MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kube-system | 2025-11-01 15:36:14+00:00
> Can someone remind me why this fragmented identity system is preferable to a National ID?

States prefer having the power to issue ID cards and all of the control that grants them, they do not want to give up those powers, and politically the states have enough political and legal power to keep it this way.

Don’t make the mistake of presuming that this the result of a flawed cooperative system. It isn’t — it’s adversarial.

Just look at how long states fought to stop Real ID legislation.
by _the_inflator | 2025-11-01 15:37:24+00:00
Sure!

And there is way more to it.

This kind of code was common and also the starting point of every modern language innovation we have today in JavaScript - even TypeScript, and maybe any modern web development on the server as well.

Tables were the only way to create browser independent layouts dynamically. Or put another way: adding interactivity to websites. And simply because hacking is fun and browsers were experimenting with APIs accessible by JavaScript.

CSS was still bleeding from ACID tests, Netscape was forgotten, Mozilla build Phoenix out of the ashes of the bursting bubble and called their effort Firefox.

In Germany there was and still is the infamous selfHTML project. I remember vividly reading and testing Stefans Münz tutorials on this topic. The content is untouched, only the layout changed, so go back in time for more table fun:

https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Beispiel:JS-Anwendung-Tabelle...

https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/JavaScript/Tutorials/Tabellen...

It was pretty common to have large one file websites: php and html with css and javascript mixed.

There was no git, no VisualStudio Code, Claude Sonnet - no, Notepad and later Notepad++

(Even the DOOM guys had no version control system in the early stages.)

For me John Resig shines out here. Epic genius behind jQuery. The source code was pure magic, and his book "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" is for me the all time climax in programming excellence.

If you never utilised the prototype property, you will never understand any of the most basic structures and inner workings JavaScript has to this day and why Classes are "syntactical sugar" for functions and nothing else.

Function.toString in combination with New Function made me enter 10 matrices in parallel at the time. What a revelation. :D

Nicholas Zakas comes close with his seminal Web Development book, in which he featured every Browser API available at the time with examples on roughly 1000 pages. To this day, exercising most of it and understanding the DOM and Windows object was the best investment ever, because and this fact 15 years later paved the way for the success of a financial SaaS platform. Lost wisdom, not covered by any modern framework like Angular or ReacJS.
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-01 15:37:29+00:00
The impression I get from TFA is that this is about "unfinished/unreleased" games more than "lost" games. A "lost" game, film, or work of literature would be one that was published or released, only to disappear again from the historical record.

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

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

Several lost games from the text-adventure world are listed here:

https://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/in-search-of-LONG0751/2009-...

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2923 (BlackDragon and Dor Sageth)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140528184628/http://games.wwco... (The PITS)

https://bluerenga.blog/2024/09/02/adventures-1974-1982-lost-...

https://bluerenga.blog/2024/10/27/adventures-1974-1982-lost-...

(To be fair, many of the games listed in the latter two posts seem to be known only via advertisements; it's conceivable that those advertised games might never have existed. But in many cases we know a game existed because we have testimony from people who played it at the time.)
by currymj | 2025-11-01 15:37:39+00:00
i would like to understand what people get, or think they get, out of putting a completely AI-generated survey paper on arXiv.

Even if AI writes the paper for you, it's still kind of a pain in the ass to go through the submission process, get the LaTeX to compile on their servers, etc., there is a small cost to you. Why do this?
by d-mason | 2025-11-01 15:38:13+00:00
I am working on a ~15K loc project in Zig and have been for over 3 years. Most times a new version comes out there is nothing to do. A half dozen times I've spent as long as half a day updating references to the standard library.

There have been 3 significant problems (2 of them LLVM changes that Zig hasn't adapted to) that have been multi-day frustrations.

We are currently holding at 0.15.1, partly because of the I/O changes (although we're not heavy users of I/O), and partly waiting for the native backend implementations to stabilize.

