skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Rspwn.store – A modern steam key store built with Next.js and instantdb
I built a platform to find and purchase Steam game keys with a focus on real-time data and user experience. Features:

- Live player count tracking for all games
- Automatic price tracking and deal alerts
- Instant key delivery after purchase
- Clean, modern UI with glass-morphism design

Tech stack:
- Next.js 15
- Clerk for auth
- InstantDB for real-time data
- Tailwind CSS for styling
- Stripe for payments

Looking for feedback on the UX and suggestions for additional features!
It’s weird the archivist has no idea why she might have been fired. From Trump’s POV it looked like the NARA conspired with parts of the last executive to create the documents case against him. This might be false but even if it’s false she must be aware that this would be Trump’s reasoning. Ah. I misread she said she was provided with no cause instead of she not knowing the cause.
Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms
It is good to occasionaly display windows from a remote linux onto a macbook client. I wouldnt say I use it regularly but it certainly helps.
It’s because you frankly have a pretty petty, small-sized idea about what the left’s goals were.

To you, the goal is to fucking burn out everyone you disagree with, and to change the government to actively persecute those who aren’t in the in group. It’s super aggressive, and by your own admission, not really what the leftists were doing.

The liberal ideas are pretty goddamn simple. There’s a place for everyone, as long as you’re not hurting someone or making them uncomfortable. That really sums up a large part of cancel culture. Yeah, it means you’ll get a lot more flack for being a dick.

But we don’t try to get rid of consumer protections, weather forecasts, social safety nets (and those safety nets provide benefits to anyone, even if they got cancelled, by the way), and the like just because our feelings got hurt.

But I know for a god damn fact that my children would be safer in a liberal future.

Some of the info taken down includes stuff about protecting women from harassment and abuse. Would my daughter be safer in your world. I mean a solid 90% of cancel culture is people who were absolutely horrid towards the women in their lives. You want to make crass jokes again? Or not get called out for wandering eyes and hands? Yeah, I’m sure ignoring that widespread problem will protect our daughters.
Punching in Burma gets me Myanmar and Czechoslovakia gets me the Czech Republic. I assume google maps silently redirects you if you use an unofficial or former name so long as it's parsable without significant ambiguity.
> The current leader of South Africa routinely at his rallies leads songs about killing all the whites.

This is simply not true. Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, does not sing "struggle songs", as they are called, at rallies. If you have examples that show otherwise, please share.

The song you're most likely referring to is "Dubul' ibhunu", which roughly translates to "Shoot the boer". This was a popular anti-apartheid protest song, and should be interpreted as such. "Boer", in the context of this song, refers to oppressors of any kind.

The people of South Africa are universally happy about the fall of Apartheid. We should celebrate the struggle that brought it about.

Please get your facts straight.

Sincerely, a white Afrikaner (not a boer).
The race or location of the parent absolutely determines their childhood. This has been studied for decades, and it's called Practice theory. It emerged in the late 20th century and was first outlined in the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_theory
You're doing something very wrong. Debian Bullseye boots in under 30 sec on my Dell XPS L321X, which was released in 2012 (timed with a stopwatch). I use the machine regularly.
I tried KDE Wayland a few times over the years but always had to switch back immediately because something I needed was broken. Then just a week or two ago I tried it again and didn't have to switch back. Everything finally worked, or could be made to work without too much effort. And bonus, sleep/wake works much better in Wayland than it ever did in Xorg.
Yes, sorry for editorializing. Did it on purpose though because the original title really was burying the lede.
Only sensible ads for those not afraid to pay. A completely noble experience compared to that of a scam tier!
If you really don't see any difference between "evoking emotion" and "emotional manipulation" then nobody will change your mind on this.

And like I wrote about, you can have very precise charts that can be extraordinarily manipulative.

The whole "charts should be about hard data" thing always sounds nice, until you realize that every visualization is an abstraction and brings in some human bias. You are always picking the scales, whether or not to use color, how to aggregate the data, etc. There is no such thing as a neutral chart.

Also... there are data visualizations outside of science. Of course science should be more precise than something like data art.
Programs don't kill people, computers do
build it? It's foss

https://github.com/wger-project/flutter/issues/618
Bezos' Rocket Firm Bracing for Job Cuts After Years of Expansion
https://archive.is/vkzIG
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168936 (2019, 33 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30302291 (2022, 18 comments)
What do Trump supporters here think of this?
The fact that multithreaded performance is worthless for you does not prove that this is true for most computer users.

During the last 20 years, i.e. during the time interval when my computers have been multi-core, their multithreaded performance has been much more important for professional uses than the single-threaded performance.

The performance with few active threads is mainly important for gamers and for the professional users who are forced by incompetent managers to use expensive proprietary applications that are licensed to be run only on a small number of cores (because the incompetent managers simultaneously avoid cheaper alternatives while not being willing to pay the license for using more CPU cores).

