skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I am in exactly the same position. I grew up in the 90's using all the versions of Windows. Notepad became such an essential part of my workflows that even after 10 years of being on a Mac, I still mentally "reach for" Notepad. I have yet to find a suitable replacement.

Thanks for this, will take a look.
(One thing that comes close is Stickies on MacOS)
I had the pleasure of operating some machines like that too. One was a hydraulic shear roughly the size of a school bus, and once you stomp the pedal there is absolutely no taking it back--it'll do a cycle and nothing can stop it. We also had a Buffalo Iron Worker which I managed to misalign a punch in once. A hefty chunk of HSS flew ~100ft across the shop and embedded itself in the steel siding. I don't know how it didn't hit me, because I was at the time occupying much of the solid angle. However the machine that scared me most was a giant drill press from the late 1800s that had a ~4' cast iron gear on top of the drill shaft which held enough inertia to keep the drill spinning for about a minute after the power was shut off.
It's interesting to hear varying takes on this.

But my personal belief is that web apps are moving towards static sites that are cache-friendly and offline-ready. This for couple of reasons, first is easy integration with CDN. Second is easy integration with webviews for mobile apps.

And easiest way to implement offlineness so far has been through a state management library. Doesn't mean that doing what the article suggests, moving logic to server, is impossible but it's quite a pain. Much easier is to move logic to client and handling it there.

Moreover, the fact there's so many UI components and libraries available for React and so forth, makes developing much faster. Depends on the developer, of course (and I personally prefer Svelte), but is a rather big advantage if you are doing anything complex in UI.
dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732628
Hmm. It loads on my dino iPhone SE 2020.

I was looking for someone else here who appreciated the design and quality of the content. Lots of sites of this type are not as nice as this.
Those of you downvoting this comment, I sincerely wonder if it's because you really think Ulbricht deserves to rot the rest of his life in prison despite a deeply flawed, openly vengeful trial and a sentence that simply doesn't usually correspond to any of what he was convicted of in most cases, or because you simply can't, emotionally, approve of anything Trump might do, even if you'd otherwise agree with it.

I'd say either posture is an insult to your own capacity for reasoned thinking, but I am curious about which kind of insult it is.
Racing to the Trillion-Dollar Cluster
AI is important but are LLMs even the right answer?

We're not spending money on AI as a field, we're spending a lot of money on one, quite possibly doomed, approach.
Not sure why this comment got voted down; it's absolutely true.

The rule of law means that nobody is above the law, not even the Fuehrer or president. Clearly this is not the case in many countries, but it is in some, and it should be.
It will stop going into at least somewhat plausibly effective weapons though. See what happened with Russia’s military for a preview.
> Put in all your work related questions in the plugin, an LLM will make it as an abstract question for you to preview and send it

So the LLM does both the anonymization into placeholders and then later the replacing of the placeholders too. Calling the latter step de-anonymization is confusing though, it's "de-anonymizing" yourself to yourself. And the overall purpose of the plugin is to anonymize OP to Claude, so to me at least that makes the whole thing clearer.
What's even going on? Why is everyone treating this guy as some kind of political prisoner all of a sudden?

I would've expected responses like this for Aung San Suu Kyi or Dawit Isaak or someone, but _this guy_? Really?

Oh, I guess he is an e n t r e p r e n e u r... I get it now.
A 486 can get a gopher client. Maybe NetsCape 4.04 has it:

https://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/n32e404.exe

More stuff:

https://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/

It's useful to reach stuff like gopher://hngopher.com (and read the comments from this site, among the URS's). Also, he can open gopher://magical.fish thru retrozilla, among http://portal.mozz.us with
older Mozilla releases (or anything working on a 486),
if can do far more things than a 75MHZ machine could do back in the day.

He is using an SSH/Telnet client, but with http://portal.mozz.us opened on old browsers for the 346 he could browse his own blog on it, albeit with a reduced layout:

Write gemini://gemi.dev at the input box from http://portal.mozz.us to head to that Gemini site.

