MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-05-12 06:46:55+00:00
Only UNIX overlaps C standard library with OS library, and back in 1985 (Windows 1.0 release), there was still no standard to speak of.

Sure there was K&R C, which each OS outside UNIX cherry picked what would be available.

Additionally outside UNIX clones, the tradition among vendors has been that the C compiler is responsible for the standard library, not the platform.

Thus the C library was provided by Borland, Watcom, Symantec, Microsoft, Green Hills, Zortech,....

Note it was the same on Mac OS, until MPW came to be.

As it was in IBM and Unisys, micros and mainframes.

VMS before OpenVMS.

And so on.

Since Windows 10, you have the Universal C Runtime as well.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-12 06:47:15+00:00
There are reasons the welding movement isn't going to spread to the UK. More general awareness of the risks, less cultural passion for the optics

https://breathefreely.org.uk/guidance-on-exposure-to-mangene...

>The WEL for Manganese (since 2018) in the UK for those small particles that reach the deep lung (known as respirable particles) is 0.05mg/m3 (8hr TWA), a tenth of the previous WEL.

This change is significant as much of the manganese in the fume will be respirable. It is likely that the respirable limit will be exceeded during many welding activities unless effective controls are introduced and used properly.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/welding/health-risks-welding.htm
by retinaros | 2025-05-12 06:48:35+00:00
I am using both. Windsurf feels complete less clunky. They are very close tho and the pace of major updates is crazy.

I dont like CLI based tools to code. Dont understand why they are being shilled. Claude code is maybe better at coding from scratch because it is only raw power and eating tokens like there is no tomorrow but it us the wrong interface to build anything serious.
by jabl | 2025-05-12 06:49:01+00:00
Was something like 20 years since I was in India, but IIRC at least back then they didn't have a "priority to the right" traffic rule, but rather some kind of "the one who first honks has priority". Traveling in a taxi felt suicidal, drivers just honked when approaching an intersection and continued blithely.

Based on a quick googling, this seems to no more be the case, and there is a 'priority to the right" rule.
by genewitch | 2025-05-12 06:49:59+00:00
How? Just a bunch of volunteers? Make a wiki-like and let people edit it, show HN, and maybe eventually PL makers will add their PL to your database.

Even if you scrape Wikipedia, or stack overflow or whatever, you're going to miss the newest and also the esoteric and possibly even wider use stuff. Basically you can't do it alone.

My life is a series of "why doesn't this exist? Oh, what a gigantic pain in the ass. That's why it doesn't exist. God bless anyone who makes this, because it ain't gunna be me" situations. I hope someone has done what you are looking for.
by Juliate | 2025-05-12 06:50:14+00:00
> You can’t have a pay-later business without an amount of non-payment, which has to be compensated by higher prices (which other customers shoulder).

People who never experienced high-trust and customs societies cannot grasp why and how it works infinitely better than low-trust ones.

But granted, all it takes is a few determined bad faith actors to break high-trust, when they are not vehemently and swiftly rejected…
by gmueckl | 2025-05-12 06:52:07+00:00
Can't speak for cars specifically, but other software built to comparable standards requires a super rigorous process including detailed specs, risk analysis and mitigation, detailed design, comprehensive automated and manual testing against the soec including test coverage, tons of documentation on everything and finally a third party certification on everything.

The process is so far removed from typical web and business slop that it's an entirely different world of its own.
by BrenBarn | 2025-05-12 06:52:36+00:00
Rarely does an article make me think it's horse manure so early on.

> let the market decide who should hold the risk

Subprime mortgage crisis. . . (This is leaving aside the idea that letting markets decide any given thing is even a good idea in general.)

> financial innovation has been and will continue to be a massive net positive for humanity

Anyone who gets starry-eyed about "innovation" instantly makes me suspicious. Innovation in itself is neither good nor bad. The idea that "financial innovation" will be a positive independent of specific proposals is highly suspect.

The rest of the article looks like a bunch of economics mumbo jumbo that can easily explain why something looks good on paper and just as easily lead us into all kinds of trouble.
by nicoloren | 2025-05-12 06:53:28+00:00
Me too! I have a software in production for a client made with Lazarus 3 (in Pascal of course) and everybody loves the "Windows feel" of the Gui. On Linux there is Gambas [1] wich is like Lazarus but for Basic.

[1] https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html
by pembrook | 2025-05-12 06:53:40+00:00
For a time windsurf was way ahead of cursor in full agentic coding, but now I hear cursor has caught up. I have yet to switch back to try out cursor again but starting to get frustrated with Windsurf being restricted to gathering context only 100-200 lines at a time.

So many of the bugs and poor results that it can introduce are simply due to improper context. When forcibly giving it the necessary context you can clearly see it’s not a model problem but it’s a problem with the approach of gathering disparate 100 line snippets at a time.

