skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to bring up the face that llama.cpp has an MIT license[0]. Notably, the MIT license "permits reuse within proprietary software, provided that all copies of the software or its substantial portions include a copy of the terms of the MIT License and also a copyright notice.[1]"

You'll find that Ollama is also distributed under an MIT license[2]. It's fine to disagree with their priorities and lack of transparency. But trying to argue how they use code from other repositories that permit such a thing is tilting at windmills, IMHO.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/LICENSE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

[2] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/LICENSE
I do not think the mechanism from the vaccine and an actual virus are the same...
> And a clicking too.

You should get a check-up, when I heard clicking I had some wax accumulation.
Tesla Unveils Autonomous Cleaning Robot for Robotaxi
Apparently, cruelty toward animals is a predictor for becoming a serial killer. That may be correlation not causality, but it would probably be wise to steer children away from such activity.
Is this a new wave of “may be” concessionists among institutions and scientists?
Describing the Curta calculator as having been made “in Austria starting in the 1930s” is a wild way to gloss over the fact that its creator, Curt Herzstark, was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and was forced to design and manufacture it for the Nazi forces[1].

This article, which starts by lamenting the “injustice” of “expansionist” historians, sure makes an interesting effort to ignore the actual history of one of its subjects.

[1] https://newatlas.com/curta-death-camp-calculator/45506/
No, he didn't say that. Don't misquote.
Thanks, I had no idea. It was the standard when I was growing up in the UK.

It looks like it is no longer standard issue here.
Ask HN: History of the F2 "edit cell" hotkey in Excel?
Hi HN,

I recently had a younger colleague bemoan the awkwardness of using the F2 keyboard shortcut for something as frequent as editing a cell. It's such powerful muscle memory for me after 30+ years -- even on laptop keyboards -- that I don't really notice it.

I also grew up playing videogames where the F-keys were frequently used as hotkeys, whereas now I think they might feel vestigial to many people.

I poked around a bit for some apocryphal stories about when this hotkey was introduced and how it has been conserved for so long, but didn't find much.

I guess I'm just wondering -- does anyone here have any juicy F2-related trivia? :)
From https://a16z.com/andrew-chen/ it seems this person failed at running a company that his rich friends had invested in and then they kept him around as some kind of consultant.

I'm not so sure it's the kind of person I would turn to for advice on anything.
I'm using dbus on Artix without systemd. No idea how but it's there.

Dbus itself is another questionable service IMO but it got baked in rather a long time ago and is harder to replace.
The highest ranking treasury official was forced to resign for denying one of the Musk Youths - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk...
These two threads have many sources showing the individual right was not the prevailing understanding, but that it was taken for granted.

https://x.com/2aHistory/status/1712209761171612093
https://x.com/MorosKostas/status/1645290263299117056
> I think it’s a little early to call the end

I don't. This has been a long, gradual erosion of constitutional rights, and now the system has crumbled. It may appear to stand, but it's merely resting on the rubble.

SCOTUS is going to rule with GOP doctrine, regardless of what the constitution says. The GOP may pursue legal avenues for their actions in an attempt to not make it so apparent that the country is now under single party, totalitarian rule. But they don't have to (see: news).

It started with minor constitutional violations, like emoluments, and has ended with blatant ones, such as attacking birthright citizenship.
Distillation Dilemma – Killing Napster won't save the music industry
> [Distro-specific build systems are] probably the biggest barrier to me shipping software on Linux.

Don’t[1]. Ship source tarballs (or VCS tags).

I’ll grant that most distros’ build systems are antiquated and, in places, silly. (That includes Nixpkgs, first released 2006.) We could really use some fresh ideas there.

But they’re also not for you (or me) in your (or my) capacity as a software author. They’re there for a person who works on packaging software for, most of the time, a single distro, and their balance of complexity and flexibility is calibrated accordingly. One of the functions of that person is also to keep you honest and represent the interests of users before you, because they have more expertise than the users but not as much of an attachment to your software as you. The ecosystem is less healthy when the author tries to fill in for the packager.

