MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adduc | 2025-04-02 21:46:59+00:00
> The final launch will be Thundermail, an email hosting service using the open-source Stalwart stack. Users will be able to pick between thundermail.com and tb.pro domains.

If the article is correct, Thundermail will be built using Stalwart[1], which appears to support JMAP

[1]: https://stalw.art/
by deanmen | 2025-04-02 21:47:02+00:00
Location: Corpus Christi, TX USA

Remote: Yes

Wiling to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Java

Resume / CV: https://github.com/menezesd/hello-world/blob/master/Tech_Res...

email: dean.menezes@utexas.edu
by shw1n | 2025-04-02 21:47:11+00:00
I'm not sure where I see we disagree?

I actually agree with everything you said, mostly just want people whose views are actually tribal and not open to discussion to acknowledge them as such, via:

"If someone is self-aware enough to consciously acknowledge their choice to remain in the bubble, that’s totally fair. I respect it like I’d respect anyone who chooses to participate in a more traditional religion. My issue is when this view is falsely passed off as an intellectually-driven one."

unless you're saying I shouldn't bother being polite and avoiding the convo at times, which I guess I disagree there
by jakelevirne | 2025-04-02 21:47:13+00:00
> Could you use it even on teams that aren’t using AI to generate code?

That's a great question that we haven't really talked about. The part of the AI codegen workflow that prompted this (no pun intended) is that it forces you to say/type aloud all your incremental intentions. It's the first time a tool has access to what was often previously inner monologue for most developers. But I know several developers who think aloud even without using AI (rubber ducking). But beyond just thinking aloud, using an AI code generator like Cursor Agent lets you express intent aloud and then easily change your mind (e.g. abandoning a code branch or using Cursor checkpoints)... the informal intent is right there next to the code for the first time.

Yes, comments could be that in theory. But in 70 years, I still don't think we've got a single fully commented codebase that includes fully documented product and technical intent.

Inferring intent is _really_ interesting. Though of course we have many examples where the code does not accurately express the intent (thank you, bugs). But could we bootstrap an intent store from existing code and then allow developers to validate and augment it with a more verbose process going forward? I think so.
by DocTomoe | 2025-04-02 21:47:18+00:00
> Yes but the cause was not American.

Yes, it was. America was setting up the scene for the pacific war by raising customs and tariffs on Japanese imports with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930). The Japanese were just democratizing when the US decided to kill their economy. Thus, the Japanese had one of two choices - take needed resources they purchased before by force, or accept a massive decline in standard of living. They decided to take the first route. Attacked the Chinese, and when the US started sanctioning it, eventually they bombed Pearl Harbour.

And don't forget how the Nazis were basically funded out of American pockets.

Just because the first shot was not fired by an American does not mean they were not the cause.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-02 21:47:29+00:00
Musk's most basic skill is con artistry.

He conned "institutional investors" with pie in the sky promises that are now long overdue and nowhere close to being met.

Example: He bragged about having a million orders for Cybertruck. Only about 50k have been registered.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/demand-off-charts-elon-musk-1...

Now that these "investment professionals" bought what he was selling in a big way (they hold 70% of the stock), they are reluctant to admit they were snookered by selling and locking in their losses. Their upcoming performances bonuses hang in the balance.
by colechristensen | 2025-04-02 21:47:35+00:00
>This seems like overkill unless you are very convinced that your cans will come in contact with seawater.

It seems like a really minor effort layer of protection with almost 0 overhead to protect a person against death. Getting botulism food poisoning at sea by yourself in a tiny boat could very well be a death sentence. Especially if a substantial portion of your food was compromised.

$20 at costco for bags and an hour bagging all of your cans before your trip is hardly overkill.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-02 21:47:49+00:00
I actually did it. This was back in the times when you could get a job the next day, and my new employer didn't want me keeping anything from the old employer by the time I started. Old employer was dragging their feet on the shipping label and made it clear that failure to return the equipment would be considered theft. I gave them a week of daily reminder emails with an approaching deadline (no response), then handed it to the cops as abandoned property. Got a few HR calls immediately afterwards asking how to pick it up, and an annoyed police call asking me not to do it again.
by cmurf | 2025-04-02 21:48:02+00:00
Uhh... Whether you're a citizen isn't a factor. There's no federal sales tax, although these tariffs act as an import tax that will increase the wholesale costs. And state sales taxes don't apply to imports or wholesale transactions, they are retail tax (or also often a use tax if a sales tax wasn't previously imposed).

VAT is not only a retail sales tax, it'll apply anytime the widget is somehow modified (value is added).
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 21:48:28+00:00
> When given the choice between food on the table / roof over their head / cash in the bank account and abstract values like "republican government", "rule of law" and "protecting human rights" etc. they will choose the former.

