skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing holding RSS back is that finding RSS feeds and subscribing to them in another app is frankly time consuming.

I built a free service for people who specifically want to track updates / features / releases to SaaS tools, services, and GitHub repos. https://www.getchangelog.com
. It effectively is an RSS search engine + email digest

I think its unique because it uses a combination of LLM based web scraping to find rss feeds and I am working on a solution to generate RSS feeds from any blog / api changelog right now to expand the set of sources. I really wish RSS was more widespread and there was a better discovery solution.
I doubt it. Users who flagged this post also flagged these, for example:

Bomba Patch Download 2025 – Free Download Latest Version – Brazilian Soccer Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42727946

Show HN: The only way to build a lean SaaS today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708872

MrBeast Might Buy TikTok - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701057

To me it looks like normal flagging behavior.
Talking of clients, Telegram RSS bot is very convenient.
It's a bit paradoxical that people on HN believe anything is possible in technology - we're going to live on Mars! - but advocate hopelessness in other matters.

It's just like technology: If you make it happen, it will happen. If you don't, it won't. Some people are working hard, developing the technology, while many sit around saying it's impossible, etc.

Opportunity knocks, right now. There's no guarantee of success. Let's go!
This is awesome!!!

I switched from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac a few months ago, and have been trying to do as much stuff as possible on ARM.

One thing this should do, is make people think more about switching their cloud-based workflows to ARM CPUs, which are generally less expensive.
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch has died at 78, his family says
What you mean is “show me your credentials” or “show me the source of authority”

I think is one of the first things I try to determine when somebody talks to me, when I see a blog, a video, or a comment in HN.
> what the rest of the industry calls graphics (polygon count basically)

IMO the focus of cutting edge triple-A graphics is physically based rendering.
I like my Steam Deck and would generally personally prefer it over a Switch if I had to choose one. I even use it in the "docked" way where it is both driving the family TV but can also be taken out and used directly.

And they've clearly put so, so much quality work into the Steam Deck. It's absolutely amazing considering the source material.

But it's also hobbled by so much of its library assuming it was built for a desktop PC or a notebook that could pretend to be a desktop. Some of my games react to being docked properly, some do not. Some can handle switching from the integrated controls to an external controller live, some do not. Some can handle switching resolutions, some do not. Some respond well to using the integrated controls to manipulate how much computing power you allocate to the games in real time, some do not. Some games work perfectly with multiple controllers, a couple freak out unless the stars align.

The Switch just works.

But I will say that even as someone who is generally not a graphics snob, the Switch is definitely not just aging, but aged. If all the Switch 2 is is basically "Switch 1 but with 2021-level power instead of 2013-level power" I'd be pretty happy.
Surely that's only the case if realloc() actually resizes and copies on every call? Which it normally doesn't?

I thought that most implementations of realloc() would often "round up" internally to a larger size allocation, maybe power-of-two, maybe page size, or something? So if you ask for 20 bytes, the internal bookkeeping sets aside 32, or 4096, or whatever. And then if you realloc to 24 bytes, realloc will just note that the new allocation fits in the amount its reserved for you and return the same buffer again with no copying?
You're saying every engineer and every person with any other type of profession you've ever spoken with, said that it was impossible to land a rocket? I feel like plenty of professionals don't even have an opinion on the matter.

Even if that's true, there's still every engineer and every other professional in the world you haven't spoken with. To take an example, I'm an engineer, I didn't say it. That disproves the claim.
Love that the author heavily editorializes but cordons off the editorial into its own section. I would be happy to see that become a standard practice elsewhere.
Would LA be bright enough to hire a Christopher Wren even if they knew him?
What are branding best practices and aerospace superstition?

- Someone who was an aerospace engineer for 8 years and knows many people in the industry, including BO, SpaceX, Boeing
Then substitute one of my drawings (or paintings, if I painted) of a person. There's no way in the world that anyone--anyone!--would think mine were better. That's because mine are truly awful.
I have a Steam Deck and agree, but I think this is more for kids and younger people.
It's not about pretending. Truth is the first casualty of war. If someone is trying to deceive you, they are actively exposing you to some kind of risk, usually for their own benefit, which is a hostile act.
Because you said that this author has the "wrong take on wokeness", what do you believe to be "the right take on wokeness"?

And by the way, I do think you are being more than a little bit performative here, because it seems you're just displaying how morally superior you believe yourself to be over Paul Graham, your heroes, and the readership of HN. But I would still like to hear your answer to my question.
A couple things stand out to me:

> ...while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, mass casualty crimes...

