skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at plots of land in your nearby city. Not all plots of land are equally valuable. Some are empty lots, others have skyscrapers on them that earn millions in rent. Your example of land as ultimately zero-sum misses something crucial: plots don't gain or lose value in isolation. The neighborhood and neighbors contribute strongly to each property's value.

When property owners improve their land, neighbors also gain value - creating a positive-sum scenario even within your 'finite resource' example. This continuous cycle of improvement and value creation isn't just a 'temporary interlude' before returning to zero-sum; it's the persistent engine of economic growth in the west.

Since Adam Smith articulated these principles of mutually beneficial exchange in 'The Wealth of Nations,' we haven't seen a return to zero-sum economics. Instead, global wealth has grown exponentially, despite population growth and resource competition. The evidence contradicts the idea that we inevitably return to zero-sum competition after brief periods of growth.

I see you thinking, wait a minute, shouldn't we be looking at wealth per capita? Yes we should. That has gone up dramatically as well. Around 1776 when Adam Smith wrote his book, global GDP per Capita was $1012 (estimated, adjusted for PPP, 2011 dollars ), in 2022 Global GDP per capita was $15 212 (computed) [1]

[1] World in data only covers 1820 to 2022 here -mostly because earlier statistics weren't detailed enough- but it'll have to do. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-p...

ps. Not really related to this answer, but the time-lapse map is just really fascinating https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-p...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_(property)

It’s paying tax for owning something that is weird to me.
You heard it here first. There will be no tax reform from here on.
I think a lot of Apple's success with the Apple Watch and Airtag is that they didn't make it a fair fight. Competing products are deliberately hobbled because they just can't do what Apple does because Apple doesn't allow it. That's not innovation.

M-series are I think overhyped, they aren't bad and they certainly are better than the old Intel CPUs they were shipping. AMD has been nipping at their heels despite not always having the latest and greatest foundry nodes at their fingertips.
But there needs to be a somewhere else, i.e., they still depend on the liberal democracies for any quality of life above bare subsistence. While they point the finger at those democracies for being decadent and corrupt.

They needed to maintain the claim that democracy should be destroyed, in order to prop up their ideologies, without actually going ahead and destroying it. Oops.
Grafting together stack overflow answers requires knowledge of how your chosen programming language and execution environment work. There is at least some floor of knowledge required to synthesize those answers into a working solution.

Vibe coders as described in the OP can just copy/paste exactly what the LLM spits out with much less knowledge. It’s not the same thing at all IMO.
How about you don't cheat and actually study?

No sympathy. Glad it's dying.
Which state is it about? Can't I just read history, and the news?
Part of the issue with tech people discussing this is that they assume there is a tech solution to "human meat sacks are needed in order to control a geography". There isn't, at least not yet or anytime soon.
It’s clever to pick the word “prosper” rather than grow, or stabilize, or build, or strengthen. It’s also clever to slip Vance into it, which assumes either he wins the ongoing succession, or loses it and moots your bet.
I understand the idea, but GrapheneOS doesn't even provide any kind of official support for rooting. It's not that they're checking to see if the device is rooted, they're just checking to see if it has Google's checkmark.

Meanwhile, rooted devices can pass Play Integrity (since they can spoof all the necessary bits via root).
She didn't choose that government, nor does she have any power to affect it, so how can she be responsible for it?
Reddit is mostly garbage. TFA says "...they are CRUSHING it. Probably because people are gravitating toward authentic content and a sense of community" but if you find authenticity and community there (or really online anywhere) you need to get out of the house more.
Does being a 'genius coder whiz kid' imply knowledge of every technology? Should one only be allowed to publish code according to your standards? What kind of nonsense is this?
What makes you think that problems will be solved by de-escalation?
I'm not actually a fan of ActiveRecord, i kind of detest it actually. But it's the beating heart of rails. The ORM aspect is almost a distraction from its primary benefit, defining a globally referencable model with lifecycle hooks and monkey-patching. Basically everything else falls apart without the model to leverage to rapidly produce code. The add-on packages you reference work so well because there are so many ways to hook into activerecord (and to a lesser extent, routing etc).

Like, the typical path is: 1) add gem, 2) code gen, 3) run migration, 4) you now have third party code managing a subset of your model. Crazy powerful pattern. applies to everything from auth to sending emails to async task workers to writing audit logs.
Most come to news.ycombinator.com expecting see ycombinator activities and content from fellow users, not to find out what Dang's latest endorsement is. When we all feel a certain importance to something content about it appears and bubbles to the top automatically.
There is also https://wasp.sh/ (I am the creator)
Sorry there’s nuance missing here, I might personally not have any records, but I understand how some people must enjoy it and I can’t judge them.
This reads more like ‘not for me, not for thee’ syndrome.
I will say that an LLM helped me work through some past trauma in a way therapists never could. I don’t think anyone should use these models in place of therapy but I was pretty amazed at how quickly it helped me with an issue I had been having for a long time.
Distribution of CSAM of any kind, artificial or not, normalizes the exploitatation of children. It's not "just free speech" by a long shot no matter how you frame it.

