MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varispeed | 2025-11-16 14:24:58+00:00
> removal of anti-competitive laws/rules lobbied for by incumbents.

If even if there are such ideas in new government, they quickly disappear over wine and steak dinners with the lobbyists.

Unfortunately this is not seen as bypass of democratic process. Nobody voted for having less rights and any bargaining power stripped and yet here we are.

That's where security services should come in (in many countries protection of democracy is their main statutory duty) - but they are not doing their job tax payers pay them to do.
by gausswho | 2025-11-16 14:26:27+00:00
> But there really aren’t that many “get your mates together” games any more.

It's especially fascinating against the lens of this return-to-office phase we're living through. I'm a big fan of WFH but hear me out: online gaming (physically by yourself) is somewhat analogous to work-from-home. It empowers you to optimize your entertainment, challenge, competition into narrower and narrower facets of the experience. And tribe.

But jibba jabba around the water cooler can be enjoyable with the right people, just like it can be on the couch with friends and fam with Mario Kart, NHL '97, or Jackbox. Or board games.

There's room in this zeitgeist for a breakout multiplayer hit that just doesn't feel good unless you're in person.
by mothballed | 2025-11-16 14:26:56+00:00
Yesterday a popular post here advocated that your kids finding porn means you are guilty of 'neglect.' That's a serious criminal charge and accusation. People will take drastic steps to avoid prison.

Natural result of that is catch-22, parent can't actually stop teenage kids from such activity except through what amounts to torture. As always either way, the parent is damned.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-16 14:27:54+00:00
The similarities go quite a bit deeper than that.

Both rely on a certain metabolic process to be able to move. Both function in a narrow temperature range, and fail outside it. Both have a homeostatic process that attempts to keep them in that temperature range. Both rely on chemical energy, oxidizing stored hydrocarbons to extract power from them, and both take in O2-rich air, and emit air enriched in CO2 and water vapor.

So, yes, the cars aren't humans. But they sure implement quite a few of the same things as humans do - despite being made out of very different parts.

LLMs of today? They implement abstract thinking the same way cars implement aerobic metabolism. A nonhuman implementation, but one that does a great many of the same things.
by imglorp | 2025-11-16 14:28:17+00:00
This definitely resonates, for all old cars designed to be maintained with simple tools and common parts.

That said, I have (lease) an Ionic 5 and it's the best freaking car I've ever driven by a mile. Some of the features on these things should have been on ICE cars a decade ago -- they're not unique to EVs -- but car companies thrive on product stagnation until someone raises the bar and they're forced to "me too".
by acomjean | 2025-11-16 14:28:33+00:00
Yeah, learn with the computer! When I was growing we had an intellivision game console. My parents bought us the "keyboard component" that turned it into a computer. What a terrible computer it was. Turned out it was released because the company was being fined for advertising a computer add on and not delivering. You wanted to write games but no, worse than the timex Sinclair 1000...

A lot of home computing used tvs back then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Computer_System
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-16 14:28:41+00:00
It's either invasive anti-cheat on a vendor controlled platform or it's a totally locked down vendor controlled platform, there are no other options in the client side anti cheat space.

Given that valve refuses to use KLA for their own competitive multiplayer games, and has gone out of their way to not make their hardware locked down, I really dont think they will go down the path of making a locked down platform or facilitating intrusive anti cheat.
by guerrilla | 2025-11-16 14:29:30+00:00
What I wanted to do is make a "DOS" that's actually just a bootloader for a UNIX-like OS, but it's actually structured and works like DOS, just for launching kernels and minimal file management.

I think the real hard thing would be writing a full BIOS for an 8086 from scratch, capable of running a real DOS. I also wanted to do that, but...
by Aeolun | 2025-11-16 14:29:58+00:00
I don’t care about the Steam tax. Steam is one of the few storefronts that actually show me what I want. That give me the ability to download any game I downloaded 20 years ago when I first installed it. They went through a few dozen iterations of nonsense social stuff, but through that all the core functionality just kept working.