Head to News Waflle.

Enter: https://willem.com/blog/2016-06-23_building-the-blog-in-styl...

The full URL, with with https:// before the domain. That's mandatory.
Enjoy.
2 trillion is not prescriptive, but is there any unambiguous number published officially? Otherwise 2 tril is the only figure publicly advertised and I guess TFA is a sign they are starting to chip at this campaign promise
> but at the same time almost completely avoid state management

Unless you're just building simple landing pages (I think the context is "web apps" here) or something, you might not have removed any state management, you've just moved it elsewhere.

So the question is, where did you move it instead? The backend?
When it comes to connectors in IT the RJ45 and RJ12 are among the saner ones.
But there's 0 guarantee they are even capable of solving the rather large amount that covers the rest of a well-educated human.
The phonetics would have been even more similar at the time, but I suspect it's a coincidence. The words stem from different origins†, the sense development of "piece" is straightforward (a coin was a chunk of precious metal cut off the end of an ingot, thus being a piece of that ingot, and struck), and the chronology is probably wrong for a phonetic influence. https://www.etymonline.com/word/piece says "piece" for a coin is "c. 1400", which would be about 200 years older than the earliest attested occurrence of "piece of eight" and 100 years older than the peso itself, which was introduced in 01497.

However, the earliest attestation given in https://archive.org/details/oed07arch/page/836/mode/1up?view... is from 01575, in Scots: "To be payit all in half mark pecis," and the first attestation of "piece of eight" is from 01610: "Round trunkes, Furnish'd with pistolets, and pieces of eight." Maybe Etymonline knows of a much earlier attestation? Because if "piece" in the sense of "coin" really didn't come into use until the late 16th century, a phonetic influence would be much more plausible.

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† "Peso", like "poise", is from Latin "pensum", "weight", which may be from "pensare", the frequentative of "pendere", "to hang, to weigh", while "piece" comes from Latin "petia" or "pecia", "fragment". In Spanish today "peso" is still the normal word for "weight" (and "pesar" is the normal verb for "weigh") and "pieza" is still a fairly common word for "fragment".
Word of advice: Whatever you use, try to be relatively consistent with commiting your changes. A traversable git history and clean enough state to keep track of what's fresh can be super helpful especially when troubleshooting or coming back after messing around with whatever.

And never commit inline secrets. Find out one of the ways to inject/separate/template secrets that's workable for you to stick with it.
What's wrong with twitter links?
Completely agree.

I think the problem some devs want hard and fast rules when a lot of the time the right answer is "it depends" and experience dictated actions.
Mostly not a serious criticism:

> I need to run Firefox, enable JS, reload the page,

Or you can just open a tab, nothing to reload/enable/run

> there is no "top menu"

Of course there is, it's browser's top menu

> the open/save button does nothing

it opens/saves files in Chrome. Guess Firefox API limitations?

> I guess it doesn't work if I don't have an internet connection.

wrong guess, that's what "install" is for
Did the same. Perfect life. Still sort of doomscrolling HN however... ;)

(and it is very good for the phone battery life, one more thing you less take care about after such move)
> where workers can easily move to.

Is this part still true though?
Hopefully they discover AGI and the AGI turns out to be a communist. They will kill it SO fast.
more like sleeping and dreaming I guess.
Do you think the more free people are the more they gotta somehow justify their freedom with simulated struggles?
Because it's not singular (ba-dum-tss)
Are you calling Trump's crimes "victimless"? And he's barely been prosecuted. Everything was postponed indefinitely or blocked by corrupt judges.
okay, but what advantages do these rules bring to the winner? what would these look like in this context?

i guess what i'm asking is: what was the practical advantage of ascii or feet and knots that made them so important?
According to Wikipedia the NES had a lifespan of 20 years.
You only get to say this if you stake the strong libertarian claim that it's impossible to exploit adults. Make sure you're okay with the most extreme exploitation.

e.g. Why should anyone else get between a literally starving person and an employer asking to sign a contract of lifetime servitude?
This seems like a difference between learning styles. You seem to champion learning by reading. I’d argue using an LLM to build a toy or tool and learning that way is just as valid.
If I understand the polls correctly, the federal government was intended to be what it is, in the sense that the parts were intentional. Medicare was intended, and so on. Each of the parts that have large numbers of employees or large budgets was intended.

