MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogogo | 2025-11-25 19:59:41+00:00
Agree massive headache. Our kids go to the boys and girls club after school where they were playing roblox during computer time. Some parents apparently complained and it’s now banned. Not sure of that is local or nation-wide. They were kind of annoyed but they seem to understand why. I am definitely worried about giving them the tools they need to navigate the online jungle when they are older.
by solatic | 2025-11-25 20:00:03+00:00
That's what works for products, not software systems. Gradual growth inevitably results in loads of technical debt that is not paid off as Product adds more feature requests to deliver larger and larger sales contracts. Eventually you want to rewrite to deal with all the technical debt, but nobody has enough confidence to say what is in the codebase that's important to Product and what isn't, so everybody is afraid and frozen.

Scale is separately a Product and Engineering question. You are correct that you cannot scale a Product to delight many users without it first delighting a small group of users. But there are plenty of scaled Engineering systems that were designed from the beginning to reach massive scale. WhatsApp is probably the canonical example of something that was a rather simple Product with very highly scaled Engineering and it's how they were able to grow so much with such a small team.
by teekert | 2025-11-25 20:00:06+00:00
Cool. Once IT removed Minecraft from my company PC, I created a bootable USB key, and used it to install Linux to a USB key in another port, as if it was a normal ssd. Worked smoothly. Played a lot of Minecraft with that machine like that, it became sort of a personal install. Hooray for the flexibility of Linux.
by 01100011 | 2025-11-25 20:00:15+00:00
Software folks treat their output as if it's their baby or their art projects.

Hardware folks just follow best practices and physics.

They're different problem spaces though, and having done both I think HW is much simpler and easier to get right. SW is often similar if you're working on a driver or some low-level piece of code. I tried to stay in systems software throughout my career for this reason. I like doing things 'right' and don't have much need to prove to anyone how clever I am.

I've met many SW folks who insist on thinking of themselves as rock stars. I don't think I've ever met a HW engineer with that attitude.
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-25 20:00:19+00:00
You’re comparing a hysteria over D&D where no one was actually harmed to actual child sexual abuse being allowed on an online platform?

One of the comments above has a video of a guy arrested and admitting to contacting several kids a day for a year.. that doesn’t sound like just some sort of over exaggerated panic.

> So about three per year, out of 112 million users? That's a far better track record than the Boy Scouts of America or the Roman Catholic Church.

It wasn’t immediate obvious when those were occurring only years later.. so most likely we are seeing the tip of the iceberg.
by hackthemack | 2025-11-25 20:00:23+00:00
Anyone in tech should read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

It was more tech companies in collusion than many people realize. 1) Apple and Google, (2) Apple and Adobe, (3) Apple and Pixar, (4) Google and Intel, (5) Google and Intuit, and (6) Lucasfilm and Pixar.

It was settled out of court. One of the plaintiffs was very vocal that the settlement was a travesty of justice. The companies paid less in the settlement than the amount they saved by colluding to keep wages down.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/06/19/judge-questions-settl...
by hainguyen18 | 2025-11-25 20:01:16+00:00
I’ve been developing a native desktop client called Askimo that supports a variety of AI providers—including OpenAI, Ollama, Claude, Gemini, and more.

Built with Kotlin, Askimo is a native desktop client engineered for optimal memory usage. It runs smoothly even during extended chat sessions, retaining only a sensible number of messages in memory while fetching older messages on demand.

Check out this blog post to see Askimo in action with Ollama: https://askimo.chat/blog/askimo-with-ollama-the-best-desktop... And while that post focuses on Ollama, Askimo actually works with all the major AI providers.
by brunosutic | 2025-11-25 20:01:33+00:00
How do you guys handle past due / grace period if there are no webhooks? Like, do you notify the end-user that their card failed and they need to update their card? Or do you let Stripe send emails?

What's your approach to 3DS and related race-conditions for subscriptions? In my experience 3DS is by far the biggest problem for subscription integrations - not the webhooks.
by eloisant | 2025-11-25 20:01:39+00:00
Accept to be unjustly marked as a cheater, or submit to a 30-60 minutes interrogation where the teacher think you're guilty and you need to prove that you're innocent.

It's only an obvious choice if you have total faith that your teacher will be fair, which you might doubt if the situation starts with "You're a cheater unless you prove me otherwise". In the worse case scenario you'll be grilled for one hour and still be marked as a cheater because you didn't convince the teacher.
by the_duke | 2025-11-25 20:01:44+00:00
The accounting, legal and business process requirements are vastly different at different scales, different jurisdictions, different countries, etc.

There's a crazy amount of complexity and customizability in systems like ERPs for multinational corporations (SAP, Oracle).

When you start with a small town, you'll have to throw most of everything away when moving to a different scale.

