MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sammi | 2025-12-11 21:03:40+00:00
> Naturally workers will begin to prefer the motions of the work they find satisfying more than the result it has for the business's bottom line, from which they're alienated.

Wow. I've read a lot of hacker news this past decade, but I've never seen this articulated so well before. You really lifted the veil for me here. I see this everywhere, people thinking the work is the point, but I haven't been able to crystallize my thoughts about it like you did just now.
by jorl17 | 2025-12-11 21:03:47+00:00
You mean it hasn’t been that way for the last 14 years and it hasn’t survived 5 different computer changes and a dozen or so OS migrations and you don’t still have a tiny document with “fun business ideas” to start that company with your fresh out of college gang right next to that “how to organize a great 10 year reunion” sheet from 3 years ago?

Must be a me thing, then.
Show HN: XeraSentry – Real-time Ethereum security monitoring in Python
by Chu_Wong | 2025-12-11 21:04:00+00:00
I built XeraSentry over 3 months - a Python tool that monitors Ethereum for security threats in real-time.

What it does: - Detects whale movements (50+ ETH transfers) - High-value transfer alerts (configurable threshold) - Tracks sanctioned addresses (OFAC compliance) - Monitors specific wallets you care about - Address poisoning detection - MEV bot detection

Tech stack: Python + Web3.py, SQLite database, Google Sheets integration, RPC failover system with 5 backup endpoints, transaction deduplication.

Already detected $70K+ in test runs with 10 modular detection rules.

Currently in private beta (limited to 50 testers) before open source launch on January 5, 2025.

Try it: https://lavender-clarette-17.tiiny.site

Built this solo because I was tired of missing whale movements and wanted a tool that runs locally (no API keys) with full visibility.

Would love feedback from the HN community - especially on the technical architecture or what features to prioritize before launch!
by tbeseda | 2025-12-11 21:04:07+00:00
Agreed. I'm working on a small GUI that just appends to a local .ndjson file. A user just posts with a text box into a feed. Like a one person chat or tweeting into the void. And a local LLM picks apart metadata, storing just enough to index where answers to future questions will be. Then you can use slash commands to get at the analysis like "/tasks last month" or "/summarize work today" etc.
by Larrikin | 2025-12-11 21:04:42+00:00
Analytics are mining the data on here every second. Hacker News is a wildly popular site with higher ups in major Fortune 500 company posting anonymously and publicly here. Say anything bad about a major country's government (or even a minor country like Israel or Palestine) and all kinds of accounts you've never seen before start defending and attacking.

Everything you are saying is being actively monitored at this point on every major website even if you don't believe it's negatively affecting you yet
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-11 21:04:43+00:00
Your example could be fixed in your entire codebase with a single sed invocation. While yes, if it were up to me I'd probably just have left the alias, the annoyance for the end user does seem quite minimal...

You get to use open source projects for free, and a lot of people do ongoing maintenance on them which you benefit from for free. In return, sometimes you are expected to modify your code which depends on those projects because it makes their maintainer's life easier.

Personally, I see that as a very reasonable trade-off.
by downrightmike | 2025-12-11 21:05:03+00:00
Aristotle didn't like kids writing, because it would harm their memorization. People didn't like all the books kids were reading, didn't like newspapers, didn't like radio, didn't like the phone, didn't like TV, didn't like the movies, didn't like the internet. This argument "for the kids" is ~2,300 years old and you know what? They were all wrong, they just don't like progress.

But this Nanny-State approach is completely backwards, parents need to parent, not the state.
by general1465 | 2025-12-11 21:05:10+00:00
I am also kind of perplexed by Rutte's statement. It's not just Ukraine who is exhausted, Russia is not faring much better.

Thousands of tanks, MLRS and artillery from soviet stock are gone - See https://www.youtube.com/@CovertCabal Covert Cabal who is counting it. Now Russian attacks are civilian vehicles and bikes, sometimes APC here or heavily drone proofed tank there.

