skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The January 2017 “Resistance” wasn’t about “clearly unconstitutional orders.” It was about opposing Trump’s lawful policies on immigration and the environment.

Everyone agrees civil servants can disobey “clearly unconstitutional orders.” But civil servants must work equally hard to execute the policies of the president regardless of party, right? Biden’s student loan forgiveness was based on thin but colorable legal interpretations that were ultimately found to be incorrect. Civil servants who worked to implement Biden’s policies must work just as hard to implement Trump’s executive order say effectuating mass deportations, correct?
Our White House is filled with the Friends of Russia. They want to turn Ukraine over to Russia and loot it. JD Vance erupted on Zelenski because he showed people what was happening instead of just glad-handing his way through the talks and eating shit. This is a clear indication of what happens to YOU should you dare not fully submit.

Our only hope now is that the American economy rebels against this insanity.

The Orange One spent a lot of time praising Zelenski before throwing him to the wolves. That had to be a jolt to everyone, admitted or not.
What specific owner/builder exception did you use?
You can also fly an airplane without knowing how to fly. It’s profoundly irresponsible, but ethics is no barrier, is it?
Things like this have been happening ever other year. I'm evaluating returning to an offline life.
Hey Gemini, where can I buy guillotines?
Google shares details on its plan to ditch SMS codes
Im sure there is fat to be cut but the indirect model eliminates the need to spend so much effort accounting for the 5 minutes this grad student used this piece of shared equipment, 20 minutes that post doc used this equipment. Have you ever had to account for number of sheets of paper printed on a shared printer? Total waste of time when considering the cost of accounting and time of these expensive workers. Indirects are an imperfect solution to a real efficiency problem. I really think the solution is to identify “abusers of the commons”and hold them accountable
Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
Since 2005, Goodreads has been the default book tracking site, connecting millions of readers. But let’s be real—it’s barely changed in 20 years. It’s the same site it was, just with more ads.

Still no half-star ratings.
No proper DNF (Did Not Finish) option.
UI still looks like it's from 2005.
Amazon owns it and doesn't care.

So I built Kaguya, a modern alternative, over the past 9 months.

What’s live:

Custom shelves (Organize however you want)
Rich-text reviews (format your thoughts properly)
10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars)
DNF, On-Hold, and other reading statuses
Likes, shares, comments on reviews
Import your library from Goodreads/StoryGraph
A beautiful design that doesn’t make you feel like you’re using an ancient website

Coming next:

Deep tagging system (Genres, moods, character traits, tropes)
Beautiful stats & insights (Visualize your reading habits)
Discussion forums for every book (Think subreddit-style discussions)

Would love feedback. What do you think?
Tech Stack

Backend: Elixir & Phoenix
Database: PostgreSQL with Supabase (originally CockroachDB, big mistake)
Auth: Supabase
Frontend: Next.js
UI Components: shadcn
GraphQL API: Absinthe
Hosting: Fly.io (Phoenix) + Vercel (Next.js)
Storage: Cloudflare R2 + CDN
That’s how a lot of moderates feel apparently, which is how Trump was able to win. I guess we’ll find out if we even have parties (or a country) in 2028.
And I just explained how the risk is "low". The loan is not upside down when they sell it; they have nominal proof that it's "worth" $2 million (through dubious valuations, because it's in everyone's interests to pretend that that that valuation is solid (this is where scruples come in).

You also do not have to take my word for it since I cited one example of many where this actually happened.

Update your previously inaccurate world view, please.
Mozilla Introduces TOS to Firefox
All the countries above US have less than 1M population and generally poor countries. Saying that obesity is not related to the underlying social problems in the US showing this data is ridiculous.
Who needs critical thinking when you have stuffed crust!
Beyond basic survival quality of life is 90% about the integrity of our human relationships and 10% other stuff.
Transcribed here (with some additional context): https://retrochronic.com/#interview
I don't like the Republican Party and much prefer the Democratic Party because of the Republicans':

Nazi salutes.