I hate the iOS store because it’s full of ad-riddled slop. Steam isn’t remotely close to that. If I find a game on there, even if it’s bad, someone clearly spent time and love making it.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-16 14:30:33+00:00
I am not even close to the richest of the richest but I have done this before when I needed to use the cash but didn't want to trigger a capital gain from actually selling the stock.

It is a slightly more complex trade using both available margin and a stock option which effectively results in the "interest" showing up as a capital loss, and helped keep the risk minimal of actually being forced to sell. When the transaction was all done, then I sold enough of the stock to have a capital gain to offset the capital loss.

The purpose? Moving very quickly to buy a property which required 10% of the purchase price in cash on a specific day (buying property at auction). The auction house offered to "wait to deposit the cheque" until a Tuesday for an auction on a Saturday... which coincidentally is how many days it takes a cash-out transaction from a brokerage account to clear, after making the trades at market-open on a Monday morning. We showed the auction house the brokerage account and the trades (which they were not unfamiliar with) and they were quite agreeable to sit on the cheque until the funds cleared.

All entirely legal, and all why savvy 4's, most 5's, and every single 6 are able to use their wealth to acquire property whereas the 3's and below are perpetually mired in poverty, despite working very, very hard.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-16 14:31:25+00:00
Mainstream brokerages will do this starting at $2,000. You just apply for margin and take out the cash. Of course if the value of your stocks drops below $2,000, they will start selling stocks out from underneath you and triggering capital gains.

The real use of margin is that it enables the holder of the stocks to use them with the broker to take on cash obligations in the form of other stock options, or to take on obligations which require holding certain shares which create cash, such as a short call option.
by 20k | 2025-11-16 14:31:39+00:00
>Instead of doing those things, you just put up with it. Or, worse, you fight through your anxiety using an earlier solution that required willpower, and the exertion of willpower makes you feel like you’re trying. But the feeling of effort doesn’t mean that you’re Actually Trying.

The peak level of this is when you deliberately don't put in the effort to change aspects of how you approach a problem, because making the problem easier to solve would make it feel like you're cheating at solving the problem. And that somehow the effort of solving something in the fundamentally wrong/high effort way makes you more valuable as a person than the people who find an approach that isn't beating your head against a wall

Even though, weirdly, simultaneously you hold the cognitive dissonance of the fact that you don't actually judge people who do attempt to solve their problems more healthily, and actively give the advice of doing that to friends
by lordnacho | 2025-11-16 14:32:01+00:00
Sounds like you want to react to the market when you see a certain price in the incoming stream.

The trigger doesn't happen often, you when it does, the naive implementation incurs a misprediction penalty.

I wonder if the solution here might be to avoid the branch altogether?

Write some boolean logic monster that isn't an if condition. It unconditionally creates the reaction (new/cancel order), but if the trigger was not present, the payload is invalid and downstream processing will not let it out of your system onto the network.
by CoffeeTails | 2025-11-16 14:32:14+00:00
This is something I've noticed as well. I've talked about this with my psychiatrist and she calls this brave, reassured version of ourself the "me-mentor" (jag-mentor in Swedish). Similar to our inner child, this is a core part of our who we are.

The idea, if I understood correctly, is to build this me-mentor more and let it help us feel more safe. Let it support our insecure parts/personas.

(I hope my English isn't too bad)
by shiomiru | 2025-11-16 14:32:17+00:00
> Seccomp was never actually usable

It's barely usable by itself but I don't think it's an inherent problem of seccomp-bpf, rather the lack of libc support. Surely the task of "determine which syscalls are used for feature X" belongs in the software that decides which syscalls to use for feature X.

In fact, Cosmopolitan libc implements pledge on Linux on top of seccomp-bpf: https://justine.lol/pledge/
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-16 14:32:56+00:00
> What if there's no room in the workspaces that need Gimp? Or what if you only want Gimp occasionally, so you don't want it to fight for layout with your important windows in each workspace.

