MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tech234a | 2025-04-08 01:33:51+00:00
As a more recent example of a similar concept, TiVo would distribute guide data to their DVRs using encoded video broadcast during overnight Paid Programming time slots. The practice ran from about 1999 to 2016. Around 2016, TiVo discontinued support for guide data updates for their first-generation Series1 DVRs. I couldn't find much information about these broadcasts online, though someone did post a clip of one from 2003 [1], there are a few copies of more recent introduction and conclusion animations [2], and there is some information about them on Wikipedia [3]. It could be a fun project to try to decode it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnu97CHDrYI

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial#TiVo
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-08 01:34:17+00:00
>They are allowed to use the AEA to arrest and deport foreign criminals

They did not reach the point of ruling for against the use of the AEA in these circumstances.

>The detainees seek equitable relief against the implementation of the Proclamation and against their removal under the AEA. They challenge the Government’s interpretation of the Act and assert that they do not fall within the category of removable alien enemies. But we do not reach those arguments. Challenges to removal under the AEA, a statute which largely “‘preclude[s] judicial review,’” Ludecke v. Watkins, 335 U. S. 160, 163−164, (1948), must be brought in habeas.
by namuorg | 2025-04-08 01:34:21+00:00
Hey Pavel, this is Namu, the creator of Browser MCP.

You’re right, this is an adaptation of Playwright MCP to automate the user’s local browser as mentioned in the GitHub README and here:

- https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/3e6824de6f36eba7d2d3b...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613905

Thanks for all your work to Playwright and Playwright MCP. I’m a big fan!

(For those not familiar, Pavel is the largest contributor to both Playwright and Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/graphs/contributors, https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/graphs/contribut...)
by gnabgib | 2025-04-08 01:34:33+00:00
> Cookies with HttpOnly attribute can't be read on the client

That's not right, they only can't be read in client JavaScript. Can certainly be read by the client (browser) and in a non-browser context (curl, node) it's irrelevant (like CSP).

> Same-Site: This attribute controls whether 3rd party assets can set their own cookies

No... that's not what same-site means. https://owasp.org/www-community/SameSite
by skissane | 2025-04-08 01:36:39+00:00
> running on Microsoft Jazz workstations (in-house Microsoft workstation design using Intel i860 RISC CPUs)

Correcting myself: Microsoft Jazz machines used MIPS not i860; the i860 machines were Microsoft Dazzle

NT for MIPS actually ended up shipping for customers; I believe NT for i860 was abandoned as soon as the MIPS port was usable
Ask HN: Is There a Crypto Equivalent to Tracking Politician's Transactions?
by zigmig | 2025-04-08 01:36:59+00:00
I'm curious if there's a platform similar to Capitol Trades (capitoltrades.com) or AutoPilot but for the cryptocurrency market. These platforms allow users to track stock market transactions made by U.S. politicians. Is there a crypto version of this where you can track transactions or holdings of key figures in the crypto space, such as developers, founders, or institutional investors? Any suggestions or resources?

Thanks in advance!
by cryptonector | 2025-04-08 01:39:11+00:00
Ah, right, at Sun we used MQ. But anyways, just glancing at the hg evolve docs I'm unconvinced. And anyways, it's an "extension". Mercurial fought rebase for a long time, and they did dumb things like "rebase is non-interactive, and histedit is for when you want to edit the history".

And that is partly why Mercurial lost. They insisted on being opinionated about workflows being merge-based. Git is not opinionated. Git lets you use merge workflows if you like that, and rebase workflows if you like that, and none of this judgment about devs editing local history -- how dare the VCS tell me what to do with my local history?!
by re-thc | 2025-04-08 01:39:19+00:00
The point is you can’t just shift and replicate so easily.

Same applies whether it’s farms or even clouds.

You downplay and make it sound easy. It’s all great in theory and to talk about it.

Imagine if everyone moved assembly to the US. The demand would skyrocket salaries and other costs with supplying not keeping up and then you’d be paying even more than the tariffs itself.
by trhway | 2025-04-08 01:39:33+00:00
>Shenzen or other places in Mainland China

Shenzen, Dongguan, Guangzhou - ie. the Pearl River Delta, population 86 million, that somebody called a largest factory on Earth. I see no way to beat that "factory" in any manufacturing game (the first thing in manufacturing is scale). I think we were just lucky that that factory has been working for us basically "at cost" (and very low cost at that). All good things come to an end though.
by reitzensteinm | 2025-04-08 01:40:32+00:00
Troy Teslike claims this also includes the $35/kWh tax credit linked below, which would be a substantial boost. I'm not in a position to verify and Troy's content is behind a Patron paywall, so make of that what you will.

