skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't write engaging tweets or code. Instead of learning either skill traditionally, I used AI tools (Claude, Cursor, V0) to build a tweet improvement tool while learning programming fundamentals.

The process revealed interesting insights about AI-assisted development:

1 ) AI excels at explaining concepts in context. When encountering issues with async/await or state management, Claude would explain the concept while helping implement it.

2)Real-time feedback loops accelerate learning. Cursor's suggestions helped identify patterns in bad code, teaching proper structure through immediate corrections.

3) Building for your own limitation provides unexpected clarity. The tool initially fixed my poor writing (English isn't my first language), which guided product decisions through direct experience.

Technical implementation focused on pragmatic choices:

- Used boilerplate to avoid configuration complexity
- Started with localStorage before moving to Supabase
- Leveraged Vercel to eliminate DevOps learning curve

After 14 days of building and learning simultaneously, the tool launched with paying customers and reach $266 MRR in 7 days.

More interesting than the revenue is how AI tools are changing the learning curve for non-technical founders.

The code isn't elegant, but it works. Happy to share specific examples of AI interactions that proved most educational during development.
>Some of us want to own some land and not be butted up right against their neighbor. Or have to hear the person next door fucking their spouse or blasting loud music. No thanks.

Just about everyone is like this, and hence why housing is such a nightmare situation.

"I want a nice home that is situated in a relaxing quiet personal space, that is a short commute from my well paying job, and an even shorter drive to restaurants and entertainment"
- 90% of people
If the upper stage wasn't designed to be reusable, it'd probably have a lot less structural dry mass - no heat shield, no fins, possibly different geometry (depending on how much volume they wanted). It might also be possible to drop the sea-level Raptor engines and just use the more efficient vacuum Raptors. I don't think you'd get an order-of-magnitude difference, but it'd be significant, especially for higher-energy trajectories than LEO.
> In an emergency situation, all the food in NY state would surely last more than 5 days?

I'm having trouble finding detailed sources on food warehousing, but what I've seen so far suggests that because of Just-in-Time logistics, there is actually very little food warehousing away from the "last mile" distribution locations. Keeping large quantities of food stored is expensive (climate control, other methods to avoid contamination) and laborious (government-mandated inspections, etc.), so I'm not surprised if there aren't many places sitting on a 30 or 60-day supply of chicken breasts or something unless some government agency forces them to do it. Businesses see every type of unused inventory as a cost center.

> I guess ideally trade could be stopped gradually in a more civil way instead of blockades where people would suffer,

Well the whole point is to communicate the "nuclear option" of non-gradual blockade that risks immense suffering.

> I'm sure a ton of shit red state people buy on Amazon and Walmart has to come from blue states, so there would certainly be something to leverage.

It has to come through Blue ports, but something like 70% of Amazon products are made in China: ( https://www.statista.com/chart/33376/share-of-items-sold-on-... ) ( https://notochina.org/how-to-tell-if-a-product-is-made-in-ch... ). Sourcing stuff from China is about to become massively more expensive for everyone if Trump goes through with his tariff plan. The other problem for Red States is shifting overall logistics chains away from West Coast container ports (such as Long Beach) to Red Texas and Florida ports. Even if the capacity requirement drops because Red Counties have lower populations than Blue Counties, it's still a logistical headache, and expensive.

> eventually, blue states would not need red states if they could move farming to blue states, there is enough land to do so especially looking at the latest map with how few blue states there are

If it was reasonably profitable for that land to be used for agriculture, you better believe these massive agri-businesses would already be raping, uh, I mean "cultivating" those areas.

> Red states really have little to offer that blue states can't replace in a few months. The inverse is not true.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs would suggest otherwise: people can absolutely live without Apple Vision Pro and Hollywood movies.

Also consider that law & order in cities is already tenuous (partially thanks to Defund the Police and the Summer 2020 riot fallout). Do the cities have the law enforcement manpower or WILLPOWER to suppress even a week's worth of absolute chaos from supply disruptions before they devolve into Haiti-level anarchy? They can barely maintain order even now. ( https://www.foxnews.com/us/fallout-from-weekend-chaos-philly... )
A related question would be "what is a chicken", or where is the line between "non-chicken" and "chicken".
The vast, vast majority of Airpods are sold as an accessory to the iPhone. In fact they stopped including earbuds in the box for this exact reason.
This debate about regulations is alway interesting. There are regulations which help protect the environment, like not being allowed to dump dangerous chemicals into your local stream or river.

Then there are regulations like these which are aimed at protecting the investment companies have made into infrastructure, effectively granting them a monopoly.

When people debate this, they often are thinking of the first class of protective regulations that are too onerous on companies, but I think most people like clean drinking water and rivers that no longer catch fire.

