skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nissan to Reject Honda's Merger Terms, Putting Deal in Peril
A desiccated Swiss roastie will cost more than a michelin restaurant in SF.
Jaw droppingly awesome :)

Brings up a strong nostalgia from me. Around that time computers were becoming mainstream and available where I was in the UK, and I grew up acquiring old cast-off computers and tinkering. For me there was an 'assembly language masterclass' book (I was a beginner and this was my first serious tech book and I had to sink or swim) that went into a lot of 32-bit programming for the 386 (which I never had) but got me far enough along. It was that and computer magazines which were really programming magazines, which were a thing and quite popular back then.

Remember fondly how transformative it was to move from Basic to a copy of Turbo Pascal 6 and it's asm keyword that I got passed on a floppy disk in the playground.

Ah that was the time when it was just obvious that you could entertain yourself on a computer by creating things, however small, instead of just consuming them.

By the time I got computer games, I was thinking about them as programs not games and I got my entertainment by getting into the modding scene.
It's the hard sciences I feel for because they typically deliver good returns on taxpayer funded research expenditure, and are generally disciplined enough to keep their head down and focus on their work, rather than engage in culture wars.

In contrast, the humanities made their own bed. They became politically partisan, engaged in systematically discriminatory hiring practices, and routinely conduct research that the public perceive to hold little utility.

Ultimately academics need to keep in mind that they rely on the generosity of taxpayers to fund their research. If the public aren't happy that they are getting value for money they will defund these programs.

I hope that the blowback is contained to the humanities departments, but guilt by association is unfortunately a thing in politics.
You're still missing the why and more specifically how. It's not enough to tell a story full of vague assertions, you have lead the reader through what amounts to a tutorial.
It was extremely difficult to disable for a long time before it was made easy to turn it off on a website.
> Some of those meds seem perfect for this job, putting you in a very mellow, but focused state.

Many drugs, especially some anxiety medications, produce false feelings of sobriety.

I can’t believe I have to write this, but: Feeling mellow and focused from drugs does not mean you’re okay to perform well at mentally demanding or safety-critical tasks like driving or directing air traffic.
I don’t see the call to action. It describes perfectly the feeling of hopelessness I’ve had for years now. The election was the last chance and everyone blew it.
This is so naive.

Not all of government is the DMV.

Government has a massive policymaking function, which is not "robotic code-like behavior". It's about solving nuanced, challenging problems. Government has a huge research function.

And tech has created some great things, but it's also created some really terrible things, mostly because of this "move fast and break things" mentality that doesn't consider the consequences of its actions.
I think they may have locked it behind iCloud+ because one of the big features it offers is a shared photo album, which of course utilizes iCloud. Anyone without iCloud+ is essentially going to be unable to use that feature. And yeah...it also pushes people into paying for iCloud+, though you can get on the $1/mo plan in order to access this, so it's not like it's very expensive.
> It appeared to be on a good track to dethroning C++ in the domain I work in (video games)... but they locked it a while before figuring out the ergonomics to make it workable for larger teams.

There are million-line Rust projects now. Rust is obviously workable for larger teams.

> Any language that imbues the entire set of special characters (!#*&<>[]{}(); ...etc) with mystical semantic context is, imo, more interested in making its arcane practitioners feel smart rather than getting good work done.

C uses every one of those symbols.

I think you're talking about @ and ~ boxes. As I recall, those were removed the same year the iPad and Instagram debuted.
Jumping in on 3: This isn't a git thing, this is a "bad design" thing. I'm thinking it looks like a git thing because two things happened at the same time: git got popular right as there was a huge influx of juniors from a mix of bootcamps and being self-taught, who never learned how to architect their code.
partiful is destined for the trash like meetup, evite, etc. Once they need to actually make money, they’ll ruin the platform. 100% guaranteed.

it’s a great platform for the moment, enjoy it while it lasts.
Same idea comes up in The Foundation and Earth by Asimov.
Ask HN: Are you changing the way you price your SaaS product?
With the integration of LLMs into SaaS product features - this introduces a variable cost into the equation. Are you changing how you charge users?

i.e. Moving away from a seat based pricing toward usage based?
Confirmation bias. I watch one PBS news program and they cover white people's problems in rural America all the time. They just cover other people's problems as well.
DeepSeek's performance compares against other AI tools
There's also the angle that enticing the brains away from 'the west' is about denying the west something.
> There may be a very go reason to not allow anxiety medication, I don't know enough about it myself.

You’re getting downvoted because your comment is dangerously misinformed. Air traffic controllers aren’t allowed to take those anxiety medications (benzos, etc) because they impair your performance and judgment, even if you feel fine while taking them.

