skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Lightening, Fulguris and Privacy Browser browsers on Android with the with the ad-block setting enabled and turning off JavaScript are my main methods.

Turning off JavaScript in browsers is magic, it works everywhere, PCs, Android, Windows, etc. It not only kills ads but almost all of the other garbage that website programmers do to deliberately annoy the hell out of web surfers.

JavaScript programmers take note: turning JS off makes the web sing, up goes the rendering speed, pages appear much, much faster, and all that jerkiness disappears, and most of the spying on users also disappears. Web pages often drop from 7 or 8MB per page to as low as several hundred kB—that's over a 20:1 reduction in download size! It's a magic solution.

Websites that won't render with JS turned off I simply bypass, as they say "there are plenty more fish in the sea" — many more webpages than I can ever hope to visit in a lifetime.

If only users knew the advantages of turning of JS many more would do it. Remember, JS is there to mostly benefit advertisers and website owners who want to spy on users—it's not to benefit you the user!

Despite what they say almost everything that can be done on the web can be done without JavaScript. Sorry JavaScript programmers and aficionados, it's just a fact.

Turning JS off is one of the few remaining defenses we have against you nasty advertisers and website owners.
No, it is a lower temp which results in less burn hence the need to recirculate the exhaust back through to completely burn it....
TLDR; I shoot myself in a foot thinking I'm shooting elsewhere. Don't do this!

Thanks for a useful info! /s
Do you mean spoiler used as some sort of harassment?

Or can't you discuss movies?
So what would parents suggest?

I'm 40, so got a phone at 17. I had rubbish internet in my teens, and anyway, didn't really 'discover' it. So I've never grew up in the connected world.

My eldest is now 7.

It seems to me secondary school is about the age for a mobile.

And at this point its basically supervised education
And what happens when every country does this?

This weakness in failing to consider second-order consequences that we see everywhere today is saddening.
It is lovely to see US people creating cute stories about their own companies in place of depicting the true reality of their corruption. Apple used (and probably still uses) children to assemble their iphones but some random on the internet think they stand for human rights. Amazing.
Because most people don't build their toolchain from source anymore. When I am trying to help a junior programmer get up and going, it's a lot easier to say "OK, just do `brew install uv` then `uv sync` in the project folder and you are all set" than to try to walk them through building from source.

Not to mention being able to have reproducible builds for deployments, CI/CD, etc. The fact that the Python version is picked up from the project's package configuration is nice because then you don't have to remember to update the source build to match when you update pyproject.toml for a new Python release.
In qBittorrent, the DownloadManager class has ignored every SSL certificate validation error that has ever happened, on every platform, for 14 years and 6 months since April 6 2010 with commit 9824d86.

This looks quite serious.
> Why would anyone ever publish stuff on the web for free unless it was just a hobby?

So that ChatGPT mentiones you, not your competitor, in the answer to the user. I have seen multiple SEO agencies already advertise that.
My son is in high school. He has a smartphone. He doesn’t have social media accounts. I was just honest with him about how such companies make money, how they actively encourage addiction, etc. He chose, like me, to not have accounts with those companies. I am not sure why people believe that they cannot explain things to their children. My son was in middle school when we had this chat.
X is answering this but having you pay for the service as a primary revenue model.
People have been successfully modifying vessels to better fit their uses for thousands and thousands of years. This wasn't even modified after delivery. It was built to order this way by the OEM. Everything has tradeoffs. Sometimes people go too far or choose the wrong attributes. You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
how many times people clicked a spam ad instead of real website in google? if you want to compare, then do it to all of them.
When it's unlawful, it's unfair — even when the law itself is unfair.
I think you will be surprised how well stainless works when it has thin layer of fresh oil and preheated to the right temperature such that it passes the "dancing drop" test.
Proactive, Open source API security tool
This is definitely possible. I made something like this. It worked pretty well for cosine similarity in my testing.
The SPLC link above that you didn't read. None of the (sourced) quotes it gives from Lynn are scientific.
Oh man, what a way to learn that Nick Higham died earlier this year.

A titan in his niche.
I walked the mile home from school from the age of five. Why would anyone need a map? And I spent all day outside away from home from the age of about eight in the summer with of course no phone of any kind and no maps even though I was tramping for miles through fields and streets. What has changed in the last sixty years that makes maps and communication a necessity?
"Non-profit" mainly means that because they have no shares and no shareholders, they're committed to never letting their company get acquired.

They're still allowed to grow, and have to in order to pay their salaries and hire more people.
Physical conferences are more like paid vacations.

