MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-31 23:43:36+00:00
It's because in the US historically black neighborhoods have a unique history of racism and disinvestment.

Here's an article about what happened literally where I'm sitting: https://kingneighborhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BLEE...

Stories like this played all all over the US. Read up on Robert Moses for example.

Not that you intended it, but your comment veers close to the sort of "why do black people always talk about racism" thought ending cliche or similar demands to be "colorblind" that ultimately are only functionally used to shut down conversations about extant and continuing racism.
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-31 23:44:21+00:00
It depends what you're looking for! I moved there when I was in my mid 20's on a one year contract to run a team for the government's e-Residency program and ended up staying a bit longer (and have gone back every year since). Parts I enjoyed -- once you find a community it's a pretty strong one (but it took about 6 months for me to make any Estonian friends), there's a good early stage tech scene, the old town in Tallinn is beautiful and city living very approachable. I probably wouldn't move back now unless there was a very good reasons or to raise kids (it seems like a great place for that, very safe, great education system, etc.) just because it's relatively small (total pop ~1.3M) and so doesn't have as much opportunity as other places, plus my parents live in the US and I like being closer to them.
by gruez | 2025-12-31 23:44:21+00:00
Only in the sense that USPS "allows" for drugs to be delivered through their service. Here's an image purporting to be for criminal activity:

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/con...

While I can see how this could be "obviously" for drugs if you're specifically looking out for this sort of stuff, it's disguised well enough (eg. no overt references to drugs) that an automated algorithm would have a hard time detecting this without massive collateral damage.
by jsrcout | 2025-12-31 23:44:23+00:00
As a budding young computer geek and mildly OCD person I always hated the non-square pixels. As far as I recall, square pixels just didn't exist at the time. Maybe at Xerox PARC or somewhere.

They never quite looked right, and making pixel graphics was a bit of a hassle since your perfect design on graph paper didn't look the same on screen, etc, etc, etc. I mean it wasn't life-threatening, just a tiny source of never-ending annoyances.

My Macintosh 512e (one of the early "toaster Macs") had square pixels and it was so great to finally have them.
by irishcoffee | 2025-12-31 23:44:34+00:00
You ever see Good Will Hunting? The scene where he talks about where he can “just play” and then describes the most talented people in history at what they do. That’s Buffett in his chosen life’s work.

Buffett didn’t get, for example, a small loan of a million dollars to start. He’s been working at this longer than probably anyone what will ever read this comment has been alive.

He doesn’t care about the money in the sense I feel you’re implying.

Nobody is perfect, and holding anyone to that standard sets an impossible threshold.

I don’t know how familiar you are with Warren Buffett, but I would encourage you to dig into his Wikipedia page at least, however accurate we think that is these days.
by isodev | 2025-12-31 23:44:56+00:00
You’re missing the /s right?

What about what Claude or any LLM bot does with info it randomly finds online? Run local commands you didn’t ask for, visit sites you didn’t expect it to visit? Upload data and files you don’t ask it to upload?

If you don’t know what I mean, here is a cool talk for you to watch https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy
by npunt | 2025-12-31 23:45:07+00:00
Institutional knowledge is scoped to members of an organization and covers things related specifically to the institution's operations. What I'm talking about is the knowledge of the general population, often as it relates to an institution's products.

For instance, tons of people know how to use Adobe products like Photoshop, by way of deliberate inaction on the part of Adobe around product piracy outside of workplaces. With this large knowledge pool entering into the workforce, users were able to convince workplaces to adopt Adobe products that they were already familiar with.

That wouldn't be institutional knowledge, but a pool of knowledge that institutions could take actions (or inaction, as the case above) to influence.
Show HN: Chaos Chess – 960 Bullet built in 37 days with Google Antigravity
by luniprise | 2025-12-31 23:45:41+00:00
Happy New Year HN!

I spent the last 6 weeks "vibe coding" this Flutter app using Google's new Antigravity IDE.

*The Goal:* Make chess fun/arcade-y again. No theory, just intuition.

*The Tech:*
* Built in 37 days (started Nov 24, 2025)
* ~61k lines of active Dart code (AI-assisted)
* Google Antigravity acting as a "Junior Dev" partner

*The "Vibe Coding" Experience:*
It felt like holding hands with a junior developer. We did 2-3 iterations on features that normally take days, but finished them in 20 minutes. The code definitely has holes, and it’s not perfectly optimized, but the speed of delivery was 10x my normal pace.

*Stats:*
* 862 commits
* Local bots, online leagues, and offline "board companion" mode
* Translated into 45 languages (AI)

It’s messy, it’s chaotic, but it works. I’d love feedback on the gameplay or the "Antigravity" workflow.

