skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All competitors at this point know how important data is, and they're not going to sell it to a startup when they could package it up themselves.

Except they won't package it themselves because they are inept and inert. They still won't sell it to startups though.
There are plenty of similar stories about real people though, that aren't true, but we tell them to make a point anyway.

I'm sure there's lots of people who believe Einstein flunked grade school math even though he didn't. The point is more important though - flunking grade school math is not the end of the world and you can still be successful in life. Einstein's reputation is relatively unharmed by this fabrication.
Yes, they have been trying to give all the NHS data to Palentir for decades though.
I really wanted, and tried so hard to like this game. But it just didn't work for me. This visualisation though it very nice and I do wonder what was used to create the graph canvas UI?
Would it have bought instagram and whatsapp? Would it have identified major social media trends in competitors that couldn't be bought and outcompeted them at their own game? Would it have suggested developing your own ad platform or just should banner space per cpm?

There is a lot to not like about Meta and Zuckerberg, but saying he's a bad business man is a little silly. Metaverse was a wrong and expensive move, but it was a wrong move they could afford.
Why can't the EU build their own social media platform?

What if they structured the financing like they do with science?
There would be no piracy on smartphones. That would require desirable applications. Those don't exist because the environment is that shitty.
And that kid in that movie could see dead people.

It's a pity you can't quite grasp thermodynamics or Hume though :/

Have you tried reading that 1967 paper on CO2 equilibrium in the atmosphere?
Show HN: Open-source tool for generating depth overlays for freediving videos
Back in my day, we had to walk fifty miles in the snow, up hill both ways, and we couldn’t afford shoes, just to phone the airline.

Back when men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
But what about my 450 open tabs?
I recently learned that the daughter of a friend of mine got married and had two children. That happened in the last 5 years, when I actually didn't hear from that friend of mine. Given that we didn't feel the need to send messages to each other for 5 years, are we really friends or only acquaintances? In the latter case it's OK not to be informed about what is going on.

My social media are WhatsApp and Telegram. I get in touch there with people I care about and I don't get streams of useless information like I would if I'd be on FB, X, Instagram or TikTok. I do look for videos on YouTube when I want to learn something for which watching is better that reading.
Ah Yes. HM were the simplest jest of enjoyment will get you downvoted.
In other words: They're incapable of basic, competent governance - so they're pivoting to a desperate chase after the latest hot trend, and hoping for salvation. Or at least to run away from their problems.

Suggestion: Move Labor's current leadership to some glacier-covered flyspeck in the South Atlantic (Britain has quite a few), to work out the bugs in their grand AI plans. Meanwhile, form an "interim" government back in London - made up of old-school folks who just want to do basic, competent, meeting-today's-needs governance.
The motivation is basically "social media now its more diverse in thought". He even signs off with an acknowledgement he might try BlueSky.

Honestly, there are good reasons to quit social media because of their intrinsic toxicities, but at least if you are doing it for ideological motives admit that its about you.
Yes, once it's fully into the dry period. The transition period involves a lot of fire.
Apple to face court over claims it overcharged UK users on App Store
I like her inspired make-up in the portrait :)

If everybody wore it like that it would be quite "anonymizing".

With no permanent smile too sly ;)
No, I would be making the same point if someone wrote an article that we shouldn't use the boiling frog metaphor because it is insulting to frogs.

And that is a good example. Despite the fact that the metaphor is not literally true it does a fine job of illustrating the idea of slowly acclimating to incremental changes.
I guess this is somewhat an american thing. Coming from southern europe, for me is a thing of everyone doing their role: Mom cooks, dad works, and childs approve everything with good grades.

For specific achievals (like really good performance) sometimes a prize has been discussed as an additional motivator, which has worked very well in the past.
I think it is about as varied as communications outside of IRC: there are different communities with different rules, which are sometimes written down and linked from the channel topic. Generally hanging around quietly for a bit may help to get a sense of any particular community's customs.
> > replace the gun emoji with a squirt gun

> so just to be clear, and in your own words, they changed it from a "gun" to a "gun", right?

That is like saying that replacing the car emoji with a train car is changing it from a ‘car’ to a ‘car.’ A squirt gun is not at all the same thing as a pistol.

Apple (with Microcoft) also pressured the Unicode Consortium not to include a rifle emoji, or an emoji for the sport of Modern Pentathlon (which involves shooting): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/20/apple-rif...

> Am I "manipulating my son's thoughts and culture" by choosing when I intentionally expose him to profanity?