Reckless incompetence shutting down services without understanding they are or do.

Supporting an invading regime over the people who were invaded.

Abandoning our European allies.

Threatening to annex/occupy countries and neighbors.

First firing the inspectors general that provide oversight.

Pretending like they were going to lower grocery prices but are now more focused on trade wars and fantasizing about a Trump hotel in Gaza.

Would you like me to continue?
Hard to blame them for mostly only make patch fixes rather than disease reversal
Right now: Librewolf.

Perhaps later: Ladybird.
How can you claim to have insight into bioinformatics, but not realize the reason BLAST is run in the cloud is that having all the sequence data of all existing organisms would be absolutely massive and exceed the storage capacity of most laptops?
It only happens when you click on the dock icon, not the app itself, i remembered it incorrectly.
The majority of suggestions in TFA do not use Chromium.
Interesting history here on the natural origins of purple and blue pigments. Beautiful art references.
I wish there is a browser extension that would do the following:

Evaluate all the font sizes in viewable text, find the median (weighed by character count), set it to my preferred size, scale the rest accordingly.

This is akin to volume normalization for audio. Just like TV channels shouldn't increase their volume willy-nilly, neither should web developers get to scream their entire articles at me.
Another perspective is that there are more orders of magnitude (35 to Planck length) below us than above us (26 to the size of the observable universe). So we are relatively already giants.
> I want to study Win NT

Windows NT Design Workbook:

https://computernewb.com/~lily/files/Documents/NTDesignWorkb...

Tale of Two Kernels:

https://youtu.be/HdV9QuvgS_w

And I'm sure you've picked up a copy of Windows Internals. Right now I'm waiting for a copy of Inside Windows NT which is the first edition of that series as well as Inside the Windows NT File System, both by Helen Custer.
I disagree.

Salvia was the most profound experience I’ve had from a drug. I got to witness a reboot and POST of myself, with discrete functions coming back online in stages.

Nothing has been like that before or sense.

Twice was enough. I learned something from it but it wasn’t fun and that lesson need not be repeated.
Firefox more-or-less didn’t survive Chrome. Market share is in the single digits.

But, among the tiny contingent that has stuck around, most of us are here for the privacy I think.
Yeah, ride the index on its ten year dip. Super smart.
Historically, closed source, expensive corporate software for power users can excel at just grinding out the flaws in user experience until every tiny thing you want to do with it is doable, not because of any elegance in design, generalization, or compositionality, but because a developer sat down and made that specific workflow usable. Matlab, excel, and photoshop are the exemplars of this, the flash editor was up there too.
Is there ever a meaningful difference between a Substack post and AI slop?
That was just shonky code, nothing to do with flash itself.
Ah, but you see, Sergey cares about his company, not their company. Or their lives. Or their needs. Or their wants.

He is Empire and he is what Matters.
I worry that it's a Linus thing - he still has to step in and call for order now and again. I don't know for sure if it will remain on the trajectory of always getting better when he retires.
> But none of the people in question 'tried to inflict violence on others', they wrote books didn't they?

Some will rob you with a six gun. Some with a fountain pen.
Show HN: Interactive Intro to FM Synthesis
Louis Rossmann rant: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos
Thanks for doing this. I bought the calendar over 10y ago and used it but threw it out in a move.
A small "available for contracts" or "we are hiring" at the end of a 3 or 4 pages blog post is somewhat usual.

