skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few days ago I said how places like Bluesky only seem to contain posts about how terrible Twitter is, and no actual content of their own. Behold the first post I see:

> The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.

Second post:

> you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”

lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

Third (talking about some Trump post or something):

> Again, worth at the last considering the possibility that he’s a malevolent idiot who has no idea what he’s doing.

And so it goes on and on.

I'm all for a "non-toxic" social platform, but I have yet to see one. All the alternatives are mirror images of Twitter and co. — not in that they're not toxic, but that they're toxic but leaning in another direction politically. It's all the same, people calling other people stupid.
Do their opinions matter at all? If you do get locked up, will you find this information helpful?
There were predecessors to pencils going back hundreds of years before that, with very similar capabilities. They used soft metals that streak when dragged across a surface, particularly silver and lead (Pb) (also the etymology of "pencil lead"); and sharpened these into narrow points. The modern pencil sort of iterated on those ideas. Soft graphite powder, in a wax binder, leaves a streak superior to metals; and encasing it in wood was the solution to the graphite composite's brittleness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint

Here's a zoomable example by da Vinci (don't you agree they look awfully similar to pencil lines?)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1860-0616-...
I haven't actually seen any travel warnings published by other nation states (yet). Do you have a source?
Technically this still reduces emissions, since they'll burn less fuel carrying a lighter weight. Pretty sure it's negligible, though.
Unless tne is an abbreviation and so it should pass. Names are a common place where people make up weird spellings and so spell checkers are annoying. I have terrible spelling, and yet most of the time I run spellcheck it is tripping up on words that are spelled correct but not in the dictionary (in large part because I run spell check after each revision: words spelled wrong . Add to dictionary means that my dictionary is polluted with words that only apply to one document and would be wrong in the next)
> Luckily the source code has been lost.

I chuckled.
US-CA bookings have dropped 70%:

> Using forward booking data from a major GDS supplier, we've compared the total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season. The decline is striking — bookings are down by over 70% in every month through to the end of September. This sharp drop suggests that travellers are holding off on making reservations, likely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the broader trade dispute.

* https://www.oag.com/blog/canada-us-airline-capacity-aviation...

* https://thehill.com/business/5218113-us-canada-airline-booki...
Show HN: RSS/Atom Feed Analyzer – test your feed for best practices
While working on a side project with RSS & Atom feeds, I discovered that a lot of RSS/Atom feeds in the wild are (cough) sub-optimal.

The W3C has a very nice Feed Validation Service[1], but it only looks at the feed itself, not at the linked pages. And a lot of the problems that it finds are issues in the body content which can mask more serious errors.

So I write an RSS/Atom Feed Analyzer[2] that checks for things like headers, consistent links and backlinks.

One of the (potentially) more controvesial things it recommends is using the content type "text/xml". The normal recommendation causes the "Save As" dialog popup in some browsers, which is IMHO a horrible user experience.

Anyhow, give it a try and let me know what you think! RSS.Style has a list of high-profile bloggers' feeds[3] that you can try. And feel better about having problems in your own feed!

Source (TypeScript) is available[4] (MIT license). It is running as a function on Cloudflare Pages. It is just something that I hacked together and grew over time: don't be judgemental!

PS: And use https://www.rss.style/ to make you feeds look nicer in a browser!

[1] https://validator.w3.org/feed/

[2] https://www.rss.style/feed-analyzer.html

[3] https://www.rss.style/#examples

[4] https://github.com/fileformat/rss.style/blob/main/functions/...
I'm Italian, my wife is Russian and my sister lives with her family in California. I've always been pretty vocal online about my dislike for Putin, and since the war in Ukraine started, I became very worried about visiting Russia, just in case they needed some random Italian guy to extort concessions from the Italian government. So, I stopped going (we were planning a family trip right in the Summer of 2022).

For this Summer we wanted to visit my sister, so we bought tickets last December. I've always been pretty vocal about my dislike for Trump too. Well, for the first time, I'm worried that, when traveling to the US, some overzealous TSA agent could ask me to get access to my social media accounts, and that I could be refused entry, or even get sent to one of those wonderful privately owned jails; you know, for lèse-majesté. I reckon that the risk is too little to warrant us canceling our trip, but honestly, if I didn't have my tickets already, I would probably not have bought them now.

This is the craziest timeline.
Running a Home Cluster Exposed to the Internet (Securely) via Cloudflare Tunnel
At the minimum I'd hope they a) do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement b) cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations.

Interesting timing with the digital sovereignty movement.
Shun Grill BBQ – Baking Multiple Textures, One Easy Method
This is on a long list of why camera companies are dying.

