skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, well if spez says it, it must be true!
Start small, add things that would naturally fit here. /hn/apple, /hn/crypto, /hn/gpt. Don't need images and video, it's fine as is I think. Probaly not going to happen right? This is the only place that has the momentum to pull it off though.
> If you want money, do management.

If you make it to my comment, please - do not go into management for the money. If you want to build, then remain an IC. If you want to grow other engineers, further THEIR career, make THEM better - go into management.

The friends of mine who ended up in management for the money and complain about their reports make me so angry.
If it gave you the possibility to use other apps than the official? I think people would want to do that.
The entire goal of these API changes is to intentionally price third-party app developers out of the market without imposing a strict blanket-policy ban.

And the goal of this is to attempt to further monetize the platform on the backs of other people's content by forcing them to see as many ads and upsell opportunities as possible.

And the goal of this is to appear more appealing to current and future investors in order to drive up the IPO price and build demand.

And the goal of this is to make those with significant equity stake filthy rich.

The issue is that the changes they're trying to make are inherently hostile to the community whose free content and moderation has made the platform what it is today. And if the community decides to leave the platform and not come back, then regardless of potential for extra ad revenue, the inherent value of the platform will disappear because ads will be shown to less and less users. This is assuming people leave and actually don't come back, which remains to be seen.

The whole "front page of the internet" idea was pretty neat, and is a stark contrast to the days where each internet community had their own niche forum somewhere. Maybe we'll see some other platform overtake Reddit as the new front page of the internet, or maybe an old platform like Digg will make a resurgence. But that's a tall ask when Reddit is now so entrenched in that space.

Edit: technology -> platform, in the last paragraph above.
Just to be clear, one claiming (with an enormous amount evidence supporting the assertion) that the Nazis, history's most notorious white supremacist racists, were terrible and worse than anything that most of the allies represented (again excluding the USSR), makes one a white supremacist? Odd twist of already bad reasoning you've constructed.

Also worth noting that your book's highly debatable assertions cover a span of time stretching across 40 years and ending 20 years before the second world war even began. Compare these tenous arguments to the Nazis's well documented, direct responsibility for over 21 million deaths (including the 11 million killed in specific, targeted extermination campaigns), in just 5 years. Thus even if the book you reference were completely accurate, it would make the Nazis worse during the relevant time span.

None of these arguments have anything to do with me being a white supremacist. And idiotic ideological label now commonly assigned to anyone for absurd reasons because they don't agree with very specific agendas.

Your apparent overall spin on this strongly reminds of a general tendency among some people today to do everything possible to paint the western countries as the most terrible no matter the logical costs or the contortions of whataboutism that this involves. It's an old line of "reasoning" but one that has found fresh material with people making completely ridiculous arguments in defense of policies by countries like Russia and China, specifically because it means shitting on the west.
Just because infrastructure crosses a state boundary, doesn’t mean it requires federal sign off.
I don't get why you can't just bring your own API key with Apollo. It seems pretty simple to have the user go through Oauth to set up an app and have his own quota.
The Tumultuous Early History of Public Media
> I have experience with...

Use that. Any stack you know is faster than any stack you need to learn.
1st gen Yahoo agrees.
Forgive me if I'm making a simplistic reading of this, but it seems the CEO has said that whilst apps and bots are making some good money, Reddit is losing money. Assuming Reddit has already taken cost saving measures (with 2000 staff maybe not), then how can they continue as a business losing money?
I wonder if a model would work where all monetization of api calls has to be done through Reddit and the API itself, and they do a 30% revenue share with the apps?
Remember IRC? /alt/?
We just needed IRC clients but instead we got Digg and Reddit.
What kind of nonsense response is that?
Why do you think I am literally hitler because I use the most normal words imaginable and repeat what migrants will tell you about their experience.

Maybe there is a large cultural gap here, but I grew up in a "worse" part of town with lots of migrants around. Maybe you should try to do the same before calling everyone a nazi because they dare to point out what these people say they want?
The Reddit iOS app and mobile redesign are improvements from past UX. In app media seems to also be better than the past link outs. And the ads have overall gotten better and less intrusive feeling.

I wouldn’t call all that “nothing”
I respectfully disagree, depending on a closed source, for profit megacorp should not be the default, certainly not for a hobby-scale project.
> "There were tons of allegations that HIV was created in a lab too."

Scientists' best guess is that the precursor of the most common "M" virus jumped from the Cameroon chimps to humans sometime before 1931.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/virus/origins....
Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbjkWVyHEhwkwCZ6yfTEkz9fM1...

