skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a game engine for UI and making the style of the interactions the game-like are two different things.

Game engines are generally capable of creating hardware accelerated 2D UIs which could be great in some cases where highly dynamic UIs are desirable. But making a business app 3D for no reason is a different story.

The later is largely what "The Metaverse" as Zuckerberg sees it is trying to accomplish. Check out Horizon Workrooms and the like.

I've worked at a number of agencies over the years and at one point years back a client insisted on Unity for their mobile app because it worked cross platform out of the box. It was an unmitigated disaster because we were trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Tens of thousands of dollars wasted.
Teaching object-oriented design as fundamental computer science seems like it would have been an odd decision for 2025. I looked up the class syllabus, and it seems to have been taught in Java (fine) and makes extensive reference to design patterns (not fine).
There are people everywhere publicly saying vaccines are great and other saying they are terrible. Andrew Wakefield, then Jenny McCarthy, really kicked things into high gear with their claims, and that was 20+ years ago.

Then, as now, reasonable people recognize that while no vaccine is perfect (hell, even a natural exposure to many diseases doesn't always confer immunity) on the net they are improving health way more than it is causing loss of health. Then, as now, people who claim unsupported things (MMR causes autism) are going to get push-back.

The only thing that has changed, that I can see, is that the denialism is stronger now than it was five years ago.
HN may survive if upvote/downvotes are removed, but until then it will continue to be astroturfed and manipulated heavily to push narratives and subconsciously teach the startup/hacker community which opinions are favored and disfavored today.
I recently finished a contract at a company who has gone full on dynamo with the idea that if we have slow queries and dynamo is good for Amazon, then it's good for us too. I've ran some explain on the queries causing issues and of course those queries didn't leverage indexes like they thought ....
> If the fake-chrome requested admin access

If the user is doing banking on fake-chrome then admin is pointless; https://xkcd.com/1200/

> then you'd never be able trust anything on that computer ever again. Even re-installing the OS wouldn't fix it.

Why not? If the hardware is under user control, they just reimage the firmware, reimage the OS, and then it's clean. (Or, in practice, perhaps they hire the local computer shop to do so, but I don't think that changes anything.)
I just read through the study. I corroborate your summary.

> The tryptophan found in hydrolyzed whey binds to a different receptor than normal dietary tryptophan, thereby allowing your body to reuptake it and produce serotonin as usual. (This is all in the study.)

Took me a bit to find the quote.

> If tryptophan uptake was abrogated by poly(I:C) treatment, tryptophan supplementation should elevate serotonin levels even during viral inflammation. To corroborate this, we used a diet containing a glycine-tryptophan dipeptide, which bypasses the need for B0AT1 and enables tryptophan uptake via dipeptide transporters.33 This diet compensated for impaired uptake in poly(I:C)-treated mice and led to an increase in both tryptophan and serotonin levels in systemic circulation

Now I need to ensure that whey protein contains some glycyl-L-tryptophan. The study used a lab rat diet "TD.210749" (unsearchable, maybe a custom diet) from Envigo/Inotiv. The citation used pure glycyl-L-tryptophan "G0144" from TCI Europe (~$100/g haha nope).

I can't find anything on glycyl-L-tryptophan content in hydrolyzed whey (maybe you can help?), but found one on other tryptophan dipeptides, alanyl-tryptophan and tryptophanyl-tryptophan. The ACE receptor inhibition seems relevant, too. The PepT 1 protein appears to transport the dipeptides.

"Selective release of ACE-inhibiting tryptophan-containing dipeptides from food proteins by enzymatic hydrolysis" Diana Lunow et al. - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-013-2014-x

I'll try this out for my early waking insomnia, mildly reduced energy, and digestive problems (started after I got Covid, almost exactly 2 years ago). I need to find one without artificial sweeteners (hate the taste). I'll report back in exactly 2 weeks (sets calendar).
>if you mattered, you would've gotten a direct message or call from them.

That ignores the asymmetry of a lot of life events. For example, if a parent died, I'm not going to call everyone in my life to tell them, I would have more important stuff on my mind. I might post it on social media and then the onus is on other people to reach out to me. And if someone doesn't reach out, it will hurt the relationship a little even if I'm not conscience of it because when I think of people who were there for me during a tough time, the friend who never knew my parent died wouldn't come to mind.
The progressive "virtue" of aggressive anti colonialization.
I’m not trying to limit the scenario, but the large and highly inflexible demand for oil is a real constraint. If greedy oil companies disappeared tomorrow, the public would demand (and the government would provide) a massive effort to restart their wells and resume production ASAP.
Hey found this searching for AC Joint injuries on HN :(

Also recently had an AC Joint tear and probably in a similar boat to you, time to work on stuff at home haha.

