meaningful resolution.
by cmhernandez | 2025-10-03 03:06:57+00:00
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by sharkweek | 2025-10-03 03:07:02+00:00
I’ve got “normie” friends who I’d bet don’t even know that what Google has at the top of their search results is “AI” results and instead assume it’s just some extension of the normal search results we’ve all gotten used to (knowledge graph)

Every one of them refers to using “ChatGPT” when talking about AI.

How likely is it to stay that way? No idea, but OpenAI has clearly captured a notable amount of mindshare in this new era.
by zduoduo | 2025-10-03 03:07:14+00:00
I’ve been following Claude’s status updates for a while, and it’s actually refreshing to see this kind of transparency. Most companies just hide issues behind vague “technical difficulties” messages, but here you can clearly track uptime and incidents. It gives a lot more confidence when using the service daily, especially since many of us depend on it for real work. Downtime is frustrating, but knowing what’s happening makes a huge difference. I wish more AI and SaaS tools had a page like this—it feels more trustworthy and professional.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-10-03 03:07:16+00:00
> ads in the future.

It boggles my mind that people still think advertising can be a major part of the economy.

If AI is propping up the economy right now [0] how is it possible that the rest of the economy can possibly fund AI through profit sharing? That's fundamentally what advertising is: I give you a share of my revenue (hopefully from profits) in order to help increase my market share. The limit of what advertising spend can be is percent of profits minus some epsilon (for a functioning economy at least).

Advertising cannot be the lions share of any economy because it derives it's value from the rest of the economy.

Advertising is also a major bubble because my one assumption there (that it's a share of profits) is generally not the case. Unprofitable companies giving away a share of their revenue to other companies making those companies profitable is not sustainable.

Advertising could save AI if AI was a relatively small part of the US (or world) economy and could benefit by extracting a share of the profits from other companies. But if most your GDP is from AI how can it possibly cannibalize other companies in a sustainable way?

0. https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-ke...
by andrehacker | 2025-10-03 03:07:31+00:00
Great article. It’s wild to look back at 1977/1978 and realize how suddenly the personal computer era exploded into the mainstream. The PET, TRS-80, and Apple II all hit the market within months of each other, and while hobbyists had already been tinkering with machines like the Altair, IMSAI, KIM-1, and Apple I, this was the moment computers truly became “consumer” products.

From a technical perspective, the timing made sense—there was a foundation of microprocessor-based systems and a growing community of enthusiasts. But for the general public, it felt like computers went from obscure to omnipresent overnight. They were suddenly on TV, in magazines, featured in books, and even depicted in movies and shows. That cultural shift was massive. For many of us, it marked the beginning of having computers in our homes—something that’s never changed since.

I appreciated the article’s attention to detail too. The bit about the TRS-80 monitor being repurposed from an existing product (with a "Mercedes Silver" color to boot), and the PET’s sheet metal casing being a practical choice rather than a design one—those are the kinds of behind-the-scenes decisions that rarely get spotlighted but say a lot about how fast things were moving back then.
Show HN: ParquetFormatter – Convert Parquet and Ndjson to CSV (and Back)
by boopesh07 | 2025-10-03 03:08:13+00:00
Hi HN, I built ParquetFormatter.com – a free tool to quickly convert Parquet and NDJSON files to CSV (and back).

The idea came from the pain of having a Parquet/NDJSON file and just wanting to peek inside without spinning up Spark, Pandas, or DuckDB. A lot of tools exist, but they either limit file sizes, require signups, or feel cluttered. I wanted something dead simple: drag a file in, hit convert, and download a CSV you can open in Excel.

The MVP supports: • Parquet → CSV • CSV → Parquet • NDJSON → CSV • CSV → NDJSON

No logins, no paywall, no fuss. Feedback is built into the app – I’d love to hear what adhoc operations you’d find useful on Parquet/NDJSON (filtering, sampling, schema inspection, etc.).

