skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Mozilla is doing really important works incl. Firefox, Thunderbird, Llamafile and so on. I use them heavily and I want to keep supporting their works. However, their management keep doing shitty things like this.

I don't believe that privacy and advertising can coexist. I use Firefox specifically because I don't want to see ads, yet Mozilla is trying to push ads, which is a glaring contradiction. I'm worried that this could lead to their eventual disappearance in the future.
Extra: so, so much sentiment around economic effects in this article. I don't mean to downplay them at all, but this article misses something very central that I've heard from people who have become 'fed up' with the democratic party over time is -- in summary -- that they don't want to be talked down to. It has become a habit of the left to paint a portrait of people who oppose their viewpoints as dumb, uneducated, etc., and then being shocked when they don't get votes.

The article brushes against this for a twinkling moment in its 'dignity of work' segment, but I don't see a portion where it addresses this directly. This is a huge deal. You cannot insult people and expect them to vote for you. It's like going to a bar to try and find a date with your only strategy being negging[0]. When it's part of your messaging that the opposition is opposing you simply because it's dumb, it also plants an inherent superiority complex in your supporters, which only serves to exacerbate the problem.

Again -- the economic points are important here, too. I am not downplaying them at all. This is just something that a ton of articles and sources about this problem in particular seem to miss.

I keep hearing about this, too. It's not one or two people, it's very, very many who I've seen and heard expressing this over time. It's not a problem that is getting any better -- in fact, it would appear to be getting worse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negging
Quite a few people arguing for change were murdered/killed. Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny for example. I guess those aren't very intellectual but the intellectuals are probably keeping their heads down to avoid similar fates.

Anna Politkovskaya was an anti Putin writer, also killed by poisoning.

Kasparov is fairly close. "Although I'm half-Armenian, half-Jewish, I consider myself Russian because Russian is my native tongue, and I grew up with Russian culture." He's written a well reviewed book and not been killed just yet. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stop...
What do you mean, Chinese foreign policy is an utter train wreck. All of their neighbors hate them.
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That's really good news. It's pretty nice to see the younger generation ditching the hyper-processed type of photos you get from a smartphone for a more 'authentic' look at life.
This is a good illustration of the arrogant intellect with no wisdom
It seems like one of the better use-cases for machine learning models, some of them seem to especially excel at translating between languages. It seems it's even applicable to languages we don't really have any understanding for. I look forward to having a machine-translated conversation with my cat within the decade.

Sort of related question: Am I alone in being regularly baffled by how much humans under-estimate other creatures' capacity for thinking and communicating? I find it really strange to think that these creatures would not have a rich world and a rich language for communicating. They make noises for a reason, there is obvious complexity to the noises, why wouldn't we assume that there is a lot of information being conveyed?
I highly recommend turning off auto updates on browser extensions.
> "pgp is too complex"

PGP is too complex. I've known my way around the command line before I learned how to hand-write, and I have to look up the commands to fetch the keys and/or verify the blob every single time. Keyservers regularly fail to respond. There's no desktop integration to speak of. The entire UX stinks of XKCD 196.

Don't blame CIA for obvious deficiencies in usability.
In that scenario, they would use Russia rather than Middle East for oil shipments in the first place.
Turn any image into a music playlist using AI
All kinds of pseudoscience makes people believe they feel better. Without proof therapy works it’s no better than homeopathy.
That is still more expensive than the $99 a year Apple charges, and you get al lot more than just signing for that price.
If you accepted digital tokens as ‘money’, don't be surprised to have AI faces as friends...
The number of permissions that Laspass may request also looks very invasive.

With all the security issues that Lastpass had been dealing with time and again for years, I wonder who’s even using it in 2025. Is it just non-tech people who are not aware of its poor track record? Or is Lastpass very good at hiding its past from potential customers?

Does anyone here recommend Lastpass to others? If yes, I’m curious to know why (when there are, IMO, much better options).
yes, people are used to clicks / actions taking < 200ms, when something takes 20s+, it feels broken even if the results are good.
>in dismissing work for such trivial reasons, you risk ignoring things you might have otherwise found interesting

Not dismissing work for trivially avoidable mistakes risks wasting your precious, limited lifespan investing effort into nonsense. These signals are useful and important. If they couldn't be bothered to proofread, what else couldn't they be bothered to do?