If I can't be bothered to use another workspace for Gimp, then I'll open it as a stacked window in StumpWM. So no fighting over space.

If you seriously end up with 5+ GIMP instances and 5+ projects, then I have to say: there is no way you work on that many projects at once. If you do, then that sounds more like a workflow problem.

I usually only have one, maybe 2 projects open, and a browser or two somewhere, maybe a terminal if I need a non-Emacs terminal. If you got 3-4-5-6 projects going at the same time that really is a project management problem I'd wager.

Might also be that I just have tabs or "workspaces" in my Emacs.

But I just can't see the advantage of the scrolling to just plain workspaces. The scrolling to me just adds one more indirection of having to remember where something is. It adds a new level to the navigation tree.

We can probably end that then, because you saw MY point. Whatever that means :D

Tried Niri before, but it seemed more to adhere to fancy animations than actual improvements.
by franga2000 | 2025-11-16 14:32:58+00:00
We need a rule that people who haven't had to deal with the police and courts need to shut up about how police and courts work.

Even if nobody involved commits a crime and just does their job resonably well, getting your apartment raided, all your neighbours seeing that, your coworkers hearing about it, having to pay for a lawyer, losing all your electronic devices for months if not years and having to buy new ones, not being ablo to make proper plans because you never know when they might throw another court date at you...

But more often than not, they don't do their job well. They're sloppy, indifferent, they don't really understand computers or technology... You might get convicted just because a judge doesn't understand what downloading actually means.

And then you also get the ass-covering. They spent all this time and effort, but now it looks like you're innocent. Their bosses would be pissed, maybe you could even sue them. So they do their best to make even the smallest and dumbest charges stick. They look for other potentian crimes. They threaten you until you take a plea deal. They dissect and twist everything you said. Just so they don't have to admit they made a

"Innocent until proven guilty" might be true in the most technical sense. But being innocent doesn't help when your entire life is thrown upside down, everyone you know thinks you're a criminal, you're spending thousands on legal costs...
by cout | 2025-11-16 14:33:02+00:00
Risk was minimized with the use of segmented memory. A bad pointer would generally only clobber something in the same (data) segment of memory. But there were no segfaults; a program crash means a reboot, which is why so many people optimized config.sys abs autoexec.bat for fast boot.

Come to think of it, maybe things aren't so different today -- if something goes wrong in your container/vm, many teams just wipe it and start from a clean snapshot
by talkingtab | 2025-11-16 14:33:36+00:00
Just take apple to small claims court. If everyone who is scammed by Apple takes them to small claims they will have an incentive to change. Without this they have -0.00000000000 incentive to do anything. Even a class action suit won't help. The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in. Since there is lockin on all Apple products it is not accidental. In my humble opinion only. You, dear reader, work out your own thoughts.
by scratcheee | 2025-11-16 14:34:03+00:00
The obvious use-case for unsafe is to implement alternative memory regimes that don’t exist in rust already, so you can write safe abstractions over them.

Rust doesn’t have the kind of high performance garbage collection you’d want for this, so starting with unsafe makes perfect sense to me. Hopefully they keep the unsafe layer small to minimise mistakes, but it seems reasonable to me.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-11-16 14:34:18+00:00
I’ve been using emacs for very many years, and have a configuration that has evolved over a decade.

I was able to pick up VSCode in an hour. It’s not complicated. I’m using it with the Haskell extension and it’s great.

Honestly, I’m tired of Emacs’ performance, bugs, complexity, and poor UI that requires an enormous amount of hacking to make a usable IDE.

VSCode is a breath of fresh air. The only things I’m not using it for are languages that don’t have extensions yet — Cryptol and SAW.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-16 14:34:35+00:00
Difficult to accurately give expression to "the absence of this particular illusion".

