skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so interesting to think about. Where do you see the extremely unlikely jump from non-intelligence to human-level intelligence that makes us a fluke? I think paleontology at least indicates that evolving monkey level intelligence is inevitable. We have (somewhat independently) evolved:

crows and parrots
dolphins
elephants
chimps and orangutans
octopi

Just looking more into this because is this discussion is fascinating:

- Life transitioned from uni to multicellular multiple times. Animals and land plants both evolved from single celled lineages independently. Fungi like Ascomycota and Basidiomycota went multicellular independently. Even green, red and brown algae went multicellular independently.

- Ctenophores (comb jellies) might have evolved nerves independently. Some sponges and placozoans have cells that perform coordinated, nerve‐like functions. These use a different genetic and cellular toolkit that synapses and seem to be an independent evolution.

- Octopi evolved brains independently of us. Our last common ancestor just had a primitive nerve net.

So at least the path from unicellular life to monkey/octopus level intelligence doesn't seem like a fluke at all to me. It seems like even on the same planet the major transitions occur repeatedly and independently.

The jump from monkey to human happened so fast that indicates to me its not vanishingly unlikely. (Monkeys as smart as chimps are thought to have evolved 15-20M years ago). You might say octopi and birds are older and haven't evolved but they didn't have hands to take advantage of their intelligence and create a positive feedback loop.

I'm trying to imagine where evolution and super-intelligence seem irreconcilable. Maybe it's the jump from monkeys to the Homo genus, where brain size first started to run away? I think its clear how increasing brain size can confer an advantage there once the stage is properly set. Chimps already had complex social dynamics and rudimentary tool use. We even see initial phases of modestly increasing brain size with the Australopiths that preceded Homo. However our hominid lineage is the only one that did have an increasing brain size.

Is it the progression from early Homo to us? That seems like a natural and inevitable progression once the process started.
> Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike. What are they going to do, not have IT? they’d be out of business in a month.

Last year there were nearly 100k tech layoffs in the US, the year prior nearly 200k. Every tech opening is saturated with a few hundred resumes. Do you really think your company couldn’t hire replacements?

> Good luck hiring scabs when they don’t have the passwords…

Shame on your company if they don’t control security to prevent this. Shame on you if you are willing to withhold more than your labor in a strike situation. There is work stoppage and there is sabotage. If you are not relinquishing the only set of keys to the factory, that borders on intentional sabotage.
>The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation.

'Gulf of the Americas' would make more sense in that case. But that doesn't project the intended message from the new administration.

You can justify it however you want, but the intention was not to be inclusive and I think that's pretty clear. Unless talking about annexing Greenland and absorbing Canada are also just ways of making us one big happy family, I think the intention of the name is clear, regardless of how much sense one can force it to make after the fact.
Have to admit these guys are doing well
Eh, I find that to be a stubborn attitude for no benefit. It doesn't really cost you anything to try, and if it's too expensive, how are you worse off?
> No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

I can assure you this is absolutely, 100% false. *Maybe* at the highest, corporate levels. I've never been privy to that level of discourse. I have however spent a lot of time working with the boots on the ground. Never have I come across a single one who intentionally avoided "a cure".
It's a matter of reputation and potentially liability. The AI is a product of one company and people will associate the "defects" of the AI with that company.

> We're ok that the internet has this content to some extent, it's just understood.

Exactly. ISPs and hosting hardware providers are typically not liable for the content that users share over their infrastructure. In fact, ISPs and hosting providers are invisible to the typical non-technical user.
I keep getting interested in Zed then rediscovering how much I like the easy debugging in jetbrains IDEs. Last time I checked Zed had a PR in progress. Maybe next time I think about it, Zed will be ready for me.
> how much money that would save the big tech companies

It would directly save them money, but it would also remove a significant source of leverage in salary negotiations (if you don't get a job, you won't be able to get decent health insurance). In the end, it's probably better for companies that can afford to pay for health insurance that people are forced to rely on them for it. It gives them an anti-competitive edge.
I don't know about Ancient Romans, but I do know a few Italian men with numbered names. In particular a Decimo (tenth), who was indeed the tenth (and I wouldn't swear the last).

They are all, unsurprisingly, old :)
> I've already consented to tracking at the OS level

Isn't that sentence by itself kind of insane? Tracking at the OS level used to be unacceptable.

Nobody should expect their OS to track them like this in the first place.
> I know nothing about pathology, but in terms of software, I think slower adoption to new tech is what we need, especially when the "new tech" is just a 5% faster javascript framework.

I hope that's not the definition people are using when discussing adoption of "new tech".

When it comes to the topic of AI and "new tech adoption", I think about something like the Rust programming language.

