skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per Wikipedia:

“An analysis of the Linux kernel in 2017 showed that well over 85% of the code was developed by programmers who are being paid for their work”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
I love this book so much. The literate programming style I think inspired from Knuth's cweb, great writing, beautiful high-quality physical book worth buying but also free access to knowledge. The literate-programming style means you are almost immediately applying theory to a practical system, I keep having to take breaks to learn outside math/physics though, but it is self-contained in principle I think.
Damn, Just learned that firebase budget is not a hard limit. This is bad. Is there a way to setup a hard budget limit? if not, i think I will need to replace firebase for my web app.
Sonar cloud is free of cost for open source projects. Perhaps it would be better to use that as an evaluation tool? If you tried it, what did you find lacking about it?

Disclaimer: I am not employed by or affiliated with sonar qube.
thank you very much! pointer to the home page would suffice. your willingness to walk an extra mile (and copy relevant text) is much appreciated.

as i mentioned, i read home page years ago. in that time, third paragraph did not exist and 1-100 were considered a challenge. the language of request changes since that times.
Correct. The abundancy of ice cream for dessert everynight just sets the mental imagery for a big american family.
Silly comment, but:

Every time I see `git reflog`, I see it as re-flog. It's possible that's even the reason I never remember the command, I subconsciously can't bring myself to think of it as "reference log". Instead, it's asking git to sell something cheaply, again.
I don't understand why anyone would use passwordless disk encryption. It just seems inherently vulnerable, especially with the threat model of physical compromise.

Entering a password on boot isn't even that much work
worse, you’ll be paying to bail them out in the name of solidarity.
This is sort of what quotas enforce, and most cloud services have quotas. You ask for an increased quota if you reach the current one, or the system might sometimes automatically increase it if it thinks you will need it.

This all trades off though against the possibility of bringing down one of your customers when they are hitting peak sales on their website, which is a very bad look.
> How about profit caps?

Transfers wealth from shareholders, patients and taxpayers to management, bankers and intermediaries.

Broadly speaking, caps are stupid—akin to treating liver enzymes directly when they spike versus seeing them as the sign of deeper problems.
Potoooooooo died in November 1800 at the age of 27 and was buried at Hare Park. Some 200 years later, his skeleton was uncovered when a tree blew over. The skeleton is on display at the Kings Yard Galleries of the National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket.

https://nhrm.zetcom.net/en/collection/item/81091/
How else can you deal with spam and bots? Twitter is still like half bots it seems, it’s insane.
BreakPoint – AI Mock Interviews and Resume Reviews
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• AI-driven mock interviews with real-time feedback
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LEDs produce trash light and I'm certain it'll eventually be linked to serious damage to human eyesight. Strobing alone is a nightmare, not to mention color temp like prison yard blue in street lights and car headlights.
It might not be the original intent of the story, it's just a tool to establish the daily routine that lends to experimentation.

But it ends up giving a very American feeling.

As with most Myth, folklore and urban legends, there is a part that is exxagerated and a part that might be based on a real case. This story is much more likely to propagate in the US as that very daily detail doesn't immediately give away that it's an urban legend.
> Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made.

I don't get all the disdain for his Dune. For its time, I found it quite entertaining. The scene of the menacing black tank containing the guild navigator emerging out of fumes at the emperor's court will stay with me. Obviously it can't compare in terms of effects or the subtleties of the latest version but it was impressive nevertheless. Without his version, I wouldn't even have known about Dune.
Or maybe C-suite pay/benefits caps, ha ha.
Pretty fun — feels quite natural to play by moving my hand.

I noticed a bit of lag while playing on mobile (iPhone Chrome).

Nice work!
I finally got a four leaf clover and somebody ruined it after like 2m.

Edit: Wait, where did everybody go? I think we broke it, or maybe I got banned. Kudos to the creator just the same. Neat stuff.
On servers, it protects against someone stealing your disks (or stealing the raw bytes from your disks) and then booting them in a copy of your machine.
Not just the rates are managed, but also deductibles. I'd gladly have a 5 figure deductble to keep my or miums lower, but regulators think this is unfair to some.
Whether it's acceptable or not to submit AI code, it is clearly unacceptable to submit code that you don't even understand. If that's all an employee is capable of, why on earth would the employer pay them software engineer salary versus hiring someone to do the exact same for minimum wage?
I've been living in Japan for more than 9 years. I think that the author is right in the sense that people in Japan seem to care more. Of course, the stress is on the word "seem". Some people truly care, but there is also the cultural expectation that you should care. I don't know if realising that counts as the "shine that will wear off", but it seems to not a bad default.
> Being an introvert, I absolutely hated calls.