A decent single-threaded performance is necessary, because otherwise opening Web pages bloated by JS can feel too slow.

However, if the single-threaded performance varies by +/- 50% I do not care much. For most things where single-threaded performance matters, any reasonably recent CPU is able to do instantaneously what I am interested in.

On the other hand, where the execution time is determined strictly by the multithreaded performance, i.e. at compiling software projects or at running various engineering EDA/CAD applications, every percent of extra multithreaded performance may shorten the time until the results are ready, saving from minutes to hours or even days.
As a user I like to pick models. Maybe I am using them wrong but I actually find reasoning/chain-of-thought models worse at some things, even things they are supposedly better at like coding. They are also buggier in my experience and an order of magnitude slower.

This also doesn't bode well for AI progress. It feels like the kind of thing you release if you want to release something but haven't made much progress on improving the fundamental language model. Even chain of thought itself, while interesting, is a bit disappointing compared to language model improvements. It is more comparable to automated prompt engineering than a fundamental improvement of the model to represent knowledge and problem solving. This development seems to be doubling down on this direction.
This has been my experience as well. I find my much more likely to “build” it myself versus using something off the shelf because it’ll give me full control over the project.

A lot of the reasons I would pull in dependencies for are things I’m either not good at or not fast at writing and in most cases LLMs are good at picking up the slack.

It’s been a joy to write the core logic then have an LLM throw a web GUI frontend together for me so I can iterate faster.
It looks like you're getting some knee-jerk downvotes because some people are likely misreading your exasperation with what practical utility removing the data could possibly serve as "So [what], the feds are saving money on hosting costs?! What's the point of this [thread]."

That's not your fault, and I'm sorry.
Yes. Lots of people do. There are even BSD OSs that primarily target desktop use, such as DragonflyBSD.
No siblings. Cousins? Don't know, don't care.
Neither solutions are stopping what is an en-masse creation of fake AI auto-generated content that's impersonating famous celebrities. The example above was ads, but I'm seeing actual youtube videos that clearly mimick the name and likeness of famous people. With barely 2k views, yet they pop up on my feed.

E.g. names like: "Teylor Swift" or "Hilary Clinton". I.e. the difference between the name of the account and an actual real account name is literally 1 letter. You want to tell me that Youtube can auto-detect music playing in videos, and do advanced AI attribution of music to artists, etc... But it can't spawn a manual review process or flag if an account is created with 1 minor letter change?
When things are moving fast and chaotic folks are more likely to just go along and not stick/speak up or out. Their self preservation instincts will commit atrocities on others rather than them be punished for disobeying orders. Military members can't just walk away without facing punishment in prison. They have to decide at what point the orders handed them are too unethical or unconstitutional. They will slowly be boiling frogs per se and rationalize what they are doing. Most likely don't have the immediate and timely access to personal lawyers to help them decide. And if they resist they will likely spend time in jail until adjudicated. The current head of the military seems like he will ignore legal advice from others and prevent soldiers from obtaining it. The current path really is setting us up to inflict severe pain on our neighbors and countrymen that don't go along to get along with what's happening or voice dissent with it. God help us all.

https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-ob...
There’s a large supply chain that AI is dependent on that requires humans to function.

Bees might be a better analogy since they produce something that humans can use.
> Should she instead be bad at math because the Chinese value that more?

Not "bad" , but less fully invested...
Maybe?
It's isolating being the only non-Mandarin-speaking family at a math people gathering. It's quite striking in the high-level math community.
A future that may yet come.
> My # 1 issue with wayland is it is Linux Specific, not protable.

Of course it's portable. Your complaint that it hasn't been ported a lot of places may be well-placed, but it's a different complaint.

> I am hoping the *BSDs get together and keep Xorg maintained instead of having to port Linux crazyness into their systems.

"Foo is crazy and isn't ported – I therefore hope that people don't port crazy foo". What?
I agree. See my sister comment.
I do encounter hostility but what I've realised is that it comes from experience of refactoring being done badly. "We made time for this refactoring thing but it made no difference so now we're not going to 'refactor' anymore".

The worst hostility is often from management that used to be technical but never learned how to refactor effectively so they have what they think is justifiable scepticism. s/refactoring/pairing or any other technique that is good in theory but requires skill to implement.

I usually find that people without technical background are willing to follow the advice of the developers that work with them, taking the things that work with them into their next roles. If refactoring worked in the beginning they'll be open to it in future, if it didn't work they'll dismiss it.