Russia does not control sky over Ukraine, it can only lobe bombs and ballistic missiles from afar - compare it to what happened in Iran this summer when Israel was just dismantling Iranian AA defense, which is largely based on Russian assets.

Even worse, Russians barely control sky over Russia as Ukrainians are systematically dismantling their energy infrastructure.

Sure they can launch lot of drones every day, be it FPVs or Shaheds. But if Russian AA defense is possible to be dismantled in the same manner as Iranian one, then these drones will be quickly neutralized by destroying manufacturing and distributing and deploying facilities, the FPV and Shaheds will just run out. And then what?
by fastaguy88 | 2025-12-11 21:05:25+00:00
Nice display, but it starts off with misleading measurements of DNA. The spacing between DNA base pairs is 0.34 nm, so the 10 base pairs pictured are in fact 3.4 nm. But the DNA in a single human cell is about 2 meters, and chromosome lengths vary from 2 to 10 cm. I am skeptical of the hemoglobin vs ribosome sizes as well; hemoglobin has a molecular weight of about 60,000, while ribosomes weigh more than 5 million.
Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library
by carsenk | 2025-12-11 21:05:27+00:00
I’ve been working on gotui, a modern fork of the unmaintained termui, rebuilt on top of tcell for TrueColor, mouse support, and proper resize handling. It keeps the simple termui-style API, but adds a bunch of new widgets (charts, gauges, world map, etc.), nicer visuals (collapsed borders, rounded corners), and input components for building real dashboards and tools. Under the hood the renderer’s been reworked for much better performance, and I’d love feedback on what’s missing for you to use it in production.
by nomel | 2025-12-11 21:05:42+00:00
I think the Apple software UI team has cultural problem in adhering to "one source of truth", and that's where most of the problems come from. I've seen this many many times throughout the years, from toggles, to actions, account creation (I have dupes from tapping a button too fast), etc: the UI doesn't match the internal state.

Another example is most any toggle that's linked to Apple cloud stuffs, like settings in your iCloud account or parental controls. You see it toggle immediately, but that's unrelated to the actual state. You can't know the actual state until you exit the page and go back. Meta gets this right with their apps: you toggle, the toggle turns disabled, then the toggle is re-enabled when the state is confirmed remote side.
by tunaoftheland | 2025-12-11 21:05:55+00:00
One thing I would like about this system is that I wouldn't get incessant notifications about things I haven't yet done lol. I do think that building a habit to check on a txt file periodically (like the author says) to stay on top of things is better for emotional health than a wall of notifications on the phone lock screen that I've been conditioned to just tap on and select "Remind me tomorrow " without even thinking.

Knowing myself, though, I don't think I'd keep up with this since it would take mental strength on my part to overthink the data structure for the task entry. I've been thinking about how I might also track emotional impact of my todo items on me. I wonder if the open nature of a txt file would be good for instant journaling about things that give me stress?

I really like having some guardrails when it comes to organizing thoughts so this system might not be for me. Also building up the daily habit to organize the todos at the end of each day is something I'd probably struggle with for a while. I do agree that is a great habit to have, still.
by socalgal2 | 2025-12-11 21:06:01+00:00
I detest Apple's, and Google's, and Amazon's, and nearly every tech company's feedback system.

Apple's is by far the worst. All feedback is private. There is no way to show or advertise support for feature. Like I want to go upvote the feedback from this video, but all I can do is file my own feedback, which is more work, and therefore more people will choose not to give any.

Both Apple and Google and Microsoft have "users help users". These are infuriating as there is no official answer or help. There's just some fan with an often completely wrong or irrelevant answer. There is zero indication that any of these companies look here to see what's broken.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-11 21:06:17+00:00
What you're describing is a program from 20 years ago design to surveil limited parties in a limited geographic region overseas, during a war, in a place that enjoyed Stone Age information systems. That is not in the sense that the people in this discussion meant by blanket surveillance. They are talking about broad interception of all communications by U.S. persons, an undertaking that it should be obvious to you if you are in this industry would be economically if not thermodynamically impossible.
by onraglanroad | 2025-12-11 21:06:20+00:00
I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention this. I've now met two different devs who complained about the weird responses from their LLM of choice, and it turned out they were using a single session for everything. From recipes for the night, presents for the wife and then into programming issues the next day.

