skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s nice to see that they got it even if they weren’t ultimately capable of doing anything about it.

I was an intern at BlackBerry (then RIM) Jan-Apr 2008 and it was astonishing to me how little anyone seemed to care or be taking the threat seriously. Obviously as a student I wasn’t in any of the high level war room discussions, but from what I could see it really did seem like the company was drinking its own marketing koolaid as far as the iPhone not being a relevant competitor because it was missing, like, cut and paste and encrypted email.
I wish these guys regulated Microsoft even half as much as they go after apple. I dream of a day where I can just walk into the local electronics store and buy a computer with Linux installed. I don't really care about Apple since they're only around 25% of the smartphone market and 10% of the PC market.
Obviously you’d be a better judge than I am given your inside knowledge, but your comment reminds me of the many virtuoso musicians who don’t really make music people like. There’s a gap between technical ability and taste, artfulness.
Yes. It works really well. You can do a WHOLE LOTTA ARB(tm)(circle R), buying the crap placements at super low CPMs and selling the performance difference to clients. This is mitigated by those clients who ONLY WANT THE BEST (but of course, sir, right this way) - but there are ways around that, too - like the MFA (made for advertising) domains of all the big-name sites you can think of that solely exist for your RTB machine to pump ads stacked on top of each other, and only visible to bots and crawlers. It doesn't help that on one side, you have folks astute with math (Data Scientists et al.) and on the other, a metric shit ton of Media Planners/Buyers who are just handed a budget and are often pretty naive about the intricacies of how it all works. But it all sort of goes back to the original point - people put on blinders. They just wanna see the metric get hit, the numbers go up. Most of the time they don't care how any of that works as long as they look good to their boss, and the industry mostly obliges.
I think this is a traditional interface to the same archive:

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8...
HN is mostly a tech industry thing, maybe even mostly a techbro thing.

One of the reasons you wouldn't post a link to "The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women" on the engineering Slack at work, is the same reason you wouldn't want to upvote it on the front page of HN.

Imagine an engineering team including a female engineer, and that gets posted to the Slack. Probably she was aware of industry's sexism problems, but maybe she felt accepted as a peer professional by her teammates, until she saw her teammates engaging with that post, rather than indicating that was inappropriate. I can only guess that she might feel disappointed and alienated by her teammates, among other thoughts.

But some might object, oh, but this is for the curious hacker spirit in all of us. OK, 19 hours in, let's look at the top-voted comment. Nope, it's quoting something from the article about superstitious insertion of fish into a woman's anatomy, before serving it to the man, and making a dismissive joke comment about preferring microplastics in modern fish.

"What's the matter, Sally Engineer, can't you see this is a valuable hacker curiosity discussion, and you shouldn't be uncomfortable that your teammates think it's appropriate in this context?"

Accidentally doing something, but then deciding it's improper, and correcting it, is one thing. That can even be a net positive, if people learn from it. But being told someone else thinks it's improper, and going into obstinate, combative mode, is a different thing.
Dear goodness will any other companies trying to sell to the company I work at please adopt this strategy. Please explain clearly what your product does, how you handle security, and what the enterprise license costs on the homepage.

Please do not harass us with calls and perpetual emails asking to schedule calls. If a call is what it takes to answer basic security and pricing questions, I loathe your company name before we've spoken and am very interested in doing business with anyone who *does* post that stuff online.

I do not understand why that's difficult, but it must be.

I wish I could use what this guy is selling.
Solution then is to add slowing features uphill from the cut over.
Most large language models (LLMs) today interact with tools using JSON-based function calling, where the model outputs a structured schema (e.g., tool and arguments). While effective, this limits LLMs’ ability to leverage complex reasoning and procedural logic.
That’s why we introduce Pythonic Function Calling—a new framework where LLMs output Python code to interact with tools. Python’s natural language-like syntax and rich expressiveness allow for more creative, multi-step solutions, overcoming the rigidity of JSON.

Key highlights:
A 3B parameter model that matches GPT-4o in the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL).
Seamless parallel multi-function calls, enabling complex workflows in a single step.
Enhanced reasoning capabilities, going beyond JSON limitations to solve real-world problems.
Trained using synthetic data generated by 2,000+ edge devices in a decentralized network.
> switch has sold 2 orders of magnitude more copies than Valve ever will.

In the first year Nintendo sold 13.2 million Switches. In the ~2 years since the introduction of the Steam Deck Valve has sold somewhere between 5 and 6 million units.

Nintendo had a enormous, loyal, and obsessive user base and decades of history selling portable consoles. The Steam Deck is Valve's first portable console and it's running a new OS that no one is used to. It also cost $100 more than the Switch.

