MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keiferski | 2025-12-14 13:13:52+00:00
I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

That someone could be a billionaire, spend their time writing essays about how inequality is good, retweet and give attention to people insisting that intelligence and success are mostly inheritable – and yet also deeply understand that their success is largely dependent on chance? Uh, I guess such a person could exist, but it seems like you’re just nitpicking here.

And of course there is an obvious ethical claim here: that people who benefit from a system and become wealthy should feel some sort of ethical obligation to contribute to or improve access to that system. Or at least not actively try to deny that such a system helped them. This is a complicated topic which is why I said “depending on one’s ethical views.”

No idea what my personal situation has to do with this, but I assure you, I’m not a billionaire, nor am I wealthy, unless merely being born in a Western country implies that one is wealthy (a nonsensical claim.)
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-14 13:14:59+00:00
Now that creating written works is trivial, the new skill to have would be figuring out if what you are reading has an ulterior motive, such as advertising.

Or even figuring out if it was created with the intent to have any utility at all for the reader.

Other than avoiding any written works made after 2020, I am not sure what to tell my kids. Even trusting the claim that something was written after 2020 seems difficult, unless you have a physical print showing its age.
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-14 13:16:15+00:00
davydm nails it. The gap isn't in generating code - it's in everything else that makes software actually work.

I've been building accounting tools for years. AI can generate a function to parse a bank statement CSV pretty well. But can it handle the Barclays CSV that has a random blank row on line 47? Or the HSBC format that changed last month? Or the edge case where someone exports from their mobile app vs desktop?

That's not even touching the hard stuff - OAuth token refresh failures at 3am, database migrations when you change your mind about a schema, figuring out why Xero's API returns different JSON on Tuesdays.

The real paradox: AI makes starting easier but finishing harder. You get to 80% fast, then spend longer on the last 20% than you would have building from scratch - because now you're debugging code you don't fully understand.
by eloisant | 2025-12-14 13:16:53+00:00
I don't think that's the argument. The argument is that comms and marketing people don't know git, but now that they can use AI they will be able to use tools they couldn't use before.

Basically, if they ask for a change, can preview it, ask for follow ups if it's not what they wanted, then validate it when it's good, then they don't need a GUI.
by necovek | 2025-12-14 13:17:22+00:00
But really, a shared "money library" is exactly the same thing as a shared "money service" if everyone is using the same, latest version (which is easier to enforce with a networked "service").

The difference is in what's easy and what's hard. With a library, it's easy for everyone to run a different version, and hard for everyone to run the same version. With a service, it's easy for everyone to use the same version, and harder to use a different one (eg. creating multiple environments, and especially ephemeral "pull request" environments where you can mix and match for best automated integration and e2e testing).

But you can apply the same backwards-compatible API design patterns to a library that you would be applying to a service: no difference really. It's only about what's the time to detection when you break these patterns (with a library, someone finds out 2 years later when they update; with a service, they learn right away).
by i_am_a_peasant | 2025-12-14 13:18:56+00:00
> When you create your own software abstractions, those just aren't going to be that useful, they are not going to be rock-solid and well tested. They aren't even going to be that stable -- soon a stakeholder might change requirements and you will have to change that component.

I also think it's about how many people you can get to buy-in on an abstraction. There probably are better ways of doing things than the unix-y way of having an OS, but so much stuff is built with the assumption of a unix-y interface that we just stick with it.

Like why can't I just write a string of text at offset 0x4100000 on my SSD? You could but a file abstraction is a more manageable way of doing it. But there are other manageable ways of doing it right? Why can't I just access my SSD contents like it's one big database? That would work too right? Yeah but we already have the file abstraction.

>But OOP, as I take it, is exactly that idea. That you're creating lots of perfect objects with a clear and defined purpose, and a perfect implementation. And you combine them to implement the functional requirements, even though each individual component knows only a small part of them, and is ideally reusable in your next project!

I think OOP makes sense when you constrain it to a single software component with well defined inputs and outputs. Like I'm sure many GoF-type patterns were used in implementing many STL components in C++. But you don't need to care about what patterns were used to implement anything in <algorithm> or <vector>. you just use these as components to build a larger component. When you don't have well defined components that just plug and play over the same software bus, no matter how good you are in design patterns it's gonna eventually turn into spagetti un-understandable mess.

I'm really liking your writing style by the way, do you have a blog or something?
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-14 13:19:41+00:00
Online scamming and malware are Israel's most cherished national industry, they've been specializing in this stuff for nearly 30 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

> Download Valley is a cluster of software companies in Israel, producing and delivering adware to be installed alongside downloads of other software.[1] The primary purpose is to monetize shareware and downloads. These software items are commonly browser toolbars, adware, browser hijackers, spyware, and malware. Another group of products are download managers, possibly designed to induce or trick the user to install adware, when downloading a piece of desired software or mobile app from a certain source.

