skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, it is missing a trailing "s", it was a bad copy/paste on my part. The corrected link is https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-fed.... Still really easy for anyone to find the information if they were inclined.
AFAIK, McDonald’s does this with their mobile app (they weren’t letting me log in with my password) But the problem with their implementation was that the magic link that they send you is wrapped in a click tracker whose domain is blocked by pihole (and the likes), and I could not reach the actual auth URL to complete the login process.
This seems closer to an RTG [1].

Legality aside, could one design a desktop RTG with a practical power output? Say with an open-cycle boiling-water design, to keep things simple.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
I like this guy. Saving for later. Thanks!
No one needs proof Cancel Culture was real. Everyone knows at this point. So you can pretend you need proof if you want, but you're not fooling anyone.
Same. I deleted my account in like 2018.

Since then Marketplace has more or less destroyed Craigslist. So two months ago I tried to create an account strictly for Marketplace. My email, phone, and location have all changed since 2018. Despite verifying phone and doing the most extreme KYC step of taking a picture of myself with my ID I still could not make a new account. So maybe they should focus on that?
Thanks for that link, I had not seen it and if I had known Ricky Mondello had written that, I probably wouldn't have bothered.

I'm still used to Apple people being almost completely invisible publicly.
Can you elaborate on the exact layout syntax these ML idiot savant agents want to read? Lack of an industry wide standard data interface makes this terrible.
You're thinking of the Domesday Book.

It is admittedly the same word written in Middle English, but I think context+spelling is enough to distinguish it.
Walter, I'll take any chance I can get to say: thank you for creating D! One thing I was wondering about is the limits of compile time execution.

How does the D compiler ensure correctness if the machine the compiler runs on is different from the machine the program will execute on?

For example, how does the compiler know that "int s = sum(100000, 1000000)" is the same value on every x86 machine?

I'm thinking there could be subtle differences between generations of CPU, how can a compiler guarantee that a computation on the host machine will result in the same value on the target machine in practice, or is it assuming that host and target are sufficiently similar, as long as the architecture matches? (which is fine, I'm wondering as to what approaches exist)
> Go back a couple of years and you'll find tons of posts of people trying to get Netflix working on linux

That’s exactly what is happening. The newest Google Pixels phone that support DisplayPort alt-mode over USB C should work with the Netflix app.

You’re over indexing on Android being based on Linux
> If they'd been advancing a test case, they would have done what they did and then--when confronted by rightsholders--stopped while the courts deliberated.

Consider what would happen if they did that.

First, this was happening during a pandemic. Emergency happening right now. If you stop doing it at this point, not only do you fail your patrons when they need you, you're undermining your own argument that this is actually an emergency that justifies doing this.

Second, if you stop, do they even sue you? If they don't, you don't even get your test case.

Third, if they do sue you, what does it matter if you were doing it for a month vs. a year? If they hit you with the absurd fictional damages numbers in some of the copyright statutes and you lose, bankrupt is bankrupt.
Some guys bought the trademark and are selling merchandise and making memes for a while now. Their new Enron tiktok is gold.
86% of Food Contained Plastic: Inside PlasticList's Study with Yaroslav Shipilov
I'm super interested as we've been debating adding email/password (since we only use Magic Links at the moment).

How are you tracking login success rates?
Mea culpa--I used the wrong word, settlement, instead of the correct one, verdict. OTOH, this has to do with inter-corporate battles starting 25 years ago, not some recent rise of commodity cartelling.

A 12-year-old federal antitrust case against the nation's largest egg producers came to a tentative close on Friday, after a jury delivered a verdict awarding four food corporations $17.7 million in damages.

The four plaintiff corporations first sued the egg producers in December 2011, accusing them of using multiple tactics to jack up egg prices starting as early as 1998. However, the jury found the corporations only suffered damages from the price fixing between October 2004 and December 2008. No individual consumers were represented in the suit.

https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-awards-corporations-17-7...

