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by brohoolio | 2025-04-04 11:11:27+00:00
The context is that administration bypassed the typically vetting processes for almost everyone and is flaunting various rules openly (see signal controversy). Those processes for vetting are important to ensure that folks won't betray the U.S.A. and can be trusted.

This individual might be highly talented and completely trustworthy, but because of how the administration is operating opens everything up for scrutiny including things that should have a bit of scrutiny.
by gabrielruttner | 2025-04-04 11:11:42+00:00
Gabe here, one of the hatchet founders. I'm not very familiar with these runner so someone please correct me if I missed something.

These look like great projects to get something running quickly, but likely will experience many of the challenges Alexander mentioned under load. They look quite similar to our initial implementation using FOR UPDATE and maintaining direct connections from workers to PostgreSQL instead of a central orchestrator (a separate issue that deserves its own post).

One of the reasons for this decision to performantly support more complex scheduling requirements and durable execution patterns -- things like dynamic concurrency [0] or rate limits [1] which can be quite tricky to implement on a worker-pull model where there will likely be contention on these orchestration tables.

They also appear to be pure queues to run individual tasks in python only. We've been working hard on our py, ts, and go sdks

I'm excited to see how these projects approach these problems over time!

[0] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/concurrency [1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/rate-limits
by neotek | 2025-04-04 11:11:46+00:00
That's called the naturalistic fallacy, and there's a clue in the name that should indicate how reliable an argument it is.

And re "nutritionally inferior", every dietetics and nutrition peak body on the planet agrees that a fully vegan diet is suitable for all people throughout all stages of life. In fact, billions of people have already lived perfectly normal, perfectly healthy vegan and vegetarian lives throughout history. If your diet — any diet — is nutritionally incomplete it's because you made the wrong choices.
by calgoo | 2025-04-04 11:12:50+00:00
To me its more about the intent and actions. If you figured out how to hack something, and possibly leave a note for the admin to fix their systems, thats one thing.

If you figure out how to hack something, and your first thought is to trash / destroy the system, thats the crime.

So personally: > "where Stanley, at 15, bragged about fucking up servers" is more damning to me then the actual hacking part.
by smeej | 2025-04-04 11:13:24+00:00
There wasn't anything intentional about my question. I just didn't understand what thebparebt commenter meant!

I don't think I understand how your reply relates to the question either, though, because I was asking what it means to see other galaxies "from above" or "from below," when it seemed like that had to do with which direction they appear to be spinning from here.

Your answer is about what we consider "above us" or "below us," but we can still see a galaxy "below us" "from below" relative to it, if it (or we) are "upside down," and I couldn't figure out how we determine the orientation of "upside down" or "backward" for every other galaxy.
by Meekro | 2025-04-04 11:13:27+00:00
There was an HN story some years ago about the guy who created homebrew -- a Mac app used by a plurality of Google employees -- being rejected from a job at Google. This seems to follow that pattern: it's not enough that you achieve great things and talk/write about your achievement, you have to stroke the egos of people who could have never accomplished what you did, but still have the power to judge you because the bureaucracy has given them that power.
by input_sh | 2025-04-04 11:13:30+00:00
I wouldn't really call it a traditional online shop, more like a file shop. They don't sell anything physical, only digital. If you've created a file on your computer that other people want, you can sell it on Gumroad. Depending on what you're trying to sell, there might be a better platform for the purpose (like Bandcamp for music), but Gumroad is the only one I'm aware of that's intentionally generic to fit many purposes (even if imperfectly).

They also don't do shit like putting DRM on ebooks and you can set the minimum price to zero to turn it into a tipping platform (free download, but with an optional payment).
by rayiner | 2025-04-04 11:14:09+00:00
If you are shocked you might consider getting out of your bubble. A recent poll shows Americans support Trump’s deportation program 58-42: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-trump-economy-tari...

Meanwhile, 68% support the Supreme Court’s ban on Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policies: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4411246-majority-supp...

Universities, as institutions, were actively working against the public on both of these issues, from legal clinics trying to block deportations to extensive programs of racial preferences. It’s not surprising many people don’t want the taxpayer to subsidize that.
Show HN: Copy Folder to ChatGPT in 0.6s – OpenRepoPrompt
by CompetitivePen | 2025-04-04 11:14:15+00:00
Over this past month I had the idea to build a 100% open-source MIT-licensed tool to simplify sharing code with LLMs, without the vendor lock-in you get from most SDKs. Right now, it’s way too hard to export your data or work freely with models like o1 PRO or Grok 3, especially since they don’t even have API access.

