MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2026-01-06 03:40:42+00:00
Related:

What to Do When the Trisector Comes (PDF, 1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404927 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21206633 - Oct 2019 (61 comments)

What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446708 - May 2017 (28 comments) (<-- hello!)
by i_AryanSharma17 | 2026-01-06 03:41:28+00:00
Location: India

Remote: Comfortable in Remote and Onsite both

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Next, Typescript / Javascript, React, Tailwind CSS, Postgresql, Node / Express, Mongo DB, Astro JS, Api integration for finance systems.

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I am eager to work with you. I am the best Engineer you will ever find.
by boca_honey | 2026-01-06 03:42:08+00:00
Exactly. Have you noticed that most of these 'weird web' sites don't actually talk about anything besides the web itself? Every other 'indie web' site I stumble upon is just about the indie web.... or worse, just a list of links pointing to other similar sites.

There’s no real value here. No new info, no original content. Just clunky web design and rants about 'social media bad.'

That’s not how the web actually was. Everyone used to bring something to the table, instead of just talking in circles about the table itself.
by CuylerM | 2026-01-06 03:46:18+00:00
Planning a trip today is fragmented, time-consuming, and frustrating, with dozens of tabs, scattered research, and constant second-guessing. We’re building a better way. Our app creates personalized, flexible travel itineraries based on your preferences and brings planning and booking into one streamlined experience. The goal is simple: spend less time planning and more time actually enjoying the trip. We’re opening an early waitlist for people who believe travel planning deserves a serious upgrade.

*We won’t spam your email — planning trips is the only thing we’re trying to automate.
by worik | 2026-01-06 03:46:24+00:00
Golly

I have been using Emacs since 1989. I have seen so many editors come and go, and Emacs was never the best, but it was always good. And it has stuck to its (very broad) knitting.

There are AI tools I can incorporate into Emacs, and one day I might. But I have so much choice, it gets distressing

Articles like this remind me why I keep loyal....
by Caritaspax | 2026-01-06 03:47:03+00:00
I just thought it was a cool idea and don't derive any my virtue from my abilities or giftedness so I don't need to be afraid of new tools even if they travel old roads. If its not an interesting idea then let it go, there is nothing to be gained from silencing an idea other than a quiet room, and then who benefits so the old adage fits, if you can't say something nice, then rather prefer to say nothing at all, or if you can't do that at least something constructive.
by dissent | 2026-01-06 03:49:06+00:00
> I cringed while reading his many comparisons between people of different regions, as if they were species of finches

Only because we know better now. It must have seemed self evident at the time and we can forgive Darwin for making that mistake. He was a scientist and I'm sure he'd have accepted the evidence that all the so-called races are embarrassingly alike.

Not a fan of these retrospective moralistic takes.
by brotherplanks | 2026-01-06 03:50:44+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Open To Discuss

Technologies: Javascript/Typescript, Vue, React, HTML/CSS, a bit of Python, Django

Email: peeterkang@gmail.com

Resume: email me! ^

Summary: frontend-leaning software engineer currently at an customer education platform. have experience working cross-functionally with product and design on feature development, UI component library design, accessibility improvements, and much more. Love working on all things frontend but happy to throw down on BE too. Especially love experimenting lately with AI tools such as Copilot, Cursor, and cool MCPs.
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-06 03:51:02+00:00
You've captured my thoughts better than I could. It feels very much like these projects are cargo cults. The strange (and always off-feeling) attempts to recreate badly-written Geocities websites (out of all the aspects of the 2000s internet to recreate, why such a narrow and dull target?) that are posted here feel very much like how the Melanesians built fake airstrips and conducted pseudo-military drills to attract "cargo", which is in this case is a confused and distorted concept of the "old web".
by PropagandaDude | 2026-01-06 03:51:09+00:00
> It's commonly used for other actions or more often getting clicked by accident, and dumping your entire clipboard while having no indication that this will happen is nothing short of a dumpster fire.

> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

Tell me you don't understand X11 without telling me you don't understand X11.