In the asteroid metaphor: It means that if you can very clearly see the asteroid coming towards you, instead of going "no, the asteroid is going to do the right thing", you make preparations knowing that there is no do-er inside the asteroid.

And after getting hit by it, you do not go "if only the asteroid had had more willpower it would not have hit us. The next time for sure I'll convince it!"

So by agency, in this context, I mean the ability to change the way reality is into what one thinks it ought to be. (But reality is only ever one way, disregarding quantum mechanical magic for a minute)
by quantum_state | 2025-11-16 14:34:52+00:00
I had similar question ... based on a hint @DoctorOetker gave in his comments, e.g., system biology, etc., searched the web and found quite a few good starting references with https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~brunos/Lecture1.pdf, https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bingalls/MMSB/Notes.pdf, https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d9e017e0-d794-4cbb-b7... being some of them.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-16 14:34:52+00:00
I declare before you that I have been “contacted” and have shared a number of intriguing discussions with our otherworldly coinhabitors of this Earth.

I am not their emissary, for I have already sworn my life to stand on behalf of the Ascendency of Man, and have discussed Man’s peculiar claims to the Earth with our benevolent and fundamentally non-envolvement passivist counterparts.

As far as morality and right to be is concerned, Americans are in breach of Law before truth, morality, and right of domain.

> There was a ‘secret programme’ hidden within the US Department of Defense

This beautifully provoking mood is well deserved and must be multiplied by the hundreds and then the thousands of shadow programs for every one you could imagine. A culture of secret programs formed innumerable and immeasurable by conventional men’s minds.

> From offices on the fifth floor of the Pentagon

I wonder how this office fared on 9/11.

> reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology and even recovered the bodies of aliens aboard downed spacecraft

Yes, only “reverse engineered” isn’t the right word for it. They could have learned as much studying cuttlefish and exotic mushrooms in isolation for all it did them. Their technology is bio and is controlled through consciousness.

The recovered bodies led to an American treachery demanding an account in lives. Even though so long ago, this policy remains influential to this day.

> some of which have still not been explained

I will explain that Bannon and his spook army is doctoring footage to heighten fear, a psyop upon the American people and the United States government in a design to privatize and hyper fund their private governance enterprises.

> And it’s still happening. In 2025,

Yes, and now everyone is on the koolaid. The conspiracy against ourselves has taken a new turn.

> So, why the collective shrug?

I like to tell people, the great big secret isn’t the aliens. The great big secret is American Thought Control, and thought controlled Americans are waging a secret war upon the free world through Power. A Power you will refuse to believe even exists, to control the voices in our minds through entangled consciousness.

There is a secret war among us, and Americans are the enemy of truth, law, and free humanity.
by sn | 2025-11-16 14:34:54+00:00
With clothes, make it cheap so if you make the wrong decision it's not a big deal.

Also recognize you're engaging in the sunk cost fallacy by keeping clothes you don't actually want, and you're making the world better by allowing it to go to an owner who would better appreciate it.

Some more concrete ideas:

1. thrift stores

2. clothes rentals

3. clothing swaps

4. Buy the cheap version of what you think you might like (if it exists) first before buying the expensive version

5. Don't make your entire wardrobe trendy clothes. Make most of it relatively classic / basic and limit "trendy" to a subset of items.
by y-curious | 2025-11-16 14:36:52+00:00
People in the ADHD community are outspoken about a tangential concept: cleaning. Cleaning your friends place is a fun, novel, non-emotional activity. Cleaning your own space is a mental slog, boring and often painful due to having to rid yourself of mementos.