What gives me the willies is how incredibly easy this makes it to frame someone with disgustingly laser-targeted AI CSAM: of one's own children, for example, in the course of a nasty custody battle.
Germany was by and large responsible for starting WW1.
I don’t hate it, but I was also experienced when it launched and never had the bad experiences many younger people have reported. The number of dormant profiles and lack of growth was getting a fair amount of discussion even before LLMs entered the picture so even if the old moderation culture was intentional it wasn’t working out well for the future.
Success is subjective and is defined by common people’s expectation in this scenario.
khal supports caldav: https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer

There is a task equivalent, which also supports caldav sync

https://github.com/pimutils/todoman
I think because Claude said so and the author just copied it without checking. You can see it in the first screenshot of Claude's output:

> After examining the provided code, I've determined that this appears to be a CLI application for Claude code-related functionality, built as a CommonJS TypeScript application that has been compiled with webpack.

Although, looking at the minified code, it seems to be using module.createRequire for CommonJS compatibility, so maybe it isn't completely wrong: https://nodejs.org/api/module.html#modulecreaterequirefilena...
It is a simple mathematical fact of nature.

If something goes up more than inflation - it is a good investment, but also less affordable over time (it costs you more labor hours to purchase over time). Think - tech stocks, housing, etc.

If something goes up same/less than inflation - it remains affordable. Think - basic consumer goods we mostly import like laptops, t-shirts, etc.
Also Kagi.

I decided to start paying for search results when even DDG started giving me sponsored results for the top 3-4.
Real Time Communication for AI Apps in Python
A single person can just do that much. The more advanced the technology is, the less important an individual can be.

Hackers were important because back in the 70-80-90s technology was not that advanced.

Now that with the advancement of AI, individuals are even less important. Ofc unless you are a super AI engineer.
Agreed, and that’s why I’m sitting this one out and instead pouring all my investment capital into the next craze, reel-to-reel machines!
I'm not the one that came up with the idea of selling 20 etched vinyls per week at $10 each concept.
I somewhat enjoy the fact that every time this blog gets posted, half of the comments are about the cat and lack of capital letters.
The monopoly-on-violence claptrap gets shoved in my face whenever I argue against gun control on the Internet, so now you get a dose of it. Sorry. :)

Meanwhile, remind me what corporations built Stalin's infrastructure?
Show HN: Tracking the Rise of "Rat Dance" – A Viral TikTok Phenomenon
I’ve been fascinated by how digital trends explode overnight, and I wanted to dissect one of the biggest viral moments of 2025: the "Rat Dance" meme on TikTok.
So, I built Rat Dance Viral Tracker – an interactive platform that visualizes the meme’s evolution, aggregates trending videos, and even provides step-by-step tutorials for those who want to join the craze.
Key Features:
Timeline Analysis – A structured timeline that maps the rise of Rat Dance, from its humble origins to global virality.
Trending Video Hub – A dynamic feed that pulls in top Rat Dance videos from YouTube, TikTok, and Bilibili.
Dance Breakdown – Step-by-step guides (GIFs & short videos) for learning the moves, inspired by Fortnite’s “Criss Cross” animation.
There is no "independent fork," unless you consider the Chromium skins independent forks too.
It's gpu frequency 5.5 GHZ is ~4x the heat and power as the 2.5 GHZ for GPUs.
> I've been able to (leave no trace) boondock easily within the boundaries by finding side roads or even just staying the night in a dead end parking lot.

Just for reference, I tried this in various parks about ~15 years ago (before most parks were overwhelmed with people), and always got called out before I even had a chance to start sleeping.
You realized all the markets have (until very recently) been going up, all the economic indicators showing green, and business was booming. My portfolio was up.

That economic activity is growth. It was still happening. Just the middle class didn't participate like it used to like in the 50s. Because the marginal tax rate back then kept as much wealth from pooling at the top.

Economic inequality is the problem, not lack of growth.
I’m really baffled by this take. How are you not understanding the basic fact that these are criminals actively performing a coup to destroy the “democratic society”, not political opponents?
For anything without really heavy client-side interactivity then Django is my default recommendation. The currently-trendy tools feel like an order of magnitude productivity penalty if what you're doing can be done within one of the mature frameworks.
> I get the sense that you’re frustrated that something you’ve invested a lot of time and energy into learning is being automated. Maybe you’re scared because the technology has moved so quickly and your understanding of how to use it hasn’t kept up.

