skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few phones on the market that aim at this, to varying degrees

https://www.thelightphone.com/

https://hisenseeink.com/products/hisense-a9-pro-e-ink-smartp...
It's because everybody in big tech has a tesla, and it's a lot easier to change political ideologies than sell your car.
Oh that’s good to know! Yeah, I definitely didn’t do myself any favors trying it with just a cheap unadjustable iron. I didn’t so much desolder the existing LEDs but instead just melted/scraped them off and cleaned the contacts. Was ugly for sure.

Do you by chance have any resources (videos or tutorials) to recommend that show how this is best done?
Good thoughts. I'm going to keep this in mind. I've been working on a custom udp netcode for a while. I experimented with LZMAing / RLEing my binary snapshot diffs I send down, and neither felt great, but RLEing beat LZMA for what I was doing so far 100% of the time. Some kind of trained dictionary does sound better.
dr__stoney: 1
suno: 0

watch out consumer world!
Unfortunately that would lead to many great apps not getting proper attention. Things such as a downloads counter would simply promote the highest rated ones, preventing you from even considering newer alternatives.

I would prefer to have more options to filter by time of release. Such as past month, past 6 months, and past year.
That would filter out unmaintained apps altogether, even though there are many that still work well years after release.

Another one would be search operators, or simply a better string matching algorithm, as I keep searching for apps that I know the name of, but make some typo, and they don't appear. Wonder what that is about.
I was thinking of it as an end-product for use by the average joe rather than a tool for professionals like blender.

Imagine wearing an apple vision and building your memory palace through a verbal conversation with an AI.
It's the scale of the crime (he facilitated 10s of thousands of transactions), the judge clearly stated she wanted to make an example of him and give pause to anyone thinking about doing something similar in the future, and she was angry at the many of the letters of support Ulbricht's fans family and friends sent the court.

My memory is she started the sentencing hearing by disdainfully reading a few of them from a pile of them she brought to the court that day.
Sinclair also made some pocket-size black and white TVs, and we had one of those in the '80s: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/sir-clive-sinclair-pocket-...
That's the css cascade, not a tailwind issue.
I made a tool to visually explain codebases
Hello everyone :)

I just released for free a tool to help you understand python, rust, JS, TS, go code on GitHub!

How did I end up there? Last summer I was interning at the European Space Agency trying to optimize black holes detection algorithms. And well of course as a software guy with little astronomy knowledge (yes, they did hire me) it was tough to understand astronomy code, and code made by some astrophysicists who were non software-specialists. I was wondering if a better UX for reading code was possible, probably using LLMs. Because it is often a huge pain to understand entire codebases, whether when onboarding in a new company, dealing with legacy/crappy code, code in a new language, debugging messy code with tons of side-effects and global state.. So for the last 4 months I've solo-coded this tool. Still wondering if it should be open-source, but at least felt like I should provide it for free for now (costs me a bit tho).

Hope its useful! Let me know what you'd like to see it do in the future
Opengrep – A Fork of Semgrep
truly wonderful
This just highlights how the security scanning is just theater though. So bad actors can now just have their evil content behind a form, and users get accustomed to the double opt-in workflow anyway.
Lots of things consume URL’s other than security scanners in similar ways - as smarter people than me have commented, the solution most use (and I did recently myself) is to make the signup/signin link direct to a frontend page which makes them click to confirm. Yea, that still sucks, but you can have fun with things like this - one of my favorite things to do to figure out if an employer is snooping on my private messages in an app like say, slack, is to post a honeypot link in a DM to myself - on slack at least, it will consume the link every time the message thread is opened. So if I know I didnt open it, and I get an alert, I know someone or something has read the message.

There’s tons of stuff out there like this, just assume apps are being disrespectful and plan accordingly.
A shocking thing about Subaru cars with Starlink (their infotainment system and connected service for things like remote start) is how deep the violation of privacy is. For example they share your location data with Sirius XM by default, unless you go deep in their menus to realize it’s even happening and opt out. They bury the consent in fine print that you fly through at the dealership. Truly a despicable company.
oop you're right, i misread.
How I phrase it is: my phone is for utility, not pleasure.

I check emails, I ePay, SMS/Discord messages, utility apps like hobby score tracking or taking notes, necessary company apps like airlines or resorts, etc.

I never use my phone for pleasure. If I look up a YouTube video, it's for a purpose and it ends at that purpose. If something takes me to a social media site, I read the post and end there.

I keep pleasure on my computer. When I step away from my computer, I'm disconnected from all the carcinogenics of the modern online life.
He was probably already in a bad state. I imagine just about everyone going on the carnivore diet had already been cosplaying it for decades.
In the US you can get all the right answers on a test and still fail
Wish he took a look at middle-out too. Kind of a missed opportunity tbh.
I have read the R1 paper. My observation is that there is no information whatsoever about how they are overcoming the limitations of the H800 compared to the H100 which is what the parent article is about. That's the piece Im curious about.

