skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a feeling, and I am still speaking for the German part only, but I think age matters less than urban/rural.

Many older people I know have no problems communicating in English when they‘re abroad.

Would be interesting to have the BFS statistics split by age group and region as well…
IANALE, but any time the exercise of fundamental rights is being constrained, I understand intermediate scrutiny is the floor.
I came across the tweet about this "Evil" dongle and instantly recognized it as the exact same thing I worked on before... It's not evil, it's just annoying.

https://blog.brixit.nl/making-a-usb-ethernet-adapter-work-sr...

In my case I disabled the SPI flash module to have it not appear as a CD drive, the author of this post actually found some documentation about the SPI being optional. Funnily enough this post now also gives you all the tooling to make an actual evil RJ45 dongle by reflashing one :D
Patton Oswalt has a bit on this and its too true. The problem with the DMV isn't the DMV or its employees... its the general public who can't be bothered to read basic instructions.
Silicon Valley reacts to Nirvanic's AI consciousness
its fantastic for canada
A harmful connection to the Ethernet port would be extremely difficult. A harmful connection to a USB port is extremely easy. Call it what it is: an "Evil" USB dongle that happens to also have an Ethernet socket.
Under Cambodia's new leader, room for dissent narrows
Google drive and similar sites use double click for folders to open similar to a regular OS would. Single click tends to show some metadata where the double click does the actual navigation.

it pisses me off
Two questions I have:

1. How much of the fuel's energy is released as heat? They have a heat recapture device, but that's only used to preheat air/fuel, and not used to generate electricity. Is the energy in the heat simply discarded?

2. Can this be made to work without the process of burning? i.e. can it function purely from heat? If it can, it might be able to replace steam turbines in, for example, nuclear plants or CSP plants. That could be hugely beneficial.
To get things started. Style is weirdo dance music. 10 years of piano lessons. 5 years of saxophone. 30 years making music as a hobby and I'm happy to waste a weekend on a 4 bar vocal loop (not me singing) and ARP variations of E,D,B.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RHXUqE3olM
So many other videos are amazing as well. I am blown away.

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/vivaldi-summer-presto/ind...
https://www.linusakesson.net/music/withering-bytes/index.php
I am confused by this, I worked on a Linux USB driver that used DMA in 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Effic...
I am in favor of banning TikTok, but not strictly because they harvest data. I am far more concerned about them manipulating people on a large scale, I think TikTok is an effective tool for manipulating public opinion and I have no doubt that they're actively engaged and consciously engaging America in a form of psychological warfare. We are facing the very real threat of a military conflict with China, I do not want the Chinese government in this position of power.

I frankly don't understand why I keep seeing on social media people like yourselves push the idea that it's okay because other companies are also harvesting the data. It is obviously not about the data. It is about China being in a position to manipulate information flow.
FYI, GLP1 drugs are CICO - they work because they reduce calories in.

It CICO is physics, not a complete instruction set for life. I dont understand why it makes people so angry.
Here's one from October of last year:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/09/japan-chinese-authoritie...

And here's their overall 2025 page on China which details, among other things, harassment of critics based out of Italy, detention of U.S. based artist, and even harrassment of protestors in San Fransisco.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/china

I think their suppression of criticism on Uighur forced labor has also encompassed harassment of extended support networks people from the region as well, but that's just off the top of my head and not necessarily on that page.
I believe Google Play does actually have the ability to remove apps if it wants to, intended for malware.

If the government were to mandate that they use that feature, or Apple use that feature, especially to prevent future side-loaded installs, I'd be much more sympathetic to the overreach arguments. But that's not what they did. Rather this is a narrow law that prevents these companies from assisting in wide scale espionage. The fact that they could do some other bad thing doesn't mean the thing they did is bad.

The courts use phrases like "narrowly tailored to achieve the governments legitimate interest" to describe the balancing test here...
Weren't phone lines something like RJ11 or RJ12?

FWIW, TIL about 8P8C.
... and X and Facebook and ...

The "level 0" practice of Federation is to allow and not punish external links although there is a legitimate concern about spam.
> 1) the US government is generally benign in that it historically has not abused its power over citizens; 2) the Chinese government has

And before someone hops in with Kent State, Tuskegee trials, et al., let's set the comparison bar at order-of x00,000 to x0,000,000 citizens killed by the government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_to...
Oh, that's great!

And then, at the end, there's an onboarding funnel for the author's paid Substack, which has several screens of dark patterns. I put "uce@ftc.gov" in the email box.
If it fails enough times and you have to return enough items…well, Amazon has been known to ban people for that.

If you have an AWS account created before 2017, am Amazon ban means an AWS ban
> I can't tell if people just don't know that this is happening, or if they take their memes way too seriously.

