skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That totally depends on the surrounding configuration. If land subsidence was as common as security patches, they would totally be doing monthly surveys.

Structural engineers also don't commonly change structural features after initial delivery; realistically, I would expect changing a two-lane bridge to a four-lane bridge to be more expensive than constructing a four-lane bridge where none exists.
In fairness, if you imagine the current tech landscape with AI removed it isn’t exactly a wellspring of optimism or good ideas.
I would say: skip the early ones. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and especially Tintin in the Congo are outrageously bad (Tintin in the Congo is horrendously racist). Tintin didn't really become the Tintin we know and love until Blue Lotus, though Cigars of the Pharaoh is still readable.

Like, the parts of Tintin that capture the imagination, the world travel, the realistic depiction of different cultures, the great adventure stories, all of that starts with Blue Lotus.

When people criticize Tintin for being racist, what they're really criticizing are those early stories. In the later stories, the ones that everyone falls in love with, Hergé went to enormous trouble to depict cultures accurately, gathering huge amounts of references to depict everything accurately (you see that in this article, with the image from Blue Lotus). In these stories, almost without exception, Tintin is the champion of colonized and oppressed peoples, and the stories hold up extremely well.
I feel this way about “BIPOC.” I find it absolutely enraging that white people not only would other me like that in polite company, but do so in a way that lumps Bangladeshis in with Pakistanis.

I tried to explain to my parents why my daughter’s teacher recruited her into a “BIPOC” affinity group and they got very upset.
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Isn't cargo cult used because some dudes were using cargo pants? That's how I always understood the concept. TIL that there are other etymologies to it.
I've spent over 20 years on IRC and im still on every day. Two years ago, I felt the community could use more client options, so I created Halloy. It has since become my primary spare-time project, and I love seeing people enjoy IRC.
Also the "programming language of the week".

"<a well established C/C++ program, existing for many years> written in ruby" (or whatever the language was that week, so replace that with go, rust, etc.)
How to get your life together
It's not just HN. It's the whole industry.

I'm a freelancer and all of my clients talk is AI. I think, it's cool tech, but also quite overhyped.

But I get it, AI has become the magic box that the masses of "idea guys" can use to realize "the next big thing". No more meddling with devs or designers.

Whelp, guess we have to wait for the valley of disillusionment.
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Why are tech people obsessed with the most cutting edge tech we have.. yeah I wonder why.

If you would've asked experts 6 months before chatgpt when we'd have the current capabilities they would've said we're at least 10 years away.
If it supported things like picture messages, then it wouldn't really be IRC any more. I suppose you could create a new protocol that's most similar to IRC, but when creating new protocols, people typically want to make other improvements at the same time, such as the ability for a user to stay in a group while offline.

In my opinion, most of the differences between IRC and Slack/Matrix/Discord/etc stem from trying to keep users in a group chat while they're not actually online, since this requires servers to store message history, and then you're legally required to have a way to moderate the message history, and you might as well send back-history to clients who just joined, and so on. Additionally, since each message is stored authoritatively on the server, it can be updated with things like text edits and emoji reactions.

Some of the differences, like being able to send pictures, do not stem from that.

I read and responded to a similar comment recently here on HN about email security. The gist of the question is "why don't we create something like email but secure?" and the gist of my reply is "if we created a whole new system, we'd add all the things we can now have that we couldn't have when email was invented, like instant notifications, and then it would be a reinvention of a newer protocol (I didn't name Matrix, Fediverse or XMPP), nothing like email.". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633785
I love you!

This does exactly what I want! It makes FB usable again!
Comments here are an apt reflection of said cracking consensus
You never encountered the idea that having diverse workforce makes the corporation better at doing business?

I saw it quite often.
This site feels icky and I’m not quite sure how to articulate why. What is the purpose of this service? Why is it good for the public have access to detailed records of individual, recently deceased veterans? Isn’t this a gold mine for scammers? Is this project LDS affiliated?
I should post my take on this substituting Rust for AI ;)
I'm willing to stand corrected, but I can't think of a single smartphone on the market from a reputable manufacturer that is sold with root access. If I want a smartphone I have to accept that the manufacturer will have the bootloader locked down, I don't have a choice.
Yes, people that say they use AI every day are embarrassing to me. I've never been able to replicate it's usefulness and have actively tried. I can only imagine at this point that they are either delusional, lying, or their job is actually that easy.
If you can, buy a DVD copy from Kino, it's a much higher quality copy than any of the public domain copies available. In fact, the quantity is quite excellent.

The reason the DVD copy is in copyright is because it has a new musical soundtrack. That said, the soundtrack is excellent and the music (which includes Civil War tunes) is both appropriate and is well integrated into the visual material.
Duck Duck Go: end of human civilization than it is to imagine a world without capitalism

limit to last year

I get:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-civilizatio...

