MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-12-12 10:21:13+00:00
No one on Hacker News is looking for a more modern Hacker News. This community is here explicitly because this forum is trapped like a fly in amber in its mode of 1990's era minimalist simplicity, and both it and the community remain aggressively, even spitefully, anti-modern.

We've seen tons of these "more modern Hacker News" projects and they all fail because the last thing anyone wants here is modernity.
by mpol | 2025-12-12 10:21:29+00:00
There is the Gemini PDA from 2018 which has a physical keyboard. I heard it was mostly a disappointment.

There was another phone with keyboard around the same time, but I forgot the name. That was claimed to be very much in the spirit of the N950 and its cancelled follow-up, the Nokia Lauta.

All with Sailfish, the spiritual successor of Meamo/Meego from Nokia.
by literalAardvark | 2025-12-12 10:21:58+00:00
That's... Not too bad, actually. My grandmothers used to have maybe 8 chickens and 12 ducks or so. They were very low maintenance, and had very minimal pastures, with the only difficult to reproduce part of the process being that the houses were in fairly wild surroundings.

They would probably need more pasture in monoculture hellholes that have cornfields for 100km in each direction.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-12-12 10:21:59+00:00
> I don't think it's better than org-mode

In theory, it's significant better than org-mode, because Electron has much more abilities than Emacs. In reality, it's a matter of taste and personal requirements. Obsidian is customizable, so you make it do whatever you want, and there are many addons available; but org-mode has also a very specific focus on the type of addons being available and builtin stuff it has, were Obsidian is more lacking I would say.

> Obsidian isn't open source, isn't plain text enough, and is slow.

It's very fast for what it offers. And "plain text enough" is again a matter of taste. It's all plaintext, but delivering a useful and very powerful interface on top of it. The kind of area where Emacs is lacking.
by Mashimo | 2025-12-12 10:22:11+00:00
You can only do that at a dedicated and fenced of garage or parking lot. You can't do that at the curb in the inner city. You have to pay upfront.

Without the app you have to find the meter, pay, print the receipt and get back to your car to put in in the window. Remember the time and get back.

With the app you can just start walking towards your destination while you start the metering.
by szszrk | 2025-12-12 10:22:43+00:00
It is smooth and kind of "I'm doing my part!" but with low friction.

> a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address

Exactly my point - Gmaps taught us to expect *businesses" on maps. Not addresses. Pins and stars, instead of streets and numbers. Arrival time and traffic, instead of distance, elevation and road type (size).

I use gmaps still, mostly for businesses, but to actually know where I am I have better options. Gmaps hides most of typical map features - you see less of trees, water, buildings, height elevation. On Comaps/Osmand you suddenly can correlate map with things you see (without street view! :P).
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-12 10:23:02+00:00
> I also think it's important that we on HN are aware that we're engaging in social media because any time this conversation comes up, there's lots of people saying that they don't use social media, they only use HN, which leads to feeling superior to people on other forms of social media. I don't think that's valid or healthy.

> If you or I use HN for 30-60 minutes everyday and we find utility in that, there's no difference to a teenager using TikTok for the same time, we don't get to feel superior or talk about social media addiction without being aware that includes us.

No, I do feel superior: I'm being challenged, and I'm having to articulate my ideas and points of view.

When you're on tv/tiktok/instagram/youtube you're consuming something that's been prepared for you. Whether the content is informative or well produced is irrelevant to my point.

Totally different when it comes to how much critical thinking you need to exercise for those two activities.
by MrDresden | 2025-12-12 10:23:40+00:00
Write to your legislators/representatives.

Honestly, it is the only thing that you can do, apart from voting and talking to people in your near environment.

Is it a good solution, and always likely to work? No, absolutely not.

But is a hell of a lot better than doing nothing or sharing social media posts, which is frankly as effective as screaming into your pillow at home.
by masklinn | 2025-12-12 10:23:42+00:00
A copy of what? It’s returning a pointer, so i has to be on the heap[0].

gc could create i on the stack then copy it to the heap, but if you plug that code into godbolt you can see that it is not that dumb, it creates a heap allocation then writes the literal directly into that.

[0] unless Foo is inlined and the result does not escape the caller’s frame, then that can be done away with.
by qwertox | 2025-12-12 10:24:04+00:00
When I reload the page "https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b...", I get

Request URL: https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b...

Request Method: GET

Status Code: 304 Not Modified

So maybe it's the status code? Shouldn't that page return a 200 ok?

When I go to blog.james..., I first get a 301 moved permanently, and then journal.james... loads, but it returns a 304 not modified, even if i then reload the page.

