skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is a really great start.

One of my current clients recently had his WP install taken over, and SiteGround took it down for offensive content.

It’s just a basic informational website for his consulting business, and he never logs into it or makes changes to it. He has no idea how anyone hacked it.

It really baffles me that this is still a thing in 2025, and that people can’t get a basic Shopify type of experience for creating informational websites and blogs where they can set it and forget, and focus on running their business. They should be concerned about how their content website is growing their business and overall bottomline; not if they have been taken over with offensive content or not based off of basic security best practices.
All sodas, and especially Coke, are pretty transparent that they adapt their formulations by region, plus the water chemistry is different everywhere, so they have to adjust for that too. Labeling laws are also different. I therefore cannot put much stock in anecdotal reports of people finding that one continent's version of a product tastes different than another continent's. In my experience, that is true of every food product there is. My observations come from the US market where brands have often been producing cane sugar "throwback" versions of their sodas in the same bottling plants and for those the sodium content is listed as being a bit higher. Probably that is not the only changed ingredient though.
Memory Consolidation
Don't overcomplicate things. Whiteboards are way better than even the best of online tools and drawing with a mouse.

For that matter, post-it notes on a wall are better than JIRA.

At one workplace everyone had glass table so they could draw on with markers. People could literally come up to your desk and you could work through problems together on one end of the table.

The best online tools are garbage compared to physicality.
The answer is transaction costs. Details at patio11:

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/
Hiring / looking for advice: precise visual SVG creation and editing with AI
I'm Katya, cofounder of BioRender, a "Canva for Science" platform that helps scientists create beautiful biological figures for research and communication. We're using AI to automate figure generation, but facing challenges with precision and scientific accuracy.

The issue we're running into is that LLMs cannot visually read and edit structured visuals (eg SVG or JSON files representing icons / shapes and coordinates).

Has anyone had to solve a similar problem and open to sharing notes? Or interested in joining our team to tackle this challenge together? Send me a note: katya@biorender.com

See example scientific figures here: https://app.biorender.com/biorender-templates
> This sounds nice, but how many people out there actually want to do "writing and art" purely for their own enjoyment? I know they are out there, but I wouldn't actually place a bet that that number is bigger than people who enjoy doing laundry.

Quick clarifying question, do you think the number of people that enjoy doing laundry is comparable to the number of people that like making art?
This drama has boggled my mind since the beginning. I've been trying to write about the open web while trying get back into blogging. It's been great to have a bunch to write about, but I sure wish it wasn't happening!

I've also been focusing on the rise of Bluesky and my move from extreme skepticism to tentative acceptance. That's been more fun to write about.
Small discussion (19 points, 12 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681417
Yeah I'm sure my 3 line comment is to blame for whatever damage AI does to the internet.

I'll take the compliment anyway :)
Memory and Retention in Learning
You can't be neutral against racists if you believe your lack of action is tacit approval.
FB was not ordered to do this. In their words:

it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement... we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today

- Mark Zuckerberg, 26 August 2024
I think you need to have a pretty good understanding of the underlying workings of at least a couple of modern models. You should also follow along closely enough to see if major changes happen in the way they are built.

But watching every new paper? Nah, that's mostly only useful if you have a large enough amount of compute to try them out. And most of us don't have that anyway.
It feels like one of those low-sci-fi settings where we thought it'd be funny and quaint to have post-collapse scavengers endlessly repairing retro tech, but now it's actually happening and it's not funny anymore.

Like for example: My dad bought a hulking integrated Akai amp / cassette / turntable combo in the early 80s. Every user-facing component was brushed aluminum, the volume pot was the size of a Dallas church, and it probably would have killed any living organism you dropped it on.

My dad died over a decade ago and I guarantee that amp is still sitting in someone's living room heating the place up. I'm just mad it's not in mine.
I thought I read a comment somewhere in all of this where he said that he was actually doing coding, yes, but (a) I could well be mistaken and (b) he could well have been talking rubbish.
Sure, for example, this guy and his paper: https://x.com/mfrmarcel/status/1850899388165693916

“Latinx” is presented uncritically as “inclusive”, and the people who don’t like it are smeared as “queerphobic”.

This is academia at its most tone-deaf and ignorant. If he actually spoke to some Latino people he would quickly discover that the reasons for the backlash have approximately zero to do with “queerphobia”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx
I don’t think the author made a single judgment call on people who use the metaphor. However in the first paragraph of your comment, you lumped them into a strawman group that you use profanity to refer to. So my point is just that readers are taking personal offense to an untargeted opinion piece, and then directing that back to the author and unknown other people with uncalled-for animosity.