So I built OpenRepoPrompt, an open-source tool from wildberry-source that serializes files and folders into XML for LLMs. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons of features missing (I'm working on better file filtering next!) but I think it's reached that - buzzword alert! - MVP stage where I want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing.

Here's the OpenPrompt repo: https://github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt. Here are some screenshots I took while making it: https://github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt/raw/main....

I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?
by palata | 2025-04-04 11:14:20+00:00
> If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I always found this quote fascinating, because it kind of assumes that people obviously wanted cars, but didn't know it.

I often wonder what would happen if we went back to those people, showed them how it is to live in a city now (concrete everywhere, roads everywhere, buildings everywhere) and asked them if they would ever want that.

Sure, not everything was perfect then (and not everything is perfect now). But did they really miss TikTok? Not convinced. We make social networks because it's profitable, not because it's benefiting society. Actually the very first reason why we make tech today is because it's profitable.

Because everybody is addicted to TikTok doesn't mean it's desirable.
by abelanger | 2025-04-04 11:14:33+00:00
We actually have support for that, we just haven't migrated the doc over to v1 yet: https://v0-docs.hatchet.run/home/features/webhooks. We'll send a POST request for each task.

> It is such a better system than dedicated long running worker listeners, because then you can just scale your HTTP workers as needed.

This depends on the use-case - with long running listeners, you get the benefit of reusing caches, database connections, and disk, and from a pricing perspective, if your task spends a lot of time waiting for i/o operations (or waiting for an event), you don't get billed separately for CPU time. A long-running worker can handle thousands of concurrently running functions on cheap hardware.

> I also find that DAGs tend to get ugly really fast because it generally involves logic. I'd prefer that logic to not be tied into the queue implementation because it becomes harder to unit test. Much easier reason about if you have the HTTP endpoint create a new task, if it needs to.

We usually recommend that DAGs which require too much logic (particularly fanout to a dynamic amount of workflows) should be implemented as a durable task instead.
by singularity2001 | 2025-04-04 11:15:14+00:00
This is one of the cases I call reality mismatch:

Through evolution we have been programmed to associate music with security of the group being nearby. Now we can listen to music even though the group is very distant in time and space. Maybe it's not a complete reality mismatch because in a sense we are still close to the group through the Internet.

However the positive feelings are over exaggerated given the limited modern benefits.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-04-04 11:15:17+00:00
> A lot of people would say that LLMs generalize pretty well

What do you mean here? The trained model, the inference engine, is the one that makes an LLM for "a lot of people".

> they certainly can understand natural language sequences that are not present in their training data

Keeping the trained model as LLM in mind, I think learning a language includes generalization and is typically achieved by a human, so I'll try to formulate:

Can a trained LLM model learn languages that hasn't been in its training set just by chatting/prompting? Given that any Korean texts were excluded from the training set, could Korean be learned? Does that even work with languages descending from the same language family (Spanish in the training set but Italian should be learned)?
by scosman | 2025-04-04 11:15:26+00:00
It’s one of my favourite MCP use cases. I have cloned projects and used the file browser MCP for this, but this looks great.

It allows you to ask questions about how an entire system works. For example the other day “this GitHub action requires the binary X. Is it in the repo, downloading it, or building it on deploy, or something else.” Or “what tools does this repo used to implement full text search? Give me an overview”
by nipah | 2025-04-04 11:15:35+00:00
We have some hints to be skeptical on the prospect, I would say.

Like the fact we can't even explain an everyday phenomena all humans experience like consciousness. If you don't understand a common phenomena that (supposedly) occurs in the brain, you have a fundamental lack of knowledge on how the brain itself works, and thus simulating it would not be a thing possible to do.

Another hint is the fact that we can't currently even simulate a single cell because of how much complex they are, and the most advanced neuron models (like hodgkin-huxley) are still gross simplifications of how we think a real neuron works. We don't have any proof that this is a possible thing, it is something people believe it is the case, but pretty much could be a dead-end.

Other is that we don't have a way to reliably know the state of the alive brains without modifying them, so reproducing one with fidelity appears to be very hard or maybe even impossible.

And so on.
by mc32 | 2025-04-04 11:15:51+00:00
People will defend or denounce hackers not on the actual activity but will base it on politics.

Ic someone aligns with the hacker hacktivist then that person is good. (All the Anonymous activity a decade back), if they don’t like their politics then they want to bring the weight of federal regulation down on them.

People are hypocrites.

For example, Manning, Schwartz. they are typically seen in good light.

