skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“and in return watch your passion get crushed by entitled users who are never satisfied” is absolutely not unique to open source software. Both free but not open tools & services and commercial ones, suffer the same fate. To quote H2G2:

> To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

The issue is human nature, from two directions:

1. Some people expect the moon on a stick, and will be arseholes if they do not get it.

2. Some people are far too giving, to the detriment of their own sanity, and generally realise they are doing this to themselves when it is too late, beyond the point where just stepping back a little bit is sufficient to help the situation.

It isn't a new thing either:

I had some software out there decades ago, back when shareware was a thing. The free version did everything but left a small watermark, so people could fully test it before paying or just keep using it for free if they didn't care about the watermark. I gave it up because dealing with people simply wasn't worth it, and it wasn't those that paid who were the issue: the real arseholes were those who hadn't. For instance, some of them took “if you don't like it, or find my need to eat/sleep/study makes my free support response too slow for you, maybe use something else?” as a direct personal attack on their rights & freedoms. Given how much more nasty the net is today compared to the relatively nice & naive times back then I hate to think what project maintainers get now. When I gave it up I first stopped taking payments (but kept supporting those that had already paid), then released it Open Source (GPL IIRC) and a couple of people jumped on and tried to make a thing of it, but those projects quickly faded as those people didn't have time and/or couldn't put up with the people either, after which I declared it public domain and let my online copies of it die when I moved ISP soon after.

I got out quick, before it became too stressful, but some end up sinking more and more time into things instead.
A truly disgusting display by everyone involved. Only a sad, sorry person would ever consider using technology like this.
I did actually. I created a custom dashboard with basic stats of type of calls ran, how many calls were run by each station, how many were EMS and how many were fire calls.

Then I started doing some more automation stuff. Nothing super interesting and mostly bespoke stats gathering.
Reintroduce.... grizzlies? I know the wolf reintroduction was beneficial, but wolves have killed a grand total of 2 humans in north america in the 21st century. Grizzlies, in contrast, have 11 kills in half a decade (2020- 2025). That's an order of magnitude higher of the danger each one poses, so I'm curious if the grizzly reintroduction yaysayer arguments are using wolve reintroduction as a positive example.
> Musk has been killing it in EVs

This is a good example of Silver’s argument. Tesla’s EV production is the best in the West. Yet sales and values are plunging across it because of his politics [1][2]. (Meanwhile, his distraction in the Cybertruck gave BYD and other Chinese brands the opening they needed outside it, and that’s before round two of the trade war’s predictable effects on Tesla land.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-26/tesla-sal...

[2] https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends/Tesla-m112
The open source Unixes were tied up in license wars right at the moment Linux became stable.
also, https://marta.sh/
'Consider Phlebas' Series Set at Amazon from Charles Yu and Chloé Zhao
Open Source DeepResearch
As of now—literally today they announced—OpenAI gives 10 queries of Deep Research per month for Plus users. I wanted to create an alternative, so I took inspiration from this repository https://github.com/dzhng/deep-research but didn’t want to pay for the Firecrawl API too. Instead, I used algorithm from that repository. Here’s the result: https://github.com/jolovicdev/shandu. It’s still rough around the edges—things like proxy support for rate limits aren’t fully implemented yet—but it’s functional! You can try it out with a model you’re running in LM Studio. I’m not entirely sure if this is the best way to build something like this (arch wise, especially since I haven’t worked with LangChain or LangGraph), but here it is - built with a little help from Grok and DeepSeek!

Compared to dzhng/deep-research, which relies on the Firecrawl API (and its costs), Shandu skips that entirely and uses the same core algorithm in a simpler, free setup (integrated scraper). It’s less polished and missing some features (like proper rate limit handling), but it’s a lightweight option you can run locally without subscriptions.

I’d love for you to check it out, maybe give it a star if you like it, or drop some feedback if you’ve got suggestions, because there are probably some community tools that I could have used, or some other direction generally. I think it’s a solid starting point.
I found this (https://spdx.org/licenses/) which seems to include if it's OSI approved or not (so I guess the assumption is that it was rejected by OSI if it isn't approved, but could be pending also).