> Although the term references Silicon Valley, it does not refer to a specific valley or any geographical area. Many of the companies are located in Tel Aviv and the surrounding region. It has been used by Israeli media[2] as well as in other reports related to IT business.[3]

Getting an Israeli extradited is almost impossible, their in-group ethnic bias is so strong that they even fight the extradition of rapists. The Israeli government would rather see a jewish rapist escape justice in Israel than face justice in a gentile nation. Extraditing some businessmen who merely scam and destroy people's computers? Fat chance in hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malka_Leifer_affair

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jewish-american-pedophiles-...
by sipofwater | 2025-12-14 13:19:46+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)
Show HN: I built time to read all the things I want to
by thomoliverz | 2025-12-14 13:20:22+00:00
I built Read Fast after realising I was saving hundreds of things to read and reading almost none of them.

It automatically turns saved content into a scheduled briefing and sends it to my inbox at whatever time I choose.

New version since last post actually allows you to bulk upload URLs. So you can just dump links here and Read Fast will scrape and brief for you.

Great for actually reading the things I want to. Curious if that resonates with people?
by selcuka | 2025-12-14 13:21:06+00:00
That was horrifying to read, but I guess this part explains it:

> I ultimately came to terms with my childhood by viewing it as correct. Not in the sense that I would do it to my children, or that it’s ethical by my lights, but rather that it makes sense, it belongs here. My dad was abused when he was a child and probably has NPD; my mom loved us and tried very hard but was misguided in how to show it.
by sipofwater | 2025-12-14 13:21:51+00:00
* "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

* "Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS)": https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d99621... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)
by corimaith | 2025-12-14 13:22:00+00:00
The writing quality and complexity of amateur content, even long-form is only around the level of a YA novel, truth be told alot of the stuff I was reading back in junior high in my school library had more depth than this.

It's good that you can get people reading, but reading the equivalent of pulp is very different from real novel that isn't so bounded by tropes or genre limits.
by usrme | 2025-12-14 13:22:07+00:00
Dagger was something I looked into two or so years ago before they got consumed by the LLM and AI agent hype, and while the promise of being able to run the exact CI workflows locally seemed excellent, it seemed that there's basically no way be a Dagger user without buying into their Dagger Cloud product.

I ended up opting for CUE and GitHub Actions, and I'm glad I did as it made everything much, much simpler.
by implabinash | 2025-12-14 13:22:09+00:00
Hi everyone,

I am Abinash. I am currently learning PostgreSQL from postgresqltutorial.com. So, it is better to start documenting my journey and share what I am learning and exploring.

So, I started streaming on Twitch, YouTube and Kick sharing and solving SQL exercises.

I have already completed SQL Murder Mystery and SQL Bolt, both explaining and solving exercises.

In future streams, I will try to explain and solve exercises from:

- Complete PostgreSQL - SQL Noir - SQL Squid Game - PostgreSQL Exercises - Advent of SQL

If you are new, feel free to join and learn SQL together. Or if you are experienced, feel free to join and help us in our hard times.

Thank you.

Link:

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/implabinash - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@implabinash - Kick: https://kick.com/implabinash
by nuuuwan | 2025-12-14 13:22:15+00:00
The “ALERT” App

APP: <http://nuuuwan.github.io/alert/ >

This is v0 of an "Awareness, Logistics, Evacuation, Recovery and Tracking" platform for natural disasters in Sri Lanka.

It aggregates 1) official alerts (DMC etc), 2) data-driven automatic alerts and 3) disaster related information.

The goal is to give people #autonomy during disasters, by providing timely information, so they can judge risk, see emerging danger, & act early, without over-dependence on authorities.

To use,

1. Select Location 2. View Alerts 3. View More Details

Trilingual. සිංහල & தமிழ் translations are automatically generated.

Feedback please! Bug reports/data issues/feature requests via GitHub Issues or replies here. Contributions from developers, translators & disaster professionals especially welcome.

CODE: <http://github.com/nuuuwan/alert >

Long-term plan: <https://github.com/nuuuwan/alert/blob/main/README.requiremen...>

#SriLanka #Ditwah
by nihiven | 2025-12-14 13:23:46+00:00
It functions like a normal monitor. It connected to my Macbook air (M2) and Windows machine without installing anything. It has a USB-C video port, but an HDMI->USB-C converter works too. It has an 1872x1404 (4:3) resolution, which is why I used Miami Vice for the video. It would not connect to my PS5, which I think comes down to the PS5 only supporting 16:9/21:9.
by lm28469 | 2025-12-14 13:24:20+00:00
It's still by far the best medium that requires you to be active and imaginative while packing the best information density and usability. Plus it works offline, without power, you can carry it around, &c.

