MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-11-06 08:07:15+00:00
There's a near century long tradition in Finland of the state gifting cash or goods to the mothers of the newly born.

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates. It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life. The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers. It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress. With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby's first bed. Many children, from all social backgrounds, have their first naps within the safety of the box's four cardboard walls.

~ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415

* https://www.nordicpolicycentre.org.au/baby_boxes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

Of course it takes more than just one off tossing of money or gifts to make a real sustained impact as Finland has done:

A critical analysis of the Finnish Baby Box’s journey into the liberal welfare state: Implications for progressive public policymaking

~ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01907...
by scandox | 2025-11-06 08:08:19+00:00
> This is how world class athletes, musicians, artists, writers, and of course programmers take what is in their mind and translate it into reality.

> It is the ultimate sharpening of the axe before chopping the tree[1]

But if part of our axe sharpening is listening to music, reading email, catching up with your feeds and so on then perhaps we need to take a step back and ask if we're just invading our working thought-space with boondoggles.

[1] "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - apparently Abraham Lincoln.
by cmcaleer | 2025-11-06 08:08:46+00:00
OP has given all that they need, English is probably not their first language, and the first response was to ask for even more unpaid time and labour (presumably in English) in a format that is likely much more difficult for them to summarise coherent thoughts succinctly in, while addressing zero of their issues. They’re asking for MORE effort of the volunteer to fix their bot’s fuckup.

I’m honestly struggling to think of a more insulting way to respond to this. At least “Fuck off” isn’t pretending to care, it’s fewer words to read and isn’t asking for an indeterminate amount of time from you.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-06 08:09:26+00:00
Here, I don't know all the details, just remember having seen some talks about this in the past.

It builds on top of this effort, https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-llvm-toolchain-f606f995bf

"From Interpreting C Extensions to Compiling Them"

https://eregon.me/blog/assets/research/from-interpreting-c-e...
by Frieren | 2025-11-06 08:09:51+00:00
> Why cash cut deaths? For many living across rural sub-Saharan Africa, getting to a health facility, and paying for care there, can be difficult, especially when pregnant. Extra cash seems to make those decisions easier, as long as health care facilities weren't too far away.

Contrary to some extremist people believe, when people receives cash they will use it to improve their family well being.

To cut basic income on the poorest of society just creates more poverty, suffering and death.

AI does not need another trillion dollars, but the poor will make this world a better place if they get that money to raise their children.
by fuoqi | 2025-11-06 08:09:52+00:00
I think the whole sentence is a bad take. The described behavior can be perfectly rational (and thus commonly considered not "stupid") in the case when cost function of the acting person has a negative weight assigned to the counterpart group/person. In other words, when someone considers the other an "enemy", it makes sense to hurt the other even such act results in some direct losses.

Now, we can argue that playing negative-sum games is "stupid". And in most contexts of the modern human society such heuristic would be correct, but I would be really careful with a sweeping generalization, otherwise instead of a proper understanding of the underlying behavioral motivations you are likely to devolve into primitive explanations of someone being "stupid" or even "evil".
by impossiblefork | 2025-11-06 08:09:58+00:00
He wouldn't even be charged for lying under oath if he lied and it became apparent, because there'd be not considering the much more serious espionage charges. They'd only prosecute the espionage part.

Participating in a plot to supply french state information to the US is espionage. France also apparently has a broad definition of espionage, relative to some other EU countries.

States have a tendency of coming down rather harshly on this kind of thing, so this idea about negligence is I think unlikely. If you know about it the charges will be espionage charges. If it happened it would be the biggest thing ever. They'd arrest most Microsoft employees in relevant teams as well the leadership, probably many others too. Just interrogation would probably take half a year due to lack of interrogators.
by jabl | 2025-11-06 08:10:01+00:00
Even more generally, this applies to commodity markets. Price of potatoes is x EUR/kg, set by supply and demand. If some farmer can produce potatoes for 0.1x EUR/kg, they get to make a good profit.

Now electricity wholesale markets are an artificial construct, but it has been designed to mimic other commodity markets in that the producer on the margin sets the price.
by jesterson | 2025-11-06 08:10:28+00:00
Ok, how the perfect reaction would be if you were at charge?

I understand people have sympathy inclination to victims, so everyone would assume the victim is good and other side is bad. I have worked long enough with japanese people knowing they can throw unpredictable tantrums.

