skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those stories about people (the internet generation) not being able to read anymore are true!
Flaming text was all the rage then. I had a page about how to do that on my E/N website. In paint shop pro
JSONPath is a full query language (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9535/), similar to XPath for XML. It supports things like transformations, array operations, filters, etc.
I absolutely would have described WordStar as a WYSIWYG editor. [0] You have no content markings, you do have pages in sight, and flowing text. You set the text to bold, and the font displayed is bold, etc.

I don't think I'm alone in that judgement, as Wiki says:

"WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and textual WYSIWYG." [1]

So... You might need to expand why you think that this is not true.

[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/words...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
I'm going to admit that I just skimmed past 90% of this article. Being dismissive of AI is currently easy content, so there's too much noise in the space.

Having said that, I actually paid attention to the image playground criticism. Image playground is literally a playground. It is meant to make fun, low-effort images for friends and family, largely for social type interactions.

"It uses a placid corporate artstyle and communicates nothing." It's a hot taco holding a beer. What is it SUPPOSED to communicate? Looks like a pretty great image to me. But of course this piece was leading into the anti- angle, so suddenly it's "horrifying". I guess I didn't get the special training to understand what was wrong with a clearly lighthearted, fun image.

Similar asinine, overly-jaded complaints about the cartoonish, memoji style portrait generation. I think the image is actually pretty hilarious. Actually used image playground to make my social media image, and I care not what this guy thinks about it, or that it is "soulless" (as if a cartoonish representation is supposed to be soulful?)
Likely just napkin math of “I watch about one game every week, that’s roughly 50 games per year, so over the course of 12 years i should be around 600 games”
I'll be happy just as long as it doesn't taste like orange drink fermented under a radiator.
Since any kid can download an app and click "connect", there is 0 validation
These are great ideas but the timing is wrong.

1. GNU radio circa 2006 did not nearly support the SNRs and modulation schemes we needed; the tools had simply not matured. Furthermore, by making blocks, its difficult to close the loops hitting theory on timing say with respect to re-demoding blocks after getting loop lock. Perhaps now its fine but the problem is moot now. You can already run cell base stations now off of hardware that costs less than $1000.

2. This is fine as long as i can write high level code and have a compiler do the translation. Otherwise, there exists now sufficient compute power in a low swap package to do the necessary processing.
I find this article doesn't really say much of substance nor does it have hard facts to back it its claims related to the title. It really is just an observation piece - there are cuts and here are some very general theories without evidence. I didn't really gain much reading it.
Ah, that makes sense! I googled it and the only thing I found spelling it the way the app does is that it's a word meaning "sorcery" in a language from the Philippines that I've never heard of before this...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paktol
And before Macwrite, or Macintosh computers existed, there was Xerox PARC and their GUI-based WYSIWYG editor called "Bravo", which Steve Jobs no doubt would have seen when he visited PARC.
> and humans are simply not smart enough to come up frameworks to objectively truncate the space.

We are, but some people stubbornly resist such things. For instance, MOND reproducing the Tully-Fisher relation and being unexpectedly successful at making many other predictions suggests that any theories purporting to explain dark matter/gravitational anomalies should probably have MOND-like qualities in some limit. That would effectively prune the space of possible theories.

Instead, they've gone in the complete opposite direction, basically ignoring MOND and positing different matter distributions just to fit observations, while MOND, against all odds since it's not ultimately correct, continues to make successful predictions we're now seeing in JWST data.
Some very large towers do indeed have platforms at the top. And some even have elevators.

But the vast majority do not. Very expensive to build.
I always wonder how many people actually used typewriters before talking about them in comparison to word processors.

By the late 1970s or early 1980s, typewriters had electronic memory. They had error correction "tape" so you could erase mistakes. You could set them to center or right justify text. You could create tables of justified text.

Early word processing software was amazing because it gave you more memory to work with, and didn't force you to keep so much of what you previously wrote in your head. But it was only a large step forward compared to typewriters of the time.

WYSIWYG blew all of that out of the water.
The spam filtering for texts in Google Messages is run on device and in my experience works pretty well
As you suspect, it's not awesome.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=io_uring
The cost is 600 calories or so that you'd need to make up elsewhere.
Not terribly insightful. The question in the headline is not answered.
> Moving jobs to cheaper countries: the flipside of work-from-home is having companies realize that they don't need to have butts in chairs is San Francisco, they can have butts in chairs in India, 75% of performance for half the price.

They had to be brain-dead to only consider that as an option now. What was keeping them from figuring it out sometime post-Reagan?
What exactly should the government be doing that it isn’t doing? I’m speaking as someone with a slight disability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611326

More details, it’s more of an irritation for me than a life altering issue - my CP is such that I can only grab things with my left hand and I have a slight limp because of weakness in my left foot. But properly conditioned, I can run a 10 minute mile (not great. But not bad).

