skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently used Hurl to create a test suite for migrating a complex Nginx configuration to Caddy and it was a great choice!

I ran Caddy replacing the upstreams with mockbin-like services (don't remember which one I used) so it would respond with information about the request made by the proxy, so Hurl could make assertions on that.
Agreed. We need both.
C# really benefited from the trail that Java broke, and has stumbled in similar areas, notably the UI space. I know people who love Blazor but it's not for me. MAUI just looks like MSFT's latest cover fire & delay strategy; not going to get me again. But if you're writing primarily backend code in modern .Net C# is very productive, refreshingly lightweight, pretty much complete and has great tooling and lots of taleneted developers in the ecosystem.
Like Microsoft windows Recall maybe

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-ste...
The first 10m is the hardest. The last 10m is a cakewalk.
The reason I started Yaak was because of what happened after I sold it. What makes you think I'd do that again?
I guess deepseek banned themselves from new signups from outside China…
Yeah! Been to Kubecon EU twice, I think you're right. Valencia and Amsterdam. Way too expensive, corporate and marketing(ish) in my view. I couldn't have gone without employer's support. It's not the same crowd one would meet at these events though.
Please provide a citation for that
Who determines who gets access to what information? The OpenAI board? Sam? What qualifies as dangerous information? Maybe it’s dangerous to allow the model to answer questions about a person. What happens when limiting information becomes a service you can sell? For the right price anything can become too dangerous for the average person to know about.
Digital Image Sensor Evolution and New Frontiers
those would be totally different isbns. to connect the related editions you'd probably need to get something like the FBR records for each work and idk if anna's archive has related books like that?
This was one of the first things I encountered while dabbling in Zig. I spent a few hours digging through examples in the standard library and googling to see how you're supposed to pass a writer.

My day job is with TypeScript, so "any" gives me some heartache, but it seems unwarranted because Zig verifies the correctness at compile time. I won't make any claims to really understand Zig yet, but it was enough to make me feel comfortable with continuing to learn it.
Just like remote work, this turns into a culture war issue every time (and the comments turn into a cesspit). I really wish people would stop arguing and let the market show us what's actually more effective.
Building a Verifiable Logical Clock for P2P Networks
What are virtual shares exactly? Do you mean you are promised shares before the company goes public?
I’m seeing a lot of tools that looks like they require quite a bit of manual intervention. I feel like this Twitter post is trying to pretend they just sit back while all of these agents and churning away. In my experience it’s more like trying to keep a bunch of plates spinning.

It really feels like he just cherry-picked a bunch of tools that claim to do a job, but I don’t believe for a second he’s actually getting value out of all of these or that the time commitment to get the value is worth it.

Also I’ve yet to see a coding tool that can make more than toy projects without a developer watching closely at nearly every step. Aider is amazing and I love using it, it speeds up development and lets me try crazy things then backtrack if I don’t like the results but I’ve seen what happened if you try to only prompt-code with with, the results are not great.
Chrono: A Peer-to-Peer Network with Verifiable Causality
Dead on arrival, as the author concludes. Why is it making the frontpage?

Looking forward to BEV versions.
That is itself one of the problems of the day.
If you would like to see the CoT process visualized, try the “Improve prompt” feature in Anthropic console. Also check out https://github.com/getAsterisk/deepclaude
Almost everyone has HSV-1, and most don’t ever have outbreaks or any noticeable symptoms.
Congrats on the launch! I think integrations would be great, this notes could be a common place to aggregate everything and act as an AI agent to fill data in other places too!
I think that's an apt comparison. And, perhaps like The Prisoner, there may not really ben an "answer" that is revealed in the end.

I somewhat worry that the show is all atmosphere, no story. Like, is the writer really winging it at this point? We've certainly seen enough shows where that was the case. Premise with no payoff.

But perhaps I should just give up looking for various threads to be tied up — even stop looking for clear metaphors and just enjoy the ... vibe?
This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus...

Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas...

(https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/)

Lots of other data sets are disappearing too:

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-s...

There is active discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

as well as at https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/
I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you for the feedback. Yes, I'm working on adding CLI support as well as support for other IDEs. Regarding the query string, you could just use a regular form:
`get https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2`
or (if you already specified a base url)
`get /users?page=2`
Data and Diversity: Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois [video]
A "visual" component for the Kitty terminal emulator. That is, a program meant to imitate the "selection" mode in Tmux, which is also akin to Vim's visual mode. To put it simply, it allows for the selection of text in the Kitty terminal using only the keyboard, while using Nvim in the backend to process the keystrokes and do the actual text selection which I then replicate in the terminal.

