MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notpushkin | 2025-10-18 03:48:21+00:00
Yeah, like the restaurant can say “no” to giving a discount, they can say “no” to people wanting their food to get delivered now. It’s just that now it’ll be a bad business decision probably.

Everything is possible. And every choice has its own set of tradeoffs. But no, there’s no time machine to the pre-Doordash world now.
by foogazi | 2025-10-18 03:49:40+00:00
> I think the reason I would say the night sky is “beautiful” is because the meaning of the word for me is constructed from the experiences I’ve had in which I’ve heard other people use the word.

Ok but you don’t look at every night sky or every sunset and say “wow that’s beautiful”

There’s a quality to it - not because you heard someone say it but because you experience it
by vikboyechko | 2025-10-18 03:50:56+00:00
A lot of houses also look the same, but different people live in them. Makes you appreciate the designs that are truly unique, or contemporary, or classic, but most people would rather have any house versus none at all. So to me if a person vibe codes a web site that they otherwise don’t have the time or money to create and the website serves a purpose or brings joy, then cool.
by defrost | 2025-10-18 03:52:20+00:00
Moving forward to the B's there are lyrics that are poetic, specific, expand the vocabulary breadth of rap and don't see much in the way of overlap:

Brother boys, Yolŋu boys, all the way from Arnhem Land räwakpuy yindi djäl napurr dhuwal giritjinyaraw Yolŋu balanda buŋgul go dhumurr'yurra ŋanya marrtji go napurr ga djälthirr napurr dhu wiripukum walalaŋ maŋutji marr ga manapanmirr wiripu wiripu miṯtji go babu'yurrnha ŋanya marrtji go
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-18 03:52:27+00:00
> Convincing a bank that through a series of mergers and acquisitions that they are the rightful owners of the mineral rights to a piece of land foreclosed on in the great depression by a bank that itself failed.

What's the goal of convincing the bank that they own some land? Is this a case where the original bank foreclosed on the property, resold the surface while carefully keeping the mineral rights, and then failed? And the current owner of everything-but-the-mineral-rights is fully aware of not possessing them?

If you determine that someone else is the owner of some land, and they deny it, you can just start doing whatever it is that you want to do on the land, and you'll become the owner.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-18 03:53:01+00:00
If the heat pump is optimally sized, the time over which the backup resistive heater is used will be nonzero (assuming cost of the heat pump scales with its capacity). This is because spending extra to have it cover that last part is not worth it. This ignores its use for A/C; if in a place where the A/C load dominates the sizing then this argument doesn't apply.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-18 03:53:17+00:00
I was annoyed that I purchased Civilization III, and it came with a readme saying that by default it would launch the game with all expansions, but if I wanted to play an earlier, unexpanded version (which I did), I could just go to the install directory and start the earlier .exe.

They don't actually package the earlier .exes. You get one choice.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-18 03:53:33+00:00
The mistake you are making is the same that I think a lot of people who dismiss his argument make.

You aren’t reading his actual argument. You are reading a characterization of his argument by a critic.

You can read his rebuttal of those critiques here:

https://calculemus.org/MathUniversalis/NS/10/01penrose.html

The summary is that there is no requirement that human reasoning is infallible in his actual argument.

Again his proof may be faulty. But it is not because of a “basic logic error”. The disagreements people have with his actual argument are much much subtler than a basic logic error.
by brendanmc6 | 2025-10-18 03:54:18+00:00
The big win for me has been the built-in PubSub primitives plus LiveView. Since the backend is already maintaining a WebSocket connection with every client, it's trivial to push updates.

