skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife died of ovarian cancer in February of 2020, right as covid started.

It felt like I was running on adrenaline and cortisol for two years. Scrambling to find anything to help, steadily applying the steel tip of my proverbial boot to the backside of the healthcare industry, doing home IVs, changing ostomy bags, making sure meds were straight, trying to gently urge her to eat something at all, deep diving into the pits and snares of clinical trials, looking at adjunct therapies and arguing with doctors about our right to do those, growing to an ambient, everpresent rage over time.

When she passed, it all went silent, and then the world shut down.

I still feel like my brain has changed. It's difficult to put my finger on how.

In retrospect a lot of the time I spent trying to find options and understand the disease and its treatment would have been much better spent tending to the emotional needs of my family. I should have accepted much earlier that it was over and just prepared for that inevitability rather than clawing and scratching for options right until the end. I just didn't know how to do it.
My favourite was Kubernetes in our meeting being referred to as Cuban Eighties. ⎈
> Nobody expects their defaults to be unchanged.

The OC point was that VS Code UX "is a mess by comparison", and VS Code UX is fully configurable, therefor if you have a problem with VS Code UX, you are complaining about it's defaults settings.

Also Jetbrains IDEs font rendering is simply awful, it doesn't hold the comparison to electron: https://i.imgur.com/u4ZV2Kd.png
Teflon isn’t a sub-cellular sized needle though.
Ex-Google chief warns west to focus on open-source AI in competition with China
I also think the way DOGE has gone about their business is the only way that'd work in a systemically corrupt environment. If you give these institutions ample warning they'll bury or destroy any and all evidence, because that's how it's been done for decades. That doesn't work.
I'm convinced most HN readers only read left-leaning mainstream publications, and they were all funded by USAID.
Fantastic game.

Shame that no developer takes risks like this anymore, the whole concept was just so foreign, so strange, yet it worked.
JD Vance Remarks at Paris AI Summit
One more reason not to fly Ryanair!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985733
Cool but lxd is still a competitor to docker. I’ve read the move code for some work reasons. No lxc, as you said :)
very interesting links, thanks! I was not aware that the technology had progressed that rapidly (outside of Neuralink, which captures a lot of the attention)
I have a rule that says: You are not allowed to use these tools until you have written a recursive descent parser yourself. Parsing manually is not that hard, but giving good errors while parsing automatically is not that easy.
>James Webb Space Telescope will study asteroid 2024 YR4

https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/10/james-webb-sp...
Allow me to be more clear then:

- “default theme sucks and is bad accessibility”. On its own this is objectively provable of course except when you’re talking about probably the single most commonly changed setting in a coders primary IDE other than maybe font. Calling the app objectively bad because it chose a bad default theme that gets immediately changed is a weak take

- “hidden menu options” this is the subjective one as I called out unless you can provide examples that are universal.

- “bad keyboard shortcuts” is subjective for the most part but even still is a widely changed option and very easy to fix. So calling the app objectively bad for this is also a weak take.
> shoehorning 40 years of UI development and products into them seems like a mistake.

It wouldn't be such a mistake if it was done well. For all the bells and whistles web UIs have, they still lack a lot of what we had on the desktop 30 years ago, like good keyboard shortcuts, support for tab in forms, good mask inputs, and so on.
Inflation Rises Unexpectedly, Keeping Fed Rate Cuts at Bay
You can tell security is real the same way as lots of other things, reality doesn't give a fuck. Like how you can tell the difference between man's laws (e.g. "The Offside Rule" or "Constitutional Rights") and Mother Nature's laws (e.g. Thermodynamics). Try it, kick the ball even though the rule says you mustn't - if you get lucky the referee doesn't notice and play continues. But if you try to make a system more ordered without expending energy it does not work. Reality doesn't give a fuck.

When I breeze through your login process with the wrong credentials that's because your security was fake, if it was real that would break because it didn't know who I was, so if some bug lets me past login I don't somehow successfully log in as me, I'm logging in as nobody at all which is clearly nonsense.

This is "Make Invalid States Unrepresentable" at scale, and it's difficult to do, but not impossible.
I've sometimes felt like starting my own fetch client builder based on a project I did at work a couple of years ago.

It worked by composing logic with S-expression like syntax, e.g.

fetcher = compose(
setUrl(x),
acceptJSON(),
compose(a, b, ...c)
)

And then to allow these composed functions to hook in simple request / response middleware

It seems hard to get traction on a new project though. And these days I tend to use OpenAPI -> client generation.
It's hard for me to work on a project I probably wouldn't use myself.

That said, competition is a good thing and I'm glad people are still building these.
A database of every YT user then x-referencing them with public services (fb/ig/twitter). Build shadow profiles, sell db to highest bidder.