Only when I fully sumbit the URL again in the URL-bar, it responds with a 200.

Maybe crawling also returns a 304, and Google won't index that?

Maybe prompt: "why would a 301 redirect lead to a 304 not modified instead of a 200 ok?", "would this 'break' Google's crawler?"

> When Google's crawler follows the 301 to the new URL and receives a 304, it gets no content body. The 304 response basically says "use what you cached"—but the crawler's cache might be empty or stale for that specific URL location, leaving Google with nothing to index.
by hboon | 2025-12-12 10:24:28+00:00
I have a similar system. I keep my wip.md open in Neovim all the time and the difference is: everyday, I move the done items to a timestamped file. I have records going back to 2009.

It's my timelog and work journal as I expand on items and mark them off as I work on them.

Incidently, I was exploring new ways to work with it recently: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bryys25pc2fnagnyxqgsglhd/po...
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-12 10:24:43+00:00
> the self-proclaimed 'pacifists' would be all about 'escalation', 'war-mongering' and 'militarization'.

They have a right to protest and the government is free to ignore them and do its job. This is not a serious argument and the kip about "civilized countries" is ridiculous, frankly.

Drones don't fly from Russia. They are launched more locally. The vessels mentioned in this article could be taken over by special forces today if the neighbouring governments decided to. So again why don't they? I can't find any sensible answer to that apart from "because they are useful".
by skydhash | 2025-12-12 10:25:44+00:00
And I’ve already answered that question. One of the main impact is that if you want a contributor to the codebase, the person have to learn Go. Even if they have good knowledge of the domain and are proficient in Rust. There would be some cost associated to training that person in Go (it may be small).

Rewriting from Go to another language wouldn’t solve the problem better. Because Go is an implementation choice, not a design choice. There’s nothing in Go that make Terraform better. It could be in C and a lot of people wouldn’t notice.
by BillinghamJ | 2025-12-12 10:28:02+00:00
They'd still at least buy reinsurance etc anyway.

All unlimited liability insurance companies (e.g. motor insurers in the UK) have reinsurance to take the hit on claims over a certain level - e.g. 100k, 1m etc.

For extreme black swan risks, this is how you prevent the insurance company just going bankrupt.

Reinsurers themselves then also have their own reinsurance, and so on. The interesting thing is that you then have to keep track of the chain of reinsurers to make sure they don't turn out to be insuring themselves in a big loop. A "retrocession spiral" could take out many of the companies involved at the same time, e.g. the LMX spiral.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-12-12 10:28:05+00:00
There is a massive anti-western infiltration operation being driven by Russia and it's allies, like Iran, Qatar and China. The biggest tragedy of the Russia-Russia hoax of Trumps first term is that people have become numb to something which was not really happening, but now is happening at an unprecedented scale.

I can only really speak for the media in Norway, but they spend almost no time covering this anymore and instead just print partisan American political things as if we are the 51st state and also a deep blue state. The media in Western Europe needs to stop acting like this, and start focusing on Europe and our challenges.

Just another example of the total insanity of Western Europe is that there is some expectation that USA will defend Europe when the majority of people in almost every single western European country has no interest in defending themselves. People expect US to send troops when there is no political support in any western European country to send troops. I love Europe, it's my home, but that is also why I don't think it's helpful to ignore the truth. Europe is the sick and dying man of the world. We need to turn this around.
by ben_w | 2025-12-12 10:28:35+00:00
> This makes sense because every other party in the UK is left wing.

Definitionally not. Left and right are always relative to the local average, "left wing" and "right wing" are nothing more than a seating arrangement turned into a badge.

The Conservatives are, famously, right wing by British standards. If you think the Tories are lefties, you're so far to the right you can't even see the UK's Overton Window from where you are.

The votes I seen on parliament.uk about the Online Safety Bill show the split being usually the Tories vs. everyone else: https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons?SearchText=Online+...

> In fact everywhere is going the same way except the USA, because the USA has a constitution that encodes libertarian values (a minority position) in such a way that it requires a supermajority to overturn.

I have bad news for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL-GJov7M
by bilekas | 2025-12-12 10:29:11+00:00
It's so blatantly obvious there is no AI involved here as you can feel the animation. The sentiment behind everything hits so different to AI. I feel that's what AI sycophants seem to always miss.