(edit, added link to quote source)
Thank you, this is a better piece than TFA! Reading TFA I was rather confused at how passkeys are an alternative to magic links—it makes a lot more sense to view them as a complement. Magic links allow you access to passkeys, which are basically "Remember this Computer" on steroids.
Consistency makes code predictable and reduces mental overhead. It doesn't mean you have to write it poorly like the rest of the codebase, but it does mean using the same general practices as the rest of the codebase. Think of it like using knockoff legos vs the real thing. They both work interchangeably which makes it easy to use them together, but you'd prefer to use the nicer lego pieces as much as possible in your builds because the material is higher quality, tighter tolerances, just overall works better even if it's the same shape as the knockoff pieces.
Actual title says "for the First Time in My Career". Edited title is kind of weird.
Yes! In programming speak, you're talking about levels of abstraction.
Som of us haue reuised oure spelynge syns þe 1100s.
Amazing. And indeed, surely a multi-million dollar commission (in ‘90s dollars!) - the logo is from the same guy who did the logos for IBM and NeXT (among many others).
But at the very least they need to say "No Coke. Pepsi."
I don’t like how cars are becoming living rooms on wheels. But I know a lot of people spend lots of time commuting. Thankfully I spend very little time in my car.
I think the point is that a body is obviously and intuitively a thing, and doesn't need any pretending. Whereas take something like a marketing brand that has been spread too thin over a bunch of disparate products, everyone has to pretend really hard that it is one thing.
> what is important here isn't what you recommend, it is what people choose

Do we have any evidence soda drinkers sub Coke for alcohol? I'd have guessed artifically-sweetened soft drinks would have been the substitute.
Don't post AI slop in HN comments.
I got one of these a couple days ago. I thought it was a well timed scam at first.
Retarded timing is a common term in reference to a car’s ignition. And in biology, retarded growth is often used.
I can easily tell the difference between the two, but I really don't care so long as the coffee is brewed well. I still like Maxwell House Black Silk, but at home I grind my own beans and brew in a French Press.

What I don't like is "Church Coffee", where it has brewed within an inch of its life and is the darkest, most bitter/burned flavor that ever existed.
118$ for a sweatshirt. Guess those rights were expensive.
> Part of me is hoping this leaks. Might be the only way to get people to care

How's that worked out for us the last billion times?
How is that secure against the same phishing attacks that a clickable link is vulnerable to (basically the idea that someone can socially engineer you into a situation where you think you are supposed to complete the auth flow with them, enabling them to sign in as you?)
That's why open research (which "open" ai has never really contributed to!) and foundational models that everyone can contribute to are essential.

This stuff is a pretty neat magical evolution and it should not be the domain of any single company.

Also a lot of the hardware and so on has/is being paid for. AWS gcloud, etc aren't taking massive losses on their H100 and other compute services. This bubble is no different than any prior bubble ultimately, and bankruptcy will recycle useful assets into new companies and new purposes.

Which btw why the US is still a huge winner and will continue to be -> robust and functioning bankruptcy laws and courts.
Counting the digits of 64-bit integers
very impressed with the images generated by the model. great work!
At least he was gentlemen enough to ask every NATO member to spend more on defence.

Testing, 1, 2, 3... kidding
we choose what facts to believe.

this just might be the craziest thing I’ve read recently but given the current state of affairs not all that surprising…
This is happening because Trump threatened to put Zuckerberg in prison for life (not an exaggeration):

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-warns-mark-zuckerberg-c...

Trump himself confirmed this today:

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lf66oltlvs2l

I cannot believe anyone would actually be okay with this situation.
I think as Ricky wrote last week [1], they should augment Magic Links or other auth methods. There are some positives about Magic Links for sure (though I don't know if making your email an even stronger attack vector is necessarily one of them), but for people who use a password manager, for example, they are a definite friction point that I think passkeys most certainly could alleviate.