“But then the users will come to my bugtracker to complain about bugs in patched versions!” Pre-Google, we used to have a solution for that: a configure option to set the bug reporting email, present in all GNU software. Nowadays it’s not clear what a good solution could be, but it does seem like, unfortunately, the author will have to maintain a table of packager contact information for the end users.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let-distros-do-their-job....
I don't really mind medical procedures like that. The time I got punched at Elephant Butte Lake and got stitches at the emergency room I went into a deeply relaxed state that scared the nurse because she thought I'd fallen asleep. Even the noise of an MRI machine is not that startling if you know it is coming.
> they believe diversity itself is part of the problem (whether admitted or not).

they admit it. President Trump stated unambiguously that the recent crash and tragic loss of life is due to DEI hires, even though all the pilots and air traffic controllers involved were able-bodied white (presumably
heterosexual and cis-gendered) men.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvmdm1m7m9o

> Asked by a reporter how he could blame diversity programmes for the crash when the investigation had only just begun, the president responded: "Because I have common sense."
The topic is not "taboo". In an organization where compensation is based on non-anonymous peer review, you cannot have a person going around with their thesis that women are objectively inferior engineers. That person has to be fired (directly into the sun, when practical).
I requested an invite. Would love to join this, I've been a professional gamedev for about half of my career.

My confirmation link was a link to Tentacle Typer's steam page.

edit: thanks for the invite.
122 points 2 hours ago yet this is currently #38 and not on the front page.

Strange. At the same time I see numerous items that are on the front page posted 2 hours or older with fewer points.

I'm willing to take a reputation hit on this meta post. I wonder why this got demoted so quickly from front page despite people clearly voting on it. I wonder if it has anything to do with being backed by YC.

I sincerely hope it's just my miss understanding of hn algorithm though
Running NPU-Optimized DeepSeek R1 Models Locally on Copilot+ PCs
Self awareness is a virtue.

A super majority of developers are engaged in labor meant to replace non-developers with robots. We shouldn't really complain when the reaper comes for us.
I had the privilege to attend a talk by Jun Ye, one of Hall's previous advisees, a few months back about frequency combs. I really felt honored meeting the person who is so tapped into the work being done at JILA. Lots of amazing, mind bending work.
The boarding school theme may be part of something universal in children's literature. I think it's common across cultures to find a way to place young heroes away from parental influence to allow them some independence. Sending the kids to boarding school is a lot gentler than killing their parents.
Qwen2.5-Plus
yes, but it's all really friggin' old at this point, and just a part of the shit was really expensive back in the day.
I think you meant that businesses have focused on maximizing utilization. It turns out that this is the wrong thing to focus on. Even if you don't care about creativity or innovation, from a purely economic standpoint it's more important to minimize process step queue length instead of maximizing resource utilization.

http://celeritaspublishing.com/books/
I tested DeepSeek against domestic AI chatbots to see if Nvidia is screwed
Property and sovereignty in space − disputes as countries, companies go to space
First sign of decline of a super power if it no longer feels super(ior).
You have to be careful with that kind of logic because you can accidentally convince yourself to believe anything with it. Sometimes even true things. You'll find this logic in every mainstream conspiracy group because it works so well for dismissing anything that disagrees with the conspiracy.

This is word for word what racists believe— that black people are interior, they have data to show it, and that political correctness is keeping people from admitting this truth inconvenient to their ideology.
I can't remember where I saw it, but it was a split-screen view of the code being highlighted as it ran line by line, with the result being printed out on the right-hand side of the screen.

It's sort of like this: https://visualgo.net/en/sorting
> Detonating a 81 Gt nuclear device could cause a global catastrophe if done improperly.

But it would probably be a lot more affordable than the other suggestions involving thousands of planes spraying sulfur dioxide every day for the rest of eternity.
Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
Hi! I've been building a debugger on my nights and weekends because it's fun, and I personally need a better debugger for my work. GDB and LLDB pain me greatly; we can and will do better!

As explained in the README, it's still very early-days and it's not ready for use yet, but check back often because it's improving all the time!

Check out https://calabro.io/uscope for a more detailed explanation.

Thanks for taking a look!
These comments seem reasonable to me. Could you clarify the Ollama maintainers' POV wrt. the recent discussion of Ollama Vulkan support at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886680 ? Many people seem to be upset that this PR seems to have gotten zero acknowledgment from the Ollama folks, even with so many users being quite interested in it for obvious reasons. (To be clear, I'm not sure that the PR is in a mergeable state as-is, so I would disagree with many of those comments. But this is just my personal POV - and with no statement on the matter from the Ollama maintainers, users will be confused.)

EDIT: I'm seeing a newly added comment in the Vulkan PR GitHub thread, at https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/5059#issuecomment-2628... . Quite overdue, but welcome nonetheless!
Great story. Halcyon days. Was Garcia playing on the kit for a purpose or just fun? Did he create anything that was seen anywhere?
You can't post like this here, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
This is possible with this newly released version. Just add this to your config.

keybind = "cmd+.=text:\x03"
Since there are no strict OS dependency I can see, has anyone tried to compile this and run it on Windows?
> an incentive to hoard money

That’s a funny phrase and one that I think deserves ridicule.