Curious if this scratches an itch for others in the data community. What’s the first thing you would do if dropped a Parquet file in here?
by albert_e | 2025-10-03 03:08:26+00:00
Many Indian languages are written in scripts that mirror what is spoken. Silent letters don't exist and pronunciations that don't match the spelling are very rare. This does npt preclude the existence of rich dialects and accents.

This increases the complexity of learning to write the language -- 56 letters in alphabet and each combination of consonant+vowel and consonant+consonant takes on a different letter form instead of just being a string of independent letters like English.

But reading / pronunciation is straightforward. (No we don't have spelling bees :) )
by ipaddr | 2025-10-03 03:08:30+00:00
A lot of that money comes from search result ads. Sometimes I click on an ad to visit a site I search for instead of scrolling to the same link in the actual search results. Many companies bid on keywords for their own name to prevent others from taking a customer who is interested in you.

You use to be a useful site and be at the top of the search results for some keywords and now you have to pay.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-03 03:08:34+00:00
> Hamas successfully baited Israel into a disproportionate response

Is it disproportionate? Why do we talk about proportions when it comes to Jewish people defending their security but don’t bring it up in other conflicts? There was no talk of proportionate response after 9/11, for example. Virtually all nations who participated in the global war on terror didn’t care.

Proportionality is also not relevant when you’re talking about terrorists who are hiding among civilians on purpose. Why should Israel have to sacrifice the security of its residents to limit collateral damage among the very people who voted for Hamas and still support Hamas, as polls show.
by rmason | 2025-10-03 03:08:40+00:00
When I worked in the fertilizer business the farmers were always getting beat up by the State for the amount of phosphorus and nitrates in the water. I worked with the farmers as an agronomist and thought they were doing a pretty good job.

They soil tested and usually only used enough fertilizer to have a positive return on investment. Michigan law required the farmers with livestock to file a plan where the manure could be safely spread. I helped the farmers write some of those plans and could verify they were sound.

You know who didn't soil test, over fertilized and overwatered? That's right he home owners and their lawns. I am happy to report that the State and our universities are just beginning to recognize that the largest contributors to our water pollution problem are the home owners. I am waiting to see the State starting to do an educational campaign on TV but it hasn't happened yet.
by positron26 | 2025-10-03 03:08:43+00:00
I'm not an expert in psychology, but within a fixed population window, the murder rate will only go up unless there is a limited supply of those who murderers want to murder or unless murderers tend to prefer murdering other murderers, perhaps due to the change in game theory creating a new incentive. As humans would begin to live ever increasingly far away, we may approach a "murder death" condition where no new murders are possible. I will leave alone those who played Among Us until their numbers diminish and there is a better chance of reaching an early asymptote.
by sho | 2025-10-03 03:09:46+00:00
This just sounds like rationalization to me, just-so stories we tell ourselves to feel better about something we can't change anyway, so isn't it lucky that everything is perfect just the way it is!

I think it's nonsense. Society is the way it is because of the prevailing conditions. We haven't really had to deal with getting rid of dead wood in science because death always did that anyway, if death goes away then we'll just adapt. That witticism from Planck is just an observation of the times, not some universal, uh, constant.

> There is plenty of reason to welcome death

Maybe we should welcome it even faster then! If death speeds up science so much, then maybe society shouldn't provide health care to scientists at all. In fact maybe we should euthanize all scientists at age 50 - or earlier. Right?
by ggm | 2025-10-03 03:09:53+00:00
> When was the last time you heard somebody (including yourself) say they feel better after eating fast food?

These foods are designed to push the yum button with a carefully chosen mix of fat, salt, carbs, umami components, sugar, protein.

It's not spaced out the way it would be eating the same ingredients slowly as a Greek salad with lamb, pita and feta, but the ingredient lists are not dissimilar, lamb for beef. The point is that ultra processed food inputs mainline all of the positive experience into a remarkably brief period of time.

