skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting a new repo in SVN is find a server somewhere, if doesn't have SVN install SVN, if it does have SVN deal with whatever politics runs its trunk to find space/define a branch structure for you, and so forth.

It is its own footgun as well, but with git you can git init any directory you want and have a repo. Other than the learning curve of the not particularly well tuned CLI (and there are all sorts of graphical clients today and alternative CLI clients), it's very low barrier to entry to get something/anything in source control.

It's not just "larping as leet hackerz", there are real benefits to git over SVN. There are fewer barriers to entry for small teams and hobby devs, especially in a world with GitHub/GitLab/Sourcehut/and more, but also in the world where maybe a git repo never syncs with any other single machine or is hosted on the barest feature set SAMBA folder or is only ever using email-based PR flows.

git could be easier to teach. git could have a better out of the box CLI. That doesn't mean "git is overkill" especially from the point of view of "needing a whole central server setup just to store multiple versions of a file is overkill". Git is perhaps "underkill", it does the bare minimum as best it can in whatever environment you give it. It's intentionally dumb and stupid (hence its name, to be fair) and it's learning curve is as much because it is "too dumb" than because it "isn't intuitive". I've seen some "intuitive" UIs built on top of it. Another comment here remarked "git isn't a source control system, it's a low level toolkit for building your own" and that's not far from the truth and definitely not far from git's origins (and its name). That's a sort of "underkill". ("One day we'll finally build the right, intuitive high level API." That's basically how git was designed. You don't have to just take my word on that, you can search the old mailing lists for all sorts of interesting discussions and debates on "porcelain" options.)
> it really isn't that big of a deal if you understand the basics of what a commit is, what a branch is etc.

Yes, that's what people mean when they say that git is hard. Instead of presenting you with an interface expressed in terms of the domain you intend to work in, whose commands represent the tasks you intend to perform, git dumps its guts all over the place and requires each user to re-implement the interface between "what you want to do" and "how git is built" inside their own brains instead. Once you have written git's missing user interface in your brain, you are fine; but that's a lot of work which is not necessary with other version-control systems.
Take a look into a pilot handbook, they are all written down there.
4M viewers. comparable to top politics events.

ship looks to be lost. this was the main part, so it's almost complete failure.
What happens if the ship has exploded? Is there any kind of danger?
> every low probability thing will "at some point"

This is the "ergodic hypothesis" and is not necessarily true.
I think there's an undertone of why should I care? or the idea of motivation. In Japan, theres definitely a social pressure to care, only because you'll become ostracized if you don't. In the west there are phrases from pop culture such as,"If it ain't broke don't fix it, Welp not my problem, ..." So the question is where does this stem from. Why do we not care?
It could be related to 14eyes with modifications (finland and ireland, plus close asian allies).

https://res.cloudinary.com/dbulfrlrz/images/w_1024,h_661,c_s... (from https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-eyes-global-surveillance).

Israel, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland are also missing from it
Seems they lost the ship , it is supposed to be v2 and had several changes
Some things to expect in 2025
I have always heard both terms used interchangeably ignoring gender. Maybe you need to broaden your own limited horizons instead of claiming others need to be more inclusive.
Oooh it's the guy with octal years!
Impressive, but after reading the title I have to admit to being a little disappointed at not finding 10,000 solutions.
I hated the 3DS UI. It was not exciting, it was bad and inconsistent. At least with the Switch it is unobstrusive.
Amazing. 2nd ever catch of the booster via the 'chopstick' arms. Looks like the starship itself won't be splashing down west of Perth, instead telemetry has been lost (assuming RUD - "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly").
So the thing is, you need someone to sort donations. Not just for quality but for what they are, so that you can send appropriate things to appropriate disasters. A retail sweatshirt and jeans might be exactly what North Carolina needs, might be barely passable for right now in Los Angeles, and would be less than useless in Los Angeles six months from now. You also have to have someone go through all the donations to figure out what is and is not a non-cosmetic issue and discard the useless because, as someone whose spouse worked for Goodwill, I can tell you that you can not count on people to have sense enough not to donate damaged and useless goods. Then you have to have someone physically get the things from where they were donated, filtered and sorted to the disaster. A whole network of someones, actually, because there are a lot of places a donation can originate. Trucking stuff into a disaster area is a challenge as well, and may be impossible depending on the nature of the disaster in question and where the stuff is coming from. A new sweater is no better than a gently-used but fully functional one if a sweater is what's needed and they're both already on-site. But for a disaster response that's scaled nationally and designed to respond to minor and major disasters of disparate types with varying needs, cash is 100% king.
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025
I have been alive long enough to remember previous Microsoft branding drives to tag every product with, .Net, and shortly before that ActiveX, and before that "Live". When the tag party is rolling it doesn't matter if the product/service being tagged has anything to do with the tag.
Never claimed that I was an expert or anything. I interpolated my opinion from my experience with large C code bases.

