skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm ready to believe that pipewire is imperfect (although I have personally experienced no crash, and did not have to configure anything), but the sentence from the original post is:

> Therefore, I naturally omit the use and configuration of additional audio layers in the form of a Jack server, PulseAudio or the unfortunate PipeWire from RedHat.

I cannot understand this sentiment. I have used all three for years each. If I had to qualify one as "unfortunate", it would certainly not be PipeWire (nor would it be Jack for that matter).

> performance is not that great compared to pulseaudio and jack ..

Jack makes different trade-offs by default, so for some definition of performance, yes, one could see it as superior to PipeWire. But in my experience PipeWire is better than PulseAudio on all axes (at least: latency, CPU usage, resampling quality).
I think 2016 was the turning point. It has been going downhill ever since.
That really depends, as the studios have some tricks up their sleeves, like
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
RTOS does not improve playback of music but is crucial if you e.g. want to produce music. Imagine a situation where you connect some MIDI keyboard and play some music - you want OS to produce the sound "real time" instead of "scheduling it".
The trend in EU is to tighten up regulation to the point where the achieved goals occurs fairly slow and steady. The goals are also not about ownership (there is no country called Europe, so what would it even mean?), but rather that the data and control remain within the jurisdiction of EU law and then ratified by each country.

The results so far has been that most large companies has local legal presence within Europe, EU data centers, EU specific contracts with customers, and recently EU specific features in applications. It basically salami-tactics. Part of this strategy is also to use the court system to enforce specific aspects, like how part of GDPR is just now getting enforced after a case in March in 2024 by EDPS. The case initiated in 2021, GDPR was written 2016, so it also illustrate the pace. In the time between 2016 and now there are multiple new regulations, and those will also take time before they are fully enforced.
I've been thinking of doing a native Skype client for years. I resented Skype 8 onwards.

Skype 7.x was the last Delphi Skype.
Framework-mania is running wild
IMO it's the other way around – because OpenAI doesn't focus on any particular market, they'll be launching stuff that later will be easily reproduced by market leaders that have not only know-how, but they have the whole platform where the AI can be easily added.

What kind of big company will abandon Marketo because OpenAI launched an agent? OpenAI misses everything else that Marketo has, so they'll just wait a few months until Marketo adds the same feature
Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
A daily quiz game for couples to build a new ritual
Hi Folks

We're looking to test our beta game with long distance couples. Please share this with them if you know any?

We have 50+ couples so far! Looking for more feedback!
Somehow Julia is lacking the "killer app" like Ruby has with Rails.
Ask HN: What is the most important paper ever written
>This is a rural area with a lot of forest. The forestry service uses high concentrations of glyphosate dumped from helicopters to thin the forest.

Moncton is not a "rural area with a lot of forest".
Ask HN: Are Trump's tariffs affecting freelancing from abroad?
Hi,

I am a dev freelancing from Europe with US clients. In the eventuality that tariffs get set between US and Europe, will those affect services like mine?

I can't find the info online, it's all unclear. Does anyone know how it is currently with China?
Retiring, for example.
"Yo dawg I heard you like pdfs so I put a pdf reader into your pdfs so that you can pdf while you pdf".
Neither Napoleon nor Hitler were ever elected as heads of state. Hitler was eventually appointed Chancellor, but that is the head of government. The head of state is the President. Hitler was able to manoeuvre into that position using his personal army to murder opposition. Napoleon had an old fashioned military coup in 1799, then attempted to legitimise it with a falsified plebiscite in the following year.

In both cases, the issue was the murder, not the democracy. It is important that we not blame democracy for the actions of evil men.
Hey, although it's not open source, I think you can give my product a try.
Futern Lead Generation. (https://www.futern.com)
How much do those tools cost? And if they are gonna use OpenAI's tools anyway, adding a similarly capable sales agent at a fractional cost would be a win.