The only thing that wasn't intended was that the sum of the large numbers should be large.
I was there a week ago and it still wasn't back. The penis room was wide open though.
What struck me between the paper printer I have (a HP monstrosity) and my 3D printer, is how easy the 3D printer is to use.

Using the HP printer requires layers of software, accounts, offers for subscriptions, seemingly totally redundant menus, apps, a very clunky interface and so much more.

For the 3D printer I just have to send a file to it. Seemingly Bambu pushes for something closer to the HP experience.
Yeah, it's pretty clear that the rule of law is not particularly strong in the US. The past few years have made it clear that some people really are above the law.
They were elected on a mandate to burn it all down, in their view, and this is what that looks like.
well this is not how normally coding models used anyway.
unless they have internally built models that are of much higher intelligence than what we have today, this seems like premature optimization
Applications of AI Agents are increasing everyday. From coding to health care sector to Digital marketing. 2025 is gonna be the year of AI Agents
It's the Automatic HN Title Mangler™. It's pure shit and universally hated, but someone at HN is very proud of it - it can't be changed, ever.
The editorial fairness of Wikipedia is currently hotly debated.
Wow, these programmers work at a different level. What they can do with so little code!
Liberux: Linux phone with 32 GB RAM
I think you may be overstating this. The archeological evidence is pretty clear that prehistorical lifestyles weren't just small tribes slaughtering each other, and that there was a lot of variety and complexity in the way prehistoric societies organized themselves. Also, there are some societies that exist in 2025 which proved scary enough examples of what's possible.

There are also societies which have blatant arbitrary authoritarian rule which seem to be well in the 21st century. I doubt that faith in the rule of law is the only thing keeping our societies together.
> Unless you're building a product where the majority of the functionality relies on

This is a huge problem in the ecosystem. People want a landing page, so they reach for some full-stack SPA backend+frontend framework that is hip today, which is absolutely bananas.

Sure, if you're building web app with lots of dynamic and interactive elements, go crazy, because you'll probably need it, lord knows you'll get tangled up in state management no matter how clever you think you are.

But for websites that aren't trying to became the new Google Maps/Figma/Whatever, simple and basic templating patterns won't just be faster to develop, but easier to maintain and a better experience for your visitors to use.
What do you mean be centralized service? It allows you to publish to GitHub releases or npm. Do you mean "central" like "GitHub"?
This is really cool, I love this.

I do most of my work in browser tabs, but often need a "scratch pad" to paste or type things in, like snippets of code or a short todo list. And I use TextEdit on my Mac, but I'd prefer a browser tab so this is wonderful.

Four requests, from most to least important:

1) Let me choose the font and font size? For code snippets, I really want monospace. And make sure the preference persists

2) Keep current contents in local storage, so it survives a browser restart? (Or maybe you do already?)

3) Having tabs feels redundant with my browser tabs -- I'd rather get rid of the extra bar at the top and just have a 100% clean typing space, with just the (wonderfully unobtrusive) menu bar. (I understand their utility in a PWA though, maybe a menu option to toggle the tab bar? Also full screen mode to hide the menu bar for a pure editing experience?)

4) Get a proper domain name. :) So I can start typing "note" in my address bar and it will autocomplete. Surely "notepadjs" is available for some TLD? Or "notepadx" (for cross-platform) or "notepage" (for webpage) or similar?

