skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a problem, certainly, but not the only one.
I think most of the people overemphasize the harmness of social media.

I actually find connecting with my real-life friends a meaningful and satisfying experience.

But things are getting worse once I started to follow influencers and those I don't know in my real life.
Ah I see — in that case you might be interested in the lockless illumos impl https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
> I simply do not want to add the maintenance headaches of an npm-based build process to my project.

Apparently I was just too blind to find it - here is how you can (presumably) use tailwind without pulling in npm and node.js.

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
Yes and No.

Newspapers, Electricity (let's call this a platform), Radio, TV did not penetrate 99% (don't quote me on the number) of the planet's population.
Social media did/does since 99% of the people can have a portable computer in their pockets.

(I am using '99%' very liberally - every person that can, has, and there are very few that avoid social media like the plague)

It feels like every next technology was had larger audience than the previous one (on its peak).

I remember a friend telling me about Instagram, and I was thinking 'how is this a good idea??' well, turns out it's not the best. And I fear that with Zuck becoming best friends with DJT he will eventually make his dream come true and make that 'instagram for pedophiles' (aka Instagram for kids). Then give it 10 years and let's see what DSM or ICD10 will say about that.

But hey.. money, amiright? Like the famous New Yorker cartoon about shareholders.
I beleive you are wrong that "nobody has found a system of computation more powerful than Turing Machines". A turing machine can not perform indeterminacy, however, the actor model can.
The claim I'm contradicting is that they knew full well, not that they should have known.
Perhaps this right here is the very process of thinking about it.
Wouldn't this be consistent with social media being easier to quit than both junk food _and_ cigarettes? Given that, I'm not sure how can conclude which of them is more similar.

As an alternative take, my understanding of the difference between cigarettes and junk food is that cigarettes are more physically addictive than junk food (which at least to my naive medical understanding is more of a "psychologically addictive" substance than something that the body will literally start to reach poorly to withholding after repeated intake). I haven't heard of anyone ever suffering physical withdrawal symptoms from having to wean off of either junk food or social media, which makes them seem much more similar to me than either are to cigarettes.

As an alternative to either of the headline options, maybe it would make sense to compare it to alcohol? Unlike cigarettes, most people are not physically addicted to it when using, but unlike junk food, you still shouldn't be using it when driving.
> many presidents of both parties have done this to varying degrees.

Agreed. The interesting question is by what authority presidents are permitted to do that - and to what extent?

> But an EO can't just cancel a law, and anyone who breaks it would still be legally liable.

Agreed on both points. The part that troubles me is how an unenforced law is practically any different than a canceled law. In the case of the Tiktok, if the Justice Department refuses to investigate, gather evidence or file charges against Tiktok or app store owners how can any penalties be assessed against Tiktok or app stores? Collecting penalties or fines requires a court ruling and judge's order. It never gets in front of a judge without charges being filed.

> Since the penalties would be on the app store owners for hosting TikTok, there is little incentive for them to expose themselves to this liability.

Yes, the particulars of this law's context have meant there are third-parties who are voluntarily enforcing the provisions of the law which the Justice Department has been ordered not to enforce. But that's just a random aspect of the present situation. It's easy to imagine other similar laws in the future which could only be enforced directly by the government - and the government refusing to do so, has the same effect as the law being cancelled. So, we still have a systemic issue.

> One thing I am curious about, though, is my understanding is that Oracle hosts many of TikTok's servers in the US. They would have the same liability as the app store owners, so I'm curious why they are still willing to host TikTok.

I didn't know that. Not being a Tiktok user, I'm not aware if it's currently still working for those in the US who already had the app installed.
A- Who cares?

B- The latex source of the book is available on the ArXiv page.
That's pretty much how my dreams work. For example, I can read in my dreams (like signs, books), but it's almost always one word at a time, and the rest of the text becomes impossible to focus while I'm reading that word, no matter how hard I try. It's like the "permanence module" is disabled and my brain falls back to a primitive generative AI for the next frame. And, I can't reason about the logic of my experience, the lack of causality, or persistence of objects at the time. Everything feels "as they should be" despite how awkward things get. I guess that's why nightmares are so convincing or hard to get out of, because I can't reason about them. The whole article feels like describing a typical dream to me.
The 701 "butterfly"? It was cool for its time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_701
Ironically (pure) nicotine is not that bad for the health, it’s just really addictive so it have been added to cigarettes for just this.

It can even have some good benefits if you are chronically stressed. I wonder if it could be an alternative to benzodiazepines for occasional use.

I never took nicotine so I don’t know how quick the addiction would come. With benzodiazepines it’s a really hard addiction but not if you take it once in a while.
The list of supported commands looks quite impressive https://kvrocks.apache.org/docs/supported-commands#script-co...
I remember when I was 5, and I got a jumpscare when playing a flash game...