It's the same story that has happened with phone camera. It's became capable enough, at much lower price, since everyone already has a phone, that standalone camera is a rare sight nowadays.
And we will spend 100x times less on infra, nourish our own industry and redirect the money to the improvement of our electrical grid and local subsidies.

I am all for it.

As someone working for the public administration I've long been worried about the decline of skills of IT workers here in Europe. It is especially flagrant in email infrastructure.

Since we are offshoring email to Microsoft for a long time already, we totally forgot how to manage email internally for the few cases when we still need it.
That is no different than a black guy accusing them of racism, so it evens out.
Must have missed the many Congress laws that can suspend such a disbursement by various parties of the Executive Branch: immediate, 7-day, 15-day, 90-day, reallocated, indefinite.
I think this is on Cloudflare. Perhaps there is a demand for such a service, but it is another to implement it. And this is very bad for a free and therefore safe net.

I don't even know which attack vectors an integrity check for a browser could help against. Against infected clients? It is in any way evidently not effective.
The scientific method may at one time have been conceived by philosophers, but we are centuries away from that time, and in recent centuries, all the refinements and improvements to science have been done by scientists. The roots of the scientific method which one could reasonably call philosophy are so changed as to be considered invalid today.

The reverse is not true--scientists have written a lot of philosophy--and since they tend to base their philosophy in reality rather than logic based on speculation, it tends to be better philosophy than philosophers.
Tariffs apply to goods. Freelancing isn't a good.
Explorable Flexagons: Learn to create and flex flexagons (2020)
Thanks! If you try it and have any feedback please let me know :)
Reddit has not banned its porn subreddits.
Good points about how to better use social media but I don’t personally think the benefits outweigh the downsides
I don't know about the hidden intentions but it appears that its time to switch the cutting style from salami to ribeye or arms and legs.

>here is no country called Europe, so what would it even mean?

Soon there will be, they are creating the 28th regime which is essentially a virtual country with a jurisdiction designed for speedy bureaucracy. I hope they do a good job with the implementation of the idea.
It seems the maintainer is willing to implement it but lacks the time. Perhaps a PR would be in order.
Doesn't work, the document is unresponsive. I used a HP DeskJet 2820e Printer btw.
It’s the DeepSeek reasoning model.
Right? PipeWire is the best.
DNS at IETF 110
Selling stocks doesn't increase your net worth.
I wonder what are the legal implications of breaking the ToS - besides termination of your account?
Sorry, my sarcasm got a bit too far.
H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain
I deactivated my account after finding a job and will reactivate when I am on a new search.
It's complicated.

Belgium has its own government cloud but its office infrastructure is on M365.

The Netherlands have nothing of their own.

EU institutions are migrating full-speed on AWS and M365.
The last great one, before this abominable slow client that led to the exode from Skype.
Sounds like you got a bright child! I think one shouldn't stop a child from exploring many things like that. Not saying you are. I think it just means, that they have not yet found the thing that keeps them coming back for longer time, while they are learning many skills, that can be useful in the future.

Also being a generalist is OK.

Perhaps the best approach is to have conversation with the child, that furthers reflection/introspection. Basically giving the child the tools to notice such patterns themselves and make decisions based on their iwn insight.
Stressed or struggling to sleep? Breathing Exercises Help
That would be a better use of public money than building a successor to LHC.
Fyi, squirrels
And if you want to use it as a build tool, you're going to have to crack open some books.
Cory Doctorow – Masque of the Red Death
Why would the video you shared take out the words "from my heart" that were said just before the gesture? Would that maybe change the meaning of the gesture?
This is the problem with MSM that makes you actually think you're dealing with Hitler.
Global Capslock Key
> and a bit disappointed that I didn't take this idea further!

Don’t be, that’s pretty common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
The K1000 is generally considered among the best film SLRs ever made, especially for the price, and easily falls into the top 0.1% category in my mind. There's a reason why it was in continuous production for 20 years with hardly any changes to its design.
Self Hosted Alternative to Rocket.chat
Never underestimate the power of the second mover. Since the development is happening in the open, someone can quickly cobble up the information and cut directly to the 90% of the work.