Link here: https://notabug.org/paone/kitty-visual

Granted, I'm pretty sure most people here have made far more complex tools (including ones that I use on the daily). But this was not only my first "serious" program, as it also was my first Ruby program. And I was pretty proud of it when finally got it done, especially the code that allowed for calling Nvim API functions as if they were just normally declared methods.

There is probably some rough edges on it still, as I don't really use it anymore (have since switched back to using Tmux), but for a good while it saved me a lot of hassle when copy-pasting inside Kitty. And it even supports block selection, something that, as far I know, Tmux visual mode can't do.

Oh, and please don't mind the Git commit messages, as I said, I was starting out and have since adopted a much better style.
I assume you've never seen AES written in vbscript? Generally, the thought process goes: This thing needs AES, I want to talk to it, I know $language, and wikipedia has the algorithm. The idea that AES is there for a reason ( like security) never enters the thought process.

Someone is building a shed, not a whole building, and stopped listening to real builders with their nitpicky rules long ago. It works great, until the shed has grown into a skyscraper without anybody noticing, and an unexpected and painfull lesson about 'load bearing' appears.
Somalia by most measures was more prosperous without a government than with one. So yes we want, metaphorically, somalia.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01475...
> growth

It's an http client... Itonically I think curl has grown to become so pervasive that it's common parlance to "curl something" to a large extent because haxx thankfully has a radically different approach.
what are your favorite events? :)
would you be twice as productive working 80 hours a week as you are at 40?

surely there's diminishing returns, and it doesn't seem obvious that 40 is the sweet spot.
Definitely but when you can run this in places like Azure with tight contracts it makes little sense except for the ultra paranoid.
I used OpenAI's O3-mini to create a trading strategy. It's DESTROYING the market
I wrote this step-by-step guide on how to use O3-mini to create, test, and deploy an algorithmic trading strategy. In my test, I showed that the strategy created by O3 beats the market in every metric, including sharpe ratio, sortino ratio, and percent change.

What are your thoughts?
Ruby on Rails Hosting Services
It's called spread in Javascript [0], where the keyword is `...`.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Somewhere here on HN a few years back there was a submission regarding a tear-down of the Apple Lightning to 3.5mm headphones adapter.

The findings concluded the product was insanely good value for money and was on par with mid/high end DAC.
Apple isn’t unique. There’s all sorts of products like that. Concert tickets, sports events, recreation permits, and especially video game stuff.

People camped out when the Nvidia RTX 30xx series launched a few years back. There was a massive line of people, a real wtf moment. That’s just a graphics card.
I'm reminded of teenagers chasing the Beatles from their limos to the hotel entrance.

"Customers"? "Brand"?
Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship
Homecooked Snapchat
With a combination of Musk's proposed spending cuts and Trump's tariffs they may be able to achieve something like that for the US.
Yes, Tauri isn't that much different than Electron. I also bundles Node JS to power Yaak's plugin system, which makes it even more similar.

I think Electron gets a bad rep mostly because big companies use it to build low quality apps.
The person I was replying to was lamenting about "naturally good-looking people", you're talking about chronically online people.

Different conversations.
> One thing I appreciate about C# and .NET is how well they resist codebase rot.

During the time I was working with .net from 2005-2020, I saw the transition from Webforms to ASP.NET MVC to the MVC/WebAPI split. I also saw the transition from Linq2SQL to Entity Framework.

There was also the weird time when you could run ASP.Net Core and EF Core on top of .Net Framework.

Then the entire .Net Framework to .Net Core was a major upheaval.
No, I think it's the way they call them in the industrial sector. You have "wheel excavator" or "track excavator" depending on its ways of movement.
Has anyone run any benchmarks on the quantized (non-distilled) versions?
Pregnancy does the opposite of boosting the immune system system
> Please note that my translation process above is focused on quality, not on speed. If I needed to translate a large volume of text more quickly, I would write a program to do the translation, checking, and rechecking through API calls, accepting the fact that I would not be able to check and polish the translation manually as I do now.

Would you still expect this to produce a better result than Deepl or other purpose-built translation software?
I am not a cryptography expert but even I know it's wrong that a company I worked at stored passwords in plaintext because my boss told me, customers call in to ask for their password and supports happily gives it to them.

When I rolled my eyes up, I soon got a termination.
Would it be possible to achieve the same 8 hours of operation between charges?
> is a waste of time

Why? You still have to brainstorm the core concept. 15 mins on paper vs 15 mins of talking. I like the idea though
I recently saw a company that uses the 4-day week with 9 hours a day. Skipped right there.
No company can rest on its laurels, even one the size of Meta. No one said LoC increases users or revenue, implementing ideas does though. If Meta decides to use the benefits of AI to keep the current productivity and cut staff instead of increasing productivity, they will eventually be displaced by a group that went the other way.
> On top of that, most infra tooling—Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Terraform—is written in Go, so choosing Go for the backend comes with a ton of advantages over C#.

