skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. People tend to say we mellow with age, I think it's that we have more experience that can help us grow more wise. For myself, in my mid-20s, I became a Christian and fell into the trap of religious perfectionism. In my mid-30s I began to see some cracks in what I was being told. (skipping forward) I now understand, in my mid-60s, that God doesn't demand perfectionism, but effort. When I fail, I just get back up and continue to believe that I'll do better next time, knowing there will likely be several more next times.
> I definitely get what you're saying - there's an element here of taking what a customer asks for and returning something different

taking money for this is literally Google's business model

search for geico, entire initally visible results page is other insurance companies
I agree in a world of data surveillance, techniques that obfuscate, like you have mentioned are ideal. The problem with this form of obfuscation is it also impacts other industries (legitimate functions) including areas of national security. Therefore I imagine it will be met with resistance, if any useful tools become widespread in use.

For example, faking traffic jam data for google maps with phones.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-04/man-creates-fake-traf...

Faking wifi and location data to unlock airpods pro in India.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AirpodsPro/comments/1gqscig/two_guy...

DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite pools.
https://adam.harvey.studio/datapools/

These are just a couple of fun examples, obviously you could augment these with LLM/DL tools and other anti-censorship (mixer, DCnets etc ), bot(nets) tools to create multiple identities that post in other languages, create fake photos of your in various countries, to make it hard to follow.
Yeah but I routinely click links in emails whereas logging in is the sole purpose of Duo. I could easily just intend to scroll the page and end up tapping the link.
I see, what you're getting at. Yes. Thank you. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to edit. I appreciate your patience, and help understanding the difference.
how do you even get those?
Look at this way: It's just something you do for money.
> Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people

Pretty sure this reflexive, luxury belief is not borne out by the data.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
Magic links breaking my flow is my top issue as well. My inbox is distracting: don't send me there. One affordance I've seen was a site that detected I was using gmail and crafted a link like https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/example.com, which brought me directly to the email I needed, while hiding everything else. I think it did a MX lookup to guess my provider.

I wish magic links would go away, but if they need to stay, that approach was the least terrible.
Perhaps one internet cliché can explain another: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Agreed, mostly, but this is not a homepage. On the homepage, there's a video demo and a wall of text (https://aider.chat/). Still, that Synxex Tree should disappear :)
"help, I'm being nerd-sniped"

Just breathe

Close your eyes

Picture an algebraic representation of the higher order function that represents your real life utility and minimizes the use of resources including your cognitive energy.

Focus on optimizing that function.

Ohmmmmm
Everyone I know who bikes in the city has been hit by a car at some point (see: my complaints about enforcement of traffic laws in this thread if you want my opinion on that).

I cringe when I see parents with their kids on the back of their bikes. Super dangerous.
He's indeed very special and looks like he's writing to himself (especially in his last works). However, after trying to understand his last works for 3-4 years in full-time, I can't say he's "crazy". I would rather say that he gave up trying to make his texts understandable, and he probably has fun writing like that. I once met him and he said jokingly that he was a poet.
Accurate Hallucination Detection with NER
Thanks for sharing your insights, was thinking of upgrading to a 5090 partially to dabble with NNs.

> Don’t bother with the founder’s edition.

Why?
> makes it sound like you think my vote is the correct one that will right the previous wrong the bozo downvoter.

Well yes, except for the definite article. Any upvote counteracts any downvote. If a downvote was bad then an upvote can be corrective by neutralizing its badness. I thought that was obvious, so it's interesting that you don't.

> people who somehow hate Canadians or who find the concept amusing

There's also a boring explanation for some otherwise weird downvotes: misclicks.
> More than 150,000 layoffs were reported in 2024 and a whopping 264,000 in 2023.

I switched careers in my 30s to get into tech. It was big, difficult pivot. At the moment, I do not regret it and really like what I do.

But the job market is shockingly bad. I do not have an optimistic outlook, so I am looking to pivot again, likely a small business. All the extra cash I have after expenses, I put towards various side hustles. One big upside to being a SWE is that I can make whatever app I want and put it on the internet publicly.
Dupe (28 points, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629120
Also I saw an interesting interview with Marc Andreessen recently where he mentioned about how the Dems would fund "Disinformation Research" units at universities.
These research units would (shockingly!) be staffed by 100% Democrat supporters and (even more shockingly) would tend to view everything the Dems disagree with as "disinformation". These groups would then apply pressure to media/social media companies to suppress content. So they were able to breach the first amendment by using censorship by surrogacy.
The Democrat censorship industrial complex was ugly and insidious and leading us to a very dark place indeed.
Citric acid and phosphoric acid likely have the same impact on your teeth and no impact on your bones and kidneys.

