MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-12-23 15:12:27+00:00
To answer your literal question of "why do people think..."

For a while there was a widespread standing principle to not assume malice for actions that could be explained as a simple mistake. If only one person follows this policy, it's great. However, so many people were following this policy that it created massive incentives to disguise profit motivated malice as explainable accidents. We're in the midst of a massive backswing against this.

So, there is very little taste for patience when agents of ycombinator make mistakes that benefit a16z such as accidentally removing them from the title of a negative article, due to the billions of dollars entangling ycombinator with the reputation of a16z. This is not because it wasn't an accident- it's because any culture of patience with this will lead (and has led) to an explosion of copycat whoopsies.
by Teever | 2025-12-23 15:12:50+00:00
> Why do people think we're motivated to “suppress” negative stories about A16Z?

I think a more charitable interpretation of this kind of argument is that the money and power that entities like A16Z have make the possibility of corruption of endeavours like HN trivial.

In light of the ease in which a wealthy entity like A16Z can exert influence over an entity like HN and the track records of various A16Z adjacent/similar people doing similar things to other HN-like entities it's very natural that people are concerned about the possibility of similar things happening here.

Like it or not as an editor at HN you're in a position of power and influence and others with far greater power would certainly leverage what you have here if suited their interests.

Avoiding even the appearance of impropriety is no easy task especially in this medium and I don't envy you in taking it on, but it's an essential part of something like HN. If the users in aggregate don't trust the moderation process or the administrators then this all sort of falls apart and the interesting discussion suffers.
by KptMarchewa | 2025-12-23 15:13:12+00:00
>I know this is tongue in cheek, but writing functional code in an object oriented language, or even worse just taking a giant procedural trail of tears and spreading it across a few files like a roomba through a pile of dog doo is ... well.. a code smell at best.

After forcing myself over years to apply various OOP principles using multiple languages, I believe OOP has truly been the worst thing to happen to me personally as engineer. Now, I believe what you actually see is just an "aesthetics" issue, moreover it's purely learned aesthetics.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-23 15:13:49+00:00
>How many child corpses do you think need to be put into the ground every day before the government should pass the kind of laws most Americans are asking them to?

There are already plenty of gun laws. "Most Americans" are only in favor of more laws to the extent they don't understand what is already in place, except for those that want a blanket ban on guns. There are many millions of legal gun owners in the US, and you should be thankful for that.

Out of many millions of people, 12 per day is a rounding error. You'd probably save more lives by launching a campaign telling kids to tie their shoes or lay off the soda, for real. How many bodies are worth our freedom? Millions die in wars, for far worse reasons than a few hundred as a natural consequence of being free. It is very hard to quantify the benefits of owning a gun because only crimes are reported.

Also, what gun grabbers don't understand (or choose to ignore) is that the people who are murdered by their peers with a gun could just as easily be murdered with a knife, or a brick. They might not be able to do it so quick, but a deranged person can go John Wick on your ass with a sharpened pencil. If you walk alone without a gun, you also have no way to defend yourself against a gang of several thugs. But with a gun, even grandma has a fighting chance of escaping nearly any crime.
by mothballed | 2025-12-23 15:14:48+00:00
Sorry sonny, I'm afraid I've rezoned the entire USA to basically ban building the amount of housing needed, and by the way we locked all our houses into long term mortgages at negative real interest rates you'll never see again so we will inflate away your money via the fed to pay for our house.

I'll let you lower social security, but if you want someplace to stay you'll have to pay me a gazillion dollars or perform a $10 million environmental study before you can build it -- for a house I was able to build for $30,000 under the rules of my time.

I get my due either way.
by bena | 2025-12-23 15:15:15+00:00
Social Security counts on there being a larger workforce every year.

If there's ever a significant population crunch of working age people, it would be in trouble. In 2018, the cost of the Social Security program exceeded total revenues for the first time.

At current rates, Social Security is projected to be insolvent by 2034.

The only ways to mitigate this is to spend less or make more. But no one wants to pay more and no one wants to give up anything.
by halapro | 2025-12-23 15:15:17+00:00
The funny part is how most OTAs are pretty awful with addons themselves. I know for a fact that certain OTAs will sell tickets at a loss hoping you trip up on one of their checkboxes, like the 15€ automatic checkin service many offer.

