skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, wrote a shittier version of this a little while back: https://www.paritybits.me/stack-ossification/

Another observation since then: good documentation for newer tech stacks will not save the LLM's capabilities with that tech. I think the reason, in short, is that there's no shortcut for experience. Docs are book learning for tech stacks - millions (billions) of lines of source code among the training data are something else entirely.
We had that system, it was dominated by expensive pit traders and the spreads (the main cost driver for most people) were gigantic.

This argument is precisely Luddite and a strange position for anyone on this particular forum.
I tried a new agent library with a model a few weeks ago. Just pasted the relevant api docs in and it worked fine.

However, while I’m proud of the outcomes, I’m not proud of the code. I’m not releasing anything open source until I feel it’s mine, which is another step. I’d be a bit embarrassed bringing another dev on.

“I’m Richard and I’m using AI to code”
Support Group: “Hi Richard”
loyalty >> competence
That's what happens when a business is built on getting a tiny amount of value per user from a vast number of users. There's essentially no incentive to treat any individual user well, and no resources to make it happen even if they wanted to. This becomes more and more problematic as our lives revolve more and more around such businesses.
> and make police buy insurance

Why should good cops subsidise corrupt cops (with a hefty overhead for the insurance companies)? Doesn't that create an additional incentive to be corrupt? Many people are more sensitive to punishment than reward: I'd expect having your premiums go up because a fellow officer got done for abusive conduct would feel like arbitrary group punishment.
Haha I'm familiar, I actually also tried to implement the paper at some point. It's such a cool idea and a great example of the difficulty that goes in to making a really good UX, even for something as simple-sounding as a calculator app.
How were Linux netbooks dealt with?
Not emulating the full OS, but I use Whisky Wine <https://getwhisky.app/> to play TF2 / TF2Classic and it's fine.
That's literally the DOGE staff.
This blog post [0] thinks that it is indeed possible to do arithmetic operations on them. My intuition is that they're vectors after all, and can be added and subtracted like any other vector. A word is just a location in that high-dimensional vector space.

[0] https://blog.dataiku.com/arithmetic-properties-of-word-embed...

EDIT: I guess there are different forms of word embeddings and apparently modern LLMs don't use static word embeddings like word2vec and it's more contextual. Tokens aren't 1:1 with words either of course. I guess it's more complex than "LLMs represent words as vectors". Still though it's a neat trick and is indeed that simple with something like word2vec.

Edit 2: some interesting slides including the bit about semantic analogy and a paraphrase from the original word2vec paper about the king queen thing: https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/e.kanoulas/wp-content/uploads/Lect...

And the original word2vec paper by Mikolov mentions it https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781
Evidence of gender non-conformance? What does that even mean? Evidence of men who like to dress like women? Men can dress like women if they like (much as they are welcome to sleep with other men). The issue is that act does not actually make them women. That's the ideology ("Trans women are women."). They're men dressed like women. They are not, and cannot be, women. A woman is an adult female human. An effiminate man is not a woman.

There is a very, very small fraction of humanity that suffers sex organ deviations. Those few cases can make sex classification more difficult at birth (though they are almost always either XX or XY), but those few cases do not provide cover for men who dress like women participating in women's sports, using women's bathrooms, or other female privileges. With the exception of a small group of activists, all of America agrees with this, including many prominent trans-females -- this position IS the right side of history.

And you're wrong about the growing number of trans athletes at all levels of sport. And you're most certainly wrong about surgeries on minors. You'd have to be living in a cave to believe otherwise.
Tool to analyze historical stock data for day traders
"What does lock the barn door after the cows have left mean?"

<creepy autocorrect begins typing at the speed of a 300bps modem...>
White nationalism is indeed a major problem in ICE (and law enforcement in general), but I don't think this is an accurate way to paint the situation as a whole. This is what textbook nativism looks like, and many non-white americans are nativists as well. They rhyme and overlap and often share goals but they're not the same and they are often motivated by different fears.

What we see here looks more like this than like apartheid/jim crow (though if you look at how we treat legal immigrant labor it gets much blurier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
> DEI (the e stands for equality btw),

According to whom? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity%2C_equity%2C_and_inc...
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit nuclear security, loans office
BetterHTMLChunking: A Python library for intelligent HTML segmentation
Windows 11 is a massive nothing-burger. The only annoyance is for those who are stuck on older hardware without TPM.

As for everyone else, it's almost identical to 10 aside from one minor graphical change. Personally I don't get why so many are opposed to it.
Well, of course the conclusion is that you don’t know, Mr. Author. Because the very thing that triggered your interest in the subject of X and Y was that there was no clear cut consensus on the subject. If there were, you wouldn’t have needed to do research at any level of depth at all, because those findings would be well known, and you’d have found them easily through a simple web search.