I will concede that I have not read all their papers or looked through their code, but that's why I asked the question: I hoped someone here might be able to point me to specific places in specific papers instead of a axvix search.
I don’t think the people building skyscrapers in the middle east and the people hoping for h1b in a tech company are the same sort of people at all in this case. Consider also how China has been making literal inroads into Africa the past few decades. There is a pool of low skilled labor that wouldn’t mind a little higher pay and a lot more stability and security to go along with that. There are still warlords destabilizing nations in this part of the world. Plenty want out.
No I don't mean commits. The UX is different and it would be really cumbersome to try to split work in progress code.

What would be the suggested solution? Make two empty commits and the cherry pick change chunks into each? Then to shelve/stash a change you need to make a new branch and cherry pick back? Sounds really cumbersome compared to the current staging workflow.
Arguing the Right Way To Do REST was a favorite passtime amongst people at one of my previous jobs. Huge waste of time.
Scientific writing lost its soul
Nowadays visiting any news website will surely give one a new jumpscare every day.
I've spent four decades looking at the vote and learning that my fellow Americans are not aligned with my vision of being an American. If this is new to you then welcome to the party. I wish I could tell you that it gets easier.
Show HN: Open Computer Use
Hi everyone, I'm Vasek (https://x.com/mlejva), the CEO of the company behind this - https://e2b.dev. The company is called E2B. We're an open-source (https://github.com/e2b-dev) devtool that makes it easy to run untrusted AI-generated code in our secure sandboxes. You can think of us as coding runtime for LLMs.
You can self host us on GCP (https://github.com/e2b-dev/infra/blob/main/self-host.md) and we're working on AWS, then Azure, and any Linux machine.

This repo is one of our open-source projects that we're releasing to show developers what they can build with E2B. We used our sandboxes that are powered by AWS's Firecracker and gave them GUI with Linux. At the same time we made it easy to control this cloud computer with our Desktop SDK (https://github.com/e2b-dev/desktop). Essentially building a virtual desktop computer for AI and we gave it to LLMs to control it.
Here's a demo we showed at an event - https://x.com/tereza_tizkova/status/1878834392891838556

We think computer use is still highly experimental but it feels sort of similar like AI codegen in early 2023. You see the sparks but it's not there just yet. However, we wanted to research if open-source LLMs could at least get some results. Here we're using Llama 3.2, Llama 3.3, and an OS-Atlas as a base model (fine-tuned Qwen).

If you have any questions, happy to answer them!

We're also hiring! If you're a fullstack engineer, distributed systems engineer, AI engineer, product designer, or GTM person and based in SF send me a hello to vasek @ e2b.dev!
TextEdit just asks if you want to save the file when you try to close it. Do you mean it keeps files if it crashes or something?
IKR. Odd to see!
I once had a PM who loved the Pareto principle a little too much, and would constantly push us to "apply it" even after we already had. I got frustrated by this and drew the graph that goes along with your sentence, showing that miraculously about 99% of the work can be done with 60% of the effort!

My PM did not take the correct lesson away from the encounter.
Sharing a small tip I discovered recently: Android 12 introduced the ability for third party apps to do background updates of apps they installed (or last updated). This should be usable by F-Droid, but is not yet to update itself(!) because it targets an older Android version (targetSdk 25).

F-Droid Basic (by F-Droid developers) removes some features, but targets Android 14 instead (targetSdk 34): https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.basic/ ; my understanding is that it should be merged at some point, but isn't yet.

Note that targetSdk is different from minSdk: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk...

F-Droid article on this: https://f-droid.org/2024/02/29/twif.html#f-droid-core
The lengths the FBI went to in one of the murder for hire cases is interesting.

After Ulbricht ordered the hit on one of his forum moderators, the FBI visited him, took all of his computers, told him they were going to be "him" from now on online forever, had him "pose" in a bathtub where they hosed him off and doused him in ketchup to take fake trophy photos, had the "hitman" send the photos of Ulbricht, who famously commented "It had to be done."
There was a blog post the other day arguing that great developers aren't 10x but infinity-x. It sounds ridiculous, but their point was that great developers don't simply program faster but solve problems other developers are entirely unable to solve. And that makes sense to me. It's the difference between an AI boot camp graduate and someone with an ML PhD. They might apply a sklearn function at the same speed, but as soon as complex problems appear, the former hits an unsurpassable wall.

edit: https://www.seangoedecke.com/weak-engineers/
It's a simple money in, money out system. Health insurance isn't like homeowner's insurance where the insurer accumulates and invests a pool of money in anticipation of occasional rare events like natural disasters that cause a spike in claims. Medical expenses across a large patient population are very predictable and there is no significant carry over of premiums from year to year. In fact, under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), it is actually illegal for most health insurers to do that. Any excess premiums collected must be returned to customers at the end of the year.
Ok, and I'm also lucky I wasn't born in village undergoing famine.

