skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like tailwind but think it’s not needed anymore as CSS got better.
Utility frameworks don’t necessarily need a build step.

I forked and finished Tachyons successor Tachyons 5:
It has container queries built in and p3 colors.

https://github.com/gobijan/tachyons5/blob/main/tachyons5.css

If you need very sophisticated layouts write them in plain css. For quick styling utilities are awesome.

Unpopular opinion. Now downvote me to the ground.
I know DSM V, what is the ICD 10?
I mean, remote work gets pulled because old dudes in power say so. The four day work week gets laughed at because of America’s unhealthy focus on work ethic and worship. The Surgeon General prescribes community. We know what the problems are, but as a collective action problem, we’re going to fail the test. There is no incentive for those who can make change to make change. Social volatility will rise, fertility rates will fall faster, everyone will be less happy. Brighten the lives of those around you until your light goes out, that’s all you can do.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it repeatedly and we've asked you to stop many times. Here are another couple of recent cases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753571

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589242

I really don't want to ban an account that's been around so long and has contributed many good things in the past, but it's also not ok to degenerate to this level. Also, it sets a terrible example for other users.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and remembering the intended spirit of the site and sticking to it, we'd be grateful.

p.s. I have no idea whether the GP was right or wrong, but it doesn't matter. We need you (i.e. any commenter here) to follow the guidelines regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
> it has no route to directly biochemically alter the body or the brain (like nicotine and food intake)

that's not necessary to trigger dopamine in the brain and, in extreme cases, get you hooked on a particular activity because you feel a craving that you're unable to suppress (gambling is another good one, for some people it's just a fun activity, for others is an addition that they continue doing even when they know it's ruining them)
I think it’s also worth mentioning that the author fundamentally misunderstands a MVP. A vertical slice video game presentation _is_ a kind of MVP, and there are tons of anecdotes e.g. from the E3 that tell us just how minimal these can be.
MVPs take different shapes and forms, a polished but limited video game level is no different than a polished landing page with functionality limited to e.g. sign up.
This is one of the coolest projects I've seen here in a long time. Kudos! Your dedication to completion is admirable.
At least for some of us, this isn't by choice.
I have no interest in clubs, bars or drinking - in a new city. How am I to meet people?
I keep getting told go to clubs and meetups. I found one boardgame club and went to it, it wasn't for me. Now what? I can't find a club of programmers or Linux users that meet more than once in a blue moon.

If you're in Melbourne and are actually into Linux/programming I'd love to hear from you. I'm tired of being 'nerdy' meaning playing DnD or video games, I want to mix with people interested in something beyond surface level.

If you can sense a hint of frustration in my typing you'd be correct
The vast majority use no plugins at all.
Insane Clown Disease?
The Part-Time Parliament by Leslie Lamport, written in such a style it is its own complementary material. (This is the Paxos paper.)
I generally use tailwind in combination with daisyui, and I don’t think about styling a lot any more beyond choosing the proper theme.
> We know what the problems are

Smartphones, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Fortnite, Roblox, Hacker News.
After more than a decade, the UI for updating apps in F Droid is still very buggy. One of its most basic and fundamental features. I don't get it.
People will look for bugs regardless, better incentivize them to report to you first
> At the end of the day, it's all about calories.

No it's not. Calories is just a unit of energy. And there are good energy sources, and bad ones as well. It's not just one single factor that rules everything. Quality and variety of food matters a lot.
I think Mastodon will have its place, but won’t grow much. BlueSky will grow more instead of Mastodon. Reasons:

- BlueSky is mostly centralized and easier to understand. No server choice stuff

- BlueSky has the better name

- BlueSky has the cleaner UI
Social media as digital dopamine is certainly a component (and hard to argue against sometimes, “Hell is Other People” and all that), but not the only component.

If people are happy in this scenario, who am I to tell them they’re not. Are they happy? If not, what is the reality expectations gap?
I wonder if this is simply a transition to online platforms.

For example, this source reports 245 million monthly active Discord users in the US:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/discord-u...
It’s a matter of incentives and who benefits from a generalized belief that AI will wipe the floor with the whole programmer class.
That's kinda like saying back in the 1990's that 90% of families wouldn't use more than 56.6k.

Well, because that's all they had access to.
Netflix to raise prices as new subscribers soar
What is demand? People who want to live somewhere and people who want to park their money in land or real estate. Prices won't go down if you deal with only one kind of demand.
I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends.

I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin.

I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more thoughtful if not humor full.

I went to threads and they had a variety of posts in different languages. Top link: Tiktok style guy from Japan who does wall pushups. A newspaper cartoon and netflicks infograph follow.

