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Show HN: A TikTok-like interface to read poetry (inspired by Wikitok)
“Leaves of Grasstok” is a TikTok-inspired app that “learns” which poems you like from Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass” and adapts to your preferences. Each stanza is paired with a Depression-era FSA photo from the Library of Congress collection.

Using CLIP, a multi-modal embedding model, I matched images to stanzas and created an engagement-based recommendation system. The algorithm averages your last ten viewed stanzas, weighted by viewing time, to find the next most similar content. It's simple, but (I think!) effective.

This project aims to demonstrate how AI and the humanities can complement each other, creating something meaningful when thoughtfully combined—rather than being at odds, as they’re often portrayed (or even often are).

Link to the repo: https://github.com/jswest/leaves-of-grasstok
In the modern world, Elon Musk bought his way into controlling the federal government, Larry Ellison is proposing an autocomplete panopticon, Mark Zuckerberg is building a survival bunker on Hawaii, and the leading cause of bankruptcy for everyone else is medical debt.
You don't know what they are doing other than what the said they are doing. Just because someone say's something about their motives, doesn't make it true. It sounds more like you have a position that you want to have promoted "auditing records for corruption reasons" (which is noble btw) and hoping the DOGE organization's behavior is lining up to that position. I'd be careful of this as it sounds more like cognitive bias.
Your comment has nothing to do with someone trying to ironically gatekeep me from commenting on Linus' public behavior in response to my comment about gatekeeping.
You are focusing on one set of incidents. There are lot of others not connected to any violence at all. People arrested for standing still because of what they admitted thinking and their motive for doing so. Police investigations of 'non-crime incidents'. Hate speech laws that can be very widely interpreted. Increasingly restrictive laws on public protests.
I completely understand you as a European. I see the same thing, here, on social media, in some newspapers, even in some family.

After WWII, we had found kind of an agreement of balance, and a dynamic indeed to institute legality and coordination across nations for peace and progress. And the USA were the foundation and support of that, almost even as if it had been its mission. No wonder UN is based in New York for that matter.

The most striking is the pace at which this unfolds.

It's hard to feel hopeful, but hard to feel hopeless too. It's like grief. Something is broken and lost forever, but also, with darkness comes clarity of where the light comes from. So resolute to speak up and organise, yes.
It's a good idea to see where your meat, milk and eggs come from. If you can't stomach it, then why put it in your stomach?
I don’t understand what bubble Elon Musk is living in where the ruthless slashing of USAID spending won’t have huge negative repercussions for the US.

I think the rest of the world will withdraw from trusting the US after this and other actions. A lot of trust in the world leadership positions the US takes are being torched by these vandals right now and while I hope for an amazing US comeback in 4 years it looks a lot more like China will step in as a stable partner for a lot of countries after an almost complete betrayal of western values.
No, that's not what I asked for. Unless you're deliberately misreading my question, that should be obvious to you. Please try and act in good faith.
Nope, took about an hour but it's flagged now. IMO the people doing the flagging just don't want anyone to think about this stuff at all.
There are a lot of skeptical comments here, but the authors make this claim in the abstract:

> We have obtained a concentrate of above room temperature superconducting particles.

Is this just a lie?
Again, this is a well studied topic. Anyone claiming they've identified the one true answer isn't someone who should be believed. The topic is complex, at best. But these are not hypothetical situations. There are data to support the point to which you're countering.

You are correct that there exists a world where the problem is minimized and at that point obviously the math changes. But we're not there yet.
My biggest issue isn't the raw speed, it's the quality of the connection. What does it matter if it's theoretically so fast if you can never get a decent connection? I live in a decent size city with supposedly great 5G coverage according to 3rd party maps. Yet, I often struggle to load simple images with a brand new phone and an unlimited data plan.

It's metro, which is lower-priority, but still.
This seems like it should be totally expected. Iridium's engineering efforts are largely in the past, they're purely in the revenue extraction mode at this point. Your job description is basically just "maintain obsolete legacy system just enough to make money."
And they would get sued by their shareholders.
The rich use helicopters...
And all the pesticides that are sprayed on them.
I was more referring to the idea that the journey to attain such wealth requires you to lose a part of yourself along the way.
Yep, that has been really interesting to watch. But those are anomalies; why can't we have less weirdos that make money?
The difference is you can just call

val a = a();

And start the stack unwinding. The `try/catch` is not mandatory to call a().
Epic surprise :)

I'm all for stripping these morons of everything they've stolen and dropping them naked in the shark pool/general population.

Don't think that's going to happen much either.
Perhaps they can fix the extreme slope angle of italics on some sites next.
I still have Steam installed on the laptop that was long ago replaced as my gaming computer but which is occasionally used for other purposes, because I have no particular reason to remove it.
This was a heartbreaking and terrible read. I've been feeling a bit of disillusionment about linux quite a bit lately, mostly due to bad/weird decisions being made at the distribution level. Reading this extends that disillusionment down to the kernel level.

