skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"plenty that are" isn't sufficient, though? Comments like yours tend toward the portrayal of all companies as being evil and exploitative. It's trivially obvious that this is not the case, so perhaps you're just trying to claim that the vast majority of them are evil and exploitative?

In my career, I've had fewer "bad" companies than "good", and none of the "good" ones match any of your descriptions of what "companies are like". Am I to believe I've just had incredible luck? Maybe!

However, I reject the notion that the "vast majority" of companies are exploitative. This does not fit with my experience, or the experiences of my peers. I would say "less than half", if I were to really ballpark the number.

This, of course, puts your comments in a pretty poor light, for me. You're outright insulting the "good" companies I've worked for, by insinuating that they were only trying to exploit me for profit. I mean, they were "exploiting" me, if you really want to split hairs, but I understood the nature of the relationship and actively consented to it, because the relationship also benefitted me. I had a good job, good colleagues, challenging work, solid responsibilities, good benefits, good pay, and more. The fact that the "company" was trying to make more from the output of my work than they were offering to me as compensation is not an inherently bad thing. I could not, on my own, build the kinds of things these companies were building, nor would I have thought of the products/services on my own, so there is indeed value in being "a company".

I was also part of said company, and identified as such. My success was its success, and vice versa.

Your outlook on this topic is needlessly pessimistic.
No, we didn't fly over any of the Apollo sites for BGM1. We flew pretty close to the terminator line.
Especially on (2). Given that we are moving away from Firefox because of a trust issue with the maintainer, how does LibreWolf make this any better?
I didn't see anything! Does it work with uBlock?
Ok that's pretty awesome. But by git backed I meant the data structure. Darcs & pijul shows that we can do better than a commit tree.
Here's some behind-the-scenes from the vision navigation team:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9E8DBK896w
I use a table saw, but am extremely slow and careful with it. It's a terrifying tool.

The router also terrifies me, because in shop class I hadn't tightened the chuck enough, and the bit came out and ate through the work and fell on the floor, then zinged off at high speed. It missed me completely.

The other thing I do not like are the oxy and acetelyne cylinders. The metal shop teacher showed how to blow the dust off by cracking the valves. OMG, 2000 psi. Nope nope nope nope.
Seems like they know about ParadeDB, but for some reason don't publish banchmarks:

"""Another solution is ParadeDB, which pushes full-text search queries down to Tantivy for results. It supports BM25 scoring and complex query patterns like negative terms, aiming to be a complete replacement for ElasticSearch. However, it uses its own unique syntax for filtering and querying and delegates filtering operations to Tantivy instead of relying on Postgres directly. Its implementation requires several hooks into Postgres' query planning and storage, potentially leading to compatibility issues."""

So it is more apples to red than equal comparison.
If your ground heat system also provides cooling that's no longer a problem. I have that for my house. It's pretty great. You're basically time-shifting temperatures across the year. Cool temperatures get shifter to summer and warm to winter. The hole itself won't freeze, because you're not significantly pulling or pushing energy down it.
Yes, but be patient, we're 1.24 light-seconds away (so lower bandwidth) and we have a lot of science to get done in the next 14 days, and that's the main objective of the NASA CLPS program.
You may absolutely be right, I don’t know who did it “first”.

I read your comment in exactly this voice https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6b70f8d0-5706-4e10-a6e9-e61...

(In this scene, Steve Martin’s character Vinnie is trying to get away from Rick Moranis’s character Barney, and he gets a bunch of actors to pretend to be his family (none of whom speak English) to play on the latter’s sympathy and ask to have his handcuffs removed. Vinnie introduces Barney as, among other things, the inventor of the rotary engine, causing one of the actresses to break character and say “I thought Wankel invented the rotary engine”.)
I second this.
If you are using @gmail or @yahoo, you dont own anything; rather, you are renting an address on their server. @gmail.com is Google's property.
But if you own your domain, it's your property. You can change the Domain registrars just like you port your phone number.
It’s hard to explain because most web development solves these problems with CSS in JS with JS runtimes. One use case I have is what I call “responsive variants”; basically a way to apply a variant’s styles on a component instance (speaking abstractly here; could be react, vue, whatever) within any arbitrary styling context without duplicating CSS or resorting to something that applies CSS with a JS runtime.

