MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Qpphello | 2025-11-22 03:44:24+00:00
Hey everyone!

Creator of Gossipdle here. Thanks for checking it out!

TL;DR Daily logic puzzles (like Einstein's Riddle) + entertaining gossipy themes + Wordle-style sharing = Gossipdle

KEY FEATURES • New puzzle every day synchronized worldwide • 100+ unique themes (tech moguls, reality TV, yoga studios, etc.) • Progressive hints when you're stuck • Share your results without spoilers • Free, no ads, no login required

TECH STACK Built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, deployed on Vercel. The puzzle engine uses deterministic generation based on dates to ensure everyone gets the same daily challenge.

QUESTIONS I'M EXPECTING *Q: Can I play past puzzles?* A: Currently daily-only to maintain the shared experience, but considering an archive mode!

*Q: How hard are they?* A: Medium difficulty - challenging but solvable! Average solve time is 5-10 minutes.

*Q: Mobile app?* A: The web version works great on mobile! PWA support coming soon.

Try today's puzzle and drop your time below! My record is 4 minutes

What features would you most like to see added?
by deaddodo | 2025-11-22 03:44:45+00:00
It’s like they say, only alternating versions of Windows are actually worth using.

It’s almost like they follow a software version of Intel’s old tick-tock pattern. A version that’s super experimental, but unstable and flaky (95, Me, Vista, 8, 11) and a version that irons out the wrinkles to make a solid OS (98, 2000/Xp, 7, 10).
by aeroevan | 2025-11-22 03:44:53+00:00
My son is in a co-op with around that number of kids, but that's total (through HS).

The co-op I was in 30 years ago was a bit smaller but sounds like it's still going strong (no clue how big it is these days though).

So there definitely are homeschooling co-ops around that size. I do wonder what the average size of a co-op is though
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-22 03:46:23+00:00
There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs.

HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones.

Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time.

I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.
by junon | 2025-11-22 03:47:12+00:00
Getting a triangle on the screen is the hello world of 3D applications. Many such guides for your backend of choice. From there it becomes learning how the shaders work, internalizing projection matrices (if you're doing 3D) which takes a bit of thinking, then slowly as you build up enough abstractions turns back into a more "normal" data structures problem surrounding whatever it is you're actually building. But it's broad, be prepared for that.

Definitely recommend starting with a more "batteries included" framework, then trying your hand at opengl, then Vulkan will at least make a bit more sense. SDL is a decent place to start.

A lot of the friction is due to the tooling and debugging, so learning how to do that earlier rather than later will be quite beneficial.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-11-22 03:47:20+00:00
I like Point No. 4. By now, I have enough articles to point to when people ask the same questions over and over. I have been asked, “Do you always have a blog post for these questions?”

Another advice or a deduction that I learnt from reading biographies and many historical books is — write as if you are writing for a stranger, even on your own personal blog/diaries/memoir — when you get older, your younger self will become a stranger and you will have forgotten a lot of things in that life you lived.
by kmoser | 2025-11-22 03:48:02+00:00
> Mr. Brender [...] said his friend made him a sign with a Venmo username written on it, but no one has stopped to use it, and he doesn’t even know how to access his account.

If he can't access his account, how does he know nobody has paid him? Somebody could have walked by, made a mental note of his Venmo username, and paid him a few minutes later.
by khuey | 2025-11-22 03:48:42+00:00
> No. They are 98% drug addicts or mentally ill people.

That might be true, but there are plenty of drug addicts and mentally ill people in West Virginia (#1 in per capita overdose deaths and well above CA/NY/etc in suicides) and yet West Virginia has a pretty low rate of homelessness (roughly 1/5th CA's and 1/8th NY's) so that's clearly not the explanation.
by pmontra | 2025-11-22 03:48:55+00:00
> We’re exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it. If you have the change, if needed there is an option you can uncheck to disable this called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options, under View.

Not a big deal. I use Windows only a few times over an RDP connection (VMs of a customer of mine) so it's a bit slow anyway and this optimization is not going to make it much faster. A more impactful change:

> We’ve moved Compress to ZIP file, Copy as Path, Set as Desktop Background, and Rotate Right, and Rotate Left into a new Manage file flyout. [...] Note, the name Manage file may change in a future Insider update.

So it's an extra click to compress files.
by Terretta | 2025-11-22 03:49:25+00:00
Yep, that's how people answer.

Folks really really don't like thinking that "FizzBuzz" case maybe shouldn't be there, future extension or factor edit or no.

// And as long as we're just manually computing factor times factor and typing out the results for it like "FizzBuzz" we might as well just hardcode the whole series...
by zten | 2025-11-22 03:49:41+00:00
> Even now, barreling towards 40, there’s aspects of social capabilities where I come up quite short relative to my peers.

