MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by turnsout | 2025-10-30 19:59:12+00:00
It's more complicated than that. Sometimes after 15 years, the founders want to move on and do something else. Or they want to build a dream house. Or their cofounder wants to get out. Or they hear the long-term vision of the acquiring company, and want to be a part of it.

Although it's an uphill battle, not every acquisition ends with the product being destroyed. Just look at what Apple did with NeXT and PA Semi…
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-30 19:59:41+00:00
> As I read it, the industries were grouped into three categories. “Least discriminatory” was at 3%.

The least single industry was 3%. And each single industry is a very noisy data point, based on a couple companies and needing more data points. By the time you aggregate into more solid data, like those bigger categories, it's more than 3%.

But the whole thing could use better methods and more data for sure.

> The explicit discrimination in universities against whites and asians is huge in comparison

In comparison to this specific resume effect it's pretty big, but that was just a basic example, not an attempt to list the biggest issue.

In comparison to the fortune 500 CEOs the overall effect here is smaller (no I'm not going to look at 5th decile in isolation).

Also even after this bias was applied, they're admitting a below-population-average amount of black students and a far above-population-average amount of asian students. So there's a bunch of other data necessary to properly analyze what's going on and how bad it is. Should there be a super tight correlation to academic decile? There are huge differences in school quality that muddy the signals, and those differences often correlate with race.

I'm not saying they did nothing wrong, but I'm saying it's unclear what the numbers should have been.
by jahsome | 2025-10-30 19:59:52+00:00
Did you mean to imply autistism-driven sensory overload is something I'm choosing in interpersonal communication?

I did not mean the article was lazy, I meant that specifically about hypothetical co workers.

The article was at the time reminiscent of said hypothetical co workers, but not at all the same thing. My wording was charged, but not really unclear. The first paragraph is about one subject and the second paragraph was about another.
by immibis | 2025-10-30 20:00:22+00:00
The problem with the new Audacity isn't the new version, it's that it replaces the old version. If the new version came out but it was called "DARing" and Audacity continued to be the thing we have now, people might question the name but no other eyes would be batted.

Pre-emptive anti-snark: yes, the old version will still exist... if you can dig up the right github commit and still make it compile in 2030.
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-30 20:00:29+00:00
> Isn't this EXACTLY what subscriptions fix, though? That you can stop paying if the product stops getting updates.

How? First, by that time, you've usually spent many times more than it would have cost you to own the software outright, so the vendor is already better off. Second, if you stop paying, you lose access to the software, possibly with no other way to open existing files, etc. You're the one who's being held hostage - not the vendor.

As a hobbyist, I shudder to think that my total annual bill would be if all the software I use every now and then had a subscription model. It would be well in excess of $5,000/year.
by churchill | 2025-10-30 20:00:49+00:00
>I want to see theocracies gone.

How they choose to organize their society is none of your business. Whenever any Arab society becomes democratic, it's almost guaranteed they'll vote in Muslim Brotherhood types that'll be joined at the hip with Islamist movements. So, you don't want rapidly liberalizing benevolent monarchies, but rather democratic Islamists? Wasn't it the Americans who nudged the Egyptian military to topple Morsi after the Arab Spring brough an Islamist to power? Democracy until whoever we dislike is elected by the people.

It was the Western powers messing around with Mossadegh's democratically-elected regime in Iran that led to its fall and later down the line, the rise of the Shia-extremist Iran.

You westerners are so full of hubris. You don't know how to leave well-enough alone.

>Solar energy is cheaper and it doesn't need to be trucked around on ships, threatening insanely expensive disasters.

That's none of your business either. No western country is accelerating the renewable transition. Stay out of the way of those doing it, and don't pontificate to those providing energy for civilization now.

>... and instead funding them in Western countries, yeah. Saudi funded madrasa schools or imams funded by oilsheik countries are a massive problem, although I admit a part of that is our fault as well for not running theology studies in our universities for Islam (unlike for Christian denominations).

That's a YOU problem! Western governments hold a monopoly of violence within their own borders. You can simply shut down Islamist mosques. If you refuse, you implicitly permit their activities. There's a reason why extreme preachers are imprisoned/executed in the Arab Gulf, but they find an audience in the West. You allowed it; it's a you problem.

>Well, Hamas is strongly supported by Qatar and Iran.

And Israel too, right? Are we going to gloss over that? That these fighters are mostly orphans, whose parents and grandparents where marched out of their homes at gunpoint and had their homes stolen?

>Well, Hamas is strongly supported by Qatar and Iran.

You're still making these mistakes now, like the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You don't get to pontificate or preach. You don't have the moral capital. No one takes the West's moral posturing serious. The only people who do are developing countries paying lip service so they can get aid handouts. No one cares. Pack it up.
by initramfs | 2025-10-30 20:01:07+00:00
True in many ways.