Then there is the scourge of those who hack for money (ransomware) that just about everyone hates.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-04 11:17:05+00:00
Good programming manuals that were delivered with the computers and with the compilers/interpreters have existed about for the entire time when MS-DOS was dominant, i.e. from the launch of IBM PC in 1981, which always had things like a commented BIOS listing, which was very instructive, and detailed documentation of all its hardware peripherals, until the mid nineties, i.e. until Windows 95.

Until the early nineties, the compilers and interpreters from companies like Borland and Microsoft came with big excellent programming manuals demonstrating how to use them.

Also any complex commercial application for MS-DOS, e.g. AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3, the BRIEF editor for programmers etc., would have voluminous manuals, including sections on how to write scripts in whatever embedded scripting language they were using.

Only for the users of pirated copies of MS-DOS, compilers etc., the access to manuals was more difficult and some of them may have even not been aware of what manuals were normally available for the legitimate owners. Most IBM PC clones also did not have much documentation delivered with them. Since they were made to be compatible with IBM, it was supposed that anyone who needs them will buy the original IBM manuals.

Since Windows 95, the vendors of hardware PC peripherals have stopped providing documentation for them, providing closed-source Windows device drivers instead, but before that, whenever I was buying some PC add-on card, it typically came with a manual providing enough information about control registers etc., that I was able to write an MS-DOS device driver myself, if necessary.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-04 11:17:15+00:00
There are politicians in multiple states trying to pass laws that slow down the deployment of renewable energy because they’re afraid if they don’t intervene it will be deployed too quickly and harm fossil fuel interests. Trump is promising to bring back coal, while he bans new wind leases. The whole “oil is the only way aw shucks people chose it” shtick is like a time capsule from 1990. That whole package of beliefs served its purpose and has been replaced with a muscular state-sponsored plan to defend fossil fuel interests even as they become economically obsolete and the rest of the world moves on.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-04 11:17:40+00:00
> I don't see it. What I see is post-hoc rationalisation to justify lust for a feeling of power and control over others.

There's always two sides to a medal. I think that the executive branches of government - across the Western world - suffer from lethargy caused because barely anyone in public service is willing to question, much less stretch or even bend, the rules in power.

A government obviously cannot be purely made out of rulebreakers and, frankly, toddlers and imbeciles. We see this in the current US administration. But it cannot be made out of "we always did it this way" people either, because that's how you end up with systems and processes that are so hopelessly fossilized that no one even understands why these systems are the way they are.
by Khaine | 2025-04-04 11:17:51+00:00
Information on the attack is scarce, but it sounds like attackers obtained credentials from prior breaches and used them against super funds. It is shameful that many of these funds have not yet implemented MFA in this day and age, but it's not like the actual fund got compromised.

Obviously, information at the moment is very light so this understanding may change, but this is the current position.
by erikmacinnis | 2025-04-04 11:18:18+00:00
Hey Hackers,

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I find leaving on time stressful and difficult so I built Lately to help anyone struggling to leave on time.

The app is also gamified so you get points when you arrive on time.

Please let me know what you think! I'd love to know your thoughts and whether you also find leaving on time stressful and difficult.

Btw there is a free version available with all the necessary features you'd need.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-04 11:18:45+00:00
That's all well and good, but if you're looking for a language that will survive for decades, then BASH or shell scripts are a better choice. Often, there'll be some ancient machine that's been almost forgotten about and will die and need replacing. I can trivially copy a 30-year old BASH script and run it on a new machine, but can you do that with a 30-year old Python programme? How will today's Python survive the next 30 years?
by SenorKimchi | 2025-04-04 11:19:03+00:00
> Reuters noted that the Deputy Attorney General’s office is in charge of investigations into various crimes, "including hacking and other malicious cyber activity."

Assuming this is true, wouldn't a history of hacking activity actually be an upside? I don't like Musk but I'm not a fan of the negative spin. Hell, when I was 15 I'm sure some things I did could now be charged as "hacking" or "cyberterrorism" or something much harsher than the actual reality under today's laws.

edit after reading further along:

> Among them was Jonathan Rusch, a 25-year DOJ veteran prosecutor now in academia, who told Reuters that Stanley's apparent history of disclosing illegally acquired data should have prompted "serious concerns."

Is this guy a veteran who prosecutes, a guy who prosecutes veterans, or something else? It feels even weirder to spin the Doge employees as inexperienced kids (which they may be) but then to call a 25 year old critic a veteran prosecutor.
by GPerson | 2025-04-04 11:19:31+00:00
Since you make no argument to justify your unfounded claim, I’ll simply respond by informing you that these (obviously) are not remotely similar. To claim they are indicates some kind of deep disrespect for your fellow human beings. You could not tell the difference between taking a screen shot of the Mona Lisa and spending a lifetime to perfect the art of painting and then putting years of effort into painting it.
by bberenberg | 2025-04-04 11:19:57+00:00
My understanding is that even nutrition packaging is often off by up to 30%. Sorry, no source, just what I’ve heard a number of times. If I want to diet I typically build this in and it works well. If they’re actually off by 10% that’s not terrible.

