MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-28 18:33:48+00:00
I don't know if I'd compare an anime gacha game to "Friendship ended because I talked about two pretty girls at a hair salon". I feel this comment really symbolizes the entire point of this post.

>Ultimately, these are the kind of things discussed only by a small, vocal, very online minority.

They are discussed by a "minority" because we compartmentalized social media to some dozen websites. And they all have a financial incentive to suppress sexual content, be it visual, oral, or print. I think the the cause and effect is there.

"sexy" isn't "sexual". unless any pretty person you pass by is a sexual encounter.
by neilv | 2025-11-28 18:33:55+00:00
I don't recall that fame at the time (from Mcom/Netscape, JWZ was more visible, in my circles), but I knew his name.

When he was first coding NCSA Mosaic, we were both pretty young, and doing workstation development, which took more of what HN would consider hacker spirit than the bulk of contemporary software development does. And we were also presumably Internet people, so I assumed he was like me.

In my mind, there was a default Internet person culture, which was very different than the tech industry culture of today. Curious, optimistic and wanting to bring Internet tech and culture to people, and a sense of responsibility for it. (Not affected platitudes, but innate and genuine; but also not tested by the potential of wealth, so you didn't really know how firmly held it was.)

Culturally, today, I seem to be closer than him to my early impression of early Internet people. (Though I changed my mind about trying to first become a professor and then do research commercial spinouts, rather than to grab the initial dotcom boom money right away. So I'd like a do-over.)

I don't know why he culturally seemed to go into the direction of libertarian manifestos and questionable crypto pumping.

Maybe he has in mind a version of OG Internet values, or some other vision, and he's trying to amass more wealth and power to make it happen?

There have been a few OG hackers in the VC space who you might have assumed would go one way if they had money, but then went a different way. Were they actually always like that? Did they learn something that changed how they think about the world? Were they changed by money/power circles, sycophants, or drugs? Did their business take on a life of its own, naturally maximizing profit, and they were just along for the ride?
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-28 18:33:59+00:00
In general, there are always "better" solutions to any problem, but finding the right balance for your budget is the key.

If doing industrial work, than consumer-grade workmanship / LLM-slop is usually unacceptable. Start with the FTDI firmware tool and an isolation chip App-note...

https://www.analog.com/en/products/adm2895e-1.html

Best of luck =3
by Bender | 2025-11-28 18:34:32+00:00
"after the Tea Party" means that they were one of the last legit protests in my eyes.

No Kings did not do anything to really get media attention. They were mostly well behaved but I did not take away any meaningful messages. Everyone knows that US presidents are not kings. At best they stretch the powers that were granted after 9/11 but they get replaced every few years and most of their actions can be quickly undone by the next deep state puppet.

To me it's just like bad management in a company. Bad managers/directors come and go. I can speed up their departure or just simply ignore them and wait for their replacement.
Show HN: Dialed – A Radial Calendar App for iOS
by sirkaiwade | 2025-11-28 18:34:49+00:00
Hey HN! I just launched Dialed – a calendar app where your day is visualized as a clock instead of a grid. I've always found traditional calendar UIs frustrating. Lists feel like todo apps. Grids feel like spreadsheets. But we experience time circularly, like a clock face.

A few months ago I saw a radial planning concept and couldn't stop thinking about it. Started building that week.

Key features:

Day visualized as 24-hour clock Tasks/events as colored arcs Apple Calendar sync Time analytics (planned vs actual) Custom themes

Built in Swift/SwiftUI. The radial layout was harder than expected – lots of edge cases around midnight wrapping and overlapping events.

This is my first iOS launch. Would love feedback on whether the radial metaphor works for you guys!
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-28 18:35:52+00:00
> There is no store-and-forward as such, the sending node will keep the message in its outbox and will keep retrying until the destination is online.

Yes I might be wrong but my understanding is there is no point in creating another system where messages hop from one peer to the other like Meshtastic or Reticulum (what make sense for their use case).