Furthermore--now that the platform itself has proven itself--Valve is going to allow 3rd parties to use SteamOS on their own portable consoles. If those 3rd parties have similar successes I think Nintendo will become a minor player in the portable console market in comparison.
You can still build web pages like it's 1999. Nothing is stopping you. You can add menu bars like you're imitating Word 6, for all I care. But people will stop visiting your site. The eye likes candy. That's why.
Investing in Eve
Right, it’s ultimately about picking the right medium for a given discussion, be that tickets, email, a call, or some kind of messaging. That can vary person to person as well, so it’s always a bit of a compromise.
This is my primary issue with async communication. Ive had email and slack conversations which lasted days where there was a 4 hour gap between messages and it is horrible.

In a call you can't be ignored or left on read for 4 hours.
> think they know more than the experts.

Ah, the experts. I have no sort of education in education at all. Why was I better (and still am) at helping mates learn and solve CS exercises at Uni than some of the expert and qualified teachers? A friend of mine recently started a CS course to pivot his professional career. When he doesn't understand what the teacher is on about, he comes to me for help.

I have huge respect for the concept of teachers, but sadly a lot of people are teachers because they didn't know what else to be.

> from my limited experience the kids who are home schooled have huge holes in their education

I don't want this to sound snarky at all, but I'd honestly be happy to provide you with real life cases that would broaden your experience and hopefully tilt your viewpoint.
Downloading roms is all it takes to be regarded a hacker-type these days? I feel words keep losing their meaning …
I bought an N9 in 2011 and it was an incredible phone. The design and UI were gorgeous and it was a joy to use. I still miss the swipe-driven UI - it was clever, intuitive and well thought out. The phone itself had Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Spotify clients, and MS Exchange support for calendaring and email (I believe Nokia developed or ported many of these in-house) and was completely usable day-to-day.

Compared to Nokia's symbian phones and earlier Maemo efforts, it felt revolutionary and I'd agree Nokia had a device which could have paved the way for a post-symbian future. It definitely felt like, with continued investment, it would have been a real iPhone competitor, and in just the nick of time.

Elop's strategy was a disaster.
I don't doubt it will be released.

Im sure there are more details in this video for someone more discerning, too. My point is that I didn't find there to be much information in the trailer because it's clearly mostly a refresh. And I'm not complaining about that. Nor am I complaining about the nature of teasers.
A few Baltimore schools had to close down a few years ago because they had no working heat/AC. Asbestos is an issue. As are pests. It's not that it was uncomfortable to be in some of these buildings, it was literally unsafe. When things get this dire, they cost a lot more to fix. Anything you move in to do uncovers other issues, and contractors can bend you over on change orders because it simply has to get done. I wouldn't be surprised to find some amount of graft involved, either.

So, yes, maintenance is a significant portion of spend. The schools were allowed to get into really bad shape, physically, in a way that doesn't at all reflect on the enthusiasm or capability of students or teachers.
I think that's the point. You'll probably get it. I probably will too. I would imagine this device will improve unit sales and also has improved margins on a per unit basis. Easy win without trying all that much. Take the W.
2 April. This is the American trailer so the date is dumb
That doesn’t explain the doctor who doesn’t care that they are misdiagnosing their patients though… Or am I missing something?
>If it means it makes your own content safe

Not really? As mentioned by others, such tarpits are easily mitigated by using a priority queue. For instance, crawlers can prioritize external links over internal links, which means if your blog post makes it to HN, it'll get crawled ahead of the tarpit. If it's discoverable and readable by actual humans, AI bots will be able to scrape it.
Why would I write "reviewed" when I mean "merged"? I meant reviewed.
I thought for sure that was going to be AOL. Which I know doesn’t make sense, but they were huge in Loudoun.
I think what they have to say is uninteresting for a very different reason. The owe very little of what they own to what they actually think and do. They just managed to keep on top of a huge commercial organism which development and almost cancerous growth has been dictated more by the environment it grew in and sheer chance than any single human opinions and choices. By every possible individual measurement they are no further from average than a standard deviation. There are many more unique and interesting people.

That feat of staying on top of self-inflating balloon is their only claim to fame. So they might have interesting things to say about how to backstab and exploit and avoid getting dethroned but that's all. Unfortunately that's what not they happily share.
I looked it up and apparently it actually comes from Algol, but I digress. Point being sum types and their equivalents are found all over the place. I wouldn't be surprised to find out modern prologs have them.
Show HN: I created a ChatGPT Chrome Ext to make me more productive
Yes, it's region banned (not just by IP so VPNs don't even really work well). You'll get a 404, if you try connecting, and your packet rate won't support video through a VPN. Note that it's also banned in HK and India and parts of Europe so it's not really anything new to ban it when you're talking about almost half the world's population.

