MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-12-10 20:21:15+00:00
I long had a similar idea for stocks. Analyze posts of people giving stock tips on WSB, Twitter, etc and rank by accuracy. I would be very surprised if this had not been done a thousand times by various trading firms and enterprising individuals.

Of course in the above example of stocks there are clear predictions (HNWS will go up) and an oracle who resolves it (stock market). This seems to be a way harder problem for generic free form comments. Who resolves what prediction a particular comment has made and whether it actually happened?
Ask HN: Should we start switching payment providers dynamically
by marchypolite | 2025-12-10 20:21:17+00:00
Right now Polar.sh and many other MOR services are becoming popular but I was thinking in some cases you would probably want to use a MOR for customers who are in a region where you have already crossed the threshold for sales tax but in others it might be better for you to use stripe directly since the price would be lower for your customer since you have not crossed the threshold for sales tax. would it be a good idea to switch payment providers dynamically based on what's best for the situation?
by mistercheph | 2025-12-10 20:21:19+00:00
A majority don't seem to be predictions about the future, and it seems to mostly like comments that give extended air to what was then and now the consensus viewpoint, e.g. the top comment from pcwalton the highest scored user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10657401

> (Copying my comment here from Reddit /r/rust:) Just to repeat, because this was somewhat buried in the article: Servo is now a multiprocess browser, using the gaol crate for sandboxing. This adds (a) an extra layer of defense against remote code execution vulnerabilities beyond that which the Rust safety features provide; (b) a safety net in case Servo code is tricked into performing insecure actions. There are still plenty of bugs to shake out, but this is a major milestone in the project.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-10 20:21:27+00:00
Yup, it's something I think people need to experience.

I lived in the UK for 2 years without a car and it ultimately did not negatively impact me (other than needing to memorize local bus routes). I lived in towns as small as 10000 people (Newtown, Wales) and they had both a connected rail system and a couple of bus routes serving the town and connecting it to other towns.

Buses absolutely can work in even quiet rural locations, they just need to be properly funded and prioritized. They also need to be subsidized. The American notion that public transit needs to either run net zero or turn a profit is backwards and fundamentally stopping it from working well.
by Yokohiii | 2025-12-10 20:21:49+00:00
Look at PHP. Every year people say PHP got much better then in the dark ages.

Yes it got rid of it's rough edges. People solely look positive at it because it has become more familiar with mainstream OOP languages. But it has no identity anymore. It is still simpler for the web then most competitors, but it doesn't matter because you install 30 packages for an hello world anyway. The community doesn't want simplicity, they want easy, with glorious looking code.

The irony is that PHP is perceived more attractive by coders, but it's so generic now, that a newbie is unlikely to choose it.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 20:22:04+00:00
>"Or maybe I just have a different conclusion to you?"

Whatever your conclusion is, it’s sort of beside the point I was making, which is that the many of the arguments about mandated seatbelts (or smoking, alcohol) are meaningfully different than the arguments being made today about age verification for websites.

>“So if I'm for these laws, consider that a sign of how bad these sites have become, not how uninformed I am.”

This is kind of reinforcing what I said in my first comment. Most, if not all, of the arguments against these types of laws aren’t based on the premise that these sites aren’t bad. I haven’t seen anyone saying that TikTok is a societal good. Almost everyone agrees there.

I’m saying that the main arguments are different. I am suggesting that there are more differences between the seatbelt debate and the age-verification-for-websites debate than there are similarities. Which is why I thought your comment of “eerily similar” was off-base.
by cholantesh | 2025-12-10 20:22:06+00:00
>Israel's stated goal is to neuter Hamas and return the hostages, not kill civilians

Sure, yeah, just like it was in any number of previous operations, which at the time they declared successful, even though they did quite a bit more of the latter. Per Occam's razor, either they are prodigious bunglers, or you are overly credulous.
by underlipton | 2025-12-10 20:22:33+00:00
I haven't read Austen, but there's an infamous exchange in the original series where the ceremonial head of the Space Nazis compares his son, the acting head of the Space Nazis, to Hitler. The son replies, essentially, "Thanks."

There's a tension in Mobile Suit Gundam and its direct descendants. The Space Nazis (Zeon) are also sort of, kind of a stand-in for Imperial Japan during WWII, and between the implicit relatability therein, and the charisma and popularity of series antihero Char Aznable (a Zeon officer), there is an enthusiasm in fan circles (leaking into later productions) for humanizing grunts on the "villain" side while emphasizing the corruption of the side the heroes happen to be on. But this as subtext to the headline narrative of Zeon being mass-murderers and the Earth Federation trying to stop them.