Fred Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth wrote about this in "the space merchants" in 1952. I don't think they expected it to come true inside their decade, but the seeds were laid by Ray Kroc and others across that time.

I don't deny your reasoning but I kind of say you're arriving at a rejection of the yum impact a long way after you've been hooked in.
by parineum | 2025-10-03 03:10:00+00:00
I don't think killing Sinwar means much. Israel definitely wanted him dead but, to their national security, it doesn't mean anything. Sinwar isn't unique and he'd just be replaced by the next guy who wants to do the same thing and also doesn't care if he's made a martyr in the process.

Strategically, they have to destroy the entirety of Hamas and hope the Palestinians are allowed to and do elect better leadership. Anything less is accepting the status quo that led to Oct 7.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-03 03:10:46+00:00
> The troops are not present with the consent of the local governing powers

Are the governing powers legitimate? Hamas banned elections after they won the 2006 election. Why should they be considered any more of a governing powers than Israel? Especially when literally the entire broader region was historically Jewish, long before the modern state of Israel, long before Islamic Arabs (now calling themselves Palestinian) were in the area?

What I see is that the Islamic Arabs in Israel are living peacefully and are integrated into the “normal civil law”. But the residents of Gaza have been pro terrorism - which is why they voted for Hamas on a charter of committing genocide against all other beliefs.
by toast0 | 2025-10-03 03:11:05+00:00
That only really works if ISP routing is drastically different than it usually is. When I was on DSL at my current house, the IP range available covers basically the whole multi-county metro area; all paths go through the PPPoE concentrator in a single location. You could maybe make a distance estimate from the concentrator, but there's no way to get more information than that.

I think the cable company is a bit more refined, I see cities in traceroutes that don't make sense for the whole metro area to route through, so it's likely that you can determine county, and possibly more specific. But you won't get any useful information from trying to ping outside resources; ISP networks all interconnect at the local internet exchange (or there about), when I had access to a DSL, a cable, and a local fiber ISP all in the same city, pings all went back to the IX. Maybe if you have a lot of presence in an ISP, you can gather a bit more data about users in that ISP, but it won't help you gather data about users on other ISPs.

Disabling pings is nice and all, but if you exchange any traffic, round trip times are pretty easy to gather from that. Delayed ack ads a bit of a challenge, but not much.

Of course, many isps offer geofeeds for their IPs. That's pretty reasonable to use if offered.
by magicalist | 2025-10-03 03:12:10+00:00
> Surely an app designed to help circumvent the law is a bad thing, even if it doesn't make one legally a criminal merely by association?

Much like Miranda rights. Surely outright informing people in custody they have the right to remain silent is a bad thing, right? Actually, thinking about it now, there's a whole lot of things people have the right to do that make enforcing the law way harder than it needs to be.

Or maybe it's more important to maintain your rights as a human being and citizen, especially in the face of an overreaching executive branch willing to justify anything in order to overreach a little more.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-03 03:12:14+00:00
No need for actual free speech. Host it in Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran, DPRK, or any other strategic adversary of the United States. The success of ICEBlock is 100% inline with their information warfare goals. The more strife they can spread, the more protests, the more violence, the more confrontations, and the more 'noise' that gets made about ICE in the US, the better for them.

That doesn't mean the developer of ICEBlock is anti-American, just that there's a common interest in seeing his project succeed.
by windexh8er | 2025-10-03 03:12:49+00:00
"In February 2024, the FDA announced that substances containing PFAS used as grease-proofing agents on paper and paperboard for food contact use are no longer being sold by manufacturers into the U.S. market." [0]

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/authorize...
by kayleighb1 | 2025-10-03 03:13:08+00:00
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by SiempreViernes | 2025-10-03 03:13:10+00:00
That devs might show a 10x spread in time to completion on some task (the mythical man month study) is quite a lesser thing than claiming the spread comes from something inherent to the devs that got tested.

