skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exploring Deeditt: A Platform for Authentic Stories and Real Connections
I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on called Deeditt, a platform designed to explore how real-life stories and experiences can foster deeper connections and personal growth.

The idea stems from an observation about how modern social platforms often prioritize entertainment, curated content, or commercial intent over authenticity. In contrast, Deeditt aims to create a space for genuine, meaningful interactions—where people share their real stories, not for clicks, but to connect, inspire, and learn from one another.

Some features I’ve been experimenting with include:

- Deeds: Moments of personal growth or challenges, shared with images, hashtags, and prompts.
- Journeys: A way to document experiences over time, offering a broader perspective on life’s paths.
- Discovery: Tools to help users find stories and people that resonate with their interests.
- Reflections: AI-generated insights to help users identify patterns in their lives.

One of the challenges I’ve encountered is encouraging active participation—getting people to move from observing to sharing. It’s a fascinating problem tied to the broader question of how we build trust and comfort in online spaces designed for authenticity.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts:

- Do you think platforms like this could help address the increasing disconnect people feel in online interactions?
- What would make something like this valuable to you or your community?

I’m genuinely interested in discussing the broader implications of fostering authenticity and connection in a digital world.

Thanks having a read
I’d love to hear your perspective
I remember standing up on office chairs to twist the florescent tube bulbs above my desk just enough to turn them off. That light was just awful.

It helped a lot until maintenance would come in at night and "fix" the light and I'd have to do it all over.
> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars

I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)
The terrain generation is not the appeal of Minecraft, it’s the game system that lets people level that terrain into a canvas and then build their own stuff on top.
His grifts may get clumsier as his cognition declines.

> while the influencer Ash Crypto groused, “Our industry is a fcking joke.”

Hasn't stopped anyone yet, has it?
Ah sweet. That's a neat approach. I'm working on something within the SMS space, would love to run it by you if you'd approach it differently
they are notoriously one of fords worst modern cars. they got it right after 2017 but then they axed anything that wasn't an suv, truck or mustang in 2020
> If you value societal order above all else, then you want extremely horrific punishments for crimes, you want near-absolute certainty that you'll be punished for criminal acts, and you want capture and trial to be swift, so that people know that breaking the law results in:

You're ignoring the issue of which acts are criminalized.
There shouldn't be any flicker in any mode if you avoid monitors that use PWM for backlight control (which anyone who's sensitive to flicker probably should do). I was stupid enough to buy one with low frequency PWM (didn't have money for anything else at that moment) and "solved" the problem by setting brightness to 100% (which sets duty cycle to 100%), but it destroyed image quality.
I'm sure there are Bugcrowd employees here, perhaps they can explain that email
This is great, can you make it into a slack app?
Or Mode X in some DOS games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
The only difference between an anti-addiction tool and a prank is whose computer you install it on.
I've always found "doom-scrolling" fascinating because, for all of my addiction-prone traits and ADHD-granted hyperfocus, I never seem to get sucked into it. I've opened TikTok a few times for some random video I've searched and continued scrolling the next few videos out of some UX-driven guidance...then completely lost interest after 4 or 5.

Funny/Memey videos with low content value are entertaining, here and there. A rapid succession of them does nothing to the reward center of my brain. Or worse, the video would clearly be better as a longer form video and now I'm just frustrated (this is more common with YouTube Shorts).

That being said, I probably have YouTube normal-long form content running in the background 4-8hours out of the day.
You're right about the writer's intention, but I "misread" it the same way. Even after going back and checking, I still think it could be interpreted either way, and that GP's and my interpretation is the more natural one.
"amygdala-bait" is such a good, concise way of expressing the phaenomenon. I too try to stay away from infinite scrolling. I installed an extension to block youtube shorts, for example, as they offer no value to me.
In general I think the population at large, and especially programmer types, know way too little about lighting given how ubiquitous both lighting and photography/videography is in our everyday life.

Good on you for fighting the warm light fight!
Reddit Is OpenAI's Moat (2023)
It’s possible to create a (greyscale) color filter toggle, as well as time based or app open/close activation with the iOS “shortcuts” automation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W32pf_97onM
It wasn't just that era, but the second wave of feminism was coming on strong then and there was a lot of writing about that movement then.

