skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been doing this for a few years already. Not for all my searches, sometimes I append other domains, but generally I now tell google what domain I’m interested in, and Reddit is a popular one.

Unfortunately, only a matter of time until Reddit is gamed to hell unless they take steps to prevent moderator corruption (which is already happening and severe for many popular subreddits). And so the cycle continues. Avoiding people who want to sell you stuff is a sisyphean task…
I don't know that I agree with the thesis that it's dying, but I think the symptoms it describes are very real.

Searching for "good restaurants in <city I'm visiting>" is useless. Entire real companies exist to fill the top few slots on that search for any given city. My workaround is, as the article says, to search Reddit instead. Look for the subreddit dedicated to that city, then find their most recent thread on good places to eat - you find much better results.

That said, I strongly suspect this only works because it's not a widely-known strategy. As soon as a critical mass of people start going to reddit instead of google, the same enormous weight of effort people put into SEO will instead go to finding ways to subvert Reddit's authenticity. Sock puppet accounts, astroturfing, generating spammy subreddits, voting rings - there are plenty of strategies, and dedicated experts will have a huge incentive to invent more. Reddit will put up countermeasures, just like Google tries to prevent SEO spam. I don't have any reason to believe Reddit will be more successful in the long term than Google is.

So... enjoy it while it lasts. :)
HN definitely has a toxic "shoot it down" mentality when new things are presented. As an example, I recall a post where someone posted a browser-based implementation of some very nice airplane cockpit instruments, and I was not at all surprised when the top comment was about how stupid and dangerous it is to try to implement flight controls in a browser. The controls were intended for training purposes. It's as if the prevailing attitude often starts with "your idea is wrong and stupid and I know better even though the first thought I've ever put into the topic was 30 seconds ago."

I often just shake my head at people's inability to sit back and appreciate what's interesting about something, rather than try to find things that are wrong with it.
Sorry. I've checked HN several times a day every day for a decade and personally desired to see highlights of articles as a preview or summary since there's so much quality content here and so little time to look at it all. So I built Kontxt.io to save, organize, and share the best parts of the web. I thought others might be be interested and find it useful as well.
I've been using Kagi for a while now too. I like their stance on privacy, but I don't really like that I have to create an account to use it.

https://kagi.com/privacy
In a slightly better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything can be crypto" craze.
Here how you prove the fraud:

The hard problem that needs to be solved in a Decentralized blockchain is the risk and effect of bad actors. None of the current funds, including that of MA, addresses this risk.

Instead, all current plays are about building Managed Blockchains that's just needless complexity where federated databases would have sufficed and been far more efficient (perf., cost, complexity)

There's a fine line between vision and orchestrated fraud.
It's always been easier to commit fraud and once you're managing billions of other people's money, it's extremely hard to not take the easy path.

Bottomline: This is a pump and dump speculation play. HN is too smart to fall for it.
Did you miss the entire sub plot about an underclass?
I certainly do not concur with any ideology based on hate but we cannot lose our right to free speech in this country, regardless of what that speech is. Regardless of what some people think, we have no Arbiter of Truth in this country and all of us should pray that we never do. Group think is dangerous. If that was the prevailing belief in 1776, we wouldn't be a country. If people in the 1960s had the same belief, Dr. King's movement would have been crushed. Think, people.
Ah, young whipper snappers, everything old is new again, and clearly the world is always getting worse.

Well, some things are (reverse image search, ease of accessing 'Cached' pages -- now I have to go to archive.org Wayback, etc), but forum search has always been bad.

Long before Reddit was big, USENET/DejaNews and forum software like PHPbb/UBB ruled supreme (and before Markdown there was UBB Code). Google, despite owning DejaNews, did not often surface links into USENET content, and a lot of forums, for whatever reason, were not indexed by Google. For example, I used to spend a lot of time reading the latest on PC/3D Hardware stuff on Beyond3D, Overclockers, Rage3D, etc and I almost always had either use site specific search (dejanews.com or say, PHP BB's built in local search), or I had to add site:beyond3d.com for example.

And is a large amount of confirmation bias going on in these Google threads that appear. Some people make assumptions that their search patterns are representative of the billions of searchers ("argh, I searched for pytorch k-means and a GitHub wrapper site appeared!") and that their experience is a representative sample, while others focus only on what has gotten worse, and not what has gotten better.

What's clearly gotten worse is webspam. But while it has degraded the Googlee experience, it's not clear any of the other search engines are any better at filtering it out, except by luck because perhaps they don't crawl as many sites as often.
I just have one question... does Netcraft officially confirm this?
I’ve found bash to be a pretty fulfilling language to work in.

