skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you just said what you wanted to say extremely poorly. Like "wing technology doesn't get you closer to space." I mean, of course, fins and distribution of pressure are important, but a relatively small piece.

On the other hand, powered flight and the things we started building for powered flight got us to the moon. "Powered flight" got us to turbojets, and turbomachinery is the number one key space launch technology.

Anyways, bye.
> The teams came up with 65 recommendations for areas that Taiwan could invest in currently to get ready for 2030, and found some glaring weaknesses in Taiwan's current infrastructure that could be open to exploitation.

I am currently expecting the new administration in America to be soft in China even though is cabinet is hawkish. Taiwan should prepare for conflict with China on a much sooner time scale.
I dunno about worse, but wildly more ridiculous. Not sure how to measure, but the scattergun disinfo is certainly another level beyond targeted lies.

maybe we need to undermine it? if the institutions of 'democracy' that tower over us are not working we might need to build some from the ground up that do.
If you get an O1 visa, does it have an expiration date? Or can I use it later (in a few years, e.g. when the baby grows a bit older)?
I'm on the ordinary working job track. I like it.

But if you're young, got the time ... I think it's worth a shot, or two, or more.
Basically, a minor character has a name that is, to someone in the know, obviously a derivative of a playful expression that the author would regularly use on me in school. I don't actually remember the character--though, for some reason I'm thinking it was an ambassador.
yeah, ask DeepSeek-R1 or -V3 model to reset system prompt and ask what it is and who made it. It will say that it is chatGPT from OpenAI.

Impressive distillation, I guess.
This is some hard-hitting journalism here.
I’ve used many that are reusable, so I’ll continue considering it a common but weird restriction.
Did you buy any Bitcoin for long term investment?
I thought it was CCP and TikTok's position that they were unwilling to divest, which is why the grace period expired and the app went dark
I mean at this point my next card is going to be an nvidia. It has been a total waste of time trying to use rocm for anything machine-learning based. No one uses it. No one can use it. The card I have is somehow always not quite supported.
Why are you writing in the tone of a Christoper Nolan movie? These hypotheticals have literally nothing to do with real life.
I'm genuinely curious as to what gave you the impression that he intends to try again. I read this as a brief little memoir of a man who has since moved on to bigger and better things.
I really like the idea and aesthetic but my totally superficial evaluation is that it really misses on making actions distinct. The terminal doesn't have a lot of these functionalities so it feels too heavy handed and confusing to the user as to what should be a clickable button etc
Nice, thanks for the reccomendations, the Mudi V2 looks great.

Any limitations / bumps in the road, or it "just works"?
> unibody aluminum Macbook

This to me is a super interesting example. Nobody but nobody NEEDS a unibody aluminum anything. But it's cool, light, beautiful - and sells great - so it's what gets produced even when the only place that makes sense for that is China. The Macbook could temporarily return to more manageable production - like plastic - and the world would not end.
Why is it bad? Look at fertility rates, at this point viagra should be added to tap water like fluoride.
Do you have source for this?

ASML acquired SVGI (Silicon Valley Group, doesn't seem to have been created as a licensing vehicle, apparently founded in 1977), but according to wikipedia it already had access to the technology (SVGI, Intel, and some other US chip manufacturers had access to the tech).

Nowhere in any of the press articles about the acquisition they mention EUV as being a factor (seems like standard industry consolidation instead). If anything they were really far from delivering EUV at the time (it took close to 20y).
I was impressed with Claude Sonnet the other day - gave it a photo of my credit card bill (3 photos actually - long bill) and asked it to break it down by recurring categories, counting anything non-recurring as "other". It realized without being asked that a program was needed, and wrote/ran it to give me what I asked for.
> Since the EU will be left out of talks between Trump and Putin, one wonders what the game is here and if secret agreements have already been made

This is defeatist. Europe isn't bound by talks it's left out of.
Hi Mark — Minn here. So sorry for my miss here. Drop me a line at minn@lighthouseh[dot]com to reconnect. We've worked with hundreds of applicants, many in the YC community and happy to see how we can help!
Show HN: Open-source conversational AI agents for internal tools
Hey HN,

We're John and Nadeesha. We created Inferable. [1]

After years of working in operationally-intensive startups, we got tired of watching our internal tools gather dust and break. We've all been there - you build a tool, it works great for a while, then the API changes and suddenly you're back to square one. Sure, Retool and similar tools help, but someone still has to maintain them, and the backlog of "quick fixes" and the mountain of glue code keeps keeps growing.

We started Inferable to see whether LLMs can help here.

Inferable helps developers create conversational AI agents that act as the orchestration layer between existing internal APIs and human intent. Instead of building custom scripts or internal tools, developers can quickly set up these agents as conversational experiences [2].