But this is a great idea. I'm surprised I've never come across something like it before, it seems so obvious in hindsight. I love it.
They wouldn't get their supply elsewhere? The junkies liked it because they didn't have to worry about getting robbed. You want to get rid of junkies? Enforce capital punishment of possession like Singapore.
We are still not a meritocracy
He's served over ten years. That's 1/8th of an average lifespan. It would be a fairly normal sentence for second degree murder where I'm from.
Big related thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725147
> Preëmptive

amazing use of the diaresis

Regarding the substance of your comment, we do not have (IIRC) established judicial precedent for the constitutionality of preëmptive pardons. The practice originated with Ford pardoning Nixon, and has not yet been challened nor withstood judicial examination.

Personally, I'd like to see some of Biden's pardons challenged.

> (3) Issued after the presidential election in the final year of their term.

This is an interesting one for those who are seeking a second term but are at risk of losing
AI Should Augment Human Intelligence, Not Replace It (2021)
That's not what I thought doom scrolling meant. I thought it specifically referred to the existential doom of endless scrolling for a dopamine hit.
Usually Zimbabwe
"The forest must burn to make room for new trees."
I don't understand how the Daylight Computer, which is a full Android tablet, qualifies as calm tech.
only $5M/job
I’d be really curious to see metrics on literacy broken down by other criteria. What’s the median literacy of people who are “like me”?
It's the same or similar in many if not all Slavic languages. Just goes to show true internationalization in software is almost impossible because you don't know all the rules in all the languages of the world. E.g. if you treat numbers as singular like English does you will have difficulty with Polish because you were unaware it has a special case for 2-4. And then you can have a third language that handles 2-7 differently.
I read the top 10 articles from that link, as well as a study on the magnitude of the effect. None of them provide any evidence that printing money in the US (which is inflationary, i.e. it weakens the USD) creates inflation in other countries. Rather they show the opposite: a strengthening USD causes it. Of course this would also happen under a non-fiat currency (imagine say the US just wins a world war), so I still don't know what your point is.
Not sure what is too simple or incorrect... Prices are skyrocketing (even if using a 'loophole') because that's what the market can bear. There is high demand able to pay vs. restricted supply. And, again, rent controls are not going to solve the underlying issue because they factually always do the opposite of what is needed to bring inflation down.

Rents are always going to be expensive in top tier cities, and supply always restricted anyway. So perhaps this are simply the real market prices without rent controls...
Wasn't silk road selling way more than just drugs ? Like, pornography and gun, worldwide. When you facilitate both sex trafficking, organized crime and potentially terrorism you can't exactly be surprised you get hit with everything.
Show HN: After 6 Months Coding, I Made Ticket QR Maker for Easy Event Ticketing
Hey HN!
After months of development, I’m excited to share Ticket QR Maker—a simple, easy-to-use tool for creating and managing QR tickets for events. Whether you're organizing a conference, a concert, or just a private gathering, this tool allows you to create secure, personalized QR tickets in minutes.
I built this to help event organizers streamline the ticketing process by making it quick and secure, without the usual headaches.
The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mostly about good PR and to send a signal to those ~websites~ businesses to keep them in check.

However it is indeed the case, that Valve has introduced greater and greater restrictions on inventory handling. The measures obviously go far beyond just counteracting possible scammers and phishing. Still, I am inclined to believe, they could've implemented all these features many years ago, if only they had wanted to. I highly recommend the videos. You can maybe skip the first one. It's mostly about casino owners' drama.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jhjjVy5Ls

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y
We punish people all the time for non-violent, white-collar crime; often very severely. Bernie Madoff got sent to prison for 150 years and died there and, as far as I know, he never solicited a murder for hire.
Nice. And just like the newer Notepad version on Windows it supports more than ONE undo step!
That’s not what happens in practice. The other actions of those charged are absolutely brought in as evidence whether they were actual crimes or testimony from others that knew those charged. This happens all of the time.
Sure would be a lot easier than memorizing this song. [1]

[1] - https://pi.ytmnd.com/
That legal concept isn't a broad idea but rather a specific carve out for very specific crimes.
I’d like to know who wrote that speech. A lot of talk about how libertarians are domineered and persecuted. Something like “after criminal prosecutions, if I wasn’t a libertarian then, I sure am now” in front of a very idealistic audience whose skepticism of government is unrelated to how many billionaires it fingerprints. So, they booed and heckled him, and in hindsight I wonder if he was grasping for concessions.
> How many Rs are in the word strawberry?