I work on a web development platform for a living and this is the sort of thing that would be good for us; if you don’t want your website to wait for JS to render content correctly and you want to keep your CSS bundle small, there aren’t many good options.
I can't imagine what his wife must be going through considering she's a PM at DeepMind. It must be gut wrenching to have access to state of the art computational biology and biomedicine, and yet unable to do anything for her husband. Zero to one in biotech takes years.
Your standards are tragically low if hitting the far side of the tub is impressive. I’m pretty sure if I stuck the wand out the shower door, my shower could hit the next room. (So I don’t do that.)
Show HN: IntelliJ plugin for organizing bookmarks on an infinite canvas
Yeah but, so what?

Whether or not there is some magic that makes humans super special really has no bearing on whether or not we can make super duper powerful computers that can be given really hard problems.

In my view its inevitable that we'll build an AI that is more capable than a human. And that the AI will be able to build better computers, and write better software. That the singularity.
In metal shop, one kid left the key in the chuck and turned the lathe on. It punched a hole in the wall opposite it. It would have killed anyone in its path.

I'm not real comfortable around lathes.
Any embarrassingly parallel task can scale almost infinitely by throwing more resources at it.
"That's not how internet works" is as powerful an argument as "That's not how GSM works". Buying a domain and setting up a new email address won't help you when you have been using your @gmail.com for the past 20 years and want to stop being dependent on Google.

I have bought my personal domain and started using my email address 8 years ago and I still haven't managed to move everything away from my old gmail because sometimes it's impossible without recreating some accounts from scratch.
Yeah, you are right... I've misunderstood radix-8 multiplication, missed that this post was only talking about a small part of the Pentium's multiplier. and jumped to conclusions... And annoyingly, hackernews doesn't allow you to edit comments after a few hours

On the R3000/R4000/R4200, the 3-bits-per-cycle multipliers do use radix-8 multiplication, but they don't have a dedicated 3x multiplier. Instead the the 3x result is latched during the first cycle (by adding (x << 1) + x). For the remaining cycles it can do a 3-bit multiplication with nothing more than a bit of booth recoding logic, and a single 64-bit wide adder.

Then MIPS entirely abandoned this radix-8 encoding for the 8-bit-per-cycle multiplier in the R4400 and R4300, replacing it with a simple array of binary CSA adders. Probably because an array of base-2 adders is just much simpler. (Or at least that's what I think I can see on the R4300's die shot, I'm going to need to go back and take a much closer look at the multiplier)

Anything I say about radix-256 in my first comment is probably nonsense, it's not radix-256 simply because it can do 8-bits in one cycle.

What I missed is there is nothing limiting you to one radix-8 addition per cycle (like the early MIPS designs), you can combine the radix-8 encoding with an array of adders. And you only need 1/3rd the adders that a base-2 multiplier would need. The entire point of using the radix-8 encoding is that there is only one carry every 3 bits.

You are probably right. This trick with the dedicated 3x multiplier is probably still used today.
One might also be careful to count energy properly. The fossil fuel industry has been counting "total energy" including losses to make fossil look bigger and harder to replace. But a gas car throws away like 70% of the energy, so going electric, you don't need the same energy to run the car. Not even close.
Understood. Honestly it makes sense. He promised his base something and he delivered in his first term, and he is going about it the same way this term. His base has good reasons to approve.
Cool, so it could be exploited by someone who makes a hard effort to exploit it (polling the answers and comparing them to the non-respondents, I guess?).

