MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-11-29 22:38:18+00:00
Anti-corporate attitudes were completely normalized in the 2000s and arguably only really lulled during the mid-2010s. There were several films from that period that featured countercultural messaging:

Disney’s Incredibles had allusions to Kafka

Monster’s Inc. is a commentary on corporate vampirism.

Kingdom of Heaven was if not a commentary on the Global War on Terror at least a bold film to have released 4 years after 9/11.

The second Pirates of the Caribbean film was a (childish) commentary on global empire and rationalization eliminating places for the human person to live freely.

The Corporation, Capitalism: A Love Story, and Supersize Me were all released post-9/11. They screened Supersize Me in elementary and high schools when it was released.

Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Occupy Wall Street protests. These movements had attitudes towards international mobility rights that completely undermined organized labor. Most of them recognized what impacts illegals were having on these industries but took the position that labor solidarity would somehow make everyone better off. This could have worked in theory except that they had no operational plan to enact this solidarity and the illegals were never interested in it to begin with.

Once the bankers realized that they could just pay off the OWS leadership with fake email jobs, you started to see the conventional partisan divide on globalism that we observe today, with liberals being in favor of it and conservatives opposed to it.
by pandaman | 2025-11-29 22:39:16+00:00
This is the ultimate American urbanist conundrum. Bikes are pretty useless for transportation in American cities because of rampant theft. Locks get cut in the broad daylight and even if the thief is too inept to steal an angle grinder, or already ran out of batteries for today, they will still rip off parts (wheels, saddle, brakes, group, they will even rip out lights from the mounts, just because). But they also cannot demand the law enforcement against it because the thieves are the precious "unhoused" (which is very easy to check by visiting any encampment and observing all the bikes and bike parts there). So we get this strange situation when cities build bike lanes and bike parks which are empty because, at most, you can only commute on your bike if your place of work has a secure storage.

Enforcing the laws against bike thieves would be 100x more effective in promoting biking than building anything.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-29 22:40:40+00:00
> Our findings reveal that students perceived AI tools as helpful for grasping code concepts and boosting their confidence during the initial development phase. However, a noticeable difficulty emerged when students were asked to work unaided, pointing to potential overreliance and gaps in foundational knowledge transfer.

This is basically what would be expected. However n=20 is too small. This needs to be replicated with x10 the n.
Show HN: I Recreated the Windows Longhorn (2004) Aurora Effect in HTML5 Canvas
by AntonioEritas | 2025-11-29 22:40:59+00:00
I've spent some time reverse-engineering and recreating the original "Aurora" animation from the unreleased Windows Longhorn Build 4074 (2004).

For those unfamiliar: Longhorn was the precursor to Vista. It promised a revolutionary UI based on the Avalon engine (WPF). The Aurora effect was a key part of this "Aero" vision, meant to be rendered procedurally without hitting the CPU too hard.

In the leaked Build 4074, the effect was technically broken/hidden because the default "Jade" theme didn't support it, and the BAML (Binary Application Markup Language) files used a deprecated format that the system parser couldn't handle properly.

I took the original XAML definitions and logic and ported them 1:1 to modern HTML5 Canvas shapes and animations. It’s a tribute to the Microsoft pioneers who were working on "Liquid Glass" aesthetics 21 years before it became a trend again.

It runs entirely in the browser. Added some nice toggles as well

The code is open source, enjoy the nostalgia trip!

Github: https://github.com/brainvine/longhorn-aurora

Live demo: https://longhorn-aurora.dannydekruijk.workers.dev/
by tibbar | 2025-11-29 22:41:08+00:00
I am having trouble thinking of situations where the only good outcome is being the top 1%. There are, to be sure, often power-law benefits to being exceptionally good, but to use your own example, being in the top 5% or 10% of wealth is nothing to sneeze at. It's all a spectrum.

With that said, I think you make some good points about the perspective people should have about competitive goals. Most contests are not strict meritocracies, and you are in for a lot of frustration if you assume that only effort matters when other slide by on their structural advantages. I would prefer to reframe the goal as 'work hard on what you have control over, as long as it provides some amount of benefit, and as long as you still care about the outcome.'
by romaaeterna | 2025-11-29 22:41:26+00:00
Clippy is almost certainly the most hated computer avatar in all of human history. Jar Jar Binks or Wesley Crusher come to mind as equivalent foci of psychic negativity. Using him for any movement is self-sabotage, not to mention all the organizations you will scare off because using a copyrighted/trademarked character invites legal risk.
by b112 | 2025-11-29 22:41:38+00:00
You know what?

Peter used to say, that every successful company could look back at a defining moment early on, where they would have died had it not been for the courage, and the tenacity, and maybe the insanity of one visionary person who put it all on the line, even though it seemed like a huge mistake at the time.