I just now booked a ticket on gotogate, paid 80 euro and received a receipt from ITA airways for 120 euro. They apparently lost 40 euro on this sale, I only had to click "no" on about 18 questions.
Show HN: A CLI for ADHD Productivity, Aggregates Gmail, Calendar, GitHub
by dwmd14 | 2025-12-23 15:15:51+00:00
I built this for myself to manage the chaos of juggling multiple high-priority freelance projects with ADHD. The problem is I have tasks in my head, emails I need to respond to, calendar events, git repos I'm working on, and recurring habits I'm trying to maintain. I need to ensure I make meaningful progress on each one every week to some extent. This tool helps me figure out what tasks are lagging as the week progresses, and helps me quickly jot down new tasks as they arise without breaking my workflow substantially.

utility-explorer (ue) pulls everything into a unified CLI dashboard. The main ideas:

- Block tracking: Recurring activities (workouts, focused work, etc.) as weekly targets rather than repeating tasks. The system warns you when you're at risk of missing your target for the week.
- Structured routines: ue am and ue pm commands for morning standup and evening review, so there's a ritual rather than a blank canvas.
- AI focus: Optional integration with Claude to recommend what to work on next based on all your context.

It syncs Gmail, Google Calendar, and git commits via GitHub. All data stays local in SQLite.
Built with Python, Click, and Rich. Check it out and give me feedback, I'm planning on adding more integrations and features.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-23 15:16:46+00:00
I believe information wants to be free, and should be free, even when I don't unanimously agree with the information, so I will start by re-sharing the torrent magnet link for the video, which I am also seeding right now, and will continue to do so until at least a full month passes with zero activity:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

That said, there seems to be lots of conspiracy-adjacent talk in here. Has anyone considered the impact of the previous Trump lawsuit against CBS over the Kamala Harris edits, or the Trump-BBC lawsuit, whereby CBS made a business risk decision to avoid a story that might have some individual aspects of questionable factual accuracy that could come back to bite CBS in a courtroom, like how BBC's selective edits of Trump came back to bite them? Paramount/CBS settled Trump's lawsuit over the Kamala Harris "60 Minutes" edit for $16 million in July. BBC is getting sued for $10 billion. It's not economically irrational for an organization that has already settled lawsuits for selective presentation of political information in the past to be more worried about $10b lawsuits than $16m lawsuits.
by Bridged7756 | 2025-12-23 15:16:49+00:00
The guy is one of Putin's top generals, also known as "Bloodhound" (in Russian), anyways, he sounds pretty bloodthirsty too, just from the way he writes. You have to pay for your crimes you monster! You and all your people deserve to die! Every Russian. It's just so monstrous how they decide to just invade another country because they can right? What gives them the right? All their people should pay for it, with blood.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-12-23 15:17:07+00:00
It’s not just that, it’s that the administration knew they weren’t guilty of any crimes and sent them to be tortured anyway.

If you can stomach it, propublica has been covering stories like this since the summer [1].

Meanwhile, the MS13 has been cutting sweetheart deals with Bukele [2] and we have been releasing actual gang members for the privilege of sending innocent people to the torture facilities [3, 4], even in the face of reports of USAID being diverted to the gang for a money-for-votes scheme for Bukele [5].

[1]https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-inte...

[2]https://www.propublica.org/article/ambassador-ronald-johnson...

[3]https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ran...

[4]https://www.npr.org/2025/10/21/nx-s1-5580555/why-the-state-d...

[5]https://www.propublica.org/article/bukele-trump-el-salvador-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-23 15:18:03+00:00
> Hope you folks are ready (you’re not)

I'm American. Why would the largest military on the planet not be ready for rule by might? Revoking Pax Americana (and the rules-based international order it was built on, aspirational as it may have often been) just means our elites can go back to 19th-century rules.
by immibis | 2025-12-23 15:18:04+00:00
"political/ideological battle" is usually interpreted to include posting things that make YCombinator or its affiliates or the USA look bad. Making YC or its affiliates or the USA look bad is also against the intended purpose of HN.

Edit: interesting how after posting this, all of my most recent comments received one downvote, including the one that just straightforwardly answers someone's question.
by Someone | 2025-12-23 15:18:27+00:00
> I saw an article here that pointed out that there are keyboards today that have more computing power then the original Apple computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-48:

“The 8049 has 2 KB of masked ROM (the 8748 and 8749 had EPROM) that can be replaced with a 4 KB external ROM, as well as 128 bytes of RAM and 27 I/O ports. The microcontroller's oscillator block divides the clock input frequency by three and then further divides the result into five machine states. Using the 11 MHz maximum crystal frequency will produce 0.73 MIPS of single-cycle instructions. Some 70% of instructions are single byte and single cycle ones, but 30% need two cycles or two bytes, so its typical performance would be closer to 0.5 MIPS.“

The Apple 1 had more RAM, but I think that, compute-wise, that’s already is fairly close to the performance of the 1MHz Apple 1.

and:

“The original IBM PC keyboard and the keyboard for its precursor the IBM System/23 Datamaster used an 8048 as its internal microcontroller”*

That Wikipedia page isn’t explicit about the difference between 8048 and 8049, but it could only be that the 8049 had twice the ROM and RAM (2k, respectively 128 bytes). If so, the PC keyboard already had a CPU with about the same computing power (but again: not the memory) as an Apple I in 1981.
by analog31 | 2025-12-23 15:19:47+00:00
This is anecdotal, but I remember this sentiment becoming widespread in the 1980s, along with the imminent hyperinflation and currency collapse.

