skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well known that 101 type rules are learned to be simplified near-lies in 301, and possibly completely untrue in 501. We shouldn't hamstring ourselves on the fear that the idiot will hurt himself with the tool. It's up to you to determine if you're the idiot or not, and then how to delegate to others if so. This type of cooling/censorship is strange to me. These are the exact strange and beautiful usecases we were all excited for aren't they? To expand the capability of the average human, to greatly expand the effectiveness of the intelligent users. Obviously the damn thing can lie! We all know that! The stakes presented by chronic illnesses go far far beyond "scared to hear a lie" and tend to land in "please god save me i'll do anything". People usually have _already tried everything at their disposal_. What's it gonna do, tell them to walk in front of a bus? Every medical conversation I've had, it repeatedly tells me to consult human doctors. And I've had so many useful interactions that it seems to me your philosophy would completely occlude. I'm still figuring out serious problems i have. Things that don't get appointments for months because I've been told I'm fine. Of course a hypochondriac could go insane, just like they might with the DSM-V. It's a lot different when you have to skip work because of constant nausea, or when your productivity tanks because of frequent heart palpitations, or when your child is losing too much weight. I take very harshly to being told i can't use a tool to help myself because you think I'm too stupid to not hurt myself.
And yet Nobel was so upset about his legacy of being the explosives guy for WW1, we still reward scientists with money and an award from him.
[dupe] Lots of discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850
That's a oft repeated meme but not true. They haven't even been in power in cabinets, mostly in opposition, and in the exception cases haven't been the deciding faction in the coalition govenments.

If you want to get into what could have been, greens have been boosting sustainable power since the 70s and we would be much further along if we had started seriously investing in those in time, 30+ years before we did.

(And recent nuclear plants have 10-15 year construction times, which is way too slow, in addition to having inferior bang for the buck)
Swift Evolution: Improving the approachability of data-race safety
Framework moves into desktops, 2-in-1 laptops at Second Gen event
"got a job with the Flight Propulsion Division of General Electric in Evendale (just outside of Cincinnati), initially working night shift in the Controls and Accessories department... the engine required the efforts of hundreds of engineers to design everything from a new turbofan and compressor, to new fire-suppression systems, to a special high-temperature fuel. Exactly what part my dad worked on is unclear; I always thought it was an oil pan, but my older brother was sure it was an oil pump."

This small detail peaked my curiosity - did GE have white collar workers on the night shift? If so, that is super interesting to me.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
Of course anyone other than "Tech" (Corporations) is better at literally anything than "Tech." "Tech" doesn't care about providing utility to it's users, only extracting as much profit from them as possible, which is almost universally in opposition to the interests of users.

People who build things because they care about them and want to maximize the utility they provide actually design systems that allow users to effectively and efficiently access information or complete tasks, "Tech" on the other hand designs systems full of anti-user dark patterns solely intended to force users to view as many ads as possible or buy whatever service "Tech" is selling.
Singularity means that at least some barions will be at the same place in the same time, which against nature of fermions.

Moreover, it hard to imagine that Higgs bosons will act at same place and time with same effectiveness.

So, I cannot believe in a singularity unless it will be physically demonstrated.
Our Search for Life in the Clouds
How can you tell that is the earth?
"DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email" - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agenci...
I pretty much agree with everything you said, but trying to think of a counter example I'm reminded of the movie Moneyball. Reviewing the detailed stats of each baseball player vs. the cost of hiring them seems pretty close to measuring "time doing useful things on the field". I'm not sure how common this practice is in general in current professional sports.
This is the first thread ive commented on since trump was inaugurated and it’s sad to see HN has turned into Reddit.

emotionally charged, bad faith assumptions at the smallest whiff of independent thought.
What I've heard is that they target graduates from elite schools, bonus points if you did maths or CS competitively. Everything else, including OCaml and finance, they claim that they can teach you. Although they always go to functional programing conferences like ICFP to promote their company, so they must hire language experts as well.

I applied there 15 years ago. They asked me some logic puzzles and some typical quant interview probability questions. It wasn't about OCaml at all even though I do have an OCaml background and I thought I interviewed for a SWE position. I remember the interviewer was unpleasant for no reason.

A friend of mine interviewed there recently, he got some typical leetcode questions (hard ones).
Lolita is an amazingly written book and one of the best unreliable narrator books I’ve read. The book literally starts with the protagonist writing from a criminal insane asylum, then the protagonist spends the rest of the book trying to convince you that he isn’t a bad guy, but the author weaves in things throughout the book that pull back the veil and show you the true nature of his “relationship”. It has been memed and remade poorly, with the exact opposite message of the book, in my opinion. But my read of the book was pretty unambiguously negative about Humbert Humbert ‘s actions and was “about” seeing past his smooth talk to the reality of the situation.
Thank you for explaining what all of this was about. Everyone else keeps talking in abstract and apocalyptic terms.

