skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My blog on emacs [1] is perhaps a bit too niche if you dislike emacs? I do write a lot about tree sitter, structured editing and movement in programming languages on it also.

[1] www.masteringemacs.org
I wonder if that's a 'kill your startup' pattern, that is, develop an app for Mac because you're surrounded by Mac users, but then you don't sell many units because the market is too small.

I had a time when I was involved with startups of various kinds (sometimes West Coast, sometimes Research Triangle Park, more often NYC or upstate.) I was a Windows user in a MacOS world and the most important accessory I packed was whatever I needed to hook up to mini-Displayport.
Some obvious ones:

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
TwoStopBits: http://twostopbits.com
Slashdot: https://slashdot.org (Yes, really...)
Hackaday: https://hackaday.com
Bonobos Know When You're Clueless – Their Theory of Mind Explains Why
A counter perspective by the maker of amfora (which appears to be in maintenance mode)

> After a lot of thinking, I’ve realized there is one main reason I don’t keep coming back to Gemini: it offers no advantage over how I already use the Web.

https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html
Your mind was really warped by conservative propaganda wasn’t it? Amazing how effective it is on a certain type of person. Reality just doesn’t matter at all to you does it?
We are Hiring at V7!
https://www.v7labs.com/careers

-Product Fullstack Engineer
-Product Frontend Engineer
-Product Backend Engineer
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If the Vision Pro was indistinguishable from a regular pair of glasses and didn't cost over $1000 it would take over the world. I don't think it's a case that people don't want them, it's more that people want what's in sci-fi you spoke of and not this early iteration.
Not really blogs. More like HN alternatives.
I dont know if people are lying and/or intentionally gaslighting. DOGE brings information to Trump, Trump acts on it. The illegal part is made up by their political opponents who have apparently being using governmental agencies use to influence other countries to also influence the US - that’s where they went wrong.
The Magical Thinking of Busy CTOs
I feel like privacy/isolated environment remains an unexploited USP in this space. There are enterprise products that somewhat offer it, but these require burdensome minimum head counts, dedicated contracts, and are all high cost.

In the SMB space there is definitely a vacuum. In particular when you look at the small print for products like Office 365's Copilot. We've tried to have Microsoft make us privacy assurances contractually, and they won't.
Agree with this - you lose maybe some of the moment in a book but you normally make up for it in depth if the writer is talented. Too much of the blog world is driven by current events as they constantly have to product to maintain readership.
How long have you been running on serverless?
I don't think the world will accept a blockade of Taiwan in the event of an invasion.

If there's a Chinese fleet or aircraft to the east of the island, there will be a naval battle.
Can someone explain to me why Meta or whoever doesn't just copy TikTok 1to1 with a new name? If TikTok really stops running in the usa, they would have an alternative product instead of Instagram reels and YouTube shorts, both of which obviously can't catch on.
There are certain other things you can imagine VR being useful for like virtual explorations. But monitors actually work pretty well for that and, really, none of that has really developed beyond the gimmick stage. Yes, there are certain types of high-end gaming it works for but that's a niche of a niche that's decreased in size over time. (e.g. flight sims used to be a bigger thing)

We can imagine HUDs of various sorts with AR glasses that are light and non-obtrusive. But largely well into the future. You may have (probably do have) early adopters who can overlook the manifold limitations that exist today but now you have a tiny audience that isn't enough to drive interesting software development.
Apple reshuffles internal programs and product roadmaps all the time.

Just because a program with an internal codename gets terminated doesn't mean there aren't a bunch of other initiatives in related spaces going on.

And the work on the core technologies certainly doesn't end.

There's no product until there are boxes piling up in warehouses, getting ready to be shipped.

If only we could stop giving attention to these "news", which are really just propped up narratives for investors to nudge the market in their favor, and for Mark Gurman to get a paycheck.
Show HN: I built an AI SaaS to replace myself
I built Yahini as an in-house tool while running my content marketing agency for 6 years, and what started as a simple tool for my team, turned into a full SaaS product.