Instead you were drawn to a topic which seemed ambiguous, which had multiple possible interpretations, multiple plausible angles, and on which nobody could agree. You didn’t explicitly know these things starting out, but they were embedded in the very circumstances which caused you to investigate the subject further.

Yes, determining causation is sometimes hard, is it also sometimes very easy. However, very easy answers are not interesting ones, and so we find ourselves here.
General normal politics was really never posted to HN since it wasn’t interesting. DOGE/etc very much interesting new phenomenon though and so a valid topic. Wouldn’t mind a discussion topic posted by dang to discuss it, maybe a hn.com/pol/ (only half joking)

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
MIT licence explicitly requires maintaining the original copyright header, and licence.

>Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

>*The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.*

>[...]
Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi/fantasy novels?
I’m looking to read more fiction again and I’d love to hear your recommendations.

One of my all-time favorites was Metro 2033 so I really love anything cloak-and-dagger-ey.

But open to any recommendations!
Dude has been department head for a day? Do we have such little faith that we judge a person before a single stroke of the pen? While historical actions do speak loud, having a bad past does not mean you are a bad person. Nor does it mean your policies will reflect your personal beliefs. There have been tons of individuals who set aside their beliefs and done a fantastic job.
Yeah it SEEMS like a minority of flags can over power votes and comments. Meaning the "I don't want people to talk about that" type "vote" is over represented. That's not something that should be that strong.

IMO flags should be reserved for spam, bad data, fundamentally untruthful content, but that's clearly not how they're being used.
Why stop funding at the university level? Why not also defund high school and middle school as well? After all, by the end of the 5th grade you should be able to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Anything beyond that you can fund yourself, right?
> [Trump's] retreat, they add, could end decades in which the agency directed the management of smallpox virus remnants in an American-held cache.

> Health experts say discontinuation of the W.H.O.’s oversight threatens to damage precautions against the virus leaking into the world, and to disrupt research on countermeasures against the lethal disease.

Why would we need research on smallpox countermeasures? We know everything about smallpox prevention. It's one of the all-time great successes of medicine. It gave us the word "vaccine".
Could someone with an economics background comment on what effects may occur after having a quarter million people out of work at the same time?
Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell
I agree the website itself is fine -- not that the information wasn't publicly available before, but having it consolidated is nice.

But as for transparency, DOGE isn't at all being transparent about what it is doing. I'd give them an F so far on that.
Show HN: Kite, the Modern Solana TypeScript Framework
Hi HN, I've been working on this for a little while. Solana web3.js v2 is great - using webcrypto and bigints not only makes the massively library smaller but also reduces supply chain risk of old crypto libraries. That said, it takes a lot of trial and error to do most basic things.

Kite has one-shot functions for almost everything in Solana - connecting to RPCs, getting SOL balances, transferring SOL, getting token balances, making new tokens with metadata, transferring tokens, sending transactions with the right CU limits, and more.

Since Kite uses the same types as the excellent web3.js v2, you can easily get rid of it if you want to move to something lower level.
The NYT did a great article about this a while ago (edit: guess it was 3 years ago).... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw&t=699s
True stories like this happen, but generally only when a domain expert on the business side was incorporated from the beginning—and that may not be mentioned by the software side.
J&J's High Hopes for Heart-Rhythm Device Grounded by Safety Concerns
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/j-js-high-hopes-for-he...
> Samsung should be avoided like the plague anyway

I've avoided them for years. I had a Samsung phone a long time ago, and I'd rooted it to run one of those apps that could automate tasks (Tasker?), with a killer feature being when I turn my phone upside down, it goes on silent mode. Standard now, but back then wasn't possible on Android, and Tasker enabled it. And also some geofencing stuff. If I got a text while going faster than 10mph it would respond back "driving right now, will respond later."

Anyway, Samsung released an upgrade that I'd heard would eradicate root and make it impossible going forward. Something to do with Knox, a corporate way of locking down phones for employees.

I repeatedly declined to upgrade.

Finally, one night, with my phone in another room, it force-installed the update, with Knox, on my phone, wiping out my root, making it impossible going forward, and making Tasker worthless for me.

I've never given Samsung another cent. No company that will disobey me re my own property and will remotely hack my device and wipe out my content can be trusted, and that's essentially what they did.

