skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't get the impression that the article was a celebration of the man, it was more like a deep dive into the oddity of the whole thing.

I think you're assigning an agenda where there is none. The author isn't trying to glorify the guy. The story is an interesting story because the circumstances are so unusual.

I realize the scale of wealth skewed far upward from the typical working class person, but I will also point out that you don't really have to be very wealthy to afford to do nothing all day and buy meals at a hotel pool and not work. It sounds like the hotel was really just charging him money for his meals, it's not like he was staying overnight at the hotel.

That's not really Elon Musk territory, that's attainable via the 4% rule [1] if you've got single digits of million dollars saved up (in 2025 dollars).

Even less money is needed to live this kind of lifestyle if we are talking about low cost of living countries with beachy vibes like Thailand/Cambodia/Laos.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/four-percent-rule.asp
No reason at all if it works for you. Slack costs an outrageous amount of money for what it is.
Good ole M-x butterfly
I have a question, why are you allowing network requests in the VM? (Tested in the python REPL which is available on your homepage)

What are you doing to prevent the abuse?
The video here [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCCNHWV5] promises a whole lot. I am skeptical for now but at the same time I do believe this will all be possible in the next two years.

The pricing is silly. You can get it for $20/mo, or free with Prime, but Prime costs $15/mo?
As a daily pooper I've wondered for a long time how much poop a weekly pooper poops in one session. Logically it should be seven times the amount I do, but frankly that sounds like an _absurd_ amount. Like multiple flushes worth.

Or is it much more dense and dry leading to less volume?
They're both simple to motivate and complicated enough to have an allure.
Socrates Is a State Machine
I've been experimenting with vlm-run (plus custom form definitions), and it works surprisingly well with Gemini 2.0 Flash. Costs, as I understand, are also quite low for Gemini. You'll have best results with simple to medium-complexity forms, roughly the same ones you could ask a human to process with less than 10 minutes of training.

If you need something like this, it's definitely good enough that you should consider kicking the tires.
If you can't critically read the output of an LLM, you shouldn't be using it for the given task. Many people have made the (good) analogy to an intern.
Conduction through the ground? Or run coolant through buried pipes. Just a pump; no significant energy to cool, just move the coolant.
Keeping AI Subordinate to Human Thought: A Proposal for Public AI Conversations
Would love to see a comparison with Bruno[1].

[1]: https://usebruno.com
They are Mennonite parents in a Mennonite community, so I don't believe they would see it as murder.
Rust doesn't have a stable ABI for things that can't be expressed in C, so I assume he means when you're screwed when you want to publish Rust-specific interfaces to a shared library.

This is one area where Swift is far ahead of Rust, at least for now.
the misplaced comma was also a myth.

https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popey...
Not really. Dirac's trick works entirely at a depth of two logs, using sqrt like unary to increment the number. It requires O(n) symbols to represent the number n, i.e. O(2^n) symbols to represent n bits of precision. This thing has arbitrary nesting depth of logs (or exps), and can represent a number to n bits of precision in O(n) symbols.
I’m extremely comfortable with fuzzy boundaries but the article in question literally invites the subject of ‘why are these things islands and these other things not?’
How many times has that happened? Those cases make the headlines, but it’s so rare that, in my opinion, they can be disregarded. Nothing is perfect, just assess your risks and tolerance to error. That’s subjective, so one acts accordingly.
My point is that Trump is no Julius Caesar. Caesar loved Rome and was a brilliant military general, statesman, and orator. Trump, on the other hand, appears to prioritize his own interests and lacks Caesar's positive traits. The Roman Empire, despite its eventual collapse, managed to thrive for over two centuries due to its strong leadership, military prowess, and effective governance. In contrast, the American Empire seems destined for failure before it can even get off the launchpad - maybe that's what you meant when you said we were going straight to collapse?
Show HN: Turn any Python function into a WebRTC/WebSocket stream
I built FastRTC to solve the headaches of working with realtime audio/video. If you've ever tried building audio applications with LLMs or speech models, you know how frustrating it can be.