Political candidates (Carter and Reagan) promised reductions in federal spending, but couldn't get past the obvious lack of any real discretionary control due to the size of the biggest ticket items such as the entitlements and military. The conservative message of "entitlements will make you immoral" was replaced by "entitlements are unsustainable," making it sound like serious economics but without any real basis.
by tgtweak | 2025-12-23 15:20:16+00:00
I think more salient here (at term certainly) is setting up adversarial agents for testing/verification - that has been a big win for me in multi-agent workflows - when claude first released "computer use" that was a very big step in closing this loop and avoiding the manual babysitting involved in larger projects. PSA that it's not a silver bullet as the "analyzer" can still get tripped up and falsely declare something as broken (or functional), but it greatly reduces the "Hey I've done the task" when the task is not done or the output is broken.
by estearum | 2025-12-23 15:20:23+00:00
> One good step from the legislative would be removing the legal basis for the civil rights lawsuits, so they can be thrown out immediately.

You mean the Constitution's 5th Amendment? No thank you, I'll keep that one around.

> Sure, if you can think of better deterrents for migration and better ways to deport more people, then those should be tried as well.

A little known fact is that the Constitution is actually meant to make life difficult for the government. It is not up to the rest of us to come up with Constitutionally valid alternatives to the administration's preferred course of action. That's their job.
by hexbin010 | 2025-12-23 15:20:30+00:00
Firstly Ryanair don't fly the routes Qantas and Emirates do, so you have no idea what you're on about comparing them

Second, Ryanair et al have dragged all the previous decent airlines down with them into the gutter and even paying more doesn't really get you service of years gone by. The only way they could compete was by slashing costs and prices to appear near the same ranking in the search results. You don't really get what you pay for flying short haul in Europe. Even business is mostly "low cost economy plus" rather than true business class in Europe
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-23 15:20:40+00:00
> It feels like the CMS market is pretty crowded now, with lots of modern, high-quality open source and commercial products.

I don't know, I feel like it's crowded with options but no options are high-quality and ready to be used commercially. Things like Strapi gets somewhat close, but then fucks up the operational parts by being complex to handle with multiple environments, bad history tracking and much else. So the space of "high quality production-ready open-source CMS" is less crowded than you think, particularly if you aim for a specific niche.
by saghm | 2025-12-23 15:20:45+00:00
It's plausible that being in poor mental health might make someone more likely to be unemployed, but that employment can still worsen someone's mental health. Even if unemployment is net better for someone's mental health than working we might see a trend where on average mental health is worse for unemployment due to the fact that employment (of a lack of it) might not cause as of an effect as other factors.
Show HN: Tokscale – See who's burning the most tokens across all platforms
by junhoyeo | 2025-12-23 15:21:10+00:00
I've been through all of them. Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor. Finally settled on OpenCode.

But I had billions of token data scattered across 5 different tools with no unified view. So I built Tokscale.

The problem:

- Token usage scattered across multiple AI coding tools

- Each stores data in different formats and locations

- Claude Code deletes your history after 30 days by default (!)

- No way to see total spend or compare with other developers

What Tokscale does:

- One command (`bunx tokscale`) shows all your AI usage in one place

- GitHub-style contribution graph (2D/3D) for your token consumption

- Global leaderboard to see where you rank among other developers

- Spotify Wrapped-style year review image to share

Built with:

- Rust native core for fast parsing

- OpenTUI, the same terminal UI framework that powers OpenCode

Check it out: https://tokscale.ai

CLI: `bunx tokscale`

GitHub: https://github.com/junhoyeo/tokscale
by earthnail | 2025-12-23 15:21:12+00:00
It‘s at the very bottom of the readme, below the MIT license mention. Yes, it’s there, but very much in the fineprint. I think the easier thing to spot is the CLAUDE.md in the code (and in particular how comprehensive it is).

Again, I love Claude, I use it a ton, but a topic like database cloning requires a certain rigour in my opinion. This repo does not seem to have it. If I had hired a consultant to build a tool like this and would receive this amount of vibe coding, I’d feel deceived. I wouldn’t trust it on my critical data.
by saxenaabhi | 2025-12-23 15:21:25+00:00
I'm not sure you can make that assumption even when a human wrote that code. LLMs are competing with humans not with some abstraction.

> The issue is that if it's struggling sometimes with basic instruction following, it's likely to be making insidious mistakes in large complex tasks that you might no have the wherewithal or time to review.

Yes, that's why we review all code even when written by humans.
by peterldowns | 2025-12-23 15:21:28+00:00
Really interesting article, I didn't know that the template cloning strategy was configurable. Huge fan of template cloning in general; I've used Neon to do it for "live" integration environments, and I have a golang project https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb that uses templates to give you ~unit-test-speed integration tests that each get their own fully-schema-migrated Postgres database.