Then I came across this (https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/open-source-initiative...) which says (in 2023) that OSI is adding "Rejected, Approved, Preferred" categories to their labeling system, but I don't find the results of this work, if it was implemented.
Try Qt themes, they're binaries compiled from C++ code :)
Curiously, someone on reddit noticed suspicious changes in this extension 7 months ago [1]. Obfuscation in open source is usually an extreme red flag. Microsoft really needs to rethink their security model for vs code extensions. It has simply become way too profitable to target given whatever they are doing against it. For every dev they ban 10 will come with new malicious extensions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1eq40o2/has_the_mat...
This is a somewhat idealistic/naive view. If your project is even mildly successful and you get motivated to keep contributing to it more and more and form a strong community soon the leechers arrive. They start demanding more and more for literally nothing in return under the pretence that it's in the best interest of the project to add the features they want and to accelerate development.

It soon becomes exhausting to deal with them on a regular basis while still feeling good about contributing. People are faster to demand rather than appreciate and you start wondering what the point of all this is.

So yes, if you end up painting something that's like a high school project, sure, it's easy to leave it on the wall and not care. But if your painting starts getting displayed in galleries and there's a little "demand" for it, everything becomes a headache.
Whats the difference between Claude Code and Aider?
I did the following (it might help you too):
1. Close VS Code
2. Go to `C:\Users\USER\.vscode\extensions`
3. Delete the folder with that extension
4. Open extensions.json, find and delete the block related to that extension, then save the file
5. That’s it
> Is it? How?

They violate in a different way. /s
The manned space program was entirely political, so complaining about politicization is hilarious.

Apollo was a national potlatch. It was "look how rich and successful capitalism is; we can put 4% of the federal budget into a pile and set it on fire, we're so good." Spinoffs are an unjustifiable myth. To the extent we can know, they'd have occurred anyway (ICs, for example). The most important thing to remember about Apollo is we didn't go back, which is clear evidence it wasn't needed. But to a true space fan, like a true communist, space programs can never fail, they can only be failed.
I thought it was an interesting article, so I shared it here.
It can display logs in-context. Awesome!
It’s unbelievably lazy how everyone is suddenly an expert on bald eagles.
> assuming I was still alive, I would, at a minimum, sue the shit out of that security researcher.

If you wanted to stay alive you'd be wise to think twice about going after people who go out of their way to inform you that the security you are dependent on is not doing its job. You'd be much better off instead going after the company who was negligent enough to create the system with such obvious flaws or the landlord who subjected you to it without even bothering to read the manual.

The alternative is that researches will stop telling the public when they aren't safe and you stay ignorant while some attacker spends the 15 minutes it takes to find and try the default password.

The person who disclosed this was right to get the information out as widely as possible as quickly as possible because, as you said, some people are likely depending on those locks for their safety. Thankfully everyone who learns that this product has made them vulnerable can now take measures to protect themselves accordingly.

We'd probably agree that there could have been better ways to disclose this, ways that made it instantly clear that this product was putting people in danger, while also not making quite as easy for others to repeat the attack, but in this case you can bet that trying the default password was going to be high on the list of things people would try anyway. I think it's extremely unlikely that this security researcher was the first it.

The most important thing is letting as many people as possible learn about their risk so that vulnerable people can protect themselves ASAP and so that the negligent company/landlord feels a lot of pressure to fix the situation as quickly as possible. If you make security researchers think twice about doing that you'll only allow yourself/others to come to harm. Ignorance really isn't always bliss.
Before Trump, Bush II burned the moral goodwill America had after WWII and the Cold War. After Iraq in particular the US can no longer claim to stand for the systems of international law it helped create.

Now Trump is burning alliances and soft power and threatening to burn the dollar.

It seems like imploding the postwar order and the US position therein is a right wing goal.
”The skills the recruiter alluded to were her journalism experience — her professional writing, research, and fact-checking abilities”

Anyone want to tell them?
Rollbar has a feature to upload JavaScript sourcemaps files. When I am viewing logs from minified js files, it automatically apply sourcemaps and correctly shows line number.

Is there any open source tool that does the same?
> a dystopia

i think this part gave people the impression that you meant that doing something "for nobody" (eg. for your own joy) was somehow bad/malevolent
I saw this talk in person, and I liked so much it inspired to spend four years doing a PhD in automated theorem proving.