Then your secret sauce will be your fine tunes, etc.

Like it or not AI/LLM will be a commodity, and this bubble will burst. Moats are hard to build when you have at least one open source copy of what you just did.
> No way its got less that 5 ccs of blood in a 9-10 cm long body.

Scaling that body up by a factor of 10 would get you 5 × 10³ = 5,000 ccs of blood in a 90-100 cm long body.

That’s 5 liter. We also have (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_volume) “A typical adult has a blood volume of approximately 5 liters”, and the typical adult is quite a bit taller than 90-100 cm.
At least three detections on VirusTotal, but I'm not sure if it's significant.

ClamAV: Js.Trojan.Obfus-48

Cylance: Unsafe

Google: Detected
The photo montages certainly demonstrate that static images can be very easily taken out of context. The Musk salute can be shown as a video, in context and still be a nazi salute.

If you look at videos of the other poses, it is clear that they are not intended as any kind of salute.
I was thinking the same looking at France's numbers. Who's more likely to buy a Tesla and who's more likely to hate Trump and Musk? (Also taking into account that some of France's very right wing politicians were invited at Trump's inauguration) Probably more overlap than Tesla would like... Especially now that you can buy something totally alien to this alleged ideology like a Volkswagen EV...

That's the risk when getting into politics while running a business.
> Although it has it's differences with EU, it is an EU candidate country and its economy is fully integrated with EU.

What is "fully integrated"? It's not on the Euro, for example.
> And when tech is already full of white guys

Its also full of Asian guys, so its way more diverse than most sectors in USA.
Mandatory jail for Nazi salutes under new Australia laws
Hetzner beats it hands down in terms of cost, scale and customer service.

But it's great to have competition )
Same here - fail2ban then adds the IP to my nftables fw
> I'm making other choices in response that I fear someone will regret in 15 more years.

Junior dev made to maintain some code base: "wtf, all this old code suck. People were really bad at their job".

Same dev 5 years later: "wellll, this looks bad but there must be a reason.". Usually the reason is someone sold a new feature without asking the implementers or even checking what the impacts could be. So it has to be ready yesterday and you'll never get approval to refactor or clean-up anything, until it breaks.
Well while for the most folks which feel a fatigue now, we felt the fatigue the last years.

Now daily the old fatigue gets slayed away by the great president of the United States and we have joy.
I liked the 8051 :)
I would suggest posting your question as an "Ask HN" topic by itself will be more fruitful.

To start with, ensure that you're using well configured ssl certs and redirect to https
He's shader riiiiiick!
It has to be in the first two weeks, 90%+ of DC voted for Kamala. There's going to be resistance and lack of support. People are going to want to keep their jobs. Layoffs suck but there's not a great way to do them, and the government shouldn't be immune to them.

This wasn't a surprise to people following him. People like his head of OMB from his first term was on Tucker talking all about this. They've talked about the legal aspect of things and have prepared. They've had 4 years to prepare for the resistance to change in DC and the law will be used to resist.

> If the government doesn't respect the law deeply, why would any other organization?

I think this is the biggest issue we have in society. Trump supporters have been screaming that this has already been an issue for decades. The majority of Trump supporters would 100% agree with you. While everyone is pointing their fingers at Trump and calling his supporters conspiracy theorists, we aren't looking at the crimes our corrupt government has committed. There is no trust that our DOJ is on the side of the people and not just another tool of the corrupt establishment. The list of accusations made by Trump supporters is large and damning and absolutely deserve to have their questions answered. The hate and neglect of Trump supporters includes a massive blind eye to evil in DC that's been going on for decades
Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang
> EU must be really stupid to have the only open market then get ridiculed for not having "global" tech companies