Edit: also - what everyone else said - "refactoring" isn't a business goal, it's one part of achieving the goal. Achieve the goal and no-one cares how you did it. ("add a new button to that widget" isn't a business goal either so there is a tricky aspect of getting management to understand that they should be bringing you problems/goals not solutions)
Circa 25 years ago, I spent a lot of time with my (Borland Turbo C, Mode 13h) implementation that was just a vanilla Game of Life, but depicted as a red-to-blue heatmap. Every time a cell changed state, it'd become R gradations redder; every time it didn't change state, it'd become B gradations bluer. This produces a visualization where the background "space" is a uniform blue, blinkers are hot red hollow diamonds, and the actually interesting chaotic parts are appealingly fuzzy shades of reddish purple. Because it takes a while for a cell to "heat up," a glider can be almost invisible, depending on how you choose the constants R and B.

I'm not saying this is mechanically interesting (it's just a simple filter) or will change your life or anything, but I do remember spending a lot of time tinkering with and watching that particular implementation.
Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 [pdf]
Funny that bad SEO was a big strike against Flash and a reason to move to HTML5
What does administer the program mean in this case? Does it include the maintenance? It could also include the property tax the city pays itself for the valuable land that is being kept available.
She is doing her part in improving healthcare for everyone. Which is to do nothing and stay in jail.
Doesn't mean they can't say it. They can create chaos and distraction too.
It's memetic memory, also called "culture"
Antithesis: Lessons from Launch
> If the US decided to leave NATO completely

If the US decided to leave NATO, given much of the hostility to it is because it's seen by countries like Russia to extend US influence and troops, I wouldn't be surprised if European countries could spend less on defence.
> What's the point of this.

"Who controls the past, controls the future."
Using and embracing Wayland, still Many things broken.

Need to use pipe wire for screen sharing

Chrome drag and drop have huge performance hits

Multi monitor setup is bad
If you think as yourself as an application and you are surrounding yourself by small service applications that do one specific task...then I could see it make sense.
Do you think those two facts are related or just coincidence?
Lucky us we life in times, were single individuals and states soon will veto via nukes on civilization.
https://i.imgur.com/BslNOL0.png

They do, if you're not in the US and subject to Trump's whims.
This "massively growing cancer" is at most the size it has been under Reagan. It's been shrinking for decades. The Federal government is only a problem in the fever dreams of the far-right lunatics and those who profit the most from no one looking.
I have been using Sway since end of 2023. The only thing that I can't get is sharing a window in videoconf calls. I have to share the whole screen.

Other than that, it all just works!
Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and corporate owner chose profits not safety
Whenever a project fails to do that, I just assume they built it for themselves and don't really want other users.
Why recruiting? It’s not as if gay people universally stayed away from these jobs. Given the times plenty probably didn’t understand or accept this part of who they were until careers were in full swing. The issue would have been stopping a risk that was already known and actively exploited.

I don’t think this is at all why normalization occurred, that intelligence communities had anything to do with it, but if they had then it wouldn’t need to have been for recruitment.
Recursive Improvement: AI Singularity or Just Benchmark Saturation?
I'm always dubious when it comes to hagiographies of individuals in media.

It feels good for someone else to point it out, since in this case it really rings hollow for basically everyone.

Why should we humanise and care about someone who was a terrible boss, a terrible fraudster and a bare-face liar.

What endeavours were not financed because of her? Who's career was torpedoed and who was stolen away from noble causes because of her lies? Taking some accountability is rare, she should, and we don't have to applaud her for it. It should be expected.
I'm not sure whether posting that one https://xkcd.com/915/ or this one https://xkcd.com/1095/
The biggest time saving I've had in woodworking was switching to modern self-drilling screws with Torx head [1]. With a highish-rpm impact driver, these screws require no pre-drilling even with plywood and are a pleasure to work with in general.

[1] https://domax.com/en/model/cs
It’s exactly what standup comedians do, over months and years, before filming a special.
Hey, the United States government is being destroyed by a tech billionaire. LET'S TALK ABOUT TAILWIND INSTEAD.

Ugh.
that kind of things drive me crazy, a few well curated pic would tell us so much more than walls after walls of texts...
I've been happily running Sway on FreeBSD for two years. It runs and looks great. No blurry fonts, no tearing.
"Apple Intelligence" meant whatever Apple marketing wants it to be.

Now "GPT 5" is also a marketing term. You are paying for the abstracted experience and brand. Not a specific model or defined capabilities anymore.
That's not really ambiguous.

So it didn't happen, because it was *obviously* made up? The problem with such reasoning is, it does not require substantiation. You should find 20 people that also believe it(shouldn't have a problem on this platform) and you can start a religion.
Show HN: Hardware-Friendly Text Classification with Model2Vec
Hi HN,

We’ve just released finetuning in Model2Vec, a feature we have been working on for a long time. Model2Vec is a library for making state-of-the-art static word embedders by distilling sentence transformers.