Can we stop with this crap already.

You hate calls because you hate calls. Not because you’ve made up a definition of introvert that helps you avoid phone calls.
He gives a few good examples of well-supported RSS feeds, but the reality is, in 2025, RSS is dying. So many places have RSS feeds that constantly break, suddenly stop updating, get relocated without notice, or don't exist at all.
> It's easy to build a bad billing cap that would slow down services and cause outages

When you've exhausted your billing cap, what else could it do? Either shutting off services or blowing past the cap seem like the only serious options.

For a lot of small businesses, I suspect that an outage is often better than risking a surprise 6 figure bill. But it depends on what your software does.

Also if the system shut down automatically when the budget got exhausted, there's a risk that a runaway backup process or something might accidentally eat through your regular budget and get the site shut down. For that, it might make sense to assign different resources into different budgetary buckets or something.

I'm surprised firebase doesn't implement something like that.
I feel like we are, overall, in agreement, although this may be a case of [1] :-).

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1: https://youtu.be/XHO4Aby6fT8?t=11
As far as I can tell, no cloud products outside of consumer-facing SaaS allow you to set hard limits or automatic stops. The best you can do is configure spending alerts (and hope you're awake to see them).

I've found it pretty nerve-wracking, then, to attempt to get some hobby projects online. I don't like writing blank checks for my hobbies..
yeah I see the same trend, at some point I just kinda decided to mentally slot all of those people into the stupid category, tune them out, and go on living
I was looking for a place to hang this comment and here's as good as any: the right way to handle this problem in most C code is to rig malloc, realloc, and strdup up to explode when they'd return NULL. Proper error handling of a true out-of-memory condition is pretty treacherous, so most of the manual error handling stuff you see on things like realloc and malloc are really just performative. In an application setting like this --- not, like, the world's most popular TLS library or something --- aborting automatically on an allocation failure is totally reasonable.

Since that's essentially what EKR is doing here (albeit manually), I don't think this observation about losing the original `lines` pointer is all that meaningful.
> Sounds a lot like bashing copy pasting from StackOverflow.

Which is also very clearly unacceptable. If you just paste code from SO without even understanding what it does, you have fucked up just as hard as if you paste code from an LLM without understanding it.
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
> No reasonable company pipes stuff directly to prod

I’ve definitely worked at places where the time gap between code merge and prod deployment is less than an hour, and no human QA process occurs before code is servicing customers. This approach has risks and rewards, and is one of many reasonable approaches.
I can tell you home insurance is climbing in the Midwest from storms (roofs are apparently expensive to replace/service). I pay more in Nebraska than I did in California (although to be fair, I did not buy earthquake insurance in CA).
Thanks for playing! Good feedback. I'll try to improve the mobile performance, the fps seems lower vs. Destkop at the moment
Unsurprisingly the 100% true comment in here is gray: PKI is breaking the Internet and because the PKI folks have literally no guardrails of any kind, they're committed to breaking it further despite still virtually zero benefit from constantly making the Internet more fragile.

But hey, there's an upside: When they finally break this toy badly enough, everyone will finally evict the CAB from their lives and do something else.
The issue in the US is that there is no price regulation for different procedures (other than Medicare), plus the providers (hospital chains) are intertwined* with insurance. The end result is everyone charges as much as they can and the premiums need to be high, even if insurance technically negotiates the rates down from the “sticker” price. Insurance companies are willing to take a small percent of profit because there is so much money being taken from customers.

* https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...
One service provider is down because of a power outage, and I can't login to my account for over 30 hours?
I don’t think starter story fits into the spirit of this list. Seems like a paid product?
There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.
Everybody who is so upset about the proliferation of so many heavily abstracted, complicated JS frameworks should probably recognize for a moment that we have a horrible backwards compatibility problem with HTML, CSS, and JS. None were ever designed with the idea that they could support apps like freaking Netflix for Smart TVs or React Native apps for virtual reality.

If you want a truly standards first UI development stack, try Flutter. It critically changed how I view UI development: 1 canvas for any screen. Truly a beautiful thing.
Here's a secret you don't often hear;

Luck plays a part in everyone's story.

"Luck" of course being defined as right place, right time etc.

But "luck" is happening all the time, to everyone. What really matters of course is how you react to the opportunity.

In your case, at some point, you were lucky enough to get back into college. But ultimately that means nothing. What matters is how uou grasped that opportunity.

I would encourage you to tell your story. Perhaps reach out to social workers you met along the way.

