skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, this project is promoting the ideas behind it as much as its own implementation. Personally, I'm a strong proponent of the underlying concept of "moldable development"; in fact, I think this isn't going far enough[0].

As for:

> Yet none of remarkable applications built with it except the tool itself.

The same is true of Smalltalk in general, and of Lisp, and some other technologies. Lack of wide adoption and large amount of success stories is, alone, not a proof the idea/technology is fundamentally bad. The choices in our industry are strongly path-dependent, driven primarily by popularity contests and first-mover advantage. This dynamic is famously known as "Worse is Better"[5].

What the original essays didn't account for, however, is that whatever gets moderately successful today, becomes a building block for more software tomorrow. As we stack up layers of software, the lower layers become almost completely frozen in place (changing them risks breaking too many things). "Worse is Better" sounds fine on the surface, but when you start stacking layers of "worse" on top of each other, you get the sorry state of modern software :).

So yeah, those ideas may not fit the industry today, but it's worth keeping them in mind as a reference, and try to move towards them, however slowly, to try and gradually improve how software is made.

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[0] - I write about that regularly; look up my comments with the phrase plaintext "single source of truth"[1] for some entry points, like [2] or [3].

TL;DR: use of such "contextual tools" should become the way we build software. We need to have environments that come packed with various interactive "lenses" through which you can view and edit the common codebase using whatever representation and modality (textual, graphical, or something else) is most convenient for the thing you're doing this minute, switching and combining them as needed[4]. What we consider a codebase now - plaintext files we collaborate on directly - needs to evolve towards being a serialization format, and we shouldn't need to look at it directly, not any more often than today we look at binary object files compilers spit out.

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778917

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428928

[4] - And saving the combinations and creating new tools easily, too. Perspectives you use to understand and shape your project are as much a part of it as the deployable result itself.

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
That's not the case in the US either. Like, how would that work if a non-citizen isn't bound to law anyway? "Oh you're not American, so you're not bound by our murder laws. Free to go".

But this admin highly disagrees with that notion. Really hope the courts start throwing heads sooner rather than later.
I don't think you should, like, cultivate them and spread them across the land.
Many americans loved what Hitler was doing to Make Germany Great Again.

Charles Lindbergh for example blamed the Jews for WW2

> National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our [USA] population favored a similar course for America. ... The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.
> You do not have to pay this back.

There's a very big key difference from standard small business here
exactly. As a Canadian I don't really care that half or more of the country thinks that ICE should not be locking up random Canadians or that the annexation threats aren't real or that the tariffs are a negotiating tactic. It is not relevant to my life how they feel if any of these things affect me.
I figured it out! Never using a Mac again. Hopefully my school gives me a different computer next year.
Not true.

Go to your hometown administration, pay 35 Euro and leave 15 minutes later with a "Gewerbeanmeldung" which enables you to start doing business right away.
It makes sense that 2024 had more travel than 2023, given Covid. But a longer timeline view would be nice, as would measurements in percent rather than numbers.
Yes but then you hang a “no guests” sign outside. You don’t let them in your house and then scream at them, lock them up in the bathroom for 2 weeks before kicking them out.
In my experience in the last few months political stories come up regularly. Most are flagged, but the ones that aren't tend to get many hundreds of votes and many hundreds of comments. So the flagging tends to act as consolidation into a small number of stories.

For instance, this one is currently on front: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610246

If you're looking for the political comment on the smaller stories, use an alternate interface like hckrnews.com -- the discussion happens long after they've been flagged off the front page.
I don't see why small organizations should get to be more careless with my personal data than anybody else. The value of my privacy doesn't change just because of the size of the company.
I'll uhhhh. Buy a Bill Gates bobblehead. There, he has money.
How do you interpret this about strictly necessary cookies, from gdpr.eu?

> While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

To me, it reads as you need some kind of banner/page explaining them. What you don't need is consent to store them.
> Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. Sometimes a website might not use standard categories, and in that case, Consent-O-Matic will always try to submit the most privacy preserving settings.

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

So sounds like that should be somewhat supported.
It’s saying that citizens are more trusted than non-citizens, obviously.
I think the idea is they would configure Signal to delete messages after a few weeks, which bypasses FOIA because the records may not exist by the time someone requests them.
A lot of people do immigrate by flying in and not leaving when their visa expires. It doesn't make for very spectacular news footage though. Not sure what the numbers are, but I used to work in restaurants with lots of people who were "undocumented" and they all came to the US via flight. The people crossing the border on foot are absolutely destitute and easy targets of animosity
Anaconda Inc has entered litigation against non-paying user: Intel, Dell, Airbus
This is a deeply philosophical question. But it's highly dependent on the circumstances of a particular animal's extinction. Is it ethical to resurrect the Wolly Mammoth into our current climate when it's significantly warmer than the climate of the Ice Age? Likely not.