I was so scared that I cannot move but trembling on my chair. Luckily my mom was near and she heard my scream and turned off the computer.
Dimmable, adjustable color-temperature bulbs are one of those things which seem a bit unnecessary at first, but they really do make a big difference for quality of life. I use Wifi-enabled globes. On the plus side they have beautiful aesthetics but on the downside my lightglobes are probably going to get hacked and join a botnet.
looking to reverse engineer the api endpoints for this app to build a cool saas, similar to oddsjam but just for fliff

where users can identify line descrepencies

and id also like to just model the odds and how they change overtime and do some ml/linear regression
Offline, yes. I selfhost it now.

Everything that came after the mod strike kind of made things worse anyways, so there's not that much change in knowledge requirements for me.

There's also kiwix and zim files available in case you don't wanna self host but still be able to have it offline on your desktop machine.
Do people not actively curate what they like? E.g. using more of "Not Interested". I generally follow artists because they have great taste. I am very religous in disliking if a particular post is not benefitting me in consuming it.
> could enable attackers to craft archives that bypass Windows security warnings, potentially tricking targets into launching malware.

Like all of the web. Windows security warnings are crap anyway, mostly (99%) targeting legitimate files or local files.
“ High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man's was over 1,000 mg/dL.”
> This is why I created an abomination that uses go/ast and friends to generate the OpenAPI spec from the code

OpenAPI is a spec not documentation. Write the spec first then generate the code from the spec.

You are doing it backwards, at least in my opinion.
I wonder how @sanj feels about their moment of fame (they’re still active on HN).
Yeah I don't think I've ever seen a single use of it. However I just checked on grep.app and at least a few big softwares use it - git, nginx, Postgresql, neovim, etc, which suggests that setenv/getenv is not sufficient.
Ok so basically they are introducing annotations so that the compiler can reason about the code and warn the programmer for non-realtime usage.

When you think about it, it's a lot like a type system.

I haven't worked with realtime systems, but I have other constraints. E.g. I want the memory usage of a function to stay within x kilobytes, or I want an api call to return within a second, or I want to ensure there is no PII being sent to the logs.

I sincerely hope that in the future we'll have languages that cater to these kind of constraints. Think function coloring on steroids. This way the compiler can help figure out problems and we need way less tests.
Was not able to read fully but I think it is something that combines elements of both. It’s designed to be addictive and also its effects depend heavily on how it’s consumed
That’s my main issue with SSG, it’s always a pain.
Netflix is now the home for WWE Raw on Mondays and WWE fans have to subscribe to Netflix to watch it.
Mechanical what? The keys? There are people who have had the same keyboard for 30 years. You don't have to design things to be disposable junk.

That's even part of the advantage. If you want a higher quality chassis made of rubber-padded metal that can survive being dropped off a table then you'd only have to buy it once.
It still uses protocol buffers though, which is where many of the problems I have with gRPC comes from
>`putenv` (not that nasty,

It's equally nasty. POSIX requires that the argument to `putenv()' not be copied, so it's not very different from assigning to `environ' directly.
>> A new to the world software start up is trying to serve a need that is currently unserved.

Well, yes in some cases. In lots of others it's just another implementation of existing software. Oh, you're building another food delivery app, because the current one is missing feature xxx?

This doesn't make them bad, the world is full of different contexts, and providing a solution tailored to a specific context is valuable.

But most startups are not "novel". Even in a novel space (like self driving cars) there are a bunch of companies in that space (basically competing for VC money. )

I'm very much in the MVP camp - if anything I'm more extreme- I'm in the "show me a market and how to reach them before coding anything" camp.
My personal problem with Electron is that you can't work with Deno or Bun. Other than that, it is an interesting approach with its pros and cons.
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Oh god they just replaced our horrible fluorescent tubes with dazzling white LED. From bad to worse.
But there’s really no way to get around it. Yes, you’ll have to put yourself in uncomfortable situations. There’s no one simple trick that’s going to mitigate that and trying to find a path that’ll get you there without discomfort is only delaying the inevitable.
Landlock Security Module Able to Deal with "Weird Files" on Linux 6.14
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Don't post ChatGPT output in HN comments.
I use gRPC with Go+Dart stack for years and never experienced these issues. Is it something specific to Java+gRPC?
They have locked down these APIs slightly but it's not a very complex "DRM" mechanism: https://github.com/rany2/edge-tts/blob/08b10b931db3f788a506c...
But can we say that unpredictability is what makes it so addictive?
The AI dungeon thing is a salient point - GPT2 (which it started out with) could barely make a coherent paragraph, and GPT3 could write about half a page of text that more or less made sense.