Acids and bases on your diet have very little to do with what pH is exposed to the rest of your body. Your stomach is probably more acid than anything you eat or drink, and your lungs and kidneys tightly regulate the pH of the blood. If your diet is effecting your blood pH, your probably already on death's door
"I have a mortgage and a family" is fine. Those people are highly motivated.
Sonus-1: New LLM Family with Reasoning Capabilities
I was surprised to learn how many people never save passwords and just reset it via email whenever they need to log in.
But community notes have been around since before Musk bought twitter and they have not had any effect at reducing the amount of outright falsehoods passed off as "news" on that hellscape. Why do people keep championing it as a success story when it demonstrably hasn't helped?

Frankly, if it worked, it would have been removed by now. It's "controlled opposition" basically.
https://archive.ph/BAWx7
> If they had an actual kill switch

I'm unfamiliar - we have these in train cars, did the architects behind driverless techshit not think it was necessary?
You sure about the LM4562? I've just checked at TME, Mouser and Digikey, and all of them have many in stock. I's also marked as "nopb" so it could likely be a newer lead free version.
I usually think it's a stretch when people compare new tech to old sci-fi stories, but "brilliant machine just runs in circles endlessly and nobody can stop it" is straight out of I, Robot.
AMD-driver zombie-process leak consumes GB of memory
Some AMD drivers leak handles to every process created. On a build system that creates tens of thousands of process this leaks tens of thousands of process handles with each one creating a zombie process and wasting about 64 KB. This leak can consume all RAM on a powerful workstation in just a few days.
Isn’t that what government grants essentially already are?
You're proposing something like a 500% markup on sugar? For context, that's like 400% higher than even the highest cigarette taxes.
Probably need something that periodically adds and removes fonts as well, at least once per day, probably more often. That's one element of fingerprinting.
Jean-Yves Girard really let it go.
Compared to what?

I’d argue that the US is reverting to the average global experience precisely as its domestic market breaks down due to interventions — eg, destroying small businesses via regulation and mass importation of foreign labor.
POSIX Threading for FreeRTOS
This is nonsense. We all have no choice but to patron many businesses in our lives. We're adults and we understand the information coming from the first party about how great it is is biased. It is still helpful to hear certain facts. Like, a new pizza place happens to exist in town now. The commercial isn't hypnotizing me into going there, I have free will and can form an opinion with information from different sources, weighting them appropriately.

Commercials are often annoying, sure. I like cable with a DVR because I can skip 100% of commercials and the stream can't make them unskippable. But there's no sense in overreacting to the general concept of advertising.

When I go on a date and a woman tells me about herself I understand she may be emphasizing the good and downplaying the bad. It does not make her evil. It's normal for anyone to do.
Actually good job ChatGPT since according to the article he didn't want to kill anyone other than himself.
> Could you clarify further? Front what I hear on the news, there are hundreds of thousands of open engineering/ai positions in the US and we cannot find workers to fill them.

The only thing that matters is the ratio of job seekers to open positions.

There are always a lot of open positions because there are a lot of companies. Even during recessions most companies will be opening to hiring the right candidates.

When there are more candidates than positions combined with a lot of layoffs, companies get more selective. Companies are hiring, but they're being more careful about who gets hired.
Yup! I don't have a lot to say about LLMs for coding. There are places where I'm certain they're useful and that's where I use them. I don't think "generate a react app from scratch" helps me, but things like "take a CPU profile and write it to /tmp/pprof.out" have worked well. I know how to do the latter, but would need to look at the docs for the exact function name to call, and the LLM just knows and checks the error on opening the file and all that tedium. It's helpful.

At my last job I spent a lot of time on cleanups and refactoring and never got the LLM to help me in any way. This is the thing that I try every few months and see what's changed, because one day it will be able to do the tedious things I need to get done and spare me the tedium.

Something I should try again is having the LLM follow a spec and see how it does. A long time ago I wrote some code to handle HTTP conditional requests. I pasted the standard into my code, and wrote each chunk of code in the same order as the spec. I bet the LLM could just do that for me; not a lot of knowledge of code outside that file was required, so you don't need many tokens of context to get a good result. But alas the code is already written and works. Maybe if I tried doing that today the LLM would just paste in the code I already wrote and it was trained on ;)
Yes. Those are all bad solutions. Banning social networks would be probably better.
To be clear: I absolutely do not dispute this. But in 2025 it seems pretty clear that you cannot run a mainstream large-scale social network without some kind of moderation, so every platform is going to do something. And all I'm saying is: what Facebook was doing before was bad, just as a product experience. Just wretched. Solved no problems, mostly surfaced stuff I wouldn't have paid attention to in the first place.
Yep, you are quite right. Curious about that list of companies, if you are keeping it?
For a 4 by 4 hexadecimal keypad with 0x0..0xF keys in any sequential row or column arrangement the same will be true that all possible numbers will be a multiple of 0x11.

