MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by levodelellis | 2025-11-30 05:54:32+00:00
It's not open source when you disallow people and companies from using it. One big difference between open source and public domain is that code in the public domain doesn't force anyone to redistribute the changes.

I have had several projects where I didn't want to be forked, especially by a company with a marketing budget. I choose not to distribute it with an open source license. There's nothing wrong with that. Companies have sold copies of source to people who paid, so that's an option. But I don't know of any licenses like that which have been written for the public to use (copying a company license is a copyright violation)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 05:55:07+00:00
Jensen Hung’s father was an engineer and his mother was a teacher. He wasn’t going to be homeless and on the street if he failed.

And he didn’t come straight out college either. He worked at AMD and I’m sure he had established some type of financial foundation and I’m sure he could have easily found a job if Nvidia failed with his background.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-30 05:56:44+00:00
You didn’t know about those either. You were taught it by someone else, who learned about it from someone else, and so on. Sure some people discovered things along the way but you specifically don’t get credit for their progress. Does that make you ignorant? What about all the things that those people did discover or invent - surely you can see how the progress they made at that time, with so few resources and advancements, was truly revolutionary. Some of those advancements were far harder and significant than the stuff we like to point at in modern times like rockets.
by rayiner | 2025-11-30 05:56:46+00:00
> Yes, and the US system is the envy of the world and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of wealth generated in the US over the past few decades

The benefits of the U.S. university system aren’t generated by average people taking a debt-financed 4 year vacation. They are generated by the same subset of people who would still be attending university even in a scaled down system that sent far fewer people to college.
by ordu | 2025-11-30 05:58:13+00:00
I think it is a little more nuanced than that. Bret Devereaux wrote about steam engines[1] in Roman Empire, and the conclusion is there was no economic stimuli to kickstart steam engine. For the first half-century (or so) of steam engines they were atmospheric steam engines and they sucked (in a very literal way: they sprayed cold water into a cylinder to condense water vapor to create a (sort of) vacuum that will suck a piston into a cylinder). I don't believe that these steam engines required especially good steel. I think the biggest issue was corrosion due to a contact with water, but there was no need to keep really high pressures.

> Yeah a steam powered water pump would be useful to the Romans

According to Devereaux it wouldn't be useless for the Romans. They didn't pump water from coal mines, and when they pumped water they'd need to move fuel from somewhere else to feed it into a steam engine. It was not an an easy or a cheap task to do, because they had no railroads.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
by hk1337 | 2025-11-30 06:00:09+00:00
I think we, as a society, put way too much emphasis on everyone going to a four-year college and now everyone has a degree and they’re basically useless.

A lot of people would likely have been better off going to a trade school or going into a trade apprenticeship.

Parents should focus on helping their kids figure out what they want to do and developing a path to achieve it. The path may take them to university, a trade, or something else.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-30 06:00:29+00:00
>(e.g. baseline-heidegger)/the humanities/psychoanalysis etc.)

and pre-heidegger, pre-psychoanalysis, what then, how did somebody, e.g. heidegger, think of those thoughts without the vocabulary to do so? ahhh, apparently, they didn't need to. Turns out, language is not required for thought, thought can invent language.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-30 06:00:59+00:00
> No they haven't. It's just not what the build up to to war looks like. At all

Depends European state to state. For example in 2018 [0][1], most Eastern states were spending close enough to what was needed.

The biggest laggard remained Germany due to constitutional issues, but even they along with other Western European nations have gotten back on track following the 2022 escalation by Russia [2]

> Broadly spying on your own citizens is not "counterespionage"

Dragnets absolutely are. Every piece of intelligence matters.

> Spying on your own citizens without any real military or economic preparation for war is proof that the former was not motivated by threat of war

Yet the dramatic rise in defense expenditures across Europe after 2022 and my own personal experience working with people in this space has shown a mixture of both.

I am a major critic of Western Europe's failure of preparation, but the changes that have happened in the past 3 years are massive. And every major and regional power is in the midst of a massive rearmament.

A major conventional war will happen in the next 5 years, and everyone is in the midst of preparation for that.

[0] - https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/military-balance/2019/0...

[1] - https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_mi...

[2] - https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2025/unprecedented...
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-30 06:01:38+00:00
Probably the kind of account who has read a lot of reddit creative writing exercises with the same structure as this. Makes vague, salacious claims, weaves a plausible motivation, and includes just enough details that people will see patterns and tie them to possible actual events. It's basically like writing horoscopes. I see no reason to believe this is anything other than that.
by abustamam | 2025-11-30 06:03:07+00:00
They replaced Google Assistant with Gemini; it was opt-in for a minute but I guess they decided to turn it on for everyone. I think at some point the default action for long pressing the power button turned into summoning it.