Yes, and it’s good because you are your son’s father. Apple is not anyone’s father, and does not have that right over its customers.
Wait what do you mean? HN isn't social media, it's a breath of fresh air! I'm only here to talk to the folks in my life I care about like … uh oops.
I think some way of batching information from the people/sources that you're interested in (and then perhaps running an LLM over it to surface the most important information) which is then emailed or texted to one might be a solution.
In the middle opinions also exist. I thought the worldbuilding and their spin on conversation mechanics was top tier and liked the art, but I also thought that it was oversold with the "open world... let you do almost anything" marketing when the reality is closer to "you're an alcoholic cop character with a defined backstory, who must solve a mystery with a defined ending by negotiating your way through defined checkpoints, but you can act differently towards the characters you need to pump for information and take on a couple of side quest options if you want"
Unfortunately it seems pretty half-baked and rushed out just so they can check the box without being as useful as it could be.

Here is the best commentary that I've read on the subject from someone who works regularly in generative AI: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squandered-holy-grail/
I have mostly left social media, but I have not seen the need to delete my accounts yet. For Twitter, I never use the feed but rather bookmark links to one specific account that I read. Facebook I open about twice a month just to see if I have been invited to a birthday party or anything like that. Instagram I just went 7 weeks without opening.

Turning off the machine feeding stuff to my brain really has helped me. I feel better, cleaner and less disturbed/distracted.

Now I am actually considering leaving YouTube as well, although it has been such a lovely place at times, since I notice it is deteriorating my health.

I recommend you try it; nothing has to be deleted. It's simply removing the habit of using it. It does make life a bit better :)

Oh, and a good first step is to install the extension `News Feed Eradicator`. This is how I got started. I run it on everything.
> it's definitely possible and not super hard to hide rooting.

Worth noting that this could change with every update. It's an unstable situation right now, which is undesirable.

For that reason, e.g. the GrapheneOS team isn't employing measures to fake compliance at all. They'd really like to get SafetyNet compliance for their operating system (you need that to get Google Pay/Wallet to work), but funamentally can't get it. Right now, they could just fake it, but that's not guaranteed to work reliably, forever (and doing so would probably threaten their official BasicIntegrity compliance).
> Fiction is an hallucination and LLMs are master hallucinators.

They're jacks of all trades, master of none.

This has its uses, but they have limits, and for now at least, those limits are under the threshold for that.

I have actually tried using them to make a text adventure to help learn German. The result was at the lower end of the quality range I've witnessed from LLM output: a nice first draft, not shippable, missing a core element, missing a lot of content, too simple, the kind of thing where you'd give the output of the LLM as a code challenge to a job candidate to see how they improve it.
I doubt it.

It's likely people might ditch their Windows machines to something like Steam Deck, and I don't think people have a remotely good reason to pick up a DIGITS system unless they want to run low end inference.

The fact that there is no daily driver reason to pick up a Linux box that is DoA tells me this is being approached incorrectly.

NVIDIA did not succeed at Android (I had a Shield) and they did not bother integrating x86 emulation nor any existing applications with WoA mean that they never thought of anything remotely useful that people seem to run on their existing computers.

If NVIDIA actually cared and got SteamOS to run and integrated Blackwell Cores and Mediatek SoCs with it, wake me up.

Until then, it will be a box on the shelf competing with the likes of the M4 Mac Mini.
There's this great post by Steve Losh:

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
I bought my daughter a set of multi-colour Bic Cristal pens and, aside from a weird plug that had to be removed from each tip (intentional? dried-up ink from the manufacturing process?) the textural quality of the ink is wonderful. I don't know what it is or how it's different from normal Bics but they are a pure joy to write with.

So I bought myself a set and now write in pink at work... .
Veganism is about reducing suffering as much as practical and possible. Some people (you included) have a problem with that and reject it altogether because of cognitive biases.

Yes there are crop death and suffering due to veganism. A plant based diet however reduces this by about 75%.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
Sorry, I haven't followed Gibson's scandals, so I only know the drunken rant one. But I'm being kinda hypothetical here - where is the line?

I'm bringing up Ford and Gandhi because I think they're generally considered respectable, but could be accused of being in the category of those to "shun" based on verbal statements or opinions. I am not aware that either did anything. Are we shunning people because they've advocated opinions that in their time weren't controversial, but are now?

Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned on a technicality. Do we shun him even if the courts couldn't/didn't convict him?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/why-bill-cosbys-conviction...

Or similarly, "unconvicted" but alleged unsavory characters, perhaps pop musicians, TV hosts, presidents, presidential candidates, and so on.

Do you just shun everyone who has simply been accused of misconduct? What if the accusers recant or are found to be lying? It's happened.