Don’t confuse the way a drug makes you feel with the objective impairment of a drug.
He's openly neo-reactionary for fucks sake
Location: Philippines

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Node.js, React.js

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielconcepcionph/
Email: gabriel.g.concepcion@gmail.com
I would hardly even go that far: blockchains can only enforce parameters of the blockchain. The physical world is under no obligation to respect that.

That's always been the core issue.
I’ve heard it’s all the crypto influencers jumping into the AI hype
I don't think Operation Paperclip was about "attracting".
Full title: Putting DeepSeek to the test: how its performance compares against other AI tools
I always say that Detroit feels like an European city in the late 1940s, i.e. a dense city that suffered a bombing campaign. It's really weird. And it's a shame, because what's still there can be jaw-dropping.
Infinity doesn't need to be in some "algebraic field" for it to be patently true that an infinite amount of nothing is still nothing, and that adding zero to itself over and over again for an infinitely long time will never give you a result other than zero. It's only impossible to define if you overthink it, and/or maintain a needlessly narrow definition of what a "number" is.

Or, if you really insist on speaking in mathematician-ese, an infinite series of zero is zero, and a zero-bounded summation is zero regardless of the summand:

x · y ≡ Σ(y, i = 1) x = y times { x + x + … + x } ≡ Σ(x,i=1) y = x times { y + y + … + y }

∞ · 0 ≡ Σ(0, i = 1) ∞ = 0 times { ∞ + ∞ + … + ∞ } = 0

0 · ∞ ≡ Σ(∞, i = 1) 0 = ∞ times { 0 + 0 + … + 0 } = 0

Or, if you prefer programmer-ese:

julia> i = 0
0

julia> while true
println(i)
global i += 0
end
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

...and on and on until the heat death of the universe or you hit Ctrl-C.

Either way, seems pretty straightforward to define if you have a clear definition of what multiplication is in the first place (and what either zero or infinite iterations of that definition will produce).
At one point recently, I used OSH Park to make a PCB that was exactly 1 square inch, and I felt like I was stealing money from someone with how cheap it was.

For the record, college was more than 3 years ago for me, and $33/board (last I checked) does not beat any of the other prototyping services except at very large sizes - they go up to 60 sq in for that price.
Both of those questions are relevant.
In China they are pushing automation. When you are charging $500+ a pcbs, you don't care as much.
> I chose to get into science for the benefit of the masses

why do you suppose most science benefits the masses?

a stunning amount of science is negative. homme hellinga cheating and claiming a triosephosphate isomerase, for example. stripey nanoparticles, as another. Thousands of western blots that were cleverly edited by unscrupulous postdocs. everything by diderik stapel. anil potti.

those are the ones that got caught. so many more got away with it.

and yes, if you can't tell, i know what the fuck I'm talking about.

> And to give you an example

why dont i give you an example. NIH is responsible for 80% of the budget of an NGO that collaborated with WIV and advocated for GOF research. on the grounds of likely being responsible in part for the deaths of millions worldwide maybe we should suspend funding to the NIH until all of its policies can be reviewed
Could you explain more about the "highly discriminatory and ideological" behavior you've seen? Is it across the board, in the sciences? For example, is a neurosurgery lab at UC Davis working on glioma research either discriminatory and ideologically driven?
> 1. Rust is an immensely complicated language, and it's not very composable.

It is a procedural language and as such, composition of functions is not implemented easily, if at all possible. It is a shame for sure that such powerful techniques are not possible in Rust, but for some people it is worth the trade off.
This is a great read - thanks for sharing. This provides valuable context to this whole situation that I was wholly unaware of.
Don't states have their own DOE?
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/illusory-truth-effect
Santiago Boys is a decent podcast about that whole experiment. And a good lesson in why economic, social and political issues can't be solved through purely technical or financial means.

They specifically talk about Dark Tech. So if you have a friend in an important position within a telco you can get certain things done irrespective of what the law or the govt or anyone else says. Replace telco with bank, port, govt dept etc.

So anyone can come up with a tech solution but if there is someone sitting in a telco/bank/military/intel agency/industry body/political party/religious org/foreign govt who doesn't like you they can screw with the plan. They don't even have to coordinate. All the counter reactions across all those spaces, to whatever you try to do will create an ever growing obstacle.

And therefore the lesson is you can't really pull anything major unless you have made friends everywhere.

And history is full of technologists and financial engineers who get carried away by they own individual success, and start hallucinating about how many friends they actually have.
think this has something to do with zig building part of the std which other languages ship as binaries. incremental compilation will remove this small overhead.
Could you ship to eg Singapore first, and then ship from there to the US?
This German comedy sketch sums up this situation incredibly well IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
Men are judged more harshly. Men need to pay a photographer to have their picture taken.

> This double disadvantages ..women?

Sorry, I don't follow you.

Especially since women's unrealistic judgement is to blame. Women are, objectively, rating men all wrong:

https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/how-men-and-women-rat...