PRIMARY is "the thing you selected" for an operation.

SECONDARY is "the other thing you selected", for an operation that takes two args.

CLIPBOARD is the interprocess data transfer mechanism.

This is why Firefox has the https://kb.mozillazine.org/Clipboard.autocopy flag. Select text in a page, and move it automatically to the interprocess space.

X11 systems have been plastering over the distinction forever.
by boca_honey | 2026-01-06 03:51:18+00:00
>someone doing something with passion.

I'd agree if the site covered some history, shared recipes, or even just ranted about the author's favorite movies. But this guy is just trash-talking the entire internet.

"the website has changed. it twists facts to fiction, reality to rubbish, gold into dirt." ... and so on.

If you're going to be cruel, you might get some cruel feedback.
by eliasdejong | 2026-01-06 03:51:39+00:00
Yes, any zero-copy format in general will have this advantage because reading a value is essentially just a pointer dereference. Most of the message data can be completely ignored, so the CPU never needs to see it. Only the actual data accessed counts towards the limit.

Btw: in my project README I have benchmarks against Cap'N Proto & Google Flatbuffers.
"The Human OS Is Broken: A Framework for Algorithmic Governance
by Iaso | 2026-01-06 03:51:57+00:00
Hier ist das fertige Paket für deinen Post. Der Text ist so formuliert, dass er die Hacker-News-Community bei ihrer Ehre packt (Systemdesign & Logik) und gleichzeitig deine radikale Ehrlichkeit bezüglich des Links beibehält.

Der Titel (Maximum Clickbait für Tech-Leute)
"The Human OS is Broken: A Framework for Algorithmic Governance and a $10M Wealth Cap"

Der Post-Text (Ready to Copy & Paste)
The current administrative systems are running on legacy code from the 19th century. They are high-latency, prone to human error, and fail to scale.

I propose the "Manifesto for a Logical World"—a systemic overhaul based on five architectural pillars:

Incorruptible Administration: Replacing traditional bureaucracy with validated, objective AI-governance layers.

Economic Load Balancing: A $10M hard cap on individual assets to prevent systemic bloat, ensuring resources flow back into universal basic infrastructure.

Output-Based Law: Laws based on archaic dogmas are deprecated. Policy is measured strictly by output: Does it increase health, intelligence, or cooperation?

Cognitive Integrity: Protecting the human dopamine system (e.g., no social media/smartphones under 16).

Smart Security: A human-centric but tough approach to real threats, removing the need for private armies and focusing on systemic stability.

I am developing this model independently. This is not a startup, and I make no promises on "content" or schedules. If you see the logic in this framework and want to support the time it takes to refine it, you can leave a Euro. If not, just take the ideas and stress-test them.

Documentation & Support: https://ko-fi.com/projectdiogenes
by k310 | 2026-01-06 03:52:11+00:00
As a senior, I get to look back, and I'll just say that we and earlier generations (which emigrated to the U.S. or were born here) just did what we could, given the economy and opportunities available.

Entrepreneurs are outliers. Most people just worked at a job. My Dad grew up in the depression, and sent two kids to college working as an artist. How awesome is that?

I just worked at tech jobs, made a few bucks moving a few times, and raised a great kid.

And I consider myself a contrarian. My values were not shaped by some "group culture". Probably the opposite. Our daughter stands to inherit two homes, though she kindly suggests that I spend my own equity.

Despite the mantra that all decisions are firmly based on economics and minor fluctuations thereof, people seem to do what feels best at the time. We're not day traders with our lives and equity.

We grew up in a time of very positive social change, almost all of which has been undone in a short time. I still stand up for equality, the dignity of all people and opportunity. And I have shared that by example with my daughter.

The value of a honest and caring life is not measured. Beyond a certain comfort point, which we deny to others out of greed and discrimination, happiness is more intrinsic than anything the spreadsheet jockeys equate with happiness.

Numbers.

"I am not a number! I am a free man!" ... The Prisoner.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-06 03:52:20+00:00
The biggest issue is that people think EV's are gas cars that have electricity instead of gasoline, with the main difference being you have to sit at the "gas pump" for 45 minutes instead of 2.

