MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanwilson | 2025-08-26 17:46:44+00:00
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/use-of-color.htm... says:

> If content is conveyed through the use of colors that differ not only in their hue, but that also have a significant difference in lightness, then this counts as an additional visual distinction, as long as the difference in relative luminance between the colors leads to a contrast ratio of 3:1 or greater. For example, a light green and a dark red differ both by color (hue) and by lightness, so they would pass if the contrast ratio is at least 3:1.

So the greyscale design at the top would pass as long as the header was black, and the links were grey with a 3:1 contrast vs the header, and 4:5 contrast between the links vs the background? The grey would have to be pretty light though.

My understanding is color blindness means some can't judge "hue contrast" but they'll still be able to judge "lightness contrast", and this guideline is more about not relying on hue contrast to convey information.

Similar for the green for online and red for offline example, picking a dark green and a light red (or even white, or even no dot) might also be enough visual distinction.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 17:46:46+00:00
I don't understand the premise of the title. Thousands of LOC a day is more problematic if you didn't write it by hand. Because you haven't spent time directly understanding it and experiencing its meaning as it flowed out of your head, which trains you to build the necessary big-picture model.

> (example: it automatically put a safety 'alignment' on my project basically forbidding 'rm -rf' to be run on my computer...but i'm on windows so i saw this "safety" feature and just manually deleted it from the code).

I hope you replaced it with corresponding rules about `deltree` and `rmdir`.

> The question is: Is there any difference between a junior dev or rather someone just starting and someone who's been coding for years or even decades

There are many differences in how they approach the task of coding. I couldn't tell you anything specific about LLM use. Certainly I have seen explanations of how more experienced devs can get value from using LLMs, in ways that are basically inaccessible to juniors.

But if the overall differences could be simply and usefully explained, it wouldn't take years to become senior. I strongly advise you to stop looking for shortcuts and start building your understanding.
by __fst__ | 2025-08-26 17:46:48+00:00
Amazing overview!

It's interesting how the level of public computer/computing knowledge changed. The Byte magazine goes into deep details of hardware, software and programming.

I feel that nowadays a lot of it is taking for granted or very few people care how things work under the hood. But probably at the time of the Byte magazine only very few people cared too :-).
by jauzeyimam | 2025-08-26 17:47:21+00:00
My brother has had YOPD since his late 20s. He got DBS done about 3 years ago, and it was life changing. Not only in the symptom reduction (tremors and rigidity significantly reduced -- he walked straight for the first time in years, could button his shirts again, etc), but also in lifestyle improvements around the amount and frequency of medication, the ability to sleep properly (several side effects of both PD and the meds affect sleep), the ability for his body to actually relax.

DBS, like you said, is rather course tech and actually quite old technology. Doctors still don't entirely know why it works, so the adjustment is often experimental. In fact prior to specialized MRI machines that they use during surgery now, the patients would remain awake during the placement (brain surgery) of the electrodes so that the surgeons would know when the placement was "correct" based on real-time assessment of their symptoms. Now they do it under MRI, but the point being it's far from an exact science.

Can't wait to see what the future holds as they improve on it. Hard to imagine a world where his symptoms are fully managed (PD is progressive degeneration, so his symptoms, even with DBS are gradually worsening with time), but it was also hard to imagine how DBS could overnight change his life in the ways it did.
by carefulfungi | 2025-08-26 17:47:25+00:00
If you advertise a job and fail to find a qualified candidate, and then don't fill that role, is that fraud? If you advertise for talent constantly, interview regularly, and hire rarely (but hire), is that fraud? If you have a single role to fill and advertise it multiple times in multiple states as multiple listings because that's how job posting forums work, is that fraud?
by didibus | 2025-08-26 17:47:25+00:00
> It’s sad that many want to dismiss these amazing achievements just because it’s an Elon Musk founded company

That's not a fair take. This isn't "just a thing", this leads to massive financial gain by someone whose now a very influential power into people's lives from his involvement in politics and other circles of influence.

People can do good and bad at the same time, and if you're impacted by the bad things the person does, the good doesn't excuse it, and you'd want to stop them from doing more bad, it makes sense not to cheer on the good things they do that then fuels their effort into the bad things.

There can be disagreement on if they are doing bad, but to someone who believes so, it's a rational stance to not cheer on what can further fuel what they consider bad.
by yndoendo | 2025-08-26 17:47:28+00:00
I recommend "Alchemy" by Roy Sutherland. [0] It deals with human and behavior that drive economics and highlights ideas that would fail on paper and actually work. Example, turns out you can use Disney like characters painted on the outside of a store to reduce brake-ins at night.

It goes through similar scenarios. Example, "Offering a free version and not requiring a credit card can push the idea that your solution has no value so why should I use it?"