WebRTC and Websockets are difficult to get right. Voice detection, turn-taking, and building test UIs all require significant effort that distracts from your core application logic.

FastRTC addresses these issues by letting you convert any Python function into a realtime WebRTC/Websocket stream with minimal code. While it's built in Python, even non-Python developers can benefit through its API endpoints and ready-to-use interfaces.

Key features:

- Transform Python functions into streaming endpoints with a few lines of code

- Built-in UI for immediate testing without frontend work

- FastAPI integration for custom frontend deployment

- Built-in utilities for on-device text-to-speech and speech-to-text to get started (Moonshine/Kokoro TTS)

Example: Creating a voice assistant in under 20 lines of code link: https://fastrtc.org/#__tabbed_1_2

For JavaScript/TypeScript developers, you can easily set up a FastRTC server in Python and connect to it from your frontend application - no need to implement complex WebRTC logic on your end.

Check out the cookbook for example applications built with Gemini Realtime API, OpenAI Realtime API, ElevenLabs and open source models: https://fastrtc.org/cookbook
A bold logo! https://youtu.be/335Qnh-GRcA?t=128
They did.

And now the title on HN has been edited down to remove this most exquisite pun :'(
is this a right sizing move - correcting over hiring in the pandemic, or google reducing investment in this area to increase investment in their AI efforts?
Supreme Court of Canada stops publishing updates on X
Often because they have paid for it via pacer so don’t want to give it away to competitors for free.

Or because they’ve got it via a back door and don’t want to link to it and reveal that.
I suspect there are two or three layers of discrimination.

There's probably a bit less overt racial discrimination now than there may have been in, say, the 50s, though what's left sets you up for the next two layers.

You're going to have be judged (by hotel security) as "the right sort of person". This is clearly open to all sorts of discrimination (race, age, gender, social class, genetics and more), but I suspect that if you don't actively violate someone's mental model of what they want their poolside to look like, you might be OK.

On top of that, you'll need to be able to spend money. This is not a coffee shop where a single americano gets you a seat for the day. If you're not regularly ordering drinks and food, I imagine that hotel security is going to ask you to move on after not that long.
>When he mocked a disabled person’s disability did that feel good to you?

No. But your reaction to him does. Trump annoys people that I dislike. That makes him valuable.
Ya, the gamble of HN I guess. Thanks for saying so! It will be local friendly for as long as I'm working on it, and I'm in it for the long haul this time.
I'm surprised that, somehow, the article barely even touches upon the question of bandwidth. Terrestrial data centers often have hundreds of gigabits per second of transit - how much bandwidth would be available to this lunar data center, to what endpoint, and how reliable will that be? (Would one of these permanently shadowed areas of the moon even have line-of-sight to the Earth's surface, or would it have to be relayed through a satellite?)
> I am of the belief that people in zero hour jobs are basically fucked, and that because a large portion of our businesses use zero hour jobs our society in fact has stagnation in poverty systemically built in/designed in.

1) People take zero hour jobs for various reasons. I worked on minimum wage for 8 years, I wasn't condemned to a life of poverty.

2) You have no proof of it being "designed in" because zero hour contracts exist. Repeating the statement does not make it true. The fact is that the law of unintended consequences is a thing that has been observed repeatedly.

3) I don't view it as "our" society. I don't even really know what people mean by that. I don't see it like that at all. I live in a country (England) and I see the government/state as adversarial to my interests generally. Many of the people in England and the UK don't share many of the same values as I do.

> Star Trek's a cool show. The bible's a cool book. They are guides on how to do better, not reality, not true events.

The fact that you equate Star Trek with the Bible is very troubling. Star Trek is an entertainment show with a fanbase, it is not a guide to do better. The Bible on the hand is much more important (even if many here don't recognise its importance) and this is coming from someone that is an Atheist.