All that said, we remain very happy with the choice of Zig - it has so many advantages over C/C++ and even (for our application) Rust (we have about 3K LOC in our original Rust implementation).

Is Zig fully mature? Certainly not! Is it mature enough to be highly productive? Certainly!
by physarum_salad | 2025-11-01 15:38:19+00:00
I mean generally working towards changing how peer review works.

For example: https://prereview.org/en-us

Anecdotally, a lot of researchers will run their paper pdfs through an AI iteration or two during drafting which also (kinda but not really) counts as a self-review. Although that is not comparable to peer review ofc.
by programjames | 2025-11-01 15:38:30+00:00
This is only for review/position papers, though I agree that pretty much all ML papers for the past 20 years have been slop. I also consider the big names like, "Adam", "Attention", or "Diffusion" slop, because even thought they are powerful and useful, the presentation is so horrible (for the first two) or they contain major mistakes in the justication of why they work (the last two) that they should never have gotten past review without major rewrites.
by throwpoaster | 2025-11-01 15:39:29+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to write this thought-provoking response. It brings to mind themes of “The Unincorporated Man” [0].

Valley techno-capitalism has always existed in the context of (and as a function of) the military. I broadly agree with your characterization of corporate power as a tool governments use to delegate and aggregate economic control.

Over generational time scales I think regulatory frameworks will develop sufficient to mitigate tech’s worst excesses.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unincorporated_Man
by Valodim | 2025-11-01 15:39:40+00:00
Sequoia-PGP is 8 years old at this point, their 1.0 happened half a decade ago.

Meanwhile, GnuPG is well regarded for its code maturity. But it is a C codebase with nearly no tests, no CI pipeline(!!), an architecture that is basically a statemachine with side effects, and over 200 flags. In my experience, only people who haven't experienced the codebase speak positively of it.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-01 15:40:11+00:00
I’m not sure what maps to “A,” “B,” “C” here. My gut says: “B” is the kind of person who you’d use this trick on, “C” might be too lazy and just not bother, and “A” might be confident and respected enough to say (and have everybody believe) that they checked and didn’t have any issues. Only “B” has that mix of insecurity and some ability…

Actually, I bet you could have an ok workplace with “A” workers under “C” management. Or maybe the “C” turns into an “A” if they manage to hire good people and get out of their way…
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-01 15:40:34+00:00
Which sockpuppet account would that be? Please point it out by name - you said it, now you prove it. An inquiring mind - and possibly more than one - wants to know.

My whole shtick here on this forum is that I just say what I think without worrying over whatever 'karma' hits I might get. Given that no sockpuppets are needed when you follow that approach I'm really curious to learn I seem to have some so, educate us.
by zackmorris | 2025-11-01 15:40:54+00:00
I always figured if I wrote a paper, the peer review would be public scrutiny. As in, it would have revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) innovations that disrupt the status quo. I don't see how blocking that kind of paper from arXiv helps hacker culture in any way, so I oppose their decision.

They should solve the real problem of obtaining more funding and volunteers so that they can take on the increased volume of submissions. Especially now that AI's here and we can all be 3 times as productive for the same effort.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-01 15:40:56+00:00
This boils down to: Democrats didn’t provide a good enough alternative.

Which I will completely accept as true. They didn’t.

From here, there are two branching paths. Did the Democrats put up someone who was actually worse than Trump? As in, are we better off than if the November election had gone the other way? Or did the Democrats have a better candidate who just wasn’t better enough to win? (Fully understanding that this is a very subjective question.)

It’s my firm opinion that it’s the second one. Harris would have been a better President. (So would Jeb! Bush, Mitt Romney, the festering corpse of Richard Nixon, or a frog snatched out of the Tidal Basin.) In which case, giving Democrats any blame for the outcome requires the people who voted for the actual winner to have no agency. They were presented with a choice and they selected the worse one. That’s entirely on them.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-01 15:41:16+00:00
As someone who has been a SWE, PM, and VC in the cybersecurity space and constantly meets with CISOs as well as has formerly been a security practitioner (I should get back to using HackerOne again for fun), I can safely say that the overwhelming majority of security incidents are due to some form of misconfig because development and code review are orthogonal to proactive security checks.

