skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ed Zitron draws conclusions from Microsoft's downscale of future data centers. Ed interprets this as MS losing faith in the future of AI but it could be a turn away from brute-force model size expansion and toward DeepSeek-style efficiency improvements.

I've been waiting for "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" breakthroughs and I hope this is the beginning.
Well yeah - they needed an IMF loan to build bigger prisons...

How the turn tables.
Probably because Europe is not threatening them behind the scenes and perhaps offering money as well.

Diversifying chip manufacturing more globally is pretty crucial to maintaining the world order though. Sadly, having a fab in the US under the current administration is not helpful to the west in general. Getting TSMC or building an alternative to TSMC in Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, would be very smart.

I believe a lot of the machines TSMC depends on are even produced in Europe, so there should be room to make some deal!
> Show HN: Fast Transition from Firefox to Librewolf

Librewolf is still connecting to e100.net.
Image to go along with Hokusai's beautiful bit: https://i.imgur.com/Q6khyva.png
Sure, but if your strategy for life happiness is to spend your youth to try to win the lottery, I'd say maybe that's not a good investment.
Hand-optimized AoT builds with solid profile-based feedback, right?
Earth in that image from the moon looks way bigger than the one he's talking about
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Visualizations of Rail Transit and Population Density
That's an exciting direction!
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Thanks but that doesn't really solve any of the issues. It still just creates a new folder on the bottom instead of the current selection.
In the "old days", it was poor taste for the young to opine too much about things. You wouldn't publish your magnum opus until later in life.

The point is, of course, that age is a necessary, but insufficient condition for wisdom. I know of philosophers who claimed to only grasp their subject matter in their 50s.
OT: I liked SerenityOS monthly development video, too. Are they gone, now?
People put their high school on their CV? Why? I haven't even included my university for most of my career—it just hasn't been relevant.
For a lot of people, but not for everybody.

Not only that, but there are several different modes of meaning in a life. Family is one aspect, career/community is another, building yourself and heath is another. Thinking of the "one" thing that gives life meaning is very limiting.

Especially as what is meaningful to you may change as time goes on.
AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system
a weird sold out of open culture lately.
Running an AppSumo Campaign for GatoGraphQL via GatoGraphQL and LemonSqueezy
Reminds me of git-ssb (git collaboration on top of Secure Scuttlebutt).

https://github.com/hackergrrl/git-ssb-intro
Evals are not all you need
He sure seems to be able to just terminate legislation signed into law. He already did it with USAID, and is in the process of doing it to many other departments.
Signal was likely funded by State. Open Whisper Systems has a lot of shady connections:

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after...

https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/court-docs-show-fbi-can-interc...

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html

https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher...
If you enjoyed this as I did, you might enjoy John Tottenhams Inertia Variations: https://johntottenham.com/category/inertia-variations/

I prefer them read by Matt Johnson: https://open.spotify.com/album/67crhBYB2f2xIiZWSDsFvI?si=GLZ...
This is mostly the real reason why interning gets used, to avoid long string comparisons over saving memory as such.

Interned strings tend to not have a good cleanup mechanism, in a system where a lot of them are churned through. So often they tend to actually use more memory as data patterns evolve in a system.

I use the same trick when parsing json, where a large set of rows tend to have the keys repeated & the conversion to columnar is easier if the keys are interned.
good old stow and git, as most distros come with it.
though, eager to try making a replacement in go that is a single binary
Another question is whether it is defendable at this point. It's not clear that China doesn't have military superiority over that area.
I think MCP being stateful is true in the short term. It's currently at the top of their roadmap to add to the protocol https://modelcontextprotocol.io/development/roadmap.
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> a gradual industry-wide race to the bottom in terms of quality

I'm going to disagree. This is a false nostalgia.