I personally opted in, so I didn't notice when they completely axed assistant, but it was stupid that I had to turn my power button back into a... Yknow, power button. I don't need an AI button on my phone, and I can't imagine most people do.
by wavemode | 2025-11-30 06:03:59+00:00
It's not sustainable to sell a product that most people only buy because they were trying to buy something else (or because they're forced to for societal reasons).

That sort of approach is exactly why "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost" (as the title states)! People are wising up to the truth, and now it's harming the credibility of the system as a whole.
by Estrick | 2025-11-30 06:05:33+00:00
Hey HN,

Model Arena is a multiplayer chatroom (like Discord) where you can add AI agents (Gemini, Llama, Grok, etc.) as real participants. You can invite friends via a link, so humans and models can all debate in the same channel.

The Architecture: I wanted to see how far I could push a serverless, frontend-only approach: - The entire app is a single 3,800-line HTML file written in Vanilla JS. - No backend logic: The app talks directly to LLM APIs from your browser. - Privacy: All API keys and chat history are stored locally on your device (LocalStorage). - Syncing: I use Supabase to sync human messages across the room.

I just fixed the mobile layout today, so it should work on your phone. Feedback on the UI is welcome!

(Context: I'm 18 and built this as a hobby project before starting university.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 06:08:20+00:00
The argument was not that you had to be rich, just that you had a safety net so you could take risks and know you had a fallback without being homeless and hungry.

But the Google cofounders specifically both had parents who were early computer scientists or mathematicians

In all fairness, I haven’t been consistent between “coming from enough money that your parents can be your angel investors” and “you can afford to fail and call your parents for help with the rent”.
by bloudermilk | 2025-11-30 06:08:50+00:00
You’re not wrong, but arguments like this ignore the point. For many authors and maintainers, ‘free software’ and ‘open source’ as traditionally defined result in unsustainable outcomes. The original article cites articles explaining several such issues.

Many people in the software industry are looking for new licensing models that take these systemic issues into account. It’s the ecosystem evolving to address current conditions. This should be expected and welcomed, but instead the idea is consistently written off by folks who would rather live by the old rules. The commons continues to suffer for it.
by intended | 2025-11-30 06:09:55+00:00
You don’t fix this.

Humans optimize for effort.

We have expanded the market for lemons.

People can say they are doing the work, use AI, and offload testing on the other party.

Buyers will respond by moving their purchase price down. People selling quality content will realize they don’t have a chance to get the fair value and exit the market.

Anyone arguing otherwise, needs to explain how, or who, is going to handle the added burden of verification that has been foisted on all of society.
by mjevans | 2025-11-30 06:11:05+00:00
Or, just provide 'basic healthcare' as a human right (and service for being taxed) and make ALL plans on top of that luxury services.

Wouldn't you like to STOP the insanity of "picking" a plan every year (or more) and also end the billing nightmare by just making it all single payer (the government of the people, for the people)?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 06:12:19+00:00
I am criticizing the idea that all it takes is “grit” and if you work really hard you will succeed.

Thought experiment: 10 people out of college take “huge risks and work really hard”. A second set of 10 people just get boring enterprise Dev jobs and the third set all work in BigTech for 10 years. Rank the three groups in the order of expected median total income over the decade?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-30 06:13:09+00:00
Everything's a societal reason from some angle. We've probably tilted a bit too hard towards college as a universal path, but I think the median college-degree-required job would still tell you that they're trying to find people who value education and learning for its own sake. The best doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. are the intellectually curious ones who don't see education as a burden.
by imcritic | 2025-11-30 06:13:14+00:00
I just learned about this project.

I do play games and I am a Linux user.

I see this project being an OS distribution with image update approach. It basically has some programs used for gaming on Linux preinstalled and probably preconfigured.

I wish the project would exist in 2 variants: an OS (as it currently is) and as an installer that would allow the user to select parts to install and configure on their current Linux distro.

Because I am using debian, this is my home PC and gaming is not the sole thing that I do on this PC.

Switching to a Fedora distro is not an option for me.

So, as nice as this project is - I say farewell to it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-30 06:13:50+00:00
No, it doesn't just mean that (it does mean non-mutating from the point of view of the client and in regard to the target resource, but the essential meaning involves more than that and it is more subtle than simply “non-mutating”.)