As a manager, what would be your best course of action to deal with similar situation?
by terminalshort | 2025-11-06 08:11:40+00:00
No they don't. The common man voted for Trump in 2016 when all the billionaires and big money were behind HRC. The "billionaire owned" media has had a terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome for the last 10 years. If anybody listened to their hysterics anymore Trump would have lost in a landslide. We aren't secretly run by billionaires. That's a brain dead conspiracy theory.
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-06 08:11:59+00:00
failure scales exponentially with servers due to design limitations

even using tmux resurrect on my personal machine I've had it fail to resurrect anything

again - lack of documentation and loosy tmux resurrect state is not what I want to go thru when working in unfamilar environments

why are you getting downvoted

docker compose also has issues but at least it is defined, again if you are managing 10+ machines docker becomes a challenge to maintain especially when you have 4 to 5 clusters, when you are familiar with kubernetes there's virtually no difference between docker tmux or raw k8s, although I heavily recommend k3s due to its ability to maintain itself.
by Frieren | 2025-11-06 08:12:41+00:00
The USA needs a national ID, it will help to avoid fraud, to get socialized health care, etc.

To collect data just for police enforcement is horrifying and it will increase the control that goverment has in private affairs without proving anything of value to society.

The USA claims freedom to avoid taking care of their own, but it claims security to spy and control its own citizens.
by derekbreden | 2025-11-06 08:13:04+00:00
In the few months I’ve had the Samsung All-in-One my experience has been at least a 50% increase in time spent drying compared to an LG stack I had previously. Also, when complete, if you do get to it within 5 to 10 minutes of finishing, it feels damp, but that clears on its own after 15 to 30 minutes or so if it sitting in the dryer with the door automatically opened.

Very pleased with the experience personally. I am very happy to trade not having to transfer the laundry in the middle with it simply being done when I get back to it a few hours later. YMMV.
by blitzar | 2025-11-06 08:13:37+00:00
> tacit admission that Google is just better at this kind of thing

Yet at the same time google have the worst offering of all the major players (all starting up out of thin air) in this space.

It doesnt really matter anyway, the LLM is a commodity piece of tech, the interface is what matters and apple should focus on making that rather than worry about scraping the entire internet for training data and spending a trillion on GPUs
by surfingdino | 2025-11-06 08:14:45+00:00
I used to work with manager who told us to "have balls, deploy straight to prod" We spend a month cleaning this up. The other time when another manager demanded I "run this script" from the iphone he shoved in my face a whole warehouse went down in Ireland a month before Christmas and the Police were involved. There is an irrational push to deploy AI everywhere for no reason whatsoever. It, well the LLM part of it, is bad tech and all those "AI success stories" are pure hot air.
by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-11-06 08:14:51+00:00
“ simply because its business model for profit is broken.”

Remember the days when Google was looking for a business model? I do. It’s probably going to be ads. But you’ll still gets ads for toilet seats after you searched for a place to buy that once in a decade toilet seat. They’ll hit the bottom of the barrel and maybe dethrone google. I don’t know.

I use llms pretty much as a search engine and refreshing some programming tips. It’s over-confident for code review, doesn’t really handle arithmetic and sometimes fun as a co-writer for embedded stuff.
by yuvalkarmi | 2025-11-06 08:15:41+00:00
For anyone interested the tl;dr, here it is: smart people aren’t necessarily happier because intelligence mostly helps with well-defined problems (logic, puzzles, work tasks).

Happiness depends on poorly-defined problems (relationships, meaning, values, identity).

Being good at solving structured problems doesn’t equal being good at navigating the messy, ambiguous ones that actually determine well-being.

Oh well
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-06 08:15:43+00:00
The thing about English language is that, just like Japanese, it's highly contextual and has different constructs for expressing different level of respect. The problem is, English speakers are completely unaware of this, so either they get it right based on intuition, or they fuck up. In this case, the guy used "I'm your superior and you'll do what I say" mode, while the appropriate mode would've been "oh shit I'm sorry how do I fix this".
by MarioMan | 2025-11-06 08:16:02+00:00
A few things that stood out to me:

- One of the key factors in powder over pods in his prior videos was cost. Cheap powder runs about 6.6¢/oz. The brand he’s promoting is $1.11/oz, nearly 17x more expensive than traditional powder. When comparing per-load costs, Cascade pods are about 39.5¢ per load and the promoted powder is 58.5¢ per load, or 48% more costly than pods. The price to performance is terrible and could only be justified if you also consider external factors like their sustainability practices and the donation of all profits to coral reef restoration. Not discussing price seems like a huge gap to me.

- I was disappointed that he only personally compared and tested washing performance against a pod and the promoted powder, rather than also evaluating a traditional powder. Could he have replicated and compared the subpar performance reported by others?