Edit: “delivering to an image of me he had created in his head” - the author doesn’t know you, afaik. He probably didn’t send you this link personally after writing it. You yourself have decided that the article is targeted at you and that it is intended to be negative.

I’ve used the term cargo cult a hundred times. I generally think it’s a useful metaphor. I do not feel offended in any way by this article.
I’m not sure about AI transcribing the discussion, is a great idea generally, as I’m not sure I want all the company secrets sent off to some random AI startup, but I also don’t see what precludes you from using it to transcribe an in person meeting.
The number of times, early in my career, I had senior engineers come and hold impromptu learning sessions is one of the reasons why I'm such a good engineer today.

Being able to have robust discussions about software engineering, best practices and design patterns and all that good stuff and have other engineers hear that discussions happening and stop by to give their input is incredibly valuable to both personal growth and oftentimes the success of a product.
And what did AOC get in return?
I think some people will never reach a sufficient interest in music to where they can produce songs that reach their level of taste. But those people can be far more experienced and interested in a different craft, like programming. So services like these are there to make up the difference in interest for those who don't want to try hard in one domain, but don't see their lack of interest as a problem. It's just a consequence of limited attention budget to devote to so many crafts, and serves as a form of automated outsourcing.

Cultivating interest in something you're not interested in is hard. Especially when you care more about N other things already. People who use services like these to produce "slop" wouldn't have produced any songs in the first place otherwise, and I feel a lot of them couldn't force themselves to if they tried. At one level, if the creator is personally satisfied with the output then the bar has been cleared, regardless of what others say. And it's hard to judge someone for choosing programming over music but wishing they could dabble in the other with some level of efficiency. At some point, if you put the bar low enough some people are going to be intrigued, push button and receive song, as nothing will stop them from doing so anymore. That's the point of the bar being lowered.

However, I think the calculus changes when those people start to give themselves the air of human artists and upload their songs to streaming. This I believe deserves critical observation since in my opinion art is more than being a human pumping out songs like a factory and watching numbers go up. It's a form of elaborate communication between parties and peer communication is fundamental to our species. So when machines speak for people, a lot of social assumptions that have existed for centuries are overturned. Anyone could have been a human factory pumping out songs detached from the artistic process of reflection the past few decades, but spending hours instead of seconds producing things in such a vacuum is pretty soul-draining, so it was a disincentive for people wanting to do so.

I believe the two types of creative output (handmade and AI) have different "qualities" to them. I do not think either can be equated in terms of this "quality". One is deliberately produced and one is randomly stumbled upon. I think we need a new term for the AI era that encapsulates this "quality" of intention in creative output, without the negative implications of a word like "slop".
Still enjoy my Elac speakers from 20+ years ago at an analog amp, a class D amp wouldn‘t be bad, though. For smaller speakers at computers I like active nearfield monitors and a good interface like Focusrite. Can recommend Genelec speakers, for example.
My digital piano literally has soundfonts designed to mimic other instruments. A Fender Stratocaster, a Rhodes electric organ, etc. All of them are clear and blatant ripoffs of instruments.

The recordings may be legally protected. But if I use a sound engineer to listen to those recordings to fake these sounds, it's not that much different than an AI doing it.
Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Coming Decades, Researchers Say
Well with the help of `-fsanitize=address,undefined` flag, it can possibly catch it.

If you use the aforementioned flag and still face this issue, then you can try `-fanalyzer` combined with `-Wanalyzer-too-complex` and hopefully the static analyzer will return something.

For more info, read https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Static-Analyzer-Options.h...
its not that complicated, he just doesn't think that hard about things when they support his conclusion. He's silently edited blog posts in the past to fix glaring holes that a 7th grader could catch after commenters on HN pointed them out.
I think it would basically take a tech giant going all-in (ie Amazon) and rallying other companies to get this fork into the Linux foundation or something.
> We'd have to figure out what the hell people are referring to first

Incidentally, this has been a major part of the post-election discussion about it.

I agree that the term has become diluted to a point that it's lost most meaning, and in many cases it means "behaviors and opinions I disagree with".

I think it mostly means some combination of: morality police, people against "wrongspeak", holier-than-thou attitudes, white people advocating for topics they don't understand, and in general a kind of tribal behavior that "others" people who don't fully buy into the entire spectrum of ideas this group is selling, i.e. they treat their beliefs as absolutely true, and anyone who questions them or wants to debate them are automatically othered.

> People are just working themselves into a tizzy trying to figure out something to be mad at while also contorting themselves into knots trying to avoid discussing anything material, concrete, substantial, or tied to reality.