(P.S. Looking for Android/iOS testers—check the "Beta" button in the menu!)
by Cheezmeister | 2025-12-31 23:46:13+00:00
False.

The existential risk is in companies smoking the AI crackpipe that sama (begging your pardon) handed them, thinking it feels great and then projecting[1] that every investment will hit like the first, and continuing to buy the <EXPLETIVE> crack that they can't afford, and they investors can't afford, and their clients can't afford, their vendors can't afford, the grid can't afford, the planet can't afford, the American people can't afford, and sama[2] can't afford, _because it's <EXPLETIVE> crack_!

The wise will shut up and take the win on the slop com bubble.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_dragon

[2]: For those following along at home, sama is Sam Altman, he was a part of the Y Combinator community a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-31 23:46:29+00:00
Making an executable “request” older symbol versions is incredibly painful in practice. Basically every substantial piece of binary software either compiles against an ancient Debian sysroot (that has to have workarounds for the ancient part) or somehow uses a separate glibc copy from the base system (Flatpak, etc.). The first greatly complicates building the software, the second is recreating Windows’ infamous DLL hell.

Both are way more annoying than anything the platforms without symbol versioning suffer from because of its lack. I’ve never encountered anyone who has packaged binaries for both Linux and Windows (or macOS, or the BSDs) that missed anything about Linux userspace ABIs when working with another platform.
by jonnybgood | 2025-12-31 23:47:14+00:00
> This fallacy seems to be brought up very frequently, that there are still blacksmiths; people who ride horses; people who use typewriters; even people who use fountain pens, but they don't really exist in any practical or economical sense outside of 10 years ago Portland, OR.

Did you respond with a fallacy of your own? I can only assume you’re not in or don’t have familiarity with those worlds and that has lead you to conclude they don’t exist in any practical or economical sense. It’s not difficult to look up those industries and their economic impact. Particularly horses and fountain pens. Or are you going by your own idea of practical or economical?
by ajcp | 2025-12-31 23:47:20+00:00
I have a pretty deep "smart home" setup and it's all run locally from a laptop in my closet with Home Assistant OS. I have run into 0 limitations. All my devices are kept on their own dedicated Zigbee mesh and/or network separate from my LAN. Only way to communicate in or out is via Tailscale. It's incredibly easy to get started too.
by chrsw | 2025-12-31 23:48:29+00:00
I thought the problem was me not keeping my software up-to-date. Looks like web browsing was fun while it lasted.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I mostly use ad-blockers and content filters and when I go to a commercial page without that stuff I'm shocked how terrible the experience is. That shock should have told me too many people were losing too much money and the usable web gravy train was about to come to an end.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-31 23:48:47+00:00
There's no Buffett's strategy. Market buys whatever Buffett's company bought. That's how he got unusual gains.

Moment of fame stretched over 60 year of clipping coupons off of that initial fame.

The thing that made it possible was that he was content with his performance and never tried to one up himself. He kept hus fame and market interest in himself simmering over six decades inatead burning out in one bright flash.
by evil-olive | 2025-12-31 23:48:55+00:00
> A Washington state Tesla owner rode his way into the record books after completing a fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive across the United States, which he detailed in a viral X thread.

another entry in the long category of "news article that's just summarizing a Twitter post"

from the thread itself [0] the owner claims "absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers"

I'd like to see some actual evidence for that claim (such as internal dashcam video) rather than blindly accepting it at face value, as the NY Post has done here.

0: https://xcancel.com/DavidMoss/status/2006255297212358686
by tzs | 2025-12-31 23:49:43+00:00
In existing areas where France requires age checks, such as adult sites, they require sites to offer doubly anonymous verification. In doubly anonymous verification the site does not learn the user's identity, and the site that actually does the age check does not know which site the check is for.

Furthermore, France is in the EU. They expect to deploy their implementation of the EU Digital Identity Wallet by the end of 2026.

That allows users do age verification using protocol between the user's smart phone and the site with the age restriction. (Later they are expected to add support for smart cards and security tokens like YubiKey so a smart phone won't be required).

That system works by storing signed identity credentials tied to a hardware security device you provide, and using a zero-knowledge proof based protocol between your device and the site to prove to the site that your identity credentials show an acceptable age without providing any other information to the site.