A moment where all the metrics and the numbers didn't mean anything.

It was all about the emotion. It was about belief, rational or irrational.

And I think...

I hope that I just witnessed that.
by pshirshov | 2025-11-29 22:41:51+00:00
I've added a simple explanation right into the readme: "Essentially, you define your data structures and Baboon generates implementations for you. Then you define new versions, Baboon generates new versions of the structures, the conversions from old structure versions to new ones and forces your to provide conversions which cannot be derived automatically. Also it comes with extremely efficient tagless binary encoding for all your structures."

This thing can remove a lot of manual work and save your ass sometimes from the effects of incorrect migrations.
by TomasBM | 2025-11-29 22:43:24+00:00
I haven't come across any reviews that I could recognize as having been blatantly LLM-generated.

However, almost every peer review I was a part of, pre- and post-LLM, had one reviewer who provided a questionable review. Sometimes I'd wonder if they'd even read the submission, and sometimes, there were borderline unethical practices like trying to farm citations through my submission. Luckily, at least one other diligent reviewer would provide a counterweight.

Safe to say that I don't find it surprising, and hearing / reading others' experiences tells me it's yet another symptom of a barely functioning mechanism that is peer review today.

Sadly, it's the best mechanism that institutions are willing to support.
by pkd | 2025-11-29 22:44:15+00:00
That article spends a lot of words in trying to paint DHH's "native Brits" in a positive light but never mentions the following sentence from the article:

> A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if it has nothing to do with what you look like?

Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-white British population in London and uses the non-white number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-born vs local-born numbers too but he did not.

I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not sure.

It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH. That's not being nice, that's being oblivious.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-29 22:44:28+00:00
> Unfortunately people are too short-sighted and selfish so it's unlikely taxes will be raised.

I'm curious how the long-sighted and altruistic are going to restore the weakening currents to their best strength. Could you start with how much voluntary tax you're going to contribute, what sort of tax scheme you'd recommend for the rest and how these contributions will affect the currents?

Preferably, a step by step explanation, like an llm-R model would produce.
by sofixa | 2025-11-29 22:45:38+00:00
Where is "here"?

Most cars on this list, and the ones I see while living in one big European city, and regularly visiting lots of others, are not SUVs. There are plenty of them, but even then it's on the smaller side (e.g. a Renault Captur, not a Escalade 8 wheeled 65ton)

https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2025/11/europe-october-2025-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-29 22:46:34+00:00
> America needs to reflect on why it's unique

When it’s unique, yes. In the case, metal theft is documented in Australia, Australia, Canada, France, Czechia, the Netherlands and the UK [1].

(To be fair, I’m not seeing any sources credibly auditing prevalence versus occurrence.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_theft#Notable_metal_thef...
by Eazypasswords | 2025-11-29 22:47:11+00:00
"Hi HN, I built EazyPasswords because I wanted a faster, cheaper alternative to 1Password that supports Password sharing via a qr code." The Stack: Frontend (Vanilla JS/html/css), Backend (Cloudflare Workers), DB (D1). The Crypto: how my no knowledge works (PBKDF2 -> AES-GCM -> RSA). I am looking for people to try to break it or give feedback on the UI.
by andy99 | 2025-11-29 22:47:15+00:00
Is this what they call “victim blaming”? Why does it have to be society’s fault and not the people stealing the copper?

If we have litter and excrement all over the streets, do we blame ourselves instead of the people littering? Is every “this is why we can’t have nice things” situation actually our own fault? How about holding people accountable for their actions?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-29 22:47:25+00:00
Aside: OP are these stories just re-rigged versions of other source articles out there?

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/nov/air-pollution-may-reduce... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084057)

https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/11/28/air-pollution-may...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-29 22:49:19+00:00
Ironically, the only thing Clippy was missing for it to be genuinely useful was... LLMs. Hooked up to GPT-4 + bunch of tool calls, it would've delivered far beyond what originally promised.

Which is why I'm both dismayed and impressed with how badly Microsoft keeps screwing up Copilot. This stuff isn't hard, unless you want to make it hard.
by Rochus | 2025-11-29 22:49:59+00:00
Has beed discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299

By Kay's own logic in this talk, Smalltalk-76/80 should also be on his "naughty list" alongside C++ and Java. Only Smalltalk-72 is somewhat comparable to Erlang's message passing (though it technically neither fits Kay's "active independent cell" model because of its synchronous, blocking, and single-threaded execution). Ironically, Erlang's model better fits Kay's view than any Smalltalk version, but Armstrong explicitly states in the interview that he was oblivious to Kay's (and also Hewitt's) model at the time when he created Erlang (he was guided by Prolog and Hoare's CSP instead).
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-29 22:50:17+00:00
> I've been saying for a while now that Canada should respond to the tariffs by removing copyright protection for American IP

Canadian here, I think copyright law fundamentally needs to go.