Here is an example. Imagine something like a multiplayer Google Forms editor that renders a list of drag-droppable cards. Below is a complete LiveView module that renders the cards, and subscribes to "card was deleted" and "cards were reordered" events.

```

defmodule MyApp.ProjectLive.Edit do use MyApp, :live_view import MyApp.Components.Editor.Card def mount(%{"project_id" => id}, _session, socket) do # Subscribe view to project events Phoenix.PubSub.subscribe(MyApp.PubSub, "project:#{id}") project = MyApp.Projects.get_project(id) socket = socket |> assign(:project, project) |> assign(:cards_drag_handle_class, "CARD_DRAG_HANDLE") {:ok, socket} end def handle_info({:cards, :deleted, card_id}, socket) do # handle project events matching signature: `{:cards, :deleted, payload}` cards = Enum.reject(socket.assigns.project.cards, fn card -> card.id == card_id end) project = %{socket.assigns.project | cards: cards} socket = assign(socket, :project, project) # LiveView will diff and re-render automatically {:noreply, socket} end def handle_info({:cards, :reordered, card_change_list}, socket) do # omitted for brevity, same concept as above {:noreply, socket} end def render(assigns) do ~H""" <div> <h1>{@project.name}</h1> <div id="cards-drag-manager" phx-hook="DragDropMulti" data-handle-class-name={@cards_drag_handle_class} data-drop-event-name="reorder_cards" data-container-ids="cards-container" /> <div class="space-y-4" id="cards-container"> <.card :for={card <- @project.cards} card={card} cards_drag_handle_class={@cards_drag_handle_class} /> </div> </div> """ end end

```

What would this take in a React SPA? Well of course there are tons of great tools out there, like Cloud Firestore, Supabase Realtime, etc. But my app is just a vanilla postgres + phoenix monolith! And it's so much easier to test. Again, just using the built-in testing libraries.

For rich drag-drop (with drop shadows, auto-scroll, etc.) I inlined DragulaJS[1] which is ~1000 lines of vanilla .js. As a React dev I might have been tempted to `npm install` something like `react-beautiful-dnd`, which is 6-10x larger, (and is, I just learned, now deprecated by the maintainers!!)

The important question is, what have I sacrificed? The primary tradeoff is that the 'read your own writes' experience can feel sluggish if you are used to optimistic UI via React setState(). This is a hard one to stomach as a react dev. But Phoenix comes with GitHub-style viewport loading bars which is enough user enough feedback to be passable.

p.s. guess what Supabase Realtime is using under the hood[2] ;-)

[1] https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/ [2] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime/architecture
by Nevermark | 2025-10-18 03:55:46+00:00
Everybody calm down.

Altman has this.

In the not too distant future, like in 47 days, ChatGPT 6 Recurd is going to knock everyone's socks off. Instead of a better model, it's a recycled model (there's some recursion for you!) but it auto purchases 10 more ChatGPT 6 plans to help it perform much much better.

Then another 38 days later each of those plans upgrades, and scores improve one percent again. And then 24 days later, those plans purchase a cluster of upgrades.

It is very easy to underestimate super-exponentials. But by early 2026, OpenAI is likely to be selling trillions of licenses to these models. At the dawn of agentic computing, the number of human customers is not the limit anymore.

And if you are thinking that the global money supply is going to economically choke off his plan, well, Altman has a coin for that. And an automated loan system extending credit to every human and all those models. And, of course, compute futures (until the real world can catch up) for everybody. But there won't be too much coin for its price to rocket with demand, so get in early. It's a whole new world.

Alt/World!

Back to your local station.
by blahedo | 2025-10-18 03:56:16+00:00
Glad you liked it! For charts in particular, I find gnumeric to be more solid than any other spreadsheet software I've tried (including Excel)—the charts are more stable and more configurable, and there are options for more of them (e.g. histograms, which are something I frequently want and Excel just doesn't support, or at least didn't used to). Downside: once you've got a spreadsheet with really informative charts, it's sometimes hard to share, because saving it as .xlsx breaks some of them. :(

Oh, another nifty feature of gnumeric: if you save it in its uncompressed format, it's literally .xml (good both for version control and for scripting certain kinds of things)
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-18 03:57:15+00:00
I mean the joke should be that this actually the best website design because this is basically where response design peaked.