The problems cited are portrayed as sociological problems, but I really wish people could recognize that all of them can be mitigated, either substantially or entirely, with a single purely-technical solution: microkernels.

* Almost nobody needs to upstream code to the kernel

* Trusted codebase size becomes negligibly small

* Maintenance burden for drivers, subsystems, etc., falls on the users of the subsystems affected, and not the entire community

* Broad language compatibility by service interface instead of ABI compatibility. The need for a singular compiler is reduced in scope down to the size of the subsystem instead of the entire ecosystem.

The biggest problem that can't be solved purely technically is the entitled user problem, but even that is partially solved. This is because the barrier to contribution is substantially lower:

* I can write code in Rust, but I don't know C.

* I can easily write simple drivers for some hardware features like battery managers and fan controllers and temperature sensors, but I don't know anything about kernels.

* I have a lower, but non-zero understanding of security, and would not feel comfortable writing code that runs on ring 0, but wouldn't feel inhibited writing code that benefits from process isolation.

Those attributes about myself inherently mean that for a microkernel OS, I can be a contributor, but for Linux, the best I can be is an entitled user.
Hey, this is my project. Cool to see it here again.

You might like this article I wrote on the backend:
https://pubby.games/codegen.html
From the title I thought this would be a site to get, like, weird startup gadgets that never took off. Looks like this is just craiglist for office furniture/IT from startups.
Bizarre that startup news isn't a place we can talk about the US government turning into a startup.
I don't know the mechanism behind it, but I've done side by side comparisons and it's clear to the untrained eye that the impressive contrast ratio of OLEDs is easily weakened by ambient lighting conditions.
>> it's overwhelmingly people repeating the same falsehoods that might, at best, have a kernel of truth, but have been blown out of proportion to the point of just being not-true.

That describes basically all posts about AI, so let's all join in and start flagging any HN post about AI.
You are missing the entire point. When you interact with a group of people who already have a culture and a set of practices/traditions, you have to play by their rules, build up credibility with that community... and then maybe, down the road, you can nudge them a little to make changes. But you have to have credibility first, have established that you understand what they do and understand why their preferences are the way they are.

If you approach it from the viewpoint that you have the solution and they are Luddites, you will influence no one and have no effect.
At DSL or T1 speeds? You're better off with wireless. We'll also ignore the problem of all copper going back to the central office.
Once upon a time I owned a LCD monitor with diagonal subpixels[1], and subpixel antialiasing absolutely didn’t work on that either. It’s just that it was very niche and I’m not sure if there were even any follow-up products that used the same arrangement.

[1] Samsung SyncMaster 173P (released 2004, bought IIRC 2006)
https://sam.gov/opp/bb1ac5870df5485ab090216dc8fe0511/view

FWIW
That's some deeply authoritarian dystopian talk there. Ask who this ACTUALLY serves.
Anyone using LibreOffice on a Mac with the M4 SoC? It eventually freezes on my new M4 Max MBP when I explore the settings.
> You interpreted my comment as an attack on the author. If they have a special case they want to optimize FFI for this seems like a great way to do it.

My mistake. I assumed the conversation was relevant to the post. I hadn't realized the topic had diverged.

> I think you’re vastly overestimating the fork/exec overhead on Linux. If your hot path is this hot you better not be calling Ruby functions.

We're talking about running a Ruby application. Let's use Rails to make it more concrete. That's going to be a lot of Ruby on the hot path. Avoiding that is tantamount to rewriting the application in another language. But, Ruby on the hot path can be fast, particularly when JIT compiled. And that's going to be faster than spawning a new process. The article even demonstrates this showing hot `String#bytesize` is faster than all other options. That's not to say writing a program in C is going to be slower than Ruby, but rather that integrating Ruby and C, which will involve translation of data types, is going to favor being written in Ruby. And, of course, the implementation of `String#bytesize` is in C anyway, but we don't have to deal with the overhead of context switching.

> You’re already doing it. Do you have a database? Nginx? Me cached? Imagemagick? Do you use containers?

All of those things ship as packages and are trivial to install. I don't need to compile anything. Packaging this theoretical application in a container out of band isn't going to help. Now, I need to `docker exec` on my hot path? No, that won't work either. So, instead, I need to add an explicit compilation step to what is otherwise a case of SCPing files to the target machine. I need to add a new task whether in the Dockerfile or in Rake to build an application to shell out to. At least with a native extension packaged as a gem there's a standard mechanism for building C applications.

There's no getting around that this complicates the build. I'm not sure why that's debatable: not having to do all of that is easier than doing it.

> Consider the alternative: is the ideal world the one where all software is available as a ruby package?