I think a right-wing movement is more comfortable with the idea of social hierarchy, whether it is a formally structured group where "he who pays the piper pays the tune" [1] or the kind of group that the article describes where there are people who run the group without formal authority. There have been "left-wing" groups that have a strong hierarchy, such as Lenin's Bolsheviks, but groups like that have limited appeal to most people by the 1960s [2] [3]. There are also the various membership-based groups such as the Sierra Club and NOW which have limited effectiveness because they aren't accountable to members [4]

So conflicts like the above vex leftists because they'd like to put their egalitarian values to work.

My "3 year" case study was the time I was a leader in the Tompkins County Green Party. After the 2000 Ralph Nader campaign we had a lot of energy and decided we wanted to build an organization to contest local elections. We had luck early on taking advantage of fusion voting [5] to decisively settle a power struggle within the local Democratic party so people perceived we had power.

There were about 50 people who turned up to meetings, but 3 or 4 people had the time and energy to do the work, I don't think we formed a clique, we would have accepted just about anyone who was basically aligned with us and willing to put in the work. I ran a web site and plastered the town with posters and mostly did as I pleased except for the few times somebody said "you went too far with that poster", that is, most of the members were basically deferential to the people who did the work.

As time went on though the issue of being a spoiler [6] came up over and over again. We got a famous green thinker who was shortlisted for the 2004 Presidential race by the national party [7] to run for mayor, but people in our own party were afraid "if we run Glover, the cop is going to win". Each time we the prospect of running a candidate happened the group would split in half and by the 2004 race we couldn't really go forward because locally, statewide, and nationally we couldn't make up our mind if we even wanted to run a candidate. My strongly held opinion was "Fuck 'em" when it came to the Democrats and that a political party that didn't run candidates had no reason to exist; but I couldn't force that opinion on people that I felt a representative of and the other leaders felt the same way so we folded the organization up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network

[2] https://genius.com/The-beatles-revolution-lyrics

[3] A Leninist would say you're a poseur if you aren't part of an organization with the resolve and discipline to smash the capitalist class and the state the supports it.

[4] A case study in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

[5] https://ballotpedia.org/Fusion_voting

[6] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/reflections-on-the-2000-u...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Glover_(activist)
India Power Grid in Nightlights
Anyone care to venture a guess as to the institution?
Guess that would also require some locking for all the exec() functions that don't take the environment as a parameter or that search PATH for the executable.
The reference is used to operate on the subtree when wrapping libraries like CodeMirror https://github.com/uiwjs/react-codemirror/blob/master/core/s... React leaves it alone if the children doesn't change.

innerHTML is useful when there is a trusted HTML source, which is becoming more popular with stuff like HTMX and FastHTML.
Any chance this gets open sourced? I understand that you can just look at the code of your installed extensions in chrome's directory on your computer, but it would be cool to look at the code, if you're willing to share.
This is so clearly a complete lie - in what universe is some top government official in the United States telling corporations to a) fall behind competing nations in advanced technology, b) set back our technological edge in the military, c) degrade the USA ability to spy on and control information access/controls in other countries, or d) do anything other than fish for an insider trading opportunity.
Related: see Therac-25
Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional
Any 6th grader, or really anyone with an older brother, understands this intuitively.

It's kinda fun to see the playground bully described in such scientific terms though.
nice work!

how much was it to get the case milled?
Thanks! Around $300 total from JLCCNC with 6061 aluminum, bead blasting, and matte black anodization (top, midplate, bottom).
This theory was actually tested last year and...eBay won.

The DOJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of the EPA against eBay in 2023, seeking to hold them liable for prohibited pesticides and chemicals as well as illegal emissions control cheat devices sold through the platform that violate multiple federal laws and environmental regulations.

There wasn't even really an argument about whether or not the items were actually illegal to sell - all parties including eBay basically stipulated to that and the judge even explicitly acknowledged it in her ruling - the entire case came down to whether or not eBay could be held liable for the actions of third party sellers on their platform who they failed to proactively prevent from selling illegal items.

In September 2024, U.S. District Judge Orelia Merchant granted eBay's motion to dismiss the case, ruling that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 provides eBay immunity for the actions of those third party sellers.

DOJ filed an appeal on December 1st so we'll see where that goes but as it stands now - no, you couldn't take eBay down even by listing stuff eBay does know to be illegal, based on current precedent.

