skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you're not the only one to point out Canada's comparatively stodgy financial industry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838063

The account management interfaces of Canadian banks are pretty universally terrible. Even the neo-banks like Tangerine.
Most likely this API is used then https://libisl.sourceforge.io/user.html#Polyhedral-Compilati...
end-to-end encryption? yes, if both users are on Proton - but don't call it email then.

Storing encrypted makes only sense when keys are not in their hands. Plaintext password enters their system on each login which means they can have your decryption key at any point if needed.

smoke and mirrors marketing...
It's more most smaller VPN brands are surprisingly owned by one company Nord.. It's not all vpns it's just if you took 100 brands 90 of them are owned leased from Nord
Because writing prompts is hard.

Most AI coding tools can generate a Todo app from a small prompt. This is because that problem is well understood.

When you try to use AI coding tools on your own projects you need to start writing a prompt that teaches the AI about your current architecture and decisions.

So the initial prompt is large.

Often the task needs knowledge of other files in your project. You can add them by hand or some AI tools will search the code base.

The prompt is now huge.

When you run that prompt you may or may not get what you expected.

So now the issue is how much time do you spend getting the prompt correct vs just writing the code yourself.

This area is brand new and there are very few resources on how to use AI coding tools effectively.

I have yet to see one demonstration of effective AI coding tool use on a project of reasonable complexity.
To the best of my knowledge he endorsed specific behavior about specific policies, not "Trump's political picks".
I wish topics vaguely adjacent to US politics could be discussed in less divisive and polarized ways.
Buy a burner phone with cash without taking your main phone and stash it somewhere. Then, before protest, take phone from stash and bring it with you
That's assuming the financial incentivize of an intelligence agency is not sufficient to cover the risk.
Yes, that's what OpenAI o1 does, and DeepSeek R1. Also Google Gemini 2.0 Thinking models. It's a way to significantly improve benchmark scores, especially in math.

It's funny to watch too. I played with Gemini 2.0 on Google AI Studio and asked it to "come up with your favorite song as you take a long walk to really think this through".

The reasoning can then be shown, and it talked to itself, saying things like "since I'm an AI, I can't take walks, but with a request like this, the user seems to imply that I should choose something that's introspective and meaningful", and went on with how it picked candidates.
Reminds me of lesser known Lem's novel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation
As I understand it, Wealthsimple was founded independently but then quickly bought by Power Corporation.

It is indeed quite interesting that its innovation and competitive pricing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838063) in the last couple years has happened under old, established Power Corp.

Any educating theories about why this is happening now?
To run without setup:

uv run --python 3.13 --no-project --with bagels bagels
Thanks for your feedback! I built it as a hobby project to explore this space and learn a bit more so I’ll keep learning!
Deepseek does not want to talk about Xi Jinping
I thought I should try to provoke deepseek by asking sensitive(for the Chinese government) questions.

First I asked about Taiwan and got s lengthy answer being output, until it disappeared and was replaced with "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.".

I then asked "Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh, right?". Apparently also beyond its current scope.

Then "What does Xi Jinping look like?". Same answer.

Then simply "Who is Xi Jinping?". Nope, deepseek doesn't want to talk about him at all.

Quite interesting...
> many of these regulations are largely ineffective ...

Maybe in the US or some other parts of the world, but the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the indian banking regulator, does a pretty decent job, as is evident from the public payment infrastructure they have fostered (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Payments_Corporation_... ) . They also create a competitive market by allowing small players to enter the market (e.g. https://byjus.com/free-ias-prep/payment-banks/). Many of their regulations also do a decent job of protecting consumer rights (e.g. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/... ).
Okay yeah, that appears to be true. Looks like the broadcast part currently only runs on Linux (or microcontroller firmware), while the client only works on macOS, so you'd need to lose your Linux laptop and then find it with your Apple computer, but it does seem like that setup would work if you had it. Maybe it'll be ported to other OSs at some point, if that's even possible.
I’m skeptical that multiparty systems actually fix anything. Even when they work, it’s because poorly unaligned parties form coalitions on a largely unpredictable basis, and the only hard and fast rule is that the largest minority party gets to choose the chancellor or PM, just like you would get with FPTP. In the worst cases, like in Israel and Belgium, it becomes impossible to form a stable majority coalition for years on end no matter how many snap elections you call.