So this is an honest question, I (or my parents) really haven’t needed much government help even though I did go through various therapies until I was 12 when my “therapy” became lifting weights.
In the nascent world of water tech are IOT devices that monitor water flow. These devices can detect leaks and estimate fixture-level water consumption. Leak detection is all about identifying time series outliers. The distribution-based anomaly detection mentioned in the paper is relevant for leak detection. Interestingly, a residence may require multiple distributions due to pipe temperature variations between warm and cold seasons.
Einsum immediately clicked with me because in my past advanced classical mechanics courses such concise contractions of multi-index creatures were really the only way to make quick sense of complicated problems without the limitations of low-dimensional array notations. Physics tensors are of course different creatures than the simpler multidimensional arrays of PyTorch and co., but the simplified einsum notation still works very well. I ended up sometimes rewriting my Einsum code to plain tensor manipulation code in order to better work with collaborators who didnt like einsum, but I still experiment in my own hacks with einsum when I need to. Occasionally I felt that it would have been nice to also have the Levi-Civita symbol available in einsum, or to be able to use complex numbers and take complex conjugates, but these are all super-specialized requests and there often is a good way around them without modifying einsum.
SpamBayes worked great as an Outlook plugin back in the day.
> There are very few places in the US that up charge for credit card transactions

I actually see it quite often here in the Twin Cities at small stores, bars, restaurants. A 1~3% discount for cash.

> The merchant gets all except for a 2% fee when you don’t use cash. Cash handling also has cost - theft both from employees and outside actors - too.

I've asked quite a few merchants that take both whether they have a preference for cash vs card. Most (~90%) say they don't care either way. The remainder all say they prefer cash. I've never had one reply they prefer a card to cash. Also, when making large (like four- or five-figure) transactions with people like home contractors, they all request payment via personal check, to avoid the card fees eating a huge chunk of the transaction.

I also dislike the idea of all transactions being trackable/identifiable. I think there's value in being able to perform anonymous transactions.
I hope I've avoided containers enough to let this phase pass by. Formalizing vocabulary around the different states of a container makes me want to throw up my hands in a Seinfeld "come one" motion.
I'm curious if anyone has considered how to use modern electronic components to replace the old "copper coil"-based mechanisms and such that that fine gentleman uses to replace the old parts? I understand he is basically doing museum-grade restorations, and I fully respect that.

But I'm guessing that finding modern components with the same functionality would be cheaeper and longer-lasting, but that's just a WAG. I've watched a couple of YouTube pinball machine restoration vids and those old machines sure are filled with rat's nests of stuff.

It seems like finding modern alternatives would be a good way to keep the machines alive for longer while also making them more serviceable going forward. Plus, that would be a very practical and interesting project for group of mechanical/electrical engineers, that would likely have eventual robotics applications.

In that vein, I wonder if there are any companies that have created tech frameworks to facilitate creating old-world-style pinball machines with modern infrastructure.
Go Ukraine and take that, Putin!
Engineers are awful too. The number of times I have been subjected to needlessly bad product designs far exceeds my negative interactions with sales people. And then there are the products that fail at their one function.
To be clear "some big flaws" was probably overstating it. I'm going to edit that. Also, thanks for the work on this. I would absolutely love to contribute, but my maths are not good enough for this :)

The biggest thing I've run into in my testing is that an anomaly of reasonably short timeframe seems to throw the upper and lower bands off for quite some time.

That being said, perhaps changing some of the variables would help with that, and I just don't have enough skill to be able to understand the exact way to adjust that.
Sorry, I was unclear- my statement was supposed to be proof that LLMs are bad at checking, because the approach I listed is well known to not work
OpenAi has single handedly revolutionized the AI field. They have turned the once-thought impossible to achieve Turing test to a irrelevant side quest. Not to mention the many, many benchmarks that simply aren’t even hard enough any more to measure to quick progress AI is making.

Yet, somehow, Altman has gone ‘full retard’. Wow. Cut the guy some slack man. Next time you revolutionize an entire field and build a multi-billion company in the process you can come back to criticize him.
Show HN: ChoreQuest – Gamify your chores with rewards, XP, and achievements
It’s not really the fed printing money though is it. It’s private banks meeting demand for loans.
You should know some systems programming. If somebody hands you a program it may be your job to speed it up or reduce memory consumption dramatically including both microoptimizations and "big picture" stuff like finding approximations. (e.g. I wrote a program that would have taken a century to run and found an approximation that got it down to 8 hours) That's the kind of CS you need to brush up on, database theory would be a means to that end.

