skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very unlikely for two people to die like that at the same time without some common factor. Add a dog and the probability becomes even crazier.

The evidence doesn't show any foul play but the probabilities and unlikelihoods do.
Got it. Thanks for the reply and clarification.
Show HN: Redflag – A lightweight secret scanner with Git history support
Redflag is a fast and efficient secret scanning tool I built as a passion project for fun.

It helps developers identify sensitive information accidentally committed to their codebases. I designed it to be lightweight, easy to use, and powerful enough for CI/CD integration.

Key Features:
Comprehensive scanning: Detects API keys, tokens, credentials, and other secrets using regex patterns and entropy analysis
Git history support: Scans not just current files but also git history with branch selection and date range filtering
Intuitive output: Color-coded results with severity levels (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
Performance optimized: Fast scanning with git commit caching and efficient file traversal
Highly configurable: Customize patterns, exclusions, and scanning behavior via TOML config
Multiple output formats: Human-readable text and JSON/SARIF for CI/CD integration

Why I built it:
This started as a weekend hobby project to solve my own needs. After trying several secret scanning tools, I found most were either too heavyweight, lacked git history support, or were difficult to customize. I wanted to create something simple yet powerful that I'd enjoy using myself - fast enough for local development but comprehensive enough for security audits.

Tech stack:
Built in Rust for performance and cross-platform compatibility. Available as pre-built binaries for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Try it out and let me know what you think! Contributions welcome, especially new detection patterns and process improvements (total Rust noob)
disagree.

I saw a couple of manky looking mongrels looking dodgy at my local park.

you know what I mean, casually sniffing each others arses then looking around to make sure no one saw them. Very dodgy.

I did think at the time "They must be the culprits of spreading the flu" just simply because they looked dodgy.
much more cost effective to have someone who understands who to talk to about what rather than stumbling about
Sometimes the moderators will effectively boost a post that they think is interesting so it gets more views.
My leading guess would be that Pornhub made some technical change to what titles were allowed or promoted, for who-knows-what reason. One possible guess would be that they simply started to promote titles with more descriptors, or more uncommon descriptors, in an attempt to get an easy boost to search specificity.

The timing is wrong for SESTA/FOSTA, and if SESTA/FOSTA was the reason for Pornhub making a change, even in anticipation, then it seems strange for Pornhub to intentionally make a change that would tend to emphasize titles that would increase political heat.

[On edit: ... and as I said, the "professionalization" hypothesis might also have legs as something that happened in response to an ID crackdown... but that wouldn't have to be related to SESTA/FOSTA, and would have had to happen before passage.]
You could word it differently. Why not mention it?

It is separate problem if runtime assets are missing and the game is not actually a game without them or gives an error message. Let's also assume that you can bypass DX dependencies with other means.

The current wording sounds like binaries are always proprietary, no matter what.
I worked in an IoT platform that consisted of 3 embedded CPUs and one linux board. The kicker was that the linux board could only talk directly to one of the chips, but had to be capable of updating the software running on all of them.

That platform was parallelizable of up to 6 of its kind in a master-slave configuration (so the platform in the physical position 1 would assume the "master role" for a total of 18 embedded chips and 6 linux boards) on top of having optionally one more box with one more CPU in it for managing some other stuff and integrating with each of our clients hardware. Each client had a different integration, but at least they mostly integrated with us, not the other way around.

Yeah it was MUCH more complex than your average cloud. Of course the original designers didn't even bother to make a common network protocol for the messages, so each point of communication not only used a different binary format, they also used different wire formats (CAN bus, Modbus and ethernet).

But at least you didn't need to know kubernetes, just a bunch of custom stuff that wasn't well documented. Oh yeah and don't forget the boot loaders for each embedded CPU, we had to update the bootloaders so many times...

The only saving grace is that a lot of the system could rely on the literal physical security because you need to have physical access (and a crane) to reach most of the system. Pretty much only the linux boards had to have high security standards and that was not that complicated to lock down (besides maintaining a custom yocto distribution that is).
And do what exactly? Sanctions against the EU for not allowing social media poison while at the same time banning Chinese social media?
I think this marks the first time EA have open-sourced a videogame, a welcome development.
As a developer of STEP, I wish BIM was used less.
"in the context of religious or political discourse around transgenderism."

I'm not sure what that exactly the ramifications of that is. Maybe the meaning changes dramatically with that?
Oh I understand that. I’m not saying it’s factually incorrect, just that it is misleading. These articles are trying to suggest there is some kind of dissent from within but that’s not really what this is.
Using a lightweight PWA (progressive web app) is also an option: https://FreeSolitaire.win (self-plug).