There is a long list of issues like this which have prevented ecosystems from forming around cameras, in the way they have around Android or iOS. It's like the proprietary phones predating the iPhone.

The irony is that phones are gradually passing dedicated cameras in increasing numbers of respects as cameras are now in a death spiral. Low volumes means less R&D. Less R&D and no ecosystem means low volumes. It also all translates into high prices.

The time to do this was about a decade ago. Apps, open formats, open USB protocols, open wifi / bluetooth protocols, and semi-open firmware (with a few proprietary blobs for color processing, likely) would have led things down a very different trajectory.

Sony is still selling cameras from 2018:

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/interchangeable-lens-ca...

The price new fell by just 10% over the 7 years ($2000 -> $1800).

And in a lot of conditions, my Android phone takes better photos, by virtue of more advanced technology.

I have tens of thousands of dollars of camera equipment -- mostly more than a decade old -- and there just haven't been advancements warranting an upgrade. A modern camera will be maybe 30% better than a 2012-era one in terms of image quality, and otherwise, will have slightly more megapixels, somewhat better autofocus, and obviously be much smaller by the loss of a mirror. Video improved too.

The quote of the day is: "I wish it weren’t like this, but ultimately, it’s mostly fine. At least, for now. As long as the camera brands continue to work closely with companies like Adobe, we can likely trudge along just fine with this status quo."

No. We can't. The market has imploded. The roof is literally falling in and everyone says things are "fine."

Does any know how much volume there would be if cameras could be used in manufacturing processes for machine vision, on robots / drones, in self-driving cars, on building for security, as webcams for video conferencing, for remote education, and everywhere else imaging is exploding?

No. No one does, because they were never given the chance.
The bigger debate I see is if it's worse for the US or worse for the rest of the world. The consensus is it's awful for everyone, apart from a few environmentalists that are looking forward to the reduce carbon emissions from a great depression.

I think the consensus is that if the rest of the world grows a spine it will emerge far stronger and the US a weaker state to before - akin to change the British Empire post ww2 compared with before, probably with the same glee they saw the British Empire falling.
Know of any good programs that countries are offering to accelerate this?
The job being easy doesn't matter, but neither do anyone's arbitrary statements.
"accelerating block breaking because learning to hold a button for hundreds of consecutive steps "

This is fine, and does not impact the importance of figuring out the steps.

Anybody that has done any tuning on systems that run at different speeds, the adjusting for the speed difference is just engineering, and allows you to get on with more important/inventive work.
People use "startup" to mean "start up business" and not "business that is aiming for rapid, borderline-unsustainable growth and very likely requires hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of dollar to even start thinking about achieving it," which is what the actual definition is.

VCs aim for 1 out of 50 investments to return 100x what they put into it, and the rest of them to die quickly and stop taking their attention. A company kicking off 5% returns every year is counterintuitively worse than flaming out immediately.
I think your statement is the very definition of group think.

One person makes a blocklist and everyone else blindly adopts it.
> This is the initialization vector (IV). The developers -- of course -- failed to do this and used a constant

Oh, at that point you're not even using the algorithm anymore. Why is this even possible in the library? I would've assumed that any sensible implementation would handle the initialization vector for you, and manually setting it up would require very verbose explicit configuration.
Great, that means treating the rest as undesirable will have a lower error rate.
What are you trying to argue though? I am a bit at a loss to follow. Be so kind and explain.

You want foreign readers to read news about how half of the US wants you, the foreign tourist, be locked up in a jail cell?
The news is already out there. Everyone assumes it's so wanted, because well... it does actually happen
While do !Fear
Can DOGE therefore justify cutting a whole lot of jobs that process tourists?

Or has that already been privatised?
> Has there been anything more by Elon on this front in addition to moving his arm (accidentally) in a specific angle?

Is this your most honest reaction to his act? Have in mind that he did it twice to be sure everyone got it.
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Can anyone explain why the number of US passengers increased in a proportion at the same time? Perhaps airlines dropped prices due to the lower demand, causing US citizens to snap up tickets?
This looks nice but the “custom everything” approach sounds awful. Over time one of the custom software components will break and the amount of time you spend fixing it will likely ultimately outweigh the benefit of the calendar in the first place.
What makes a stat that’s missing the relevant time period a “better source”?

It might be a better source in a month or two, but not now.
10 nights in an ICE jail is very lucrative to the company that runs that jail. Can be funded by the taxes the poorest in America pay.
Many of the reset buttons I still encounter doesn't require any extraordinary pressure. Some of them are a bit too recessed requiring a paperclip, but again, they're not harder to press.
"So far, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Germany, France and the U.K. have all issued new travel guidance for those wishing to travel to the U.S."

https://www.newsweek.com/portugal-issues-travel-warning-us-2...
>Boy, you have no idea.