At the same time, you underestimate how bat-shit it would be to violate the Berne convention and the TRIPs agreement, even just directed at the U.S.

The only international consensus country which is not party to one of those is... Eritea? Even Russia and China are signatories who "officially" pay lip service to copyright law (even if they don't enforce other countries' IP in practice)

The U.S. is already talking about invading Canada, becoming the pirate bay for all U.S. IP would almost certainly be the push needed for the U.S. to make good on those threats.
by afavour | 2025-11-29 22:50:20+00:00
> going to restore the weakening currents to their best strength

Wouldn’t the more likely scenario be working out how the country will weather (pun intended) the huge change rather than trying to reverse the inevitable?

Either way I imagine step one there is research. Which costs money. “Don’t spend a penny until an incredibly detailed step by step plan arrives from nowhere” doesn’t strike me as a plan for success.
by tripletao | 2025-11-29 22:50:40+00:00
After yet more investigation, I think I found the questionnaire. Question 7 asks:

> Between MMM DD – MMM DD, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)

https://www2.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/busi...

This closely tracks Apollo's language and the language in the results spreadsheet.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-29 22:50:55+00:00
I think it was Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) that talked about a similar concept as well. Ignoring the 10k hour thing, it also talks abut small compounding advantages that later add up to more opportunity (for those that take it).

To go with the sports analogy, (paraphrasing, been awhile since I read it) it mentions how birth date coinciding with the youth sport season was a strong determiner of success at that sport because being ~11 months older in the same age group meant they were bigger faster more experienced and would be played more, compounding increases in skill.

There was also a similar concept floating around about darts, where the poor get maybe one dart to throw, middle class a few and wealthier get many. But I can't remember where I saw or read that
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-29 22:51:25+00:00
How many people right here on HN have you seen over the years who built something and had no idea about marketing or a go to market strategy or knew anything about sales?

That’s the equivalent of a 51 year old with a limp not being self aware enough to know that I don’t have the skills to be a basketball player just because I can dribble.
by sltkr | 2025-11-29 22:52:13+00:00
I didn't do a quantative analysis (I bet neither did you), but copper theft happens everywhere:

- https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/heilbronn/t...

- https://www.ladepeche.fr/2025/11/14/info-la-depeche-explosiv...

- https://nos.nl/artikel/2591857-na-koperdiefstal-in-veenhuize...
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-29 22:52:20+00:00
I've seen quite a few of these funded entrepreneur-lifestyle kids now; I've worked (briefly) with many of their companies. Many of them are making enough of a real go at it such that I can't tell them from others, but quite a few don't know enough about how a default alive business works and deliver a DoA even when the core idea or a short pivot works and has traction - these guys need so much better PMF to succeed.

The best businesses I've seen parents find for their children are lettings agents (urgh) and basic manufacturing (last mile door assembly etc.). You can get the business model in a six month course, the staff are minimum wage, the product is high margin. If your parents buy the building you are so close to default alive its a joke. Grow the business, flip it, and try the big idea.
by sofixa | 2025-11-29 22:52:47+00:00
> Is there some kind of objective analysis which supports this claim

It's a bit hard to have objective research on marketing and public perceptions. But how else do you explain all the marketing in that regard, and the fact that Americans, on average, even urbanites, keep buying massive pickup trucks, the majority of which are never used for anything more than a commuter vehicle for 1, maybe 2 occupants? Even in rich countries with very outdoorsy people (Switzerland, Nordics, hell, the Netherlands has camping as a national sport, and during summertime they do mass migrations in towed campers and campervans towards the south of France, Italy, Spain), very few people buy trucks.

Marketing, an arms race, manufacturers not offering much else because their marketing works, Americans being very aspirational about what they'll do with their vehicles, idk.

> It's hardly an American manufacturer thing, either, Japanese cars have reliably gotten bigger year after year as well.

Japanese vehicles in the US or everywhere? Cars in general have been getting bigger because of safety features, but American monstrosities with lower visibility than literal tanks are an almost uniquely American phenomenon (slowly invading the rest of the world too).
by garciasn | 2025-11-29 22:54:00+00:00
I’m interested to see what this does to rents overall. I assume these will not be as affordable as everyone would like/assume, at least not in the next few years, and will drive up rents in larger spaces.

But I’m glad we’re trying SOMETHING in order to combat the problems with affordability; let’s just hope we don’t even up reviving how the other half lives.
by gregorydickson | 2025-11-29 22:54:19+00:00
I built this because Claude Code keeps forgetting what it learned.

Every session I'd re-explain the architecture, re-discover the same bugs, re-learn the same solutions. CLAUDE.md helps but it's manual and doesn't capture relationships between things.

memory-graph is an MCP server that stores entities, observations, and relationships in a knowledge graph. The key insight: coding agents need to remember what solved problems, not just find similar content.

