skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Musk is a libertarian not an authoritarian.

What, your claim is that libertarians suppress speech? Explain why Musk is censoring speech on Twitter.

Musk is authoritarian by nature. He always has been.

> “Misinformation” is a very subjective word

It isn't. It's lies, falsehoods, and untruths. Here are some of the lies Musk has spread:

- Lies about Paul Pelosi: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelos...

- Lies about the recent LA fires: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/elon-mu...

- Lies about USAID: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250202-musk-brands-u...

- Lies about how good he is at video games: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-01-24/elon-musk-a...

And so on and so on. He never stops lying. He can't help himself. There's something wrong with him.

> Don’t forget that the media have a vested interest in denigrating Musk, because he’s their most significant competitor, and while X exists, and we’re able to hear directly from influential people, the legacy media is powerless to control the narrative.

This kind of conspiratorial thinking won't get you anywhere.

Carl Sagan worried this would happen to you (https://www.openculture.com/2025/02/carl-sagan-predicts-the-...). Sagan said, "I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness"

And, sure enough, it has.
Readonly vs Disabled made me realize I'm too dependent on my AI code editor
I develop software and systems using legacy programming languages—Fortran and PHP (no offense). Please don’t hit me up; I’m not looking for a job.

I was building a form and needed to prevent users from entering a value for "copay." Simple enough, right?

<input type="text" name="copay" id = "copay" class="form-control" value="<?= set_value('copay',$child['copay']);?>" disabled />

It worked perfectly for preventing edits. But when I submitted the form, the copay value didn’t get saved to the database. I turned to my AI code editor for help. After multiple prompts and failed attempts, it couldn’t find the problem let alone give me an answer that worked. Frustrated, I hacked together a workaround by storing it from another form. Incredibly terrible practice.

Fast forward a month, and I ran into the exact same issue on another form. This time, instead of asking my AI code editor, I decided to Google it. Someone on Stack Overflow had the exact same problem, and it was answered.

I took me a month to realize that "readonly" was what I wanted not "disabled". I was so upset with myself. I'm talking immense rage plus the i'm a terrible engineer thought.

Now, I’ve stopped paying for my AI code editor and only use the free version. I’ve also stopped letting it autocomplete my code.

AI code editors are great, but don’t over-rely on them.
Maybe not as impractical as you think.

Gold could be made by neutron capture on Hg-196. This is a rare isotope, so doing so would require two things: cheap neutrons, and a cheap way to enrich that isotope.

Helion's FRC scheme could provide the first if operated on DD (even if just at engineering breakeven). As for the latter, there's a scheme that's been proposed for mercury isotope separation that exploits the change in magnetic moment of mercury atoms when they are optically excited. This would use radiation from a mercury lamp that itself uses isotopically separated mercury to produce radiation that would selectively excite just that isotope, and steer the atoms in a beam using a magnetic track.

(This isotope separation technique has been proposed as a way to make fluorescent lights more efficient by reducing UV photon trapping in mercury vapor.)

The world's mercury production is low enough and this isotope rare enough that this wouldn't affect gold prices.
In many countries, that'd trigger an automatic release/repayment of unjustly sentenced fines.
The thing is, most people think that governments wants new tools for surveillance. The fact is, they had this power for a very long time (see Crypto A.G. and history of NSA and others), and practical and verifiable E2EE took these capabilities away.

Now they want their toys back. This is why the push is so hard and coming from everywhere at once.
I suppose you could parse csv file yourself and the api with curl? No need to add this feature in the app.
Exactly. Volunteering to risk critical info disclosure to adversaries through convenience. Big Brother didn't invade, they were subsidized by MAANG to get a foot-hold (no pun intended) on people and their spaces as Alexa and Siri.
Don't say that too loud of Trump might want them next after Greenland & Canada.
*you are in the process, sorry
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>Actually to be honest I'm just throwing this idea out there, I haven't given it deep thought.

I think the problem is much more complex if done properly, Java way, with full consideration. E.g. Optional has fluent interface which often becomes useful to avoid lots of nested if’s. To emulate chaining with nullable values you do need ‘?’ syntax.

>the Optional instance can be null

When return type is Optional, it is an error in 100% cases to return null, so it’s a valid case for NPE. A vary rare problem.

> the Optional instance can be not-null and non-empty but the content is null

Optional of null content is empty by design. Did you mean something else?
Playstation Network outage reported worldwide
Yep. It's the creation of an artificial Hobson's choice: "do this, or I'm breaking up with you."
Emacs is better than vi and spaces are better than tabs!!! (I just wanted to get that in as long as you're agreeing with all the comments.)
Perhaps you could fork the kernel and start a better community?
I used to know a female comedian who hosted a comedy night once a month. She and her partner lived in Morden for the sole reason that she has fallen asleep on the tube and got stuck there so many times that they figured it was easier just to move there lol
Illegal sure, but criminal?
If you're seeking an answer in good faith, scroll back through:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

There are Elon Musk + DOGE threads up and active and still taking new comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

it's the relentless repetition that's mostly causing flagging.

