skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds cool, but I have some doubts. Every Figma-to-code tool promises production-ready apps, but in reality, they usually generate a mess that still requires devs to clean up.

A few questions:

- How does it handle complex logic beyond basic CRUD?

- What’s the output quality like? Is it actually maintainable, or will devs end up rewriting everything?

- How flexible is the AI-driven functionality? Natural language sounds nice until you need precise control.

If this truly lets designers build real apps without hitting a wall, that’s impressive. But history says these tools work great for simple prototypes and fall apart on anything non-trivial. Curious to hear from early users—has anyone built something beyond a basic UI?
To belabor this petty point, they're 4th in nominal and 5th in PPP. Ugh.

> And they'll keep going down.

Yes, because of population issues. Not because they'll be overtaken by powerful non-fiat economies (both the ruble and rupee float as does every currency AFAIK).

> And this was the point - the reason you are able to use them as an example of a country that endlessly prints money without being ravaged by the countless problems places like the US have suffered since 1971 is because their economy is basically frozen in time. This is undesirable.

Without granting that it's "frozen", what's undesirable about it? It sounds nice TBH.

> The ideal one wants is an economy that can increase at a healthy rate

The growth we've seen since the Industrial Revolution is unsustainable. Growth requires energy, and at some point the energy requirement either can't be met, or the heat exhaust from the conversion boils the oceans. Grim, I know.

> without being ravaged by everything we've seen since 1971

Life is so much better than it was in '71 I don't even know where to start. Are there problems now? Of course. Are literally any of them caused by Bretton Woods? Absolutely not.

> And what's the solution? Practically everything before 1971!

Feel free to go down the list of pre-Bretton Woods economic crises I posted and explain why they happened despite everything being better then.
Is there any reason other than debugging purposes that the cf-cache-status and cf-ray headers are included in every response? Why don't they remove those unless a debugging setting is enabled in the CloudFlare dashboard?
Definitely read the criticisms section of this article, because it shows how strange and unsound the whole notion is.
I heard there's going to be those teams of hr+legal+engineer doing the cutting - the only reason I can guess there'd be an engineer in the mix is if they do intend to understand what they're cutting.
Reddit started off libertarian in its early days and has since gone radically far left. And similarly, HN has slowly drifted further and further left.

%-wise there are just fewer libertarian-minded people here these days.
Facebook doesn’t make the comments that will kill people
Show HN: Jern – a secure terminal-based journaling tool
The main goal of Jern is to be very simple and easy to use, but provide a modicum of security for your journal entries, at least to prying eyes. It was fun to learn about AES-128 and IVs and such, but I understand that this isn't a perfect solution.

Right now I have a build ready to use for Windows, but it technically (should) work on Mac and Linux! Requires .NET 8 to build. Powered by the awesome GUI library Terminal.Gui, please check them out too

Decided it's about time to start putting eyes on my projects and this one is the most complete. Please feel free to provide any feedback or recommendations, thanks HN!
Musk is kind of a bad example. Something around half of his holdings in Tesla is currently tied up as collateral for loans into other ventures. Most of the rest of his net worth comes from his ownership of SpaceX, whose valuation is incredibly skewed by the small number of shares that have ever transacted. Simply put, I am not actually sure if he could buy a 787 with his assets right now if he wanted to.

The comparisons are still good if we look at a "normal billionaire" (Let's say Charles Koch) with "only" $65 billion dollars (but they are much more diversified and fungible). The example of him buying a 787 and wrecking it would be the equivalent of me burning $10k. But some of the elements on this page don't work right when you use that few of billions to compare against.
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(SWIM’s experience with Silk Road):

For LSD there existed a third-party forum, where a group of (supposedly) vendor-neutral, unaffiliated individuals would purchase samples from vendors, send them to private or state-sponsored labs around the world and publish/discuss the results (often with online links to lab results).

Yes, of course vendors could have also attempted to infiltrate these forums. But as enough of these functions were provided by/for the community, the profit incentive tilts. If you ran a vendor account on the Silk Road, your effort was better spent maintaining/improving good infosec and mail/postal security. Some techniques they developed were quite innovative, the professionalism was evident.

Ross’s story is fascinating and tragic- as everything that’s said for and against his character is generally true. Silk Road was built on naive yet admirable ideals. It fostered a special community, some of which really did reflect those ideals. He got in over his head, and really did try to have someone killed.