But the way you daily an EV is totally different than a gas car, and even the way you travel is totally different. People have no concept of EV ownership, so they just go with the gas model that they know. But it is totally incorrect.
by csa | 2026-01-06 03:52:50+00:00
> That demand is all investor-driven though: investors are falling over themselves to make AI investments

Largely true.

> while consumers are not actually especially eager to have all human contact progressively stripped from their lives

Hmm… I agree with this sentiment, but I think it’s mostly a straw man. There are many things that AI can do well that people will end up embracing directly or indirectly.

Medical scans is one big one, imho.

Mundane but important legal services is another.

Skillful mediation of scutwork is definitely embraced.

Good and fast simple customer service via phone or text will end up being very welcome (at least in some contexts). I realize that most people will prefer superlative human customer service, but that’s currently not a widespread available reality, especially for simple tasks.

All sorts of learning (great and essentially free tutors).

All sorts of practice (e.g., language, speeches, debates, presentations, etc.).

All of the above (and more) are things that people are using AI for right now, and they seem to be loving it.

I realize that some folks use AI tools in regressive and sometimes dehumanizing ways, but that’s not the fault of the tool, imho.
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-06 03:53:28+00:00
Not only 20% of the population, but wiping out cities is going to make everything grind to a halt. Best case, tiny pockets of social order is going to remain in very hard to reach, remote rural areas which also has local access to food. We are talking about maybe thousands of people in a population of hundreds of millions. The rest are in for a decade of pure hell.
by tanelpoder | 2026-01-06 03:53:38+00:00
This also leaves more power & thermal allowance for the IO Hub on the CPU chip and I guess the CPU is cheaper too.

If your workload is mostly about DMAing large chunks of data around between devices and you still want to examine the chunk/packet headers (but not touch all payload) on the CPU, this could be a good choice. You should have the full PCIe/DRAM bandwidth if all CCDs are active.

Edit: Worth noting that a DMA between PCIe and RAM still goes through the IO Hub (Uncore on Intel) inside the CPU.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-06 03:54:00+00:00
> It's the same thing with PG&E

An electric and gas utility is a structural monopoly, you cannot run multiple power wired and gas pipes to each property.

Health insurance is easily switched. If Kaiser spends too much, then Anthem/United/Aetna/Cigna/etc can gain customers by offering a lower price.
by econ | 2026-01-06 03:56:25+00:00
OT (but funny) when looking for a good icon for translation I couldn't find anything obvious so I went with 译 I've since considered if their icon set isn't simply 3000 years ahead? They adopted our numeric system because it was simply better. Are our icons simply better than theirs? We could color it too. Can use manila yellow to make 存 (save) look like a folder.
by Abishek_Muthian | 2026-01-06 03:56:36+00:00
Congratulations on the launch OP.

I'm currently using BuzzKill[1] for manging notifications on android. It's so good (and beautiful) that even though I use iPhone as primary device, I receive most of my notifications on android and relay it to my iPhone using a Termux script[2] after putting it through BuzzKill.

I understand that your USP is logging which BuzzKill also provides with numerous actions and Tasker integration on top of it.

It's great that DoNotNotify is free, but if any android app deserves to be paid for its BuzzKill. Perhaps being open-source could be a better differentiator for DoNotNotify?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

[2] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/apple-watch-with-android/t...
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-06 03:56:41+00:00
> And capped or not, the pay-vider structure allows intra-company eliminations to bury arbitrary amounts of money as "not profit" even though it effectively is.

Source? There are 7 large publicly listed health insurers with public financials, all underperforming SP500 for more than a decade. There are myriad other non profits such as Kaiser/Cambia/Premera/Providence/various BCBS/etc, all with public financials as well.

Where is all this fraud going? And it’s happening across hundreds of executive offices across the country? And getting past 50 state insurance regulators that have to approve prices for insurance?