If each of your post have an about section that is like one third of the post, people will get angry and write mean comments and flag ypur posts.
But that is 'the modern way'... It is what all python people are doing. It is terrible, I agree, however people make out stuff is somehow better now, while making this nightmare. While most CL people moved on a long time ago.
CEOs are monarch-like. Businesses are not democratic. Is it surprising that modern atheist, possibly sociopathic, business CEOs would consider this a path to follow?
> Rust executables are only 100% static on OSes that expose system libraries as static libraries

This seems to be a weird hair to split. GP clearly means “a single executable you can run on any install of the target OS without dependencies.” Whether it’s a truly honest-to-goodness static binary that don’t link to libc or libSystem or whatever is important to approximately zero people, outside of internet pedants.
I will give it a try. The icon reminds me of an old browser called Camino (if I remember the name correctly). I loved that browser.

A quick notice: I opted to play the intro video and the video was completely useless, without any control or a way to exit or anything at all. Luckily it didn't go for mins but it was also not like a splash screen. Honestly that is not a very good first impression imho.

But the interface is very promising. Doesn't look "odd" on Mac the way I feel on Brave or even Safari. Will give it a shot. Imported everything from Safari except passwords.
Sergy has too much money for me to take him seriously.

Advice from back when he wasn't wealthy is still good, but seriously, why would you take any working-class advice from a multi-billionaire? That would be the most out-of-touch advice you could receive.
Prebiotics like Akkermansia help improve the mucin layer in the colon. Lower amounts of these beneficial bacteria actually contribute to gut health. The weird part is Akkermansia actually eats the mucin layer. You would think that would cause a less dense mucous layer, but the presence of Akkermansia actually causes goblet cells in your gut produce more mucin which strengthens the mucous layer. We also know that gut health can and does affect the nervous system.
Name a single good idea the Republican Party has proposed and implemented at the federal level since 2000.

The most recent thing I can think of was getting Clinton to balance the budget, and he was a democrat.
It was probably the difference between me trying it at all and sending to a few friends. Thank her.
Let us hope the dog acts on what is inside it.
By not building tooling in Python.

llamacpp is a high performative open source solution capable of inference of large number of published LL models both in CPU and in GPU. It's written in C++.

It's easy to download and build in Windows or Linux.

It can be used as a command line tool, linked and used as a library from a variety of languages, including Python, or communicated with through a simple REST service which is also part of the same repo. It even has a simple Web frontend (built with React I believe) which allows you to use it for simple conversations (no bells and whistles).

And yet the author is using Ollama which itself is a wrapper around llamacpp (as most of them are) written in Python.

We're creating the problems that need soling.
I tried it for last two days and then uninstalled it. Didn't click. But I found Vivaldi much (!!) better than Brave.

I am trying Orion now based on a comment here. Let's see how it goes.
If you "share with partners" in exchange for money, that sounds a lot like selling.
Next one -- could Europe defend itself from US
And those small kingdoms did not care about oil, minerals back then - things that might not exist in your vicinity, but are required to run a modern economy today.

This entire concept of city-states exists on a premise of peaceful coexistence and cooperation. Given our history, this is pure fiction. (And then these people shit on Communism.)
because those idiots fired the people who were keeping these dns servers alive.
There are inklings of a change there. You can see it in things like proposing to prevent women from traveling to another state to get an abortion, or forcing states to assist the federal government with immigration enforcement. I expect we will see more of that if it helps them get to their desired policy goals.
This would be an excellent opportunity for CF to assert a commitment to a secure and private web by propping up one of the FF forks, even a little bit, and simply make sure it's not auto-killed by their managed policies.

Obviously if a customer wants to manually kill it, it's on them, but CF has a lot of power in choosing defaults.
The federal bureaucracy isn't the power structure, it's a threat to the power structure, hence it being dismantled by the power structure.
FWIW, I just tried going to pubmed, searching for something, and everything seemed to work. DNS servers go down every now and then. It's always DNS, after all.
"vouch" only shows up once it's dead.
"karate chop flashlight" love this description! That's exactly why I've stayed with Motorola after my G5 just got too slow. I'm now on a Moto G Pro from 09/2020, it's getting fairly slow but all in all it gets the job done.
> In terms of open source there are really only Chromium- and Firefox-derived browsers (I’m disregarding projects like the still pre-alpha Ladybird here).

isn’t webkit open source?