Shift-left was supposed to fix that but it failed because the primary persona to sell ended up becoming the CISO again, and not trying to find a way to make security ownership a Dev and QA responsibility as well (this is largely organizational).
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-01 15:41:49+00:00
Gaming the h-index has been a thing for a long time in circles where people take note of such things. There are academics who attach their name to every paper that goes through their department (even if they contributed nothing), there are those who employ a mountain of grad students to speed run publishing junk papers... and now with LLMs, one can do it even faster!
by sunrunner | 2025-11-01 15:42:09+00:00
This is great, and serendipitous timing for me.

After spending an embarrassing amount of time on today's hard before I went to bed I was wondering what kind of metrics could go into analysing the difficulty of any Pips game (and which ones NYT Games uses) and whether it would be worth writing a solver to do this analysis. I was also considering an SMT or CP approach instead of backtracking as an alternative.

Edit: And after looking through the solve times in more detail, I feel vindicated that the hard for today (01/11/2025) was both a single solution and took the solver over 8x as long to find the solution. It took me longer than 8x my average, but that's besides the point...
by graemep | 2025-11-01 15:42:16+00:00
They are hard to regulate and I really doubt governments have either the willingness or the competence to do so effectively. The businesses are very heavily motivated to find ways around regulations, or manipulate them to to their advantage.

Regulation is a very poor substitute for competition, and for well informed customers.

Some of what I said in this comment is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780529
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-01 15:42:37+00:00
> Your second claim here is kind of falling into that same religion-esque certitude.

Nope it’s not. We have logical causal test of introspection. By definition introspection is not stochastic parroting. If you disagree then it is a linguistic terminology issue in which you disagree on what the general definition of what a stochastic parrot is.

> From what I gathered, it seems like "introspection" as described in the paper may not be the same thing most humans mean when they describe our ability to introspect. They might be the same, but they might not.

Doesn’t need to be the same as what humans do. What it did show is self awareness of its own internal thought process and that breaks it out of the definition stochastic parrot. The criteria is not human level intelligence but introspection which is a much lower bar.

> They've given decent evidence, and it's shifted upwards my estimate that LLMs may be capable of something more than comprehensionless token prediction.

This is causal evidence and already beyond all statistical thresholds as they can trigger this at will. The evidence is beyond double blind medical experiments used to verify our entire medical industry. By logic this result is more reliable than modern medicine.

The result doesn’t say that LLMs can reliably introspect on demand but it does say with utmost reliability that LLMs can introspect and the evidence is extremely reproducible.

By logic your stance is already defeated.
by mickeyp | 2025-11-01 15:42:37+00:00
Edit: disregard. I read it as he'd done it and had contention problems.

I mean it's not if he's got lock contention from BUSY signals, now is it, as he implies. Much of his issues will stem from transactions blocking each other; maybe they are long-lived, maybe they are not. And those 3-500 queries --- are they writes or reads? Because reads is not a problem.
Show HN: Trimless for Gmail V3 – Auto-Expand Clipped Messages (Manifest V3)
by R4FKEN | 2025-11-01 15:42:42+00:00
I'm an indie developer from Belgium who spent the last few weeks rebuilding an old Gmail extension because it was solving a problem I wanted fixed.

What I built is a browser extension that automatically expands clipped Gmail messages: the ones where Gmail truncates long emails and makes you hunt for that "View entire message" link every single time. It's just that: when you open an email, it expands automatically. You can also change the color of the auto-expanded text, and the amount of indentation. No other features: fully local, privacy-first.

For anyone processing dozens of emails daily, those small frictions add up. You don't realize how much it's costing you until it's gone.

