MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by citbl | 2025-10-09 04:15:55+00:00
Yeah they're clearly not targeting people that have played a vectrex in their youth.

The games were nothing to write home about, but the rendering was fun.

You could emulate it with a slow rendering and fade (clear frame with black 99% opacity), but it would have to be perfect. Still, you'd never get the same glow on the drawing point.
by 01100011 | 2025-10-09 04:16:01+00:00
Equities in the US are priced in dollars. If you think the dollar is going to lose value(because the government is led by people who have repeatedly told you this is their goal) then you expect stocks to rise commensurate with the devaluation of the dollar. I am not a bitcoiner or saying the USD is done for, but it seems clear that the dollar is weakened and will continue to weaken and this is a significant risk for folks like me with minimal exposure to stocks and precious metals.
by 9x39 | 2025-10-09 04:16:24+00:00
It has to be because apparently you need a huge menu several times what you can prepare fresh in order to be a restaurant. Some of the best restaurants I've ever been to had only a few items on the menu.

At the same time, I've seen chefs take over and declare everything will be made in house, such as sauces and gravies, only to to see regular customers fight back and complain bitterly about the changes - they want the canned slop! Some clientele are just chicken nugget people, through and through.
by vasusen | 2025-10-09 04:17:31+00:00
They need to make it eligible for Class Action lawsuits to be filed if these are ignored. I wrote a script to routinely test opt out on websites and was stunned to see almost 50% had it implemented incorrectly. This includes high-flying tech companies that went public recently.

Under California’s CCPA / CPRA, most enforcement power lies with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and the California Attorney General, not private individuals. This limits the actual downside to a company vs. an unbounded downside of class-action lawsuit threat.
by cap11235 | 2025-10-09 04:18:07+00:00
Finance also has a ton of self-regulatory bodies, especially FINRA, which acts as a central arbiter of ugly behavior that isn't illegal. I won't sing their praises on the hills, but they do exist and they are effective at instilling a sense of fear. Taxis and hotels, and AirBNB and Uber do not have this.
by srcreigh | 2025-10-09 04:19:01+00:00
The caniuse test suite is the most basic tests of each feature. Self admittedly it does not actually verify the feature meets any spec.

If you just did what they have but make it actually test to the spec, it’d be great.

“Caniuse” is not gold standard. It’s basically “Did the browser vendor claim to support a feature”.

iOS safari has so many bugs throughout everything on the web, if you actually have them red for every feature with a bad bug, they’d have so much worse of a score.

Eg. Does safari support audio element? Yes on the surface. But try to play from a cached blob. It’s hilariously broken.

See my comment history, there’s an app with a LONG list of safari media bugs. Yet your page lists them with a green check. Lies.

I’m not surprised if nearly every feature there “works” but try to build an app with it and you find yourself set up to fail.
by vmg12 | 2025-10-09 04:19:09+00:00
I'm literally winning money playing online today playing 400nl (200nl with a straddle, in the US).

Please explain to me how you think these bots work? Do you think they are literally hooked into solvers and solving these hands in real time? If you actually understood poker you'd understand that the winrate from GTO is not good enough to make real money playing poker without a massive sample size, the game is all about exploiting players when they deviate from GTO. Explain to me how you program your poker bot to know intuitively that a player has too many bluff combinations when a flush arrives on the turn after they check back on the flop therefor you should call wider than standard? There are a billion little unique situations where people don't bluff enough, bluff too much, call too much or call too little and that is where the winrate from poker comes from.

This is the difference between having a 3 bb / 100 winrate and a 10-15 bb / 100 winrate. Maybe there are a bunch of shitty poker bots winning at 1 bb / 100 but if they are winning it's because some players suck really really bad, not because they are playing perfect poker.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-09 04:19:34+00:00
This product is for towing behind another aircraft, but what about winch towing?

A winched glider implements flight with renewable electricity and it does so efficiently because the power and motor never leave the ground!

A glider can climb up to 5000 feet and travel 50x that before making a landing. Wouldn’t it be glorious to see cargo being autonomously slung from site to site across the world, powered entirely by green electricity?
by CJefferson | 2025-10-09 04:19:50+00:00
I had the opposite problem recently, I got a work phishing email from netflix.com . Now I still shouldn’t have clicked on it, netflix isn’t attached to my work email, but you couldn’t actually send a phishing email from account@netflix.com, they had to give access to our inboxes so the phishing company could manually drop it into our inboxes.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:20:27+00:00
> I've road tripped across the north east, South East, Midwest, PNW

There is a class element to the problem. Restaurants tailored to folks on the road tend to focus on their costs. Restaurants offering fine dining obsessively make everything in house. In between, you need local knowledge to navigate the landscape—you’ll struggle to get that on a road trip (versus staying in one town for a few weeks).
Ask HN: Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption?
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-09 04:20:57+00:00
I've been working on improving aspects of my life that I don't feel serve me super well. I've made really strong progress in physical areas, but digital has been much more challenging.