I agree and disagree. The media landscape has had a major hand in shaping the discussion, and social media has validated the worst fears of the people working themselves into a tizzy. e.g. if someone supports trans rights but has concerns about minors receiving certain surgeries and wants to discuss those concerns, they're put in the same category as transphobes who wish real harm on other people. Depending on where they raise these topics, they'll automatically be blocked and/or put on lists of transphobic people.

Discussions that actually focus on something material, concrete or substantial are derailed by collective community behaviors that refuse to engage with the concrete and substantial.

It's a sad state of affairs for public discourse, and figuring out how to de-escalate the conversation and somehow return to substantive good-faith conversations might be the most important problem of the century.
Well b/c of the "focus on social justice" clause. I'd definitely agree though that both parties are way too "aggressively performative".
>I dislike RTO for one simple reason . I'm not at work to make friends, I'm not at work to chit chat. I'm not at work so we can talk about who won the last football game . I go to work in exchange for currency, which is required to acquire goods and services. All this other crap, all these holiday parties, all of this let's dance in diversity videos, no that's not what I'm here for .

Oldhead here. This was a common thought pattern before lockdowns, but only among the ~5% of people who personally negotiated for a work-from-home/telecommuting arrangement. And it was not normal. It was vaguely looked down upon by superiors, unless you had been with the company for a long time and had proven your value. And among peers it was a little "weird."

"Return to office" post-lockdown is not the same thing as "Work from home" pre-lockdown. The RTO thought pattern is similar, but the social feeling around it has flipped - is normal and not weird. (Yet still vaguely looked down on by some management)
CES Worst In Show devices mocked in iFixit video as YouTube inserts ads for them
Great fact!

I wonder... why is that? Is it simply because they are non-white? What do you think is making your fact a fact?
From the article: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now […] It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software"

Music creation (like many things) is an intensely personal process. The feeling of accomplishment COMES from the blood, sweat, and tears that you put into crafting a new piece. It does not come from the ability to type "4-voice hurdy-gurdy fugue in d-minor (vocal accompaniment by Grandmaster Flash)" into a textbox and sip your latte while an AI cranks out song after song on an assembly line.
Not Feeling Big Tech This Year? Start an Indie Blog
This is a great article. It has a quick summary of the top flaws and in depth sourced explanations below. I’ve not gone through it all, but I like the format so far.
I'm a big fan of WiiM for a more affordable alternative (for some). I'm not an audiophile, but have a handful of passive speakers around the house and I hook up a wiim amp or a wiim 'streamer' (forget the name) to my existing amp/receiver setup. Works great for me. WHA works well, although I never use it.

For me, the major thing that matters is that I can see a device in spotifys device list and can play to that device. Similarly, it needs to be zero setup for anyone else on my wifi network (wife, kids, friends). WiiM covers that perfectly.

Granted, there is some work there if you don't already have speakers. I personally think Spotify is a great product. I just don't want my speakers running an operating system. I have speakers as old as 25 years that work perfectly with the WiiM. No point in adding additional tech in a speaker that works perfectly as-is. My biggest worry (which Spotify has been pretty good about) is that the speakers work over WiFi and at some point, will be sunsetted. Maybe not within the next few years, but I don't have much faith that a Sonos system will work well in 10-15 years.
You can't post like this here and I've banned the account.

If it were just one comment, I'd post a warning instead, but your comment history is replete with ideological battle and personal attacks. Not cool. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean, the week the iPhone X came out, they put out an irreversible update for the iPhone 7 that made it unusable. They also tried to charge me 2,300$ to fix just one broken keyboard key. Apple is definitely that bad.
The map is a work of design in its own right, it is not a mere geographical representation. Also, while it would be nice if government work were public domain in the UK as it is in the US, that is sadly not the case, and we have to deal with it.
To directly answer your question - when I was trying to setup whole home audio and decided I didn't want to go the rpi route of doing it myself, the alternatives to sonos that I found were "Audio Pro" and "Bluesound". I ended up going with Audio Pro, so can't speak to bluesound, but it should tick all of your boxes.

I have 3 Audio Pro speakers, 2 different models, and they all sync up perfectly. I can select 2 to be stereo if I want. I can play from spotify, airplay, bluetooth, or google cast. The models I have do support 3.5mm input, but I've never used it so not sure if you can plug into one and have it also play in the others. As a bonus, it's all compatible with the wiim streamer devices. After buying a couple wiim minis, my klipsch TV speakers + computer speakers are able to join the whole home system with the Audio Pro speakers.

If I had to do it all again, I might just buy powered speakers of any brand of my choosing and get wiim minis for each of them. That's another viable alternative you could look into. But the Audio Pro speakers are pretty nice imo.
Similar motivation as hacking a Wordpress site, putting seo spam out there.