Don't do that. The whole context is sent on queries to the LLM, so start a new chat for each topic. Or you'll start being told what your wife thinks about global variables and how to cook your Go.

I realise this sounds obvious to many people but it clearly wasn't to those guys so maybe it's not!
by davidzimmerjr | 2025-12-11 21:07:07+00:00
txt file is great. Makes me wonder, does the author always have their laptop on them since that's the only place I know of where a txt file can live? Do they go to sleep and wake up next to their laptop?

I've always been an iPhone user and have never seen a .txt file on one and probably you wouldn't be able to edit one on an iPhone if you did have it in Files app - I'm not counting Notes app as a text file here.

I do quarterly notes inside of Notes app but it mostly non-work related stuff and doesn't integrate well with desktop since its kind of a pain to login to iCloud from browser. Quarterly notes bc once the note gets too long, it gets very laggy on phone and is difficult to navigate; i.e. getting to the bottom to write a new line can be tough on mobile.
by epolanski | 2025-12-11 21:07:08+00:00
The overwhelming majority of swiss immigrants are either highly skilled individuals that the swiss population cannot produce in numbers or they do jobs locals won't do (cleaning, etc).

Good luck telling Swiss pharma or any other of their specialized industries to live without immigrants, they can close tomorrow. Immigrants are an insane boost to Swiss economy.

Also, I lived and been in Switzerland few times after, there's virtually no problematic immigrants. I've never ever felt the slightest danger, even walking at night with nobody but the kind of immigrants you don't like, you just don't.

Even though foreigners are overrepresented compared to locals (as in any other country in the world with immigrants they are the poorest and thus more inclined) the absolute numbers are very very low.

So no, higher or lower number of immigrants don't have linear correlations. Switzerland has an insane number of expats and immigrants as % of the population, insanely higher than the US or other countries like Poland or Italy, yet their crime numbers are fractional.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-11 21:07:16+00:00
With this kind of thing, the tails ALWAYS come apart, in the end. They come apart later for more robust tests, but "later" isn't "never", far from it.

Having a high IQ helps a lot in chess. But there's a considerable "non-IQ" component in chess too.

Let's assume "all metrics are perfect" for now. Then, when you score people by "chess performance"? You wouldn't see the people with the highest intelligence ever at the top. You'd get people with pretty high intelligence, but extremely, hilariously strong chess-specific skills. The tails came apart.

Same goes for things like ARC-AGI and ARC-AGI-2. It's an interesting metric (isomorphic to the progressive matrix test? usable for measuring human IQ perhaps?), but no metric is perfect - and ARC-AGI is biased heavily towards spatial reasoning specifically.
by dragontamer | 2025-12-11 21:07:37+00:00
On a foreign language scale, Bluey and Peppa Pig are around B1- or A2+.

Or in other words: a typical adult needs about one year of self study (or nearly 6 months of more focused intensive study) before they can fully understand a show like Bluey or Peppa Pig.

And maybe half that for substantial understanding. (3 months intensive, 6 months typical self study to reach A2+ / watch Bluey with substantial understanding but not complete understanding).

If I were to guess at Mickey Mouse clubhouse, it's damn near A1 or A0+, it's so repetive and slow that you can learn some words from it.

Yeah, that's a lot more boring than the 'advanced' shows like Bluey or Peppa Pig.

Also note that children are not aware of tools (ie hammers or screwdrivers) yet. So simple learning exercises to know that hammer hammers nail but not screws is the kind of thing needed at pre-school level.

I'd imagine that the appropriate age for Mickey Mouse clubhouse is under 3. Bluey/Peppa Pig are closer to 6 or 7+ year old material.

Or in foreign language levels: B1-ish / 2+ on the American scale.

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Seriously. Just switch the shows to a different language and the level gap becomes blatantly clear.