That's true for software systems in general. If major requirements are bolted on after the fact, instead of designed into the system from the beginning, you usually end up with an unmaintainable mess.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-11-25 20:02:52+00:00
While I think this is good advice in general, I don’t think your statement that “there is no process to create scalable software” holds true.

The uk gov development service reliably implements huge systems over and over again, and those systems go out to tens of millions from day 1. As a rule of thumb, the parts of the uk govt digital suite that suck are the parts the development service haven’t been assigned to yet.

The Swift banking org launches reliable features to hundreds of millions of users.

There’s honestly loads of instances of organisations reliably implementing robust and scalable software without starting with tens of users.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-11-25 20:02:53+00:00
Ok, so then look at teacher salary by country:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/teacher-s...

We're higher paying than a number of countries with higher cost of living that (whether fairly or unfairly) pay lower than us.

I stand by my assertion. I don't think our per pupil spending is the major bottleneck in our performance. I think our educational system needs fundamental reform (just like everything else in this country)
by kace91 | 2025-11-25 20:03:10+00:00
>They claim to have read the code, tested the code, they know that other people want the functionality; is wanting to share working code a "broken brain"?

There is clearly a deviation between the amount of oversight the author thinks they provided and the actual level of oversight. This is clear by the fact that they couldn’t even explain the misattribution. They also mention that this is not their area of expertise.

In general, I think that it is a reasonable assumption that, if you couldn’t have written the code yourself, you’re in no position to claim you can ensure its quality.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-25 20:03:10+00:00
I mean to a degree this is true of any kid who is that determined to go against their parents’ wishes. You can’t prevent a kid from making friends with the bad kids while at school, you can’t prevent a kid from playing the asphyxiation game, you can’t prevent a kid from sniffing solvents (they’re everywhere). At some point you just have to do your best and hope things turn out ok.
by Fuzzwah | 2025-11-25 20:03:31+00:00
I've had a similar approach. My kids computers are setup next to mine and I keep an eye on what they're playing.

I've instigated a purchase wait period of at least 3 days. Very often they themselves realize that the thing that they wanted to spend their pocket money on was a brief desire.

I was super proud when I heard my son say "meh, this is pay to win" as quitting a random roblox game he was trying out.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:04:19+00:00
You forgot c) we're in a culture where people jump ship every 3-5 years. There's no incentive to learn from mistakes that you don't talk about at the next company, nor any care for the long term health of the current company.

>a sophisticated attempt at building a professional organization that can spread simple standards which organizations can clearly measure themselves against.

We have that as a form of IEEE, but it really doesn't come up much if you're not already neck deep in the organization.
by traceroute66 | 2025-11-25 20:04:31+00:00
So, the blog post says:

> Because something fundamental has been lost. > Zero telemetry, privacy‑first access to the internet: a basic human right. > We believe there needs to be a different path: a browser that answers only to its user.

So basically they have just re-invented Firefox Focus and/or Mullvad Browser ?

Disable Daily Ping and Crash Reports in Firefox Focus and you too have a telemetry-free browser on iOS.

Meanwhile on macOS you have Mullvad Browser.
by agreeahmed | 2025-11-25 20:05:00+00:00
It scans that way right now because Stripe is more visibly involved in the onboarding process. Maybe another way to parse it is "Shopify for software", where we combine the movement of money and subsequent state transitions involved in unlocking value. But instead of shipping physical items, it's granting entitlements.

Either way, thank you for the feedback. We're still refining how we explain it.
by autoexec | 2025-11-25 20:05:44+00:00
Minecraft is infested with ads including massive in-game ads and advertisers are all over servers, popular online influencers, etc.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/lacoste-x-minecraft

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Universal_Studios_Event

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-the-hell-do-you-throw-a-m...
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-25 20:06:10+00:00
Things get even fuzzier when you throw in heritable epigenetics too. We have a balance of these factors at least:

- Genetics (DNA seq) - Epigentics (Histone acetylation, base methylation etc) - Brain wiring from experiences - Chemical impact from experiences, e.g. nutrition, toxins, sunlight, muscle dev etc etc.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:06:24+00:00
Guess that's why gamedev is the one region where this is really starting to gain momentum. High salaries were already not a thing, and tend to mean nothing if you're laid off after 3 years of development for the release of a new game.

Though I think Gen Z in general will be making waves in the coming years. They can't even get a foot in the door, so why should they care about "high salaries"?
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-25 20:06:27+00:00
And thats no different than writing Rust with a bunch of unsafes, and a bunch of indirection as far as processing flow goes.