Three backends: - SQLite (default) - single file, zero config, ~50MB with embeddings - Neo4j - when you need scale - Memgraph - when you need speed

30 MCP tools, 409 tests passing (90%+ coverage), 8 ADRs documenting decisions.

The graph relationships (SOLVES, CAUSES, RELATES_TO) let you query "what fixed the JWT bug last time?" instead of just "find auth-related code."

pip install memorygraphMCP

Then add to claude_desktop_config.json: {"mcpServers": {"memory-graph": {"command": "memory-graph"}}}

Curious what others are doing for persistent memory in coding agents. The official @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory is great but uses JSONL - I wanted queryable relationships.

https://github.com/gregorydickson/memory-graph
by msla | 2025-11-29 22:54:21+00:00
FTP server, not BBS. You had to be on the Internet to access it.

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

It was called SIMTEL20 for a while because it was hosted on a PDP-10 mainframe running the TOPS-20 operating system, but apparently it was hosted on a PDP-10 running ITS first:

> The archive was hosted initially on the MIT-MC PDP-10 running the Incompatible Timesharing System,[1] then TOPS-20, then FreeBSD servers
by geoah | 2025-11-29 22:54:41+00:00
I’m not really sure how much of a problem this truly is and I would have appreciated if the author made a little bit more effort and backed at least some of their claims with some citations as I’d genuinely interested in leaning more. The way this is presented feels very hand wavy and over sensationalized.

> Your fight or flight is stuck on ON mode. Total sympathetic nervous system dominance.

> You can’t just snap out of it, you blew your dopaminergic load and are literally burning neurons.

> No parallel processing, your brain cant’t handle it.

> Productivity plummets, meaning evaporates, creativity disappears…

> Direct correlation between IQ and noise tolerance.

> Our GABA system can’t keep up with modern demands for inhibition.

The overall style is also very much to my personal liking.

Unabomber picture with an edited quote was my first issue.

> Now you’re marinating in auditory AIDS 24/7.

> Cognitive goonery.
by marcusverus | 2025-11-29 22:54:57+00:00
Th US spends >$30K per year on HUD, medicaid, and food stamps for every person whose household income poverty line. The idea that this issue is somehow evidence of the need for more welfare is only possible if you don't have any idea how much we're already spending on welfare. This low-effort, blindly empathetic mindset of "oh those poor criminals" will be the death of our civilization.
by creatonez | 2025-11-29 22:54:57+00:00
It didn't work, it was an utterly terrible idea and they are almost certainly lying about the sentiment that it "worked". No ability to perform maintenance is a complete nonstarter. Communications and power is a nightmare to get right. The thermal management story sucks - just because you have metal touching water doesn't mean you have effective radiation of heat. Actually scaling it up is nearly impossible because you need thicker and more expensive vessels the bigger it gets. The problems go on and on.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-29 22:54:59+00:00
“Can you start a business without $10m of family capital” is a societal question.

“Can you start a business on an empty stomach without a roof over your head” is not the same debate. A roof over your head is a prerequisite to almost everything else in life - starting a business is WAY down the list. Better to have societies work to provide food and roofs - which they do, with varying degrees of success.
by slashdev | 2025-11-29 22:55:09+00:00
I agree, it's worth doing everything we can.

But it's also clear, it won't be enough. Emissions are not only still increasing, they likely won't stop increasing in my lifetime (in the next 50 years.)

We must adapt. The earth is going to get a lot warmer, and wetter in some parts, and drier in others, and sea levels will likely keep slowly rising for many centuries to come, if not millennia.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-29 22:56:44+00:00
For a force whose goals can change at any moment, this seems pretty reasonable. The SAS shouldn't be trained for anything in partucular, but rather for anything and everything. Not to mention that in the SAS you have a commanding offiser who can overrule if needed.

Step 7 in a process which already has defined end-goals though? The fact that there were disagreements in the first place baffled me. The fact that it was impossible to write anything down about it without invoking heaven's wrath made me quit.
by Fogest | 2025-11-29 22:56:46+00:00
Unfortunately even when these people who are a drain on society get caught, they often are treated like a victim and get very light sentences (or even none at all). We see this with shoplifting too. When the consequences are virtually eliminated, this kind of crime becomes pretty lucrative. Especially if you're homeless or a drug addict, you the consequence of spending maybe a single night in jail is pretty much a non-issue. And fines given are absolutely useless because they aren't paid, and they have no assets to take to pay them.

I'm honestly a bit tired of nothing productive being done about drug addiction. And I am pretty convinced programs like safe injection sites are pushed by NGO's because they make a lot of money off them. A lot of the information suggesting they are useful is pushed by the same groups making major money off running them.