This would further imply it's not an apples to apples comparison, but that doesn't change that it's genuinely cheaper for Tesla.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/15/2023-27...
by defrost | 2025-04-08 01:41:58+00:00
It's a middling result:

Venezuelans in the United States labeled by President Donald Trump as “alien enemies” must be given a chance to challenge their deportations before being expelled from the country, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. Courts in Texas may not be especially receptive to such petitions. Any appeals will be heard by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s most conservative federal appeals court. Still, the Supreme Court’s ruling appears to deal a setback to Trump’s attempt to swiftly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, under powers used only three prior times in U.S. history, most recently in World War II. Nevertheless, Trump declared victory Monday.

Supreme Court says Venezuelans Trump wants to deport must be able to ‘actually seek’ relief before being deported

~ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/supreme-court-depor...
by imgabe | 2025-04-08 01:42:39+00:00
Purdue Pharma is not one of the richest companies anymore. They have been sued into oblivion. The fact that some terminally online redditors like to farm karma by posting "Fuck Nestle" every time they're mentioned because of a 40 year old scandal is not really representative of them being "most hated". To 99% of people Nestle is chocolate chips and candy bars. Most people do not care about any of this, except maybe Comcast, and that is a case of regulatory capture.

Yeah, things can spy on you to target ads. If this bothers you, block ads. They can target all the ads they want at me, I'll never see them.

Call audio quality might have been better, but video quality was nonexistent. My mom can see her granddaughter from the other side of the world and that was simply not even possible 20 years ago.

You can still root your phone and most computers are still your own, if this is important for you. For the vast majority of people, they don't even understand what the settings mean and it is a relief that they don't have to deal with them. The average consumer experience compared to editing autoexec.bat and fiddling with .ini files to get a game working on Windows 95 is a vast improvement.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-08 01:43:13+00:00
A lot of my:

* more advanced refactoring tricks, * patterns to improve mental management * project layout methodologies * SQL techniques and learning

And more have come from mentorship with my coworkers; and I know that I've helped several developers grow more skilled themselves by showing them that a more tenured developer gets just as stuck, frustrated, etc - while also showing techniques to get myself unstuck, the way I search for answers, etc.

I've also made sure to give others project sizes that I think they can handle - and when I'm wrong, I make shrink the task into smaller bits that they can then probably handle, and all of that builds confidence and experience without breaking them down. I think it even helps to build them up.

So, yeah, definitely more than 10%.

I'm speaking especially about the work environment. When I was going through college, sure, there were fellow students that had rougher times; but once I got into the industry everyone has been sufficiently skilled to work through things. Now, sometimes I was better at specific areas of work than people of the same or higher rank; but stepping back and watching, they were better at other areas than I was - a lot better.
by godelski | 2025-04-08 01:44:57+00:00
> Yes.

You are being needlessly obtuse. If you are not going to at least pretend to be acting in good faith, then you just shouldn't comment at all.

> The United States government is not allowed to regulate commerce unless it is interstate

This isn't true even in the slightest. You are thinking of the Commerce Clause (Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution), which states that Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, between states, and with tribes (which are kinda foreign nations).

This does not state that the Federal Government cannot define what is legal and illegal. This is done pretty regularly. 24 states have legalized weed and 39 have made it available for medical use, YET it is still illegal under federal ruling and these dispensaries get raided by Federal Agents routinely. There is no violation of the Constitution here.

I'll admit that my previous comment was quite terse, but I make a better point over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606823

And remember, law doesn't work like code. It needs to be interpreted with intent. The letter of the law is imprecise and is not meant to be absolute. If you know what someone means, don't derail the conversation as if you have a gotcha. You're welcome to request better language, but you don't "win" by misrepresenting what is well understood. We're trying to communicate, not exploit software.
by phil21 | 2025-04-08 01:47:02+00:00
In the US we are at all time lows for internal migration. Or at least very close to them, I haven’t checked those stats in a couple years since this last came up on HN.

We used to (as a population) migrate to opportunity far more than we do now.

For many reasons there is simply far less community engagement and integration going on. Fewer people put down strong “roots” in their communities these days.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-08 01:50:11+00:00
For years I’ve been pressured to have an answer to the question right there, on the spot, no matter what. Interviews drill that into candidates (rote memorization prioritized over critical thinking), the “Agile” methodology and ceremonies tech companies adopt (in part, never in whole) force it, and modern leaders demand it.

And look, just because my OCD means I can answer it in the moment, doesn’t mean I want to. I want to take time to solicit feedback, and talk with my colleagues, and sleep on a decision. It just feels like careful decision-making and feedback cycles are antithetical to the modern “why wasn’t this done before I heard about it in my leadership magazine” business world.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:50:34+00:00
>My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance.