Books forge you in a way short "content" we consume all day long today will never be able to, there are a few long form podcasts here and there that could be comparable but that's not the bulk of the media kids "consume"
by user____name | 2025-12-14 13:24:33+00:00
It's maddening.

Currently having to migrate to Win11 and thinking I spent 3k on new hardware just to be able to run some absolute clusterfuck of an OS.

I regret not spending it on overpriced Apple hardware, at least it runs all my Adobe crap which I'm 100% dependent on. But then I read joyous stuff like this.

Oh but you say, ""just"" run it on a VM in Linux, like all us rural folk, because big tech evil. Yeah thanks pointdexter, like I didn't know that. And oh look it's running like a complete slideshow on my 4k color calibrated monitor because now you apparently need two fucking GPUs. One for the host and one for the guest just to have hardware acceleration and CUDA video encoding. And I only have room for one GPU so I sell my current CPU and buy a CPU with iGPU. And now apparently I have to run these 10 ducktaped together shell scripts and there's like three guides to achieving a clean passthrough and they're all 50 pages and each is completely different and omg I have other shit to do please kill me already.

Death by mutually incompatible walled gardens, welcome to our fully automated high tech utopia.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-14 13:24:43+00:00
Another possible conclusion is that it's only possible to build them in societies where they can be secretly subsidized and the EU has passed out of this phase.

There's an awkward middle phase where they lie about how long and how much they will cost because the transparency will kill them before they start if real figures are used. But you only get a few chances to pull that trick.
by Macha | 2025-12-14 13:24:57+00:00
Nah, the likes of Drupal and others were established before Wordpress was launched, even longer if you consider Wordpress 1 & 2 were “blog software for blogs” more than the behemoth modern versions have become.

I think being later actually worked in their favor as they caught the wave that Drupal and others were too early for. They were simpler when a lot of new developers and clients were around and grew in complexity as what people did on the web did, while Drupal and co just seemed bloated, even though arguably modern versions of Wordpress with the plugin setups that are common now are even more complicated than those old version of their competitors at the start
by derriz | 2025-12-14 13:25:31+00:00
> It's also just common sense.

Centuries of success with empirical based science is a direct rejection of the approach of trusting "just common sense".

> Only someone without kids would boil this down to a "single data point".

Why are you personalizing this? I have a family and have observed children grow from emergence from the womb and I grew in a much larger family. I'm not sure what the relevance is to the points being discussed. This seems like argument by anecdotal fallacy.

> I also deny that I have do anything to prove heritability, how about you prove the opposite?

I didn't ask you to prove anything. I asked you why you have no interest in looking at a scientific question beyond "I trust my own observations and my conclusion"?

And this question seemingly misses the point - it not a binary question about whether traits are inherited or not but about the degree of the role of inheritance. The author of the piece emphasizes this point extensively.

The salient point of the too-long article was about flaws in a seminal paper on this subject where the author Bouchard presented carefully collected data for identical twins - showing remarkably low variance suggesting a high degree of inheritance. But he hid the data he had collected for non-identical twins, which would have provided us with a basis for judging the significance of the findings regarding identical twins.

> It's a conclusion that is so obvious to the impartial mind that to be confused about it is a sign of extreme ideological indoctrination.

Can we just discuss the science and statistics here?
by danaris | 2025-12-14 13:25:35+00:00
There's also the problem that many "IQ" tests are heavily biased toward a Western, Anglophone education.

Being able to correctly say, for instance, which of four options a "façade" is most like has nothing to do with inherent intelligence; it has to do with whether you were taught the meaning of the word "façade", and the four (often somewhat uncommon) words presented as the choices. The same is true for any of the questions that are, even in part, testing your vocabulary.

Presenting such a test to two people, one of whom was educated at a private school in New York City, and came from a family that highly valued reading and education, and the other at a public school in rural upstate NY, and came from a family that thought it was "too woke" for boys to read books, it is painfully obvious which one will do better, regardless of any genetic factors.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-14 13:26:11+00:00
Oh, are you responding to my examples?

* Last angel: A web serial, sure it's chunked into chapters/updates, but paper novels have chapters too.

* The Wandering inn, same as above, it's at 2 million+ words and counting. People read it.

* The Martian: Actually the shortest text of the bunch. Now available as a traditional paper novel.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-12-14 13:27:14+00:00
That's exactly the kind of situation I had in mind when I wrote that.

Goodstein’s theory would take more symbols than there are atoms in the observable universe to write down in "classic" maths. To "fix" this, mathematicians had to use a "new" way of thinking about infinity known as transfinite induction.