I spend way too much time browsing Reddit, YouTube/Twitch, and Facebook. Thankfully, I never got into Insta or TikTok. I want to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend interacting with these sites, but they feel so deeply engrained into my psyche that it feels nearly impossible.

I've tried some of the simpler suggestions like configuring a Tampermonkey extension to limit access, or installing Cold Turkey (https://getcoldturkey.com/). The problem is that I know how to work around these things (you can just edit your clock time to mitigate Cold Turkey ...) and so, eventually, the cravings become enough that I do so even though it's not in my best interest.

Another issue is that sometimes sites have valuable information. For example, some subreddits have useful information related to programming, fitness, etc. and I'll encounter them through a Google search. If I'm prevented from accessing this information when doing legitimate research then I find that frustrating and wish there was an exception to the rule. I'm not sure how grounded that stance is, though.

In the physical world, I've had great success defeating habits by limiting physical access. I don't keep snacks at home and, if I must, I'll put them in a timed, locking container (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9J3MLM) such that I'm unable to open it when having a craving. This helped me with things like delicious toppings for salads which I wanted to keep on-hand, but not be tempted by 24/7.

The problem is more challenging when working with digital addictions. I'm wondering what my options are here? I assume something related to parental controls at/near the hardware level and a time-release password? Not sure if anything time-based is viable if I can just mess with my computer's clock time, but maybe if it dials out to a third-party server for timing info and I don't go so far as to MITM the response? I'd prefer solutions that I'm able to implement myself rather than relying on repeatedly handing passwords off to friends, but am understanding if that's a hard requirement.

Anyone had any success here? Thanks!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:22:13+00:00
> just don't like paying someone else multiples of what it would cost for me (or my spouse) to do ourselves

I live in west Wyoming and stopped eating steaks out for this reason.

That said, I am an adventurous eater. I am curious about food, and for that restaurants are a raison d’être. If you aren’t curious about food, it obviously isn’t worth the price. (The Sysco spots pretty on tourists or those seeking to eat out for convenience. They serve glorified fast food.)

> Forgot how much HN loves restaurants

For what it’s worth, your original comment dismisses restaurants generally. If you point out you prefer to eat simply, predictably and on a tight budget, the conclusion that restaurants don’t work for you follows.
by gls2ro | 2025-10-09 04:23:28+00:00
If you go down in physics you might discover that the reality seems to be composed a lot more by probabilities. An objective reality built on probabilities does not seem so objective afterall.

Here is a fun think to try: demonstrate that you and me are seeing the same color in the same way? You might find some papers trying to prove it but you will se they are all based on subjective answers of people.

So while at macro level the reality seems hard and objective at the micro level it is not.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-09 04:23:34+00:00
Even if the OS doesn't have any bad security practices and doesn't do this, there is a very simple way to execute code from an USB stick: the USB stick pretends it's a USB keyboard and starts sending input to access a terminal. As long as the computer is unlocked, this will work, and will easily get full local user access, even defeating UAT or similar measures. It can then make itself persistent by "typing in" a malicious script, and going further from there.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-09 04:24:22+00:00
This is like the Linux discussion. (No its not the year of Linux no matter how much Windows 11 pisses you off)

"Old fashioned forums" absolutely suck for discoverability. You have to waste time digging through posts, most of which are unrelated or just filler. No upvote/downvote and usually a mediocre threading mechanism. While we are on this topic, Discord is the same. IRC like applications are not an easy way to get to the point for the same reasons.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-09 04:25:36+00:00
I keep hearing people say this, but I haven’t found it so: in over a decade, I think I’ve only seen it twice. Looking through my password safe which I’ve been using for about twelve years with over 200 entries, I have nine cases with multiple origin URLs, and most of them I’m confident I added manually because I didn’t like the URL it recorded automatically (e.g. it’s on a different domain from the main site, and the specific path is for signup only, but I want to be able to “visit site” from the password safe and get to the login page or at least the homepage). I think that only two of them have ever actually used more than one origin: a banking one that switched from .com.au to .com at some point as part of a broader global restructuring (and they made a fair bit of noise about it, and you had to partly make a new account anyway), and a Microsoft account. There’s a third that I can’t check (COVID-related, gone) that might have been, but I don’t think so.

Now on a few occasions I’ve had to copy passwords in order to access things in a different browser, and I think I did encounter one site some years ago where autofill didn’t work, but I really do find autofill almost completely reliable.
by themafia | 2025-10-09 04:26:20+00:00
That's not how Ponzi schemes work. Yahoo had a defacto _monopoly_ and the market had bad discovery leading to bad price information. There was no point at which the internet was /not/ worth investing in and everyone who had experience with it knew that.