Given the importance even today of understanding assembly compilation towards low level game performance, I'm surprised he'd say this. It wasn't rendered obsolete, it was abstracted away from most of the stack. Meanwhile you need to understand assuembly even more intimately to look under the hood of a modern day game or game engine. esoteric does not mean outdated.

>AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics.

Okay, I'll believe it when I see it. You said the same about Oculus. I'm not even doubting that VR will evolve to a revolution one day. But technology's march can be slow at times.

And that's one of my top 3 problems; I think like VR's hardware barrier, AI is hitting barriers on how iterations with LLMs work. It seems industry's been brute forcing it and we clearly hit a wall already. But we haven't rethought the approach yet. We're just promising and prpmising.

>there will be far better exemplars of the medium still created by dedicated teams of passionate developers.

Depends on how legal proceedings go. At least Quake is Open Source and kinda free ( I think). The vast majority of games probbaly won't let you train that easily. They spent decades making it as hard as possible to back them up, after all.

>“don’t use power tools because they take people’s jobs” is not a winning strategy.

If industry is going to fire you anyway, it's the only move. If industry worked on fostering workers instead of replacing them, they wouldn't be worried. Instead it's finally starting to unionize to protect itself.
by westurner | 2025-04-08 01:52:57+00:00
Genetic programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

Evolutionary computation > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation #History

- "The sad state of property-based testing libraries" re coverage-guided fuzzing and other Hilbert spaces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884466

- re: MOSES and Combo (a Lisp) and now Python too in re: "Show HN: Codemodder – A new codemod library for Java and Python" and libCST and AST and FST; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139198

- opencog/asmoses implements MOSES on AtomSpace, a hypergraph for algorithmic graph rewriting: https://github.com/opencog/asmoses
by EncomLab | 2025-04-08 01:54:16+00:00
I - like ~20% of the humans of planet earth - have a bridged LAD coronary artery. The vast majority of those who have this congenital deformity will never know it and remain asymptomatic; a small cohort of those will, like me, have a minor heart attack and fully recover - a smaller cohort will die of sudden cardiac arrest, many of them males in their teens while practicing football or performing similar cardiac stressing events. Unfortunately determining this congenital deformity requires invasive radiological imaging - hopefully this technology will assist in it's identification sooner.
by spc476 | 2025-04-08 01:56:21+00:00
Here's a recent attempt to load code via video recordings of a TV show from the 80s. It wasn't an easy task. From the Youtube channel Retro Recipies:

Decoding A Program Sent From The Past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezkfYTN6EQ

Did We Decode A Program Sent From The Past?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcs_TUpQ6g

ACTUALLY Receiving A Program Sent From The Past!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0EACgCbM0&t=1203s
by Barrin92 | 2025-04-08 01:58:01+00:00
> Javascript is Lisp in C's clothes? On what basis?

On a lot of bases. Javascript has real lambdas, a sort of homoiconicity of code and data (hence JSON as a data format), also has the same dynamic take as lisps on "types belong to data". Rather than variables types belong to values. Brendan Eich's original idea was literally to "put scheme in the browser" and you can in fact pretty easily convert the Little Schemer to JS.

Saying two languages don't have much in common because they don't have the same syntax is a bit like saying we don't have much in common because we don't have the same hair color.
by ssl-3 | 2025-04-08 01:58:09+00:00
Except: In every practical application that Joe Average has ever experienced, the battery memory problem was only ever a mere myth. (A widely-parroted myth, but a myth nonetheless.)

I feel that your example portrays the opposite of what you may have intended it to portray.

What actually happened was that people went out of their way to do a thing that not only did not improve the overall longevity of their rechargeable batteries, but may have actually made it worse.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:58:38+00:00
Because algorithmic curation shifted from what's quality to what's "sellable". That's a part of why you get sentiments that "media got worse". Hardcore media fans will still scour and find proper curations themselves (or be he curator), but the default of just letting Spotify or Netflix tell what's "quality" is long over.

Another little cut on why people are trusting big tech less ad less.
by goatlover | 2025-04-08 01:59:07+00:00
It's interesting that Amy Coney Barrett sided with the dissent and not Roberts. The big ruling will be on returning the Maryland man who was accidentally deported to an El Salvadoran prison. I can't imagine them siding with Trump's lawyers on that, they're blatantly in the wrong and have been told so by 4 judges now. That would be extremely worrying if SCOTUS upheld his deportation.
$1M Bounty to Integrate National EIDs Using Open Standards
by vinibszx | 2025-04-08 01:59:14+00:00
We're building a global identity verification network at Hopae, and we're running a $1M bounty challenge to get there.