Though, the details on that latter point are a bit more complicated- authorities had infiltrated Ross’s inner circle- the motive and the ‘hitman’ himself were fictional. Ross still took the bait though, which is pretty damning. Until that point, they weren’t sure they had a sufficient case on him.
They were asking about bombs and invasions in the literal sense, not metaphorical. I'm sure if you asked someone in Gaza or Iraq if they would rather be subjected to more of America's bombing and war crimes, or China's abstract, metaphorical "economic colonialism" they would pick China in a heartbeat.
In Germany it just means it's a bad place to have a career in. Thankfully most HRs will happily advertise it in the job description making it easy to dodge.
What's your solution for Niger and Colombia ISO 3166-2 codes?
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AI very much has to do with the state. It's an arms race between China and the USA, per many [4]. And China doesn't seem to be behind any longer [1].

It's not only Trump. Before leaving Biden already ordered the DoE and the DoD to lease sites for data centers and energy generation. The only reason we don't see a "Department of AI" or a "National AI Agency" is due to how the military industrial complex works, and a lot of lobbying I'm sure.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3295662/beijing-mee...

[2] https://www.insideglobaltech.com/2025/01/20/biden-administra...

[3] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-doe-dod-lease-sites-a...

[4] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/21/1110269/there-ca...
Funny how he said he did this, but then right during the press conference they mention the data centers already under construction from Biden time frame.
To add to your (excellent) points, he only started tweeting about peace once it was obvious the plan (interrupting the certification to use "alternate slates") had failed. Of course he would share a "call for peace" at that point. Everyone with half a mind would. It didn't cost him anything (beyond his ego), and it has allowed his followers to do exactly what GP is doing - leaving out all the incriminating information.
If we look historically since Nixon, Biden had the smallest deficit growth of 17%. Trump had 34%.

https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and...

Republicans do not bring up deficit when they are in power.
I imagine there is a big gap between the things they deal with the most and the things they need to plan for the most.

I send more emails than anything, but if you tried to get me to spend time being trained on sending email they wouldn’t find your body.

Conversely I design new courses rarely, but when I do it matters immensely that it’s done well. Resources and support and structure to help me do that well when I need to is most welcome.
I don't like how OpenAI turned majorly from what it was founded upon and their bias training ... but when considering the actual opponent here is China, it's not the worst.

I think OpenAI was originally founded against that kind of force. Autocratic governments becoming masters of AI.
Yes it's commonly known when sailors takeoff, they sing praise of the NCFSAC saving them after a 1000 years of ocean deaths.

Other agencies may do the same thing, but the NCFSAC changed the sea game (when created in 2018)

Before 2018, sea blood bath.
> following the will of the majority of -Pennsylvania- the people.

Or more specifically, the Amish...almost poetic.
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I think being skeptical is healthy here. Most Figma-to-code tools just handle UI, but let me share what makes this different.

The secret sauce is combining Builder.io's clean code output (they're the best at Figma conversion) with Lovable + Supabase ability to add real application logic through AI. You're not locked into just what comes from Figma - you can build actual functionality around it.

Re: code quality - it generates proper semantic JSX in TypeScript, and follows best practices. You can check any output yourself and even export the full codebase if needed.

Don't take my word for it though - we have a free tier specifically for testing complex scenarios. What kind of functionality would you want to try? Happy to point you to similar examples or connect you with users who've built production apps.
Yeah, huge surprise.

Have you ever tried to report a technical issue to a Big Tech company, like, at all? If so, 'silence' is the best you can expect, with 'a threatening letter' and 'a SWAT visit' being the runners-up.

Example of the first: if your mail server uses the default-Windows-2016-TLS stack, Facebook's mail servers will immediately disconnect after issuing a STARTTLS command and receiving your server certificate. Why? No idea, everyone else seems to be fine, but this has been ongoing for years.

Second example: you can steal any Dutch "OV bike" simply by impersonating the MiFare classic UID of any valid subscriber, without any rate limits on those attempts. I reported this issue to them in 2016, they tried to sue me and failed, then tried to talk me and failed to listen, and to this day this vulnerability exists.

Third example: phew, none (SWATs are not as eager to mobilize around here), but I would not be surprised, like, at all, if I were to get an early-morning wake-up call just for trying to correct someones SPF records via an advisory email...
This just means your boss needs a spreadsheet model guy. "Bosses" would rather die than enter a formula in spreadsheet.
What is "ReadonlyRectangle"? Is it just an interface that only exposes read-only methods; or is it an explicit promise that the rectangle is immutable?

Perhaps we could go with even more classes. "Rectangle" and "Square" for the read-only methods, without any implications about mutability. "MutableRectangle" and "MutableSquare" for mutable implementations; "ImmutableRectangle" and "ImmutableSquare" for immutable implementations.

- "Rectangle" has methods "getWidth" and "getHeight".

- "Square" has a method "getSide".

- "ImmutableRectangle" implements "Rectangle".

- "ImmutableSquare" implements "Rectangle" and "ImmutableRectangle" and "Square".

- "MutableRectangle" implements "Rectangle"; has extra methods "setWidth" and "setHeight".