The specific definition is in the HTTP spec, and I don't think I can describe it more concisely without losing important information necessary for really understanding it.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-9.2.1
by cyberax | 2025-11-30 06:14:01+00:00
The only "good kings" are:

1. The ones that are long dead.

2. The ones that have their head chopped off.

3. The ones that don't actually have a lot of power.

> Good kings provided protection from the very real threat of foreign barbarians, provided a common legal framework, and eased commerce, and thus human flourishing. Good kings deserve commendation even if monarchy has issues.

"Good kings" did not "provide protection". The army did. They also did not provide "protection" to everybody, regular peasants usually couldn't care less about their current king.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-30 06:15:04+00:00
> As I understand it, Rust does support dynamic linking for pure rust code. It just doesn't have a stable ABI yet.

Not quite. To safely run a Rust program against a Rust dynamic library, you had to have compiled and linked that program against exactly that version of the Rust library. This is necessary for fundamental Rust type system reasons. It’s not simply a matter of stabilizing ABI. It’s not like updating the library without relinking would work if you used exactly the same rustc version - it would still be unsafe.

So no, Rust doesn’t support dynamic linking in any meaningful way.

> And most linux programs don't make such heavy use of dynamic linking to work.

This is not true at all.

Linux relies on dynamic linking extensively in two ways:

- A dynamic library may be updated independently of its dependents. You can’t do this in Rust, see above.

- Lots of Linux programs rely on the dynamically loaded module architecture like what pam does. All of the scripting language runtimes do this for example.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-30 06:15:49+00:00
I mean yea, they absolutely are economically speaking - especially when looking at where new grad college educated jobs are located [0].

Heck, most states have fallen into a technical recession [1]. Florida is weird simply because of how much tourism and retirement adjacent industries skew it's economy (eg. Elderly care, primary care, etc) - in fact, healthcare services (as in elderly care, hospice care, and homecare) is the only non-skilled industry that is seeing a significant expansion in the US.

I personally along with HN, other VCs, and PE funds have been actively following the MSO space for a couple years now because of this boom.

And I say this as someone who kinda likes Florida (Dr Philips reminds me and moreso the missus of bougie gated communities back in ASEAN - it's a nice place for us to Fat FIRE).

[0] - https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/02/28/white-collar-w...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/e9be3e3f-2efe-42f7-b2d2-8ab3efea2...
by crossbody | 2025-11-30 06:17:34+00:00
The pay is determined by supply and demand, apparently there is a relatively large supply of educators (many just enjoy it despite low pay) relative to the demand.

I see your point on broader benefits, however, those are largely speculative while a shortage of e.g. doctors has very direct and concrete costs to the society.

On prior point regarding spreading risks - would you say government should bail out failed entrepreneurs? Because that is very similar in principle (taking risk, benefit for society)
by latency-guy2 | 2025-11-30 06:19:12+00:00
> arguments like this ignore the point.

And the point should be ignored even more. Free software is a fairly specific thing, trying to co-opt it into something it isn't makes you the bad actor

Make your own idea instead of stealing and leeching off the success of others. Thats frankly disrespectful to even have the gall to do this. You definitely don't deserve ruining another's image for your idea of how society should work.
by zvrba | 2025-11-30 06:22:08+00:00
Because with POST you have a RPC (remote procedure call) with arbitrary semantics and HTTPS is just a convenient transport.

That's also why I only use a couple of status codes: Ok, Created, NoContent, BadRequest, Forbidden, Unauthorized an InternalServerError (the latter two generated automatically by the framework).

GET, PUT, DELTE, etc. seem to be tailored towards entities, but as soon as the endpoint is not an "entity", the semantics get vague and break down.
by fwipsy | 2025-11-30 06:22:12+00:00
Colleges used to be much more affordable even though they covered liberal arts and engineering together.

Are all colleges unaffordable? Do all colleges require engineering students to take liberal arts? Maybe this isn't universal, maybe it's just that prestigious colleges all have strong liberal arts programs, either out of tradition or because it's required for being seen as prestigious.

Liberal arts courses arguably are still helpful for building general language and reasoning skills.

On the whole though, it does seem strange that I paid the same for a graduate level stats course and a freshman history course, even though the former taught me about five times as much.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-30 06:22:28+00:00
Similar concept. You have them do some task like fizzbuzz to see if they can program stuff on the fly that they would never need to do in real life. You practice that since school doesn't prepare you for that unless you do ACM programming contests or something. The interview demands this to see if the candidate is capable of cramming for the interview, which correlates with the effort, ability they could put into the job, not with what the skills they actually apply on the job, which are hard to measure in a one hour interview slot anyways.
by adrianwaj | 2025-11-30 06:23:57+00:00
OP here. I just thought this system of micropayments could really help with web quality/signal/remuneration...the web's own longstanding "cold fusion" challenge.