Whereas the second class of protection is really harmful to the consumer, and the powers-that-be have effectively been given a monopoly, and with that the money and power to protect their place in the market through continued influence on elections and other things to maintain these rent seeking businesses. We all hate the latter, but these companies have a lot of sway over politicians.
Teach an old type checker new tricks [video]
Same, I love the bidirectional aspect of relations
Is this just a mindless comment made without even skimming through the article or thinking about the actual meaning and intention behind the question? It's an intended correction I could attribute to a caricature of an autist, taking everything in absurdly literal terms. Typical of HN, in any case... The article talks about the actual origin of embryonic development mechanisms, pointing out that they could've preceded the existence of the animals that came out of them, not literally chickens and eggs (of course, its title uses those terms figuratively):

>"In fact, the study shows that either the principle of embryonic development existed before animals, or multicellular development mechanisms evolved separately in C. perkinsii."

It all boils down to the debate surrounding abiogenesis: the constant egg-chicken (or gamete-organism) loop does not explain how life came to be, emerging from, in principle, no life. It's paradoxical, just like trying to answer "the chicken" or "the egg". Or, as you seem to prefer, "the reptile" or "the egg".
I hope so but I don't think any constellation can handle even a medium sized town without significant throttling.
The kernel also provides a minimal vdso elf parser:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Yes, that is the point. I am u willing to engage with the lunatics that call Trump a fascist. You are either stomping your feet like a child, or you do not understand what words mean.

Don’t be a clown and then come to me about “good faith”.
> Notepad got some of that just in 2024

I assume this was the 1:1 correlated w/ the deprecation/removal of wordpad, as both were shipped everywhere prior.
> Didn't they go back to Glibc in 2017 after a syscall silently corrupted several of their tightly packed tiny Go stacks?

You must be thinking of https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/ which was about the vDSO (a virtual dynamically linked library which is automatically mapped by the kernel on every process), not system calls. You normally call into the vDSO instead of doing direct system calls, because the vDSO can do some things (like reading the clock) in an optimized way without entering the kernel, but you can always bypass it and do the system calls directly; doing the system calls directly will not use any of the userspace stack (it immediately switches to a kernel stack and does all the work there).
A road is not a road if a chicken doesn't know what a road is? That's an interesting rabbit hole to go down.
People say "monopoly on violence" as if it's a bad thing. As if the opposite of that is no violence at all. But the opposite is commonality of violence which was the case before government became strong enough to enforce monopoly on violence and still is the case in places where the government is weak enough to lose the monopoly.

Monopoly on violence is the most significant cultural development that allowed incredible wealth and societal development.

Currently we are in the age of commonality of surveillance. If this turns out to be harmful enough we might as well move towards monopoly on surveillance and it might be an improvement.

Personally I think it won't be necessary.

I'm sure of one thing. Surveillance won't go away because it's a useful technological tool.
> At least the vDSO functions really don't need much in the way of stack space: generally there's nothing much there but clock_gettime() and gettimeofday(), which just read some values from the vvar area.

And yet that’s exactly one of the things Go fucked up in the past: https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/
Yes, but having the money to hire a servant is also a sign of wealth.
Yes, but I meant it in the most abstract, conceptual sense. There is no easy way to replace short-circuit operators in an eager-evaluation language but it can still be done. E.g. "(a() || b())" could be replaced by "or(a, b)", which is quite challenging to do in C, though possible in C++, Python, and other languages which have closures:

def or(a, b):
r = a()
if not r:
r = b()
return r
Yes well, extrinsic motivation works for some I guess. I work much better when I chose the task based on my team's vision of where we want to take the code and our understanding of the needs of the people involved. If the problem got so glaring that we weren't already on it by the time a manager was writing it down, we screwed up.

It's a feeling that's much harder to kindle in a monorepo, too much red tape and politics, nothing at all like a sandbox.

And I can't be the only one who feels this way. Otherwise why would there be a big pile of free open source software?
I listened to a radio program two days ago which was interviewing a book author that had written about why people accept conspiracy theories over documented truth. The program invited the audience to call in to offer their opinions and one caller who lived through the 50s and 60s thought it was the failure of science to deliver on its promises of a better future (flying cars, cheap food, cheap energy, robots doing our work). He said that governments and people need to get back to trusting science.
As far as I’m aware, Windows doesn’t have anything quite like services on macOS and probably can’t because Windows apps, even those that are first-party, are built with a menagerie of different UI toolkits which means there are no universal hooks for something like services to use.