The goal is not to tell people how lucky you were. Or to provide them a blue-print for life. But rather to say that opportunities happen - but recognizing them is important, responding to them is important.

You can't control the Luck. But you can control what you do with it.

I found your story inspiring. Not that it was "special" but because every person has a unique story to tell, and because it shows that you forged a path "making your own luck".

In other words, yes life happens around us. Yes life is unfair I all respects all the time. My journey is not your journey. But ultimately we still control much of the path. We can choose to move forward. We can set goals and work towards them. We can seek out new opportunities.

So yes, I think your story is inspiring. Not necessarily to everyone. But if there's one person who needs to hear it, to give them hope for the future, it's worth telling.

Now, isn't that person lucky I was here to write thus comment to you today? :)
> Vendors that hide critical information and pricing behind a phone call are eating the risk of having their time wasted on negotiating deals that would never succeed, trading it for a chance to scam some clueless or loss-insensitive companies for some big money.

That or they have "customers" who are knowingly or unknowingly incentivized to have the vendor succeed.

People in marketing, often even those in higher levels, know Google analytics. They have demonstrated experience with it. They want to keep using it. They want their employees to keep using it. Google Analytics plus or whatever it is called iirc does not have a pricing page publicly available.

Why does Google not have pricing available publicly? Why do customers put up with Google? Is there any other reason?

PS for those curious, I think this is one of the limitations we hit with Google Analytics free

> Custom dimensions: 20 custom dimensions
Yes, on the first stage.
I am sitting on an algorithm for hard billing caps right now that seems it may have some holes, but gets close based on several very tricky distributed systems problems. Making a billing cap that doesn't amount to "just use one single gateway server" (serializing everything and introducing tons of latency) seems to be harder than building a database or a filesystem, and most programmers would never attempt even those.
I agree. The fact that Rust and Go will panic by default in this situation is pretty close to dispositive on what the right thing to do in (most) C code is.
If we believe people can't be trusted with free access to ideas because they might become 'radicalized' or potential ’useful idiots’, we're advocating for more social control, not less. The ability to think critically isn't threatened by exposure to ideas - it's threatened by a broken social contract that deprives people of the conditions for self-actualization and genuine autonomy. Banning platforms or content just scapegoats symptoms while ignoring this deeper crisis.
Change is always interesting in how it impacts people. Top athletes outside of their own performance will often look to blame something else out of their control. It absolutely could be that certain brands of balls benefit different styles of tennis players, in the same way that an aerodynamics change in an F1 car can be beneficial to one driver and not another.

What also makes a good sports person is their ability to manage this change and stay consistent. Some athletes can and others struggle to change their playstyle or whichever way you want to put it.

Interesting read but I do agree that there should be more consistency in the balls they use from tournament to tournament.
My view is that you don't get to have the privilege to know that much about me and benefit from my personal profile without a commitment to privacy and a clear data lifecycle guarantee. You have to start with that.
I demanded nothing. I made an observation about the nature of LLMs that so far remains unchecked.

YOU came up with the idea of tests, and I tried to entertain you with some possibilities so you can understand better my point of view.

YOU asked an impossible thing. You asked me to devise a test that proves that a fraudulent claim (LLMs have intelligence) is truthful. The best I can do is show you how silly that claim is.

I actually don't need to prove anything. I just disproved something on a fundamental, ontological level. You're trying to make me go back on that ontodefinition or make a contradiction, which is not going to work.
Don't worry, the California government is responding to that by making it illegal to stop offering insurance in the state. That will definitely fix the problem.
Blatant political showmanship.

It’s as if (1) criminals can’t easily find someone clean to print them guns (2) they can’t go to Jersey (3) there are laws preventing the import of plastic gun parts from other places.

I almost forgot: Mangione was a criminal. Oh wait, nvm.

Why not do something about recidivism instead of hiring people to process 3D printer background checks?

The author is clearly smart enough to know she’s playing a game.

https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=038
There was a similarly improbable video capture over a decade ago when a skydiver's footage showed a rock falling past him in flight.

Coverage of that here:

"Norwegian Skydiver Almost Gets Hit by Falling Meteor — and Captures it on Film" (April 3, 2014)

<https://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almo...>

The event itself occurred two years earlier, the delay was to confirm authenticity of the footage and event.
Quadrilateral Cowboy - Hacking Puzzle game (2016)
Really cool game about heists and hacking on little cyberdeck with custom scripting language resembling batch/bash.

Also available on itch.io: https://blendogames.itch.io/quadrilateralcowboy

And source code is open (GPLv3): https://github.com/blendogames/quadrilateralcowboy
Roof damage fraud ... my understanding is the insured has roof damage, takes a payment from the insurance company but does not repair roof, next storm comes along: roof damage again!