I'm not sure why we are not all on Mastodon it's similiar content to this site.

Bluesky is getting so much hype but the frontpage content is a tarpool of vile content like someone trained an ai on salon.com and decided to spit out the worst nonsense.
You stopped at one meetup? What are your interests beyond Linux and programming?
An amazing challenge you set for yourself and pulled it off in 7 months is admirable, commendable and exceptional.

How much did it cost to make this open-source laptop?
My wild guess is it's around $500-750.
Doesn’t looking at porn cause a biochemical reaction in the brain? Just seems like the inputs are a lot more complex than you’re making them out to be.
I find it really hard to not immediately be reminded of this:

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Still not perfect but it improved a lot in the last year. When it says update, it really updates now, and when it says updated it's updated. Running the package installer works, etc. I believe that all the process is not very well integrated because it must run external components, whilst Play does it internally, but I might be wrong.
gRPC is an anti-pattern for 99% of services. HTTP + JSON is the better choice in 99% of decisions. For high scale, HTTP + <Binary Payload> gets you most the way there.

gRPC's design while a great technical achievement, is overly complex.
I stopped at one because I can't find anything else I'm remotely interested in. I don't particularly have interests beyond Linux and programming. I know that's limiting, but it is what it is
a catalogue for diseases
My personal experience has been that very basic stuff like converting an object to another shape or creating a simple validation function or things like that has been super effective with AI. I've gotten so lazy that I try and prompt it to exactly what I want instead of even editing a bit.

But the moment it gets a little less basic, its a different story. I absolutely hate the experience. So I love it and I hate it at the same time. Is it going to replace me? I don't feel like its there yet. And this has been the case for a while now.

There is just too much money and people invested in this that its hard to say anything negative about it. Nearly every VC has rebranded their websites around an AI-driven future. And, to be fair, it’s not a fad—it genuinely works well for many things. But for now, I’m still skeptical about how far it can really go.
D-Wave Announces New Program to Fast-Track Deployment of Quantum Computing Apps
There's no way I am using a Chinese IDE with VSCode (w/ Coppilot) and Cursor existing after reading the privacy issues in the court documents with TikTok. Bytedance had some extremely overreaching expectations of data it wanted.

That being said, I am using (Chinese) Deepseek r1 because there isn't currently a free LLM on par with it. I am careful with what I share though, a little more so than with any others that are not locally fun.
How could more competition be bad? Sure some startups' business plans no longer work and have to pivot but many more startups now have access to better products at lower cost.
I think it’s because now your entire component is contained in a single file. No more separately messing around with CSS. The styles are right there on the element they apply to without having to cross reference anything.

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, and a list of strings that contain a bunch of utility is easier than writing those plain CSS objects.
Yes, if you’re using any sort of multi master db, you’re using a variant of paxos, raft or something which you shouldn’t really trust until aphyr blasts it into the low earth orbit.

The paper itself is very approachable and worth spending an hour or so on.
You assume people are happy, you should not by default assume anything. Looking at the trend it is shifting age groups over time which is usually an economic indicator but might very well be a complex correlation of factors.
Junk food addiction (your word, not TFA’s) is also not in the DSM V, so appealing to authority like that or hanging on the word addiction gets you nowhere as far as whether the comparison to social media is interesting.

For what it’s worth gambling addiction is in the DSM-V. What’s it’s direct route to biochemically alter the brain, like nicotine and food intake?
If you keep using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, we're going to have to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've asked you more than once already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

(This is not about NIH or GOF - it's about your account's commenting history. I just put it here because it's your most recent post.)
Take up an interest you can do socially and really dive deep into. For me, I easily made friendships with people after taking up viola and joining an amateur adult beginner orchestra. For you it might be rock climbing, or guitar, or maybe you could join a local crochet group if you’re into that.

I love programming too, and used to go to meetups before covid, but I think the music crowd for me has been easier to turn into a social thing.
Agreed. The drug enforcement example is a good one and there are a bunch of others too.

> the entire political landscape will change as some laws become unenforced and others are suddenly enforced with enthusiasm.

Yes, the expansion of powers which recent presidents have engineered is deeply worrying. Each president (from both parties) has used everything they inherited from the previous president and then each has expanded their powers a little more with no clear authority to do so. James Madison would be appalled at the scope of today's presidential powers, as would all the founders (except maybe Alexander Hamilton who wanted to make the presidency a lifetime office and sort-of king-like - although maybe even Hamilton would be wondering if his Imperial presidency has gone a little too far :-))
Perhaps the Bluesky recommendations are less tailored/curated and have to do with globally trending comments. Which while having some downsides, it is nice that the filter bubble doesn't close around someone too quickly.