Posted threads still appear on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest, even if [flagged] acttive threads appear on the RSS feed, and commenting is still visible on /newcomments.

"Buried" here really means that political threads aren't appearing on the front page of a primarily technical and industry news site.

There's still a lot of community discussion tacking place.
Ask HN: Why?
@Dang, Could you explain publicly on HN the reason why all the articles and discussion threads about DOGE / Musk are immediately market as dead and silenced ?

We all know that HN wants to keep the topics as tech oriented as possible. Which is a good thing.

In normal times. But we're not living in normal times. Tech elites, like Musk, Sacks, Thiel are taking over US government. Tech enabled propaganda is in full swing, to the extent few of us can grasp entirely.

To take the latest example, one of the latest DOGE employees, apparently made some very racist remarks recently.

However, within 24 hours, Musk managed to manipulate the public opinion to believe that it was actually the journalist reporting this awful behavior that was 'doxing' the guy. The vice-president of the USA chimed in saying the guy should be re-hired, and he will be, according to Musk.

All of this is absolutely mind blowing and I frankly could not find words to describe how I feel about it.

What I do know though, is that a lot of this is done with active precipitation of Tesla / SpaceX / Xai employees who do follow HN.

My question is, WHY any article about DOGE / Musk is immediately banned and silenced ?
> Things that worked at least once:

I like it.
The link you provided is unsettling. I cannot verify it’s claims, but if true that would indeed explain a lot.
I found Telnyx to be very difficult to use. KYC on sign-up including ID, face scan via app. Account locked upon sign up flow completion. A sales rep had to unlock it for me. Another round of KYC to add a payment method. A few days into testing the account was locked again. I decided to not port my numbers in.
> legislatures

He will just do an executive order. He is an authoritarian, basically a king. "But but but it's illegal". The system can't keep up with speed he is dismantling it.
Yeah, see also Kathy Sierra[1], who had an excellent blog[2], and was intimidated and harassed away. If we can't have a safe space for people, we can't enjoy and benefit from their perspectives and the things they create because stunted, immature toxic-faecal-waste people like to shit all over anything that's any good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra

[2] https://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/
Nothing is stopping you
The right side is a normal regex language syntactically. Semantically it is a generator instead of a parser (consumer).

But I got your point. Maybe there could be some ways to do it in consistent way. Just straight tr-like syntax won't work, e.g I really want it something like this to be valid:

[a-b]:(x|y) (pairs a:x, b:x, a:y, b:y)

and I prefer not handle these in some ad-hoc way.
Languages: GHC and OCaml to start with.

You seem to include Fintach companies but not most big software companies, or hardware companies for that matter. I am wondering what your criteria are for this.
Not to distract from the project but if anyone is interested in eink tablets with LLMs, the ViWoods tablet might be of interest to you.
Judge temporarily blocks Musk's 'DOGE' team from accessing treasury records
you completely missed the point
Such a huge discussion and I can’t really understand the problem from reading the comments or some of the excerpts linked. Can anyone explain to me what is the real issue here?
Now you have two problems!

https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
> and now most of their patches have finally gone in.

Is there anything outstanding? I thought they recently reached the point where everything from -RT is in mainline.
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No it does not require trust.
If the RfL people don't do their job, well then Linux releases with the Rust parts marked broken and that's that.
It would be like demanding a lock up in NYC open a locker in your name and seize all contents.
Yep. I worked in a biomedical research department. Getting funding was always difficult, requiring 2 full-time grant writers for the government stuff and the dept chair who split their time between raising from private individuals, corporations, and all other sources. Government has strict rules about what money can and can't be spent on. Take equipment given by the government: often times, it would gather dust and couldn't be disposed of, despite being obsolete and replaced by something else, because of government red tape. Getting grants is very competitive and there's rarely enough money to cover all of the ordinary functions like salaries of an admin person, office supplies, or other overhead things needed for students, faculty, and staff to operate a functional department.

The losers of this will be patients of the entire world, the slow down of advancements in medicine and STEM fields of all kinds, and the sucking sound of brains leaving for other countries.
> Weren't they the one that neutered GSM encryption such that it was essentially ineffective from the get go?

The A5 cipher used in GSM came from France, but supposedly the Brits were also happy to have it be weak.
India hits 100 GW solar milestone
No doubt the problem is more complex and like I said would need language level syntax support.

Sorry yes you're correct, optional containing null is the same as an empty optional. So there are 3 cases, not 4.