I get it that you work on a geospatial database and understand this field better than I do, but why so rude and dismissive? Work on that.
Adding to the list of possibilities, it's also possible that a large amount of people in the SF government are just desensitized and jaded and have a thousand-yard-PTSD-stare from seeing so much death and despair and overdoses and crimes on a daily basis, and don't really have energy or capacity to accept that this case might not be more of the same.

During the mother's interview, she kept saying that it seemed unusual that the medical examiner only looked at the scene for a relatively short amount of time. But having lived in SF, and seeing the city services operate, it just seems completely expected to me.
True, but it doesn't matter since competent clients should be falling back to other CAs anyway.
> Rebuilding a legacy system doesn't require you to support every single edge case that the older system did.

Depends on context.

This isn't some social media fun site where you can live with some rough edges; in this context "edge case" may be someone with an health condition who is still entitled to a drivers license; or it could be someone who normally could get one but due to a health condition really shouldn't be allowed one!
Speaking of the topic of automation, does anyone know of a domain registry that is suitable for issuing Let's Encrypt certificates for a machine behind a firewall (which requires using the DNS challenge)? I currently use Namecheap, but they started requiring you to manually whitelist the client IP address to use their API, which is annoying when your residential ISP changes your IP address.

Edit: seems like using Cloudflare as the DNS host is the way to go here. Thanks everyone!
I found the (non-lite) Switch to be rougher on my hands due to less ergonomic design. Deck is larger and heavier, but it sits nicer in hands.
Yes I’d imagine the reason it still hasn’t been fixed after nearly a decade is management/politics etc. But it taking more than just 6 months will be technical. As a result it’s a job that falls into the area of being canned because it’s taking too long even though no one said it would be quick.
I saw the writing on the wall a decade ago and moved into cloud consulting. I’m 50 now.

In 2016, I was a senior engineer on two projects—one involving hiring contractors and another leading a legacy transformation with a small team. I preferred the latter.

Next, I joined a startup, gained hands-on AWS experience, led AWS initiatives across teams, and focused on POCs/MVPs, actively avoiding team lead roles.

Then, I landed at AWS Professional Services as a mid-level consultant, leading smaller projects or workstreams in larger ones.

After leaving, I had a choice: a strategy role overseeing acquisitions or a staff software architect position at a consulting firm. I chose the latter.

Now, I either work with customers to define requirements and project plans (acting as a solution architect) or lead multiple workstreams, coordinating architects, sales, customers, and project management.
Oddly enough I talked to a lawyer last night about this. He explained that all of his applicants have passed the bar, so he can be reasonably confident in their ability to practice law. Instead his interviews are about if he can stand working with this person day to day.
It's kind of the same situation with alcohol now: a lot of people denouncing it, the alcohol industry throwing a lot of shade, and top scientists making confident pronouncements (on both sides).
IIRC, the grid fins are not strong enough to support the rocket, and reinforcing them would add too much weight to the vehicle.

The plan is to catch the second stage the same way, and the starship in flight now is the first to have mockup pins to test the aerodynamics and see if they cause issues during reentry.
Maybe the hard time limit is making people apprehensive. Not that I’m on the yes side, but maybe the odds would be different if the timeline was longer.
Nostr is frustrating. The protocol is indeed pretty awesome--partition tolerant in a way that RSS isn't. I want to get to know it because that's a property that I want for an app that I want to build.

So I started using it, just to get a feel for how it all comes together. You can set up a browser extension (or hardware device) which holds your signing key and you can configure it to auto-sign on your behalf or to prompt you for each required signature. So if you leave it in prompt mode you can use the apps and see what gets signed by your key (which they don't have, supposing you're "doing it right"). It's a really neat transparency feature and I felt like it was better helping me understand what was going on as well as putting me in more fine-grained control over which code I trust to act on my behalf. It's a usage mode that I hope becomes more popular, though it's inconvenient so I have my doubts.

But the content which happens to move through nostr is on average pretty awful. Mostly it's just memes where crypto bro's convince each other that they're superior to the rest of us--despite the fact that their precious blockchains would totally fail in the kind of partitioned-internet scenario which nostr is resilient against. The mismatch between its own design principles (partition tolerance > consistency) and the enthusiasms of the people who use it (consistency > partition tolerance) makes me uneasy for the same reasons I'm uneasy about Web 2's social media: made by us, for you, but we're not you and our agenda is unclear.