There's also running, unspoken theme of the various corporate conglomerates playing governments and ideologues against each other for profit, and occasionally stepping in (usually with a particularly powerful prototype robot) when one side threatens to blow up the Earth Sphere for realsies.

The end result is a lot of people dying for no reason, and constant backsliding into a state of war, and main characters who realize how ridiculous such circumstances are, but (as per TFW) don't have much power to do anything other than try to survive and protect their loved ones. Viewers are able to see where the shape of that society is warped.

That's without speaking much to the alternate universes. In Gundam Wing, the greatest threat to a global aristocracy-cum-junta is a small, loosely-associated paramilitary group made up of 5 teenage boys and their supporters. The machinations of colonial-era Europe are so philosophically feeble as to be legitimately challenged by NSYNC and Greta Thunberg.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-10 20:22:38+00:00
The two party system exists because even in a multi party system (eg. those that exist in proportional representation governments) still end up as "In government" vs "In opposition"

Secondly, we employ "adversarial" systems for two branches of government (legislative and judicial) because it's a hell of a lot easier to spot flaws in ideas of people you are opposed to (as opposed to some European Judiciaries that have "inquisitorial" systems, where a judge investigates activity)

Very often in the proportional systems people opine that "grand coalitions" should form, with the two largest parties, although that loses a lot of the advantages of the adversarial system, and has a tendency to steam roll smaller interests in the country.

Finally, the Greeks pointed out that governance within societies cycles through a series of styles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory

The USA itself has gone through SIX iterations of how parties should look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_system#United_States
by squigz | 2025-12-10 20:22:43+00:00
> What you are arguing against is the restriction of access to apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Snapchat —- all of which are filled with predatory algorithms that have shown to have negative affect on the mental health of teens, young adults, AND adults.

Actually, what I'm arguing against is the restriction of whatever apps a government chooses to apply their very loose definition to. What happens when the kids congregate on another platform? Presumably they'll just add that to the list too, right? Does a cat and mouse game seem productive? To say nothing of the precedent set being used for political ends.

What I'm arguing for is stuff that may actually solve the underlying issues - like, for example, addressing those predatory algorithms you refer to.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 20:22:46+00:00
Clipping and dissecting a coin into smaller pieces for down-conversion are very different things. The piece of eight wasn't haphazardly cut, but instead pre-indented for breaking cleanly.

If you want to buy something worth 6% of a gold coin, whacking off an edge of one is a weird way to do it. You'd need a scale handy.
by qsort | 2025-12-10 20:23:19+00:00
Everyone is doing this extreme pearl clutching around the specific wording. Yeah, it's not 100% accurate for many reasons, but the broader point was about employment effects, it doesn't need to completely replace every single developer to have a sizable impact. Sure, it's not there yet and it's not particularly close, but can you be certain that it will never be there?

Error bars, folks, use them.
by dang | 2025-12-10 20:23:29+00:00
I don't agree, and there are many counterexamples in this thread alone.

People who are passionate about a divisive topic often feel like the site/moderators/community are hopelessly biased against their view. The people with opposing views feel exactly the same way—which, ironically, becomes the one thing they can agree about, although they disagree about the direction.

This is ultimately a function of how the passions work, so I don't believe there's much we can do about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by sodality2 | 2025-12-10 20:23:40+00:00
It pulls counties from OSM administrative boundaries of level 6, which according to the OSM wiki, is "State counties and county equivalents, Territorial municipalities" (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administr...). It does lead to some weird oddities, like counties with under 10 homes... I'd rather not manually correct it, since I want to rely on pure OSM data. (Unless you mean there is an actual bug in the processing and there's counties listed that aren't in the right states...)

I'll add a link to the OSM relation for the county to each county page, so you can see the source data on OSM to verify/edit.
by n8cpdx | 2025-12-10 20:23:44+00:00
> Including how it looks at the surrounding code and patterns.

Citation needed. Even with specific examples, “follow the patterns from the existing tests”, etc copilot (gpt 5) still insists on generating tests using the wrong methods (“describe” and “it” in a codebase that uses “suite” and “test”).

An intern, even an intern with a severe cognitive disability, would not be so bad at pattern following.
by clickety_clack | 2025-12-10 20:24:22+00:00
I think adults are barely able to take reasoned political positions in today’s online environment, but at least an adult has the experience to make the attempt. Exposing kids to the type of online political persuasion we have today means that we are exposing them to something they have not got the tools to navigate. They just get swept up into whatever the popular idea of the day happens to be. To me, the argument that separating kids from social media separates them from today’s political onslaught is one of the best arguments in favor of it.
by benclarkeio | 2025-12-10 20:24:32+00:00
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by jack_tripper | 2025-12-10 20:24:34+00:00
Yes, and how would the government ban social media apps from preschoolers without forcing everyone to doxx themselves to prove age?