Was a species hunted to extinction? Maybe restoring that population would ease our collective conscience to some minuet degree.

So maybe bringing back some of these species is being done so as an apologetic gesture? Perhaps out of hubris?

To be fair, we're notoriously cruel to the animals that we farm for mass food production and less directly to wild animals (when human activity destroys their habitat). Images of such farm operations might remind you of conditions imposed on alleged dissedents by dictatorial regimes. You know, those same conditions that are condemned as atrocious when imposed on humans by humans. And this kind of treatment is still absolutely prevalent today on humans and other animals.
But that's almost impossible. If the law says that all statements made MUST be true (which it kind of already does, by the way), companies will exclusively use weasel phrases to avoid any lawsuit. Otherwise, when you're trying to sell phlaborivin and bill it as a cure for cancer, when you find the one patient that doesn't respond to treatment, you're screwed.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that saying true things is what we already require. Human nature will pervert that system and follow the letter of the law; that's the literal system we have now.
Not that I don’t like to dunk on Trump when given the opportunity, but just honestly Trump doesn’t lead in a manner that leads to deep HN style discussions. If there were a few policy wonks on his team that released 100 pages of explanation on trade, we could discuss that, but as it stands, Trumps leadership aligns with sort of the “bad” side of politics, in that it’s mostly emotional/intuitive and there’s not a lot to discuss. He put out, what 1 page on his tariff decisions? There’s a pretty global consensus they don’t make sense, what’s to deeply discuss?
Anecdotally: a couple of years after 9/11, when I was a student, some of my friends who travelled to the US mysteriously disappeared for a few days. Turns out someone in the friend group had done some hackery type things (I won't go into more details to preserve their anonymity), and they were basically "detained" and interrogated for several days without being able to notify anyone, including any potential lawyers (not that students have lawyers on speed dial, but whatever). The culprit wasn't even among the people who were detained. No arrests were ever made. Just some good old scare tactics against teenagers.

Basically: behaviour at US borders has been iffy for a lot longer than some folks might think.
I spent months implementing GDPR compliance with a set of EU-based lawyers.

Most businesses are not actually GDPR compliant, even to this day. I assume this is a big reason the EU is willing to take another look at what is required for compliance.
This is simply not correct. You absolutely DO NOT need to obtain consent for strictly necessary first-party session cookies (such as would be used by an online shopping cart, for example, or to maintain a persistent login) [1].

[1] https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Inside Boston's Luxury Brothel Scandal
both framings are equally bad for the potential tourist.
> Americans do not understand how much press there is outside the US about tourists from Ireland / Germany / Canada getting locked up in ICE jails for weeks on end.

And they shouldn't. As far as I know, those cases of German getting locked up media coverage was intense, but the stories didn't check out. Those were cases of Germans entering by foot via Tijuana, making condracting claims to the ICE officer - raising suspicions with those officers. In case of entering the US by plane, I haven't seen and credible articles that resulted in detention.
What does it mean that it "no longer leans left" for answers.

What did they do to the model, and how exactly does it answer differently?

Will including this in an app make the app MAGA aligned all of a sudden?

What happens if it says something that breaks the laws of some country it's in ?
It does feel that if you have to travel to america, using pre-clearance in a non-hostile state like Canada would be sensible.

They can deny you entry, but you're not going to be locked up in some sex dungeon for a week in Toronto
it is possbile , we are at literal end of the country with Junta bombing whatever they want and Revolution forces fighting to save the country .
How about a dismantling of the USGOV and the spike is from former foreign service personnel returning home.
It's what happens when you put a convicted sexual abuser in charge
I would say it's more that they don't know the meaning of decimated. Or they don't know the original meaning of the word. Now when someone writes that a population was decimated they probably just mean it was massively reduced. I have also seen articles saying a sports team decimated their opponent, which in that context means the winning team won by a large margin.
If your salary would drop 95% tomorrow if you didn't tell everyone at the office 'I may remember this conversation' every time you see them, what would you do?

Non targeted ads pay 90+% less than targeted. Sure it's not 'required', but the vast majority of businesses would fail overnight if their revenue dropped 90%.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/inside-bostons-luxury-brothe...
Can I use it as a PWA?
Which is not compliant with GDPR if those were the only two prominent options.