- I would have assumed that, if the pre-rinse is supposed to get hot, the heater would run until it reaches the temperature target. Is it normal for a unit to simply not care? Last I had done reading on this, whether to attach to the hot or cold side is actually a contentious issue, mostly around the gas vs. induction-based heating costs in water heaters, in addition to temperature losses in the pipes. If the pre-wash expects hot water, then that’s an extra point for the hot side backers. I guess one should always check their manual to determine best-practice on the purge and line placement.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-06 08:16:06+00:00
You aren't getting it. Basically every country on earth hates the cartels and wants them dead. They aren't going to complain when somebody is making that happen, and they don't much care how it's done as long as it isn't happening on their soil. And they care even less that the people doing it aren't saints themselves because nobody is. Nobody is going to stick their neck out for a cartel.
by Frieren | 2025-11-06 08:16:17+00:00
> The move comes as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration screeners are among the essential government employees who are required to work during the shutdown.

Slavery never went away, it just shifted.

But at least the Republican goverment is doing something positive to curve climate change. If they shut down enough of the economy and people cannot afford gas anymore that will produce less CO2. Win?
Show HN: TestiWall – Collect video and text testimonials in minutes
by LeonelRuiz | 2025-11-06 08:17:03+00:00
Hey guys I’m Leo, an indie hacker. I built TestiWall in about 25 days to make collecting authentic customer testimonials dead simple.

Why I built it

I got tired of the messy workflow to get testimonials, recording over Zoom, editing videos, uploading files, embedding forms, etc. I wanted something fast and clean that I could actually use for my own SaaS projects and of course, affordable. So I made TestiWall, a small web app where you can collect video + text testimonials in just minutes.

What it does

Share a single link or embed a widget to collect testimonials.

Works with any website builder (Webflow, Wix, WordPress, Framer...).

No account required for your customers, they just record or write.

Everything is ready to display instantly.

What I’d love feedback on

Landing page clarity and first impression.

Whether the tool feels genuinely useful or too niche.

Ideas for better positioning (it’s getting visits but few signups).

Try it here → https://trytestiwall.com

Happy to answer any questions about the tech, stack, or build process, I made it solo and learned a lot along the way. Thanks for checking it out — Leo
by atoav | 2025-11-06 08:17:08+00:00
Well. Too late. Now that they go you want to talk? If I was the one who finally had enough why the fuck would I want to talk to something I turned my back to?

There were very clear statements of what will happen and why. First acknowledge those, express you are sorry for what happened and hint some mea culpa and how you plan to solve it.

Only then if you feel the need to talk realize that you are the one begging them, not the other way around.
by copywriterfilip | 2025-11-06 08:19:52+00:00
Location: Europe, CET timezone (async ideal) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, depends Technologies: Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo, Outscraper, AI etc Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_bWa7JMQrrROWnY9MZT1FI92dB87py5/view?usp=sharing Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/email-marketer/ Portfolio: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0sZqni_WGEeRS9A2J25Pd_GAC8f7Oaz3JdcSD9OSE4/edit?usp=drive_link Email: filip@filipstanojevic dot com

You built something good.

Now you need the right people to notice, consistently.

And of course, you want it to be automated, but not sound robotic.

That’s where I fit in. I work at the intersection of positioning, copy, email, and systems -- turning a good product into attention and a steady pipeline.

GTM engineering + B2B lead gen + copywriting + email + automation.

Open to full-time, part-time or fractional roles with smart teams that need help in this area.

-Filip
by port11 | 2025-11-06 08:22:04+00:00
I'm not really on an anti-China rhetoric, they can be a valuable partner and I think we do have a positive relationship with them. BUT, they don't need to win all public government contracts by undercutting local companies. They'd be equally upset if we did the same.

I do agree that the global market is causing quite some trouble, although that could be avoided by most (all?) countries being nice to each other. Or even excellent to each other!
by detaro | 2025-11-06 08:23:04+00:00
a) don't apologize for the other persons feelings, but for your actions that lead to it

b) don't look like you are trying to take the conversation out of the community space it's happening in and/or hiding details by going to a private call (you can offer a call, but it shouldn't be the expectation)

c) Acknowledge the concrete complaints made. Are you truly "struggling to understand" what someone means when they complain that it didn't happen in a staging environment first?

d) a-c also lead to "don't sound like any cookie-cutter PR response to a complaint ever, people have learned those are not genuine". Especially if you are a project that makes a big deal out of its community interacting with said community.

e) ideally announce some concrete first step, e.g. pausing the bot
by pjmlp | 2025-11-06 08:24:12+00:00
One of the reasons Java got adopted, was that Smalltalk big names like IBM decided to go all in with Java.