>spent their limited resources focusing on what's more important

Showing that you give a crap is important, and it takes seconds to run through a spell checker.
> Google doesn't build ROMs for anything but their own phones.

Are you suggesting that ROMs provided through Android Studio's emulator are somehow not built by Google?
Interesting that the Northgate Starbucks closes for just 4 hours every week from Mon 10pm to Tue 2am.
Probably because they're small "family" businesses, and the owner is there more often than not. And they have no problem saying "no" to anyone for any reason.
Yes, China engages diplomatically and financially with countries that the U.S. fought and then leaves. Since the withdrawal from Afghanistan of course China appeared instantly:

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/mining-influence-chin...

Now the U.S. is fighting for minerals in Ukraine. Rare moment of truth by Senator Graham:

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/lindsey-graham-ukraine/

This of course could have been achieved diplomatically by cooling down the NATO tensions. But no, another proxy war must be fought that likely will be lost like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. The Chinese do not fight and profit from all of this.
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
Hi,

As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games). So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and integrating in my editor.

Today, it looks like most people use GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor integration.

The plugin is currently near complete, even if the project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there might be some bugs.

Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
Evolution has already done the math on this

(Or more precisely, it’s already doing the math, and the current answer is that hydrophobia is the better solution [for rabies’ purposes])
From a left-wing perspective it does not feel correct to describe Labour policies as enacting "left wing policies". The Winter fuel payments are the biggest example, whilst the two-child cap and the stance on Israel are right up there.
Do you really think Google is going away anytime soon? Google and its ads are the backbone of much of the free internet. Without ads, we’d likely see most sites with paywalls. On the other hand, AI services have a chance to hurt Google if they don't catch up.
“Therapy doesn’t work” is always refuted by this claim that you just haven’t found the right one yet.

It’s tiring honestly, you are not allowed to criticize therapy in the current year.
How does he explain being an awful human being in public, where we can all see him?
The secret is that restaurants which make traditional cacio e pepe are using pasta water to emulsify the sauce.

But it's not the same pasta water you're using at home!

Only a tiny amount of starch is coming off of the 500g of pasta you just cooked in the proper ratio in 5000g of water (with 50g of salt). They've been cooking with their pasta water all day or all week; It's completely full of starch that came off the other pasta.

Dump a bunch of cornstarch or flour in there to get above 1% concentration (or more efficiently, into a tiny portion in a bowl) to replicate the emulsifying effect, or just use a different emulsifier.
Hello, thank you for sharing your work.

The documentation is too technical for my level. I wanted to use and understand based on simple examples for daily operations but wasn't easy to find. This was eventually found on the test cases as you describe, but even there the level of complexity for the code makes it unusable for me as a lower-level programmer.

My question would be for searches based on the hash, for example SHA-256 to reduce duplicates, or more advanced cases like TLSH that permits to find similar files. Would this archive be able to be used that way?

The second part is about using .rgz as extension instead of .gz on the archives. If my assumption is correct, we can simply keep using .gz to maintain compatibility and familiarity with other tools, right?
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10109
I suppose this does tell us something: there are no ancient super high tech hyper-expansionary civilizations in this galaxy, or at least not near us.

That could mean a lot of things including just chance. There could be galaxies out there that have in fact been fully colonized.
Vynil round 2.
These are awesome, thanks! I wonder what happened to the CDC6700 and PLATO terminal after the LCM+L auction.
Film is lots of things aesthetically, but it's certainly not "authentic".

You don't have to hyper-process smartphone photos, there are plenty of apps that let you just take a "normal" picture.

And the colors from a CMOS image sensor are far more accurate -- i.e. "authentic" -- than the responses from color film. Every type of film is, well -- opinionated, let's say. It has its own look. Which can be nice, and you can simulate it digitally as well. But it's less "authentic" to reality, not more.
Overwhelmingly white and rich engineers
You cannot insult people and expect them to vote for you.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of what you have written - however this part is suss because the opponent of the democratic party does this same thing and during the campaign often to their face ("I would not even be here if I didn't need your votes" kind of things...). dem party has a lot of issues to work through but "the other side" is just better at politics. if a party that could not give two shits about "working class" is getting working class votes you know there is magic happening politically...
I started my career working on VR apps and soon pivoted to webdev due to the better market.