- "MutableSquare" implements "Rectangle" and "Square"; has an extra method "setSide".

...or you could just give up, and declare two classes "Square" and "Rectangle" (mutable) that either have nothing in common, or they just both extend some "Shape" class that can paint them and calculate the area.
The problem is that people already have piss-poor reading comprehension. Relying LLMs to help them is going to make it worse than it already is.
TDD is Test Driven Development.

The author is complaining that they don't know their problem space, their solution approach, and they need to do some exploratory programming to figure it all out.

Fine. Do that.

Once you've done that, you're ready to develop. Now you're ready to apply TDD if you so desire. I prefer what I call Maintenance Driven Development, which I discussed years ago on my blog: https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/maintenance-driven-...
not sure if it is cool but, purely out of spite, I'm building a LLM summarizer app to compete with a AI startup that I interviewed with. The founders were super egotistical and initially thought I was not worthy of an interview.
Growing up I would hear about the new "fastest" computer seemingly every other year.

Wondered where they were now and how they're holding up.

Surprisingly well, IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#/med...

Looks like it took ~12 years for the 500th fastest in the world to catch up to the fastest.
It's entirely believable that this showed up because of a bug, but it also seems likely that the bug was in setting it to full blocking vs some kind of deprioritization.
Not a lawyer but I believe that “with prejudice” means that the judge denies appeals (so yes generally it means the case is considered frivolous)
I finally broke wasting hours on YouTube shorts (and youtube in general) by turning off the watch history on my account [1]. It completely removes all videos from the "homepage" (including shorts from the sidebar). There are still shorts in the subscriptions page, but I think this is an acceptable tradeoff. YouTube for me now has just become who I'm subscribed to, which is a much more pleasant experience - there's an "end" where I'm finally caught up and can move on to doing something else. This is also for my entire account, so it's not something I can just disable from my browser bar or that won't work on mobile. I don't need to remember to set it up on a new device either.

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en&co=GEN...
The book

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

is of interest. In my mind the most interesting application of that was the contemporaneous Falun Gong movement in China.

Falun Gong practitioners would show up at a park and practice a set of simple physical and spiritual practices; the organization was deliberately structureless because organizations of all kinds in China are required to admit a cadre of Communist Party members to surveil and control the organization. No organization = no control network. (The very act of gathering a group of people at a point, however, is a basic practice of military science)

The one bit of authority in the organization is a book which is said to be infallible, which defends them from having the book rewritten by the authorities. (We know pretty well how the Communists and Republican governments oppressed folk religion movements such as the Huxian cult, but Taoism in its established form has always been some selection of folk practices which are approved by the authorities as long as China has had governments)

An unfortunate consequence of this is that Falun Gong cannot change any doctrine, such as their belief that "being gay is bad for your gong." They lost the support of mainstream western organizations and descended into pandering to right-wing nuts to get what support they could.
I think authoritarianism would be adding rules and bureaucrats, not cutting them.
It seems like a lot of people do not make it to the end of this essay. Any time it comes up people invariably go, "Yeah, so that is why we should institute a hierarchy" which is not at all what Freeman was saying.

> Once the movement no longer clings tenaciously to the ideology of "structurelessness," it is free to develop those forms of organization best suited to its healthy functioning. This does not mean that we should go to the other extreme and blindly imitate the traditional forms of organization.

She mentions some concrete ideas:

- Leaders do not select their teams, instead, teams select their spokesperson. A spokesperson does not have authority over the team but can make decisions on their behalf in conversation with other spokespeople.

- Rotating the role of spokesperson among the eligible of the team. Possibly even having multiple spokespeople on the same team for different types of decisions.

- Set up processes to ensure someone does not sit on important information others do not have access to. All data should be public in the group.

- etc.

This is far from instituting an explicit hierarchy!
> Saying “fuck you, I’m rich” is not a good look.

This is a pitch-perfect example of the Brexit-like self-destructive politics that come with the "win" of appearing strong.

Here is a person who has the typical experience, who could easily be convinced by their positive experience to say "everybody should have this." But instead of going that route you impute negative motivations and put very ugly distasteful words into their mouth. Which, even if they are highly supportive of your position, will likely turn them against you. Instead of using this opportunity to advocate for a really good thing, you use it as an opportunity to hit somebody you view as the enemy with a rhetorical hammer. End result: no more people in favor of better means of distributing health care, and perhaps a net negative.

Especially in the context of how to account for free-at-point-of-care healthcare, which started this. If the employer is paying the prices that are revealed to employees only via COBRA, should that be accounted for in part of the wages or not? The US chooses to put about twice the fraction of GDP into healthcare that the UK does, and that per-capita GDP is also higher, how do we account for that in terms of wages and individuals? The $1T that employers pay for healthcare should be accounted for how, exactly? It's a tough question, and most likely in any comparison of nations there's a couple different ways to see how it impacts the average person. And when the "average" person in the US has such varying experiences, that has to enter into any comparison too.