I identify with your post as a rural kid who mostly didn't socialize with classmates after school. I went to public school, and I'm 40 now. I think the human experience is that you are inevitably going to encounter social situations where you feel outmatched or simply don't belong. I do agree with making sure your kids experience public school, but I think that's about the bare minimum of what you can offer your kids.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-22 03:50:09+00:00
You're straw-manning the worst public school experience against the best possible homeschool experience.

> They are the most socialized kids in the US.

Bullshit. You know how I know? Because on average parents are terrible at exposing their kids to Things Not Like Them and Things They Don't Approve Of.

There are great homeschooling parents and crazy ones, but maybe it's not the worst idea to give kids a few hours a day outside their family-approved bubble?

Just in case it's the latter.

Or am I mistaken and all homeschooling in the US requires the child's consent?
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-22 03:50:27+00:00
It's sad, really.

Microsoft could easily make one of the best general purpose OSes. They have a lot of cool stuff in Windows, especially for devs. There's native git integration in file explorer coming, PowerToys has great utilities (peek, fancy zones, command palette), WSL & WSL w/ graphics, terminal, native SSH now, sudo, winget & automation with it using DSC from a simple yaml file, and some of the best backwards compatibility in the industry.

Yet they squander it all by violating their users trust and consent, and consistently ignoring their users feedback.

That's what makes Windows 11 so frustrating for me, even though I've already switched to macOS ever since the M1 air. I would go back to Windows in a heart beat if they got their act together. I always liked Windows. It's been my main OS for a long time, even though I've always kept a Linux machine around and macs here and there, Windows was my go to.

Normally I would say all MS needs to do is focus on putting out a good OS, keep focusing on all the dev QOL stuff they put in and dump the user hostile behavior, but I think its too late for them at this point. They've burned every bridge.
by joshtbradley | 2025-11-22 03:51:00+00:00
Well written, but it says nothing. No real breakdown of the problem, certainly no solution. Just generic hatred for the rich and empathy for the poor. Like most people who use the word "unhoused," it's performative. If you want to help, volunteer. I have. It's heartbreaking. You realize how dehumanizing it is to try to help someone who is unstable. Mental health, addiction, and deep trauma cannot be solved with money, or shelter, or food. Real treatment is necessary. A modern asylum, crushing drug markets, and taking responsibility for those who cannot take responsibility for themselves needs to be seriously considered. We did this poorly in the past, but the current paradigm clearly is not working, and it might be time to try again. Hard problems need hard solutions, not soft words.
by tom_ | 2025-11-22 03:51:47+00:00
It won't really matter all that much, but it will have done more than 0 damage to the paintwork (since metal is hard and paint is soft). Worth noting that drivers are touchy and emotional, and can't be trusted not to murder you over perceived slights, so it's safest to stick to doing nothing. Stuff something under the windscreen wipers if you really must, and even that is risky.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-22 03:52:25+00:00
You don't become a billionaire by having your hands clean. But what set them appart to other companies is that they go out of their way not to be hostile to their users.

Loot boxes done well are not user hostile, players pay because they like them, and sure, it uses all the tricks from the gambling industry to get as most money as they can, but player don't feel scammed or considering it an obstacle to their goals. It is just an additional feature they may or may not use. Compare to say, locking part of the game behind a paid DLC, players don't like that, they feel forced. Same end goal, that is to make their money your money, but the latter is considered hostile.

And ads, Steam is full of ads, from recommendations to the store page showing up right as you launch steam. But they won't put a popup between you and your game. They show you the ads you want to see... And you buy games you wouldn't have bought otherwise.

And Steam has DRM, that's weak DRM, but effective at what it does, and importantly, if you bought the games legally, you won't even notice, contrary to some other company intrusive practices.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-22 03:52:46+00:00
Explorer.exe is not file explorer, it is the Windows UI system. It’s harder to see on modern Windows versions (since Windows will reload it automatically), but if you go into Win98 and kill the process, you’ll see your taskbar, desktop icons, right click menu, etc disappear.

File explorer is a part of that process, but consists of additional dynamic libraries and COM components that are loaded on-demand.

Old desktop replacements (like Litestep) specifically modified Windows to block explorer from loading the desktop to replace it (though, would still spawn it for file explorer).
by elephanlemon | 2025-11-22 03:53:26+00:00
Damn, Microsoft really needs someone who cares to run Windows. Feels like they haven’t had that since 7. Seems like every change for the last 10+ years has just been to take high quality existing applications and replace them with modern junk that has half the functionality and none of the polish. Task manager, explorer, calculator, anything in control panel, even solitaire!
by delfinom | 2025-11-22 03:55:18+00:00
That's the problem though. PE firms are stuck with billions and billions of dollars in businesses they can't cash out of because they have no other buyers than other PE firms.