Articles like this one make me miss the field - working with 3d graphics, collisions, shaders, etc. had a magical feeling that is hard to find in other areas. You're practically building worlds and recreating physics (plus, math comes up far more practically and frequently than in any other programming field).
There's more to digital photography than filters. I would never give up Live Photos.
You might want to consider removing or changing the word "simple". "Simple" is ambiguous. It might convey ease-of-use, or it might convey "few features/underpowered".
Yeah, having the reward function baked into the runtime is a sure way to eliminate any nonsense!
That... didn't occur to me at all. Nowadays stuff like this usually a LLM running amok. :( Sorry about that.
There's also a more tactile, grounded feel to film photography. Since you can't just take a test picture and look at the histogram to correct the exposure (or even just dial back on the flashing highlights) you need to know everything in advance. Using a light meter helps but more traditionally photographers relied on a zone system, a conservative shutter speed, and push processing when needed.
Hotrods are dissappearing quickly. They cost too much. They are a pain to insure and have very low resale potential. As the culture changes, cars are moving from personal expressions to comodified fashion statements. It is rare now to even see a repaint driving on the road, let alone major engine mods. Hotrods are now just expensive weekend toys alongside boats. The market for RV mods probably now double the north american market for car mods.
You're misusing Occam's Razor because of a misunderstanding about indigenous people's capacity for engineering.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24712701

https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-8/targeted-interventions...

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/indigenous-peoples-have...

Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest actively encouraged the formation of geological structures in order to increase shellfish yield and sustainability. You seem to think that the simplest explanation is that people just copied happy accidents, when the level of sophistication of these systems combined with the documented propensity of humans to actively engineer their way out of problems leads to the simplest explanation being that what we see with both the food forests and mariculture is such active engineering.

The only way to come to a different conclusion is to assume that something is fundamentally different between Old World and New World populations just because one group's processes are relatively well-documented and the other's isn't. However, that conclusion would be colored by your relative inexperience with the shape of New World solutions. We're just discovering these phenomena because we didn't have the vision to see that they existed, biased as we are to the Eurasian perspective. If all you know are wheels, you won't recognize llama tracks, as it were.
Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting [pdf] (2021)
Apple Siri Eavesdropping Payout–Here's Who's Eligible and How to Claim
This seems like a very dangerous play.

The selling point of these AIs is that they can give you accurate answers. Mixing up answers and ads like this seems like a recipe for loss of trust.

I know it’s the same thing that Google did with search results, but this seems different to me.

That question is obviously correctly answered by “It’s not. Here are several alternatives that are just as good and better and cheaper or even free, etc.” But we know that won’t be the answer.

So what is the result of typing that question directly? Is it different from the result of clicking the question as an ad? Can I get the right answer anymore? Will the interface show that the answer itself is an ad? Can I switch back to an un-“bribed to give me the wrong answer” interface?
Google runs on a scale much larger than most companies think. To run and operate Goo gl, they didn't see enough value even though millions of people used it.

Often times when Google shutdowns a product, it still has millions of users which is great for smaller businesses to step in and grow. That is what I was able to do creating T.LY around the same time Google announced the shutdown.
> All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep Saying, "Where shall we shelter or where shall we sleep?"

In the pot. Who needs birds or insects ? The only useful insect is the bark beetle. /s
Live Photos is the first thing I deactivate.
I'm American.

It's harder to cross into the US, than Canada, for reasons I don't want to discuss here.

I'll just leave it at this: It's really frustrating to have a long wait into your own country than any other country I've traveled to.
Thanks! How do you measure it? :)
> For starters, we could feed back screenshots of the generated website back to the LLM. But soon you’d want to give the LLM access to a full web browser so it can itself poke around the app, like a human would, to see what features work and which ones don’t.

We've had some success[1] with the screenshot to actions - using Gemini/Molmo and ADB on phones. And human like decisions was made by GPT 4o. It also recalibrates itself and says "oh we are still at the home screen, let's find the gmail app first"

1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/clickclickclick - Letting AI control/use my phone.
This is positioning for Starship being many years away from being human-rated and from meeting other specs required for Artemis. So Atremis now becomes a dumb idea.

We are about to see a tortoise and hare moment where Jeff Bezos, who has to be cultivating that resemblance to Cecil from Looney Tunes, overtakes the guy jumping around like a mad hare.