Why the courts applied Sec230 that way in one instance and not another is the real question and the more cynically minded might also wonder how eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's various philanthropic and political endeavors (including but not limited to being the $ behind Lina Khan's whole "hipster antitrust" movement) could be a factor too. He's no longer an active board member but still a major shareholder whose existing shares would likely be worth a lot less if a case with a potential ~$2 Billion in fines had been allowed to proceed.
We had so many of these issues that we ended up LD_PRELOAD-ing patch getenv / setenv / putenv
Well, also pro-publicity and pro-distraction (firehose).
Of course those are ultimately self-benefiting too.
But that won't actually fix the underlying problem, namely that getenv and setenv (or unsetenv, probably) cannot safely be called from different threads.

It seems like the only reliable way to fix this is to change these functions so that they exclusively acquire a mutex.
Clinton made tax increase in 1993 with 39.3% top tax rate. It was a big part of the budget balancing that resulted in surplus.
Firebase Is the Best Auth Service for NextJS
I want more :) Please upvote this person's post.

What's your background?
Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers
great until I add something to my digital calendar when im out and I forget to update it, or my wife adds something to her calendar and doesnt use the shared calendar :/
Is it though? You might want to debate a moral philosopher over me, but I don't think you should make broad statements like that as if it was established truth.
As long as they keep adding Korean romance dramas featuring pretty crying men, my wife will keep paying for the service and using it daily.

For my part, I love me some Castlevania.
My experience exactly. Why one would do that anyway? Not listening to experienced engineers and being blinded by modern FE hype. Thinking just because many other businesses do it, one has to do it too. Then decision made by non-technical or not too technical management people.

And sure enough, then came the self inflicted workload. "Oh we need to change the router.". A problem you do not have with any popular mature web framework on the backend. "We need to upgrade to NextJS version 149, for feature blablub." Which would come naturally with something like Django or other traditional web framework. "We need to upgrade NodeJS!" ... and so on and on.

While all of what the FE actually did could have been just render static templates and a few lines of script.

Companies choose their own downfall by following the FE hype trains. The result are the shitty web apps, that don't need to be "apps" in the first place, but could simply have been static pages. It is quite a comedy show and I would laugh, if it did not affect me negatively.
Yes, thats exactly what I'm saying. The person with the most money shouldn't have the most speech.

I'm a limited bandwidth scenario, you literally abridge the speech of the person with less money when the law equates money and speech.

By restricting the megaphone size you avoid or at least reduce the problem.
> I'm one of the people who paid off a large portion of debt and probably don't need this assistance. However, this argument is so offensive.

Please spend my tax dollars on curing disease, fixing homelessness, free addiction treatment, better mental health care, improving our justice system, or even cold fusion. All of these have better outcomes than does paying off student debt.

> These arguments are all the greedy option

You left out the best argument against: there are much better things to spend money on.

I could get behind fixing Bush's biggest mistake - his bankruptcy change that moved the pendulum to lifetime debt. I'd love to see people be able to discharge student loans that are impossible to pay off or where the debtor was put in debt by a fraudulent or failed education institution.
Done. We've been upgraded from medium-risk "grayware" to low-risk "generally do not contain content that is useful to the end user" which is technically better, I suppose.

Update: We're now Low-Risk / Computer-and-Internet-Info.
I don't doubt many were motivated due to Gaza. But it's not clear that those numbers are significant enough to affect the outcome. If all of them had voted Harris, would she have won? We'd need a better study to know that.
I'm not asking about your examples, I'm asking about your principles. You say trans people shouldn't go into certain bathrooms, so here we are critically examining your position.

Participation in public life is a key aspect of human society. Going to the bathroom is also a key part of being a human biological being. In recognition of this, the government mandates appropriate bathroom facilities in public places like stores, restaurants, government buildings, etc.

What you're proposing essentially is that a certain class of people should not have access to the bathrooms, and therefore should be excluded from society. Explain how that is not dehumanizing. Do you know how many people kill themselves each year because of policy you are proposing? What if it was your kid?

You're denying them an aspect of society that I am 100% sure you would cry about were similar discrimination applied to you. That you don't feel it to be dehumanizing simply tells me you have not been the target of the kind of discrimination you advocate against others.

And the fact that you don't propose solutions like the government should mandate unisex bathrooms so everyone can go tells me you don't actually want these people in public life, you'd prefer if they all just stayed home. You can't even state that you don't want that.

> I'll also note that it is telling

And what exactly does that tell you? I chose that person from Google image search because he looks like the kind of person conservatives would freak out about for being in the women's restroom. His background is immaterial, no one would know anything about him if they saw him in the woman's room.