I learned React for a year through tutorials and small projects, then spent another year building Yahini into what it is today.

I used Vite and React Router, using Cloudflare Pages to host the frontend and Cloudflare Workers + Supabase for the backend.

Supabase handles auth and database, Resend manages emails, Stripe handles payments, Remix powers the marketing site, and Docusaurus runs the documentation.

I picked these tools to keep maintenance simple and costs low, but also because they all work well with Cloudflare and the serverless architecture.

Yahini gives you a complete content roadmap in under 15 minutes by using your URL and some of your competitors’. It finds and prioritizes keywords based on business impact, maps content to different funnel stages, and creates detailed content briefs you can follow to write blog articles.

I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions about my journey.
The first two seasons were awesome, but i didn't like the Code Black spinoff that much.
I wonder if an on-prem box with preinstalled Deepseek would be an attractive proposal to data-sensitive companies.
I think you misread that. What ghc wrote was that the fact (that Microsoft is giant today) is irrelevant, not that Microsoft is irrelevant.
My great-grandmother and grandfather were in Leningrad during the siege. My great-grandmother continued to teach throughout. At some point she was given the option to evacuate with my (very) young grandfather over the "road of life".

As my mother tells the story, my great grandmother had the choice of either taking a bus, or hanging on to the back of some delivery truck. She chose the truck. The bus broke through the ice and disappeared under the water.

It's strange to realize how close one can be to not being "here" and how history weaves its way through your blood and ends up on the front page of hackernews.
Disagreeing with you is rage-baiting?
Geico Insurance Developing TuxTape – A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution
Since fentanyl is mostly smuggled by US citizens, I’m not sure what kind of emergency this is that it needs the executive to overrule the legislative on commerce.
>Without licenses to the books, they are just as illegal (and maybe even moreso) than web content.

There are books that are out of copyright, and also free books.
These stories about unreleased Apple products always make me laugh. It's rumored Apple stops working on something they were rumored to be working on.
Show HN: Redesign your interior in seconds using AI – Just take a photo
I built an AI tool that transforms interior spaces based on a single photo. Select styles (Modern/Minimalist/Contemporary) and get instant redesigns. No design skills needed - just snap and transform.
Demo: https://vizualizeai.com/
> I would say that you are using them incorrectly if you assume them as recoverable.

no it's them being recoverable at well defined boundaries is a _fundamental_ design aspect of rust

> Overhead comes from the cleaning process. If you don't clean properly, you might leak information or allocate more resources than you should.

and that same cleanup process makes it recoverable
Yes for sure, but from what I've seen at large companies the bottlenecks are already usually caused by intra team conflicts, legal hurdles and "processes" that take something that would have taken a dev with ownership 1-2 days to do and turns it into months long slogs and rituals.

Having worked at early stage startups and mid sized companies there's already a 10-20x productivity gap between them due to this (even on brand new projects at large companies vs startups, where it's not an issue of legacy code).

As an example I just witnessed a large co hire a consulting company to help them "ideate" on a RAG app that barely worked and required 3 rewrites and ~18 months to make it to POC stage, even though a front end dev had a better working POC that he hacked together in a day and a half.

I've heard way worse horror stories from friends at Google / Meta / Apple.

What will happen when tiny startups of 3-8 people get 5-20x more productive and can ship new stuff daily?
Whenever I see posts from famous people touted on Hacker News and Reddit, I always remind myself about this favorite quote of mine from Buddha (I'm a former Buddhist-turned-atheist, but I still agree with a few thinking and concepts from Buddhism.