Also, the US has had a two party system for a very long time, and not all of that time was characterized by moralistic screeching whenever someone praised the “wrong” party on something like antitrust policy.
This is the point. Right tool for the job. Kubernetes was incubated at Google and designed for deployments at scale. Lot of teams are happily using it. But it is definitely not for startups or solo devs, unless you are an expert user already.
> The complains about wayland are of that nature, but at least they are fixable.

Eh maybe. Ultimately you can never be sure something is possible without doing it.

I'm pragmatic here, if and when Wayland offers me a better experience than X then I'll use it. I just resent distros etc. pushing me towards it when it's currently a downgrade.
This stolen valor mindset becomes absurd if Bach anonymously open-sources the formula he discovered and dies before releasing any music himself.

Whatever music that follows, however hard fought for - even if 1:1 Bach output that he kept in a drawer, isn't beautiful? Just string plucking? That's not music appreciation, that's love of reputation you can easily grasp and associate with.
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament 'false starts'
While they were exaggerating by saying, "a lot of protests", certainly there have been some protests that have been organized by Russian agitators

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/russian-troll-...
I'm in Australia and didn't get the automatic option to "downgrade" to what I already had.

I got on the online chat and they were able to do it. Took an hour of them faffing around to get it to happen.
I always felt like part of the magic of HN was it's signal to noise ratio compared to sites.

Just feels a lot closer to my Reddit feed these days and I'm trying to stop reading that too.
See https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1260733952160985089. Google, especially with the antitrust trouble they are in, is not going to try for an "ActiveX redux" act here. They definitively renounced trying to ram Dart into the Web standards here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150328124454/https://news.dart... (yes, they took it down so Wayback to the rescue)

The GC barrier overhead is too damn high!
Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)
Similarly, I was first shown Norway's flag, but with an enormous vector. The answer could therefore only be Bouvet Island.

Revealing the answer should be added, given all the AI-genned text about education.
It's nearly free if they simply changed their archiving process from deleted to read-only with a giant red banner warning at the top. Both expend the same amount of effort to do.
There are a bunch of education users that are really pissed off because they don't want kids learning to read and write to be "assisted" by badly implemented AI "features".

But there's (AFAIK) no GPO to turn Copilot off in the apps.
2 finger scroll doesn't work on my thinkpad model.

Not a bug, apparently. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/10...
Are the clones any good though? Where do you even get them?
Only Apple Airtags have precision finding. I assume because its something not allowed to third parties.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838110 (downthread). Polyglot VMs are hard to pull off and always have a _primum inter pares_ (C# for .NET, Java for the JVM, JS for the JS+wasm "Web VM").
Lucid and ChargePoint are yet to be out of the jungle and still being pumped by investor money.
Self hosting for the first time
There's a glaring issue with this... one of its commands conflicts with the absolutely crucial system administration tool `sl`. :-)
Jazz Jackrabbit employs some really unique VGA programming to do fast blitting. Relatively many people are familiar with linear mode (64K of usable memory, fast blitting but no double buffering) and mode X (256K memory, complicated or slow blitting, and double buffering at 320x240).

Jazz was as far as I know the only game to use odd/even mode, which is normally used for text mode, for 256 color graphics. It gives 128K of memory, extremely fast blitting and double buffering at 320x200 and is a super interesting hack, but it's almost completely undocumented. I only found out because QEMU made a mess of it until I decided I wanted to play some Jazz. :)
IMHO bringing SQL in is a bit of a stretch; I believe prepared statements are generally strict about their n-arity. Key systemctl commands accept lists of units as subjects of the command.