There are definite UX problems around passkeys that could be improved and I think exporting will make syncing across systems a lot better (one of the reasons I use 1Password as my primary password and passkey system is so I can use my passkeys across devices; of course it helps that my employer uses 1Password as our system so I am logged into my personal and enterprise accounts and can auth then from personal or work devices, provided additional auth or enrollment isn't needed) -- but if the problem as 404 defines it is that they don't want to be responsible or even have to worry about storing your passwords/auth controls, I think passkeys is at least better for a subset of users than Magic Links.

But again, like Ricky, I don't think it should be viewed as either or. It should be both.

[1]: https://rmondello.com/2025/01/02/magic-links-and-passkeys/
Go Is a Well-Designed Language
> I feel like this is caused by massive capital misallocation over decades

Absolutely a large misallocation. And this is not just about the number of engineers. It is also about number of managers, 2 pizza teams, entire management chains merely doing promotion/PIP management, entire sets of VPs and execs with no market experience or engineering experience. Even a large number of PE investors and angel investors who just landed on money but actually don't have any skills beyond betting far and wide.

Highly paid roles have been paying people who are just doing administrative work. This is misallocation. And all of a sudden, this misallocation has come to bare.
Yes, this is the counterpoint I'd make to "resist the urge to make every corner of the codebase nicer than the rest of it": in an inconsistent codebase, maybe we should prioritize making it consistent where possible, and reducing unnecessary duplication is one way to reduce future change costs.
IF that could be reliably done on a modest budget, okay. Well...assuming the drones have a decent service life. Temperature and pressure aren't the only challenges that the Venusian atmosphere offers.

Otherwise - let Bezos pay for it, to score the bragging rights.
This reminds me of William Buckley preferring to be governed by the first 100 names of the Boston phone book over the Harvard faculty.
Scientists find 'spooky' quantum entanglement within individual protons
Have you ever tried plain carbonated water? It's more interesting than still water, and for me more thirst quenching. Easy to make at home with a Soda Stream or similar, just don't add any of their syrup.
> zero so far this year

I saw what you did there.
Americans didn’t vote equally for the Senate
> People often ask why I hardly ever have any prod issues (zero so far this year).

It also helps that we're still only in January!
Not Being Miserable
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/enron-egg-price-nuclear-s...

“This product is gonna revolutionize three critical industries. The power industry, the independence industry, and the freedom industry. This product is gonna revolutionize all three,” Enron CEO Connor Gaydos claimed in a video presentation announcing the egg.

Gaydos is also the co-founder of the satirical “Birds Aren't Real” movement, which asserts that all real birds existing in the U.S. had been forcibly made extinct and were replaced by the government with surveillance drones that look like birds.
Random thought

I used to reject 6mo contract offers but after being a laborer the 2.5X pay increase even for 6mo made sense. So I accepted one and now I'm here typing this on a 16" mac at a new job. I am now thinking about making better choices financially.
Given the tricks that Google play (or at least played) in hijacking their own search results to scare users into switching to Chrome, I shed no tears here. Google set a new lower standard in deceitful behaviour, and Microsoft are simply following.
A fully competent security team will, on the other hand, carry out a more comprehensive threat modelling exercise and make a pragmatic choice about whether this kind of auth flow is appropriate for your usecase.

The phishing risks for a bank account login are very different than those for a ‘returning player’ login to a casual gaming site for example.
You can absolutely sue Wikipedia [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._W...

edit: My bad, I get the joke now.
This is nonsense:

100g of mango has 14g of sugar

100g of watermelon has 6.2g of sugar

100g of navel orange has 12g of sugar

100g of sugar has 100g of sugar, 1 can of Dr Pepper has 40g of sugar

It's both pure sugar AND more sugar. You have to eat more than half a pound of mango to get to the same sugar as a Dr Pepper.
I like the idea of locking in the seed and params. Will see what I can do
> like making one focused on the short-term wants at the cost of longer-term needs

Yeah, that's fair.