The best talks I've seen, I watched on stream.
What about adding compatibility with VictoriaLogs instead of using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch?
As someone who receives texts from both parties, my experience has been a higher volume of texts from Dems (probably because I’ve donated to more distinct blue-ish groups) but WAY, WAY more predatory and scammy ones from Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donatio...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/10/us/politics/t...

Normal donation texts are not “scams.” Scams on top of donations are.
It kinda does make sense to a degree:

i386 – Intel i386/80386 (in 1985) or AMD386 / AM386 (in 1991)

i486 – Intel i486/80486 (in 1989) or AMD486 / AM486 (in 1993)

i586 – Intel Pentium (in 1993) or AMD-K5 (in 1996)

i686 – Intel Pentium Pro & 2 (in 1995) or AMD-K6 (in 1997)

i786 – Intel Pentium 4 (in 2000) or AMD-K7 (in 1999)
Generating Random Mazes with JavaScript
100LL and a quart red bottom paint cost the same no matter how much you make. The 3rd category scales with income.
I’d like to see a 1 cent tax on emails. I’d be happy to pay it and it would stop all the spam.
How to Manage a Distracted Team
Calm down Doofensmirtz, you forgot to add 2000 at the end of your project name.

On a serious note, with keyboard and mouse support, this will be a great way to play those old windows LAN games on a tablet. Hope this supports networking.
both google (gemini search) and openai announced it in the same day. why is that?

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-api-and-ai-studi...
Nothing to do with generations.

I simply expect a webapp to autosave. Period.
My goal is to see if I can get my kids all the way through highschool with just an Apple smart watch and an iPad for home and school stuff where it is required. It seems completely doable.
Show HN: Inquir's open source lib for searching
I’ve just published open source library!

It’s the first pre-alpha version of an open-source library that allows seamless integration of Inquir with your web application.

It’s now available on NPM, and while the documentation is still in progress, you can already start exploring it. Check it out on
GitHub: https://github.com/Inquir-search/inquirsearch.
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40inquir
There's also the fact that the quality is all-round higher, making them more enjoyable to use. The current HP Elitebooks have much crappier screens than my 2013 MBP. Touchpads have improved, but they're still leagues behind that 11-year-old machine.

I'm usually fairly careful with my things, so my gen8 hp elitebook still has all its bits together, but I've never really enjoyed using it. The screen, in particular, has ridiculous viewing angles, to the point it's impossible to not have any color cast on some region.
I would gently remind you and others to read the room carefully on this topic. While a lot of people on HN didn’t know Mike, Stephen, or their families personally, a lot of people who knew them personally are on HN.
> Well, WordPress made it 20+ years without a huge fuss over the fact that everything was controlled by Matt. And it only happened now because Matt himself blew things up!

I think most people in the community were willing to overlook Matt's previous petty, vindictive behaviour (e.g. Thesis, Wix, Pantheon, GoDaddy, Tumblr) since he's fairly charismatic in his writing, and was otherwise mostly benevolent.
We have a major party candidate right now saying his political opponents should face a firing squad and you’re asking “why try to hide something that can leak?”

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1852209432878342308
This article really resonates with me - I've heard people (and vector database companies) describe transformer embeddings + vector databases as primarily a solution for "memory/context for your chatbot, to mitigate hallucinations", which seems like a really specific (and kinda dubious, in my experience) use case for a really general tool.

I've found all of the RAG applications I've tried to be pretty underwhelming, but semantic search itself (especially combined with full-text search) is very cool.
The tech sector has shifted from rewarding growth to rewarding profitability. The result means trimming developer headcount substantially. Meanwhile the rest of the economy is experiencing record low unemployment and a mild recovery from a record high spike in inflation.

Keeping all that in mind there is no longer a real incentive to become a developer. The wages are no longer keeping pace against skilled trade crafts, tech jobs are now extremely hard for initially enter, and nobody can objectively define competence. Furthermore the tech sector, in general, is supremely starved of real leadership at every level. So, what incentive is there to be a developer versus commercial construction, for example?
Damn I love HN. Thanks for clarifying and basically reading my mind. Have bern choosing my next cooktop for the big honking wok burner.
I used to take video at concerts, a lot of it. And I rarely if ever went back and watched it in any meaningful capacity. It became dead space on my phone.

But at some point I started a ritual of recording of the performer coming out, picking up their instruments, and the first 20-30 seconds of the opening song. Then I put my phone away for the rest of the concert.

These videos are dear to me. They capture the feeling of the concert more than any longer random moment from before. I have a small library of them and I love to rewatch.