(The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is .)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-still-easier-to-imagine...

(It's Still Easier To Imagine The End Of The World Than The End Of ...)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/apocaly...

(A History of the End of the World - The Atlantic)

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/imaging-a-world-after-ca...

(Imaging a World After Capitalism - Medium)

https://orwellsociety.com/can-we-truly-rebel/

(Can We Truly Rebel? - The Orwell Society)

Yes I think that's known.

Astral Codex is about AI, so maybe we'll get the end of the world, and the end of capitalism, and huge quantities of AI slop Tintin!
Show HN: Llongterm – a self-evolving memory layer for AI
Hi everyone!

We’re excited to share Llongterm, an API designed to bring persistent memory to conversational AI.

Key Features:
1. Persistent Memory: Retain and reuse user context across sessions.
2. LLM-Agnostic: Works with any large language model.
3. Transparent & Debuggable: Easy to understand, monitor, and trust.

Would be awesome if you could check out our sandbox and share your thoughts!

Whether you’re exploring conversational AI, building with LLMs, or just curious, your input will help us make Llongterm better. Let us know how you see persistent memory fitting into your projects!
I also think it is worthwhile stepping thru working code with a debugger. The actual control flow reveals what is actually happening and will tell you how to improve the code. It is also a great way to demystify how other's code runs.
Our timezone and Highway data is OSM-based, but that's pretty much it.

Many of our address sources come from the OpenAddresses project: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses
I think it's ok, as long as you can disable all the logos and startup movies at the beginning. :)
I’m AI-obsessed and have been since forever (mid-1990s). I’m longing for AGI, so I tend to consume every piece of content that looks like an advance or is related to AI business.

AI-related content is seasonal. This new LLM trend (which is now shifting towards “agentic AI”) will eventually fade and be replaced by another shiny new term. Basically, there’s a lot of noise, but every now and then, some gems pop up. Finding those articles is the fun part and the reason why I visit HN every day.
I do understand you there, and think AI is a bit overblown. A lot of use cases for it seem to be more about using AI for AI's sake, not because it really revolutionises anything.

But at the same time, I don't think Hacker News is that heavily flooded with AI related posts. In the 30 posts I see on the home page, 3 are AI related, with one being this post complaining about it. The next page of posts has even less, with only 1 or so post about an AI related topic.
The one I thought of was the Silver Hornet from Revenge of the Pink Panther:

https://youtu.be/0z-FtAMg6Vw?si=zGsEnyt4NKtsMnLb

Even though I’ve seen many different versions of this gag, they are all still funny to me.
A clear and shocking increase of side effects have been published in the "Interim Report 5" from Pfizer.

"The report in question is Pfizer’s report C4591021 ‘Interim Report 5’ dated March 12th 2024. It is a Post Authorisation Safety Study (PASS) of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. In summary, national regulators routinely require pharmaceutical manufacturers to conduct PASS studies as a condition of authorisation of most new medicines. The regulators provide data to the manufacturer covering millions of patients registered in national healthcare systems. The manufacturer then conducts analysis to determine whether the medicine has increased the risk of specified health conditions."

You can find this report online. It reports a 23-40% higher risk of some heart-related conditions in the vaccinated.

Details are explained here:

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/11/revealed-the-full-hidden...
In the 90's at MIT they solved the problem by having the civil engineering department teach a C coding class to the non-CS engineers.

There was no pretense that it was even remotely appropriate as a CS class.
Coincidentally, I just got Pentiment, and I've spent the entire weekend on it. I'm not really a gamer, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. The art is gorgeous.
For now I’m interested in the opposite of this service: keeping LLM crawlers off my websites.
If you use conda, and can use conda for what you need to do, use conda w/ conda-forge. It has a much better story for libraries with binary dependencies, whereas PyPI (which `uv` uses) is basically full of static libraries that someone else compiled and promises to work.

Note, I use PyPI for most of my day-to-day work, so I say this with love!
The way I see it is that HN usually follows the VC money, and since there is a *lot* of money being invested on anything with the tag "AI" nowadays there is a lot of interest in the topic.
There are articles that end with the year that are often hype related. It's just an example of things people have chosen to filter out in the past. Each person can edit the regex as desired.

