skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The downgrading of exceptional individuals like PG to mediocrities is no healthier than placing them on pedestals.

Recognizing that we're all just people is certainly healthier than placing people on pedestals.
I dunno about even that. Forgive my example (though I love bringing it up, since so few people seemed to have grokked it in the time since initial release): in the video game Bioshock: Infinite, one of the later levels sees you transported into the far future of 1984. The game's setting, a flying city named Columbia, which was characterized by its almost cartoonish levels of capital-A capital-P American Patriotism, had featured in its original Gilded Age incarnation many of the ills of turn-of-the-century American society, including racism, an exploited working class, religion-driven insularity, and a predilection for violence. However, it had also presented an enthusiasm for the new and curious, an ambition for high living standards, and other cultural accoutrements that are usually associated with forward-thinking societies.

By this late-game level, however, the city has descended into dystopia. Why? Well, a three-quarter century game of telephone. The ideals of the city's original founder, already imperfect, were further transmitted imperfectly to his successor and her charges, whose personal traumas further warped their interpretation of Columbia's intended values, and the actions taken in their name. That repentant successor, having lost control of the city's populace to a revolutionary fever, sends you back to the past just as Columbia's weapons begin to level New York City (a caricature of America destroying its real-life historical "center").

It's a metaphor, of course.

It's easy for the soul of an idea to get lost in translation. It's easy for principles of one era to be an ill fit for another. It's easy for the original ideas and principles to be fundamentally flawed in ways that no one could or was willing to admit to.

"Running with it" can be dangerous. (Ask us how well Cold War politicking has worked out for us post-9/11.)

I think, at all turns, you must be asking yourself why you're doing what you're doing, and if it's actually effective. If it's actually good. I don't know that Jobs ever predicted that the bicycle for the mind would be beholden to OTA updates or have a commensurate attack surface exposure, but we have to deal with that reality, regardless.
From the Internet Archive comes a PDF of a poster that was popular among my friends group in the late 70s. Most of the crew I ran with had experienced "more advanced" languages than the BASIC that was common as the default on microcomputers of the day. Pascal was definitely a popular option and this poster was just darn beautiful in that 70s sort of way.

And here's the main link for the poster with metadata and a few download options: https://archive.org/details/pascal-poster-v-3-a-1
>Business jets are not produced in China, large efficient passenger jets are not produced in China, printed silk scarves branded Hermes, silent diesel electric submarines for export are not produced in China. (See what I did there?) And that's irrelevant to why trade exists.

Literally every single one of these is false. China is producing every single one of these things.

Business Jet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C909

Large efficient passenger jet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919

Hermes: China is well known for producing knockoff products. 0% chance that some Chinese factory is not making Hermes branded scarfs.

Silent diesel electric submarines for export: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_039A_submarine (Yes, they are actually made for export)

I think it is pretty clear that you are totally and utterly wrong.
I don't know but that's an interesting question and I would be very interested to know the answer.
Yup, there's never enough time. If you do try feel free to reach out to me at any time.
Imagine nvidia supported only the 4090, 4080 and 4070 for cuda at the consumer level. With the 3090 not being supported since the 40xx series came out. This is what amd is defending here.
LLMs output can often be like a prism in front of a mirror - a fusion of humanity with the specific human, reflected back at the human.

Simon, perhaps you're just not funny.
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Related:

BambuLab new firmware to cut access to third-party API and tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760491
Bad for SEO!?! Count me in. SEO is what started fouling the web for humans in the first place.

> robots.txt restrictions are routinely ignored,

That's true of Bytespider and a few other crawlers that aren't search engines or AI masticators. I have Apache set to give 404 to Bytespider and a few other user agents because of this.
New Zealand tree reveals turning point in Earth history 42,000 years ago (2021)
You mean OpenAIs infamous "you shall not train on the output of our model" clause?
As a european, talking to any american, we notice you guys have levels of propaganda that are way way higher than what we get. And we do get propaganda.

The notion that without tiktok you'll now get anything "true" is laughable.
An administration efficiently returning money to a specific vendor who gave $250M to their campaign, if one wants to be cheeky

It's the most efficient way to find out how much it costs to rent a presidency.

And it's super-efficient for the president to outsource his job to someone from overseas.
These tend to be pretty straightforward easy applications. There really are no gotchas in this context.
https://archive.is/2025.01.20-171628/https://www.wsj.com/wor...
Do you have a metric, or not?
Homoiconicity Revisited (2020)
I think you may need to review what that word means in case you have an incorrect belief about its definition. Almost all notation ever created has a reason or a system, I have no idea why one would think its ultimately arbitrary (having no reason or system).

