MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-24 15:39:58+00:00
I've started to feel it is much more an npm problem than a node problem. One of the things I've started leaning on more is prioritizing packages from JSR [0]. JSR is a part of Deno's efforts, so is often easiest to use in Deno packages, but most of the things with high scores on JSR get cross-published to npm and the few that prefer JSR only there's an alright JSR bridge to npm.

Of course using more JSR packages does start to add more reason to prefer Deno to Node. Also, there are still some packages that are deno.land/x/ only (sort of the first version of JSR, but no npm cross-compatibility) worth checking out. For instance, I've been impressed with Lume [1], a thoughtful SSG that's sort of the opposite of Astro in that it iterates at a slow, measured pace, and doesn't try to be a kitchen sink but more of workbench with a lot of tools easy to find. It's deno.land/x/ only for now for reasons I don't entirely agree with but I can't deny that JSR can be quite a step up in publishing complexity for not exactly obvious gain.

[0] https://jsr.io/

[1] https://lume.land/
by oniony | 2025-11-24 15:40:11+00:00
I recently had a hotel try to scam me through the official Booking.com messages. Knew my phone number (they also WhatsApp'd me), me booking dates and email address (got more attempts via email). Spoke at length with Booking.com and, despite using them virtually weekly for fifteen years, they did not give a crap and then stopped responding to my emails. All I wanted them to do is get the hotel to refund my booking about two weeks before the date as I no longer felt comfortable staying somewhere that would leak my details.

I will not use them again, just like I do not use Travelodge any more since they repeatedly double-booked my rooms. I feel like, eventually, I'm going to run out of brokers to use. Perhaps I just need to book direct with a handful of hotels.
by stickfigure | 2025-11-24 15:40:36+00:00
I have found that it's always better to book directly with hotels. The price is the same or better, but more importantly, it's waaaay easier to make changes or cancellations without the middleman.

And rentalcars.com is a flat-out scam. I had to dispute CC charges with them when I showed up on scene, there were no cars, and rentalcars wouldn't refund it. Always book with the rental company directly.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-24 15:40:55+00:00
In general you shouldn't be logging in to any of the "fun" sites. If you do, you should create a burner email address and separate logins (and obviously separate passwords) for each site. A lot of the "fun" Internet doesn't require 2FA, but for sites that do (which is an increasing number of social media providers), I'd highly recommend getting a Google Voice number and using that. That shifts the trust boundary to Google, who is going to have all your info anyway, rather than dozens of fly-by-night websites.

IP address is covered by VPN or Tor.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-24 15:41:21+00:00
You are still arguing the status quo. By export I meant export to countries outside the EU, where Chinese and European EVs compete fairly.

To believe that the European car industry will survive purely on brand recognition is foolish and all current trends indicate otherwise. The Chinese are cars at the same quality for 70% if the price. That is obviously not sustainable and no amount of brand loyalty will overcome this.

None of your arguments seem convincing at all. Making worse cars at higher prices can not work. It is not a feasible long term strategy in any way.

Also, Stellantis is not selling well, they have huge problems with underutilized factories. Porsche is also currently in serious trouble.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-11-24 15:42:02+00:00
The NSA has railroaded bad crypto before [1]. The correct answer is to just ignore it, to say "okay, this is the NSA's preferred backdoored crypto standard, and none of our actual implementations will support it."

It is not acceptable for the government to be forcing bad crypto down our throats, it is not acceptable for the NSA to be poisoning the well this way, but for all I respect DJB, they are "playing the game" and 20 to 7 is consensus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-24 15:42:31+00:00
This is how the hotel industry works. This isn't just a booking or expedia thing. If the hotel knows they're gonna sell the house they'll shit-can "cheap" reservations that were made a long time ago. Even if Booking.com or whatever middleman online travel agency you're using doesn't facilitate this, the hotel itself will do it.

