MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-22 04:34:12+00:00
> The Jewish culture emphasizes education and Christian were forbidden to take interests in the middle ages. So the Jews became the wealthy educated elite.

"Take interests"? If by that you mean in education, then this is false.

If you look at the centers of learning in the Middle Ages and who was contributing the most, these were Christians and it was the Church. The first universities-as-universities were founded then. Scholasticism was intellectually very rigorous and supplied the philosophical foundations for the modern sciences. This was an incredible period.

And not all Jews were rich, either. This is an exaggeration. Those who were were often disproportionately merchants, of course, and because Jews were permitted to issue loans with interest to non-Jews (the Church forbade Catholics from issuing loans with compound interest to anyone, hence why the Medicis, Fuggers, etc. didn't make their fortunes through interest), they were more likely to engage in money lending of that kind.
by postalcoder | 2025-11-22 04:34:53+00:00
Try hcker.news' small web filter[0], which uses Kagi's small web list[1] to show a hacker news timeline that consists only of personal blogs.

It works really well if you're looking for a cozier timeline.

0: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true

1: https://kagi.com/smallweb
by gexla | 2025-11-22 04:35:12+00:00
Right, it's an issue that requires intensive care to address mental health issues. The human resources required for this is always going to be a bottleneck. Much more so than housing shortages or funding for programs that are largely self service (if you can navigate the system, you may not be homeless for long.) Building, staffing, and funding such an institution seems like it would be extremely difficult.
Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam
by frankhsu | 2025-11-22 04:36:23+00:00
https://winterx.github.io/laser-eyes-simulator/

Needed a break from my main project, so I threw together this Laser Eyes Simulator. It's a silly little thing that adds laser beams to your eyes using your webcam. Downloadable images. Hope you enjoy!

Gemini 3 Prompt:

- Use the computer's front-facing camera

- Use `mediapipe` lib to capture facial landmarks

- Use `threejs` to apply a LASER EYE effect to the face captured by the camera based on the real-time 3D landmark information provided by `mediapipe`
by ycombiredd | 2025-11-22 04:36:33+00:00
The author's short diversion about the hassle of using a random website for zip2iso functionality and asking about a cli tool for doing such conversion lead me to create this cross-platform python script with no external dependencies: https://github.com/scottvr/GENISO/blob/main/ZIP2ISO.py

Longer explanation in the comments of TFA, but short version is that it was mostly "vibe-coded" using Gemini3 Pro instead of having to read the ISO9660 spec, which was also impressive to me.
by emschwartz | 2025-11-22 04:37:36+00:00
I built Scour to help me sift through noisy sources like HN Newest. For each article in my Scour feed, I can click the Show Feeds button to find what other sources that post shows up in. I’ve found that to be quite a nice way of discovering people’s blogs that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.

You can also scour all 14,000+ sources for posts that match your interests.

https://scour.ing
by sltkr | 2025-11-22 04:37:43+00:00
You're still missing the point of these problems, which is to challenge you to come up with a clever proof rather than brute-force the solution.

dhosek understood the assignment by making an argument that 123456789 is composite without relying on explicit division of a 9-digit number, which most people would find rather difficult to do in their heads.

Similarly, the posted link is about tiling a mutilated chessboard with dominos. Tiling problems in general are NP-hard, so clearly this isn't something you can solve in your head _in general_, but the charm of that specific problem is that you _can_ solve it by making an insightful observation to avoid the brute force computations.

Similarly, for the puzzle you complained about: we are asked to find 1/a + 1/b where a × b = 37 and a + b = 18. The general solution is to solve a system of two linear equations which involves solving a quadratic equation, which is possible, but tedious and difficult to keep in your head, but the entire point of the question is that there is a better way to figure out the result.
by devsda | 2025-11-22 04:38:16+00:00
This is all true but I'm not sure about establishing credibility with a blog, especially when an LLM can help fudge the details.

I like your idea of blogging about TILs. There are shallow posts about TILs(plenty on medium) and then there are posts that mention TILs along with specific gotchas they faced and workarounds on the topic. Those saved me hours of searching/debugging on couple of occasions and I'm glad that they did that.
Workbass: Free Invoice-Generating Software for Modern Businesses
by tobinews | 2025-11-22 04:39:40+00:00
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by Spivak | 2025-11-22 04:39:42+00:00
I didn't take that message away from the blog at all. They seem perfectly content to be an 18+ app but are musing on the fact that, functionality wise, it doesn't actually have any sexual content. Just the vague suggestion that you might choose to log that information in there.

