MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-04 21:07:05+00:00
Assuming most of these sites use Javascript, perhaps the size of memory use should also be considered

I use a text-only HTML viewer, no Javascript interpreter. This is either a 2M or 1.3M static binary

The size of the web page does not slow it down much, and I have never managed to crash it in over 15 years of use, unlike a popular browser

I routinely load catenated HTML files much larger than those found on the web. For example, on a severly underpowered computer, loading a 16M stored HTML file into the text-only client's cache takes about 8 seconds

I can lazily write custom commandline HTML filters that are much faster than Python or Javascript to extract and transform any web page into SQL or CSV. These filter are each ~40K static binary

As an experment I sloppily crammed 63 different web page styles into a single filter. The result was a 1.6M static binary

I use this filter every day for command line search

I'm a hobbyist, an "end user", not a developer
by lonelyParens | 2025-11-04 21:07:25+00:00
Location: Seattle, Wa, USA

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by nabla9 | 2025-11-04 21:07:57+00:00
Does it matter anymore?

After the Twitter exit bump, the whole Mastodon ecosystem has dwindled to less than a million monthly users, distributed over hundreds or thousands of servers. Mastodon.social is filled with complete crap. It’s like enshittification without profits. Hacker News have more monthly users.

If you pick random active user, they often have zero active followers. They post their stuff into a void.
by TrueDuality | 2025-11-04 21:09:04+00:00
Having a device enrolled in an MDM package does not make it a corporate device. Many corporations require personal devices be managed to support remote wiping. If I install a productivity or developer tool on my personal phone or laptop for personal non-corporate use I would get mistaken as a corporate user by this process.

If you want to collect this information you should be clear about it and know and understand your edge cases before you start attempting enforcement actions based on it if that is the intent.

In general in my experience, personal tools are a VERY hard market to sell into for corporate environments (I took a peek at what the software on OPs site requires a commercial license to use). I would bet most if not all of what you're catching here is unauthorized installs in a corporate environment and you're more likely to loose interested users than sell more commercial licenses.
by nr378 | 2025-11-04 21:09:11+00:00
Palantir is trading at 80x revenue (NTM), whereas Nvidia is only trading at 19x revenue (NTM).

Both companies are growing revenue at a similar rate (~50% YoY), and Nvidia has a higher net margin, however Palantir's share price is up 717% over 18 months, whereas Nvidia is only up 124%.

It's hard to argue Palantir's valuation reflects its fundamentals, even if you believe Palantir will be benefit from lucrative government contracts for years to come.

Buying companies at 80x revenue has not historically been a great way to make money, unless they're growing revenue at several hundred percent per year.
by el_benhameen | 2025-11-04 21:09:36+00:00
I’m the same way with working on a plane. 2 hours of plane work is worth 4 hours of desk work. Something about the ambient noise, incentive to stay in the seat, and strict time boxing. Shitty internet (if it works at all) means there’s a high cost to trying to outsource my thinking to the internet, and there’s no immediate reward for pursuing a distraction.
by defen | 2025-11-04 21:09:50+00:00
That's a values debate, I guess. What is the purpose of punishment? Is it to set an example to others, is it to remove a dangerous person from society, is it to prevent the criminal from reoffending, is it to satisfy society's desire to see wrongdoers punished?

He didn't reoffend (as far as we know), and in fact went on to become a highly-contributing member of society. His crime was not so egregious that recompense was impossible even in principle. I don't see how a harsher punishment for him would have produced an obviously better outcome. I think it would be more productive to argue that people who commit similar crimes should receive similar punishments as this, rather than arguing that he should have received a harsher punishment.
by matickocijancic | 2025-11-04 21:10:03+00:00
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by viraptor | 2025-11-04 21:10:18+00:00
Nobody said anything about a single point of failure. Just that we need more context to figure out how important this is. Kind of like the zeros for the US nuclear weapons https://www.zmescience.com/other/offbeat-other/us-nuclear-la...

> What if someone breaks into the security room?

Normally a security / monitoring room has the cameras on the screen 24/7, so once you somehow get in and somehow there's nobody there and somehow nobody notices you breaking in... you just look at the screen.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-04 21:10:32+00:00
You can tell it "be careful about the tokenizer issues" in Swedish and see how that changes the behavior.

The only thing that this stupid test demonstrates is that LLM metacognitive skills are still lacking. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. The only surprising thing is that they have metacognitive skills, despite the base model training doing very little to encourage their development.
by altairprime | 2025-11-04 21:10:48+00:00
> Terminal.app does suck but if you’re happy in it

Clarification: As noted above, Terminal.app is indistinguishably suck from all the rest in the areas that are materially important to me, so no meaningful gain in happiness exists with any current alternative. I enjoy one of the specific features it offers but I’d give that up the instant a relevant-to-me improvement over the status quo was available. Perhaps someday.
by drdaeman | 2025-11-04 21:11:19+00:00
Ads and “scammy” tactics were always like bread and butter. The whole point of industry is to just increase the numbers using whatever means possible except for what the industry deems unquestionably unacceptable, after all. So, naturally, there’s this incentive of making the paid-for action as low effort as tolerable (preferably under the guise of “improvement” to prolong the status quo) and make money while that window of opportunity is still open. Sad but true.