Your sarcastic jab doesn't add any new questions or answers to this very important issue, since everyone can agree social media is bad for kids, but also we don't want to lose internet anonymity just because schools and parents can't raise kids without giving them a smartphone in hand since birth.
by Hizonner | 2025-12-10 20:24:37+00:00
> I don't think we should normalise children on platforms where the content contains political agitation, sexual and violent content, crypto and fintech scams, etc.

You mean like the outside world?

What happens when these hot house flowers of yours reach whatever magic age and get dumped into all of that, still with no clue, but with more responsibilities and more to lose?

I haven't noticed a whole lot of governments, or even very many parents, worrying about doing much to actually prepare anybody for adulthood. It's always about protection, never about helping them become competent, independent human beings. Probably because protection is set-and-forget, or at least they think it is... whereas preparation requires actually spending time, and paying attention, and thinking, and communicating. Maybe even having to answer hard questions about your own ideas.

... and since when are kids supposed to be protected from politics? We used to call that "civics class".
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by dwattttt | 2025-12-10 20:25:34+00:00
Anecdotally, my "wow, this Rust business might really go somewhere" moment was when I tried adding multithreading to a random tool I made (dispatching tasks to new threads).

Multithreading had not been planned or architected for, it took 30 min, included the compiler informing me I couldn't share a hashmap with those threads unsynchronised, and informing me on how to fix it.
by dist-epoch | 2025-12-10 20:25:46+00:00
source: me

I wrote 4000 lines of Rust code with Codex - a high throughput websocket data collector.

Spoiler: I do not know Rust at all. I discussed possible architectures with GPT/Gemini/Grok (sync/async, data flow, storage options, ...), refined a design and then it was all implemented with agents.

Works perfectly, no bugs.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-10 20:25:52+00:00
It's the combination of ads, analytics, personalization, and scale.

Ads mean that you want to keep the user on your platform as long as possible. They are incentivized to make it addictive at the most fundamental level. A company selling movies doesn't care how often you watch the movies you buy, they just want to convince you to buy them. A company that makes money for each minute you spend watching a movie would put out very different products.

Analytics mean they can precisely see the effect of any given change to figure out what makes the product more addictive.

Personalization means they can tailor your experience to be addictive to you, personally, rather than just generally addictive to people.

And scale means they can afford to pay enormous amounts of money to a lot of smart people and have them work full time on the problem of making the product more addictive.

I don't know what you do about it.
by chasil | 2025-12-10 20:25:55+00:00
The Geneva Convention ought to have something to say about how a general may and may not be attacked.

If I remember correctly, the assailant must be dressed in some sort of military uniform to be considered a prisoner of war if captured. Lacking the uniform, it would be espionage and no Geneva Convention rights.

Obviously, neither side in the conflict is adhering to these rules.

I should give this a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-12-10 20:26:04+00:00
> I think what's killing Dems is that they don't understand the medium.

Generally agree, but

> Him and Trump had a grand old time at the whitehouse

Yeah, but that wasn't entirely positively received, despite his earlier social media success. Him buddying up with Trump was a huuuuge turn off for me.

> Newsom has been trolling lately and his approval ratings are only going up.

Newsom's content is also a huge turn off for me, and I am not convinced that his supposed approval ratings are not simply more CTR type machinations from the DNC. Maybe there's some segment of the population that genuinely wants whatever the hell Newsom is pushing content-wise, I certainly don't have #s on my side. Mamdani's efforts - Trump buddying aside - were much better.

> Dems being a million years old is killing the dems.

Yes, but I think age is simply a proxy for a number of other highly correlated behaviors and positions. Most progressives can name a couple of >70yo dems for whom these complaints do not apply.
Show HN: Gophrql – A pure Go implementation of PRQL
by maxpert | 2025-12-10 20:26:22+00:00
I wrote GoPhRQL, a Go implementation of PRQL (https://prql-lang.org) the pipelined relational query language that compiles to SQL. I mostly built it because I wanted to use PRQL from Go and couldn’t find a working port. It’s functional, still evolving, and fun to hack on. It compiles to valid SQL for Postgres, MySQL, DuckDB, SQLite, and more.

You can access repo here: https://github.com/maxpert/gophrql
by notnullorvoid | 2025-12-10 20:26:59+00:00
Excessive social media is detrimental (to everyone). Age restrictions are not a good solution, it effectively categorises it as an adult activity, and glorifies it further.