This holds true for any size square keypad; the common multiple will be 1+x^2 and for square-number bases, the value of the common factor will always be “11” in conventional symbology. A 2x2 base 4 and even a 1x1 binary keypad respects the rule although it’s sort of meaningless in the latter context.
You can literally just look at it: https://github.com/chshersh/ccl/tree/main/lib
Burlington Vermont might be close.
You have to send emails through third parties or people won't get them, because you are also always sending them to third parties who host the recipients email and manage their spam. It might be a good reason not to send magic links but here we are talking about a tertiary confirmation, so its useless on its own right?
> Surely the driverless car hasn't locked him inside. Right?

Every (modern) car I’ve been in, driverless or not, will lock the doors once the vehicle is in motion - automakers are not in the habit of letting passengers fall into the road like that. Just imagine the lawsuits…
Demand for Software Is Different
It surely was in 1945, no doubt about it.
What Facebook Has Done to Us [video]
As another data point, the firmware update fixed everything for me and I have no problems charging my Framework 13 from my 18w Pixel charger or 20w iPad charger.
Train cars? As in the vehicle on a track where an immediate stop is almost never more dangerous?
Not only that, but the number of kids on hormone blockers is in the thousands (and increasing a lot every year). It's claimed that their effects are reversible but that is false, they lead to sterilization if the timing is wrong.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/

>Long-term gender-affirming hormone treatment may cause temporary or even permanent infertility.

And the worst part of all:

>56 genital surgeries among patients ages 13 to 17

That's 56 kids who were permanently sterilized before their brain was even finished developing.

I have nothing against trans people, but many people draw the line when it comes to kids.
I have a position in both the underlying debate, and to some extent in the debate on what the role of social media platforms is in these debates themselves.

But I don't think my position matters, I don't think a change in policy is enough to warrant retriggering this debate, I don't think monitoring this is healthy, and I'll pass on engaging, thanks.

Have a nice day.
>A few developers gave us early feedback and requested screenshots of the pages where accessibility violations occurred.

It's amazing how much a screenshot will do for my motivation to fix a frontend bug. Visually identifying severity is much easier than reading and making a mental judgement.
That rumor didn't exist 20 years ago when Half Life 2 had come out. Pre-baked was the only way to go. Now we have performant ray-tracing.
Alas, all he wanted was to rid the world of all these fevered egos, tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psychic price than we imagine.
Indeed it is, and I posted a similar moderation request to that user (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614856) 37 seconds after posting the GP. I'm afraid I operate serially!
It cut soda sales 20% in Berkeley but increased them 4% in comparison cities (SF and Oakland), among low-income households only.
And just for the context RTX 4090 has 2642 sparse int4 TOPS, so it’s about 25% increase
A ranking need not have absolute certainty of be fixed over time to be useful. We could well rank into tiers of contributors or participants. I'd generally suggest that such tiers would likely be roughly exponential, with tier n+1 having m^1 more members than tier n, but also a lower net value.

(n and m are arbitrary, I'm not insisting on log base 10, and the natural log e might well be a better fit.)

This is typical of almost all large network functions which exhibit power laws, Zipf functions, or the like.

Measurement itself is difficult and subject to both cost and error, as well as variability over time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpoJlB8Zfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyn2NeA6hI0

Can you please point at the mentioned effects here? Immersion in what? Looks like PS4-gen Tomb Raider to me, honestly. All these water reflections existed long before RTX, it didn't introduce reflective surfaces. What it did introduce is dynamic reflections/ambience, which are a very specific thing to be found in the videos above.

does improve immersion and feels nice to look at

I bet that this is purely synthetic because RTX gets pushed down the players throat by not implementing any RTX-off graphics at all.
> Ironically as we've gotten hardware with more VRAM and higher bus speeds we've decided to go with bigger textures instead of more of them. The same with normal mapping, instead of using normal mapping alongside more subdivided models we've just decided that normal maps are obsolete and physically modelling all the details is technologically forward way.

This right here is precisely what I alluded to in another reply as the motivator for generating meshes and PBR materials from controlled photography. Basically you now have enough parameters per texel, which interact in distinctly unintuitive ways, that authoring them is a nightmare, hence people resorting to what you describe.
> Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?