I would say both at the same time
"Everything was great until they told us we couldn't take all the money."
USB-to-Ethernet adapters are life savers when you need to:

(A) replace your WiFi adapter - download drivers from internet

(B) configure a router or other equipment (hard to configure WiFi without WiFi).

(C) stand up your Linux install on your laptop (easiest way to futz around until you get WiFi adapter working - but check chipset on adapter is compatible which the cheapest usually are)

You don't usually care about the performance. Just keep a cheap one in your box of shit - I need mine often enough. If you need high performance, then buy a high performance adapter.
Mercifully, lol no.
Back in 2013 I discovered that you could use clickjacking to trick someone into buying anything you wanted from Amazon (assuming they were signed in). It took them almost a year to fix the issue. They never paid me a bounty.

https://onlineaspect.com/2014/06/06/clickjacking-amazon-com/
He is a serial liar, but we can also actually see the engineering progress which is remarkable regardless of his overinflated timelines.

His lying doesn't change the incredible work by those engineers and other employees of SpaceX.
There actually was one with subleq: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.attify.com/flare-4-ctf-wri...
I don’t remember the exact issues, but I remember seeing years ago my old Intel MacBook had noticeably higher cpu usage when connected to and using a Pluggable dock which had a Realtek Ethernet chipset. Switching to WiFi reduced cpu usage. AFAIK had something to do with bad and/or lack of hardware processing in the Realtek chipset so it had to do it on the cpu.

Now I never trust anything with Realtek in it, and if buying anything with an Ethernet port, I try to make sure it’s not Realtek. Is this still valid concern, or is Realtek better now?
I don't think it's just western. Bernard Arnault would not be at the top of the league tables if it were not for Chinese people "keeping up with the Chens."
Careers aside, even JavaScript engineers with experience in framework A having hard time getting jobs at companies where framework B is used.
Indeed, but consider this situation: You have a collection of documents and want to extract the first n words because you're interested in the semantic content of the beginning of each doc. You use a LLM because why not. The LLM processes the documents, and every now and then it returns a slightly longer or shorter list of words because it better captures the semantic content. I'd argue the LLM is in fact doing exactly the right thing.

Let me hammer that nail deeper: your boss asks you to establish the first words of each document because he needs this info in order to run a marketing campaign. If you get back to him with a google sheet document where the cells read like "We the" or "It is", he'll probably exclaim "this wasn't what I was asking for, obviously I need the first few words with actual semantic content, not glue words. And you may rail against your boss internally.

Now imagine you're consulting with a client prior to developing a digital platform to run marketing campaigns. If you take his words literally, he will certainly be disappointed by the result and arguing about the strict formal definition of "2 words" won't make him deviate from what he has to say.

LLMs have to navigate through pragmatics too because we make abundant use of it.
Kinda. It's like if you had everything from an infra stack but didn't need to manage it (Kubernetes for resilience, Argo for rollouts, Terraform for safely evolving infrastructure, DataDog for observability)

If you've heard of serverless, this is one step farther; infraless

Give us your code, we will spin it up, keep it up, automate rollouts service discovery, cluster scaling, monitoring, etc
For a minute I thought this was going to be about charging electric vehicles, and was aghast at the inefficiency and "not the problem right now" of it all.

Fortunately this is about internal (non-)wiring between components. Still, having a whole car door being removable is pretty niche.

> featured power mirror adjustment across a clear Lucite mount to the door,

Does that mean if someone removes the door, they lose their side mirrors? That seems like a design flaw, since presumably you would still want the mirrors when driving the thing around, door or not.
Yes, Elon inserts himself into world events all the time and that is unavoidable, but twitter is entirely avoidable.

Millions of us never used it and never missed out on anything. Stop falling for FOMO. It's insane to me how many of the people who say "but I can't get what I get on twitter anywhere else" are objectively just "always online" style people, who have no life other than posting on twitter. People like Hank Green who I consider a good person and worthy of respect but who won't get his ass off twitter because he's addicted. He mostly admits this, but it's just silly.

Getting rid of social media addiction isn't trivial. When I was 16 I had to block all of reddit from our firewall so I could self-intervene in a burgeoning reddit addiction. I'm very lucky that worked. But I didn't go around telling people "but where else will I get my techsupport horror stories?!", I just had to suck up and admit that not reading tech support horror stories for 4 hours a night wasn't going to hurt me.

Like, imagine someone claiming that they can't stop using Linkedin. There is objectively content on there that doesn't happen anywhere else, but using that as an excuse to not stop reading Linkedin posts I would hope would be seen for the nonsense that it is.

IMO "short form blogging" is a harmful medium full stop, but that just doesn't matter because twitter doesn't own a monopoly on short form blogging and never did.