Or just plain ole pwning them. Most users still tend to use the same password across different services, not use 2FA, and involved in at least 1 high profile leak (I know I’m in at least a dozen so far per haveibeenpwned).

Occasionally you get the victim that uses that same password for their e-mail service and that can allow you to bypass e-mail 2FA if enabled. Even better if the account is used for social SSO (ie, Google, Facebook, Twitter). Then you have access to a treasure trove of services; or just delete them for lulz
I don't think those parties are the ones enacting tax credits for manufacturers and suppliers. If they had a choice, those wouldn't exist.
The Big Myth: How Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love Free Market [video]
Spine implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
>It takes a lot of self deception to ignore the reality that he obviously must be doing something right.

Well, you have hit the nail on the head. My misanthropic view is that most people are a deluded lot.
This kind of blanket statements are never correct.
Since you are building the app you must know the proper definitions and applied usages. The right ones the wrong ones, the intentions, maybe even the origins of those words.
I think it was a very valid question. I was, and still am, wondering the same thing
TTS is increasingly being commoditized.

Kokoro was posted and it works on webgpu, absolutely incredible quality for where it can run

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973769
Codeberg Down
Noticed some nasty spam in my inbox this morning, had some trouble getting in to codeberg's site initially, now see the above message.
Apple engineers create expressive Pixar-like table lamp with AI capabilities
My guess was that people selling vulnerabilities generally know who they’re selling to. Is there a big market for people selling exploits to unknown/anonymous customers?
Doesnt Postgres have the same issue?
Awesome idea. You inspired me to build something similar for Steam: https://steamtok.com/
That is how it feels sometimes. The regulators want to be in control, as if "they are responsible for anything good that comes", while the truth is that they are only able to somewhat restrict or nudge a process, while any strong process will happen regardless of it.
It looks like your disenchantment with computing is more of a symptom of the other bad things going on in your life.

I just suggest keeping up with exercise and focusing on your mental health. If you are in a dark place, everything becomes dark.

Give yourself time to heal from the breakup, recover from depression, and I'm sure you will find joy again in doing your job.
The diagrams are not visible in dark mode.
Thank you for sharing this short story. I read it with my coffee and really enjoyed it, turns out existential dread goes well with the first hit of caffeine of the day. You made my morning :)
The company I work for has been using ElevenLabs to translate hour-long programs into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, German, and Chinese. We have a large international audience, so it's worked great for this purpose!

Before, we were hiring people to translate, and then hiring others to dub the audio. Now, our files are automatically translated and spoken in the voice of the actual speaker, and we just have a small Quality Control team of native speakers quickly verify the results are accurate. We've reduced costs and increased the quality of our translated media.
I was just thinking about this while checking out the Seedlabs page.

Because now it is somewhat commercially available, and a lot of people (including myself) that previously weren't thinking of having this just because of the hasstle of assembling it themselves, can now consider buying a pre-made unit and play around with it.

I was thinking that it'd be REALLY GREAT if there was an easy way of making "apps" for this smart knob. Kind of like watchfaces or pebble apps. Anything to make it easier for people to play around with this. Maybe a lightweight SDK or something.

I'd be more than happy to contribute to such a thing, but doing this alone is too daunting of a task.

Side note, the 245 EUR price by Seedlabs is equally daunting :(
Do you mind sharing which platform?
Extended "Blackwell" GPU Ramp Cools Growth at Supermicro
No offence but those arguments are all silly.

>1. The memory of Nazis using centralised industrial might and information to kill millions of people (google dutch insurance records Nazis)

We can't stop developing and using modern technology just because one time in the past modern technology was used to kill people. Imagine if prehistoric humans stopped using fire because one time some retard burned down the village, or if they stopped forging steel because swords were used to kill people one time. People kill people, not technology alone.

And people who bring in the Nazi atrocities as a joker card against progress in an argument, usually do it for emotional manipulation to move the goalposts and push an agenda, similar to "won't someone think of the children" to push online surveillance. Most normal people don't think of the Nazi atrocities at every decision they make in life, most people think about the problems we have right now.

>2.a much stronger history of workers rights and distrust of rich people together with a different attitude to gouvernement making it politically challenging

Yeah well the problem is it's always the capitalistic rich people that create jobs and drive innovation. Putting the government in charge of creating jobs and innovations don't end up working well long term.
Not the OP, but your question got me thinking. I think ends frequently justify means, though I’m guessing that the real question in that adage should be “does the end justify any means?”

Our entire decision system relies on endings justifying meanings. I want a steady job that pays well, so I concede to going to a 4-year institution and paying a decent amount in order for that end to be so. The end justifies the sacrifice in time and finances, so the decision is justified in my mind. If the end were that I had only obtained unemployable skills or knowledge, then that particular end would not have justified the means for me.