In perhaps more Techie terms: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse level of understanding is achievable with Duolingo. Peppa Pig / Bluey (and similar level shows) are so far beyond Duolingo that I bet most Duolingo users will NEVER be able to achieve Bluey-level understanding in a foreign language (and that deep textbook + 1000ish vocab study memorization needs to be done before Bluey can be understood).

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Maybe the vocab estimate is easiest to understand. Bluey feels like a show that uses 1000 words with mastery (and maybe 2000 hard words as learning exercises in the show).

Mickey Mouse clubhouse uses maybe 250 words with mastery and maybe uses the top1000 list as learning/teaching words.

How (and why??) does Mickey Mouse clubhouse make an ENTIRE song consisting of a single word? (hotdog?) Because it's written for people where 'Hot dog' is a difficult word and needs repetition.
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-11 21:07:39+00:00
I can't find the specific interview online. It's included in one of the volumes of Gundam Origin, which I took out of the library. However, this interview touches on similar themes, and may in fact be the same one I read. I have a poor memory.

https://zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=12512

If you're looking to learn more about the political movement in general, read up on the Zenkyoto. I am far from an expert, so I don't have any specific books to recommend. But if you do a little digging, even just on Wikipedia, it will become clear how much Japanese culture owes to that political moment.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-11 21:07:41+00:00
> Sometimes it's nice to know that something will run and compile reliably far into the future.

I'm not sure why you think this is a problem that Rust has? Perhaps you mean something different but the Rust project compiles available code on crate.io upon the release of a new version.[0] C compilers may imagine their new compiler code doesn't break old software, but Rust takes that extra step, so we know it won't.

Now, the Rust kernel is currently using beta and nightly features which are on track for inclusion in the stable Rust compiler. So, yes, right now compilation is tied to a specific kernel version, and may need to be updated if a feature changes. However, any C compiler used to compile the Linux kernel uses non-standard GCC extensions only recently adopted by clang. Imagine if the C standards committee chose to change the syntax/sematics of a non-standard extension. Do you not imagine the non-standard extension would also be similarly deprecated?

The issue seems to be Rust is telling you what is non-standard, and you're yelling "Look it's non-standard!". But consider that the kernel in practice is using lots of non-standard features, and should the C standard simply adopt this non-standard behavior that means likely having to changes lots of code.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/crater
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-11 21:07:44+00:00
I think that many are able to toss a almost permanently online raspberry pi in their homes and that's probably enough for sustaining a decently good distributed CAS network that shares small text files.

The wanting to is in my mind harder. How do you convince people that having the network is valuable enough? It's easy to compare it with the web backed by few feuds that offer for the most part really good performance, availability and somewhat good discovery.
by w_for_wumbo | 2025-12-11 21:08:04+00:00
Does anyone else consider that maybe it's impossible to benchmark the performance of a piece of paper.

This is a tool that allows an intelligent system to work with it, the same way that a piece of paper can reflect the writers' intelligence, how can we accurately judge the performance of the piece of paper, when it is so intimately reliant on the intelligence that is working with it?
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-11 21:09:04+00:00
"Capitalism" was a word coined by its critics just a few years before Marx wrote Das Kapital. People who actually like Capitalism tend to resist drawing some boundary around it and would rather have it be that thing that Maggie Thatcher and Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton say "there is no alternative" to. In particularly they are loathe to even say it might be something that has some good aspects and some bad aspects and refusing to define it is necessary to keep that game going.

In particular it's hard to draw a line between many "communist" countries and capitalism. I mean, Stalin's great legacy was very rapid industrialization and technology development from 1920-1970 or so which was initially funded by starving farmers to buy machines from western industrialists to build factories. Post-Mao China has been out-capitalizing everybody else, which is the biggest problem people seem to have with them.

