skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On its own, immutability isn't a complete solution to supply chain attacks. Software still needs to be updated and those updates could contain malware too.

You need immutability and something like sandboxing where actions cannot e.g. dump the memory of the runner process to steal secrets.

The alternative is vetting every single line of code in every dependency and every subdependency perfectly for every update, which is not realistic.
4chan doesn't store threads for very long, hence the plethora of third-party archive sites. I doubt they are still storing any useful data from back then.
Small pedantic correction: “major hub of Internet culture” is “major subculture in English-speaking segment of Internet” (American segment?). In many other languages it was irrelevant.
The Fermi argument effectively puts the kibosh to scenarios where aliens are abundant and interstellar travel is easy.
This is literally false. My wife paid for a jacket from Ireland. Ireland jacket arrives. Weeks later, tariff shit comes in the mail.
> bodybuilding.com

Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online [0]. It’s so good, the Wikipedia entry [1] has a section devoted to it.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/https://forum.bod...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com
Merit is what allowed women and non whites to attend university.

I don't believe for one second that conservatives care much for it.
I made no claim one way or the other. I asked you to cite a claim.
The linked page appears to be down, I get an "Access to this site has been restricted" error.
It used to be a diverse place without much to tie all the boards and users together save for a shared commitment to counter-culture. Then GamerGate and Donald Trump happened. "Every board is /pol/" was one of the most frequent replies you would see for a while until all the halfway decent people left.

/g/ is where I and a lot of people learned about FOSS advocacy and now it's just gamer hardware and transphobia.
He will go in front of a judge who will make the final deportation order.
theres something here...
> shut off Google Shopping ads... App Store ranking subsequently plummeting

Are they implying that app store ranking was quid pro quo for ads buys?
> I often find that AliExpress sells things I simply cannot find anywhere else.

I recently needed some bearings for a project. I wanted them quickly, so AliExpress would take too long. I visited 5 local stores and none of them sold the bearings I needed. AliExpress had 200 sellers selling them in every possible type for a decent price.

Ended up buying AliExpress quality from Amazon for a higher price because they shipped faster.
>Since I'd like to live forever, then yes.

Please read this article first before damning yourself to an unimaginable hell.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
It is not very niche at all. 4chan served a gigantic volume of traffic.
> The majority of these so-called symptoms are what I'd classify as "normal boyhood"

I mean I know what he means and I think there is merit in the argument, but on the other hand sitting down, paying attention, understanding stuff, and doing stuff you don't want to are in fact essential skills to get through middle-class adult life.

I mean if I shouted and punched every boss or colleague I disagreed with, well in some sense maybe I'd have more fun and be living a more "manly" existence, but it certainly wouldn't be good for my bank account.
Currently, not yet. But, I’m planning to support more platforms in the future.
Yeah the playbook for serverless is to target developers that don't know anything about infrastructure, lock them in with proprietary APIs, and then hit them with a huge bill once they have any real traffic.
Environment protection in the EU

good:

- replace plastic straws/cups with paper based ones

questionable:

- limit nicotine products to 10ml, so now instead of buying one bottle (200ml for example) of nicotine you have to buy 20 bottles 10ml each - ???
How I created my first product Video Demo (using only Free-Tier tools)
I finally made a product demo video — without spending much or showing my face.

I’m a solo dev. A while ago, I built a Jira Service Desk app that turned into a small side project with a few paying customers. For years, I wanted to make a demo video to help explain what it does, but I kept putting it off. Mostly because I didn’t really know how to start — and I didn’t want to spend hundreds on software.

Last week, I finally did it using free-tier of the following tools: HeyGen for AI avatar, ElevenLabs for voice, CapCut for editing, and the Windows Snipping Tool for screen recording.

If like me, you’re doing everything yourself — building, marketing, support — this setup might save you some time. Happy to share how I did it.
Then here’s the cite.

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

You probably were taught this in elementary school.
Plus Quin Emanuel and King and Spalding are representing Harvard against the Trump Administration. These firms are among the best of the best.
My 2 cents

The SSR game is peak frontend fashion.

The players in this space sell hosting solutions and getting you onto their platform and spending money is their primary goal (i.e. increasing the amount of server side compute and ancillary "services" needed to deliver a frontend solution). Regardless even if you go SSR the backend elements should just be used for SSR, and potentially things like auth, but otherwise just go with a data API as normal that provides the SSR backend with data. Rule of thumb, the SSR solution should never be considered "backend" even if it is running on a server and not the client.

SSR means it is way more difficult to open the network tab in developer tools and understand how your frontend is driving your API. I don't think I fully appreciated looking at the JSON sent over the wire in this tab until I did some SSR work.

If you go with SSR expect ridiculous churn in your technology space.