Doesn’t generate unwinnable games[1] & detects dead-ends. Works offline after the first visit. No ads until game over, and they aren’t obtrusive.

Often lauded on HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972075 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031052.

1: The probability that a random deal is unwinnable is ~20%. Wikipedia has a section on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)#Probabili...
I think the bigger issues for independent platforms are 1) bad actors and 2) people staying on big platforms.

Bad content is more than a legal issue. If you have a public forum, you don't want people publicly posting hate and gore, being creepy, and DM-ing others threats. Your viewers will see hate/gore/creeps/threats, leave your site, tell others not to visit, and if the content is bad enough be scarred. You will be scarred. Your site will become filled with awful people. Then there's the issue of spam, which you must block simply because it will use up all your site's resources.

But even with those issues, there are many, many independent platforms that exist today. The problem is that most of them are quiet. Why would someone post on a tiny forum, since almost nobody would read it? Most people don't, they either write in their journal, or post in a big forum where they're more likely to get attention.

I think reachability specifically is the biggest issue, because you can make a forum invite-only, and this effectively reduces the amount of bad content to whatever you can manage (too overwhelmed? Invite less people). But people are even less likely to get an invitation to a forum, even if it's as simple as sending an email.

When I think of creating a forum, I worry about strongly-worded emails from the law-enforcement and/or my hosting-provider. But I don't worry about prosecution, I worry about the emotional toll of just seeing those letters, the emotional toll of seeing the content, the effort of finding and removing it, and the effort of blocking (mundane) spam. Even then I'd still host a forum if I expected it to become popular, but I expect it to become deserted.
Who Did the Work?
Building the future of financial analysis, powered by OpenAI's reasoning models
Of course. Just like we're talking about simply building a data center on the moon
A location would be helpful
Judging by their passion for the project, I imagine just the idea of releasing it was stressful.
Where are the assets for openra coming from? I guess those could be used in a fork of this?
I vaguely remember that :)

It's progressed in the sense of like, the Unsafe Code Guidelines and opsem teams are hammering down the exact semantics still, and have made a lot of progress. I'm not aware of any actual optimization work taking place off of it yet, which would make sense given that it's not all fully hammered out yet.

I also might have been handwaving towards how restrict kept having to be turned off because it was broken, meaning very few C or C++ codebases seem to use it at all, whereas virtually every Rust reference has it on. It's been back on for a while now.
Venv or no Venv, you can use pip. Asking people to have an additional requirement on uv is unreasonable, although I do prefer using it now myself.
/active is the only way to roll these days
There's no such thing as philosophical mistake because there's no correct philosophy.
No example of such a crackpot is given. The author just claims this without evidence. I've heard this sort of argument before but it's not very clear what it refers to.
I had a formative experience fairly early in my career where I had the privilege of working closely with a team geographically located in mainland China - there was a culture shock, but it opened my eyes to this kind of thing and how different engineering cultures can be, even within the same company. I appreciate these differences, but I guess my original comment was mostly expressing what disdain I have for the work environment it sounds like the person who wrote the blog post exists in. It makes me so miserable.
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> elegantly

There is a distinct lack of elegance in the HTTP/2 protocol. It's exceptionally complex and it has plenty of holes in it. That it simply does a job does not earn it "elegant."
I am not a trillion dollar mega Corp. I am not using my employer's products to push my political beliefs.

You're mixing up accidental mistakes with intestinal sabotage.

If you hired a contractor to paint your house and he painted your house but added graffiti saying "Donald Trump is racist" wouldn't you fire them and ask for compensation?
I'm sure this group of mostly far-right weirdos are definitely NOT going to approach the question of "Why don't women want to have more kids?" and end up with something that resembles the Handmaid's Tale. Absolutely not.
Yeah, working on a game myself and ... sometimes you just gotta do stuff like that.

Working on a game solo requires juggling several wildly different disciplines at the same time. Sometimes you're in "game designer" mode, you need to fix a bug or add a feature, and you bonk in the caveman thing that obviously works.

Solo gamedev is basically the "startups should accumulate technical debt" meme on steroids. As long as you can understand the code, nobody cares about how it looks. Only how the game plays.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me feedback. I'm not sure which version of the game you played, I'll assume it's the v3. There are unlocks, tied to the total score accumulated. "Double ball and more multipliers" are unlockable upgrades. There are 7 levels per run and the upgrades stack during your run. Those levels are picked randomly from a pool of 91 unlockable levels (admittedly, some are a bit basic). I will indeed add a bit more text, but every word comes with the cost of making the experience more like a book and less like a game.
Distributed systems are hard, as well all know.

