MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlisboa | 2025-12-18 12:48:13+00:00
Do you have children? Would you point them a loaded gun that's only, say, 0.5% likely to go off and shoot them? 1 in 100k cancers also disappear spontaneously, should I wait and see for my kid and not treat them?

When it comes to your own children the only number that matters is 1. The 1 time it happens their lives, your life, is over.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-18 12:48:14+00:00
Early in my career I spent a lot of time thinking that HTML was antiquated. "Obviously they had 20th century ideas on what websites would be. As if we're all just publishing documents." But the beauty of HTML eventually clicked for me: it's describing the semantics of a structured piece of data, which means you can render a perfectly valid view of it however you want if you've got the right renderer!

I imagine language choice to be the same idea: they're just different views of the same data. Yes, there's a canonical language which, in many cases, contains information that gets lost when translated (see: opinions on certain books really needing to be read in their original language).

I think Chrome got it right at one point where it would say "This looks like it's in French. Want to translate it? Want me to always do this?" (Though I expect Chrome to eventually get it wrong as they keep over-fitting their ad engagement KPIs)

This is all a coffee morning way of saying: I believe that the browser must own the rendering choices. Don't reimplement pieces of the browser in your website!
by martylamb | 2025-12-18 12:48:17+00:00
https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper/

I built ChatKeeper because I wanted to treat my ChatGPT history like a local knowledge base, with local-first access to my data.

It’s a command-line tool (GUI in progress) that takes a full ChatGPT .zip export and syncs it with local Markdown files. You can move and rename them freely and they will stay in sync on future runs.

It pairs well with tools like Obsidian and lets you link your own notes to specific conversations or even points within them.

Revenue is modest but growing month over month. It’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Most users so far are researchers and other ChatGPT power users who already live in Markdown or want to do things like curate and compress the context of very long-running conversations.
by jraph | 2025-12-18 12:48:40+00:00
> The answer is no.

You don't know that. I don't know about you (and whatever you wrote possibly tells more about yourself than anyone else), but I prefer my positions strong and based on reality, not based on lies (to myself included).

And the environment is far from being the only concern.

You are attacking a straw man. For you, being against GenAI, simply because it happens to be against your beliefs, is necessarily irrational. Please don't do this.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-12-18 12:48:47+00:00
>>> Old farts making laws about things they know nothing about.

We should probably stop saying and believing that. This is basically the UK government making a deal to the developers they cannot refuse: cooperate (install backdoors) or get prosecuted. The French tried to do something similar not so long ago.

A decade ago politicians genuinely didn’t know much about the internet so most of the laws were terribly ill informed good ideas. The new sweep of internet legislation like chat control, age verification and banning of vpns are much more dangerous because those pushing know exactly what they are doing.
by N_Lens | 2025-12-18 12:49:05+00:00
Also reminds me of the series of humorous posts saying essentially the same thing by Grug - https://grugbrain.dev/

"grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused"

"grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digestible and funny page, not only for you, the young grug, but also for him because as grug brain developer get older he forget important things, like what had for breakfast or if put pants on"
by jspizziri | 2025-12-18 12:49:26+00:00
https://soundreads.io/

An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain.

I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering.

One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare it with the original [2] and let me know what you think.

[1] https://app.soundreads.io/discover/item/war-of-the-worlds [2] https://archive.org/details/WarOfTheWorlds1938RadioBroadcast...
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-18 12:49:52+00:00
Intentions of votes for Labour went from 34% in 2019 to 17% or something now. While Reform UK is gaining voters left and right.

But it seems mostly due to a revolt against the "two tier Kharmer" policy of the current government: where normal people are jailed for online posts while others are free to break a female policer's nose at the airport and then be let to walk free by the judge and while others also get to rape hundreds of girls on an industrial scale and enjoy a nation-wide cover-up attempt (thankfully foiled) by the state...
by technusm1 | 2025-12-18 12:49:59+00:00
I mostly shared the launch post and ran promo campaigns on Reddit, ProductHunt, LinkedIn, Discord and even tried HN (got no replies here -‿-"). Since then, its mostly word of mouth.

