MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btown | 2025-10-10 20:06:20+00:00
While I'm sympathetic to the sentiment here, it can be overly simplistic in some common cases. For instance, a newcomer might benefit disproportionately from the first X units of ad spending to "get their name out," relative to an incumbent or someone with a famous name spending the exact same price on the same X units, whose incremental effect might be less.

Alternately, a local candidate might not have funding for traditional media spots but might want to experiment with smaller ad buys, or might appeal to a demographic less likely to see traditional media spots. In all of these cases, this regulation disproportionately helps their opponent.

Of course, the incumbent often has funding for multiple times the ad spend of the newcomer, so the status quo wasn't necessarily a good situation either. Publicly funded campaigns, providing every candidate with an equal amount of money to be used across all types of advertising, could be highly effective here, but only in contexts where this can't be end-run by e.g. PACs in the U.S. post-Citizens United.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-10-10 20:06:21+00:00
this actually seems like a pretty neat of tech. in terms of how the joints and connections work under rotation like that. silly, yes, but if someone just randomly airmailed one to me i'd happily play around with it and admire it. they might even be able to sell a few of them since Rubik's Cubes seem to have a pretty persistently decent audience. what i want is something like this for chess: if you are playing vs. the "ai", it will move the pieces on the board like it's a player (well, more like in Harry Potter), and you can undo moves or hop into old or historical games and it will just slide the pieces around to make it work. i think i kinda have a scheme worked out, but it's very optimistic compared to my knowledge of the domain of making something like that work.
by sirfz | 2025-10-10 20:06:24+00:00
Funny I just updated my neovim lsp configuration yesterday to get rid of mason and have more control over my tools and found neovim's new vim.lsp.config API really easy to use.

fzf-lua (and several other picker plugins) provide really powerful features and ux out of the box.

I understand that configuration can seem overwhelming but investing a few hours will be really rewarding. I love (neo)vim
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-10 20:06:25+00:00
> If you didn't like the party claiming $4000 should be the limit

If that's what I was fighting, I would agree with you.

But it's not. By avoiding the word famine and loudly announcing that I am doing so, I am explicitly not picking that fight.

I'm accepting the expertise of both parties, and making an argument that doesn't disagree with the claims of either party.

Israel says it's not famine, I say that's not good enough. Simple.

> Convenient arguments, in my experience, are a sign one needs to rethink, not double down.

Again, every argument that gives the benefit of the doubt would fall under "convenient". Including many arguments you have no problem with. If you took the car example as a completely standalone argument, unchanged from how I originally stated it (so there would be nobody claiming "$4000 should be the limit"), would you have any problems with it?
by jopsen | 2025-10-10 20:07:22+00:00
> If you seriously start knocking on people's doors, you re most likely to end up dead or in prison in this day and age.

Not in Europe, certainly not Denmark.

As a kid I've knocked on many doors selling lottery tickets for a charity. I think pretty much all streets in the town was assigned to a route and one or two people.

We still get people collecting from the red cross every year.

For the record I hated knocking on doors, if my kid ever comes home with lottery tickets to sell on a given route, I'll buy then all and burn them before his mom makes me sell any!

I'd honestly rather be a bad parent :)
by coryfklein | 2025-10-10 20:07:34+00:00
I'd heard that Amazon is getting around price trackers like this using the coupons.

1. List item for $100 with a $20 off coupon

2. On Prime Day, drop the price to $80 and remove the coupon

When you look at said item in CamelCamelCamel, I'm pretty sure it shows the price dropping from $100 -> $80.
by nchmy | 2025-10-10 20:07:44+00:00
the spec is literally just data-* (hence the name): you can add whatever you want to it and remain in spec. And they're meant to be read by javascript (like datastar)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/How_to/Use...

At least you're living up to your profile! "Opinions on things I know nothing about"
by runako | 2025-10-10 20:07:45+00:00
I meant it in the sense of heterogeneous.