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

> Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing (anussava),
nor upon tradition (paramparā),
nor upon rumor (itikirā),
nor upon what is in a scripture (piṭaka-sampadāna)
nor upon surmise (takka-hetu),
nor upon an axiom (naya-hetu),
nor upon specious reasoning (ākāra-parivitakka),
nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over (diṭṭhi-nijjhān-akkh-antiyā),
nor upon another's seeming ability (bhabba-rūpatāya),
nor upon the consideration 'The monk is our teacher (samaṇo no garū)'
Kalamas, when you yourselves know 'These things are good; these things are not blameable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness,' enter on and abide in them.
There is a group of people who are convinced that the Jones Act is bad, either they have been mislead or another reason.

From that, there is a shortcut to the reasoning that occurs:
Intercostal shipping is expensive : Jones Act's fault
Can't build ships fast enough : Jones Act's fault
Ships are expensive ; Jones Act's fault

The things that the Jones Act mandates are that: Shipping between American ports must be done on American built, owned and crewed.

For example, they will claim that foreign ships can't deliver to Hawaii or Porto Rico and that is why things are expensive there. However: ...although ships can offload cargo and proceed to the contiguous U.S. without picking up any additional cargo intended for delivery to another U.S. location...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920#Ef...

So it is possible for a ship from say China to deliver to Hawaii or Porto Rico, they are just not allowed to pick up cargo to deliver to the US from there.

They will claim with one breath, American labor is too expensive and then turn around and say that we would have a ship building boom if only we didn't mandate that we build ships.

I would agree that American labor is expensive, it is easy to lower costs when you have a LCOL area, don't care about worker protections and don't care about environmental effects.
> The only way to be safe is to be informed

Unfortunately getting everyone into an informed state is a massive and so far unattainable task, and those not well-informed are not just a potential danger to themselves but to the rest of the network, so we need fail-safe protections in place and to not encourage people to disable them for the sake of convenience.

> Don't trust anyone but yourself.

But do encourage people to trust a CA they have no knowledge how to verify? That CA could also sign things that happen in the background so trusting is potentially trusting a huge portion of the Internet with no further stopping points for the user to verify trust. Your point seems to be internally contradictory.
I find it hilarious how anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist sentiments are heavily monetized with targeted products. You can buy t-shirts on Amazon that say “stop buying shit you don’t need.” I am embarrassed in hindsight that as a teenager I had a Che Guevara shirt from the Hot Topic store in the mall. The ubiquitous popularity of the “Obey” clothing fad- where people were caving to social pressure to buy clothing with pithy commentary on not caving to social pressure was equally ironic.
I blog a fair bit: https://xeiaso.net
I didn't say Microsoft is irrelevant. I said the fact that it's still a huge company is irrelevant when judging whether the old Microsoft was in fact dead or not. The new Microsoft is highly relevant, but Microsoft's philosophy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" to maintain a grip on consumer compute is dead. If anything is the heir to that, it would be AWS.
Russia invaded Crimea the year before Trump took office, and he didn't do anything about it during his first term.
I built a website for discovering blog posts:

https://blogdrop.io/
The process of hosting a transgender woman with a violent prisoner is called v-coding, and it's done in order both to punish the transgender woman and reward the violent prisoner. This has been an unofficial policy on many levels of corrections for decades, and is not new. Firing a few wardens won't fix it, and often complaints are ignored and/or swept under the rug.

If this is something you didn't know, Google it. Don't take my word for it.
The real scandal here is the pressure to remove a maintainer based on vague "code of conduct violation grounds" when the supposed "violation" is just expressing an technical preference on code he maintains. Shamelessly weaponizing a code of conduct like this should be a code of conduct violation in itself.

(I am a big proponent of language interop as an alternative to big rewrites. But opinions differ, and my opinion is worth nothing because I'm not a maintainer of the relevant code.)
Mitchondria may also help us keep time: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-life-tick-mitochon...
The Competing Values Framework [pdf]
That's true. But under a fee-for-service (FFS) model, providers get paid per procedure they do. That gives them an incentive to order more testing, and generally "do more stuff."

There's also an IT angle (relevant for HN!): medical systems don't always talk to each other. Which means that maybe the patient got an MRI last month, in a different health system... but I don't have access to it in my health system, so I order a redundant one.
Where do you find these low monthly cost options? Using Office is considerably more expensive than it ever was for a business, and the profit margins are huge.