Thanks to my customers' feedback, I've made a lot of improvements to the app as well. Feels good getting positive feedback and hearing from people about their use-cases. :)

Links: [1]: Launch Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ok5zaq/comment/nm... [2]: ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/dedupx [3]: Promo campaign on Reddit for Black Friday: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1paarc2/dedupx_50_... [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763117
by Lerc | 2025-12-18 12:50:05+00:00
I'm interested in how accurate "America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters" is when they are measuring "CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion". I assume the majority of carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel combustion, but that is just an assumption. It would be nice to have that explicitly shown.

A quick search suggests %90 percent of human caused CO2 emission is from fossil fuel consumption (things like calcium carbonate produce half of cement emissions). All cause emissions of CO2 dwarfs human emissions, but as part of a cycle that consumes CO2 as well.
by simonsarris | 2025-12-18 12:50:09+00:00
I made https://meetinghouse.cc as a way for twitter people to put themselves on a map and write a bio, and what they're looking for. It's a way to find and be found, if you want to see who's interesting nearby for friends, dating, new parents meeting new parents, etc.

Pins cost $12, there are 474 pins placed so far. This keeps the quality high (there are no spam pins, only real people) but will fundamentally limit the growth, I think.
by drumhead | 2025-12-18 12:50:36+00:00
It's always been like this. From the official secrets act where they could jail you just for revealing the date of the office Christmas party to D notices suppressing newspapers from publish stories the government thought were to sensitive. MI5 and MI6 acting totally without accountability, with the government not even acknowledging their existence. If anything, things have started to get more transparent now, with a freedom of information act, actual oversight and accountability for the intelligence services and less government. But the default position of the UK government has always been secrecy and the right to do what they want to protect the country.
by codeflo | 2025-12-18 12:50:42+00:00
My theory: Some manager's KPI is to increase the number of sold GitHub runner minutes. So they did some market research -- not enough to have a clear picture, but barely enough to be dangerous -- and found that some companies use self-hosted runners for cost reasons. So they deploy a two-pronged strategy: lower the cost of GitHub runners, and charge for the use of self-hosted runners, to incentivize switching.

This fails for several reasons that someone who actually uses the product might have intuited:

(a) For some use-cases, you can't switch to GitHub's runners. For us, it's a no-go for anything that touches our infrastructure.

(b) Switching CI providers isn't hard, we had to do it twice already. Granted, most of our CI logic is in a custom build script that you can run locally, and not in the proprietary YAML file. But to be honest, I'd recommend that sort of setup for any CI provider, as you always want the ability to debug things locally.

(c) GitHub Actions doesn't get the amount of love you'd expect from something billed as a "premium service". In fact, it often feels quite abandoned, barely kept working. Who knows what they're brewing internally, but they didn't coordinate this with a major feature announcement, and didn't rush to announce anything now that they got backlash, which leads me to believe they don't have anything major planned.

(d) Paying someone -- by the minute, no less -- to use my own infrastructure feels strange and greedy. GitHub has always had per-user pricing, which feels fair and predictable. If for some reason they need more money, they can always increase that price. The fact that they didn't do that leads me to believe this wasn't about cost per se. Hence the KPI theory I mentioned above: this wasn't well-coordinated with any bigger strategy.
by dumfries | 2025-12-18 12:50:52+00:00
This is a perfect example of taking a simple idea and elevating it/ executing it well. Well done!

As someone that has used 531 for a while, I thought an app like this would not add much value. I mean, we can all track our progress in a spreadsheet. But I must say that it looks great.

This stuff is inspiring to see..
by csomar | 2025-12-18 12:51:26+00:00
That's just a Western pipe dream. The water crisis could trigger a revolt but the fundamentals for such revolt have to be there rather than the water crisis being the sole reason.