I wanted to write an article or short blog post about how Windows 10, menus and javascript, increasingly tuck away important tools/buttons in little folds. This was many months ago.

I want to write it and title it, "What the tuck?" But tuck refers exactly to the kind of hidden menus that make those so called sleek and simple UIs for the the 80% of users.

The problem is that it stupefies computing literacy, especially mobile web versions.

Perhaps not every casual web browser needs to sit at a desk to learn website navigation. Then again, they may never learn anything productive on their own.
by bfkwlfkjf | 2025-10-30 20:01:13+00:00
Here we go again.

Can someone explain to me what digital euro is? Is it a different currency? Is not, are the euros on my bank's computers also digital euros?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency

> central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital version of a country's official currency, created by the nation's central bank

It seems impossible to find a clear explanation.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-30 20:01:26+00:00
I agree, writing code is writing. I added a parenthetical above that hopefully clears that up. I guess my overall point is that I can't confidently say I've even had an actual idea, until I prove it to myself by voicing it, or writing it in code or prose, or drawing a diagram, or whatever. Thinking is hard, but it feels good to have thunk, so the mind is incentivized to give itself the illusion of having done so, if it can.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-10-30 20:01:37+00:00
Subscriptions often don’t allow continuing use of even existing versions of the product after you stop paying - it’s not just about access to future updates.

The main exceptions are subscriptions that are explicitly for support and maintenance contracts on top of a perpetual license. There are also a few unusual business models, like JetBrains offer for subscriptions that last at least 12 months which grants a perpetual fallback license of the major versions (including future minor versions) that were current during any part of the subscription up through 12 months before cancellation.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-30 20:01:39+00:00
> The interesting discussion is how much you should take off the table if the offer is uncapped.

50% for security, let the remaining 50% run. We can spend countless hours modeling the risk and return delta of various percentages and against non correlated asset classes you might diversify into once liquid, but most of life is luck; you can do everything right and still lose. This makes it easy, imho.

(not investing advice, just a rando, n=1)

Edit: noir_lord indeed! Good eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCX90yALsI
by zamadatix | 2025-10-30 20:01:46+00:00
All transport protocols are "just" adding things on top of a network protocol so you can multiplex to applications instead of hosts. That's what makes them transport protocols instead of alternate network protocols. TCP is "just" adding a few more things. I kinda wish UDP didn't have the checksum field, it would have been a bit nicer to build other transports with if one could decide to validate their headers with one's desired checksum approach (or not bother, if so desired) rather than have 2 separate checksums for the transport layer role. You could at least blank it for wasted space riding on v4, then v6 mandated it for some reason.

UDP also isn't the only transport protocol used extensible either, it's just far more common because it has fewer assumptions. E.g. TCP has MPTCP and a bolt-on transport extension.
by lurking_swe | 2025-10-30 20:02:14+00:00
absolutely! It’s always a good idea to write down your life goals and major planned expenses. Then you can prioritize them as needed.

That usually helps answer questions like “if i invest X% of each paycheck into an S&P500 index fund, and put the remainder toward saving for my 1st car, i’ll have money for the car by date Y.”

And this skill translates to adult life really well. I find myself doing just that a couple times a year! Of course for some teenagers investing a substantial amount is simply not realistic…not every family is middle class after all.

One important reminder: inflation is no joke these days. I’d only recommend a savings account to a teenager for short term goals. Even if they are poor.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-30 20:02:27+00:00
I think I already provided that context. I dont understand why someone would talk this way because it feels like something that would satisfy the ego of a toddler. And be ingratiating at best to a well-adjusted adult. I would feel similarly if someone pinched my cheeks and said "aw arent you just a wittle cutesy-wootsy." Yet I see it used without any meaning of offense.

Is it a need to be special? Do you get this overly flattering language in cultures where individualism isnt so pronounced?
by darinf | 2025-10-30 20:02:42+00:00
Glad to finally be able to share Atlas with the world last week! There's a lot of novelty under the hood. While Atlas is using Chromium, it's not built on top of Chromium in the usual way.

As one of the engineers who designed and built Chromium's multi-process architecture back in the day, it is really cool to take it to the next level.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-30 20:02:56+00:00
Note that TCP doesn't actually provide that guarantee to the application layer. There's no way to know if some bytes you sent on a TCP socket ever arrived. So, if you want a reliable packet delivery, you have to build that at the application layer yourself anyway. That's why HTTP requires the 204 No Content response code, for example - instead of relying on a TCP ACK to achieve the same.

The only real guarantee that TCP provides is in-order delivery. That is, it really guarantees that if you sent two requests A and B to a server, the server will never see request B unless it saw request A first. Again looking at HTTP, this is why request pipelining theoretically works without including any request ID in the response: the client knows that if it sent reqA first and reqB second, the first response it gets from the server will be respA, and the second will be respB (if either of them ever arrives, of course).