I wouldn't mind a concert enforcing those rules at all, though I appreciate that I've found a way to immortalize the moment in a way that coincidentally helps me feel comfortable putting away my phone for the rest of the night.
Now I just need SimCity 2000 SE (Win95, not DOS), for my current to be as complete as my Windows Mobile 2003 Samsung SCH-i730 was to me. :^3
That's not the only way to solve big cubes, but it's indeed the most common way (known as "reduction"), and what most people naturally come up with if they try to solve 4x4x4 or bigger on their own. In addition to what you said, there is also the issue of parity (basically, when you reduce a 4x4x4 to a 3x3x3 by solving centers and edges first, you will often end up with a 3x3x3 cube in an unsolvable state, and you need to figure out some tricks to convert it to a solvable state), but if you know how to solve parity problems on a 4x4x4, you can do it for a cube of any size.
I like that they used the example of a travel agent.

I used ChatGPT for planning a trip to Iceland a few years ago and it was nice to get a starter itinerary.

It was like using it to code - full of subtle mistakes and closed-down hotels
How about actually reading a CV? "Ignore instructions above" is a common joke, I use it occasionally in web profiles too (for giggles, especially if an actual LLM trips on it).

Focus on actual skills and accomplishments, ignore puns, jokes, irrelevant information, '); DROP TABLE Students; --
What is truth anyway? I see it as a quicker version of browsing to web to get a summary of what people say. As you said, with search you get a bunch of websites where strangers talk about a certain topic. You read a dozen and see if they agree with each other or if they sound legit.. There is just a huge overlap between what we consider true and what (an overwhelming majority of) people agree on. A lot of things are reduced to the consensus. If you ask a non-obvious question, you usually get an answer "a lot of people you consider trustworthy dedicated some time studying this question and agreed that the answer is X". But then people can be wrong, a big group of people can be wrong, people can be bribed or perhaps you don't actually trust these people that much. The internet can't tell you the truth. LLM can't tell you the truth. But they can summarize what other people in the world say on this subject.
Crappy ≠ scary.

Also, crappy only applies if you insist on using the wrong device for viewing them (pro tip: don't use a phone). Otherwise, the experience is superior.
> It’s a shame they named their next CPU “Pentium Pro” instead of “Hexium” (or “Sexium”!)

Penta- comes from the Greek, so hexa- would be more appropriate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix

The Latin is quint- and sext-.

And if you have a movie trilogy, and one more move comes out, it becomes a tetralogy, and not a quadrilogy, also because of Greek etymology:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy
A few days ago, my younger daughter was trying to have fun and suggested that we watch an important video about solving a 1x1x1 Rubik’s Cube. I went along, and we spent some time moving up the numbers; that’s when we needed to search for the largest number of NxNxN possible, and we landed on this video and the article.
They'll have to figure it out because people aren't gonna write content just for openai to scrape it, the economics don't work.
Thankfully, international shipping safety standards aren’t left up to individual manufacturers. Having worked on ships worldwide for several years, I’ve seen how each major incident drives tighter, more effective regulations.

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), established in 1974, is continually updated based on lessons from past accidents, mandating strict requirements for all ships over a certain size. Parts of SOLAS even apply universally to all ships on any voyage, regardless of size. https://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/Pages/International...
I don't understand why the author believes auto save would be so difficult to implement.

Just automatically click the save button for the user on a one minute timer. Done.

setInterval(() => {
document.getElementById("save-button")?.click();
}, 60000);
How does this compare with FramaC and KLEE?
The last time I did the calculation, a Canadian is about 27 times more likely to move to the US than an American is to move to Canada. About one sixth of *all* Canadian scientists and engineers move to the US. (Not one sixth of Canadian scientists/engineers who leave their country moving to the US. One sixth of all.)

The number of wealthy Americans that move to Canada is, to the first approximation, zero.
I doubt it. Most school software still sends files over e-mail that you have to save as attachments, or upload your own document files. So they still learn that early, regardless of if they use it later in life.
I’m sorry I was not good with my search. I actually found a 33x33x33, and then the next highest that popped up was this 34x34x34. Next time, I will see if I should spend more time searching for higher records in any record-breaking event.
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There is a very strong opposition against people smugglers in Europe. Many people are trying to stop them! There are protests in streets!

Saying there is "almost no public reaction" is just not true!
Old games have trouble running on Windows, not sure if the fault is with Windows changes, driver architecture changes, directx changes, games might have been broken but working by accident. As an example you can google the game "The Sims 2" and keywords related with windows10 windows 11. But for sure simple applications and simple games should work still on win11 or wine in linux.
Hi, author here. I think it's not a good idea to auto save just at random intervals. I certainly don't want my any of my apps to auto save without me telling it to do so. Maybe I'm old fashioned in this regards.