> people of Tehran will either need to move or die

No. I've lived (along a million other people) without water for many months during a hot summer episode. It was a major lifestyle degradation (and major doesn't even begin to describe it) but death was not a threat (though there was fear of disease spread due to possible degradation of sanitary conditions but that didn't happen either).
by pbmonster | 2025-12-18 12:51:33+00:00
The low hanging fruit have been long picked. Reverse osmosis is within 50% of the thermodynamic limit.

If you have gigawatts of low grade waste heat (Iran does, in theory), you can run multistage flash distillers of the waste heat, and those have more than an order of magnitude separation to the thermodynamic limit (they also have lower CAPEX, lower maintenance and lower water pre-treatment requirements than reverse osmosis).
by zimpenfish | 2025-12-18 12:51:47+00:00
Devolving? Already there. Mostly the public are ok with it because they're ignorant of the facts, believing whatever they read on Facebook, see on GB news[1], etc. and are happy with "if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to be afraid of?"[0]

By the time the leopards eat their faces, it's too late.

[0] Much like the people who voted for Trump and are now slated for deportation because 15 years ago they cashed a check that bounced, etc.

[1] Also the BBC has some blame here because if they weren't platforming Farage for years when it was unnecessary, it's conceivable that he wouldn't/couldn't have forced first the Tories and now Labour into their hard-right turns and we'd all be better off.
by breppp | 2025-12-18 12:51:58+00:00
I think you identify the cycle of radicalization correctly but only on a specific side.

There are people in this thread comparing Trump to Hitler. I don't think Trump is the US finest president but those of my family who weren't slaves for the Germans were slaughtered.

The fact that people throw comparisons that are false on some massive scale around and it's completely normalized is an example why losing touch with reality is not only a problem of the right
by throwaway732255 | 2025-12-18 12:52:19+00:00
> Interestingly, I've heard from parents that many feel like they're both suffocating and feeling inadequate

When my spouse and I were dating, we made fun of those “overly involved parents” who tried to live vicariously through their kids and over-scheduled them.

Since having kids, my spouse has (over a one year period) put our 5 year old in: T-ball, swimming, dance, theater, Sunday school, church, soccer, gymnastics, library group sessions, and to my absolute bewilderment and dismay—beauty pageants. On any given week, there are 5+ activities outside of school. My spouse stays up until 2 AM “helping” our daughter on her kindergarten school projects. Never mind all the activities our 2 year old is ramping up into.

I don’t think this is healthy at all for children, and it’s really created a rift in our marriage. It’s been so bizarre to me to see this change in behavior from what we discussed prior to marriage compared to now. I worry the kids are going to burn out. I certainly didn’t grow up this way, and my personality as a kid would not have handled this well.

When I was my daughter’s age, I was living in a foreign country due to my dad’s job at the time (didn’t have many “scheduled activities” though). Personally, I always thought being able to experience other cultures at an early age added significant value to my upbringing. My spouse however is adamantly opposed to even vacationing in foreign countries due to a fear of “something happening” to the children. Again, this represents a change in perspective that only came about in the last few years.

I’m not sure what has happened with my spouse, but it definitely tracks the article’s observation that parents are becoming increasingly anxious and fearful and we’re likely suffocating our kids’ development.
by cpursley | 2025-12-18 12:53:08+00:00
This idea that parents who let their kids play without 3 layers of bubble wrap and parental hovercraft mode don’t also talk with their kids and aren’t present is not just insulting, it’s far from true. Over coddling causes more problems than it prevents, it’s especially obvious when you compare the maturity levels, mental health situation and general early adulthood outcomes for non-Anglo kids in other developed nations.
by zkmon | 2025-12-18 12:53:19+00:00
As children (not even teens), we were allowed to roam the farms around the village and swim in any farm-well we like entire day in the hot sun. Jump from trees into the well, chase animals, walk barefoot in the in midday of 40 deg C of summer holidays. We used to get random thorns in the feet. The kid would pluck it out by surgical poking with steel pin in his own foot.

