skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to think I'm saying they're immune. I'm saying that a large majority of the country is very anti the far-right. So much so that the CDU had to walk back a vote where they voted with the AfD, this was a vote for a permanent border control. It passed the first vote, the second vote it did not after Germany had massive protests over the fact the CDU broke the unwritten rule that mainstream parties don't cooperate with the far-right parties.

And?

There were people who hated the NSDAP back in the 1920s. Hitler was seen as an egomaniacal leech with no aristocratic roots and a band of street toughs to back him up. No one wanted to cooperate with them in the Weimar Republic.

But the Nazis said the right things to the right people, and developed a voter bloc. After a while, it does not matter if you hate working on legislation with the far-right. They have the votes, and if you want government to "work", you have to cater to their whims.

As there are more and more migrants moving into Germany, and more and more international competition in the manufacturing sector worldwide, you can generally count on more and more people getting interested in at least part of AfD's message.

The fact that Björn Höcke was kept in AfD after decrying the presence of Holocaust memorials on German soil, and was given a token punishment for using far-right propaganda in campaigning, reminds me a lot of Trump's trajectory.
Sometimes I want to meet the person on the other side of the screen making comments like this, just to be amazed at how much stupidity can be contained in a single person.
You gotta be in the in-crowd to understand that this paper, like so many others, is one of those dumb posthoc analogy/metaphor papers. These papers are where they just ran a bunch of experiments (ie just ran the training script over and over) and formulated a hypothesis empirically. Of course in order to lend the hypothesis some credibility they have to make an allusion to something formal/mathematical:

> Fourier features -- dimensions in the hidden state that represent numbers via a set of features sparse in the frequency domain

Brilliant and very rigorous!
For awhile mirai botnet was able to infect anything using upnp and a default credential within 20 minutes of it being connected.

These days ISPs are better about shutting that kind of thing down. They monitor for botnet activity in their networks and their modem/router gateway combo devices are a lot more robust than they were in the 00's. It is also more acceptable now than it was to ship routers with upnp turned off by default, which helps A LOT.
Curious that they chose to use GPT-2-XL, given the age of that model. I guess they wanted a small model (1.5B) and started work on this quite a while ago. Today there is a decent selection of much more capable 1.5B models (Quen2-1.5B, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, TinySwallow 1.5B, Stella 1.5B, Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B, etc). But they are all derived from the Qwen series of models, which wasn't available when they started this research.
give up. you won't convince anyone. if corruption have any minority scape goat, it's "them".
Why was this flagged and removed?
I suppose if we are being proper researchers then we would capture every data-point, every detail.
I’ve noticed wifi at coffee shops, etc have started blocking it too.

I need to disable it for one of my internal networks (because I have DNS overrides that go to 192.168.0.x), or I’d wish they’d just make it mandatory for iPhones and put and end to such shenanigans.

Apple could make it a bit more configurable for power users, and then flip the “always on” nuclear option switch.

Either that, or they could add a “workaround oppressive regimes” toggle that’d probably be disabled in China, but hey, I’m in the US, so whatever.

Edit: I also agree that blocking / geolocating IP addresses is a big anti-pattern these days. Many ISPs use CGNAT. For instance, all starlink traffic from the south half of the west coast appears to come from LA.

As a result, some apps have started hell-banning my phone every time I drive to work because they see me teleport hundreds of miles in 10 minutes every morning. (And both of my two IPs probably have 100’s of concurrent users at any given time. I’m sure some of them are doing something naughty).
If you use a weird proxy you're gonna get blocked. Facts of life.
Whoops-- this was a draft I didn't intend to post in this state. I must have fatfingered the "reply" button somehow. Alas, too late to edit or delete now.

Cloudflare cuts down on the noise, but also helps does the work of preventing scrapers, people who re-sell your site wholesale, and cutting down on the noise also means cutting down on the cost of network requests.

It also can help where security is lax. You should have measures against credential stuffing, but if you don't, Cloudflare might prevent (some) of your users from being hacked. Which isn't good enough, but is better than no mitigation at all.

I don't use Cloudflare personally, but I won't dismiss it wholesale. I understand why people use it.
> without grounding in the real world.

> I've yet to see really good articulations of what, precisely we should be scared of.
Bedroom superweapons?

Loss of paid employment opportunities and increasing inequality are real world concerns.

UBI isn't coming by itself.
AI Models for Relational Data
It is very funny how humans experience reality eh? Like, the literal assignment of a word to something can cause the representation of it in a person's mind (aka the reality) to change. Also weird: it is essentially not possible to talk about the phenomenon in a serious way (participants range of possible actions become highly constrained, and therefore highly predictable).

