skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be easier than you think. If DeepSeek can train a model cheaply, so you can you. Probably more cheaply as the technology and models get better.

People used to be worried that AI performance was going to degenerate if models are trained on AI slop, but it's been found that synthetic data is the bee's knees for coding, reasoning and such, so it may well be that a new language comes with a large amount of synthetic examples which will not just be good for AI training but also for documentation, testing and all that.
DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than
That's fair, I guess I thought you meant suing out of existence.

It's tough to say. Annoying Linux people like me tend to have horse-blinders on towards the rest of the world (hence the constant meme of the "Year of the Linux Desktop"), so it's tough for me to speculate with any kind of objectivity.

That said, Steam Decks seem to be selling pretty well, and people don't seem to mind the SteamOS part of it. I think that there's a chance that Linux will be a permanent fixture for Valve now. I don't think they're going to overtake Microsoft, but I think that "Steam Deck" is a viable enough of a target platform for game studios to develop against that it's here to stay.
This guy names
What's the point in advancing thinking-based skills, when thinking has been successfully outsourced? What's the point of colleges, universities and research?
Salmon farms under fire on U.S. East Coast after being shuttered on west coast
The better Window snapping is great. Explorer can open folders in a new tab instead of a new window. The snipping tool shortcut (win+shift+s) automatically saves screenshots you take, instead of showing a notification you have to click. The snipping tool can also record videos, can do OCR and can take delayed screenshots

When I had the choice I still went back to Windows 10.
I like the way Slashdot names these "Anonymous Coward"s
Site is trying to make map of loneliness. Not cool bro.
That’s a straw man. Show the waste they are cutting. Musk didn’t even know which Mamas he was talking about when he found out”waste” at USAid and, when told, just shrugged and said it was the press’ job to correct those mistakes.

The odds of a junkie recognizing good or bad spending is very low.
Finland has over 180,000 lakes. Makes sense that they have more than one word for it.
Everything Musk et. al. is doing seems to me to be the analog of a junior developer joining and wanting to rewrite everything.
> The key is not to use any code that won't be supported in 40 years. So that means no databases.

A database could help resolve your search problems. Postgres has been around in some form for over 40 years and has never been as popular as it has been now. It has a good shot of still being around and runnable in some form in 40 years, I think. It has full text search, and even trigrams for fuzzy search.
There's already an outbreak in Texas.
What is happening at these agencies is absolutely crazy. National parks are understaffed and worried about the upcoming season.

It seems the admin just wants to gut everything, and the only reason to me seems privatization. Make all these agencies dysfunctional, tell people look how bad<insert govt. agency here> is, let's get bids from private companies that can do a better job at <x> dollars.

I hope this is not the case.
I'll accept an analogy with a hybrid car. In this analogy, Preact would be a gas car with an additional electric engine bolted on as an afterthought.
To better understand the world, follow the paths of mathematics
Show HN: Live webcam metal pin toy simulation powered by WebGPU depth estimation
Or just what happens when you hire a bunch of 20 year olds and let them loose.

That's currently how I model my usage of LLMs in code. A smart veeeery junior engineer that needs to be kept on a veeeeery short leash.
If I understand it correctly, they randomly decided to try starting the car immediately or to go wrap the wires first. This absolutely demonstrates a causality, they just didn't cleanly separate the different factors which changed.

Your comparison to placebo is very apt: Giving medication to a patient (vs not giving anything) causes them to get better, but it might be the "giving a pill" part instead of the "ingesting medication" part that matters.
Can you not dualboot ARM windows? I thought that was a thing
Half a decade ago, I picked Hugo as the SSG and so far it has held up[1] the test of time. To me, content is far more important than website design. While it’s not forbidden to go overboard with JS and CSS frameworks, I've found that people who do rarely offer content I can really learn from.

[1]: https://rednafi.com
Just prohibiting landings on runway 33 simultaneous with helicopter traffic underneath the approach path .. Additionally, require military traffic to have ADS-B

I'm thinking you're not quite understanding the nature of the missions many of these helos undertake.

I personally don't think the practice should be allowed, but that's why we need to have a discussion. We need to determine how necessary are these practices?

That said, I can guarantee you that the ideas you put forth would be rejected by government and military planners. Those ideas would defeat the entire point of some missions. What we can do is talk about whether or not DCA is a facility that should be open? Things of that nature.