Kids are very good at identifying hypocritical behaviour and scare tactics. It'll end up counterproductive like the D.A.R.E. program.

If the kids are forced out, the adults should be too.
by Rperry2174 | 2025-12-10 20:26:59+00:00
One thing this really highlights to me is how often the "boring" takes end up being the most accurate. The provocative, high-energy threads are usually the ones that age the worst.

If an LLM were acting as a kind of historian revisiting today’s debates with future context, I’d bet it would see the same pattern again and again: the sober, incremental claims quietly hold up, while the hyperconfident ones collapse.

Something like "Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh" is classic cost-curve progress. Boring, steady, and historically extremely reliable over long horizons. Probably one of the most likely headlines today to age correctly, even if it gets little attention.

On the flip side, stuff like "New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care" feels like high-risk framing. Benchmarks rotate constantly, and “struggle” headlines almost always age badly as models jump whole generations.

I bet theres many "boring but right" takes we overlook today and I wondr if there's a practical way to surface them before hindsight does
by skissane | 2025-12-10 20:27:01+00:00
No one has ever done it is not in itself evidence it can’t be done, only that it is hard.

And my point was-no matter how hard human life extension is, mind uploading is many orders of magnitude harder. The first, it seems likely in principle that we could achieve it if only we knew the right genetic changes to make-now, you may be right that in a thousand years we still won’t work out in practice exactly what they are-but human life extension has a certain kind of theoretical in principle feasibility which could well coexist with practical infeasibility; mind uploading lacks even that level of theoretical in principle feasibility.
by scblock | 2025-12-10 20:27:08+00:00
Plexamp is a good option if you already have a Plex setup and subscription. I also use it and like it quite a bit. But it's paid only, and doesn't seem quite like what the author is looking for in terms of UI and focus.

Another option is something like MPD, there are some nice graphical clients for macOS and it has good flac/cue support (a single file album shows up as individual tracks in the interface), but you have to set up the mpd server first, then choose a client, and it can be a pretty DIY experience. I use a setup like this on linux but have never set up mpd on a mac.
by dangus | 2025-12-10 20:27:25+00:00
Now you’ve started the meta-topic of my change in topic. This is illegal because your royal decree said that topics can’t change or evolve at all.

I propose we change the subject to how you’re the king of this website and you alone determine the topic of discussion. Would that be okay with you, Dear Leader?

This issue of replaceable battery is not only irrelevant because the product is going to fail, it’s irrelevant because it clearly complies with EU law. If it doesn’t you have to explain how the Apple Watch is legal in Europe with a battery that Apple themselves don’t replace in their stores, opting instead to users an entirely new watch.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-10 20:27:28+00:00
I'm quite ok with only writing code in my personal time. In fact, if I could solve the problems there faster, I'd be delighted.

Instead, I've reacted to the article from the opposite direction. All those grand claims about stuff this tech doesn't do and can't do. All that trying to validate the investment as rational when it's absolutely obvious it's at least 2 orders of magnitude larger than any arguably rational value.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-10 20:27:40+00:00
>> Yes, you can use it everywhere. Is that what you consider a success?

> ... yes?

Then perhaps you and I define success differently? As I've said in other comments above, C persisting or really standing still is not what I would think of as a winning and vibrant community. And the moving embedded and kernel development from what was previously a monoculture to something more diverse could be a big win for developers. My hope is that competition from Rust makes using C better/easier/more productive, but I have my doubts as to whether it will move C to make changes.
Show HN: (Tag)YoureIt – a small got tag CLI utility
by frontendstrong | 2025-12-10 20:27:40+00:00
Hey HN,

I had an annoying little problem so I built a tiny CLI to scratch the itch.

We trigger deployments via git tags for different environments (v0.0.0 for prod, s0.0.0 for staging, etc). With multiple devs in the same repo, my workflow became:

- Manually creating tags in GitLab’s UI

- Clicking around to see “what’s the latest tag for staging?” and “who last touched prod?”

- Squinting at raw git tags that aren’t very friendly for this use case

I wanted a way to see, increment, and push environment-specific tags without leaving the terminal.

So I wrote a small CLI that: - list – shows the latest tag per environment, plus who created it and how long ago

- bump [env] – lets you pick an env, finds the latest tag with that prefix, bumps the patch version, optionally adds an annotation, creates the tag, and pushes it to origin

It’s just a thin wrapper around git, no extra state or infra – basically a nicer UX for deployment tags, but this has been helpful for me so hopefully it can be helpful for you.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/youreit