I also assume that Bluesky as the political refugee camp from Twitter means it has a lot of participation from the liberally politically active at this moment.

(Patton Oswald's post was not vile, just to be clear).

Honestly I thought Mastodon and Bluesky were part of the same fediverse, I guess I need to do some learning.
Related recent stories on this topic:

Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330341

Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752487

The myth of the loneliness epidemic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238160
Do you have any notion of what it is you'd like to do with Linux and programming?

Deep dark buried backend stacks in cloud infrastructure, or perhaps control a drone that monitors engineering or construction progress, etc.
I don't really get what you're trying to say here.
Pretending a problem doesn't exist just because it has indirect chemical reactions instead of direct chemical reactions is dangerously stupid.
Heck. I want to start a company to hire this person and people like them. I think what I would add to this is "I want to work for a company where people are given freedom to pursue experimental approaches if they produce a) faster, b) more stable or c) more maintainable code. We all should have some idea of why we're trying the new, latest cool thing other than 'I want experience with the new, latest cool thing on my resume.'" and "Everyone I work with (managers and co-workers) should be adults and take responsibility for their fuck-ups. In response I'll take responsibility for my fuck-ups. If someone says they have concerns, I'll listen to them. If I don't understand where they're coming from, I'll try harder to get it. In return, co-workers and management will do the same."
People who know say that he shows signs of excessive drug use. IMO, he wants Trmp's notoriety and Trmp wants his fortune.

Negative sum game.
No, I don't think that's possible, VSCode's extension API is pretty limited. This is the reason that we have cursor as a separate application.
Text of TFA is cropped on my Safari (iPhone 7), a bit ironic init?
Wasn't one of campaign promises to reduce the government? And this is the only figure made public so far

> The DHS budget hasn’t been slashed.

Rome wasn't built (or destroyed) in a day. Once there are no members or investigations then what are the money spent on?;)
Show HN: A daily trivia website with a leaderboard (to see who's the fastest)
Hey,

I just built a daily quiz website where:

- You answer one random quiz every day.
- Compete with streaks and climb the leaderboard.
- First 99 people get more points based on speed (like Advent of Code).
I'm pretty sure all things you experience in this world can "directly biochemically alter the body". This isn't all that pedantic a point either. Your body directly produces neurochemicals from sense data, and, that includes the photons bouncing off of a like button, the particular movement of a scrolling finger, or the sonic vibration of a phone notification.

It wasn't so long ago that people balked at food addiction too. We are now in an era of mass A-B tested and optimised heuristics, the things we can do to manipulate the human brain are more understood.
I wish I had your talent, that’s impressive! And it took you 6 months only.
There are several LUGs in Melbourne/Victoria, LUV has no events planned this year yet, but MLUG has one very soon:

https://www.luv.asn.au/
https://mlug-au.org/
https://linux.org.au/lugs/

The Linux Australia conference (happening right now, in Adelaide this year) will often have local folks at it:

https://linux.org.au/
https://everythingopen.au/
I really hate this style of headline (which is not from the original article apparently). It should go in the garbage bin along with "fastest growing" and others. By itself it doesn't tell you any meaningful information. Maybe "young men" are spending just a few percent more of their time alone than the next group. Maybe that other group started spending less time alone. The actual "problem" is that time spent alone has drastically increased, not that they surpassed some other group, and that's what the headline should say.
Just do it. It becomes a habit. Then second nature. Unless you are disabled or have a medical condition preventing from doing even mild sports you should totally incorporate some kind of fitness activity in your life. The sooner the better.
> "Interesting idea, let's explore that next quarter"

Nothing wrong there, it's not "no". Sometimes we put ideas on ice until there's time, or other factors align.

If your role is long-term, you have the underrated power of long-term planning. Often in past I saw the desire to tear down and hastily build something amazing in a few weeks, rather than chip away long-term where "amazing" gradually fades into view.

This one time, I was asked to make a countdown timer for new website launch, back when I worked with PM's who thought users gave a shit about website launches.
On the basis of the headline alone, I would say "cigarettes" because I have quit two different social media sites using the technique described in the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking"
this only works if you actually end up enjoying the activity, but everything from arts classes to beginners rock climbing clubs or a running club can work.

For me I joined a silly learn-self-defence club when I first moved to the big city and I can't now remember any moves but I have fond memories of some of the people.