I apologize if it chafes the people reading this comment that I'm something of a Rust evangelist and I'm working from a point of view that Rust's very existence is a (large) net-positive when it comes to programming and how we think about programming language design.

My fear with AI tools in their current state is that it will slow down innovation in programming languages. Rust gained popularity because it brought things to the table that made writing safe, performant, and correct (thinking about the strong, expressive, static type checking) software much easier than it had been with the old incumbents (in certain domains).

But, if Rust were released today or in the near future, would it take off? If we could, hypothetically, get to a point where an AI tool could spit out C or C++ code and push it through some memory sanitzers, Valgrind, etc and just iterate with itself until it was very likely to be free of memory safety bugs, why would we need a new language to fix those things? I guess we wouldn't. And it wouldn't really matter if the code that gets generated is totally inscrutable. But, it saddens me to think that we might be nearing the end of human-readable programming language research and design.
I'm also in a country where English isn't the first language and for the doctors that do wish to stay up to date on what's going on, there are ways for them to do it, and translation technology is pretty top-notch already.

Aside from time constraints and perhaps no incentive to stay up to date, we do have to remember that some of these new discoveries always take time to find their way into becoming SOTA treatments everywhere, due to costs, regulations needing updates, special training or equipment being required, as well as sometimes only being marginally better than existing treatment options.
Wow, the mention of SLS takes me back. SLS was the first Linux distribution I ever used. (Not counting the very early days of manually extracting tar archives of userspace binaries to make a system...) I remember passing around the precious shoebox of SLS floppies from person to person in high school. :)
The actual practice (Feb. 2025) is to use plain-text or token-based chunking strategies, primarily aimed at keeping prompts within certain token limits for large language models. This approach is ideal for quick semantic retrieval or QA tasks on unstructured text.

By contrast, betterhtmlchunking preserves the HTML DOM structure, calculating chunk boundaries based on each node’s text or HTML length.
I've been more than happy with my Kobo Calara B&W. I see they have a colour version now, which I would have been tempted to get if I were buying now.
I'll pass along the message internally ;)
Blue Origin Cuts 10% of Its Employees
> Sorry to say but AI can't figure out the borrow checker. I'd speculate it does poor on a lot of things that are sort of implicit in the code / properties of the grand structure rather than incremental text things.

I don’t really use AI tools, but in the past few weeks I’ve tried it with Rust and while it had problems, borrow checking errors were never part of them.

I fully agree that LLMs don’t “understand,” but people also really oversell the amount of thinking needed to satisfy borrowing in a lot of cases.
AI is the rest. It is the G in GIGO.
TL;DR: Two thirds of the treasury outlays goes to entitlement programs, 10% on debt payments, and half of what remains goes to defense. They're arguing over scraps, and Republicans want to pass over 4 trillion dollars in tax cuts.

The irony is that outside of entitlement reform, increasing immigration is the easiest way to rightsize the entitlement programs.
A faculty not allowing LaTeX seems like a weird choice, what were their reasons? Did they need direct access to a document for editing or something? Would honestly be a huge red flag for me if someone would tell me in which editor I cannot write a doc.
It's not the same model.

Many, many (if not most) devs probably do not realize that React has an "inverted" model of reactivity and is in fact the root cause of it's performance woes.

To the extent that the React team spent 2+ (almost 3?) years working on a compiler to address the issue by adding in the correct memoization primitives in a compile phase (trading increased memory consumption for more runtime performance...).

I wrote about it here with code examples that work in JSFiddle: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2025/01/the-inverted-reactivity-mo...

The short of it is that by pointing the reactive callback to the component function, it means that state within the component function has to be managed carefully. This doesn't happen in Vanilla, Preact, Solid, Svelte, and Vue because they point the reactive callback (via "signals") to a handler function that captures the component state in a closure. This is also why they are all faster and consume less memory than React.

Because React points the reactive callback to the component function, it effectively starts from a clean slate each re-render so the purpose of React Hooks is to move state out and inject them back (thus they are called "hooks") when it re-renders. In Preact, this is not the case since it uses signals: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/signals/

A short video of the same examples if you prefer: https://youtu.be/7OhyP8H7KW0
Do you have a substantive comment on that article or are you going to stick with low-effort, ad hominem snark?
As of maybe a year ago, I think essentially all new models are at least 1080p, except maybe that lenovo is still technically making/updating one older model with a 1366 x 768 specifically for the educational market.

However, 1366 x 768 screens were very common in cheaper chromebooks until 1-2 years ago, and most retailers are still selling new old stock of older models with 1366 x 768 screens and n4020 cpus.