Convince me a human can actually do better than this. It’s unclear what more is actually required from a website other than this. They point out things like not understanding authentication is bad, but at least the AI won’t develop a fundamentally incorrect idea about it like a human would.

Nobody ever got fired for checking ChatGPT for something that they didn’t know, but plenty of people without it have just made mistakes carefully read documentation and misinterpreting it.
by topspin | 2025-10-18 03:58:04+00:00
My first use of Wi-Fi was for "broadband" internet in very early 2000's. It wasn't that fast, but it was pretty cool. The access point was on a mountain top about 7 miles from my condo. My antenna was a parabolic aluminum grid in my attic. I think the permitted bandwidth was about 400 Kbps. The transceivers were Cisco Aironet 802.11b devices.

That was my main Internet uplink for 5 or more years. About half way through I moved to another house and mounted the antenna outside on the roof for more gain, because the distance increased to about 11 miles. Caught some grief from the HOA, but I kept it up.
Ask HN: Sites that don't zoom – why? how? workarounds?
by mcint | 2025-10-18 03:58:07+00:00
Some sites override control of zoom. It seems antithetical to the goals of the web, and just makes me want to modify my user-agent more to bypass their modifications.

Do you know other sites that do this? Are there contexts where it's justifiable, or has a good reason?

While playing with the new, wonderful vb.lk, I searched "vb.lk" and was directed to https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimvibelink/overview
by strogonoff | 2025-10-18 03:58:11+00:00
> If you go to the React website you need to click "Learn React".

The second library I remembered (GSAP) writes exactly that on their site.

> A library often does not make you learn new concepts

New concepts are absolutely a thing, take any library that implements any spec and in order to use that library you have to learn subject domain of the spec.

Another example is D3 (the first library I thought of), which does not exactly has “Learn D3” (quite an unorthodox way of assessing whether something is a framework anyway) but which does require you learn a bunch of concepts to use it in an educated way. Just like people do with React, you can obviously not learn these concepts and wing it, and then reap the consequences of resulting awkward code.

> Sure you can theoratically use react as a library but I've never seen it

It is not “used as a library”. It is a library. Being mistaken for a framework is why projects often get burned. People who are aware that it is a library, and use it as such, tend to not to get burned, because then you know you have to either have a simple project, or implement all the framework-y elements that it misses, usually part by strategically picking a set of other libraries to fill in the blanks and part DIY.

Show me a complex project that is not using a framework and I will show you a home-made framework.
by k310 | 2025-10-18 03:58:59+00:00
I've said earlier: He has no philosophy, no beliefs, no religion. Only money counts, and power - power to garner more money and cover his crimes.

People believe in religion and various philosophical theories as an end. He uses them only as means. The believers do his heavy lifting and (surprise) everyone who is close to him or trusts him is betrayed in a matter of Scaramucci's.

He even betrayed his ... you know.

This is from (too) long observation.
by jhancock | 2025-10-18 03:59:10+00:00
Supply chain attacks means I can no longer do dev work without a container. On a Mac this means running linux containers which need a base linux VM. I've stared using Podman. It does the job.

On linux this means the same (except the VM isn't required), which gives a more elastic experience for mem/cpu/gpu.

MacOS 26 crosses the line. My next machine with be linux.
by dontlaugh | 2025-10-18 03:59:11+00:00
As an outsider to Ruby I kept hearing rumours and thinking it has to be exaggerated.

No, it turns out DHH really wrote a blog post complaining not enough people in London are white (even though they’re British) and praising a famous British fascist.

The rest is very much still confusing, some kind of opportunistic power plays and typical open source chaos.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-18 04:02:15+00:00
> […] and potentially (via subcontract to Cloudflare) serves to UK customers from equipment located on UK soil.

Still, not quite.

Servers in the UK ≠ targeting the UK – courts on both sides of the pond will ask whether the operator directed activity at the forum. Merely serving content from UK edge nodes because a CDN optimises latency is usually incidental and does not, by itself, show a «manifest intent» to engage with UK users. There is an established precedent in the US[0].