As things stand, I'm starting one this October!
That's covered by

> I did a thorough combing of the code base when I forked. Just did another audit and still not seeing anything suspicious.
Programming Is Simple Mathematics
Open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi for Nerves
Or the not too uncommon "dismiss".
Can you say more about the type of work? How big are those repositories? Thanks
That’s what I was referring to in the first sentence: you can see the raw text from the speech system change afterwards. Normally that’s things like punctuation and ambiguous words like their/they’re. That secondary process felt like a system which operates on test tokens because “racist” and “Mamaroneck” don’t sound similar at all.
Ok, what FlashAttention changes is space complexity: from O(N^2) to O(N). Time complexity is still ~O(N^2) as with standard Self-Attention.

In other words, optimizes practical runtime through I/O reduction without altering asymptotic complexity
Falsehoods programmers believe about filenames #1: Filenames are text and can be represented in common text encodings.

> Windows was an early adopter of Unicode, and its file APIs use UTF‑16 internally since Windows 2000

Wrong. Windows uses WTF-16 [0] despite what the documentation says.

[0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#ill-formed-utf-16
DeepSeek Implements Off-Peak Discount Pricing
It is violent, but intent is everything.

Blowing up a building because you're a mobster, and you're "sending a message", is different from a demolition crew doing the same to make way for a new building.

You should really rethink what you're saying. An act is a wholesome, contextualize thing. It does not live in a vacuum.

By your measure, a sexual predator grabbing a woman's vagina and a doctor examing a female patient are identical.

This is a broken mental map of the world.
Update: can edit any existing plan
You mean Ireland?
> The codebase is available on GitHub (github.com/Swiftgum/swiftgum), so you can review, fork, or run Swiftgum on-prem for total control. No black boxes—you see exactly how data is ingested, transformed, and secured. Ingest & Normalize Any Document

In your docs, the first point of running on-prem is to contact you, why is that? I understand the enterprise offering, but shouldn't that be an option rather than first point?

https://swiftgum.mintlify.app/getting-started/installation#2...
Org was designed for being a PKM-like system. Markdown was designed for README.md. It doesn't mean that you cant use either for the other task, but Obsidian for example had to modify markdown significantly, to add support for tags, math, etc.

It's just a shame that org format works really well only in emacs.
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Reference for the later part?
They are now evading the ban by rebranding the extension to "Fanny Theme": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fanny.vs...
I have to admit, it's one of my guilty pleasures to tell people "no" when they ask for unreasonable things from me. Haven't had the luck of managing a large open source project, but the prospect of saying "no" to an overwhelming stream of demands excites me.
I suspect you're right here! Excited to get our hands on the non-distilled o3. :)
The ads will just become either bulk misinformation or carefully worded data points that nudge the AI towards a more favourable view of the product being sold.
Cost of living never goes down if productivity is going up
Yes. There was just recently a post about a person who got his life saved by chatGPT reading his blood results and saying "ER. NOW." Would that Medical result PDF be anonymized here? Stripping PI from random pdfs, sounds like a very nontrivial problem.

What if, instead of random internet person, some celebrity asks Chatgpt about some spicy Medical results? Would the journalist reviewing the logs resist the temptation of "accidentally finding the test results in a garbage bin"?

What I read here, is "don't discuss with chatgpt anything you wouldn't be comfortable becoming public knowledge.".
> Architecture professors have focused on “innovation” for 100 years and have achieved little.

The issue is that architecture is not a science. It has nothing to do with the past 100 years. There is simply, to date, no solid theoretical foundation that can inform design. Corbu made a lame attempt in his early phase to establish a set of axioms, and that didn't work out.

So the search in the past 100 years wasn't entirely based on "innovation". The field is searching for something resembling a theoretical framework.

> So the whole profession has failed, since about the introduction of the Bauhaus.

This is a reactionary statement. There are numerous amazing works of architecture from the 20th. And your dragging in Bauhaus indicates you actually are not well read in the history of modern architecture. (This negative fascination with bauhaus carries a strong whiff of the National Socialist Germany, btw ..)

> In survey after survey, 80% of the people prefer traditional over modern(ist) designs.

Well, Architecture (contra building design) is high art. It is not for the unwashed. 80% of the people also prefer drivel for their cultural fare.
From the Ofcom regulations (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...):

> 1.17 A U2U service is exempt if the only way users can communicate on it is by posting comments or reviews on the service provider’s own content (as distinct from another user’s content).

A blog is only exempt if users communicate to the blogpost author, on the topic of the blogpost. If they comment on each other, or go off-topic, then the blog is not exempt.

