MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by weitendorf | 2025-11-09 18:07:57+00:00
Every new generation reinvents itself to fix what it sees wrong with the ones before it. But they can’t undo what already happened. The Internet is too deeply embedded in our lives now and too useful for that to change. And if bad actors insist on polluting the commons/letting AI run loose on it the only way to get any kind of accountability is for there to be identity mechanisms whenever you’re interacting with people beyond those you already know.

But regardless, it’s like a party that started out as a group of friends, then an entire subculture, then an entire personality type, then everybody else kinda watching through the windows, and now all those people are here but too shy to participate. I remember the end of the anonymity era, and looking back, it really did enable people to just be cruel and nasty in a way that scared away 90% of personality types.

Now a different kind of personality just sees the whole thing as a dump, strip mine, or a mark and the rest of us grew up. And I see an entire generation who truly internalized the cynicism of anonymous Reddit commenters who probably knew just as much about the world as they did, who are real people looking for any kind of authenticity or help they can find, and settling for that.

So, I think people are almost ready to start being truly sincere, forgiving, and graceful to each other on the Internet as long as they can expect to receive it back in kind. Partially because we have no choice, but it would be good anyway.
by snayan | 2025-11-09 18:08:01+00:00
People have already given you practical reasons why you're better off keeping it public. To answer your question as to how to get over your fear, you need to ask yourself what you're afraid of. You've mentioned you're worried about someone ripping off your hard work and claiming it as their own. If you can understand the root of why the idea of that pisses you off, you will probably find it's an artificial construct of ego. Understand the root and the fear will loosen it's grip.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-09 18:08:08+00:00
I am now on the hunt for a non vibe coded alternative. I stopped open sourcing code after all my open code's licenses were broken by Microsoft and everyone else commercialising it. Which I guess is part of the point of why they did it and have put serious money to defending themselves in court against anyone that dare challenge it. Suffice to say I don't want anything to do with projects that participated in that theft and re-commercialisation of open source code.

Does not look like the original Keepass project is doing this which is the easiest migration away but I will check a bit deeper on their commits to be sure.
by hirako2000 | 2025-11-09 18:08:34+00:00
Exactly this, articles of that tone are starting to surface. AI is often the pretext, because it makes sense to replace labour with technology. The dissonance is why those who make layoff decisions refuse to accept reality, that AI does not replace staff.

One thing also contradicting the "AI can do it" argument, is that a business's playbook is to rather expand the work force in order to multiply the effect of technology. Yet they lay off in waves.

There is no dissonance, just a disguise: Several big tech companies in the US cut their workforce, in the US, while expanding it in countries where talent is cheaper.

Paradoxally, junior folks have it even worse. It has become very difficult to land a job without experience, again, in the US. It all makes sense, if you replace US based senior staff with Junior staff on different time zone, and having a different culture, you are left with nobody to mentor and supervise junior so staff.

I still can't explain how ending up with more Junior staff, offshore, less senior staff and little to no Junior staff locally will pay off in the long term.

I guess I will figure that out, but for now that's one piece of the puzzle I can only call an "economic downturn" outlook.
by Lariscus | 2025-11-09 18:08:47+00:00
I didn't know about that and this is really concerning to me. AI has no place in security critical software like KeePassXC, and I remain unconvinced that they will only use it for simple tasks. I don't feel like I can trust this software any longer this is a password manager not just some random website where bugs basically don't matter. I hate that I have to replace yet another piece of software that I liked.
by scoofy | 2025-11-09 18:09:21+00:00
>Cities like Milwaukee require police officers to make their names or officer identification numbers visible. This ensures that if there is an allegation of wrongdoing, the officer can be identified. This also is to guard against impersonators.

>There are exceptions. For instance, Milwaukee police detectives wear "plain clothes," often a dress shirt and pants. And, of course, undercover officers dress in such a way not to be identifiable, by design.

>At the 2024 Republican National Convention, where 4,500 outside officers came to assist, the Milwaukee Police Department was clear that any visible uniform change would be deemed an escalation of force.

>Federal law enforcement, like FBI and ICE, for the most part do not have an official uniform, though during raids they typically wear body armor, windbreakers or other gear with the name of their agency emblazoned on it.

>At times, federal and local law enforcement have covered their faces during raids, most often when they involve gangs or terrorism where there is a risk of retaliation.

>In 2025, ICE officers have increasingly been wearing face coverings. ICE leaders said that's because their officers increasingly are being assaulted and harassed online.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/06/30/why-are...

