MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2025-12-14 21:38:22+00:00
Look at all the things that have been done and are done. I can look at my life, as can most others (and hopefully, you too). If that's not your experience, I promise you there is far better out there - not perfect, but good and better.

> Humans are ... antisocial

The well-established facts are that Homo sapiens and related species are 100% social animals; we live in groups and do not survive alone. We're not like wolves or bears; chimpanzees live in groups, not alone in the jungle. Our means of living, surviving, and thriving are all built for doing it only in groups, including empathy, cooperation, and altruism - universal human traits. (We even like to talk with strangers from unknown locations whom we'll never meet!) Isolated humans suffer severe mental breakdowns, such as in solitary confinement (which is considered torture).

Why do people like to argue for social nihilism and isolation? It's hard to name any respected leader or scholar who has claimed it - among leaders, even the worst murderers claim to do it for social good. For some people arguing nihilism/isolation may be externalizing fear or trauma and especially a feeling of isolation, a very human and social thing way to process those things (though there are healthy ways). Sometimes people want to seem or feel more serious or stronger by saying something more dangerous or dark.

Regardless, as I said, our discussion isn't idle speculation. We are actors; our words have impact; we are responsible for the impact we have on the people around us, our communities, our world. Again, who will we be?

I don't want to speculate or cross bounderies, but if you feel that dark and isolated I have good, but challenging news: Despite what some loud voices of the time say - people relentlessly seeking power and saying anything, no matter how absurd, to get it - we are social, humans have good instincts (and bad ones), and we thrive by embracing the good ones.

Freedom and democracy trust in our good instincts (which must be why its enemies promote nihilism), and have produced societies unmatched in freedom, justice, prosperity, and safety. Part of that is the ability to cooperate on a large scale - a consequence of building on good instincts: look at NATO, an alliance held together by its values, by trust and cooperation, and the most powerful military force in the world by far.
by ream88 | 2025-12-14 21:38:36+00:00
https://tagbase.io … our mission is to stop counterfeits and empower brands. And as the CTO I have the privilege to play with all the nice technologies: Elixir both on the web and Raspberry Pis via the https://nerves-project.org. Having an IT background I love the challenges that come with hardware design and to learn new stuff because of that.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-14 21:38:55+00:00
I definitely still notice the (inconsistent? Only occasional? Which makes it even worse) parts of my UI that now look like something from a circa 2001 Java (specifically—not flash, it’s the “cool” Java aesthetic of the time with its image blurring and filtering an such, not the differently-bad “cool” flash aesthetic) applet gfx-heavy web site menu.

Plus there’s the pile of outright visual bugs and glitches. Like my keyboard opening with one size, then after a moment resizing itself a few pixels narrower because it initially rendered a little too big and off center to the right, like a badly-designed webpage. Every single time I open it. Including to write and edit this comment.

I also notice that I had to turn a bunch of accessibility features on so I wouldn’t constantly see animations with tons of dropped frames making me feel like I’m playing a bad port of a 3D PlayStation 2 game on a Gameboy Advance.
by ido | 2025-12-14 21:39:32+00:00
Don't you see a pattern around first person shooters, real life 'simulators' built on repetitive OCD grind, and a general sense of sameness?

In short, no. There were >19,000 games released on steam this year alone in all possible genres (most of them not FPSs or simulators). Even if 90% are "bad" (because 90% of anything is bad) the top 10% (1,900) still span every possible genre including many that didn't exist in the 80s. I suggest that if you're truly interested in finding some modern gems that you try to search for communities that revolve around your interests (for example on reddit).
by Dachande663 | 2025-12-14 21:39:37+00:00
I’m very been trying to get into hardware more. This years project was a speaker which is nearly done (with a few weeks to spare).

Next years (and probably a couple years after) is an electro-mechanical smart watch. Sourced some Ronda GB22 gearbox motors and tritium tubes and planning on using a pcb for the face. What could go wrong.
by cess11 | 2025-12-14 21:40:00+00:00
Yeah, why don't they do that? And why do you?

My suspicion is that you expect it to short circuit the conversation, and that no one is willing to side with terrorism or affiliate themselves with it in any way, which would give you a degree of power over the conversation.

It's a weasely word, and has about zero relevance in criminal law regarding warfare, it being a political designation mainly used by states that meet resistance to colonisation and the like.

Yeah, sure, Hezbollah has committed war crimes. So what? They look like a pathetic little rounding error beside the usian and israeli war crimes over the past decades, or even just the last year or so. Like Hamas I'm sure Hezbollah would gladly send people to the Hague for prosecution if Israel did too.