Consensus is not arbitrary either, that's a strong reason, a lack of arbitrary-ness. Even the second definition of arbitrary, something done unilaterally, is contra-consensus.
Fair, thanks for that.
Currently, LAN mode and local SD card printing does not require an internet connection. I have my printer in a bottom of the yard bungalow, without internet, and it works fine.
I wonder if ATC gets a number to call.
It's remarkable how effectively China is salting the earth for OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google, and X.ai with a small fraction of those companies compute capacity. Sanctions tend to backfire in unpredictable ways sometimes. Reasoning models aside, you can get a free GPT 4o - grade chatbot at chat.deepseek.com and it actually runs faster. Their API prices are much lower as well. And they disclose the living Confucius out of their methods in their technical reports. Kudos!
> use GitHub Actions on Forgejo

What does this even mean? Are you talking about Forgejo Actions, or are you somehow hosting your code on a Forgejo instance but running CI through GitHub?

> With Woodpecker/Jenkins you know exactly what your pipeline is doing.

If you wrote it from the ground up, sure. On the other hand, I've inherited Jenkins pipelines that were written years before I got there and involved three to four different plugins, and they're way worse to work with than the GitHub Actions that I inherited.
Are we not talking about opinion vs opinion ? What twitter engineers think is good for twitter vs what web engineers think is good for the web ? I don't really follow what your assertion is, I would be happy to elaborate my position if you elaborate yours.
InAppBrowser.com: see what JavaScript commands get injected (2022)
There is one other way in which you are not a failure, and I am sure that I am not alone in thinking about it: I have been reading your words for 15 years, from the time I was a baby CS major. That's really true, e.g., here[1] is a comment from 11 years ago where I mentioned that a lisp you wrote for the Apple //e informed a lisp for the Apple //e that I wrote.

Especially in my college years (2009-2013, ish), the world seemed smaller, and to me, a lot of what you wrote was like looking through a keyhole into the real world. Grown-ups can apparently write lisp at JPL[2]! Google was chaotic[3][4][5][6] to work in 2000, especially if you commuted from Burbank. A name change[7]. And, variously, surveillance, more lisp stuff, etc. Now I'm an adult and I still haven't professionally written lisp, but I'm glad to have read about it anyway.

Anyway, it might surprise you to learn that when I think of your writing, though, I think of your HN comments first. There is a kind of influence that you can only get with a steady, unthanked build-up of seemingly-small contributions over a long period of time. In the right place they compound. I probably cite you to other engineers once a month or so.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199857#6200414
[2]: https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080212170839/https://xooglers....
[4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090408003924/http://xooglers.b...
[5]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090408013612/http://xooglers.b...
[6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090408003913/http://xooglers.b...
[7]: https://flownet.com/ron/eg-rg-faq.html
I have no desire to change anyone’s mind about their political views. Anyone who supports a known rapist and felon and who openly takes bribes can not be convinced of anything. I don’t engage in political discussions with such people. There is no consistency in their beliefs so no meaningful discusion can be had.
Show HN: Claude Debugs for You (VSCode Extension)
I built a VS Code extension that uses Model Context Protocol to give Claude Desktop (or any other MCP Client) the ability to directly debug code.

It's language agnostic, as long as you can provide the appropriate launch.json for debugging.

If nothing else, I wanted to share as a reference to an integration between VS Code and Claude Desktop or other MCP Clients as a jumping off point, as I couldn't find one.

One of the useful patterns used is the MCP Server just asks VSCode what it's allowed to do, which means tool configuration / changes only need to happen on the VS Code side.
We go from:

Support is coming in three months!

To

This card is ancient and will be no longer developed for. Buy our brand new card released in three months!

Every damned time.
Because somebody posted it && people found it interesting and voted for it.

Same as with anything else. Did you ever ask "lots of posts about all programming languages on the web, but why a random one is on the first page on HN?"
Users aren't in control. Because you can post whatever you want, but the platform decides if it gets seen or not. This is valid for any social media.

Is it freedom of speech if there is no freedom of hearing?
HN is community moderated and generally aims to keep an amount of decorum.