Would love to hear if you have any tips for healing the injury and getting back to sport properly, as I'm a bit worried about it. My contact is in my profile if you want to email. Thanks :)
public sector to spend less time doing admin and more time delivering the services working people rely on
React Native mobile release management
You don’t get to decide for everyone what “we” are doing or not doing. People will make their own decision on what language they would like to use, including you.
If by adversaries you mean "allies", then they're way ahead of you.
Valid criticisms, but the "standard" choices all work well. Nvm is the de facto standard for node version management, npm is a totally satisfactory package manager, node is the standard runtime that those other runtimes try to be compatible with, etc.

Will also note that in my years of js experience I've hardly ever run into module incompatibilities. It's definitely gnarly when it happens, but wouldn't consider this to be the same category of problem as the confusion of setting up python.

Hopefully uv can convince me that python's environment/dependency management can be easier than JavaScript's. Currently they both feel bad in their own way, and I likely prefer js out of familiarity.
> we can expect major improvements every few months.

I'm not sure this is grounded in reality. We've already seen articles related to how OpenAI is behind schedule with GPT-5. I do believe things will improve over time, mainly due to advancements in hardware. With better hardware, we can better brute force correct answers.

> junior devs will always be junior devs

Junior developers turn into senior developers over time.
Why should a software vendor be allowed to say what I can and can't run on my machine?
Having played the game before and sincerely appreciated it (plowed through the whole 25 or so hours in 2 days), I had no idea the flowcharts for the conversations were quite so complex. It makes sense though, it's a very dynamic game.
Right wing streamers who are not part of Fox themselves put two and two together and came up with section 230.

They even said that Trump could threaten Facebook with specifically removing protections for the platform, and then turn around and not do it: resulting in damage to the platform without having to do anything.

I think everyone knows why Zuck is doing it. If there were any other republican government, the capitulation wouldn’t be this abject.
I don't know, seems incomplete even for climate stuff. It shows some front range locations in CO as having no real risks, but there's no category for hail, which is a regular and very serious climate and weather related problem.
Truly a sad state of affairs.

Please check out thanks.dev to possibly get your company to start paying OSS Devs that they rely on.

(No affiliation)
Hi, I'm one of the authors on the paper! The translation is to safe Rust and is expected to not contain any `unsafe` constructs. Regarding, rewriting LMDB: seems like an interesting case study to consider for us in the future.
I built the C4 from Counter-Strike 2 [video]
Small discussion forming (9 points, 5 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677805
The fact that you have equated Polynesians and Melanesians here, two completely disparate groups of people, does not help your point whatsoever.
Indeed. As Such, I think liberal democracies need to be based on voluntary positive sum cooperation to be stable.
This is self correcting. Code of this quality won't let you ship things. You are forced to understand the last 20%-30% of details the LLM can't help you with to pass all your tests. But, it also turns out, to understand the 20% of details the LLM couldn't handle, you need to understand the 80% the LLM could handle.

I'm just not worried about this, LLMs don't ship.
OrientDB database was reborn as YouTrackDB
I always wanted to learn C but couldn't find a reason to really want to. During the pandemic I played a lot with TempleOS and HolyC, and that's how I learned lower-level concepts and C(ish) programming. Then I moved to playing with Zig and finally Rust (which I had tried before but was too much of a step up for me).

Learning C in general greatly improved me as a programmer, and I gained a much stronger understanding of higher-level languages and the systems around me.

Without playing around building demos and games in HolyC, I have no idea how -or even if- I would have learned lower-level software, something that I'd been so intimidated by previously. I've written a lot of Rust since then, and just the other day I wrote probably my first "production" C, an extension for SQLite :)
The Big Bang is disproven because we see fully formed galaxies when we look out at the edge of the universe using James Webb Telescope. That's conclusive proof it's wrong.
Ask HN: Is this an example of an Apple dark pattern?
Lately I've gotten into creating music and use tools like Logic to generate .wav files.

Every time I open a new .wav file it defaults to Apple Music.

If I go to a given file and right click and select "open with application" I'm able to choose VLC. Great right?

Except, that ONLY applies to that specific file. The prompt at the top of the Finder says "Choose an application to open the document “my_wav_file.wav”."

Shouldn't I be able to EASILY set VLC as my default for every .wav file that I open?

This feels like a dark pattern. Apple is making it counterintuitive for me to set a default application that is not Apple's and I'm guessing that files I upload to Apple Music somehow end up on their servers and are processed by them(maybe that's a bit of a tin-foil stretch, but you get my point).
Nice idea, but I’m struggling to remember myself ever having consumed so many different pictures of dicks over the course of five minutes.
Does dialup work on these Mac Minis?
The "solution" to this is to criminalise de-anonymising the data, like the geniuses in the Australian government.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/29/researchers_crack_oz_...
> You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know

aka how to say that you've never really tried learning Nix without saying it directly.
We could probably fine-tune a tiny convolutional neutral net image classifier and just hold on the last good frames for longer to cover the frames with clear trolling and nsfw images.
Yea, I lean this way too.