For similar reasons, I've never given Sony any money since the rootkit scandal. 2025 marks twenty years of no Sony. I've probably unknowingly seen a few Sony films, but that's it. No electronics, no games, etc.
It's the business they've been in for quite a while, at least in part. If you run a site that's a quarter pornography, you're a pornographer right? Granted that's by number of subs, we don't know what percentage of traffic/engagement is driven by porn, but with a quarter of the site dedicated to the stuff it must be substantial.

And frankly at this point I think Reddit would be happy to be in some kind of business that makes money, any kind of business.
Now that we're talking about doge, could anyone from us tell me if doge.gov/join has a cloud flare chaptcha when interacting with the form from the USA? I can only visit it via VPN and I have a chaptcha before the submit button. No, I don't wanna join doge, it's for... Educational purposes
Is it so bad to discourage legitimate lawsuits? I think there are plenty of legitimate things that we are ok with having some amount of difficulty in order to discourage abuse.
If you are a "serious" gamer and have a machine that doesn't support Windows 11, you are probably considering an upgrade anyways.

Such a machine will probably not be able to run the latest AAA titles at a decent framerate, it may run smaller games, but so will a recent "web browser machine". The iGPUs in these machines are starting to get pretty good, probably as good as good as a 10 year old gaming rig but with much better energy efficiency.
Show HN: Share/store text snippets and files in network; self hosted
- use it as a local pastebin
- use it as a snippet tracker
- use it to share text cross-platform devices (windows-mac-android-etc)
- use it as a airdrop alternative
How is this a "partisan" article? Looks like a regular news piece to me.
If you ignore all externalities, sure. Having to take on student debt, having medical expenses, having children early... there are a myriad of reasons why one may become trapped by the economic system
>What happened to a new JS front end library every week?

Yeah I don't think this ever happened.
Like what tools?
>> Since DOGE, China probably canceled all vacation days for their hackers, as its a free for all.

> Is there a source for the vacation days thing?

The "vacation days" line seems to be a jokingly hyperbolic prediction. China might have directed more resources (including hackers) toward collecting the data exposed by DOGE and Elon Musk's actions (and might try to widen the crack), but is unlikely to have literally cancelled all vacation days for said hackers.
Sadly you're both right.
Very nice, I use LLMs to get a quick understanding of a publicly traded company too. I spent 30 minutes researching Kopin last night using Claude, as I heard they Kopin is a supplier in the $22bn IVAS contract, giving way more upside than Anduril. Starting from just that tidbit of information I got much more detail and had it make predictive models about future market caps, and negatives.

It was enough to give me timelines and risk reward models from a company I had never heard of. This used to take me many hours and a level of obsession that I find incompatible with being social. Verifying is fairly quick, but even if you aren't compelled to do that, now you can at least talk about the company in the associated trading communities and be further corrected or have your understanding challenged.
It's not just measles; don't forget the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/tuberculosis-in-kansas-the...
"If this happens, then this happens."

If the person running the software checks of that the event happened, the resulting consequence can be expected.
I have a gaming computer on Windows 10 and I only really play Warframe so I plan on making it stay that way (I'm thinking about locking it totally down and not even browsing the web or move to a cloud service). I really don't like moving to Windows 11 especially with the features I don't want or need.
Tiktok does not favour new creators, its users do. And only because it's a new generation of consumer for the most part, who want to consume content from their chosen platform. The same thing will happen with alpha.
Continuous improvement is the norm in cancer treatment, not in other areas where diseases are ill-defined and have a huge psychogenic component: back pain is the index case for that, so is TMJ dysfunction. In either case you might go from disabled to 'I have a bad day once a month' with a 20% change in habits and 80% change in attitude.

My dad, who worked in construction, got disabling back pain just in time for the Volcker-Freedman recession [1] His doc wanted to give him surgery which had the risk of being even more disabling, he said he'd go to a chiropractor, his doc said "if you don't do that then don't see me". I remember him taking me along for his chiropractor visits and getting a waterbed (bad idea.) He was on workman's comp at the time but got better around the time the economy got better and work was available again. Not to say he was consciously malingering, but work-associated pain has a lot to do with how you feel about your work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession
Silly commenters, mass audiences are for influencers, but go ahead and write your little bandwagoned take so you can feel heard.
Most of what I do at work is not necessarily the same thing as the value that I add. I solve business problems with software. A very good portion of that is just boiler plate and lines of code that anyone can write. Someone has to write the main.go, read in the cli args, the environment args, define and initialize the API clients, define the server api spec, and then finally, you write the business logic. Then you write the tests to validate the business logic.