As long as pay-per-click exists it’ll always be like that. Minimally necessary action will be probed, negative feedback (“won’t buy this on principle/will bug others to raise awareness on ethical concerns”) eventually making the industry raise the bar higher.

Beats outright malware (auto-installing IE toolbars, yay!) and popup/popunders on a click anywhere eras of the past, but despite any possible illusions, the bar isn’t particularly high still (modern web is still nauseously popup-ridden), when viewed through the modern first-world optics.

Not that I like anything about this - just an observation.
by asdev | 2025-11-04 21:11:42+00:00
agree that AI can kinda infer business context sometimes. in my experience, it doesn't work that well.

a lot of the time, debugging isn't a logic issue, but more of a state exploration issue. hence you need to add logging to see the inputs of what's going on, just seeing a control flow isn't super useful. maybe codemaps could simulate some inputs in a flow which would be super cool, but probably quite hard to do.
by roenxi | 2025-11-04 21:11:47+00:00
That seems to be a classic no-argument-no-evidence assertion. And you really need an argument for this one, because otherwise it requires disbelieving in supply and demand curves. If you concede the price goes up, you have to concede that the seller thinks they're going to have less customers. Ie, that people will indeed choose not to buy the thing if the price goes up even a little bit. Otherwise they would already have raised the price because it would be free money for them to do that.

And it is the case that people don't tend to save, ie, they spend everything they earn. In that environment if a price changes, even a little bit, they're going to have to do without something. The maths is pretty easy. I mean maybe they're going to eat less food or whatever because they bought an air conditioning, but there will be people who are literally facing that choice and choose food over comfort. Someone actually has to be quite wealthy before the price of something going up a little bit doesn't force them to make changes to their lifestyle. For some people on the margins that change will be the difference between having and not having air conditioning.

If you want to make an argument that the cost to the seller is small enough that the price won't go up then sure, that might be so. In fact it does happen sometimes. But the people in the thread aren't complaining about small hypothetical fees, you bought that up yourself. They're complaining about regulations that cause the price of air conditioning to go up and chemotaxis had quite a long list that, practically, will cause that to happen.
by jahewson | 2025-11-04 21:11:58+00:00
It reads like a sales call where they’re getting customer pushback and responding with something quantitative - not a good opener at all, especially for this audience. The GPT tone pushes it over the edge.

What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance, but you get one chance to make your open source announcement good - don’t blow it like this.
by shayway | 2025-11-04 21:12:17+00:00
Just want to say I appreciate you publicly taking this stance (on what appears to be a non-throwaway account, no less). As a fellow LGBT person I feel so alienated from other progressive-leaning people and communities because of my belief in how those who don't share my beliefs should be treated.

When saying these things out loud can be social suicide, well, it means a lot to see someone else say it first. So thanks. I hope tolerance can come back into fashion.
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-04 21:12:27+00:00
> If all Apple cared about with regards to what capabilities they expose in an OS was what processor was in a device then the iPad Pros would be able to run macOS

That's my point, and I think this hybrid Mac with iPhone chip will make this even more blatant. You are effectively paying more for less features just because they know what's best for you.
by Tepix | 2025-11-04 21:12:58+00:00
Right now it's just a blob that you flash to your device to make it talk to a proprietary service. It is not yet "giving me complete control over my device data and settings." I can't change where it comnects to etc.

In fact - I don't even see a privacy policy on nolongerevil.com!

Hey, I can login at nolongerevil.com using my Microsoft-owned github login! And there's yet another company involved: clerk.com - yay?

"We are committed to transparency and the right-to-repair movement. The firmware images and backend API server code will be open sourced soon, allowing the community to audit, improve, and self-host their own infrastructure."

I look forward to it.

PS: Sorry for being so negative... perhaps the release should have been delayed until all of this is opened up.
by tastyface | 2025-11-04 21:14:57+00:00
No, don’t put your pitchforks anywhere. Trump has spelled it out plain as day: SNAP recipients will starve until Democrats submit -- and that’s basically a direct quote. (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-snap-benefits-wi...) Just today, he declared that he would ignore the court order to release SNAP funds. So it should be pretty obvious why the USDA is making angry noises about this issue in particular. It's an incredibly fucked up form of leverage.
by marcoalopez | 2025-11-04 21:15:03+00:00
Jupiter is excellent at what it is designed for. For example, my usual workflow is as follows: when I develop a tool or model, I do so in a plain Python file. I then import the file from the notebook to create figures, demonstrations, documentation and so on, resulting in an immediate document that my colleagues and I can easily use for discussion. It's as simple and effective as that. It is also a great tool for teaching coding to beginners. Of course, notebooks are not designed for code development. Also, nowadays, if you want to, you can open notebooks in dedicated apps.
by ofu997hn | 2025-11-04 21:15:31+00:00
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by earthnail | 2025-11-04 21:15:46+00:00
The maintenance effort required on iOS is substantial. About a quarter of your full-time year needs to be dedicated to it.