Every time there's a big event somewhere a bunch of people who booked before the event was publicized get bit by this.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-24 15:42:36+00:00
README.md is definitely an output of an LLM.

As for the rest of the code, it could be. Are there any obvious patterns you have found to be LLM generated?

In any case, my point is that a typo probably does not have to use LLM to fix that single typo.

So you can use LLMs but it is probably not used for everything, for example this typo.
by xethos | 2025-11-24 15:42:47+00:00
Per your last point, there's at least one. My updated Q20 (BlackBerry Classic) just shipped, with the same keyboard, trackpad, and body - but new cameras, battery, and mainboard, meaning a relatively up-to-date Android

The Q27 (a ground-up new design) with a similar keyboard is in the works as well, with the Q20 being used to raise funds for the newly designed Q27
by benmanns | 2025-11-24 15:42:50+00:00
It does, however, make providing housing more profitable, which, on the margins, will drive more landlords and home builders into the market, decreasing long term costs (relative to a straight 100% increase relative to the basic income). So you might send everyone $100 per month and costs go up $100 per month, until supply chains shift towards supplying lower income humans with more goods and services than they used to get, at which point costs will decrease (from the $100 increase).

With enough forewarning, suppliers could anticipate the increased demand and prepare for it.
by matwood | 2025-11-24 15:42:54+00:00
> My small northern Minnesota town is far from perfect, but we don't let our neighbors and kids become fent zombies on the main drag.

You can search for more articles, but small town America has been hit very hard by opioids and now fentanyl.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-politics/unbudgeted...

Thinking that it is only a city problem is itself part of the problem.
Show HN: Creating Multi-Page Manga with Google's Nano Banana Pro
by ponta17 | 2025-11-24 15:43:03+00:00
Last week, Google released Nano Banana Pro, and I was amazed by its drawing capabilities. So, I decided to experiment and built a tool that can generate multi-page manga.

Even though there are still some typos in the speech bubbles, the level of detail in the artwork is incredible. Here’s a demo of some manga generated with it:

https://github.com/Yutarop/comic-generator/blob/main/demo/le...

For the demo, I asked it to create a romantic comedy featuring Lena (often seen in computer science textbooks). And, I was surprised at how interesting the story turned out.

I’d love to hear what you think about this.
by blippage | 2025-11-24 15:43:16+00:00
In the words of Adam Ant: it took us 3 years to be famous overnight.

I also heard about Matt Lucas, of Little Britain fame. He was slowly plugging away at it, and was about to give up. At around 30 years old, he teamed up with David Walliams, describing it as the last roll of the die. Their popularity exploded.

Morgan Freeman didn't become famous until he was in his 50's. Someone asked him if he was upset that it took so long. His response was: "No, because it didn't have to happen at all."
by tasn | 2025-11-24 15:43:19+00:00
Congrats on the launch, I just wanted to correct a few things about Svix (I'm the founder of Svix) that I saw there:

* Svix starts from $0/month which many companies (including very large ones) use, including in production.

* Svix doesn't have a $250/month tier, and you can go to prod with the $0 tier. Not sure where that came from.

* Svix is open source (open core) so you can run on your own infra, and there's no vendor lock-in.
by gertlex | 2025-11-24 15:43:21+00:00
I'm in a similar age range (HAs since 1991 I guess). I also have fond recollections of the pre-digital HAs' sound.

I'm using a pair of 8 yr old phonak BTEs, which have various levels of directionality focusing. (Actually, I'm down one HA; 8yr old on left; 13 yr old left one one on right ear... getting new ones in January) I too prefer a lower level of directionality as my default.

I assume your HAs are doing bluetooth for the music setup you describe? Or are you describing a setup with speakers at home?
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-24 15:43:22+00:00
You are lopping "consumers" in a single basket where they are all supposed to want the exact things Apple focuses on, and even on these aspects Apple isn't guaranteed to be the top choice.

> If another manufacturer made a device which would be as good as Apple on any of those points, people would be singing their praise for years.