Look at all the comments here. If a story leads to the comments here, it almost always gets flagged to discourage further unproductive commentary
Natto/Hakarl/Haggis face-off.
> Our code sits in a monorepo which is further divided into folders. Every folder is independent of each other and can be tested, built, and deployed separately.

If this is true, and you still have problems running specific Actions, why not break this into separate repositories?
If you had to look up someone in the phone book you by definition aren't connected.

Connected is when your Mom knows the chairman of IBM. Like with Gates.
I ran into this old article of mine and still thought it was interesting. Are Lispers still visiting here?

side-note: static site generators are awesome... I left my site untouched for 5(!) years and there it was patiently waiting for me to pick up where I left.
Yea I'm thinking the viagra wasn't the cause here, maybe don't do cocaine if you care about cardiac health.
Venture Capital's Latest Strategy: Private Equity–Style Roll-Ups
This is impressive, how do people handle the limited context window of 64k tokens?
> But it doesn't change who they are

This is the part that we all don't really actually converse about. It's not an easy point to prove (genetically, after sequencing the entire human genome, there is not actually any proof that gay is something one "is" intrinsically), but it's also so personal and getting it wrong has such heavy consequences that most avoid the topic.
There is a lot of US national lab research in MRNA vaccines to a point where it is questionable how much private companies can own them.
Thank you again for the great questions and discussion. I'm taking a break now and will return in about an hour. If I miss any questions before the AMA ends today, I'll do my best to respond tomorrow
Yes, you can, and we do at my current job. Much of the time it's not even really the harder approach compared to using someone else's action, it's just that the existence of third party actions makes people feel obliged to use them because they wouldn't want to be accused of Not Invented Here Syndrome.
Being viral, for content, is not always bad: it can make an otherwise boring or tedious subject engaging and enjoyable (and on the other side, a fun subject might appear boring if badly written), which I think is what this article is about :-).
by the International Court of Justice
Trump says all kinds of things, baseless things, unsupported things, and he says contradictory things, flip flopping, as it were.

Why hasn't the media learned in the last 8-9 years?
Couldn't agree more.

Meanwhile the US is doubling down on fossil fuel energy sources which will be decreasing in demand globally over the next several decades as EVs grow in market share along with growth in alternative energy generation.
Fair enough, I can see it was a team effort. But its still interesting that all that work has focused on one place without leaking and it now has global strategic importance.

And being the last one standing must mean something - good at negotiating with funders, tenacious, perceived as a good long term bet etc.
Yesterday, my mom asked if people elsewhere are really better off than in the US. She downloaded red note to keep up her digital crack habit. Apparently she just sees healthy, happy Chinese people at fancy restaurants with low bills in clean cities with public transit and futuristic technology.
In a way that a boner doesn't always make you horny, I suppose so. But there's various natural and social pressure to rid of one.

(I don't necessarily support this, but I can only imagine this recall create a short term black market).
I can rarely reuse the same pipeline for the same project 6 months down the road, much less reuse for anything else.

The few bits that end up getting reused are the externalized bash scripts.
G would have made more sense

In MTG the 5 colors are white, blue, black, red, and green. WUBRG. B is already taken by black (bla > blu) so blue became U. Hence in my head logic spring should have been G (technically sp > su but no point to change summer’s S after decades)
Show HN: StyleKit – Instant Website Design Analyzer Chrome Extension
Hi HN,

StyleKit is a Chrome extension I developed to help teams quickly capture and document website design systems. It's free to download and use.

As someone who works on both design and development, I frequently study and record how websites look for different projects, or document the design of other sites for an aspect I really liked.

This takes a lot of my time: opening web developer, finding style classes, viewing the computed style to see what was actually happening, and then storing information I wanted to save. Sometimes I couldn't find an element either way.

I created StyleKit to streamline this process.

It instantly generates a comprehensive design system document (a "StyleKit") for any website, capturing colors, typography, logos, and design patterns. The extension works entirely in the browser, requiring no external processing.

Key features include:
* Instant StyleKit generation with color palette, typography system, and design pattern identification
* Export options including one-click element copying, PDF documentation, and portable HTML file
* Real-time design analysis with interactive element highlighting and usage statistics

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on StyleKit.
Will capital-havers or capability-havers gain the most from AI?
"Oh no! Where?"
You can also think of it as calm bliss.
I don't know that I have all that much to say about it. Research is (at least to date) a human activity and so it is necessarily beset with human foibles. It requires resources, so it necessarily involves economics, which necessarily involves politics. It's not rocket science. Anyone who thinks about it for even a moment can figure this out without my help.