With modern LLMs, they still get occasionally tripped up, but you could go for pages without a minor detail not making sense.

Something similar might happen with these game models, given enough time.
This was a fun read. But some of the things attributed to a glitchy AI are just normal Minecraft stuff. For example: "One time I was swimming across a lake and noticed that the reflections at the water's edge were looking weirdly spiky." That's kelp, it looks like that in the game because the chunks beyond haven't loaded so it stands out from the sky. Also, the "natural blocks of rare glowstone" are honeycomb blocks, which she thinks might be new "cheese" blocks but in fact have been in the game for over five years.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf
CSS has become significantly more user-friendly than in the past, with most browsers now behaving consistently. It's worth learning as there is no build step involved, and it avoids cluttering your markup with excessive code.

You could opt to use style attributes directly within your HTML. Historically, we avoided this to maintain a separation of concerns, but it's puzzling why some prefer reintroducing similar methods. Is it just to save a few keystrokes?
Using style attributes even seems more straightforward since it doesn't require translating code in your head.

I simply don't see the appeal.
Show HN: OpenCharacter – open-source, uncensored CharacterAI
I made an open source alternative to c.ai using OpenRouter and recreating the old site's UI that people were missing.

code: https://github.com/bobcoi03/opencharacter/

Have nearly all feature parity like regenerates, personas, etc.
1) q day isn't coming. Certainly not soon. PQC work is in hand inside standards bodies. NIST made determinations here which people are following. Maybe blockchains will too.

2) it's all speculative behaviour. The amount of non speculative behaviour in this market is tiny. It could be millions of non speculative transactions and still be swamped by whales and market distorting behaviours.

3) buying land or other real goods or investing in services and industry is better for the world, but your returns across diverse investment will tend to the longterm mean of 7% not speculative monster multipliers.

4) there is specific speculation of Trump constructing a US federal policy toward bitcoin, including taking a position inside it, or changing the regulatory landscape. I think it's a bad idea but in these days, who can say bad ideas don't get air time?

5) realised value from crypto trading incurs tax. Don't be fooled into believing the gains won't be taxed. Don't be fooled into thinking they exist, are crystallised if they remain inside a chain. Nothing which generates this kind of value, speculative or not, avoids the eye of taxation, and forensic accountants I know say chains make tracing fraud and criminal assets and hidden profits easier not harder. The people who know how to avoid tax are the same people who kill for money. You'll be conned out of your asset, your life or both, if you pursue this aggressively enough with enough value.
We need to do much much much more.
Starting with banning ICE cars by 2035 if not sooner

Did I say China was doing enough? No

Are they do enough?

Hell no

Is the US doing enough? Hell no

Arguing historicals and per capita plays into Chinese propaganda because there is some truth to it. There is also truth to the fact that China emits twice as much as the US and almost a third of the worlds emissions.

I don't like or trust the authorian dictatorship of China

But are you going to get China to emit less then they currently do by reversing the already inadequate measures the US is taking? No. We need to do much much more and get China and other countries to do more

If we use excuses of other countries to do less then so will they and we will all burn up together.
> It's like the "permanance module" is disabled and my brain falls back to a primitive generative AI for the next frame.

What if there is no such module and whenever you believe you have experienced permanence it is because your brain confabulated it from what it actually observed?
See also the book or the course by Harry R. Lewis at Harvard:

- Ideas That Created the Future https://www.amazon.com/Ideas-That-Created-Future-Computer/dp...

- "Classics of CS" https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34992/assignments/syllabu...
Better yet, you can run it on your browser, in Javascript and not pay any fees! https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-web
I do think so. Every exponential growth is a sigmoid curve on a long enough timescale.

The end of Moore's Law is here (for now) even with multicores and everything else, by the way. That you can get more compute by throwing more resources at the problem doesn't really count. The big deal about Moore's Law was that it was free. The 3D stuff, clusters, etc, can increase the number of transistors... but it's gonna cost proportionally more in fabrication and energy when running.
Somehow, I knew I'd run into an Office Space reference in this thread.

(Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo&t=56s)
> You could do this with just the css attribute, but that has the issue that everyone has always been taught it is wrong to do that

But why is it wrong to use the style attribute? What makes using tailwind to do the same thing "not wrong"?

Also this https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states#us... and https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states#st... look like reinventing the Cascading of CSS with an awful syntax.
Difftastic: A structural diff that understands syntax
Yep. John Smith would be Ivan Kuznetsov.
It doesn't though. You can still code the old fashioned way, and you are even likely to become a better programmer for it.

Personally, I tried copilot when I got it for free as a student and it didnt make a difference. The reason I know is that I was coding on two devices, one which had copilot installed the other didnt, and I didnt care enough to install it on the latter through an entire semester.