I'm not sure how these are related. The EU has far less money than the US for speculative, big payoff investments, to my knowledge. That's why there's less chance of creating new companies (and new markets) compared to the US.
Is there a pinworm outbreak in your neck of the woods? All of these concepts (MDI / Tabs) easily fly with anyone we deal with on a daily basis.
It at least offers more security than the usual alternative on a consumer router of the manufacturer's OS (i.e. something updated once a decade running linux 2.6 with GPL-violating unreleased patches so you can't update it yourself, all written in C by the contractor that bid the lowest).
As an enthusiast I of course make encrypted on-site backups, which I then protect by syncing to a cloud provider, and I protect the encryption secrets with a password manager, and protect the password manager and cloud accounts with a U2F key, and protect the U2F key with two spare U2F keys in off-site secure locations.

I can understand, though, that most of the population doesn't want such complexity, and prefers to be able to reset forgotten passwords without losing their data.
A better (than Optional) maybe for Java
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition
The bet is stupid.

David Lynch The Grandmother would be considered a "masterpiece" by this definition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y0rYWVcxF4

Anyone could make something along those lines right now with AI tools. The ratings is because of what the fame David Lynch achieved after making this.

AI video is going to stall bad because it is just too expensive and what we have now is complete trash. Sora is such a massive disappointment to anyone who was interested in doing exactly what is being described.
Show HN: Greq – Review and Fix Requirements in a Few Clicks
Hey HN,

I’m Eduardo, and I’ve been working on Greq, an AI-powered tool that makes requirement review and correction fast and painless.

Why?
Bad requirements = frustration, wasted time, and poor product outcomes. As an engineer, I’ve dealt with vague, contradictory, or missing requirements that slow everything down.

Greq analyzes, improves, and validates requirements, so you can focus on building instead of fixing bad specs.

What Greq Does
Automated requirement review – Identify unclear, missing, or contradictory requirements.
AI-powered corrections – Get suggested improvements instantly.
Clarity & consistency checks – Detect duplicates, ambiguities, and incomplete requirements.
Simple pricing – $0.01 per requirement, not per user.

Who’s This For?
Embedded engineers
Software teams
Anyone who deals with requirements but doesn’t enjoy the process

Would love to hear your thoughts!
This looks really cool. Congrats.
Cell-Based Architecture Explained, with Zombies
Prompt injection is unsolved. the end.
I think that is correct, depending on how modern the syscalls used are I guess. I expect it doesn't implement a lot of them. I haven't tried it though.
And if you are not you wont.

You can decide if you change your local setup or not. You cannot decide the same of a service.

There is nothing inevitable about inconsistency in a local setup.
Should I update my router over SSH while I'm at work, or should I just wait until I get home?
Still you will need reader to open that pdf
Golioth Can Now Run Entirely on Qualcomm Modems
SEC scale back its crypto enforcment efforts
I would be pretty happy if the EU ploughed a load of money into a FOSS office suite on an ongoing basis.
I think there is some kind of mixup, you can not scale up the variance percentages quadratically:

If you do a small-scale measurement, say you get result of 5g, with a standard deviation of 0.2g. That means the variance is 0.04 g^2.

If you then scale the setup up by 1000 (=> getting 5kg as expected value), then the variance scales to 1000^2 * 0.04 = 40000 g^2.

BUT the standard deviation is still 200g. The relative uncertainty is NOT increasing quadratically!

(another sanity check: if you change the units by a factor of 1000, your variance must not increase, relatively).

But maybe I misunderstood your point?
It's not efficiency, it's capex. Ivanpah is solar thermal which was soundly defeated by photovoltaics and, now, batteries. Ivanpah's technology was inherently more expensive than PV, and its remaining advantage, ability to store thermal energy to extend generation into the evening, has been rendered less valuable by cheaper batteries.
If X revenue keeps growing, $100B valuation is not unreasonable
A colorful Game of Life
It works because the question itself is a hint born of knowledge. “Are you sure about that” is a polite way to say “that answer is wrong, try again”. Students know that, so instead of doubling down will redo their work with the assumption they made a mistake. It is much rarer to ask the question when the answer is correct, and in fact doing so is likely to upset the learner because they had to redo the work for no reason.