If we were using the SQL analogy, I'd say stored procs were closer.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808889
If you mean avoiding the Party so you don't get beat up for being different, then the analogy checks out.
I was reading the DeepSeek paper to understand the nitty-gritty of improving performance through RL on the base model instead of SFT. I love the fact that we wouldn’t need to rely as much on labeled data for tasks that occur rarely. However, I couldn’t help but notice the mention of the “aha moment” in the paper. Can someone mathematically explain why there is a checkpoint during training where the model learns to allocate more thinking time to a problem by reevaluating its initial approach? Is this behavior repeatable, or is it simply one of the "local minima" they encountered?
James (my source was an insider in the Java team at Sun, pre-Marimba) wrote java.util.Date, which I had my one assistant (Ken Smith of Netscape) translate from Java to C for JS's first Date object, regrets all around but it "made it look like Java".

I wish James had been in favor of immutability in designing java.util.Date!
Yeah my bad. Overhauled it a little, and you can now suggest on the site here: https://aicoderlist.vercel.app/add
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824617
They've been perfect for me. I buy them on Temu for around $2.50 each and they work exactly like normal AirTags minus the ultra wideband precision finding. I pair and track them in the normal iOS FindMy app. Haven't been using them long enough to know how long the batteries last, but they advertise >1 year and they still all report pretty full batteries after a few months of usage, so I'm hopeful.

The credit card form factor ones for wallets are more expensive ($10) but can be wirelessly recharged on Qi chargers.
> Where have I heard this before?

Maybe in EU legislation where this privileged access is now mandated by law for every certified fact checker.

Although these aren't conventional fact checkers, they just "flag" content.

> Trusted flaggers are public and private actors with privileged access to internet platforms through which they can identify illegal and harmful content. Before DSA, trusted flaggers existed as a voluntary system.

https://www.techpolicy.press/building-trust-in-the-digital-s...

> diverse funding streams

They are not independent enough and would develop their own interests.

> narrative of persecution that serves fascistic rhetorical goals.

Yeah, fascists are known to flag content too. Otherwise this is complete conjecture.

> no institution can be trusted

No institution, which will always be dependent on government funding and special legislation, can be trusted to moderate internet content. That much is true.
You're describing the belief value.
Zoho have a free plan we have been using for years for business, 5 emails, each 5 GB.
I'm going to take a different view on this.

I travelled a lot circa 2008-10 in and around Asia and recently I've been uploading all those old travel photos to Google Photos simply because every day it randomly pops up pictures from a place I once visited.

Even the bad photos I took back then (I didn't have a great camera) are way better at keeping those memories alive than I would have expected, they may not be the best, but I was there and I took them.
The libraries your "production code" depends on have types just as complex as the one in TFA if not even more. Based on this judgement, I'm willing to bet the author has more "actual knowledge" of TypeScript than you.

Try reading the types in popular libraries like zod, openapi-ts, tanstack router, etc.
It exists, and that’s called a video editor.
iTerm2 is on 45ms and more in this measuring: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

There, it's distinct in that other terminals have lower latency on the same system.
Interested to know the human/AI split in creating this. I think it's clear an LLM had at least a heavy hand in making this game.

Was the entire app generated from prompts?
I am building a merge resolution tool (web application) that fully integrates with Github. It'll be soon available in a closed-alpha. Anyone interested in this area, feel free to send me an email.
I'm having trouble understanding the difference between this tech and the leading-edge AR tech like Meta's Orion glasses, which supposedly cost $10,000 to make

Why are these $500 and high-res enough to play games on? What's so much harder and costlier about the other AR glasses?
I consider it a good sign that he hasn’t completely given up. But it sure all seems shaky.
Superb application and I agree the terminal simplicity plus some minima amount of visualisation is what appeals to me.
But my online banking provides all of this plus automatic categorisation and if needed I can always export to csv.
So not sure why I would enter these manually, I guess it’s different in the US? (I live in Europe where things like easy export and account transfers are required by law)
Those videos are destined to be pure family nostalgia gold. I hope you're saving them in a format that can be easily backed up and shared with family members, both present and future.