I think if we're smart enough to detect(?) a proof, we'll find a way to express it in a finite manner.
by necovek | 2025-12-14 13:27:47+00:00
What everyone else is saying is that the core value proposition of microservices is that they are independently deployable (which I believe is what you are aiming for as well), which means that there is no tight coupling between them.

If one introduces tight coupling by having a shared library that gets updated in backwards incompatible way and needs to be updated simultaneously in each microservice, you move away from a microservices architecture as your services are not independently deployable anymore.

So in the general case, it is immaterial, but in practice, it can be a mechanism which introduces tight coupling and negates the core value of the microservices architecture.

Here, it was done on purpose as a step to a more monolithic architecture (though it was still only a single service in a larger system, so I'd avoid the "monolith" term).
by doomerhunter | 2025-12-14 13:27:49+00:00
I often tend to integrate talking passionately about a topic in my head with an imaginary interlocutor. While not directly being a rehearsal in itself, it really helps with developing ideas and chaining concepts - at least for me.

I guess everyone is different in regards to handling the pressure when talking in public, but I do agree that you can feel it, most of the time, when someone rehearsed too "scholarly".
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-12-14 13:29:43+00:00
> I feel like the indie-games are almost as clustered in small areas of potential "game design space" as AAA-games are, but just clustered in different areas, in particular around "games inspired by ha handful of SNES games and early Playstation JRPGs

Huh? That is also an artifact of what kind of games you follow. Just of the top of my head:

- colony sims - strategy games (tactical/operational/grand-, with rt, rt+pause, turnbased options for each) - racing games - 4x games - flight sims - spaceflight sims - rpgs - survival games - shmups/ bullet hell - roguelike/roguelite - exploration - rhytm games - horror - factory builder / management sim

are all having a great time.
by raincole | 2025-12-14 13:29:48+00:00
... Prepare shorter or lighter materials for them to read, as this article suggests? Why has reading whole books become the holy grail of education system?

The said education system expected this:

> As a high school student less than a decade ago, he was assigned many whole books and plays to read, among them, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” “The Crucible” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

Yeah, sounds like a very great way to filter out perhaps 20% of good readers and make sure the rest 80% will hate reading for the rest of their lives.
by perrygeo | 2025-12-14 13:30:15+00:00
The link in the last paragraph provides some data to back up the claim. https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware... - If the goal is to increase the rate of software production, there isn't much evidence that AI has moved the needle.

Sure, code gen is faster now. And the industry might finally be waking up to the fact that writing code is a small part of producing software. Getting infinitely faster at one step doesn't speed up the overall process. In fact, there's good evidence it that rapid code gen actually slows down other steps in the process like code review and QA.
by user____name | 2025-12-14 13:30:18+00:00
> By using a service you also chose to support it. > This is how one should make the choices.

Well yeah, but there're not the only choices. The full opportunity cost is finding and paying and learning alternatives when you have decades of vendor lock-in to overcome. Maybe "keeping people honest" is a bigger ask than you think while you're busy meeting all kinds of other requirements which take priority.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-14 13:30:26+00:00
90% of everything is crap.

--Sturgeon's law.

Maybe even 99+% these days, seeing how easy it is to publish your first finger-painting online. Doesn't mean there isn't any good stuff, or even a lot of good stuff. 1% of a lot is still a lot.

(ps. and once you get people reading, they tend to keep doing it and develop taste over time. if it's even just a few who wouldn't have done it before. That's good, right?)

(pps. For example: at 2M words, I think pirateaba might exceed the "first 1M words are practice" threshold)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-14 13:30:55+00:00
Ehhh I’m more of a “hybrid model” guy myself. I do think the government should be more involved in regulating what these companies can do to us and how they can use our data, but I’m not really in to your vision of how involved they are in apps directly (imagine that kind of power with the Trump administration).

Meanwhile I do think parents should not be expected to literally handle every element of this because it’s just not possible to have eyes on every bit of media/entertainment/etc our kids can find. That being said it is our responsibility to educate our kids on some level, so we can’t just expect to pass the buck entirely to external systems. I do think it’s reasonable to expect some basic guardrails though.

Needs to be a little bit of effort and restriction across the board.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-12-14 13:31:14+00:00
>> This is the first I’ve heard of Apple locking someone out of their account for no reason. Google does it all the time. So, yeah, can’t leave Apple over this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cem2jo/apple_u...

but evaluate your risk as you want.

The thing is, you don't need to avoid buying Apple completely, you just need to avoid giving Apple all of your life: your photos, documents, emails, backups, passwords, bills, ... basically you should avoid doing what the person in the OP did.