skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cannot commit genocide through rhetoric

Maybe you've missed this, but Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and has laid utter waste to Gaza. But genocide also requires intent, and Israelis have loudly broadcast that intent to the world.

> They are taught to hate Jews from the start.

No, they aren't. They learn to hate Israelis through bitter experience. If you live under a foreign military occupation, with constant humiliation by foreign soldiers on your territory, with foreign settlers stealing more and more of your land, and with that foreign military killing tens of thousands of your countrymen, nobody has to teach you to hate that foreign country. It's actually amazing that UNRWA has managed to set up such a politically neutral education system under these circumstances.

Palestinians don't hate Jews. If you're Jewish, you can go to the West Bank. People will be friendly to you if you're sympathetic to their situation. What they don't like is Israel, the country that controls their lives and oppresses them day in and day out.
This is very cool, but it is so sad to look at. South of the river has barely any connections far as the underground is concerned. The trains aren't much better.
The solution to this problem is to choose a "game" that you 100% believe will positively impact the world.
There is no warning in that case.
When companies take actions hostile to their user base obvious things happen.
Generally I have been found "experience" to be highly overrated and companies that lean harder on it to be typically legacy/declining/european companies.
You can start by discussing things and not quibbling over terms.

> What does "defend" mean?

Keep it from being replaced by another culture.
I think we all understand that.

> How can a minority "impose" its culture?

By being locally dominant.
By catering to people from their own community who prefer not to join the local culture.
By providing cheaper/better/more profitable things to the locals than the local culture does.
I’m so annoyed by these “oh Apple does not innovate anymore” comment! It’s not like every year there should be an innovation! Hell that has literally never ever been the case. And why should it be? It’s not every year the iPhone year, get over it.
So two people lied and you wanna get rid of the system that caught them?
Sure, but the desired outcome from AI companies here is that laws about piracy only bind the little people.
all of them are bad and force software 1.0 principles on agents for no reason
i was using it as a general term for whatever money you receive after you retire except personal investments or savings. i could not find out how 401ks work, specifically i did not find out whether 401k works like any other pension scheme or not. the wikipedia page on pensions does not say that 401k is not a pension, therefore i figure it is included in the definition.

i just checked the 401k page, and it says: a 401(k) plan is an employer-sponsored, defined-contribution, personal pension (savings) account.

so it's a pension.

but what we call it doesn't really matter. more important is the question if the payout depends on future generations paying in. in my brief search i could not tell whether the 401k is protected against that or if it even can be protected. but if it is i'll have to retract my claim. my apologies.
It tickles me that this quote came from a YA novel of all places, but in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky writes "We accept the love we think we deserve".

If that isn't one of the deepest aphorisms on psychology out there, I don't know what is.
I borderline love Varnish cache, but the way the open source and commercial versions have diverged and all the nice features only go into the $10k/yr+ commercial version sucks.

Features like the memory governer [0], because trying to predict how much memory (open-source) Varnish will use is an absolute PITA and a sure-fire way to run out of memory if you're not careful.

My clients can't justify the commercial license costs (as a sibling comment says, CDNs eat Varnish's lunch in that market) and yet what I can do with Varnish and the power it gives me makes it real magic.

It would be nice to see a modern reimplementation of Varnish, open-sourced, but I doubt that would ever happen.

0. https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/two-minute-tech-tuesd...
Yes because if it’s one thing workers like is removing their bargaining power and relying solely on how future administrations feel about your job.
But not exactly the same people which is the point of motivating behavior. There is at least some degree of flexibility in what you can buy.

Insane rates will of course have insane effects. Which is a separate issue.
> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money

Or given to billionaires
America's financial system came close to the brink
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

>In retrospect, I think it's possible I took all of this the wrong way. But even after reading the post a 2nd time, I can still read it both ways.

I think what you're saying resonates with me, and tbh yes this type of tool could definitely go in the direction of having the AI write slop. That wasn't my intention with it, because at that point you could just have chatGPT write the whole thing from the start. But I think the very nature of the tool lends itself to being able to do that.

>This isn't necessarily your fault - I think the issue is that the current tech landscape is filled with tools and people eager to use those tools to pump out content. When I read "write more efficiently", my mind goes to the tools that promise the same thing and accomplish it by generating slop. I realize you explicitly stated you don't want to contribute to slop, but that stated goal and what a tool does are potentially different things.

I think it's an interesting problem. Autocomplete could be great in theory if it actually predicted what I was going to say. If it's putting words in my mouth, I agree, it's not great in this context. The research topics is an attempt at this - the goal is to generate suggested search queries to lookup references, based on the existing content of the blog. These are queries that I would have to do manually otherwise.