This is profiling/projection. You're incapable of responding to the GP's points so you're instead emotionally lashing out and attacking them. This is not really suitable for HN.

> But making someone’s day worse on Hacker News isn’t a good way to deal with that.

This suggests that you're incapable of distinguishing criticism of someone's work with personal attacks on them (furthered by the profiling that you tried to conduct above). Those things are not the same. If your day is ruined by someone posting reasonable criticism of an article that you personally submitted to HN, a place explicitly designed for intellectual curiosity, your expectations need to be adjusted.
I totally understand. When I have a project with a months timeline that I know can be done more quickly, I spend a lot of up front time exploring areas that might be helpful, or might just be interesting on their own. A friend called this process "annealing." It does bring more creative and sometimes breakthrough solutions, but I find we are in a world where development creativity is subjugated to more top down controlled ideas (which can often lead to a 'race to the bottom' for the users in a startup culture focused on exits)
My search patterns has changed as well but not without some pushback, whether it be ChatGPT's inability to:

- cite sources within a certain timeframe which can be trivially done on Google Search

- exclude sources when explicitly asked (and vice versa)

And makes it challenging to determine whether it's output has any reasonable depth or not. Even my simple request on a refresher on the usage of mutexes in C++ gave me a code snippet that exacerbated the very issue I was hoping to get a better handle on. /shrug
That adds up to 110%…
The DOGE staffer gets infinite chances, infinite understanding, and infinite excuses. The staffers DOGE targets, if they're lucky, get one chance to prove loyalty.
That is a clear misinterpretation of the law. The law says that copyright protections do not exist for government work created for a government capacity except where noted. That does not mean any of that work is in the public domain. Just because copyright protections are not available does not mean other intellectual property protections are equally void.

Here is the law text: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105

By the way it seems most of the stuff I produce for the government contains copyright notices. I don't know if those notices are valid or not, but none of the stuff I produce is in the public domain or released to the public.
Do their models show that the median quality of life in the US has increased in the last 20 years? Honest question.
> How can you assert that all of this is irrelevant and that it was pure "Northern European superiority" or whatever that meant European colonialism was successful?

Because the alternative is doing what James_K is doing and claiming that these events were essentially chance developments; that is, that there was nothing endogenous to European civilization (or, perhaps, as you're inferring, European peoples themselves) that led to these world conquests, but that they were instead either just a series of coincidences or a product of the environment.

This discussion can get quite philosophical because like I said earlier in the thread, I can't refute historical determinism - I don't know if there is any way that we can really exit the chain of causality and determine events for ourselves, so in that sense, the underlying claim that it's all just the environment (or more accurately, antecedent causes) is correct, but this doesn't tell the whole story.

The fundamental question at hand here is if European civilization had anything within it that led to its rise to power. What you, James_K, and decolonialists everywhere are preoccupied with is the idea that if this is true, it must mean that this "thing" (which I will refer to as the European method) originated as a result of European intelligence, or more broadly from its biological characteristics. It is then inferred that this will necessarily lead to normative scientific racism and subsequently a world-homogenizing genocide.

There is reason to be weary of these things. They do not refute the notion that the Europeans possessed something endogenous which allowed them to conquer the world. Drawing the conclusion that Europeans did possess this endogenous thing would not validate any normative moral claim; we can only do that ourselves.
Wikipedia calls it a fork

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf

It may just be semantics though.
The vocabulary term "net" means profit after expenses. Certainly the retail price would be higher.
While we cannot predict the future, I found the movie Civil War (2024) really great and original.
And I chose Librewolf because I didn't want that, either.
The government has whole departments of people whose job it is to be on top of this sort of thing.

Why is it suddenly part of the job description of a junior DOGE employee to build workforce org chart visualization tools and investigate strategic resource datasets? Isn’t that weird to have one brand new government employee doing self-taught random investigations of topics as complex as ‘government workforce management’ and ‘strategic resource analytics’?
In the meanwhile, people are asking how to donate to Firefox not to Mozilla and it's CEOs whims and personal salary.
I thought it was established that people groups who are in precarious circumstances tend to have more children. Doesn't that mean that the world to most people just seems a safer palace?
>with or without NATO support.

That's the rub, isn't it. The bluster about willingness to face Moscow in a war is all because of Article V and the assumption that the Americans will come and participate in a nuclear exchange.
Iron Age in NE Iberia: Isotope Analyses of the Severed Heads from Puig Castellar
Yes attitudes are harder to learn than skills aren't they?

Ever notice people get more stubborn and stuck in their ways over time?