When Chrome moved to Manifest V3, the old extension just broke. I was frustrated enough to fix it for myself. Once I did, I realized this wasn't some niche problem: people were asking for alternatives in Reddit threads, GitHub issues, and extension forums. So I thought: if I'm going to maintain this anyway, why not do it properly and see if other people would actually use it.

Everything runs locally in your browser: I'm not intercepting your email, analyzing it, or storing anything.

I've also added better error handling, and a sustainable business model so someone actually maintains this thing instead of it rotting on some unmaintained repo. The free tier gives you 7 days of full functionality, then 5 expansions per day, or you can go unlimited with a one-time $4.99 purchase or $1.99/month subscription. But honestly, most people hit the free tier and find it's enough. I'm not optimizing for maximum revenue extraction, I'm optimizing for keeping this maintained and useful.

Try it here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trimless-for-gmail-... – you get 7 days unlimited to see if it's worth keeping around. No credit card required for the trial.

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think, especially if you find edge cases where Gmail's UI behaves differently, or if you have ideas for what else might be worth a feature. I'm building this in public and genuinely iterating based on what people tell me.

Thanks for reading! Raf
by casey2 | 2025-11-01 15:43:00+00:00
If you are referring to the same location Your grandparents did the work that made the location you live in valuable. (and failed to gatekeep that value for their children)

Clearly value isn't going to local communities, this will correct itself when people pull their money out of the stock market. As long as people believe Walmart or Nvidia will make them more money in the long term than improving their local infrastructure costs will continue to rise. If the AI bubble pops house prices will collapse, if not then there is a lot of money to be made.

If you have trillion x returns you would pull candy out of a babies mouth to invest
by runarberg | 2025-11-01 15:43:24+00:00
Should work just fine:

> document.createElement("table").rows[Symbol.iterator]() // Array Iterator { constructor: Iterator() }

HTMLTableElement.prototype.rows actually just returns a HTMLCollection, so same as document.forms, or document.getElementsByClassName. HTMLCollection implements Symbol.iterator as you would expect.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTableEl...
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-01 15:43:25+00:00
Per thousands of videos on social media, it doesn’t matter what your rights are anymore, if you try to ask for them ICE will just become even more sadistic and violent, and the DOJ/government will refuse to cooperate in bringing them to justice for denying you your rights- you have no rights or recourse anymore even as a citizen. Moreover, the agents are masked and refuse to self identify as the law requires so you will never be able to say who violated your rights- they are hiding their identities because they are committing crimes. They are not police that follow laws, they are state sponsored white supremacist terrorists.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-01 15:43:31+00:00
Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been arrested so it's all OK, right?

If you're white British with an accent from our shores, you don't have a very serious problem. Sure you could get locked up somewhere away from a lawyer for a few days which is terribly inconvenient —- that clearly is happening to British citizens -- but nobody is going to pin you to the ground until you can't breathe. We appear to be getting the benefit of some doubt (unless we have opinions).

And if you are white and have an American accent you're going to be ignored entirely anyway.

Perhaps carry any paperwork you need, definitely carry any medication you'll need for a few days.

As to whether the officer will ignore evidence presented: that is clearly what they are being told to do. There are lawful citizens carrying their papers with them and there's video of an ICE agent mockingly saying "what papers?"

Because on the ground it's not about immigration status really, it's about race and white power and sheer numbers of arrests to meet Stephen Miller's quotas.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-01 15:44:02+00:00
I think that's unkind absent any proof otherwise which you haven't posted.

In reality a lot of the heavily used parts of Linux (and open source generally) are going to have some commercial involvement or are we suggesting that no one should be paid by any of the companies backing Linux who use Linux because to me that sounds worse.

Whether you like it or not, Linux/Open Source hasn't been entirely the preserve of unpaid people doing it for fun for a long time.
by dilawar | 2025-11-01 15:44:50+00:00
Someone has historical insights into why async/await seems to have taken over the world?