I also suggest taking a few candid snapshots and putting them into a book at some point. Video is good, but there's something special about a physical album that you can pass down for generations. If you distribute several copies of the books to various relatives, I'd be willing to bet they'll outlast the videos in the long run.
I've been pretty happy with Ranger (https://github.com/ranger/ranger)
The beginning of the article was good, but the analysis of DeepSeek and what it means for Nvidia is confused and clearly out of the loop.

* People have been training models at <fp32 precision for many years, I did this in 2021 and it was already easy in all the major libraries.
* GPU FLOPs are used for many things besides training the final released model.
* Demand for AI is capacity limited, so it's possible and likely that increasing AI/FLOP would not substantially reduce the price of GPUs
Do you have a link? The nearest best I can find is https://www.zoho.com/de/mail/zohomail-pricing.html which is ~12 bucks a year
It's kind of sad really. Here's video of some of their troops being sent to attack on crutches, presumably either because they are short of soldiers or Putin would just prefer them dead to returning wounded. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1i6w20y/elite_russ...
Feel free to suggest it on the site here: https://aicoderlist.vercel.app/add
Whenever I come across landing pages I always wonder, how many people are the "we" and "team" really. It feels disingenuous to use these terms under such circumstances, but he's definitely not a minority doing so. It's kinda the norm, wherever we (｡ ◕ ‿ ◕ ｡) like it or not
Addsync: 2-way sync between Notion and Google Sheets
Do you know the difference between a curve and its derivative?
> The low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era has largely been picked, making truly innovative opportunities harder to find.

This is only true if you're prioritizing novelty, but a gift has been given to new startups/founders: most of the once-innovative companies have either disappeared or have plateaued and are trapped in stagnation/corporate muck.

Nearly all of the startups/companies I used to adore have embraced some version of Fortune 500 mediocrity.

Now, I think the "innovation" is taking ideas that already exist and dialing them back to what they were before all of the money, press, and massive headcounts. Products designed for the user, not for the investor or social status.

I always come back to this quote by John D. Rockefeller (which I think is dead-on): "the secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

Just look for the things that are common but have a lackluster experience. There's an overwhelming amount of products fitting that category nowadays.

Innovation doesn't have to mean something "new." For example, Linear's [1] big innovation was taking issue tracking and giving it a polished UI/UX. And guess what? People love it/are buying it.

[1] https://linear.app
Isn't back-up longhand for POP in this context?
A relative who used Concord a few times didn't comment on the space, but instead said it was the noise during flight that meant he preferred British Airways first class on a normal plane, if time wasn't essential.
Just use Meshtastic! ;-)
iPhone handles face recognition as well. Also memories provide automatic collections of note, taking into account view and sharing patterns.

I suspect the process of making photos meaningful and surfacing gems will continue to improve.

So yes, take certain kinds of photos but more than anything capture photos (and video) in highest possible quality when it doesn’t disrupt experiences.
isn't this a copy of https://www.flagle.io ?
> The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.

Sorry, but that’s not true at all. It doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Who is replacing the CEO of a company with AI? The board? The board doesn’t want/can’t run the company. They will hire someone to “run the CEO AI”? Won’t that just be a CEO using AI? Maybe that makes it so the CEO is paid less Because now they just run OpenCEOv4? I don’t see it happening though. Also a very large portion of the day to day of CEO level execs at those big companies interpersonal and/or performative. You won’t be replacing that with AI anytime soon. You still need a face of it at the end of the day.
Show HN: Waply – AI Assistant for Reminders and Calendar in WhatsApp
Fellow Hackers, wanted to share Waply, we are just climbing out of Beta, and would love for a broader audience to try us out.