Easy enough I think to solve.
While the video post does mention "Right in front of us", and it may have appeared that way to the pilots, it wasn't. Gauging relative distance and altitude between aircraft in flight can be notoriously deceptive even to experts, especially in the case of intensely bright, massive, unfamiliar objects at very high speed and great distance.

The RUD was in orbit over 146 kilometers up and >13,000 mph. I'm sure using the FlightAware tracking data someone will work out the actual distance and altitude delta between that plane and the Starship 7 orbital debris. I suspect it was many dozens of miles away and probably still nearly orbital in altitude (~100km).

Spectacular light show though...
To be fair I don't think someone should get fired for that (unless it's a repeat offense). Kids are going to do stupid things, and it's up to the more experienced to coach them and help them to understand it's not acceptable. You're right that it's not ok at all, but the first resort should be a reprimand and being told they are expected to understand code they submit.
What a god awful thing to hear.
Exactly why devs are getting the bug bucks

that is right now at some point what if someone figures out a way to make it deterministic and able to write code without bugs?
If you say I’m missing the point…then go on to solution just like I predicted, then it’s you who missed the point. I’m sure you’ll have great ideas, and I’m also sure it won’t matter and does nothing beyond making you feel like you are more right than someone you don’t know on the internet.

If you need a direct call to action, and why wouldn’t you as a good little techie, then call or write your representatives and officials with your solutions.

At least when I commented I read the entire article, quoted a piece of it, then referred to other sections. Ya know, kinda following the rules.
I think that's a great metaphor for the situation, when you get a patient running a 105 fever you put them in an ice bath and then consider what underlying problem is ailing them.

You do the first part so they don't die before the long-term treatment kicks in.
A/UX – Mac classic and Unix on 68k
Can’t you say that about any part of LA? Once a fire gets going, it grows and can destroy any neighborhood.

Call me crazy but if I was the mayor of LA I’d make them invest heavily in PREVENTION. Cameras and drones all over the place in the forests, to nip fires in the bud (and carch arsonists). I would also make sure that the live video footage would be used only for that purpose. It would use AI at the edge to flag every fire immediately and alert nearest authorities, and otherwise delete footage. There may be other AI at the edge uses added later by the regulators but I’d work to put in place heavy bars to overcome (eg 70% in a public referendum) before they are added.

I would also invest heavily in mobile firefighting tools and materials. The firefighters using buckets is pitiful.

But then again, LA hasn’t invested in itself for decades. It’s like the opposite of NYC: rich people don’t want to live in Downtown LA, they live in the equivalent of our Brooklyn, say Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay by the beach.

Because half of downtown looks increasingly more like skid row. Signage and streets are something out of the 70s literally. And there pretty much hasn’t been any new skyscrapers built since the 80s. The skyline is stuck in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie era.

I stayed in Freehand hostel which is actually pretty nice, even though there’s abandoned buildings and homeless all around. I met a drunk Andy Dick there by the pool one evening LOL.

And you people from San Francisco — it ain’t much better over where you are. I visited Twitter HQ right when Elon took over. And let me tell you — there is a curious juxtaposition of City Hall, City Opera, The SF Philharmonic, and the fourth corner of that illustrious intersection is… a large abandoned alleyway with dumpsters. What? Imagine Lincoln Center in NYC having that.

On my show I did a lot of interviews — with regulators, technologists, sociopolitical commentators like Noam Chomsky. But one of my most down-to earth interviews was in SF of a homeless guy w his dog. See it for yourself what I’m talking about:

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

PS: to the silent downvoters… normally I don’t mind but this time you’re just doing it out of spite. Watch the video or say something. I bet you live there and don’t want to have these things pointed out. SF and LA were so great… so many movements started there. Lately people are fleeing and the homelessness is out of control.
I been writing at troll level since i first got my computer at 19 so it looks like exceeds expectations to me lol
The image with meaningless blotches, technical diagrams and implied dubiousness feels like the beginning of a "please check and comment" meme.
Spoken like an extrovert. :)
My first response about commoditization makes a fundamental observation about the nature of LLMs. Our discussion so far never touched that. You never actually adressed me, my most important claim remains unchecked, you just misderected the subject into an orchard.
Also, they are not building small homes anyway.

Developers here in the Midwaste aren't going to put a cheap house on a lot if they can instead put a 3500 sq. ft. home and get triple the profit.
Conversely, Canadians can manage to sound hardscrabble and oppressed even when living in $2million+ houses in Kitchener.