That would be remarkable levels of corruption and collusion.
by hunter2_ | 2026-01-06 03:56:58+00:00
I would qualify it ever so slightly:

The internet is the scaffolding/structure, the Web is what people are doing in a browser (i.e., over HTTP) in it.

Then there's also the stuff people do on the internet without a browser/HTTP. Nobody opens an IMAP/SSH/BitTorrent/IRC client or whatever and thinks of that as surfing the Web, because those aren't browsers nor are they primarily speaking HTTP.
by donavanm | 2026-01-06 03:57:02+00:00
cost and compliance are non-trivial for non-trivial applications. Universal instrumentation and recording creates a meaningful fixed cost for every transaction, and you must record ~every transaction; you can't sample & retain post-hoc. If you're processing many thousands of TPS on many thousands of nodes that quickly adds up to a very significant aggregate cost even if the _individual cost_ is small.

For compliance (or contractual agreement) there are limitations on data collection, retention, transfer, and access. I certainly don't want private keys, credentials, or payment instruments inadvertently retained. I dont want confidential material to be distributed out of band or in an uncontrolled manner (like your dev laptop). I probably don't even want employees to be able to _see_ "customer data." Which runs head long in to a bunch challenges where low level trace/sampling/profiling tools have more less open access to record and retain arbitrary bytes.
by sleepyguy | 2026-01-06 03:57:16+00:00
>The structure consists of some 60 massive granite monoliths, set directly onto the bedrock in pairs at regular intervals. Smaller slabs and packing stones fill in the gaps, locking the whole into a single, deliberate construction. With an estimated total mass of around 3,300 tons, this is the largest underwater structure ever discovered in France.

Hunter Gatherers built it with all the time they had between hunting and gathering. They used their bare hands to heave 60 massive granite monoliths into place 1000 years before the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Madness....
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-06 03:57:55+00:00
If a runtime is vulnerable then it didn't "set up a container properly".

Containers are a kernel technology for isolating and restricting resources for a process and its descendants. Once set up correctly, any escape is a kernel 0day.

For anyone who wants to understand what a container is at its core I would recommend bubblewrap: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
This is also what flatpak happens to use.

It should not take long to realize that you can set it up in ways that are secure and ways which allow the process inside to reach out in undesired ways. As runtimes go, it's as simple as it gets.
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-06 03:58:04+00:00
And just because people are thowing money at an AI company doesnt mean they have or will ever have a marketable product.

The #1 product of nearly every AI company is hope, hope that one day they will replace the need to pay real employees. Hope like that allows a companies to cut costs and fund dividends ... in the short term. The long term is some other person's problem.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-06 03:58:47+00:00
This is so out of left field and so "ideal" that it warrants so pretty heavy skepticism. Donut isn't even a battery company, and plenty of other battery companies with lots of knowledge and lots more money have been pouring over this problem with mixed results.

Because of this, now I am even a bit skeptical of their electric motor claims, which before I didn't really question much at all.
by AceyMan | 2026-01-06 03:59:01+00:00
I'd always been told this was planned into the implementation of the US Interstate Highway System. There are dead straight and level sections ever so many linear miles or per some gridsquare measure to serve as ad hoc landing strips in a national crisis. That's been 35+ years ago that I heard it and I haven't sought any supporting documentation since the dawn of the Internet. Any insight would be appreciated.
by rvz | 2026-01-06 03:59:44+00:00
> Coding agents now sit in the same category as version control, code review, and tests. You don’t do those because they’re trendy. You do them because shipping professional software without them is irresponsible.

?

Stopped reading any further. One of the worst posts I have ever read with the author self-admitting being uninformed on AI.

That sentence alone confirms it. Likely AI generated as well.
by josephg | 2026-01-06 04:01:27+00:00
> waiting for I/O in the GUI thread

The problem is sloppy programming. We knew how to make small, fast, programs 20+ years ago that would just scream on modern hardware. But now everything is bloated and slow. CPUs can retire billions of instructions per second. Discord takes 10+ seconds to open. I’m simply not creative enough to think up how to keep the cpu busy that long opening IRC.
by nawgz | 2026-01-06 04:01:28+00:00
I am not complaining no one has a perspective, I am complaining that they are both rote and uninteresting.