There’s less payoff, but people still do it.
This guy clearly has never picked up an instrument and persevered to the point where it's actually joyous to play and make art with.

He clearly picked up a six-string one day, strummed it a few times, failed at a G chord and said his fingers hurt.
Would you say the same about people joining picket lines and marches? Any sort of peaceful protest?

Also, you're projecting. You don't (and can't) know what a person's true goals are. Framing these actions as them communicating they are morally superior to someone (you?) is a thought in that other person's head, not the protestors. Maybe these straight people truly believe this form of protest (not getting married) will bring attention to a cause and maybe change some people's minds. Did it? Who knows. But good on them for at least trying.
Completely, agree. I think am lot of senior engineers work well independently and feel more productive at home. They miss that this isn’t always the case for more junior ones.
Do fun software, games especially - you'll learn heaps.

Don't do open source for the sake of it, unless its a product you actually use.

Perhaps you could fork my simple raycaster and add your own enhancements to it, its a simple project [0]

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog/2.5D-raycasting-engine/blob/maste...
You certainly don't use it to mean "those crazy people who are pro interacial marriage" but some do. The woke people supporting trans rights almost certainly don't support macho man randy savage chucking on a dress and that same day competing in the olympics but the characture that supports it is part of the woke mob.

People scoff and think of course I know what woke means, because the people the people they talk to/media they consume have the word at roughly the same level of meaning, not internalising the next more or less extreme group that isn't in their social circle include more or less in the meaning.

These days the word woke might as well serve the same purpose as "If by scotsman..." in that no one will disagree with you unless you get into specifics.
I'll try, but it's a little tricky because, again, I don't think wokeness (whatever it is, although I agree with Graham that the term is usually applied to some superficial performance) actually does much of anything. Graham and other centrists latch on to cases where "heretics" are banished, but the sparsity of these cases only demonstrates how few of them are punished. Furthermore, centrists often emphasise how productive and useful past movements were in contrast to excessive and ineffectual current ones (I would say that the use of such a claim is the defining characteristic of the centrist). Of course, they say this at any point in time, and because the effect of current and recent movements is often yet to be seen, the centrists are always vindicated in the present. If a movement does happen to be effective relatively quickly -- say, support of gay marriage -- the centrist retroactively excludes it from the PC category (note that the most significant successes in the gay rights movement coincided with Graham's wokeness, but he doesn't even mention that).

Anyway, to answer your question: the same people who make up new heresies also challenge old creeds. In the case of wokeness, what's being challenged is the centre's (neoliberal or neocon) belief in its rationality, meritocracy, and objectivity. For example, Graham mentions "woke agendas", highlighting DEI (never mind that DEI is a new version -- and an aspirationally less excessive one -- of the 60s' affirmative action), but while he focuses on the ineffective performative aspects, he ignores the underlying claim which remains a heresy to him: That the old meritocracy is not what it claims to be, and that it, too, is missing out on "Einsteins" (to use his terminology) due to its ingrained biases.
That’s also a problem for AB testing and solvable (to a degree) by caching assignments
Late stage capitalism is almost indistinguishable from a mental disorder, though.
Well, I wonder what he thinks non-performative social justice looks like. The civil rights movement was certainly performative (as is all protest) and that's basically the only narrative we were offered growing up for how to affect social change.
Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump
Wow, this was terrible grammar, and hard to read. Apologies. I was in the ER at the time. Let me address the questions.
Mobile payments used to be less painful than using cash. That might be changing
I’ve been using Kef LSX II and their KC62 Sub for the past year and I love the sound and convenience. Sonos came up as a frequent alternative, but I preferred the look and sound of the Kefs.

I only have them in one room, so I can’t comment on multi-room audio.
I think you misinterpreted him funding development. Read the linked article. Should clear you up. He was funding (via Automattic) an estimated 4k+ hours of work per week and is cutting that back to 45. Not himself coding but people that work for him.
Climate Migration
This is the first time I heard about it. Has anyone looked into their claims? Would love to buy an affordable Linux pad or a mini PC.
Glad to be using the Sonos speakers as just AirPlay 2 speakers. No issues, no app to deal with (never even opened them past setup), perfectly synchronized with non-Sonos AirPlay speakers as well.
I worked at a government site with a government machine at one time. I had an issue, so I took it to the IT desk. They were able to get that sorted, but then said I had another issue. "Your CPU is running at 100% all the time, because some sort of unkillable process is consuming all your cpu".

Yep, that was "System Idle" that was doing it. They had the best people.