skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law passing solution has been implemented in tens of states, so apparently it's not that difficult.

Meanwhile, how often has a company in the US been reigned in by another company?
So you'd rather pay tens of thousands of dollars and keep feeding the beast, rather than take a few points ding on your credit score?

Your choice, but don't act like you have some kind of moral high ground here.
I Used AI to Turn YC's Requests-for-Startups into 51 Actual Startup Ideas
As someone always exploring new startup ideas, I recently came across Y Combinator’s Requests for Startups (RFS). While these categories provide great inspiration, they can feel a bit broad and theoretical. So, I decided to take it a step further.

Using AI, I generated 51 specific startup ideas based on YC's RFS, each ranked by difficulty, risk, and potential impact. My goal was to make the abstract more actionable, helping aspiring founders find ideas that resonate with their skills and ambitions.

I’d love feedback on these ideas and to hear about any that resonate with you. Also, feel free to share any other RFS that should be on the list!

PS: Part of me thinks this could make for a cool mini community where potential builders could vote on, and meet others interested in meaningful startup problems. If you'd be interested in something like that let me know.
It's pretty much one click in photoshop now too. With better results and more control than what this tool is offering.

Not that I'm blaming this tool for being worse than a $200+/yr product. If anything it's impressive how close it gets with so little code. And if you just want rough results on a large number of files it even looks superior
Software development is already considered a crime in some cases.

Tornado cash devs were an example.

Satoshi Nakamoto decision to remain anonymous and disappear seems wiser as time passes.

I have seen people comparing durov with ross ulbricht which is mind boggling.

This man created a messaging/social media app that is not controlled by the powers that be and now he is getting punished for his freedom and independence.

Don’t let yourself be fooled.

Remember, innocent until proven guilty.

They are coming for us next.
In general, the only decently paying job titles in the startup world are "Founder" and "Co-founder". Everyone else is probably better off working for a medium-sized boring tech company, outside of the unicorn startup outliers we've all heard of.
Yeah they unfortunately abused the good will they got from that. Once differential cryptanalysis was known and it was clear the NSA had strengthened the DES S-boxes, people started trusting them. And they started making lots of suggestions to various standards. Only now they were inserting back doors. It wasn’t until Snowden that the pendulum of public paranoia swung back the other way.
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Thanks!

I tried your two [1] feeds and it worked for me. Not sure why it didn't work for you, I don't see anything in the logs about a failed request.

[1]: https://motherfuckingrssreader.com/?rss=https%3A%2F%2Fbrecky...
`mars.com` - voxel terrain demo?

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4662

https://youtu.be/_zSjpIyMt0k

...1993
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

We'll probably re-up that thread a bit too, since it only had 3 hours on the frontpage and the filing of the actual suit seems like SNI (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

But note
You have the dependency either way, but if you use the library you can have one big executable with no external dependencies and it can actually be fast.

If there wasn't a problem to solve they wouldn't have said anything. If you want something different you have to do something different.
Maybe it's because of how I detect the GPU and switch to another backend (to support devices that don't support WebGPU).

Can you try to go https://pmndrs.github.io/detect-gpu/ and pass the result here
It's definitionally not premature optimization. Pipes exist (and have existed for decades). This is just "optimization". "Premature" means it's too soon to optimize. When is it no longer too soon? In another few decades? When Linux takes another half of Windows usage? It would be premature if they were working on optimizations before there were any users or a working implementation. But it's not: they're a fundamental primitive of the OS used by tens of millions of applications.

The tradeoffs you're discussing are considerations. Is it worth making a ubiquitous thing faster at the expense of some complexity? At some point that answer is "yes", but that is absolutely not "When it's easy and has a huge benefit". The most important optimizations you personally benefit from were not easy OR had a huge benefit. They were hard won and generally small, but they compound on other optimizations.

I'll also note that the Knuth quote you reference says exactly this:

> Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
Thanks for the reply. It is not quite either, but between the two it is more of the second (planning). It actually focused more on learning the science of gardening than planning an actual garden in a way you might use for your own backyard. https://www.gardenwithinsight.com/ "The Garden with Insight garden simulator is an educational simulation that uses weather, soil, and plant growth models to simulate a simple garden in an open-ended microworld setting. You can plant vegetables and grow them to learn more about plants, the soil, the weather, gardening, and science."