I agree with you that ICE agents should absolutely show their faces. That said, it's not unprecedented. I also think it's naive to think there would not be retaliation against them personally.
Show HN: The Browser Arena - Run & compare browser agents side by side
by kalil0321 | 2025-11-09 18:09:30+00:00
Hey HN, I was building a project where I needed to compare multiple browser-agents at once, so I built The Browser Arena. It’s a website where you can run several agents side-by-side and see, in real time, which model performs best on the exact same task. You also get some metrics, such as cost and speed.
by Veserv | 2025-11-09 18:09:43+00:00
You are claiming that every major OS is unhackable by governments. Can you point to literally any specific system that is demonstrably unhackable? Can you find literally anybody who would publicly claim their systems are unhackable by governments? Can you find literally anybody who would publicly claim that no competent team of 5 working for 3 years full-time (~1 tank worth of dollars, not even a basic company, just 1 tank) could not breach their systems? And that is just demonstrating for a single vendor, let alone your claim that it is true for everybody.

Your proof is that it would be really bad if everything were horribly insecure therefore it must not be true. Proof by wishful thinking has never been a valid argument.

In contrast, a few years ago I worked with a vulnerability broker who had literally hundreds of unsold zero-days with tens in each major commercial OS with zero-click RCEs only being a few million each. That is just one vendor in a sea of vulnerability brokers. That is the state of reality. We just live in the metaphorical equivalent of the pre-9/11 world where you can easily kill a lot of people by flying a plane into a building, but nobody has figured it out yet.
by echelon | 2025-11-09 18:09:43+00:00
This is the biggest unspoken story in tech.

The era of American developer exceptionalism is over.

Talent abroad has access to the same tools, education, and increasingly, network. American engineers will be replaced wholesale with overseas engineers that cost a fraction of American labor.

You can hire talented React engineers for $50k that will work harder than their American counterparts.

It's not just React. Overseas markets have DevOps, SREs, embedded, systems engineers, you name it.

For years Americans joked that overseas labor was subpar. It's not, or at least it isn't in today's world.
by dpark | 2025-11-09 18:09:54+00:00
I still don’t see it.

I feel like the “this is AI” crowd is getting ridiculous. Too perfect? Clearly AI. Too sloppy? That’s clearly AI too.

Rarely is there anything concrete that the person claiming AI can point to. It’s just “I can tell”. Same confident assurance that all the teachers trusting “AI detectors” have.
by rasz | 2025-11-09 18:10:21+00:00
aliexpress CY7C68013A are fine. There are also clones made by Corebai CBM9002A and work the same https://hackaday.com/2024/04/15/logic-analyzers-decoding-and... https://corebai.com/en/usb-controller/cbm9002a-56scg.html A child of MIC2025 policy - pretty much everything got a Chinese 1:1 clone.

The sketchy part comes from no buffering/clamping/conditioning of inputs on those $5 "logic analyzer" ebay boards. Means you only get CMOS compatible signal levels* and might fry it with bad signal, but at prices like this https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003649856071.html blowing a few is a non issue.

* meaning you need to know your probed signal will work beforehand, for example by verifying with a scope first.
by steve-atx-7600 | 2025-11-09 18:11:01+00:00
Would be nice if they could make a fridge that was simply reliable. I bought one of their fridge’s and couple years later had to do a ridiculous number of mods to the ice maker and fridge that were in the Samsung official service bulletin at the time of purchase. It’s reliable now, but will never buy anything from them again. Many similar models from 2010s had similar issues.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-09 18:11:07+00:00
The study we're discussing drew no such conclusion. There's a very disturbing pattern of studies coming out and being summarized by people with an agenda that choose to draw conclusions that are not supported by the study they're discussing. This is definitely true of social media studies, and I suspect it's true of mobile phone studies as well, although maybe you can provide a couple that you think are airtight and I can take a look.
by jamie_ca | 2025-11-09 18:11:14+00:00
I want to vaguely recall that they had like 4 products in planning stages for ONCE, released Campfire, then released Writebook for free, and then made Campfire free.

Lately on the podcast I only hear about Fizzy and one other unannounced SAAS that they're putting dev energy behind, nothing about other ONCE products.

I suspect that without a critical mass of usage driving word of mouth the long tail of sales was basically nil, and long-term even fairly small products weren't looking to recoup dev costs any time soon.
by fragmede | 2025-11-09 18:11:30+00:00
I don't know about "live without", but automatic defroster, crisper drawer, ice maker, water dispenser, alarm when the door isn't closed. being divided such that my food choices fit easily into the fridge (some people want to put a large wide pizza box directly into their fridge), power consumption.I dunno if you'd call looks a hardware feature, but it has to match the rest of the kitchen decor. The TV in the door isn't something I want at all though.
by vejeta | 2025-11-09 18:11:34+00:00
Author of the article here, I encourage you to do so, and share the results!

I started this journey in 2006, doing the same as you, crawling old usenet archives in the newsgroups interface taht groups.google.com provided. Finding the code was troublesome, because I lost track of it, when moving from floppy disks, to different storage systems, until it has finally been preserved on github.