The real problem seemed to be that you can only put so much money into pets.com before it becomes stupid. You had more short term investment capital than could be _effectively_ spent at the time. The long term players, as usual, avoided the Archimedian idealism, and were heavily rewarded anyways.

pg has startup brains.
by Incipient | 2025-10-09 04:27:03+00:00
Is it not just these are two entirely different target markets? While I'm not familiar with sysco as I'm not in the US, these are just chain-y generic and cheap eateries that are frequented by families/people that just want something predictable and cheap? Conversely people that like food or are a bit better off eat at restaurants that actually cook stuff from scratch?

Bonus points - investigate WHY people/families are after cheap eating out, and not cooking at home.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:27:12+00:00
> If their articles are so important, why don't they allow everyone to see them?

Most people read the news to be entertained. They aren’t making decisions of consequence, they aren’t civically involved and they don’t know anyone who does either. For these folks, TV and free news is fine.

The minority of decision makers, on the other hand, value information directly, but are not numerous enough to sustain investigative journalism through ads. They won’t pay, however, if they can get what they need for free.

So you wind up with an ecosystem of emotionally-triggering free slop and deeply researched, potentially at risk to the journalist, and paywalled journalism. The latter is impactful in part because it reaches people the former would not.
by noitpmeder | 2025-10-09 04:27:21+00:00
I think it's a bit insane to think that Russia couldn't completely and totally obliterate civilian central infrastructure in Ukraine if it wanted to. It's not like these locations are hidden or top-secret, or like Ukraine has the ability to completely and inevitably stop the attacks.

However, whatever wins this achieved would probably instantly be overshadowed by the negatives. Think of mass famine, relocation, refugee-ism, ... Not to mention a destroyed infrastructure that the eventual owner needs to rebuild as a first priority. Not even to mention the increased levels of international condemnation due to such a targeted attack on a civilian population.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-09 04:27:27+00:00
When I say "tool" I really mean a python script. This particular one is ~100 lines of python with a main() method, that Claude Code wrote in a single shot, that I then committed to the repo in a scripts/ directory. That lets me include it in pre-commit hooks, run it when I run the tests, and have it run during CI.

A 100 line script finishes in milliseconds and burns no tokens. So you can run it hundreds of times per day.

The mindset is: will you need repeatability? If so, have the LLM write code, because code gives you determinism.
by cookiengineer | 2025-10-09 04:28:05+00:00
Better way to protect yourself is to get rid of Android's Google Play services.

Install a mod like GrapheneOS or LineageOS and use F-droid to get your apps.

Install Molly, the FOSS Signal client.

Don't use WhatsApp, don't use Telegram, don't use Meta apps, don't use TikTok, don't use Snapchat.

Install EFFs Rayhunter App.

Install a Bluetooth beacon tracker protection app like AirGuard.

Use a firewall app like NetGuard to protect leaking traffic.

Always remember, a device has an IMEI associated with its modem, there is no point to switch SIM cards if they're tracking you. Phones with no removable battery are always on, even when they're off, and will react to Silent SMS (class 0) that are stealthy pings that can track you. Especially iOS devices are always trackable, even in Airplane mode or when they're turned "off".

Buy used hardware from eBay, check LineageOS wiki for compatibility.

Stay safe.
by eklitzke | 2025-10-09 04:28:56+00:00
NUMA has a huge amount of overhead (e.g. in terms of intercore latency), and NUMA server CPUs cost a lot more than single socket boards. If you look at the servers at Google or Facebook they will have some NUMA servers for certain workloads that actually need them, but most most servers will be single socket because they're cheaper and applications literally run faster on them. It's a win win if you can fit your workload on a single socket server so there is a lot of motivation to make applications work in a non-NUMA way if at all possible.
by Frotag | 2025-10-09 04:30:34+00:00
Stuff like this is why I usually go for network namespaces + (wireguard / socks / iptables) when I need to isolate traffic.

> The tracker in question that I wanted to get this working for explicitly forbids running development builds of approved BitTorrent clients.

Also didn't realize trackers were that strict about clients. I've seen some ban buggy versions / sketchy clients (usually cloud-based or for mobile), but that's usually a for-your-own-good type thing. Major names like QBT are usually fine regardless of version.
by komali2 | 2025-10-09 04:30:51+00:00
> You can have outsized impact by participating in democracy.

That's exactly my point, the normal mode of "participating" in democracy is usually called voting, which, individually, in most elections, does nothing. Only in aggregate does a vote matter, there's not been an election decided by a single vote in my lifetime, that I'm aware of anyway. So in reality, to effectively participate in democracy at minimum requires doing something as an individual that causes more than just your vote to happen for the candidate you want. Door knocking or calls for example.

So just saying "participating" isn't enough because many people just interpret that as voting, which is an act with no individual impact.