~-The Best Sausage ASMR Of 2024
Poor Yorick!
I used irssi for many years before switching to Weechat, and I can't imagine ever switching back.
> AI has become the magic box that the masses of "idea guys" can use to realize "the next big thing"

It’s the new “I have an idea for app, can you build it for me for free?” that clueless friends of friends bust out when they find out you work in “tech”
Don't forget another stuck in the past minimal semantic css based web framework that's almost unusable on anything more complex than its own demo. Complaints about react too, because its new (its 13 years old).
India's Maha Kumbh Mela festival gets under way for first time in 144 years
I use an eMac for this purpose. Available in similar configurations to the mini, the 1 ghz combo drive model and below can boot os 9 natively without the hacked os9lives version, and it comes with a beautiful 17 inch trinitron CRT built in!
Personally, I’d start with divide and conquer.
If you’re working on a relevant code base chances are that you can’t learn all the API spec and documentation because it’s just too much.
Are we to understand that people are using the metaphor out of a cultural tradition, and not because it still applies to the situation or is accurate? By rote, if you will, and only because other people understand our message even though the message is no longer truly descriptive of reality?

Sounds like we're 'cargo culting' the phrase 'cargo cult'.
You seem to be arguing more for stack traces than for exceptions?

Rust can store backtraces in value objects as well [0]. It's opt-in (capturing a stack trace at the error value's creation may be expensive if that error is eventually handled), but with the anyhow crate you get a decent compromise: a stack trace is captured at the boundary of your program and libraries during the conversion, and then shown only if the error bubbles up to main().

And you get the bonus of storing both the stack trace, and relevant context where needed, e.g. to show values of parameters. Here's how that playground example above fails:

Error: Second try

Caused by:
0: Parsing 'forty-two' as number
1: invalid digit found in string

Stack backtrace:
0: anyhow::error::<impl core::convert::From<E> for anyhow::Error>::from
at ./.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/anyhow-1.0.94/src/backtrace.rs:27:14
1: <core::result::Result<T,F> as core::ops::try_trait::FromResidual<core::result::Result<core::convert::Infallible,E>>>::from_residual
at ./.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/src/rust/library/core/src/result.rs:2009:27
2: playground::parse_number
at ./src/main.rs:25:8
3: playground::parse_and_increment
at ./src/main.rs:18:18
4: playground::main
at ./src/main.rs:7:19
...

[0] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Yes, but there are restrictions; for one thing, it's not trivial to share binary dependencies between Python packages; conda just handles that.
It depends. Sometimes the first 7 results are AI, and it really puts me off the site.
Government takes in other taxes. The case being made is that the city wouldn't exist without being living there. So, the local government has a particular interest to enable people to live there by subsidizing.

Private insurance doesn't have the same upside

I don't know if I agree with this but am answering your question fwiw
It may seem that way, but the reality is that rabid capitalism has not reached every corner.
Well I guess I am not smart enough to dump multiple dependencies + python, densely, on one line to spin everything up so I can do “ad-hoc” computing without just spelling them out in a file. Sorry, but that just isn’t a killer feature for me and it doesn’t seem like a big deal anyway.

I do like the idea of getting rid of pyenv though. And since poetry has failed to become as widespread as I hoped, maybe uv has a better shot?
Actually using the language is something Jon Blow is definitely getting right with Jai, if it ever releases.
Some American airlines have large Airbus fleets, and some European ones (notably Ryanair) have large Boeing fleets.

Now, from a de-risking POV one can imagine reasons why an airline might want a local supplier (for instance, if Trump goes through with his more bonkers tariffs threats, those Airbus-dependent US carriers might have difficulties).

Really, the odd thing here is that, as a result of decades of poor antitrust control, there are only two companies who make large planes (both are the result of mergers which should arguably not have been permitted).
> What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside.

Which would, of course, be solved by having those conversations indexed and searchable on the web.
I feel it's gotten worse over time, with crypto came a new sort of grifter that was far more aggressively pushing their grift with nearly religious overtones. Some of those people seem to have abandoned ship and moved to AI instead, largely taking the playbook with them.

With short term flash in the pan hype cycles like that superconductor one, prediction markets astroturfing also seems involved. Basically the more hype you drum up, the more people you can lure into betting on room temperature superconductors, the more money you stand to win when it turns out to be nothing of the sort.
At least behind all hype generative AI has some real beneficial use cases, unlike blockchain which is mainly used for drug trade, tax evasion and speculative investment.
Take me back to the ancient past where we discussed the 1000th postmortem of python 2->3 and the truly bleeding edge users argued about whether this interesting new language should be referred to as ‘go’ or ‘golang’. Oh and the occasional Flutter or Elixir development update. And the weirdo technical shamans debating functional programming patterns. When was the last time someone recommended “Learn You…”?

Besides the exaggeration of the first sentence, I’m actually deadly serious about the rest.
For some people perhaps - it doesn't have to be for everyone. And there's plenty of really interesting content on HN that is about science and discovery rather than commercial uses.