The guy kept filming for under sixteen seconds after asking about and receiving clarification that she is unable to intervene with the car and needs him to use the app. I like the idea that this somehow indicates bad faith or ineptitude in your estimation.
His tariffs on China his last round were a few token efforts early on, then he said it's hard ... and he never did anything again the rest of his term.
Great game - definitely doesn't work well on linux, natively or via proton. Just in case any linux gamers were thinking of buying it.
Being tried as a child when you’re 17 is by no means a “given”. It’s entirely possible, even likely, that this would go to grownup court and they’d be given the full consequences.

“Force” is a pretty strong word, it was barely a shove. Just enough to give themselves a head start running away.

I do not in any way agree that I created a “worse” situation than a child being sent to prison. I think it is extremely naive to think that sending someone to an American prison will create anything but a worse felon. This isn’t Norway, American prisons are purely punitive.

I don’t know which stats you’re referring to, but I highly doubt that “yuppies not pressing charges against children stealing two year old iPhones” is a significant cause of a crime uptake.
This is just amazing. So clean and straightforward. On a Mac just run it in Chrome see things work automagically. For real fun change the generations constant to 2000 and delete the usleep line to see this thing really cook.
If they can remotely kill the engine of any Waymo car in motion, so can hackers.
The twitter files that showed that accounts of conservatives got special treatment that explicitly prevented them from facing consequences of breaking site rules?
It's worth making, but there's some serious drama queen vibes that make it feel pretty overblown. If an uber is late to the airport a reasonable person doesn't threaten the driver with covering the cost of their flight.
I joke about once per month here that half of hn is basically "not invented here syndrome". And generally poor reimplementations of existing erlang features ;)
I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614856 10 hours before you posted this.
The older diet sodas definitely didn't taste like sugar but the new ones (Coke Zero) are pretty great? Idk, I almost never drink full sugar soda but I'm a fan of Coke Zero.
Bahh thanks for the chuckle. The man is 7/7 as of today!
My guess is that the car is looking for a place to pull over (perhaps because the rider pressed the "pull over" button. In this mode, the car hugs the right side of the road until it can find a spot to stop, which would normally work alright, except in this one particular spot where the "right side of the road" is only this tiny island.

So the car just circles around it indefinitely.
Show HN: An app syncing VO2 Max from Apple Health with real-time alerts
Building a simple app to track vo2 max

* synced from apple health
* real-time notification when new data is available
* robinhood-style ui
I'll be taking another look at Nim :)
I have never worked on a single robot that didn't go through a circle spin phase. It's a meme at this point, at least for folks I've worked with.
That use case still works. In fact it works better because if you click the link on your phone you don't automatically get logged in on your phone browser (or your email client's in-app browser). You can then copy the same link on your desktop and it will work as expected.
It sounds bad because the root comment is priming a negative perspective of the world.

They could have said:

"Most people are kind. Be kind and most people will be kind back." Or something with positive intent. Instead they seem to be priming a superiority trip.
The link in the email could be a direct link to Mercury's website, rather than one that passes through a third-party HTTP redirect service.

Authentication tokens (even tertiary ones) usually are supposed to have pretty strong secrecy guarantees. I've done multiple security audits for SOC, PCI, HIPAA, etc., and in every case the auditors would have balked if I told them signin tokens were being unnecessarily logged by a third-party service.

(Also: I strongly disagree that the only way to get reliable delivery is via a third-party email service, especially at Mercury's scale, but that's a digression from the topic at hand.)
I use magic links for my enterprise application. In my humble opinion I believe magic links are fine.

Almost everyone outside of some HN users use email regularly. They have it open on a second monitor and it is an important part of their workflow.

If their companies are not super tech savvy and not using SSO, the users probably at least have a company email address they’re logged into.

I don’t think it’s worth over optimizing for a small percentage of users. Worst case scenario you need to contact support.

99% of enterprise users will be fine with magic links, compared to dealing with people who use horribly weak passwords. Most of them seem to prefer them to passwords.

SSO is always best option if available but magic links are definitely second.
I remember "Speedy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)
If you begin with liberal blinders on, then that might be the picture you receive.

(I define here "liberal" and "liberalism" not in the lazy, colloquial partisan sense, as in "own the libs!" or "left wing", but the philosophical definition in the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and others. In this sense, "we" are all liberals in the liberal West.)
> Which it can, if you make it zero.

But you can't. Transit costs A LOT, its costs are just pushed onto car owners.

Instead, we should be honest and price it at the full 100% recovery rate, with 100% capital cost return. People will then start to think: "Should I continue paying that $20 per trip on a light rail, or should I get a car?"

"bUT poOR peoPLE@@!!!" - poor people also deserve comfort. I'm all for sponsoring car purchases for poor people and/or giving them money to buy transit passes at full cost.