The reason macOS can do this is because a large majority of apps are either native AppKit or otherwise hook into the system text facilities (which is why text services work in text fields in Chrome and Firefox for example).
I don't know if it's the Indo-European thing or not, but it seems that the writing system is a huge obstacle. In Europe I don't even have to understand a language to be able to read text out loud, just learn a very limited set of pronunciation rules. Even Cyrillic/Greek is a more or less 1-1 phonetic mapping.
I used Notes to edit a text file once and learned a very important lesson; It changes all your double-quotes to fancy Unicode double-quotes. They may look prettier, but they completely break the code you are working on.
This is a satire ... right?
N64 Water
This is a remarkably consistent failure of imagination in an otherwise incredibly imaginative space. In the time I've been alive we've gone from bulky PC and monitor combos that took up entire desks to light-as-a-feather laptops that pack thousands of times more power and storage space, we've gone from me working for a day to figure out a CD burner to get all of my data on my computer backed up to a disk (about 550 MB) to today, when I regularly as part of my creative side of my role, toss around files over a network that are as much if not larger than that, and it's barely an inconvenience. Yet the topic of "how do we monetize social media" utterly brings an otherwise brilliant community to a shrug.

I don't think you're entirely wrong, mind you, ad supported services are the default and any competing service that requires payment operates at a disadvantage, which is why I continuously come back to the idea that surveillance capitalism needs to be regulated. On a recent episode of Better Offline, the host interviewed an economist who has suggested a steep tax on digital ad spend, specifically to open the space to alternatives away from people giving away their privacy. I think that's a great idea, not as extreme as my ideal solution which would be the utter dismantling of surveillance capitalism entirely, but still.

The problem is money is literally the power here, as it is in most places, and the users are contributing none, and the advertisers are contributing all, and this is basically the source of every cancerous, inhumane and exploitative problem you can think of in social media. And you are 100% correct: a paid instagram will never succeed as long as instagram remains free. Then, IMO, the logical next step is we need to make it not free, or at the very least, take up some of that profit and put it towards other ends that we can actually affect change on.

"The market" is clearly incapable of solving social media, it only has made it worse, ever, ever worse. We need something else.
There's no reason to assume that SpaceX/Musk will be the only launch providers long-term. They proved out reusability and are proving out the benefits of the Starship design and there are multiple startups working to emulate them.

EDIT: typo, removed redundant 'long-term'.
Also, in the Flash days, everyone and their dog had this sort of thing as their personal \ portfolio site.
Back in my HS years, we had a sped student who loved having a wank in the library.
To play devils advocate - your are not wrong. We have see the rise of right-wing Trumpist style politics turn up in Australia, NZ, UK, etc. thanks in part to social media platforms algorithmically presenting it to those people.
Yes but I use OmniFocus for habit learning or reminding myself to take eg meds. Taking 7 meds or supplements in 20 seconds is doable :)
Who can take their space shuttle to work these days, what with the price of rocket fuel‽
AFAIK, it's IOS only. The one android user in my family switched to iphone after feeling left out for a year. Other groups also are all iphone

The feed is actually in the Apple Photo app. There is a section for "shared albums" and a link to "activity" that has a feed UI.

I've always thought if the shared album was tied directly to the group message that would be nirvana, but I don't believe that's a possibility.
These are state laws, the Presidential election has nothing to do with this.
Before the first major commercial GPU (NVidia’s GeForce 256 in 1999), graphics processing was handled by graphics accelerators or video cards, which had limited functionality and primarily assisted with 2D rendering tasks. Early computers often used framebuffers and simple video adapters to display basic graphics. Complex tasks were often handled by CPU.

It is true that everything exists on a gradient, but for practical purposes we have to draw the line somewhere and it seems reasonable to me to draw it roughly here.
Using Ray with your Pest tests
Soon: with ads!
I worked on something very similar: a privacy-first Instagram clone built on top of Matrix. We had a prototype and some initial users.

Here's the unfortunate truth:

The challenge of overcoming the network effect is _the_ problem you're solving here. Nothing else really matters. Almost nobody will care that it's privacy-first. Asking HN to help you figure this out indicates to me that you should do something else.
but "the economy is good" and "I have lots of money" are not the same things.

it is perfectly possible for a country to have the best economy ever while still having a massive amount of people who can't afford food.
For what it's worth, I agree with the other comments that you should drop this idea and pivot. Not nearly enough people care about this.

My advice is to run some other thing and just - as a gift to yourself and a somewhat silent gift to the world - don't monetize it via advertising or selling user data.