To op - yes, feel the same, but what can you do...
No, that's not the "stealing" I'm referring to. Instead of guessing what I could mean, just read my response to the person who first asked what I mean with "stealing".
But the past of the west does not result in any real pushback. Criticize a real dictatorship today or some death cult and they send people after you, who punch you. The people who caused this are long dead and their descendants are in agreement on what they did being an atrocity. Save activism, that's where its at. Radical. Risk free. State sponsored.

Critizize China, russia or isis and you might end up like those who actually fought in the resistance or some menshiwiki. Not recommended how that ended.
2023-2029 was a really rough couple of years for LinuxBender and they don't want to remember any news stories from then.

Jokes aside, my best guess is that parent is trying to hide prediction posts like "What will cryptocurrency look like in 2026?" or something.
Show HN: Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.1 is out
it seems to mostly be heated debates on whether servers can handle rending entire webpages, or that's ridiculous and we need to use react.
I think that fits nicely under rule 1 ("Understand the system"). The rules aren't about tools and methods, they're about core tasks and the reason behind them.
but not paying attention to the ramifications is troublesome. for example, web3 was exclusively a scam, but it shifted power and economies because it was entrenched in high places (mostly oligarchs evading sanctions and with that, politicians).

now you may have ignored it and not lost money like 90% who joined the hype... but now you have a president bound by support of that very money and they already made promises to clear the way even further for those people.

likewise with AI, even if you ignore it, there are proxy wars happeing with little more reason than to showcase the viability of autonomous robots in trench warfare for the next round of arms sales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrXNZyoc8k
They definitely do. On both Twitter and Meta related products, posts with links in them get heavily downranked in the algorithm. It's why so many influencers have the link in the first reply instead.

And yeah, it's definitely a bad thing for the internet. Honestly, I wonder if someone could argue it's an anti-competitive behaviour that should be banned?
Also:
Fix every bug twice: Both the implementation and the “call site” — if at all possible
Why don't they let you firewall your phone?
There's a heated if nuanced discussion in the comments section here. What I'll say candidly is that I am so, so exhausted by the language policing and sanctimony that I will disregard it out of hand. Do you have a language-policing argument? Then I don't care what you have to say. I don't even care if you're objectively correct. This line of argument has been beaten to death by morally self-righteous zealots, and my ability to care about this line of argumentation has been thoroughly exhausted.
That's the point of the joke. If it had cost money, it would never have become as popular.
Because there is nothing wrong with good old IRC. It was developed to a point and left alone. Trying to improve it could actually lead to overengeeniring and spoiling the protocol. If IRC is not what you want, look for alternatives.
There are plenty of those.
There is an episode of Bob's Burgers that did something similar to this. https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Brunchsquatch/Trivia#:~...
Telling people what their vocabulary can imply is one thing. Telling to others which word they might consider instead is a separate step, that can certainly be fine, don’t we agree?

Unilaterally telling others what words they must use is a domination mechanism, whoever engage in such a practice, don’t we agree?

If we don’t listen to what our words inspire to others, how can we know if it matches our intended meaning? If we don’t continuously hone our habits, including our language habits but definitely not only that, how can we progress as human individuals, collectives and societies?

>believe in words having magic powers that, such that even if no one knew these connotations they would still have them

The trick is simple to explain, isn’t it? We can perfectly be healthy carrier, and yet people will die from this virus we contributed to spread.

Just because something is untroublesome in our own specific case doesn’t mean it won’t contribute in the diffusion of something awful at societal level. That is, the only scale level at which we can measure how much benign or hurtful this thing is for humanity.
In case you ever wondered how can some people be against trademarks and copyrights in general.
Doesn't AI need a lot of cheap electricity?

https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/09/30/uk-has-worlds-high...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/26/britain-burd...

They can't use datacenters outside UK due to privacy laws.
Not GP, but there's a trend of auto-generated articles being spammed like "the best _X_ of [current year]" and they are rarely of decent quality (the current jetpens one is an exception).

This rule would avoid these articles, and GP probably sees the few false positives as an acceptable tradeoff.
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Made a browser based text snippet sync app. I work with multiple devices and emailing myself from machines gets annoying and was too slow.
Categorizing factors as not related to job responsibilities is also subjective!

Of course it can often be easy to identify the most salient factors, but that doesn't make it a concrete activity.
I am interested. I went through the website and some content you put out. I feel like you need to pivot this to something more fun. It doesn't look fun atleast to me. Just being honest here.

Here's what I am thinking. Adults who want to play music, generally would like to learn music properly - like go to classes, buy an instrument and use online courses or something.

What you have made, I think speaks to kids more than adults. They would like to mess around with all this, because they couldn't really care about properly learning something.

So you are essentially in the toy business. This is what I think atleast.