skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No and no. I'm referring to Gingrich's attitude of never crossing the aisle leading to Congressional gridlock. And how a functioning Congress could have easily passed laws nullifying most executive orders (especially the ones grabbing extra power). It was precisely the power vacuum of Congress that enabled the strong executive.
Framework 2nd Gen Event
It's buried under a drop-down in the "Information" section, under "In-App Purchases". I agree, it's not the greatest.
Not that I'd call myself a buff, but I don't think my knowledge of larger numbers makes 10^24 a small number in any absolute sense. Cryptographic keyspaces are deliberately designed to be unfathomly large, whereas the number of stars in the universe is simply an observational fact. The number of stars really is huge in a human sense, as much as that's worth anything. There are more stars than there are grains of sand, etc.

The fact that we exist to discuss these odds means that whatever the probability distribution, at least one instance of life has occurred. Not only that, but life arose and eventually led to intelligence at our level - something that appears to be rare even on our own planet, but achieved relatively quickly all things concerned (only a few hundred million years).

While the anthropic principle guarantees that we observe intelligence as we're defining it (since we include ourselves), I agree that doesn’t mean intelligence is inevitable or common. A more likely modelling in my opinion is that worlds of microbial life are abundant, worlds with complex multicellular life is rarer, and intelligent civilizations are rarer still. Given the distribution of intelligence levels on Earth, it seems unlikely that we simply passed every constraint while no other planet gets close. Also, if we observed a planet with humans as they were 100,000 years ago, would we even consider them intelligent life? Probably just as intelligent as modern-day humans if raised the same, but literally nowhere near our technological level.

When scientists evaluate whether soil can support certaing thing, they don’t treat each factor (like pH, moisture, nutrients, microbial conditions) as independent hurdles that must be overcome one by one. Instead, they see that multiple factors interact in complex ways. A deficiency in one area (e.g., nutrient content) can be mitigated by another factor (e.g., microbial activity enhancing nutrient cycling). If you extend this to conditions in which life might it arise, it suggests to me that planetary habitability may be more like a network of contributing conditions rather than a checklist -- actually much more difficult to caclulate?

Also, mostly as an aside, we also have the advantage of knowing that life and then intelligence arose relatively quickly once conditions stabilized - only a few hundred million years. n=1 but I think this is a promising indication on where any variables might lie.
I meant to add that at the end. Like you said, basically no one ever has a good time on this drug. The trip reports seem to be almost entirely kids looking for a free high, and virtually no one who knows what they are doing purposely taking it.
I just add .envrc and shell.nix to my global gitignore. Along with docker-compose.override.yml. You can always force-add an ignored file, it'll be tracked from then on.
> A 30+ year dev veteran who's seen it all, from OOP spaghetti nightmares to the promised land of functional programming, now balancing toddler-wrangling with running 70B parameter models on an M4 Mac. Your comments oscillate between deep technical insights and the occasional 'get off my lawn' energy that only comes from decades of watching the same mistakes repeat in new frameworks.

Love it!

> You've spent so much time explaining why functional programming is superior that you could've rewritten all of Ruby in Elixir by now.

Ooof. Probably.

> Your relationship with LLMs is like watching someone who swore they'd never get a smartphone finally discover TikTok at age 50.

Skeptical.

> For someone who hates 'artificial limitations' so much, you sure do love languages that won't let you mutate a variable.

But it's about the right limitations! >..<
I'm a Mrs Thatcher fan in the UK and I'm angry about Musk supporting the Afd and saluting- and of course calling a hero cave diver a paedophile. I am very angry about his incredible behavior and statements about Ukraine.

I'm from Rhodesia - not far from where Musk was - and my dad was called up to fight the communist guerillas there that you Americans helped to get into power.

I'd be interested to know how do you spin that to make it about "lefties?"
Portkey's Prompt Engineering Studio – The IDE for Prompt Engineers
Hi HN! I'm Rohit, co-founder and CEO of Portkey. After building our open-source AI gateway that now handles billions of tokens daily, we kept seeing the same problem: prompt engineering is still a dark art. Today we're launching the IDE for Prompt Engineers: Portkey’s Prompt Management Studio (https://portkey.ai/features/prompt-management). Our answer to the prompt engineering chaos.

The story behind this is pretty simple. As we worked with teams building serious AI applications, we noticed a pattern - even the best prompt engineers were spending hours on prompt iteration with no systematic way to track what worked. Everyone had their own hacky setup: Notion docs, GitHub gists, local text files. There was no common workflow or tooling.

We started by asking a fundamental question: why is prompt engineering so hard? The answer came down to three things: you can't see what's happening inside the model, you can't easily compare across models, and you can't version and deploy things reliably.