But saying that "it's a valid case for NPE" missed the point I believe as you're taking about dealing with the issue at runtime. The killer feature of having language level support for distinguishing null and not-null is that these errors are flagged at compile time, not runtime.
it was eye opening as a young person to learn how to change the path of a folder on a hotline server to ../ with a debugger
Behavior like this makes me question sourcing software releases from the UK.
Yep makes sense. I worked with clojure for many years so it’s familiar to me. Iterating via the repl is a great way to develop software.
I was wondering if sbcl has good tooling for code navigation, completion, debugging.
The components the post is talking about are not.
I’ve tried many syntax coloring schemes and always end up back with (almost) none. I use a vim theme that shows black on white except for grayed out comments.

I’ve turned off most colors in my shell and tmux too. I do have production servers show the command prompt in red, that’s about it.

I don’t know of any way to measure what programmers call “productivity” but subjectively I don’t think syntax coloring does anything for mine. Code usually has enough cues without needing to add color to it.

I cut my programming teeth on dumb terminals like the VT-100, no color, do that may have prepared or biased me early on.
Ask HN: Svelte 5 devs, what's your preferred LLM?
I was a Claude sonnet boi until pretty much today and that's because Claude tended to beat all all of the other models, usually. However, recently I started working with svelte 5 for which the Claude experience isn't all that great, so today I went back to good old GPT-4o and I was surprised that it did a much better job for me which left me wondering what else I don't know so I decided to ask to swim intelligence of the interwebs:

What's your favorite large language model for Svelte 5 related problems?
UK universities look to open campuses in India amid financial woes at home
Tower Hamlets is absolutely the worst borough in London. It's dirty and it stinks - and that's just the election results! They make bankrupt Croydon look respectable.
Isn't the end result exclusive?
> Unless you are a social Darwinist who believe the poor are genetically worse…

This is guaranteed to be a strong factor, there's plenty of evidence on IQ heritability and correlation with income.

Just because it doesn't predict the outcome fully doesn't mean it's insignificant.
Very simple expense tracker. I like it.

This is the same idea I had building Simple Wallet (https://simplewallet.app). I didn’t want a budgeting app telling how and where to spend. I simply wanted an app to track and organize my money.

I’ve been thinking about how to visualize money. I don’t think pie charts are the way to go. I’m thinking something like RuleMark on SwiftUI.
I'm not a "People Manager" -- what is shallow about the ideas?
Lapce uses a WASI plugin system, so it could do strong sandboxing (but it doesn't).
A comparison between this and the Mac Studio would be really interesting. Or are these in completely different ballparks?
The Fuhrer is making a big barnstorming comeback these days. Perhaps it was a prescient part of IBM's long term strategy.
Keep believing that Rust magically prevents you from getting owned when you fuck up.
I think I have an Emacs itch
"This works" in a parallel universe.

People vote like their dad or what the paper (Murdoch) tells them. If you are lucky to have a thinking voter they only get to choose 1 or 2 issues. Maybe they want lower income tax more than something something privacy.

People won't vote against their interests? "Latinos for Trump" etc. Says otherwise. Brexit people getting kicked out of Spain etc.
Then you've never watched any of Elon's interviews where he lays/discusses out designs of products and production lines of all of his companies in great detail?

I don't get how anybody can write "he's not an engineer". It makes 0 sense and kind of proves my point about anything to just rant on Elon another day.
They don't. R1 gets the right answer in the thinking part of the response and ignores it in the response more than half the time in my tests.
I love ActiveSupport features like this. These are the little things that give you real polish when prototyping.

They're not hard to implement on their own but the fact that Ruby on Rails gives you them for free out of the box is probably the reason I still reach for it first. It's just faster to get things done.
> Another large part is the growth of mandatory spending. Roughly speaking, many administrators are mandatory, because they exist for external reasons. Universities cannot cut them, unless the external environment changes. The more regulations and expectations there are, the more administrators universities require.

Can you shed more light on that? I haven't heard that, but would be interested to hear what admin is required.
Still can't get past "Gleam doesn't have loops". I did try to stick with it as the doc suggests, but I guess is a steep transition for me. I like everything else about the language.

https://tour.gleam.run/flow-control/recursion/
Not the parent commenter but https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-infrastructur...
Trump signs order to cut funding for South Africa over land policy
This is actually a good thing from an environmental perspective. Japan has the type of downpour which can thoroughly drench you (in July for instance), but most of the time you don't need an umbrella. Obviously this means that umbrellas get lost, misplaced, or forgotten. If no one just took any seemingly lost umbrella out of politeness, you would end up with thousands of them going to a landfill.