So I suppose that when people say the ends don’t justify the means, they’re not really saying it categorically—just that the particular ends being argued don’t justify the particular means.

With the case of animal testing to improve human quality of life, it’s hard to say. Dogs were routinely experimented on and killed to first link diabetes to the pancreas, and later to discover insulin was a substance that could be transferred to preserve life. These medical results have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the past hundred years. Whether the neuralink experimentation is justified in its potential for quality-of-life improvements in paralysis victims years into the future really depends on where you weigh animal well-being and life in relation to future improvements to human life, as well as whether you believe their experiments are too gratuitous and could be carried out more safely/ effectively on fewer animals.
My response to "the bullies are in charge" has been downvoted and flagged yet what I am responding to remains up. It's a different opinion on the same topic started by GP. Either both should stay or both should go.
> Recently I had an experience where the chatbot gave completely wrong subway instructions over and over again.

So, slightly offtipic, but, I just... don't understand why anyone would use it for this. This is a solved problem. The operator likely has a planner app. Google and Apple Maps have planners which support most systems. Transit and various other third party things have planners. I think even OpenStreetMap may even have one!

Quality can vary (I find that Google Maps in particular feels like the people who worked on the trip planner had never in fact used public transport; it's very prone to suggesting absurdly complex routes involving three or four transfers where "walk for ten minutes and no transfers" is viable), but this feels like something an LLM is likely to be _particularly bad at_, unless it just calls Google Maps or whatever, in which case why bother?
Yeah, that's a good callout, thanks. Not sure why they took the less secure approach for something that is intended as a development environment, but I think I feel like that for lots of decisions in Python so maybe not that weird in the grand scheme of things.
Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google
I get the feeling that this might be spent on overpriced chips, so EU will not get much value for money.
Bug bounty payouts are not effort based. It does not matter how much time it took the discoverer to find the vulnerability. So discussing the amount of work involved is irrelevant; it's not like the kindergarten level "oh you tried so there's a consolation prize for effort". Comparing it against the fixed rate salary of a SWE is even more wrong, except that your argument shows it is more profitable for a hypothetical person relying on bug bounty income to instead join Google as an internal red teamer.

The other comment has already addressed the market value question.
The headline made me think it was about eating delivery/takeout food from plastic containers specifically vs eating plated food that had been in plastic containers.

Which seemed curious. So I read TFA.

And no, this is about all hot food put in plastic containers for delivery/takeout regardless of how it's later eaten.

When I was in China, I saw that food delivery was massive, cheap and easy. And the food is often piping hot and put in plastic containers.

Edit: Link to paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014765132...
How Many More Ridiculous Green Energy Projects Will Fail?
Perhaps these will be flagged for the CIA or DEA to investigate due to illegal importation of Cubans from the enemy!
I can't find it now, but I've seen at least one claim that the ancestral-human-DNA world inside biology is fairly dominated by a clique, and if you're not seen as fully on the team you can't expect to be funded, published and so on. Which isn't to say that any specific claim is wrong, of course, and on the whole it seems very unlikely that they're far wrong on the bare facts, as opposed to more speculative interpretations.
Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report
But the error happens in 'audio to text' part, so text prompt won't solve it. The way to fix it is probably fine-tuning the underlying audio to text model.
Part 6a: Lowering Row Types, Evidently
You could use them to replace everything with messages like in They Live https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yjw_DuNkOUw
The simplest deployment platform made for self-hosters
That, to me, is a feature, not a bug.

Switching from a large, complex tool that includes a learning curve is expensive. You set a high bar for switching from Eclipse because you are used to it, paid a learning price and are productive in it. And you are right. But that also means that picking such a tool from a multitude of options should be done after careful consideration, which is exactly what using smaller tools provides.

On a somewhat related note, I want my professional software to only provide a (great) speedup of development. I want them to only do what I could do without them (even if it takes a week instead of a minute). This means I can often look at things that fail to work and understand what is failing. This is also helped by new engineers starting with smaller tools and building up to integrated, distributed tools only after knowing how individual elements work and can be connected. Integrating with a (good) big tool is then not a fight as it brings a "wow" moment -- "instead of doing all this by hand I can do it with a few mouseclicks!". My 2c.
“objectively bad”

No, it’s subjectively bad for you.

It really grinds my gears when people use “objectively” when being objective is to deal purely in unbiased observable, repeatable facts.

Your justification starts first with screen contrast - something that is truly in the eye of the beholder.

Then you go on about “finger gymnastics” for shortcuts - again something that you (and yes I don’t disagree others as well) suffer from.