How many of these "executives" or "HR people" who contract these kinds of surveys actually have the a) time, b) interest, or c) acuity to perform this kind of exploit? Not many that I could think of.

The bar for exploiting this is high for non-technical people, and I don't think it's rational to conclude that it would be exploited in the majority of cases, much less a significant minority. I think the default usage of surveys like this is approximately: 1) come up with some questions, 2) put these into some survey software, 3) put in the employee email list, 4) blast everyone with a link and a deadline, then 5) check back in on the results when the deadline is near.

Ain't nobody got time to watch every result come in and do some computation to figure out everyone's exact answers. If that's what they were really after, they'd probably just remove the option to respond anonymously. There are far easier ways to achieve the same end than by some circuitous exploit, right?
If you are at a war where your whole electric grid and internet and SMS are completely down, you have much bigger problems than currency not working.

It means your bank accounts are gone, your credit cards are gone.

And how are you actually going to use gold as currency? Walk into a shop and shave off some gold at the checkout? And how will the store owner authenticate that it's actually gold?

Bullets will be a better currency than gold in that scenario.
Google “replication crisis” just for starters.
Moon colonization requires billions or even trillions of capital all at once, and can only be done by elite experts in a very specialized field, with no practical gain to society toward solving or global warming. It would be an expense almost impossible to justify, and only corporations building the parts would truly benefit.

Solarpunk, on the other hand, is accessible for an incredibly wide swath of people to contribute toward achieving, as a solarpunk life would actually save money while improving quality of life and mitigating global warming.

Solar panels are within the financial reach of most parts of society, bicycles are far more affordable than cars, better zoning laws are only a stroke of a pen, gardening your food or creating a larger communal gardening area creates food resiliency while saving money, and again is within reach of almost all economic situations.

It can be a big government program, but it scales down incredibly well compared to colonizing the moon, and I believe that is key to it being viable.
this makes it all the more heartbreaking for those of us who grew up as teenagers, informed and molded by star Trek's techno optimism. I thought we (society) was on the right track then, at least making progress towards worthwhile things. now, all of that is just a faded memory, and society is turning into a zero sum shitscape
Looks promising but it starts with a (justified) rant about terraform and then goes into how to replace Helm.

I am confused. Can yoke be used to create and manage infrastructure or just k8s resources?
Yep we would have had it.
Then traded the fourth type of cone for more rods because we were hiding underground and only coming out at night ... to be fair those dinos were big.
My dad (AF pilot) eschewed long hair. He said it was a convenient handle for your enemy to pull your head back and slit your throat.
I seriously considered fossil when I was looking for a git replacement that handles large files better. IIRC fossil has the exact same issue.
I was in film school in the mid 00s, when RED was just starting to sell digital cameras to Hollywood studios. I remember a lot of my professors being concerned that we'd lose the archival properties of cinema - you can play back a 100 year old movie with a bright light and a ratchet - the same stuff you need to play back a movie from the 90s. They were concerned there'd be too much churn in digital formats.

Just this weekend, I saw a headline that the Looney Tunes box set I bought then probably doesn't work anymore, because Warner Bros used crappy materials to mint the DVDs and people have had them degrade beyond playability.
You could have said the same about using a GSM provider's SIM card back in the day. Yet, now we can easily switch the provider without changing the number.
But you would trust Mozilla who repeatedly betrayed it's users yet still lying Firefox is a private browser?
Atompunk nein danke?
Give an example of an "action that should be a trivial push-button activity" that requires "incomprehensible command line character soup".
But you can't grab him and move him (to scroll past large chunks).
This idea has traction with other browser vendors too, FWIW. They just don’t have godlike budgets, unfortunately.
It also can't really be overstated how helpful it is as an ML engineer to simply spend the time going through thousands of examples yourself. If you abstract yourself away from the data and just "make metric go up" you'll be missing out on valuable insights about how and why your model might be failing.
”not sleeping […] for weeks”. This is why Americans make the best marketers, you just can’t help yourself embellish with some fabrications to make a great, memorable story.
Gorgeously evocative writing. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to look at birds tomorrow.
I love following the Ladybird development news. Keep up the good work and keep posting updates on HN!
Just about every line of code for this was written by Claude 3.7 via Claude Code. I never gave the other AI development tools like Cursor and Aider a fair shake so I may have just been behind the times on what's possible with agentic editors, but I found Claude Code to be extremely impressive. The API costs did end up being something around $15 though and this is a really small project, so I imagine cost goes up quite a bit to do any non-trivial work on a project of a decent size

