MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by everdrive | 2025-12-04 11:05:21+00:00
> The key reason I believe though is mattresses can absorb damp so you wana keep that air gap there to lessen this effect and provide ventilation.

I was concerned about this as well, but it hasn't been an issue with us for years. I definitely think this must be climate-dependent.

Regardless, I appreciate you taking the argument seriously and discussing pros and cons.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-04 11:06:56+00:00
Why does everybody keep insisting on this “Enron accounting” stuff. LLM companies need shitloads of compute for specialized use case. Cloud vendor wants to become a big player in selling compute for that specialized use case, and has compute available.

Cloud provider gives credit to LLM provider in exchange for a part of the company.

These are really normal business deals.
Best way to collect LinkedIn post URLs by keyword and comment later
by stephanemillet | 2025-12-04 11:07:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m exploring ways to collect LinkedIn post URLs based on a keyword search, with the goal of later reviewing those posts and commenting on them manually (no bots auto-commenting, no mass spam).

Concretely, I’d like to:

Search for posts that mention specific keywords (e.g. “we’re hiring”, “looking for X role”, etc.)

Collect the URLs of those posts (and maybe some basic metadata: author, date, text snippet)

Store them in a database or spreadsheet so I can go through them myself and decide if/what to comment

I’m aware LinkedIn’s ToS are quite strict around scraping and automation, and I don’t want to get an account banned or build something that’s outright abusive. I’m trying to understand what would be a realistic, non-shady approach here.

So my questions are:

Is there any legitimate / API-based way to do this at small scale?

If not, what’s the “least bad” / most ethical pattern people have seen in practice?

Browser automation with very low volume and human-in-the-loop?

Third-party tools that already provide some kind of post search / export?

Are there better alternatives I should consider (e.g. relying on other data sources, job boards, etc.) instead of touching LinkedIn directly?

I’m less interested in “here is how to bypass LinkedIn’s protections” and more in: "Given the constraints, what’s the most robust, boring, semi-automated setup you’d design?"

Curious how people who’ve actually built hiring / sourcing / lead-gen tools think about this.

Thanks!
by blackenedgem | 2025-12-04 11:09:18+00:00
Yeah the cheapest time to buy old tech is always just when the new stuff has come out. That's when suppliers are trying to shift old stock at cheaper margins.

You can take a look at the 5800X3D and how it was at its cheapest about 2 years ago when AMD was winding down production and Zen 4 had been launched.
by undefeated | 2025-12-04 11:10:31+00:00
I never had a conversation like that — probably because I personally rarely use LLMs to actually generate code for me — but I've somehow subconciously learned to do this myself, especially with clarifying questions.

If I find myself needing to ask a clarifying question, I always edit the previous message to ask the next question because the models seem to always force what they said in their clarification into further responses.

It's... odd... to find myself conditioned, by the LLM, to the proper manners of conditioning the LLM.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-04 11:10:35+00:00
In fact knowing the private key for other people's certificate you issue is strictly forbidden for the publicly trusted CAs. That's what happened years back when a "reseller" company named Trustico literally sent the private keys for all their customers to the issuing CA apparently under the impression this would somehow result in refunding or re-issuing or something. The CA checked, went "These are real, WTF?" and revoked all the now useless certificates.

It is called a private key for a reason. Don't tell anybody. It's not a secret that you're supposed to share with somebody, it's private, tell nobody. Which in this case means - don't let your "reseller" choose the key, that's now their key, your key should be private which means you don't tell anybody what it is.

If you're thinking "But wait, if I don't tell anybody, how can that work?" then congratulations - this is tricky mathematics they didn't cover in school, it is called "Public key cryptography" and it was only invented in the 20th century. You don't need to understand how it works, but if you want to know, the easiest kind still used today is called the RSA Digital Signature so you can watch videos or read a tutorial about that.