An underscore. WTF.
We're the first municipality in Illinois to draft and adopt an instance of ACLU's CCOPS model legislation, which requires board approval at a recorded public board meeting before any agency (most especially our police force) can adopt any form of surveillance technology, given a broad (ACLU-supplied) definition of "surveillance". Previous to that, our police force could acquire arbitrary surveillance products so long as they kept under a discretionary budget threshold; they used that latitude to acquire a pilot deployment of Flock ALPR cameras, and CCOPS was a response to that.

My real goal is zoning.

In Chicago itself, I have less clarity, but am optimistic that somewhere on Facebook is a message board where the staff at your alderman's office reads posts, and the most politically engaged people in your neighborhood argue with each other. That's your starting point (and maybe your ending point). Just go, listen, and chime in with high-effort comments. If you're used to clearing the bar for HN comments, you're way past the threshold of coding like a super-thoughtful person in local politics.
I'm a lot less experienced than you, but since you're collecting ideas, I'll give my opinion.

For me personally, the biggest improvements that could be made to C aren't about advanced type system stuff. They're things that are technically simple but backwards compatibility makes them difficult in practice. In order of importance:

1) Get rid of null-terminated strings; introduce native slice and buffer types. A slice would be basically struct { T *ptr, size_t count } and a buffer would be struct { T *ptr, size_t count, size_t capacity }, though with dedicated syntax to make them ergonomic - perhaps T ^slice and T @buffer. We'd also want buffer -> slice -> pointer decay, beginof/endof/countof/capacityof operators, and of course good handling of type qualifiers.

2) Get rid of errno in favor of consistent out-of-band error handling that would be used in the standard library and recommended for user code too. That would probably involve using the return value for a status code and writing the actual result via a pointer: int do_stuff(T *result, ...).

3) Get rid of the strict aliasing rule.

4) Get rid of various tiny sources of UB. For example, standardize realloc to be equivalent to free when called with a length of 0.

Metaprogramming-wise, my biggest wish would be for a way to enrich programs and libraries with custom compile-time checks, written in plain procedural code rather than some convoluted meta-language. These checks would be very useful for libraries that accept custom (non-printf) format strings, for example. An opt-in linear type system would be nice too.

Tool-wise, I wish there was something that could tell me definitively whether a particular run of my program executed any UB or not. The simpler types of UB, like null pointer dereferences and integer overflows, can be detected now, but I'd also like to know about any violations of aliasing and pointer provenance rules.
It is a different place. You just haven't noticed yet.

At some point fairly recently, we passed the point at which things that took longer than anyone thought they would take are happening faster than anyone thought they would happen.
I used the "reasonably" qualifier purposefully.
I think it's the other direction isn't it? As in, it's a runtime written in Java that runs WebAssembly, not a JVM that runs on WebAssembly.

I could be wrong but that's the impression I got.
As a software developer, I’ve found that most of my work revolves around uncovering the constraints of a problem, asking the right questions, doing just enough exploration to understand what’s truly worth working on, and letting those boundaries guide the solution. The ideas behind Surface Tension resonate deeply with this process. Constraints aren’t blockers; they’re the framework that shapes meaningful progress. This perspective has fundamentally changed how I approach my work.

Is there some kind of "Constraint Driven Design" pattern that one can follow when doing... anything? Is it good for specific domains?

Do you have insights about constraints when working with LLMs?
> PCC is an awesome solution for Apple to ensure that no one other than Apple can execute code in that environment.

Doesn't PCC guarantee even more than that? From my reading, Apple can't exfiltrate any data to other servers (even ones that Apple owns) nor can they inject any processing other than what is outlined into that server. Otherwise, what's the point of such a stringent hardware integrity requirement?
Yes, that's a serious ux issue in modern test results. Instead of just a range there needs to be some kind of variance score. It can be presented simply like, 10% out of range, or, 20x lower than normal. Hell, even just a second range that says "critical, seek medical attention". Then you can judge how close to that line is worth going for. There just should be more information. It's all computers nowadays anyways, they could print thousands of words, send me a video explanation, they could do anything!
The example warning is the Swift language warning about style conventions, there's an interesting conversation about whether enforcing style conventions through warnings is appropriate, but that's is a Swift language question, not an Xcode question.
I'm sure they have.

I don't have a PCP.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/02/medical-...

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-02-1...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/04/0...
In this case the Copernican principle is at odds with the anthropic principle. If there were only one place in the universe with intelligent life, then necessarily that's where we would be.

