MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by otikik | 2025-11-26 08:24:44+00:00
Life is Sheldon “easy”, for anyone. And it’s a relative term. I did struggle with my mental condition, but I ended up with what many would consider “a comfortable life”: good salary, a family, a house. No major health issues, both parents alive until I was able to fend for myself, etc. I didn’t take drugs although I do have some compulsive behavior issues I still work on, through therapy. Which I recommend considering! Your family deserves a mentally strong parent. And that sometimes unpacking and dealing with stuff.

On that note, when your kid becomes a teenager, he’ll be more likely to get hooked into addictive substances like drugs, tobacco, or alcohol than others, I’m afraid to say. I will be paying attention to this matter very closely and will make sure that my son has all the information about them when that period comes.

Good luck on raising your kids! It’s the biggest adventure in life.
by kryptiskt | 2025-11-26 08:25:03+00:00
Google doesn't care about right and wrong, only what they can get away with. They don't deserve to be treated as a moral subject by you, because they will not reciprocate. You're free to be as shameless as they are in your interactions with them if you can get away with it, you're just playing the game at the same level as they are.

I'm paying for Youtube Premium, but its a plain utilitarian decision after they started hassling me with captchas and intimidations that someone at my IP address was using an ad blocker. So yeah, I'm paying protection money. But I don't feel in the least good about it.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-11-26 08:25:20+00:00
I agree it's messed up but programming examples often are in order to convey some information.

A css property is set at a context, for example

body {color: blue}

div { color: green }

#alert {color: red}

https://codepen.io/bryanrasmussen/pen/PwNQyOm

this would be preferable to what was done variables because it is more straightforward. The dumb example of custom property using you highlight does not help make clearer code, nor does it help make css easier to understand, but I guess they were hoping people would see that custom properties inherit basically the same way that other properties inherit, except that there is this freaky :root context instead of using body.

obviously things can be complicated because only some properties inherit, but the claim holds. CSS properties are set by context.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-26 08:26:32+00:00
Once production starts the costs for many roles are locked in and they work till it wraps, often due to union rules and contracts. Anyone working in parallel with the film crews just does whatever the director/producers prioritizes since they’re not getting sent home.

It's definitely a different world though because you’re not supposed to go under budget. If investors give you $100mil to make a movie, they want to maximize the return on that $100mil, so if you’re $5mil under budget, they want you to go and spend that money to make it even better (usually in post production now, but back then it was less of an option).
by scandox | 2025-11-26 08:26:38+00:00
The plots are also extremely illogical and incoherent. I think though the greatest failure is in character development.

Rewatching it recently I felt like it was a drama about a really bad boss. Martin Landau's character is a terrible leader: shouty, over emotional, inclined to sudden bouts of despair, micromanaging.

It's obviously a great pity because as everyone agrees it's a beautiful show with a top notch theme.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-26 08:26:44+00:00
From what I've seen, tons of garbage floats to the top of average non technical users. I'm not sure that Sora slop would be much worse than Daily Mail hate news slop. Or jihadist preacher slop. Or russbot misinformation slop. There's even tons of AI voiceover slop already. Sora will just be a small step towards the dead internet.
by ensocode | 2025-11-26 08:27:11+00:00
It feels like the article’s point about the “mush” of modern internet trends maps surprisingly well to the IT world. We see the same dynamic with tech stacks: rapid micro-trends, constant novelty, and a tendency to adopt tools because they’re circulating in the feed rather than because they solve a real problem.

I think it’s not catastrophic, most of this churn is harmless — but it does create noise. The challenge is simply recognizing when a trend is signal vs. when it’s just another iteration of the cycle. A bit more intentionality in how we pick technologies would already go a long way.
by xenodium | 2025-11-26 08:27:37+00:00
I’m an Emacs enthusiast and also build iOS apps powered by org markup.