If Apple was really hitting perfectly all the important aspects, they would have 90% market share on the PC market. For the record they're at about 15%.

On the bias coming from sticking around nerd circles, yes "normal" customers don't long for shoving 128Gb of RAM in their space heater PC. But they're also not raving about how good the trackpad is, or how the display is such a technical marvel.

You'll see people walking from meeting to meeting with their mouse because they just don't use trackpads (though they might touch their screen if/when it's supported), others spending their days with earbuds in ear because it dual connections to the laptop audio and they never hear the speakers in the whole device's life. Some dock their macbook all day and hook it to a FHD monitor. Everyone will care about different things.

That's the part for me where the Apple laptop line is so uniform, you need to fall pretty near the middle of the target to properly get the benefits.

> Apple is ahead

They are ahead regarding the exact balance they are targeting. But you'll get better perfs if you're willing to go full desktop for instance and don't care about the size and power consumption (the mac pro going the way of the DoDo doesn't help). You'll get more/cheaper memory if you don't care about a unified architecture. Apple's GPU isn't the market leader. You also won't get anything smaller or lighter than the macbook Air. And of course no USB-A on laptops, which surprisingly still stings.

It's obvious but merits to be said: Apple targets a very specific consumer, and won't be optimal for everyone, including people who want more than what Apple offers.

> manufacturers seem to not be able to understand how to deliver quality in their products.

This is more a matter of taster I'd argue, what people see as "quality" will vary. I'm still amazed by people praising the glass backs and metal on the iPhones for instance. An eink laptop will probably be the same deal, going the pragmatic way (mostly plastic/composite) or the Apple way (glass and aluminium)
by drra | 2025-11-24 15:43:32+00:00
Travel industry especially OTA behemoths like booking or expedia live by exploiting all possible quirks of the systems. For example they could snap super cheap airline promo fares but manipulate it to keep it in an open state for months similarly to how agents wait till the payment clears. Would be than sold with massive profit or abandoned close to flight date without any penalties. Apparently they rotted enough for start blatantly cancelling hotel bookings.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-24 15:43:45+00:00
I literally copy the whole stack dump from the log, and paste it into the LLM (I find that ChatGPT does a better job than Claude), along with something along the lines of:

> I am getting occasional crashes on my iOS 17 or above UIKit program. Given the following stack trace, what problem do think it might be?

I will attach the source file, if I think I know the general area, along with any symptoms and steps to reproduce. One of the nice things about an LLM, is that it's difficult to overwhelm with too much information (unlike people).

It will usually respond with a fairly detailed analysis. Usually, it has some good ideas to use as starting points.

I don't think "I have a bug. Please fix it." would work, though. It's likely to try, but caveat emptor.
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-24 15:43:53+00:00
It says in the blog that they require 13,000 queries per second to update lease objects, not that 13,000 is the total for all queries. I don't know why they cite that instead of total, but etcd's normal performance testing indicates it can handle at least 50,000 writes per second and 180,000 reads: https://etcd.io/docs/v3.6/op-guide/performance/. So, without them saying what the real number is, I'm going to guess their reads and writes outside of lease updates are at least much larger than those numbers.
by gibsonsmog | 2025-11-24 15:44:43+00:00
I just cracked open osx voice over for the first time in a while and hoo boy, you weren't kidding. I wonder if you could still "stun" an LLM with this technique while also using some aria-* tags so the original text isn't so incredibly hostile to screen readers. Regardless I think as neat as this tool is, it's an awful pattern and hopefully no one uses it except as part of bot capture stuff.
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-24 15:44:45+00:00
I had the same thought when reading that line. I think we can treat it independently from the article's main point.

This is a common consumer tactic for reservations of all sorts. (It is a thorn in the side of restaurants, and why you get emails asking you to Confirm them and other appointments)

2 bookings isn't heinous; some people do things like book at multiple restaurants, then cancel all but one right before. (e.g. when their friend group comes to a consensus) It's fine in this case IMO.