I'm not saying we should rewrite everything in the world in Ruby. But, yes, for a Ruby application the ideal world is one in which all code is written in Ruby. It's the simplest option and gives a JIT compiler the most context for making optimization decisions. I'm not interested in using Ruby as a glue language for executing C applications in response to a routed Rails request. At that point I may as well use something other than Ruby and Rails.
> It’s a stupid Cold War.

Yeah. Short of nuking themselves, the US couldn't really be trying harder to lose in every possible aspect right now.
I mean, we have a total moron as a leader, so I wouldn't rule out totally insane things like a 100% tax.
all of the standard caviats apply of course, but the premise is in itself worthy of attention
and fits in with a great deal of the background work in all of human technology ,ie: " wait, wait
some of this stuff is different, look there, there it did a THING", its how our ancient ancestors got us ceramics and metals and glass.
And the history of white light led's started with
exceptionaly rare, fluke, white light led's, that eventualy were proven to be the result of very tiny amounts of "contamenents" that produced the effect, took them decades to narrow it down, and figure it out, and then scale up to production levels.
Now the research tools are, way better, smaller, cheaper, and in thousands of labs world wide....so
> Until people and companies start treating Australian-made software as dangerous

Atlassian?
Because I think it's not important in the context of this discussion. Whatever their views are, I am not willing to be forced to think about them.
'woke' is the new 'judeo-bolchevism' you mean. You even have people talking about 'cultural Marxism' again, after 90 years. Unironically.
Not all gamers have a computer entirely dedicated to that purpose. Even among those that do, it's not uncommon to also play games or run Steam on another machine.
This should not be surprising to anyone -- if you consider the following:

> During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His first project included a database for the CIA, code-named "Oracle".

(from Wikipedia)
Do all these people have opinions on it? Or is most of that support astroturf?
Who benefits from the world no longer trusting the USA?

putin.
As I understand it everything Rust is seen as "optional", so a CONFIG_RUST=n build that succeeds means a-OK, then some Rust person will do a CONFIG_RUST=y build, see it's broken, fix it, and submit a patch.

I may be wrong, but that's how I understood it, but who knows how Linus will handle any given situation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm just a sample of one but I've used LibreOffice on Windows, Mac and Linux and never ran into that issue. It may be worth asking about it on SuperUser [1] if that site is still useful.

[1] - https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/libreoffice
> The issue is that doctors often over-react to adverse results due to the risk of being sued if it did turn out to be a true positive.

Do you think a patient is going to receive a false positive and accept a response from a doctor of, "Oh, might be a false positive. Let's ignore it and not do any more risky testing."?

That scenario makes no sense from either perspective. If you get a positive, you do more testing (or skip to treatment).

Your examples are well-taken and I understand them, but they don't apply to cancer. When you detect cancer with any test, you immediately do something risky: either a further test that involves risk, or treatment that involves a lot of risk.
But how would shareholders react if Apple complies?
Rust, which is a language I really enjoy, generates more social media outrage and religious wars than any other technical project I have been following for the past 20 years.
Your argument about what Chesterton means remains built on deliberately misunderstanding what other sayings mean, so I'm skeptical.
I guess the HN crowd are too able to understand what's happening. There's too much specific criticism here. Who is blocking these discussions? Where else can we go? Every day the discussions here are blocked. YCombinator has taken a side and it is a worrying one.
Implementing (or removing) Drop on a type is a breaking change for that type's users, not the language as a whole. And only if you actually write a trait that depends on types directly implementing Drop[0].

Linux breaks internal compatibility far more often than people add or remove Drop implementations from types. There is no stability guarantee for anything other than user-mode ABI.

[0] AFAIK there is code that actually does this, but it's stuff like gc_arena using this in its derive macro to forbid you from putting Drop directly on garbage-collectable types.
I kind of agree that in order to amass it, you have to make evil choices over and over again. Being the beneficiary maybe doesn't convey the same kind of psychological damage.
I've also heard that it's popular as a literal cash-heavy business. This allows it to be used for manipulating tax filings, in both directions: laundering other income, or under-reporting profits.
My grandfather (a doctor) always used to say this. There’s also an aggressive fast growing kind of prostate cancer, but treatment basically does nothing for survival rates (or at least that was the case decades ago when he was practicing.)

So his advice was, don’t look, don’t treat. Either you have the slow one and treatment is harmful, or you have the fast one and you’re going to die soon anyway.
Academia is about whatever the academics want it to be.

Personally, I think it’s a system for “experiments”: projects that mostly produce negligible real-world impact, but occasionally lead to major advances (“breakthroughs”). Whereas industry focuses on projects that are likely to succeed, and industry research focuses on projects that are less likely but not as risky as academia permits.