The list includes public & private institutions across a variety of states and size ranges. It singles out particular institutions in state university systems (e.g. University of Texas at Austin but not Texas A&M or University of Texas at El Paso). Half the list is in the northeast, while the midwest and Pacific Northwest are not represented. It's 9 institutions, not 10.

It's just an odd list.
by lioeters | 2025-10-10 20:08:15+00:00
As someone on the sideline who's been considering HTMX, its alternatives and complements, this was a helpful comment! Even without having used any of it, I get the feeling they're going in the right direction, including HTMX author's humorous evangelism. If I remember correctly he also wrote Grug, which was satire and social criticism of high caliber.
by xg15 | 2025-10-10 20:08:21+00:00
> Castro also executed thousands creating a terror regime

...so naturally, the solution is to make the life of the people under that regime even worse by sanctioning the country?

> nationalized American assets, funded and aided guerrillas in Latin America and Africa, aligned himself with the Soviet Union and caused the Missiles Crisis.

in other words, did things that threatened American interests.
by belorn | 2025-10-10 20:08:39+00:00
I am always reminded of the Yes minister "The Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube" joke which is close to 40 years old now (https://youtu.be/sPwQ0PmK9lw?si=aOvPYUpJcsw8g_kN&t=68). The EU has a very long history of standardize food names, with the natural result that some stuff get forced to change their name.

One of my favorite of such thing is that there seem to be a rule dictating that if you have something called strawberry juice, it has to have strawberries in them. Once I got to the store and the name on one kind of bottle was "Strawberry inspired taste", which made me laugh quite badly.
by bironran | 2025-10-10 20:08:48+00:00
Heh. That's me. The "no presence" part. About the 10x part, ask my colleagues. I want to believe I'm doing some good work but who knows.

But the no presence... I've got a kid, a house, a mortgage. I've been in software since I was a teenager. Am I still fascinated by it? Sure. Will I still spend hours and hours of free time? Nop. It long since stopped being a hobby. Right now I like reading and listening to audio books, when I have a break from house chores and child rearing. I like to cook and experiment in the kitchen. The endorphin feedback cycle is so much faster (hours) than large scale software (weeks to years). I like to watch interesting shows on TV. Write. Coding-wise, I'm invisible outside the company I work at.

Not strictly a 9-5, but with a kid I do try to have quality family time, so I condense as much as possible to my working day, leaving time to be with my loved ones. If there's something important I'll participate. If there's a pagerduty alarm I'll jump. But otherwise, I'll deal with it tomorrow. I've long since learned to identify real emergencies from artificial urgency "because there's a milestone deadline!". Sure there is. Like the old saying goes "I love deadlines. I love the wooshing sound they make when they go by". Is it a customer commitment? No? Then I'll work on it Monday morning, right now I'm out.

I value people like that. Being a hero is a young-people game. You can't be a hero for years and years and not burn out. I've seen that happen. Working every weekend? Then something is wrong with the estimation. Or the design. Or whoever is in charge of priorities.

God helps me when I look for a job again. I guess I'll have to rely on references and hope to hell I'll pass the filtering software to actually get someone to look at my application. So far I've been lucky. Last time I actually sent CVs was at the beginning of my career, as a new grad, 20 years ago. Ever since then I was picked out, carried over, invited in by people who knew me. Really, really hoping that'll keep being the case.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-10-10 20:08:51+00:00
We should account for deaths from pollution, but if we are going to do that, we should be willing to do that for 99% of aviation fuel that has nothing to do with reserves & safety margins, in addition to fuel used to drive cars.

Any regulation short of "carry infinite fuel" will be a trade-off, and entail some risk and anyone involved in setting these knows that. Zero may not be our actual target or even possible, but it is a useful aspiration to ensure that everyone is pulling in the right direction.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-10 20:08:57+00:00
> Was that Musk too? Or is overregulation destroying our ability to innovate?