The live site has been difficult to reach. (https://github.com/Tanza3D/reddark/issues/49)
But you at least need someone to clean up spam? Not sure whether there was a forum spamming business back then, but there certainly is now.
If the people making that claim had been sane, instead of pushing it in the middle of; "it's not deadly, just a flu," "masks do nothing," "maybe a bit of bleach is fine in the lungs," "hydroxychloroquine cures everything," "no, wait, it is horse paste that cures everything," "the vaccine will kill you in X months, guaranteed," and "GREAT RESET," it'd be easier to transition into a serious discussion about studying deadly viruses in labs.
The following is related, also one of the best magazine articles i came across, thanks HN

The Human Factor – the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8452080
Normally I'm the one saying "well there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than you know".

But in this case: yeah it's bizarre. How the hell are their official apps and mobile site and new desktop website so fucking awful, when solo/small team app developers can actually provide a good experience working on the outside with a fraction of the resources?

I've tried to switch from old.reddit to new.reddit a handful of different times now, every time I go screaming back after my eyes feel like they want to vomit. I don't generally have a huge problem with modern web design, but their particular implementation just really sucks.
Dare ya to download that PDF!!
I did that for their World Cup coverage, and it did not block the channel. There was a World Cup banner with scores and stuff for a month. At that point I noped out and haven’t touched it since.
> I feel for them. Figuring out how to make a giant free service profitable isn't easy. It's too bad the tactics they've used seem to be so off-putting.

I don't. Reddit could be profitable of they wanted to. They make a ton of money through Reddit Gold and ads. The reason they are not is because they have hired way too many devs and other staff, presumably because they plan to do an IPO so founders.and execs can become rich and investors make a profit.
TPA users don't look at ads though. At least not for Reddit. I paid a one time fee for my app and never see _any_ ads. Before I paid the fee, the ads I saw were from the app and paid the app creator. It's clear that Reddit didn't want to come to a deal in this situation, but there was a hypothetical situation that looked very similar to what is actually happening that would have been completely reasonable. Reddit just chose not to go that route for some reason.
I just can’t imagine this is the Reddit that Aaron Swartz would have wanted
Controversial opinion: optional security isn't security.

HSTS is a crappy hack introduced because the industry has never had a sunset plan for protocols. When you do Enterprise engineering, you are aware that nearly every single project will die, and so you start the project by planning for how you will kill it in such a way that people can migrate to a new thing as painlessly as possible. But the industry doesn't do that with protocols. So they can't ever die. Because of that, we need backwards compatibility forever and there's extremely little innovation in widely adopted solutions. So any new "fix" has to come as an optional band-aid that falls off if you look at it sideways.

HSTS is the band-aid used to continue propping up our lack of ability to kill off HTTP. Quite simply, HTTPS just doesn't work everywhere. That's why HSTS exists - because we can't just tell browsers "stop supporting unencrypted HTTP". And rather than try to find a way to kill HTTP, or change HTTPS to provide for the things HTTP does, instead we have this optional flag that tells the browser how to manage two things: 1) the site's certs, and 2) browser behavior around a subdomain.

Why do I say it's not security? Because there's plenty of ways around it. Because not all clients support it. Because a server has to explicitly enable it, and do it correctly, which this article shows isn't happening even for the biggest websites. And because if your website isn't in this special preload list, you don't get the benefits of it anyway. (Why the fuck do we have PKI based on the integrity of 350 different CAs if it's meaningless without bundling your individual domain's special configuration with the browser?)

Real security isn't something you can just turn off or avoid. It doesn't require you to submit every domain you want to be secured to a special list packaged in the browser.
I expect that disrupting the powermod cabal would be a net positive for the site.
A third of young men in Germany think violence against women is ‘acceptable’
The business model being, we make a client so bad that you will willingly give us money to not use it.
It uses the native iOS video player APIs, which (to my knowledge, it's been a while since I tried) the official app doesn't. Also overall, it follows a lot of the "recommended" iOS design guidelines and has the look and feel of an Apple-made app (fonts, long-press behaviour, slide elements to perform actions, haptic feedback, etc).
That anomalous behavior would be easy to filter out, especially given they have protections against brigading.
The way I framed my argument, it's a matter of trade-offs. Regarding the iPad, it's definitely possible that they might have used an A15/A16 from their iPhone line rather than the M1 and still have good performance, but the M1 was probably better for marketing and for consumer appeal hence its inclusion.
Exactly. I'm headed back to wikipedia, where I found community as a teenager. I think you can draw a direct line from wikimedia's nonprofit status to 22 years of greatness and steady improvement.
I'm usually a proponent of Apple, but the failure to deliver the same usability as DarkSky after the acquisition is so disappointing.

With DarkSky you could open the app and without a single click have an overview of the next 24hr, and only a single click for detailed figures such as wind speed. As well as an overview of the next week.

Now with Apple Weather you have to click after opening the app to get to a proper 24h overview, and the one you get is so much worse that the DarkSky one.