Don't make that one of the selling points of the platform: just do it because you think it'll create a better product that more closely aligns with what provides a good experience for users, and because you think it's more ethical. It's very likely not going to be a significant draw for the product in itself. You can mention it as a bullet point in marketing, but don't make it "the thing".
Yep, Aristotle was wrong. "Chicken and egg problems" aren't paradoxes, the challenge is to find which is the egg.
I see many takes in the comments but no one seems to be addressing the fact that privacy and social are opposites of each other.
I think you could state the problem better- for example sharing with the audience that you expect to share with or some better controls on who sees what. But these alone are not good enough differentiation and in theory Facebook has very fine grained privacy controls and no one bothers to set this correctly and advertisers still see more than what you set etc

It is a hairy problem but it’s hard to frame it in such a way as to make it attractive enough to the masses to switch from existing networks
The title is XKCD-style Nerd Sniping ;) The body of the article is about how a unicellular species formed multicellular-/animal-like groups via 'polar' division. I don't really understand what the difference between a colony of unicellular organisms and a multicellular organism is, but given the last sentence of the article, I don't think they do either:

This discovery could also shed new light on a long-standing scientific debate concerning 600 million-year-old fossils that resemble embryos, and could challenge certain traditional conceptions of multicellularity.
Oligopolistic / Competitive vs Short-termist / Long-term are rather orthogonal dimensions and derive from different types of regulations and incentives.
They have already onboarded a scrum team on the code base. They've got to burn those points on something to argue for their payroll and the PO and the lead dev thinks AI is cool.
I'm not sure if this is intended as serious or tongue-in-cheek.

Obviously parents come before offspring.

The earliest form of reproduction is just binary fission - what an amoeba does by splitting itself into two. In it's simplest (origins of life) form this is just a mechanical process of a proto-metabolism (bunch of chemicals) being split into parts that are smaller versions of the "parent", e.g. some proto-cell composed of seashore froth being whipped into smaller versions of itself.

Eventually the division process became asymmetrical with the spawned child being a simpler proto-version of the adult, capable of then independently developing into the adult form. It seems life developed in the oceans before emerging onto land, so the history is probably of multi-cellular fish-precursors reproducing by spawning simpler (conceptually egg-like) versions of themselves, eventually evolving into egg-laying fish, and then egg-laying land-based animals including the dinosaurs from which birds developed.

So, maybe the best answer to "which came first, chicken or egg?" is "fish".
I would not say WhatsApp as privacy-first network, but otherwise I agree.
And roads will still need to be maintained if all personal vehicles are eliminated. So who should subsidize Amazon's usage of our roads in that scenario?

Raising the fuel tax also disincentives personal vehicle ownership.
Those are very valid but separate concerns.

You can make social media illegal for under 16s without requiring online age validation.

After all, a form of this already exists with the US COPPA [1] law, and the presence of that law hasn't forced age validation on everyone.

If the US can make it de-facto illegal for companies to let under 13s use social media, and has been the case for over 20 years, then it shouldn't be a sudden privacy-ending problem for Australia to make it illegal for under 16s to use social media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
I believe they wrote their own image handling and did not contribute back to llama.cpp.
Where from and is it curly?
And passenger safety?
It's a bit unwieldy, but the good thing is that it comes for free with your copy of GNU/Linux!
So maybe we try to create more of that type of living space?
So web apps can make Linux sys calls? Or its about Chrome OS?
You're conflating contexts. From the voter's perspective, yes, there might be a duty to mitigate harm. That's if you believe that harm can be mitigated in that regard; e.g., perhaps moving the lever simply kills a different (smaller?) group of people instead. In this case, now you're arguing utilitarianism, i.e., it's okay to kill some people to save others, it's okay to kill a few innocents to save everyone else. "I will not choose to kill anyone, and the world shall move as it does," is then an option, and the neutral one. You can, in fact, walk away from Omelas.

However, the issue is a lot more clear-cut from the CANDIDATE'S perspective, which is the one that I think matters (because it's the one that is closest to affecting how the candidate campaigns and behaves): you are not owed a vote. No one is being paid or forced at gunpoint into a voting booth. Before the choice of candidate, is the choice of participation, and to not participate is the default, passive choice. It is on you as the candidate to influence not just the pen stroke on the ballot but the step into the polling center.
I was hoping there is an audio/podcast version of this, but I haven't found it yet.
It’s like a mini myst puzzle as an way of consuming content
More than you'd think! I recall reading about touring gladiators. Rome might have been the big city, but audiences get tired of seeing the same gladiators all the time, so they'd go on tour. Now if you have a highly successful gladiator and you're in Podunkus, Asia Minor, would you risk losing your meal ticket to some hairy local? No. You fix the match. After the tour, you head back to Rome for the triumphant return and people are excited to see your guy again.
I don't think creating a separate tier of enhanced OS upgrades would benefit Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't connected to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Canonical has no resources to offer a free AI-powered Notepad editor. Microsoft is connected to OpenAI, Microsoft has AI-hardware partners, and Microsoft has the in-house resources to create new drivers for new hardware/software compatibility issues.

There will always be valid reasons to use Windows over Ubuntu.