> Straw man, and also, false. [1] It is obvious that no delusional person has the right to reorder society's customs, culture, and laws. Or are you arguing that we must take all delusional people seriously in order to placate trans-people?

No, I'm pointing out our society is already run by disordered individuals. You're acting like trans people are so uniquely crazy they don't deserve to be taken seriously. But people who believe in an invisible sky wizard who speaks to them in their dreams and who grants their wishes are running the government and setting national policy based on a book of fiction they think is real. Talk about delusion, but you're fine with that, yeah?

George Bush absolutely talked about God all the time and how God influenced his decisions. The fact that in his argument for war he lied about the motivation when the whole time he was hearing voices in his head that implored him to go to war is a problem. But conservatives are fine listening to voices in their heads and setting policy over it.

I'll leave with this final point: every time a conservative says to a person "You're not man enough" or "man up", they are admitting that gender is a spectrum and implicitly linked with societal gender roles. If gender is binary then one is either man, or a woman. There's no way to become "more" of a man if gender is binary. Unless of course gender is a spectrum and a construct of society, and not biologically immutable. So is it really a delusion if even conservatives implicitly believe it?
ContextGNN: Beyond Two-Tower Recommendation Systems
wtfhappenedin1971 has approximately 17,000 graphs showing wage suppression. I will 100% eat shit on this if you can show real evidence that QE (printing money, whatever) is the main cause of wage suppression.
Can’t wait for Europe to set the curfew for lights at 10pm, while running AI datacenters.
The problem isn't as much that wages are depressed as "The Rich" is the average person in the older generation that bought housing when an appropriate amount was being built, then lessened the amount of housing so that there's not enough for future generations.

Class analysis must account for the strongest political class being real-estate asset holders that don't set wages but do benefit from a shortage of that real-estate asset.
I think it always has had a trial version. Back in the early 2000's my friend and I would mess around with the settings, hit render and then go upstairs to play with lego's or something for a couple of hours, and when it was done it would just be fancy terrain but without details like grass, trees or even rivers I think.
The Best Web Browser in 2025
HN audience is essentially pro-Trump as well. 1/3rd of Santa Clara county (heart of Silicon Valley) voted for him, and a lot of tech employees come from authoritarian countries (China) and really see nothing wrong with authoritarian rule.
Even in the 1960's most Soviet radio traffic would have been encrypted. That was why the US did things like Ivy Bells (1), because they wouldn't be encrypting domestic phone traffic. (They were able to get information on Soviet missile tests, after the fact, from that source.)

And of course, as always, the easiest way to break a code is always the 5 dollar wrench attack (something like the way the Soviets paid the Walker spy ring a few thousand dollars a month to just give them the decryption keys (2)).

Finally, there is Radio MASINT that also gathers information from radio receivers, even if they are encrypted (3).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker
3: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/21-113_MASINT_Prime...
1996 Toyota T100. Practical, sturdy, reliable.
MIT spinout unveils plans for the first fusion power plant
Really it should be both, where the app asks you to input a code given from the person on the phone (confirms to you they're actually from the bank), and then gives you a code that you tell the person on the phone (confirms to them that you're really the customer).

Of course the more automation you put around this, the easier it becomes to MITM it, like a scammer simultaneously calls both you and the bank and passes the codes back and forth, pretending to you that the call is about a credit card offer, while using the call with the bank to drain your account. That's a lot harder to pull off with a human in the loop as the real bank person will get suspicious at the delayed responses, even barring some amount of stalling ("oh hang on I left my phone downstairs, let me find it oh god it's updating again, let me just get you that code, give me a sec here"). But it becomes trivial if the authentication is moved to IVR and by the time the human operator is on the line the call is already considered safe.
The only thing that has worked for me is to uninstall all of the social media apps. I still use some of their mobile web interfaces, but the friction of mobile web is enough to stop a doom scrolling loop.
> so much more expensive than it's competition and offers less

I was going between Subaru's and Ford's offerings (again, starting and ending with who had dealerships in my small town, which also included Chevy but I can't remember why I ruled them out or if I explicitly did), and the maintenance chat on the newer Fords was pretty much one way while the Subarus were the other. Fine paying up for not having to randomly take the car into the shop.

Still miss my '03 Jetta, if I'm honest, though I suppose there's no little-sister-untotalling it. (And it wouldn't handle in the snow like something higher up.)