Finetuning allows you to train lightweight text classifiers directly on top of Model2Vec models, creating very fast and performant models in a couple of lines of code.

Main features:

- Better Performance: Improves classification accuracy across diverse NLP tasks.

- Fast Training: Train in minutes, not hours, on a CPU.

- Fast inference: Make classifiers that can actually run in production on budget hardware

- Lightweight Deployment: Save and load models as scikit-learn pipelines—no Torch needed for inference.

We’ve benchmarked this on a large number of datasets, the results can be found in the results section of the repo. We are curious to hear your feedback and whether there are any other features you’d like to see!

Our benchmark results are documented here: https://github.com/MinishLab/model2vec/tree/main/results#tra...
Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus
I use sway, so no.
The compositor needs to talk to the hardware using kernel API and there's a bit of plumbing required, like for OpenGL / Vulkan apps to get a context under Wayland. Which isn't really "particularly" tied.
Is it Linux specific?

Its been ported to FreeBSD.

Would it be more true to say Wayland on *BSDs lags Wayland on Linux? Its not tied to Linux the way systemd is, right?
How about half a billion dollars for "armored electric vehicles"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/trump-tesla-m...
Gløgg: A declarative language, where code is stored in a database
FOSDEM Talk: Advancing Java Profiling
Cervélo is not an Italian company, they're Canadian. Its name is partially Italian as it's a portmanteau of cervello (brain in Italian) and vélo (bike in French).
In the grim darkness of the far future is the heat death of the universe. We are just a candle burning slower than a sun, powered by tidal forces and radiant energy, slowly conspiring to become a star.
> “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all.”

That was never going to fly with the current U.S. administration. Not only is the word inclusive in there but ethical and trustworthy as well.

Joking aside, I genuinely don’t understand the “job creation” claims of JD Vance in his dinner speech in Paris.

Long-term I just can’t imagine what a United States will look like when 75% of the population are both superfluous and a burden to society.

If this happens fast, society will crumble. Sheep are best kept busy grazing.
As Hannah Arendt said, the difference between traditional and modern lies is like the difference between hiding it, and destroying it.

> Moreover, the traditional lie concerned only particulars and was never meant to deceive literally everybody; it was directed at the enemy and was meant to deceive only him. These two limitations restricted the injury inflicted upon truth to such an extent that to us, in retrospect, it may appear almost harmless. Since facts always occur in a context, a particular lie – that is, a falsehood that makes no attempt to change
the whole context – tears, as it were, a hole in the fabric of factuality. As every historian knows, one can spot a lie by noticing incongruities, holes, or the junctures of patched-up places. As long as the texture as a whole is kept intact, the lie will eventually
show up as if of its own accord. The second limitation concerns those who are engaged in the business of deception. They used to belong to the restricted circle of statesmen and diplomats, who among themselves still knew and could preserve the truth.They were not likely to fall victims to their own falsehoods; they could deceive others without deceiving themselves. Both of these mitigating circumstances of the old art of lying are noticeably absent from the manipulation of facts that confronts us today.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Truth and Politics"
> Like the race or location of the parent determines their childhood?

This seems like a dishonest characterization of some of the points in the article.

Unfortunately, we do live in a society. A childhood is not just determined by the house the child lives in, but the community the child lives in as well, and the parents are also affected by the community they grew up in, which affects the way they parent.
(The thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029149 is also responsive to this; linking it to avoid duplication.)
Well, that explains why the project page doesn't include any screenshots!
Until it can actually be used as a graphical server like x, it is useless to me and I loathe every attempt to force it down my throat.

It feels like it was built as a replacement for only the majority happy path of what X was used for and all other uses were ignored when it was decided it would be adopted by distros and that really sucks.
How to do cost cutting for your SaaS startup?
I think we're about the learn how effective the internet really is at remembering. Here is Rubio talking about how great USAID is not that long ago...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/video/kfile-marc...

Not he says it's a criminal organization they've been trying to get rid of over multiple administrations.

Obviously they want to scrub all the past.
So each country is now free to engage in this zero value games and cry foul when big tech doesn't heed or update quickly enough?
I finally moved to full-time Wayland around the time the OP published their original post, after a couple of decades of Xorg, and a number of failed attempts. Honestly, the biggest factor affecting my experience, subjectively, was ditching my 3090 and moving to amdgpu. I don't know if the situation with Nvidia drivers is much different now (I'm told it is), but my experience of Wayland on AMD has been stellar.

When I first moved over (i3->sway) I had a few scaling issues mostly due to Electron/Chromium and xwayland fallback, but for the last 12-13 months I've been rolling on solo Wayland with no fallback, and had zero regrets. The forcing function for this was switching over to niri[0], which if you haven't tried it, is an incredible ux.

[0]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/