Not once have I ever had to interact with these technologies in a way that would benefit from my application using the same language. The language they are written in is irrelevant.
Sick people make others sick.

And few people know how to be healthy, so they are utterly unprotected.

That is how the callously cruel and ungrateful spread their misery around, however unconsciously.

Waking up is not a bogeyman to be feared but a urgent need for survival. No human being can survive their first years without compassion; we need to realize that compassion is essential for the survival of our entire world society.

The only other possibility is to let the brutally selfish and callous control the world.
Show HN: We're building a desktop app for browser-based AI agents
What's up HN!

This is Jared and Art. We met on HN and started building together.

Over the last few months we've been thinking a lot about how AI agents are going to impact the future. We want agents to be something that's actually useful for normal people as well as the 10x'ers. This lead us to building Meha over the last few months, our first swing at our vision! We saw OpenAI release Operators then we said f*k it let's post.

Meha is a desktop app that uses your Chrome browser to execute tasks in the background. It controls your installed Chrome browser and uses LLMs with playwright to plan and execute actions to accomplish your task. You get to see each planning step the bot is doing and have access to its long term memory.

Meha also uses its own file system and can export files for download. Another thing we've been focused on in multi-agent workflows and Meha can run many bots at the same time. One of the reasons why we can ship this for free in the mean time is because of how cheap the agents are. But we are planning to have a Pro version for power users. We prefer not to raise since we're against VC funding.

We have been influenced by a lot of concepts in probabilistic robotics and RL to develop a fairly robust 'agentic' framework. As well as an algorithm for efficiently converting/compressing large html pages into a semantic format. If you're interested we will open source this asap in an SDK (will work with all OpenAI API spec LLMs and with llama.cpp) let us know.

We're currently in beta and working on figuring out what this product will become and super stoked! Let us know what you think. To get access to Meha we have links on our discord to download (Both MacOS and Windows is available). Please give us all the feedback/criticism (even if you hate AI).

Link to Meha: https://meha.ai
This is really not the same thing at all.

sp::primitive_array holds memory following the Arrow specification, which can be operated upon in place from e.g. ArrowCpp, PyArrow, etc.
I watched a video recently that briefly mentions Palantir, though only in passing. I only recall this because the video had some incredibly alarming tidbits about billionaires stating their goals of "corporation states" unironically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
My music visualizer.

Unity for the actual visualizer.

Song uploads via flutter web.

Firebase for storing content, AWS for transcribing lyrics.

I think I have 3 different programming languages in this stack. C#, Dart, JavaScript. Might have a bit of python for the aws lambdas too.

I don't know if I'd build this again today.
Nice but I feel there will be a lot of open-source "bring your own key" equivalents soon, since this is basically just putting Whisper in front of a MCP server
Other sources have pointed out that this will not help agriculture at this time, and just throws away water which might be sorely needed later in the year. In addition, the way it was performed risked damaging the downstream water-distribution infrastructure.

At best, this is just another example of the sort of nonsense we can expect from an administration which will not speak sense to power, but it could also be seen as a thinly-veiled threat to California and all other states dependent on resources controlled by the federal government.
>...zero-emission...

In other words, emission, but hidden further up the supply chain.
That was my question too, honestly.

Why is soatok filing the issue if they are unwilling to explain it in a way that doesn't drive traffic to their blog?

Filing an issue and subsequently refusing to elaborate is also awfully suspect.
No, I am not playing the guessing game, they are. I am choosing to not play a game that didn’t exist 3 years ago because it’s unnecessary. This is literally a first world, English language only language fad. Y’all want to play it, have fun, I won’t get in your way. However let’s not pretend that you are somehow virtuous because you’re playing the game…but I am not because I am watching it amused on the sideline.
ACL: the trickiest part was the surprisingly few lines of dense code that performed inclusions and exclusions of various lists (allow, deny, omit). Sure it was complicated also in the way it interfaces everywhere as seamlessly and unobtrusively while still being eminently useful.

Configuration management stack: this I got multiple cracks at throughout my time, ultimately what it sounds like. From fs through db and cache; cascading layers from defaults, installation, instance, profile, and running settings. And acts like an ordinary associative array everywhere used.

Though there are other examples of self rolling solutions for heterogeneous systems deployment (before ansible and piper).

What was most complex in all of this was keeping things in the end very simple.
From the FAQ:

> > Why am I being offered deferred resignation?