This site is to foster curiosity and learning. Sure, [the action discussed in the article]* is a bonafide master class in fascism, and we could all learn about the futility of checks and balances when sufficiently corrupted by money and propaganda and outside influence.

But none of that will happen on an article merely describing an instance of fascism. Instead, some people will say "wow, this doesn't make sense", others will say "it is nakedly corrupt", and maybe a few from the cult will pop by to start a flame war.

Can you really disagree? The discussion is incredibly uninspired. Not a single interesting link or new mode of thought is posted in 59 comments.
by steele | 2026-01-06 04:01:59+00:00
Given the argument around YC effectively "cancelling" naughty list founders. The John Wick Excommunicado poster for illustration is an interesting choice because John Wick is the hero of the series and is constantly being threatened by the institution that both created and emancipated him only to try to destroy him later. Not sure how intentional, but Reeves himself is beloved figure and often noted as a paragon of hard work and integrity in a grimy industry despite a reputation as a "bad actor".
by Digory | 2026-01-06 04:02:21+00:00
I’d guess Lexis did that to itself. Usually the “deal” is that West or Lexis provides codification and reporting services for zero dollars, if they are named the official printer.

So the Legislature doesn’t have to maintain and oversee their own nest of troublesome legal pedants, and picks up a few contributions from legal publishing “entrepreneurs.”

By making the Annotated code official, it meant that anyone looking to prove what a particular law says in court would have to get it from the expensive, $412 hardback book, not the free version. I’d guess Lexis asked for that provision as part of its deal with Georgia.
by MindSpunk | 2026-01-06 04:02:30+00:00
M-series have a substantially wider memory bus allowing much higher throughput. It's not really an x86/M-series thing, rather it's a packaging limitation. Apple integrates the memory into the same package as the CPU, the vast majority of x86 CPUs are socketed with socketed memory.

Apple are able to push a wider bus at higher frequencies because they aren't limited by signal integrity problems you encounter trying to do the same over sockets and motherboard traces. x86 CPUs like the Ryzen AI Max 395+, when packaged without socketed memory, are able to push equally wide busses at high frequencies.
by dirkgwntly | 2026-01-06 04:02:41+00:00
> The so-called moving sofa problem asks how large a rigid shape can be while still being able to pass around a right-angled corner in an L-shaped corridor of a constant width of 1 meter.

This was also the problem in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, so fictionally this problem had already been solved.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-06 04:03:02+00:00
Before we can assume this is impossible for Google, let's look at their revenue: Is it greater than the salary of 1 person, which is all that's required to comply with OP's request? If so, then it isn't impossible.

To judge the claim of unscalability true, we would first need to know the rate of DMCA takedown requests, the number 1 person can investigate in a day, and then we can do the math of whether total revenue can pay for those employees.

Even if not, it's not an excuse. The only legal venue google has to complain about this, is getting the law changed.
Can a Large Language Model Understand the Waste Land?
by chenyusu | 2026-01-06 04:06:07+00:00
(My account can’t submit links yet; feel free to submit this if it seems interesting.)

I built an experiment mapping The Waste Land (Section III, "The Fire Sermon") into a geometric space across phonetic, semantic, and rhetorical axes. Annotations are generated by an LLM and updated context-by-context as the poem unfolds.

What emerged wasn't "understanding" in a literary sense. The model consistently smooths ambiguity into precise coordinates—every word gets a clean position, even when the poem deliberately holds incompatible meanings at once (mythic vs. modern, sacred vs. profane, presence vs. absence).

LLMs optimize for prediction and uncertainty reduction, so they collapse meaning into single trajectories. Modernist poetry is structured to resist exactly this. The visualization doesn't explain The Waste Land—it exposes the gap between human reading and prediction-based language models.

Demo + explanation: https://chenyu-li.info/poetry

Happy to hear criticism, especially from people working on NLP, embeddings, or digital humanities.