Texas isn't known (to outsiders like me, at least) as burdening itself very much with regulations. It's possible that a blue city like Austin might apply extra regulation over state regulation, but still, are you sure that overzealous regulation is what prevents Texas from building transport? I would have tought complacency, nimbyism, corruption. But not regulation.

If you're right then it's pretty much game over for America, isn't it? Because almost all other states have even more regulatory pressure, right?
by Starman_Jones | 2025-10-10 20:09:16+00:00
The company asking for this was Microsoft. This was originally developed internally because Microsoft wanted to make Copilot usage a key performance metric - they needed a tool to measure that. I've been told as much by people at Microsoft pretty close to this tool. Now I'm speculating, but it seems like someone saw an opportunity to take that internal tool and offer it as an add-on, and pad their bonus by doing it. I suspect this release was driven strictly by supply, not by demand.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-10 20:09:31+00:00
Yeah, political ads are so toxic but worse its just lazy money. I am really tired of super PACs buying my politicians with this garbage. I would rather my politicians come down to the district here and hold rallies or town halls where they can lie to us in person.

Yes, I am fully aware the next problem in all this is how does the politician then notify the district of the place and time of the next meeting. It would be great if congress, as a body, had a mechanism in place to handle this so that it is equally applied for any registered candidate regardless of party affiliation or primary favoritism.

Seriously, if politicians want cheap media coverage then they should do something worthy of coverage. There is one politician I can think of right now, far outside my local district, that is on one edge of the political spectrum and simultaneously performing the miracle of picking up tremendous popularity from the opposite edge of the political spectrum. They finally learned to tune their messaging from party political theater to rapidly changing opinions on current events in ways other politicians cannot. I am hearing way more about people like that than the person from my district, who isn't doing anything worth of media attention.
Show HN: OpenAI hasn't released their Apps SDK so we did
by mercury24aug | 2025-10-10 20:09:43+00:00
Are you eager to build ChatGPT Apps? I heard OpenAI released an Apps SDK without the SDK... :sweat_smile:

We were really excited to use it, so we built an SDK for Apps SDK. Check it out and give us a github star if you like it
by joshstrange | 2025-10-10 20:10:16+00:00
Eero does this automatically (mine says it was last run 2 days ago at 5:08am) and I had software on my DD-WRT router (OpenLede) that did it, though obviously not many people (overall) are running that.

I used to run a docker than ran a speed test every hour and graphed the results but I haven't done that in a while now.
by Animats | 2025-10-10 20:10:20+00:00
In 2027-2028. Comment in the article: The big company who doesn't have a competitive product attempts to mess up the market by making bold announcements of fantastic products that are coming "soon".

Everybody serious, except Tesla, has a solid-state battery program. Here's an overview of where various car makers are.[1] There are a few prototype cars running around on all solid state batteries now. The problem is developing a cheap production process. Most of the big players are saying first production vehicles in 2027, solid state technology takes over around 2030.

There's an interim "semi solid state" technology that's already in some cars. It's one of those stopgap ideas destined to go away, like "mild hybrids".

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/771402/every-solid-state-battery-...
by rangestransform | 2025-10-10 20:10:27+00:00
Philosophically, what do I owe society if I exist without my consent? What is actually morally wrong about opting out and choosing to live on the kindness of society, if society is willingly kind to me through charity or laws? The social contract is a good place to start to think about this but still doesn’t address where someone’s debt to society comes from, besides not actively harming other humans.
by esseph | 2025-10-10 20:10:31+00:00
> Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US.

Yeah, it scared the hell out of them: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-spent-1-7-millio...

... avoiding losing C-level executives could very quickly become an exercise in corporate cost avoidance, as the expenses of additional layers of security cost more than a change in corporate behavior... where paying more attention to customers reduces shareholder risk in executive turnover.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-10 20:10:34+00:00
Polling for the question “websites that may contain pornographic material”

Which is my point. The OSA isn’t popular as a broad piece of legislation, but the “think of the children” aspect that something needs to be done to restrict access to pornography is popular.

Watch the YouTube link I sent to better understand my point.