(I just pulled the first article that has the famous Okcupid graph.)
Just to be clear - if I order $5 of LED's from China, I now have to pay at minimum $37.71 instead of $5?
AI narrows our vision of climate solutions and reinforces the status quo
could equally likely be misrepresentation of the facts given the current climate, judicial courts are important because you have to prove your claims in a rigorous fact finding and disputing session, rather than the court of public opinion
They get to do what they want within the rules established by the courts and constitution.
I don't know what to tell you, if you think the cuisine available in the US isn't great it's because you aren't looking. The "tossed salad" nature of the country comes out in full force to create a food scene that holds its own against anywhere in the world. Even if you restrict yourself to classic American cuisine the food is still world class.

One of my absolute favorite things to do any time a friend from overseas who only knows American food from our media portrayal comes to visit is to take them out to eat and watch their eyes light up. The best reaction I got was from a UK friend I met on WoW— "good lord I see why you're all so fat" said through a mouthful of cheeseburger. If there's one thing America can do it's cook.
eff's a good source for most people on most occasions

for everything else read material from anarchists. ex: https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloads#mobile-phone-securi...
I see Chinese nationals in US labs thinking a return to China is a more attractive now than it was a few weeks ago. Chinese institutions should absolutely capitalize on this.
i hate to break it to you but it's literally called "the federal code".
Global warming has accelerated: are the UN and public well informed?
The event organizing space in my country is all Facebook events, it begs some proper disruption. I'm no fan of Apple's walled garden, because I believe public events should be fully accessible to the public, but it's hard to understate how bad Facebook events are if you do not use its apps and don't have an account. I'm talking about things like missing a crucial time/location change from the organizer because Facebook does not show non-logged in users any event posts. So, while I hope that Apple fails at walling off events, I do hope some proper disruption happens in the space.
Yes, this is why anything like affirmative action was always a terrible idea.

If relevant to who gets hired, you are literally discriminating against candidates on the basis of race. If irrelevant, you still have the "maybe they're just an affirmative action hire" pall hanging over those people. Nobody wins.
Thank you @dang for the in-depth and thoughtful information communicated in those links. You put a lot of effort and dedication into taking care of HN. Really appreciate that

Given how much has happened and come out in the last 48hrs alone. I would say there is a big unprecedented Major Ongoing Topic (MOT)

The MOT is the coup going on. You might call it something else, but you can definitely group a lot of the political news under unprecedented and illegal

Also, given the seriousness and impact of what’s happening, and considering how close the tech community is to some of the events and the people involved, HN is not just any bystander, it’s a pretty influential actor

Whatever HN does about this MOT, will impact not just the behavior of its users in the short term, but will likely also have repercussions in the future of the United States as a country
It's time to read The Great Leveler. Maybe...
I think it wasn't just AMD winding down production of that SoC, but also that the Intel NICs being used on the APU2s (i210 and i211) were also getting hard to come by. Given how well designed and built those devices were, _especially_ at the price point Pascal sold them at, it's incredible to me that they're not everywhere. There really is no alternative, even at 2-4x the price point, and I'm surprised that AMD and Intel aren't trying to build more hardware to facilitate these sorts of devices, given how much pressure ARM has kind of put on lower power devices.

I definitely hoarded a bunch of APU2s when the final run was announced. There's just little or nothing you can get your hands on that works as well as they do.
In eastern Europe this is just normal :D
Chinese labour isn't that cheap anymore.

Chinese wages are higher than those in Mexico for example.
the place where imo static languages come up short is first class functions.
It still feels kinda weird. Parsers, compilers etc are traditionally considered one of the "natural" applications for functional programming languages.
Do you also feel like you did projects in your teen years that you wouldn't pull off today?

I coded assembly (Z80) in a disk editor, having no assembler, just a handwritten list of opcodes.

I wrote a chat client app (in Delphi) HAVING NO INTERNET at home, I went to a cafe, recorded a dump with Wireshark, printed it on a dot matrix printer, and used a marker pen to highlight the bytes I understand the meaning of.

I miss it so much.
Kudos for adopting a user friendly billing policy.

I would love to see the FTC mandate a policy that prohibits automatic renewal billing if the service hasn’t been used for some time.
Building a Membrane(Elixir Multimedia Framework) Pipeline to Talk to Gemini
Show HN: GadgetAI – Create instant browser based apps with AI
I'm working on this AI app generator that creates simple browser apps. This early stage version let's you generate an app and modify it in browser instantly. It works specially well with simple games. You can see the version history, go back and create new versions.
It also let's you share your apps created with a simple link.

I want to get some feedback and am curious to see what other people can create with it. I find it really fun to use, so please let me know what you think!
The US was telling Israel to hold back and trying to get aid into Gaza. That's not happening anymore. https://abcnews.go.com/International/shutting-usaid-major-im...