I really wonder if this normative phenomenon will be able to survive in the age of AI.
Seems to be fluoro-chemistry; use of AIF3 and Fluoroethylene carbonate. The F ion sets off alarm bells, but I have no idea whether this is significantly more toxic than the corresponding chemistry of regular Li batteries.
Me and you. Thus at least two.
> Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels

> Java is a great language because it's boring

This. Especially the thing about mixed experience levels.
A hammer that refuses to hammer my thumb when I intend for it to only hammer nails would be amazing.
It's ridiculous to me that we're back in the world of "politician blames bad thing on wokeness" > "everyone has to spend months discussing this as if it's a sane idea."
Very old anecdote: "The problem with this country is stupidity. I don't propose that we introduce a capital punishment for stupidity, but what if we simply take warning label from everything and let the problem solve itself?" (c)

I guess someone in the trumpement didn't got a memo that it was a joke, not an instruction :)
Seems like it would be exceedingly difficult, bordering on impossible, to make a categorical negative finding that there's no possibility of prions because you'd have to have a test to detect any misfolded protein at all.
> Well good news, nothing is stoping you from bringing home a full cartful of groceries that walking distance either

Dunno about you but I only have two hands and can only carry so much at one time

I could have bought and brought a wagon or something I suppose, but that presents its own problems.

Where do I store the wagon in my tiny apartment?

What do I do with it when I'm actually in the store shopping, to make sure no one steals it while I'm in the store? I can't bring it into the store, it's too bulky for narrow urban grocery store aisles

How do I get my wagon full of groceries to my apartment, with no elevator?

Actually how do I get my empty wagon up to my apartment even, it's not going to manage narrow stairwells very easily even empty. So even if I leave it at the bottom and carry my groceries up by hand, I still have to get the wagon itself upstairs somehow

And then I also own a wagon that takes up my limited apartment space, which I only use to get groceries and provides no other utility for my life.

Unlike a car which I use all the time and only one of those uses is getting groceries
The First Amendment is not just about free speech, but also the right to read, the only question is if AI has that right.
Knowledge is power
This doesnt say anything about wifi, presumably it is detecting some other network identifier so that it also works on Ethernet connected devices. If so, seems like you could connect via VPN to your main "home" network.
Great job!

I don't think it's just nostalgia... but whatever it is I love a lot of the retro / past days of computing UI, UX and graphics. IT feels better than the current state of flat and flashy... everything.

I don't know that the design and look / feel was entirely intentional, or how much was just the limiting factor of experience and computing / libraries available but things feel so much more straightforward and usable at times.

You don't even have to go that far back to get that feel / simplicity: https://cs16.samke.me/

This screensaver looks great and feels like almost everything I would want from a cool screensaver or even just a moment to zen out.
A quick Kagi search came up with this as the top result:

Langchain AI Open Canvas: https://github.com/langchain-ai/open-canvas
I reject that claim as-is. In what situations would it break? Standards evolve. Changes to cookies, iframes, newly required HTTP headers all "broke" the web. Not to mention Flash deprecation. But somehow we survived.

Sure, this would theoretically be a backwards incompatible change. But if no one is using insertBefore without really meaning moveBefore, it's not a concern in practice.
Somewhat unrelated, but it's crazy to see how durable Windows APIs are. I, for unrelated reasons, last month, opened Guitar Pro 4, which had been laying around in my warez folder (copied many tines accross hard drives) since I pirated it circa 2004 as a teenager, and it worked perfectly in my machine running windows 11. Even though I love Linux, that doesn't happen over there, right?
What’s “the cholesterol myth”?
Sure, but those are also real world concerns in the non-AI alternate timeline. As is the unlikelihood of UBI.
Yes! It’s the same for me.

Maybe it’s bc I’ve been programming since I was young or because I mainly learned by doing code-along books, but writing the code is where my thinking gets done.

I don’t usually plan, then write code. I write code, understand the problem space, then write better code.

I’ve known friends and coworkers who liked to plan out a change in psudocode or some notes before getting into coding.

Maybe these different approaches benefit from AI differently.
Why an increasing belief in alien visitations is a real-world problem
The second one on the list, the Pisound, has two DIN ports (one in, one out) and looks like something that you can buy.

https://blokas.io/pisound/

> Pisound is an ultra-low latency high-quality sound card and MIDI interface specially designed for Raspberry Pi pocket computers.

> Equipped with 192kHz 24-bit Stereo Input and Output driven by the legendary Burr-Brown chips, DIN-5 MIDI Input and Output ports, user-customizable button and bundled software tools, this little Raspberry Pi HAT will bring your audio projects to a whole new level!

And seems to be pretty much ready to go as soon as you get it:

> Setup is Eaaasy!

