MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwinaugustin | 2025-10-09 12:23:00+00:00
I’ve been working on Toolbit — a simple developer toolbox

https://toolbit.pages.dev

This privacy-friendly developer toolbox that bundles a bunch of everyday utilities (JSON formatter, JWT decoder, Base64 encoder, Markdown previewer, etc.) into a single, consistent interface.

It works completely on client side and designed for quick, distraction-free workflows.Right now, the app has a clean sidebar with all tools organized by category .Also it offers as PWA.

It started because I kept opening random web tools for tiny tasks and most of them have lots of ads and not sure where the data is shared with the backend.

Would love to get thoughts from other devs here:

1) What small utilities do you find yourself searching for all the time?

2) Would you prefer a desktop version or just use the web app?

3) Any other “must-have” features you’d want in something like this?
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-09 12:23:35+00:00
Worldnews is only "conservative" in its zealously pro-Israel position. On a number of other topics it is very left-leaning in moderation. On immigration, for instance. As a classic conservative I actually believe in strong borders and that immigrants need to be in service of the citizens of a country and align with its values, which put me at odds with that pro-Israel but also pro-mass migration sub.

Regardless, and to rehash, the foundation of your position was that conservatives have their own place and non-conservatives should be banned on sight to give them their zone. But it isn't a conservative sub, it's a Donald Trump cult subreddit. Which everyone knows at this point -- it certainly isn't a secret -- but again I only brought it up because it was so comedic to mention that sub but not offer as an example of absolutely insane subreddit moderation.

If there is a problem with moderation on reddit, /r/conservative is the perfect example of power tripping moderation and an inability for casual visitors to understand how one-sided the perspective has been curated to be. Again, I only pointed out how hilarious it was to mention that sub, but only to criticize other subs.

>You don't think that's a problem with the platform?

It is a reality on any curated or moderated site (including HN). Every single human on this planet has biases and agendas and conflicts of interest.

Should every sub have a firehose of moderated away comments and or banned users and their reasons? Sure, probably, in the same way that HN has showdead. I mean, there's going to be a lot of heinous stuff among it, but it would make for a fascinating analysis.

EDIT: Every comment I made suddenly got a -4 applied to it, which is kind of funny in the context of this discussion. I am 100% convinced that HN has "super arrow" users, though this has never been disclosed or detailed. But, eh...
by OskarS | 2025-10-09 12:24:16+00:00
You can absolutely save data like that, it's just that it's a terrible idea. There are obvious portability concerns issues: little-endian vs. big endian, 32-bit vs. 64-bit, struct padding, etc.

Essentially, this system works great if you know the exact hardware and compiler toolchain, and you never expect to upgrade it with things that might break memory layout. Obviously this does not hold for Word: it was written originally in a 32-bit world and now we live in a 64-bit one, MSVC has been upgraded many times, etc. There's also address space concern: if you embed your pointers, are you SURE that you're always going to be able to load them in the same place in the address space?

The overhead of deserialization is very small with a properly written file format, it's nowhere near worth the sacrifice in portability. This is not why Word is slow.
by laborcontract | 2025-10-09 12:24:32+00:00
Yep. Most MCP servers are best repackaged as a cli tool, and telling the LLM to invoke `toolname --help` to learn how to use it at runtime. The primary downside is that they LLM will have a lower proclivity to invoke those tools unless explicitly reminded to.

If you do like rolling your own MCP servers, I've had great success recently refactoring a bunch of my own to consume fewer tokens by, instead of creating many different tools, consolidating the tools and passing through different arguments.
by smartermondays | 2025-10-09 12:24:50+00:00
I’ve created a weekly digest email that summarises 12 key marketing stories (content, SEO, AI, and industry shifts).

The idea is to give busy marketers just the top, hot takes every week to help avoid doomscrolling.

There’s a screenshot of a recent issue on the landing page — would love any kind of feedback on the quality, value, etc.

Many thanks,
by schwartzworld | 2025-10-09 12:25:01+00:00
React won’t topple for a while, because of none of the alternatives are different enough. React solved a real problem many developers faced by giving them a state management system with a rendering engine, whereas you were likely to make surgical cuts before in response to state change, you can now just write your ui assuming the whole thing rerenders in response to changes to that state. The component system also allowed for an easy way of sharing code as dependencies. Vue, Svelte, Solid and the rest have their individual pros and cons when compared to react, but they are essentially different attempts to do the same thing.

You want to topple react, you need to solve a problem that’s as big as state management used to be in a way that react can’t also just copy/absorb, and you have to do it so well that developers will push to use it at work. You need to have a ux as clean as what React offers to its devs, and you probably need to come close enough in benchmarks to not get instantly shot down.
by zmgsabst | 2025-10-09 12:25:27+00:00
> Could you explain how a market participant who makes one trade a day is negatively impacted by high resolution price discovery?