The US was in favor of a two state solution. The US is now saying that half of one state, by population, is no longer available. It's clear to anyone with two neurons to rub together that the other half is gone within the next four years.
AI Inside Google Chrome Inspect Element
We all saw the Nazi salutes with our own eyes, the man and his ex girlfriend both follow and interact with avowed white supremacists and Nazis on his own platform.

The lie is coming from Musk and his cult of supporters.
>In my experience reducing features is better to begin with.

This is right approach. Lean. If you don’t have PMF, reduce your features until you find it. Pivot. Maybe pivot again. Eventually you’ll find a market to serve. Just don’t fall into the sunken cost fallacy. Time box your market exploration.
Part of being a good doctor is good bedside manner. They're not going to bitch about it to a stranger, but it's a huge and well known problem that is almost certainly the single biggest cause for doctor burnout (which is extremely widespread). Some random source (though my experience comes from family) :

"What they learned was that during office hours, half the time — a huge chunk — was allocated to desk work, like documentation in the electronic medical record (EMR), reviewing test results, handling medication requests, and filling out forms. What was remarkable was that even during office visits, doctors interacted with their patients for only half of the time; the rest was EMR and paperwork. As a matter of fact, for every hour of face-to-face patient time, another two hours were spent on desk work." [1]

The paper mentions that was the amount of time spent for doctors with "documentation support" (various forms of automation/streamlining) that would generally be absent in something like a primary care physician's office, meaning he'll be spending substantially more time on paperwork. The paper also (at a quick skim) did not mention out-of-office work, where doctors often spend even more time filling out paperwork. And there are also regulations meaning doctors themselves have to be the ones filling out much of this paperwork.

[1] - https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/physicians-paperwork-and...
Meh. You’re fighting a losing battle. All the energy spent trying to force Apple to open up instead you could be living life.

I think this line is a good compromise: “iCloud+ subscribers can create invitations, and anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.”
This is the best thing I have seen today. I read about this notification in the morning and had to re-read it to verify that I understood it correctly.
Well, the other 'obvious solution' is to minimise your reliance on that volatile banana republic that is the US.

If none of your R&D is in the US, you don't have to worry so much about them throwing a fit.
I'm not sure whose still plugging iodized salt these days. Around here, we just call it salt and you need to go out of your way to find the non-iodised stuff.

I also haven't seen anything suggesting that the iodine fortification is anything but good. It was never meant as a solution to the health problems of salt. Just to solve the problem of iodine deficiency; and salt happened to be a convenient place to put iodine. I don't even think there is a tradeoff with no or low sodium salt alternatives. Iodine enriched potassium salt is also available and should be just as effective at curing iodine deficiency.
> But yes, Bun's current strategy is "churn out code" whereas Deno has a different pace and approach. They're trying to build different things, and have a lot less catch-up to play than Bun.

Are they trying to build different things? I feel like they're direct competitors.

Are you a Deno user? Curious what your experience has been
Get a passport. You only have one life.
> by an American company
...
> cost me about 1000$ to 2000$ per year.

they sponsored 2025, they collect the benefits, and peons pay.
> This suggests that Huawei's AI processor's capabilities are advancing rapidly, despite sanctions by the U.S. government and the lack of access to leading-edge process technologies of TSMC.

So chipping away at Taiwan's "silicon shield" (the defence strategy that an attack on Taiwan would deny China of the chips it needs itself).

Soon China can have a security situation with Taiwan (doesn't really matter if it actually invades, or just has a hotting-up conflict with rocket exchange) to choke off supplies of high-end chips to the West whilst domestic alternatives ramp up?
I'm normally not sympathetic to the "you don't need that" argument, but there is a much stronger argument for not having arbitrarily-sized integers in Rust: the fact that values of such types can't have an address. The reason why our types all have bit sizes measured in octets is that a byte is the minimum granularity for a pointer.
I suspect this will be flagged shortly, but I just need to reaffirm that it’s very bad to have a guy who bids on government contracts at a for profit corporation being I charge of determining what is and isn’t “efficient”.

I mentioned this in a different thread, but “efficiency” is a word that doesn’t make sense without supplying context. This means that no matter what the result of this dubiously legal department is, they can claim victory.
You said it better than I did. I was trying to say just this.
I've heard several interviews about the decisions he made at that time and came from a neutral opinion to hating his guts.

It's like he was surrounded by knowledgeable people and decided to make wrong decision upon wrong decision just to spite them because he resented them being better than him.
no not because it's woke. because it's broken. this is literally the system that let a person become the President of Stanford a federally granted research professor with years of fabricated data that absolutely fucked some people that i personally know. lets say, negative man-decades of research just among people in my limited circle. i guarantee you this was not an isolated incident

the sooner we cut this shit out, realize consequences, and start over, the better.
Why are there so many guides to git?