So we built a tool to solve these problems. You can instantly start at [prompt.new](https://prompt.new) – just like docs.new for Google Docs – and get a powerful playground where you can test across 1600+ models simultaneously. We added real-time performance metrics so you can see exactly what's happening with your prompt.

What makes this different is how we've bridged the gap between engineering and deployment. Once you've crafted the perfect prompt, you can version it, label it (staging/prod), and deploy it directly to our high-performance gateway. The entire workflow happens in one place.

We've also solved the prompt optimization problem with our AI Prompt Generator. Tell it what you're trying to do, and it'll suggest optimized templates based on provider-specific best practices. This eliminates the "staring at a blank page" problem most prompt engineers face.

We support mustache templating and partials for creating sophisticated, reusable prompt architectures. Everything works in sync with our Python and TypeScript SDKs so you can pull these optimized prompts directly into your application code.

We've been working with early users who've seen their prompt development cycles speed up dramatically. We'd love to get your feedback – I'll be hanging out in this thread all day to answer questions and hear your thoughts.
Will this still send your information to Google because the redirect sometimes happens after the search has already been sent? I’m curious because I use a similar Kagi extension and I feel like it’s definitely sending my information to DuckDuckGo which sucks. I wish apple would allow more search options.
Hey, we're building an app that lets you create your own web and mobile apps.

how cool is that?

If you're up for it, give it a shot at https://www.tiram.ai

It's super easy and fun!
This ^

I feel like people like to fear monger, but cloud businesses won't bend to US requests for anything that resides outside of the US.
Åh, you're absolutely right, missed that completely. Buried at the bottom of the page :) Thanks for pointing it out.
1. Smaller Inventory - reduces supply chain complexity along with the need for full fledged ERP integrations

2. Leasing storefronts - Retail Chains and Big Box brands tend to try to take ownership of the property the store is located on, because at their scale it can have potential savings benefits in the medium-to-long term

3. Family as employees - this reduces the impact of salaries, because profit, customer experience, and employee performance are all directly aligned with each other

4. Relationship-based Sales - your local business will maintain relationships with other local businesses, and be flexible with their own needs as well. That boutique's payment is delayed? No big deal, we'll sell you fabric on credit and you can pay us back when you are able to.

5. Smaller scale - you don't need a $100m influx of capital if you are a single or couple local stores. Mo money, mo problems (and a major reason why several unicorns have stayed private over an extended period even before the IPO window shut)

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There are plenty of difficulties when managing a small business as well, but they are different from those that a Joann's might face.
This is great news!

It is hard to tell from the picture but the boards are tiny, 55mmx35mm (2.2inx1.4in) and have most expansion pins brought out to the connectors.

BeagleBoards are better than RPi for battery operated devices because the PMIC has a wide range converter that accepts single cell voltage directly and includes a charger. RPi's OTOH lack a charger and also require 5V input so you lose energy converting to that before losing more when it is converted internally to lower voltages.

I was also concerned that BeagleBoard in general was dying (from RPi sucking up all the oxygen) but apparently it's not dead yet.
A rose by any other name...

By the way, "Action Directe" was a famous French terrorist organisation in the 80s [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Directe
if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

There's also Bit's About Money describing this effect in banks https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
Elon Musk Wants Big Bond Market Reward for DOGE Team's Cuts
I’m curious how this compares to the open-source version made by HuggingFace [1]. As I can tell, the HF version uses reasoning LLMs to search/traverse and parse the web and gather results, then evaluates the results before eventually synthesizing a result.

This version appears to show off a vector store for documents generated from a web crawl (the writer is a vector-store-aaS company)

[1] https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/tree/main/examples...
Discussion (263 points, 13 hours ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167936
My understanding is that it is a copy-on-write clone, not a hard link. [1]

> Q: Are clone files the same thing as symbolic links or hard links?

> A: No. Symbolic links ("symlinks") and hard links are ways to make two entries in the file system that share the same data. This might sound like the same thing as the space-saving clones used by Hyperspace, but there’s one important difference. With symlinks and hard links, a change to one of the files affects all the files.

> The space-saving clones made by Hyperspace are different. Changes to one clone file do not affect other files. Cloned files should look and behave exactly the same as they did before they were converted into clones.

[1] https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/
A copy-on-write clone is not the same thing as a hard link.
Cool. I'd use ChatGPT as my default search in Firefox. I'm not going to start using Safari for this however.
> They've either been purged or know the consequences of speaking up.

this is the end of the game, if people don't speak up there won't be another opportunity to do so, so while I agree that Trump supporters threatening to murder Republican senators is bad, I also think it's catastrophically bad for Republican senators to be too fucking weak to say anything in such a situation.
Windows Notepad and Paint Now Have Paid Subscription Only AI Features [video]
Show HN: MCP server for sending emails directly from Cursor with email.md
This is for my own very bespoke use case: I don't want to leave my IDE to send simple emails. Also, Cursor has great auto completion features so I often found myself write blogs from my IDE.

