skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think users should disable or spoof HTTP refer[r]ers generally. It's weird to voluntarily be handing out pieces of your browsing history to random strangers—now, in this era of adtech surveillance, with data privacy a thing people say that they value.

HTTP refer[r]ers are an anachronistic relic of 1990's naivete/optimism.
You can do that with pihole, if you set it up to keep the logs. Just adjust dhcp settings so your devices get its address as DNS server.
That sounds preposterous. If doctor's are afraid, how are they selling so much Adderall?
I wish you every success. You're doing what 10 year old me in the 1980s dreamed of.

I still daydream about bootstrapping in solar orbit. My amateur idea was to focus the sun onto rocks with huge mirrors at first, lasers later. Then using a handwaving/centrifugal force to separate out the elements lol. Though I wasn't smart enough to figure out what was needed to build a factory via a bunch of robots.

Sorry for the rambling!
Certain types of thoughts are definitely "bad" regardless of what comes after.
Definitely no need but more of curiosity and current smith of time I'm willing to spend on my site.

I've had my site for many years and the analytics set up were set up from the start. The amount of free time I can decorate to my site and the length of my blocks of free time have drastically changed, which made me focus the time I spend on my site to only writing. I have a large backlog of non writing things I wish to do, but can't justify them as of right now.

I'm going to remove the UI tracking component as I never look at the data. It was just something I thought was neat and was exploring for a work situation at the time.

The usage of GA is nice as it tells me what posts are popular but that's really not important in the grand scheme of things. As I always blog about what I find interesting regardless of how popular it is.

So in short, if I was willing to dedicate my time I spend on my site to non blogging right now, is rip out our of the analytics tool. And look for a replacement on the other, or rip it out entirely.

The flip phone component was mostly to decrease the availability of distractions in my life. Which doesn't necessarily mean I'm against analytics but yeah. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for taking an interest in my setup :)
I see that a lot more in C# than in Java tbh.
How do we as tech workers deal with the fact that the leaders of our industry have become the enemy of western democracy?

How does one act ethically in such a scenario?
I figure that the western world is not patriarchal. What you are describing sounds like something that happens in the middle east.
I wouldn't put off newcomers though. While people do connect with those they already know, generally all groups are friendly and welcoming to newcomers, too.
Clojure Bindings for Scryer Prolog
Show HN: Bet you can't beat me in this easy game
A simple yet addictive game where the goal is to be #1 on leaderboard.
Can you do it?
Open to feedbacks and suggestions
Turbo Pascal: https://super-memory.com/articles/soft/sm2.htm
Related:

Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36728672 - July 2023 (60 comments)

Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991811 - May 2023 (38 comments)

Comfortably monitor your network traffic in real-time with Sniffnet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693185 - Nov 2022 (4 comments)

Sniffnet – A multithreaded, cross-platform network analyzer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132169 - Oct 2022 (2 comments)
It's a cultural thing. I've seen code bases where every class was an FooImpl and had an associated FooIf, all in name of decoupling and mocking. Though it may be a trend that's dying down.
AI can’t create art of course.
I think clones or androids seem likely.
Off the top of my head: John Carmack and Derek Sivers are Anki users.

I've met a ton of brilliant people at Olympiads who use Anki, and you'll find heavy usage from people who rank #1 in highly competitive exams (JEE Advanced, Cambridge Medicine etc...). I graduated top of my class, and I attribute this to consistent Anki usage

But, of course: there's a subset of truly incredible people who don't need it. I've met some people at 20+ languages, no Anki

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Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer. Did a bit of work on a new website today, so stats are top of mind.
Supposedly it's by design. The justification being something along the lines of "you're doing it wrong" if you have to drag the cable around while mousing.
It's interesting but I wish I could turn it off. would be nice to have a button "dub this for me" instead of being forced to have all the content translated into 1 language, which is infuriating if you understand multiple.

Edit: aha you can switch back to the original audio track
> to just pardon

More likely Trump continue to fire prosecutors that try to do their jobs upholding the literal law. No prosecution, no pardon needed.

The check on that is for Congress to impeach and remove a corrupt President from office, but that will be difficult with how many Republicans are complicit.
GrapheneOS also allows you to toggle the Network permission of any app
not really stoked about the name since there are a couple other projects named lume:

- https://lume.land/

The project looks cool though
What do you mean, doesn’t work?

It works fantastic for the people at the top.
Except it would be invalid to move the initialization out of the loop, so the example does not show whether a compiler could do this in principle.
It doesn’t really. Obviously the alleged security breach is egregious and if they’re committing crimes they should be prosecuted. But given that they’re relatively young, part of me wonders if these guys are being exploited by Musk and Thiel and will be scapegoated if the political winds start blowing another way. But that makes no difference to their criminal liability.
Hey I just watched this! His channel has a great blend of history, politics and video games.