Disagree must be as prominent as Agree.
Small German business owner here. I still find the notary egregious. But yeah, the admin afterwards is facepalming.

Had a startup in the UK before; that was a walk in the park in comparison.
make those with power like you and rewards will flow

relation to company profitability is optional and often times counterproductive
Show HN: Converge, the daily AI word association game
1 year ago I was issued a DMCA takedown from the New York Times.

Due to alleged copyright infringement with Wordle, they requested I immediately remove Reactle, the similar word game and open-source codebase that I maintained that garnered 4k stars on Github and spawned 100s of fun variations in many different languages and themes (anyone remember Taylordle?). These downstream apps also received requests for takedown.

Then the media caught wind. 404 Media broke the story, and over the next 2 days, CBS, Gizmodo, AP, and NPR reached out over LinkedIn for comments. It was a whirlwind of attention I wasn’t ready for.

Now, 1 year later, I’m seeking vengeance!

How you ask? Well…. I built a brand new daily puzzle game. Friends, family and colleagues have already been enjoying the challenge daily and I’d love you to try it too.

Here’s how it works: You choose any word. The AI starts with the daily word. You get 8 chances to meet in the middle. That’s it.

Can you converge?

P.s. here's a link to the NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1238142507/cease-desist-new-y...
I think they take them for granted not realizing that things can get much worse. I think they do this because they don't understand it. Ever been on a call with a company and they have to tell you, "You'll have to call back, our systems are down." This can cost millions an hour.
> Nobody will throw you in jail in indefinite detention in another country with no human rights because of your skin colour, beard, tattoos or anything of the like.

Most EU country police don’t need probable cause to detain you. It does happen to be detained for no reason outside of profiling. For example, in France, you can be sent to jail for up to 24h with no probable cause.
^ this. Once (oh, actually twice!) while travelling, I have had entirely benign trouble with paperwork (things like not filling a form correctly on the first attempt). Explaining the circumstances to someone who has to figure out if you're scatter-brained, unlucky, or an actual criminal, isn't particularly fun, but it's been entirely professional and civilised. We resolved it all in about half an hour. Didn't even miss a flight.

Now that it's a political issue, rather than a logistical matter, so it's no longer professional or civilised, no thanks. I have one US customer and thankfully Google Meet is enough, because I'm not getting anywhere near the US for them. I can find other customers if I have to, but I don't think legal fees for navigating the oh-we-totally-had-good-reason-to-think-he-was-a-terrorist-your-honour jail are as easily deductible. As for leisure, haha, no, there are plenty of things to see all over the world where the chances of getting jailed because you said the wrong thing about the wrong president are much smaller. My visa expires this year, I'm not planning to renew it any time soon.
This article sickens me and makes me ashamed to be an American
HN has recently adopted a habit of downmodding inconvenient facts to oblivion but you can easily confirm Signal is approved for this use yourself.
We don’t like to talk about it but there were literal, actual Nazi rallies in support of Germany. And not fringe, either — notably one at Madison Square Garden.
Should is aspirational language, and is not legally binding or even coercing. It's like an encouraged practice.

Cookie banners where sites have to say "we're sharing your details with 287 partners" are okay because they should be shameful for the industry. Cookie banners where you're explaining basic technologies of the web -- "we store a cookie to create a stateful session with your browser" -- are obnoxious noise that do only harm.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/france_us_science_off...

French universities offering to adopt US academics
Outcome-based pricing is not the future of software monetization
So BuzzBench can basically be a health check for your web app, it hammers your endpoints with requests to see if they hold up under pressure.

You can definitely use it for both quick "will this break under load" tests before deploying, and to track performance over time so you can catch when things start getting sluggish.

The cool part is you can run tests from pretty much anywhere, your laptop, your CI pipeline, different regions - so you get realistic results rather than some theoretical benchmark.
They can just get paid more. Why do I need to repeat myself?
They should not be careless, but they can be spared some paperwork as long as they stay compliant with the spirit of regulation.
I think cookie banners are a not-so-subtle sabotage of the GDPR. The more annoyance they can associate with GDPR the more the customers will want to water it down. And bonus, it's completely deniable.
March 2028 is a long time away from now. Plenty of time for political haymaking before reality sets in.

In 2017, Foxconn said they would move some production to Wisconsin, and that was enough to pick up $3bn in state tax breaks. 13,000 jobs turned into less than 1,000, and absolutely no hardware was produced. Some of the industrial properties ended up being sold to Microsoft.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/11/10/wha...
The main reason people shoot raw is to have more creative control over the final product.