Neither are issues that have bothered me one iota - so much so that your mention is really the first time I’ve thought about either.

However you then compare this to another app that also has many detractors thus creating an instant bias.
I guess. But a story is different than a list of facts. It has a protagonist and narrative elements that imply a sequence of events and causality.

Many people do in fact try to tell people about products or services by just stating a bunch of facts.

But as humans we’re wired to understand stories, not lists of facts. We don’t really process facts without context, and if there’s no main character or narrative our brain instinctively fills that in.

So sure, marketing isn’t literature. It might even be a horrible thing that should not exist. But there is in fact substance to the conversation. There’s marketing that tells and story and marketing that doesn’t.
I rather like the idea behind Continue.dev, especially when I have Ollama with some larger models running on a server somewhere.

However, I have to say that it's a bit buggy, some things like running together with the SonarQube plugin breaks it, other times UI elements for keyboard shortcuts just hang around on the screen when they shouldn't be visible/present. There's a good deal of stuff in their issue tracker: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/issues?q=is%3Aissue%...

That said, I had a pretty good experience with the GitHub Copilot plugin, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-...
The case looks pretty straightforward to me - they copied the notes ( human or machine doesn't really matter ) to directly compete with the author of the notes.

If you wrote a program that automatically rephrased an original text - something like the Encyclopaedia Britannica - to preserve the meaning but not have identical phrasing - and then sold access to that information on in a way that undercut the original - then in my view that's clearly ripping off the original creators of the Encyclopedia and would likely stop people writing new versions of the encyclopedia in the future if such activity was allowed.

These laws are there to make sure that valuable activities continue to happen and are not stopped because of theft. We need textbooks, we need journalistic articles - to get these requires people to be paid to work on them.

I think it's entirely reasonable to say that an LLM is such a program - and if used on sources which are sustained by having paid people work on them, and then the reformatted content is sold on in a way to under cut the original activity then that's a theft that's clearly damaging society.

I see LLM's as simply a different way to access the underlying content - the rules of the underlying content should still apply - ChatGPTs revenues are predicted to be in the billions this year - sending some of that to content creators, so that content continues to be produced, is not just right - it's in their interest.
> The existence of sites like ohshitgit.com is testament to that.

It's a testament to worldwide adoption first and foremost. If `jj` had the same adoption, there would probably be similar sites about it. No tool is perfect, and all have their quirks.
> Here's the full decision, which (like most decisions!) is largely written to be legible to non-lawyers

For me (Italian) this is amazing! Most Italian judges and lawyers write in a purposely obscure fashion, as if they wanted to keep the plebs away from their holy secrets. This document instead begs to be read; some parts are more in the style of a novel than of a technical document.
They are actual people! Mostly just tired of reading how the opposing side from the elections is not happy. I wish something like that would happen in EU.
My first thought was that it sounded kinda like "Structure gel" - https://soma.fandom.com/wiki/Structure_Gel
> Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord.

Your comment is absolutely correct; Musk and his ilk are just people who "joked around" on 4chan and essentially radicalised themselves doing it.

HOWEVER left wing edgelords absolutely exist. Look up (at your peril) the phenomenon of "tankies". They're not your average communist, but rather apologists for Stalin's genocides.

Maybe your comment is more about the terminology at play, but it's interesting to see that the left wing mirror image of the average 4chan poster absolutely exists.
But then what? Given the number of accounts Google has, odds are that nearly every alphanumeric combo less than 8 or 10 characters plus “@gmail.com” is a google account. This vulnerability gets you other domains, but still not seeing it. Massive databases of email addresses are a dime a dozen.

The only angle I can imagine is phishing for high profile creators, and at most this is a “makes it easier” and not a “creates the problem” bug.
Are you sure he's a real person, and not a magic robot?
I actually thought this worked nicely even though people were NOT getting it. You are right that getting to the punchline quickly turned what could have been a loss into a fun little win.
Twitch has found some not-amazing niches to bulk up its revenue. A service needs to be profitable to work, and I don't think anyone wanted to pay for RSS. Or not enough.
All of which were available for free on your phone? I don't think its unfair to say that Google Maps changed the way that most people (we) get around, particularly outside of car travel.
1. There is no shortage of startup capital in Europe. European VC funding is almost half of US venture funding. Startup funding in Europe just doesn't produce big winners.

2. There are moderately profitable companies in Europe, and most of them were founded 40 years ago. With regard to the data I think you've got cause and effect reversed. The capital market is smaller because EU startups get out-competed badly. Startups are winner-takes-all. No prizes for 4th place.

3. It's simply not true that subsidies necessarily favor incumbents. Governments are free to structure their subsidies however they like.