I'm still probably going to use it, but until I can get an app going that I actually want to use I don't expect to be consuming much content from it.
I heard someone say it's like trying to land the Statue of Liberty. Turns out the statue is actually shorter.
1-800-GAMBLER is available 24/7
I’m not sure about the NASA name itself, but apparently the graphic stuff is protected by a special law:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-V/part-1221

So you wouldn’t exactly get a copyright claim when abusing the NASA logo but it’s still illegal.

I couldn’t find anything about the NASA word itself though, just some articles reciting guidelines by NASA not to imply an endorsement by NASA. I don’t know how that’s enforced though.
Brazil has no free speech rights. Well it technically does but they don't work because they aren't enforced. And people will come up with countless caveats to shut down your speech anyway. The latest meme is "fake news". What's "fake" is defined by the ruling party, of course.

It's not even a democracy to begin with. Supreme court is the true seat of power. Doesn't matter what the constitution says. The law is what these 100% unelected guys say it is.

I've seen those supreme court judges persecute some youtuber because he called one of them fat.
The flight paths are planned specifically so any potential debris has a high chance of landing in the ocean.

If it actually exploded (either on its own or because the flight-termination system kicked in) most of it should burn up on reentry though.
Bikes has a thing called breaks. You are not helpless on the bike and if you are, you are really behind the maintenance.

And yes, roads for cars are intentionally build in a ways that makes high speed obviously unsafe at places.
Had high hopes for Shopify at beginning of pandemic but it was all hype. Online shopping is still pretty much the same and in some ways regressed.
Are you reviewing code you're pulling into your code base (that is usually organized and counted in lines, smartass) or authors?

Either way, with rust it's a handful of authors, but just because they are proven to be good faith actors, doesn't mean trust in their code is implied when we're talking about supply chain hardening.
This is AI spam.

There's no sources, and it's from a no-name publication from India. The article doesn't even attempt to justify the title.

This article is an AI rewrite of a Jan 12th article from Times of India[1], which cites an article from The San Francisco Standard[2].

The original article, from 1/8 (last week), merely refers to it as an "active and open investigation"... NOT that the status was changed.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/suchir-balajis-...
[2] https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/08/openai-whistleblowers-deat...
Anyone able to do some quick math to guess where the pieces might land based on the velocity+altitude?

Bits might end up in africa on land somewhere...
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-cool-cam
Flagged:

- The headline is newsworthy

- Nothing in article content even close to matching the headline, or attempting to.

- No primary sources.

- Strong signs of being AI generated. (inter alia, "The case now unfolding is becoming the focus of most talks on ethics, accountability, and safety within the fast-evolving artificial intelligence world.")
these tests are designed to fail — the data collected now will ensure they don't blow up with actual people on them. test seems like a success to me
Almost a complete failure except for second ever caught first stage...

BTW they first tested a redesigned version of Starship today.
Did you show the test cases to it? Maybe blinding it would solve the tailoring problem.
Who knows, maybe there is no better deal, maybe the cold-calling salesman is actually offering the very best deal there is on the market. Then again, maybe the Nigerian prince really needs help with their fortune, and I really just won a car for being the millionth visitor on that news site[0].

Point being, some stranger is calling me and asking for my money. I don't know enough about them to give them money just because they say it's going to be worth it.

--

[0] - https://xkcd.com/570/
If it has control issues or similar absolutely, but does losing comms count as going wrong for the FTS? If the flight itself is on track?
Independent of connectivity, UI rendering should be well under the device refresh rate. Consider the overhead of a modern video game that runs 60fps without a hiccup. It’s ludicrous that a CRUD app which usually only populates some text fields and maybe a small image or two can’t do the same
I think the point is that with the Switch you get Nintendo only, and in the past at least that meant anemic hardware and paying for old games you already bought. With the Steam Deck you get a portable PC with all that implies, meaning PC games, but also emulation.

So on one hand you have a walled garden, of the type that HN tends to hate (when it's Apple), but on the other hand you have an open platform that's significantly more powerful.
Yah, this paragraph can't be taught at home right? or would taking a few English courses not achieve that, selectively?!
Obsidian, but it'd be Apple Notes (for personal, anyway) if I could more easily export everything to Markdown natively, without using fly-by-night apps and scripts.

I also can't stand the way Apple Notes capitalizes words in a code block, WTF?
Yeah, I prefer this "when this comment is XY old" format the most when communicating internationally. Closely followed by UTC, of course.