That's what I call as rich childhood.
by Ali-Al-Shakati | 2025-12-18 12:53:29+00:00
FWIW - Bernadette Spofforth invented a fictitious Muslim asylum seeker that had arrived by small boat as the perpetrator of an awful act of violence towards small children. She ended her post with "I'm done with the mental 'health excuse'. You should be as well!" Shortly afterwords, mosques and migrant hotels were attacked in the worst race riots the UK has seen in years - fuelled, at least in part, by her disinformation.

It wasn't a retweet and it was only deleted - some 10 hours later - when the media started asking her about the source of the name she had created.

The idea that she was simply expressing legitimate concern is ludicrous.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-18 12:54:02+00:00
> So I’m actually fine with the proposed change since it also gives me the power as a customer to say “hey, I’m paying for this, fix it.”

I’m paying for GitHub Action now and there is zero recourse (other than leaving). Giving them money doesn’t change anything.

I’d be more willing to pay if GH Actions wasn’t so flakey and frustrating (for hosted or self-hosted runners, I use both). At least self-hosted runners are way cheaper _and_ have better performance.
by revetkn | 2025-12-18 12:54:09+00:00
My project, Lokalized (from 2017, in Java), has the same goal but took a different approach to the "little language" design. I'm guessing I had the same inspiration as the Fluent authors - existing solutions were just not expressive enough for the real world. Mentioning here because I'm always super interested in seeing how others approach the problem of effective i18n (it's a bit complex). Making Fluent more of a spec was the right call imo; I did not do that with my work.

https://lokalized.com
by 542354234235 | 2025-12-18 12:54:23+00:00
Cars and building for car infrastructure is part of it. Another part, I think, is the decline in neighborhood communities. By that I mean the social pressure to get to know/socialize with your neighbors, through everything from block parties to shared church membership. When kids go “wandering the neighborhood” they were never far from one of the member’s houses, or at least a familiar neighbor who would notice them and keep an eye out.

Which also goes back to car infrastructure. If you need to drive everywhere for any and all errands/activities, you won’t interact with people in nearby houses, you wont see neighbors at the local bar or small grocery store.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-18 12:54:38+00:00
If I wasn't in IT I think I'd love the military, not the stupid political stuff and killing people, but the organization, discipline, routine, focus on predictability, protocols, etc.

Yeah it's boring if it all works but boring is good. And we've been trying to apply this to software development for ages as well - think "continuous deployment" practices (or its new name, DORA metrics in the 2020's).
by Mistletoe | 2025-12-18 12:55:08+00:00
The risk they die from drug overdose or something because they are maladjusted from being hovered over may be orders of magnitude greater. We live in a far safer time than people think with regard to violent crime (see graph below) and a far more dangerous time with regard to mental health and depression. Also obesity. Most people die from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. All made more prevalent by shuttling your kid around constantly instead of them using their own two legs like nature intended.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-c...
Research papers are ideas transcneding time and domains
by basedid | 2025-12-18 12:55:24+00:00
Hi HN. This is Purna from Base.

Research is the foundational work on which derivatives are usually built. Processor research made PCs and mobiles possible, which made doordash and uber possible. Base presents research as ideas forming, formed or yet to be formed, so you can form a foundational base that propels whatever you do - research or something derivate from research.

Live at - https://basedid.com/

Demo at - https://www.loom.com/share/7d4279c4d5244cbe9d009982b8f3fa8a

During my time as a researcher, it was frustrating how you don't have a singular way to see the bigger picture, the stuff that sparks ideas, with an ability to drill down into specifics in whatever catches your eye. I saw researchers( including me) do this with google and other research repository site( with search engines)

But research is not a list. It's a map of ideas flowing through time. And Base intends to make it easier to be part of this conversation.