If you're just wondering about Let's Encrypt, well, Let's Encrypt don't know or want to know anybody else's private keys either, the ACME software you use will, in entirely automated cases, pick random keys, not tell anybody, but store them for use by the server software and obtain suitable certificate for those keys, despite not telling anybody what the key is.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-04 11:10:38+00:00
I can't get over the confident dismissal of science by hand-waving about imperfect modelling. But what I said has nothing to do with that, and is more true to the real world than an idealized perfect competition model. Pathologizing normal trading behavior like this is more the result laymen and authorities misinterpreting bad economic modelling. So I recommend you take some of your own medicine and look at the mirror. Maybe a trade affecting the market isn't so suspicious as you make it out to be, because the perfect competition model you're using to make accusations of monopoly simply doesn't make sense. Again, if there is something wrong with affecting the market, then you or I are just as liable for our consciously self-interested behavior of choosing higher-quality, lower-priced products.
by donny2018 | 2025-12-04 11:11:23+00:00
I'm a former AI-hater and sceptic. I do B2B consultancy/development work for my clients.

I understand why people are irritated by this.

However, recently I tried the GitHub Copilot agent with VS Code using Claude Opus 4.5. It literally implemented, tested and fixed entire new features in minutes, that otherwise would have taken days or even weeks of routine repetitive work from me. All while mimicking style and patterns in my existing codebase which made me instantly understand exactly what it was doing. I found it to be an insane productivity boost and I can see how it might be affecting hiring processes in numerous industries, especially in software engineering space.
by runelk | 2025-12-04 11:12:28+00:00
> I tested myself for ADHD by taking amphetamines.

You cannot test yourself for ADHD - you need to do the actual work that is required for a proper diagnose. And you cannot test yourself for anything at all by taking amphetamines. Seriously. You were using it recreationally. When you post stuff like this online, people that believe what you write could get hurt.
by TMWNN | 2025-12-04 11:13:38+00:00
> This is a bit offtopic (but im genuinely curious since i dont use iPhones) but is there any advantage to using faceid over touchid in iphones?

Touch ID is far, far, far superior to Face ID.

I just want Touch ID to return on iPhones. Oh how I hate, hate, hate Face ID and its inability to read my face without my glasses when I get up in the morning.
by consp | 2025-12-04 11:15:19+00:00
I usually buy my cables there since the price difference for brand cables is negligible and I like to have my cable actually do the rated specs. Full pc parts no, but then again I usually buy niche parts not widely available. I usually go to the small repair shop first, and if they don't have any to the big brand. Small shop is a bit more expensive but the guy can order specialized small parts (printer memory module comes to mind) if you ask nicely and even directed you to other shops. Medium sized 100k+ city in NW Europe.
by piva00 | 2025-12-04 11:15:38+00:00
Overwatch is a objective-based game, and like Valorant is a "hero shooter". Apex and Fortnite are battle royales.

I think the closest I got was The Finals but still class-based, so reminds me more of Team Fortress.

I loved playing 1v1 on Quake 2/3 and UT, also team deathmatch, from the list you commented it feels like each game got one of those aspects but none that makes the genre of UT what it is: knowing where weapons/ammo/armor spawn, map knowledge to navigate around, emergent movement mechanics (rocket jumps, strafe-jumping, etc.).

Interesting to see this genre mostly died out, and remnants of it have been scattered across other genres.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-04 11:15:47+00:00
This. I believe people massively exaggerate the influence of social engineering as a form of coping. "they only voted for x because they are dumb and blindly fell for russian misinformation." reality is more nuanced. It's true that marketers for the last century have figured out social engineering but it's not some kind of magic persuasion tool. People still have free will and choice and some ability to discern truth from falsehood.
by lordnacho | 2025-12-04 11:15:48+00:00
I don't know how old your mom is, but my pet theory of authority is that people older than about 40 accept printed text as authoritative. As in, non-handwritten letters that look regular.