But any ideas that result in tipping off the mission will be non-starters for the guys and gals seated on the military/intelligence side of the table.
Maybe doge should have used an LLM to generate defenses
What kind of mentality is this? I remember before snapple was a widely known name they used to give out free bottles all over Los Angeles. I never thought to myself, I better not taste this free drink until I know the actual price.
True story- when XP was released, all of the people "in the know" (among Windows users) used Win2k.

Nobody wanted to upgrade to XP. It was called the Fisher-Price OS because of the way they made the GUI colorful with oversized icons/shapes and rounded corners everywhere.

The old rule of thumb was that every other version was the good one, so people were naturally skeptical of XP (and after having seen ME, who could blame them). Not sure if that holds anymore, or if there is a good one.
> I see very little olive branches or sympathy to people most affected. It seems a bit hypocritical.

How many "olive branches or sympathy" did the "people most affected" have for these "dissident academics"?

The obnoxious guy at work, who refused to heed numerous warnings about his behavior, should not expect a lot of sympathy from his colleges when his behavior catches up to him and he gets fired for it.
Didn’t spend enough time to find the root cause, but at enough volume this option caused some of our inserts to take several seconds, even with awaiting for success disabled. Just moved to using an in-memory queue in our app and it fixed it.
You can if they don't include the copyright header: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

Which, as far as I can tell they haven't done. Their MIT licence claims their own copyright. No reference to the library used in readme.

https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-lib/blob/main/LICE...

https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-lib/blob/main/READ...

Usually when using apps that use MIT licensed libs they also implement a notice in a user-facing way. Google maps for instance has a (albeit hidden) section in their settings menu referencing at least one MIT licensed library.
In the last couple years I've used quite a bit of Windows and macOS (after many years using Linux exclusively), and I've found macOS to be my least favourite of the three. On the surface it looks similar to Linux, but it's all lies. My biggest grip is that very often I'll ask for a setting or solution to an issue and I kid you not, 80% of the time the response I get from mac users is you can't do that, but there's an app (and often it's a subscription based app). mac needs apps for things like mouse scrolling, placing windows, cleaning the keyboard without turning the laptop on, switching between windows, copying things to the clipboard, installing software... and the list goes on longer than I could possibly remember.
Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America
That happened to some of my windows 10 installs too. People complained about getting nagged and I thought they were being dramatic.

Then windows decided it was my turn to be nagged and OH MAN I understood ...

I have no good answer for exactly how that situation plays out. I swear it's not a local device setting.
AI to drive 165% increase in data center power demand by 2030
https://archive.is/NK6u6
Ive been looking for handwritten benchmarks for a while and would love to read that blog post.
Idiocracy in full effect!

Just wait until we have a huge outbreak of Measles or are prescribed essential oils for cancer...
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I think companies need to rethink this and go the opposite direction, rather than being hostile and blocking AI Agents--and losing millions or billions in revenue when people sending AI Agents to do tasks on their behalf cant get the task done---they should redesign their software for Agent use.

https://www.loop11.com/introducing-ai-browser-agents-a-new-w...
Macos has introduced many breaking changes in the past couple years. I'm getting pretty tired of Apple silently breaking services and adding new permissions.

For me, they've been way more nefarious than the all too frequent annoyance of the Windows update into the Edge upsell screen.

New boss, same as the old boss, I suppose.

I looked up a Windows "Server with Desktop Experience" license the other day and we're talking $1k+ here....I can't help but hover over the buy button.
One effect of this is that some people accepting this offer have a lot of institutional knowledge that can't be found anywhere else. They're talking about people lights going out because of resignations at my regional electric company.
I think the most fascinating thing about the practice of science (and this is one of those things I wish I'd realized sooner when learning physics) is that experimental evidence often outstrips theory.

There are all manner of observable, reproducible behaviors in nature that we barely have an explanation of. Those things remain observable and reproducible whether we can tell a tidy story about why they happen.