In California there is great healthcare coverage for those with extremely low to no income, due to subsidy. Those with healthy salaries and savings can weather the times of unemployment and pay the COBRA prices. Those who struggle the most are the ones in between, and improving that involves getting those on the high and low end to advocate for the in-between incomes. It does not involve making enemies of them.
As with all things Google, don't be tied to the solution, be tied to the problem you're trying to solve, and be adaptable.

Much easier said than done.
I thought doom scrolling was specifically about negative content, but now it just means any kind of mindless endless scrolling?
Maybe you can share some of the examples of such infringements on our rights.
I agree. Its hard though, SEO people are malicious, persistent and with modern tech, have incredible tools.

And with hand curation, its hard to feel like its 'worth it' when instead of being able to build a community, your results are scraped and shown out of context.

If you have any thoughts on how to get that sort of culture back I'm open to it
Also, the Inigo Quilez website is a great reference: https://iquilezles.org/

He is essentially the god of shaders effects like this. He is the one who made Shadertoy, the non code-golfed version of the cloud effect, and the second video you linked, among many other things.
I used to do this with Reddit but lately more than half of my feed is their recommended posts which include a lot of negative or ragebait content. Maybe a plugin can help with this
NFL teams can't use Bluesky
I don't see the value of adding a Python dependency (with its famously painful package/dependency management) to my Rust project just to...write less Rust?
Incorrect. Self-attention is a highly parallel algorithm that makes it a great candidate for being a memory-bound workload once you have enough compute.

Both datacenter grade CPUs and GPUs have enough compute to carry out the self-attention computation but it is only the latter that has enough hi-bandwidth memory to make the algorithm really perform. If this hadn't been the case, the theory behind flash-attention wouldn't materialize, and it does, and reason being that (main) memory is slow.

Deep FFWD networks OTOH are compute-bound.
Thank You :), Is this the real zeno rocha tho ??
I wonder if we can have a continuum of "doom scrolling".

For instance
digital crack (tiktok )<->X/facebook<->hackernews<->wikipedia<->"soft" novels<->poetry<->james joyce<->legal texts

At some point any information stream can become susceptible to self-reinforcing doom scrolling. Reading novels is probably better than tiktok but could easily become unhealthy.
I mostly weaned myself off of traditional social media but find it very easy to have a quick glance at hacker news and notice hours have gone by.
Which presidential orders did Trump leave in place and why? Much more interesting than what he rescinded.
No, the definition was always about the state of the person doing the scrolling, not of the content. For some reason it them changed, and now it appears to be coming back to the original meaning
Trust shouldn't even be a factor.

Decisions should be made based on facts and numbers and your side (you, Trump and Elon included) have provided none of these.

It's pure ideology without basis in objectivity.
Easy, get rid of .net and .com so accidentally adding a letter won't be a problem anymore :)
> It appears to be a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Hahahah! You mean that clause of the Constitution that nobody cares about because politicians have decided it doesn't mean anything?

Laws only have power if they have consequences, and it's quite clear that right now that Trump could sell tickets to the annual White House Easter Egg hunt and Congressmen would laud him for "teaching entrepreneurship" or something impossibly insane.

To be clear, I'm not laughing at you or your statement, I'm just laugh/crying at the clear slide of our republic. 30 years ago politicians on all sides of the aisle would have rightfully condemned this gross money grab, and now it's either crickets or resigned shrugs.
> What does it have to do with Trump then? Why was he involved?

One of the broken parts of the American system is permitting. Trump can sidestep that by letting this be built on federal land. That, in turn, unlocks investment.

Beyond that, DoD and DoE are massive buyers of compute. Seeding the venture with purchase agreements from them de-risks the project further.

Finally, by Trump putting his name to it he assigns it his bully pulpit's prestige. (Though that doesn't appear to have carried over to Musk, who's already taking pot shots at it.)
Cool project! I wonder what the authors didn’t like of the macOS Text Edit, especially when set up on its simpler text only interface.
It's fascinating how most people still don't get it.

ASI is basically a god. This is the ultimate solution (or problem). It will push us to the singularity, and create an utopia or drive humanity to extinction. Imagine someone who is so smart that would win every single nobel prize available, and make multiple discoveries in a matter of a year. And now multiply this person's intelligence by 100 (most likely more, but 100 is already hard enough to grasp). There's no point in investing in anything else. An investment in ASI is an investment in everything (could be a bad one though, depending on the outcome).

The government is banking on being able to control it, which is also pretty funny. It's like a pet hamster thinking they can dictate what a human does.