In the end I have latched onto vanilla React (e.g. no framework like Next) SPA that lazy loads components so you don't have a huge download on the first page load. I use wouter for routing and am pretty much trying to minimize all other deps where possible. I've gone with Preact but am questioning that a little now since it feels like I'm going off-road a bit on my simple setup.

I'm no expert on the frontend but thought I'd share my experience walking down this same path over the last 3 months or so.

Edit: how ironic that I'm calling React "my simple setup"...
Spoiler alert:

> THIRTY SUPERNOVAE PER SECOND, over the entire observable Universe.
every board had it's own independent archiving service after a while, so board culture ended up stickier than the original design. there's some interesting stuff in there
> I guess I'm not a very good 'hacker'.

It depends. For me, the outcome is a function of spare time I have in the upcoming days. I have written complete tools in a weekend, or written much smaller tools over the years. On the other hand, there is a mount of projects waiting to be started, but I have no time whatsoever to touch them.

Just don't hit yourself what engages you or your priorities is different than the person who's on the video/website you're visiting.
I would've taken you less time to find the 'sinister' content yourself than leave this sprawling reply

To your point:

It's more likely than not real, it contains configs for the entire site.
> But, someone buying stuff made by their employer is not what harms them.

It is exactly what harms them.

With that logic one can defend keeping children in tantalum mines in the supply chain of an iPhone. That's not an acceptable status quo...

Removing the market for immoral exploitation of beings and the environment is a necessary step. The size of the market for things made fairly needs to grow.
Give it a few more years and we'll have LinkedIn-like developer feeds.
> Nobody loans out money with a guaranteed prospect of below market returns

Not to you or me. Giving powerful people who can send more business the bank's way a freebie on their personal accounts might make sense as a loss leader.
I don’t use them to generate code but I’ve found ChatGPT becoming increasingly helpful giving me ideas or working through things I’m stuck on.

I’ve started regularly sharing my ideas with it and either getting back a “yeah that’s correct, here’s why” or a “there’s an alternative which might be better …”

I’m actually shocked how good it’s getting. Used it on the weekend to help set up a terraria server. Yeah I could have worked out iptables was dropping the connection and changed the config myself. I’ve done it before. But having ChatGPT walk me through it was way faster.
I once applied for a house-share with some people who'd named one of their cats "Tevildo". I knew immediately what to talk to them about! (Unfortunately Tevildo was, indeed, appalling.)
>asking me to find a citation for someone else's baseless claim is not really okay.

It is one of the biggest news stories in the last month, and various articles (at least 3 that I can think of) have been here on HN. It's trivially searchable. Asking for a citation is almost certainly bad faith.

>I checked the first two results and not one of them said the man was innocent

It's pretty obscure, but there's this thing called "innocent until proven guilty". The man never had his time in court. The US admitted it was a mistake. What are you looking for? Just being contrarian for the sake of it?
How are plants not lower on an evolution scale than say, mammals? They are less complex biologically and less capable of affecting their environment.
App store ranking is based on installs. Ads drive people to install the app. Less ads -> less installs -> lower ranking. Seems like a logical consequence.
The lifespan of stars varies a lot by type and size, with largest stars having a very short life-span of maybe a few dozen million of years and small ones up to dozens of billions of years. I'm not sure what the average is.
This is like saying death metal isn't upbeat music and therefore nothing of value is lost by censoring it. Why does 4chan have to be positive culture to be considered valuable culture?
This is /pol/ focused, yes, but the other boards aren't separate worlds. It's all part of what many call the "alt-right pipeline" and it's subtle and insidious.

For example, many (particularly women) have consumed Candace Owens's content about the Blake Lively / Justin Baldoni saga, just like many followed certain creators with the Amber Heard trial. Both of thse fall squarely on the alt-right pipeline.

So you may start folloing 9gag. Particularly if you're young, you may enjoy being "edgy" but a bunch of that is actually normalizing right-wing views. Even seeking validation on /b/ fits this.
Agreed, AI is a marketing term. Use the underlying methods and technology.
DOGE aren't federal agents. They are cyber criminals doing Elon's bidding.
Exactly. I found it surprising how soon it was implied "Imagine you're the smartest and most creative person in the world, ..." would somehow result in the most creative output.

It's clear from the start that language modelling is not yet there. It can't reason about low level structure (letters, syllables, rhyme, rhythm), it can't map all languages to a singular clear representation. Representation is mushy distributed mess out of which you get good or bad results.

It's brilliant how relevant the responses are and when they're correct, but the underlying process is driven by very weird internal representations.
> I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website.

That's probably why a lot of websites use moderation to avoid having one section of it turn into a cesspit of every -ism you can imagine, up to and including fascism, because once you have a section of your website that is openly coordinating the pushing of fascism on society, everyone kinda forgets about the diverse and interesting other things it might have, because of the fascism.
It doesn't even describe /pol/. This is what 4chan thinks of /pol/ but when you actually go there there is a pluriformmity of opinions and it's indeed mostly just about current events.