I fed The Linux Documentation Project and Pure Bash Bible into my Anki decks which was really a turning point in writing bash for me.

It’s pretty amazing how much can be accomplished in a relatively small amount of bash.
For all its faults, it's still the best place to discus things; including controversial topics. My experience on other platforms is significantly less good.

I guess that with thousands (tens of thousands?) active users there's no real way to filter out all "toxicity", and neither should we. Some people are just a bit more abrasive, or state things a little too absolutely, or are a little bit too critical.

I think part of building an inclusive and diverse community also means accepting that people aren't perfect, and not be overly sensitive about this. Of course there are limits, but sometimes people get a little bit over-sensitive about "toxicity". You do have some amount of choice whether you "take offence" or not. Part of that is just adjusting your expectations, and also reminding yourself that they probably mean well even if they're coming off as a bit of an ass. Exceptions apply, of course, and of course there are limits: personal insults are right out, as are condescending dismissals and such. But someone being a bit too arrogant? Meh.

Part of the problem is that unlike a coworker or friend with whom you have a relationship, almost everyone here is a "stranger": you never had a beer with them, or went bowling, or whatever. So less-than-great interactions stand out as a single data point for an entire person, rather than a single data point among many. Add to this non-native speakers, different cultures, etc. and it's easy to become dismayed, especially if you spend "several hours/day". Remember that negative interactions register much stronger, too: for every HN conversation where I end up being frustrated there are dozens where this didn't happen.
To begin again in the offworld colonies.
> Early adopters aren’t using Google anymore.

What are they using now?
In some sense I think they have it right. The chemical induced feeling of love lasts a couple years at best. The rest is about relationship, bonding, family, duty and responsibility - IMO. I would wager those who don't marry for love but make a pact to form a working relationship still get most the upsides of marriage.
Right-to-Left Override
People generally tend to use one of them, mostly Google.

However, I always sign-up with an e-mail directly if possible, and don't use OIDC login pathways. If I had to use or was lazy during registration, I change my password immediately, so I can use an e-mail/password/2FA path.
It's the type of response a younger me would have said before I found out how wrong I can be even on subjects I think I know a lot about. My response now to such a question would be "That's weird, mySQL should work on all laptops. Let me take a look." From that point on I'm expecting it to be an error the person didn't understand, but I'm open to the idea that it might be a failure of their install script due to an odd configuration of the laptop, or even a symptom of another problem somewhere else, such as limited disk space, incorrectly installed drivers, or even a hardware issue.
I actually agree with the message. I'm just saying that there's more than one way to pursue niceness (or, if not 'niceness' however defined, at least proper respect, empathy and decorum), and expecting people to be less analytical (which quite literally means to "pick shit apart") might not be the best.
I'm not asserting every single conservative fits this mold, or that you can't cherry-pick pundits who still play fair. But most of what the right wing is oriented around today is attacking the free press, stifling public education, making voting more difficult for urban citizens and pretending, loudly and constantly, that the last election was stolen.

Where are the policy proposals? What major legislation did conservatives pass during the previous Republican administration when they had a trifecta? What was the Republican Party platform in 2020? And why is the RNC choosing not to allow a debate in 2024? This is not a party with lots of ideas ready to fight for the hearts and minds of voters.
Blind is toxic. HN is pretty cool.
I could not agree more with you. Do you have any tips for other places? Even any good subreddits? The only way I can find the old energy now is certain twitter hubs, but I suspect there is a lot on discord.

And on the topic of the post:

"The financial measures bring crowdfunding platforms under terror-finance oversight, authorize Canadian banks to freeze accounts suspected of funding the blockades and suspend insurance on vehicles in the protests, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said."

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-respons...
"Idiocy Saturation:

Online, people who don't think before they post are able to post more often than people who do. As a result, the average social media post is stupider than the average social media user. Worth remembering whenever Twitter dumbassery drives you to despair."¹²

This covers it all, in my opinion. By the time someone is done posting a six paragraph long analysis that includes sources, a dozen of less pertinent comments will have been posted.

This is what the downvote feature and the flag feature are for.

Ideally, all of us are downvoting cheap humor and unrelated online trends ("first!", etc.)

¹https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1492256294023143426

²Apologies for the wording, I personally would have avoided using "stupid" and "idiocy"
Well ... she's not a "Bitcoin Widow", she's a Fraudster's Widow, so I don't know what she expected.