Why? What did I miss?

>your comparisons between EU clampdown on disinformation and hate speech (however effective or justified it is) to communism propaganda and to persecutions against its opponents - it is pretty offensive

That's how boiling the frog works. Where do you think you'll end up if you give the government authority to decide what information is right or wrong for you to have access to?

What happens when Ursula v.d Leyen decides that her scandal involving the deleted email is "disinformation" and has a friendly judge call for it to be scrubbed from media and search engines?

You can't and should never blindly trust governments with them having your well being at heart. The main goal of a government is to stay in power, by any mean necessary in order to help those who finance their careers and campaigns.

If you can't see the slope between this speech police path and becoming an USSR-Light minus the gulags and executions, then maybe you're the offensive one.
Crazy can be interesting. But risk of crazily being arrested and being put in a crazy American jail ... well, makes more people hesitant.

And then add all the other rethoric and actions, which don't make the contemporary U.S. the place it was once idealized to be.
The politicians cite competitiveness as the motivator for relaxing the GDPR. The real reason for the EU lagging behind the US in "big tech" is of course the lack of venture capital and the red tape in registering corporations.

The GDPR does not prevent US big tech from operating in the EU.

As it stands, this is just another attack on EU citizens' rights. It is also the least of the EU's current problems. De-industrialization due to high energy prices is, but of course von der Leyen will not mention that.
I’ve been getting ads from NZ and the UK.
It is the case that the average person is way, way dumber than people here would like to admit to themselves. And half of the population is dumber than that!

I bet there's a small difference in the means between red and blue, but not much. The available literature exaggerates it because of publication bias / for political reasons. I guess what I'm saying here is: most people are idiots on both sides of the spectrum.

Team Blue has managed to capture more of the intellectual elite (nearly all of the institutions except the Supreme Court), which is probably the thing you're feeling here. I don't think they've managed to capture the hearts and minds of that much of the intellectual elite, though...they've just managed to create chilling effects, spirals of silence, suppress free speech, compel other speech, etc. Which is a huge part of why we are where we are.

In any event, I stand by my original comment. Painting them as one-dimensional doesn't help you. They aren't. Trump is...hard to understand, but Musk and Vance are smart people. There are a lot of other smart people involved on Team Red. Insofar as you operate on the assumption your opponents are as simple as you claim, you shoot yourself in the foot.

Enjoy your week!
> then you'll have to accept you're doomed as a country and deserve that fate.

Or, you know, you try to limit the spreading of disinfo, simply to protect the weak.
We could for example have a talk about how the people most prone to fall for disinfo are the old and farthest removed from the reach of the education system.

> if you're not planning to respect the will of the majority

You are the one who is not respecting the will of the majority. The government is formed by majority coalition coming from the elections, and the government is doing this. The will of the majority is respected by fighting the disinformation.

> Switzerland and nordic countries seem to be quite well educated and a decent democracy. So it is possible.

Nordic countries are part of the EU and on board with these policies, so no idea what are you on about here.

> People's political biases are always tied to their wealth and social class. Just compare a map with wealth/income distribution with a map with blue/red voter.

It would be nice if you tried to engage with what I wrote and not something completely different.

Ah yes.
The first man on the moon, the breakup of the Soviet Union, September 11 - these were all things that people predicted would be monumental world-changing events at that point in history, and also proved to be after the fact. Maybe history will prove us wrong, but this feels like one of those moments to me.
If the US withdraw from NATO, that organization will have a new use that is to prevent a hostile annexation of Greenland and Canada.
Actually just founding the company is the easy part nowadays. You can do it online or let a notary work it out for you.

It's just everything else that's dreadful.
Before tossing GDPR onto the bonfire, perhaps the EU should first look at DORA.
> do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

Not a GDPR thing, and the reason you see the banner is because companies refuse to understand the regulation correctly.

> cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations

Some more slack you mean, since they already have a lot of slack compared to larger organizations?

What exactly is so cumbersome for a small business to comply with? They're generally "common sense" requirements, and most organizations who already take care of their data basically had to do nothing to be compliant. What are you doing that is so complicated or essential that it's hard to comply, as a SME?
if the wattage is to be believed I bet we'll have no consequences encountered running gaming machines off the display ports of a famously cheaply made generation of tvs with no chassis insulation/earthing, through a cable that'll likely be made lowest-bidder style. Remember those videos of the old apple chargers glowing and sparking when bent?
Non-punitive my ass. The German tourist was put for eight days in solitary confinement: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-t...
I have friends who were asked about their social media accounts at the US border. I.e. like you have in Russia, where they can check your Telegram for the subscription to opposition channels.