When we were kids, you had either direct speech, hand-written words, or printed words.

The first two could be done by anybody. Anything informal like your local message board would be handwritten, sometimes with crappy printing from a home printer. It used to cost a bit to print text that looked nice, and that text used to be associated with a book or newspaper, which were authoritative.

Now suddenly everything you read is shaped like a newspaper. There's even crappy news websites that have the physical appearance of a proper newspaper website, with misinformation on them.
by nialv7 | 2025-12-04 11:15:52+00:00
I always think Valve as the "ideal" capitalist company, because what they do fits the idea of "invisible hand" perfectly, that each individual acting in their own self-interest end up benefiting everyone.

And you'd be right, that Valve is nothing special, if that idea is correct, because in that case most companies will be like Valve. But just look around, do you see many companies like Valve? No, that's because capitalism is bullshit and that makes Valve stand out.
by Saline9515 | 2025-12-04 11:17:26+00:00
Depending on where you live, the patches of "nature" may be too small to absorb the feces, especially in modern cities where there are almost as many dogs as inhabitants.

It's a similar problem to why we don't urinate against trees - while in a countryside forest it may be ok, if 5 men do it every night after leaving the pub, the designated pissing tree will start to have problems due to soil change.
by undefeated | 2025-12-04 11:18:15+00:00
I think part of the problem is that you need a model to classify the data, which needs to be trained on data that wasn't classified (or a dramatically smaller set of human-classified data), so it's effectively impossible to escape this sort of input bias.

Tangentially, I'd be far from the first to point out that these LLMs are now polluting their own training data, which makes filtering simulatenously all the more important and impossible.
by emporas | 2025-12-04 11:18:15+00:00
Dialogue you mean, conversation-debate, not dialog the screen displayed element, for interfacing with the user.

The group screaming the louder is considered to be correct, it is pretty bad.

There needs to an identity system, in which people are filtered out when the conversation devolves into ad-hominem attacks, and only debaters with the right balance of knowledge and no hidden agenda's join the conversation.

Reddit for example is a good implementation of something like this, but the arbiter cannot have that much power over their words, or their identities, getting them banned for example.

> Even here it's the same, it's comments with replies but it's not truly a discussion.

For technology/science/computer subjects HN is very good, but for other subjects not so good, as it is the case with every other forum.

But a solution will be found eventually. I think what is missing is an identity system to hop around different ways of debating and not be tied to a specific website or service. Solving this problem is not easy, so there has to be a lot of experimentation before an adequate solution is established.
by exceptione | 2025-12-04 11:18:55+00:00
> People hate being manipulated.

The crux is whether the signal of abnormality will be perceived as such in society.

- People are primarily social animals, if they see their peers accept affairs as normal, they conclude it is normal. We don't live in small villages anymore, so we rely on media to "see our peers". We are increasingly disconnected from social reality, but we still need others to form our group values. So modern media have a heavily concentrated power as "towntalk actors", replacing social processing of events and validation of perspectives.

- People are easily distracted, you don't have to feed them much.

- People have on average an enormous capacity to absorb compliments, even when they know it is flattery. It is known we let ourselves being manipulated if it feels good. Hence, the need for social feedback loops to keep you grounded in reality.

TLDR: Citizens in the modern age are very reliant on the few actors that provide a semblance of public discourse, see Fourth Estate. The incentives of those few actors are not aligned with the common man. The autonomous, rational, self-valued citizen is a myth. Undermine the man's groups process => the group destroys the man.
by crimsoneer | 2025-12-04 11:19:45+00:00
I mean, while this might be true, I'm not sure democracies being totally incapable of regulating the internet is a good place to be. I'm not sure a race to the bottom (if you attempt to regulate us in anyway we'll leave/go complain to the US president) is really a great outcome here. "Porn websites should check your age" is not some radical totalitarian demand I think?
by sfn42 | 2025-12-04 11:20:23+00:00
Have you considered the possibility that 401ks and pension funds etc are included in those numbers?