If you want a true comparison, start asking that question every time and then compare. My hypothesis is students would start ignoring the prompt and answering “yes” every time to get on with it.
This happened sooner than I expected.
Electron shifted the scales to below the old Java while Java improved. It's still not great, but given a choice? Let Electron die.
https://platform.uno/ is an option for building web apps with xaml
Burried in hackaday
is the work of a newly minted mechanical engineer
who designed and built a trebuchet that has supersonic launch velocities.
found it
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/01/supersonic-projectile-exceed...
Anthropic at $60B – How much might employee stock options be worth?
> IPIP6

Can this be used to replace NAT64?
In this post, I'll walk through OpenTelemtry core concepts and how to integrate OpenTelemetry in a Go application. By the end, you'll have a reusable telemetry package that sets up logging, metrics, and tracing! I've also published the package, complete with tests and examples, on GitHub: https://github.com/lucavallin/gotel . Feel free to use it as a starting point for your own projects.
Biscuit: Scaffolding LLM-Generated Code with Ephemeral UIs in Notebooks [pdf]
Counting instructions is problematic.

6502 has 56 mnemonics, RV32I/RV32E has 37.

But mnemonics are arbitrary. Are BCC, BCS, BEQ, BMI, BNE, BPL, BVC, BVS really different instructions, or just one instruction with a field specifying the condition.

If you look at 8080 and Z80 assembly languages you see the same binary instructions represented with different mnemonics and some things that have different mnemonics in one are the same mnemonic with different arguments in the other.

6502, original, has 151 of the 256 eight bit opcodes used, but when you add in the immediate data or address it has millions of possible instructions:

with ABS ABS,X ABS,Y modes: ADC, AND, CMP, EOR, LDA, ORA, SBC, STA

with ABS ABS,X modes: ASL, DEC, INC, LDX (act ABS,Y), LDY, LSR, ROL, ROR

with ABS mode: BIT, CPX, CPY, JMP, JSR, STX, STY

So that's (38 + 28 + 7) * 65536 = 3,080,192 instructions right there.

Immediate and the various Zero Page instructions add another few thousand.

Similarly with RISC-V RV32I when you fill in the Rd, Rs1, Rs2 fields and immediates/offsets there are again many millions of possible instructions.
Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?
Hi, I remember that when OpenAI introduced Canvas, someone in the HN comments mentioned another editor that did pretty much the same things—or maybe even inspired Canvas (I don't recall if it was an explicit influence or just a similarity pointed out by users).

I've tried searching through the comments, but as often happens on HN, it's a bit like going down a rabbit hole , and I can't seem to find that reference again. Unfortunately, I also forgot to upvote it, so it's not in my saved history.

Does anyone remember which editor it was?

Thanks in advance!
What the hell is wrong with people? Honestly the lack of substantive human interaction in a lot of folks' lives, except via the Internet, is a real problem.

Take that story for instance. Here's how that goes in the physical world, just to show how unbelievably ridiculous it is.

So you didn't get the job? What's your next step?

I'll stop by their office and keep people from entering the front doors by running around in front of them. That'll show those bastards.
I avoid and refuse to use Cloud flare for these sorts of reasons. Join me.
This will be flagged just as much as the other one but still just saying - there's no such thing as "just quoted" in reality right? To be more concrete, quoting is always to support some sort of narrative, just look at all the quotes or citations in a typical research paper.
The Starlink contract is almost certainly immaterial. It's only a temporary arrangement to support Ukraine and the contract value is under $1 million per year.

If you remember Starlink even initially provided the hardware and services to Ukraine for free.
Nice fishnet to grab taxes, keep the scam going and repeat.