(Now a lot of the really cheap models have 1080p screens and n100 or similar cpus which is a massive improvement.)
Immigration puts pressure on housing, which already has a 4M-7M unit shortage. See Canada, which has liberal immigration policy but wildly unaffordable housing. Entitlements can easily be funded by raising taxes progressively. You cannot say you're the wealthiest country in the world, and then say you cannot afford the entitlements. The very wealthy simply want to remain very wealthy.

Taxes will have to go up, there is not enough to cut, and the bond market will not tolerate continued irresponsible financial policy (pushing 10yr+ treasury yields up, edging us towards a debt spiral).
How do I prevent my statically linked plugins from having any filesystem access, or a bug messing with memory it doesn’t control once it’s loaded?
The same can be said about any productivity raising tool, no?
If you use next.js with react server components you can get enough performance out of react for e commerce.

Also the react compiler is improving client side performance as well by automatically memo-izing everything to reduce rerenders
In the past I used clickhouse-bulk and the buffer engine, mostly, which did a good job indeed.

However, during the last years I always find myself using https://vector.dev/ for all sort of tasks, including bulk inserts in ClickHouse.
Why would you not want to login to a personalized service (unless you really need to be anonymous for some reason)?
Let's call it AI puritanism.
a 5% _slower_ javascript framework
ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online
They're even censoring internal discussions, how ironic.

I wonder if there will be retaliation if the next administration is Democratic, after all, Trump set the precedent.
This might be one of the weirdest answers, and it is not exactly what you asked for, but Naruto the Anime/Manga had a huuuuuge impact on my personality.

Even wrote a post about it: https://www.rasulkireev.com/naruto-influence
Does this say that STEM is woke? It's a fact that men outnumber women in engineering programs. Your personal politics are irrelevant to facts.
Lightning is a meme. Imagine needing a sperate glued on system to be somewhat tolerable at the thing it was created for.
Show HN: Lovify, a Chrome Extension for Lovable
Hey guys

I created a chrome extension for expanding Lovable, using Lovable - and cursor. It adds some much needed enhancements on top of Lovable including:
* Third party documentation implementation
* SEO settings with favicon creator
* Voice mode
* Rubber duck debugging
* PRD and Task creator
* Prompt Enhancer
* Import from Github

Try it out and let me know what you think. I used Groq for the AI enhancements, firecrawl for importing documentation, and Supabase for the RAG.
MY GOD! Think of the children!
ESBuild is a bundler. The subtitle on the website is literally “An extremely fast bundler for the web”. To bundle, pass —-bundle flag.

https://esbuild.github.io/
https://archive.ph/qL8oY
Not sure that’s always a good thing - see the occasionally erratic behavior of Tesla’s autopilot. It directly speaks the language of the systems it connects with, and also occasionally steers into dividers, killing people - and nobody knows why. We need to be able to verify correctness of what the models generate.
I doubt it, but he apparently claimed he does.
> Would you want to know if humanity is bound for extinction?

The answer to this question is 100%, "yes". It's just a matter of time.

A better question would be, "How long before humanity goes extinct?" or, "How long before humanity evolves into new species?"

AI might actually be able to give some decent hallucinated answers for those!
They have a process for this and they're following it in this case just like in any other case where a country disagrees with international consensus: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-se...
> I'd really like to know how they see themselves.

Extreme cheap voice work for ad campaigns and asset flips.

Countless YouTube ads use AI voice cloning and I’m pretty sure elevenlabs is the biggest player in that space.
I mean, Americans put "National" in front of everything. At least the German version suggests some level of awareness of a world beyond the borders.
The auto-memoization is:

1) Trading memory pressure for performance

2) An admission of a broken model because it's taken them 2+ (almost 3?) years to build as a recognition that developers can't get it right

The reason other frameworks don't need this is because they use signals connected to callbacks instead of the reactive callback pointing to the component (as React does). Thus Preact, Solid, Svelte, Vue, etc. do not have this issue and you rarely (if ever?) have to manually memoize.

The React team foot-gunned themselves and every React dev out there.

I have some examples that walk through this concept using JSFiddle so you can understand exactly why this design choice from React created this problem in the first place: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2025/01/the-inverted-reactivity-mo...
What exact leftwards shift are you talking about? Why do people always have to make up left boogieman out of nothing? Whenever there is something bad going on with the right, someone comes in and makes imaginary stuff up just so they can pretend there are two equal sides.
Like several other commenters in this thread, I also wrote[0] something recently on a related topic: Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT harm the discovery of long tail information - from a product builder's perspective. Basically, users are having a tougher time finding accurate info about your product (even if the correct answer to their query is in Google's own search results). And I also found the basic tier of ChatGPT hallucinated my app's purpose in a way that was borderline slanderous. AI can make it tougher (at scale) for creators trying to break through.