Let's say users have their "email server" running on both on there mobile phone and a home server and in sync. We can expect 2 of the 4 servers will be online at the same time to send the message. I personally like those odds, Internet is pretty reliable in our days.

I believe we have spent too long trying to solve very hard trilema in messaging, trying to have it all: confidentiality, anonymity and uncensorability ... and reliability ... and ease of use. The result is in practice most people use GMail, Outlook and Whatsapp.

Yggdrasil is fantastic, it goes back some original ideas of the Internet we have almost forgotten, and in practice solves a lot of problem we have been dealing with for too long.
by wafflesfreak | 2025-11-28 18:36:55+00:00
I had a really similar experience, which is a big reason why I built this. Uploading my own schematics to the usual web LLMs gave a mix of useful notes and some pretty big misunderstandings. I really believe this tool is set up to deliver better results than the general-purpose GPT/Gemini/Claude interfaces for this kind of task. Hoping others try it and have a much better experience too!

Also good call on processing EasyEDA schematics. I hadn’t considered that initially, but I’m definitely going to add support for it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-28 18:38:16+00:00
well, not zero. But yes, you need to find the small hidden paths to take back what we once had.

There's a reason I deleted my reddit and Facebook and never had a twitter. You're not going to have genuine conversations and experiences there if your goal is "socializing" these days. Or at least, the genuine ones are outflooded by engagement bait.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-28 18:38:24+00:00
> as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN

I am in the UK.

archive.org is not blocked — not the Library or the Wayback Machine.

ETA: I just checked re: the comment toomuchtodo linked to, and it actually is blocked by default on my mobile phone as adult content, because I've never bothered to disable the adult content lock on that device. I get redirected to a page operated by my mobile network where I can undo the lock by giving them info; I might do that one day, might not.

For non-UK users: UK mobile phone providers all block adult content by default at the account level as a simple parental control measure, and have done for some time, largely because PAYG data is really rather cheap here.

Interesting but not particularly bothersome. Apparently this decision is about eleven years old.
by kace91 | 2025-11-28 18:38:35+00:00
That might be part of it, yes.

As someone younger, ports and sockets appeared very early in my learning. I'd say they appeared in passing before programming even, as we had to deal with router issues to get some online games or p2p programs to work.

And conversely, some of the other topics are in the 'completely optional' category. Many of my colleagues work on IDEs from the start, and some may not even have used git in its command line form at all, though I think that extreme is more rare.
by ejoso | 2025-11-28 18:38:51+00:00
Not even deceptive. This is relatively normal business practice.

It’s easier to think of this as “project risk” as opposed to corporate risk overall.

This isn’t different than creating a subsidiary to embark on a new program, with its own debts and assets, collateralized by a parent company.

It’s effectively the same as what happens every time a major movie studio starts a new film project.
Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ
by 473999 | 2025-11-28 18:39:34+00:00
I wanted to listen to music with friends who live far away. Not "watch a YouTube video together" - actually share what I'm hearing in real-time, like we're in the same room.

Pulse is what came out of that. Anyone can host a live audio stream from their browser tab or system audio. Listeners join, music recognition identifies tracks automatically, and there's chat with 7TV emotes. No account required - you get an anonymous code and you're in.

We're running demo rooms that stream NTS Radio and SomaFM 24/7 (indie project, not affiliated - we backlink to the original stations). There's also a "Money For Nothing 24/7" room if you want to loop that Dire Straits instrumental forever.

