MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jtrn | 2025-10-03 08:46:18+00:00
Allow me to try a analogy.

You and sfRattan rightfully pointing to a disease (large cloud providers using true free software to make money without contributing back). But "fair source" cure is a new, unproven drug with serious side effects, all while ignoring the established, effective vaccine (strong copyleft GPL/AGPL and dual-licensing), that has been available for decades. The rise of "fair source" is both as sign of "market panic" and just "marketing". It does not seem to be necessary or good evolution for software freedom.

That was HIGHLY abstract... So much so that I am not sure it maps onto reality, but I at least think this is a valid concern.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-03 08:46:46+00:00
One non-measuring idea is to gradually replace portions of the brain with artificial blanks, relying on some sort of holistic (or holographic) redundancy where the "damage" is repaired by neighbors.

This, er, Brain of Theseus would retain operational patterns even if the individual cells have been replaced.

A variation on that would be too do it stochastically, constantly substituting a miniscule percentage of cells evenly across the entire brain.
by gudmundur | 2025-10-03 08:46:51+00:00
I've been poking around with both, and FIEMAP has some nice benefits when working with VM disks. For example, if you have the same shared based across multiple VMs, you can use FIEMAP for dirty tracking of blocks, by detecting which extents are no longer shared with the common base. With LSEEK you'll lose that and have to snapshot the entire backing drive.
by mapcars | 2025-10-03 08:46:52+00:00
> The first rule to become a gym beast is to believe you are a gym beast.

> That is: you need convince yourself that what you do is the best thing you ever do.

I think this is a dumb idea, a mix of wishful thinking and immature psychology. You become someone because of your competence, not of what you believe in.

We all want to do the best thing, but in practice in every project there are lots and lots of small, routine things that have to be done in order for the best things ever to even start functioning. I think its important to understand clearly what is the best, and what is necessary and see how each part contributes to the whole project.
by krageon | 2025-10-03 08:48:37+00:00
AFAIK no but the person you responded to is dogwhistling by repeatedly referencing "arab" and "muslim". They're using it to imply that not only does the UN not matter, they're also positioning these words as the implicit enemy.

It's a bad faith way to approach this argument, so asking logical questions won't make a difference and will tire you out. That's the core strategy behind that behaviour.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-03 08:49:02+00:00
For a while the UK had the stupid situation where there was a high-security biometric identity system, but only for immigrants, and one of the things you did as part of the process of becoming a citizen was the requirement to hand back or destroy the ID.

(this of course tells us where all the ID pressure is coming from: voters want an identity system that can be weaponized against immigrants and The Other.)
Show HN: Focus Timer with an anime girl called Miyu
by sfilmak | 2025-10-03 08:49:09+00:00
Hi everyone! My name is Roman, and I am an indie iOS developer.

I was inspired by Lo-Fi girl, and I liked to study with her, but the process always lacked some interactivity, and I wanted it to feel like I was actually studying with a friend. In addition, I thought that it would have been great to actually track my progress on how many hours I studied today.

That's how I came up with this app. It is a focus timer with a girl called Miyu that acts as a study buddy.

It is my first iOS app, so I would appreciate any feedback you have on how I can improve it. Thank you!
by 6031769 | 2025-10-03 08:49:22+00:00
If you are ending up at win forums or Microsoft's support site then the chances are that you were searching for something Microsofty in the first place. And if that's the case then it's hardly surprising that Microsoft's own search engine is better for promoting Microsoft-related responses than any other.