This makes a lot of sense. First, it explains the discrepancy between studies that have found no evidence of an extremist problem among service members, and studies that have, which is nice. Second, it's like saying that "while tech workers are not more likely to radicalize to the point of committing crimes than members of the general public, when tech workers do become radicalized they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, computer crimes." Of course. If you've voluntarily trained for military operations (i.e. high stakes managed violence), this is what you know and are more able to do than the average person. You can see other things too like the high suicide rate among military service members which, adjusted for demographics, because the military skews so male and young, is actually not consistently higher than the general population.

> Fort Liberty is, however, an exceptionally troubled Army base.

I think this is dumb. Liberty (the fort "formerly known as Bragg") is just the most populous Army base, arguably tied with the equally "troubled" Cavazos (formerly Hood).
Nokia was dead company walking before Stephen Elop. Elop saw the writing on the wall and made one of the choices available. A different CEO would have made a different choice but ultimately at that point it would still have been too late to save Nokia.

Nokia was a great hardware company that missed the boat when the market changed to be based around software. When the market changed again to be based around ecosystems, Nokia was beyond saving.
I think your story is half-right.

Common varieties of raspberries aren't purple, and I've never heard of raspberry flavor being purple.

So they didn't remove the red to leave blue, because there was never blue in the first place -- they just switched from red to blue, as this lengthy history explains:

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/ar...

And it was seen as a benefit because blue stood out more from the other red flavors -- cherry, strawberry, watermelon...
>“We don’t care about professional coders anymore,” Masad said.

If you are a coder and your CEO says something like this, you should call his bluff and put in your notice immediately. I bet he will care then.
It was incredibly smooth. The Windows Phone 7 browser was also very smooth compared to the iPhone/Android browsers of the time. Some miracles worked somewhere.

Also the keyboard was incredibly good.
Aside: I agree there is not enough mentorship, and I think a network/app for this would be amazing.

It would be great if:

a) it used LLMs to do partial AI match making

b) it had a relatively decent solution to avoiding mentors getting spammed by mentees (using existing trust networks is good except it disadvantages outsiders who deserve mentorship most)

c) it hooked into existing chat platforms so it's sticky without needing to visit the site

EDIT: I'm down to mentor on ML/AI and have in the past, for the right candidates. It's hard to put my finger on what qualities I'm looking for.
I am not sure, I have looked into whether vim mem maps files or not over the years and get conflicting answers. Some say no, some say newer versions do, or it depends file type (binary vs text) or it depends on what plugins are enabled etc. All I know is I often see gvim processes using tons of rss memory.
You probably know this but most of those aren’t really generations. Game boy color, DSi, new 3ds are just upgrades of the same generation kinda like PS5 vs PS5 Pro.
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I really, really, need every think piece that talks about 'rebuilding LA' to look at an actual map of what was damaged by the fire before I hear their views on urbanism and what Los Angeles needs.

Yes, 23k acres burned in the Palisades fire, and 15k in the Eaton fire. Yes that's a lot of area compared to SF, Manhattan, etc. Most of that area is mountainside! There's not suddenly 50 square miles of open space in LA to remake in the image of some ideal.

Of the portion of heavily burned land that was developed, quite a bit was also mountainside, or at least foothill. There's ~25 regular-ish blocks of the villages (backed up against foothill) that were destroyed, and some flat-ish area on Sunset Mesa, and the west side of Temescal Canyon, and a bit on Castellammare (but thankfully that wasn't as heavily impacted). But as the names implies, these are all mesa/ridge tops, bracketed by cliffs & canyons. The impacted parts of Altadena are a bit more regular, but very much sloping foothill backed up against their own mountainside. Moreover, both areas are somewhat peripheral, even for the city-without-a-center.

The point being that these are not places one can casually lay out some expansive transit-oriented scheme that's going to solve housing problems for the city. They're topographically and geographically constrained, and need to be rebuilt in a way that's compatible with their constraints. To say nothing of the fact that these were people's homes, and are people's property, and they might have a say on how they would like to rebuild.

There are some real challenges facing LA w.r.t. family-size rental/affordable housing stock, insurance in fire-prone areas, insurance generally depending on state policy, etc. I hope the civic and political energy leveled against barriers to rebuilding in Altadena and the Palisades can later be focused on ongoing transit expansion and associated higher-density development, infill, etc, in the parts of the city where those make sense. But to pretend that these fires present some great opportunity to 'remake' Los Angeles as a whole is a misunderstanding at best, reductive and insulting at worst.

</rant>
This is tangential but maybe some of the crowd here has wisdom: are there any apps (iOS or Android) that are built for RSS but have a good experience for just photos? What I mean by this is an app that is more or less Instagram-esque in browsing behavior, but just backed by RSS feeds with no comments/likes/etc.