> The federal workforce is expected to undergo significant near-term changes. As a result of these changes (or for other reasons), you may wish to depart the federal government on terms that provide you with sufficient time and economic security to plan for your future — and have a nice vacation.
I wish it was clearly communicated if a series was fully planned and with a final ending, or not. The best series I know are selfcontained, single season series with a clear overall story telling.
I like the idea of using one's native language and Portuguese is not far from mine so I kind of understand the README.
But unfortunately, it is what it is, providing it in Engligh would probably make it more accessible to the HN community.
Excellent catch. The std::move in the snippet is a copy-paste mistake. It was carried over from the previous code snippet.
~10 years ago, the big hotel brands (IHG/Hilton/Marriott/Hyatt) required their franchisees to install professional networking equipment from vendors like Cisco Meraki or Aruba, to be managed externally by one of the brand's approved network managers (e.g. WorldVue).

It shouldn't be the wild west at those places.
This does not only affect the obvious ideological targets of purging any mention of DEI or gender. One section that is missing seems to be the official vaccine recommendations.

Go to the ACIP page (https://www.cdc.gov/acip/) and click on the "Vaccine-specific recommendations".

Other affected topics are HIV prevention, birth control/contraception, domestic violence and probably many more.
This doesn’t address OP‘s concern at all about the quality degrading as the number of tokens reaches the maximum memory size or perhaps surpasses it.
Why is webview a problem? I hear this a lot but not sure why (with the exception of gtk WebKit on Linux which has legit perf issues). We’re on web right now and I’ve never heard anyone complain hackernews is sluggish and that they want a native app instead (or rather 5 native apps minimum for the big OSs).
You can run a quantized version of the model to reduce the memory requirements, and you can do partial offload, where some of the model is on GPU and some is on CPU. If you are running a 70B Q4, that’s 40-ish GB including some context cache, and you can offload at least half onto a 3090, which will run its portion of the load very fast. It makes a huge difference even if you can’t fit every layer on the GPU.
Yes, it's better to just deactivate your FB account (and also Messenger).
I don't know about the first, but slavery in America was certainly a cult of ignorance (and huge profit) that Black folks weren't human beings deserving of dignity and compassion.

You missed the big one, though: personal gas-powered vehicles (over mass transit). They chose profit (and waste and pollution) over mass transit systems, and we are all (the entire world) paying the price for their selfish "business sensibilities".
I happen to be of the opinion that Rust programs tend to heavily overuse monomorphization. It's not always so clear cut that it's worth gaining a slight amount of runtime speed in exchange for losing a massive amount of compilation speed and binary size.

What I'd love is a language which is able to compile 'impl TraitName' into dynamic dispatch in debug mode and only monomorphize it in release mode.

Basically, an automation of this technique: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
With used GPUs do you have to be concerned that they're close to EOL due to high utilization in a Bitcoin or AI rig?
There's a whole village in North Wales that's Prisoner themed
Serfdom sounds pretty reasonable. No taxes means no redistribution of wealth, leading to a few growing richer and richer, because of accumulated advantages. While the majority go porer and porer, eventuellt might have to work all the time to be able to buy food and pay the rent, scared of protesting against an abusive employer.

That's a kind of serfdom. Not literally the same thing but ...

Look up "the working poor", is a little bit already a reality to some
Knowledge work does require time where you are mulling over the problem, rather than executing, but that isn’t downtime. Reducing working hours, in most cases, will reduce time spent doing both those tasks.

If Tolkien took an additional day off each week, it absolutely would have increased the time taken to complete his works.
I think you're getting cause and effect mixed up, a kind of cargo cult error.

You seem to think nuclear failed because we didn't go with breeder reactors. But the reality is the opposite: we didn't get breeder reactors because nuclear failed. The justification for breeder development was that uranium was going to run out real soon (with everyone building cheap-as-dirt nuclear power plants), and breeders would then have a big market as uranium prices rose.

But nuclear was too expensive, so the build out was aborted. Uranium has remained at a price level at which breeder reactors (or even reprocessing to make MOX fuel for burner reactors) cannot be justified. In the time scale of operation of any existing reactor, or any reactor we could build today, uranium is projected to remain cheap enough for this still to hold.

That even France has mothballed its breeder program, saying publicly there would be no market for such reactors before the second half of this century, should be evidence breeders weren't some sort of panacea for the problems of nuclear. They were a solution to a hypothetical problem that failed to arise.
Clicked the link and quickly learned it was not about Change Data Capture...
I just tried with ChatGPT, spoke freely for a few minutes and asked it to create action items. It worked really well.
Fair... too fair for HN. ;)
This would actually be a great place for capturing change data....