It was in Delphi Pascal for Windows, and I would still like to port it to the Web with JavaScript/TypeScript at some point.
Excellent. One small question If anyone can answer. When an outside contributor is submitting a fix like these, do open source software maintainers ask for test also to be written? Fix itself is worth acceptance. What if contributor don't have any more time/interest beyond submitting the fix.
“All text” would be a better name, I thought it was going to be about SMS messages
I've considered several times what a difference it would be if legal work by individuals was considered a billable expense in the event of the individuals winning. I think it would level the playing field at lease somewhat with regard to the inherent advantage any corporation has via having a legal division full of lawyers over a regular Joe trying to get justice.

But yeah, if some farmer has to sue John Deere to be able to fix his tractor or whatever, that's going to take a ton of his valuable time to deal with. Why shouldn't he be compensated in the event he was correct?
Please don't apologise for any inconvenience! It's a cool project and I'd love to see it working, I'm just sorry I can't give any positive feedback
Btw, I call it garbage because of the five Quest headsets I have, four have developed drift.
I've missed the Vercel/Coolify hype train, the last "seamless" deployment platform I touched was Heroku.

What makes Coolify so useful?

It's never taken me more than 30 minutes to deploy self-hosted tools, from Nextcloud to Prosody, even without Docker. These "serverless" platforms certainly aren't any cheaper than bare metal and are at best marginally quicker to deploy, so what makes Coolify so useful to you?

Is it easier to maintain, manage dependencies, or load balance over time? What am I missing?
I can make a clean build of Firefox in less than 15 minutes on my MacBook Air M2, C++, Rust, and all. If you’re working on a frontend feature that only needs to modify Firefox’s frontend JS code, you can use “artifact builds” (prebuilt object files) so you don’t need to recompile the native code.
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from Wikipedia - "Carolina parakeets were probably poisonous – Audubon noted that cats apparently died from eating them, and they are known to have eaten the toxic seeds of cockleburs."

Interesting that this apparently didn't stop him from eating one.
As an Aussie I’m glad this is has been codified in law but I’ve personally not had any issues with people expecting me to reply outside of work hours.

Then again I’ve always acted like I had this right anyway, if I were contacted outside of working hours I would just ignore it within reason. I always thought there hadn’t been much consequences but perhaps the consequence were respected boundaries…
systemctl enable foo
Show HN: Multimodal Gemini YouTube Chat – Chat with full visual understanding
Chat with a YouTube video using Gemini’s Multimodal understanding

Chat with any YouTube video using Gemini’s multimodal API - this is the first YouTube AI Chat that brings _visual_ understanding to the chat.

Current websites for chatting with a YouTube video usually just use the transcript. I used Gemini’s multimodal capabilities to allow you to chat with FULL audio and visual understanding.
This is enshittification[0], and while it's not a completely new phenomenon, it has expanded enormously since the end of zero interest rates.

It is just the latest way of transferring wealth from the many to the few.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
> its own philosophical tradition, and the Christianity that merely influences Japanese thought, it doesn't swim in savior narrative like the West's cultural canon.

Really? I see Japanese works with as much if not more savior narrative than western’s.

Maybe you don’t see it due to you mostly consuming romance anime, have you also tried western romance?
A counterpoint, from someone who’s worked on SaaS billing /MRR reporting for 10+ years - it’s usually more complicated than just exposing an API endpoint for precalculated MRR by month. Most analysis requires drilling into dimensions of MRR growth - by cohort, by billing period, etc - and so while Stripe exposing an API for MRR could be helpful, it won’t cover most of the cases for proper financial analysis for a SaaS business. There’s also the complication of how MRR is computed across companies and domains - it’s not a GAAP metric and no standardized definitions.
I was doing db sharding in the 90s, not sure what the news of this was in 2009.
Related. Others?

San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227792 - Aug 2024 (185 comments)

San Francisco to Ban Rent-Setting Software Amid Gouging Worry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163936 - Aug 2024 (48 comments)

San Francisco Moves to Ban Anti-Competitive Rent Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155792 - Aug 2024 (7 comments)

San Francisco to ban software that "enables price collusion" by landlords - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133143 - Aug 2024 (17 comments)

Hoping to cut San Francisco rents, supervisors approve software-pricing ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41125232 - Aug 2024 (1 comment)

Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261647 - May 2024 (110 comments)

Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39992731 - April 2024 (207 comments)

Lawmakers Seeking to Outlaw Rent Price Fixing Reported by Propublica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206493 - Jan 2024 (56 comments)

Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114264 - Nov 2023 (375 comments)

The rent is too damn algorithmic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829575 - Oct 2023 (147 comments)

Landlord Software Is Making Life Hell for Renters, Report Says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786820 - May 2023 (17 comments)

I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926683 - Feb 2023 (403 comments)

DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744136 - Nov 2022 (123 comments)

RealPage and landlords illegally created a 'cartel' to set prices, lawsuit says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633541 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

US senator seeks antitrust review of apartment price-setting software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33444092 - Nov 2022 (6 comments)

Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software RealPage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317414 - Oct 2022 (50 comments)

Clever algorithm may be what's driving rent prices so high - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33313028 - Oct 2022 (6 comments)

Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224502 - Oct 2022 (279 comments)

Landlords use software to set rental rates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3294248 - Nov 2011 (5 comments)
Russian M-125 (Fialka or ФИАЛКА) Cipher Device
And then health insurance companies downsize their legal departments, replacing them with AI too.

Next thing you know the entire system is just a bunch of large language models shooting email at one another and it becomes even more unwieldy and irritating to engage with.
Wow, do you have any link with instructions explaining how to do that?
I used to use it but what got me was letting my Dokku install get stale and then upgrading a whole bunch of versions in a row. The old plugin broke, the new one wasn’t compatible, there were version issues.

Nowadays I just run Postgres directly on my Debian box and just create a new user/DB for ever application, then set an env variable for the Dokku app to connect. Postgres is so solid to begin with that it requires no babysitting unless you have very intense workloads (at which point either use a hosted solution or start thinking about how you’ll do your own DBA).
Sovereign Tech Fund, Significant Investment into FreeBSD
Clearly RAM-stingy Apple has found a use for RAM - almost certainly in loading local LLMs.

Llama 8G loads and runs pretty well on the new M-series Macs with a reasonable amount of RAM.
Does exercising too much sometimes lead to "crashes" that last for days such that it is impossible or very hard to even predict on what day the crash will end -- crashes severe enough that you cannot meet your work, social or family obligations sometimes? If so, you have a mild case of chronic-fatigue syndrome, and I can point you in the right direction.
That’s definitely true. I think the commute did my dad in more than the radiation, but those early days at Hanford definitely did something.
I'm not sure why s/w eng9ineers in North Korea are such an issue.

Unless you're working on some national security s/w, or finding that backdoors are being installed in your source, why not let North Korean engineers work?
Or Pthirus pubis (the pubic louse), if you want an insect. Outbreaks are not exactly a major issue, but it's not clear to me why it would be a cause for regret if it went extinct in the wild.

(Now I'm wondering which scientist or zookeeper would preserve the last remaining specimens in captivity, and how, but that's a sidetrack.)
I honestly don't see the need to change it. The first use of "serverless" is from this article:

https://readwrite.com/why-the-future-of-software-and-apps-is...

In it, he points out:

>The phrase “serverless” doesn’t mean servers are no longer involved. It simply means that developers no longer have to think that much about them.

I don't know how anyone could interpret "serverless" as meaning there's no server involved at any point in the application's execution, and if they did, I'm not sure what harm it causes? It seems like the only objection here is a pedantic urge to be more correct.
Not lunni's dev, but a Swarm fan :-)

I'm a swarm user, but using single node swarms.
It's the best solution I found for deploying apps. A lot of projects publish docker compose files, and those are easily usable with Swarm after some small modifications. I'm using the setup described at dockerswarm.rocks [1] and it's smooth sailing.

It's a real pitty, and still surprises me, Swarm is not more popular. It's still maintained [2] but few people still recommend it (even dockerswarm.rocks doesn't anymore). I've switched to it in 2022 [2] thinking I didn't take a lot of risk as starting with it is a really a low investment, and I'm still satisfied with it. I've deployed a new server with it recently.

1: https://dockerswarm.rocks/traefik/
2: https://www.yvesdennels.com/posts/docker-swarm-in-2022/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra
I haven’t looked too closely at Chrome’s build process but there might be a way to get LSP or something set up for it?
If some people stop paying bills, will healthcare prices go up, or down?

Prices is a purposeful word choice. I don’t mean costs, or your costs. I mean agnostic to who is paying - whether it’s a compulsory non tax payment via insurance and hence the price the insurer sees, or the price you pay for insurance, or the price that CMS pays for an appointment, whatever.
So far as I can see, this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with geometric algebra in the sense being discussed here.
Possible he chose French courts over Russian tea.
When it comes down to it, practical encryption no longer exists.