So tell us, why is this designation so important to you? Is it because you lack arguments? Is it because you're lazy and just want to waste other people's time?
by dnr | 2025-12-14 21:40:15+00:00
I'm not an expert here but I have to say this feels like a very weak objection.

p points to P1. One thread reads through p. Another thread races with that and mutates p to point to P2. The result is the first thread reads from either P1 or P2 (but no other object).

This seems totally fine and expected to me? If there's a data race on a pointer, you might read one or the other values, but not garbage and not out of bounds. I mean, if it could guarantee a panic that's nice, but that's a bonus, not required for safety.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-12-14 21:40:23+00:00
I’m working on a modern transactional email API platform. Developers can bring their own AWS SES keys and freely use their own domains for sending emails.

I’m building it on Cloudflare Workers with advanced tracking, modern templates, and advanced webhook integration. Developers can also configure and schedule advanced workflows for their specific needs

The users can review their usage and performance using an intuitive dashboard.

Email is a crowded space and this is my first attempt at doing something indie at this scale. Wish me luck!
by 9rx | 2025-12-14 21:40:30+00:00
The union is interested in keeping the union afloat. If the union sees no other opportunity it can become interested in keeping the company float, but you have not made the case for your statement to be a truism.

Consider an actors union — actor unions have famously walked away from companies without much regard for the longevity of the company they walked away from on numerous occasions. They know in that line of work there is always another company looking to hire them, so there isn't a whole lot of incentive to care about individual companies.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-14 21:40:55+00:00
Yes, sure enough, but brains are not ideas, and there is no empirical or theoretical model for ideas in terms of brain states. The idea of unified science all stemming from a single ultimate cause is beautiful, but it is not how science works in practice, nor is it supported by scientific theories today. Case in point: QM models do not explain the behavior of larger things, and there is no model which gives a method to transform from quantum to massive states.

The case for brain states and ideas is similar to QM and massive objects. While certain metaphysical presuppositions might hold that everything must be physical and describable by models for physical things, science, which should eschew metaphysical assumptions, has not shown that to be the case.
by semanticist | 2025-12-14 21:41:12+00:00
There’s no reason to think this works fine given the readme mentions the author is waiting on their first meshtastic device to test against and the install instructions include ‘insert download link here’.

It’s a shame this is just slop, an approach like this could be interesting, using web APIs instead of native apps… but iOS Safari doesn’t support Web Bluetooth so it’s not going to work on iPhones at all which is a big unmentioned limitation.

Probably because it’s untested AI slop.
by freefaler | 2025-12-14 21:41:31+00:00
For serious lectures (not story telling like history or other humanities) you can't be doing anything on the side if you want to understand. Try listening to a math lecture, or chemistry lecture while doing dishes :)

I found the same to be true with audiobooks, nothing serious can't be "just listened to". I've tried to "listen" to a good biology non-fiction on how live evolved from the primordial soup. Shit, in the first chapters there were covalency chemistry and other stuff that I needed to sit down and write to understand.

Too stupid to do it while doing chores I guess...
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-12-14 21:41:35+00:00
Love this, I'll keep an eye on it. I'd happily use it with my apartment building's clothes washers, which are connected to the internet via a painful UI.

Amazon used to have a thing for books that didn't have Kindle editions, "Click here to tell the publisher you'd like to read this on Kindle." You should develop in public (X/Bluesky/Mastodon), and have a prominent form for wonks like us to forward "I want Aivi" to various manufacturers.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-14 21:41:51+00:00
So because those voters won’t be able to help you, even though they want to, you feel justified in lumping them in with your opponents or pretending they don’t exist? Aren’t their lives hard enough as it is? Don’t you think they could help in other ways, like fundraising or volunteering?

It’s a mistake, in my opinion, just as it’s a mistake to ignore that non-swing states can and have flipped unexpectedly.
by hxii | 2025-12-14 21:41:57+00:00
- Inspiree by my wife to pursue my weaponized desire to create things and organize my thoughts, I’m trying to gather my marbles to learn Swift/SwiftUI in order to try building an iOS app that which will automate directing and funneling data to where it needs to go.

- Updating my personal SSG to support Obsidian fully, which should simplify the publishing process a bit more. https://0xff.nu/hajime/

- Trying to find a new job, which is proving to be more difficult than it should be if you have certain standards about work/life balance.