An IRL analogy is probably stores that are happy to let children shop in the vicinity of sexually suggestive items such as condoms, lube, and intimate apparel—you can get these at grocery stores even.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-22 04:39:56+00:00
Kind of but not really. Even without strict types, functions will throw a type error if you give them the wrong thing for almost all types, except primitives, which will be automatically coerced. Strict types turns that coercion off.

Really, that's probably enough for a lot of cases, because PHP doesn't have operator overloading. Yes, you can add '10' + 10 and get 20, but not if either of those go into any function. If you have a function that needs to do string stuff, you take string stuff in, and you don't have to worry about string operations or coercing ints or anything.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-22 04:40:05+00:00
> I don't know very much about Prolog though, so maybe there's a lot of crucial parts missing here.

An easy way to find out if your implementation works is to try out the `likes.pl`[1] example found in the SWI-Prolog "Getting started quickly"[0] documentation.

0 - https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=quickstart

1 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWI-Prolog/swipl-devel/mas...
by baconbrand | 2025-11-22 04:43:47+00:00
I don’t think it’s a good reason.

I think it’s a reason. It’s certainly demoralizing. Plagiarism sucks and feels bad. If I were to google something and see the AI overview parroting my blog post, sort of almost kind of paraphrasing my words and shoving the link to my actual blog off the phone screen entirely, I think I would personally travel to google headquarters and start swinging a baseball bat.

But… For starters, plagiarism has always been an issue. Even before the internet. Look at Tesla, or Rosalind Franklin. It was an issue on the internet before LLMs showed up. It’s always been trivially easy to copy and paste digital information, and with a little bit of programming to do so at scale. Those weird SEO wordpress blogs with their aggregated/stolen content have been around forever. The web was choked full of plagiarized garbage years before chatgpt was an option or even an idea.

Also consider that the AI machine takes a lot more than your stolen creative output to run. It needs tons of electricity poured into expensive equipment. It’s not clear whether the “stolen data + expensive scientists + expensive graphics cards + metric shittons of electricity” side of the equation is ever going to equal “monthly rate people will pay for access to sort of ok almost sometimes accurate information (a service which has been on offer for free for roughly 2 years and is easy to find for free depending on the company/model/use case)” let alone be lower than it. The plagiarism is not profitable and hopefully unsustainable.

And let’s sit on “access to sort of ok almost accurate information” for a second here. Because I’m pretty sure people looking for this and people looking for a blog written by a real human person who they can build a (parasocial perhaps but still) relationship with and send emails to and follow for more related content are entirely separate demographics. Blog traffic has dropped off because Facebook, Instagram, etc. It was those massive sites, not LLMs, that gutted that part of the internet.

Going back to sustainability, legal challenges to the plagiarism machines do still exist and have traction. The more creators, more bloggers and artists and programmers and more of anyone sharing their stuff online, the more people we have with a very vested stake in ending the plagiarism free for all.

I say get in there, get creating, and get up to some lobbying on the side for good measure. Don’t sit back and let a handful of spoiled nerds and obscenely wealthy old people ruin the joy of creating and sharing things. Maybe drop in more references to baseball bats to make your output less palatable to the monster. I don’t know.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-22 04:44:12+00:00
Prohibition drives black markets where normal price discovery, quality control, and dispute resolution vanish, producing high prices, inconsistent purity, and violence. It does nothing to reduce demand. Low-level dealers effectively stabilize these markets through competition and supply continuity. Enforcement intensifies instability and empowers predatory actors. Mental health care and treatment work better alongside regulated supply, which reduces violence and desperation while letting users seek help outside illicit markets. Real solutions require rethinking the structures causing the crisis, not doubling down on failed approaches.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-22 04:44:26+00:00
Cabled offered far less content, with far less convenience, with far more ad breaks, for far more money.

The current situation is far preferable to being restricted to a specific screen in your home, controlled by a specific box, usable only with long term contracts, where you had to wait on hold on the phone and be home during 4 hour windows for a technician just to get something installed or canceled.
by chii | 2025-11-22 04:44:37+00:00
> anybody can sue them.

who bears the costs of this suit?

And who determines what makes for a good market share size to be the threshold?

And by having such a rule, an industry that would have higher efficiency to when consolidated would not be able to (but you wouldn't know). It's a bad set of policy imho.