Society should value savings, in fact historically prosperity is the result of savings and every fall from prosperity is accompanied by artificially low interest rates and low saving rates.

I don’t see how people would differentiate savings from hoarding when infinite compound debasement is supposedly the “smart” policy.

To be clear, I think people that say "hoarding" is bad, really mean to say that they think "saving" is bad and that they should identify as champions of consumerism.
Wikisource has a much better scan, via the Library of Congress: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-.... And a transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book

The Internet Archive scan is poor quality because it is from the BiM (Books in Microfilm) collection, which is expansive and a huge cultural value, but also is made up of scans of black and white microfilms which is a rather lossy way to store book scans. But it made a lot of sense before computers!

The SiM (Serials in Microfilm) is really a treasure: https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm

It was multiple literal truckloads of microfilm canisters, with 500 million pages of material in 27000 canisters: https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG...
More to the point, there is still chromosome structure when the cell is normal mode, expressing proteins instead of replicating itself. It's just it is spread apart, probably like a pop-up book where "pages" will snap open and become accessible for transcription as part of gene regulation and other times will be folded up so genes in that section aren't expressed.

Some of the reason it is tough to make GMO products that are really effective is that it's not enough to put a gene in and have it expressed a little, you want to have it expressed a lot. For instance the first version of Golden Rice produced Vitamin A but not enough to matter, it took several years to make one that expressed the genes strongly enough that it made significant amounts of Vitamin A.
Indeed, I upvoted that response to me, but I should have said as much. This is the book I couldn't remember the name of for the life of me. Really good book.
I fail to understand what new idea is the author trying to convey.

Can someone please help me figure out what I'm missing?
Stablecoins linked to USD do not reduce the effectiveness of US monetary policy. In that sense they are fundamentally different from Bitcoin.

Things look very different from the point of view of all other countries of course.
> China does not respects it's citizens, they treat them like cattle.

the US is trying to catch up in that race now. see how they treat their women wrt reproductive health.
Subversion is key. Remember when "performance" was the key reason for moving to systemd (scripts are sooo slow). To subvert, you need some lever and the chink in the armor to break in.
> There are multiple distros devoted to not moving to systemd

Yes and zero have wide spread adoption outside of specific use cases (e.g. Alpine with containers, Android with its.. slop).

As far as base distros go, only RHEL and Debian have any wide spread impact and both use systemd.

> so this was a purely political choice to spite their own linux user base.

It's possible the old system exists as a fallback, but it wouldn't surprise me if its not guaranteed to stay around. People aren't required to support other peoples choices unless you pay them.
Musk didn’t do a nazi salute.

The gesture he did is both mechanistically different, and contextually different.

It’s only people who are convinced a priori that he’s a Nazi who seem to contort his awkward gesture to fit that narrative.
I don’t get the reference, is this about LLMs?
It looks like 70% of the posts there are from bmonkey325 and most threads have no replies. I wouldn't call it active.
probably not if it's LMDB-based (at least for writes)
Who knows. But the hoopla seems to have created a nice Streisand effect :-)
Ask HN: What can we do to support change in the US with our skillset?
At this point I'm convinced we're headed towards more extreme humanitarian crimes. I already consider the current administration's posturing on Climate Change to be humanitarian & ecological terrorism (from both parties; but of course, emphasis on the GOP). I also believe we are headed towards a genocide against hispanic & trans people, the only variable is to what extent.

I don't care much to debate these facts & predictions; I will if you want, but this isn't really the forum for that conversation. What I'm here to ask is what to do about it. I'm willing to go stand in the rain and protest but I feel like there should be something more productive I can do as an engineer. Charity projects? Making data more accessible somehow? Or easily digestible? Any ideas? Fact checking systems?

Anything?
> The AI Act is a big set of legislation which is interesting and impactful. Why would we not set dedicated time aside to talk about it?

Well, in other parts of the world you have people talking about progress and how to advance the human species while in the EU we have people talking about how to regulate every minute detail of human life. You can't get any more telling than that.

> I support GDPR and believe sometimes disruption is needed to safeguard individuals' interests.

GDPR has completely failed at that. Individuals' interests and privacy are worse off than they were before GDPR.

Small companies are burdened with byzantine rules that achieve nothing to improve users' privacy while the worst offenders - large conglomerates and authorities - simply don't care. The latter are largely exempt from GDPR anyway while the former have huge legal departments to deal with GDPR as they see fit.
> Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name.