On desktop, you can just publish your software and slowly see it age as you work on your next big release. On iOS, it ages every year at brutal pace, and your new sales will plummet while you work on your next big release, meaning your revenue crashes much faster.

Even worse, the iOS App Store has no notion of paid upgrades, and publishing a new app is basically like starting from scratch as far as discoverability goes. So when you finally have your next big release ready, it's like launching a completely new company.

Apple really wants developers to make subscription apps that ship frequent iterative changes, and other business models just simply don't work well on their mobile platform (on Android it's even worse btw).
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-04 21:15:48+00:00
> an interesting product launch

This looks less like an "interesting" product, and more like a case of pivoting a commercial product that isn't making enough money into an open source one in the hope of at least gaining some credibility from all that work as well as undercutting the competition.

> They've built something genuinely useful and interesting

This core product has been around for years now. If it was that interesting and useful, more people would have likely paid for the original offering.

I would certainly recommend taking this 'release' with a touch more cynicism.
by Linux-Fan | 2025-11-04 21:16:14+00:00
I don't know of any list, but I know at least of the following “clubs” pages:

size-related

- <https://14kbclub.com/> - only learned about it today but I am not sure if my site would qualify (it is only ~12 KiB, but does multiple requests...)

- <https://250kb.club/>

- <https://512kb.club> - my site got removed as “ulta minimal” :(

- <https://1mb.club/>

not specifically size-related

- <https://no-js.club/members/>

- <https://xhtml.club/>

- <https://textonly.website/> - my site got removed (I guess because it has a logo and this makes it not text-only...)

There used to be also a 10 KB club and per its rules my site would have qualified except for the requirement to be featured on HN or otherwise be a “noteworthy site” if I recall correctly. However, 10KB club seems to be offline for some time already...

In general the issue with these kinds of pages is mostly that they only check _one_ page (typically the homepage but sometimes I see people submit a special “reduced version” of their homepage, too...). Of course if _all_ pages were to be relevant I think even my (pretty miminmalist) page wouldn't qualify because some pages have high-resolution images I guess...
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-04 21:16:37+00:00
The reality is that microblogging, whether it be on X or bluesky or mastadon or even facebook posts, will ALWAYS be lower signal, lower value than real, curated or effort filled content.

I like John Green a lot, including his vlogs that are just him speaking about stuff he doesn't know for half an hour, but I still do not go read what he posts on Bluesky, because it's as low quality, low signal, low intent, and low effort as comments here on HN.

It's just not useful. It's not a good use of my time to read random tweets from people.

When I first got a twitter account in like 2010, I very very instantly recognized it was not for me. If something is important, someone will take the effort to make an actual piece of real content about it, like a blog or video or essay or book. Hell, even a thorough reddit post is better than microblogging.

If it's not worth going through that effort to get the message out to people, why should I consider that a valuable message?

It's emblematic of the past 20 years of social development in my opinion. If the only thing stopping you from getting the word about something super duper important is that writing a page essay is too hard, nobody really needs to care about that, because writing an essay is so easy we make children do it

It's all noise. The signal doesn't go on twitter, it goes on real platforms where you might make money from good signal, or like, a freaking scientific paper, or the front page of a news org.
by phernandez | 2025-11-04 21:17:21+00:00
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by starbugs | 2025-11-04 21:17:32+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2025-11-04 21:17:53+00:00
Depends, breaking below $60 per barrel does lead to significant layoffs and it's difficult to rebuild that know-how because knowledge isn't 100% elastic.

The oil glut itself is largely because of the KSA and Russia in the midst of a mutual price war as well as the US expanding it's own production.

That said, it's still an open question of whether a glut will exist or not - at this point it's China, India, and Japan that's become the primary driver for oil prices because they are getting similar deals from both KSA and Russia, and are trying to pressure other suppliers to give similar deals.
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by emil0r | 2025-11-04 21:20:48+00:00
Even the GUI can follow the FCIS architecture. It helps immensely with testing and moving things around.

For a bigger program that handles lots of things, you can still build it around the FCIS architecture, you just end up with more in->chains of functions->out. The things at the edges might grow, but at a much slower pace than the core.

My experience with both sides is what's driven me to FP+immutability.

For your last question: I believe it's a false belief. I believed the same when I started with FP+immutability. I just did not understand where I should put my changes, because I was so used to mutating a variable. Turned out that I only really need to mutate it when I store in a db of some sort (frontend or backend), send it over the wire (socket, websocket, http response, gRPC, pub/sub, etc) or act as an object hiding inherit complexity (hardware state like push button, mouse, keyboard, etc). Graphics would also qualify, but that's one area where I think FP+immutability is ill suited.

Hit me up if you have any more questions :).