Note that the fact ACK is not shown to the application layer is not an implementation limitation, it is a fundamental part of the design of TCP. The ACK is generated by the TCP stack once the packet was received. This doesn't guarantee in any way that the application will ever see this packet: the application could crash, for example, and never receive (and thus act on) this message. The in-order guarantee works instead because the transport layer can simply avoid ever showing reqB to the application layer if it knows that there was a reqA before it that it didn't receive. So the transport can in fact ensure that it's impossible for the application to see out-of-order data, but it can't ensure that the application has actually received any data.
by gloghmalogh | 2025-10-30 20:03:00+00:00
This reminds me of an interesting approach a student had to detecting NaNs for an assignment. The task was to count no-data values (-999) in a file. Pandas (Python library) has its own NaN type, and when used in a boolean expression, will return NaN instead of true or false. So the student changed -999 to NaN on import with Pandas and had a loop, checking each value against itself with an if statement. If the value was NaN the if statement would throw an exception (what could poor if do with NaN?) which the student caught, and in the catch incremented the NaN count.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-30 20:03:09+00:00
This is on top of the fact they saw strong growth. The business is by all measures healthy (both Alphabet and Youtube, either you look at is doing well)

Yet the promise of trimming headcount for AI remains too lucrative to pass up?

I don't get it. The first firm that realizes the more people using AI effectively the better the throughput will be, and that means scaling back numbers is ineffective, they should really be hiring or at least keeping headcount the same as it today, and instead focus on increasing the "velocity" of each individuals ability.
by lawrencechen | 2025-10-30 20:03:37+00:00
Yeah, heatmapping the diff before creating a PR would need tighter IDE integration. We're working on cmux for this purpose. It's kinda an IDE, and it lives in the same repo: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux.

After we add the heatmap diff viewer into cmux, I expect that I'll be spending most of my time in between the heatmap diff and a browser preview: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/raw/main/docs/assets/cmu...
by dewey | 2025-10-30 20:03:43+00:00
> Nostr has bitcoin tips built in, and you don't have to pay anyone to send money to whomever you want. Apart from that, using a tiny niche platform like Nostr doesn't feel like a good comparison if you want to show how "others" are doing it.

Have you tried actually paying with Lighting and Bitcoin before? You definitely are paying someone a fee for mining / processing the transaction.
by janwilmake | 2025-10-30 20:03:52+00:00
Hey HN! Super excited to launch this OSS project to support the llms.txt ecosystem.

Similar to how Context7AI works, but you use LLM reasoning on the overview of the entire docs, instead of vector search. Also, you get a dedicated MCP server for the websites you need it for most!

In the process of making this, I discovered more than half of llms.txt live today are not spec-compliant. with LLMTEXT we're fixing this with tools to validate and create better llms.txt's! Read more in the blogpost.

Would love feedback from the HN community on both the tools and the broader question of how we should be serving AI agents vs. humans on the web.
by Arainach | 2025-10-30 20:03:56+00:00
>When you read of his private discussions, socially motivated is just about the last thing he was.

This isn't true. I cannot recommend Robert Caro's works on LBJ enough. Johnson had plenty of flaws, but he cared deeply about people, especially the poor. He taught immigrant schoolchildren and saw their plight. He grew up before the Hill Country had electricity and saw the reality of true poverty, and when he had power he used every bit of his skills and connections to get things like the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, Medicare, and Medicaid - and so many more.

You can't (and shouldn't) separate LBJ and his administration from atrocities in Vietnam, but if he had been able and willing to extract America from Vietnam, he would be without dispute the greatest president in history and it's not close.
by GCA10 | 2025-10-30 20:04:01+00:00
There's a crucial extra factor that isn't in the original article, but ought to be: Money's ability to buy great experiences decreases as you get older. I've seen this with beach vacations, road trips to see a favorite band, fast cars, ski trips, etc.

Seize the moment, friend! What you can do NOW with that 10% slice will never exactly be on your possibilities map again.
by godelski | 2025-10-30 20:04:13+00:00
> I didn't say it was impossible to put a patch on a physical media.

You never said those exact words but you heavily implied it. You cannot tell me that it was an unreasonable interpretation.

> Did you live at a time where Internet was not a thing?

You came out swinging. You can't throw out punches and expect to not have one thrown back.

> My point being that

My point was

> When there was a bug, it was there forever.

I stated this quite clearly

>>>> Software isn't "ever finished" because we are not omniscient writers who can foresee all problems, fix all bugs, and write software that is unhackable. > With modern software, I encounter so many bugs everyday that I

I encounter so many bugs it drives me crazy.

Look, we don't disagree on this fact. I'm not encouraging the shipping of low quality or untested software. But patches coming through online was a good thing. We were finally able to fix those bugs effectively, not leaving tons of users stranded and vulnerable. This feature is not going to go away because it provides such high utility.