The internet is and always has been just a lot of people. Scams have been rampant since it left the research labs, as have all kinds of vile human behavior.

The scale has definitely increased, but I think that might just mean that more people (by % of people alive) are exposed, and are talking about it. When it was just early nerds, nobody else knew what the heck a BBS was, but it still sounded a lot like local government/business/church/etc.

If you run a community, you have to deal with this stuff, regardless of how you run it. Small ones can get lucky and need dramatically less with a good starter crowd, but they can also have one messy event destroy the whole thing in an instant.

Zeitgeist-level systems like Twitter (well. previously at least) are new compared to '89, but uh. Have you seen what governments have done in the past century+, or Christianity has been doing for a thousand years? When you get millions of people, you get a lot of power, and have a lot of hidden awfulness. Always. No moderation system works at scale. The scale has changed, but not the behaviors or outcomes.

(as a corollary: yes I think we're actually better off without global hubs like Twitter. We'll keep fracturing and centralizing and re-fracturing likely forever though, and the smaller options have never gone away, you just have to look for them like has always been necessary - they're small)
Caffeine: Prevent your computer from going to sleep
I agree with your comment on the licensing exam. But, I do not think any one role is better than another.
But if a highly skilled person capable of performing engineering takes a non-engineering job, they are not doing engineering (or are out of scope with the required work). So, for me, it tweaks me a little when people refer to themselves as "engineers". And when I managed federal government system administrators, they were "administrators" and that was a GS-2210 Information Technology Specialist. Not an engineer. And they were really smart, but I had to keep an eye on them or they would start engineering solutions not in line with the chief engineer (who was an engineer) and these rouge solutions were very difficult to unwind from. So, I have always held a special status for true engineers and following an engineering direction. But I also recognize there are many important people working in roles that are not engineering.
It's the same in Software Engineering, lol. If your service just works no one cares. If you instead have a flaky service, but step in to save the day then you become a hero :)

Though I agree somewhat that politicians don't have as much incentive, but this is what regulations are for. Someone said that regulations are written in blood, because they are results of "lessons learned".

It doesn't help that then those regulations are frequently removed to help businesses and the cycle repeats.
I've been wondering how fire manages to damage a stucco/stone house in the first place, especially in some of the cases where there wasn't much vegetation around. The scale of the fire must be quite immense and counterintuitive to get the outcome seen on news photos/footage.
Chat Recap AI Tool
You can, if you press Get Info, you can set the default application for ALL files of that type
I think the word "crowdsourced" is conspicuously missing from the title. It would explain a lot.
Don't know if this is quite the same but I worked for a company on a React SPA that was essentially an event driven CAD system using the Canvas API. It was an absolute nightmare - there were a ton of unintended event loops and side effects. When I left one of the seniors was in the process of converting it to using a game loop under the hood which sounded like it was going to solve a lot of the issues but it took him a lot of time and effort to convince management to let him do it. Tbh, I think it was more a case of the app getting so slow and buggy that it was causing them embarrassment in front of clients which made them cave to his requests than his methods of persuasion.
Whelp, I decided to use language deciding for everyone what we are doing or not doing. You cannot make that decision for me.
> alt

nit: On a mac the key is called "option".
JS is what made these file types into the Pretty Dangerous Format. Numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat surfaced thanks to the embedded JS engine.

Updating the Acrobat client across an enterprise used to be quite burdensome.
LLMs also love to double down on solutions that don't work.

Case in point, I'm working on a game that's essentially a website right now. Since I'm very very bad with web design I'm using an LLM.

It's perfect 75% of the time. The other 25% it just doesn't work. Multiple LLMs will misunderstand basic tasks. Let's add properties and invent functions.

It's like you had hired a college junior who insists their never wrong and keeps pushing non functional code.

The entire mindset is whatever it's close enough, good luck.

God forbid you need to do anything using an uncommon node module or anything like that.
I don’t understand how you’re being “difficult” by not keeping up to date on the Facebook updates of your friends. I will of course update all my close friends 1:1 on any life changes, and I expect they will do the same to me. For everyone else, there’s nothing “difficult” about asking for a life update the next time you see them. If anything, it shows interest and is a kind thing to do.
You mean like Flutter? Flutter is similar to a game engine in that it draws every pixel itself originally using Skia but now also using it's own custom render engine called Impeller on some platforms. So it can work. However using something like Unity to make a UI app has a whole host of problems, many of which other commenters have already mentioned: power/CPU, poor accessibility, difficult to implement things, etc.
> It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.

not with this attitude of getting scared of things by watching someone doing something, for sure
The Big Bang theory makes more assumptions and contradicts more evidence than just assuming our universe is an event horizon embedded in a higher dimensional space. The Event Horizon explains lots of things the Big Bang doesn't also, like why time is a special dimension, and why space always only expands. The Event Horizon theory explains everything that the Big Bang theory cannot explain and contradicts NONE of the evidence.