For a researcher, Base can build a strong ground/foundation that you can personalize and enrich and apply directly to your intended work/contribution.

For a curious learner or a professional, Base informs you. The information here is different from other types of sources/searches in the sense that you talk to the foundations(actual publications/papers) and not the derivates( like you'd find in a google search - blogs, articles, posts).

Research much like any other content that's produced needs creativity. But the tools today, are not built to inspire, they're like libraries. We need an intelligent layer on top of these libraries that makes browsing and exploring the vast scientific and academic contributions conducive to produce more of them and enable to push boundaries by leaps and not by increments.
S in IoT? Who would like the S?
by DatMule | 2025-12-18 12:56:37+00:00
Hello, I have often wondered what security to secure IoT networks, clouds, the entire iot... what security is available and why the delay? I have a Solution we could implement immediately... Question is... Would anyone like to PQ secure their cloud? What is the cost of having a breach vs comfort? Lets have a chat.
by throawayonthe | 2025-12-18 12:56:38+00:00
how old are you? the avg ~20 year old has indeed already grown up with addictive social media

youtube came out 20 years ago, the iphone 19 years ago, instagram 15 years ago, musical.ly 11 years ago and merged with tiktok 7 years ago...

we are so cooked frfr
by arminiusreturns | 2025-12-18 12:57:16+00:00
UFW and Firewall-CMD both just use iptables in that context though. The real upgrade is in switching to nftables. I know I'm going to need to learn eBpf as the next step too, but for now nftables is readable and easy to grok especially after you rip out the iptables stuff, but technically nftables is still using netfilter.

And ufw supports nftables btw. I think the real lesson is write your own firewalls and make them non-permissive - then just template that shit with CaC.
by miroljub | 2025-12-18 12:57:20+00:00
I don't understand why you got heavily downvoted.

Yes, there are governments that are worse than European, but the decline of European government is the fastest.

You may be surprised that the UK is the world leader in the number of people arrested because of internet posts. And that Germany, which is still way behind the UK, has more people arrested for the same reason than Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, and a few others combined.

And many people still believe that those countries are beacons of democracy while the others are backward dictatorships.
by ghaff | 2025-12-18 12:57:28+00:00
There's definitely novelty, fashion, and fads. There's no particular reason why rollerblading essentially went away in the US after being a pretty popular activity for a time. In consumer tech, auction sites didn't go away but they certainly declined.

Sometimes, there are reasons--far fewer people shoot pics with dedicated cameras today for obvious reasons. But sometimes, things that were a novelty just get boring for most.
by mdnahas | 2025-12-18 12:57:55+00:00
I’m the author of a tutorial on Rocq.

I’m surprised at the negativity on HN. We all want bug-free code and this is a way to not just reduce bugs, but eliminate whole classes of bugs.

Moreover, with proven code, we can have rock-solid libraries and code reuse.

Also, proven specifications allow LLMs to do divide-and-conquer when generating code. You can ask it to generate part A that does X, assuming part B will do Y. And then ask it to generate part B in parallel. And know that, when merged, the code will work.

And, provable code is good for LLMs because it will let LLM creators study hallucinations. The proof checker can identify what is a hallucination and what is not. This means LLMs may learn what they don’t know!

I’m not saying LLMs with proven code is nirvana. There are parts of systems where it doesn’t apply. Specifications are often complex and difficult to understand. Some important details are hard to write a spec for. And specs can miss things. But code proven correct by LLMs has potential to do real good.
by __alexs | 2025-12-18 12:57:57+00:00
The Witness would have been better if it was half as long definitely, but the problem was not that it was long, it was that it didn't have enough interesting content to fill the time. The puzzles are not mechanically interesting enough to enjoy repeating to the level the game forces you to and the variations are explored so slowly it's just tedious.

I think Blow achieved what he wanted, which I guess makes it a good game in a sense but also it wasn't an experience I enjoyed or can easily recommend to others.