[0] https://bookbrief.io/books/alchemy-rory-sutherland/summary
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-26 17:47:31+00:00
>Because immigration at this level only managed to keep the workforce constant. It did not grow it.

Why is the number of the imported workforce relevant and not their added value? What are you gonna do with millions of unskilled immigrants if the workers you're loosing are experienced doctors and engineers? 200 unskilled workers can't replace a retired doctor you need right now to care for your medical condition.

Unless Europe's economic goal is to compete with India and Bangladesh on being the sweatshop of the world, then this strategy makes sense.

>You're probably right, immigrants from Syria and Afghanistan won't found microchip companies ... and we all know who does do that ... European immigrants.

Actually Taiwanese immigrants in this case, but don't focus on microchip companies, that was just an example I was using to make the point that Europe needs more skilled immigrants that create high value industries like the US does, rather than more kebab shops.

>almost exclusively to the US

I don't think the EU emigration to the US is that big of an issue. The bigger issue is the collapsing healthcare and welfare system including state pensions that draws ever nearer to us like the Titanic to the iceberg, as the massive bottom of the population pyramid approaches old age sickness and will need A LOT of care. You can't just throw unlimited unskilled bodies at the problem and expect it to solve itself while ignoring the additional problems this also creates. Plus you now also need to care for the illegal immigrants you took in who are sick and can't work because you didn't vet them.

The core issue is that Europe's welfare state and asylum system without any caps, have been badly engineered from the get-go by the boomer generation, who wrote cheques their kids and grandkids now have to cash, which is unsustainable no matter how you try to jerry-rig and duct-tape it today with unskilled immigration, it's still gonna collapse eventually without a ground-up economic reform that the Eastern European countries went through after the fall of communism, as no country can support the infinite population growth required to support the healthcare and retirement lifestyle that boomers engineered for themselves of living till 85 but stop working at 65 resulting in a 20 year vacation funded by the next generations. Retirement was meant to care for you when you're too sick and old to work, not to be a 2 decade long jet-set holiday.

>you are acting as if being in power actually gives you a choice, actually gives you the power to change things

You definitely can change things for the better if you're willing to be tough. However nobody in EU politics has the balls to call a spade a spade, so we're just slowly heading towards that Iceberg in a managed decline.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-26 17:47:38+00:00
We don’t know that for sure, and the author of John does clearly identify himself in-text..

Everyone also agrees Luke-Acts is written by the same person, and that Acts shifts to a first-person perspective during the account of Paul’s journeys.

It’s not currently in fashion to think they were written by their the people they are named after, but it’s not implausible; the strongest argument for later dating of the gospels is simply that they all are perceived to clearly prophecy the destruction of Jerusalem, which did occur circa 70AD. But there’s no particular reason, even from a secular perspective, to assume this wasn’t just a reasonable guess about the future given past history and the contemporary political environment. Also, it seems relevant that our earliest sources given them those credits.
by bri3d | 2025-08-26 17:47:53+00:00
Yes, that's what I'm referring to with

> I'm actually really curious about how the ITW exploit for this CVE worked

It's really weird to see only a single OOB write patched for a full 0-click chain in the wild - how did they get code execution? PAC+ASLR bypass? Sandbox escape/kernel escalation?

Literally only RawCamera is patched in the update - were the other bugs in the chain already patched? Too difficult to patch immediately? (ie - close the front door while working on replacing the other locks?)? Still unknown? (ie - found a crash dump from RawCamera but didn't get as sample of the full chain?)
by rixilexhp | 2025-08-26 17:48:01+00:00
Because the incentives are aligned around 2 companies needs. Most initiatives are highjack by them. We have very little transparency in terms of where the money is going. And lastly, the person of “zero expectations” ethos is admirable but doesn’t address the modern reality where open source often underpins critical infrastructure. While having strong opinions behind the scenes, and halting initiatives to grow, diverging accountability and responsibility to "zero expectations"

Tell the Admins to stop hiding posts, let's start there.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-26 17:48:25+00:00
Not if you're being paid to be there.

See: Yeonmi Park and the absurdity of her stories that are essentially a product of South Korea's day-time TV.

(North Korean refugees typically can't get work permits, some of the little work available is telling people how bad NK is. It is illegal to say anything good about NK in SK)
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-26 17:48:54+00:00
>Population of Seoul metro is 26 million people. It's suppose to drop by 2/3rds by 2060 (or worse)

This doesn't make any sense at all. The median age of Seoul is 42, slightly younger than the national average. 2060 is in 35 years. If Seoul had zero births, zero immigration, most people in Seoul today will still be alive by 2060.

I feel like every time someone comes up with one of these predictions the numbers get more nonsensical.
by Aaronstotle | 2025-08-26 17:49:23+00:00
I don't necessarily blame people for using AI to help them write or spruce something up, however I find the tone particularly off-putting.