Its just slightly better autocomplete, by a questionable standard of "better".
It's worth noting that there have been occasions where the library was blocked and it took a few weeks to workaround said block. For example, when a valid Sec-MS-Token became required, it took a while to implement it in the library: https://github.com/rany2/edge-tts/blob/08b10b931db3f788a506c...

Basically, it's a very bad idea to use this library for anything serious/mission critical. It also is really limited to only taking in text (i.e., no custom SSML, emotion elements, etc) as Microsoft restricts the API to only the features Microsoft Edge itself already supports. Generally commercial users would want these more advanced features and so they'd want to use Azure Cognitive Services.

At any rate this library was never really marketed, I'm not sure how it blew up. It was really only intended so that I can have audio files I can play back for my Home Assistant instance. Later, I started using it to generate e-books. In general, these are the two main uses of the library AFAIK.
Has it gotten better? I tried it out early and it was unusable
> over five years

I think there is a generation of Minecraft players that participated in the alpha, beta, and early 1.0 releases and then grew out of it. For these people, "in the game for over five years" is basically the same as "new".

(I belong to that group. I recently started introducing my four-year old to Minecraft and there is so much stuff that was not there when I played!)
China itself? Russia that has been blocked from all western services? Any non-US/western company?
indeed this was itching me, too.

I wonder how pagerank was influential to CS as a field?

even mapreduce is more a rally clever technique than a boundary pushing or boundary identifying extension of the field. unlike, say, CSP --- which is missing in the list.

still unlike the conciseness and structure of the list. it could evolve into a nice book :-D
safe to say they all hate each other
Linux foundation lawyers should tear them a new one. I was actually looking for Broadcoms sources that they are obligated to distribute. So much to this, what's saddens me most though, nobody gives a shit about it and it's the new normal
Could I interest you in an article about it?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36701907/
Developers are going to go where the users are, and the users are going to go to the App Store. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.

That and PWAs do not match the quality of the experience of a native app on iPhones. It doesn't even matter why, whether it's technical or political: they just don't and users don't have to care about the why.

They also don't care about apps taking up tens of MBs. Your average social media app and you average banking app is hundreds of MBs for no good reason. It's also irrelevant to users. They don't care.

> from the ad-riddled App or Play store

This part is also funny. It is true that in 2025 they are both ad-riddled, but compared to what? The even more ad-riddled web? Who even spends their time browsing the App Store anymore? You might go there if you're looking for a specific type of app, but most of the time people hear about new apps through word of mouth. It's not the halcyon days of 2009/2010 where new apps were constantly coming out and hitting the charts enticing people to try them.

The year of PWAs will come the same year as Desktop Linux. You can use them now, today, but really it's only nerds that want to. All the theoretical advantages of PWAs are not better enough over the flow of Get > verify with Face ID > wait for it to download for approximately three seconds > Open. It's on your phone, sandboxed, and always available as long as there's not a live service element attached that you're forced to use.
It wasn’t ChatGPT, I just deleted a “p” and some apostrophes and spaces. It was just faster than swiping to the app.
More and more social media sites don't let you just follow "your friends".

They start automatically shoving suggested accounts in your face along with ads. On Instagram and FB both every 3rd or 4th post is a "suggested page". Also the algorithm has deemed that I don't need to get posts from the actual real people I follow unless I specifically go to their pages to see.
I found some old gaming instincts kicking in when I asked myself: did I get a frag?

This is a fun little romp. Very Quake-esque in terms of mechanics (though the floaty jumps have more of a Tribes feel). Excellent job putting it all together in a Lisp... even if that Lisp is Clojure! I like to think of Lisp as a mind-tool for creatives, a way to turn thoughts into code so quickly it can keep up with the highly iterative creative process for other endeavors and enhance the reach of people working in other digital media besides code. It's probably less relevant in that capacity today than it was in the past, though.
Isn't any modern llm inherently multilingual?
> - list of other apps installed on device

Is there are an API for that on iOS?
I wasn't judging anyone, sorry if it felt judgemental.
I was genuinely asking, because cold, bright light is all I experienced in a workplace and when I replicated it at home, I didn't feel any particular issue with my vision.
But I also tend to act a bit like a mule or workhorse in these cases, carrying on anyway until I realize it's actually harmful.

That's why I was asking.
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How far we've fallen...
Ask HN: How widespread is the phrase "Eat Your Greens"
The most literal use of this phrase is to children.
They must eat their vegetables else they won't get any pudding; or they will not grow big and strong.
In both cases the sentiment is get through the present and be rewarded in the future. The main difference with these two examples is the necessary time horizon to consider.

I use the phrase to encourage almost any level of delayed gratification. So much so that I have named my programming language EYG.

How common do other people, other places, use this phrase when not literally talking about vegetables?