And if anyone could sustain an office suite until it runs profitably in these circumstances, it must surely be Google...
Maybe, but if you’re allocating all that resource in STEM, where do the essential trades (carpenters, plumbers, construction in general) come from? Without immigration, It’s a finite resource pool.

The analysis of losing unproductive workers and replacing them with highly skilled STEM graduates seems like a recipe for upset when a healthy economy needs more than just STEM.
Can a large ship, or any ship, intercept a hypersonic missile? Because that's the reality of today.
Yet another Go client for DeepSeek API – go-DeepSeek/DeepSeek
https://github.com/go-deepseek/deepseek

go-deepseek is simple Go Client for Deepseek API.

Please have a look. If you like it them *Buy us a GitHub Star!* :-)
You may enjoy sites like Minifeed[1], Kagi's SmallWeb[2] and Wiby[3]. These are some neat sites that let you discover random blogs and personal sites and are very fun to sift through and read something interesting.

Since we're self-promoting, feel free to check out my blog too :) https://popcar.bearblog.dev/

[1]: https://minifeed.net/

[2]: https://kagi.com/smallweb

[3]: https://wiby.me/
It's not just the cost of building the house. Utilities and infrastructure (and the taxes to pay for it all) add up. Now, if you were to build smaller, densely, and close enough to amenities that residents could walk or bike to their daily activities, or to public transit that can take you farther away, you save a significant amount on initial AND recurring costs. And what's better, people WANT that! Or, a least, they're willing to eat the downsides in order to benefit from the upsides, including lower costs. But there lies the rub: when these types of places get built, they get offered at market pricing, not in a way that reflects their lower costs. So people say, "Why spend the same for less?" and move to a traditional suburb (or, more likely, put off home-buying altogether).

The problem with housing in America always comes down to the way it was financialized and securitized: too much relies on "line go up, forever". There's no room for new blood/capacity (read:competition), there's no room for "investments" to lose value.
Reinforcement Learning can train a model based on some reward function. The suggestion is that real-world accountability could be translated into such a reward function.

Also, OP explicitly mentioned "online learning", which is a continuous training process after standard pre-training.

For what it's worth, I don't think this would work. Rewards would come in too sporadically to be useful.
Any Chinese move on Taiwan starts with plastering Guam. :(
Eisenberg: I don't want to think of being associated with Zuckerberg
I think Apple is a very American thing. Outside the US, which you may not care about, only the most aspirationally Americanised people I've known have gone for apple products. Im not sure what the reasons are.
Our windows pc is complaining that it's not Windows 11, but does not have a TPM so it can't get windows 11 anyway.

Is there any "long term support" windows or something that will have security updates after October?
Show HN: Learn to sew app
My Oma (my Dutch grandma) taught me to sew, but it's a dying art.

I've built an app to help people learn - like Duolingo, but for sewing. The gamification has a long way to go, but the tutorials are much more broken down than YouTube, and don't assume you have lots of prior sewing knowledge.

I've run a lot of in-person sewing workshops, and found that people need reassurance along the way. So there's 1-2-1 help available (only on web currently, but hopefully on the app soon too).

I'd like it to be a place where sewists can help each other and share tips. It's a traditional industry that's a bit stuck in the past. Loads of my gen z friends are curious to start and sew unique things, but haven't been attracted to any of the existing ways to learn.

It's a fast MVP so I've used the learnworlds course platform, and want to see which features (if any) are important for users.

Would love some feedback! Also, if anyone has got ideas or experience with using digital products to teach physical skills, please send me your insights! Getting people to pick up a needle for the first time and do a physical thing has been harder than I thought...
I'm saying there will be 10-100x more small dev shops competing with the big cos. Pizza sized teams that own the whole product and can just ship stuff without the dog and pony show that's common at larger orgs.
Previous thread of HN users' personal blogs [1].