Personal favorites:

How economic and cultural conditions create friction between genders in South Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74

Why do you always kill gods in Japanese role playing games? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEUqLL8J4gI
What does Taiwan have to do with US mortgage rates?
https://archive.is/qWpBV
I would even go as far as to say, you don’t know something, so you look it up, and now you know the thing. Onus to remember notwithstanding, I personally feel like when I look something up I didn’t know, it tends to stick.

Except for the regex syntax, and ffmpeg pipelines, I won’t ever dedicate brain-space for those.

So I suppose I contradict myself. Huh. Nuts.
I don't have any tips. But generally speaking, it comes down to introducing yourself to as many people as possible and telling them what you do and how your expertise can benefit them. Make it about them not you. It's a grind but ultimately you get noticed.
China as of late is indeed running circles around the US. We spend 3 decades depending on them for manufacturing, and surprise. They got really good at manufacturing stuff for themselves when the chips are down.

I guess great economies also give it away. RIP USA.
Fighting dirty is tempting, but it doesn't solve the problems, which require empathy and dialog. In the long run, the only hope humanity has is its better nature.

This current chapter may need to play out, and constructive forces pick up the pieces.
This guy's German is very clear, and it's a joy to listen to the presentation. What is the accent? I can see he's based near Münster. I can recommend listening in original language if you know it even a little bit.
Ask HN: Why does my iPhone show me ads relevant to a dinner conversation?
Last night — for the second day in a row — I had a dinner-table conversation with my iPhone 16 in my pocket AND with microphone access "off" for essentially all apps including various Google apps and Facebook. Later, Facebook showed me ads relating to dinner-conversation topics.

Example: Last night the conversation briefly included a discussion of fountain pens. A couple of hours later, Facebook showed me two different ads relating to fountain pens. I've not done anything online relating to fountain pens in many moons.

Anyone know what's happening? (On my laptop I did a DuckDuckGo search using Safari, because I'm not sure I can trust Google about this; I also deleted all Google apps and Facebook from my phone.)
Adguard is much better in my experience compared to pihole.
Sadly it was BS the underlying mechanisms aren’t so easy to fool. However the information was being transmitted from individual fat cells to the rest of the body through chemical pathways we can fool via drugs.
Near the beginning, the author writes:

> Caching is all about maximizing the hit ratio

A thing I worry about a lot is discontinuities in cache behaviour (simple example: let’s say a client polls a list of entries, and downloads each entry from the list one at a time to see if it is different. Obviously this feels like a bit of a silly way for a client to behave. If you have a small lru cache (eg maybe it is partitioned such that partitions are small and all the requests from this client go to the same partition) then there is some threshold size where the client transitions from ~all requests hitting the cache to ~none hitting the cache.)

This is a bit different from some behaviours always being bad for cache (eg a search crawler fetches lots of entries once).

Am I wrong to worry about these kinds of ‘phase transitions’? Should the focus just be on optimising hit rate in the average case?
Zip beats all on that front.
> Also the use of gender as "it's like, how you feel, man" is very recent. When I was growing up (80s, 90s) it was just a synonym of "sex". If you look in old dictionaries that's what it says.

The changes in society are recent, the ideas are extremely old.

In our society, being gay used to be illegal, black people were property, and women had no rights. Then somebody would suggest that be changed, and the majority of people would freak out, for exactly the same reason: "that's not how it was when I was growing up!".

Yet multiple genders [not sexes] have existed for millennia, we didn't have the concept of two sexes [not genders] until the Enlightenment, and these words have changed their meanings and been used in different ways throughout time.

Society changes. Our understanding of the world changes. Sometimes we regress, like right now, like we did in the Victorian era, like we did after the fall of Rome, etc. But we need to push back, so that regression doesn't harm people, the way it has harmed people so many times in the past.
Wow this looks great! Reminds me a bit of Mochi.cards
I think graceless degradation isn't an inherent property of digital radio. You definitely could have some kind of digital modulation that takes advantage of FEC etc. but gracefully degrades.

I'm sure it exists, there probably just not much market for it.
"We're America, we wait until it's too late and then react!"

A rough paraphrasing from Boondocks, said by the richest man in that neighborhood.
They say the leaked list is 2000 apps, but the linked spreadsheet has over 12000...