These excerpts show off that "AI"-tone I'm sure most people see.

>The San Bernardino case is gone from headlines. >But the backdoor? It’s in your phone. >It’s in Google’s servers. >It’s in Meta’s messages. >It’s in the legal system that always wins. >Apple’s 2016 stand wasn’t forgotten. >It was buried under the next headline. >But it’s still true.
by downrightmike | 2025-08-26 17:49:35+00:00
And Core was a lucky happenstance for Intel as they were not innovating at all and fell behind, thank goodness their isreal lab was doing something other than P4 work.

Even recently, we've seen that all intel can do is increase cores and increase power consumption, and they still can't compete. This is itanium all over again, because that is how intel functions.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-26 17:49:38+00:00
> importers must declare the exact amount of steel, copper, and aluminum in products, with a 100% tariff applied to these materials. This makes little sense—PCBs, for instance, contain copper traces, but the quantity is nearly impossible to estimate.

Wow this administration is f**ing batshit insane. I thought the tariffs would be on raw metals, not anything at all that happens to contain them.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-26 17:49:50+00:00
Google is not a hardware company (outside of the Pixel lineup where they just take some white-label ODM design).

Microsoft has a bit more hardware sales exposure from its consoles, but not for PCs. They don't have a need for revolutionary "it looks cool" stuff that Apple has.

Amazon, same thing. They brand their own products as the cheap baseline, again no need.

And Meta, all they do is VR stuff. And they did invest(ed?) tons of money into that.
by InitialLastName | 2025-08-26 17:49:56+00:00
This whole tariff circus boils down to regulatory capture by manufacturers at the 10+-figure market cap scale. Olimex (and other small and medium businesses) can't reasonably be expected to calculate the exact material composition of their products (much less their suppliers' products); the only people who can are on the scale of Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Google whose volumes can amortize the cost of doing so on a per-product basis (and who have probably already done that analysis as part of their process control).
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-26 17:50:16+00:00
There's a comment asking about this on the blog that they replied to:

> Mouser and Digikey have the same issues, but have professional import customs brokers and do these import procedures and handle all these charges by themselves. The average small US customer have no clue how to do import, they wait someone to deliver their parcel to their door. Which now do not happens, and after several weeks of this parcel hanging at US customs they ask the seller “where is my parcel? I ordered this way many times and every time the parcel arrived to my door” meantime they have to pay import taxes, storage fees etc etc and they simple refuse the parcel and return it back. This is why DHL and UPS refuse to take parcels to USA now until they figure out how to calculate these import tariffs correctly so they can be pre-paid in advance i.e. the US customer knows what he have to pay $$$ tariffs in advance and all these returns stop.
by drcongo | 2025-08-26 17:50:34+00:00
I'm one month into owning a GMKTec Evo-X2 with the new mad AMD gpu in it and so far I've managed to get Ollama running. ROCm doesn't officially support the GPU and everything seems to be hacky workaround on top of hacky workaround. Starting to wish I'd just waited for NVIDIA to actually release the project digits thing.
by duxup | 2025-08-26 17:50:34+00:00
>Michael Carson became the focus of a theft investigation involving money allegedly taken from a neighbor’s safe.

>Authorities secured a warrant to search his phone, but the document placed no boundaries on what could be examined.

>It permitted access to all data on the device, including messages, photos, contacts, and documents, without any restriction based on time period or relevance. Investigators collected over a thousand pages of information, much of it unrelated to the accusation.

Yeah that's pretty absurd.
by diego_moita | 2025-08-26 17:50:39+00:00
In the end this is like banning fake news, you just can't.

I suggest people just take a credibility approach. As an example, I no longer bother with HN's "Who's hiring", everything there is bullshit.

Besides, job sites are just social media, their purpose is not to inform, it is to create eyeballs to advertisers. You should discard them, like you should also cancel Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
by frereubu | 2025-08-26 17:50:51+00:00
All part of this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/postal-servi...

"Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs."

(For some reason this isn't showing the full article to me in Firefox with uBlock Origin. There's more info here that works with that setup - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/25/postal-serv...).
by dvh | 2025-08-26 17:50:56+00:00
I am flabbergasted that you both get scammed. I would understand if this was two years ago, but now? Do people really not know about these scams? I can already see down votes coming for victim blaming, but this is to me really shocking. Notice that there isn't "tell hn: don't get scammed by deep fake crypto Elon" because people who usually posts also consider this general knowledge. That's why it's so effective I guess. In a similar manner there will never be "tell hn: don't drink acid it will burn your intestines", the danger is so obvious that nobody feels the need to post it and because nobody is posting it, people get scammed. I don't know what is the solution to that. How should you tell people what everybody should be already knowing?