That's the opposite of the truth. Republican regions have long voted against their economic interests in favor of their values. Look at all the white working class people in the South that have long voted Republican over values, even as the GOP took away or blocked their benefits, education, health care, minimum wage, labor rights, etc.
by maqp | 2025-04-02 21:48:32+00:00
1. It's not end-to-end encrypted by default.

2. No group chat, even a small one between close friends is end-to-end encrypted.

3. Almost all desktop clients support no end-to-end encryption for 1:1 chats, meaning if you use the desktop client as part of your workflow, you're forced to drop using the end-to-end encrypted secret chats.

4. No cryptographers have ever worked in the company.

5. Horrible teething issues for the protocol:

Telegram hosted a cracking contest back in 2013. Everyone in the industry know they are bullshit, and this was discussed back in 2013 The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (1998) | Hacker News The tldr is, Moxie issued a counter challenge to Telegram where he presented the same goals with already broken primitives like MD5, to break the encryption. Telegram never proved the challenge could be won even under those conditions. (Also again, given that Telegram’s built in backdoor of “people are lazy” exists, the cracking contest was pointless. It doesn’t matter how good the encryption is if the adversary wears you down to hand over the keys).

http://unhandledexpression.com:8081/crypto/general/security/...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20160425091011/http://www.alexra...

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

https://mtpsym.github.io/

Also this:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-02 21:48:32+00:00
Trump is going for a 1-2 punch. First tariffs and then tax cuts to soften the blow of price increases. It also puts republicans in a choke hold to force the tax cut legislation through, because the fallout of tariffs with no tax cuts would be a death knell for the party.

Maybe in a sim city game this would balance out, but it's a tall order for a real world scenario. Prepare for a bumpy road ahead.
by TOMDM | 2025-04-02 21:48:49+00:00
Non of that is incompatible with what I've said though.

Looming legislation and contracting alone are not a problem.

With all this scrutiny there is no evidence of a quid pro quo.

This is what I was getting at above, that there is room in the Twitter files for a chilling effect on speech when it comes to these competing interests, but what you're comparing it to is so far beyond the pale as to be absurd.

Look at this without the vitriol. There's a lot of stuff that looks weird, but it's been heavily investigated and so far no one has found anything deeper.

When you compare that to measurable harm, I think it's right that people take issue
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-02 21:49:12+00:00
> Benford was brought in to help calculate the probability that someone or something would intrude on the site for as long as it remains dangerous — approximately the next 10,000 years. It turns out, few things (outside of organized religions and ritualized traditions) last that long.

What a weird thing to say. No organized religion or ritualized tradition has ever lasted that long.
by buildsjets | 2025-04-02 21:50:01+00:00
Pay a lawyer, which genrally is around the same cost as paying the fine, but you don't get it on your driver's record. If you are in Washington State, you have probably seen Jeannie Mucklestone's billboards on the side of the road attesting to her success rate in beating traffic tickets. My experience is that her claims are accurate.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-02 21:50:56+00:00
I think asking another person or a friend who they voted for is not really "astonishing". It felt like you were using that to sort of show off your position as someone who both would never do that and hangs out with people who don't do that. It's like the position established in the article was "obvious" because you're "superior". That was the slight tone I was sensing.
by awslattery | 2025-04-02 21:51:12+00:00
Vet here, who has done Grow with Google events for Veterans in the past, as well as currently serving as a mentor for Google Developer Groups in North America.

Understand the drive to find Vets who want to engage with the demand side, but the supply side re: Become a Mentor is missing a lot of information: what are the expectations, time commitment, how to register events, is there support for events, etc.

For example, I'd be happy to host events and provide a regular touchpoint to connect and mentor folks locally, but I've got another kid coming in a few months, so I'm having to be extra picky with my time at the moment.
by floxy | 2025-04-02 21:51:35+00:00
Here is what they say anyway:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-pr...
by evenoroddman | 2025-04-02 21:52:25+00:00
I am not sure about all the features codepen has. But here are some features you can try in scriptpad:

- Installable as app (PWA) on all devices. Works offline.

- You can download your snippets as zip.

- Editor supports emmet, for fluent devEx.

- Configurable editor, you can find all configs by clicking the gear icon on top right (or using CMD/Ctrl + K).

Sidenote: If you are seeing cached version for some reason, please ensure to hard refresh the page using "ctrl+shift+r".
by jfengel | 2025-04-02 21:52:41+00:00
That is a good observation.

Primaries are actually a relatively recent innovation. Before that, the candidates just appeared from the party machines. All of the ugliness went on out of public view.

For the last several elections people complained that there wasn't much difference between Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. And there isn't. They are a center leftish (by American standards) bunch.