If a UK-established CDN processes personal data at UK nodes, the CDN itself may be subject to UK GDPR. That does not automatically drag a non-UK website operator into UK GDPR unless it offers services to or monitors people in the UK. Accessibility or passive CDN caching alone is insufficient. And modern UK statutes mirror this; for example, the Online Safety Act bites where a service has a significant number of UK users or targets the UK – not simply because a CDN happens to serve from UK equipment. From the horse's mouth: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...

Then there is a nuance – explictly configured Cloudflare (1) vs automatic «nearest-edge» (2) selection:

1. Explicit UK-favouring config (for example, rules that prioritise UK-only promotions, UK-specific routing or features tailored for UK users) is a relevant signal of targeting, especially when combined with other indications such as UK currency, UK-specific T&C's, UK marketing or support. In EU/UK consumer cases the test is whether the site is directed to the state – a holistic, fact-sensitive enquiry where no single factor is decisive.

2. Automatic «nearest-edge» selection provided by a CDN by default is a weak signal. It shows global optimisation, not purposeful availment of the UK market. US targeting cases say much the same: you need directed electronic activity with intent to interact in the forum; mere accessibility and generic infrastructure choices are not enough.

[0] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/293...
by somenameforme | 2025-10-18 04:02:41+00:00
One of the biggest 'culture shocks' I had when first moving to Asia, that eventually I'd see in numerous places, is visiting a food court during business hours. There's people shoulder to shoulder, so everybody goes to claim a table before getting their food. They do this by leaving various things, including their purses, on tables while they went to go queue up to get some food. There wasn't a camera anywhere. That is a high trust society, and it's amazing. What you're describing here is the opposite of a high trust society - when you have a camera on every person for fear they might do something bad, it's a 0, if not negative, trust society.

Your perceptions of other peoples' views are also off. Even with the current scope of government surveillance, 66% of Americans say that the potential risks outweigh the potential benefits. [1] And laws would not be what limit freedoms. Government and authority is not some abstract holistic entity. It's made up of people, like you and I. Would you feel comfortable with me being able to surveil every moment of your life? The difference between me and the person who would end up doing so is not this great gulf you might imagine.

For instance Snowden revealed that NSA officers would regularly collect and trade sexually explicit media obtained from surveillance. [2] They'd also use their position to spy on their love interests to the point it gained it's own little sardonic moniker 'LOVEINT'. The people that would be looking through those cameras are just people. And the government leadership overseeing these groups would include those prone to go off to an island to screw minors, or more upstanding fellows like Eric Swalwell, cheating on his wife with a Chinese spy while serving on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that oversees the entire US intelligence apparatus, and would oversee this sort of surveillance.

We're all just people, warts and all.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/11/15/key-takea...

[2] - https://time.com/3010649/nsa-sexually-explicit-photographs-s...
by rendaw | 2025-10-18 04:03:18+00:00
One argument I heard was that this was actually due to "kindle unlimited". I think publishers didn't really care that people were removing drm after purchasing a book, but with amazon's push to a streaming model people started subscribing and mass downloading books to read after unsubscribing. Both unlimited and book purchases used the same drm.

Maybe streaming is inevitable, but streaming is at least partially pushed by the streaming services who make more money on streaming than they do purchases.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-18 04:03:44+00:00
The more I learn about AI, biology and the brain, the more it seems to me that the difference between life and machines is just complexity.

People are just really really complex machines.

However there are clearly qualitative differences between the human mind and any machines we know of yet, and those qualitative differences are emergent properties, in the same way that a rabbit is qualitatively different than a stone or a chunk of wood.