As for your various anecdotes later, I offer the counter observation that nobody is going around talking about 50x lottery winners, despite the lifetime earnings on lotteries also showing very wide spread:. Clearly observing a big spread in outcome is insufficient evidence for concluding the spread is due to factors inherent to the participants.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 03:14:34+00:00
> It's more accurate to say "as many Palestinians as they thought the US would let them get away with". This is why each new kind of atrocity was first messaged and checked with the US before proceeding. Without cover in the UN and unlimited bombs from the US Israel's actions in Gaza would not have been possible.

Israel makes far more efforts than even the US when it comes to trying to prevent civilian casualties.

> Folks may remember when Israel thought they had to cook up a bunch of fancy 3D renders of a "Hamas command center" and do a multi-week propaganda blitz before attacking Al Shifa hospital. Then they eventually realized that the Biden administration didn't care, nor did they care about the lack of evidence for this supposed massive complex [1] after the fact. So they could bomb hospitals with just a generic justification after the fact.

There's plenty of evidence Hamas used Al Shifa for military purposes, although it's maybe somewhat unclear to what extent exactly. Also from my understanding Israel didn't bomb Al Shifa, they raided it instead.

> It was the same with every escalation, from murdering UN aid workers to dropping 2,000lb bombs on tents to completely flattening cities they had designated as "safe zones".

The entire Gaza strip is a war zone, Israel largely tries to avoid combat operations in the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone but that doesn't mean Hamas has complete immunity there[0].

> [1] It turned out to just be a couple hospital rooms that a former Israeli PM admitted they themselves had built.

Regardless of who built the bunker under the hospital if Hamas uses it for military purposes that makes the hospital a valid military target. I'm not sure how a bunker having been built by Israel decades ago would make a difference in regards to it being a valid military target or not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_July_2024_al-Mawasi_attack
by EnergyAmy | 2025-10-03 03:14:34+00:00
Do you believe it is normal to be not sure how to make this any clearer. you're not going to engage in debate. you've asked for an example from the beginning. An example contains both sides. If me wish to provide an example( and you hope me do) it will consist of two interlocutors with 10 to 20 individual statements. The example will demonstrate genuine debate. Do you understand the request?
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-03 03:17:15+00:00
Ya, bad form _may_ cause problems. But I'll claim that many more problems arise from doing nothing and getting really out of shape, rather than from doing one of the "wrong" things.

Besides, I can kick my (rather low) ceiling, and none of your experts will advise me on the correct form for this. Without their advice what am I supposed to do, just stop kicking my ceiling? Ridiculous.
by toofy | 2025-10-03 03:17:27+00:00
/me claps.

in my not so humble and often overly verbose opinion, we desperately need to get back to a place where we have more control over what our own inputs.

a handful of people are now in control of the overwhelming majority of what we see. whether that’s the few websites most people visit or the wildly merging media ecosystem which is now also overwhelmingly controlled by a tiny few with even more mergers on the immediate horizon. to the corporate live event space. it’s insane that weve allowed such a tiny few to control nearly everything our people ingest.

anything which counters this stranglehold on our inputs is a good thing, no matter how small.
by bccdee | 2025-10-03 03:18:32+00:00
> Is your issue with the way I framed victim mindset or my point that a major risk of AI is propagating victim mentality?

The former, I suppose, but the latter is downstream of that.

> It feels like you keep taking a less than respectful interpretation of my comments

Well that's certainly not my intent. But I think there's a lot implicit in the idea that a "victim mindset" is too common in society, and I want to unpack it.

> Have you looked up the definition of victim mindset? Are you advocating that there are cases when having a victim mindset is a good thing?

When I searched it, I got directed to the wiki page on victim mentality, which is mostly about the psychological implications of perceiving yourself as a victim. And yes, I do think it's sometimes good, both individually and for society, to perceive yourself as a victim, for reasons I outlined in my post above.