The Event Horizon theory doesn't postulate a "beginning" of everything, in the comical "it popped into existence" nonsense of the Big Bang. The EH theory doesn't try to establish a first-mover or uncaused-cause. It just describes how the universe is without trying to describe any "magical" beginnings. The Big Bang is a theory about magic, not a theory of science.
As long as it is in Chrome
gourami did it one year ago: https://gourami.net
Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years
What's the Problem? [video]
Autorun has been disabled since the release of Windows 7 in 2009.
What’s really ironic is that your language purported to make decisions for others more than the article itself did.
Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army?
I guess Adam Smith's invisible hand is so hard to see it seems non-existent.

But I see your point, I think.
> IMO, it's not "normal" to keep up with acquaintances and people from past times.

Fully recognising that you said "IMO", I'll say that keeping up with acquaintances and people from the past is normal in my culture. Social media helps to make that more direct and easier to manage than the gossipy grapevine of yore.

What's normal depends on your culture and context, of course, and I suspect that's not true in yours — but it is in mine, so ditching something like Facebook is just out of the question for me and many people whose cultures place a heavy emphasis on those connections between people.

The middle ground for me has been to check Facebook less and less, accelerated by the algorithm delivering me fewer life updates and more slop reposted from reddit.
> Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin

Yes, which is not remotely the same claim as

> Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election [and therefore Zuckerberg needed to change political course for his social media to stay relevant]

which is the false claim I was responding to.

> If those numbers hold democrats have no path to winning national elections

Yes, it's certainly the case that if Democrats keep getting the same percentage of votes as in elections they lost badly, they'll keep losing elections.
The same way OpenAI offers its service to hundreds of millions of users without compromising any other systems it’s running on.
I plan to replace meta with real social engagement again this year, so there's that...
There’s vastly more Windows devs than you realize. Vastly.
Indeed and in the olden times a lot of these life events would have been announced in the local newspaper.

But these days, I don’t even know where to even buy a newspaper, let alone make sure everyone is reading it and keeping up with local news.

So social media it is, which sucks because they’re extremely edited and filtered out by the algorithm.
Why bring logic to an emotion fight.

They have a whole media ecosystem, the actual main stream media, giving them training and talking points to subvert these conversations and successfully move away from facts.

They only follow the style of debate, not its substance.

Limiting your self to the substance only weighs you down against an attacker of this nature.

Engage, but just waste their cycles.

Eventually there is always a missing definition, something extremely basic that’s being alluded to. Or a contradiction that shows up.

Point that out and you will get the “go google it yourself”, retreat flag show up.
FauxPilot: A locally hosted GitHub Copilot
The dongle enumerates as a USB hub with two USB devices plugged into it. One is an ethernet dongle, which is the sort of hardware that may require a driver. The second device is a USB flash drive containing a .exe, which extracts a file called Setup.exe. It won't execute unless the user manually executes it - it's just a USB drive after all. Maybe the .exe contains malware, maybe it doesn't. Maybe antivirus scans give false positives. Maybe the manufacturer found a clever way to save money by combining the two USB devices they normally shipped together. Maybe this twitter account just made a nice paycheck from clickbait engagement.
You could just call the people most important in your life and speak and hear their updates. It would mean more to them than a comment on FB or whatever other social they are on.
Contrarian take: you bought the device, that you knew already did not provide that, from a company who has priced in not having to support rooted devices, and who had priced in your future revenue from extras. The company can't complain if you find a way to root it (and they don't), but they're under no obligation to add in this extra feature you're asking for. If you want a mostly-open handheld device, they're for sale, you should buy one of those.
A constellation of low (relative) cost telescopes can definitely compete with a huge terrestrial telescope. Genuinely doubt it will take us a decade to get one.

Someone just needs to take a page from SpaceX's Starlink playbook and mass-produce telescope satellites. Or someone should pay SpaceX to do it.
I agree with you about TFA, but:

> the literal definition of guys is: Persons of either sex

I'm no culture warrior, but this isn't accurate at all. That's a definition, but it's not the usual one - ask someone "how many guys have you slept with?" and see how they interpret it.

To me, "guys" is the rhetorical equivalent of a code smell. There are cases where is obviously innocuous, like saying "hey you guys" to a mixed group of peers. But when the CEO says "I want to congratulate the guys on team xyz" in reference to a team with one woman... at minimum we can say his intent is ambiguous.