The party has a small wing further to the left, but it just isn't enough to put forth a strong candidate. That is the biggest ugliness we get now: they don't feel represented and often, they don't vote.
by fakeironman2 | 2025-04-02 21:52:57+00:00
Correction: average tariffs on China prior to today was 42% https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trad.... This means after today, average tariffs on China will be 76%.

China is already in a Great Depression, and this tariff hike guarantees China to be in 30+ years of economic depression.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-02 21:53:14+00:00
Update on this machine: After applying all pending updates to-date it has remained clean and runs about 2.7GB memory used at the desktop with nothing foreground open. While that offends my sensibilities in the general sense (remembering running Linux w/ X and Netscape in 8MB of RAM, or Windows XP in 128MB) that doesn't seem bad for what it is.
by rendx | 2025-04-02 21:53:25+00:00
You can even get full 'root' on a virtual machine for that price, and plenty of webhosting options.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/2-usd-vps-cheap-vps-under-2-month...

For many years now I've been hosting my IRC bouncer on a $13/yr VPS at netcup and it has been more stable than some of my other VPSes.
by alaxhn | 2025-04-02 21:53:28+00:00
Does this sentiment extend more broadly than a single administration? Can we broadly expect many potentially problematic behaviors to continue until an effective negative stimulus is given?

It's interesting to me why this perspective is popular when applied a certain administration but not popular when applied to other things such as

* Poverty \ * Drug Addiction \ * Homelessness \ * Obesity \ * Undocumented Border Crossings
by alpsencer | 2025-04-02 21:53:48+00:00
I was one of the first beta testers of Devin, I know everyone loved him :D, so I thought, why not compare it with the new shiny Manus? Sounded like a good show to watch. So, I ran a little side quest this weekend where I put two of the most hyped AI agents head-to-head: Devin AI vs. Manus AI.

I compared them on four different tasks: building an educational webpage, summarizing research projects, analyzing public sentiment, and making an interactive political simulation (got these examples from the Manus's website)

But the best part is after the comparisons, I asked Devin to analyze and rate how overhyped Manus is... and let's just say Devin didn’t hold back. I put the "evaluation" chart it generated :D

Here is also the link of Devin's analysis: https://manus-ai-evaluation-website-v5gb3spi.devinapps.com/

My quick takeaways:

- Manus: Honestly, much better at creative, general-purpose stuff. Definitely the show-off in the room. (mostly because of some Claude magic)

- Devin: More structured and solid when it comes to technical, detailed tasks, but struggles when things get a bit... general.

Both have their strengths, both feel a little overhyped in different ways.

If anyone wants the full breakdown of what I tested and how they did, here is the link of the post i just wanted to share.

Actually, as a researcher, my usual work has been on LLM SWE agents and their evaluation. I’ve worked on analyzing SWE Bench and similar benchmarks to explore how we can further analyze and improve their performance in real-world tasks. So if you're working in a similar field, happy to chat!

I recently got full access to Manus itself, so I’m now planning to do a v2 of this comparison. If you have any good ideas, let me know! :D Maybe there is way to compete them head-to-head, in real time.
by homefree | 2025-04-02 21:54:03+00:00
It's not that they need to be popular, it's that voting them down leads them to be dropped off from view (and makes it less likely dissenting views will be shared). Reddit is the extreme case of this where anything outside the majority group consensus is heresy to be voted down/hidden/banned.

Better sites don't do this and have in-good-faith discussion despite disagreement.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 21:54:06+00:00
Yeah, but that's just a tertiary strategy. Think of it this way: The Dems are so pathetic, their best option is to try to use the enemy's communication mechanism.

They simply need to solve their problem. That they have it is absurd and makes them look pathetic, cowed, and ineffectual victims - not something people vote for. What is more important to a political party than a means of public communication?
by redactsure | 2025-04-02 21:54:18+00:00
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by mihaitodor | 2025-04-02 21:54:23+00:00
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Hey everyone, I am a mid-career Software Engineer seeking research assistant / academic / industry opportunities in computational biology which can help me gain domain knowledge.

I would like to explore topics such as cancer immunotherapy, genome engineering, epigenetic clocks and the underlying mechanisms of biological ageing. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you're interested in bouncing around project ideas or starting a collaboration.
by mihaitodor | 2025-04-02 21:54:28+00:00
SEEKING WORK Location: Dublin, Ireland Remote: Yes, but some time in an office would be nice Willing to relocate: Yes, I'd like that Technologies: Golang, Python, C++ Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XhSKk9FijlrP8jhbEVrBs5TG9dXe6f4wt9vnPBWclnY/edit Email: todormihai [at] gmail [dot] com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtodor GitHub: https://github.com/mihaitodor

Hey everyone, I am a mid-career Software Engineer seeking research assistant / academic / industry opportunities in computational biology which can help me gain domain knowledge.