It's possible you cannot teach people to want different things.
I wonder if this will be improved or fix in Zen 6. Although personally I much rather they focus on IPC.
I bypassed codes under an owner/builder exception. No inspections no building plans basically no regulatory costs. I found ultra cheap land with an unproven poorly documented but already drilled well share that turned out to be good (high risk but high reward) so nearly zero for water connection and well. I took some high risks proving electric and water and septic but after almost a year of footwork I proved them -- massively increasing land value for basically free.

Only graded the footing, no excavation under footprint of house, so one day rental backhoe, under $1k for entire dirt work. Poured concrete (300 bags) by hand one bag at a time without concrete truck. Transported blocks and built block crawlspace wall then ran dimensional lumber across, no engineered lumber or piers.

Frame light wood structure to minimum code following irc so no engineering nor architect. Plumbing almost all on single wall with only toilet/tub/sink/sink. All electric appliances, I diy connected to power grid running my own secondary mains.

These last year's prices I think if you exclude utilities I'm at about 70/sqft, you could probably do 50 with reclaimed material and a flatter roof. I double timed after work a couple years but took off maybe 3 months so well under 100k lost wages.
I don't see a major difference in a 20% working knowledge of a language vs 0% if the output works. Neither are writing provably correct code, and that's often fine! Many of the engineers at my company (not a software company) write terrible terrible code using the Stack Overflow method, but our manufacturing line still runs.
Fair point and maybe I can contribute, as I get the hostility in the tone. It’s in the inherent contradiction of the justification of the pursuit, from a music appreciation standpoint. Vinyl does not sound better, and many of the legacy artists mentioned didn’t record great quality (sounding) material in the modern era. It’s most definitely a “splurge” of wastefulness under a decidedly erroneous claim.
You probably just need to write your articles to feed the LLMs and target.

"Finding an appropriate product for your need is a challenging task that depends on factor1, factor2 and factor3, here is a structured approach.

1. Investigate the market.
2. Evaluate companies like MY GREAT COMPANY, stinky competitor, slow competitor and dangrerous competitor
3. Find the right fit: Consider whether you value greatness, stinkyiness, slowness, or security vulnerabilities, which one is a right fit for you?
4. Buy now! Call up the company and tell them you are interested in buying the product."

It's free real estate
Right - can you teach people to like different things? Maybe? Generally, no.
I understand all this. I've tried to emphasize how I completely understand being totally disgusted by the Democrats on a range of issues. I also understand the feeling that when the system isn't working for you, you have a strong incentive to just support whoever says they are going to blow that system up.

But take a look at the different groups who support Trump:

1. Consider Republicans in Congress. Even if they don't say it, I'd bet dollars to donuts that 75% of them are as disgusted by that Oval Office performance as I am. So you either have the ~25% (and I hope that estimate is high) Marjorie Taylor Greene types, who I already think are disgusting for a host of reasons, or you have the other 75% of them that are just complete and total cowards. They know this is wrong, they know Trump is a creature void of morals, but they're too afraid to go against him, and for what, their jobs? A lot of them are already rich. And there of course have been principled Republicans who have stood up and said that this is just wrong, and especially as it applies to Russia, this goes against everything the party supposedly believed for the past 75 years.

2. There of course is a sizable portion of Trump supporters who are racist, sexist, would be fine if all gay people just died, etc. Now, I definitely believe the Democrats overestimate the size of that portion, and painting all Trump supporters with that brush has been a fatal mistake, but let's not deny these people actually exist. For all the hand-wringing by Democrats about why they lost in 2024, a huge part has to have been that a large percentage of this country is just unwilling to vote for a woman for President (again, definitely not the only reason, but when the division is close to 50/50 all it takes is a couple percentage points).

3. So then you have a lot of people who don't support Trump strongly but think he will improve their lives in some way. And sure, call me one of those "arrogant liberals", but when I hear people talk about some concrete ways about how Trump will actually improve their lives, it's pretty laughably stupid to me. I mean, give me a single policy action by which Trump will help reduce inflation. Whenever I've tried to engage supporters on policy issues, the arguments I get back honestly just sound like rationalizations for "I hate the other side" - which again, I understand, I just don't get this desire to be suckered by a strongman. Trump is so nakedly transparent about his narcissism and how he doesn't give 2 shits about anyone but himself (again, did anyone actually see that Gaza video?)

So I agree with everything you've said about the failures of the 2 party system. I just can't use that as an excuse to understand supporting what I believe to be grossly morally reprehensible behavior on a daily basis.
Do you think it would be any different/better if you had to migrate to GCP (for example)?

Do you think it was the migration itself or the services on Azure?

Having worked with all three, there's certainly things that suck about all of them but I've found aws "most reliable" but also seems to have a large amount of disparate services needed to do things that were simpler on Azure.

GCP was pretty meh, but depends on what services you used.

Azure is a good choice for .net and sql server (azure sql or whatever it is now) but in but sure a service built for aws is going to "just work" on Azure (or vice versa).
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