I see AWS and Azure as basically the same and think GCP sucks. (Some people disagree) Almost everything in AWS has a counterpart in Azure -- the details are different but not the context, the most durable skill anybody in computing has is the ability to look up details in the documentation. Consider doing the minimum possible side projects that lets you say you did something with the others in your resume.

Your DB list is focused on db's people mainly use for operations and not analytics. There are so many analytics focused databases today like DuckDB, Clickhouse, etc. Data engineers will suck data out of mongodb or wherever it is but they'll process it in something else.

Half a decade ago people were telling me "we used to use Hadoop" though I think HDFS is still in use, just MapRed isn't.
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share ChoreQuest, an iOS app that transforms boring chores into an engaging gamified experience. Whether you’re tackling daily cleaning or managing household responsibilities, ChoreQuest turns tasks into exciting quests with rewards, XP, and achievements.

Here’s what sets it apart:

Reward System: Earn points for completing tasks and spend them on app customizations like themes and animations.
Leveling Up: Gain XP and progress through levels, evolving from a novice to a legendary chore master.
Hot Streaks: Maintain consistent completion for bonus multipliers.
Custom Chore Creator: Set task frequencies, assign point values, and add reminders.
Analytics: Track your progress with detailed stats, charts, and performance reports.
I built ChoreQuest to make household management enjoyable and productive for everyone. I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas for improving the app!

Download link: www.chorequest.club

Looking forward to your comments and suggestions!
The number of manual tweaks required to the approach suggest that it is essentially an ad hoc experimental fitting, rather than a stable theoretical model that can adapt to your time series.
Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the ways species are adapting to humans
Now make this feasible for family with kids.

Most children won’t eat beans and rice for a long time without lifelong trauma that yields strong reactions at mealtimes in adulthood.
Title needs 2014.
I'm a mobile developer and I'm new to using Frida and other such tools. Do you have any tips or reading material on how to use things like Frida?
It goes on.

> the new standard that companies like Samsung and Google would clone the same way they cloned the hardware and software design of the iPhone.

That's misrepresenting history in ways it's not even funny.

Stopped reading at that point. The article took too long to even sketch it's main point anyway.
> It's better but far from perfect.

I’m not aware of any competition that’s perfect.

I guess you meant to say the competition is better. I think it is, but that doesn’t mean their product isn’t a huge improvement.

A simple example is text search in Photos.app. It probably misses text in some photos, but it helps me find quite a few photos. Similarly, face recognition in Photos.app is far from perfect, but way better than not having that feature.

> I want to be able to easily create calendar events and interact with other native iOS APIs

It’s not in Apple’s DNA to release a product here that mostly works. Chances are they’re working on something like that but don’t find it good enough to release it yet.

What surprises me, though, is that they released the “get an AI summary of this web page” feature. That definitely produces some results that are very bad.
Stimulation Clicker
It's just humor. I'm a moron myself. It's not a big deal.

The more serious point is that Apple's primary customer base does not care for what's going on with the command line, and that's why the provided terminal is basic and feature-bare.

It's not really this intentional thing where the bare terminal is the best implementation. It's more of a Notepad.exe situation where Apple has to include one for the basic functionality of the system.
How do you raise awareness of a cool but obscure graphics format used by BBSes on an overlooked computer platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

Well, you could start by writing a six-part, 14,000-word in-depth history of it.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and...

Then maybe you could recruit some artists and retrocomputing enthusiasts to help make an artpack full of new images and new animations showing it off!

https://mistigris.org/packs/IGNITE01.ZIP

That's basically what I did!

I assembled IGNITE 01, a new artpack released by Mistigris computer arts and Break Into Chat, featuring 18 images and animations created in "Instant Graphics and Sound" (IGS) format for the Atari ST.

IGS was obscure even its heyday. Like RIPscrip, it's a plain-text protocol for encoding graphics, sound effects, and music. But it predates RIP by several years, since it was created specifically for the Atari ST, it has constraints unique to that platform and different from the PC.

I hope my history series and artpack might elevate the profile of IGS, and maybe interest a few more people to try making stuff with it.

If you're not into downloading and unzipping artpacks, etc, you can also experience IGNITE on YouTube with this nine-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_riObN32o
Spline Distance Fields
I know this is about sales but your last words was what I needed to hear to get over my ex. Thank you!
Recollecting the History of Offline Rendering
Investment Advisers to Supplant Hedge Funds as Top BTC ETF Holders in 2025
That really just looks like 0 points on either side to me. I find it quite plausible that it started outside of China, because why not, but if there was some kind of foul play involved I don't see why we should expect to be able to unravel the misinformation without having been personally involved.