However the number of people that actually need a distributed system is pretty small. With the rise of kubernetes, the number of people who've not been burnt by going distributed when they didn't need to has rapidly dropped.

You go distributed either because you are desperate, or because you think it would be fun. K8s takes the fun out of most things.

Moreover, with machines suddenly getting vast IO improvements, the need for going distributed is much less than it was 10 years. (yes i know there is fault tolerance, but that adds another dimension of pain.)
Sorry, divan, for causing pain. This wasn't an easy decision. FWIW we're still strict about backwards compat and all you stuff should continue working.
don't underestimate yourself
I think you might have misread my comment: I used “tax” hoping to avoid this kind of valueless pedantry. This isn’t a board game where the EU is going to say “darn it, I can’t do anything because only have goods counteractions and you have services!”, they have plenty of smart economists and lawyers who can plan corresponding taxes to rebalance things.
They're brute-forcing the generation of a public key using random private keys. The exact private key doesn't matter. The full length of the generated public key doesn't even matter, only the first 46 bits. Since they only need to find a public key matching those 46 bits instead of the full 226 bits, that makes a brute force search possible.
Pointer lock is now a thing, you can turn it on in the menu.
> if the states will pick up the slack to keep the parks open

maybe so, but then states have to raise taxes to pay for it

the fed gov gets to say "look at all the money we saved you"!! (actually they're putting the savings to border security, but anyway), but in the end taxpayers don't actually pay any less

that's besides the fact that these are federal lands, not state lands; and that centralized management is generally more cost effective
OpenRA doesn't ship with the assets+ for Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, and Dune 2000 but they're downloadable straight from the UI as they were made officially available by EA/Westwood.

+ Without the music and cutscenes. If you want that you need original discs or other dematerialized versions.
No sane society would...
Converting the assets to use the Spring engine (or BeyondAllReason's active fork of it) is probably easier than writing a new engine from scratch for the existing assets. And then it'll feel like BAR but with C&C's assets. The UI is what gives the game most of its feel.
Definitely plausible but it underrates the changes in actual content. It's not just SEO and titling, it's actual videos that have "stepsis" etc. as themes.
I'm the editor of Spectrum's "Hands On" DIY column: thank you so much! The general goal is to have projects that can be done in a weekend or three for less than roughly $300 and which point to something interesting beyond just the build itself. A lot of credit has to go to David Schneider who is the author of this piece, and has contributed many of Spectrum's citizen science projects.

BTW, If you want to see just the DIY projects instead of all our DIY-related coverage (which can include e.g. interviews or news articles) another handy link is:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/type/hands-on/
> Godot is a game engine. https://godotengine.org

Yeah, I knew that, and precisely because of that I assumed it's a typo :)

We have a native Python client. We can take a look if it works from Godot. Do you know if this is a popular use case?
I wonder what are the limitations of this.

- can it run games?

- can it use desktop environments or window managers like KDE or Hyprland?

- how much does it affect performance?

edit: fixed lines
Bug fixed, nice catch, thanks !
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This is really nice and positively surprising for EA. While the RTSs are amazing I think Command and Conquer Renegade is one of the most fun games ever made as well.

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade

What these people did is really amazing:

https://w3dhub.com/
Holy shit, Renegade. I had struck that from memory. God, I remember trying to play Renegade with my brother and all I can remember was a buggy nightmare. Also having flashbacks of extreme vitriol for gamespy.
I am speechless.

The most vile gaming company I know. The most beloved game I ever played.

Now, Open source ... from them? How? Why? Marketing gag or a step in the right direction?

But then, OpenRA has existed for a while - does that mean its getting even better?

Where is this going?
They literally just represent clusters in a learned embedding vector space that's not necessarily well understood, but is believed to map words or phrases with similar meanings to vectors that point in similar directions in a high-dimensional space. The axes themselves don't have any understandable meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-distributed_stochastic_neigh...
As an aside, bit-player.org is an amazing blog and resource. Recently I've been thinking about what will happen when Brian Hayes, its author, shuffles off this mortal coil.

Other than relying on the Wayback Machine, what are the options for keeping a site like this alive and at least minimally maintained, at its original URL?
> IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE

Maybe add the words "then get one" after "Detector"?

I'm mostly joking, but I can see a non-native-English speaker misunderstanding you
"There's always a larger model."
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any phishing email could just directly link to a fake Google login form. Oauth just adds extra steps for the attacker.
OTOH, what is "code"? In a general sense, I think of "code" as the "codification of a process." If we want to know what steps the AI is following to complete a process, then having an AI write code seems like a correct and necessary part of the solution.
Which tech bros? Aren't most tech companies owners against current administration? Hardly anyone donated to the Trump campaign in the elections.
> We conduct a preliminary study using a two-minute observation from the Murchison-Widefield Array (MWA) in which an unknown object briefly crosses the field of view, reflecting RFI signals into the array. By applying near-field corrections that bring the object into focus, we are able to estimate its approximate altitude and speed to be 11.7 km and 792 km/h, respectively. This allows us to confidently conclude that the object in question is in fact an airplane.