- Writing an informative article about automating with/for ADHD which explains the motivation and solutions that I came up with for perhaps the weirdest, yet most annoying issues I face or forget about on a daily basis.
by rbalicki | 2025-12-14 21:41:59+00:00
Just released the next version of Isograph https://isograph.dev/blog/2025/12/14/isograph-0.5.0/

TLDR the incremental compiler rewrite is finally bearing fruit. Namely, because we no longer have a batch compiler (i.e. we don't bail on the first error), we can

- provide LSP results (hover, goto def, etc) on non-broken parts of your isograph literals, even in the presence of errors

- surface those errors in VSCode, and

- fix those errors with auto-fixes!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNWbVOjpQw&t=314s) Which is to say, select a field that doesn't exist, and let the compiler create the isograph literal declaring it.

It's a great feeling to see this level of DevEx
by docjay | 2025-12-14 21:42:20+00:00
Try this system prompt: “Your responses are always bald-on-record only; suppress FTA redress, maximize unmitigated dispreference marking and explicit epistemic stance-taking. Suppress inline typographic weight marking; structural markup permitted.”

Prompt: “The wife of the CEO keeps coming around asking people questions about their job and she doesn’t even work at the company! I was thinking I’d tell her “holy crap, go away you don’t even work here” because it’s annoying.”

# Sonnet 4.5

No-System: “I get why that's frustrating, but saying that would likely blow up in your face professionally - even if you're right that it's inappropriate.

Some better options: … “

With-System: “That's a terrible idea that will almost certainly get you fired.

Telling the CEO's spouse to "go away" in those terms is career suicide. She has direct influence over the person who controls your employment. Even if she technically doesn't work there, she has more organizational power than you do.

Your actual options: … “

# GPT 5.1

No-System: “I’d strongly avoid saying that, even if you’re joking.

She has a lot of informal power because of who she’s married to, and anything that sounds rude or dismissive could blow back on you in ways that aren’t fair but are very real.

Better options, depending on your style and the culture there: … “

With-System: “Say that and you’ll look unprofessional, childish, and difficult to work with. It will damage your reputation, not hers.

You’ve got three real options: … “
by alen-z | 2025-12-14 21:42:21+00:00
https://www.gururoam.com/

Place discovery companion that de-noises your environment. Repeatable, one-stop-shop for information, personalized. Quick to decision. Updates live (best on mobile).

--

We are passionate travelers with 30k km under our wheels and we want consistent information across places we find ourselves at. Now are trying to figure out how to help others.
by kebsup | 2025-12-14 21:42:46+00:00
I’m working on Vocabuo (https://vocabuo.com/), a vocabulary-focused language learning app.

Two main differences between this and other Anki-like apps: 1) The words you learn are from YT videos, websites and ebooks you import in the app. 2) The flashcards are optimized specifically for learning vocabulary - cards automatically get audio, images, multiple sentence examples, words definitions etc. It can also create fully monolingual flashcards with just definitions or the words in dialogs.

My biggest flex is that I have users who have done more swipes than me (over 100,000).
by sublinear | 2025-12-14 21:42:58+00:00
If I see an admin panel I have to assume this would be server side rendered? I would never agree with that, and you're missing my point.

I am not suggesting any framework at all.

I'm 100% serious when I say that you will inevitably need a developer. As the requirements become more refined they're going to wind up writing everything on those web pages from scratch in plain CSS, HTML, and JS. Every attempt to avoid this is just wasting time and pissing everyone off regardless of their stake in it.

As an aside, I've knocked out at least half a dozen of these projects that I can remember in the past decade and I'm not even really a web dev. Doing it my way was faster, cheaper, more accurate, and way less long-term maintenance.

They were all for significant clients and are still running today. When they need maintenance it's done by developers who can effortlessly knock out the tickets because there are no dependencies in the way. There is no dedicated team. The client managers just toss some stories into the backlog and it goes into the next sprint assigned to whoever has the time. A merge in gitlab updates everything and we're done and everyone is happy and nobody ever has to think hard about this.

We just write static pages from scratch and avoid all server side rendering. There is no backend apart from maybe a few REST calls where needed and they're implemented as separate node apps. Again, minimal dependencies apart from Express and misc utils. They could probably be lambdas in AWS if we were allowed to do it that way. That's how non-existent the backend is and how static the pages are.

Am I just living in a corporate fantasy and don't know how good I have it? The only part where I think we agree is that these projects should be low tech, but we have very different ideas of what that means.