A simple example is white balance. The sensor doesn't know anything about it, but typical postprocessing makes both a 2700K incandescent and a 5700K strobe look white. A photographer might prefer to make the incandescent lights look more yellow. There's a white balance setting in the camera to do that when taking the picture, but it's a lot easier to get it perfect later in front of a large color-calibrated display than in the field.

Another example is dealing with a scene containing a lot of dynamic range, such as direct sunlight and dark shadows. The camera's sensor can capture a greater range of brightness than a computer screen can display or a printer can represent, so a photographer might prefer to delay decisions about what's dark grey with some details and what's clipped to black.
Small business owner here. Only works if you can carve out a niche. Lots of software areas have clear scaling benefits and then you just can’t compete as a small company.

That’s why MS Office continues to dominate after decades.
Smaller entities should still be required to fix/delete your personal data on request, imho.

I'd also appreciate if the exception was conditional on not selling any data or using it for external advertising (i.e. "you might also like" suggestions would be okay, as long as they're part of the same service)
Eh, you can see in this thread how all sorts of things are confusing. What, exactly, requires a cookie banner? Does an IP address in a log count as personal information on its own? And so on.

I can see why it was intended to be generic, but the lack of clear guidance and especially the lack of de minimis exemptions (one of the things mentioned to be addressed!) are a very real problem.

"What tests do I have to perform before asserting that I am CE compliant" is a similar, even vaguer question.
I've lived my entire adult life in the USA (international student -> non-immigrant temp worker -> resident -> citizen). People are delusional if they think the USA is split in half about immigration. The anti-immigrant sentiment among whites, blacks and some naturalized immigrants (like Cubans in FL) is truly the only thing that crosses political boundaries here.
Emerging Areas
This is nuts.

> Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, and a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin

Sounds like all her paper work was good to go...

> she was still pulled aside for a secondary inspection by a US Customs and Border Protection agent.

Ok, that sucks but not too crazy...

> Brösche said she then spent days detained in a cell at the San Diego border before being taken into custody by Ice. The agency brought her to the Otay Mesa detention center, where she’s now been for more than a month.

What?

> US Customs and Border Protection accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her time in Los Angeles.

Ok, let's say that's actually the truth. Let's say she told them "yeah I'm gonna work here". Ok, she's in the wrong, worst case but being detained for A MONTH?!

> According to ABC’s 10News, she was forced to spend eight days in solitary confinement in the facility.

?!

> Lofving also said she tried to get help from the German consulate in Los Angeles.

I wish they would have reached out to the Consulate to see if they'd supply any information about what's going on here. Maybe its policy for the consulate to not have any comment about cases though... not sure.
There is no such requirement, unless you want to steal peoples data or track them, and why would you want to do that?
I do have some (surface-level) experience with GB/GBC assembly, but other than that I'm new. As for spell-checker, I've figured out how to rid myself of that. And the paper tape mix-up was just my inexperience.

All super interesting info!
Simplified Legal Compliance for Founders
Americas idea of left / right is not the rest of the world's- for instance they probably think of the Democrats as the left when they would be at least Centre Right in much of the world.
The cookie banners aren't worthless. The websites presenting cookie banners either don't know the law, or are engaged in spyware shit. You don't need a cookie banner if you need it to provide a service that the user expects (e.g., saving settings, login).

As an EU citizen, I'm not concerned about your need to observe my behaviour or to prevent ad-click fraud. What I care about is websites sharing my navigation history with Google or the rest of the advertising industry, so yes, I'd like to be informed of it.

Personally, instead of having banners, I'd just ban the practices altogether (e.g., targeted advertising, 3rd party analytics), which would certainly simplify business.
Are these changes long term trends?

Is the reporting and media coverage on this, going to contribute to the potential harm of this being a long term impact? (is the hype creating the conditions?)
Privacy at the Border: A Technical Guide to Securing Your Data and Devices
There are places where you get charged something like $60 for a day in prison.
Why would they do that? The system is behaving exactly as intended.
> The fact that this guy is the President means that most Americans were not against it, right?

I don't know if that's strictly accurate. United States citizens are some of the most heavily disenfranchised in the western world. Our oligarchs have spent decades making it more difficult to vote, especially for people of color, who overwhelmingly disapprove of the current administration. In some urban areas, it can take hours of standing in line to vote, and we don't get time off from work to do so. We've also had a decades long propaganda campaign telling us our vote doesn't matter.

More people didn't vote in the last election than voted for Trump. That's not to say they all would have voted against him, but it's not really the will of the American people.