Think of it as co-listening infrastructure. Bedroom DJs, listening parties, or just sharing your current vibe.
by politelemon | 2025-11-28 18:42:07+00:00
Pleasantly happy and surprised by Linux after many years. I'm not happy with the insidious lock-in that Apple and Microsoft engage in. When I'm developing I need the machine to be by own, and only a few distros provide that. I do wish to try kde though because it receives a lot of praise but just can't figure out which distro is the sweet spot, allowing for games, but good package management too.
by resfirestar | 2025-11-28 18:42:46+00:00
The main part I object to in this essay is the ideological carveout. The author is seemingly willing to defend the #MeToo movement because it was in the service of a mission "to end a long-standing and long-permitted norm of sexual abuse within institutions", and "cancel culture" (I'm also putting it in quotes as I agree it's a very loaded term) because the backlash to it was helpful to the right and detrimental to the left. If you agree with the reasoning, then, all of the behavior being criticized is okay? In that case I don't see how or why anyone would ever change their behavior. The author's friend who wanted her to apologize to the hairdressers probably has a strong belief that being sexualized at work is a serious problem faced by women. From the right, many Christians strongly believe that criticizing behaviors like premarital sex is part of the social immune system that keeps family and community bonds strong.

I think there's a meaningful difference between being a genuine liberal who wants to change how American society thinks about sex, and being a partisan who wants to use puritan callouts as a cudgel on your enemies while ensuring that your own behavior is never subject to criticism. The essay displays an awareness of the tension, but decisively chooses the partisan path.
by namblooc | 2025-11-28 18:43:53+00:00
I'm surprised at the small number of Windows users. At my workplace every computer has Windows installed and we didn't really have a choice about it, although I never asked. Also, as a fullstack web developer, I don't really see why I would prefer one over the other, since they all support VSCode and I can write code on any one of them. But then again, I exist inside of an echochamber of Windows users so I'm pretty clueless on how development is different on other OSs.
by trinix912 | 2025-11-28 18:43:54+00:00
It's not as much about complacency as it is about the lack of funding and resources. We're talking about countries with government budgets as low as 20 billion USD. Looking at common election promises, people here would rather see that money spent on non-profit housing, healthcare, infrastructure, than some ambitious AI or tech project that they likely wouldn't directly benefit from - at least compared to the things mentioned before - so there's little money left for "developing our own MS Office / LLM / Google".

Whereas China not only has a much bigger budget than individual EU countries, but also central planning on a large scale, so they can just "force" things be done, no matter whether people like it or not. China giving 0.01% for such projects is way more money than a small EU country giving the same %. And it's not like they'll vote the party out for a failed project (which happens in EU countries quite often).
by 473999 | 2025-11-28 18:44:40+00:00
Stack: LiveKit (WebRTC), Next.js, Node.js, Neon Postgres, AudD for music recognition.

What's new in 2.0:

Stream from browser tab or system audio (BlackHole/VB-Cable)

Music recognition with automatic deduplication and "winner selection"

24/7 demo rooms (NTS Radio, SomaFM, and yes... Money For Nothing on loop)

See Lobby rooms from inside a room

Push-to-talk overlay for hosts

Automatically add emotes dropping 7tv.app link in the emoji popup in the chat

Happy to answer any questions! PS. Audio can be shared only by desktop at the moment. Not mobile
by firefax | 2025-11-28 18:44:52+00:00
I'm a big fan of Germany -- my most enjoyable vacation was riding around DE on DB, I've done some German language classes and read extensively about it's history. (I think people hyperfocus on WWII out of morbid curiosity and skip over the atrocities of the Stasi.)

The last time I was there, I had the poor luck to schedule my train out of Berlin as a protest was being held. People were super polite, parting ways for me then going back to their thing. One of the leaders must have heard through the grapevine I was a travelling academic and tried to put me on the spot if I "supported" the protest. (They were unhappy about the Trans Pacific Partnership).

I told him I study privacy, not law nor economics so I don't feel qualified to comment on a trade agreement, but I certainly support their right to express their opinion.

And with that, what very little hostility I'd encountered that day vanished, and I went off to eat my currywurst, drink my beer, and watch some videos on my laptop while waiting for my train.

I'm going to pause and say maybe this is the kind of policy question we should leave to the citizens of said country... it seems to center around extremely technical terms in a legal system a lot of us on (overwhelmingly American) HN have very little understanding.