[0] - https://keydiscussions.com/2025/02/05/when-google-ai-overvie...
Interesting news, but with a junk headline. Their idea is a little thermoelectric generator - which gets inserted into a car's exhaust system:

> In simulations mimicking high-speed environments, the waste-heat system
demonstrated great versatility; their system produced up to 56 W for car-like exhaust speeds ...

So - maybe it's a useful tweak, but certainly not a "fix".

(Yes, there's probably a lot more power, in theory, if you could tap the car's radiator heat. OTOH, their experimental setup had a temperature delta of 190 C. Radiators run far cooler, and the laws of thermodynamics are cruel to low-delta situations.)
This. It's currently faux control by arbitrary tastemakers. Either don't let AI have much control at all or let it run fairly loose. Ethics would err on the side of not much control or ability, but money won't and doesn't go that way.
The problem is when you understand multiple languages.

If a website is made by an English speaking team, as I understand English I'd like it to be English first and not a possibly broken French version. If a website is developed with French language first I'd like to have it in French and not a second-rate English translation.
It's a block for non-US IPs, I think. The page is an application form for joining them, and it only accepts US citizens.
DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI
You did raise a good point about latency sensitive brokers, and I feel like that is becoming a self-selecting cartel based around the NY/NJ area. So when you have these folks talking about moving to places like Houston or Dallas, in an implied or entailed way they are talking about breaking that latency cartel. Honestly, just by stupid personal opinion, the SEC should grow the courage to ban low-latency based trading. This topic has been beat to death over the years, so I'm not adding anything to the discussion, just chiming in to say the obvious things... have a nice day.
Is it on device? Github code completion works so well.
Ah… finance reporting.
He spends a long time dismantling objections I've heard creationists use to this day. I've often wondered if the creationist influencers who came up with these "objections" actually read On the Origin of Species.

The mechanism wasn't understood at the time yea. That's not really relevant, and not really covered in Origin of Species anyway.
Similar: CoDeSys (Controller Development System). They also decided to leave the original meaning behind and rebranded to the all-caps CODESYS.
Many years ago, the university I worked at offered a very generous early retirement benefit. The objective was to "get rid of the dead-wood" to make way for "new blood". The trouble was the 55 year olds most likely to accept the offer were the best faculty members; the ones who knew they would have no trouble getting appointments at a different university. The people who knew they were not very productive stayed, of course.
This is the classic 3 step plan.

Step 1. Destroy the old

Step 2. ???

Step 3. Profit!

"Build the new" doesn't even seem to be on the table at this point. There's no proposals to replace any of this. At least not public anyway, we know they are replacing all of this with for-profit scams.
I don't think Xinjiang or Tibet are helpful analogies. India recently changed a city's name from Allahabad to Prayagraj; should Google have carefully analyzed the circumstances behind this name change and rejected it if they feel the process was too silly or too Hindutva?
First there was the expansion to recover from WW2.
Then there was expansion in science to prepare for the Cold War.
There was also expansion from the Great Society's education efforts.
And the influx of women and minorities into college.
And expansion from other countries sending students to the US to kickstart their own universities.

It kept the academic sector growing for decades, gradually, and people just forgot the mindset you have to have for the day the growth stops. And that day came.
Claude is particularly bad about this, almost makes it unusable for my frontend use cases. I specify the exact tech stack in my prompt and it responds with a solution using whichever packages are available in its environment (Tailwind, shadcn/ui, etc.).

My request to model providers: the strength of your offering is its generality. Please let it be general-purpose and resist adding features (alignment, system prompts, custom stuff like Claude artifacts) that limit this.
> Software- und System-Entwicklung

Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
The question is - are they fundamentally altering the function of government agencies.

I think you can get the answer from what they post. Cutting $400M in external contracts for a $10B agencies isn’t cutting major functions of the agency.
The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046053 seems to suggest otherwise.

I vaguely remember this happening but I’d need to check.
Why would they refund anything when it seems that Meta is the party that is violating, at a minimum, an expectation of basic decency and truthfulness
> It is probably not a coincidence that George Orwell set his novel in the country that he's from. I think you might be onto something there!

Not so much that it just happened to be where he was from but more that he saw issues in the government of the day, some of which still persist since they seem to be cultural.

> When I Google, pretty much every instance of the police interviewing people about transphobic tweets (that aren't actually hate speech) occurred before the court judgment I linked to. What you're saying in effect is that you want to go with the vibes about the UK you get from Twitter but don't want to look into the specifics and check their basis in fact.

I'm aware of several incidents happening after the DM article linked which was six years ago. I'm not particularly motivated to find incidents and link them here because I think you're in a mode to dismiss anything found to try and defend against the notion the UK is less free than it's peers. I apologize for not being able to take you at your word that that isn't the case.

> then I won't respond further.

I appreciate that, and think that's for the best for both of us. Cheers.