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> ...an investment that could improve life for billions of people.

This is the problem I have with startups/tech that intend to revolutionize farming: it's rarely to improve life for people, but rather to increase profits. Perhaps Ellison does, indeed, intend to use this farming tech to help bring food to hungry people around the world - and that would be great! But I'm skeptical; Larry's never struck me as an altruistic dude.
In 2023, only 64% of EU27 households had access to FttP (although 79% had access to gigabit-capable networks, and 93% to ‘next-gen’ networks (VDSL/DOCSIS 3/FttP)).

‘Gigabit connectivity for all by 2030’ is an EU policy goal.

Ref: Broadband Coverage in Europe 2023: Mapping progress towards the coverage objectives of the Digital Decade (2024). URL: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/digital-dec...
What is the most "diverse" word? Fewest seemingly etymologically related translations?

"girl" is my best so far
Not quite what you're describing, but no one has yet linked the classic Tom7 series where he applies deep learning to classic NES games: https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY
Bug zapper
What is your calculation?
You cant make a car not pollute. Even EV pollutes the local neighborhood. Ever notice how tires and the stains on the curbs and the black soot you wipe off the window sills are all the same color? How tires get bald? You are probably breathing tire right now. It is probably getting on your plate of food and you are eating tire.
I can't tell if people are being deliberately dense as a way of punishing me for having a critical opinion, not reading the rest of the comments before responding to me, or genuinely do not understand what I am getting at.

A hallmark of a nefarious email (particularly scams but some sales attempts) is that they aim to deceive you. Humans famously have the capability of lying. Someone telling me they are _not_ selling something or scamming me doesn't actually tell me what they want, and it does not provide me with enough information to know that they are not, in fact, scamming me. It just lets me know they don't want me to think I am being scammed.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or how many levels of irony you’re on here.

I don’t think you’re using “orthogonal” correctly. And the continual use of the ad populum fallacy doesn’t help your argument.
The trick, which is hard to do, is to get AT&T and Comcast to realize that they can serve the customers better and faster over your network.

But that involves negotiation and there can be lots of finger-pointing, so companies don't like it.
>electrons constantly scatter off the nuclei every which way, so it cancels out and doesn't create a net current

no, not because it's every which way.

it doesn't create net current because if, randomly, net charge moves in some direction, the resultant electric field will put pressure on the random movement to bring it back to equilibrium, 0.
Just another reason to consider oneself damaged goods, no big shot daddy and not being born a king.
They do have a good product, but "they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they can't move away" is the story of the place I worked at a few years ago. The database was such a disorganized, inconsistent mess that no-one had the stomach (or budget) to try and get off it.
As in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160512, the title is borderline, if not outright, lying - it is replacing the current fact-checking model with community notes, not getting rid of fact-checking entirely.
I'm happy you're working on this.

The best option I've found for my son (8yo) is this, but it's a little dry for a child: https://programming-25.mooc.fi/
Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states
You can always change the passwords. I was bringing this up as a solution to the default passwords issue. You don't want to have a static default password used by everyone, so you need the initial password to be randomized. People are dumb so you need to print it on the device. There is no need to default to cloud-based authentication to close the default password security hole.
Musk's deep ties to – and admiration for – China could complicate Beijing policy
DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live interview you are also getting tested for your communication, debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that turned out more helpful than I expected.

Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here, I'll send you an invite right after:

https://sphnx.dev

It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single interview?!).

We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems that are more similar to the actual software engineering work (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it).

We're generous with interview credits if you give us good feedback =)
Getting Perfectly Structured Data from LLMs
The worst part about this issue, is how does one look up what an icon doe, especially if it's difficult to describe.
Off topic, but I recently learned that "girl" in Middle or Old English originally referred to a child of either gender, and I believe only acquired its gender specific meaning in the late middle English or early modern period.
think from a perspective of laravel developer: your customer pays for delivered features, not for platform engineering/SRE/devops type of stuff
> A lot of people are going to sneer at this because they like seeing rich tech people fail, but I think it’s great that he’s trying something.

Is it? It feels like the same money could be given out to thousands of people who actually understand farming to run little experiments. That's how America is supposed to work. Relying on Larry Ellison to succeed in a field he has no experience or instincts by throwing money at it seems like a terrible strategy.
> easily calculate whether this is true or not

I don't know if I agree with GP but this is a subjective claim, no? You can pull out a bunch of metrics by which Laravel surpasses other frameworks, and some where they don't, but the call is going to either side by licking a thumb and sticking it in the air.
uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions
It's nearly impossible to prevent LLMs from hallucinating, which creates a significant reliability problem. Enterprise companies think, "Using agents could save me money, but if they do the job wrong, the damage outweighs the benefits." However, there's openness to using agents for non-customer-facing parts and non-critical tasks within the company.