15 years ago the market for consumer laptops that were not MacBooks straight up sucked. If you walk into a Best Buy today, almost any laptop you buy is going to blow any laptop from back then out of the water in terms of build quality. And credit where it's due, in no small part it came from playing catch up with Apple.
The New York Times Migrated from Enzyme into React Testing Library
Some kind of Dadaist movement I guess. Listen to Breathe of Death, it’s hilarious and then you cry.
Such a cheesy film, but it has moments that just work so well. "Warriors come out to play" is such a great scene. In some ways I don't think you could even write it, it just has to happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg

>I didn’t get along with the people who ran Paramount and we got off to a poor start. They saw it as some kind of sequel to Saturday Night Fever. It’s pretty hard to imagine more disparate storylines.

I feel like I see this issue all the time now. Some idea, some ill fitting franchise gets slapped on it (let's do a story about a messed up childhood / identity issues / kidnapping ... in Star Wars), and even a poorly fitting format (let's turn this movie into a multi season series) gets thrown on it and nobody is brave enough or able to somehow separate the mismatching pieces ...
New extended temperature range for Compute Module 4
Yes and even if not many companies will ask for this before the interview process even starts. Not every company, just those that have an obligation to do so and sometimes that obligation is self induced when the company was first formed. It can take a long time to remove requirements from contracts and SOC documentation.

[Edit] I should add that I have had candidates that I really wanted to hire but were later rejected for having misinformation on their application form or in their CV. This was in FinTech.
To facilitate both of their collapses?
Tl;dr: Chewing pencils is more powerful than chewing gum.
> It did die, mostly between 1905 and 1917.

Yes, because Nicholas was a democratically elected czar. /s
At some places they took my word for everything.

At some other places (notably banks) did full background check, calling all my previous employers from the past 10 years, and asking for criminal records from all countries where I spent more than 3 months in the past 5 years. They also wanted all kind of documentation where they found some discrepancy between my CV and their findings...

(Funnily they never asked for the records from my original country. For all they care, I might be a fugitive murderer there, as long as I have paid my parking tickets in the other countries...)
I'm curious about this more from an employer's perspective, especially as a smaller operation (contracting firm).

If somebody claims to have worked at Amazon as a product manager for 2 years, and rehearses a story they wrote with ChatGPT (who maybe has data from blogs of related product managers)... Then I'd probably get fooled, if the candidate was reasonably well-spoken and confident. Similarly, I don't have the time or patience to contact a university to try and get real verification for a transcript. Just being honest...
This is something that Chinese company are very good at. Partnership and working together to deliver Amazon products.

Western companies are more like "protected garden" with big companies very afraid to share innovation and sure that they can only strive supported by their own strong "intellectual property"!
Sign me up for the cozy, man. In this shit timeline we're on it's more or less all I want to read. My hatred of other humans is at an all time high.
OMG, I was cracking up watching that. I kept thinking "this is such a high effort piss take" only for it to finally dawn on me that it wasn't.

W.I.T.A.F.
Exactly. Its the only card Taiwan holds once its gone America will never care about them
There's a lot of really great film meta-commentary like that on YouTube. Nerrel's video about about dynamic range and colour gamut in the context of Aliens was a game changer for me in appreciating the true potential of the UltraHD format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOqWYytypg
Unfortunately I have to agreed. Protection rackets seem to be pretty much the defining activity when Trump is allowed to run the show, but I doubt appeasement in itself is really going to buy Taiwan anything.
What's to stop him from taking the bribes and then just fabricating some of his trademark bullshit about how the Taiwanese "have been very unfair" and Xi's people were actually totally in the right all along.
You sort of implied that with your replies across the thread. And since AI already replaced part of the CS, I was wondering why do you think this would not be the case with doctors. I'm not sure I agree it's a blue collar profession. I can easily see diagnostics being replaced with AI models.
I don't think it was Silence of The Lambs specifically - it was the experience this author had of watching that movie at 14 years old. Do you have a movie you watched at a young age, and through it you saw a window into adult life you were certain you would step into?