A better way would be for gov't to increase competition by adding supply, or demand, whichever one is the bottleneck to competition. If a company, such as AWS, is getting a lot of marketshare, but their profit margins is still high, then the gov't should incentivize competition by funding or giving loans to businesses that want to compete with AWS.

However, if AWS's profit margins, even at high market share, remains very low (e.g., amazon's commerce side), then there's no need for the gov't to "step in" at all, as there would be no incentive for any competitor to try enter the market due to low margins.
by itsalwaysgood | 2025-11-22 04:45:25+00:00
For sure, pain is useful when it leads to learning. We learn through feedback from our senses. We're completely dependent upon this mode in the beginning.

As our brains mature, we learn how to predict our environments in ways to maximize pleasure, and avoid pain (grossly oversimplified). We learn more about others, what works, and what doesn't.

An AI also learns from feedback, but is it ever perceiving anything?
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-22 04:46:29+00:00
I wonder how much of that mercenary approach to blogging today resulted ultimately from the 2008 crisis. It feels like there was less pressure to make ends meet, and consequently no pressure to hustle, before that. And maybe it is also the influencer self-branding culture of Instagram being seen as the default internet, so when people do alt-internet things they carry over those same values knowingly or unknowingly.
by healsdata | 2025-11-22 04:46:39+00:00
Their definition of "the platform" in the TOS is verbose and has weird grammar. I can see how people came away with a different understanding.

> User shall not translate, decompile or reverse-engineer the Platform, or engage in any other activity designed to identify the algorithms and logic of the Platform’s operation, unless expressly allowed by Arduino or by applicable license agreements;

> The Site is part of the platform developed and managed by Arduino, which allows users to take part in the discussions on the Arduino forum, the Arduino blog, the Arduino User Group, the Arduino Discord channel, and the Arduino Project Hub, and to access the Arduino main website, subsites, Arduino Cloud, Arduino Courses, Arduino Certifications, Arduino Docs, the Arduino EDU kit sites to release works within the Contributor License Agreement program, and to further develop the Arduino open source ecosystem (collectively, the “Platform”).
by casey2 | 2025-11-22 04:48:01+00:00
The evidence shows that the gifted program is just racist. It's not surprising that the descendants of Europeans do better on European cultural artifacts like math and science, canonical western literature. "Gifted" is an apt name. They are students that have been gifted cultural knowledge before others so they can pretend to be special.

I'd argue that most "gifted" students are inherently dumber since they uncritically believe and internalize whatever BS their parents feed them. It's understandable that parents have desire to how power over their children, but at some point the state needs to step in and recognize child abuse for what it is.
by MangoToupe | 2025-11-22 04:49:25+00:00
I mean the goats I have today I only have because we bred them to be useful to us, and that being neurotic about the food we eat rarely helps any living thing.

Of course I treat my goats well, and I love them. But this doesn't factor much into the ethics of why we eat them in the first place. If I didn't eat them they wouldn't exist. The entire problem is close to nonsensical.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-22 04:49:54+00:00
Employers can fire you in the US for general strikes. You're only protected if you're striking for grievances against the company, not for solidarity actions. Indeed, unions can be dissolved for it.

Add in how large the US is, it's population size, distribution, how far most people live from Washington D.C. and a cultural knee-jerk response to anything remotely seen as bullying of digging their heels in or fight back means they're far, far more difficult to do effectively here than in "modern" countries.
by arjie | 2025-11-22 04:49:54+00:00
I imagine the cost is primarily in the actual DRAM chips on the DIMM. So availability of RDIMMs on the market will affect DRAM prices anyway. These days lots of motherboards come with Oculink, etc. and you can get a U.2 PCIe card for rather cheap.

I put together a small server with mostly commodity parts.
by hcknwscommenter | 2025-11-22 04:50:01+00:00
I have overseen over 20 phase III clinical trials. Many of those clinical trials have failed to show statistical efficacy. In every single one of those trials there are patients who see dramatic and undeniable benefits. In the oncology field, we continue to treat such patients even when the statistics say, no benefit. And, sometimes those patients just stay better. My point is, when the trial shows "no better than placebo", it doesn't mean the treatment doesn't work. It might be that. But more likely it means we don't know how to define the population of folks for whom the treatment does work. Maybe it's a particular genetic background, maybe it's age, gender, serum CPR or Tau level. Maybe it's something else. This stuff is complicated and interesting. And we are still figuring it out.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 04:50:06+00:00
Lacking any expensive or specialty equipment the procedure was intense.