I find it fascinating that your father had a VT220, did he have it at home or in his office. I thought that kind of terminals were more like a thing of labs.
by doubled112 | 2025-11-09 18:11:38+00:00
I don’t use Joplin for this reason. I just want a folder of markdown files. It was mildly difficult to escape from even with the export features.

I did script the cleanup. Title field to filename, then remove the header completely. Or something like that.

Had another script that would take the date (which happened to be my filenames) and commit the file into a git repo pretending it was committed that day too. Dear diary style.

Quick and dirty but it did what I needed it to do.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-09 18:12:01+00:00
I'm not sure exactly what this law does, but I would like to do with a computer anything I could theoretically and legally do with my mind.

Eg. If I'm a shopkeeper and see some customer coming in who stole stuff from the shop last time, I am within my rights to tell them to leave the shop.

However if I use a computer to do the same, many countries would disallow facial recognition, keeping databases of customers without consent, etc.
by doodlebugging | 2025-11-09 18:12:24+00:00
I agree. I could see an opportunity for a future entertainment network or sporting competition where the only participants allowed to compete are those who can document their own genetics. One set of games for ordinary people and another for those people whose parents chose to try to engineer a result. All of this is so new that it may not happen in my lifetime but I'm not prepared to say that it can't.
by lelandbatey | 2025-11-09 18:12:36+00:00
Echoing what others have said: just post your stuff. If you're not intentionally publicizing yourself or your work, I can nearly guarantee that no one will ever even look at your work. I've been putting up my little personal projects up on my GitHub for over ten years, and yet no one's ever come around to look at them except when I intentionally posted links to those projects on places like HN.

No one's going to look unless you ask them to look. If you already have a big audience (over 100+ people daily using things you've built) no one is going to "get curious" about your projects. So just post them so folks can see them.
by squidfunk | 2025-11-09 18:13:32+00:00
> It is a very reasonable choice: your plug-in project has grown to a scale you have never anticipated. Therefore, you built your own system from the ground up, one which you have total control over, instead of keeping to rely on someone else's system as you did before. This would make new features and bug fixes more easy to be implemented.

Exactly this. We ran against walls trying to realize our ideas with MkDocs' APIs, so a rewrite was due. With MkDocs being unmaintained for over a year, we took the initiative. Since we have excellent product-market fit, investing into a new stack was just logical.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-09 18:14:41+00:00
Reading isn’t analog, it’s a symbolic code atop metaphors posing as conduits. Both layers are arbitrary ie they’re heavily reduced code/models from analog. Coders need a remedial pass into info and quant analysis.

The idea anyone would label text as analog says quite a bit at how low categorization and analytic thinking has drifted in the comp ‘sci’ age.
by Mmrnmhrm | 2025-11-09 18:15:09+00:00
The power of FORTH is that creating a variation tailored to your specific problem is almost effortless.

In most languages, building a compiler or interpreter is a major project. With FORTH, if you’re the only user, you can have something working in minutes.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve thrown together a simple stack-based interpreter. Whenever I need to encode non-trivial behavior in an app, I know I can spin up a quick FORTH and get it done.
by tliltocatl | 2025-11-09 18:15:31+00:00
IMHO, that's missing out the relevant bit. RPN and stack juggling is a red herring. Being able to bootstrap the system from zero and then turn it into anything is the real distinguishing feature of Forth. The only other language that can do it is Lisp, but Lisp assumes dynamic memory allocation to be the most fundamental operation while Forth doesn't.
by zeagle | 2025-11-09 18:15:33+00:00
Thanks again. That is much easier than in the past. Fired it up yesterday, tried downloading 30+ mods manually, got a premium nexusmods account to automate and speed up the downloads and it just works. Damn, there is a lot of content and upgrades from a few hours in it. Wish I could be a teenager spending many hours a week on it again!
by linguae | 2025-11-09 18:15:56+00:00
You brought up something interesting. I believe academic computer science originated from at least three cultures: pure mathematics (Church, Turing, Kleene, Dijkstra), electrical engineering, and psychology (Licklieder). I say “at least” since there may be other cultures I’ve overlooked. These three cultures have different views on programming: the EE-based culture emphasizes taking full advantage of the underlying hardware, the math-based culture emphasizes proof, and the psychology-based culture emphasizes human factors.

The challenge is reconciling these three views of programming: the holy grail is a programming language that is ergonomic and expressive, yet is also amenable to mathematical reasoning and can be implemented efficiently. I wonder if there is a programming language theory version of the CAP theory in distributed systems, where one compares performance, ease of mathematical reasoning about code, and human factors?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-09 18:16:14+00:00
To be fair I probably didn't pick the best example. Blacksmiths are still needed by the very small number of well-off people who enjoy horse ownership. When you have a horse that needs shoeing, you want to hire a craftsman who was trained by their predecessors to uphold a venerable and specialized tradition, not some incompetent rando who is going to injure your horse or get themselves kicked in the head.