I really believe AI will never match the real feeling from created art, but I also don't know why we NEED/WANT it to. It's not a race to the bottom. But AI usage will increase until shareholder value increases.
by icu | 2025-12-12 10:29:43+00:00
Wow, I remember this. My Dad won a Apple Newton MessagePad 100 and I loved using it as a kid to draw. While I appreciated the ability to write notes, I found having to enter letters one using the special character input was too much friction for regular use. You basically had to learn some of your ABCs when writing letter by letter. Sadly the device was not really used by either my Dad or I because it was too much hassle to relearn how to write.
by bamboozled | 2025-12-12 10:30:00+00:00
Quite an abrasive / overly defensive response, sorry you feel that way.

Not trying to win an argument, I just haven't really got a solid answer. People just get passionate about how they should have a right to secret communications online, why all the burden should be on parents to protect kids from harmful substances, yet can't really give a good reason as to why that is. Yet on the other hand, those same people probably want to live in a world that is relatively safe from terrorism, sexual abuse etc.

I just said I can understand why to some people, wanting to stop children having access to a VPN doesn't necessarily have to be this big secret government overreach conspiracy?

Do I think we should have to have government surveillance software running on everyone's computer? No. I just understand more than a single perspective and I think those who seem to shoot these proposals down rarely give good arguments expect, basically, the government is out to get us, or it suits me the way it is now.
by baq | 2025-12-12 10:30:17+00:00
I know exactly how they work, but they have a single entry point, as a customer you don't really care that the system is global, and they also have a single control plane, etc. Decisions are efficient if they need to be taken only once. The underlying architecture is irrelevant for the end user.

Why do you think they're a monopoly in the first place? Obviously because they were more efficient than the competition and network effects took care of the rest. Having to make choices is a cost for the consumer - IOW consumers are lazy - so winners have staying power, too. It's a perfect storm for a winner-takes-all centralization since a good centralized service is the most efficient utility-wise ('I know I'm getting what I need') and decision-cost-wise ('I don't need to search for alternatives') for consumers until it switches to rent seeking, which is where the anti-monopoly laws should kick in.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-12 10:30:33+00:00
It might have been "The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity" by Jin Woo Kim et al. [1][2]

1: https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/71/6/922/63636...

2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rJ20sca3fg6epXwVbGj7HdNfCH4...
by Sammi | 2025-12-12 10:31:10+00:00
I don't have a degree in low voltage electrical engineering, but haven worked close to people who are this does all look like grunt work in that field. So maybe get a bachelor in low voltage electrical engineering? It's all as much digital/computational as it is actually physical these days. Lots of educated electrical engineers end up as software devs, often doing the low level coding. Bootloaders, firmware, and drivers are stuff you have to figure out if you want to get modern electrical hardware to do anything.
by spoiler | 2025-12-12 10:31:15+00:00
Probably an unpopular take, but I really think Vercel has lost the plot. I don't know what happened to the company internally. But, it feels like the first few, early, iterations of Next were great, and then it all started progressively turning into slop from a design perspective.

An example of this is filesystem routing. Started off great, but now most Next projects look like the blast radius of a shell script gone terribly wrong.

There's also a(n in)famous GitHub response from one of the maintainers backwards-rationalising tech debt and accidental complexity as necessary. They're clearly smart, but the feeling I got from reading that comment was that they developed Stockholm syndrome towards their own codebase.
by jwr | 2025-12-12 10:31:21+00:00
As someone who currently lives in Poland, I hope this will be a wakeup call for Western Europe, which has so far been living a medieval dream of "the aggressor is far away and there are countries between us and the aggressor, so we can carry on as usual". That used to be a valid assumption several hundred years ago, but now no longer holds.

I hope the lukewarm support for Ukraine will become at least a bit stronger. And I really hope the EU will stop funding the Russian military machine. Not everyone realizes this, but just in October 2025, the five largest EU importers of Russian fossil fuels paid Russia nearly 1 billion €. ONE BILLION EUR per month. Compare that to the military aid we are sending to Ukraine. (source: https://energyandcleanair.org/october-2025-monthly-analysis-...)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-12 10:31:27+00:00
Didn't watch Law and Order much (my wife is a fan though, so I'll ask).

Most of the cop shows/procedurals I saw have some kind of "corrupt mayor" arc as a substantial part of their plot, but I guess if you go one level up, it's still "the establishment wins". But then anything where civilization doesn't collapse would be that.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-12 10:31:47+00:00
> This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.

When the DMCA was a bill, people were saying that the anti-circumvention provision was going to be used to monopolize playback devices. They were ignored, it was passed, and now it's being used to monopolize not just playback devices but also phones.

Here's the test for "can you rely on the government here": Have they repealed it yet? The answer is still no, so how can you expect them to do something about it when they're still actively making it worse?