They’re negatively impacted because the SNR drops when the gain is turned up and causes algorithmic ringing to perturb the price that would be generated by high quality signal.

People who extract money by injecting algorithmic ringing into financial markets are a social parasite.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-09 12:26:05+00:00
To each his own.

But so many people withdraw completely from anything resembling this, in its own time as familiarity builds.

When positive aspects are only a minor component, they can be rejected along with the bulk of the garbage.

Maybe familiarity is the opposite of what is needed, until the only kind of familiarity that can develop is "positive familiarity".
by websiteapi | 2025-10-09 12:26:12+00:00
I had a suspicion that there were more idiots on the road after and during covid. good to see this reflected in the data, but sad to know that it's actually true. no matter where I go in the USA I see people speeding easily 50% over the limit, running red lights, blowing through stop signs. it's ridiculous.

given how many people die I'm surprised government's having made safety technology mandatory. things like toyota safety sense are pretty effective - you can check on youtube. people will place random dummys in front of the car and it stops pretty accurately.
by Uptrenda | 2025-10-09 12:26:17+00:00
Exactly this. They had full control over both bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin. A few persuasive individuals circumvented the design and censored all discussion against it. It turns out that 51% attacks don't matter if you control social consensus. You control what engineers get to participate. What the project direction is. What views are considered "credible" -- credible enough to be "worth posting." Then with the other hand you wave away opposing ideas and accuse those who disagree with you of your own bad deeds. Eventually, over time the original is replaced and there's no longer anyone around to remember it.
by harimau777 | 2025-10-09 12:26:33+00:00
I strongly dislike and disagree with Prettier.

From a practical standpoint, I disagree with the idea that coding style is just "bikeshedding". Coding style has a DRAMATIC impact on how readable code is and therefore how easy it is to understand. In my experience, fighting to keep code understandable is one of the most difficult and important parts of software engineering. In particular, by not allowing the user to change indentation style Prettier makes JavaScript much more difficult to read.

From a social standpoint, I think that by labeling things "bikeshedding", Prettier represents a toxic approach to team dynamics. Just because something isn't important to you doesn't mean that it's not essential to someone else.

IMHO, Prettier was a massive setback for the JavaScript community.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-09 12:27:27+00:00
I think it's because around 2015 or so there was a lot happening with front end frameworks, and the sentiment comes from then and people have just not updated their priors since.

AngularJS was pretty popular at the time, Angular 2 migration was looming, backbone still existed, jQuery (standalone or paired with both) was going strong, Polymer hit 1.0 and it looked like Web Components might actually be something and useful, React was gaining a lot of popularity, Vue was gaining a small amount of popularity, svelte an even smaller amount, Meteor was somewhat popular and had its own front end library.

Of course in addition to all that, traditional server rendered sites were more popular then than now and there were even more options there.

However, React quickly became pretty much the default. Not that there's 0 churn there. The "right way" to do React has changed quite a bit in the last decade. And early on before all the libs people liked to glue together somewhat matured/settled it was common to have to replace stuff that just got abandoned.

More than once I had to pick up someone's old unmaintained project to do a bug fix only to find I couldn't even get the project to install/run because it was in the pre auto lock file era and nobody ever ran `npm shrinkwrap`
by myrmidon | 2025-10-09 12:29:06+00:00
There is another aspect that Moscov gets out of the whole shitshow: Economical integration/growth/success of an EU-aligned Ukraine is slowed down.

I believe falling behind former Sovjet countries economically is a continuous pain point for the Putin regime; but getting overtaken by Polish, Slovenian or Czech former "compatriots" is one thing (those being much closer to Europe), but the same happening with Ukraine (or Belarus) would be a whole other story, and seen as complete failure of the regime domestically.

Preventing that is a worthwile outcome for Putins government by itself.
by mixedbit | 2025-10-09 12:29:29+00:00
To be precise I wrote 'in books' which record also revenue, not just profits. Increasing cloud revenue is one of the things that drives big corps share price up, the missing bit is that this revenue comes from big corps themself. The growth investors mantra is that as long as revenue is increasing rapidly, they don't care much about today's profits, this is why so many unprofitable companies have crazy high valuation.
by uniqueuid | 2025-10-09 12:29:47+00:00
An interesting read.

This kind of problem is exactly what statistics is designed to do, and it makes me a bit sad that we are left with a bit of a shoulder shrug. It's absolutely possible to do a much better job at disentangling possible causes here with something as simple as a multilevel regression. (Although ok, proper causal inference would be more work).
by NaomiLehman | 2025-10-09 12:29:49+00:00
I'm gonna steelman an argument I don't hold: What about CIA? Revealing the identity of a CIA operative is a crime.

I'm just responding to the part "Don't they serve us?"