The EU has been working on this for several years, and it is currently undergoing large scale field trials.
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-31 23:50:08+00:00
Ha its super old now but I think I had read the Ayn Rand book and was frustrated that it felt a little simplistic (tbh I do have some libertarian tendencies but the world is a messy and complicated place) so this was my way of acknowledging the idea but disagreeing with the premise, especially because the libertarian philosophy felt so prevalent in the tech world at the time
by snielson | 2025-12-31 23:50:24+00:00
I'm not a developer, but I consider myself relatively tech literate. That said, I really like Windows 11 and many other MS products such as M365, Edge, new Outlook, One Drive, and even Teams is tolerable (maybe not as polished as Zoom). Copilot is still struggling to find relevance, but I just chalk that up to MS pivoting rapidly to figure out how to make it useful (I currently use the enterprise version solely to draft emails, which is a huge time saver even if it is a bit pricey at $30/mo).
The complaints I see on here so frequently just don't register with me. For example, I never see any ads. Maybe there is a setting I turned off long ago, but I cannot recall ever seeing an ad. The setting must be persistent with my Windows backups because no ads show when I reinstall Windows and restore the settings and configuration from a backup.
Things are not always perfect, but the issues I have encountered are relatively minor all things considered.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-31 23:50:46+00:00
I always see fawning comments when it comes to Warren Buffet. I think people need to examine more closely what his portfolio companies do and how they’ve been successful. Some of them are genuinely positive stories. But in other places, the truth isn’t so pretty. Look up how rail workers are treated by BNSF, for example. Like many ultra wealthy people who are caught up in evaluating companies solely on financial grounds, Buffet ignores what the impact of his choices are. And let’s be real - there isn’t any “fair competition” in many parts of the American economy to fix these problems. The railways are especially problematic because the infrastructure they own creates monopolies in regions.
by mrandish | 2025-12-31 23:50:49+00:00
Good post. To anyone wondering why do we have these particular resolutions, sampling and frame rates - which seem quite random, allow me to expand and add some color to your post (pun intended). Similar to how modern railroad track widths can be traced back to the wheel widths of roman chariots, modern digital video standards still reverberate with echoes from 1930s black-and-white television standards.

BT.601 is from 1982 and was the first widely adopted analog component video standard (sampling analog video into 3 color components (YUV) at 13.5 MHz). Prior to BT.601, the main standard for video was SMPTE 244M created by Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a composite video standard which sampled analog video at 14.32 MHz. Of course, a higher sampling rate is, all things equal, generally better. The reason for choosing BT.601 being lower (13.5 MHz) was a compromise - equal parts technical and political.

Analog television was created in the 1930s as a black-and-white composite standard and in 1953 color was added to the spec. In 1953 color was added to existing B&W analog composite television by a very clever hack which kept all broadcasts backward compatible with existing B&W TVs (politicians mandated it because they couldn't stomach nerfing all voters B&W TVs). But that 'add color' hack came with some significant technical compromises which complicated and degraded analog video for over 50 years. The composite and component sampling rates (14.32 MHz and 13.5 MHz) are both based on being 4x a specific existing color carrier sampling rate from analog television. And those two frequencies directly dictated all the odd-seeming horizontal pixel resolutions we find in pre-HD digital video (352, 704, 360, 720 and 768) and even early PC display resolutions (CGA, VGA, XGA, etc). For example, 720 is tied to 13.5 Mhz because sampling the active picture area of an analog video scanline at 13.5 MHz generates 1440 samples (double per-Nyquist). Similarly, 768 is tied to 14.32 MHz generating 1536 samples. It's kind of fascinating all these numbers can be traced back to decisions made in the 1930s based on the analog components and political sensitivities present at the time.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-31 23:51:45+00:00
Because it is about race.

Please read the article I linked in another reply to you.

My neighborhood was prosperous when it was systematically stolen from the black people who built it. They literally razed a thriving business district. And then the land sat empty for decades, only in the end to be sold to property developers.

They used eminent domain to steal people's homes and businesses in a way that was blatantly criminal, but the victims had no recourse given the courts and entire rest of the political structure was complicit in the actions.

And variations of this story played out everywhere across America.

So yes, the fact that a neighborhood is historically black is relevant, because it shows the events of today are part of a continued arc of injustice.
by potsandpans | 2025-12-31 23:52:19+00:00
> You are putting forward a false equivalence...

> This is the digital equivalent of the tobacco industry we are talking about

I reject the counter-equivalence you've offered.

This is not mutually exclusive: I can acknowledge that social media is bad (for everyone) and also advocate for a non-gated free and open internet.

My argument is more sharp: do not pass laws for- and build a censorship infrastructure to- solve an institutional problem. If we must discuss this, then we should first discuss fining and breaking up the companies and criminally prosecuting the executives that did the harm knowingly. This takes more care to understand: how is it we want to shape our commons, and what are the steps that we'll take as citizens to enforce it.

But that can't be packaged into a short quip.