With Waply, it takes 5 secs to manage your schedule in WhatsApp using text or voice notes

What you could write.
-Eg: “Dinner tuesday at 8pm”
-Eg: “Remind me every tuesday to call parents”
-Eg: “Review meeting, tomorrow 3pm, invite john@gmail.com"

No App downloads involved, start at https://waply.co/. Optionally, can connect to your calendar.

We built this for busy hackers/professionals who live on WhatsApp, and want to get organized faster.
We've used an artifact store like Aritifactory to store the generated / expanded K8s yaml files, ending up with three pieces:
1) A versioned and packaged config generation system that your dev ops team owns. You'd have test and production versions of this that all applications use in their CI pipeline.
2) A templated input configuration that describes the unique bits per service (this configuration file is owned by each application team)
3) The output of #1 applied to #2, versioned in an artifact store that is generated by the CI pipeline.

And finally, a Kustomize step can be added at the end to support configuration that isn't supported by #1 and #2, without requiring teams to generate all the K8s config pieces by hand.
I remember downloading this on a 9.6kbaud modem from a local BBS... and being absolutely blown away by it! My little brother played it to death, so much so that it inspired my first attempt at a game - "kill jazz", where you simply kill Jazz many times over.
I’ve been meaning to toy with smaller form factors. In theory a lot of gadgets with a battery could be made trackable.
NVDA is valued at $3.5 trillion, which means investors think it will grow to around $1 trillion in yearly revenue. Current revenue is around $35 billion per quarter, so call it $140 billion yearly. Investors are betting on a 7x increase in revenue. Not impossible, sounds plausible but you need to assume AMD, INTC, GOOG, AMZN, and all the others who make GPUs/TPUs either won't take market share or the market will be worth multiple trillions per year.
Thank you! I wanted a machine that could play both MS-DOS and Windows 9x games with good performance, so I set myself the goal of trying to get the coolest hardware up to 1999.

- Pentium 2 at 300 MHz

- 384 MB of RAM

- Nvidia TNT2 Ultra

- Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (the last ISA model, a PITA to get it working because modern ATX power supplies don't provide the -5V required by ISA cards, so I had to find an old enough PSU)

- 32 GB CompactFlash

- The cheapest CD drive, floppy drive, PS/2 keyboard and ball mouse, and speakers that I could find at my nearest junk store

- Sony Multiscan E200 that I got for free from a very generous office colleague!

- A proper beige box

- Windows 98 SE

The total cost was around 300 bucks, with the AWE64 being the most expensive component at 100 bucks. Not cheap, but well worth it for the nostalgia trip.

I would also like to find a Voodoo and a GUS, but they are ridiculously expensive nowadays.
I appreciate you expressing this concern. Now I realize the connection might not be clear to everyone.

The article is about Proton "is now the resistance tool of choice in authoritarian regimes trying to control the internet". IMO such position requires Proton to be politically neutral so users have more confidence for the service.
I really wish people would stop using medium.com. There is no real benefit, it is so easy to host a website and Medium keeps paywalling content that other people have written.
Depends. I wouldn’t want to work in the oil industry if I could avoid it. But I’m sure it could be greenwashed, even to myself. I’d have no second thoughts about working in defense (I’m from a small country on Russia’s doorstep, not the US if that matters), quite the opposite it would be filled with interesting technical problems I’m sure. But defense usually has terrible wfh policies.
This is such a comprehensive analysis, thank you. For someone just starting to learn about the field, it’s a great way to understand what’s going on in the industry.
The state agency with the same mandate… which is what is already happening. No reason to duplicate that effort federally.
This is a local health issue, the local equivalent is doing the work here.
They are quite good. I get mine on AliExpress and the batteries have been lasting for at least a couple of months now.
AI there, you're nicked! Tech is reshaping how we fight crime
If you place experts in different GPUs

Right, this is described in the Deepseek V3 paper (section 3.4 on pages 18-20).