skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first signs appeared at the end of 2024. The ruble has weakened, with the Russian currency having lost more than half of its value against the US dollar and the euro, according to a recent analysis by the Kyiv School of Economics. International sanctions on Russian financial institutions played a critical part in this devaluation. In addition, according to the Kyiv School of Economics, Russian oil exports “dropped to $64.40 per barrel” at the end of 2024 (exports were initially $70 per barrel). This suggests that the Russian government is generating less revenue from oil sales.

> Rising inflation is causing concerns in Russia, too. In his annual televised question-and-answer session last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that inflation is a problem and that the Russian economy is “overheating.” He acknowledged that the price of goods has increased, but he attempted to counter this by saying that wages for Russian citizens have also increased. He then concluded that the Russian Central Bank was working to adjust its benchmark to address rising inflation.

> Putin’s points on inflation were telling. The Russian leader seldom discusses problems pertaining to Russian society. Thus, the fact that he felt the need to acknowledge inflation as a serious issue suggests that something greater is afoot. [0]

To further answer your original question, less ideally would be a settlement where the EU and Ukraine are both parties to the negotiation. I am not sure what role the US has at this table, tbh. Full withdrawal from support of Ukraine, and NATO withdrawal appears imminent in any case. A settlement like that might look like:

What Russia gets:

Their territory back in Kursk Oblast

The end of sanctions

A significant portion of Ukrainian territory

What Ukraine gets:

Some contested territory back

All, or nearly all EU held Russian funds for rebuilding the incredible amount of destruction from Russian assault

Permanent stationing of military in Ukraine from a new EU coalition of the willing. (NATO is over, that discussion is pointless)

[0] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-202...
login.gov is fedgov SSO for citizens, not employees.
Guided us through a national disaster by starting a war? You don't get credit for guidance if you were the cause of the disaster. The history of America was one of political compromise, that he threw out in favor of war. A lot of people got fabulously rich off the war and then the carpet bagging. And for those that believe it was about slavery then why did the emancipation proclamation free 0 slaves? He exempted the slave counties the union controlled because the goal wasn't an end to slavery. He could have freed the slaves but chose not to.
Can't speak for Robyn since that is competing in an already aggressively competitive landscape (webserving). Whereas introduction of RUFF/UV by astral has been exceptional.
Why on earth would you ever have 25 front end developers editing the same classes in the same stylesheet?
Cars and houses have different useful lives, but neither is forever.. and neither can get by without significant maintenance cost after a certain point.

I think we will see more baby boomer houses go on the market which are near full teardown as the remaining value is the land only.

Not sure if you've lived in wood framed SFH, but stuff built in the 40s-70s really shows its age now.

Lots of $10k-50k costs that start to creep in as you need to replace roof every 10-20 years, wooden siding/shingles (10-20 years), all the windows (20 years?), boiler/furnace (20 years), central air (20 years maybe), etc. If you need to replace hardwood flooring could be $20k.

My parents have well water and even though it's treated, after 50 years if you were doing a gut renovation you'd probably replace all the pipes. Could switch to city water but thats about $50k.

The masonry on their chimney just cracked and a baseball sized chunk fell on the deck, I dunno $5k. Speaking of the deck, it needs to be torn down and replaced.. $10-20k.

Did I mention their home is worth like $300k on Zillow? These things don't go all at once, but they start to hit more and more often past a certain point.

And this is before the era of particleboard pre-fab construction which I'd imagine will breakdown faster.
Pronounceable passwords is what pwgen does. You might be surprised by how much entropy you lose, which is apparently around half: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72781/security-...
There is definitely a difference between ADHD not sitting still and normal kid not sitting still.

My kid was continuously falling off his chair because he was creating a tension bridge between his chest on the edge of the table and his feet on the seat of his chair.

It was driving his kindergarten teacher crazy lol.