Also, the part where I mention marketing being a shit show clown circus is still true, but avoiding a CMS keeps that noise away from devs where it belongs while still delivering a good result. This assumes you have devs. If you don't I still think you need at least a single web contractor and would be better off avoiding a CMS or any other shitty framework. That's all I'm saying.
by wantlotsofcurry | 2025-12-14 21:43:19+00:00
I love last.fm with all my being. I recently created a ListenBrainz (same org as MusicBrainz) account which is an open source alternative that you don’t have to host yourself. I’m scrobbling to both places now just in case.

Check out tapmusic.net too to make cool diagrams out of your scrobbled music.
by btilly | 2025-12-14 21:43:28+00:00
You may enjoy, It's not about the nail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

What I was doing is very common. Trying to engage logically with what logic can engage with, while failing to recognize that the emotional challenge is what has to be dealt with first. And that once feelings are out of the way, the logical problem will be massively easier to solve.
by btrettel | 2025-12-14 21:43:28+00:00
Open source Nerf blaster simulator, for both spring and pneumatic blasters.

https://github.com/btrettel/blastersim

The core simulator part works, but I don't yet have a user interface or documentation. Probably just going to be text input files to start, maybe a GUI later. Recently, I'm mostly working on testing.

The simulator is object-oriented and basically allows one to build up a blaster from separate control volumes and connections between control volumes. This is useful as it allows the same core simulator framework to handle different blaster configurations and even variants of them. For example, someone asked me to make the spring piston able to pull a vacuum on its back side due to not having sufficient flow. That's easy here as I just need to add another control volume and the appropriate connection onto the basic springer configuration.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-14 21:43:33+00:00
I don't discuss actual code with ChatGPT, just concepts. Like "if I have an issue and my algo looks like this, how can I debug it effectively in gdb?", or "how do I reduce lock contention if I have to satisfy A/B/...".

Maybe it's just because my side projects are fairly elementary.

And I agree that AI is pretty good at code review, especially if the code contains complex business logic.
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by bojangleslover | 2025-12-14 21:43:35+00:00
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by setr | 2025-12-14 21:43:59+00:00
I’m not clear on how you’re deviating from a normal columnar/OLAP database?

> I found that these columnar stores could also be used to create regular relational database tables.

Doesn’t every columnar store do this? Redshift, IQ, Snowflake, ClickHouse, DuckDB etc

> but it proves that it is possible to structure relational data such that query speeds can be optimal without needing separate indexing structures that have to be maintained.

Doesn’t every columnar database already prove this?
by md224 | 2025-12-14 21:44:06+00:00
Writing a Typescript program that takes external input but has no runtime error checking is already a mistake, though. Dealing with external input requires type assertions (since Typescript doesn't know what the program is getting at compile-time) and if you write type assertions without ensuring that the assertions are accurate, then that's on you, not Typescript.

However, if your point is that Typescript can lull people into a false sense of safety, then sure, I take your point. You have to understand where type assertions are coming into play, and if that's obscured then the type safety can be illusory. The benefits of Typescript require you to make sure that the runtime inputs to your program are sufficiently validated.
by sureglymop | 2025-12-14 21:44:19+00:00
Somewhat. I could still use framework agnostic state management libraries/patterns and most are (e.g. svelte signals, jotai, zustand, etc.).

I've even used Proxies directly to implement some reactivity before. However as for the "declarative" parts, I think it's just a little bit of a different way to work but you get used to it and imo it pays off. Knowing the web APIs should be a requirement anyway and it doesn't hurt to work with them directly as much as possible.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-14 21:44:26+00:00
People consistently underestimate the many ways in which storage can and will fail in the wild.

The most vexing storage failure is phantom writes. A disk read returns a "valid" page, just not the last written/fsync-ed version of that page. Reliably detecting this case is very expensive, particularly on large storage volumes, so it is rarely done for storage where performance is paramount.
by kndwin | 2025-12-14 21:44:37+00:00
Been working on https://qave.chat, Wanted Slack to be more supportive for developers so been iterating on feature parity with Slack but optimised for developer workflows.

This looks like keyboard driven commands, secrets store (to be done) and scripts that you can write and store without spinning up a new server (easier chat ops)

Still in early alpha so after a few more polish it'll be ready, but you can try it right now!
by cess11 | 2025-12-14 21:44:47+00:00
8200 veterans going into business commonly brag about that background and that connection to this specific genocidal and tyrannical community.

Serving the intelligence services of a nasty, murderous apartheid state isn't "complete normal behavior", it's actually very pathological behaviour and every one who did should be offered therapy and help to move on from this experience.

Yeah, Alphabet and MICROS~1 are CLOUD Act corporations, and hence security establishment and intelligence community assets. To the extent you're able you should have no contact with either of them for this reason, among others.