Germany has a history of being extremely supportive of open source -- when I was exploring the clubs, the only black shirt I had was one with a giant Firefox logo, and I got a lot of postive feedback and even let past the line at one place, so I'd be curious what German citizens have to say on the matter before forming my own opinion.
by ruralfam | 2025-11-28 18:45:12+00:00
Not just the ads. They are likely tracking your location, and drive events. These can be sold to your insurance company who may adjust your rates, or even drop you if they consider your driving patterns to be risky. When we got our Ford Maverick, first thing I did was disable this. Kudos to Ford for making this easy.

Downside is that we got a recall notice about the software for the backup camera needing an update. I scheduled an appointment, and it took over 3 hours. Asked the service guy why it was taking so long to flash to software, and he said our system needed an update because we had not enabled over-the-air connection with Ford which allows this to be done in the background. Evidently the download speed for this was incredibly slow according to the SG, so it took over two hours before our Mav was current, and they could apply the backup camera fix. Note: I was very suspicious about this claim. I thought it was more likely we were being purposely held captive in the service waiting area -- which has a big screen constantly running Ford ads. I guess that is OK. I had my Kindle, and was into a great book at the time, so I actually was not too put out.
by underlipton | 2025-11-28 18:45:17+00:00
Until they don't. Lest we forget that Facebook's new handle was borne out of a pivot that's sunk almost a hundred billion dollars while being having been largely sidelined/abandoned. (I know that they're still doing a good deal of R&D, which is good, and a worthy investment, but 1) Carmack left, and 2) We apparently don't judge corporations on whether or not they're contributing to society, but only on whether they're in the red or black.)
by ineedasername | 2025-11-28 18:45:31+00:00
What is their definition of adoption? A company where every employee has some level of access to AI is the bare minimum of “full adoption” for a given company but a threadbare one.

A company that has implemented most current AI technologies in their applicable areas in known-functionally capabilities? That is a vastly larger definition of Full Adoption.

It's the different between access and full utilization. The gulf is massive. And I'm not aware of any major company, or really any, that have said, "yep, we're done, we're doing everything we think we can with AI and we're not going to try to improve upon it."

Implementation of acquired capabilities, implementations... Very early days. And it appears this study's definition is more like user access, not completed implementations. Somewhat annoyingly, I receive 3 or 4 calls a day, sometimes on weekends, from contracting firms looking for leads, TPMs, ML/Data scientists with genai / workflow experience. 3 months ago, without having done anything to put my name out any more that however it had been found before that, I was only getting 1 ever day or two.

I don't think this study is using a useful definition for what they intend to measure. It is certainly not capturing more than a fraction of activity.
DarkVeil – Private, MEV-Resistant Execution Layer on Solana
by DarkVeil | 2025-11-28 18:45:38+00:00
Public blockchains leak almost everything. Orderflow, wallet history, intent, slippage patterns, and execution timing.

On high-throughput chains like Solana, this transparency has created a measurable MEV crisis. Sandwich attacks now affect ~2.9% of trades and have extracted over $2B cumulatively (64k SOL in the last 6 months).

This is part of why privacy infrastructure is becoming one of the fastest-growing categories in crypto (up +251% YTD), with TVL recently hitting new all-time highs. Yet most solutions focus on user privacy, not execution privacy, where the actual value leakage happens.

DarkVeil takes a different approach. It uses encrypted orderflow, secure enclaves, and an AI-driven execution engine to match trades privately at oracle-verified prices, eliminating slippage and blocking MEV vectors like frontrunning and sandwich attacks. Only the final settlement hits the chain, not the orderflow itself.

The aim is to recreate the “dark pool” model from traditional markets, but with deterministic execution and non-custodial guarantees.