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

or maybe are you referring to something else?
Brave browser seems like the best choice moving forward
Show HN: Dockerized VS Code with Goose Coding Agent
I was tired of setting up my coding environment from scratch whenever I switched machines, and I wanted easy access to Goose AI (an OpenAI-powered coding assistant) without complex configuration.

So this weekend I hacked together Goosecode Server - a dockerized VS Code that runs in the browser with the Goose AI agent pre-installed and configured. It's nothing fancy, just combining existing tools in a useful way.

What's interesting is that beyond personal use, it can be integrated as a tool call for AI agents people are building. Since it's containerized with a standard interface, you can programmatically spin up instances, execute code, and have your AI agents interact with the development environment. Perfect for AI workflow automation or agent-assisted coding pipelines.

The whole thing is:
- One container that runs anywhere Docker works
VS Code server accessible via browser
- Goose AI terminal agent pre-configured
- Git integration with configurable credentials at runtime
- Easily callable from AI agent systems through Docker API

I built it primarily for myself, but realized it fits nicely into the emerging AI agent ecosystem. All you need is to provide your OpenAI API key in the .env file.
Yes, I was saying the same thing. There are very few applications we could run on a text-mode DOS/Linux-CLI type NT due to the upstream dependencies that require (or implement) a graphical interface.

Text-only mode would be wonderful even if all you could do is look at a blinking cursor.
I'm a Helix user, and used Vim for over 10 years beforehand. I'm no stranger to macros, multiple cursors, codebase-wide sed, etc. I still use those when possible, because they're easier, cheaper, and faster. Some refactors are simply faster and easier with an LLM, though, because the LSP doesn't have a function for it, and it's a pattern that the LLM can handle but doesn't exactly match in each invocation.
And you shouldn't ever trust the LLM. You have to review all its changes each time.
Yes! There are several others even in Berlin, some of which are much more welcoming than c-base.

Generally you can find some sort of space in nearly every city.

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hackerspaces

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214091402/https://wiki.hack... (mirror as the wiki is slow to load right now).
This kind of thinking is why we're advancing significantly down the road to authoritarianism.
There are two big error modes that we need to look out for when reacting in anger. First is to not jump from the frying pan into the fire by adopting a browser that makes nice sounding claims but really has no way to back them up. Installing a blob from a random website is never a good idea, especially when it's a browser. Personally, I think Librewolf is worth the risk but time may proved me wrong. The second error is a bit more subtle in that we need to think more deeply about how to fund browser development such that protects user interest. Clearly there are very powerful and pervasive market forces that Will attempt to warp any browser project into selling user data. That's true for all ubiquitous platform software, but the browser is particularly vulnerable because it exists at a high level of abstraction and therefore high level of utility. So I will make a prediction that the next successful privacy focused browser is going to be something like Cursor, a fork of a well-known browser engine with built-in local AI in service of the user only. This project will have to be a loss leader for another money making entity that requires a truly secure and private platform.
I mean it's just pathetic. I see tabs that I closed from both Mac and iPhone months ago and it had stopped showing up in iCloud Tabs and then it decides to show up again. This is just one among the countless problems.

The point is such problems are so old - years/decades - that you know 1. Apple doesn't want to fix it, 2. Apple is not capable of fixing it. I really think both 1 and 2 are correct.

I wish Apple just made great and safe hardware let the software be handled by entities with software expertise.

By the way someone suggested Orion. I think it has tabs. Might want to try.
I’ve thought about it and you’re right, this was just confirmation bias on my part. There is in fact no evidence that DOGE is in any way involved. Apologies.
> Why people in the 1st world disassemble them or throw away rather than upcycling by upgrading OS and donating to the children of the 3rd world, like OLPC used to do?

It wouldn't surprise me if, with the worldwide rise of smartphones, children in the developing world don't want computers.