Then, once the job's done, you want that person off your payroll and out of your life. You don't care too much about the cost of labor, you just need it done right the first time. I can imagine a craft union being suitable for providing access to that kind of labor.

But driving cars and trucks around... yeah, no, that's a robot's job, sorry.
by imtringued | 2025-11-09 18:16:53+00:00
>that you chose to send despite being fully aware that by doing so you might be reaching out across borders because that's how the internet and your contracts with your service providers works.

As mentioned in my previous reply, this isn't how the internet works. There is no teleportation or ICBM delivering the packets. There is infrastructure spanning borders and the infrastructure is the thing that is ignoring the laws. The infrastructure has accurate geographic knowledge about the physical connections. The webserver doesn't have that information at all and must infer it. From the perspective of the webserver, the physical world might not exist at all. There is no such thing that can be described as awareness from the website operators perspective. IP addresses do not encode geographic information. The entire point of the OSI layer model is that the higher layers know nothing about the lower layers nor do they know anything about the physical location of the nodes.

Again, only the operator of the network has that information and the operator is located inside the UK. It is those network operators in the UK that are wilfully ignorant and aware of the things you claim a website operator from a far away country should be aware of.

Just think about how ridiculous your comment is if you sued someone in the US from the UK and brought up their awareness. How would you prove that they knew the location of every single router and fiber cable the packets are traveling through? That's what you're arguing here. You're arguing that there is full and complete awareness.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-09 18:16:59+00:00
Yeah. One of the most ridiculous things in my entire life of 40 years was seeing 90% of my fellow SW industry workers using the 2 or so years during/after COVID where we had more power than we’ve ever had to advocate hard for making ourselves much more easy to replace by insisting on remote work, and insisting on reducing our productivity (even if not actually, at least in the eyes of the employers) so we couldn’t justify our higher salaries anymore.

Just outright insane.
by doodlebugging | 2025-11-09 18:18:13+00:00
A lot of elite athletes already select their partners from their peer group. NFL football has examples of second and third generation players trying to make it big in the league since the financial incentives are so huge. It's a lot like antique royalty marrying distant cousins in order to avoid marrying down into the "commoner" ranks. Controlling the bloodlines in order to have kids who can meet or exceed their parents' accomplishments.
by c420 | 2025-11-09 18:18:18+00:00
I've got some bad news for you, Walmart acquired Vizio two years ago:

"This acquisition is not merely about expanding Walmart's product lineup but rather part of a sophisticated commercial strategy to integrate its retail operations, owned media channels and TV hardware into a cohesive ecosystem. This ecosystem is designed to generate and share data, influence shopping behavior and, ultimately, drive sales through an innovative approach to advertising..." "...By owning a television manufacturer, Walmart can now directly serve and, crucially, measure the impact of ads on consumer behavior. This capability significantly enhances Walmart's potential to convert advertisements into retail purchases."

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcou...
by fnordpiglet | 2025-11-09 18:19:23+00:00
There’s a difference between forced alignment and rejection of falsehoods. On each of these the response to the questions were investigations in the public space, especially vaccines, but through various processes. This is the opposite of forced alignment - this is deliberately considering opposing views. That doesn’t mean a decision isn’t eventually reached, and the fact we are relitigating all of these year over year even on verifiable facts shows there is no forcing of alignment by the system. I think people don’t realize what forced alignment looks like - that’s Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Xi China, North Korea, etc, where dissent is not tolerated, not allowed, and alignment is forced.
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-09 18:19:28+00:00
I don't think you can do you own testing like you suggest. You can self declare but you still need to include test data in that declaration so unless you happen to own all of the highly expensive calibrated test equipment you will need to pay an external test lab.

You don't need UL if you are just selling directly via your own website. However, if you want to sell the product in stores, most stores are going to require it.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-09 18:19:49+00:00
It's not a simple debate, but you are suggesting unprecedented levels of medical intervention. It's an ethical minefield. Firstly, i'm sure this is not your intention, but you are basically suggesting we should test genetic experiments on human guinea pigs. I'm not an expert in medical ethics but i'm pretty sure it's a major no go however noble the intention (i know new treatments get tested the whole time but this is a level up from that) . You are also suggesting we should use it to solve problems as trivial as colour blindness, even without fully understanding the moral, ethical and social impacts of using gene editing in such a way.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-11-09 18:19:51+00:00
But what is there to gain with this distinction?

Just the convenience of having an ordinal number to say? Rather than saying "chapter 0, chapter 1, chapter 2" one can say "the fourth chapter"? Or is it the fact that the chapter with number 4 has 3 chapters preceding it?

On first glance I find this all rather meaningless pedantry.