Basically none of the reporting on it was accurate. I had it two weeks prior to the first reported case in my state and was told that "everybody who needs a test can get one" and was unable to get a test because I wasn't sick enough to justify it (which is fine, but if that's how your surveillance works then your data is useless).

It's a big cloud of lies and I just don't see the utility of peering into it and trying to assign blame when that same energy could be put towards being prepared for next time.
The machine is imitating a person on both understandings of the task. The difference lies in C’s task (whether C is trying to find which of A and B is a woman and which is a man, or trying to find which is human and which is a machine).

I think the initial description of the task is genuinely ambiguous. Your interpretation of it hadn’t occurred to me before, but I do see it now. I still think that “…when a machine takes the part of A in this game…” is most naturally interpreted as leaving the task unaltered but for the man being replaced by a machine, rather than implicitly describing the task mutadis mutandis. But reasonable people can certainly differ on such questions of interpretation.

Honestly I think Turing’s whole framing of the task is unnecessarily elaborate and confusing. Why even bother describing the man/woman task to begin with? I am not sure. Popular descriptions of the ‘Turing Test’ don’t seem to find this framing of any expositionary value.
Lucky for me i learned at a young age that all sales people are complete and total inhuman indifferent biological entities when it comes to make a sale and reach their target. I don't blame them, because they need to make a living and have targets to meet to get that living. I just care as much as they do. :)

Occasionally my wife still falls for it, and for the sake of my marriage i tend to tag along sometimes.
We See Colors Differently
>Often too full.

Eh. Yeah. I posted a comment on a urban design video questioning the cost they gave for car ownership and the fact that they did not value the extra time it takes to use transit. Bam. Comment removed. Apparently the channel is able to moderate comments that don't fit their mentality
Show HN: A 100-Line LLM Framework
I've seen a lot of comments about how complex frameworks like LangChain can be. Over the holidays, I wanted to see how minimal an LLM framework could get if we stripped away everything non-essential.

The result is an LLM framework in just 100 lines of code. These 100 lines capture what I see as the core abstraction of most LLM frameworks: a nested directed graph that breaks down tasks into multiple LLM steps, with branching and recursion to enable agent-like decision-making. From there, you can layer on more advanced features like agents, RAG, task decomposition, and more.

I’ve intentionally avoided bundling vendor-specific wrappers (e.g., for OpenAI) into the framework. That kind of lock-in can be brittle and is easy to recreate on the fly—just feed the vendor’s API docs into your favorite LLM to generate a new wrapper. With miniLLMFlow, you only get the fundamentals.

It also works nicely with coding assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor.ai. Because the code is so minimal, you can quickly share the entire "source code and documentation with an AI assistant, and it can help you build new workflows on the spot.

I’m adding more examples (including multi-agent setups) and would love feedback! If there's a feature or use case you’d like to see, please let me know.

GitHub: https://github.com/miniLLMFlow/miniLLMFlow
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Thanks for the link, this made me chuckle:

There was also a prevailing concept of fairness, in which practising or training was considered tantamount to cheating.[176] Those who practised a sport professionally were considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practised it merely as a hobby.[176]
love this! very fun :>
And Deming has a ton to say on this. Lots of very practical advice on how to measure the right things, yet also avoiding relying too much on measurements. It is unfortunately quite complex and not easily digestible as pop management advice.
Haha ok, I was referring to Mister T ;)
An attempt to put the ideas I've gained from reading the article into words: The brain cannot know, by just 'looking at itself' (i.e. doing static analysis) what its own reactions would be in every conceivable situation—it has to actually experience such situations and observe the outcomes.

This inability could be down to the brain's fundamental organic inability to look at individual synapses and the network that neurons have formed; it could also be that such networks could in theory be completely understood but are, in practice, too complicated such that the brain's computational power is insufficient to do the necessary calculations. In fact, both seem to be the case and would suffice to explain the necessity for running simulations.

However there's a third component, and this is the truly interesting one: the Halting Problem which tells us that a sufficiently complex network of rules (such as we deal with when writing and debugging programs), although perfectly deterministic, cannot be, in the general case, completely predicted except by running the network / the program, for example by running a test case, a simulation.

At least for the conscious and almost-conscious parts of us, building models of reality complete with orientational factoids and life-like actors and so on is an essential part of what enables us to navigate reality.

The brain, then, having evolved the ability to form simulacra that behave in plausibly realistic ways, apparently also evolved the ability to form simulacra that are rather temporary and isolated from others, in essence forming small 'snow-globe worlds' that can at opportune times (during rest) get shaken and prodded at, scenes formed from imaginary play-doh, malleable and flexible. That is the brain at play if you will, trying out new things, getting better at old things, and generally spending time with itself.