I've been meaning to write about this but I recently found that I missed having one central place to share photos with people when I travel/build things/etc. When I thought about it further, I realized that I don't want the social media bits there - I just wanted the photos, self hosted, in something I could brand myself. This also solved for another problem I had, which is that I wanted to share my stuff across n platforms and got very tired of having to constantly provide any text context when doing so. Open graph tags work really well for "write once, share anywhere".

I have a working prototype up at https://photos.rymc.io/ and so far it's been great. I'll probably open source the stuff this year. It's not necessarily groundbreaking but I do think it's a decent approach; uploading auto-scrubs specific metadata, handles generating various previews, etc. Very easy to customize and just tries to do one thing well.

Notably, any page on it can be "followed" via RSS by just requesting it in the right format, e.g:

JSONFeed: https://photos.rymc.io/?format=json
Atom: https://photos.rymc.io/?format=atom
RSS: https://photos.rymc.io/?format=rss

It can be tag-specific too, so if someone's only interested in my travel photos, e.g:

JSONFeed: https://photos.rymc.io/tag/travel/?format=json

Back to the original point of the comment though: I'd like to find an app that I could give to e.g my dad and just let him browse things and see what I'm up to. None of the RSS apps I've tried fit well here though, with ReadKit on iOS coming somewhat close but it's a clunky experience.

If need be I'll just build my own at some point, it's not exactly rocket science... but it is time I could be doing other things. Anyone got any recs?
I have one child. If I were to homeschool my child, I would not need to know "what it's like in a classroom with 20 kids".

I'd imagine there are approximately zero homeschoolers who are managing a classroom of 20 kids.

The skills, knowledge and behaviors required to obtain and keep a job as a public school teacher are not the same as those required to homeschool your own kids.
My biggest problem is I'll finally get a chance to sink enough hours in to start something AAA, do maybe 4-10 hours over two or three days, and then have life get in the way and not touch it for a month or more... and completely forget how to play and WTF I was doing.

Some of my favorite UX features in newer games are automatically and contextually reminding you how the controls work when you pick it back up after a while, and quick story recaps or quest reminders on loading screens. I like to label those games "parent-friendly".
"Adequately" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon's Razor. A good corollary to keep in mind is "Never attribute to stupidity what is better explained by malice." I usually apply this to politics, but science publishing is 90% politics, so it still fits.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
Yeah, if people were lying about utilities and infrastructure we'd have a right mess... like sewage pumped into rivers and onto beaches whilst water executives take home £millions. Those same companies begging for taxpayers money to do maintenance whilst paying out billions to shareholders. And infrastructure projects that look weirdly like ways to divert £billions of tax resources into private hands whilst achieving essentially no benefit.

/crying-in-UK

One of many stories about HS2 -- they managed to not document procurement though, so the judges didn't turn find evidence of corruption in that aspect (different story) -- https://www.railtech.com/all/2023/10/23/british-high-speed-r...
As I said:

> In all, I'm unimpressed with the piece and the comment section reflected the mood of the piece: kind of mindlessly cranky without much thought.

Thanks for proving my point.
Sorry, I'm British so I have a totally different perspective. Healthcare is mainly public here and the salaries suck. Nobody becomes a doctor to be rich. They become one because its a decent job and they want to help people. Of course you can be a private doctor but this is seen as publicly shameful. So I think that proves that there are other reasons people become doctors. Anyway, the issue in the UK is, the salaries used to be good but just not excellent, and would become excellent with a decent specialty. They also were guaranteed an excellent pension for their service to the country. Now doctors I know make just above minimum wage and I make basically double them as a junior dev (not at FAANG and devs aren't paid 6 figures over here, I make less than £50k). This has come from years of defunding public services from people who believe in the power of capitalism to.... create more finance bros and 1x engineers?
Tesla boycott is gaining momentum in Germany due to Musk's meddling in politics
I'm not sure what was going on in tokyo, but in arkadelphia it was simply that there are a huge number of people waiting for food and the employee did not want them to wait any longer than they had to.
The Longest Journey – A Retrospective (2007)
or the upcoming civ 7, or any number of games!
Making AI practical, productive and accessible to everyone [audio]
I honestly wish PKGBUILD would get a shout at some point in the world of "Not the worst way to describe a package"
RIP to one of my favorite filmmakers.
Not immediately; find a new job first.

Looking for a job without having one already is many times harder than looking for one while you stayed for a little longer at yours.