It is a point of consternation for consumers more generally, when you can't get a booking because many of the ones are ghosts.
Show HN: Contrarian Signals – market sentiment indicators
by victordg | 2025-11-24 15:45:10+00:00
A dashboard of market sentiment indicators deliberately biased towards the opposite of whatever the crowd is doing right now.

This was also partly motivated by wanting to play with terminal aesthetics and dense user interfaces.

Indicators: CNN Fear&Greed, Put/Call ratio, AAII Sentiment Survey, BofA Sell-side indicator, among others — feedback appreciated on potential signals to track!

Disclaimer: this was ~70% vibe coded using Cursor / Claude Code.

Link: https://contrariansignals.com (free to access, subscription required to get daily alerts)
by Supermancho | 2025-11-24 15:45:30+00:00
> This doesn’t make sense, how is your preferred range of attention expenditure even relevant?

This is an ironic statement, insofar as it's myopic.

The implication was clearly a monopoly by market availability (convenience), which is not a legal precept, but a sociological one. Comparing rates across all possible locales and vendors is impractical. This is part of what makes Amazon so successful. Sheer momentum.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-24 15:45:38+00:00
The problem is the alternatives to Bookingdotcom are worse, for both flight and hotels.

Google and many other services direct you to the hotel itself, which means you need to create an account at the hotel's and enter your cc data... so yeah, tough luck if the hotel's 1990 era website gets hacked. Meanwhile, for Bookingdotcom, I enter my data once, don't have to worry about newsletter spam for the hotels, or my credit card data being exfiltrated. And same for airfare or train rides that can't be booked on Deutsche Bahn.
by jwr | 2025-11-24 15:46:35+00:00
I've been making reservations recently and I think there is a huge imbalance in power.

All bookings in popular places or on popular dates are NON REFUNDABLE. As in "click and you will never see any of this money again" non-refundable. Very non-refundable. If I have to cancel, I lose all my money.

At the same time, hotels can cancel for little or no cost. They do not lose money.

I don't know what the right solution is, but I have a feeling this should be regulated at least a little bit (EU, take notice): I'd say totally non-refundable bookings should not exist. You should always be able to get at least some of your money back before the date the service starts. And if the other side cancels, they should pay a penalty, at least the same as the penalty I have to incur, possibly more to prevent schemes like the one described above.
by throw4847285 | 2025-11-24 15:46:49+00:00
Oh wow, thanks for engaging.

You might really appreciate reading some of Bishop Butler's sermons, which are not pay walled. When I briefly studied Moral Psychology, I was taught that Butler is sort of the under-appreciated bedrock of Moral Psychology. His perspective is on the surface religious, which is perhaps why he is not considered among Locke and Hobbes as a foundational thinker of the Enlightenment. And yet his methods are just as rational and philosophical. He tries to construct a taxonomy of what you call "emotional-logical beliefs."

https://anglicanhistory.org/butler/rolls/08.html
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-24 15:46:55+00:00
None of these have anything to do with what I said. SR works just as well as classical mechanics with acceleration. If SR didn't work with acceleration, it would have never been accepted as a valid theory at all, it would have been a laughing stock, as acceleration was well understood since the times of Newton.

What general relativity does different from special relativity is that it extends the concept of relativity from inertial frames of reference to all frames of reference, even accelerating ones. In the process, it also explains the reason why inertial mass and gravitational mass happen to be the same, by tying the gravitational interaction fundamentally to the concept of acceleration.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-24 15:47:59+00:00
> Pretty much exactly like it does now but with less captchas.

This just isn't true. e.g. I saw a 30x increase in traffic on my forum due to AI bots that I had to use CF to block.

CF is mainly empowered by the naive ideals of the internet's design that never built-in countermeasures against bad actors. You're expected to just deal with it yourself somehow. And that means outsourcing it, especially as residential IP address botnets on unlimited ISP data plans become cheaper and cheaper.