I remember being on a machining workshop and he was telling such an obvious things. Obvious things are obvious until they aren't, and then somebody gets hurt.
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by raelmiu | 2025-08-26 17:51:07+00:00
Working in IT at a company with a change management process? How are you handling MCPs? Not at all? With very expensive tools not up to the task? How about just making it fit into your current setup!

We needed to build this for inxm.ai, and realised this was the perfect time to give back to the community.

Enterprise MCP Bridge is Open Source and solves Auth, Multi User, and REST apis by wrapping your existing MCPs.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-26 17:52:06+00:00
Basically my point is that it's not really about software. It's about access to things that are of practical use. Having a monopoly (or oligopoly) on hamburgers or hammers would be a similar problem. It's true that within the software realm, open source (or "free software" or whatever other term you want to use) increases access, but it doesn't in itself solve the problem.

The people writing the software need to eat and if they can't do that it doesn't matter what the license is, the software won't get written and no one will be able to use it. Moves like this thing by Google are about economics rather than licenses or abstract ideas like "freedom". A world with ten gazillion closed-source programs competing would likely be more free than one with tons of open source software but only one company that can pay a living wage so that people can work on that software.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-26 17:52:08+00:00
I think of

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_S._Sweat#The_%22whiskey...

My best experience with alcohol was the time I flew across the country to San Francisco for a conference, I was a speaker so I was invited to a party for speakers the day before it started for real.

I was tired from flying but when I had a few drinks I had the energy to really engage with people, it was a great example of alcohol being a social lubricant. In that case I felt the gains could be contrasted to the risks.

These days I don't drink at all because it seems one drink, any time during the day, screws up my sleep for the next night and I've found that getting good sleep consistently makes all the difference for my mental health.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-26 17:52:12+00:00
> This seems like a big number, but frankly in context it's actually quite trivial.

It's not really helpful that the number is tolerable in terms of national GDP: election spending being so large in terms of median wealth simply excludes lots of capable potential candidates that are not well positioned to raise money (for whatever reason).

It also leads to completely outsized pandering to "rich donor" interests, because those finance the largest share of the campaigns, which is an obvious problem if you want to call yourself "democracy" (instead of oligarchy or plutocracy).
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-26 17:52:18+00:00
I'm not sure they need to claim Intel as eminent domain and that type of move is beyond what I know about but I suppose they could've done that previously but opted instead for market based solutions like with the CHIPS Act. That is really what led to the equity stake. The purpose of the CHIPS Act had more to do with the AI Cold War and securing the supply chain than it did trying to save one particular business. So I believe national security is the major concern and not saving one particular business.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-08-26 17:52:27+00:00
Are their models that have vector space that includes ideas, not just words/media but not entirely corporeal aspects?

So when generating a video of someone playing a keyboard the model would incorporate the idea of repeating groups of 8 tones, which is a fixed ideational aspect which might not be strongly represented in words adjacent to "piano".

It seems like models need help with knowing what should be static, or homomorphic, across or within images associated with the same word vectors and that words alone don't provide a strong enough basis [*1] for this.

*1 - it's so hard to find non-conflicting words, obviously I don't mean basis as in basis vectors, though there is some weak analogy.
by doodlebugging | 2025-08-26 17:52:52+00:00
It really is a great project. It can also eat up a lot of time. I don't have much time for some of the kin to be able to see it since a couple are over 90 and several others are aged 80-90. Using photos and deeds and wills to correlate locations with addresses that have become something else can be tedious. Getting the written or spoken stories is a little easier if you can send some photos around and ask people to share stories about the subjects (homes, cars, people, events, etc)

I have taken a similar path to yours in that the location flags have links to photos relevant to that flagged location (home, farm, etc) so the experience of tracking a relative thru time is a little more rich for the young people who may never have met or heard of that person before they click the link. Tying things to contemporary newspaper accounts of the joys and tragedies of life that found these people adds another layer and helps reinforce the family lore about events or people.

I've always loved history. There's so much of it and every minute that passes just adds a little more flavor to the tale.
by 93po | 2025-08-26 17:52:56+00:00
Completely agree - I make logos for my github projects for fun, and the last time I tried SOTA image generation for logos, it was consistently ignoring instructions and not doing anything close to what i was asking for. Google's new release today did it near flawlessly, exactly how I wanted it, in a single prompt. A couple more prompts for tweaking (centering it, rotating it slightly) got it perfect. This is awesome.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-26 17:53:15+00:00
Nobody being able to figure it out is the entire point.

From TFA: "U.S. customs is demanding a Certificate of Analysis (which could cost thousands of dollars and to determine what exact amount of Aluminum, Copper and Steel are in the product), otherwise they assume the entire PCB consists of copper, aluminum, and steel, and charge a 100% tariff on the whole product. "

They WANT you to pay the full 100% in taxes.