There are no promises of budding or lasting friendships forming, but its always worth a shot and you might actually find something that sticks.
I found a local makerspace. The makerspace has a weekly "build day" which attracts a lot of varied folks doing fun projects, including a lot of software-heavy things.

I also found some hiking and cycling groups. Lots of time to socialize while you're walking or cycling.
> Why not use Eyra?

Well, that's a lot of caveats. As I said, it would take years to complete. And it looks like it's well on its way but not near complete.
> cause a biochemical reaction in the brain?

That's rather meaningless.

I don't think there's much of anything you can look at, or do, or think about, without brain activity being somehow involved. What with the brain being where thoughts live.
They did in mine in the Netherlands. Also electronics and programming (this was a long time ago so it was all pretty new); it was a special class to prep for university more than the regular curriculum does, but it was a public school and not even a very good one; just a few really good and switched on teachers (physics, math and chem).
Online platforms are not a substitute for real, in-person friendships. I forget the researcher who coined the term AI for "artificial intimacy": when you've got 1000 "friends" on social media but nobody to feed your cat when you go on vacation.
Given the pervasive nature of spreadsheets in today's world, we have no choice but to embrace it but need to manage spreadsheets based data properly.

The good news is that Mathematics of Big Data book published by MIT press book is proposing associative array algebra that is capable of properly processing spreadsheets, graph networks, matrices and databases [1], [2]. According to the book this is the first time such system is being proposed. They even provided open source D4M software in Python and Matlab to demonstrate the idea, probably worth checking out [3].

[1] Mathematics of Big Data:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038393/mathematics-of-big-da...

[2] Associative Arrays: Unified Mathematics for Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05709

[3] A D4M module for Python:

https://github.com/Accla/D4M.py
I don't see why it couples clients to the implementation.

Effectively, there's no difference between writing the code first and updating the OpenAPI spec, and updating the spec first and then doing some sort of code gen to update the implementation. The end state of the world is the same.

In either case, modifications to the spec will be scrutinized to make sure there are no breaking changes.
I heard this comment about Bootstrap back this in the day but none of my Bootstrap sites looked like each other. Bootstrap saved me a lot of time because it had a lot of utility classes (like Tailwind way before Tailwind) and it never enforced a certain look.

You just loaded the classes that you wanted (unless you didn’t download the source Sass files, but that would have been silly).
For me, the best way to meet people is exercise. I don't enjoy competitive sports, but there's plenty of non competitive sports and exercise out there, e.g. climbing, yoga, workout classes, hiking, cycling running, martial arts, dance etc.

You might say you have no interest in these, to which my response is: stop complaining and damn well develop an interest! Your body needs to be taken care of, and if you ignore that you might get through your 20s and 30s, but past that you're gonna start having serious health issues. So you can both improve your future and develop a social life.

Rather than just finding people in your narrow interest groups - Linux, coding, whatever - you'll meet people from all different walks of life. Some hyper focused on exercise, but mostly just normal people with a healthy outlook on taking care of their bodies.
LLM: Access large language models from the command-line
I have an interest in systems programming. I've been on a run of enjoying esp32 iot home automation projects, I enjoy interfacing hardware with software. I enjoy restoring early hardware.
> “I love freeing people,” Mr. Trump said

I'm not opposed to letting Ulbricht go... but the whole affair is a major flip-flop for Trump. He literally just put a stop to the refugee program on the grounds that they import drugs into the US (which they don't) and then pardoned someone who facilitated the import of a LOT of drugs.

At this point, the libertarian movement has basically given up any principles and the only issue they consistently stand for is crypto.
I don't really count as young any more but I'm in Sydney with the same view. I've tried various meetups a few times over the years and no matter how they were described all i got was cornered by sales people. I don't tend to agree with the way such groups are described.
There's a lot of nonsense too. In another HN thread, someone was explaining to me that email is more secure than Signal, and desktops more secure than phones - and they had a link to someone's blog to prove it.

That's a HN reader. For the non-technical, it is a minefield.
I generally like the article. I wished the REST concept would have been explained with some code / payload examples though. Other the that it managed to steer me away from gRPG. All the cons he mentioned are huge deal breakers in my opinion. I would only consider if I can control both server and client and its implementation details (tech stack in this case).

But he addressed some issues with OpenAPI I constantly struggle with. And the fact that seemingly none is able to say what the standard is for certain patterns. And don’t get me started with OData …
That makes even less sense as a comparison. Sure Instagram censored anti-Trump posts for a day but in case you didn't notice you are free to discuss that without fearing suppression or jail.
I mean there is the introduction of a chemical into the blood stream that acts on neurons. This does not happen with screens and speakers.