The more I used my apps, the more I wanted their UX optimised for mobile. This often means completely rethinking the Emacs experience when bringing to mobile.

This is most obvious in my latest app [1]. Org markup fully fades as implementation details. Of all my apps, this is the one I personally use the most. Proudly, I also started getting non-Emacs users interested in org [2].

Anyway, that’s all to say that as an Emacs fan, I want the full Emacs experience on desktop, but when on iPhone, I want fully optimised mobile UX. No meta anything there ;)

[1] https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey...

[2] https://ellanew.com/ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-26 08:28:40+00:00
This AI stuff is really taking off fast.

And hasn't Ilya been on the cutting edge for a while now?

I mean, just a few hours earlier there was a dupe of this artice with almost no interest at all, and now look at it :)

This was my feelings way back then when it comes to major electronics purchases:

Sometimes you grow to utilize the enhanced capabilities to a greater extent than others, and time frame can be the major consideration. Also maybe it's just a faster processor you need for your own work, or OTOH a hundred new PC's for an office building, and that's just computing examples.

Usually, the owner will not even explore all of the advantages of the new hardware as long as the purchase is barely justified by the original need. The faster-moving situations are the ones where fewest of the available new possibilities have a chance to be experimented with. IOW the hardware gets replaced before anybody actually learns how to get the most out of it in any way that was not foreseen before purchase.

Talk about scaling, there is real massive momentum when it's literally tonnes of electronics.

Like some people who can often buy a new car without ever utilizing all of the features of their previous car, and others who will take the time to learn about the new internals each time so they make the most of the vehicle while they do have it. Either way is very popular, and the hardware is engineered so both are satisfying. But only one is "research".

So whether you're just getting a new home entertainment center that's your most powerful yet, or kilos of additional PC's that would theoretically allow you to do more of what you are already doing (if nothing else), it's easy for anybody to purchase more than they will be able to technically master or even fully deploy sometimes.

Anybody know the feeling?

The root problem can be that the purchasing gets too far ahead of the research needed to make the most of the purchase :\

And if the time & effort that can be put in is at a premium, there will be more waste than necessary and it will be many times more costly. Plus if borrowed money is involved, you could end up with debts that are not just technical.

Scale a little too far, and you've got some research to catch up on :)
by moffkalast | 2025-11-26 08:29:36+00:00
My dad took me there as a kid a long whole ago when Giger was still alive, it was really something. The bar is amazing and the museum is... oppressively dark in a very unique way, like anything Giger ever did I suppose.

There's several lifesize necronomicons/xenomorphs, some earlier and later variants, Sil and the skull train, a lot of art that was never used in Alien and sequels but some made it later into Prometheus.
by defrost | 2025-11-26 08:29:48+00:00
BLACKWATER Angwi fled his mountain home, the soldiers, as they burnt his village down, near the border line. He’s left the card games by the valley fire, the stories that his uncle told, the stories old, the spirits past. He’s seen the land taken away and given to the Java men; they’ve flown them in from distant lands. Angwi fears for his people’s songs, the nights they danced the valley strong; the hunding grounds, steep mountain side. slash and burn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrciT3lXtwE

Tabaran: Recorded Pacific Gold Studios, Rabaul, PNG, July to August ‘88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5p1sjvW6s
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-26 08:30:08+00:00
> This is just as true about a $40 Supreme, or Aime Leon Dore T-shirt, than it is for a $15,000 handbag.

According to a more fashion and design orientated friend of mine, you can buy knockoffs of Birkin or any other high-end bag. And, guess what? Some of those knockoffs and their manufacturers have developed a certain cachet, and actually sell for quite high prices. So of course, those have spawned knockoffs too.

It's like the bit in Pattern Recognition, isn't it?
by kace91 | 2025-11-26 08:30:17+00:00
I'll bite, let's grant for the sake of the argument that equaling the LLM with a person holds.