Many of those tasks can be completed via normal copy and paste. It's much faster to have the LLM do it. When you're initializing a client for a database in go, you can refer to the library on how to do it, or you can just let the LLM do it.

Maybe you have a photographic memory and you don't need to reference docs for other people's libraries, I don't have that ability. But the LLMs do, so I use them.
Yeah but it's different if you have an explicit porn income stream versus having a platform that has porn on it. I think Apple would have to ban their app for example if they did this. Advertisers would not want to advertise on the porn app either.
I really get inspired by watching Japanese craftsmen on Youtube

"Japanese Joinery" as a search term yields a near bottomless rabbit-hole of amazingness that hits the perfect intersection of craftsmanship, technology and art for this engineer.
the vscode extension cline also does this
Is this is a serious question...?

The serious answer, if so, is a) because variants may emerge from reservoirs at any time, and more pressingly in the current global shit-show, b) because it's a biological weapon.
> The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.

Why does music continually entrench the older stuff (will we ever stop playing classic rock bands) whereas video streaming platforms like Netflix and YouTube try to hide/get rid of the old stuff?
As a starting point to "return all relevant case law" its not all that different from search, except maybe better tailored or summarized.
Aha! But you have neglected steps as well, fetid ignoramus!

You portray such a +++ animal as simple and obvious, but indeed in fact you would need (++++++):

1) adherins and cadherins to bind this sheet together 2) an organelle to produce and regulate the cellular proteins 3) a method to encode those proteins 4) a method to replicate and propagate that encoding so that new proteins can be encoded 5) start and stop codons and a method of duplication or recombination errors to allow for new copies of protein encodings to be created separately from old copies...
Never, pyuser. Rights are not obnoxious to be exercised. Annoying, perhaps, where there are conflicts, but never obnoxious.
Anyone flying under visual flight rules does not need to submit a flight plan. If you never enter controlled airspace, you don't have to talk to ATC at all.
At the time the constitution was written, guns were among the most lethal weaponry available.

Not sure the same logic applies when the government has a monopoly on tanks, fighter jets, missiles and so on, which (despite the second amendment’s use of the broad term “arms”) citizens can neither keep nor bear.

Obligatory side note that the actual text of the second amendment reads very different to me than the modern discourse about it. Perhaps the “well regulated militia” bit was just as important as the “keeping and bearing arms” bit, in terms of keeping tyranny in check.
My gaming laptop is something like 11 years old and still runs the games I'm interested in with really acceptable graphics.

I have installed Pop!OS on it and the combo Steam+Proton is great. I've kept my Windows 10 partition to run Skyrim with mods (last time I checked, it didn't run on Linux) and maybe the occasional Proton-incompatible game.

I tried once to upgrade the W10 partition to W11, and got an error saying that my CPU was not supported.

The day W10 reaches EOL is the day I finally delete that Windows partition. I could just keep it offline, but I don't really play Skyrim anymore (and worst case, I'll wait for Skyrim to run on Proton). As for the occasional game I can't run on Linux, I'll just pass my way. There's way too many games I still want to play, if editors filter themselves out from my reach, it's not my loss.
I love my wyse 5070 boxes. I keep telling people to buy them instead of pis
TY for that explanation.
Meta's Project Waterworth: over 50,000km of fiber
GeoParquet: Geospatial Data in Parquet
And it's not a big org or one with a strict division of responsibilities between clumsy juniors who update the website and carefully vetted experienced pros who do the real work, so this is likely to be representative the calibre of developer currently trawling through sensitive government databases....
Creationists don't argue things are generically "too complicated", they argue that there are structures in nature that aren't discoverable by progressive mutations. As Dawkins explains in the video, eyes are an extremely commonly cited example. I've never heard anyone argue that cells couldn't evolve photosensitivity, but I have heard plenty of people argue that eyes only work when they're fully functional, which is what Dawkins is explaining as untrue here (as is TFA). I don't find the idea of debating creationism especially likely to be fruitful overall, but answering the question "How does evolution explain the structure of eyes?", e.g., for an adolescent who is grew up in a fundamentalist household, seems entirely reasonable to address.
Not a good look, when you're doing a blitz of obviously criminally -- treasonously -- reckless things.

It's harder for supporters to even pretend that you're even minimally competent.
We're supposed to withhold judgment on somebody who has directly led to the deaths of several dozen children? Are you really implying there is no one who is better qualified to lead HHS?
My understanding is that all architectures that matter do idiom recognition for ll/sc to guarantee forward progress when ll/sc is used to implement CAS and other common lock-free and wait free patterns, at least as a fallback.
> because variants may emerge from reservoirs at any time

That is how we prevent smallpox.