In my previous apartment, there was a guy named Julius. I really liked him, he was very pleasant to talk to, funny, charming, and just very nice.

We were in that apartment for three years, and nothing too remarkable happened, but the last year, Julius fell into some kind of lifestyle that I'm unsure of the details of, but ended up with him constantly stoned, missing teeth, and evicted from the apartment.

He was still in my neighborhood (homeless as far as I could tell), and he would still talk to me, always really polite, but with increasingly-yellow eyes, and it made me really sad, because I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone, let alone someone who was always kind to me.

My wife and I discussed maybe giving him some money to try to get back on his feet, but we decided against it because we were confident that if we did it would likely go to drugs. We really wanted to help, but we were afraid, like you said, it would be a short-term want overshadowing a long term gain.

If I had genuinely thought that writing him a check for $1,000 would dramatically improve his life, I would have done it in a heartbeat, but I didn't, and I felt like there was a good chance it would fuel a bender that would lead to an overdose.

I would occasionally buy him lunch at the nearby Wendy's, and I offered to try and help him fix up his resume to maybe make him more employable, but nothing ever came of that.

We eventually moved from that apartment and I'm not sure what happened to Julius. I hope he's ok, but I suspect that he's probably dead now, from an overdose or alcohol poisoning. A part of me wishes I had given him some money to dig himself out, but I think I made the right choice.

I don't lose sleep over my actions on that one; there wasn't really anything I could have done much different. Sometimes sad shit just happens, and it's no one's fault.
Would be interested to know that as well. Good luck!
The Jetson TX2 developer kit makes a very nice developer machine - an ARM64 machine with good graphics acceleration, CUDA, etc.

In any case, Ubuntu is what it comes with.
Show HN: Autopod, Automate Your Reading List to Podcasts
Hi HN,

I've been reading so much content lately around LLMs for my work and research, so I built a simple tool to turn my "read later" links into podcasts to keep up with the super fast changes happening in the industry. It uses n8n, OpenAI, and Raindrop.io to pull content, generate scripts via AI, convert them to audio, and save the result to Google Drive. Now I can catch up on articles and papers while on the go.

It's cost-effective (~$0.20 or less for 20 minutes podcast) and fully customizable—you can tweak prompts, adjust lengths, or swap components. It is optimized for cost, so the voice quality isn’t perfect yet as is, but it can easily improve by swapping the TTS model with a better one.

The workflow is open source, and the setup is straightforward. Check it out and let me know your feedback or ideas for improvements!
There is a substantial class of users this would be too much to ask of, i.e. they wouldn’t understand it or would assume that they are being scammed somehow.
Comic Sans was definitely my first reaction too.
A better title would be "Marlene Weisman interviewed about doing SNL graphics for 7 seasons".
I got that sense too, but after watching the video, I felt like it was more of an indictment of American tech culture (especially with the recent block chain, crypto, and now AI hype). As I watched the video I felt increasingly scared of the thought of home nuclear reactors made a company solely motivated by increasing profits YoY. Honestly it was more scary than funny.
I'm sure you also think Twitter is the free speech capital of the internet as well.
The most useful result of Community Notes I've seen is when someone posts something Y, and then a few hours later it comes out that actually it was Z, community notes have been able to attach "actually it was Z" to the original viral post, still being shared.

I don't know if anyone cared much about fact checker reports (or if anyone even bothered to track how often they ended up being wrong when looking back in review).
Bujold also made an explicit point on several occasions in this book cycle that without this kind of tech, there's no true gender equality, because the burden of childbearing is just too much of a penalty.
I started thinking today, when Nvidia seemingly keeps just magically increasing performance every two years, that they eventually have to "intel" themselves, where they haven't made any real architectural improvements in ~10 years and just suddenly power and thermals don't scale anymore and you have six generations of turds that all perform essentially the same, right?
Well, as far as industrial workers, they definitely aren't a super-majority, given all the people working in service, creative, and white collar jobs. But I don't know why that would matter.