If this is a meaningful debate, then we should avoid sloganeering. Your last sentence is a nice soundbite, but it disregards all nuance. It's exactly the kind of content that creates harm on social networks: optimized for being being catchy and divisive. Something someone can go repeat and remain uninformed. Funnily enough, the construction is also a tell-tale marker of something written by an LLM. (To be clear: I'm not accusing you of writing this with an LLM, just noting how prevalent this rhetorical device is).
by IshKebab | 2025-12-31 23:52:47+00:00
Although to be fair YouTube itself has started to defeat those - they put a little white dot in the timeline when the ad finishes.

I'm not sure how they do it but I think AI could pretty easily detect current ad transitions. Especially when combined with data about which bits of the video most people skip.

I think it'll lead to sponsorships being much more integrated into videos rather than a sponsorship segment. Or possibly people will switch to much shorter segments like LTT does.

I never really understood why they want long segments anyway. Shorter ones mean I'm much more likely to actually see it.
by squigz | 2025-12-31 23:54:52+00:00
The last game I felt that strongly about at the ending was Red Dead Redemption 2. I don't think I can recall the last indie game I felt strongly about.

Indie games are important and deserve more attention. Let's not glorify them too much though. They can be shit, just like AAA games; they can also be great, just like AAA games.
by MaKey | 2025-12-31 23:55:23+00:00
Do you really feel plaque on your teeth with your tongue after brushing gently with a soft brush? My teeth feel perfectly clean after brushing despite using the brush with the softest bristles I could find (Meridol extra soft). I'm brushing gently (sweeping from bottom to top) with little pressure. Regardless of the brush you're using, never use more than light pressure. If the brush looks worn out after a few weeks it's too much, if it looks new after 3 months (recommend change interval) you're good.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-31 23:55:57+00:00
> Though I guess people would argue you can just ask a LLM now instead of reading my book.

I would certainly not argue that. LLMs do not understand anything, and are thus prone to non-deterministic inaccuracies in their output. Due to that, I think it is extremely foolish to use one for learning unfamiliar topics. Give me a book every time, because (if it's a good book) I am guaranteed to actually learn something. Not so with LLMs.
by dgacmu | 2025-12-31 23:56:16+00:00
I still sharpen my knives on a whetstone, but given the general cost trajectory of most manufactured items, I've decided that I'm okay if I wear out my knives. Buying a new chef's knife in 10 years is basically free on a per-day-of-use basis.

(I say that, but I'm still using knives that mostly range from 25-50 years old, but some didn't get sharpened enough when they belonged to our parents and grandparents.)
by strange_quark | 2025-12-31 23:58:07+00:00
Even if that’s true, that seems like a putrid number, no?

Assuming a single 1GW the data center runs 24/7 365, it’s consuming 8.76 TwH per year. Only being able to generate $10-$12B in revenue (not profit) per year while consuming as much electricity as the entire state of Hawaii (1.5M people) seems awful.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-12-31 23:58:42+00:00
All of these things mean that email is no longer fit for purpose.

I host a few of my own domain emails using mailu (a system of docker containers), but not my primary (so I'm slightly hypocritical). It's a certain amount of hassle, but as long as you do the SPF and DKIM things, it seems to work pretty well for me (in the limited amount that I use these domains for email).
by jmward01 | 2025-12-31 23:59:16+00:00
I strongly beg to differ. Building is the easy part. It is the political will that isn't. Try to build a train in California and it takes decades and you have a hundred different entities sabotaging you. Put five more lanes on a freeway and no drama, it just happens. We got to the moon when the political will was there but the engineering was still basically science fiction but once the political will dried up, even though the engineering was solved and 'easy', we couldn't get back. History is full of these examples.
by BloondAndDoom | 2025-12-31 23:59:42+00:00
As a retired person I’ve always been curious about this. I questioned a friend who is multiple FU money rich. He said he just love his job, and he’s in a position to work the way he wants to work.

Not my cup of tea (and Die with Zero book explains the common sense on this) but I get why though. There is tons of status attached to it, lots of people don’t know what to do with themselves, a lot of identity ( especially in US) attached to the work.
by summa_tech | 2025-12-31 23:59:43+00:00
The "interested" part does a lot of lifting though. It's really hard to explain things to uninterested people.

If the person you are explaining your project to is not interested in the technical side, presumably under the rather confused but popular theory that technical aspects are not relevant to technology ventures, you'll not be making headway. It's much better to just make up some dollar numbers and run with that.
by tzs | 2025-12-31 23:59:57+00:00
> Besides, like many point out, this is just a way to deanonymize the web for everyone

Those people haven't bothered looking into the details. Some jurisdictions require age checks in a way that deanonymize people, and some require they be done in a way that do not deanonymize people.

The EU is strongly pushing for the later in the systems EU countries are adopting or considering.