The nice thing about Python is that it allows you to do either. And naturally, Python has gotten much faster, to the point where its as fast as Java for some things, because when you don't use dynamic typing, it actually recognizes this and optimizes compiled code without having to carry that type information around.
by zbowling | 2025-11-25 20:06:31+00:00
I specifically built this as an MCP server. It works like an MCP server that proxies to other MCP servers and converts the tool defintions in to typescript anotations and asks your llm to generate typescript that runs in a restricted VM to make tools calls that way. It's based on the apple white paper on this topic from last year. https://github.com/zbowling/mcpcodeserver
by srean | 2025-11-25 20:06:33+00:00
What you lose in mass could be made up in velocity and radial distance. Depends on the breaking strength of the fibres. I haven't done any calculations myself to see if they are more promising than a steel one. A carbon fibre flywheel exploding might be somewhat less dangerous than steel if the bits flying away can crumple dissipatively.

Regarding where can they be used... they are just batteries with a different form factor. You can put them on the grid to have some inertia and be a place to dump or extract energy spikes. They may be commercially viable if rare earth based batteries become very expensive. At a smaller scale one could use them as a mechanical UPS for a building/datacenter. Maybe even to power golf carts, not sure how well they will steer because of the angular momentum.
by ed-209 | 2025-11-25 20:07:01+00:00
Putting aside my personal concerns and frustrations with the state of parental controls (it’s hell), what does the author propose here?

By his own admission the controls which companies have been pressured to implement thus far are incomplete / can be bypassed.

There is of course only one, complete solution that comes to mind - universal digital ID for all humans on the internet - which is a different kind of nightmare. But we can’t have that conversation because the author won’t stake out their position there.
by parpfish | 2025-11-25 20:07:03+00:00
I don't even know what it would it even look like to "build a city" from scratch in the US. who does the building and puts together the central plan?

does the government build a bunch of public housing and a publicly owned commercial district? i guess they kind of have experience doing this with military bases, but at some point you need to encourage a bunch of private development and ownership, right?

or would the government just incentivize private developers to start building in the middle of nowhere and hope that a city arises as an emergent phenomenon? that approach seems like it would be rife with abuse and waste.

seems like this would be a lot easier to do with an authoritarian regime that could just decree "we're building a city here. the following industries will move their headquarters"
by krona | 2025-11-25 20:07:06+00:00
> Of the 87 pairs, 52 experienced a similar type and duration of schooling within a similar location. In fact, 25 of these pairs attended the same school for some period of time. Analysis revealed that ‘Educationally Similar’ TRA pairs have an ICC of 0.87 ± 0.02 (n = 52)

So this study has 87-52-25=10 data points? Am I reading this correctly? Quite the reach to conclude what the article claims, if so.
by scruple | 2025-11-25 20:07:19+00:00
Probably so, assuming that what it spits out is actually real and not some hallucination, but that's not at all a given. And I also assume that the people most inclined to regurgitating what an LLM spits out are also heavily overlapped with the people who are least likely to verify that the information is correct, or verify primary sources, or even think to ask for sources in the first place.
by rashidae | 2025-11-25 20:07:34+00:00
People are starting to use AI not just to think, but to feel. When something hurts or feels uncertain, it is easy to offload that discomfort into a system that instantly turns it into clarity: an explanation, a plan, a message, a neatly packaged insight. It works. It feels good. But there is a hidden cost.

If we outsource emotional uncertainty too quickly, we skip the part where we actually feel it. The system digests the discomfort before we do. Over time this can make us excellent at understanding our lives but worse at sitting with the parts of experience that have no immediate answers. We get analysis instead of depth, interpretation instead of emotional endurance.

AI is powerful as a thinking partner, but it becomes risky when it becomes an emotional bypass. Some forms of growth only happen in the silence before clarity. If we replace those moments with instant interpretation, we trade long term resilience for short term relief.

This is not an argument against using AI. It is simply a reminder that some of the most important human capacities develop in the space where no external system can feel on our behalf.
by voakbasda | 2025-11-25 20:07:59+00:00
This is a really nice article that covers the history of space habitats, but it also made me realize that the future of habitable structures has questionable value outside of space tourism.

We have entered an age where humanoid robots are beginning to do many tasks that we thought were exclusively in our domain. At our current pace, I expect they will be able to outperform us in most work settings within a decade or two.

As those robots scale up in their capabilities and numbers, we will send up a fleet of them to space to do the work there. They are far more suited for the environment than humans, and the cost savings would be huge.
by dickiedyce | 2025-11-25 20:08:14+00:00
I'm a keen Orion user, and general Kagi user - early adopter since June 2022 (So kool-aid? ;-) ) That said, I have Chrome installed for mandated office work (profile managed by IT ;-( ), Brave for LinkedIn & YouTube... but for everything else I use Orion. Recent versions have been rock solid, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

My only gripe is that the favourites bar isn't right-click editable like Chrome or Brave - assume this is down to Webkit. Apart from that, joy to use and develop against.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-11-25 20:09:18+00:00
What irritates me the most is that, while a lot of sites allow for hardware tokens for MFA, my banks do not. Not a single one of my financial institutions support FIDO or anything like it, opting instead for SMS if they have anything at all. Passwords are usually a maximum length of some small number, and alarmingly, quotes and some other special characters are not allowed. Are they even hashing?