That's a known flaw that builders have decided to swallow, as opposed an intentional aspect of the design. The intent of the design is to generate text that humans find convincing. If they could tweak the design to remove tokenisation flaws, they'd do it instantly.

> he should have dumped a position article he agrees with, and a position article he disagrees with, into it, and asked it to compare, contrast...

This is like saying that pen testers shouldn't use special characters in API requests. I don't think the author's goal was to showcase an optimal use-case, but how LLMs can easily and unwittingly provide incorrect information. Of course this is already known, but it sounds like he felt obliged to demonstrate it for this specific case where the creator claims that it is robust.
Not saying I agree that this is an actual Chinese strategy, but the idea is that, for now, they just don't drill production wells that pull from these reserves, not that they stop producing from existing wells.
Thanks! Hope you derive value! Would love to hear any feedback.
I also wasn't at all confused.
Here is a conundrum:

With all that AI generated code being pushed, as a leader I wonder which is better? Enforce a ton of e2e so no code that is really well thought through all aspects of the solution can go past CI or does this enable AI to go even crazier and break all sort of best practices to just pass the test?
People are addicted to metrics, so when "code coverage" becomes something to measure, people tend to go crazy with the testing, even trivial stuff that doesn't really need to be put under tests.

My personal rule of thumb is something like: If it makes you go slower, you're doing too little/much testing, if it makes you go faster, you're doing the right amount of testing.

If you find yourself having to rewrite 10% of the code base every time a test changes, you're probably doing too much testing (or not treating your test case as production code). If you find yourself breaking stuff all over the place when doing other things, you're doing too little testing.

As most things, it's a balance, too extreme in either direction will hurt.
STOP works thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), which offers consumers spam protections and senders a framework on how to behave.

(Edit: It's relevant that STOP didn't come from the TCPA itself, but definitely has teeth due to it)

https://www.infobip.com/blog/a-guide-to-global-sms-complianc...
Meet The New Species of Endangered Whale Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico (2022)
I'll be waiting for it over here in Argentina too!
That may be true. But you still need to explain why Cloudflare serves me from France, and not Sydney, in that case.
I hope either Amazon or Remarkable come out with a 13" e-paper tablet. I want to be able to read and mark up A4 sized pdfs. The Fujitsu Quaderno is out there, but it feels semi-abandoned.
Very zero-sum outlook on things which is factually untrue much of the time. When you invest money in something productive that value doesn't get automatically destroyed. The size of the pie isn't fixed.
Monitoring your web application as a small team
Bernie committed a crime worse than murder; stealing from the rich.
Author articulates why he programs in Pascal: https://castle-engine.io/why_pascal
> What's wrong with TextEdit on macOS?

I do most of my work in browser tabs. It's much more convenient for me to have a plaintext editor app as a tab I can position among my other tabs, rather than another window.

My email is a tab. My word processor is a tab. My files in the cloud are a tab. It makes sense that my plaintext editor should be a tab too. It's just UX consistency and convenience.
I definitely associate negative emotions with my doomscrolling behavior. Angst is the best word I can find to describe the feeling. For me it usually focuses around some major news cycle (war, politics, catastrophes, etc.).
Russians must have become experts at geocaching with all their experience chasing dead-drops.
Have you tried opening the links? They show Russia at developed country level in terms of food insecurity (score <5, they don't differentiate at those levels; this is a level mostly shown for EU countries); and a percentage of population below the international poverty line of 0.0% (vs, as an example, 1.8 % in Romania). This isn't great — being in the poverty briefs at all is not indicative of prosperity — but your terrification should probably come from elsewhere.