Crystal Mangum, now incarcerated for murder, has recanted her rape accusation against the Duke la crosse players:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-falsely-accused-duke-lacros...
> you bought the device, that you knew already did not provide that, from a company who has priced in not having to support rooted devices, and who had priced in your future revenue from extras.

This argument falls apart when 99% of the desirable devices do not have this option. It's not even about compromising on optional-but-important features, like having access to your bank - the "1%" devices usually do not even have a secure hardware element that handles full-disk encryption, leaving your most-personal data (that you carry with you everywhere you go, thus exposing it to additional risk) vulnerable.

> If you want a mostly-open handheld device, they're for sale, you should buy one of those.

Yeah, almost none of those are actually compelling. There's the Pixel series and GrapheneOS, but these devices are huuuge (they simply don't fit in my single hand!), and I don't want to give even more money to Google :S

In an ideal world, you should be able to simply root any of your devices on demand, in exchange for wiping the storage clean, losing your warranty, and any expectation of protection/privacy/extra features. Then it's up to you (and/or a third-party OS provider) to take care of that yourself.

The problem with that route is that only a tiny fraction of users are actually interested in that, there's value to lose in accidental rooting (users get angry about lost features), and there's no value to gain.

This is where regulation could come in.
It is not a long shot, it is hot air.

Remember that the UK is going to be the leader in freetrade, leader in battery tech, leader in tree-planting, leader in EV, and have its own GPS system... and now also leader in AI!

This announcement is especially good for the likes of Nvidia, though, because a plan "to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030" means spending that money on Nvidia's hardware...
Show HN: ddot – Create short-living .env files from your Password Manager
Hey HN,

I've just released a small utility tool I made in Go, to create short-living .env files from your password manager. At this moment, it's compatible with bitwarden and 1Password.

It's not a super fancy project, but I've been using it for a long time now, and thought others would like to use it as well.

Why did I build this ?

First, for fun and to practice Go.

Second, in terms of security, I've always found it a little bit odd to have .env files lying around in clear on our disks. Especially when they contain sensitive secrets. We've seen a surge of attacks against developers with malicious npm packages exfiltrating .env files to steal credentials and crypto wallets. Although this does not protect completely, it's still better than nothing.

Finally, I once lost a .env file because of a wrong action. Since it was not under source control (for basic good practice), I had to create it all over again. Super painful.

Would love your feedback on it. Please note that it's still a work in progress and I've only tested it on mac arm64.

NOTE : the source code is not available yet as I want to clean it and document it correctly first. Typically, I have a Provider interface currently implemented with File, bitwarden cli and 1Password cli. But I want to add more implementations in order to find the good trade-off between not abstracting and abstracting too much.

NOTE 2 : As stated in the README, password managers already provide solutions for this problem but I simply didn't like how they are "too invasive" in the development workflow.

Cheers.
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Why do you imagine the OP would push a failed experiment to a publicly available spot? They probably left it sitting in a local branch and went on with their day.
‘Core’ inflation excludes most of this, explicitly.

[https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/30/the-most-splendid-housing-...], [https://www.pgpf.org/article/why-are-americans-paying-more-f...]

Average Housing costs as a multiple of average salary are at 10x, and increasing. Roughly where they were in the 80’s during hyper inflation.

Healthcare spend has increasing from 5% of GDP in ‘62 to 17% of GDP in 2022.

Education cost data is similarly insane - [https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college#:~:text=Th....]

With an average 4 year degree (living on campus) costing > $100k.

If you need a study to tell you traffic is terrible right now, you might just have no idea what’s happening.
AI Tools: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
Brave's ad blocker is as effective as uBlock Origin, considering they use the same blocklists and techniques to block ads. Firefox + uBlock Origin will give you an equivalent experience without all the grifting.
Windows Update has the option to download signed updates from Microsoft and any other computer that has downloaded it. And it says that 38% (247MB) of all windows update bytes have been downloaded form "PCs on the internet" and I have uploaded 340MB to "PCs on the Internet"
I had never heard of dead day but this from the description on their webpage:

>> ABOUT THE GAME
Dive into a fantasy NFT game where survival meets strategy and humor. Battle zombies, beasts, build bases, and earn real rewards in a magical world that challenges your wits and rewards your adventures. Every quest is a step towards mastery and monetization in this enchanting realm.

Why can’t games just be games? Do I really need to monetise every aspect of my life? Should hacker news give me a fraction of a penny for every view of every bullshit comment I make on the website? Should I get a dollar every time I conquer the world in civ4? I’m not against the makers of this game. I’m wondering why every part of every life seems to be on the direction of commoditisation. Who wants this life and why?
I don't quite understand what the conservatives think DEI actually is, because as far as I can tell three women being in leadership positions in the LA fire department is "DEI". It just seems like the new "woke" or "political correctness", and just as vague.
"MISRA requires that you explicitly write the default reject."