Then I thought -- why do I need to go to gmail to send emails? It has a terrible UI, and I can do most of the email drafting from my IDE.

So I built this simple MCP server to make that work :)
Rate the US is going, it will be soon know as "1 Eye"
It does not make hard links. It makes copy-on-write clones.
de minimis refers to the Section 321 exemption, which allows shipments valued at $800 or less to enter duty-free and without formal customs entry
I used regularly host optional office hours / coffee chats with coworkers. Great time and space to pick each others brains in a casual setting. It was great at the start but overtime there is less to talk about. Definitely worth a try for a month or two.
No, because it's not actually a hard link -- if you modify one of the files they'll diverge.
> You must deep down actually hate yourself or all of humanity

I don't. I'm not less for thinking more of something that isn't me. I'm arguably more for embracing more value than I started with.

Your assertion seems stark. Do you really feel my perspective is likely fueled by self-loathing? If so, what is it about human nature that led you to that?
Show HN: UeCalc – Build an investor-ready financial model without spreadsheets
Hey HN, I’ve built ueCalc, a tool that helps startup founders create a financial model in minutes—without needing finance skills or spreadsheets.

The Problem:

Most founders struggle with financial modeling because they:

Don’t know how to create a model or what to include.

Don’t know how to fill it with real data—just assumptions.

Don’t account for experimentation time when testing channels.

Don’t know how to reflect growth—what’s realistic?

Can’t answer investor questions about the numbers.

Investors don’t believe in their projections.

Don’t understand how much funding they really need.

Can’t justify why they need the investment.

How ueCalc solves this:

– Instead of guesswork, you describe your team’s real capabilities:

– Lead acquisition (How many leads can you generate?)

– Conversion (How many turn into customers?)

– Retention (How long do they stay?)

– The system applies unit economics + Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (Lean Startup) to build an accurate growth forecast.

– You instantly get financial statements & projections—no need for Excel.

What you get:

– A financial model based on execution, not assumptions.

– Revenue, cost, and profitability forecasts.

– Investor-ready financial documents—just download the template.

Would love your feedback! Try it here: https://uecalc.com

What’s been your biggest challenge with financial modeling? Let’s discuss!
Virginia Tech provides helmet safety ratings for a wide range of sports. There is a drop down on the site where you can select a sport.

A couple of years ago they added equestrian helmets. My time on a horse can be counted in minutes but I have found myself the owner/manager of a horse farm and my daughter likes to jump horses over sillily high fences which means the ratings are relevant to me. I can't speak for the other sports but for equestrian helmets cost and safety are not directly related according to the VT, as an aside when did it become referred to as VT instead of VPI, ratings. This caused a great shitstorm in the sport when the initial ratings came out and some of the makers of helmets costing several hundred dollars found themselves at the bottom of the list.
And this has been true since states wrought the cadastral map, last names, the metric system and taxes on us.

The main issue today is that the techologies shaping reality are in the control of private, non-democratic institutions, selling this power to the highest bidder (including hostile foreign powers).
This case literally involves the courts getting involved in what should appear in trust stores. DigiCert was ordered by the courts to not revoke certificates via a TRO.

If the browsers removed DigiCert, DigiCert could certainly sue based on the harm to their business. They could argue that the browser vendors were inconsistent with the application of their rules. They could argue that the browser vendors were unfairly competing by kicking them out.

Not saying they would win all these, but they would certainly fight it - the alternative would be the end of DigiCert, they aren't going to go down without a fight in whatever venue they can find.
My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022
I liked Joyce more when I realized he was a coomer:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/02/james-joyces-...
I work at USDS (at least as of 11:49 AM - not fired yet!).

What on earth are you talking about? Ban and censor? Ban from what, and how? And censor? This is the government, not Facebook or Twitter/X etc.

This idea that the federal government is both incompetent and at the same time conspiratorial and all up in everyone’s business is nuts.
I wish entrepreneurs would stop trying to make Manna[1] a reality. It's supposed to be a dystopia, people. Stop trying to create it!

1: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
I am in here taking a strong stance against CC, but I am happy to agree with you and steel-man your point: I think Clean Code is perfectly fine and workable in academic and single-developer software projects.

I think most of this pushback (certainly all of mine) is about it creeping into production environments and exacerbating personality traits that tend to be problematic in team settings, which does not invalidate the abstract idea and should instead be scoped to its practice.
I haven't seen evidence that such "banning and censoring" ever happened to any meaningful degree.
Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation
First of all, I didn't make this, let me be clear, and I don't work for the company Mobile.dev.