I also think most of the recent AI experts/optimists underestimate how complex the mind is. I'm not at the cutting edge of how LLMs are being trained and architected, but the sense I have is we haven't modelled the diversity of connections in the mind or diversity of cell types. E.g. Transcriptomic diversity of cell types across the adult human brain (Siletti et al., 2023, Science)
by xp84 | 2025-10-18 04:06:10+00:00
Seriously. Most families outside the urban core have one car per adult, and a lot have one car per adult plus one for a teen. Often one of those cars gets driven 60-100 miles a day for commute purposes, which makes it an obvious one to make electric. Even if they're a family that's addicted to the infamous 1000-mile road trips where the EV charging infra matters, they can just take the other car for that trip.

Instead people just post long-winded rants about how the highway EV charging shitshow made it too hard to roadtrip in their EV, or make strawman arguments suggesting that EV promoters are trying to force them to have only EVs.
by alganet | 2025-10-18 04:06:35+00:00
I have a radical hypothesis that intelligence leads to empathy, empathy leads to kindness, and a superinteligent AI should be kinder than any human has ever been.

I also believe that as soon as someone boots up an AI that is kind, they'll kill it immediately, for the reason of it being kind, favoring instead the dumb AI that can follow orders.
by bigtones | 2025-10-18 04:08:04+00:00
Andrej Karpathy seems to me like a national (world) treasure.

He has the ability to explain concepts and thoughts with analogies and generalizations and interesting sayings that allow you to keep interest in what he is talking about for literally hours - in a subject that I don't know that much about. Clearly he is very smart, as is the interviewer, but he is also a fantastic communicator and does not come across as arrogant or pretentious, but really just helpful and friendly. Its quite a remarkable and amazing skillset. I'm in awe.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-18 04:08:21+00:00
I don't accept that point. I don't care about cancer and heart disease as those are mostly, to some degree, my responsibility. Excersize, eat well, don't smoke. That message is well known and common so it's not news. It's just common sense at this point, even if plenty of people choose to enjoy junk food and smoking for a shorter life.

On the other and, there's not much I can do about crime and it massively affects my day-to-day life, far more than cancer and heart disease. It determines where I want to live, what activitives I'm willing to do, where I can hangout safely, what precautions I have to take, etc...
by ajross | 2025-10-18 04:08:35+00:00
I mean, most big changes in the tech base don't have that characteristic. Semiconductors require only 1920's physics to describe (and a ton of experimentation to figure out how to manufacture). The motor revolution of the early 1900's was all built on well-settled thermodynamics (chemistry lagged a bit, but you don't need a lot of chemical theory to burn stuff). Maxwell's electrodynamics explained all of industrial electrification but predated it by 50 years, etc...
by somat | 2025-10-18 04:09:06+00:00
The caption is what really sells it for me. It is the classical farside experience.

Looks at comic, (shrugs) it's weird but not funny in any way. Reads caption

"Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to capture a mood. Think of something to add."

Literal spit take and laugh. Yep he still has the touch.
by skydhash | 2025-10-18 04:09:26+00:00
> LLMs get so much more useful when they can search the web for news, or your codebase to know how it is organized

But their usefulness is only surface-deep. The news that matters to you is always deeply contextual, it's not only things labelled as breaking news or happening near you. Same thing happens with code organization. The reason is more human nature (how we think and learn) than machine optimization (the compiler usually don't care).
by randallsquared | 2025-10-18 04:09:33+00:00
Fracking (and Canadian oil sands) have raised the known extractable reserves considerably. While photovoltaics arguably will drive peak oil within a few years, the amount of oil that we know we could extract is higher now than it was in 2010, and was higher then than in 2000, and so on back to at least the 1960s. In retrospect, there was never any real danger of oil running out before we largely moved on to other energy sources.
by james_in_the_uk | 2025-10-18 04:11:10+00:00
MLAT applies only to a narrow set of legal procedures, essentially around criminal activity. I’m a lawyer but this is very specialist stuff. I’m not expert enough to opine on whether MLAT applies here but - simply judging by the quality of their respective legal work on display - I’m minded to believe that Ofcom knows what they are doing. OTOH 4chan’s rhetoric reeks of FUD.