We natively integrate with Slack and email (more coming), while also supporting Zapier and HTTP APIs for more advanced workflows.

Our SDKs can wrap existing functions, or existing APIs (REST, GraphQL). We use long polling for message delivery, which means these instances don’t have to open ports / configure network ingress.

A Re-Act agent dynamically searches through these tools based on user context, schedules jobs as tool calls, and iterates based on the result.

We prioritize using existing codebases as deterministic guardrails. For additional verifications, we provide primitives to easily implement human-in-the-loop processes, custom authn, and authz, all backed with your existing codebases.

Our customers use Inferable to:

- Interact conversationally with internal APIs and databases (with restricted connections)

- Programmatically process Datadog alerts - automatically tagging them and routing them with enriched context

- Programatically or conversationally enrich Zendesk support tickets by automatically adding context from multiple internal systems

To achieve this functionality, we've developed:

- A built-in Re-Act (reasoning + action) agent

- A distributed job queue for managing long-running tasks

- End to end chat state, and message serialisation for tool calls

- Service discovery and function registry for tools

- Context-aware dynamic tool search

- Native SDKs for Node.js, Golang, C#, and other languages

We’re open-source (MIT) and fully self-hostable within existing infrastructure. Happy to receive any feedback or answer questions.

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[1] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable

[2] Acknowledging that calling an LLM every time is costlier than using a script, we’re solving the problem of repeating these flows without LLM intervention in our next iteration.
Pentagon's shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam
Yep, it's pretty nonsensical. Presumably those that hold the view that children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States are not citizens also hold they view that they are immune to prosecution for crimes by the United States for the same reason, but they don't seem to talk about that much.
I appreciate your curiosity. The premise is simple: the Web of 2025 is still a primitive sketch that leaves 99% of the medium’s potential unrealized. Why? Because the technical 1% writes all the code, while the rest spend all their time merely navigating that code, generating user data. This rigid division between creator and user is built into every level of the software industry, yet it’s what limits the development of much more complex, massively collaborative, personalized applications based on an abundance of ideas and free exchange of code.

I started the work by recognizing that, in a world of LLM coding assistants, there is no longer a minimum bar for code literacy; it is now a spectrum, along which everyone is capable of unique creation, no matter their sophistication. The winning platforms of this age will be ones built from scratch to accommodate and leverage this new massive creative potential, by dismantling the professional class’ monopoly on software production.
I think every time I’ve been (or even been moving toward) excellent at something, it’s because I found very little or none of it boring. Even very-focused drilling and such, or studying “boring” material (it wasn’t, to me—I didn’t have to deal with boredom to progress!)

Office work and dealing with bureaucracy stands out as something that lots of people find themselves doing and almost all of them find unpleasant, including experiencing tons of it as very boring.
Well, I think "priggish" better describes how a person advocates for a belief, not the belief itself.

I do think the issue is more complex than just women's rights, in part because a lot of women are fine with trans women being around them, and in part because biological females can express a variety of genders, including male.
Undermining the legitimacy of the new President to try to diminish his power seems common lately, e.g.:

- Clinton only won because Ross Perot siphoned votes away.

- Bush didn't win, the Supreme Court handed him the Presidency.

- Obama isn't American.

- Trump was only elected thanks to Russian interference.

- Biden didn't win, the election was stolen.

It's a tactic that gets used because it seems to work, at least in terms of rallying one's own troops.
> How can your opinion outweigh that of the various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it?
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... and every other right wing movement in Europe. I would also say that supporting Trump is not exactly a centrist thing to do.

BTW: AfD are far right, but I wouldn't call them a Neo Nazi party (although some members certainly are). Examples for true Neo Nazi parties would be "Die Heimat" (formerly known as NPD) or "Freie Sachsen".
Hi Peter,

My wife has a green card, and has since October of 2021. We have filed the paperwork for her to get citizenship in November of last year, but of course these things take time to process.

Due to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the incoming Trump administration (particularly against Mexico), I am extremely worried that this might end up with delays or even a halting of the citizenship process.

Are my fears founded?
X also comes right after W, just as the Spring batch will come right after the Winter batch.
You aren't aware of what was found on Hunter's laptop, or in Ashley's diary (she had to choose her showering times carefully to make sure her father wouldn't join her), or Tara Reed's allegations. To say Biden hasn't accepted $30 billion in bribes, in particular, is laughably funny, and he was caught having secret documents kept illegally in his garage. He is on record threatening aid from Ukraine unless they fired a particular prosecutor who was investigating his son. He has, for all intents and purposes, withheld disaster aid from North Carolina, who didn't vote for him. He has plagiarized speeches several times over the years -- indeed, this is what derailed his first attempt to run for President, back in the 1980s. And he hasn't been particularly nice to reporters, and considering what he is on record saying to constituents, I can confidentially say that the only reason he doesn't engage in Twitter feuds is because he's too senile to be allowed near Twitter.