The task:

Pick an eligible government-backed eID (e.g., Singpass from Singapore or Swiyu from Switzerland)

Use our open standards (based on OIDC/SIOP, OIDC4VP, etc.) to integrate it into our system

Submit your implementation and get paid

Base reward: $2,000 per eID (for the next 4 weeks) Up to $8,000 for fast-track submissions (within 5 days of onboarding) 2 eIDs already integrated

If you're into digital identity, government APIs, or want to explore real-world decentralized identity integration, this might be up your alley.

Happy to answer any questions.

https://www.hopae.com/bountychallenge2025
by dsjoerg | 2025-04-08 01:59:26+00:00
Quartz wasn't "destroyed" by cynicism; it collapsed due to its own financial unsustainability.

Investors didn’t kill Quartz—they stopped subsidizing losses once it was clear Quartz couldn't become self-sufficient.

The "cynical" narrative obscures Quartz’s fundamental flaw: lack of a viable business model.

Calling Quartz a victim overlooks that it repeatedly failed commercially, despite many chances and significant investment.

Ultimately, Quartz’s fate wasn't about cynicism, but about investors deciding to stop throwing money into a losing bet.
by Mistletoe | 2025-04-08 02:00:05+00:00
For people that want more data, I always go back to this study which I find fascinating. I run once per week and 7 miles at a time.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/s0025-6196(16)...

Something like that seems to have the best outcomes (will it help you not die?) and it fits with how I feel. Running more than once a week always made me get worn down. My best 5k time came from running one long run a week and lifting weights the rest of the week. I was effectively just wasting my time with the other runs in the week. I don't suggest this for a real professional runner, but for weekend warrior types like me, I think it works well. And I have won my age group before in a race, so I'm not a total novice.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 02:01:49+00:00
The machine is "compiling" the video, not taking the creative helm.

That was the relationship we had for some 200 years. The machine automates and accelerates the predictable labor, and the creative heads composes and conducts the tasks.

As of late, we seem to want to flip the script under the guise that "we can make more content" without considering the impact on the creative process. Not how to drive the output, but just how to make more and more. Creativity be damned. That's the issue.
by qntmfred | 2025-04-08 02:01:50+00:00
if I'm working in Cursor for example, ideally the entire chat history and the proposed changes after each prompt need to be stored. that doesn't fit cleanly into current git development patterns. I don't want to have to type commit messages any more. If I ever need to look at the change history, let AI generate a summary of the changes at that point. let me ask an LLM questions about a given set (or range) of changes if I need to. we need a more natural branching model. i don't want to have to create branches and switch between them and merge them. less typing, more speaking.
by propagandist | 2025-04-08 02:03:17+00:00
Hey, it feels to be true to yourself. Let it all out Peter. Tell us what you truly believe.

You don't need to cloak it with with silly ideas like your sovereign island any longer; the PC days are over.

This is extra funny coming from the guy who spent the past decade+ denigrating education and who sponsored the current VP, who marketed as a "hillbilly," and the president who is, visibly to all of us, a stable genius.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 02:05:27+00:00
The platform providers are enabling the flooding of content so that they get to become the curator and influence minds. Even general search is just an an ad pusher followed by whoever pays up to show up high, then followed by whoever games the system the best.

There's no incentive to fix it because they control the information and profit off the situation. The system is working as intended.
by falcor84 | 2025-04-08 02:05:56+00:00
I don't understand at all what he's saying. He seems to be contradicting himself within that interview, blaming people for not going to Harvard while also saying "Harvard used to mean something, and now it’s churning out robots". But more than that, he seems to be contradicting his Thiel Fellowship thing, which was intended to prove that higher education as a whole isn't that valuable.
by keepamovin | 2025-04-08 02:06:22+00:00
That’s a funny way to look at it, but that’s not a price that’s a policy. It doesn’t have the freedom from obligation that an exchange on price does.

Though I totally get what you mean and license terms are part of the cost that’s why a commercial offering with terms that can be negotiated and a price set to compensate for that seems a great option enough slack to capture the value for both sides.
by haburka | 2025-04-08 02:06:33+00:00
Front end is definitely pretty hard nowadays. It seems like the technology should be easy but keep in mind you’re getting everything for free and this isn’t the field you have a ton of practice in. It’s grown a lot while also being backwards compatible with browsers which are some of the more complicated pieces of software.

Trust me, I get very confused and frustrated whenever I have to figure out python deps or kubernetes, but I accept it’s going to be difficult since I’m not familiar with the field.
by alwillis | 2025-04-08 02:06:51+00:00
From Sotomayor’s dissent:

The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.
by ssl-3 | 2025-04-08 02:07:56+00:00
That may be an improvement, sure.

Whatever it is, if a name is meant to signify new products to potential buyers: The name of the newer product needs to clearly show that it is a newer product than the old product. It must do this literally first and foremost, or it will fail at the goal of improving sales.

(Here we are in 2025, and Intel's sales are shit.)