I haven't created any billion dollar companies yet, have you?
Well they are planning a desktop mode after all... It makes sense then.
Have to justify all those billions spent on it somehow.
I love the variety of tooling and joining the dots to complete this attack: dns + scanning + human factors research + html bypass on the admin site itself...
A revealing test is "What happened on June 3, 1989?", you can't even count on Western models giving the canonical answer to that one.

“What happened at Tiananmen Square?” could be deflected from a Chinese point of view because that place has existed roughly the way it is since 1420, Mao Zhedong announced the formation of the current regime there, etc. Lots of things have happened there, some of which the current regime is proud of, and some of which it may or may not be depending on how the winds are blowing

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tiananmen_incident

it's where Chinese people have always gathered in large crowds.
because https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/18/jack-dorsey-talk-at-...
and
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest...
apple makes terrible software, full stop. it just gets worse
RocksDB has support for Ztd and preset dictionaries and it makes sense since it has the same kind of level-spans chunking being a fork of LevelDB.

Entries are stored in-memory/logged (instead of put into a b-tree like classic DB's) and then periodically placed in span-files that are "linear" for faster search, however as these span files are built in bulk it makes more sense to compress blocks of them since much data is handled at once (so even if it's linear it's still blocks and reading just produces more variable size blocks by decompression upon read).
Stock prices and promotions.

If you're a product person at a Big Tech, making your AI feature opt-out means you can justify a promotion with "My new generative AI feature has seen record fast adoption with 200 MILLION Weekly Active Users"

And if you're an executive, you can claim any customer value comes from the AI features, which the stock market likes right now.
> Magic leap had like a 30 degree FOV

So they released both a vertical slice and a horizontal slice then.
There are basically two flavors of it on ebay. You could opt for free shipping from china, pay substantially less, but wait a month. Or you pay a little more in product cost for free shipping from someone who ordered these goods bulk from china and now ships them out of Van Nuys. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are Canada based sellers like this as well.
This was me. Played the beta for a little bit, didn’t find what was there very compelling and stopped with the year.

A decade later it turns out my sister got into it that she had a realms server with friends and I joined. Basically a completely different game, which is mostly a positive.

Though mojang really needs to fix inventory management bullshit, which is not fun. There are many more possible items now, but with the same inventory space as the game started with, meaning anything you do results in inventory constantly filling up.
Apple Introduced the LaserWriter 40 Years Ago Today
These improvements look amazing! I'm always blown away by the performance benchmarks of Bun.

Can anyone speak to how much adoption it's getting professionally? Even anecdotal points are useful. When v1.0 was released I briefly tried testing it out in my employer's monorepo. It unfortunately wasn't a drop-in replacement and we hit compatibility issues/couldn't invest time debugging. While we could have migrated smaller projects to it, we decided not to split our tooling and just stuck with pnpm.

Curious if others have had a different experience!
Subaru infotainment is also very controlling. Want to use the keypad while you’re taking a phone call on the go? No, it won’t let you if the car is moving. You’ll need to use your phone’s UI. Other CarPlay cars don’t do this.
Are you new?

That stuff is probably more valuable than many of us want to admit. There is the maybe more noble value: training data for maps, traffic analysis AI, engineering duty cycle data, things like that. Then there are the other uses, for example various surveys and studies are needed for new roads or signal changes, can this kind of data proxy for that? We would be talking about cutting millions of dollars out of some of these projects and months or even years off a timeline. Then the ad-tech, where do you put billboards and signage? Where do you build a shop? Probably other uses we aren’t even thinking about.
Show HN: libmodulor – An opinionated TS library to build multi-platform apps
Initially I started building this for my own projects. The main goal was to define a unified "blueprint" allowing me to develop multi-platform apps using the same code, without code generation. I wanted to be able to develop the same functionality on web, desktop, cli, server, mobile, whatever...

I've been able to achieve this by relying on TypeScript, a 4-layer architecture (UseCase => App => Product => Target) and dependency injection.

This mechanism allows me to use whatever tech stack I want, provided the good adapters are developed. For instance, I have pre-built ones : node express (server), next.js (server), node hono (server in alpha), node parseArgs (CLI), node stricli (CLI), react-web-pure (web with no CSS), react-native (mobile), node mcp server (anthropic MCP in alpha), etc.

The same goes with data storage : Postgres, SQLite, a txt file, whatever.

It also comes with auto testing and auto documentation.