Personally, I think even the pornography aspect is stupid. If the government couldn’t stop me accessing porn when I was a kid back before the web was invented, then they’re shit out of luck stopping kids these days. The problem isn’t the law, the problem is parents want a way to diminish their own responsibility. It’s the same tired bullshit we see time and time again of blaming everyone else rather than making ourselves accountable.
by bmandale | 2025-10-10 20:10:41+00:00
It is not. Trans people, frequently, look like the opposite sex. Hence there can be no reasonable enforcement of this policy. Cis people, frequently, look like transgender individuals of their own gender. Hence they are liable to receive harassment by any attempt to enforce such a policy. Harassing people, cis and trans, merely trying to use the bathroom in peace, is a far greater imposition than merely existing in the same space as someone else.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-10 20:11:01+00:00
"Under FAA rules this was a screwup."

Not necessarily. And I get that you've caveated yourself with an edit and a reply etc, but lets assume that you're not hedging for the moment.

They carried required reserves on departure. Multiple approaches thwarted by extreme unforseen weather. They declared Mayday Fuel, which is mandatory under EASA regulations, when reserve fuel use became unnavoidable. They diverted to the nearest suitable airport.

Landing with 220kg is close, but within bounds of a declared fuel emergency.

Crew decision to declare Mayday and divert was proper airmanship, not negligence.

Yes, reserve fuel may not be planned for. But it may be used. It's there for a reason. Your accusation doesn't account for dynamic evolving weather and realtime decision making.

I'm an instrument rated pilot and an advanced ground instructor under FAA and I fly IMC in bad weather as single pilot IFR around the pacific northwest and colorado.
by codyb | 2025-10-10 20:11:33+00:00
I'm interviewing for Senior Staff roles and doing quality coding interviews and beyond the basics I'm not sure really what I'm supposed to ascertain from the format because it is so far removed from what is day to day important in the role.

I ask about time complexity, and all the basics, but it's just a bunch of malarkey. So I spend more time quizzing them about technologies I don't know on their resume and getting something out of it for myself. It's easy enough to tell when someone's full of shit, but asking them to describe the tradeoffs between the technologies they've worked with seems more valuable than watching someone sweat-ily cramming out some crap imperative code for a toy problem and telling me they got it down to nlogn. Oooo ee!
by jjcob | 2025-10-10 20:11:41+00:00
I was a self-taught software developer who already made money with programming for ~10 years before I took my first computer science classes.

Those classes unlocked a whole new level of programming for me. I just didn't know what I didn't know before.

People keep reinventing the same shit if they haven't learned about it before.

Sure, you can learn many things online. But for most things you just don't even know that they exist, you wouldn't know to search for them.
by fragmede | 2025-10-10 20:11:46+00:00
Yeah the practical part is what does it. Students need time on their particular niche's software programs. Outside of Altium/KiCAD/Cadence there's also Mastercam, ANSYS HFSS, LTspice / SIMetrix/Keysight/CATIA/Synopsys/Dymola, among others.
by teekert | 2025-10-10 20:11:49+00:00
It’s nice living in de Netherlands, you can read your energy meter with DSMR indeed (and get all the data including solar delivered back to the network etc). Or you buy this thingy [0], plug it in and boom all data flows into Home Assistant’s very excellent energy dashboard.

[0] https://www.zuidwijk.com/product/slimmelezer-plus/
by araes | 2025-10-10 20:11:49+00:00
Seems like a lot of parts of America have already learned that idea.

Fat Leonard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal "Lets take the entire United States Seventh Fleet to the South Pacific for prostitutes and classified material handovers."

60 admirals got investigated. One, Admiral Gilbeau, got the first felony on active duty in modern history = 1.5 year prison, and continue collecting your $10,000 monthly pension (while in prison). There were admittedly some punishments, there was also a lot of community service, misdemeanor, $100.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-10 20:11:51+00:00
I wouldn't go as far as 'breaking the law', and I agree with the author that the contractual terms ($31 for wifi) are a shitty offer to a captive audience. But I'm also tired of pseudolegalism being employed as figleaf for bragging about the ability to bypass access controls and presumably making everything run a bit slower for all the other passengers (the author mentions that they gave up using it after a while because the bandwidth was so limited).