Couldn't people just say "but Instagram" is just TikTok? Is it really the "same thing" just, because the same people have control, if the algos, servers, content, moderation/censorship, and promotion are different? Like BlueSky, Twitter, and TruthCentral are all the same thing? Or if we want the "same company" company Allo and Hangouts? I mean everyone loved Allo, right, you can have that one.
> in order to collect more taxes.

Non-Muslims were taxed more so of course they were welcomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Ottoman_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
~Thrice. Airpods.~

Edit: Airpods also has a majority market share, so probably it's not the third in this list.
Thanks, will look into that!
This is priceless:

> Paul Graham @paulg·22h

> I was thinking mainly of conversations I've had with ordinary

> people. I don't think you realize the size of the gap between how

> your tweets about the UK seem to people in Texas and how they seem

> to people in the UK.

> Elon Musk @elonmusk·10h

> Oh please. You live in an aristocratic country house in the English

> countryside.

> Your kids go to an elite private day school and you sit at home all

> day on the Internet.

> Mr. Paul Graham hasn’t run into an ordinary person in years.

Elon is as always projecting and only talking about himself.
Just yesterday it was announced that Bitfinex will be returned the 95,000 bitcoin that were lost in a 2016 hack. These coins will be returned to the account holders which were affected by the hack.

At the time the bitcoins were lost, they were worth ~$575 each.

Today those returned tokens are worth close to $100,0000 each.

I doubt anyone who was affected by that hack realized they just got involuntarily forced into the best investment of their lives.
To be fair, if we’re going by track alone, there’s nothing to say it’s not just a new track for the Switch 2 release (or even just released at the same time, but available on both).
The graphics bump you'd see from next gen systems prior 2010 was massive. So big in fact that it would unlock new genres of games which weren't previously possible.

ps1 > ps2 was pretty huge too because I'd argue the ps2 marked the first generation of consoles where games could move away from pixelated cartoony characters and into photo-realistic graphics and just about pull it off.

Today you get better lighting and shadows, or slightly higher FPS which is nice, but it doesn't really change the types of games you can make in the way the ps2 did.
Yet some companies use monorepos, so everybody has access to everything.
Didn't BO have a change in leadership in 2023 precisely because they were slow compared to SpaceX?

Edit: New Glenn was announced in 2016, compared to Starship's 2019, and they're approaching the finish line at around the same time. And I would say Starship was a far more ambitious project.
That Apple succeeded in having people pay $500 and up for a phone that was cool but frankly not very useful, was amazing.

We should remember the original iPhone was more a tech demonstrator than anything else. It had the revolutionary touch screen, yes, but you couldn't really DO that much with it. There wasn't even an app store! You still needed to buy a digital camera and a garmin GPS and so on. This was a telephone in the old sense of the word (For younger readers, "telephone" used to mean a thing you made calls with).

The fact we pay 2-3 times as much now for premium smartphones is no wonder. Now it's a PC power thing with a better camera. By the time the iPhone 3G arrived it was a marvel. It had ironed out most of the kinks of the early versions, added the GPS, App Store etc. But by then, the other dinosaurs were already dying. They murdered them with the initial versions of the iPhone, which really weren't even that impressive.

The presentation shows they were aware of what was happening. But that Nokia didn't just make their portfolio two lines (really simple cheap feature phones and really expensive all-glass smartphones) on the day after this presentation came out, is strange.
Nokia did had software chops, just on another metric than UI: According to a presentation at my university they were very deep in testing and verification and had a lot of expertise there.

And in all my years of using Nokia phones I can’t remember a software bug. But of course we wanted more from our phones than just stability, we wanted features and better UI.
We must not have seen the same footage, they even had rain drops on the lens, that was an amateur move in the 60s, in 2025 it should be a crime lol

Like, what the fuck is this ? https://imgur.com/6sVSXGd Did they strap an iphone 12 on the launchpad and leave it on auto settings ? The flood light is aimed straight at the lens too...

This is an amateur shot from 5 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/coppj8/a_dramatic_cl...

I'm telling you, they didn't care one bit about that video, it looks like absolute ass
>It's more about getting people inspired and hiping your company than talking about anything.

If they did the Developers, Developers, Developers speech every time ... that would work for me. If only out of amazement.
Aren't those finite lists? How is a scraper (normal or LLM) supposed to "get stuck" on those?
Who cares what units they use? Anyone who is interested in space will have some knowledge of both kinds of units, and can do conversions if they need to.
I didn't realize. That's disappointing
> Just ask VW, they almost bet it all on EVs and now they're already with one foot in the grave because of that.