GP may be thinking of this paper, which uses a reasonable probability distribution for each parameter in the Drake equation, and finds a decent chance that there is no other technological civilization in the observable universe:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
It's less so opinionated and more so that WASM GC spec is just bad and too rudimentary to be anywhere near enough for more sophisticated GC implementations found in JVM and .NET.
What I'd love to know is: Assuming the founders pitched this idea for feedback to many people before getting this far, including to friends and family, didn't a single one of those people pull them aside and say: "Wait a minute, maybe stop and think about what you're actually creating here..." Could they find nobody in their circle of advisors who are able to empathize with low paid factory workers or at the very least point out the potential PR downside of this work? What kind of bubble are the founders living in? If I pitched this idea to a random sampling of 10 of my friends, I guarantee all 10 of them would retch in disgust.
I'm shocked that anyone here is confused as to why this is controversial, to use a popular twitter phrase they were completely "mask off" on what they intended their tech to be used for. The demo was for a garment manufacturing sweatshop in which they identified a slow employee, called him by a number, and humiliated him, stopping just short of recommending a "corrective action".

This easily could have been spun in a positive light, imagine a commercial where they use their technology to discover that an employee was using a broken machine or that there was a bottleneck farther up the assembly line that could improve rates! But no, it was a cold look into how sweatshop operators view their workers.
I was able to enumerate them in a few ways:
Public repositories, DNS leaks, and people searching the service for onions.
You are now in line.
Thank you for your patience.
Your estimated wait time is 8 minutes.

Thanks Cloudflare, I almost considered buying a framework.
The upcoming AI powered laborer surveillance will not stop at sweatshop employees btw.
Show HN: I built a PR listener and ruleset to detect malicious code in CI/CD
I built a GitHub app that detects it in pull requests, notifies or blocks them. Alongside it, I published a Semgrep ruleset for any stage of the CI/CD.

I started this after getting frustrated by all the FUD around malicious code - lots of noise, little effort to solve it. Having said that, it's still a major attack vector - a stored RCE, with the codebase itself as the sink.

Feedback is appreciated.

The app, PRevent - https://github.com/apiiro/PRevent

The ruleset: https://github.com/apiiro/malicious-code-ruleset

The research: https://apiiro.com/blog/guard-your-codebase-practical-steps-...
I disapprove of this application (knowing how these things will be used), but I hesitate to condemn whomever worked on it, without knowing more.

A few background thoughts...

I remember browsing angel.co, and most of the startup blurbs were just depressing -- either crypto scams, or people who sounded unaware that they were doing something bad for society. Many worse-sounding than this one. So depressing, that even LinkedIn was a more pleasant place to be scrolling job listings.

But there can't be that many sociopaths, as it appeared there were on angel.co; they're probably mostly just people with not much world experience, and perhaps too much techbro echo chamber time, now going through the motions they were taught about how to be a startup founder.

Also, there's modes based on context, and I'll embarrass myself here... I remember during the dotcom gold rush, when I'd already had wholesome values instilled in me, plus the usual Internet-before-it-went-corporate values, yet I found on occasion I got distracted from those, in a mode. I was a grad student with a research assistantship, in a lab that had sponsors and VIPs coming through every day. I recall one time some people from a particular huge music industry company came through. So, I start telling them something about the emerging democratization of creation and distribution of high-quality music... and how I thought their company can get ahead of that. Afterwards, I was, like, why did I go out of my way to do that, like an amoral hired gun? On any other day, I'd be trying to help people to be empowered, and encourage them to get rid of that same company.

Going back to this particular application domain, another thought... If you've worked with factory people, at least the ones I did (in a startup introducing a new factory station) were delightful, and I can't imagine imposing this system on people there. Maybe that's another reason to know your customers and users: not only understanding the problem domain and getting the MVP right, but also to engage our natural human empathy and caring.
Correct me if I'm wrong here:

Wasn't the framework laptop intended to provide a modular laptop experience like a desktop?

So a famework desktop is intended to provide a modular experience like, we already have in desktops?
I prefer kagi's approach. If I add a "?" to the end of my search query, I get a LLM response at the top of my search results. Any LLM response includes source links to quickly verify the information presented. So, if I am using search engine to quickly check a fact, say "What year did Tremors come out?" I get the following at the top of the results:

Quick Answer

The movie Tremors was released in 1990 12. It is an American monster horror film starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward 12.

References

r/movies on Reddit: Tremors (for those who saw it when it came out www.reddit.com

Tremors (1990 film) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
That is really cool, are you going to add rate limiting, API tokens, etc?
It doesn't work like you think.
If you change one byte of duplicated file - the only "byte" will be changed on disk (a "byte", because, technically is not a byte, but a block).