The developers of an e-commerce infrastructure approached us because the format of manufacturer's files doesn't match their e-commerce site's Excel format, and they can't solve it with RPA due to minor differences. They asked if we could perform this data transformation reliably. After two weeks of development, we implemented a reliability layer in our open-source repository. The results were remarkable:

Pre-reliability layer: 28.75% accuracy (23/80 successful transfers)

Post-reliability layer: 98.75% accuracy (79/80 successful transfers)

At Upsonic, we use verifier agents and editor agents for this. We didn't expect such high success rates from the agents. I'm surprised by how common these data transformation tasks are. This could be a great vertical agent idea. Btw we use this source (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13946)
That's probably because it's not so good as a building non-entry system.
A.K.A. Elmo?
Welcome to Hacker News.

Defaulting to kindness, curiosity, and respect will help you get heard. I read the code included version of this comment and it seemed you had some potentially interesting contributions to add to the conversation.
I'd like to do this but I need some more hardware.
I'm thinking to buy a Mikrotik hAP Ax3 Router WiFi 6 or a more expensive Turris Omnia or MOX... The standard home routers doesn't have those features!
After reading a bunch of stuff as result of this, I think you are the most correct. Difference in performance on different frameworks seems to be more like philosophical rather than practical.

It is enough that your website has just a couple of images, comparison of the "shipping size" of the runtime bundling becomes rather meaningless. It is the same for initial latency for showing the rendered content.

These frameworks were designed for heavy sites, and their "base speed" becomes irrelevant. If you understand how do they work and use them correctly, there shouldn't be that much difference. Assuming, that we use JavaScript on client-side in the end.
The 2021 announcement works out to $86B per year.
The 2025 announcement works out to $125B per year.

In my mind that’s a pretty substantial increase.
"Banging it out over a weekend" is much easier when it's preceded by months of requirements-gathering and architecture design by osmosis.
I'm trying a new take on the ubiquitous habit tracker app - one that tracks your daily habits but also tracks rating your day on multiple axes (enthusiasm, engagement, overall mood, etc). The idea is to correlate behaviors and outcomes in a way that provides insight into what could potentially trigger good or bad days. It's also an excuse for me to break out of backend web dev land and learn Vue.js and everything I need to know to actually build and host a web app.
The 25th Amendment provides no mechanism for dealing with a rogue President, per se, its only contribution in that context is to clarify what happens if Congress has already successfully impeached said rogue President and removed him — and let’s be frank, history implies it’ll be a him, and very likely this him — from the Oval Orifice.

But yes, broadly speaking, all three coequal branches factually being rogue is a much bigger problem.

Real shame when the will of the people is to shoot themselves in the head.

Again.
The value of the stock going up doesn't mean everyone makes money. Everybody's stuff is worth more on paper, but they can't convert it to money unless they sell it, which means someone else had to buy it and convert their money into stock. The total amount of money remains constant.

I didn't mean to imply that those two factors are negligible. Only that they're not part of "trading," i.e. trading is zero-sum but these make the system as a whole not zero-sum. I was responding to "Pension funds, banks, HFT firms can all make money while trading with each other." Which suggests that you don't need other things for everyone to make money, it can happen purely by trading.
Wifi password != admin password. The admin password should be random and then you can change it when you take ownership of the device.
I Built CostumePlayAI: Virtual Fashion Try-On and Catalog Generation Using Flux
One attempt to do that (in CA) picked a not-great corridor, and hasn't done much in a decade. It's really turned people off it, even if there are much better places to try.
This sort of thing has been known for a while -- it falls under the category of "mycorrhiza". Indeed, the Wikipedia entry on that refers to a whole article dedicated to orchids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_mycorrhiza
I upvote good things even if i dont read because i dont want to spend all my energy reacting to trash politics posts. cut away bad, promote good
Working on SEO automation agent. For years, understanding and interpreting analytics and combining it with SEO best practices have been a challenge.