Related: it was a 15 minute doctor visit for us, but both me and my wife have ADHD so the doctor looked at the survey and said "boy howdy, I think you guys know what you are talking about"
Remind me, what was wrong with chromium?
Here are the ten most recent pages on my list, with [A] for article view working correctly, [B] for article view being broken, [W] for article view (and thus offline access) being completely unavailable:

- [B] https://spotbugs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/running.html (just completely mangled, starts with “-sortByClass=filepath:”, that is, skipping around half of the actual page)

- [W] https://web.itu.edu.tr/~dalyanda/mssecrets/hotmail.html

- [A] https://web.itu.edu.tr/~dalyanda/mssecrets/

- [B] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/types... (the “Note” inserts with important caveats are gone)

- [B] https://jimbojones.livejournal.com/23143.html (table at the end is gone so the sarcasm in the last sentence does not come through)

- [B] https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2018/07/kings-quest-vi-cliffs-... (screenshot after “At one point in this section it says...” is gone, leaving only the joke in the caption)

- [B] https://mtnphil.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/decompiling-sci-byt... (“Here are links to the rest [of the blogpost series]: [empty space]”.)

- [W] https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ucdigm/taken_me_yea... (I guess this one’s fair, I only saved it so I could later copy it to my quotes stash)

- [B] https://josephmate.github.io/2025-02-26-3200p-cpu-util/ (“and it looked like this: [code snippet missing]”)

- [B] https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.8.0/crossbeam/epoch/index.html (the actual reference, “Structs” / “Traits” / “Functions”, is cut off)
People repeat this ad nauseum, but assume away all the critical details that would actually make the argument work.

Do we have any assessment, other than people in comment sections randomly just saying so, that any of these actually came at the cost of developer resources on the core browser?

I feel like people have heard this repeated so many times that they keep saying it now. All of these issues were real, in 2016. And Firefox did the thing: they rebuilt the browser from the ground up under Quantum, achieving breakthrough performance and stability that everybody was asking for. And in the present day, the differences are real but subtle, and I don't think they have anything to do with the actual drivers of browser market share, which is about Google leveraging its unparalleled position in search and on Android.

Is the argument supposed to be that if the VPN wasn't there then like the tab snapping would work more smoothly and there would still be 35% market share? Once you start saying these things out loud, it becomes clear how nonsensical and vibes-based the whole argument is.

It's not to say that there's no concern with the pivot into erosions of privacy commitments. But it doesn't excuse the kind of tulip mania that seems to have spread across hn comment sections in reaction to every mention of Mozilla.

I keep pleading with people who perpetuate these narratives to try and make real arguments accountable to our usual standards of causation and substantiation, and they never do.
Built and controlled by the largest ad company in the world, and recently removed crucial ad blocking APIs?
WebKit is a browser engine, not a browser. There is no open-source browser based on it that you could use as an alternative to Firefox.
I ran 386/ix [1] on a i386 PC from 1987, switched to 386BSD 0.1 in late 1992, then FreeBSD sometime in 1993.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Systems_Corporatio...
I was under the impression Apple forked it and didn’t contribute upstream, but the text on that landing page suggests otherwise.

Is it roughly comparable to safari, functionality-wise?

Also, is there a non-gnome version? Gtk’s fine; containerized gnome, not so much.
>rendering a static website

2advanced was the epitome of flash design. I don't think I was ever really paying much attention to the content, but it was fun to interact with the UI.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/2advanced-studios-v1...

EDIT: They're still going!

All on canvas now, but same kinda feel. Makes me think of command and conquer.

https://www.2advanced.com/
Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
> I had to teach people to stop using div tag for everything

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean please?
The industry term is PNT (Position, Navigation, Timing)
Select non-malicious but incompetent people to head departments, gives you plausible deniability when people claim that what's happening is malicious. "No, look, RFK Jr is sincere in his desire to help the American people." He's just really bad at it. Of course, that doesn't speak well to the judgment of the people at the top. They'll try and claim that RFK Jr did a fine job and it was the Deep State that caused the problems.
I used to work for an American startup that dealt with quite some PII. We were forbidden from traveling to a laundry list of countries with work devices and were required (expected? I am not sure now) to inform the company if we travel to those countries even w/o work devices.
The reason Tesla FSD performs better with just computer vision than Lidar
Yes it is. You’ll find it on breakfast menus in every part of the country, if they make them. There are variations though. What do you call them?
Any thoughts on Mullvad Browser?

https://mullvad.net/en/browser
I think if your argument is that they're making hasty decisions, you've provided good evidence for that. But the remainder of the sentence you quoted was:

> but an intentional plan to visit each government department and giving it a stab wound to let it bleed out and die over the course of the next year or two.