I'm interested in actions individuals can take that have actual impact, and are thus individually empowering. I believe liberal democracy has made nations of sleepwalkers and the result is becoming apparent in the 21st century as governments seem to act more and more against the will of the people.
by photochemsyn | 2025-10-09 04:31:13+00:00
One easy free-market-friendly libertarian-approved solution would give citizens and residents of California a choice - your data can be kept private, or you can get a sizeable precentage of the value if you opt-in to data collection and sharing.

I'm not really sure how much this would be worth - and would it scale? How much value does the data from a worker at the lower end of the labor pool wage scale have in relation to that from the C-suite members of a mid-size corporation? Should we all have the right to climb up on the block and sell our data to the highest bidders, while collecting the majority of the profits from the transaction ourselves? It might make more sense to sell your data in five-year future contracts - opportunity to renegotiate rates now and then makes sense.

It's informational data, and in worlds like the commodity markets, information is invaluable. Traders have access to everything from satellite data of oil tankers to insider information from drilling rigs and they pay a lot to keep their data current and accurate, get access to proprietary databases and even nation-state classified sources.

Thus, if human data is so valuable, the humans generating the data should be the ones collecting the majority of its financial value if they opt to sell it. From this view, the real crime here is theft of worker value by data collectors and resellers in a monopolistic market system.
by cap11235 | 2025-10-09 04:31:22+00:00
I feel like flash could have been adapted to low battery quite easily (it isn't like JS has some super smart concurrency; it is literally the basic common denominator unless you are using a Z80). Rather, Macromedia was in the toilet, then purchased, and Youtube (and Vimeo and others) started to be useful, making a more appealing platform (and probably the first other than newgrounds) for animation. Having someone else host media was a big +++
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-09 04:31:29+00:00
>My favourite part of Windows is how opening the start menu causes CPU usage to spike because the start menu is made using React, versus using native UI components for it. Is... that the kind of "working together" that you mean?

Yeah your one edge case is totally the reality for the billions of people that use Windows daily. To be more clear since I expected these kids of responses: On the mean the OS is the most cohesive out of all of them. Its still a 30+ year old collection of code despite being made under one roof, its going to have edge cases.

If you have have to start your comment with Id didn't have to do that or it works for me then its "not my department" syndrome.
by kjs3 | 2025-10-09 04:31:38+00:00
I have hordes of documents.

Funny enough, one of my attorneys taught me a lesson a long time ago around this. Simplified, she said "only and idiot claims to have lots of documents" to support their action. Sure, it's the easy/lazy way to try and intimidate people with the lowest amount of knowledge about how things work. But anyone with the slightest clue knows 1) talk is cheap, 2) you don't need a lot of docs, you just need the one that matters, and 3) if you claim to have documents, you'll eventually have to produce them, and if you can't, you look like an idiot.

Maybe put another way...don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash.
by vacuity | 2025-10-09 04:32:17+00:00
I agree that the decisions will likely be made in the end, but I want to say that the decisions should be made as high/late as possible. It is important to note not just that a decision has been made, but where it has been made, for any dynamic system. This will determine things like overhead or maintenance burden.

Contrary to QNX, I'm not entirely convinced that network transparency by default is ultimately best, though that is a separate concern.
by kmoser | 2025-10-09 04:32:25+00:00
I have no doubt I'm in the minority. My preference is basically the more words on a line the better, to reduce as much as possible a) my eyes jumping to the beginning of the next line, and b) having to scroll the page and have my eyes sync to the scrolling. The only reason I enlarge the font is to make it large enough to read comfortably. I don't make it too big, though, because then the lines start to become shorter, and I'm back to the original problem: having to keep jumping to the next line, and scrolling fairly often (which is my biggest complaint because I find that even more distracting than moving my eyes to the next line).
by smsm42 | 2025-10-09 04:32:26+00:00
True, some of it just random. But some is not. There were reasons why that boom was unsustainable, and they weren't hidden. One can argue nobody knew how and when exactly the break will happen - maybe now, maybe in a week, maybe in 5 years - but it's not possible that everybody gets 0% no doc loans on any house and it continues forever. To figure out the intricacies of why it happened and how it broke, you need a lot of knowledge. To know it's not normal and there would be a point where it has to change - you don't need that much, and many people did. Discounting them as random cranks is not right.
by pierrec | 2025-10-09 04:33:08+00:00
Counterpoint, I've been using yarr almost daily for about a year and I can't say I share any of your wishlist items. I love how simple and elegant it is, and anything that makes the UI more complex or distracting would only take away from that.

I run it on a VPS so I can access it from phone+laptop and it looks great everywhere. I've only "augmented" it by throwing a basic rss bridge on the same server (well, the bridge is really single-file python script that generates rss feeds from other sources).