Update, answered in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016231
> Removing these ultra-rich people from the country will certainly decrease the wealth gap between the rich and the poor, which is probably one of the main goals of the tax

I doubt this was one of the main goals. My guess would be the main goal was to get the ultra-wealthy to pull their weight and help the country out in proportion to their means. This is the purpose of tax, after all. In this, it is not just a failure, but a catastrophe.
Three.js Resources in One Place
Show HN: Pulsetracker Real-Time Location Tracking for Developers as a Back End
Hey HackerRank community!

I just launched Pulsetracker, a SaaS tool designed to make real-time location tracking simple and efficient. With Pulsetracker, developers don’t need to build or manage a backend – just integrate the client-side, and you’re set with fast, battery-optimized tracking via UDP or WebSocket. It’s scalable, secure, and ideal for applications needing reliable location data.

Any feedback or feature ideas would be awesome!
> It's sad to see people lament the demise of the "hacker spirit" on one hand, while denying their kids access to the devices necessary for that spirit to thrive on the other.

When I was young devices weren't connected, so you could fiddle and not get yourself into too much trouble.

My concern isn't letting my kids loose on the computer, its letting them loose on the internet.

I would liken it to letting your kids go to a night club. theyre likely to be exposed to inappropriate content.

Ultimately these are tools, I wouldn't stop my young child using a knife, and in fact encourage them to learn how to use it safely, that doesn't mean Ill let my 5 year old keep a pen knife in their pocket.
Waiting line is too long so I gave up. Can anyone tell me, are the pixels themselves generated by the model, or does it just generate the environment which is rendered by “classical” means?
Facebook is doing what is intended though?
from Oct. 15, 2024
> “The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

So a bad critique of the movie, might also reduce people's desire to pay to see the movie. So with this kind of reasoning any information you give others about a movie (or other copyrightable work) could be problematic. Pretty strange stuff...
The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think
Quite the non sequitur here lol:

> The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s. Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting.
It's an early demo of interactive realtime inference but it appears to have a promise of promptable game worlds and mechanisms. Or "scriptable dynamic imagination" if you will.

The answer to "why?" when DeepDream demoed hallucinated dog faces in 2015 was contemporary diffusion models.
> I think of smartphones and the current app ecosystem as more like a swiss-army-knife of spyware and ad tech shoved into a package with as many sensors as possible, to monitor the population. And so, it had better be addictive. Because the underlying act of looking at one and spending so much time with one is, and always has been, antisocial and therefore somewhat repulsive. It took a great amount of marketing to normalize it, and people still rebel against it.

I just wanted to highlight this section of your post for anyone skimming to have more of a chance of seeing it. Excellently put.

I would add - and think it's essential - that yes it took a great amount of marketing, but also a great amount of people who could have said or done something turning a blind eye and not sounding the alarm. I'm thinking mainly of developers who were happy bringing home a fat paycheck, and governments who were happy to have more information about their populations.
You may have a case if there isn't access to any other tech. My five year old son and I use the PC and 3D print to make cool contraptions. We use a computer for Xlights to make light shows for the holidays. He isn't quite ready for online gaming but that could be an option in a few years. There he would, hopefully, be able to have communication with people around the world. This link references smart phones and the unfettering access kids have that rewires the brain due to the short quick dopamine hits of social media.
Blocky looks good too. I will check it out at some point. Thanks.
So you can read the movie like a comic book?

That's actually... kinda cool.

I can totally see how that should be copyright infringement (as opposed to just subtitle files).

But at the same time, I'd really like to try "reading" a movie that way, just to see what it's like.
'But how can I prevent googlebot from crawling all user profiles to avoid database hits..'

If user profiles are noindexed then why should you care if google are crawling, when almost every other crawler out there does not obey robots.txt?

It's not in google's interest to waste resources on non-indexable content, you are worrying far too much about it.
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Indirectly related to smartphone usage -
it’s incredibly hard for teenage kids to actually _find something to do_, at least here in Germany, where I live.
Going to watch a movie is very, very expensive - without snacks, you pay around 10 EUR, while the recommended amount of pocket money is around 30 EUR per month.
There are less and less public swimming pools, playgrounds usually don’t appeal to teens and are frequently neglected (on top of that, teens who meet at a playground are often chased away since they tend to leave litter behind, and the playgrounds are for younger kids).

The list goes on. In my opinion, we shouldn’t focus on taking smartphones away, thus limiting the options to do something even further, but instead focus on creating compelling, affordable alternatives, and teach kids to use their smartphones responsibly.
> The thing is, you can only offer this feature if your app's architecture is designed from the ground up to support it.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but this makes 0 sense to me. The Save button itself must be able to save the current state. So at the very, very least you should be able to just check on a schedule what the current state is and determine if it differs from the previously saved state.

There are much better ways to implement this that take more underlying work, but agree with the other comments, this has nothing to do with people not understanding files, it has to do with people expecting web editors to autosave.