> That doesn't change that they can be used to reflect on ourselves/our society to improve them, nor does that condemn us to accept immorality/lower standards as inevitable.

The point I was making that many people don't agree on what the improvement should be. What you believe is an improvement / moral etc. maybe seen by others as regressions and/or immoral. The writers in DS9 understood there were those that had this different point of view.
I have a theory that one of the things that drives misinformation/conspiracy theories is that the more passionate you are about being duped, the more vulnerable you are to misinformation.
I feel that this article missed a more obvious issue: black hole temperature and mass enjoy an inverse relationship, so a truly tiny black hole could potentially kill you with its radiation alone. Ironically the mass they indicate (1.4 x 10^14kg) would have a temp of nearly a million Kelvin, or 1,578,295,386 degree Fahrenheit.

I'm pretty sure the x-ray flux would kill you before it ever touches you, but I could be wrong. For much MUCH smaller black holes, that temperature can increase by a staggering amount. For example a black hole with a mass of 140,000,000kg would have a temperature over 1.5 quadrillion degrees Fahrenheit.

Now of course the source of this radiation would be tiny, but the flux would be intense. Some napkin math suggests that for the black hole discussed in the article the minimum safe distance would be over 9km. For the black hole of much smaller mass I mentioned above you'd need to be millions of km away.
You can use claude computer functions to actually play it on an emulator with no programming at all - but that kind of feels like cheating :D
Whither Tenstorrent?
What about one of those SDF code CADs but with FreeCAD's sketcher as the UI?

I'd imagine extruding a sketch into an SDF object is possible, and you could just only allow sketches to reference stuff in other sketches, or the bounding box cube of a sketch extrusion.

They'd need some better tools for referencing stuff between sketches but other than that, it seems like it's mostly all there.

And then at the end if you wanted a STEP I'm sure someone out there has got to be working on some kind of mesh to STEP thing that properly preserves design intent.
What does "having no RAM" have to do with it"

The question is how much different is a motherboard with soldered CPU vs. CPU and memory soldered. You seem to be of the opinion that it's a completely different product category, I'm of the opinion they're more the same than different. I don't remember the last time I didn't upgrade all three components at once.
Elon Musk Suggests He Alone Decides What Gets Funded in the Government
I was looking for this the other day, looks great!
Home Assistant has been doing it for a while. All it takes is to add OpenAI or Anthropic integration, plug your API key, and you have a better voice assistant than anything Google, Amazon and Apple have offered so far.
It also seems like it's ripe for just being an outright lie. People will pay Amazon to be ranked as the preferred service provider. You won't get the best service provider, you'll get the one that paid Amazon the most money.
Insha'Allah Goal Tracker: A PWA for Daily, Weekly, & Monthly Task Mastery
Hey HN, I just built a Progressive Web App called Insha’Allah Goal Tracker to help you slay your tasks in three distinct cycles: daily, weekly, and monthly. It’s built around localStorage for simple persistence and does all logic client-side with zero server dependencies. I wanted a frictionless way to quickly create tasks, track progress with point values, celebrate completions with confetti, and preserve historical data/streaks—no sign-ups or data collection required.

Here are some cool features under the hood:

Recurring Logic & Automatic Resets: Each task is categorized (Daily, Weekly, Monthly). The app checks if that cycle has passed (e.g. new day/week/month) and resets the completion state automatically. It increments or breaks streaks based on whether you hit 100% of tasks in that period.

LocalStorage & Service Worker: All data is stored locally. The service worker lets you install the app offline (like a real native app). Even if you’re offline, you can still use the app, and it’ll sync up or stay local forever—no server required.

Points & Progress Bars: Each task can have assigned points, or you can leave it blank to evenly distribute 100 points across all tasks added at once. Progress bars fill up in each category (daily/weekly/monthly), and you get a sweet confetti burst and animated toasts when you complete something.