This manager is directly providing an unrelated team with an unprompted 150-file giant PR dumped at once with no previous discussion. Upon questioning, he says the code has been written by an outside contractor he personally chose.

No one has onboarded this contractor to the team, and checking their online presence shows lots of media appearances, but not a single production project in their CV, much less long time maintenance.

A cursory glance at the files reveals that the code contains copypasted code from stackoverflow to the point that the original author's name is still pasted in comments. The manager can not justify this, but doesn't seem bothered by the fact, and insists that the contractors are amazing because he's been following them in social networks and is infatuated with their media there.

Furthermore, you check the manager's history in slack and you see 15 threads of him doing the same for other teams. The ones that have agreed to review their PRs have closed them for being senseless.

How would you be interacting with this guy?
by omnimus | 2025-11-26 08:30:54+00:00
But they just don't happen to be doing the same thing. People claiming otherwise have to first prove that we are comparing the same thing.

This whole strand of “inteligence is just a compression” may be possible but it's just as likely (if not a massively more likely) that compression is just a small piece or even not at all how biological inteligence works.

In your analogy it's more like comparing modern calculator to a book. They might have same answers but calculator gets to them through completely different process. The process is the key part. I think more people would be excited by a calculator that only counts till 99 than a super massive book that has all the math results ever produced by the human kind.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-26 08:31:16+00:00
I own a small agency and it’s the same for me, but that doesn’t explain the urgency nor the layoffs in the big companies. Yes we are not hiring juniors, but we still hire seniors because they are now more productive. That’s not what we are seeing in big companies.

To me it’s the cumulated effects of many things happening coincidentally: - Massive offshoring

- Money becoming scarce after the ZIRP era and in the recession except for AI investments

- Near monopoly positions that allow layoffs as a strategy to push stock price, without penalty for the decline in quality (enshittification)

- Cherry on the top, LLMs being able to do the work of juniors when used by seniors

If it was only about AI productivity we wouldn’t see this urgency.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-26 08:31:29+00:00
Federations are tricky to keep together. I witnessed the unraveling of Czechoslovakia as a teen and I was happy that it didn't end up in bloodshed, unlike Yugoslavia. There, guys of my age were spending their early youth killing other guys of my age speaking a mutually comprehensible language.

Don't push it, let it come naturally, if it does. Both CS and YU were built in a top-down fashion, without explicit consent of the nations involved, and this proved fatal eventually. Don't repeat the same mistake again.
by darthoctopus | 2025-11-26 08:31:32+00:00
Indeed, I find it very hard to take the article seriously given that every one of the notionally decentralised trends it's described has propagated on a very small handful of highly centralised platforms. For that matter, it's very difficult for me to imagine how these trends might have spread in the first place without access to large-audience virality directed by algorithmic recommendations precisely enabled by such severe centralisation.
Show HN: Hanzi Stroke – An interactive tool to learn Chinese character writing
by YarkYao | 2025-11-26 08:32:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Hanzi Stroke (https://www.hanzistroke.com) to solve a very specific problem: learning to write Chinese characters is unintuitive for non-native learners.

Most learners rely on rote memorization, which is inefficient and often leads to incorrect stroke habits. While there are dictionary apps that show static stroke order diagrams, they lack interactivity. The key to muscle memory is deliberate practice with immediate feedback.

So, I made a single-page application that provides: Dynamic stroke order animations for over 9,000 characters. Interactive canvas practice where you trace characters on screen, stroke-by-stroke, with guidance. A structured curriculum based on the official HSK 1-9 vocabulary lists. Some technical aspects that might interest you: The frontend is built with Vue.js for a reactive experience, and the stroke data is parsed from a structured source. A core challenge was designing the stroke-matching logic to be both pedagogically correct and forgiving enough for learners. The goal was to create a focused, ad-free tool that does one thing well. This is a bootstrapped project born from my own experience teaching Chinese. It’s not another gamified language app; it’s a practical workbook reimagined for the web.