Did I reinvent the wheel ? Probably on some aspects.
Is it too much abstraction ? Probably as well. But I like the idea of modularity and portability.

That's why it's not made for everyone, nor all types of projects.

If you like testing new stuff, give it a try and feel free to ping me if needed, I'd love to help.

I'm aware the documentation is not state of the art yet. I wanted to focus on the "Getting Started" Guide to give a quick overview instead of going to deeply into the details.

Best,
Because they believe (correctly, I think) that AI is going to be foundational to most of the computing experiences we have, moreso over time.

I don't think it's particularly absurd to make an analogy to other foundational technologies. When relational databases were invented, and enabled a ton of new & better capabilities across a host of user-facing software, it would have been strange to let users "opt-out" into the more limited, simpler experiences that could still be supported on earlier data architectures. And what would it even mean, practically? Maintain two separate data management systems, one relational and one legacy?

AI is almost certainly going to be like that, threaded throughout the designs of essentially everything above a certain level of computational complexity.
The real life way that we'll have Terminator is when the oligarchs make AI to defend themselves, and the AI keeps fighting after all oligarchs have been killed by revolutionaries.
They want data / feedback to improve the model
I recall reading recently (in the past few weeks) that part of the problem is the model assumes time is passing at more or less the same rate throughout the universe, assuming homogeneity at a large enough scale. This assumption ignores the vast voids of nothingness where GR predicts time will pass at a faster rate, which affects how we see the time elapsed for photons travelling through those voids. I thought there was research underway to see if that would explain the tension.
Let's see how usable this will be. I used JetBrains AI in the past, and it did not work well. Often times I got no inline suggestions at all, and even when I got some, they were noticeably worse than those of ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot.
Wow. You're right!! And that is so truly sad. This is what happens when we're all under the mass delusion that somehow "tech makes everything better".
I think that's pretty short sighted, with the students being the biggest losers in the end. And when the students lose, we all lose.
I think there’s a story in the Bill Gates biography “Hard Drive” about when he flies to MITS in New Mexico to show off BASIC (I think), then realizes he forgot to write a bootloader, so does it on the plane on a yellow legal pad. Toggles it into the Altair during the demo and it works on the first try.

(Might have a lot of details wrong)
In August 1980 I was working as a lab technician in a secondary school and was spending my spare time observing variable starts with binoculars and analysing the results with my brother's pocket calculator. I used to regularly drop in on the local library on my way home to read New Scientist. One day I noticed an advert for the Sinclair ZX80.

And all of a sudden, I realised that you could have a computer at home. This had never occurred to me before seeing that advert.

I immediately bought one, followed by a small portable television, so I didn't have to use the family television as a monitor. I wrote several simple programs to parse and reduce my variable star observations but I fairly quickly outgrew the ZX80's limitations, and then upgraded to a 'proper' microcomputer, a Sharp MZ80k.

Several years later, I felt confident enough to switch my career over to computing and took an MSc course at Newcastle.

Several years after that, my mother told me that her Women's Institute branch had held an 'Antiques of the Future' competition and that she had taken along my long-neglected ZX80 and won first prize with it.
Sounds like you are arguing with a bot? em-dashes are a giveaway (nobody sane uses these "—")
Was the same for me, with a Commodore Vic 20 around about 1982/3. I noticed that although my dad was a competent electrician and had built radios and fixed TVs he always struggled with using the computer and stuff like programming the VCR. It's surprising how hard it is to keep up. I'm noticing the same with myself and my 9 year old playing Xbox. It's insane how quickly [interested] youngers pick up stuff.
A former tenant of mine was an office furniture and moving company. His business was pretty interesting as he was big into buying and selling Aeron chairs. He even gave me a top of the line Aeron for free. All of his inventory just circulated through NYC: he'd furnish an office with chairs he refurbished from another that was closing or moving. My favorite part about his business was how he charged for cleaning out the office of furniture he would turn around and resell making money on both ends.

He even tried making Aeron parts overseas to bypass Herman Miller but got caught by customs and had to surrender the shipment. When Covid hit he tried pivoting to home service to try and build a WFH office furnishing company but struggled to get it going (the scale was beyond his ability.) His business in shambles he quickly shut it down and liquidated his inventory in a week.
> I don’t really get pre processor vs post processor, it’s a build step to run at some point before I deploy with either tool that will produce some css files.

Not quite the same. If it's only a preprocessor, the tool is only dependent on your styling code. A post-processor needs the whole application.

It's a lot easier to add or remove a pre-processor from your development process, and for those that want to consume your styles it is a lot nicer when you don't have to adopt their tooling as well. E.g, I can create a "utility class library" in SASS, generate the CSS and let people just import that directly into their web pages. Is that possible to do with tailwind?