Every operating system now phones home and uploads copious event logs. Many users install custom "swipe" keyboards, ad blockers, toolbars, and even bios chips are now programmable.

There are just so many vectors and exfiltration paths, plus it's not enough for you to secure them all. The person you are talking to must also.

Often encrypted messaging gives a false sense of security. Messages can still be intercepted on either end, and an automatic app update is sufficient to silently disable the encryption without the user knowing.

edit: Since it seems that some are considering this baseless fear-mongering, here's just one recent example:

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
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> Even in some countries with socialized health insurance, it is still called "insurance"

To add another data-point: In the US, the real name for the law behind "Social Security" is "Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance".

That said, it is frequently mis-characterized in our political discourse, with people making apples-to-oranges comparisons to investment accounts. I blame that on bank lobbyists' attempts to take the money for themselves. Anyway, if one views it as "old and unable to support yourself" insurance, many of its "weird quirks" make perfect sense.
> The war against Ukraine has overwhelming support among the population

That's not true. There's about 15-20% of the population that supports the war, about 15-20% of the population that opposes it, and the rest is completely demotivated and doesn't care.
The FDN and Gitoyen Networks Are Blocked by AWS, YouTube and Engie
> They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.

Not true, ArianeGroup has decided that reusability is the future with their Ariane Next program [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next
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Well the website seems to be down so I can't actually see any information about what LLM you are using, but I seriously hope you are not just sending the data to OpenAI API or something like that and are forcing the use of a private (ideally self hosted) service.

I would not want any data about my infrastructure sent to a public LLM, regardless of how sanitized things are.

Otherwise, on paper it seems cool. But I worry about getting complicit with this tech. It is going to fail, that is just the reality. We know LLM's will hallucinate and there is not much we can do about it, it is the nature of the tech.

SO it might work most of the time, but when it doesn't and you're bashing your head against the wall trying to figure out what is broken. This system is telling you that all of these things are fine, but one of them actually isn't. But it worked enough times that you trust it, so you don't bother double checking.

That is before we even talk about having this thing running code for automatic remediation, which I hope no one seriously considers ever doing that.
I wonder, did Google and Mozilla properly certified the cryptogrpahic tools they distribute? And Github is probably the worst offender, hosting thousands of uncertified, illegal cryptographic tools.
Rejoice! Microsoft suggests it may never kill Windows Control Panel
I'm back to just pirating everything, except for (many) games

It's like Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not entirely a cost problem. The same 20 euro subscription would've gotten be 100x more movies and shows a few years ago, whereas now it's split to a million random services. Sometimes one season of a show is on 1 service, while the next one is on a different one. You also can't get 4K anywhere, every service has shit quality.

So why bother paying, when radarr lets me get 4k content of anything I'd ever want to watch, completely for free?
Ask HN: Could early 80s computers have had better software given today's CS?
For example, could they have had a better built-in language using the same hardware?
Pretty much zero downside to submitting an application. At the very least, it'll help you clarify your business model. Go for it.
>basically Tor Browser with the VPN instead of Tor-gateway.

You don't need a Mullvad VPN for it work, you can use it without Mullvad VPN or any VPN at all.
> Life can bring so much more beauty to those few remaining years compared to anything coming out of sitting in front of screen, but not everybody had the luxury of discovering this.

Being forced out of the workforce was one of the worst things to happen to me.

Being forced out of the workforce was one of the best things to happen to me.

I was quite angry, but, not having someone destroying my work, and blaming me for it, has been great.

But I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life, standing (not sitting) in front of a screen.

The difference is that I do it on my terms.

Maybe one of the more gratifying things that has come from this, is the realization that I was mostly right, and my bosses mostly wrong; even though they were constantly telling me that I was wrong.
Haha, I didn't notice this! Yeah, only Vite will reduce the dependencies a lot, but I'm not sure which one is the biggest here to talk about

Will try to the deps simpler later, after all this is about a little time of work
Show HN: I made a game to show how bad the NYC rental market is
> In other words, Signal is in the clear, because it's E2EE for all purposes and the operators wouldn't have the ability (via reasonable means) to access the data in the first place?

Sure but telegram isn’t really just a “messaging app”. It has features that support broad social networking. Some of those features just don’t scale effectively if they’re E2EE.

I think the real takeaway is all social networking applications must have active content moderation.