Also, much of the developing world has plenty of buyers of new computers, and undoubtedly a significant aftermarket for the resulting used computers (just like in the developed world), so they probably don't need our donated old computers nearly as much
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
I learned Obj-C during the early days of the app store, probably 2009-2010. This was before the iPad came out, so I remember ARC being introduced. I really liked it back then because code had to be so lean memory wise (compared to say Java or C#) and I had to deal with memory allocation and deallocation in the Delphi days, so I was comfortable with it. I published a few apps that were moderately successful (not FU money) then kinda got bored during the long tail of the cycle and didn't feel like upgrading the icons and images over and over again.

I never got onto the Swift train, it was too new when I stopped. I think I know the answer, but would you recommend Swift over Obj-C, for someone failingly familiar with Obj-C if I were to get back into the game? If so why or why not? Is it just as fast as Obj-C and is there anything I can't do with Swift that I could do with Obj-C?
It's more expensive because the tax treatment is better. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
CSS modules solved the classname collision problem years prior, though.
People sometimes use structs when a class has only
public members.

And I believe the STL is also implemented that way as well.
I misremembered, because I was checking out all the various trials available. I think I was thinking of Google Cloud's $300 in credits, since I'm using Claude through their VertexAI.
I'm using both every day. Firefox has better adblocking and better integration of tree style tabs. Both provided via extensions. I also prefer Firefox Sync to whatever Google has, though given Mozilla's trajectory it'll be a toss up sooner or later.
25 developers working in the same module? Without a common style?

Afaik we came from plain CSS -> BEM, because scoping styles was hard, so people found a discipline in naming things to isolate styling. Scoping did not exist in CSS.

Then we got a movement from BEM -> Tailwind, because doing the scoping by hand was a bit difficult(?)

Then we get Tailwind -> Tailwind + DaisyUI because Tailwind results in messy concretion.

--------

The question I have: are the modularity/scoping primitives in modern css good enough now, rendering Tailwind e.a obsolete?

Are we still using Tailwind because people do not understand the original problem?

Maybe someone can enlighten me.
In blue states, the middle class taxes are going to be hiked to pay for all this, just like under Trump 1.

Also, half of the “law and immigration enforcement” budget increase is actually going towards deploying the military inside the US, which is illegal.
Why? What about 300+ million changes the list of things the government should be doing for the citizenry versus a country of 3 million?
You seem to be of the opinion that Trump won the election because of his mannerisms and character, as opposed to the fact that the only alternative was someone that not a single person voted for in a Dem primary election for the 2024 general election.

Aren't we supposed to be allowed to vote in a democracy?
> GOOG dropped the slogan "Don't Be Evil" -- I cordially invite all relaxing frogs to speculate about future increases to the water temperature.

the problem is that mozilla also seems to be boiling the frog right now.
The "details" in the article are pretty scant. Curious how this actually works.
All of it ?!?

I remember the time when pc fans hearable meant 95% that i opened a web page with a flash component by mistake...
I can't see the Democrats "shifting to the center" on trans kids when that will lead to more suicides when kids can't get their gender affirming care. That seems bad in every way.
FWIW, webkit's github [1] links directly to the "Epiphany Technology Preview" at gnome.org as a supported project. I have no idea if that leads to a full-featured modern browser for Linux, but I'm pretty sure if it doesn't, there should be a fork that does or creating one might be worth considering, and should be even fun and relatively easy to get kicked off. Also, since Webkit is based on KHTML, there might be re-integrations into KDE worth exploring. Ages ago there used to be Safari builds for Windows Apple created to get Safari into the hand of web developers that weren't using Macs, but it doesn't look like there's anything left to pickup.

[1]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
> Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway.

Lorem ipsum as produced by the inmates of an asylum.
I guess there is nothing wrong with javascript either?

Humanity has proven it can't handle anything else than static pages. Then the developers themselves have to pay for their bloat rather than the users.