That's why they are pushing the Trump admin to allow 401k funds to take over the toxic PE assets.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/demo...
by lapcat | 2025-11-22 03:55:32+00:00
> Maybe focus on keeping the conversation productive

I didn't and don't want to have this conversation. Technically, I didn't even ask alphazard what they meant, and in any case, I didn't ask anyone else what alphazard meant, as if someone else could magically interpret alphazard's cryptic remark any better than I could, which they can't, as proved by the multiple different unsolicited answers I received.

I was perhaps morbidly curious what the atheist was objecting to in public schools when they nonetheless seemed perfectly fine with conservative religious homeschooling.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-22 03:56:32+00:00
I recently found there’s an active community modding Windows to be more like older Windows, including modifying Explorer.

Some examples:

* Restoring the Explorer navigation bar: https://windhawk.net/mods/explorer-frame-classic

* Making Explorer behave more like Vista/7: https://windhawk.net/mods/aerexplorer

* Fixing the white flash on a new Explorer tab in dark mode: https://windhawk.net/mods/fix-explorer-white-flash

* Restoring old-style context menus: https://windhawk.net/mods/disable-immersive-context-menus

* Even using classic non-Aero themes in Win11: https://windhawk.net/mods/classic-theme-enable

I haven’t tried this myself yet. I’m unwilling to inject code into system processes on a work VM.

But I can’t help wondering if a better path for performance for Microsoft would be lighter code, not trying to preload it.
by raggi | 2025-11-22 03:56:45+00:00
explorer.exe is both the shell and the file explorer which is an unfortunate state of affairs.

There's long been an option to make it multi-process, but the cost of that option has increased with every release since 95. If I remember correctly, back in the 95 days that would spawn a new explorer process per window.

These days, probably since tabs or so, when you check this option it spawns exactly one other process, even for many windows. The second process has over 100 threads, the shell process normally spawns around 40 when you open a window, only 20 of which exit immediately when you close the window, the rest stick around for fairly arbitrary periods of time.

Note though about 2/3rds of the threads on my system are rooted in the nvidia driver thunks, I really don't know why so many - is it a side effect of the xaml port?

anyway, no idea what the preloading exactly will be doing, but it does sound like a hack over debt. it'd feel better if there was more process isolation being added to the desktop environment, but you know, it's an old desktop OS, so if one window wants to screw with another window, YOLO! On the flip side making stuff like komorebi is trivial on the platform and there is some nicety to that as long as you trust everything you ever run.
by prng2021 | 2025-11-22 03:57:06+00:00
“Humans are weird in a way that 'public school culture' tries to paper over.”

I went to a public school as did the vast majority of the world’s population today. Genuinely curious… Are you saddened by what you view as a lack of diversity and creativity in the world and do you blame that on public schools?

Schools have athletic kids and within that, groups interested in different sports. And within each sport, subgroups of kids who become close friends. All of that also applies to kids interested in musical instruments, art, computers, board games and on and on. Some kids are nice, some are assholes, and everything in between. You make it sound like public school systems output an army of clones. No. Your friend group changes over time as you meet others, as your interests/views change, and as other people change. You're constantly immersed amongst all the other groups and you learn to tolerate some, love some, and hate some. All of this learning is tremendously stifled if you’re talking about a kid learning to socialize in a group of 5 instead of 500.

Aside from individualism, there has to be conformity as well. That’s part of learning to socialize and function in the real world for later as an adult. Conforming is also just human nature stemming from wanting to be accepted in a group. We all naturally learned to balance conformity and individualism when we were thrown into the public school system. By home schooling, you’re saying no, I don’t have the confidence that my child can do it on their own, even if 99% of the world has done so.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-22 03:57:16+00:00
Problem is, I don’t think it’s a conscious decision by Microsoft. It just happens because they have to make their next versions appealing to buyers with new features.

Supposedly, the longer lifecycles of newer versions with large milestone updates was supposed to help with this, but seems to have just bandaged it over.

And, to be fair, the Apple community makes similar complaints about macOS with alternating releases. Just with far less vitriol (given macOS generally has a higher reputation among those that use it in a power/professional sphere).
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-22 04:00:45+00:00
The fallacy is believing that people have principals. A country is in essence people and the failure of a country is atomically identical to failure in people. When you blame the "country" you are blaming people, aka yourself.

The bright eyed idealism I refer to is the failure to recognize that when you look at your own country you are looking in a mirror.

It's not only that. The type of patriotism that people have in the US is unlike any other. No offense but the only word I can use to describe it is utter arrogance, like the US is a synonym for Utopia and the US is humanities best attempt ever at it. You see patriotism in other countries in the sense that "I love my country" but you don't see it in the sense that "My country is the greatest" like you see with Americans.