Also, it struggles with files over 800ish lines which is extremely annoying

We need some smart deepseek-like innovation in context gathering since the hardware and cost of tokens is the real bottleneck here.
by eadz | 2025-05-12 06:53:50+00:00
It would be great if there was an easy way to run their open model (https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta) locally ( for latency reasons ).

I don't think Zeta is quite up to windsurf's completion quality/speed.

I get that this would go against their business model, but maybe people would pay for this - it could in theory be the fastest completion since it would run locally.
by pella | 2025-05-12 06:55:38+00:00
I’m glad to see there’s a substantial metadata system powering the portal (and even minimal Wikidata integration + CC0-1.0 license! )

This is the Julia: https://github.com/codigo-langs/codigo/blob/master/languages...

I assume the initial database was built on Wikidata plus a lot of data cleaning. Is the code for the Wikidata synchronization available anywhere? I can’t seem to find it in the repo.

One thing you could add is a free-form wiki-style description field, where you could even embed an "awesome" list for each language, for example: https://github.com/coderonion/awesome-julia-list
Show HN: I built a system to make ChatGPT brutally honest with you
by moobuilds | 2025-05-12 06:55:40+00:00
Most people use ChatGPT wrong. Without the right guidance or prompting .

ChatGPT will validate anything you say.

It's designed to be agreeable, not truthful.

It will praise your bad ideas.

It will overlook critical flaws.

It will miss market opportunities.

And you'll never know until it's too late.

You need brutal honesty, not false validation.

It won't challenge your beliefs, question your

decisions, or call out your blind spots.

Unless you force it to.

So, That's why I built a system to fix that.

It's a set of prompts designed to override the

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by larodi | 2025-05-12 06:57:22+00:00
Lets first not forget: 1) people been doing business with these "ugly" green textmode screens, long before web; 2) the web existed in a very reasonable form pre-www as FIDO, GOPHER, and of course IRC & EMAIL.

The fact that this all got hyperlinked is a superb. convenient, but also a challenge from tech perspective, and what FAANG did in the 30 years to come (after 1992) led to this horror of entangled and super-complex technologies we have today. Even vanilla web is quite complex if you take into consideration all the W3 standardization.

Security or not, you can have an appliance run much simpler software given longer product lifetimes,... My only hope is now with llm-assisted coding this vanilla approach comes back, as the boilerplate pain becomes more bearable (how I really hated html at some point...). Besides, it is much more pleasant to prompt yourself a website, rather than try to position some image on stupid fb/insta pages/events, which is one major reason to step back and own your content again.
by killerstorm | 2025-05-12 06:59:39+00:00
Cursor: Autocomplete is really good. At a time when I compared them, it was without a doubt better than Githib Copilot autocomplete. Cmd-K - insert/edit snippet at cursor - is good when you use good old Sonnet 3.5. ;;; Agent mode, is, honestly, quite disappointing; it doesn't feel like they put a lot of thought into prompting and wrapping LLM calls. Sometimes it just fails to submit code changes. Which is especially bad as they charge you for every request. Also I think they over-charge for Gemini, and Gemini integration is especially poor.

My reference for agent mode is Claude Code. It's far from perfect, but it uses sub-tasks and summarization using smaller haiku model. That feels way more like a coherent solution compared to Cursor. Also Aider ain't bad when you're OK with more manual process.

Windsurf: Have only used it briefly, but agent mode seems somewhat better thought out. For example, they present possible next steps as buttons. Some reviews say it's even more expensive than Cursor in agent mode.
by powerapple | 2025-05-12 06:59:45+00:00
I tested windsurf last week, it installed all dependencies to my global python....it didn't know best practices for Python, and didn't create any virtual env..... I am disappointed. My Cursor experience was slightly better. Still, one issue I had was how to make sure it does not change the part of code I don't want it to change. Every time you ask it to do something for A, it rewrote B in the process, very annoying.

My best experience so far is v0.dev :)
by robocat | 2025-05-12 07:00:22+00:00
> everyone should have a few months’ worth of income saved

Do you have any friends that earn minimum wage? Do you understand the societal incentives that discourages saving anything? Have you seen what happens to minimum wage earners when they try to save?

Our society enables a few different niches before retirement age:

#0: out of work. Discussing this niche be dragons.

#1: $0 balance - spend money as you get it. Discourage savings by training people that saving doesn't help them (fines, thresholds, societal expectations). Can spend ~2 hours wages on pleasure for your 40 hours work. If you care for kids or elderly parents then expect to spend most of your spare money or time on them. Make sure that society blames the $0 workers for their state by saying "if they only did action Z then all their problems would be solved!". Society doesn't really encourage action Z.

#2: working to pay off mortgage. Requires tenacity, skills and often luck. Society makes the jump from #1 to #2 very difficult. A mortgage is one of societies ways to force savings. Those savings often taken away later in western societies (through different ways, including demographics, illness and means testing).