Try searching for something technical which isn't MS-specific. That should be a more neutral test.
by taminka | 2025-10-03 08:50:03+00:00
unfortunately this is an inherent property of a system (software in this case) that punishes stability and rewards changes for the sake of changes

if you don't modify your library, app, OS, etc for 2 years, it's perceived as abandoned or obsolete, meaning even if you're achieved perfection in your product in terms of ui, you can't stay there, you must move forward and break it (i'm not talking about bugs or security vulnerabilities here, only the functionality itself)

prominent example is w/ microsoft word, where they kept adding an absurd number of features simply bc they felt like they had to, since ppl were paying for it, and this will KEEP HAPPENING TO EVERYONE so long as the software keeps moving at breakneck speed and backwards compatibility and stability are thrown out of the window...
by buildfocus | 2025-10-03 08:50:56+00:00
For Spain, for online stuff signatures & verification it's mtls, with a client certificate issued by the government. You can sign documents with it or authenticate with it entirely offline (effectively nobody does the latter, but you could, and signing documents with it is very common). Government has no idea how it's used. 3rd party just verifies the government has signed the cert and it's got a valid date.

There's other issues (UX, privacy to the 3rd parties) and further improvements here coming with better wallets (EU-wide) soon, but even today it's absolutely possible to have digital id that doesn't tell the government every time you use it.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-03 08:51:34+00:00
So you're saying [...]

https://iea.org.uk/the-newman-peterson-interview-was-symptom...

I suspect you are aware of the existing 'progressive' bias in academia and the dearth of 'institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against progressive ideas' on the average campus while the Humanities are rife with '${identity_group} studies' departments where the discourse is centred around challenging systemic power relations in society, arguing that knowledge, truth, and social structures are fundamentally shaped by power dynamics between dominant and oppressed groups. Beyond just understanding and critiquing these dynamics, it explicitly aims to transform society through praxis and collective action with an explicit sociopolitical purpose (a citation straight from Wikipedia and as such certainly approved by those same departments).

As to whether the approach taken here is the best there is room for discussion. Instead of censoring those departments it may be more effective to have those institutions erect new departments which take aim at what those 'Studies' departments and others peddle as 'their truth'.

Here's an idea, now listen well. Most if not all academical institutions have sporting arenas or at least access to them. How about they fight it out in those arenas, a regular (bi-weekly or monthly) battle of ideas between the ${identity_group} studies departments and their (equally well-funded and staffed) ideological opponents? Traditional debating rules shall be followed, no shout-me-downs, tantrums, walkouts, no paint or ketchup or pie throwing, none of the sort. If the debate ends inconclusive the fight may be continued in a boxing ring following amateur boxing rules and using protective gear. Outside of these battles the departments shall behave like normal, traditional academic institutions. If some studies department wishes to transform society through praxis and collective action they can do that in their own time, off-campus, using their own funding and at their own risk. This goes for all departments no matter where they stand politically.
Show HN: Browser Shortcuts Extension – Custom Omnibox Commands for Opening URLs
by anirudhk | 2025-10-03 08:51:50+00:00
A browser extension that lets you define shortcut commands to open URLs via the omnibox. Commands are stored in JSON (import/export, sync across profiles) and support {query} placeholders. Includes an options page for editing, validation, reset to defaults, and quick setup on install.
by pug23 | 2025-10-03 08:51:59+00:00
We had a shih tzu that knew all her toys by name. I would just sit on the couch start asking for toys and she would bring them.

Whenever we got a new toy for her we just had to throw it saying its name a few times and she would know it from then on.

We weren't able to train her on most stuff but her toy game was clutch.
by sjw987 | 2025-10-03 08:52:16+00:00
Interestingly a Strava higher up posted their point of view on a Strava Reddit, which was met with a lot of ridicule from Strava users there.

They claim that your sports data is yours, and have issue with Garmin requiring their logo or a snippet of text on each activity that came from Garmin. A few users recounted that Strava screwed over their own API developers the other year and tried to do something with their activity data themselves (selling it off or something).

If the lawsuit leads to some sort of meaningful action and users are given the choice of Garmin or Strava, obviously they're going to stick with the hardware they have bought and own, above an app that relies on the former.

All of the features Strava claims breached their patent were in Garmin before Strava patented them.

I think Strava just doesn't know where to go from here. They already have a complete product, which they keep tacking gimmicks onto (Athlete Intelligence), and which probably already has the most users it's going to have. Now it just has to squeeze them endlessly for more money through higher subscription fees and ads (like the ads they masquerade as challenges).
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-03 08:52:26+00:00
I don't particularly like death, but the potential societal stasis caused by longer lives is a problem as well.