> Pisound mounts directly onto Raspberry Pi, no additional power adapter or soldering is required.
https://archive.ph/HegVx
You seem very emotionally uncalibrated if the first place you go is that the majority of news must mean your family is going to die. I’m not going to stop you from becoming emotionally destroyed by impossibly-worst-case-scenario perseverating any time something doesn’t politically go your way. I’m also not going to stop you from blowing 99% of political events so far out of proportion that you can’t sleep at night. I’m not going to stop you from existing in a constant cycle of mental angst because the world isn’t perfect by your vision (and because someone on the news tells you 24/7 just how imperfect the world is, because your angst is their profit).

That sounds like a nightmare existence to me. But if you really want it, maybe because it makes you feel righteous in your pain and holy in your angst, then go for it I guess.
> Smallholder farms across Africa are quite productive if you measure inputs (labor, energy, capital, fertilizer, water, land use) against outputs (calories, nutrition).

This sounds intelligent, but is extremely wrong perspective.

For example, most of these farms are well known to underuse fertilizer. There is no good reason for it, except in some relatively snall amount of cases where extreme poverty doesn’t leave farmers with enough capital to buy fertilizer (even though ROI is ridiculously high). This severe under capitalization is already a reason why we shouldn’t imitate their example. Anyway, all the development agencies run very active program to promote use of fertilizer, with very limited effect.

If you consider insufficient fertilizer use, then yeah, maybe they get good yields in the context. But that’s like saying “sure I got very meager crop because I didn’t water my crops in the drought even though I could, but if you consider my inputs (very little water and energy spent on watering), I actually did pretty well”, which is ridiculous: we shouldn’t imitate that.

> They are certainly comparable with industrialized agriculture (large-scale monoculture)

No. Their yields are horrible, and in no way comparable to modern industrialized agriculture.

> And for the last 150 years or so no "starvation" anywhere in the world has been due to a lack of calories that could have reasonably been made available for the people starving.

This is true if you define “starvation” as “literal famine involving mass death”, but if you are trying to say that there has been no severe, persistent, widespread malnutrition due to insufficient caloric intake, then you are extremely wrong. Up until last couple of decades, overwhelming majority of Africans have been seriously malnourished, and this was caused by the inefficiency of their agricultural sector. It was only alleviated (and only in some places) by modern, western style development.
I built a sounds app, try to promote is costly so I'm giving it away
6 months premium with code: EARLYBIRD
As the code is limited, redeem only if you want to use
https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=offercodes&id=6740737671&...
I really want to use zulip but last I checked they charged for push notifications. Without it, my group lost interest in using it due to missed messages.

I saw a post about webpush a day ago. Not sure if anything has changed for zulip in that area.
There is a translated one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXmhxbQ-hk
If you have a lot of people on public transport it’s hard to loiter. That helps keep druggies away
Some of the old Cray machines only cached instructions and scalar data. Instead of a vector cache they used vector scratchpad registers and plenty of interleaved memory channels to keep up with the vector ALUs. That's one part of the design space you can't go RISC-V without yet an other vendor extension.
Yes, this is a good idea.
Alternatively, instead of reading "news"^ go to source and read/listen/watch it yourself. Then make your own mind.

^: which somehow became someone else's opinions in last decade. There's still opinion column. But there's no difference these days. It didn't use to be like this in the past. Journalists used to report events and facts without commentary or would add commentary in the end with some label on it.
This is an weird take considering:

- trump's previous failure as president

- his history of rape, fraud, and other crimes

- knowing what we now know about his first weeks of his lawless second term, and things are only getting worse
Transfinite NIM (the game, not the programming language)
Passkeys are a multi-vendor standard. Because Windows is no one's phone vendor today, it's generally a good idea that Windows has strong Passkey support because it can be an intermediate between the two major phone vendors and help even average users avoid vendor lock-in by pushing a majority of users to try keeping keys with at least two vendors (their phone, and their Windows device) in their common accounts.
I was expecting it to be Yet Another Eclipse Abandonware but https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-la... has commits from 5 hours ago, and https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-tc... was 10 months ago, which isn't nothing. But yikes they are not doing themselves any discoverability favors by having almost every meaningful looking link on https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/asciidoc.asciidoc-lang point to itself
I did not know what Beam refered to. So, in case there is some one else like me:

BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
I really like the idea. I have some notes/suggestions.

I only saw the GALAXY video and my immediate thought was that I wouldn’t want to scribble over the levels. I understand that’s kind of the point but I’m confident I’d enjoy replaying the same level to “speed run” it or giving the books away to someone else later. What I think could work is a detachable acetate sheet to place over pages. This way you can play it over and over.

I would ask that you make it obvious somewhere the places you ship from. Reason being I’m in the EU and having anything shipped from the US always bites me, to the point I just refuse to do it now because it’s never worth the cost and stress. Things often get stuck in customs, and if I can get them unstuck at all I need to pay insane taxes. Being able to verify the shipping origin would help.