Need to avoid: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

My two examples are:

A) a friend working 40 hours, gets 1 hour wages (~$20) to spend on themselves after their bills (they don't buy tobacco or gamble, they might spend their $20 on beer). Not academically smart, spends any windfall money on unnecessary stuff. No car. Now retired. I'm not sure what society could have done to encourage them to become financially savvy?

B) single friend on benefit to bring up kids. Missing partner little help. Government applies thresholds to income or savings that heavily discourage both. They were good with money before kids. Most spare money spent on kids. Also spent some money on unnecessary stuff like new carpet or societaly encouraged addictions (smoking and wine). Couldn't spend money on many necessities (didn't find much time or $ spare). Old crappy car. Now kids are grown, they are working and much better with their money again.

As a financially sensible person, I'm unsure how I could have taught either to be better off financially. Their societal incentives were not aligned with that goal. Others might say they lacked the skills or lacked the drive. I suspect they both have ended up being better off by not chasing financial savings.

The weirdest part is that I have wealthy friends that are not making better decisions.

I'm not sure what the root cause of wealth differences actually are.

Context: I live in New Zealand, and I am a financially well off middle aged guy.
by zarzavat | 2025-05-12 07:00:24+00:00
Why not use React for that? If I use React for everything then I don’t have to decide, I don’t have to use two different tools. Consistency is fantastic, if you only use nails then you only need to carry a hammer.

Why use two incompatible languages (JSX and HTML) for different types of web pages, when you could just always use JSX? React can statically render to HTML if your page is really static.

I think what you’re really complaining about is that people use React for static content and don’t statically render it first. That is sloppy, I agree. But it’s not React itself that’s the problem but rather the developers who don’t care what they are doing.
by omneity | 2025-05-12 07:00:47+00:00
Is it the same Sakana from the cheating AI coder tribulations? There were some fundamental mistakes in that work that made me question the team.

https://www.hackster.io/news/sakana-ai-claims-its-ai-cuda-en...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/sakana-walks-back-claims-t...
by rustcleaner | 2025-05-12 07:00:51+00:00
We really need the right to modify our vehicle software, with zero 'safety' or 'environment' camel noses to shoe-horn in the total lockdowns we see prevalent today. 'FOSS' hardware should be exempted from a whole bunch of regulations to make it enticing and accessible to technicians, home builders, and boutique bespoke builders. What we don't want is Tesla's/Apple's model, we want the GNU/Linux on Talos II model with no surprise NSA backdoor management engines.

Like... can we pleeeease have this already!??
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-12 07:02:35+00:00
> Notably, a lot of European science in 16-19 centuries was advanced by well-off people who did not need to earn their upkeep, the useless, idle class, as some said.

I heard a recent interview with John Carmack (of DOOM fame) who described his current style of work as "citizen scientist", where he has enough money, but wants to do independent research on AI/ML. I am always surprised that we don't see more former/retired hackers (whom many got rich from a DotCom), decide to "return to the cave" to do something exciting with open source software. Good counterexamples: (1) Mitchell Hashimoto and his Ghostty, (2) Philip Hazel and his PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) library. When I retire (early -- if all things go well), the only way to that I can possibly stave off a certain, early death from intellectual inactivity would be something similar. (Laughably: I don't have 1% of the talents that John Carmack has... but a person can try!)
by lazyeye | 2025-05-12 07:03:47+00:00
I don't find your explanation for the Dems low approval rating very convincing. After 4 years of Joe Biden, the American people voted in the most disruptive, change agent in US political history, the polar opposite of Joe Biden. So fairly obviously people are not happy with the Dems.

Fentanyl is obviously related to the Democrat open border policy. Gangs establishing territory in the US is obviously related to the Democrat open border policy. You can tie yourself in knots with whatever tortuous logic you choose to justify the unjustifiable but most people (like me) are on the side of commonsense. Close the borders and manage immigration in an orderly, controlled way.

With regard to deporting the family of illegal immigrants, the people responsible for this situation is the Democrats who opened the borders and the family that chose to break the law by immigrating illegally.

Re: the "purely numbers thing". You haven't understood the point I was making. With any govt action at scale (Dems or Republican) there will always be winners and losers. Depending on your bias (and we can obviously see your bias) you'll focus on whatever outlier situation you find to justify your political framing.

And there are so many "very dark paths" aren't there?

Some people might consider weaponising the justice system in an attempt to take out a political opponent a very dark path".

Or others might consider constructing a fake dossier alleging political collusion with Russia, and then using that fake dossier to weaponise the FBI against a political opponent, a "very dark path".

Others might consider opening the borders to illegal migration at scale to sway the voter demographics in your favour (a complete corruption of democracy), a "very dark path".

Not to mention the sex trafficking at scale, the importation of fentanyl at scale as a result of the open border policy could also be a "very dark path".