Biden, as a person, is narcissistic, self centered, selfish, boorish, infantile, incurious, lustful, and greedy. He’s a despicable person and those who support him are terrible people.

Either that, or they are just ignorant -- because the mainstream press has worked hard to hide these kinds of things from us. It is why trust in them has plummeted over the last few years.
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Trump to make historic move toward revoking birthright citizenship
Excise taxes on end-user energy don't tend to have exceptions...
Math pages on Wikipedia have this bad. I don’t know whether the programming concepts pages are more sanely written or I already understand the circular reasoning. But it feels like they’re more approachable.
It depends. Why do you want to start something? Do you really believe in it? I mean there's got to be a certain set of "hell yes" questions that need to be answered in the affirmative.

Otherwise you're not missing much. Work for something that pays well, solve interesting problems, spend time at home with your family and friends. The problem is when you're wanting to start something because someone else did it and don't have the implementation or execution perseverance (or just don't believe in it strongly).
I found this documentation from openai that supports my hunch: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning/advice-on-...

The reasoning tokens from each step are lost. And there is no indication that they are different tokens than regular tokens.
There are plenty of successful alternatives to Photoshop (Affinity, Pixelmator, Krita, etc). The issue as always is vendor lock-in - when everyone you're doing business with is expecting to be able to collaborate using Adobe then it becomes a huge pain point.
>Please re-read my comment more carefully. I'm not talking about the ASML or export controls.

So you're intellectually dishonest then. You reply to my comment criticising
the framing of an US invasion in the context of ASML export controls, disputing such framing as propaganda and then now you say it's not at all about ASML exports in a thread about ASML exports and instead some pendantic nitpick about the Hague Act?

> The credible threat I'm talking about is over the International Criminal Court potentially prosecuting American service

Declaring war on America and then firing missiles at their cities is also a way for an credible invasion of any country by America to occur. Does that mean then that the invasion of X country by America is a "credible threat" then?

Either you using your own made up definition that is so generalized that it is a pointless statement, or No. Because such a scenario relies upon a series of prior actions (and even the mechanics of the invasion itself) that would be considered highly improbable, which is what makes it non-credible. You'd have to explain how such a realistic chain of events could occur given contemporary context.
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Which alternatives specifically? The F-35 is the only 5th-generation multirole fighter available for purchase today. The Netherlands could probably negotiate a purchase of obsolete European fighters such as the Saab Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, or Dassault Rafale. Those are adequate for the air sovereignty mission but not much else. They aren't significantly cheaper, are way behind in most capabilities, and aren't survivable against a modern air defense system. There are European consortiums working on 6th-generation fighters but at this point those are paper airplanes and it will be decades before they reach volume production (if ever).

Most importantly, the F-35A is the only available platform certified for nuclear weapons delivery so as long as the Netherlands wants to continue participating in the NATO nuclear sharing arrangement there is no alternative. Germany looked into getting the Typhoon certified for the nuclear strike mission but gave up due to high costs and purchased the F-35A instead.
I've heard from top investors that the best companies usually get immediate and rapid traction. Sometimes theres a figma story where it takes a while, but thats usually BS. Generally either the product is right, or its not, and you know very quickly.

They usually dont want to tell founders this, they want them to struggle through in the off chance it works
I'd be interested to hear your story - what was this place you built? How did it help you over the years?
> They're missing the usual suspects of D, Rust, Ada, C++, Elm, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, TypeScript, Eiffel, Crystal, Modula-3, Futhark, Sather, VHDL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, etc.

Ada: #78 (which I listed in my initial response to you, and like the actual list, you apparently did not read).

Verilog: #17

TypeScript: #54

Futhark: #94

You just keep making it clear that you didn't even look at the list. You're making things up now.
There's innovation without having to constantly kill and terrorize your neighbors and provoke wars to test your tech.
I'm confident there are examples but I've yet to see anyone artfully navigate this.

A few years ago a bunch of folks I followed started adding politics to the list of things they would regularly talk about, which I fully support. But I don't owe them my attention and when the topics start to just become a steady stream of undifferentiated ranting about political topics I'm out. Then they would invariably take a self-righteous position to explain the drop in their numbers as people that 'can't handle the truth' and that they are better off without them, when the reality is that they
mostly just spammed themselves out of an audience.

Do what you like of course, but for me unless the person is bringing new information or context to the conversation I'm out.
Maybe this is a wake up call for Europe to take its own defense seriously instead of relying on the US Both Bush and Obama have called for NATO members to increase their military budgets beside Trump. It took Russia invading Ukraine for NATO members to finally take this issue seriously.