This was great for me though because this is something I've had in mind for a while but never considered quite useful enough to be worth the time it'd take to learn about IntelliJ plugin development + the Java AWT knowledge required to create a canvas app like this
I think at best you could mandate forwarding, but that is numerous issues.
The more you're ok with good enough, the quicker you can be done. :p
From the website:

> New tools like CUE, jsonnette, PKL, and others have emerged to address some of the short comings of raw YAML configuration and templating. Inspiring new K8s package managers such as timoni. However it is yoke’s stance that these tools will always fall short of the safety, flexibility and power of building your packages from code.

The never-ending debate continues between configuration languages and traditional languages. I don't know if the industry will ever standardize in this area.
What makes you sure the malware described here is the same as the one you read about before? After all, GitHub isn't limited to one malware campaign at a time.

E.g. we also have https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203158 from 3 days ago, which seems to be a different thing at first glance.
Author here. It's mainly for k8s resources; but if you install operators like external-dns or something like crossplane into your cluster, you can manage infra too.
I remember just a few months ago the same company rage-banned sales from a bunch of states due to some bad experience with coreboot consultants from that area...

They are kind of building a name for themselves.

On the other hand, when I pay for someone to say a single sentence, that sentence isn't said but I still get an invoice, I might consider "zombie" to be a kind way of calling people. You had only one job...
Sure, and it's not cheap.
> deep geothermal with fracking technology.... this creates small earthquakes as a side effect.

In typical HN form I'll say: "That's a bit of an oversimplication". Apologies, please don't hate me. Thanks for quoting all your sources though btw.

The wrong geology absolutely will create minor earthquakes. This is because any fluids injected into certain rocks layers provide "lubrication" and things start slipping. Pretty crazy how much pushing is happening down there and things remain at equilibrium most of the time!

However, all is not lost. Certain geologies absolutely can take external fluids no problem, because they previously contained fluids... yeah... I'm talking depleted oil wells. A bit ironic I guess. This happens all the time already in the midwest, depleted oil wells are turned into saltwater injection wells.

The problem is most of the time, you can't just plunk a depleted well down anywhere that happens to have the right geology underneath it, which the geothermal guys were hoping for. Pushing high pressure water into previously dry formations will likely cause problems. No free lunch, but it is possible in certain areas. A lot of said areas aren't likely near population centers unfortunately.
Chinese robotics company: world first multi-robot collaborative training
careful or you would have to divorce google because of their actions but the larger question is, will you?
Is it time for "CSS: The Good Parts" ?
Super cool! Good working with you guys ;-)
So kind of correct but not quite related?

The old film stuff which survives is mainly due to material quality, storage and luck, in that sequence. Those DVD started already losing the battle.
In late 2023, I was strolling around Shenzen when I noticed that Huawei had a store. I walked inside and there were 2 Huawei electric cars. I was shocked. I did not know Huawei made cars.

Around that time, many US EV car makers were in huge trouble because they could not make cheap enough cars and they always had issues with manufacturing scale.

Meanwhile in China, everyone and their grandmas were designing and mass producing EV cars it seemed.
> the Wayfarers series starting with “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” is maybe the best collection of before-bed reading I’ve ever found.