I’d love for the HN community to try it, especially if you've ever been curious about learning Chinese. But more importantly, I'm keen to hear your thoughts: For learners: Does this approach make the writing process less daunting? For builders: How have you tackled similar challenges in making "traditional" skills interactive? All feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
by habitue | 2025-11-26 08:32:15+00:00
This is an interesting distinction, but it ignores the reasons software engineers do that.

First, hardware engineers are dealing with the same laws of physics every time. Materials have known properties etc.

Software: there are few laws of physics (mostly performance and asymptotic complexity). Most software isnt anywhere near those boundaries so you get to pretend they dont exist. If you get to invent your own physics each time, yeah the process is going to look very different.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-26 08:33:31+00:00
It's also a bad statistical method because if there are 300 cities/regions in the world and a storm hits a random one of them most severely each time, on average you will expect to have one city/region every year seeing a 300-year storm even in a static climate.

Not that I think the climate isn't changing, but because if the headlines are obviously p-hacking all the time you get all climate change reporting eventually called fake news even when it isn't.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-26 08:34:44+00:00
The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem implies that a countable model of set theory has to exist. "Cardinality" as implied by Cantor's diagonal argument (which happens to be a straightforward special case of Lawvere's fixed point theorem) is thus not an absolute property: it's relative to a particular model. It's internally true that there is no bijection as defined within the model between the naturals and the reals, as shown by Cantor's argument; but externally there are models where all sets can nonetheless be seen as countable.
by tailrecursion | 2025-11-26 08:34:46+00:00
I understand you about the implied contract. I think it's more complex than that. People were making videos before the promise of ad revenue, and they were better videos. If people go away who make videos for money - which will never happen - it would be an improvement overall. If ad blockers do win, YT could edit their ads into the videos themselves making an ad blocker's job harder. YTers who want money could make their own independent deals with advertisers, as some do today. And YT can always charge money - as they do right now with premium. But if YT did that for all tiers, they couldn't dominate and they'd have competitors spring up. They know that. They also know if they ever asked anyone whether they agree to watch ads, most would say No. The prevalence of Ad blockers are proof that people don't want to watch the ads. But, as you point out, we do accept the free content. The thing is the world would likely be better if YT would charge everyone for access. Judging from video quality these days a lot of YTers could be doing something more productive than what they're doing now - I mean in an objective sense, better for economic health. But the real reason for these $0 tech services is to stifle competition and prevent the market from working. And that works to everyone's detriment. Basic economics doesn't function without prices.
Show HN: SpacePigeon – Save and Restore macOS Workspaces
by kakmuis | 2025-11-26 08:34:50+00:00
I switch between a few different “modes” on my Mac every day (work, coding, meetings, personal stuff). Each time I’d end up reopening the same apps and dragging all the windows back into the right Spaces. Super repetitive and honestly kind of annoying.

So over the past few weeks I hacked together a small open-source tool called SpacePigeon that basically remembers your whole workspace and puts everything back where it was.

Things it can do:

Save your current layout (apps + windows + Spaces)

Restore it with one click or a hotkey

Keep separate presets (like “Work”, “Coding”, “Meetings” etc.)

Handle external monitors

Example: I hit my “Work” preset and it opens all the usual apps and moves them to the right desktops automatically. Saves me a few minutes every time.

If anyone here lives in Spaces like I do, you might find it useful. Here’s the repo (MIT, free): https://github.com/louivers/spacepigeon

Totally open to feedback — still very much a work in progress.
by alex1138 | 2025-11-26 08:34:50+00:00
I used to lurk the Google forums (they even changed the goddamn format of the forums now to where clicking things is tedious and I'm sure it's 100% intentional) and going back years with Google and also I suspect Youtube it was full of users complaining about "You're ignoring all our advice/wants in this thread". I don't remember all of it, but it was product managers being incredibly selective