I mean to be fair you do get governments who try to get people to think that their country is the greatest but none of the citizenry really buy into it (think: North Korea). But for America, a large number of people literally think America is the greatest and this is what is unique about American patriotism. You embody it.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-22 04:01:07+00:00
True, and that's what makes them great features. Windows could have been, and could still be if Microsoft cared, basically a Linux distro but with al the drivers in the world & better nvidia gaming.

I always preferred working in WSL vs on macOS because it was real Linux, whenever I was forced to use Windows.

Like all of Microsoft's consumer products/efforts, they start off with something that could be great and then manage to destroy it from within.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-22 04:01:12+00:00
"The dot-com bubble didn't prove the internet was a fad -"

The internet is a medium, an interconnection of autonomous computer networks

A "web" of hyperlinked HTML pages is one use of an internet

However this internet is more than a handful of popular websites incorporated as companies

Perhaps that's why it was called the "dot-com" bubble and not the "internet" bubble
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-22 04:02:21+00:00
This is really it: compliance. The cost is in having to prove that you did the right things. But I do wonder if we will see an easier path forward with that. After all if there was a way to pay someone a once a year fee for an audit and filling out the paperwork and the cost was lower than the cost of using AWS then surely people would do that and it is an opportunity for an audit business that is willing to work with self-hosted setups. Or just have GPT-5 fill out the compliance docs. I suspect it won’t be long until GPT-5 is reading them.
by Projectiboga | 2025-11-22 04:02:42+00:00
Military spending is a type of wealfare for the wealthy it is one of the only forms of public or government spending that doesn't crowd out private investors, the way public housing or publicly funded hospitals do. The high military spending and the contractor class often vote more conservative than typical for their demographic and economic peers It's been high since WW2, with maybe a slight drop in the late 70s. The current stat of "3.4 times gdp" ignores the fact that a large part of our national debt is from the military and war budgets. I saw a statistic in the mid 1990s that if we had kept our military budget at inflation adjusted levels equal to 1976 our debt would have gone to zero as early as 1994.
by angelgonzales | 2025-11-22 04:03:25+00:00
I attended an objectively good public school system in California. There was very little political slant pushed by teachers except a far left slant in my journalism class. Thankfully we had many AP and honors classes which allowed motivated and competent students to thrive. I personally found myself disliking most normal classes because some students seemed unmotivated or incompetent and I didn’t like to be around those types of people. In scouting I met many homeschooled boys who didn’t seem very well socialized but their parents were always affluent, intelligent, mature and stable people who supported their boys. On one occasion a homeschooled kid didn’t want to be so he ran away for a few days and all the parents grilled us for clues as to where he may have gone. He ended up going to public high school with me the last two years and I think he made friends there. Another boy was homeschooled because he never managed to make friends and was quite annoying and quick to anger. He left out scout troop because he failed to adapt to the group and threw a knife at me! In college I met kids who went to ineffective public schools and they were very obviously much less competent than the people in my high school and heavily at a disadvantage. Based on my observations all children raised under homeschool were socially awkward but far more intelligent than the average public school kid. After moving out of state I observed that public schools make a really big difference in outcomes, I found that the people that came out of Portland Public Schools (PPS) were palpably less intelligent and also learned that group exams were sometimes taken! Also there were always needles, homeless camps, public drug use and fires around Portland schools. In these cases I think homeschooling (or groupschooling) would provide better outcomes.
by adi_kurian | 2025-11-22 04:03:29+00:00
It is unlawful to refuse to accept cash at any NYC store to my knowedge.

New York is the only major metro where I have seen a significant cash advantage as of late. (Feel somewhat qualified having spent months in Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle, Austin, Asheville, Savannah, and Atlanta over the last five years).

Cash discount at every gas station and across thousands of bodegas across the city.

"It's thirteen hundred with tax - if you got cash I can take a hundred off"

There are still a shit ton of cash only establishments. Institutional spots and then cheap places too.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-22 04:03:38+00:00
It's also a question of accessible public spaces.

The US (especially the vast bulk of suburbia) is incredibly varied in quantity of these.

Some areas have them. Ironically, for all their faults, Florida master planned developments do better than most, and the west has a surfeit of natural land.

Others are an endless sea of kid-unfriendly private businesses and/or income-gated spaces, locked behind access to an automobile.

At some point the US, especially east coast suburban US, forgot that roaming kids need somewhere to roam...
by musicale | 2025-11-22 04:03:47+00:00
AI systems can generate and communicate information, but as the authors point out it is somewhat different from humans communicating with each other.

Kind of an "internet of things" consisting of robots talking to other robots, and occasionally to humans. The fact that the dialogue (currently at least) resembles human-generated information makes it interpretable but uncanny since it is only indirectly related to human experience.