I'm sure the DarkSky team have war stories about the transition to Apple and how much they wanted to keep/change.

Bitterly disappointed in it.
GoPro Awards: Hot Air Balloon Skydive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBHQzJ5fwoA
I had a similar reaction to 100 Years of Solitude, except the opposite. When I tell people, I am surprised to find it is an unpopular opinion.
> I hope the people currently in charge of Reddit know how that event played out...

People have been saying this for 10+ years. No reddit alternative has proven to be viable. So the people at reddit know that "mass migration" is an empty threat. Where will you go instead? That's right. No where. Rather than quickly bleeding out like digg, reddit has simply achieved a stable stagnant equilibrium. It doesn't grow, it doesn't shrink. It just stagnates and rots.

The easiest tell is that nobody in the comments is posting alternatives. I remember during the digg migration, people unhappy with digg would post on digg telling everyone to try reddit.
I do not think that holds up today. While there do still exist a wide variety of unsecured vectors, those are closing rapidly. Look at any of the closed hardware platforms (Xbox, Playstation, iPhone, TPM, etc). People with strong desires to exfiltrate data are stymied.
I think you are taking too pessimistic a stance. For instance the new one-on-one chat feature is great, I’ve had some OnlyFans creators send me messages out the blue to tell me about what they’re up to and I’ve received info that will get me in early on some very lucrative crypto investments.
It is astonishing to watch the enshittification of Reddit and StackExchange at the same time.

I would say, as much as there is such a thing and it can be dated, Jun 9, 2023 was the end of Web 2.0 -- we found out reddit is not backing down and SE has disabled the backup job to archive.org. For SE the death march to enshittification has been much clearer, starting with the hiring of the new CEO, the firing of community managers to recently first completely ignoring and then going against the community on AI. Reddit just has been mostly wasting their time and money until they realized they need to make money and as Doctorow says, the siren song of enshittification is irresistible.
Usurious!
And the landlords still have costs. It is not free to run a platform. They have to pay for it in one way or an other. Time of free beer have come to end.

People here should understand this more than anyone else. It is one thing to have site as hobby, but something with number of users is expensive to run.
Needs more code examples in the readme.
How the U.S. let EV battery tech born here wind up in the hands of China
If you have 10,000 users you have 1000 commenters, 100 people posting, and 10 moderators. If you keep 97% of your users but you lost half your mods, 25% of your posters and 7% of your commenters its going to lead to an eventual decline bigger than 3% and it can create a self re-enforcing trend because the people contributing to other networks can drag their connections along with them.
Yup, and if someone tried to leverage corporate communication to force their coworkers to appease their ideology that would have been a pretty big deal.
Do you mean “Legacy chat” or “Chat”?

Apparently the chat feature released in 2020 that nobody used is now “legacy” and was replaced by a new tab which people will continue to not use. Why they didn’t migrate old chats over when deprecating is beyond me.

No wonder they’re burning through money.
On the bright side, at least I can buy fruit without being super wealthy. What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts, I guess.
Here in Vancouver there's a program called City Beet Farm (https://www.citybeetfarm.com/) where lawn-owners allow professional farmers to farm produce on their yard, in exchange for a fraction of the resulting vegetables. The homeowner doesn't have to do any of the work themselves, and it's actually quite impressive how much food experienced farmers can grow on a front yard.
That seems like a different point than the one I made that you replied to, so sorry for the confusion.

I'm not too sure about end of history, there might well be other genres and styles popping up. Just because we always had the ability to paint on a canvas doesn't mean pointillism or cubism didn't emerge. Just because we can put any letters on a page doesn't mean new genres of fiction didn't emerge. The fact that we can generate any waveform is analogous to these (ie, having complete control over a medium) and doesn't indicate anything about what might emerge in the future.
Vertx is pretty good. I have two vertx services in prod without a single annotation.
As a user gains karma, so facilities become available to them. The ability to flag posts is one, the ability to vouch for posts is another, and so on.

You might want to read the FAQ (more) closely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Carrington event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. Miyake event would be worse
Go, sqlite. TypeScript, react, redux, zustrand.

Helathy number of other projects in the ecosystem around it. This's always promising.
We will find out!
That's their main problem. No the APIs but wasting an enormous amount of resources and for what? so they can host videos and gifs themselves? Greed is a very effective way to destroy things.
In Vine we trust.
I suspect Reddit already has protections in place against this type of coordinated attack, as it would look exactly like when a whole sub (or 4chan) decides to brigade another sub for some other reason. There’s probably a hidden limit somewhere that when you downvote too many things at once, those vote become shadow-votes that don’t really count anymore.
Pretty easy to handle if you don't buy a monthly subscription but instead buy X API calls and can reload when you run out.
>If your ideas of how to live include less childhood mortality, and long and healthy lives, then I doubt there is a better time than the last hundred years

And if your ideas of how to live examine other metrics, there are much better times in the past.