Already when living to our 80s and 90s, we can see the top strata of the society (CEO level, Parliaments) overflowing with very old people who don't want to relax their grip on power. The current US Senate is older than the Brezhnev politburo, widely considered a gerontocracy, once was. It is the same elsewhere. Few powerful people are as self-aware as Benedict XIV. was, or their lust for power is simply too big.

In autocracies, people like Putin, Erdogan, Khamenei and Xi built very resilient systems that could support them for decades, if not centuries, and death is the only way that can reliably get them out of the way.

I suppose that not even the Americans would like to see various replays of Biden vs. Trump for several election cycles, and the Supreme Court is a veritable gerontocracy as well. If longevity research succeeds, the younger justices like Gorsuch and Barrett may well stay on the bench until 2070 or even longer, shaping rules for a world they will no longer understand.

If we ever are to achieve very long lives, we need to expand into the universe as well, so that the younger generations can build their own domains somewhere else, unburdened by the dictates of the old.
by rahoulb | 2025-10-03 08:53:04+00:00
(slightly off-topic) Many years ago, I got a puppy to keep my older dog company (it was as disaster as she was an over-excited nightmare and in the end I gave her to a friend, where she lived a happy life with two other over-excited dogs).

The older dog was sat on the stairs, sulking, as I played with the puppy (he was always very moody).

I showed her a squeaky ball; she liked the squeak so I tried to get her to bite it and make the sound. But she just wasn't getting it. Then the other dog charged down the stairs, stamped on the ball to make it squeak, then went back upstairs to continue his sulk.
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 08:53:20+00:00
> When you look into these cases, they always turn out to be "a sustained campaign of harassment and abuse against one or more named individuals".

No that isn't the case. The are substantial problems in the UK around the the various hate speech and terrorism laws. Pretending there isn't by hand waiving away concerns and pretending that them being found not guilty later after having their life turned upside down (the process is the punishment) is quite honestly disingenuous.
by tomaszsobota | 2025-10-03 08:53:31+00:00
> ChatGPT has a phenomenal brand. That's worth 100x more than "product stickiness". They have 700 million weekly users

I don't think majority of those 700m people use the product because of the brand. Products are a non-trivial contributor to the brand.

Also, if it were phenomenal, they wouldn't be called ClosedAI ;)
Show HN: I built real dark mode for my website – your cursor is now a flashlight
by madinmo | 2025-10-03 08:53:36+00:00
I spent my weekend building the most unnecessary portfolio feature - a real dark mode

your cursor is now a flashlight. everything else? complete darkness. move around to read. that's it.

why? please don't ask that question :)

you can try it out on my website - https://www.pankajtanwar.in/ (theme switch on top right - works better in desktop though)

original thread - https://x.com/the2ndfloorguy/status/1973638876599296358
by lordnacho | 2025-10-03 08:54:35+00:00
Here's a fun thing you can do with AI, here ChatGPT:

"I speak a number of languages, but I'm not a linguist. How could I get a list of sounds that aren't included in the languages I speak? Would be interesting to hear what sounds I'm not used to hearing"

<Long blurb about what a great idea I had, and an intro to how to do it>

If you’d like, you could just tell me the languages you speak, and I can give you a first-pass list of major sound types you’re probably missing (like clicks, ejectives, tones, pharyngeals, etc.).

Would you like me to sketch a concrete example with your languages?

"Sure, here's my list: <my list>"

And then it gives a list of sounds you know, and sounds you don't. Pretty cool. It even has links to a sound map site so you can hear them.

If you like, I could generate a concrete list of IPA symbols that are not in <my list> — a sort of “negative phoneme inventory”. Would you like me to build that for you?

"Yes please. Also what additional language would cover the most ground?"