As far as I understand, it works like a reflink feature in the modern linux FSs.
If so, thats really cool, and thats also a bit better than the zfs's snapshots.
Iam newbie on macos, but it looks amazing
kinda cool, would love to see a comparison with perplexity search api
What’s your take - how can we expose Browser Use to as many use cases as possible? Is there easier way than openapi config?
$1999 is impressive for 128GB unified memory, the 8060S GPU with the Ryzen APU on this machine is similar to a 4060 in performance, with dynamic VRAM this is an interesting option for an AI box.

Later a demo was showed with multiple networked boards in one case.

An AMD guy came on later and said they are focusing on Rocm in 2025, let's see what that means.
If you're interested in a more "modern" UUCP, there's NNCP [1] (HTTPS ver here [2].) It continues to mostly be a file-transfer protocol with a bit of signaling added on.

[1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/

[2]: https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/
Well we will agree to disagree ut far too many times ive seenpeople prescribed contraindicated meds because the doctor wasnt paying attention and the patient wasnt aware enough of their own healthcare to even list the pills they were taking daily.

Certain doctors will keep ramping up your adderall script until your on 200mg a day. No one needs that shit. Its horrible for you. So to just say "listen to your doctor, they know best!" As a general statement is asinine
I'm happy to see Framework going after different laptop/PC segments and trying to break the long cycle of terrible products/cash-grab from all the big manufacturers in the Windows/PC market. I hope everyone eventually has a choice to go for one of these vs. whatever crap Dell/Acer/HP barfs out every year.

I've given up hopes of someone making truly exceptional products for Windows/Linux the way Macs/MacBooks get built. Surface was supposed to get us there but Microsoft just... gave up. Framework is approaching this from a totally different angle, focusing on reliability/upgradeability first and I do hope they eventually crack the formula to build the perfect products.
black holes have an interior, you wouldn't notice if you passed the event horizon of a large enough black hole.
https://x.com/AzorFrank/status/1894463626549105136

- AI AMx 395+ - 128GB ~= 1999 USD
I can see a world where the US would want that to happen. If they kick the US out then the US will be free to spy on the others without needing the loopholes that 5 Eyes created in the first place.
It's not bad, just limited. I think it's getting usable, but just barely so.

They are working on it, and making it better every year. I've started using it for small projects and it's pretty neat how fast you can work with it -- but not everything can be done yet.

Since they are still adding pretty basic stuff every year, it really hurts if you target older versions. AppKit is so mature that for most people it doesn't matter if you can't use new features introduced in the last 3 years. For SwiftUI it still makes a big difference.
Web search APIs can't present the full document due to copyright. They can only present the snippet contextual to the query.

I wrote my own implementation using various web search APIs and a puppeteer service to download individual documents as needed. It wasn't that hard but I do get blocked by some sites (reddit for example).
Part of the reason I’m so… enthusiastic… about tech debt is that I’ve worked a few times where we had a competitor whose lunch we were stealing or who was stealing ours and the ability or inability to copy features cheaply was substantially the difference between us.

That quad graph of value versus difficulty that everyone loves? It’s not quadrants it’s a gradient and the difficulty dimension depends quite a bit on context. What’s a 4 difficulty for me might be a 6 for someone else. Accidental versus intrinsic complexity plus similarity to or distinctions from things we have already done.
Of course, otherwise you get a Siberian Husky that hunts everything that moves, including chicken. It's only a dog only when 3 ft away.
Well, at least you can re-consinder in April, when the Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders begin. The new 13 inch is out now, though.
Strictly speaking, it's perfectly standard and you can subdivide it (manually). However, for a variety of reasons subnetting smaller than a /64 is difficult and not supported at all via SLAAC (because the host portion is derived from the MAC which is already 48 bits, plus other overhead). So if you want to split up a /64 from your ISP, you're limited to manual configuration, DHCPv6 (and no android support), or other ways:

https://version6.ru/en/dividing-the-indivisible

If you're just dealing with a single network at home, a /64 is otherwise fine. But there's a reason the recommended handout from ISPs is a /56; the inventors of IPv6 (or more specifically SLAAC) just didn't take into consideration how intransigent big telecoms would be.
That's true but YouTube has been a godsend. There's been some mid 2000s cars owned by family or friends I've helped them with (including a transmission swap) where we weren't able to get an entirely satisfactory answer from a service or repair manual but we were almost always able to find several hour videos of random guys on YouTube willing to talk their way through even fairly major jobs and even mention hangups/practical advice for doing it the way the manual wouldn't tell you to but will make the job easier in a home garage setting.