You can always use -Wswitch-enum then.
Church - it's rare to read a sane comment like this on HN.

The world we constructed is pure hell for around 80 billion animals.
Amen! Same situation, same preferences, same values, same result. Only difference is I have about 70 phone nrs on my dumbphone, I don't own a smart phone, and my vices are this site, usenet and mastodon.
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for datacenters
The findings from this study are quite scary if confirmed. We are blindly accepting to be made dumber.
I know that’s what teachers used to say about TI calculators, but the order of magnitude here is way bigger. And my TI certainly was never “agentic”.
I'm sure the weather will git gud soon.
I've been thinking about adopting Godot for just this purpose, mainly just hung up on community language support for Python which seems unfortunately stalled
"Amazing shit" like devops or bad political puns? Surely it's not too late for you to try either or both.
I, for one, thoroughly enjoy boxing, and consider it an intangible part of our collective cultural heritage. Boxing, as a sport, goes back at least 2,000 years to ancient Rome and Greece.

That people choose to find it distasteful is fine with me.

I'm talking about Mike Tyson, the convicted rapist, not Mike Tyson as a boxer.
Probably similar to JVM clojure.

The .net VM is similar to the JVM in perf, but iirc, the clj startup time is more dominated by Clojure itself (like var initialization).
Good question. Nothing AFAICS.
Nah I just tell everyone on HN instead which is definitely not social media.
Was one 20 years ago, Citroen c5 or c3 or something. Maybe still is.
Struggling with info all over the place as well
I'm using AI to search for info in my notes at https://saner.ai/
Eating my own dog food here lol but it works
Preparing to add todo list into the app as well
Nice introduction text with detailed description to set-up a R.Pi and interesting examples (AES, calculating Euler's number, Rubik's cube etc.). Shame it uses an utterly obsolete language of which most interesting feature (byte code interpreter making porting the compiler to new architectures comparatively easy) was important in the seventies with its plethora of architectures (many short-lives), but hardly today.
I don't think the parent poster was arguing to exclude themselves from social life or do coding instead of talking with people. They merely argued that it's better to have fewer but meaningful and deep connections with people you genuinely care about (and they care about you), rather than having a 1000 meaningless connections with people who are basically strangers on facebook.

The role social media plays is in encouraging large numbers of superficial relationships, rather than a small handful of deep ones. It stands to reason: I don't need facebook to keep in touch with a dozen close family and friends. I can do that perfectly well in person, or over phone calls/messages. What the various social media apps did was kill the close circle of friends in favor of having 1000s of followers and turn everyone into a one-way broadcaster.
Originally yes, but I think today it rather means "complex".
Looks like it is broken, I got a HTTP 5XX error.
Same with Tabby, but it received 248 points instead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675725
Original:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35470915
This reminds me of Guy Steele's talk on Growing A Language (<https://archive.org/details/GrowingALanguageByGuySteeleAhvzD...>). The conclusion being that what's important isn't whether a language is large or small but whether it can grow.
The article lacks references, especially about the law that enforced banks to make loans on non-market conditions. Even if the sources are in Russian, it would be better than no sources at all
Mass hysteria should not be ruled out.

If they expected such a weapon after the reports, they'd have sensors for all kinds of emissions up the wazoo in those buildings. And yet, they still haven't recorded anything.
DEI was so good and righteous idea that it shifted most of the western world to the right more than dozens of islamist terrorist attacks in previous decades.
And ofc. all US corporations would follow this cultural change or they’ll risk antitrust/tax/law investigations from Trump and all EU government that’ll be elected in next few years.
Cool idea, but it’s based on my own experience in life, from a girlfriend and various people in college. And even a newspaper article I read literally this morning. Vegan folks who I knew and talked to every day.

That said I could have used airplane pilots for the same example (also based on personal experience).
Was closed as "Infeasible", i.e. wontfix.
So... how do you measure productivity? The engineering managers you refer to probably attempt to measure productivity, but may well fail to correctly identify high and low performers.
How does that solve anything at all?
NFS v4 has proper security, but it's arguably bloated and difficult to configure compared to v3, and worse than ksmbd in every way.
You contradict your own analogy. Do you live in nuclear winter? Because there are plenty of countries with nuclear weapon capabilities half of them are considered enemies. Why are they not bombing each other? Why do you even consider nuclear winter as a moral thing?
I'm pretty sure there was a /s missing.