It's insane that my personal blog is more secure than my bank.
by nickpp | 2025-11-25 20:09:28+00:00
> You still need to be rich to partake.

Again, you can invest, today, in AI stocks and ETFs, with just $100 and a Robinhood account. No need to be rich.

> Super-intelligence will make labor worthless (or very cheap) it won't make property worthless.

If the labor is worthless, the great majority of people will be poor. Due to the law of supply & demand, property will be worthless since there will be very little demand for it.

> Countries with natural resources often have poor citizens because those citizens are not needed to extract that wealth.

Countries with or without resources often have poor citizens simply because being poor is the natural state of mankind. The only system that, historically, allowed the greatest number of people to exit poverty is capitalism. Here in Eastern Europe we got to witness an astonishing change of fortunes when we switched from communism to capitalism. The country and its resources didn't change, just the system and, correspondingly, the wealth of the population.

> it was their best strategy to become even richer. But that's no longer the case when you can be replaced by super-intelligence.

How can they become richer when most people are dirt broke (because they were replaced by AIs) and thus can't buy their products and services? Look at how even Elon's fortunes shrink when his company misses a sales forecast. He is only as rich as the number of customers he can find for his cars.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-11-25 20:09:39+00:00
The Bigelow stuff was very promising and showed that it could work. The larger units on extruded spokes was a viable path to a .5G space station. This would be doable with three (possibly 4) Starship launches[1].

[1] Caveat Starship has to reach its goal of transporting 100 tonnes to LEO
by k310 | 2025-11-25 20:09:54+00:00
Many wildfires in California are caused by powerlines.

I have often wondered, "What can I do, using technology, to help make life better?"

And, too often, the answer is "I need to undo what sociopathic and uncaring people have done, using technology"

PG&E faked inspections, and got away with it thanks to a captive public utility commission. Gigawatts and terawatts for what? This started with Google and the like building massive data centers basically to drive advertising. Search, social and even commerce can be done on small scale without the exploitation. [0] Craig Newmark started Craig's List with servers in his closet.

It takes very little to do good, so we go to enormous lengths, expense and power consumption to do great harm. "For the Bucks"

Worst case, "because the other guy is doing it", leading to arms races, espionage and hacking armies, and the new AI wars.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1057/jit.2015.5
by braincat31415 | 2025-11-25 20:09:55+00:00
I think what you are saying is still on a shaky ground if I understood you correctly. Site operators will have a political bias that will skew the decisions. And of course there is pay to play and kickbacks... integrity was for sale ever since humans existed. Think in terms of what the internet gave us instead of what it has taken away. In my youth, I had to listen to shortwave to find the other side of the story.
by zbowling | 2025-11-25 20:09:56+00:00
I wrote a better version of this idea: https://github.com/zbowling/mcpcodeserver

It works as an MCP proxy of sorts that converts all the child MCP tools into typescript annotations, asks your LLM to generate typescript, then executes those tool calls in a restricted VM to do the tool calls that way. It allows parellel process, passing data between tools without coming back to the LLM for a full loop, etc. The agents are pretty good at debugging issues they create too and trying again.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-25 20:10:13+00:00
A correctly manufactured chainsaw can be used safely by adults. Products like "MoonSoll and Magic Chems Fuel Bottles" [1], "Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems" [2] and literally tens of thousands of other products listed at [3] have been determined that they can not be used safely by adults, and are literally taken off store shelves until the issues can be resolved. It is a normal, everyday occurrence that manufacturers are very motivated to not sell products that cannot be used safely, Hacker-Newsesque semantic nitpicking notwithstanding. If similar liabilities applied to software like Roblox (think "kids committed suicide due to interactions on Roblox" being held equivalently to "kids have been suffocated by this defactive crib"), there would not be a Roblox without effective moderation.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Demlar-Recalls-MoonSoll-an...

[2] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Tesla-Recalls-Powerwall-2-...

[3] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls
by officeplant | 2025-11-25 20:10:41+00:00
The actual owner isn't a youtuber, but niche EV guys have their own communities and a handful of youtubers happen to be in there as well.

The owner already has an electric S10 as well, and the RAV4 both which use the same charging system as the EV1 so I'm just glad its an enthusiast who will rebuild it and run it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:10:57+00:00
what type of professional organization is most beneficial? Standards are already out there, but they need a union or government regulation to be enforced. Devs who want real change need to pick their medicine, or continue to let the industry stagnate.

>the role of organizing to not to get more money but rather to reduce indignities

agreed. And I think that's why it's going to really start taking hold as we enter year 4 of mass layoffs in the US (because outsourcing). Alongside overwork from the "survivors" and abusive PIPs to keep people on edge.