> Intentionally disclosing the identity of a U.S. intelligence agent, including a CIA officer, is a federal crime under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA), which can result in up to 10 years in prison and fines. This law applies to individuals with authorized access to classified information and those without access who intentionally expose agents, knowing their actions could harm U.S. foreign intelligence operations.
by everdrive | 2025-10-09 12:31:43+00:00
There are a multitude of issues:

- poor visibility in modern cars due to rollover protection - touch screens and touch controls in cars - general proliferation of controls in cars - smart phones & smart phone addictions - higher vehicle belt lines are better for vehicle --> vehicle impacts but worse for vehicle --> pedestrian impacts - poor pedestrian infrastructure, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-09 12:31:44+00:00
I'm fairly confident that most mathematics are real, i.e. they have real world analogues. Pi is just an increasingly close look at the ratio between a circle's diameter and circumference.

I'm willing to believe elecromagnetic fields are real - you can see the effects magnets (and electromagnets) have on ferrous material. You can really broadcast electromagnetic waves, induce currents in metals, all that. I'm willing to believe atoms, quarks, electrons, photons, etc. are real. Forces (electrical charge, weak and strong nuclear force, gravity) are real.

What I'm not willing to believe is that quantum fields in general are real, that physical components are not real and don't literally move, they're just "interactions" with and "fluctuations" in the different quantum fields. I refuse to believe that matter doesn't exist and it's merely numbers or vectors arranged a grid. That's a step too far. That's surely just a mathematical abstraction. And yet, the numbers these abstractions produce match so well with physical observations. What's going on?
by CodingJeebus | 2025-10-09 12:31:51+00:00
The challenge is that it’s easy to find fundamental disagreements on a team on how a codebase should be styled, especially when the language itself doesn’t provide much guidance on styling convention. When that happens, it’s easy for a debate around styling to go on without ever finding consensus.

I’m way more open to adopting coding style that’s not my personal taste as long as it’s consistent and tools like prettier really help with that.
by LoganDark | 2025-10-09 12:31:52+00:00
> It helps that I love compiler errors and Rust is full of them :D Every error the compiler catches is an error my QA/users don't

amen! I despise Python even though I used to love it, and that's because it's full of runtime errors and unchecked exceptions. The very instant I learned more strongly typed languages, I decided never to go back.
by notyouraibot | 2025-10-09 12:32:08+00:00
I'm disappointed that Vercel is a part of this foundation. NextJS is on its way to its funeral, they have absolutely ruined it with things nobody asked for or cares about. I have been working on a large scale NextJS app which when I run locally consumes just over 8GB OF RAM on M4 Mac Mini. Brilliant. Slowly migrating the application to a Vite Based React SPA with a dedicated Hono backend and life is already looking already better.
by theshackleford | 2025-10-09 12:32:10+00:00
> The infrequency and cost/effort involved is part of what inherently makes them special

That may be true for you, but it’s not universal. Only being able to see some of my cloest friends every few years beyond a phone call or text doesn’t make the relationship any more “special”, it just makes it feel distant.

VR doesn’t replace the real thing, but it does let me maintain closeness with people who aren’t geographically close anymore. I still fly out and see them, but between those moments, shared time in VR keeps the connection alive and meaningful.

> I seem to be in the minority that would trade 100 cursory relationships for 1 deeply meaningful relationship.

You’re not in the minority for wanting depth, but may be in a minority for assuming that depth can only come through scarcity and physical presence. Meaningful relationships are built on shared experience, and VR has given my friend group new ways to have those together despite no longer in fact, being together.

Once a month, I hang out in VR with friends scattered across the world. We drink, laugh, gesture, watch movies and even move. We attended a virtual dance party a while back and it was a fantastic time. It’s presence, not proximity, that matters for us in the end and we have found VR quite useful for that.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-09 12:32:33+00:00
>Someone didn't read the article.

Someone doesn't understand that any article that's drawing conclusions based on a workflow that involves putting a Chevy Suburban (functionally a chevy pickup from the B pillar forward) and a Honda HRV into the same category is sus at best and anyone uncritically accepting said conclusions is also sus at best.

If one wanted to be honest they'd look at GVW or some other metric that tracks size far more closely than a fairly arbitrary categorization that is highly gamed for regulatory reasons.

We're all just so sick of these shallow analysis. Shitting numbers and graphs onto them doesn't make them not shallow. Like what even is the point of a raw "deaths by state" map?[1]?

[1] https://xkcd.com/1138/
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-09 12:32:48+00:00
You're stepping into a distinct issue where you specify politicians or the political classes. Thus far I took the discussion to be about individuals engaging in informal political discussions. The poll itself wasn't limited to politicians.