I had the same thing with my umbrella when I left Japan after a year of studying there. “What should I do with this? It's still a good umbrella.”, “Oh, just leave it at the station, someone will take it.”
It’s not. Its core is open source, but the actual build that is branded VS Code and that people download is not. I’m not even referring to many of the key extensions that many people use, such as the SSH remote and Pylance, which themselves are proprietary.

If you want to use only open source code, you need a rebuild like VSCodium.
looks like they already removed all of those. I just opened saved playlist and found that non videos available.
No cash... now that will cause a riot. Why? Tax evaders won't like it.
thank Linus for you
That is what remains when a government grows to incompetent, the fear of the citizen, who sure is planning "something" as he should, for such incompetence shall not get away. Paranoia is the subconscious awareness of institutional incompetence.
That's a... unique take. You might want to check out the Century of Humiliation. [1] The one thing you do have right is that "good relations" in contemporary times seem to translate into "completely subservient, even to point of a willingness to engaging in self detrimental behavior if demanded." What happened around the second Bush administration was that China no longer had to be subservient, because their economy started booming, and so they could stand up for their own basic interests. One of the very few things they've pushed for is relative autonomy alongside Taiwan, which is even part of an agreement we ostensibly agree to, while then working to undermine that relationship in every way possible. You are either subservient or an enemy. Hegemony in a nutshell.

The same is largely true of Russia as well. Far from wanting the US as an enemy, Putin even inquired about joining NATO in the Clinton era. I'm sure there were some snickers about 'he doesn't get it, does he'? In fact the CIA initially felt Putin would be a terrible leader since he'd be unable to reign in Russia which was spiraling into chaos and mass criminality in the 90s. Their foresight there was about as accurate as usual.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
Kinda unrelated but should I go for kobo or the remarkable? I mostly want to read papers and maybe take notes. How do tthey compare in terms of hackability and freedom?
Could it have been BeShare?
The problem with discussing American politics is that they tend to suck the air out of the room. Once you let them in, they dominate the feed, regardless of the topic of the forum.
This is already known. Giant SUVs are more prone to rollovers and then crushing themselves and their occupants. Mid-sized and large sedans are far safer for 2 reasons: 1. structurally, they have smaller forces to contend with over a smaller surface area which makes building a safer passenger cage area easier and 2. American safety regulations for cars are more stringent than those for SUVs and pickup trucks. Instead, it's a Cambrian explosion where megafauna race to be the largest thing on the road, and screw everyone else and fuel/battery economy.
off-topic, but relevant: (1) Asahi M1 will run zig soon - page size has already been pushed to runtime where it belongs. (2) if it doesn't yet, for personal use, you can hack it in with this one-liner "sd '(.visionos) (=> 16)' '$1, .linux $2' <zig-lib>/std/mem.zig" (i'm using sd instead of sed, adapt if needed).
What is better for shareholder value? The privacy brand or the UK market.
The CCP will never be the lesser of two evils.
We have a word for when Bob comes up to Alice with a gun and threatens to shoot her if she doesn't hand over her purse.

It isn't 'bluffing'.

We don't even have a word for what is happening with Gaza, and any illustrative analogy I can come up with would be cribbing the SAW movies.
On the UX it would be helpful to add an option to delete all places.

It added 50 grocery stores with a "nearby places" search and inhad to refresh the page to start a new search instead of spending time clicking those X's.
7-Eleven Japan also got so big that they bought out 7-Eleven USA. But now the Canadian owner of Circle K is bidding to buy 7-Eleven Japan so I guess it's the circle of corporate life.
Just go to this URL and click the 2nd banner ad from the top. The password is the 16th word on the page.
IMO the more interesting question is why low-quality stuff like this keeps getting upvoted here. Feels like any submission that has AI in it automatically gets to the front page no matter the quality. Sad state of HN. I just can't imagine that people actually read this stuff and then decide to upvote because they found it useful. It's probably upvoted by people/bots who only read the title.

The whole reason I come to HN in the first place is to filter out BS clickbait articles exactly like this one, not to have them fill the front page.
Bolt? Sort of like Uber but Estonian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)
Agree, the criteria are a bit unclear imho
>50 Node processes

Every day we stray further from God.
I think this is an extreme take - they only had those mass surveillance tools since the start of the internet, and any other method of communication (phone calls, physical mail) all required warrants individualized to specific people to tap. But somehow the internet is excluded from all those privacy protections, and now that there’s technology available to ratchet us back to where we used to be, law enforcement agencies are throwing a tantrum about not being able to constantly violate our privacy.

In my mind, it’s pretty simple: if you want to surveil someone, get an individualized warrant to access their devices and data. If they refuse or wipe their data, treat it like destroying evidence in a case and throw the book at them. There’s zero excuse for what law enforcement and intelligence agencies have done to our privacy rights since 9/11.