Yes, long flights are miserable and air travel is a bit of a ripoff. I choose to cope by treating it as an internet break and enjoying a dense book.
by bencroker | 2025-10-10 20:11:52+00:00
Agreed! I have a WIP article in which I describe in the setup in more detail. I’ll also include load testing benchmarks as part of it. The key to reaching high scale is keeping things simple, and there’s really very little that the app is doing. Swoole and Redis are doing the heavy lifting, and they’re both heavily optimised for scale out-of-the-box.
by ar_lan | 2025-10-10 20:12:10+00:00
I think with Cursor choosing it as well, this will only continue to prevail. Professionally I've had to standardize on VSCode due to Cursor (there are a few plugins for Neovim but the experience is undoubtedly better in the first-class tool).

By the way - I actually generally think this is a good thing that companies standardize on something. I might not like the choice they standardize on, but the barrier to entry for new engineers is already high, so having an easy-to-use and familiar development setup that "just works" from the start is pretty reasonable for large companies.
by everforward | 2025-10-10 20:12:43+00:00
In urban areas, they're usually an alternative. If you're going past the city, you could build a ground level highway around the city for a lot cheaper. If you're going into the city, it makes more economic sense to leave your car at the periphery of the city and take a rail system in because of the difference in throughput per $ spent building it (as well as the space occupied by parking for people who need to leave their cars in the city). Plus the people leaving the highway will get onto surface streets, and back up the highway.

Being able to make underground tunnels cheaper and faster is cool. Using them for cars is mostly a boondoggle with clearly superior alternatives.
by puskavi | 2025-10-10 20:12:53+00:00
You could score some insane screens from recycling centers, but at least in Finland, its fucking illegal to repurpose (steal) "electronic waste" However, depending where you're located, all that stuff might go to somewhere else than smasher and smelter, so please check such places around you! Good example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqOvBHVpbw ,he found old tobacco ad display (ips!) for cheap!
by kjkjadksj | 2025-10-10 20:13:20+00:00
You still get the best speeds over ethernet today because of how wifi standards are slow walked, both on the router and the device connected with the router. Ethernet standards are slow walked too of course but we are talking slow walking a 2.5g or 10g connection here, even otherwise crappy hardware is likely to have 1g ethernet and it’s been that way for at least 10 or 15 years.
by jopsen | 2025-10-10 20:13:57+00:00
More over there are probably lots of avenues we haven't even attempted because when the node scales down we get quadratic benefits (right?).

Where as tailored hardware, software improvements are unlikely to continue yielding such payoff again and again.

So the argument that cost of improvements will go up is not wrong. And maybe improvements will be more linear than exponential.

We also don't know that current semi tech stack is the best. But it's fair to argue that the cost of moving off a local optimum to a completely different technology stack would be wild.
by dang | 2025-10-10 20:14:02+00:00
Related ongoing thread: I switched from Htmx to Datastar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536000 - Oct 2025 (223 comments)

There is also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537372, which I'm trying to figure out what to do with (bear with me... edit: ok, I found a place to merge it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536535)

Previously:

Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914 - April 2025 (155 comments)
by kjksf | 2025-10-10 20:14:07+00:00
> an independent university

MIT is taking (lots of) money from federal government. That makes them dependent on the government and government is within its right to attach strings to the money.

MIT is free to not do what the government wants but then government is free to stop giving them (our) money.

Furthermore, MIT, like any other organization, must obey state and federal laws.

For example, there's a law that you cannot discriminate in hiring based on sex or religion. If IBM, MIT or a barber shop discriminates it's the role of the government to enforce the law and make them stop. The easy way is sending them a letter and asking. The hard way is to sue them in federal court.