HN users are interested in very diverse topics.

Someone put together an OPML feed of all of them, but I can't seem to find it.

[edit]

Found the OPML [2]

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[2.] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
> I don’t expect public funds to be used to celebrate my lifestyle and sexual preferences

End the child tax credit and extra tax exemptions for being (straight) married then or shut the fuck up because the amount of money going to subsidizing that is much, much, MUCH more than what is spent on LGBTQ+/"woke"/DEI stuff. If you care about the deficit, go for those first.
> American consumers are the ones footing the bill, not the Corporate who pass the cost

I see this a lot. Obviously, the idea is to create market space for local companies to compete in with a clear advantage.

I think India before 1990s used to have nearly 200% tariffs (I am not entirely sure on the numbers, but it was absurdly high). This did not fare well for India because quality products made in countries like US and Japan were incredibly expensive. Some companies got around this by forming alliances with local companies leading to companies like (Maruti-Suzuki, Hero-Honda, Mahindra-Ford, etc.)

But US seems to me in a position where they can impose tariffs on some competing countries and reasonably expect their local market to occupy the space created
> I don't think that a species that flourishes from the hot tropics to the freezing arctic

I'm sure you are talking about bacteria, not humans. Don't you ??? :-)
The cameras are needed for inside-out positioning.

Now...outward facing screens displaying my face? Billet Aluminum frame?
We're all part of the ongoing negotiation of what words mean. If you want them to have significance, become a lawyer or a pedant. One of those fights the good fight to keep language as a valuable and viable communication medium in the face of those who embellish and misunderstand. A noble calling: be more pedant.
This might not always stop playback, for example with YT Premium, I think it also applies to shorts, maybe only when in PiP mode? I can't recall, but I'm pretty sure, I've encountered it, somewhat inconsistently
Self-Improving Transformers Overcome Easy-to-Hard and Length Generalization
I love my Vision Pro, but I do feel like it's quite heavy and delicate for every day, general use. Also, one thing that I have to keep in mind when using it is that the room needs to stay very well lit. Something I don't need to even think about with my phone, laptop etc.
Of course there are personal tastes, so I'd simply look at large scale data. The winner for 2022 is A Desolation Called Peace. [1] As per Amazon it ended up with far fewer purchases, lower reviews amongst those who purchased it (in spite of a rather conspicuous amount of reviews that are generally critical of the book then giving it 5 stars anyhow), and it won the Hugo.

Of course the Hugo obviously shouldn't just be "#1 book [in genre] on Amazon" because the entire point of awards is to focus on quality, which may not always be clearly reflected by sales. But when even the relatively small minority of people buying the winning book don't seem to like it as much as other books, something is quite wrong. Let alone the fact that Project Hail Mary came in last place, also behind books like She Who Became the Sun. [2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Desolation-Called-Peace-Teixcalaan-Bo...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/She-Who-Became-Shelley-Parker-Chan-eb...
But in fact we see the opposite: Countries are quick to comply with the new admin's demands. Because put simply, there is no alternative available to US hegemony. Culturally you will still be writing on this platform in 5 years (because, put simply...), no critical mass is leaving twitter/x (because...) and technically you very likely will be using an american made co-pilot (...).

Could it be, juuuust maybe, that you're believing what the US's other political side wants you to believe?
I read it as “NVIDIA’s open source nanite”. People seem to be having a really hard time without the apostrophe and the “s” though.
Only by comparison to Italians.
Access to secure systems by people who have not been given access rights through proper channels is certainly problematic if not outright illegal.

Congress has Constitutional vetting power over Presidential appointments. It's part of the checks&balances. That has not happened. The purpose of a department has been altered by an appointee who has not been vetted. Again, incredibly problematic if not outright illegal.
What’s the typical payout range for different types of bounties? Do you see more demand for written content (docs, blogs) or code-based contributions (SDKs, sample apps)?
I'm surprised the README doesn't mention meshlets at all. I guess Nanite is a better known name.