No one will be hurt by missing a tweet. Especially not nowadays, when government entities all over are transitioning to bluesky. If something is so damn important that you need to see it, it WILL escape twitter. If you want to stop seeing Elon, priority number one should be to reduce the effectiveness of twitter as a platform by getting the hell off it.
A Homemade Cycling Power Meter (2021)
This was covered in a recent podcast. Apparently TikTok classifies videos on many more factors than e.g. Youtube and other US companies. China can do this because they have a cheap pool of many users who can perform this activity.

The podcaster felt that with AI capabilities getting better day by day (maybe - that's another discussion) that this multi factor classification could be automated. It seems not to have been done yet AFAIK.
There's also that, but I didn't go to the effort of investigating the rate of various strengths. I'll bet their data explorer shows that aspect of the phenomenon too.

I suspect that a major factor is that the great plains of North America are at a lower latitude than e.g. the Eurasian steppes, so 1) there are fewer people living there and 2) the confluence of meteorological circumstances needed to generate a lot of tornadoes (and therefore a larger population of very destructive tornadoes) just aren't present anywhere else in the world.

This whole line of reasoning "Americans must be bad at house construction, look at all the destruction wrought by hurricanes/tornadoes/etc" just feels disingenuous to me. Like observing "look at how much better the British are at building volcano/earthquake proof buildings, you never hear about people losing their houses to lave in the UK!".
Its interesting because the last 5 years in the US have seen a dramatic appreciation in housing prices, and also a seeming rise of risk of catastrophic events, and insurance companies are grappling with these 2 things. Ultimately maybe different insurance products could be provided that effectively offload some or all of the risk to the home buyer(which obviously is a not a good scenario for banks giving mortgages).
I'm seeing 219 R to 215 D, by the way, and the one remaining vacant seat will probably go R again. Unless I'm interpreting something incorrectly(?), it doesn't look like a one-seat majority. Still more narrow than it was in 2017, as you said, but not quite that narrow.
This feels like someone who hasn't been in the industry long enough to know what it is like to try and design software before implementing it with groups larger than 3, and yearns for problems that aren't as complex as the ones they are dealing with.

It is easy to build "home cooked" (by his definition) software when you are building for a small number of people by a small number of people. Old Visual Basic programs built for a single version of Linux will do just fine - and that will work well for some use cases. But if you are building software that has to work on thousands to millions of machines, and fulfill their needs, you will need to build a factory to build that software.

The factory, in this case, is the infrastructure necessary to turn the R&D (you and me) into the repeatable product (that is, your app.) The factories need a lot of maintenance. If nobody is buying your product, you need to change the factory to produce outputs that people are buying. If people have bought your product (let's say... on subscription) then you need to keep the factory maintained well enough to produce the product that people are happy to buy.

Some things will be like tarsnap and change relatively little. That's great. A small shop will need less maintenance. A bigger shop that is a factory for more users with wider needs will need more complicated products and that will mean more maintenance.

But yes, if you don't need to have a return on investment, you don't need to react to customers' needs and therefore you can build a spec first and let it change little. (Or, you build something as niche and as good as Tarsnap!)
Show HN: An AI Agent reviews Tweets to find user pain points
Sometimes we aren't the boss and we don't get to see the evidence. That doesn't mean there isn't any.

Can you think of any reason a government engaged in cyberwarfare might want to ensure there was informational asymmetry? I sure can.
As a student at the nearby Rennes II, during an extended blockade of the university, I spent a week or so driving round the coast of Brittany. Beautiful place, if you ever get the chance to visit, I recommend it.
isn't browser use sota on web voyager? At this point web voyager seems to be outdated, there's def a need for a new harder benchmark.
The PHP in this refers to their product, and not the previously ubiquitous web programming language? This seems like a bad title.
In this specific case it makes a bit more sense, as when you need to install a RJ45 dongle is likely when you don't have a network connection.
These are the most popular news headlines from 136475 news headlines collected from 9503(english only) RSS feeds collected on 2025-01-15.

https://ibb.co/rvqPpGY

I'm working on something similar but am thinking of using AI differently. Great job Vadim.
The innovation here is you have a system that emits monochromatic light, and you have solar cells tuned specifically for that bandgap, plus the system is also "naturally" concentrating because the light output is incredibly bright. 3000 suns vs 500-1000 suns in typical CPV, plus they also do waste heat recycling. End-to-end efficiency of 40% is definitely feasible as advertised.
Funny is that even with the executive order to not enforce the law for now, it puts Apple and Google in legal limbo if they don't remove the app. They are the ones that will have to pay huge fines, not TikTok.
Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most underrated sci fi universes. It should be way more popular.
Not without its issues but it also prominently featured the mentats, which the recent version didn't.
A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search
Apologies, I’m not affiliated with Amazon in any way.

I meant the Amazon ip addresses that are causing you trouble so I can preemptively block them.
It kind of could be for some meals maybe, but not really.