There are well known malign incentives for politicians and the political classes. Generally speaking these involve the expansion of the purview of the state and the time preferences dictated by electoral cycles. These are realist views around the incentives political actors find themselves subjected to. The extent of how much these incentives are perceived to dictate outcomes might correlate with the observer's cynicism. However, presuming that these incentives would only apply to one political party would be naive at best. At worst it would be divisive partisan tilting. The suggestion that it is specific to Republicans and the devolution of this thread is illustrative of the polling data.
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 12:32:48+00:00
Yes, replacement can work to adjust weight trends in a controlled setting.

But all empirical observations so far show that artificial sweeteners in people's diets do not have the desired effect when people's food and beverage intake is uncontrolled.

In fact results from animal studies are that you can even substitute part of the feed with just the artificial sweetener to achieve the same body mass gain. And this is known since 1960s with Cyclamate and rats: https://doi.org/10.1038/221091b0

More studies in the meantime varied a bit on the size of the effect, and some were inconclusive, but generally the results held up.

So no, artificial sweeteners do not help to manage weight. What the studies actually show is that controlling people's intake does.
by itsoktocry | 2025-10-09 12:33:24+00:00
>Do you think more employee ownership and control, a "seat at the table," would've prevented technically competent leadership from testing customer hostile business decisions?

Do you think there's some magical moral/ethical line that gets drawn between employees and executives, where the former are naturally "good" and the latter "bad"?

>Like Costco, employee and customer happiness first, profits after.

This is such a strange myth. Do you go to Costco? There's nothing great about the customer experience. It's a discount store of decent quality that pays the employees decent wages. It's better than Walmart and Amazon, but nobody dreams of working there.
by drcxd | 2025-10-09 12:33:29+00:00
Do you really believe that if you miss the "Read Clean Code" or "Read Effective Typescript" part, then the output would be significantly different?

No offense, but I feel this kind of talking is ridiculous. If it is a better practice, then it should be done without explicitly telling so. You do not tell them "Do not get things wrong," right? If it is a matter of choice over design patterns, for example, use functional programming or object oriented programming paradigm, then it should be said more clearly as what I have done.

Now, if it is neither something that is definitely a better practice nor something you can state clearly with a known, well-defined word, how can you make sure what you have said really make a difference if you have not said it?
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-09 12:33:33+00:00
Where I live they will randomly build a bike path for a mile on the side of the road. But then it just ends. There's not a sense of how it could be built to connect people to the places they need to go. It's random and ad-hoc. Then people say "its pointless to build bike / ped infrastructure, nobody uses it!"
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-09 12:34:13+00:00
> or have a way to verify the answer

Fortunately, as devs, this is our main loop. Write code, test, debug. And it's why people who fear AI-generated code making it's way into production and causing errors makes me laugh. Are you not testing your code? Or even debugging it? Like, what process are you using that prevents bugs happening? Guess what? It's the exact same process with AI-generated code.
by 1dom | 2025-10-09 12:34:17+00:00
You're right, $3million is a lot for an open source project, with no other context.

But in the context of who that $3million is coming from, how much they have available, how much responsibility they have for the state of it, and how much value it provides to everyone who isn't them, I think it's fair some people might have expected a little more.
by lxgr | 2025-10-09 12:34:32+00:00
Why would it not run with your provided hypothesis? It even added an explicit hint that this is a hypothetical scaling exercise, and that real hardware does not scale like that.

But generally, sure, you can make LLMs say many false things, sometimes even by just asking them a question in good faith, and it certainly casts some doubt on a blog post quoting an LLM as a source.
by gettingoverit | 2025-10-09 12:34:37+00:00
I should remind that in a similarly cheerful mood FB dumped support of Jest and a bunch of other libraries. They have a long history of killing successful projects.

Worse, Vercel is involved, and I literally don't remember anything good about that company.

I'd recommend to be very cautious with such news, and use older versions of React for the next couple of years.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-09 12:34:39+00:00
Having worked in both over the years the main technical thing React had going for it over Vue, in my humble opinion, was much better Typescript support. Otherwise they are both so similar it comes down to personal preference.

However 0 of the typescript projects (front and back end) I've worked one (unless I was there when they started) used strict mode so the Typescript support was effectively wasted.
by jibal | 2025-10-09 12:34:57+00:00
The discussion at https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/ is not going well for Mr. Novati.

Edit: oops, that was the wrong link! I meant to link to the reddit post discussing that article: https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1o1guxj/tho...

I think one of the most telling facts is that pro-Novati poster u/Ok-Donuts has posted numerous comments that are clearly a violation of all norms but seems to be immune to moderation.
by throw-10-8 | 2025-10-09 12:35:07+00:00
Not at all, they are two different critiques.

1. Vercel / Next are complete technical trash wrapped in egregious vendor lock-in. This directly influences their desire to steer the react foundation in a direction that aligns with their roadmap for Vercel/Next.

2. Their CEO thought it would be a good idea to have a photo op with perhaps the most controversial figure in world politics. This just means he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is and likely needs a handler.