Also, I find it quite disingenuous for close relatives to claim ignorance when rackets like this fall apart (like Madoff's wife purported innocence). I don't think anyone in the world knows you better than your husband/wife, not even your parents/kids.
The Bolsheviks and (to a lesser extent) the Nazis had plenty of good art that also saved as propaganda for the most despicable causes. You can appreciate Eisenstein or Harlan as great directors without thinking them to be fine human beings. Of course beyond art that is purely formally fascinating, there is a tension between artistic quality and serving a narrow propagandist agenda, and personally I find Battleship Potemkin utterly dull and overrated. But the best films these directors created in the service of totalitarianism transcend this narrowness: try Ivan the Terrible, for the example.
I was ignorant about the quote. Thank you!
it's still got some hackers and founders, if you're looking for financiers looking to extract value rather than build this may not be the place.
What does this have to do with people in tech communities being rude?
Got it. Yes I would completely agree its unfair to categorize it "access to white house computers". It would be more accurate imo to say they were monitoring where traffic was going on the white house computers.
Wow! those butterflies are from CorelDraw. you reminded my childhood. :)
>Reviews are secretly paid ads.

So are a lot of Reddit comments.
There's been a few threads asking for blogs, most of which probably have feeds, here's the one most readily available from my browser history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30245247
It's pretty clearly reverse engineered from bytecode by some sort of tool. It's full of `goto IL_label` statements. Would a programmer write a goto in C# at all, let alone call their procedures "intermediate language xyz"?
Yeah, if you want to see how bad it can really get, head on over to slashdot. I used to hang around there in the 90s and 00s, but it started going downhill and I left. Went back recently and wow has that place gone to hell. Just full on flamewars with cursing, vulgarities, and name calling in the comments. That kind of behavior would never fly here.
Ya. I guess we need some more maturity in Rust web frameworks. Specifically something like RoR and with some corporate backing. Current solutions are okay but they don't inspire much confidence due to slow pace of development and gaps wrt to frameworks in other languages.

I'm using warp currently and recently did a load test on my backend. Performance was stunning so its definitely worth it. But these gaps do decrease the overall dev velocity as we have to make custom solutions where there aren't any.

For example, I had to write some custom code which auto generates all model classes from db schema including functions for lazy loading various properties on the classes and regular CRUD. Took me a solid couple of weeks which I could have spent else where if I was using Java with JPA or RoR. Same with another piece to generate a warp compatible routes file from annotations on functions (including generating the corresponding struct for gathering post bodies and calling the actual handler function with the struct members).

Worth it? Definitely. Wish its already available as some framework? Definitely!
Yeah, most new services allow sign-up with e-mail. However, there was a brief period which made it almost impossible to register without a social registration path.
I agree with this sentiment. You can meaningfully append 'reddit' to only a fraction of actual searches.

But we should also note that HN users are the "spearhead" of adoption curve and if there is ever any meaningful alternative to Google, just by the virtue of HN users adopting it, could mean strong propagation in their social circle - the less tech savvy family members, friends and work.
Sure it's possible.
How much of a difference does a DAC really make on a 320kbps MP3? I feel like you're fooling yourself if you claim you can tell a difference.
What's missing from the open source model is the monetization. The incentives for contributing to open source and using open source products are misaligned - this is why it's been so hard to build businesses around it (with some notable exceptions).

What he's arguing is that web3 solves this problem by aligning incentives for creators and maintainers around the same token system.
Their search may be dying but I’ve noticed that the “new tab” page on Chrome mobile shows links to content that are particularly relevant to me.
That's still sales. People focus on "bad" sales, but "good" sales is about being honest about the capabilities of your offering and finding people who honestly need it. It's a bad practice long-term (both in business sales and dating sales) to be over-focused on short-term closing and not focused enough on long-term satisfaction.
Okay, it should work. Please file a bug report on Element Web & Android so we can investigate.
Hacker News is less toxic than one might expect it to be, given the widespread historical association of Y Combinator with DVFs (a Bay Area acronym meaning "Domestic Violence Founder", referring to the high rate of DV issues involving startup founders). YC has cleaned up its image of late, and I think SamA really did want to make it better, but it's still YC and capitalism is still capitalism.

You'd think that a website supporting an organization so dedicated to capitalism would be filled entirely with toxic personalities, but in reality, it's only about 50% toxic. The other half are genuinely interesting people who actually want to make the world a better place (although, if they do what capitalism wants them to do, they will fail in doing so).
This is very niche and is just standard software dev + business side of things, which can be achieved with a minor as PaulHoule commented.
In which I agree with the federal government and bash VPNs for fun and profit
I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but this maybe one of these?

https://simplifier.neocities.org/

https://cheapskatesguide.org/

https://indieseek.xyz/

https://www.gameboomers.com/

https://sadgrl.online/
Create new, targeted laws quickly.

per guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
They didn't need to bother. The Washington Post published a perfectly serviceable photography in 2015.