In that respect, I agree there’s an issue with prestige. I think it’s largely because of “publish or perish”: academics aren’t risky because they have to publish ‘quality’ papers, and papers on rejected hypothesis aren’t published and/or considered ‘quality’; and those who still take risks, don’t end up as powerful or get as many students, as those who “play the game”. Some people also say it's because academics naturally have high egos, but I disagree, because if anything, a high ego would make someone more likely to take risks (and focus on "ideas, truth, beauty" which 'only a genius can understand', vs boring practical results that anyone can produce).

Ironically, industry has somewhat recently created breakthroughs via venture capitalists (like YC), who fund many risky projects expecting only a couple to succeed (because they also expect the returns from the couple successful projects to recoup the losses from all the failed ones). But nowadays, it seems even VCs are avoiding experiments, focusing mainly on AI (which is arguably an experiment, but even if so, a single one; "couple successes recoup many failures" doesn't work if most of the projects will all succeed or fail together).

I think the problematic current software development industry is the result of too many safe and short-term projects and not enough risky and long-term experiments, which isn't an uncommon view. But, I guess a more uncommon view, I think that means we need more academics.
How the 2026 World Cup Will Embarrass the United States
Sadly I expect them to be at the stage of no relevance. Just enough that as another commenter said it could make some money but satellites have no business value.
I think it takes a certain kind of determined/ruthless/crazy individual to actually amass that amount of wealth. It's no coincidence that many (most?) ethical billionaires gained their wealth from divorce.
He's not interested in helping anyone but himself. IDK how stopping this stuff helps him exactly, but his actions make a lot more sense if you look at them through that lens. Negative repercussions for the US aren't necessarily negative for him, or they may be outweighed by something positive for him.
LG used WRGB striping.

Also, this isn't true? The blur busters founder (Mark Rejhon) has worked a lot on this exact issue and already has defined shaders and approaches to arbitrary subpixel geometry text shaders in the PowerToys repos (no thanks to Microsoft).

His approach is based on the Freestyle HarmonyLCD subpixel rendering approach which has supported non-striped layouts for over 6 years.

We're currently blocked by Microsoft, who continue to ignore everyone on this issue despite Mark's best efforts. Core Windows shaders need to be modified and he can't really proceed without cooperation, without injecting a security risk for anyone who uses his solution.
My favorite science fiction books to make you both think and laugh
> But if blood tests (or in the case of bowel cancer, fecal tests like cologuard) are effective, we can replace more invasive screening options with them.

That is not what I'm arguing against. People in this thread are talking about testing earlier and more often because we have these new tests, not "just" replacing existing tests.

The math is very unlikely to work out that we should do that.
The funny thing for me is that Rust's mascot, Ferris, is a crab (or "rustacean").

The symbol for Cancer is also a crab. The very word "cancer" itself comes from the Greek "καρκίνος" (karkínos), meaning "crab".

Rust literally is Cancer.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide...

From CBPP, a left-leaning think tank:

"The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed and the income gap widened."
LO got me through college. Always nice to see it's still being worked on.

I only wish it auto-updated on Windows...
> Compelled speech, and compelled work, are both disallowed by the US constitution... Apple successfully used this argument several years ago when the FBI tried to demand that they break a phone for an investigation.

I'm not sure this is how the San Bernardino case actually panned out:

"Apple declined to create the software, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22. However, a day before the hearing was supposed to happen, the government obtained a delay, saying it had found a third party able to assist in unlocking the iPhone. On March 28, the government claimed that the FBI had unlocked the iPhone and withdrew its request."

The arguments were never actually tested in court, the whole thing was quietly put away once the FBI found another way to unlock the phone.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
The name is kind of ridiculous though. Sounds like a misspelling by East Asians, so nah, it'd have to be named something different.

Otherwise people are going to get accusations that it's a South Park thing.
It's not when you compare it to the right thing.

> Was Claude better than Chatgpt 4 at certain tasks? Sure, it was also worse on some.

For simple question/answer things, sure, but then you might as well use Gemini. For price-conscious personal use, its range of models are easily the best option, especially given the generous free tier.

4o-08 is much worse at following instructions and especially using tools intelligently than Sonnet3.5, it's not close. If for you the money isn't worth it, great, but there's a good reason why pretty much every single LLM-based tool is built on top of Sonnet instead of gpt-4o despite it being more expensive - clearly it's worth it. Those tools would love nothing more than to save costs by going with cheaper models.
what, the modern world in which thousands are allowed to starve while tax dollars are spent on weapons used to commit genocides abroad? the world in which everybody in america needs to own a car because it's not profitable enough to build modern rapid transit systems? oh no, please don't destroy that, it would be terrible
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There are a very large number of discussion venues online that do not tend to penalize controversial political issues. Many of them have strong political biases (but, then again, so does HN.)