> recent hype about deep learning

Does anyone really look at contemporary AI as a Platonic quest for objective truth? It seems to me that there is pretty widespread clarity about the fact that this is mostly a commercial endeavor. If you want to talk about Platonic quests for objective truth we should talk about, say, mathematics or fundamental physics.
I wonder how the benefits of running regularly compare to living in an area where most of your daily trips are taken by bike or walking.
True, perhaps if we call EUV Lithography the most complicated fabricator machine that actually makes something. Whereas LHC is a scientific experiment.
My dad is 74 and only drank alcohol one time in his life, no smoking or drugs and healthy diet. And it shows. He looks and feels fantastic for his age, you'd think he was about 55, and he's not on any regular medication, which doctors keep saying is exceptionally rare at that age.
You can use ROCM on consumer radeon as long as you pay more than 400 dollars for one of their gpus. Meanwhile, you can run stable diffusion with the -lowvram flag on a 3050 6gb that goes for 180 dollars
The “natural alternatives” are either bogus or potentially dangerous.

There is no such thing as a drug with no negative consequences for taking too much.

If some “natural” ingredient has an effect and isn’t being regulated, who knows how much, how potent, or how consistent the dose is.

“Natural” doesn’t mean safe.
I mean, the last comment thread I was involved with on Twitter ended with "You should lick my balls Commie".

It was a discussion about congestion pricing.
Women who say they find it acceptable for males to impose themselves on female spaces don't speak for all women and cannot consent to this intrusion for all women.
Ontario's Icon Computer
What “best” means could be unpacked.

- Just best for the job

- Best retention since the visa is tied to the employer

- Best price, i.e. lower wage

All of that amounts to “best” without outright lying.

The bell curve (people tend to narrowly focus on IQ when it comes to “best for the job”) should look the same everywhere. So it seems a bit roundabout to look all over the world when you have a “culture fit” in your own backyard.

So it does seem to just come back to mutually beneficial exploitation of the employee. But the clients never have to talk about it in such plain terms.
It's the "liking Roman stuff is something modern bros do, and thus beneath me" card, from the hollier-than-thou board game...
They signed an agreement with the US government when they bought an export controlled light source.
Would you feel the same way if you had effectively infinite money? (e.g. you were Bill Gates' secret daughter he sends a million to each month).
We used to have shops in schools back when funding for education went to education instead of administrators.

That's not been the case for a generation so no one under 70 even knows what we've lost.
I didn’t compare anything to Nazi Germany. I gave Nazi Germany as an example of how what is socially acceptable can drastically change in a short period of time.

I apologize. He was found liable for sexual abuse, battery and defamation. These distinctions are extremely important. He’s not quite as bad as I made him out to be. What about him calling his daughter a nice piece of ass? The other stuff?
TSMC evacuates employees following earthquakes
You're still in the goodies-vs-baddies mindset. Western media pushes people into that way of thinking but it's the Marvel level view and is wrong. Also, look at all the people who think Russia is the baddies for starting that war, but Israel is the baddies despite not starting its war. That's an arbitrary standard people invented to justify their simply goodie-baddie view. If you apply a different standard to every war, then it's not really a standard, is it?
A better headline is the UK is being wasted.

It ignores its strengths and uses its weaknesses.
We are working to apply for n-565 for my mother in law who has been a working American citizen for 50 years. She now needs naturalization records to apply for Real Id and continue domestic travel.

The issue is that she had a divorce and name change, and we can’t find her name change record with the county superior court. N565 requires the name change evidence

We have tried FOIA request to US CIS and no records were found

Can we use her 50 year social security contribution record as evidence of the name change ? What other pieces of evidence could we present ?

Is there a hearing or more dynamic forum we could present the case to ? The forms for naturalization and real id have narrow and rigid qualifications .
Hawaii Big Island does care about light pollution - for the sake of astronomical observatories. They use yellow low pressure sodium light. Yellow is dispersed less by air. The energy efficiency of low pressure sodium bulbs is also high, comparable or higher than most LEDs.
Tesla had already suffered global brand damage due to Musk:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/would-...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-22/tesla-reputat...

https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/19/tesla-owners-react-elon-musks-...

This will not help it.
> X is bad so Y is desirable even if it's also bad

Hm ok...
Meta and Microsoft buys hundreds of thousands of Nvidia accelerators a year, and are a big reason why everyone else has to compete for nvidia units.