The tyranny of distance (you can do x where x is usually 'ignore feedback' and you can get away with it separated by hundreds of miles, where otherwise you might get punched in the face) kills me with companies like this. You can't just ignore all of us (the customer isn't always right but it wouldn't kill you to listen every once and a while and if you don't, we'll gradually stop using your product). But you can, because listening to The People isn't where the product managers decide it should be or isn't where the ad dollars are or whatever

It's an emperor has no clothes situation. They know it we know it everybody knows it but we're all (corporate, anyway) just going to ignore it and plug our ears
by fodkodrasz | 2025-11-26 08:35:53+00:00
Maybe there were advanced human civilizations on the planet before the current (there are such theories), but at some point they also got so advanced that they accidentally/systematically removed all of their traces, and have declined in some way. (though the theories are have better explanation for their lack of artifacts apart from a few OOPARTs)

Our age unfortunately will have long-lasting traces in the forms of various plastics and forever-chemicals.
by veltas | 2025-11-26 08:37:15+00:00
The fact that I can't even fit the real numbers between 0 and 1 on a single page, but I can fit every possible fraction in existence, doesn't mean anything?

I don't think this definition is that weird, for example by 'larger' I might say I can easily 'fit' all the rational numbers in the real numbers, but cannot fit the real numbers in the rational numbers.
by balamatom | 2025-11-26 08:37:53+00:00
>How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear.

He's part of a precarious minority of semi-technical functionaries, armed bureaucrats afforded generous promotions and great inner leeway amidst the post-meltdown order of things, in return for their unquestioning allegiance to the same
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-26 08:38:02+00:00
you can ignore the fact that they look like text. look past that

program and document just are different things. (I gave a simplified definition). if they both are represented using text when creating, it doesn't make them the same. because some text is a programming language and can create program, and some text use markup language and can create document.

it's like humans and worms are carbon life, if you only look at that you can't tell difference between humans and worms. you need to look what kinds of cells are in them or even better what they do

It seems like you want to intentionally not understand this?
by flibble | 2025-11-26 08:38:13+00:00
I do like watching these comparisons however it reminds me of a conversation I had recently with my 10 year old.

Son: Why does the croissant cost €2.80 here while it's only €0.45 in Lidl? Who would buy that?

Me: You're not paying for the croissant, you're paying for the staff to give it to you, for the warm café, for the tables to be cleaned and for the seat to sit on.
by junon | 2025-11-26 08:38:18+00:00
> Sorry, what's the threat model in which you're giving people write access to your repository but assuming that they can't publish?

So that I'm the arbiter of what people download, and can review locally what changes were made prior to pushing it out to everyone.

> To establish a baseline here: the assumption with Trusted Publishing is that people are already using CI/CD to publish to places like PyPI.

That's not the narrative. People have been saying to switch to trusted publishing from local publishes. They're not 1:1 compatible. I agree that if you already publish via CD, then it probably already worked for your org and thus is a no brainer.

> If this isn't your user model, that's perfectly fine. But in that case you shouldn't be using CI/CD to publish at all (which is also fine); it's not an issue with Trusted Publishing per se.

That's exactly the point I'm making.
by whstl | 2025-11-26 08:38:38+00:00
The problem with this discussion is that a lot of people on these threads work as overpaid assistants to the one private chef, but also have never cooked at home.

Translating:

A lot of people work with AWS, are making bank, and are terrified of their skill set being made obsolete.

They also have no idea what it means to use a dedicated server.

That’s why we get the same tired arguments and assumptions (such as the belief that bare-metal means “server room here in the office”) in every discussion.
by nicbou | 2025-11-26 08:38:51+00:00
I found the whole thing so depressing from an environmental perspective. A completely pointless and manufactured hype cycle to push something with no utility whatsoever. Now some factories in China are pumping out labubu clones that will end up in the bargain bin of a dollar store.

It makes any effort to reduce my environmental footprint feel so pointless. Why even bother?