>One suggestion - a very brief demo that shows the UI in operation would go far to clear up these misconceptions. The generative part of my own brain took the static examples and imagined outcomes that may be essentially hallucinations.

Great idea, I'll do that next time.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback! I just started blogging recently, so I appreciate it.
I dont mean to be negative, but this is garbage. What is this accomplishing that one cannot accomplish with a pen and paper?

Is it creating a custom plan for WHAT you should be studying/practicing? If so, it could not possibly cater to a learner properly. If not, what is the point?

And theres no examples of a plan actually produced by this so if youre purchasing it you are purchasing completely blind.

Do you have any sales so far? Those revjews seem fake. This wreaks of a grift.
You’re spending $1500 in additional costs? How?!!? I can’t even conceive of how I would spend that much with cursor. What am I missing? Are you ultra productive or just inefficient with tokens?
What a great idea, scaring companies probing bluesky. That surely won't backfire and will cement bluesky as a Xitter alternative.
Yes, republicans in congress can stop this at anytime, and once people tangibly feel prices increase congressional leaders will get scared.

If congress turns heavy blue in 2026, they can rain hell on the mild conservative goals that Trump seems to have taken a nuclear approach to. Congressman do care about their seat, and they do get scared of losing power. Right now Americans are particularly sensitive to price increases as well, with the pandemic inflation still fresh on everyone's mind.
no please :(
I guess one advantage of the author's approach is that any apt-get's etc done in building the initial image can reuse the host package cache.
Haha this rings true for me. I am far less emotionally invested in my work than most of my peers, and as a result have a reputation for unflappability and being able to get along with everyone
wonder if it would be worth putting arrow heads on the train direction
Actually if you'll read the fine print, you're obligated to be friends.
When I worked as a consultant, the majority of the work was done by younger/less tenured/lower-level people.

The skill balance (actual, tangible IT/software skill) was heavily in favor of the "younger" (as above).

Most of the managers/those in supervisory roles were busy "showing impact" and "aligning cross-functional teams".
no, in the US consultants are mostly just a backdoor for governments to hire actually competent people at payscales that are illegal for the government to use and with competitive interview processes that are also illegal for the government to use.
> How did the West acquire a culture of coffee or coffee-shops?

For that matter, how did those coffee shops displace tea rooms?
The PEP says these return a new type `Template`, so you should be able to both type and/or duck type for these specifically and reject non-Template inputs.
You can solve this by either having wide bands or by preferentially promoting those that make extra contributions.

Just increasing the salary band would do a lot to attract more talent, which is a good-not-perfect solution. Last time I checked going to work at a federal job would have cut my total compensation in half, but if it was just a 20% cut I would have looked deeper.
This was fascinating to see unfold. What if there was a social network that had taste and rejected things that suck?

Is it a failure of Bluesky to never become the global town square, if it means being a place where a brand can't find it a safe space to promote itself?

Can a social network thread the needle of having enough traffic to be worthwhile but not so much as to attract the Eternal September?
So many of the burrs on my experience with anything are that I still expect the paradigm I had with my discman as a kid to the nth degree, back then I would load my favorite songs onto a disc, then play them, or play an album on repeat. I-tunes lets me do this still, but it's trying to push more of its streaming features on me like when I search my library, it defaults to searching Apple's network music volume, that I'm not interested in.
I fear that the iphone will continue to hamper one's efforts to download media until you are forced into more fiscally expedient platforms like Spotify, where my favorite PM dawn song was replaced by a "superior" remaster where the artist was much older and lost the tone of his voice. Sadly one of the consequences of convergence is that so much else in the phone is done right I'd probably still have to use it.
What about targeting Retro68 instead? Then the C version would not be a problem.
So happy to read this and all the comments in agreement. I thought it was just me.

In my bombastic opinion, Spotify has the _worst_ goddamn user interface of anything I have ever used, including my dishwasher with a single button. Netflix is less frustrating, but that's likely because "here are some films" is more acceptable than "here are some songs, but fuck you if want to listen by album".

Smashing content into my face isn't making me love you.
Show HN: RSS Launchpad – a tiny Firefox (mobile) RSS extension extractor
Hello there!

I'm sharing a small Firefox extension that I created for my own use (and for fun, of course!).
The extension partially restores the RSS support that was removed from major browsers a long time ago: it extracts (or derives) RSS feeds from pages and shows them in a nice way and easy to export to some external reader.

Motive
I've been reading HN for quite some time, and some articles there helped me rediscover RSS. Nowadays, it has become my top source for reading, especially on tech topics, helping me to focus and detox from social media.