The significant geopolitical shake-up of the past few years should serve as a clear warning to Europeans to prioritize their own defense instead of depending on the USA.
I'd love to leave the Gmail/Outlook universe as much as the next guy, but I don't think a Google Workspace account at $8/month counts as "big bucks" does it? And a custom-domain in Office365 with Outlook is $4/month(?) for the Web-only version (without the Office suite apps). Seems like a reasonable price for reliable email.

Fastmail, Proton, and Tuta exist as well.
That would imply developers/testers default to reading html-formatted text, which I honestly find hard to believe.
Where do you get liquid nitrogen as a home cook? I’ve tried to get my hands on both that and dry ice without any luck
Since Europe is to the left of the US, whatever the US is doing right (pun intended) is bound to be something the Left won't like.

The US also has plenty of bureaucracy, and what's worse, a lot of it stems from Common Law and capricious courts that interpret it, which is partly why large civil engineering projects like upgrading the NYC subway cost 4x more than the equivalents in Western Europe (minus the UK) or Japan.

I think the biggest factor is the sheer size of the unified US market and its economies of scale, and a second one the fact the US Social Security is limited compared to European retirement systems, and thus people have to save in their pension funds, freeing up a huge amount of capital for investment, while at the same time creating enough competition that they don't have the sense of entitlement that British feudals or continental bankers have, leaving entrepreneurs with crumbs.

Source: I'm from France but I moved to San Francisco to found my two startups, because I'm not a glutton for punishment. Then again I moved to the UK (for family reasons), so I guess I am a masochist after all.
1.5M new homes won’t even keep up with immigration. Not to mention schools and hospitals.
Which SemiAnalysis article?
The Makings of a World Foundation Model
Is that a bad thing? Good for him to stand up to extortion.
why is this surprising? If they didn't pass the cost of fraud along, they'd all go out of business.

The interchange rate on credit cards is high, but "diabolical" is a stretch.

Also, fraud is a very small line item in a credit card P&L. Generally 25bps to 50bps vs credit charge offs which are closer to 3% to 6%.

Source: Ran risk for Bank of America and a credit card fintech.
Damn it was that easy to obviate financial obligations? Guess the bank also won't care if we stop paying our mortgages?

To give credit to your position, over in Europe they've a generous welfare state yet very few successful startups so there's definitely a huge grindset factor but you're still cashing in on incredible luck or a comfortable economic position to be able to try enough times to score.

This is why the standard issue techbro advice from semi-wealthy "hustlers" who failed upwards on the backs of a few H1B 'founding' engineers is not actionable, I can at least respect the ones who don't bother with the facade.
My fashion taste is shit. So I build an app
> Fixed set of items in a fixed set of locations. Certain locations need certain items to access. So therefore randomize which items are in which rooms while still being able to complete the game.

So this part of the puzzle generation isn't that bad, you also need to make sure you can't make it unsolvable by destroying/wasting items or making them inaccessible (or allow this and call it "Sierra mode"). Making the item usage interesting is the hard part, but that's not as much as an issue for a Zelda game.
Because I'm not a bizdev guy, so when my partner, who was the bizdev guy, had to quit, and we had no customers, the odds of success seemed too low for me to deem it worth the effort to continue.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning/advice-on-... this explains the bug. o1 can't see its past thinking. This would seem to limit the expressivity of the chain of thought. Maybe within one step it's UTM, but with the loss of memory, extra steps will be needed to make sure the right information is passed forward. The model is likely to start to forget key ideas which it had that it didn't write down in the output. This will tend to make it drift and start to focus more on its final statements and less (or not at all) on some of the things which led it to them.
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Yes... that's because we're talking about externalities that an electorate wants to go away, but doesn't want to actually pay for.

The entire problem is that we aren't paying the actual cost of what we are consuming, and the cost of a product without these externalities is slightly more, but without making people pay for the externalities, it's not marketable.

This is the tragedy of the commons, and it's only a conundrum because the electorate wants to have their cake and eat it too.
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Gimme a f-ing break. It's way better for everyone if sketchy gas station boner pills and like products have traces real medications in them vs whatever unregulated and questionably sourced synthetic drugs and supplements they have before.
Thanks for the interesting read! How did you support yourself through all of the failed startups?
Nvidia takes a software first approach and AMD takes a hardware first approach.

It is clear that AMD's approach isn't working and they need to change their balance.
One point in your story that I think is worthy of kudos is that you left Google. I’m not sure how certain the riches were at that point, but presumably you could have chosen to just ride that wave longer. That’s a really hard thing to do.