We built an agent that can make sense of your website, understand how it renders on search engines, its weak points and strengths. You get actionable advice that can make a huge difference in search visibility, often taking less than an hour to implement changes.

https://nightwatch.io/seo-ai-agent/
That's exactly what we're doing next. Now that we have control over the content we're building some agents to promote and expand our reach with the content. It's all super easy and we're not sitting behind people that slow the process down.
The OP/researcher looks fine. They tried twice to help someone who would eventually prove they didn't deserve they help. They then, after being disrespected, still upheld all the ethical requirements from a security researcher, redacting sensitive information. The CEO looks like a twat waffle, but the researcher is clean, and just looks like someone intolerant of overt disrespect. Being willing to stand up to bullies is admirable, not disheartening.
> I'm simply trying to say the researcher would have more pleasant interactions with the people they email if they helped the person understand what they _do_ want out of the interaction instead of just saying they aren't being scammed. If the researcher placed themselves in the shoes of the CEO, they could understand why the CEO responded that way. That's not the same thing as thinking the CEO _should_ have responded that way. I am also not letting the researcher off the hook for responding to the CEOs response the way they did.
Did you miss this bit from the article:

> The email was read by someone, I assume the CEO, and less than an hour after it was sent, I could not connect to the exposed server anymore.

This was after the author’s first email, and before the CEOs reply.

What tptacek was getting at is that the article is a bit unclear on when the review of DB contents occurred, since the author no longer had access. (But I think it’s just because the author reviewed the contents already before they reported the issue.)
Looks very cool! Wiz is a beast at the moment so I will be watching closely to see if you (or anyone else really) will be able to go up against them
My father is, yes. I think he still uses his old Powerbook G4 with the old 30" cinema display for that website. He also has an ancient version of photoshop on there, hah.

He also has a bunch of wordpress websites. He's scared to change his "main" website because it might break SEO or bookmarks or incoming links.

He has 2 laptops on his desks; one modern M-based macbook and that ancient powerbook. He also has a black apple laptop that I think is a G3, and it still worked (a few years ago, last time it came up)
we were hungry so we decided to discuss this philosophically over a pasta lunch, but we deadlocked with our forks and that dispute kept us from our main topic
That could be, but could be other way around. I would swear much, much more in my native language compared to English. You never know, maybe Linus always tuned it down.
The site also says (at the bottom) that it grabbed the translations from Google Translate back in 2014 and hasn't updated them since.
A long time ago, I used NetBeans for everything, including Ruby.

At some point, the Ruby plugin was killed off though. Anyone know if they brought it back?
There are a bunch of things that still are language or language architecture specific.

How you do manage web servers and starting / stopping processes

Traditionally, PHP/Ruby/Python have had a process per request model but even then, how these processes are started and what memory is shared between requests is different

node.js when deployed on a server allowed one process to serve many requests through the use of the event loop but this has changed with the use AWS Lambda (one process per request) which has opened up more efficient approaches (cloudflare workers)

How do you manage database connections or other shared resources
PHP and Laravel expect certain types of things (i.e. db connections) to be long running. How do you deal with scaling up/down your servers in this world?

Laravel has it's own ORM with it's own apis. Can these APIs be improved to allow things to be more easily scaled?

vercel

I think vercel has shown that a tight integration between React and Infrastructure can provide a lot of value to many types of teams. I would expect the same types of benefits could exist for laravel/php!
How about flying the jet 5 minutes to another airfield in the same city?
There could be another LLM that moderates your history of questions and if it finds a link between multiple questions that culminate in bomb making it can issue you a warning and put your name on a list.
I flagged it for this reason.
For anyone else reading this wondering how it is hedge funds can fail spectacularly, this is why...

People get enamored by theory but forget that the theory depends on subtle details and preconditions that often don't apply in the real world, and end up coming to conclusions that are sound on paper but will not hold up in reality.

You are not guaranteed a draw in poker if you play optimally, you can still lose. It is true that being unexploitable and playing optimally yields a expectation of at least 0 (assuming no rake/fee), but expectation over an infinite number of trials is not the same as guaranteeing a draw.

There is also variance, which can cause sufficient losses in the short run and given that in the real world people only have a finite amount of resources with which to participate, a sufficiently high variance can knock you out of the competition before you ever get a chance to realize the benefit of a long term positive (or even zero) expectation.
> PS. there are many other treatments that doctors may give you before reaching for the big guns; those can be very effective too.

Further, everyone reacts differently to different treatments. It's very, very common to need to try several things out (or even come back to things in different combos) to find the one that works best for you.

Heck, sometimes during the course of treatment a drug that didn't previously work for you will start working as intended.
I went digging in W3C archives to find relevant discussions. There are 4 reserved target names: _blank, _parent, _self, _top.

- 1995 Sept https://web.archive.org/web/19990202141025/http://home.mcom.... Netscape Navigator 2.0a2 release notes including rollout of TARGET.

- 1995 Sept https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1995Sep/0034.h... First definition of them; spec text provided by "the Netscape Navigator marketing guy".