Especially since if changes to bring back aspects of the past that were better were taken today, it wouldn't mean we have to give up technologies that improved the mortality rates. How about that, huh?

In fact, even if your ideas of how to live are solely about less childhood mortality and long and healthy lives, you might be better served with a couple decades past:

https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2023/04/26/research-update-u-s-se...
What is the point of making a subreddit private for 48 hours?

If approved members of a subreddit can still read and post, why not just leave the subreddits private indefinitely? Is public access really that important for some reason? This feels toothless.

It feels like making your Instagram profile private as a form of protest.
The “official app” on iOS is AlienBlue which Reddit bought. So to start with, Reddit relied on the work of a 3rd party developer to make it for them. They’ve since made it bloated and slow and full of ads.

Whatever right? Pretty typical for an official app. But it’s slower and less efficient than all of the 3rd party apps now as they’ve continued to improve.

But to me the problem is not only all of that, but they’re publicly ridiculing other apps (especially Apollo) for their “inefficient” use of the API when they’re all better than the official app.

It’s all just insulting and tone-deaf and speaks to the narrative that they no longer care about a community and see users as $$$.
Alloydocs Updated to Alloy 6
Historians are still finding out things that happened hundreds of years ago. Do you really think the origins of Covid are lost in the mists of time?
They've already been researching alternatives.
Re re 1) Why not the users? Distribute the content among the clients, and incentivize "seeding" using the built-in economic system - I.e. karma points or whatever.
sama, please don't delete your blog. I appreciate reading gems like this one: https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
> 3rd parties to reproduce and sell your data for free

You mean... like Reddit, which's reproducing and selling users' data...? (play canned laughter)

To answer your question, I'd charge them to cover the bandwidth cost.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind for the next version.
Apps were always willing to pay money for their usage, but not the insane pricing Reddit put in front of them ($12k for 50 million calls)
Fair enough. Usually this is the stance I would take in these sorts of discussions, since usually power users misunderstand how much they represent the majority of users.

But in this case I would expect that a substantial part of active users use Reddit with a 3rd party app so I'm inclined to say a lot of people will stop using it because of the passive way it is used.

I could be wrong and that is why I'm commenting. I can go back to this comment in 2-3 years. My feeling is that Reddit will have shrunk by that time
This doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app.
Usually yes. PM2.5 sensors are usually the common denominator across all consumer air sensors.
That number is growing by the hour and we shall see what happens on the 14th. There's not much stopping the participating subs from continuing indefinitely. If it's not declared as infinite, it's even harder to justify replacing them.

For example, /r/askhistorians is going private for 48h and reopens readonly indefinitely after. /r/pathofexile as far as I understand won't be going private but goes readonly once again indefinitely. etc
To whom would that ad even be targeted to? Reddit users don't GAF about some AI startup running a "optimize your data for B2C ecomm" hustle.
Reddit app used to preload all kinds of shit that would absolutely destroy your data usage. They appear to have fixed it. I used Apollo for a little bit and didn't have any strong opinion on it.
They are one of the Matrix communication ports...
That’s for all actions, including auto moderator actions. I understand that the % of manual mod actions is closer to 30% on 3PA.
The chat which doesn’t show up on old.reddit? So if someone sends you a message on it you miss it? The one you have to disable on new.reddit so people only use PMs? I missed tons of sales on BST subs before realizing people were sending me chats on that.
Related threads. I know there have been others - anybody have time to find them?

Rat Park - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928803 - May 2019 (2 comments)

Addiction: The View from the Rat Park (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605524 - Nov 2015 (1 comment)

Rat Park - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039039 - Feb 2015 (70 comments)

Rat Park drug experiment cartoon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7742950 - May 2014 (22 comments)

Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addiction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6565426 - Oct 2013 (10 comments)

Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391701 - Sept 2013 (42 comments)
So this allegory tells us that humanity faces existential threats and that the answer is violence towards anybody who want to focus on another problem beyond his pet project. I read it as pretty deranged and unjustly angry. Along with the other articles on that site by Kaczynski.
Getting a popup, sometimes undismissable, to read the thread in the mobile app (with no option for alternatives) is the opposite of what I would call an “improvement”, even if the before is old.reddit on mobile (ignoring mobile specific sites like i.reddit et al).

There is no “past UX” for the iOS app. If anything, it’s a downgrade of Alien Blue, the 3rd party app they bought out then neutered.

Making the experience worse for mobile users for the sake of tracking engagement is certainly not “nothing”, you’re right about that. It’s worse than nothing.
I've been doing some Angular-/Nest-ish TypeScript projects, and it's basically Spring with more bugs and = signs.