Just ask yourself why web hosting providers themselves can't offer services at CF's level. It's because it's too hard of a problem even for them.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-24 15:48:05+00:00
A meeting with that periodicity (or a multiple of it) is common on shift-based jobs that oversee constant operations.

It's not common on any other line of work... well, except for software development, that is almost universally single-shift, non-operational, and some people insist has exactly the same needs as overseeing patients in a hospital.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-24 15:48:22+00:00
The rules -- as described in the article -- don't really jive with what you are saying.

Booking or the hotel reserve the right to cancel for clear pricing errors with the example cited from their own terms being a $1 room. They do not claim a right of cancellation for arbitrary reasons.

It isn't at all clear that this is the same class of error. $4,500 that she paid is the normal price for the room, not a pricing error. Their "error", if it can be considered a pricing error, is that they accepted a booking without factoring in that the dates were possibly an event weekend where they could deviate from their normal pricing.

I don't accept the excuse of "it turns out that we can make more money than the standard rate we charged you" as an error, and I don't think any reasonable judge or arbitrator would see it that way either.
by floatrock | 2025-11-24 15:48:31+00:00
It's standard practice now to charge higher prices for cancellable reservations.

Given all the asymmetric squeezing being done by corporate algorithms everywhere in the ruthless march towards economic efficiency, it's hard to feel bad for the algos when a human finds a pricing arbitrage that the hotel conglomerates failed to notice.

In other words, the hotel conglomerates are the ones who started the algorithmic event pricing and "cancellable reservations carry a price premium" games. It's on them if they mispriced their own dynamic-event cancellation premium.
by powerclue | 2025-11-24 15:48:50+00:00
I think you might be under informed... this is how authoritarian communism has worked, historically. But Socialism covers a massive umbrella of different ideas beyond just authcom ideas. Social democracy, democratic socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, authoritarian single party rule, council communism, etc etc.

Socialism also isn't the only system that isn't capitalism either. Capitalism is a relatively recent invention, perhaps 300 years old.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-24 15:49:01+00:00
That worried me too, a sort of inverse tragedy of the commons. I'll use a weeklong cooldown, _someone else_ will find the issue...

Until no-one does, for a week. To stretch the original metaphor, instead of an overgrazed pasture, we grow a communally untended thicket which may or may not have snakes when we finally enter.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-24 15:49:39+00:00
Reading through the article it was interesting until I got to the point where they said corporations have built these as investment markets. That seems to imply some intent that they built this as a way for players to have and hold and grow investments. If that was really the case it wouldn't be governed by a private terms of service.

I think they practical aspect is some of these markets have been used by players as investment markets. The tooling to trade items has allowed players to act like it's an investment market but I think it's a big stretch to say it was built with the intent by the corporations for it to be an investment market.

Any player who actually believed it was an investment market has to be the biggest fool there ever was. At least with an NFT you have an NFT something that declares your ownership of said thing that can actually be traded. A Counter-Strike 2 item while maybe it can be traded could also just up and vanish without any NFT style things saying it's yours.

Also the title appears to be misleading because it doesn't seem like they just vanished people's items or took them away or use their terms of service to just wipe it off the face of the planet. They simply provided new things to the marketplace itself. This is always a risk in any marketplace.

A fool in their money will soon be parted. Seems more like gambling than an investment. Nothing wrong with gambling as long as you're gambling with your excess and not betting your whole future on it. Because people who have gambled their entire future on something is foolish as this don't deserve to be bailed out. High risk assets are part of any diverse investment portfolio, I wouldn't consider this an asset worthy of an investment portfolio, but if someone put 2-5% of their investments into something risky like this I also wouldn't be hard on them either. Take the chance maybe you win big and if you lose it's not really going to impact your future.

Seems like there has been a basic education problem on what proper investments are.