Would love feedback from the HN community on: - Feasibility of enclave-based matching on high-throughput chains - Tradeoffs of private vs public liquidity - AI-assisted execution models vs traditional AMMs
Show HN: Aviation calculators I built while learning
by jfroma | 2025-11-28 18:45:43+00:00
I'm a software developer from Argentina, currently working on my private pilot license. As I progressed through ground school, I kept building tools to help me understand and practice the concepts, and it turned into this.

joseflys.com is a collection of aviation calculators that run entirely in the browser. Everything works offline as a PWA.

I know most pilots use ForeFlight, SkyDemon, or similar apps, and I'm not trying to compete with those. This started as a learning project to really understand the math behind flight planning, and I figured others might find it useful too.

Some things you can do:

- Wind correction: Calculate heading and ground speed given wind. Useful for understanding the wind triangle.

- Flight planning: Build multi-leg flight plans with fuel calculations, ETAs, waypoints, and climb/descent performance. Export to PDF or Excel.

- TAS/ISA calculators: Convert between indicated and true airspeed, calculate density altitude.

- Takeoff and V-stall: Performance calculators for go/no-go decisions and understanding stall margins.

- LNAV Segments: An educational tool showing how FMS systems approximate great circle routes with constant-heading segments.

Tech: Next.js, TypeScript, GeographicLib for WGS-84 geodesic calculations, World Magnetic Model for magnetic variation. All calculations happen client-side.

The geodesic precision was an interesting challenge. Haversine isn't accurate enough for real navigation, especially at high latitudes or long distances.

It's open source: https://github.com/jfromaniello/joseflys

Happy to answer questions!
by culi | 2025-11-28 18:46:03+00:00
I went from Windows to a VM running Ubuntu, to WSL, to a Mac. Each switch felt like a massive upgrade and I haven't looked back. I'm new to macs and I hear veterans complaining about the quality of the OS but compared to Windows which was adding ads in their search bars at the time I left... I guess I've just been conditioned to have a low bar
by switchbak | 2025-11-28 18:46:13+00:00
This seems to be mostly (though not exclusively) a generational thing - as if things have changed to such a degree that you no longer have sovereignty over your internal experience. Like the boundary between public and personal has been removed. Certainly I've noticed this in North America.

I've known people that just demand to know things about you, and simply can't understand that you have boundaries and that there's information which is simply none of their business. Like someone asking you how you voted, or if you find XYZ person attractive, etc. Usually with some intention to sniff out some kind of latent and hidden evidence of wrongthink. Talking with some of these people feels like you're just waiting for them to pounce on you once you step over a line - and of course to out you in a public fashion, even when it's just you and them!

It's like people are bringing their Reddit personality into the real world, trying to score points by knocking others down. It's a really shitty way to be, and I've found even old friends fall into that trap.

I think much of this is due to the shift from an individualistic focus to a more group-related identity. I'm old enough that I find that bizarre, in a creepy authoritarian kind of way.
by jsheard | 2025-11-28 18:46:44+00:00
To be way too pedantic, if WSL2 (and therefore Hyper-V) is enabled then Windows actually boots into bare-metal Hyper-V first, which then launches the Windows kernel as a VM under itself, side-by-side with the WSL2 VMs if any are installed, so if the lowest level facilitator is what counts then you're really developing "on Hyper-V". I don't think that's a very useful distinction though.
by reliablereason | 2025-11-28 18:47:03+00:00
Um right did not think of that, if you burn a organism you get to core components but the organism was not originally made of the core components.

The core idea was not generated from a chat bot. Neither was the article i gave (that was my own googling).

The core idea (that there is a requirement and a availability of energy that may differ) was generated from my brain not that i personally think the origin of an idea matters to its value.
by parliament32 | 2025-11-28 18:47:13+00:00
The most sane version of regulation IMO is the (already passed) EU AI Act. It's less about control of AI itself, more about controlling inputs/outputs. Tell users when they're interacting with an AI, mark/disclaimer AI-generated content, don't use AI in high-risk scenarios, etc. Along the lines of "we don't regulate hammers, but we regulate you hitting people with a hammer".

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/