Open for the elite in the way that everyone else don't have enough money to matter.

The richest people are so much richer than everyone else that there's no comparison. You could grab a million average people off the street and all of you combined probably wouldn't be richer than Jeff Bezos. Think about that. This one guy is wealthier than a million other people combined, literally wealthier than an entire small country or large city, and he's not alone. There's more of them.

Those guys rule the world, everyone else are passengers.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-04 11:20:44+00:00
And probably never will, because C++ compatibility with C beyond what was done initially, is to one be close as possible but not at the expense of better alternatives that the language already offers.

Thus std::array, std::span, std::string, std::string_view, std::vector, with hardned options turned on.

For the static thing, the right way in C++ is to use a template parameter,

template<typename T, int size> int foo(T (&ary)[size]) { return size; }

-- https://godbolt.org/z/MhccKWocE

If you want to get fancy, you might make use of concepts, or constexpr to validate size at compile time.
by znpy | 2025-12-04 11:21:40+00:00
Kinda yes?

Nowadays the standards for Linux support are much higher. This isn't the 1990s anymore. Releasing a half-assed support that will be obsolete in six months is pretty much useless.

Also, the fact that the drivers have not been upstreamed tells me they're most likely sub-par in terms of code quality and possibly stability.

What's the point of buying hardware whose softwares support is already deteriorating ?
by HighGoldstein | 2025-12-04 11:22:10+00:00
Microsoft already has the XBox and despite being backed by one of the biggest tech companies in the world it's a rather weak product. To add to this, with every major studio acquisition they have done there has been a noticeable increase in game monetization and decrease in quality.

AWS has tried to get into the gaming market and only succeeded in creating giant money sinks even if some of their products were technically appealing.

Oracle making anything consumer-facing, much less something that isn't a total nightmare, seems inconceivable.

Valve is able to completely outmatch competitors in a chosen field because of what they are like as a company. No shareholders that expect quarterly growth. No massive bureaucratic corporate structure, just highly skilled engineers for the most part.
Show HN: AI Image Generation Boilerplate (Next.js and Supabase and Stripe)
by 4htmlgames | 2025-12-04 11:23:29+00:00
I built a boilerplate that lets developers launch an AI image generation app in hours instead of weeks. It includes Next.js 15, Supabase auth/storage, Stripe integration, rate limiting, and support for 50+ Replicate models out of the box. The goal was to avoid rebuilding the same auth, credits, webhooks, and image pipeline every time. Would love feedback on architecture, DX, and what features are missing for real production use.

Landing Page / Waitlist here: https://lacy-yoke-439.notion.site/PlutoSaaS-Build-Your-AI-Im...
by 0xf3ffff | 2025-12-04 11:24:03+00:00
This is exactly what I was looking for yesterday - a simple printable calendar that can fill an A4 or A3 page. However, I was more interested in a monthly version, rather than yearly. I tried vibe coding a simple Python script to generate a version that could suit me with Gemini CLI, but the results were comically bad (granted, I gave up pretty early on). I am sure there are plenty of similar solutions online, but I couldn't find one I really liked, at least from some basic Googling.
Show HN: InkStats – AI vs. AI Simulator for Disney Lorcana Decks
by RPeres | 2025-12-04 11:24:14+00:00
I’m new to Disney Lorcana and built a tool to learn the game by brute force.

InkStats lets you paste in two decks and have AI vs AI play hundreds of games. It then shows: Matchup win rates with confidence intervals Game length / play–draw split “Key cards” – how much a deck’s win rate changes when a specific card is seen or in the opener The bots are simple but consistent: a rules engine plus heuristic evaluation with some lookahead, so both decks play the same “robot pilot” every game.
by kev009 | 2025-12-04 11:24:14+00:00
Yup "could shape".. I mean this has been going on time immemorial.