Not without some coercion. It was part of the settlement from when they cheated on emissions tests by running the engines more efficiently if the steering angle was touched or the non-drive wheels moved.
Yes, but now it doesn't even have national champions. The last one standing with some pretense at being still with the times is probably ASML.

One wonders whether at any point anybody will ask any tough questions about where Europe is heading as far as technology goes.
Author of a similar tool here[0]. There are a few implementations of this sort of thing that I know of. Mine is different in that the primary purpose is to slightly alter content statically using a Markov generator, mainly to make it useless for content reposters, secondarily to make it useless to LLM crawlers that ignore my robots.txt file[1]. I assume the generated text is bad enough that the LLM crawlers just throw the result out. Other than the extremely poor quality of the text, my tool doesn't leave any fingerprints (like recursive non-sense links.) In any case, it can be run on static sites with no server-side dependencies so long as you have a way to do content redirection based on User-Agent, IP, etc.

My tool does have a second component - linkmaze - which generates a bunch of nonsense text with a Markov generator, and serves infinite links (like Nepthenes does) but I generally only throw incorrigible bots at it (and, at others have noted in-thread, most crawlers already set some kind of limit on how many requests they'll send to a given site, especially a small site.) I do use it for PHP-exploit crawlers as well, though I've seen no evidence those fall into the maze -- I think they mostly just look for some string indicating a successful exploit and move on if whatever they're looking for isn't present.

But, for my use case, I don't really care if someone fingerprints content generated by my tool and avoids it. That's the point: I've set robots.txt to tell these people not to crawl my site.

In addition to Quixotic (my tool) and Napthenes, I know of:

* https://github.com/Fingel/django-llm-poison

* https://codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-the-wellms

* https://codeberg.org/timmc/marko/

0 - https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

1 - I use the ai.robots.txt user agent list from https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
The face-on galaxy image is credited to Stefan Payne-Wardenaar (https://stefanpw.myportfolio.com/home), whose Twitter and Bluesky bios say, "I make astronomy visualizations in Blender."
> corporate lorem ipsum

This is a great phrase. Turns out there's a generator for it: https://www.corporate-ipsum.com/ . Example:

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Here is a blog that rolls up lots and lots of time series graphs from different research.

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-pa...

Time series data is always confounded in many ways; lots of stuff changes, and as a society we change what we're paying attention to and that itself changes things like emergency room visits or perceptions of being anxious. At the same time, a whole lot of different measures moved in a negative direction suddenly (after slowly moving that way for many years). Of course, to be fair: these time series seem to show more the effect of social media in general and smartphones than short form video content on social media/smartphones.

There is no shortage of comparative evidence, though.

There's also evidence that short form video use is correlated with shorter attention span and that it is addictive. Of course, correlation ain't causation: maybe it's just the most naturally attention-challenged that consume a lot of it. I personally suspect it's a little of both.

We also have research that shows that if you show people lots of short form video and then test their attention span later, it's worse. But this, of course, isn't the same as the effect of voluntarily watching short form video. This is all trivial to find, but if you want links to specific things, let me knwo.

Kids complain that the other kids who are on tiktok all the time will do something like ask a peer a question, and then drift off to something else during the answer if it's longer than a single short sentence.

I've been doing youth programs for quite awhile now, and there's been a definite qualitative shift in the past several years, and various kinds of quantitative shifts in my own data aligned with this trend, too.

There will never be perfect evidence, unfortunately. We have to act on the information we have, and when we're studying humans it's going to include time series data and artificial studies of the phenomenon in lab conditions.
Badmouthing bullshit practices of a company is also a part of the agency here.

E.g. Yes, I hate that McDonalds (like tons of other companies) is incessantly bugging me and quite blatantly trying to upsell me. As a result, I rarely go to such places anymore. So they lose my business. But I will also complain out loud. This is part of the deal with bullshitting your customer base. This is part of my agency. Losing me as a customer, as well as getting badmouthed left and right is the cost of extracting that 3 additional cents from me. Now the company also has a choice.
There are 24 starting positions visible while MK8 only supported 12-player races.
They actually managed to act on most of the problems identified here but missed the move to software-based ecosystem-centric market started by the app store launched the next year.
Giving your child unfiltered Internet access is so irresponsible.

They need to learn on their own how to use VPN so they can travel safely on the data highway.
Mao Zedong should not be revered even if George Washington is worse than Hitler.

What you're doing is called "whataboutism."
and why on earth would China want to start a war with us? We are a huge trading partner and yes there's a lot of posturing and conflicting geo-political interests, cultural views etc but that doesn't mean that war is their goal.
> implying that having money in itself (and not a specific way of behaving) is wrong, unethical, and worthy of exclusion.

Having money in the abstract is not. But being a billionaire is.