I often write Rust and I don't find it very attractive, but so many good projects seem to advertise it as a "killer feature". Diesel.rs doesn't have async, and they claim that perf improvement may not be worth it (https://users.rust-lang.org/t/why-use-diesel-when-its-not-as...).

For a single threaded JS program, async makes a lot of sense. I can't imagine any alternative pattern to get concurrency so cleanly.
by robenkleene | 2025-11-01 15:44:56+00:00
> Or is your point that the previously desktop-only software suites now have web-based counterparts, and the latter aren’t catering to power users anymore?

Yes this. More specifically collaborative software (e.g., with features like live-collaborative editing) tend to be less capable than non-collaborative software.

These are not 1-for-1 comparisons though (Figma vs. Canva), I didn't mean to imply they were. E.g., Canva isn't emphasizing collaboration. But office suite software does also have a lower barrier of entry than creative software, which I think Canva's strategy should probably capitalize on. E.g., the market has already been split for pro vs prosumer/casual, I think Canva strategy will probably be to emphasize this split short term, which would mean focusing on ease of use at the expense of complex features (and then consider the more technically complicated led shift to collaborative web-based versions later, leveraging what they've learned so far).
by bmacho | 2025-11-01 15:45:27+00:00
Funny you mention this.

Zig's colorless async was purely solving the unergonomic calling convention, at the cost of knowing if a function is async or not (compiler decides, does not give any hints and if you get it wrong then that's UB).

Arguably the main problem with async is that it is unergonomic. You always have to act like there were 2 types of functions, while, in practice, these 2 types are almost always self-evident and you can treat sync and async functions the same.
by tzs | 2025-11-01 15:46:24+00:00
Looks like quite a few people who have written Pips solvers are here. I too have one (a dumb as a rock brute force solver in C).

How are you all getting the puzzles into your solvers? I just found out that the puzzles are available in JSON at https://www.nytimes.com/svc/pips/v1/YYYY-MM-DD.json

where YYYY-MM-DD is the date for the puzzle. They have past puzzles and even some future puzzles. At the moment they through 2025-11-25.

Right now I'm using a hand written text input that for example looks like this:

..-. -ABB .AAC A 3 B 3 C 3 10 11 00 33

for the 2025-09-09 easy puzzle which looked like this:

┌───────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3│ └───────│ └───────────────│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3│ 3│ └───────────────└───────┘

Those JSON downloads are going to make things so much more convenient!
by vessenes | 2025-11-01 15:46:42+00:00
Nope. I’m just saying Krugman’s substack is likely by percentage currently his primary revenue source.

In fact it’s what makes substack a great platform - unlike medium which came before it and ad networks which came before that - substack gives a large percent of the value directly to content creators. And it’s seen as valuable by people from all over the political spectrum, from Tabibi to Krugman.

And I think people should go ahead and take the piss all they want, but crucially, when they are as credentialed as Krugman, if they do it in an uninformed way, it is great to call them on it. Bite the hand that feeds by all means, but some intellectual integrity about whether or not has beens like a16z provide any value to the world should be expected.
by bugrac | 2025-11-01 15:47:03+00:00
EDB BDR Multi Master with ZFS Storage

When teams move to database platforms like PostgreSQL or MS SQL, they often try to find ways to get the same safety and control they had with Oracle ASM.

This is why many use complex tools like Veritas. They try to "add on" features like data checking and volume management to their storage.

But what if a different design could give this safety natively?

This is what's explored in a modern "shared-nothing" setup (like EDB BDR). Instead of adding a complex tool to imitate ASM, it's possible to use Oracle ZFS on each server.

ZFS was built for this. It already includes the safety features that others try to add on:

It constantly checks for data errors (checksums).

Its design ("Copy-on-Write") makes it impossible to have broken "torn page" data, even in a crash.

Because ZFS provides this safety by default, a setup like this can be made very reliable. It's a way to get the same (or even better) data control as ASM, but without needing an extra layer to build it.