There are a few reasons for its existence compared to other extensions I was able to find, primarily:

- I wanted an up-to-date extension with the fewest possible permissions (hence, no global background scripts, most FF extensions ask this). This extension can only access the active tab and only when it is used.

- I aimed for a native look and feel, including Firefox for Android.

- I wanted some special logic for websites that support RSS but hide it (like YouTube).

So sharing it here for other RSS enthusiasts! All MIT Licensed.

Links:
Gif screencast: https://github.com/ilya-m32/rss-launchpad/raw/master/screenc...

Firefox addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-launchpad...

Edit: \n added
"Price Look-Up" - the 4-digit code you punch in for different produce items.

You probably need to eat more fruits and vegetables.
> notice that this takes over 5s. How is anything like that acceptable in 2025 is beyond me

I tried it just now. 18.09MB and 8.81s to show a 67 file diff. The fetch for /diffs was 4.6MB.

The page is usable from about 4s on but things keep loading.

Some my extensions probably make things worse: Stylus, Tampermonkey, Vimium. Others like Ghostery are blocking tons of tracking requests (collector.github.com)
Chinese electronics company Anker starts raising prices on Amazon
Figma.to.website: Publish websites from Figma with good old engineering
My dear hackers,

We have been working on figma.to.website for the last 18 months.

The vision is to add the missing [Publish] button to Figma.
Design in Figma and directly publish to the web.

When Figma added the "Autolayout wrap" feature, we saw that this could be a reality.

We think we have something that can be proudly presented here today :)

## Features

The feature list is intense:

- Custom domain
- Custom code
- Embed HTML
- Accessibility
- Password protection
- Redirects
- Bring your own analytics
- Open Graph metas
- Favicon
- ...

We recently added following major features:

- Forms
- Localization (with variables modes)
- Notion as CMS (for blog post, changelogs, etc...)
- RSS generation

## Performance

We generate static "vanilla" HTML, CSS and JavaScript for maximum performance.

Images are uploaded to a CDN and delivered in the best possible format (WebP/AVIF when possible) and best possible size for the device.

Everything is served from Cloudflare CDN 300+ edge locations.

In a world where everything is AI, this has been done in pure brute-force old-fashion engineering :D

## We use it ourselves

The website https://figma.to.website it self is made with it.
The blog post are coming from a Notion database directly.
It's a real pleasure to maintain content in Notion and design in Figma!!

## Thanks for reading!

I hope you will enjoy it as much we do.

Ask us anything.

Cheers,

Georges and the ‹div›RIOTS team
(https://divRIOTS.com <- homepage also made with figma.to.website)
On of the larger dangers of AI for startups, investors and similar (i.e. we are not speaking about end users here) is

"AI makes it easy to produce the first 50-70% solution, but you often need a 80-95% solution to not fall over hard and it's not rare that getting there isn't just hard but hardly possible at lest for an affordable price"
The Industrialization of IT
Nothing says freedom like banning the right to strike. Which might work in the short term, but makes the strikes much, much more vicious when they do come.
Also this one

https://minitokyo3d.com/
Fair enough. It's just that in my experience the "cool bits" are quickly done and then we get bogged down in endless layers of inter-systems communication (HTTP, RPC, file systems, caches). I often see FP people saying stuff like "it's not 100% pure, of course there are some isolated side-effects" and I'm thinking.. my brother, I live inside side-effects. The days I can have even a few pure functions are few and far between. I'm honestly curious what percentage of your code bases can be this pure.

But of course this heavily depends on the domain you are working in. Some people work in simulation or physics or whatever and that's where the interesting bits begin. (Even then I'm thinking "programming" is not the interesting bit, it's the physics)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hegseth-reveal-whoppi...

Trump, Hegseth reveal whopping figure they want for the next Pentagon budget
$1T budget would be a 12% boost over current levels
unlike the other reply, this is a an accurate description of consulting dynamics.
Im someone from the US whos at a conference in Canada.

Just a good data point for you may not want to block on IP.

Particularly if you think of remote companies with Staff in other countries who are part of hiring for US roles.
Unless your encryption and transport protocols are 100% stateless only 1 connection will actually be able to form, even if you duplicate the machine during connection creation.

The problem with pre-computing a bunch and keeping them in memory is brand new connections made post cloning would use the same list of nonces.
a bit of the problem is that modern elements like display + touch screen require a lot more bandwidth than 3110 - for example the displays require ridiculous bandwidth in comparison to the nokia, like 10 gigabit/s for Samsung Galaxy S25 (basic model, not plus/ultra), plus connectors for the cameras.

At the very least you can't really make the screen soldered-on, and the simple connectors used in Nokia might not work out for such high bandwidth use case. Same with cameras.