Silence of the Lambs is just this author's version of that. Mine is a different movie - but the way the author talked about silence of the lambs resonated deeply with me about how I feel watching "my" movie at an older age, and comparing it to how I thought when I watched it at 14.
Another thing that it turns out was just "guidelines".
I was pretty pro-drone till experiencing it. After that I realized even if they could make them completely silent (which is impossible) if you extrapolate out to how many drones would be flying around pretty much continuously were drone delivery to really take off it would still be a solid "Do Not Want".
Tell that to TikTok.
It is quite interesting to compare these ages to all the people you know.

There are probably roughly zero 20-somethings that are more interesting than the most boring 50-year old you know.

Is it maybe the case that 20-somethings have nothing to do so they futz around with science and writing and can do that. As they grow older they find better things to do?
Why couldn't that massive blockade just go around Taiwan is well?
If you set your podcasts as AudioBooks and copy them in THAT area, it remembers where you were, at least. But you have to play them through Books.
Beginning of the end for the AI bubble?
> I vividly remember the sense of possibility in Russia around the year 2000. For someone like the 15-year old me, who had just become politically aware, it felt like we were leaving behind the chaotic 1990s and stepping toward something more stable and prosperous

The best "communism experts" are those who never experienced it. /s
I never claimed fiat was an asset. Nobody considers cash an asset.

I'm a software developer since 1990 so I recognize the value of blockchain technology, but I'm also smart enough to know a number in a computer ledger is not an asset.
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ad...

There is one experiment in kenia
Are you willing to get drafted and fight to defend Taiwan and whatever comes as a result of that? Are you willing to die for Taiwan, or have your kids die for Taiwan? Honest question.
Pete Hegseth orders US spies to halt work against Russian cyber threats
Apple's behavior makes sense when you realize that Apple caters to potential customers more than current ones. Their products are made to demo well to prospective customers. Every Apple product owner/user is inadvertently doing sales demos to onlookers.
I hope you see this comment:

Please revert the "fix" that makes it so your demo is not seen at all.
That's the old way of thinking -- they're trying to do just that across the government and without some enforcement mechanism to make them send the checks, the practical result is that the President can indeed cancel pieces of legislation via impoundment.

Example 1 - Trying to take $20 billion from Citi: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5161849-inflat...

Example 2 - The pause preempting the defunding of USAID: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reev...

Example 3 - CHIPS act would have had funding withheld if a Federal Court hadn't stepped in, but it's unclear what enforcement mechanism can force the funding to resume: https://archive.is/BxjHw
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We've been in touch with Arazzo after we learned of the similarities. The long-term goal is to be aligned with Arazzo. However, the tooling around Arazzo isn't there today and we think it might take a while.
agents.json is meant to be more native to LLMs, since Arazzo serves other use cases than LLMs.

To be more specific, we're planning to support multiple types of sources alongside REST APIs, like internal SDKs, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.
using it via cli would also be nice
Incitement shouldn't be a thing when we believe in free will.
OK I'm a bit different with the author on this one...
To save you a click: this is just LWN quoting the Mozilla post from a few days ago.

The title is misleading.

I thought this was about Mozilla reverting the TOS to how they were before the whole thing started, because that's what the title sounds like.

But nope. This is about their (failed) damage control. You know, the post where they said:

> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”)
You must have replied to the wrong post, because I never said anything about myself being "unique" or otherwise differently talented than others, though that is possible. I don't measure myself against others; if they have a better insight into something I will gladly learn from them, without ego.

I'm talking about the fact that programming is a unique human endeavor, and a damned difficult one at that.

> How would you feel if you never had access to a computer with a dev environment until you were an adult, and then someone told you not to bother learning how to code because you aren't special like they are?

I would never say some stupid shit like that, to anyone, ever. If they want to do it, I would encourage them and give them basic advice to help them on their way. And I IN NO WAY believe that I am more talented at programming than ANYONE else on Earth. The experience I have earned from raw, hard graft across various programming environments and projects is my only advantage in a conversion about software development. But I firmly believe that a basic linux install and python, C, and bash will be enough to allow anyone to reach a level of basic professional proficiency.