That's why that exemption is basically useless. Anyone can write "hey commenter number 3 i agree commenter number 1's behaviour is shocking" and your exemption is out the window.
I think the strongest indicator a species will survive extinction and thrive is "appears as a drawing on the rear of millions of nationally worshipped pieces of paper".

I wonder if for example publishing a naked mole rat stamp in some extremely large quantity would have some kind of effect on conservation (if they happened to be vulnerable to habitat loss).
having 25 years of body of work is incredibly inspiring. i have been blogging irregularly since... 2004? but sadly some is lost to time before like 2009 or 2011. i definitely want to get back to it again more.
> They're YC-backed. Was there no one to advise them on the "cultural difference"?

When they talk about money, the "cultural difference" doesn't matter. /s
Experts weigh in on Microsoft's topological qubit claim
I have seen the same in private corporations. Consultancies made made out like bandits, the company was left more dysfunctional then before.

Goverment is bad is act of faith on the conservatives. They intentionally sabotage it and then claim it can not deliver. You just literally described how small goverment claim was used as a vehicle for corruption.
Qubes OS doesn't run on any "fully capable x86 desktop".
It's based on Xen and hardware virtualization. There are very few desktop computers recommended to run Qubes [0]. Does Framework support suspend on Qubes? If it works, it could become popular in the Qubes Community.

[0] https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/community-recommended-computers...
Thanks for the explanation. I don't agree with your point that postfix is easier; maybe it's because most people are not used to thinking in postfix. It can be faster and easier for computers, but we build software for people, and it increases cognitive load on the users.

It might be fewer keystrokes, but I feel for most people, the difference in keystrokes doesn't justify the cognitive load it adds.
Link to your app?
Naturally, by “everything there is to know” I meant within the confines of what’s possible to know
These things are relatively physically demanding if your baseline is sitting at a desk.

But hammering a rod into the ground for 15 minutes, or holding some weight over your head, or carrying weight in your toolbag are not things that break your body down; they build your body up.
But the critical question: will sinking our nation, cratering our economy, and destroying our privileged position in the world also own the libs?
*According to base reality
Good question! Swiftgum is fully open-source, and you can absolutely run it on-prem without contacting us. The "contact us" mention in the docs is meant for enterprise users who may need support or custom integrations. But if you're comfortable self-hosting, you can spin it up directly from our GitHub repo: github.com/Swiftgum/swiftgum.
I will try my best to resist the temptation ;)
A government declaring a curfew (for any reason) is a bad thing, IMO, but I may be projecting a bit - how are people from Chile responding? I’m sure they’re not happy about the outage, but does the curfew etc. seem reasonable to them?
> Markdown should not do diagrams/math etc.

Fine. But in that case, markdown is the wrong tool for blogging and documentation. I want to write rich and interesting content. Markdown is anaemic.
Any official US government foreign policy statements and stances became irrelevant in past month. Even russians struggle to change their internal narratives when trump within week switches from 'ukraine caused the war itself' to 'russia caused the war', then back, then to XYZ, and they specifically are very... flexible with official truths.

Its really the mood of the given day of one man, known for his wild emotional swings which rule most if not all of his decisions. Everybody understood the game quickly, leading people on all sides are not stupid in these matters. The rest are just official PR statements 'to keep face'.
My next car is a quarter pounder
Thanks, I appreciate it! :D I'm planning on making many more, and hoping as I get better I can make little ascii-characters look as if they're interacting with the site

https://github.com/freesiagaul/site-ascii
The code is super bare-bones for now, but it's been a great learning exercise for someone from an EE background
Which in today’s days of remote work, management may actually like.

You may have hit on a carrot.
In case it helps someone: my Framework had rapid battery drain in suspend. Around 10% per hour.

Turns out the Samsung EVO NVMe I installed had really high power draw (I guess it's meant for performance desktops?). I replaced it with a WD Blue and now I lose negligible power while suspended.
Google killed journalism years ago. It was once a well compensated, high prestige job with nice perks. The recruits should get the money while they can.

I've been very disappointed by the MSM over the last 15 years, but I think a good portion of this disappointment can be attributed to the talent pool drying up.
We shouldn't put too much stock in what the OSI thinks open source is, since it's a consortium of big tech companies who benefit from more permissive licensing.
> they are generally unhappy about this state of affairs, seeing it as an act of economic coercion from the US

Welcome to how rest of the world feels like now
Aider is python. Claude code is closed source and this is open source and typescript.
Pre-redirect modal is back.