What people love about sous vide is that you can cook a steak to 135 or whatever exact temperature you desire then sear it. To do that you need both circulating water (to make sure the water bath is exact everywhere) and plastic (so half the meat flavor doesn't leach out into the water bath.
NOR - pick 1
We built some internal tooling to help manage the hosts. Once a host is onboarded onto it, it's a few button clicks on an internal dashboard to provision a QEMU VM. We made a custom ansible inventory plugin so we can manage these VMs the same as we do machines on GCP.

The host runs a custom daemon that programs FRR (an OSS routing stack), so that it advertises addresses assigned to a VM to the rest of the cluster via BGP. So zero config of network switches, etc... required after initial setup.

We'll blog about this system at some point in the coming months.
When AI can do the software engineering tasks that require expertise outside of coding like system design, scoping problems, cross-team/domain work, etc then it will be AGI, at which point the fact that SWE jobs are automated would be the least of everyones worries.

The main problem I perceive with AI being able to do that kind of work is that it requires an unprecedented level of agency and context-gathering. Right now agents are very much like juniors in that they work in an insular, not collaborative, way.

Another big problem is that these higher level problems often require piecing together a lot of fragmented context. If the AI already had access to the information, sure, it would probably be able to achieve the task. But the hard bit is finding the information. Some logs here, some code there, a conversation with someone on a different team, etc. It's often a highly intuitive and tacit process, not easily explicitly defined. There's a reason that defining what a "Senior" is tends to be very difficult.
It doesn’t trivialize their work at all - they should still be proud of their accomplishments.

Does releasing the Putnam answers make winning a mathematics olympiad less meaningful, after all I can copy those answers easily.

Does learning how to implement distributed locking besmirch Lamport’s legacy?

Even still, the project itself approves of releasing solutions to the top 100 problems.
I mean, I don't think you're enforcing patent law in South Sudan regardless, but they're also just not capable of manufacturing such drugs. To get a trustworthy drug, they pretty much have to buy it from the patent-holder. India, China, and maybe Brazil are about the only exceptions. Theoretically, I guess you could say we just expect the third-world to rely on black market medicine from India, but uh, that has some risks involved.
OK. Has the government indicated that there is classified evidence?
Radio Free Europe was covertly funded by the CIA into the 1970s, but your comment should say “having been” instead of “being”, because its current funding is not a secret: that comes from the US Agency for Global Media, an openly acknowledged part of the US government.
So, should we also ban Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu, Haier, Lenovo, Tencent, and ZTE from operating in the United States? Why just TikTok (Who is ironically also banned in China)?

And should Israeli companies, like those associated with NSO Group, face similar scrutiny after reports of their tools being used to hack U.S. State Department employee phones?
Sorry, I only meant that the hardware was weak. As a product, the Switch was an overwhelming success, and I don't really think Nintendo made a mistake by choosing weaker hardware at the time. However, it's 9 years later and things are different now. The new platform should try to be more accommodating for ports IMO and the issues with the original are just backdrop.
Can anyone recommend some engineering reading for building and running DC infrastructure?
Ah interesting.. wonder if you can model this with a recursively expanded algebraic expression. I've been thinking lately along similar lines about polynomials that encode pushdown automata, so this is cool to see.
Have you been to China? Know anyone from there? Or is your opinion on what they deserve based entirely on TV headlines? Do you relate to them as humans? That’s what I need to see before I take anyone’s condemnation of any group of people seriously.

I’m disputing none of the facts you raise, I just don’t think it’s reason enough to label the entire country as an enemy state and shut the door like a petulant child. Especially in light of the horrifying atrocities that we ourselves are funding.
Ask HN: Startup equity – am I being lowballed?
As a lead/staff engineer, I was recently offered 0.1% equity at a post Series A startup after working at it for almost a year. It's the 1st grant and vesting started at day 1.

While on paper they say this grant could be worth $1m if startup is valued at $1b, it's still only 0.1% of the company and $50k at the last valuation.

Strike price is really low but I am still wondering if I am being lowballed?
To me, the 'profiles on the next generation of leaders, throughout their formative years' argument is stronger than the botnet one.

I don't particularly trust Google or Apple to firewall a malicious and determined nation-state actor (0 days being 0 days), but it seems lower probability than the technically trivial data collection.
I am of 100% of the same opinion as you. I have told people for years about the cyber warfare going on and that we're losing it, and they just don't seem to care and want that serotonin hit and ignore the rest. I also want curbs on other social media, but TikTok and the war of China against the US on the internet is in a league of its own. The CCP are no doubt funneling the data to their servers, and no doubt have plans for further damaging our youths' minds through brain rot of tiktok diverting them from far more productive activities. There's a reason CCP has strong curbs on similar apps regarding young people in their nation.
Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"? You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?