It is no accident that Eclipse to this day still has a code navigation perspective based on Smalltalk, it has an incremental compiler similar to Smalltalk experience, and the virtual filesystem used by Eclipse workspaces mimic the behaviour of Smalltalk images.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-06 08:24:23+00:00
There is certainly an unhealthy dose of "kids these days" bullshit that inevitably propagates literally every single generation. This is especially disappointing on a forum for "hackers" though. I wouldn't be the person I am today without unrestricted internet access as a teen. My parents wanted me in their ignorant little conservative box not knowing or understanding anything outside of it. Their ignorance exceeded mine, so I was able to circumvent them by the very means many "hacker" news participants would love to see locked down and eliminated. I can't help but think of them as simple and pathetic as my parents were trying to strictly control what I could learn. They are the very definition of an anti-hacker culturally.
by nine_k | 2025-11-06 08:24:26+00:00
Emacs is great for people who are fine tinkering with their tools, and adjusting them to their needs and tastes. Emacs improves my quality of life quite a bit.

A lot of people hate that, they want a tool that has all relevant to their tasks front and center, all irrelevant invisible or nonexistent, and zero options to tinker with. It should just work, and preferably never change.

A middle ground are the browsers that just work out of the box, but can be heavily customized by extensions. MS Office is another example.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-06 08:24:38+00:00
Most of these were probably one-sided propaganda videos. Ironically these are mostly policies against "fake news" that were pushed by a political faction that now complains about censorship.

People that are mad about the death of their revolution, developed an inferiority complex, looked at propaganda on TikTok and are now disliking Jews. You can argue the position to be more sophisticated, but sometimes it is not and it wouldn't be the first time.

And of course there is ample and valid criticism of policies of Israel but I heavily doubt that these videos were informative. Granted, this is entirely based on some assumptions.
by skydhash | 2025-11-06 08:24:50+00:00
GNOME has its own interpreter, kinda how React Native does it for mobile. But performance all boils down to the layout engine. Most native UI components take shortcuts with text which is the most difficult thing to render. And the widget tree is simpler.

And there’s the whole inspector in web browser, meaning that the layout is not done once and forget. There’s various sub components still present for whatever features. Great in the browser, not great for standalone apps.
by atoav | 2025-11-06 08:24:51+00:00
This is the type of response you shouldn't make. Instead you should do your homework and then come back with the receipts.

E.g. figure out why this happened, express why it shouldn't have happened, why it should happen never again, how it is understandable how they feel, express that you cannot expect them to come back, make them an actual offer that would make them come back (e.g. by giving them a better place at the table or offering compensation), etc.

But "I am sorry you feel" is bordering on gaslighting. That is as if you are sorry your wife feels sad after you beat them. You should feel sorry and ashamed for doing the beating, not for how someone feels as a result of it.

The described things are clearly unacceptable and whether someone feels outrage or not doesn't make them more or less acceptable.
by archagon | 2025-11-06 08:24:51+00:00
"The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows" https://www.icij.org/news/2025/03/the-irs-unit-that-audits-b...

"After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say" https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/after-mass-firings-...
by anthk | 2025-11-06 08:24:57+00:00
The worst choice. Rust doesn't compile under OpenBSD i386. Dillo runs even on PPC and some m68k platforms. If any, maye FLTK + C.

On C++ compilers, clang++ it's much faster than g++ under legacy platforms. Clang uses far less RAM and CPU than GCC while compiling.

I know we have no cproc/cparser or tcc for C++, but at least clang it's usable with 1GB of RAM.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-11-06 08:25:40+00:00
I like eMacs but I feel the whole workflow is wrong. Buffers are a stacked tiled window manager inside your window manager. Your browser is a tabbed window manager, and many other applications are also window managers. I wish any sub buffer of any application was for all intents and purposes a dedicated window, so the WM can take care of the rest. Maybe it’s an adjustment that I could make in my workflow, but a global solution would have been nice. Too late now I guess though.
by autoexec | 2025-11-06 08:27:02+00:00
Actually you can't. If you choose not to set a pin, Signal just chooses one for you and uses that to upload all your data, only you won't be able to access it. There is no way to prevent your data from being sent to the cloud. For more info see here: https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin... and https://community.signalusers.org/t/what-contact-info-does-t...

The fact that Signal users are still unaware of where their data is going and when should tell you all you need to know about how trustworthy the service is. Not being 100% clear about the risks people take when using software which is promoted for use by people whose freedom and/or lives depend on it being secure is a very bad look for Signal.

As for message backups they are at least opt-in (for now anyway) and you can learn more about them here: https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/