Streak Tracking: If you hit 100% in a category, it counts as a successful day/week/month. The app tallies streaks, logs them in a separate streak history, and resets them automatically if you miss a cycle. It’s basically “Don’t break the chain” but for multiple cycles at once.

Notifications & Vibration: Optional push notifications—if you grant permission—remind you to keep going, plus random positivity messages in the morning. Device vibration fires on completing tasks or losing streaks, giving a playful tactile nudge.

Material Design Theme + Dark Mode: Built with a Material-like design system. There’s a theme toggle for light/dark, it’s fairly well-animated with a minimal footprint. The code uses standard CSS variables and media queries to handle color-scheme changes.

Modular & Extendable: Everything is in plain JavaScript + HTML/CSS. The code is set up so you can easily tweak the distribution logic, add your own categories, or pipe the data somewhere else if you feel like it. There’s also a built-in “clear data” if you want to wipe and start fresh.

Share & Wake Lock: There’s a Web Share API integration so you can brag about your progress to your buddies (or copy it to your clipboard if your browser doesn’t support navigator.share). The Wake Lock toggle keeps your screen awake so you can view tasks in a workout or cooking scenario without the screen going dark.
I look forward to Rust# and then eventually all the good stuff hitting C#.
If you just want to play with using a vision model to do OCR, I made a little script that uses KoboldCpp to do it locally.

* https://github.com/jabberjabberjabber/LLMOCR
Too many men lack close friendships
NFL heralds helmet technology for reduction in concussions
When my family had a windstorm take out our lines for an entire week and we had to toss food, we opted to go for a battery-operated cooler/freezer that charges off 100W solar. Bonus is that we can take it camping too.
I used EdgeDB 5.0 for a side project, and I loved it. It reminded me of the fun of developing an app with Django or Rails, but serverless with Typescript+React.
I am having an allergic reaction too, I don't see any reason this should exfiltrate any information from my machine.
I use Markdown Viewer, in Chrome: I'd bet there are multiple equivalents in Firefox and Safari. Well. I don't know what Safari's extension universe is like but it seems likely.
Kubescape Achieves CNCF Incubation Status
I'm so horrifically disappointed every time I go in there. Their monitor selection is all super low-end trash, as is most of their electronics they sell (TVs, stereos, computers etc). You're lucky if they have an actual PC component in the store, there are bare shelves everywhere. They don't even offer a good selection of phones, accessories or memory cards. It's starting to feel like Fry's right before they went out of business. Overall, it feels like a store for people who need to buy an electronic item without knowing why or what they're gonna do with it.
I don't know bash scripting beyond the basics, it wrote a script to sync a git fork with menus and sorting. I can never remember the syntax of `find`, the manpage lacks examples, and I don't want to spend the time to learn it. AI short-circuits the Stack Overflow search loop.
Fusion used to always be 30 years away, more recently 15 years.
> As someone who maintains critical open-source software, I can strongly empathize, even if it’s not an approach I would take.

Pretty strange thing to say in the context of a closed source app.
An interesting phenomenon. I remember reading similar articles about how, in older cities, the closer you lived to the water the more poor you were, but in newer cities the opposite is true. This rings true for many rust belt cities, and it makes gentrification a complex issue because public housing tends to have been built on what has become some of the most expensive real estate today.
I tried! It didn’t work super well
At current prices, I think the moon is about as expensive as getting into Fort Knox by force.

Probably about as survivable, too.

Starship, if they solve the remaining issues before politics catches up with them, could solve the first problem.