Thin ribbon connectors are one of the hardest things to automate from what I remember regarding Sony's efforts to automate PS5 manufacture.
Came to this thread to post that. Everyone should read _Propaganda_. It's public domain, found in various places.
Well, of it was user-centred then "because that use scrolls to 'continue watching' more often than not".

Why not let users choose? Because, sadly, it's about money and not about users.
Trump tariffs on China hit small businesses, Amazon and eBay sellers
If I remember clearly, Apple's hiring process low-key also looked for "good taste" and "product sense" even for pure engineers. Subtly different than anywhere else I interviewed. It's really hard to measure and quantify good taste and an intuitive feel for what's great, which is why most companies don't bother trying. "Just make number go up" is the norm.
Australian with working visa detained, deported upon return to US from memorial
Oddly, I think '0' (or 'O') may make more sense for rotate? With '=' good for horizontal flip and '|' good for vertical flip? I'm probably trying to force more meaning in the character than makes sense. :(

I will say that these are immediately useful when any of the automatic splits picked the wrong "side" from what I wanted. Really really useful.
They do if you include <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark">

Also see https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5426
With that much liberty, there’s no point to the bands in the first place. They become meaningless.
Based on my personal experience and that of many others I know, that's about as wrong as one can get. A great many government workers are there to collect a paycheck and go home (just like many other people working for many other employers). Their commitment to 'the mission' hovers near zero.

Just ask them.

Where do people get these crazy ideas about government employees? There are some wonderful people in public service, but it's not some Wonkaland of saints who toil just to help others and do the right thing.
Been working 8 years with Rs data.table package in research and now after I changed to the private sector I have to use python and pandas. Pandas are so terrible compared to data.table it defies belief. Even tidyverse is better than pandas which is saying something.
I miss it so much
Charging a subscription fee is crazy for a product that is very expensive. I do not know why they are still around.
> I have also found out that what I really WANT to do is usually not something I'm good at

Snap. How I've made this work in my career is being the guy who does the shit that nobody knows how to do
There's ways to do that that aren't the mindless slash and burn that's happening right now. If it were done thoughtfully I'm sure there's places that some fat could be trimmed. (And if you're looking for places to do that look at the Pentagon who hasn't passed an audit in living memory...)

Would it be worth the extra hurdles required to actually catch that waste/fraud though? My bet is on probably not, it's like the many many attempts to drug test welfare recipients, they all wind up costing far more than they save because the actual rate is pretty low so catching those is far more expensive than what you save.
Why? That seems completely wrong, based on my experience with both of these groups.
« This has unlocked advertising for businesses that could never afford traditional ad production »

So glad to see SV focusing on first-order problems after all
You’re way overestimating the effect an enthusiast has. Evangelism only goes far enough to introduce people to the thing. How often someone uses the thing depends entirely on its utility (usefulness).

As long as Netflix was successfully reading the author’s mind, they were satisfied with the experience. However, Netflix assumed that they want to keep watching the same content, oblivious to the author’s desire to discover something entirely new. Netflix failed to meet the expectations of those seeking something entirely different.

I can understand why Netflix made this change. They’ve replaced many shows with their own in-house productions. By doing so, they prevent users from searching for specific shows and then realizing that Netflix doesn’t have them. If this happens frequently, they risk losing customers.

On the other hand, Spotify doesn’t face this issue. Therefore, I’m puzzled by why they’ve made it more challenging to explore content by categories. (Disclaimer: I don’t use Spotify, so my experience is based solely on author’s observations.)
If You Want to Learn How to Read, Learn How to Edit
Musk's companies fail their audits too. Tesla can't account for $1.4B of government money they received.
Bluesky audience is certain kind, more left leaning, finding corporations evil. Adobe's experiment shows that it is unlikely any big corp could go there any time until the audience is more diverse, less cancel culture.
I do hope that Americans letting Trump have another go at being the worst president in history means I'll never have to hear Americans ever whine about free speech in europe, ever again.
Personally, it's not that the alternatives are so awesome.

It's when i meet against some awful design choices in systemd, like how it decides to wait forever rather than hard fail, and by wait forever, i mean wait for 30 seconds, no, 1 minute 30 seconds, no 5 minutes... you get it.

Or you can easily lock yourself out when there's a typo in /etc/fstab.

Or the hardcoded 5 minute timeout for sysv-generator: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/sysv-genera...

God forbid you used cgroupsv1 for anything when poettering unilaterally decided to punish everyone with a 30 second delay for using it.

If you stray off of the intended opinionated path, be prepared for the least user-friendly experience linux has to offer. You might even get some abuse from the developers if you try to ask for help, but they've probably toned it down since CoC became a thing (I hope).