I hate having to convert from some time zone which I don't know by heart; with the additional risk of getting daylight savings or something wrong and missing the event.
What happens if it doesn't explode and they just lost control over it? I'm mostly curios of the risks at that altitude.
This model is kind of the bottom of the barrel. Also there are models that specialize in pixel art: https://www.pixellab.ai/
Tucker Carlson interview with mother here:
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1879777168944685223?mx=2

Even if it is murder, it still doesn't mean it has anything to do with his whistleblowing.
It is painful to read. To me in retrospective the major mistake in the presentation is that it barely talks about end users and how the iPhone enabled a new world of use cases. It is only about business/corporate, features and specs. When analyzing the iphone on those dimensions all the reactive action items are doomed. They had not a chance to compete with that analysis.
I don't think anyone knows enough about the period to answer that question. Our main written source is the Annals of Spring and Autumn (春秋), from Lu (not Yue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_(state)) which spends 18000 words on 242 years, in chronological order. For many of those years it simply says something like "螽" ("locusts"). It does not go into any detail on questions like which hobbies the kings of other countries spent their spare time on, and that's a difficult thing to infer from archaeological evidence, too. The written records of Yue were destroyed by order of 秦始皇 in the 焚書坑儒.

So we kind of have to guess. My guesses are not the most informed.

The sword (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian) is bronze, so it was probably cast (you can forge bronze but the cost/benefit ratio is terrible). You could imagine a king pouring the hot bronze into the mold—that would be much quicker than forging an iron sword—but you probably wouldn't want him to make a habit of it, because contaminants in the metals would expose him to arsenic vapor, though this sword in particular is almost arsenic-free.

Then all that's left is sharpening the blade, which any warrior has to be good at, and what is a king if not a warrior foremost? So it's plausible that a king might have put in most of the work embodied in the blade himself, with a grindstone, even if he didn't go around casting bronze regularly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
Show HN: Random Positive Reward App for iPhone
I built an iPhone app that is now available in the App Store. Its purpose is to make it easy and effective to use intermittent positive reinforcement as a motivation tool - the psychological phenomenon behind doom-scrolling, gambling, and animal training, now finally purposed for your benefit. It provides the tools to manage the little treats your brain needs to move in the right direction, combined with gamification designed to support your journey and encourage healthy usage.

This is the outgrowth of a “scratch your own itch” project when I learned about how variable reward schedules and wanted to be able to use it to break through times of lower motivation. While simpler alternatives like rolling a (virtual) d20 worked to prove the concept, there was a lot of room for improvement. There’s a system for dynamically weighting outcomes inspired by how RNG-heavy video games avoid big streaks of wins/losses. The other big idea was building anticipation into the app itself in the form of gamification so even if your rewards themselves aren’t really getting you into the right headspace at some time, there’s something to work towards in-app to add an extra boost.

SwiftUI for presentation, Rust for business logic in case it ever pencils out business-wise to port to another platform. If I was doing it again starting today, I would probably do React Native for the UI, but the integration story with Rust was pretty weak when I was evaluating options (they work together well enough now, and I have another project combining them, but not able to justify a UI rewrite yet).

CTA: this is a niche product in a (currently) non-existent market category. I’m starving for feedback, so if you have opinions about the app or even just the problem space, please let me know (comments here, App Support link from App Store, or messages to TantalusPath on social media), and I’ll eat it up!

TantalusPath
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tantaluspath/id6504832898
Beautiful work! Do you have any thoughts on the relative size of complexity spaces explored by different forms of mutation?
WiiU also had the back compat hardware of the Wii, just couldn't take a gamecube disc in it's drive.

Similarly, a lot of the SNES internally looks like it was at least initially designed for back compat with the NES.
I found this video of his on his spiritual beliefs to be very insightful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mTxm9sQg0

RIP
But he didn't direct all of Twin Peaks episodes and it shows.
always a sign of a winning argument when you call your interlocutors nerds
Replying to myself for clarification: I did not read their 500ms number as including waiting for a network. It sounded like that's how long it was taking React Native to load local data and draw the screen. If that's not the case, it's a very different story.

From another comment by seemack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730348):

> For example, I just recorded myself tapping on a product in the Product list screen and the delay between the pressed state appearing and the first frame of the screen transition animation is more than half a second. The animation itself then takes 300ms which is a generally accepted timeframe for screen animations. But that half second where I'm waiting for the app to respond after I've tapped a given element is painful.
Reminds me of the train wreck of searching for “ChatGPT” or “OpenAI” on the apple App Store — all scam results.
It seems like they have the chopsticks catch down pretty well, but the ship exploded over the Atlantic so there's gonna have to be more tests before the ship can think about an RTLS test.

More generally, getting the ship to work reusably seems like it will be a considerably greater challenge than reusing the boosters.