One language that covers the most new ground

Amharic (Ethiopian Semitic) is a superb single add-on because it gives you, in one go: • Ejectives (tʼ, kʼ, qʼ, sʼ/tsʼ), • Pharyngeal consonants (ħ, ʕ), • Uvular stop (q), and • True gemination (contrastive long consonants).

If you want a two-language combo to “max out” the world’s rarities, add Zulu (or Xhosa) for clicks alongside Amharic.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-03 08:54:35+00:00
Yup. That’s one of the great things about the OXO stuff we have. I have a new vegetable peeler, that replaced one we had for over a decade. It’s basically, exactly the same one. I suspect the parts would be interchangeable.

I think that Apple’s Snow Leopard MacOS release was almost identical, in surface features, to its predecessor, but is considered one of their best releases, ever, because it fixed so many bugs, and improved a lot of important functionality. Internally, it also established a technical fabric for the new architecture, but that wasn’t visible to users.
by zenlot | 2025-10-03 08:55:03+00:00
I don't know why people complain much about it. In UK especially. For example all EU citizens, after Brexit been "marked", with sort of digital ID.

1. You cannot open bank account without presenting share code from gov.uk, which shows your photo and right to stay and work when generated. 2. You cannot rent without presenting same share code. 3. You cannot go on cruise ship without presenting that. 4. Employers cannot hire you without presenting that code.

Codes are temporary, you login, generate and share that.

It's very much digital ID that's been in place for many years by now. So getting it to everyone makes sense, either "mark" everyone in a country or "mark" no one. And EU citizens been "marked" for a while and tested on with that system.
by krageon | 2025-10-03 08:55:04+00:00
I have not tried to do this, but I think you can set MaxMessages in your config to achieve something like this. If I'm understanding correctly, it essentially does a tail on your mailbox. The latest X messages will be kept, where X is the number after MaxMessages: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/isync/mbsync.1.en.html#...
by nunobrito | 2025-10-03 08:55:53+00:00
They are saying the truth: those emails are "technically" encrypted.

Just nowhere private on the sender side since they won't even keep the keys private.

Now much less private on the receiver side since they have for "reasons" to login into a gmail hosted server and give them data like their IP address and permit other things like browser fingerprinting.

Fantastic, from the title I almost believed they'd be adding private messaging as done by other email providers almost 30 years ago. But not yet.
Show HN: I made a md editor without the stuff that distracts me from writing
by a2nb | 2025-10-03 08:56:00+00:00
I built Tape because I have a hard time focusing on my actual task when the software is bloated with features and fluff. Apps like Obsidian are great, but I found myself spending more time configuring plugins and exploring features than actually writing.

Tape is intentionally minimal: - Just plain .md files (no proprietary format, sync however you want) - Fast search (ctrl+k), live preview (ctrl+tab), and that's mostly it - No graph view, no canvas, no daily notes system – just notes - Cross-platform via Wails (Linux/Windows/macOS)

The entire config is one JSON file at your notes root. Nothing hidden, nothing complex.

I realize "simple" means different things to different people, so I'm curious: what's the minimum feature set you need in a markdown editor? What features actually distract you from writing?

Any feedback on my project?
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-03 08:56:12+00:00
But no one should use sign in with google.

Are you saying that it's 100% garanteed optional in all situations? It has no power to be used to control or even coerce you or discriminate against you or build a profile and track you which can be used at a later date by a different party when a new political wind decides it finds you inconvenient? I find all of that hard to believe while still performing the convenience function let alone any legitimate law enforcement function.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-10-03 08:56:19+00:00
Don't know about baseball, but in other sports there are people who are paid to watch and hit buttons to help betting syndicates. "Courtsiders" (it started in tennis, so by the side of the tennis courts), are almost a bit behind the SOTA now, but there are accounts of that lifestyle[0]. Reading them, there is a mixture of partying and watching sport, with a local police chief in a Middle Eastern state putting his gun on the desk between you and suggesting bad things might happen if you don't leave town immediately. Fun? Up to you.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Game-Set-Cash-International-Trading/d...
by buildfocus | 2025-10-03 08:56:27+00:00
We already have exactly this right now, without digital ids, it's not even theoretical. The government blocks plenty of residents from aspects of society (eg can't work based on visa rules, can't access public/health services at all without legal residency). Currently that's enforced by random members of e.g. medical staff looking at your skin colour to decide whether to ask to check your physical paperwork before they'll look at your weird looking mole. Governments enforce plenty of paperwork checks & blocks today. I think a digital id strictly improves this scenario.
by afandian | 2025-10-03 08:56:35+00:00
> live in fear of private companies