One game that could be fun is something inspired by ChuChu Rocket. I remember as a kid liking to solve the puzzles, and once I imagined drawing the harder ones on graph paper so I could solve them on the go.
i'm always deeply annoyed that in articles like this, buried in the last 3 paragraphs they mention "some" of the apps
The quality of a PR is a reflection of the author not the tools the author uses. The last thing an engineer should do before sending out a PR is to review it themselves. A PR is a work product with their name on it, and is a reflection of their ability. This was true before LLM tools, and should be true after.
hmm broken link:
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6740737671&c...
FreeBSD is versatile! Underrated OS.
Here's a post [1] where someone has put video of whatever Musk's gesture was side by side with video from a Nazi rally and some later neo Nazi events.

What difference do you see between them?

[1] https://x.com/BartoSitek/status/1882081868423860315?t=8F0hL-...
Ask HN: What books influenced your moral compass?
I'd love to hear what books influenced you when you were younger and how. I am trying to stock up on books that would benefit my son to read (and me as we read them together).

Native Son by Richard Wright really hit me hard in high school. I'd love to hear what had a big impact on you.
Show HN: A Minimalist Coffee Bean Rating System Built with Go and Htmx
Hey HN!

After years of experiencing hit-or-miss coffee bean purchases, I built a simple solution to crowdsource coffee bean ratings. The problem is straightforward: buying new coffee beans is a gamble, and with rising prices, a bad bag is both disappointing and costly.

The solution is a no-frills web app built with Go, HTMX, and Tailwind CSS. No accounts required, no JavaScript frameworks, just a simple 5-star rating system for coffee beans.

Technical Stack:
- Backend: Go
- Frontend: HTMX + Tailwind CSS
- No user accounts (intentionally)
- Progressive web app

I deliberately chose HTMX over a JavaScript framework to keep things minimal and fast. The entire app is server-rendered with sprinkles of interactivity where needed.

You can try it at RoastQuest.com and let me know what you think and how I can make it better.

This is my first time using HTMX in production - happy to discuss the experience and trade-offs.
> Once the same party controls the Senate, House, Presidency and Supreme Court, the powers are no longer meaningfully separate. Which is now the case.

Three out of four of those are the direct will of the voters. And the fourth is the indirect will of the voters as expressed by their President.

I think insisting that they always be at odds with each other is unrealistic and goes against the fundamental idea that people have a right to form a government that represents them.

It's like insisting that someone who is appointed to run a given department (e.g., Education, Interior, or EPA), is required to promote more spending or expansion of that department. There's no requirement like that and the decision to pare things back and limit the scope of a department again falls in line with the will of the voters. There's no rule that government is only allowed to grow bigger.
> It's not something that happened in isolation.

I mean, he built the world's leading online platform for anti-Semitism with his take on Twitter/X. All the classic anti-Semitic tropes are extremely common, people are being hounded with anti-Semitic slurs, etc. Flags on it are basically ignored. Elon Musk himself has even endorsed some anti-Semitic tweets. Concerns about all of that go back years (this is what sparked the ad boycot a few years back). I have a hard time seeing how anyone denying the pattern here is acting in good faith, especially since there's a significantly overlap with people who analyse critics of Israeli policy wrt. the Palestinians to the subatomic level for possible anti-Semitism.
Isn’t hop 1 always apple and only the external IP is a secondary provider?
> ...soon pretty much all the old content will just be available on a central streaming service. The future will be good.

I'll buy a TV once any show ever made is available right now for $1 dollar.

During the '00s, I thought surely that'd be in the '10s. Oh well. The '30s aren't so far away.
Thank you! This has no libraries, it's just pure javascript rewriting a big array of r,g,b,a pixels and posting it up to a canvas as quickly as possible. Very much the way I learned to light up pixels on a TRS-80 ;) Which was actually the easiest way to do something like this.
Anyone have experience with this? What's the performance like compared to TeamViewer or NoMachine?
> Money needs to keep flowing. If all that remains of the economy consists of a few datacenters talking to each other, how can the ruling class profit off that?

Plenty of profit was made off feudalism, and technofeudalism has all the tools of modern technology at its disposal. If things go in that direction, they will have an unlimited supply of serfs desperate for whatever human work/livelihood is left.
Not sure how valid but there's this: https://ahrefs.com/websites/ycombinator.com
The Apple USB c dac is fantastic and it’s like 10$ if you want something better you need to go to the 100$+ range
For those who are interested, Mosfilm has been uploading a bunch of Russian movies to YouTube for a long time.

You can watch Tarkovsky's movies, for example.

And one of my personal favorites - Kin-Dza-Dza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y
> When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong?

No, but work of journalists is highly visible. Probably, this creates more incentive to write according to rules of the trade. There are examples of journalists who went with ruling regime and got monetary prizes. Some are switching to it now, betting that regime change again and their dedication will bring rewards.
most of the clients are ripped off open source and sold for profit/subscription. and filled to the brim with trojans and adware.
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