Others might consider hiding the diminished mental state of a president (in collusion with the media) and gaslighting the public on this issue, so that a cabal of unelected bureacrats can run the country from behind closed doors, a "very dark path".

Others might consider placing enormous pressure on social media companies to censor public discourse thereby bypassing the first amendment a "very dark path".

So please spare me your highly, highly selective, performative faux "concern". I simply can't take you seriously.
by intended | 2025-05-12 07:04:33+00:00
I checked - it’s a fellowship application, here’s some things that you may have missed.

Responsibilities:

- Develops and executes a research program, in collaboration with other fellows; and

- Builds research knowledge and skills through coursework, self-study, and work on existing projects in quantum education research.

Required Qualifications:

- Terminal degree in a related field;

- Must have a PhD & experience with education and/or workforce development programs;

- Must be a US citizen, national, or permanent resident

- Knowledge of data analysis techniques in at least one discipline;

- Excellent written and oral communication skills;

- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment; and

- Ability to work independently.

Preferred Qualifications:

- PhDs can be in STEM disciplines, education, or a field of social science with application to increasing equity and inclusion in STEM education and workforce development;

- Knowledge of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods data analysis as applies to education research data; and

- Knowledge of social science and/or STEM education research methods and how they apply to understanding barriers to success for underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines.

Google: George Mason University is known for its strong programs in economics, computer science, law, public policy, and business.

This is not financial aid, it’s a PHD fellowship. Good lord. On the one side people bemoan the lack of people getting into the hard sciences and the research being done abroad. On the other efforts to increase and understand the issues at home and create actual solutions that bridge exactly these types of conversations, is DEI.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-12 07:04:48+00:00
> Burrito bonds represent finance doing what it does best: unbundling risk, pricing it granularly, and allocating capital more efficiently.

What finance does best is “creating financial crisis” actually and that's exactly with that kind of tools that it happens. It looks like 2008 is now far enough (17 years, wow tome flies!) in the past that finance people now feel comfortable acting as if it didn't happen…
by mirekrusin | 2025-05-12 07:05:45+00:00
AI aided development has first class support in Zed.

Ie. it's not a "plugin" but built-in ecosystem developed by core team.

Speed of iterations on new features is quite impressive.

Their latest agentic editing update basically brought claude code cli to the editor.

Most corporations don't have direct access to arbitrary LLMs but through Microsoft's Github's Copilot they do – and you can use models through copilot and other providers like Ollama – which is great for work.

With their expertise (team behind pioneering tech like electron, atom, teletype, tree sitter, building their own gpu based cross platform ui etc.) and velocity it seems that they're positioned to outpace competition.

Personally I'd say that their tech is maybe two orders of magnitude more valuable than windsurf?
by voidspark | 2025-05-12 07:05:54+00:00
This is interesting

https://chatgpt.com/share/68219da9-1e78-8007-b083-8a81bfbea2...

"Dendrites can implement non‑linear sub‑units and even logic‑gate‑like behavior before the soma integrates them, whereas the standard artificial neuron uses a plain weighted sum."

"Neurotransmitter diversity (e.g., glutamate, GABA, dopamine) allows different semantics on each connection. An artificial edge conveys only a signed scalar."
by genewitch | 2025-05-12 07:07:12+00:00
I never get spam that makes it through the default filter, so I am unsure if this works, but I do get zero spam in general since switching off gmail. I like giving silly businesses that ask for my email their business name @ my domain.

Most of the time they're too disinterested to notice. Oil change places always notice for some reason.

I'll look through my spam foldsr tomorrow and see who's been naughty.
by Animats | 2025-05-12 07:08:46+00:00
RCA's Sarnoff Labs produced the image orthicon, NTSC color TV, an early videotape system, an early flat-panel-display, and lots of vacuum tube innovations.[1]

The big business mistakes were in the 1970s, when RCA tried to become a diversified conglomerate. At one point they owned Hertz Rent-A-Car and Banquet TV dinners.[2]

[1] https://eyesofageneration.com/rca-sarnoff-library-photo-arch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-12 07:09:51+00:00
> No, they're not going to go get shitty factory jobs. But that's OK, because all those jobs are now automated and done by robots. Nonsense. There are tens of millions of jobs that cannot be automated in the near future, which people would certainly never do if they had UBI. America just outsources them to poorer countries, so you're clueless.
by anshumankmr | 2025-05-12 07:14:37+00:00
BNPL is okay for those who don't have a source of income. In my country we have something called Lazypay which I had used quite a bit during college when pocket money was a bit tough to come by. I still use it (sort of) to get discounts on instant delivery apps (if there are any ).

So by existing it does offer some value, though whether it is long term sustainable to dole out small cash loans to people without credit scores (like i was in college) is a good idea or not, that I cannot comment.