Very cool.
Please, come out in the open, and explain your affection for these brothers. But you still have just a hint of shame, don't you...
> the number of people who've not been burnt by going distributed when they didn't need to has rapidly dropped

Gosh, this was hard to parse! I’m still not sure I’ve got it. Do you mean “kubernetes has caused more people to suffer due to going distributed unnecessarily”, or something else?
The reason why this research was shifted from the US to China was because it was so dangerous that Congress shut it down here and only batshit crazy people would do it...
Also people who warm up in idling cars, in semi confined spaces,on nights with no breeze. I've seen a couple local news stories of this. It's very sad.
Yeah, without context criticism of this code is silly.

What if this wasn't always how cards worked? What if the mapping was (at one point in development) not straightforward? Or localthunk had some ideas and wanted to leave the door open to a more complex mapping scheme?
As the article you link shows, it wasn't banned, it just required a warning, and there are questions about whether that did more harm than good. Also, it only applied to SSRIs, not other antidepressants
Hopefully that point is when Putin is gone, and free and fair elections have returned to Russia
Keyboard play is now supported. Use left/right arrow to move puck, shift+arrow to move it faster, space to start/stop, M for menu, S for score menu, and up/down arrows and space/enter/escape to navigate menus.
Catalog of Metaphors
Introduction to GPT-4.5 [video]
Is the weaviate pod the only thing you are working on? I found your DSPy videos to be very approachable, as a normie developer; you teach well, and so I’d (selfishly) encourage you to keep doing it. DSPy should have you write their docs lol.
Yeah but as gp pointed out that was the style du jour of baroque and early classical as the plucking keyboards were mostly played with a finger technique
Same situation, but I have the feeling that eventually I'll like the customizatability of zsh more than the convenience of Fish because I'm already too opinionated in my own configuration, and transferring to Fish might be more of a hassle than a gain. But who knows maybe someday it will be easier to customize Fish to my liking, but for now the ecosystem doesn't seem to completely fit my needs.
Would be nice. But they all work just fine with wine and/or proton.
I'm a current DoD contractor employee at Griffiss, and it's a real trip to see just how much cool stuff is/was being done at the base when it was still active. There is still cool research being done but nothing at this scope for a while now. It makes me kind of sad to see all of this activity being sent away from NY to Cali, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, etc. Not a whole lot of large-scale testing/development going on up here nowadays. Getting stories from the old timers is always fun, though.
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You didn't measure the changes in the actual content.
The drugs still work though, even if not by the mechanism that they thought.
How many of those papers authors were paid off by the NIH or other agencies to report what they did?

We know that some were bribed, so it's not out of hand for me to ask
In my experience, LLMs have a hard time processing large amounts of raw data and finding patterns (even simple univariate time series) so I would be surprised if a GPT could find _real_, non-hallucinatory patterns in raw data.
FUN FACT: This is the same base Woodstock '99 took place at :D
This is really cool! What do you mean by "the" compiler for our chip? Is this a compiler backed like LLVM which generates efficient machine code, that other languages can target? I'm an author of a dataflow programming language, what kind of resources do you have that I could read about targeting your hardware? I've been waiting for hardware to catch up with the language I'm building, so that's why I'm interested!
How to judge someones performance without analyzing absolutely everything they do to most minute detail? What if someone has a great idea they share near water cooler that doubles company's profit but they haven't committed code as much as the next average person in the company? What is someone is a great team player helps the team and is always there to resolves someones blockers? Is this captured by metrics?

I think a tool providing constructive feedback and offers suggestions on how to improve performance in specific areas focusing on technical metrics (code quality, quantity, code churn) might be useful too, with less potential for misuse.
Yes, exactly my thought, why not connect to the X11 server
because every single instruction is a potential bug and maybe there are several bugs in one line?
The odds of that applying to a math site are extremely low.
How is that context important? Including it doesn't clarify or make the stance any better or more understandable.
That would have been Micropolis in 2008, I think (better known as Simcity, the open source release was renamed to be super clear it doesn't include the trademark)
Really nice idea and product. Does it update and cache changed schema for the target API? For ex. an app makes frequent get calls to retrieve list of houses but API changed with new schema, would Superglue figure it out at runtime or is it updating schema regularly for target API based on their API docs (assuming they have it)?
Will the real Aleph Null please stand up?