I'll argue that "capitalism" is about transforming society across time by deploying large amounts of capital so when somebody says "Facebook developed in a harmful direction because of capitalism" I'm going to argue that a system that wasn't fundamentally capitalist would never have made the investment to develop advanced microprocessors, the internet, social media, and all of that. You could have a different kind of capitalism which is kinder and gentler but if you didn't have capitalism you would not have 8 billion people on Earth because nobody would have made the investment to build all the fertilizer plants, etc.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-11 21:09:16+00:00
Most being the operative word. In human-centric bureaucracies, people who don't have ID (for whatever reason: religious conviction, a feud with the relevant government agency, a legal status the computer system was never designed to represent) can still access services in many cases. Naïvely computerising everything will effectively remove rights from those whose paperwork doesn't check out.

ID verification is a universal hammer, to which all problems look like nails, but we shouldn't be so quick to reach for it. Not all of its downsides can be solved with cryptography.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-11 21:09:22+00:00
>I'm old. I don't keep up with the kids. Maybe the kids have changed what a compiler is too.

No, this all started because you asserted that compilers are equivalent to AI. Being old is not really an excuse for pulling the rhetorical stunts you've been pulling like calling someone you've never met an "arbitrary kid"... As a matter of fact, I'm old too.

This is where I started replying to you, I think:

>It's not exactly wrong. Not since the advent of AI systems (a.k.a. compilers) have developers had to worry about code. Instead they type in what they want and the compiler generates the code for them. > >Well, except developers have never had to worry about code as even in the pre-compiler days coders, a different job done by a different person, were responsible for producing the code. Development has always been about writing down what you want and letting someone or something else generate the code for you. > >But the transition from human coders to AI coders happened like, what, 60-70 years ago? Not sure why this is considered newsworthy now.

There are multiple issues with this comment that I have outlined in my other comments. It is so wrong, like all your other replies to me, that I think you're trolling me.

>That is not what I am talking about. Did you press the wrong reply button? That would explain your deep confusion.

This whole thread and the post itself is very much about what AI is and how it's used.
by pseudalopex | 2025-12-11 21:10:20+00:00
> Men and women play two different, complementary, and equally necessary roles when rearing children.

Numerous studies and several meta analyses found no significant differences between children raised by 1 man and 1 woman, 2 men, or 2 women. Studies or interpretations which found differences made errors such as not controlling for divorce.[1]

[1] https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equali...
by no_wizard | 2025-12-11 21:10:39+00:00
I like the first part of the idea, which is the header. Heck, even enable it by default. As long as the tracking of the toggle isn't a thing its a perfect compromise. While we're at it, respecting do not track headers would also be nice.

This completely leaves it up to the families / parents to control and gives some level of compliance to make the effort worth while.

There may even be a way to generate enough noise with the request to prevent any forms of tracking. This sort of thing should really be isolated in that way to prevent potential abuses via data brokers by way of sale of the information
by snailmailman | 2025-12-11 21:10:49+00:00
This was changed, and it is pretty easy to think the feature got removed.

When it was pressure-sensitive, you could push harder anywhere on the keyboard. But now that it’s tap-and-hold, it only works on the space bar. Most other pressure-sensitive actions just got replaced with tap-and-hold with no changes. But doing that on any other key brings up letter-specific accents, so they moved it down to spacebar.

It also used to be faster. Now you have to wait, but before it was pressure sensitive. You could trigger it instantly with more pressure. Edits were so fast and convenient, but now it’s a slight pause each time
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-11 21:10:52+00:00
But that's exactly why you should read literature. Obviously the goal isn't to shake your own worldview entirely, which is impossible. But you can open it up enough to experience art from another culture on its own terms.

Plus, many classic novels feature introduction to help ground the reader in the historical moment. Though those intros also often feature spoilers, which is annoying.
by dbl000 | 2025-12-11 21:10:53+00:00
I am incredibly jealous of people for who this works for. Mine just become too unwieldy to manage or work with because they grow out in a crazy fashion.

My "productivity solution" is currently TriliumNotes with three work spaces as 1) Planner with sub notes for year, month, day 2) Brain Dump with subnotes for year and month 3) Projects with sub notes for each project. I manage tasks with Vikunja and then my time with Google Calendar.

It's an absolute mess, but it's the closest I've gotten to a solution that works the way my brain does.