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/tsa-doesnt-really-care-l...
Cambodia steps up surveillance with new Internet gateway
> What if you want to know what a genuine real life human being thinks about the latest Lenovo laptop?

I'd check Amazon reviews. When was Google ever the first tool of choice for product reviews? I don't remember that era.
What happened to clubhouse?
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark
I think "debate" is the key feature of HN (indeed, most online discourse) that the author has identified. It's easy to base a comment on a flaw in an article, or someone else's comment on the article, so HN discussions can seem very contrarian, almost adversarial.

Randall Munroe may have said it best with his "Duty Calls" comic:

https://xkcd.com/386/
What was "relentless" about parent's comment?

So now any level of criticism is "relentless"?
To some extent this is a fair criticism, and I certainly wish Safari were less tied to OS releases. That said, iOS users tend to update about as quickly as you could hope for (and update hardware often enough that being left behind is uncommon), and macOS users who lag behind tend to use Chrome anyway.
Ipamorelin/ModGRF, NAD+, GHK-cu, and occasionally Semax, Selank, and Thymosin Alpha 1.

The GHRPs is probably the most beneficial for me, followed by NAD+. After many decades of medical gaslighting I now act as my own doctor/medical researcher and so far I’m doing a much better job at it.
The article seems to state there wasn't a lot of value in the cold wallets.
And my question is why is this a story? How is this interesting?

It's seems the problem in the article doesn't apply to most people, even in this community. Nor is it new.
> doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

Unitasker
That is merely the difference between someone involved in a ponzi scheme and someone who started one.
If you're looking for similar books with realistic depictions of agriculture: No, that was a lucky find in the library.

In case you just want to practice German with media for children, I always recommend "Die Sendung mit der Maus" [1]. It's a mix of short animated stories with "how it's made" features, where they go filming in factories etc.

[1] https://www.wdrmaus.de/aktuelle-sendung/
> unilaterally declaring meat to be bad

They didn't.

> corn syrup to be universally bad

The research is still out about whether HFC is processed differently in the body. What isn't really up for debate is the pervasiveness of HFC in everything. Because it's subsidized and so cheap, it excess has made it a cheap raw material that's found in just about everything from Tomato Sauce to Bread.

Too much sugar in your diet is bad, and so it isn't much of a stretch to say that having a ridiculously cheap source of sugar that's being added as filler to every imaginable product is probably not great for us.

> and for some reason declaring that "organic" whatever that means today, makes something better somehow

I think the op was trying to say that corn is a hearty crop that grows fine on it's own without a lot of petrochemical fertilizers.

You're jumping to a lot of conclusions.
I love this it looks different uniqueness is missing in websites as most people use templates which takes away the art and beauty of most websites …you Should keep her as your design
I guess inline awk is fair game.
This analysis doesn't make sense to me. China and other countries have had periods of double digit new cases reported. Even if that data is fake, you can't use Benford's law on numbers that small (it has to be numbers that span magnitudes... clearly states so in the wiki article he links). Also, cumulative stats aren't "naturally occurring random numbers."
> HN is filled with toxicity, especially if you have a thought that runs counter to the normal accepted way.

Compared to the real world, HN is still a bowl of cherries.
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I started moving towards my own offline music library after getting pissed off with the record labels removing stuff from streaming services for no reason. Sometimes artists do it too, a lot of Adam Kay's offerings from a decade or so ago have been thoroughly memory-holed presumably in a pre-emptive attempt to avoid controversy for their vulgar humour now he's much better known as a public figure.
I actually use the term "forum" as an additive search term. It usually goes to domain specific forums which actually contain what you look for.

I also tried googling an answer to (an apparently common bug) in Windows relating to Bluetooth connections and I have not found any non generic answers anywhere in the search results no patter what I quoted or whichever term I added. Just generic crap, that same crap copy and pasted over and over and over again and non-specific bullshit answers from Microsoft itself.
This is the correct answer.

One can come into contact with many of the same "rude" type, but it's generally due to the fact that hiring in any given organization is generally based, at least in part, on "cultural fit". This means the various types of engineers will tend to segregate a bit over time. For instance someone who is a bit more contemplative may not meet the "cultural fit" requirement at a crypto defi shop, but might do well at a national laboratory. (And vice versa). This is why we shouldn't meet a group of, let's say "strong personality types", and assume that all engineers in other places are similar in nature. That's not at all how it works.