- 1997 Jan https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/ HTML 3.2 published without frame target names specced.

- 1997 Aug https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1997Aug/0010.h... Roles of these target names clarified

- 1997 Dec https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#h-6.16 HTML 4.0 published with target names.

I can't find any discussion about the choice of character. My guess is that discussion was internal to Netscape as they shipped _then_ specced link target names.
I'd suggest never starting any story with the first 6 words used in this article.
How is MongoDB still a thing when there's already several ways to handle json in Postgres including Microsofts new documentdb extension:

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...

What am I missing? Are Mongo users simply front end folks who didn't have time to learn basic SQL or back end architecture?
I don't think that's very persuasive. Targeted compromise of iPhones is incredibly expensive, and relatively hard for mere criminals to access. If that's the only way for a bad actor to access your data, you've instantly taken everyone but the most wildly sophisticated (and wealthy) criminals and state actors off the table.

Meanwhile iCloud backups are available not only to sophisticated folks who can compromise Apple's servers, but also to anyone who can social-engineer a password recovery flow or bribe an Apple customer service agent.

Second, re: CSAM, the iCloud ADP system is focused on backing up your personal devices. It is not designed to share data with other users. So a criminal can have CSAM on their phone and simply turn off iCloud Backup (and thus be "invisible") or they can use ADP. The two things are equivalent, and both assume a sophisticated user. I'm sure there's some bizarre and painful scheme where you could use ADP to distribute CSAM to other folks, but there are many easier ways to do that. Once you grant the CSAM point, you're just saying it's necessary for all personal device data to be constantly available for search by the government. (And while I disagree with that opinion, it is an opinion and should be fully fleshed out.)
They could open an international arrest warrant. So you can't travel at all.
I think 98% of the "plausible deniability" folks know it was a nazi salute; they just dont care because they are happy about the destruction of the federal government.
Towing my car to an impound lot and ransoming it back to me... is that not theft?
I second this. Just because it feels right to them as "I've reported it, It's not on me anymore...", doesn't mean he should enable bored people to revoke access cards, jam elevators, etc.
I think the idea is that farm subsidies potentially being cut would make land available. That would take time.
Enterprise sales
It makes perfect sense for Laravel specifically, because both the framework itself and the entire ecosystem around it are aimed at the kind of developer who just wants to ship the minimum viable product as fast as humanly possible, without any regard for things like long-term maintenance, vendor lock-in, infrastructure costs, etc.
How to Keep Sensitive Data Out of Your Logs: 9 Best Practices
Do you think Big Tech will go down when it does or will it further consolidate and centralize power?
> What actually happened is that the people who wanted to do the research (and/or pay for the research) dried up. C won hearts and minds; Fran Allen (and you) are lamenting that the side you preferred lost.

Eh, sort of. The rise of C is partially wrapped up in the rise of general-purpose hardware, which eviscerates the demand for optimizers to take advantage of the special capabilities of hardware. An autovectorizer isn't interesting if there's no vector hardware to run it on.

But it's also the case that when Java became an important language, there was a renaissance in many advanced optimization and analysis techniques. For example, alias analysis works out to be trivial in C--either you obviously prove they don't alias based on quite local information, or your alias analysis (no matter how much you try to improve its sensitivity) gives up and conservatively puts it in the everything-must-alias pile; there isn't much a middle ground.
Show HN: Free AI Mobile App Generator
Hi HN

About three weeks ago, I was playing around with the popular app generation tools, but at the time, none of the major platforms supported mobile app gen. So I thought it would be a fun weekend project to build such a tool. Since then, a number of tools for app gen have been released. But I thought it would still be fun to release what I worked on. Here's Bfloat. It's free. Lmk what you think. It's currently supported by OpenAI credits. Otherwise, let me know what could be improved.

Currently, the app is not designed to be responsive, so it's best used on larger screens like laptops and desktops.

To use, just prompt with an app idea.
Ditto! Immich development has also been pretty steady
Isn't PCP the only protocol of these 3 that can reconfigure IPv6 firewall?
The real reason it hasn't happened is because the vast majority of the USA has "good enough" Internet service.

As long as Netflix works, and email sends, people don't care too much.

WE love symmetric gigabits and spend all day downloading and uploading Linux ISOs, but the average American doesn't.

Even in places, like where I am, where fiber has appeared, it hasn't really changed how people use the Internet.

Or to put it another way, there's not yet been a killer app for symmetric gigabit connections, so there's not a terrible amount of demand.
Bill Gates also lost money on greenhouses [0][1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/bill-gates-green-tech-fun...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/iron-ox-lays-off-50-amount...