But I tried one of these apps years ago and it went a step further than photos. It used the front facing camera on iPhones to build a 3d model of the food and measure its volume as well. Even that was off by more up to 50% not 10%.

The interesting thing I found, and it’s obvious when you read it but not when you’re trying to diet, is if you don’t layer food on top of itself or other food, you (and a camera based calorie counter) will have a much better understanding of how much you’re eating. Bowls / mounds of food will deceive you.
by ucha | 2025-04-04 11:20:01+00:00
You can have growing deficits without actually "selling the nation" when you account for growth and inflation.

Say foreigners own 50% of US assets. When someone creates in the US a company ex nihilo and sells 10% of it to foreign investors, even though foreigners bought more US assets, this new wealth creation causes the % of foreign-owned US assets to diminish.

When foreign investors own US bonds, as inflation increases and the money supply increases, they end up owning less in real terms.

This doesn't account for investments that are limited in quantity such as real estate.

Also just because those are opposing forces, doesn't mean that foreign ownership wouldn't increase. As a matter of fact, when looking at the foreign ownership of US stocks, it has been steadily increasing.
by tsurba | 2025-04-04 11:20:40+00:00
I don’t believe so. I think all important parts that each need to be scaled to advance significantly in the LLM paradigm are at or near the end of the steep part of the sigmoid:

1) useful training data available in the internet 2) number of humans creating more training data ”manually” 3) parameter scaling 4) ”easy” algorithmic inventions 5) available+buildable compute

”Just” needing a few more algorithmic inventions to keep the graphs exponential is a cop out. It is already obvious that just scaling parameters and compute is not enough.

I personally predict that scaling LLMs for solving all physical tasks (eg cleaning robots) or intellectual pursuits (they suck at multiplication) will not work out.

We will get better specialized tools by collecting data from specific, high economic value, constrained tasks, and automating them, but scaling a (multimodal) LLM to solve everything in a single model will not be economically viable. We will get more natural interfaces for many tasks.

This is how I think right now as a ML researcher, will be interesting to see how wrong was I in 2 years.

EDIT: addition about latest algorithmic advances:

- Deepseek style GRPO requires a ladder of scored problems progressively more difficult and appropriate to get useful gradients. For open-ended problems (like most interesting ones are) we have no ladders for, and it doesn’t work. In particular, learning to generate code for leetcode problems with a good number of well made unit tests is what it is good for.

- Test-time inference is just adding an insane amount of more compute after training to brute-force double-check the sanity of answers

Neither will keep the graphs exponential.
by energy123 | 2025-04-04 11:20:55+00:00
Remember the markets are still pricing in some hopeium that Trump will blink or the congress or courts will block the tariffs or that Trump will be impeached if the tariffs do too much damage. As the tariffs remain the markets will continue down.

Trump is everything you don't want in this situation -- ideologically attached to tariffs, not educated in basic economics, cognitively inflexible, tunnel visioned on trade imbalances, possesses a zero sum worldview his whole life, stubborn, shameless, and surrounded by sycophants. It's bad.
by nipponese | 2025-04-04 11:21:42+00:00
Until they become majority shareholders or outright owners.

In the short-term it may turn out to be fine, but over the long run, you have to pray the foreign owners' values are aligned with American success (keeping Americans employed, building value and not asset stripping the company).

Though I will admit recently I don't even feel like even American owners' values are aligned with American success.
by palata | 2025-04-04 11:22:24+00:00
> We, the people, have the power to improve this situation. Call your representatives, do activism, talk to your friends about it, vote for the right candidates.

And stop eating meat and fish! It's insane for many reasons even if you don't care about how the animals are treated:

* Biodiversity loss: because we kill everything in the sea by fishing, and we kill everything in the fields for intensive agriculture (which is needed to feed the cattle). And because of deforestation of course. * Antibiotic-resistance: because putting so many animals (fishes or cows) together brings diseases we need to treat. * CO2 emissions: it's super inefficient, we all know it.

Not being a vegetarian in 2025 is just completely unreasonable.

We had Greta Thunberg talking to politicians, but actually I'm looking forward to when kids will ask their parents: "So you know you are killing us in so many ways, and you can't be arsed to eat less meat? Aren't you supposed to care about us?"