The biggest good thing that came out of 4chan and 8chan to me is that it made me extremely weary to ever trust second-hand reports about some place and made me better at identifying reports that read like “This person dislikes this place, never visited it, and just reasons together what it's like.”. It also made me try Tumblr. I heard terrible things about it how it was filled with “social justice warriors” and stuff and unsurprisingly, when actually trying it it was nothing like that and just a fairly chill place where people mostly blog about fiction and pornography and share their thoughts. Even when ignoring the filter and logging out and going to what is trending, almost no content is political.

I remember when 8chan went down and all the news reports and forum posts basically said it was basically Stormfront but I was there at the time and it was nothing like that. People just posted cat memes, talked about fiction, talked about life and dating and stuff. One had to dig on very specific boards to find that kind of content.

People talk a lot about “places”, online or offline or even fiction that they clearly have no firsthand experience with, and just reason together about what it's like. They just “expect it to be like that” based on some image they create in their head, or some cherry picked examples they've seen and start to treat it like fact. It's especially weird when it's about something they clearly don't like, some kind of book or television series of which, despite clearly disliking it, they can supposedly tell you exactly what it's like... well, they've never seen it, they just reasoned it together in their head based on some things they read about it and their own expectations.

I frequent 4chan a lot; it's nothing like this description indeed. I don't frequent /pol/ because I found the discussions to be completely empty but I tried it and it was nothing like that. Even within 4chan I read all sorts of things about other boards that are just not true when actually visiting them. /pol/ isn't a far right echo chamber, /r9k/ isn't full of lonely incels, /lgbt/ isn't some social justice warrior hub despite what one might read about those places on other boards.
I'm sorry to differ with you, sir, but I quite liked the ending.

If I may be so bold, sir.

If you don't mind my saying so, sir.
Which are far far outnumbered by people setting up squarespace sites, or shopify sites or facebook pages or twitter profiles these days.

It was definitely true at one point that small scale indie web devs and small business contractors outnumbered big tech in both headcount and servers. I don't think that's been true for a while now.
Yep, it’s been that way for 20+ years!

The term “weeaboo” as a term for western anime fans only came about because it was what the word “wapanese” filtered to. It was originally a nonsense work made up in a Perry Bible Fellowship comic.
"The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x." -- Kent Beck
> On Friday, at the site of one mine near Longnan, a diesel generator was humming and liquids were gurgling through plastic pipes, indicating that at least some mining operations had probably resumed. Heavy rare earths are mined by dumping strong chemicals into holes dug in the top of a hillside. The chemicals dissolve the ore and dribble out of the base of the hill, where they can be pumped to nearby pits for initial processing.

Fascinating!
Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com
I use it for mundane shit that I don’t want to spend hours doing.

My son and I go to a lot of concerts and collect patches. Unfortunately we started collecting long after we started going to concerts.

I had a list of about 30 bands I wanted patches for.

I was able to give precise instructions on what I wanted. Deep research came back with direct links for every patch I wanted.

It took me two minutes to write up the prompt and it did all the heavy lifting.
So, we should have merit-based hiring with respect to race and gender, but then have a quota-based system for political affiliation? How do you even measure this? Who counts as a "conservative"? MAGA-only, or do we get to count RINOs? Won't people just lie about their political beliefs to get a job? Do you detect any irony in the way your agenda exactly parallels that of structural racists who see racism in any job where the racial distribution doesn't match that of the general population?

The reason that academia is overwhelming left-leaning is that those are the people that choose to go to grad school and pursue academic careers. For whatever reason (whether ability or inclination) conservatives do so in much smaller numbers. You want conservatives in academia, go get a Ph.D.
I've seen this happen as well with o3-mini, but I'm honestly not sure what triggered it. I use it all the time but have only had it switch to Chinese during reasoning maybe twice.
I'm a UK citizen and I'm okay with sharing health records as long as they are sufficiently anonymised and I doubt that my details are rare enough to make me easy to identify (not that I'd be a target for Chinese security services anyhow).

Ultimately, global health should benefit from being able to perform analyses on people in different areas with different lifestyles and determine the effects of things such as air pollution, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles etc.
Troubleshooting the Engineer's Brain
What does Reddit have to do with this?

"Jannies" (janitors) are pseduo-mods on 4chan (the subject of the linked thread) who clean up posts and do other work, for free. Actual 4chan mods are paid.
All you do is ask for "cite?" and then complain when the citation isn't want you asked for, partly because you never ask for anything specific. You're just a troll.
That is unfortunate. With only two prime factors, one of which being 13, base 26 is even worse than base 10, and it doesn't even have anatomical coincidence to recommend it. Much better to use base 36 -- we have a ready made character set for it by simply adding the digits to the 26 alphabetic characters. This gives us many more integer prime factors. Not as good as base 60, but better than base 26 and finger numbers.
I can’t find any proof you’re innocent, only a complete lack or evidence that you are guilty.