Back in the day (2013?) I worked at a startup where the resident Linux guru had set up "instant" staging environment databases with btrfs. Really cool to see the same idea show up over and over with slightly different implementations. Speed and ease of cloning/testing is a real advantage for Postgres and Sqlite, I wish it were possible to do similar things with Clickhouse, Mysql, etc.
by Melonai | 2025-12-23 15:21:29+00:00
They declared their module with just their package name without a URL, it got fixed a few hours ago.

I find it a bit interesting that Go even allows you to declare `module barename` in go.mod even though it loves breaking so many things if you do so. I sometimes try doing it for completely private projects but I always just declare some URL in the end, it's a weird anti-pattern in my opinion.
by amiga386 | 2025-12-23 15:21:39+00:00
It was there the last time I used Ryanair (which is one time too often IHMO)

They didn't choose to remove those fees - they were legally compelled to: https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-forbids-ryanair-from-char...

Dark patterns are still sketchy and unconscionable, regardless of how easy you find them to get past. They're put there by unscrupulous businesses to catch some people -- can you say no Ryanair customer has ever accidentally purchased Ryanair insurance they didn't need?

Similarly, their latest wheeze, that you skipped over, is to compel people to use their "app". The trading standards regulators need to smack Ryanair about the head with a cricket bat and again force them not to apply such bollocks.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair...

> Indeed, when I checked in for my 12 November flight to Germany a day ahead, I was told: “Make sure to print and bring your boarding passes to the airport or access them through the Ryanair app” and even “boarding passes must be printed for use”.

> But Ryanair says those are no longer acceptable. Oddly, though, you can use a paper boarding pass that is printed out at the airport by ground staff working for Ryanair – at no charge.

Such utter bollocks. They are totally capable of accepting paper boarding passes (or screenshots or PDFs of boarding passes shown on a phone -- better airlines let you download a PDF from their website once checked in, and you can put it on your phone or print it out; no proprietary app needed), they just want to compel you to install their app and get tracked and dinged and marketed at and upsold up the wazoo with zero benefit to you. It is not necessary at all, and I will continue to never travel with them.
by helro | 2025-12-23 15:21:40+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with voice-to-code workflows and realized that the benefit isn't actually speed—it’s the reduction of what I call the 'synthesis tax.'

When we type, we are forced to translate raw intent into structured prose in real-time. We self-edit, delete, and reorganize as we go. This 'lossy compression' often causes us to omit the very details (edge cases, the 'why,' uncertainty) that help an LLM produce better code.

I wrote this to explore how pairing high-bandwidth voice (~150 WPM) with 'meta-prompting' (using a secondary prompt to map speech to codebase context/file tags) creates a much higher-signal input than typing ever could.

Curious if others have found that 'rambling' into a model actually yields better architectural results than a carefully typed one-liner.
by observationist | 2025-12-23 15:21:59+00:00
100% of the people polled are the type of people who interact with polls. The questions, framing, and context of the interaction is going to influence the results in ways that aren't corrected for. The day of the week, what's in the current news cycle, the context of the individual media bubbles of the poll takers, whether or not they've had breakfast, and a myriad other factors will influence the results in ways that aren't accounted for.

The confounders and the structure of these polls are not statistically significant or valid ways of understanding anything except perhaps the poll taking institutions, and the polls they choose to perform and publish can provide insight into underlying agendas. The bubbles which they influence most are part of that context, so the social narrative of those bubbles represents a significant bias, regardless of the rules which may or may not be followed for any given poll.

The sampling of 2200 people, the use of the "it's math! ta-da! Statistics." is handwavy and manipulative at best. The error bars are so large as to make the results effectively meaningless. People should stop believing polls and pollsters unless or until they engage in scientifically legitimate methodology. Blinds, multiple question distributions, psychological profiling, corrections for environmental, cultural, and personal bias, multiple significant population sizes, effective sampling in choice of participants, and so on, and those sorts of polls require money and time that make doing legitimate polls prohibitively expensive and lengthy.

Most institutions engaging in polling don't want to bother with because they know they can handwave away concerns by claiming "Statistically valid random sample size!" and not have to address any of the other methodological or structural flaws.

This is no better (or worse) than a poll on bsky or twitter or hackernews, effectively. They just hide the fact that they're sampling from a segregated population and pretend it's representative.

And as far as the economic doom of social security hanging over our heads, it requires a balanced budget and fiscal responsibility, and the chuckleheads who've been running congress the last 60 years got what they wanted. Austerity or collapse or a whole menu of unpleasant shit sandwiches await for those of us who have to deal with the boomers' irresponsible and reckless orgy of self enrichment.