It's not the _concept_ of private companies. It's specific things that those specific companies do. e.g.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...

Meaningful regulation would mean e.g. air-gapped infrastructure so they can't make inadvertent privacy mistakes. And guaranteed service levels, and a service of last resort.

Google have based built a business model without accountability and transparency. Which is fine, as long as we're not forced to use them by the state.
by mort96 | 2025-10-03 08:56:42+00:00
Small commits where each commit represents nothing of value and doesn't compile are terrible for git bisect. And for code review.

A code reviewer doesn't care that you spent 10 days across 100 commits tweaking some small piece of code, the code reviewer cares about what you ended up with.

The bisecter probably wants to compile the code at every commit to try and see if they can reproduce a bug. Commits which don't compile force the bisecter to step through commits one by one until they find one which compiles, linearizing a process which should be logarithmic.
by latexr | 2025-10-03 08:57:40+00:00
> I used to subscribe to (…) the top HN frontpage articles

https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.

> These days I have to "view-source" and search for feed or atom or rss to tell.

Doesn’t your feed service/app auto-detect feeds if you just paste the webpage? That’s a common feature.
by gronnmann | 2025-10-03 08:57:50+00:00
I saw someone making customized photos for their girlfriend from their photos on TikTok, and thought that it was a genious idea! It however took a lot of time (imagine waiting 5 minutes each for 20 photos), so I automatized it.

I then found a printing service to integrate it with, so now people can get the whole package, from creating the photos, quality assurance (I actually check all photos myself to ensure the AI doesn't hallucinate that bad) to delivery.

So far it almost doesn't earn anything (the API is really pricey, so I don't really make much per order), so I can't do any advertisement, but have had some organic traffic.

It's mostly targeted at families or couples, and I think it would be a really cute christmas or valentines gift idea.

Let me know what you guys think!
by agnishom | 2025-10-03 08:58:14+00:00
"But the government can already do all that without Digital ID."

That may be true, but the point is that it makes law enforcement less perfect, and that can be good. That is the point "stavros" is making.

Rosa parks broke the law by seating on a seat where she was "not supposed to". Hypothetically, if there were a quick ID check machine on the bus, it could have just prevented the whole thing from happening at all.
by MarioMan | 2025-10-03 08:58:32+00:00
Here’s the first time setup documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105132

And the general iPhone documentation: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/welcome/ios

Sometimes, I wish this documentation was a bit more technical, but it’s not bad at all.

The film on the front of a new iPhone, that you remove to reveal the screen during unboxing, provides pictorial icons of what each button on the phone does. For volume down, you can see a minus in a circle. It’s the bottommost button on the left.

I’m not sure why you had so much trouble creating an Apple ID, but you can still skip that when it prompts you to do so. I believe it’s under “Forgot password or don’t have an account”.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-10-03 08:59:25+00:00
There are two sides of the story, as usual

- we already have some forms of IDs. Most of us have personal ID, driving license, you data exist in government tables

- we already have some forms of IDs online. Everything is stored per email address, and phone address

- this makes some people do not care

- until government starts using it for nefarious reasons. All it takes is one president to change, one super power to shift

- people are ignorant, until it is too late

- the problem with digital ID is with centralization, that it is goldmine for hackers, it can be used to spy on you if all your data are in one bucket

- therefore people who say that they have digital ID lack imagination on what can happen

- it all works, when everything is disconnected, platforms, governments, etc.