It's not surprising that people are reluctant to travel to the US now.
That is one thing a lot of people miss, with even less people around, odds you will be snatched are much higher, as they likely have to "meet quotas".
Minecraft is ubiquitous now.

But I remember the alpha version, and NOBODY knew how to make a pick ax.
Humans were also very bad at figuring out these steps.

People were de-compiling the java and posting help guides on the internet.

How to break a tree, get sticks, make a wood pick. In Alpha, that was a big deal for humans also.
> Exactly this. If someone from "high tier" countries like Canada and Germany can get locked up in ICE jails for several weeks imagine someone like me from a peripheral European country. Even worse, my youngest brother that has a more "tanned" appearance. tattoos, and a beard.

Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European passport?
I'd accept "build a tnt trap for your buddy" or "defeated the end dragon"
I mean, China imports nearly all of their oil.
Apple's eternal failure to make a decent mouse is, without exaggeration, probably the most baffling longstanding technology puzzle in the world to me.

Far from the most important mystery. But, the most baffling.

It's just bizarre because they tend to get other ergo factors right, such as making the best touchpads in the business.

Their 5-year nightmare of bad laptop keyboards was frustrating but at least there was an explanation: it seemed to pretty clearly be an artifact of Ive prioritizing thinness over functionality, and thankfully they belatedly righted themselves. The mouse situation just has no obvious explanation.

One can only imagine that the team responsible for designing the mice is some kind of third-class citizen inside Apple. But like... have the people on that team ever used their own products?!? How does that team use their own crap, and then use a Logitech mouse or even a $12 generic mouse from Amazon, and think they are competitive?
For everyone outside the US, the fact that half the country doesn't think ICE should be locking up tourists without good reason is irrelevant since that half isn't barricading detention centers and tearing prison gates open with their cars.

... not that these things would make it safer to travel to the US. In the short run.

The status quo of power is that it is less safe to be a foreigner in the US than it has been in a long time. Possibly at any point in time the US wasn't actively at war with another nation.
With the right sensors. Difficult to determine with visual input alone.

But with the right sensors you can figure out the chemical composition of food too, so...
Spring break.
The true absurdity of this timeline is that everyone is behaving as perfectly rational players, which is absurd when you look at the current presidential administration, particularly in light of recent events.
Why would a foreigner visit the US when you may be detained and treated like an animal at any time for the most trivial of reasons? Furthermore, why would you visit a country that's actively undermining others around the world? Why would you provide your financial support to that? It's the same reason Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff. You can only mistreat people so much before they push back.
s/counted/numbered/ (probably for no logical reason, that's just the phrase)
> ~half the country doesn't think ICE should be locking up tourists without good reason and the other ~half doesn't think ICE should be locking up anyone

That is not remotely a good faith representation of the controversy.
Don't go. Easy. You'll be at the mercy of individual ICE agents. Read this if you're wondering if it's the right decision, because this could be you: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...
Aren’t a lot of jails private and for profit? Just bill the tourist for the stay and detain until they pay in full (accruing even more debt in the meantime). It makes perfect business sense which is all that seems to matter to the US nowadays.
This thread was dead BTW, I had to "vouch" for it in order to comment. Yes, posts critical of the current US regime are being flagged. I already emailed admins about it, who said they "don't think it's a coordinated campaign". This was back in February, the behavior has continued.
In the case of Canada I think it has more to do with the tariffs, and the open hostility to our sovereignty.
I think simplifying the law for companies smaller than the 500 person cutt-off makes sense. The Brussels effect is strong. I was just in a company of approximately ~150 people in America and a significant portion of our time went to GDPR/California law takedown requests. User data was everywhere, it was a nightmare. No one thinks of this stuff when everyone is still in sink or swim mode. We got it done though.

Maybe it's an argument for the other side though as well. The architecture of the system was designed to track people as much as possible so we could do A/B, app design, and marketing more effectively. It felt like it was the company's life blood.

I would say the law should at least make people get their architecture right when small so that when they're big it's not impossible to comply later.

One last thought: our company was small in head count but is getting much bigger right now in revenue. I've heard of small head count, billion dollar companies. What of them?
Global depression is going to result in a whole lot less of all kinds of economic activity.
The higher level story is that the administration deliberately used an app that circumvents records laws, lied about it under oath, and then did not take any accountability whatsoever for their actions. "Carelessness is contagious"