It was odd to see random nerds who hated Bill Gates the software despot morph into acksually he does a lot of good philanthropy in my lifetime but the floodgates are wide open for all kinds of bizarre public behavior from oligarchs these days.

The game is old as well as evergreen. Hearst, Nobel, Howard Huges come to mind of old. Musk with Twitter, Ellison with TikTok, Bezos with Washington Post these days etc. The costs are already insignificant because they generally control other people's money to run these things.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-04 11:24:52+00:00
Good things of American culture?

So, understand that the things I'm about to mention are not universally true for all Americans, obviously. For any feature, there's a statistical distribution over the population of individuals. I'm not saying that "All Americans are more X than all Europeans". I'm saying that "The average American is more X than the average European, even if that difference is dwarfed by the standard deviation within which each of those populations".

Here's some that come to mind:

1- positivity. Americans seem to have more of a can do attitude, Europeans start out with the negative belief that attempts will fail and things don't change.

2- friendliness. I lived 1 year in Chicago and in that one year I was approached on the street 3 times by random people who just said "hi, how are you doing? Nice day". In the 10 years I lived in London that happened exactly zero times.

3- shared identity. In Europe there's endless "cultural bickering" between neighboring countries over their miniscule, irrelevant differences. I don't perceive this across American states. The one thing that all Europeans agree on is that we're happy we're not American. How pathetic is that.

4- emphasis of freedom and free speech.

5- work culture (partially). I'm not going to say that I want Europe to emulate American work culture whole sale, because in America there's more abuse from employers and that's a negative aspect. At the same time, one thing I think is great is that in the US it seems that some significant fraction of people actually believe in the jobs they do. In Europe people say that, but we all know it's fake, we're just here for the paycheck. This might just be American positivity spilling into work life.

These are all things I've heard Europeans explicitly point to as undesirable:

1- American positivity is fake

2- American friendliness is fake

3- American shared identity is actually lack of identity

4- The concept of Freedom is American propaganda

5- enjoying your job is Stockholm syndrome from being abused by your employer.
by defrost | 2025-12-04 11:25:34+00:00
Oak and other trees, felled several thousand years ago and used as trackway posts, in buildings, etc are the bread and butter of

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

Art historians often look at the wood panels of paintings that are 400 years or more old.

You might enjoy reading the general overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology

and, ahh, drilling deeper into the onion rings.

The real problem with tree rings here in this specific case is ... Ethiopia .. not a lot of big trees now, nor in the recent past when it was grasslands - but not really my field - there's likely to be very slow growing unassuming trees that are surprisingly old there .. and remains of older trees that have overlapping ring sequences.

But yes - geological / geophysical clues are likely more relevant here.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-04 11:26:35+00:00
I mean there's always the a the implied asterisk "per IAU definitions". Pluto hasn't actually changed or vanished. It's no less or more interesting as an object for the change.

It's not irrational to challenge the IAU definition, and there are scads of alternatives (what scientist doesn't love coming up with a new ontology?).

I think, however, it's perhaps a bit irrational to actually be upset by the change because you find it painful to update a simple fact like "there are nine planets" (with no formal mention of what planet means specifically, other than "my DK book told me so when I was 5 and by God, I loved that book") to "there are eight planets, per some group of astronomers, and actually we've increasingly discovered it's complicated what 'planet' even means and the process hasn't stopped yet". In fact, you can keep the old fact too with its own asterisk "for 60 years between Pluto's discovery and the gradual discovery of the Kuiper belt starting in the 90s, Pluto was generally considered a planet due to its then-unique status in the outer solar system, and still is for some people, including some astronomers".

And that's all for the most minor, inconsequential thing you can imagine: what a bunch of dorks call a tiny frozen rock 5 billion kilometres away, that wasn't even noticed until the 30s. It just goes to show the potential sticking power of a fact once learned, especially if you can get it in early and let it sit.