I'm no scholar of this stuff by any means, but by my understanding the relevant difference was between those that lived by what they owned versus those that lived by selling their labor. I don't know the exact numbers but I would assume those that live by selling their labor are a majority but not super-majority. Those that live entirely off their property are a tiny minority, but there currently exists a solid chunk of people that both sell their time and build wealth from property/interest.

Most of the HN crowd probably falls into that later category
I wrote one but never published it. I'm working on resurrecting the blog (writing an article right now) I appreciate the interest and I'll dig up the draft and publish it later this week.
> "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas.

Prediction: it'll be cali-expats in Austin and nothing changes.
As the root comment noted, one of the great things about community notes on X are that the algorithm and the data it's operating on are public. If Musk were removing notes that would be trivial to prove. The fact that such claims of tampering are never accompanied by said proof should tell you all you need to know.
Which makes an AI generated tattoo even more perplexing.
Actually, this is a brilliant move by Microsoft. As a developer, I can tell you that user interface mimicry is a time-honored tradition in software. Remember how Facebook copied Snapchat's stories? And plus, Google's monopoly needs to be challenged, and if users can't tell the difference in quality between Bing and Google anyway, then what's the problem? The real problem is that people are too used to Google. This might help break that habit.
thanks for writing what you wrote -- I think it's important that we have this conversation as broadly as we can
You can either get better coffee or you can also just get used to the flavor. I didn't like it and after about a year it became fine, now I have a lifetime of no sugar coffee unlocked.
Except, the old stuff will be effectively untestable, and they'll demand near perfect coverage for your changes.

Also, they're will be four incomplete refactorings, and people will insist on it matching the latest refactoring attempt. Which, will then turn out to be impossible, as it's too unfinished.
Then why v2? If there are no breaking changes, why increase the major version? And if there are breaking changes, why not fix the quirks? Seriously, decisions like this show me the maintainers are just blinded by their lack of front-end skills, whining about JavaScript and striving for questionable "purity" - it's the same with the codebase (as mentioned by other commenters): one large unmaintainable file, because build step is too complex or whatever nonsense.

Anyway, excellent article and discussion that showed me I can forget about HTMX :D
And then when you need to provide an accessible version?
Maybe it's just where I've worked in the past, but "lowest bidder" contracts actually seemed relatively uncommon. Most big projects were "best value" (which still has some downsides)
I haven't had these specific issues with magic links specifically, but I do remember when Epic launched the Epic Games Store and they would e-mail you two-factor codes to log in. I consistently had issues where I wanted to log into their store, got prompted to enter the two-factor code they e-mailed me, got no email for several minutes, requested another code, didn't get that either, gave up and did something else, and then got both codes 30 minutes later.

The fact is that even in the best of times, e-mail isn't reliable. Things go to your junk folder. Links get blocked by work spam filters. Mailboxes get full (I assume? it's been a while).

Personally, I have my e-mail on my iPhone and anywhere else (work laptop or gaming PC) I have to log into icloud.com to check my e-mail; it's cumbersome. Let me put in a password. Let me scan a QR code like embedded devices do. Give me at least one other option.
Is this regular Cheerios, or Honey Nut?

The Honey Nut Cheerios are glazed in sugar, but the plain Cheerios (to my taste) don't have much if any. Don't have any here to check the ingredients though. If I want cereal for breakfast I generally make plain oatmeal.
I always assumed that traffic cameras were open to the public by design. Why should only the police have access to them if the cameras are public-facing, funded by the public, for the public?

Seattle has a nice page where you can visualize camera locations on a map and access live feeds:

https://web.seattle.gov/Travelers/

I think this is great. There is no expectation of privacy in public. If we're going to have cameras at all, I'd rather they be open to everyone, instead of being gatekept by a select few.