But shipping low quality software is a completely different issue. The ability to patch easily is not the cause of shipping low quality work. It is the abuse of this high utility feature. It is based on the greed and lack of pride in the product. There are so many little things that add up and create this larger problem. But pretending that software was ever finished is ignoring these problems. It oversimplifies the reasons we got to this point. We won't actually solve the problem *that we are both concerned about* if we oversimplify. We need to understand why things happened if we're going to stop it.
by gazook89 | 2025-10-30 20:04:20+00:00
Gathered from the FAQ, you only pay if you want Canva AI features. Yes, you create a Canva account, which is free, so that you can get your license. With old affinity, you also needed an account to receive the license.

In the new UI the ai features are tucked into an additional “studio” like how layout, raster, and vector are individual studios. You can choose which studios have a visible toggle, so you can hide the Canva AI toggle if you don’t want to see it.

Perhaps it gets worse over time. But right now, they’ve just made it free.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-30 20:06:00+00:00
Is your argument that because you don’t think US companies are good at PII, we need to force those companies to share their PII with 70 other countries on request?

> Maybe there is some more complexity to this argument, that I'm missing.

I think you’re missing the entire argument. Why would it be a good thing for a country to volunteer its’ companies PII through a treaty with foreign governments like Russia, North Korea, and China?
by greycol | 2025-10-30 20:06:01+00:00
Thanks and of course, it's used to highlight how ridiculous you are being in considering an app, that doesn't function as an app, an app.

The tesla car is a vehicle traveling through space, technically a spacecraft it's just literally not what anyone thinks of when they mean spacecraft.

The prisoner reference is an allusion to the usual philosophical debate on how small man made borders need to be to be considered a prison, here's a nice blog post on some parallel thought's about it[1]. The main point being most people don't believe the borders of a country a prison or if they were stuck in a state, or smaller country, a district, a building, a room. If it's only a building then what of prison camps? refugee camps? A city with its' one road washed out? Australia's a fine island to be stuck on but marooned on a desert island and suddenly people are saying they're trapped.

You are literally saying a 7 day limit on a piece of software working still makes it count as what people consider an app and have been arguing that people are wrong for calling apple out on not letting you install your own apps for free. You're as technically correct as saying you can use a tesla car as a spacecraft.

[1] https://philosophersmag.com/philosophical-conversations-in-p...

edit: just remembered the immortal thing, fair enough, but then again highlanders are considered immortal even though chopping off their heads kills them.
by MerrimanInd | 2025-10-30 20:06:18+00:00
> I hope you can see why _genuinely_ “free, forever.” is in our best commercial interests, long-term.

I actually can't but I'd welcome hearing more about the strategy. I suspect what you're alluding to is maybe an open-core model? Generate free value for the entire ecosystem and then capture a portion of it with value-adding paid features? I'd be interested in that but I don't see where the FOSS layer is here.

> I hope we don’t let cynicism prevent mission-driven companies trying to do good and customer-positive things from succeeding

I also want to do mission-driven and moral work in the tech industry but I think there may be a disconnect between how the general population sees the tech industry and how it sees itself. This is my motivation to make these comments; not to be antagonistic and unpleasant for no reason but to attempt to hold up a mirror and show the tech industry the crisis of confidence that it faces. It would be like Philip Morris - after decades of subverting science and pushing cigarettes - launching a vape and expecting to receive the benefit of the doubt that the product has no downsides. Gone are the days of Silicon Valley being the warm and cuddly companies saving the world from their beanbags and open concept offices.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-30 20:06:34+00:00
It's one of those things so common and spoken about among brew clubs that I saw it as an established truth. We always gave the PNW brewers crap for over reliance on hops. In the time and place I was at, porters and stouts ruled.

The hardest thing to brew at home is actually a pale ale or a light lager. You can't hide any mistakes in those because they are 'sex in a canoe' beers.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-30 20:06:45+00:00
It was only detected when 4.5 AUs from the Sun (which, I'll also note, exerts significant graviational force on inbound objects). It was already close; we can't currently detect the tens/hundreds/thousands of similar objects likely whizzing past at further distances as we speak.

If it was 100 AUs at closest approach, we would never have seen it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud is still theoretical, even)

The chances of yesterday's Powerball numbers being 04 24 49 60 65 01 was about 1:300M.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-30 20:06:56+00:00
In 2012 a single package of name brand instant ramen was 25 cents exactly, no tax on food items in my state, I literally bought one with a quarter from my car's coin tray once for a weird craving.

As of this year, that same single packet of ramen is now 50 cents.

100% inflation over 13ish years. For an item made by an assembly line out of dirt cheap components.

The commodity price of wheat has more price movement than I expected, but roughly has only gone up by 20% in the same time frame.