And are these getting pulled from the store due to privacy violations? I'd assume Google would be aware at this point?
Perhaps not the best example
Same here! Have been using it for a while and I believe it’s the most useful educational tool I’ve used in a very long time
I work in cancer research. Some companies are there just for greed as well but at least the end product could be helpful
Steve jobs embraced web apps as much as he could.[0]. But people weren't willing to give up desktop apps.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070809174426/http://www.apple....
Can an LLM discover a new theory of natural law, such as prove or disprove string theory? This is what I ponder. The creation or discovery of something new that it can’t just copy, that would have to be discovered via human thought otherwise. Something provably true. The equivalent of discovering general relativity before humans had.
I've been forced by some shoulder issues to reevaluate how I use the computer. My issues seem to mostly be from external rotation of the arm (i.e go from keyboard to mouse movement), though I've had some wrist issues before as well. That's gotten better, but it's still not great.

Not sure what I'll try. Split ergo keyboard maybe, and try to get my development workflow to work as mouselessly as possible. I only wish nvim worked better with Java. It's still a bit too flakey. Painfully almost works. Maybe there are some Idea plugins or somethng.
Loyalty cards are one avenue for data brokers to get your purchase history. Credit cards can also sell your purchase data. Currently the only safe-ish way to be anonymous is with cash. That may disappear with pervasive face recognition and cell phone tracking.
> This isn't a counterpoint to "fix the world," because those "at the top of the social food chain" are, of course, partners in an oppressor/oppressed dynamic that prevents both parties from realize their full human potential.

You described the human condition. This is “the world” we all live in today. Isolating the people at the top as somehow not part of “the world” doesn’t work.
You’re replying to what is most likely AI-generated nonsense. It’s sad but it’s slowly spreading to HN too.
I understand your point, but it's not comparable:

Humans can suddenly "jump" cognitive levels to see higher-order patterns.
Gödel seeing that mathematics could describe mathematics itself.
This isn't combining existing patterns, but seeing entirely new levels of abstraction.

The human brain excels at taking complex systems and creating simpler mental models.
Newton seeing planetary motion and falling apples as the same phenomenon.
This compression isn't recombination - it's finding the hidden simplicity.

Recombination adds elements together.
Insight often removes elements to reveal core principles. This requires understanding and reasoning.
> While dogs kill some 30,000 people annually

What's the best way to fend off an aggressive dog (if it is too late and running is not possible)?
Ask HN: Is there a primer on RL applied to LLMs?
Want to read more on how exactly new thinking models are trained and if some old RL techniques are now applied again to LLMs
Writes should be minimal yeah. But reads could be intense. My car has worn out two maps SD cards. One of them had a questionable chain of custody, but I went back to the almost certainly original card that came with the car, and it's starting to misbehave in the same ways, so I think it's only a matter of time. These cards are unwritable after factory initialization, so writes are definitely not a factor.
Only difference is those startups don't rub it into your face they're database-based.
Revive it? It was a complete story and ended where it wanted, as far as I can tell. I loved it, but can't imagine how it would continue in a meaningful way.
OP also mistakenly commented from his main account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910261

For posterity's sake: his main account is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaynpatel , interestingly the submissions page is full of dead Show HN's of all the things he's "made".
As banal as saying "Mathematics has always been political". It's paradigmatic, the politics may surround or be an ulterior motive but "following the scientific method" (literally, doing science) is not doing politics. And notwithstanding that everyone has a bias, scientists ought to uphold the pursuit of truth above all, not jeopardize and cheapen that on the conceit that misconduct is virtuous if it's for the "right side".
Or use https://github.com/dkrahmer/MediaTester
Thank you for the examples. It was interesting and I learned something.
This is the result when an elite attacker meets an elite analyst group.

That's some very heavy stuff.
Clinton did try to pass something but it was vetoed. Pretty much all case law in this area has ruled thst Congress's budget is final and very hard to modify.

Trump's case was a completely constitutional overreach. Thankfully they shot it down fast in court.
Judges thankfully did call him out. Prosecute? Who knows.
If you were technologically advanced to the point of being able to float a human brain in a vat, and connect up all the nerves going into that brain to synthetic sensors with the appropriate signalling outputs, then you could construct a synthetic reality for that brain that it would not be able to distinguish from its previous brain-in-a-body experiences.

As far as learning, human learning is certainly much slower than machine learning but it's not really clear at a biochemical-molecular level that they're entirely different, eg the formation of memories and so on, considering a wide range of alternate hypothesis before selecting one, etc.
As an Austrian, let me tell you: This is a Machtergreifung happening right now.

I implore my American friends to do something before they lose their democracy. It happens much faster than you think, believe me.
Not sure what you're trying to communicate there, friend.
> The redundant nature of mass scale internet content operates on spaced repetition I think

Not really. Depends on the definition of spaced repetition, but you typically want increasing intervals (normally exponentially) for it to be effective.