In a very meaningful sense, the local healer applying poultices formulated from generations of experimentation is using science much as the medical doctor is (assuming, of course, they're taking notes, passing on the discoveries, and the results are reproducible). The doctor having tied their results to the "germ theory of medicine" vs. the local healer having tied theirs to "the Earth Mother's energies impregnate the wound" is an irrelevant distinction until (and unless) a need comes along to unify the theory to some other observable outcomes.
What, in this context (and most likely all), does outside our solar system actually mean?
low effort post
Kagi's repository doesn't contain any of raphaelrobert's code directly. It's used as a library: https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-lib/blob/main/src/...
Having never read that - it reads incredibly similar to how Trump talks but with better sentence structure. It all sounds believable, but it’s really useless platitudes.
Well, the Murdochs blew a hole in democracy, so it seems only fair.
What is the real reason for this? Is it so you can list something fraudulent or avoid security regulations?
In fairness, it's the same for me with MacOS upgrades. I don't see the point and avoid them, and only do them when forced by support issues.
> Maybe they should fire these kids and replace them with REAL engineers.

Nah, they'll want reasonable pay, reasonable hours, and won't confuse their boss for a living god. They may even have some self-confidence and morals, which would be a total deal breaker.
We don't need to sort every letter but we need to deliver them by hand. And packages, etc.

How many people are required to run the government compared to the size of the population they serve is absolutely a valid metric and makes tons of sense. Not only comparable historically but also across countries.

Per Capita is per person, not GDP btw.
This is less then the number of people who retire from the federal government every year. I would expect a significant number of these people to be people who were going to retire anyway and want get out a few months early:

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/
Yes I've thought a bit more about this topic and am actually writing up a response to my own post - Database are probably ok if you take a raw .sql backup; which is essentially plain text, or at least will be viewable in some form in the future.
To charitably-interpret the parent-poster, they didn't say that.

More like... Truth is important to convey, lies are not permitted, but meticulous and detailed truth simply doesn't work against lies with better marketing.

You shouldn't surround your truth with a bodyguard of lies, but just throwing on more Truth as a raw ingredient doesn't advance the cause of people actually adopting Truth.
I worked there for a few years during the Novell/Attachmate management. They had a strong bias towards the kernel teams and engineers. They had an european work culture and some very good leads. Their Engineers were very good. The internal mailing lists were ripe with technical discussions. Got some amazing friends and inspirational engineers with whom I would love to work again.

However, There were infighting between the GNOME and KDE desktop teams. The VPs were mostly overpaid and practically useless. The constant churn of acquisition, looking for a new buyer, etc. did not help their long term cause.

With the older system software (kernels, compilers, etc) and infra layer getting commoditized I wonder how long they may remain relevant. When they brought in a new CEO and acquired Rancher I hoped that they may recover with K8S etc, but the CEO has quit and the acquisition has not done much it seems. Until they remove some dinosaurs from the old management at VP levels, I honestly do not see any recovery for them. Thumbs up for the Engineering (and leads) and heavy thumbs down for the Management, is how I remember my time there.
Looks like a fun project!

But it reminded me of some people I know who lost their loved ones. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day...etc, could be extremely painful for them. As a friend, I learned that the best thing I could do, is to not to mention it at all, and block them if I need to post holiday related stuff on social media.

I absolutely hate that these days most of the online shopping sites blindly spam all their customers with holiday promo emails. Some sites give you an option to opt-out specific holidays but most of them don't.
For me it's 100% of the linux I need so it's great there.

I do agree the "there's an app for that" is heavily ingrained in the online user suggestions. The mac power users giving suggestions are often VERY much not knowledgeable. Oddly I do find there often is a command line solution that is better than an app ... but it's NEVER the first suggestion and a pain to find out sometimes. That is a pain, I need to turn a thing off, not an app with 20 features surrounding it ;)
And if the government doesn’t pay up, what happens to the ex-employee? Spend years in court?
I wonder how those compare to something like this: https://developers.google.com/optimization/service/schedulin...
Law cannot be translated into formal proofs, because it is designed to interface with the messyness of the real world, not a pure mathematical system, and always requires case-by-case contextual interpetations.
Maybe if sales navigator was better there wouldn't be so many third party automation platforms that do automation. Or maybe if linkedin figured out how to make money with an ecosystem rather than monopoly they wouldn't need to be so aggressive.

I think companies that are hostile to AI Agents are going to shrink. AI Agents are a new class of user, the platforms that welcome them will grow and thrive, those that are hostile will suffer.
> I would better have an app, which does one thing good, than a thousand badly.

I would rather not have an app at all if possible. If not, then, web apps over their mobile counterparts.
Yes it's a good litmus test of a good website or not. I hope Hugo will be around for a long time :)
Looks like its not just health-related agencies. Many/most people hired by US government agencies in the last two years seem to be being let-go. Some of them will be tech workers, but also engineers, scientists, clinicians, administrators, rangers, educators. People who use this site.