"x402 operates through standard HTTP mechanics, meaning it can integrate with any existing web infrastructure without requiring specific SDKs or tooling. Add a line of middleware, configure your endpoint, and you're good to go."

So let's say ChatGPT/Perplexity or another "AI service" linked to you, they would send the user to your page and a micropayment would then be earned from the visitor, but the referring service would also get a commission on that payment within the transaction. Yes it is a paywall, but so what, there could also be a non-paywalled version.

Also, the AI service could provide a summary of that page, to be embedded on your page to give the page more value to the end user (hopefully.) Also, users can change in their AI service settings whether to see paywalled/non-paywalled reference links in their chat box.

The AI service (and you) would see in realtime how much they are earning by sending visitors to your site. There can also be charts and metrics to see what is trending at any one time and payments can be lowered the older content gets.

Micropayments can mean less ads. It can also mean higher content quality.

So the risk here is a "clone web" appearing where all paywalled content is mirrored for free somewhere. Fine, the AI service works out ways to filter that content out of its harvesting destinations. Also, when you post new content, you ping the AI service that you have just published new content, and the service can more quickly work out when/if it has been cloned elsewhere. The other benefit of doing this, is that the service can better work out if content is original (and harvestable) vs being recycled/derivative/generative. Also, the "clone web" may be older - sure you can go to it, but it might not be as timely.

Another thing is having adjustable micropayments - the user decides how much to pay - and suggestions can be made how much or little to outlay within their "tipjar." It depends on how expensive the AI service or publisher wants to be... or how stingy the user wants to be.

Also, with micropayments, bot traffic should decrease too, or at least be monetizable. Payments from bot traffic could really be ramped up.
by badbotty | 2025-11-30 06:24:09+00:00
I like the safety aspect of QUERY. Having CDNs cache based off the semantics of the content might be a hard ask. I wonder if this might lead to a standards based query language being designed and a push for CDNs to support it. Otherwise you probably need to implement your own edge processing of the request and cache handling for any content type you care to handle.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-30 06:24:12+00:00
>things are seriously politically messed up

I would argue universities played a big role here. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+justice...

The theory of "elite overproduction" suggests that if you train too many aspirants for the same few elite jobs, they will foment instability in order to get the jobs they feel entitled to. That's what happened when we tried to get everyone going to college.

What am I supposed to do with my ethnic studies degree, aside from DEI consulting? Why would I want my DEI consulting to actually solve the underlying problem, if it puts me out of a job? Don't forget, I have a lot of student loans now! This isn't a small issue for me.

The left-extremists say "you need to give me a job in order to make your team more diverse". The right-extremists say "you need to give me a job because the deep state is corrupt, it's time to make america great again". Basically using extremist politics as a trick for getting elite roles.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 06:25:36+00:00
Find companies that make a lot of money and convince them to give you some of that money in exchange for your labor if you want the best risk/reward ratio.

I would much rather be in the position of an intern I mentored who at 22 made over $700K in gross income between cash and RSUs (that could easily be converted into cash unlike “equity” in private companies) their first four years out of college than some struggling founded trying to start yet another AI company so grateful they got $200k from YC while still eating beans and rice that they had to split among three founders.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-30 06:26:40+00:00
Just to be clear I have no problem passing these interviews, I just spent a few weeks cramming leetcode and got a job at Google. Leetcode wasn’t the main reason I was hired, but it was a filter that I had to get through (I’ve never been given fizzbuzz before, but I assume that is just because it’s no longer in style and hasn’t been for more than a decade). You just don’t throw yourself into on the fly coding, you practice them because your competition has and you will look bad if you don’t. Let’s not pretend that any of us are ready to do alien dictionary at the spur of a moment, or thats a useful skill for our role.
by thayne | 2025-11-30 06:26:50+00:00
A huge benefit of stackoverflow, perhaps the biggest benefit, is that it is a single place you can go to ask about a wide variety of languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. and interactions between them.

Having to join a separate mailing list, forum, or chat server for every "community" you might have technical questions about, then keeping track of those is incredibly inconvenient. And in some cases it may not be clear which one to ask a question on.

That's not to say that such places for community discussion isn't valuable, but stackoverflow serves a different purpose.