Anyway, without any hint of sentimentalism. If that phrase is honest, that company may not be a stable place to stay on the future.
"This attitude of I read a paper or two so I know what it's like in a classroom with multiple kids at different ages that have different needs."

How is this different from "I went to teachers' college so I know how to teach"?
Instead of commenting on the switch 2 characteristics, i just want to take some time to celebrate Nintendo, and to say how happy i am this company still exists although it went through difficult times.

As some comments point out, Nintendo is the only console/video games company that's been trying to do fun things instead of trying to come up with the most powerful console in the universe.

This is the gaming i like, i don't care for 3000 fps and 1000Ghz consoles, i just want to have fun :-)

So, yeah, thanks Nintendo, i'll be buying this Switch 2.
open source agents will replace replit in the next year. I understand they probably feel a bit depressed.
I was always amazed the Wii with its full size discs could play the GameCube mini discs.
Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS! And so here’s a more people-centric explainer instead: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/
The stereotypes of women that Mulvaney is acting out have been used to belittle and disparage women both now and historically.

How exactly is he "living as a woman"? He's a man calling himself a woman. This is not the same at all.
> the iPhone was only "in charge" for a brief year or two, and then Android ate its lunch in terms of marketshare.

This is true worldwide, but there are significant regions where iOS quite handily beats Android (such as the US, Japan, and even some parts of Europe).
> Like if Elon said he "built the Falcon 9". It's not explicitly true, he certainly wasn't machining parts or writing code for it, but he was involved enough that no one would really call it a lie either.

Yea, that would be the way I read it: He "built" the sword just like the executives of your company "built" its products. It's like those home remodeling TV shows, where the remodelers don't really do anything besides write checks and drive around talking on their phones to other people who don't really do anything either. All the actual building is done by silent building contractors who are mostly off-camera.
Yeah Tobacco is literally the equivalent of going out and eating animal scat by choice.

I guess if they don't have vapes subaru would go out of business
> Ultimately this is the basis for governance

That's a myth / fantasy of gun and violence zealots and anti-liberals.

Obviously, to scholars and to anyone looking at the world, the basis for governance is consent. There are not enough guns in the world to do it otherwise. And I've never and I don't know anyone who has ever done something because the government pointed a gun at them. They did it because they are law-abiding people, social beings, and want a fair, ordered society.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42724621.
Switch emulation works surprisingly well, but it has its quirks and some titles are barely playable. I love emulation primarily because it's necessary for long-term archival of game libraries, but emulating modern systems is not a super user-friendly process (not to mention the qualms around piracy).
Show HN: 2025 California Wildfire Satellite Images
I built a website for comparing satellite images from ESA Copernicus Sentinel-2 of Southern California from before and during the January 2025 wildfires. The extent of the damage to vegetation and buildings is clearly visible from these images.

Although Copernicus Sentinel-2 data and tools are open and free to use via Copernicus Browser (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/), I hope that this website presents the data in a makes the data more accessible and easier to share with less technical users.

The web viewer was created using Leaflet and leaflet-compare. Other tools used include Microsoft Planetary Computer, PySTAC Client, Rasterio, and GDAL.

Related: This previous Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42641530) does something similar but with NOAA GOES instead.
Oh that’s really sad. A favourite director of mine.
That was a very enjoyable trailer - visuals and sound both. That being said, the new Switch looks less ... "fun" than the existing Switch.
This is quite frankly delusional.
It's not, except around the fringes. Consent is how governance works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729029
And yet Microsoft figured they could make Silverlight work on devices with even less impressive specs.
TBF: that wasn't an unsuccessful launch attempt, but a failure to not launch. Which affirms parent in that they seem to have work out all the kinks out during development.
> 5. Therefore all new development should be microservices written from scratch and interacting via cleanly defined APIs.

Not necessarily. You can get the same benefits you described in (1)-(3) by using clearly defined modules in your codebase, they don't need to be separate microservices.
and incorporates cutting-edge "security" controls to keep the system secured (against the user of course, because the owners of the device nowadays are the primary security threat, regardless how technical they are). Otherwise, what if grandma gets tricked into installing a Steam game or *gasp* an open source operating system onto her switch?
I would say the most I see have accept, reject and manage preferences as buttons, normally with manage preferences being a link rather than a button. The dark pattern you describe isn't on any big business websites for example.

Out of curiosity, you mean against the spirit of the GDPR rather than the letter of it, right?
> Instead, he says it’s time for non-coders to begin learning how to use AI tools to build software themselves

More code and applications to maintain in the long run. Being a software engineer will be in more demand than ever. I've noticed many individuals want to create an MVP before committing fully.

Would this also mean more security jobs?
Eraserhead - my mind is still trying to make sense of it