"Some 280,000 employees out of the 2.3 million member civilian federal workforce were hired in the last two years, with most still on probation and easier to fire, according to government data."

"About 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy were laid off, including hundreds of employees from the office that oversees the nuclear stockpile, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-fired-trump-musk-...

Looks like absolute carnage, and its hard to see how the US government is going to maintain its operational capacity. As for the CDC being gutted, better hope these bird flu and measles outbreaks don't do a covid.
Very few other people have done as much damage to democracy and broadly defined "social order" as Murdochs, so I'm not going to have any sympathy.
Because hes not arguing in good faith for the truth of the matter. Even if you posted that someone was getting all 9billion of that administrative budget as salary; the next argument would be " ah that employee is worth 9billion no fraud here". The standard of proof hes looking for is likely a direct admission of guilt and intent lol.
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/html/2502.06807v1

"although specialized pipelines such as o1-ioi yield solid improvements, the scaled-up, general-purpose o3 model surpasses those results without relying on hand-crafted inference heuristics."

"Overall, these results indicate that scaling general-purpose reinforcement learning, rather than relying on domain-specific techniques, offers a robust path toward state-of-the-art AI in reasoning domains, such as competitive programming."
I disagree with your presumptions.

For exmaple, for #3, you say electrical signal. But cells normally use chemical, not electrical signals.

For #1- nope, just need an enzyme or other thing that makes a pigment molecule, and something that can detect a chemical (re-use of an existing protein)

For #2- no nervous system, and cells already have many internal signal processing systems.

For #4- those already existed.

Biology mostly just copies and re-uses systems that already exist. It's still incredible there was a path of mostly random events that led to fully formed eyes, though.
I use https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/ which is just tabs for anything combined into any window you want.
I assume you're referring to old people when you say 'vulnerable populations', but the problem is that old people are not always the only ones that get affected during flu pandemics. During the Spanish flu pandemic, for example, half the deaths were in people 20 to 40 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatali...
Show HN: Open-Sourcing My LLM Drag and Drop Website Builder
Hey HN -

OP here. I wrote some about this project in the following link, and there's a video demo as well: https://portfolio.christopherhwood.com/llm-drag-drop-website...

This has been one of my favorite things I've ever worked on - the way the LLM collaborates with the user to accelerate tedious and hard work, the way you can directly edit the code instead of dealing with a panel of visual editing toggles - I think it has a lot of potential but I don't have time to pursue it anymore so open-sourcing it.

The idea for this came out of conversations with a few people who were struggling with frontend development.

For technical people, strictly using an LLM to write code can be tedious. To combat this, LLM usage is limited to getting started quickly, improving design, and wiring up frontend state.

On the other hand, writing frontend code feels less efficient than just moving things around on a screen. Hence the drag and drop interface that makes it fast to build.

Finally, I despise the visual editing toggles on Figma / Bubble / Squarespace / etc. The amount of hunt and peck to simply adjust a font a bit and change some colors or add a shadow is a huge time suck. So I built a way to directly edit the underlying React code when styling - just add or remove tailwind classes.

IMO the craziest thing is that all of the code is just stored on the frontend in a config language of sorts. It is inflated at runtime and can be updated without any hot reload.

There is no "underlying React code" for the app you're building here - in order to edit the code, I convert the config into React code, then convert back to a config, which triggers updates in the dom.

Anyways, I think there's a lot of clever stuff in here, but then again I wrote it. Happy to answer any questions and hope this is interesting/helpful to someone else out there.
Too late. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/science/measles-vaccinati...
I'm not aware of any tech other than wasm that I could be using to implement decent-auth: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth

Things like JVM and .NET are great, but not designed to be embedded other languages.
I mean the article is paywalled but it sounds like this is isolated to their site-displayed twitter feed; basically the site was hosted by cloudflare and you could insert your own fake tweets into what was recorded on the site (but not on the actual DOGE twitter feed). I don't think any data was actually compromised
What a blood bath.

> As for the CDC being gutted, better hope these bird flu and measles outbreaks don't do a covid.

With RFK in the lead would it honestly matter how many staff they have?
If you have to start with apologies then you know, just stop and don't post.
> Lots of government websites are vulnerable early on

Citation?
Thank you so much! Do you know they would be willing to work with people who are still early in the prototyping process? Will they only help with PCB design or can they also help with casing, etc?

Really appreciate your response!