An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.

The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.
People may say that, although it isn't exactly hard to differentiate them. All scientific propositions/hypotheses/findings are "is" statements. Ideologies are made up of "ought" statements. There is no Venn diagram overlap
Things got delivered anyways, it's just that Java had more bumps in the road than Go. Not necessarily something that reflects on the language itself as much as it does on the ecosystem around it (and its age), as well as how it's often used. Give it a decade, one day Go developers will also know the joys of https://balusc.omnifaces.org/2015/10/the-empty-string-madnes... and the likes.
It has also reduced quality and the incremental improvements intended to happen during 'slack' time.

Pretty much why people hate Agile, what most people got is a poor mixture of Taylorism and modern organization design.

But hey, the Tableau viz looks good in the meeting!
The whole concept of 'got noticed' runs entirely contrary to the notion of merit, to an absurd degree in tech.

One does not hope to get noticed - they strive to excel on their own or by bringing others in to help them.

Your merit is not what you might achieve, but what you do achieve.
> Why is it that defeatist comments always focus on the capitalism part and not on anything else

Because endless growth is the only reason these once fun spaces have been hyper focused to be as addictive and stressful as possible to the "whales" of scrolling. That's why, when their own internal reports say "people spend unhealthy time on our platform and it's making them unhappy," it gets passed up the chain of command and whittled down by internal incentives until it dies as an issue.

Individuals hold some blame, but to put most of it on them is to ignore what growth demands. You're supposed to doomscroll and engage and worry. That's the business model. Facebook is in the same business as Cigarettes and Casinos. When I see someone on an air tank playing slots, literally crying when they spend their last dollar, I will not waste my breath blaming them. Just like I won't blame the doomscroller, anxious that they need to stay "informed," who hasn't met the basic needs in their own life.

> The minds that want to scroll are the same as the ones that make money on the scrolling

No? Where are you getting this? I don't think the people guiding these companies want to spend 6 hours scrolling TikTok. This is not the way most people live their lives.
Why would he not report the bug to the bug program that OpenAI had selected to handle those? And why did he then shop the bug around to many more third parties instead?
Basically people should do more digital art that involves "coding" where coding means "using HTML, CSS, SVG animation etc" rather than necessarily software development.
> Some things will be reversed in 4 years

Or never. We should be prepared for Term 3 (which is already being floated) or a landslide GOP win in 2026, 2028, and beyond. Expect future Presidential elections to look like '86.

You all are openly admitting that these people are evil geniuses. Keep that in mind when thinking to the future. They are going to continue their evil genius behavior and it's going to keep working.
For example, SDL 3 was officially released last week, which I think is significant. It was posted on HN, but it didn't get enough votes to be visible to me.
This is by far the humblebraggiest of any security incident report I've seen
Yes, I believe it left quite a bad taste in the mouths of many a small software house. At least those trying to compete against them with a "software" paint brush,
> and if you ever tried to do anything without them, you'd know it's impossible.

I've done plenty of things without them. All Amazon devices do everything they do without them. Same with all Android devices sold in China.
Analyzing DeepSeek's System Prompt: Jailbreaking Generative AI
For what it's worth, HuggingFace provides documentation on how you can run any GGUF model inside Ollama[0]. You're not locked into their closed library or have to wait for them to add new models.

Granted, they could be a lot more helpful in providing information on how you do this. But this feature exists, at least.

[0] https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/ollama
That is why originalists advocate the use of original public meaning, not original intent. The meaning of a law when passed as understood by a reasonable person of the era, not the intent or understanding of those who passed it.

If you read Scalia's book, he goes into great detail about this but it boils down to a) you can't read minds as a judge and b) different people voted to pass the law for different reasons, so which ones are valid?
Show HN: Tclint – chip design inspired dev tools for Tcl
I used to work at a small semiconductor startup that wrote chip design automation infrastructure in Tcl. One of our engineers wanted modern dev tooling for Tcl but couldn't find any - so I decided to build it.

Since then, I've been working on tclint in my spare time. It now includes:

- A linter (with plugins to support non-standard commands)

- A formatter

- A language server + VS Code extension

tclint is already being used at my former employer and elsewhere. I have lots of ideas for improvements, such as more linter checks, better extensibility, deeper support for chip design formats (e.g., SDC-specific linter checks), and expanding the language server.

If you write Tcl, give tclint a try! I’d love to hear if you find it useful, and I’d especially love suggestions on what would make it even better.
In 2000, 43% of the population of the US has accessed the internet. Today its 97%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/209117/us-internet-penet...