You are WAY out of pocket here, my friend, or perhaps you just don't understand English very well.

> When did you learn to code? What access did you have to technology when you started? How much free time did you have? What kind of education did you have?

Getting to learn BASIC on an Apple (2e?) in 6th grade was fantastic for me; it was love at first goto. But having a C64 in 9th Grade was pivotal to the development of my fundamental skills and mindset, and I was very lucky to be in a nice house with the time to write programs for fun, and an 11th grade AP CS course with a very good teacher and TRS80s. But we were very much lower middle class, which factored into my choice of college and how well I did there. But, absolutely, I am a very, very lucky human being, yet tenacity via passion is the key to my success, and is not beyond ANYONE else.

> The 'magic box' is a way to get past the wall that requires people to spend 3 hours trying to figure out what python environments are before they can even write a program that does anything useful.

If you say so, but no one should be learning to program in a specific python env or doing anything "useful" except for personal exploration or rudimentary classwork.

Educating ourselves about how to logically program -- types, vars, fcts, files -- is our first "useful" programming any of us will be able to do for some years, which is no different than how an auto mechanic will ramp up to professional levels of proficiency, from changing oil to beyond.

With the internet in 2025, however, I'm sure people can learn more quickly, but if and only if they have the drive to do so.
> and pretty much only made things better, did migrations, etc.

Maybe you are right.

From the outside however, the situation looks very different:

- reader? destroyed

- Google+? Forced upon us and then destroyed as soon as communities started to form.

- Search? Hasn't been working correctly since around the time Google+ launched. At some point it became so bad I used DDG and Bing out if spite. The difference was that small.

(and before anyone says "it is impossible to create or run a working search engine in 2025": Marginalia and Kagi both work very much better than Google these days, although Marginalia admittedly only in certain niches.)

Picasa? Replaced with a w3b service.
Pumped hydro is a form of gravity battery. It doesn't have great energy density, but it has fantastic power density and responsiveness. That's where its strength lies. We have also probably already built most of the ones that could possibly be built.
Just because you prefer to live somewhere else doesn't make it a "hellscape." How would you react if someone called a city block like people on this thread are romanticizing a "hellscape?"
>“Punish people for not being helpful enough” is a bad way to get them to be helpful.

That's the reality every vendor rep's job exists in and most of them are quite helpful.
Nah, the hamsterdance.com hamster.
I'm on the side of freedom.

If you want to run your company using vetted software and limit your developers to only use a small list of approved software. You can do that. I've worked in such environments. You can lock down the corporate firewall. The point is choice.

It's completely different if you basically want a regulatory agency which will decide what software people are allowed to build.

Outside of work I like to use niche Linux distros. If I accidentally wipe my vacation photos during the install process, that's a risk I took. I don't have a right to complain that I destroyed my own data and blame it on software largely built by volunteers.

However I don't disagree completely. If you want to build a hardened fork of Linux with software vetted by your private certifying authority, that could be a good market. If all engineers working on your custom fork need to be "licensed" by a privately run organization, that is also fine.

I just wouldn't want the State to do this.
For the consumer stuff: It's fun, and IMO that's enough. Not every song has to be peak artistic quality pushing the world forward, sometimes it's enough to bring a smile to a friend's face by making a song about them. If you think their art is slop you shouldn't have to listen to it (IMO Spotify et al should have an optional "no AI music" filter for now).

For the API: I think this could be integrated into artists workflows in lots of ways we can't even imagine right now as it gets better. One example I gave above was generating transitions between songs.
Writing a program where a jit version is faster than the aot version is just an exercise in knowing the limitations of AOT.

People have been doing runtime code generation for a very long time for exactly this reason.

A general implementation faster than, say, g++ is a completely different beast.
Nope. The US is doing all it can to become irrelevant geopolitically in Europe, that's not to start a war with China with a very uncertain outcome. Economic ties is (was) the really last bastion that would have motivated the US to intervene.