In that case, my theory is that you get to shed your learned helplessness about how things look. I suspect it’s similar with giving advice.
by hastamelo | 2025-11-16 14:36:58+00:00
when music became easier to make in the 90s and 00s due to computers, and you no longer needed studio access, everybody in their bedroom started flooding the market with songs. yet music remains valuable.

today instagram is flooded with ai videos, many extremely obvious (cats doing things), yet these videos are highly popular, some have 400!!! mil views, millions of likes

author is confused, thinks music means just beethoven or Pink Floyd or whatever he considers "good music"

> AI will never fully displace creatives, because the moment AI can mass-produce any kind of creative work at scale, that work will stop being worth producing in the first place.

literally confusing art with elitism and gate-keeping. might as well require "artist degree from an accredited institution"
Show HN: A tool to explore new music by detailed genres (powered by Every Noise)
by saint-james-fr | 2025-11-16 14:37:52+00:00
I built this over the past two years because I felt like most music platforms kept me inside a tiny algorithmic bubble. Spotify would recommend the same ~20 genres, even though thousands exist.

This Is New Music lets you explore weekly new releases by very detailed genres (based on Glenn McDonald’s Every Noise At Once data). It’s designed for people who like discovering niche subgenres or emerging artists and be informed of new releases each week. It's free of course.

Features: - Browse weekly releases by genre back to 2022 - Listen to short previews instantly - Save favorites (free account) - Open tracks directly on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube, etc. - “Random genre” for serendipity - Simple interface focused on fast music discovery

This started as a personal project because I wanted a better way to find new sounds outside algorithmic recommendations. I’ve ended up discovering a ton of great unknown artists through it, so I figured others might find it useful.

Would love feedback, especially on UX, speed, missing genres, or ways to make exploration more intuitive.

Link: https://thisisnewmusic.com/
by xivzgrev | 2025-11-16 14:39:05+00:00
she's a little hard on herself. She claimed the ideas her husband came up with were not particularly inventive and the same she'd come up with had she been helping a friend

Yet, when she told her friends, they did NOT suggest such actions. They too felt like there was nothing that could be done.

Rather I'd posit that the actions the husband did seemed obvious to the author in hindsight, and that not everyone would easily identify those kinds of actions. We are used to hearing narratives that people in other countries are relatively untouchable (eg scams), so there's already a kind of learned helplessness there.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-16 14:39:14+00:00
When trying to examine someone else's problems, you can see the problem itself. But what you aren't seeing is a pile of all the little habits, beliefs, behaviors, impulses and assorted mind defects that prevented them from solving it in the first place.

It takes intimate familiarity to know all of those things about someone.

If you were in their shoes, the problem might genuinely be trivial, for you. Because you're not that person, and that problem isn't your own failure mode - you would instead fail at a different "trivial" problem and in an entirely different way.

Or maybe you are flawed in the same way, but don't know it yet. You never quite know. Humans aren't any good at that whole "self-awareness" thing.
by maccard | 2025-11-16 14:39:23+00:00
Painting is such a good example, and is one of the closest analogies to programming. You can do it fast and it’ll be done but you probably won’t like it. Or you can prep for it and it’ll take 10x longer, you won’t see anything for 90% of the time and it’ll be done in the blink of an eye.

At work I got asked for a feature a while back. We tee shirt size estimates and I said it was an XL. I came back a week later at our next planning sync and said I was going to work on it that day and we’d have it tomorrow. PM was very confused and worried about committing to an XL task in 24 hours - but I’d spent probably 3 days of the last week planning, doing requirements, writing up a spec sheet, weighing up against alternatives etc, and came up with the “simple solution” that we could smash out in a few hours. All of that time was “doing the thing”.

(Well, most of it. Some of it was just naval gazing and wondering if it really could be that simple…)
by musebox35 | 2025-11-16 14:39:44+00:00
As a 15+ years emacs user the only item on my wishlist is client-server remote editing mode similar to that of vs code. Then I can go back to using emacs on cloud VMs. Does anyone know a solution to this that works as good as VS Code even when your latency is high? Hopefully, I will be pissed off with all the weird configuration flags of VS Code enough to write one myself ;-) To be fair its python integration is quite good at least for the usual stuff.