I've seen some interesting ideas for contact-free drilling that might help with the second, but for now they're experimental* — we've got a lot of things in space tech that need R&D spending, which is a great opportunity on a forum like Hacker News, but does mean dreamers like me need to wait.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaise
Let's try to find something that doesn't use humans as raw material
SQLite is learnable
A curated list of tech companies that will relocate you
Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve
'New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ancient rocks, the researchers discovered that as glaciers carved through the landscape, they scraped deep into the Earth's crust, releasing key minerals that altered ocean chemistry. This process had a profound impact on our planet's composition, creating conditions that allowed complex life to evolve.'
Being completely serious, people will use whatever works. If what works is written in C, people will use it. The average person seriously doesn't care what language a thing is written in. The average person cares that the software in question works. Despite being written in C, most software today works reasonably well. Is it perfect? No. Will the rusty equivalent be perfect on day 1? No.
Wait, this is known as a blind SQLi, and it's not so blind. You can still use timing to get the info you need one bit at a time. This may be slow, but it's doable without triggering any DB errors, so you have time.
Isn't moon sand a very high thermal insulator?

edit:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9646997/ ("Thermophysical properties of the regolith on the lunar far side revealed by the in situ temperature probing of the Chang’E-4 mission")

Comparing against reference tables, it's more insulating than rock wool insulation,

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/thermal-conductivity-d_42...
Considering there are long essays and writings about the law of unintended consequences it would suggest that these thing are not obvious.
In a perfect world, yes. In the real world, some nights the parents are not able to read/tell the story. The children don't care, they want the story anyway.

Audiobooks are a godsend.
It looks like they built a WASM runtime in the TS type system. Implement some more OS calls and you should be able to get a browser running. And then WASM on WASM on TS types. Lol
William Latham https://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01whl/index.html

and lots of the people featured on https://executable.graphics/
Apple shareholders reject proposal to scrap company's diversity programs
The stable ABI is really tricky.
Another pointer from another talk was about how stabilizing ABI might reduce the performance hash functions (which is used by the compiler) by 0.5%.
So, it is really a tricky decision to make that involves doing the right tradeoff at the right point in time.
The NS Savannah (fission powered) was unable to enter some ports because the local governments did not allow nuclear powered vessels in their waters.

Do you think that a fusion powered vessel will be allowed in?
Thanks. I might be misinterpreting, but maybe the standard for what's "research" involves not presuming that a given request can be satisfied by a database query?

So if you ask for documents in a way that sounds more complex than "every inspection report ever done on Mel's Diner", which is something they might be able to satisfy reasonably using a paper filing system or by eyeballing rows on a screen, then the request could be denied as "research"?

So then is what the petitioner in this case looking for was a database schema that would let them say, "respectfully, I think it's not research; I think it can be satisfied with the following exact SQL query"?
How hard is it to take a picture of a mirror?
Ambitious!

Maybe add a map to show nearby users (that accept to chat under certain criteria)?
Eurotrip is a treasure.
Short of revolution, I see no viable path forward for a complete overhaul of the American government. While a Constitutional Convention is a theoretical option, replicating such a process today is exceedingly unlikely. The last Constitutional Convention in 1787 was a unique historical moment.
Smart speakers just don't solve a problem. Period.

- Don't need to control home devices or watch shit while you're cooking. If I really want to queue up a video I just do that before I start cooking.

- Don't need music while showering, who cares, showering takes 5 minutes

- Again just like "oh it's for music"

- Yes I like controlling smart lights but I can just hold the power button on my phone and tell it what to do instead of bothering with a speaker in every room

- I just put the remote nearby? or use the remote on the phone? What's so hard about pausing TV with a phone/TV remote?

- Basic internet queries, a.k.a., the smartphone I always have on me
What's the characters-per-Wh of an LLM compared to traditional OCR?
This makes me wonder what .NET would look like if developed in Rust instead of C#
In addition to lots of commercial competition, there's also a halfway decent open source comic translation app that uses automatic OCR + LLMs (byok).

https://github.com/ogkalu2/comic-translate
LibreWolf – A custom version of Firefox focused on privacy, security and freedom
If all you really need is a timer, you can just use a digital watch.

I don't worry about getting mine dirty because I just wash the watch when I watch my hands.