I would like to explore topics such as cancer immunotherapy, genome engineering, epigenetic clocks and the underlying mechanisms of biological ageing. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you're interested in bouncing around project ideas or starting a collaboration.
by codazoda | 2025-04-02 21:54:29+00:00
Love the idea.

There are a couple oddities I found in the UI.

1. When you sign up the prompt says “signup”. I didn’t know what it wanted. I finally just guessed username and that was right.

2. I couldn’t get tokens to create (which they say are highly recommended). I hit c for create, entered a name, press enter. Nothing.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-02 21:54:37+00:00
The loss of chatter around the soft skills around tech (so business but also UI/UX design, design patterns, organizational approaches (like holocracy), planning processes, etc) has made HN a lot less interesting IMO. If I just wanted the usual tinfoil hat FOSS BOFH content, then I can go literally anywhere else. Reddit, Matrix, IRC, Telegram, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, they're all full of it.

Then there's the widening of scope to big social issues that's a different matter altogether.
by tnt128 | 2025-04-02 21:54:55+00:00
I don’t buy the blanket statement that the consumer always pays the tariff. It depends on what alternative companies have. If a company can purchase the same clothing from Chinese, Vietnamese, or Mexican vendors, a tax on China only could make the Chinese vendors lower the price or risk losing the business.

However, a blanket tax on every country, regardless of available alternatives, would leave businesses with fewer options and make it more likely that the cost is passed on to consumers.
by jakub_g | 2025-04-02 21:55:04+00:00
The chart with car colors has been famous for a few years. However I'm seeing an inverse trend in past 1-2 years (at least in France); new cars are getting very colorful. For example:

- Renault Clio is very popular in metallic orange

- Renault 5 e-tech in bright yellow and green

- MG in aqua/azure blue

- Peugeot 208 in dark yellow and blue and dark red
by anitil | 2025-04-02 21:56:07+00:00
This was a really refreshing read! It's so easy to measure the wrong thing and build optimisations that make zero difference. I spent hours making a perfect hashing module for Python using gperf, all of the micro-benchmarks looked better, but in the end it was basically comparable to (possibly even slower than) CPython's built-in dict, with the downside of not being modifiable after creation

I've recently been listening to 'Signal and Threads' by Jane Street and there was a recent episode on performance optimisation and it hits a few of the same notes [0], worth a listen if you have time.

[0] https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...
by gtsop | 2025-04-02 21:56:16+00:00
> Do you have some required reading to share here

Lenin's Imperialism

> but bad for economic growth

Yes, it is bad for economic growth, but this is not the tactic of protectionism. It is in the name that the purpose is to protect domestic production. It is done by forcing competition barriers on external producers

> What is the phase called?

Economic crisis / intense rivalry. US is economically threatened by the rise of China, it has been on the radar for many years. Things have reached a point where US can't just sit there and do nothing as China challenges the global status quo.

> What is this amputation and what spreading is it stopping?

The spreading is the slow but ongoing rise of Chinas economic power. The amputation is thr free-trade bariers
by NKosmatos | 2025-04-02 21:56:39+00:00
Welcome Tom, all the best with your new role and thanks for being a moderator along with Daniel :-)

It’s good to see MGR (Moderator Geographic Redundancy) being implemented on HN ;-)

Using RAID as an analogy, we now have RAID 1 moderators so let’s hope to have RAID 6 soon :-P

Ok ok, enough with the silly tech jokes and the smiley’s.
by tim333 | 2025-04-02 21:57:50+00:00
It seems kind of bizarre to me how a few months ago the Economist cover on the US economy was 'Envy of the World' on how they were doing better than everyone else https://archive.ph/xIJmT And now we have:

>“For decades our country has been looted, pillaged and raped,” Trump told an audience that included cabinet members and car workers. “It’s not going to happen any more.”

as a justification for a trade war. I guess people voted for this?
by jocaal | 2025-04-02 21:58:12+00:00
Making the framework 16 a gaming machine and going on about a modular gpu was a large miss in my opinion. That laptop should have been like the Asus Zephyrus g16 but without a gpu. If they released a refresh now, it should have the strix halo flagship and a different design. I wonder if the sales numbers agree with me.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-02 21:58:17+00:00
>25% on South Korea, 32% on Taiwan, 36% on Thailand, 46% on Vietnam

Harley Davidson moved some of its production to Thailand in 2018 to avoid a 31% tariff the EU had on US manufactured motorcycles, announced in 2024 it was moving more production there, and prior to today had plans to sell the Thailand produced bikes back into the US, as the US had a 0% tariff on bikes. Not surprisingly Thailand has a 60% tariff on imported motorcycles.

This tariff jumping is real. I guess we will see how it works out for the US.