Fully boot up an XBox. Very carefully remove the IDE cable from the internal Hard Drive.

Start booting a PC. Press the "Pause" key on the keyboard right before BIOS starts it's POST. Very carefully connect the IDE cable from the PC to the XBox Hard Drive. Press any key to resume boot.

Now you can boot the XBMC installer and copy it over to the XBox Hard Drive. Shut everything down. Appropriately connect the Hard Drive. Power back up. You now have a modded XBox.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-22 04:50:27+00:00
I think it’s mostly phones, social media etc… My 20 year younger sister grew up in the same house I did with almost zero changes within walking distance.

Her and her friends never played outside. Me and my friends and my brother (7 years younger than me) and my other sister’s (4 years younger younger) friends lived outside in the summer.
by andriamanitra | 2025-11-22 04:50:31+00:00
The article misses the most important factor: the customers have no way of knowing they would be getting a better product or extra 25 millimeters of leg room if they paid 3% more. The higher prices could just as well be for completely unrelated reasons (greed, inefficiency, ...). No one is going around measuring and documenting every single difference between products and services, and, even if someone did, almost no one has time to do such thorough research for every purchase. It is increasingly difficult to find objective information about any commercial product. Any attempt at providing impartial information gets drowned in an ocean of marketing content, sponsored reviews, astroturfing, and brand tribalism.

Consequence of the above is that marketing and anecdotal evidence are much more influential factors in purchase decisions than quality of the product. Using marketing campaigns to brainwash people is significantly easier (and cheaper) than improving a product enough for them to notice – especially if the product already has a zombie customer base that chooses a familiar brand out of habit rather than merit. We have built a world where money is valued over value, and making better products is often a terrible business strategy.
by khazhoux | 2025-11-22 04:50:33+00:00
How is he so confused? The app says, right in the subheading, that it’s a tracker for sex. Yeah, Apple doesn’t want to distribute an app for 13-year-olds to track if they fucked that week.

And the whole “but guns are ok??” thing is so tired. Yeah, we get it, Americans are prudes and in Europe nudity is no big deal and American cheese isn’t even cheese. We get it.
by hyperhello | 2025-11-22 04:50:35+00:00
Frankly, I'm not sure what scientists would find because you're the first one to think of analyzing the outcome from the mRNA vaccines. The scientists are all too busy doing science to be capable of the kind of leaps of lateral logic it would take to conceive of a plan like that. I'd follow up myself, but I just looked at some water through a microscope and I need to tell everyone I found bugs in it.
by hooskerdu | 2025-11-22 04:50:59+00:00
I don’t disagree with your final statement, but they’re also not wrong. Growing up it was well-known that homeschool kids were strange, intelligent in some ways, and completely inept in most ways that mattered. People who desire to completely shield their children are just as detrimental to their children’s development as those who over-expose. However, in my purely anecdotal experience, the ones who were over-exposed were better off than the former. And the middle road led to better outcomes overall.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-22 04:51:16+00:00
> black drip coffee drinks that have basically no material or labor cost

Raw coffee prices have been rising for a while now[0], and I assume even in the US people are more attuned to decent coffee.

And I kinda hope producing countries get enough power to get better deals (thus increasing coffee prices further...) as they're usually getting shafted pretty hard.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coffee
by Aurornis | 2025-11-22 04:53:59+00:00
Unfortunately, yes. Dropping a magnet onto a car and pulling it off, especially if not recently cleaned, will damage the paint to some degree. Maybe not enough for an average person to notice, but you really shouldn’t do this to other people’s cars.

Some people will get snide about anyone who cares about their car’s paint, but as someone who once bought a car I had to save a long time for and spent a lot of time with car care products I would be very sad if I saw you drop a magnet on to it and then pull it off without a second thought. Please don’t.
by joshtbradley | 2025-11-22 04:54:33+00:00
I agree with what you said; "mental health care and treatment work better alongside regulated supply."

But open-air drug markets are not regulated supply. They are a scourge. America's problem with fentanyl is unique in it's scale and it is not something that can be solved with permissive policy. It must be systematically dismantled.

I do think decriminalizing all drugs for use in clinical settings would be a healthy step forward. I don't think allowing illicit markets for the most dangerous substances helps anyone except criminals.