I've been looking for a replacement for Appium because the documentation for that site is absolutely garbage. Maestro boils everything down to YAML and runs its own test server so that you don't have to worry about connecting to the device drivers. It's missing an API but who needs an API when the CLI is so beautiful.

Does anyone know of anything on par with this that I should try? So far this has knocked my socks off.
I meant a big box.

I think the hobbyist model will continue to work and thrive if you are a local/regional business
There are plenty of businesses that can and do compete with online, or do both (using their distributed inventory to reduce the time it takes to ship online orders).

But saddling a retail company with tons of debt makes much, much harder; profits that should be going to restock instead go toward financing the debt.

We don't really need to read tea leaves here to figure out the cause of death.
If you are the kind of person who is entertained by making your own clothing, you're probably also entertained by seeing and selecting the materials that go into your projects.

It's no more an obsolete business model than something like a Bass Pro Shop. It's just a different hobby.
Dutch unicorn Bird quits Europe over AI regulations
One thing we noticed while building ueCalc: most founders don’t struggle with spreadsheets—they struggle with knowing what to put in them. Financial models often feel like a black box, and many startups either overestimate their revenue or underestimate their costs. We wanted to change that by focusing on real execution potential. Curious—what’s been your biggest challenge in financial modeling?
Continued back-and-forth on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c63
A remarkably ambitious project- a decade's worth of thinking distilled into a cohesive framework. I'm particularly struck by the connection you draw between seemingly disparate fields, from ASP to creative writing. It challenges the conventional view of constraints.

Curious about the evolution of your thinking. How did your understanding of these core principles change? Were there any major 'aha!' moments that changed your perspective. Will spend time exploring this whole work.
Yes, releasing training source code code is like releasing the source code of a compiler used to compile and link the binary.

Lets say you took GCC, modified its sources, compiled your code with it and released your binaries along with modified GCC source code. And you are claiming that your software is open source. Well, it wouldn’t be.

Releasing training data is extremely hard, as licensing and redistribution rights for that data are difficult to tackle. And it is not clear, what exactly are the benefits in releasing it.
I saw someone saying that it is as though tech read Seeing Like a State and took the wrong lesson

I think tech does have the drive to make things legible, and is falling into the same trap as described in the book where efficiencies or processes that cannot be described in the format desired at the top leads to them being discarded. And the legibility issues mean that the impact of discarding these types of things is not properly understood
Mathematicians see hundreds of delusional papers over a career. It takes seconds to read their "no one understands me, I'm trying to save the world" tells. Every seen a Dr. Bronners soap label? Yep, that guy was crazy too.

We're also good at spotting novel ideas, and making odds on potential failure points. A good paper telegraphs their approach.

Post on a legitimate archive server, and wait. You'll get read. If nothing else, you'll make the next AI training corpus.
I'm actually very disappointed about the performance of Mongo vector search after I test on it.
Any vector database, is better than mongodb performance wise.
I'm pretty much in agreement with you on this, however I'm always aware of the possibility of comments being bugs. If code gets moved around, there is the very real possibility that the comment is now attached to the wrong method or line of code.

I now comment on method or function basis, describing what the method does. The how should be evident in the body itself.

He doesn't seem to often concede to being wrong.
Introduction to Firebase Local Emulator Suite
I can't decide.
The amount of damage you can do and how quickly you can do it with sticks and rocks is a lot more contained and your ability to force project gets exponentially more expensive exponentially more quickly.

Well researchers employed by Google are where transformers were presented which is how all modern AI companies build their models. I'd categorize generative AI as generally interesting things. Or a massively useful search platform, they solved email (until they stopped really paying attention to it). They also promulgated Android which has a lot of fans. And that's just the very visible stuff you'll see as someone not in the field. They've also contributed to storage & distributed systems research in very tangible ways. Or the research they've been doing into protein folding with AI via AlphaFold.

Amazon pioneered modern cloud computing in such a way that they were the only game in town for a long time before Google and Microsoft attempted to compete.

But sure, it sounds like your bias is against any company that's a "virtual" company and for companies that produce "real" things. However, you may want to ask yourself whether those companies would be able to build those "real" things as efficiently without all the virtual technology supporting them & letting them offload that complexity.
> A computer should never talk to you first.

Isn't that exactly what happens with every IVR (phone menu) system?
If you replace `sh:link` with `sh:clone` instead, it will.

> clone: reflink-capable filesystems only. Try to clone both files with the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl(3p) (or BTRFS_IOC_FILE_EXTENT_SAME on older kernels). This will free up duplicate extents while preserving the metadata of both. Needs at least kernel 4.2.
Yes, the Left has known this for decades, right? That's why they affix "phobia" to every traditional sentiment they don't like.
Apple Investors Reject Call to End DEI Efforts