See 9.1: https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi... [PDF]
Object orientism is not inheritance. It is simply encapsulation and having functions attached to the data.
This was discussed several times, some reasons can be:

- people you had dinner with searched for pens and you got connected to them via geo matching, wifi connection etc

- you had ads on pens before but just haven't paid enough attention

- ...
I wonder if this is a good alternative for running potentially malicious tools like random fine tunes of LLMs or coding agent outputs with little to no risk
I kill flies, mosquitoes, ticks and other insects that are dangerous to me.

I borderline do not care about the ones that I do not like because they gross me out but I am not actively killing them.

I protect many that I am not otherwise fond of, like spiders. I let them live their life in my apartment hoping that they will maybe pay me back by eating mosquitoes.

I think I do not care about 99% of animals (but I will protect them when needed), hate 0.5% and like 0.5%
I'm doing my best to spread the word but it just isn't getting out. They control social media entirely and the legacy media companies are complicit.
Almost all existing digital FPV systems gracefully degrade as much as they possibly can, both by using FEC and walking down a large number of available MCS as link quality gets worse (and reducing bitrate to match). But when they do eventually fail, re-sync is a much harder problem for them than it is for analog.
I’d love for one of the streaming services to take another crack at Lost. Desmond in the hatch is some of my favorite TV ever.
Poll: Should submissions about Elon Musk's political actions be allowed on HN?
The Hacker News guidelines have stated since the beginning:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

It has been clear that in 2025, this guideline is no longer adequate. The political ascent of Elon Musk/DOGE, as silly as it is, has far reaching implications for both the tech world and the US.

Submissions about his latest political actions both a) get upvotes very quickly due to their importance and impact and b) get flagkilled very quickly due to the politics rule.

So let's take it to a poll. (I have no affiliation with HN or YC so the results won't matter, but it's worthy of a Sunday discussion)
That point would be more reasonable if this decision was limited to research about controversial topics. It's not. It includes, at the very least, ALL the science that CDC is involved with. That includes, among other things, a paper about bird flu infections among bovine veterinarians. It's a massive escalation. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-trump-mmwr-bird-f...
Brands matter a lot, but a CEO who believes the logo should always be visible on the website in pursuit of brand strength doesn't actually understand the first thing about brands.
This is not an extraordinary claim; it's an obvious one. Autistic sensory processing deficits make many everyday interactions traumatic, especially in childhood. It infuriates me that this isn't obvious to you and yet you posted a comment anyway.
They are being discussed on HN a great deal so it's not clear the question makes sense. HN also doesn't really have a 'politics rule'. This is worth a read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011
I really miss when "binders full of women" was enough to cause a controversy. We moved so quickly to "grab her by the pussy" to the applause of shrugs. What happened over That period of 4-5 years?
The current administration made it clear in the President's Inaugural Address that that they see gender as only male and female. That is absurd, but please go ahead and now defend that point, I'll be here.

Here is the excerpt:

"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female. "
https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/01/the-inaugural-add...

This is a war against transfolk. Which side are you on, again?

Here is an excerpt of another document:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Pretty awesome. I was thinking about trying to create some kind of automatic toy for my cat that would avoid obstacles. Maybe this could be the base instead of the one I picked up https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007634018076.html
Protocols allow you to explicitly declare a class implements them by making them a base of the class, but do not require it. Every class that implements the specification of the protocol is usable where the protocol is specified, not only those explicitly marked with it. Python didn't make c#'s doofy mistake of requiring the programmer to explicitly annotate everything. So, not every implementer of the protocol will have isinstance be true.
I don't see how this addresses my point. State rights is the ability of a state to act on their own - not have unfettered access to federal funds.
> Anki’s Flexable Spaced Repetition (FSRS)

Sorry to nitpick: Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/
both a mistake to believe something is not political in a general sense just as it’s a mistake to confuse different specific politics.

Every organization has its own politics. Diversity of opinions is good and enables progress and that’s the whole purpose of science if you think about it. However confusing national politics or petty politics with the main competing forces is a mistake.

To make it even more complicated, there’s not even a main political struggle within any organization. Simplified, there’s one of ideas around the scope of work and one about organization - and yes these are or should be intersecting, but things are in motion and can’t be perfectly intersecting.

So all is political and everything will mix, but there should be a ranking of priorities and a common sense of why extremes of any kind are deeply wrong. And firing people in science for national political reasons would be extreme and wrong.

Everyone should remember that Germany was leading in science before it decided that nationalism should be absolute and practically destroyed its scientific leadership and never recovered. Moreover all those kicked out found their place in United States and eventually built the modern scientific world from computers to the atomic bomb.