I agree wholeheartedly and do, in fact, read them in bed. I transitioned to the Wayfarers after souring on The Expanse (I enjoyed most parts of those books, but the black ooze is not for me). The low-stakes, slice-of-life content is more up my alley.
As it currently stands, code without an explicit license isn't usable. There is no license for the code you posted, but contacting him could get you one. Using the code linked could constitute a copyright violation.
Are you replying to yourself? You were the one demanding consideration, not me!
Show HN: Zero-code database for AI and modern apps
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on RushDB, an instant, open-source database built on Neo4j. The idea is simple: no schema design, no migrations, no backend setup - just throw in any JSON/CSV data, and it figures out the structure dynamically.

A decade ago, I started as a frontend developer, and over the years, I kept running into the same problem: needing a simple yet powerful persistence layer without dealing with infrastructure, normalization, database setups, CRUD boilerplate, or backend proxies just to fetch rows by criteria. RushDB is my take on fixing that.

It’s not another document store. Instead of dumping nested JSON and hoping for the best, RushDB normalizes data into an interconnected graph on the fly - without flaky LLM guesses. Instead, it runs a deterministic, optimized BFS-based algorithm to handle relationships, data types, and structure.

What makes it different?

- No schema or configuration: Just push any data, and RushDB does the heavy lifting on the fly.

- Graph querying without Cypher overhead: Works like MongoDB but for graph data. Simple API, no need to write graph queries manually.

- Dynamic filtering: Think faceted search in marketplaces - filters generate automatically based on ingested data.
- No migrations: Schema changes work just like in MongoDB - batch updates to Records.

- Fractal API: Filtering refines itself dynamically based on previous queries, only showing valid options.

- Battle-tested: A team of two frontend devs built an entire EdTech platform (LMS, CMS, and Analytics with telemetry for a web-first 3D engine) using only RushDB - no backend expertise required.

Right now, there’s an SDK for Python and TypeScript, but the REST API provides the same DX.

GitHub: https://github.com/rush-db/rushdb

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any edge cases that might break it!
Maybe it is actually a sequel to The Matrix. Humans rebelled in the Garden of Eden world because it was too nice, the 90’s world has slightly too much tedious office work, so the next world they made has slightly more fulfilling busywork for the humans.
> Around here, past a certain age, your house is basically a tear-down, where it's a liability over just having an empty lot.

Where is around here and what that certain age? That's wild to me.

Of course you can ruin a house to the point it is best to tear it down. Even a 5 year old house could get there with enough gross neglect.

But assuming any kind of occupancy and minimal maintenance, that's not normal at all. Any house will outlive you and your grandkids and great-grandkids with any kind of reasonable care.

Here's a house over a century old, totally not a tear down. Nothing special about this one, just the first hit I found in zillow:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/326-Menker-Ave-San-Jose-C...?

Maybe the NorCal climate is too mellow and houses last more? Ok then, let's look at Boston, certainly a rough climate. Here, a house built in 1880, totally not a tear down:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11-Victoria-St-Dorchester...?

Maybe Boston is too rich, so they spend a lot on house maintenance? Ok let's look at, dunno, Pittsburgh (rough climate again). Here's another 1920 house, looks beautiful to me, definitely not a tear down:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/587-Moorhead-Pl-Pittsburg...?

Even in the furnace of Phoenix, a young city, I easily find a century old house, very beautiful one:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/56-W-Windsor-Ave-Phoenix-...?

So, where is it that you live that houses become tear downs within one human lifetime?
People have typical shelled out significant more money for Miele washing machines because they were known to last typically up to somewhere between 1 and 2 decades and be repairable.

People pay a lot extra for Toyota.

I don't want to pay extra for my pants to last at least a full year (think 100 days use, 30 wash cycles), or for my electronics to last at least five years since I am old enough to remember that this used to be absolutely normal and the way things used to be.
You can't test quality into a product.
Could they have heard of it en masse because of its success at the Golden Globes?
Another option is Google Docs via Tools > Preferences > Enable Markdown