For years I thought Starship was a cautionary story about software guys running an agile-ish rocket project. I would not be surprised if they have daily scrums but no critical path analysis.
One small clarification: rather than cooking your pasta in less water, the paper actually describes boiling down the pasta water to further concentrate it ("risottata") by reducing its weight by 3x (presumably shifting your starch concentration from 0.5% to 1.5%).

That said, as you mention, it's just a lot easier to get the consistency right by adding your own starch in measured proportions.
They have a much better track record of apple, microsoft, google and so on…
Billions of links breaking is a good thing?
Authenticity and accuracy are distinct concepts. Authenticity refers to artistic sensibility. It has nothing to do with scientifically correct rendering.
Yes, I think that was the incident in question, thanks.
We have a lot of fun with Live Photos, but it might be due to having little kids.
It's not so much that the LLMs generate profiles like “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller”, but they seem to generate such profiles at rates much higher (perhaps an order of magnitude) than the IRL versions of such actually exist.
There is... for SCMP.
Most factoies don't have a chimney. electric powers them.
What happens when Google's URL Shortener stops working on August 25th? Billions of links all around the internet break. It should be interesting.
> returns of Chinese equities

Another phrase for money leaving the country without goods coming in?
When I got into film photography about 8 years or so ago you could get a roll of Ektar 100 (one of my favorite emulsions) for like 6-7 Euros depending where you looked. Now it's 16 Euros+.
I think you're deceiving yourself. They're allies as long as it makes sense for them.
Sure, there's always a stylistic option with colour, I get that. I don't really conflate "realism" with "authenticity" however. There's something special about getting a roll of film - which has an opinionated chemistry, so to say - and a fixed lens and just shooting life around you. More dynamic, truer to the moment in my humble opinion.

edit: I think the adjective I'm looking for is 'candid', perhaps.
It's 2:1 zoom on a 64MP main camera on a Google Pixel 7A. It absolutely destroyed it. Wasn't low light either.
This blog article is written in a very engaging way. It seems to be more or less a masterclass on how to keep someone's attention, although there is no meta-story making you wait for the big fulfillment at the end.

I think it is the short, punchy sections with plenty of visuals and the fact that you are telling a story the whole way through, which has a natural flow, each experiment you describe, leading to the next.
Or just use less water to cook the pasta? What’s the downside?
> The cash won’t all go to Apple Siri users. Some of the money will go to the legal teams, who could take 30% of the fee plus expenses — a total of just under $30 million.

30% seems like a steep cut of the 95 million to me. I dislike how these class actions frequently end up mostly going to lawyers.
Even if that is possible (unlikely), it will be a big blow to American power because Taiwan produces the best of semiconductor technology.
> The only exploit I can think of with this bypass is that someone who gets access to the developer's release channel can host their own signed apk, which [...] gets installed in case of first install.

That still enables a supply chain attack, which should not be dismissed - virtually all modern targeted attacks involve some complex chain of exploits; a sufficiently motivated attacker will use this.
See also "Manufacturing is a war now":

> Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car.

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

> Democratic countries seem to still mostly be in “peace mode” with respect to their economic models. They don’t yet see manufacturing as something that needs to be preserved and expanded in peacetime in order to be ready for the increasing likelihood of a major war. Fortunately, both Republicans and Democrats in America have inched away from this deadly complacency in recent years. But both the tariffs embraced by the GOP and the industrial policies pioneered by the Dems are only partial solutions, lacking key pieces of a military-industrial strategy.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

FDR started preparing for war years before WW2 / Pearl Harbor (warning: heavy anti-union slant in the book as it was funded by AEI):

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13152691-freedom-s-forge
Ask engineers how they like what they've built
Can We Obfuscate Programs?
Show HN: Interactive Explainer for DDA Line Drawing Algorithm
I never fully understood the DDA algorithm for drawing lines on pixel / voxel grids. I like to learn by teaching, so I figured it out, and wrote a blog post explaining it. Also, all the code examples in the blogpost are interactive and modifiable.

I often see explainers for programming algorithms or concepts and want to boot up a JS scratchpad to mess around with the ideas, so I can get a better feel for the material. In this format, the scratchpad is built-in and ready to go.

I figured the HN crowd would appreciate the format & and the content.
Low-cost dust explosion tube offers more bang for the buck
I'm so embarrassed that I had to open the article to check if it really was talking about algae from space.

Spoiler: no, it's not. sigh
A woke bot from a woke workforce unintentionally created a parody of wokeness. Keep 'em coming.