Now try to imagine the world where the Free Software Foundation never existed, Berkeley never released the source code to BSD and Netscape was bought by Oracle instead of being forked into Firefox. As if the code doesn't matter.
by ben_w | 2025-12-12 10:34:00+00:00
> The correct answer is decentralisation of power, and put the government back in the hands of the people. That means frequent voting(multiple times a year), by an educated population.

Sufficiently well educated and also willing to read carefully and without partisan (or other) fear of favour.

How many of us read the terms and conditions before clicking "I agree"? How many support a side only because it's their own side?

I don't know how to fix this. The "obvious" solutions (seen in various government systems over the world and the centuries) all have demonstrable problems.
by input_sh | 2025-12-12 10:34:14+00:00
> surely you'd have to trick Google into visiting the /search? url in order to get it indexed

That's trivially easy. Imagine a spammer creating some random page which links to your website with that made up query parameter. Once Google indexes their page and sees the link to your page, Google's search console complains to you as the victim that this page doesn't exist. You as in the victim have no insight into where Google even found that non-existent path.

> Since these are very low quality results surely one of Google's 10000 engineers can tweak this away.

You're assuming there's still people at Google who are tasked with improving actual search results and not just the AI overview at the top. I have my doubts Google still has such people.
by secult | 2025-12-12 10:34:17+00:00
Good job! OSINT rules. And regarding drones, surely any state actor may be doing this, however doing surveillance by drones over military bases is just so noob. That just points out they don't have a capacity to do reconnaissance with satellites, or they are doing something completely different. Probably making sure the target knows someone is watching, saying "We know where you have your sensitive spots".
by lan321 | 2025-12-12 10:34:41+00:00
I see these as separate issues.

On a macro scale you want to see country wide economic statistic numbers go up, regardless of who the money gets to in the end. When your population's age isn't evenly distributed it causes spikes in productivity and costs associated with the elderly which makes the metrics go down. Combined with short term politics that are not incentivized to prepare for it, but rather to play hot potato with it, it makes for interesting situations. If, in the worst case, the country is functioning paycheck to paycheck, you have every member of the workforce supporting multiple elderly and children via taxes, since their taxes were already spent on X or stolen long ago during the productivity boom.
by globular-toast | 2025-12-12 10:34:58+00:00
> Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat?

It's not a "neg", it's my opinion. I don't think you need to crave meat, you are just lacking the proper cuisine that would satisfy you completely. Try Gobi 65 and you'll never crave "spicy chicken wings" again. I feel like people go veggie by just removing meat from a cuisine that is centred around it. Imagine British food without meat: nothing and mash, nothing and chips, roast nothing... mmm... delicious. You need to completely change. There's nothing "missing" from a vegetarian Indian meal.
by seec | 2025-12-12 10:35:15+00:00
Well, that's basically the template for your average socialist. They are so privileged that they argue for things that make no sense to your average commoner. It is some sort of signaling for the wealthy “intellectual” class. They gain status by pretending to care about the poor even though they'll have to pay zero cost for the implementation of their arguments.

The cynic in me thinks it's because they stand to gain even more power/privilege this way. I think those people are disgusted by the fact that filthy capitalists can gain money and thus power while largely escaping their own power/control.

So-called elite education is fucked up in a bizarre way. They all end up with an ideology that could be summarized by anything that isn't government controlled is necessarily bad. Not very surprising because the whole point is them getting this education to be “worthy” to lead. Hard to do when people can manage without your leadership. Allegedly they are smart, but I think their actual intellectual power is below that of most engineers.
by jorams | 2025-12-12 10:35:50+00:00
You get a 304 because your browser tells the server what it has cached, and the server says "nothing changed, use that". In browsers you can bypass the cache by using Ctrl-F5, or in the developer tools you can usually disable caching while they're open. Doing so shows that the server is doing the right thing.

Your LLM prompt and response are worthless.
by newcup | 2025-12-12 10:36:02+00:00
Sadly, seems there is not. But the artist has still the web page up he used for the installation: https://heikkihumberg.com/chess/

He said he used ipads as renderers. And even one grid may have looked different back in the day than that page now, as the font might be different. The SVG just uses system fonts and the chess pieces are just unicode characters.
by pksebben | 2025-12-12 10:37:18+00:00
See, I don't think they'd really bother with an amendment. FWIG there's also something in there about the right to a trial (is it the sixth?) that they've just kinda ignored. Is it that it's the first one that makes it more important? We've also gotten over our (apparently) ludicrous assumption that posse comitatus means anything.