Guess we better send you to CECOT. Have fun with your 0.6m^2 of living space. Too bad you weren’t innocent.
I grew up on IRC, had sites on Geocities and Angelfire. That was the old internet people miss, not 4chan.
Why? I am not pleased with the government forced pills such as TikTok, Twitter and other such shite shoved down my throat.

You may enjoy the walled garden, I for one don't. Such sites gave you a hole to get away from the dystopian view that these gardens hold.

They gave independence away from forced control.
"The US government has conceded Mr Ábrego García was deported because of an "administrative error", though it also says he is a member of the MS-13 gang - something his lawyer denies. "

Try actually reading the article next time. Again, the burden of proof here should be falling on PROVING he is a member of ms-13, not proving he isn't. You are obviously arguing this in bad faith.
The site has an API for reading posts [0]. It works (worked?) quite well. For making posts, you'd need to write your own functionality that forwards the CAPTCHA and post timers.

[0]: https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API
Yes. Your spending is a far more powerful vote than any democratic process. Your society is what it spends on. A society addicted to cheap trash is going to be precisely that.

These 'dollar stores' are wealth extraction centres, which don't really provide anything to society other than enriching a dropshipping middle class and foreign exploitative factory owner class. There's very little value being created.

I'd far rather support places where purchases have numerous positive externalities, whether it be from labour conditions to promoting curiosity, or from environmental impacts, to building local communities.

Society was doing quite ok until the greedy middleman classes decided to render the domestic working classes irrelevant for a little short-term profit, just so we can buy new LED lights, or change our t-shirt collection every week.
Good that you're not a policy maker. I'll order something from temu today
Halfchan's likely been around longer than you have and will just as likely remain around long after you're gone
Ask HN: I'm a 24-year-old Postgres internals hacker – would love your wisdom
Hey HN,

I'm 24 and have been diving into Postgres internals and learning about other database systems since I was 21. I'm deeply fascinated by systems programming and database architecture — especially how things work under the hood.

I'm trying to shape a long-term career in this space, and I'd really appreciate hearing from folks with more experience. A few questions I’ve been reflecting on:

1)What are some things you wish you had done earlier in your journey?

2)What are some things you wish you hadn’t spent time earlier on?

3)What keeps you motivated or helps you push through when you’re stuck or feeling low?

Any advice, reflections, or stories would mean a lot. Thanks in advance!
Knime Extension: Low-Code Graph Analysis Is Here
Maybe "cranking out" is the part that's failing not "original". Like this post cranking out non-news.
They have a chance to come-up with a user-friendly framework on top of MCP and make a big difference in acceleration of adoption. Cherry on the cake would be if they can build a UI on top of it to build/monitor/visualize. Hosted by them with a generous free-tier i.e. more private data to munch on for ads (only half joking).
A practical guide to building agents [pdf]
Is the UI of OS an emulation? First link says it's a simulation not an emulator.
What's the use case for using Telegram over Whatsapp? At least the latter has proper end-to-end encryption of content?
Eh, collective punishment is the fallacy.

These problems are generally industrial in nature so it's very knowable as to where a large source of pollution comes from.

There just isn't a political will to actually enforce laws.
Once you've made this many comments about it and are still unwilling to describe the acts you're defending I would certainly call that playing.
> In that the UK does not, in fact, have lower tariffs

When tariffs were applied, UK got 10%, EU got 20%. There's currently a temporary reprieve on the EU.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/02/trump-tariff...
He's an illegal who had a credible (like actually credible, like you could pitch it to someone in the year 2002, not the flimsy 2020s BS) claim for asylum but didn't file in time. He was eventually caught up in the system for reasons not related to the commission of any crime. ICE looked at his case, and gave him a "we won't deport you because your case is pending" status.
This is some grade A trolling.
There are kids in Congo that are claiming to be older than they are so they can get work in mines to feed themselves and their families. If they don’t work they and their families starve, but if they do work they are encouraging immoral child labor. I don’t understand why many people think the answer is easy and straightforward in that case, this sounds like the trolley problem to me.
The idea of being able to keep a laptop sounds absurd to me. Of course many European countries have labor laws which make it near impossible to fire someone on the spot.

>Only in very critical jobs they'd walk you out immediately but then you still get the pay.

Presumably you are also still employed, just not given any tasks. I do not think that here in Germany there is any way to immediately fire someone, just because he was working on something critical.

Many companies refuse to do layoffs entirely. Which often means that they have difficulties responding to changes in the environment or need to heavily rely on contractors.
Meh, good riddance. The old internet wasn't all good.