If your argument is that they're trying to make agencies die, and you're using the above as evidence for this, then you'd have to convince me that they want the government to lose control of nuclear bombs or bird flu.
Which are the selfish BSD organizations you are referring to?
According to wikipedia, they released a non-backwards compatible update in 2013, which presumably fixes this.
When I am hiring, I will always prioritise devs who have a strong knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS over any frameworks.

If you know the language you can use any framework in that language with minimal effort, and the bonuses of being able to troubleshoot underlying issues is invaluable.
Right, and that seems a relatively modest commitment of resources in the grand scheme of things. And it seems like the implication is supposed to be that those resources came at the expense of sustaining other parts of the browser experience.
Our global influence and wealth will almost certainly never be this high again. I think that's probably a very good thing for the globe in itself, but we can wreak a lot of destruction on our way out of power.
Barely. I am diagnosed and it is difficult to get. If there is a shortage I just get the shaft. If I try to renew early I get put on a list. The amount of appointments and follow up calls required is like putting stairs in front of a wheelchair store.
Do not need to move anywhere. This is literally a non-issue started for fun by tiktok idiots who didn't read the ToS. Nothing in Mozillas behaviour is changing, they had to reword the ToS for legal reasons. https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1j0n4un/firefox_...
The US mismanaged the pandemic about as badly as anyone could; other than the ubiquitous surveillance of the population I don’t know many us federal agencies that I personally would describe as “quite functional”.

I certainly don’t know any that require they be run by the state.
Mozilla is an epic management failure.
I've never heard anything good about their management i think.
And I've been using Firefox since its very beginnings.
Or replace bone with glass, ending up like those famous crystal skulls from Mexico. But algae might then bloom and grow in uncontrolled fashion. You'd need plancton then, and maybe krill or even fish too - enter skull aquariums.
One does not simply "Being cozy with" with russia. If you are "Being cozy with" with russia you are fully compromised by russia. It's like "Being cozy with" with Nazi Germany. There are no "halfsies".
It's not even our current system, they made it at the exact time that large parts of our current infrastructure was being established.

Zuckerberg is in a lot of ways a pretty impressive outlier to get into the club as late as he did and that was only a few years later.
NOAA's weather satellites also provide atmospheric moisture measurements that are integral in predictive modeling.
As Bruce Schneier has said, it is important to create an unmistakable robotic sound for your AI voices even while you make them capable and conversational.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ais-and-robot...
Yes & yes.

It seems to me really learning CSS has been something most devs who started doing anything else have long wanted to avoid. I suspect it just scratches different itches and feels more like configuration than programming. And of course once an abstraction layer becomes key in established development culture, the opportunities for reward are probably broader with the abstraction than with the layers underneath it. Not sure styling has coalesced around Tailwind or DaisyUI enough to lock that in, though.

I'd guess css vars, @scope, etc do solve some problems. I'd also guess something equivalent to full native mixins would be needed to solve most technical expressive/organizational problems and I'm not sure css vars get there. Plus there's the various factors in org culture that tend to undervalue all kinds of areas of front-end design and engineering (which I'd guess largely boil down to a combination of the incentives towards conversion-oriented tinkering and bikeshedding pride among recognized product stakeholders).
You have to be smart about it. Don't make it the debate topic. You know how Trump disclaimed any knowledge of Project 2025 and after he became president, started executing on its vision? That's how you downplay a topic even though it is important to you.
The headline sucks (as of this posting) as one it doesn’t match and two even the matching headline is not accurate.

Mark Cuban is encouraging the employees of 18F to start their venture to provide govt services. He will invest hoping that DOGE will see right through their mistakes and seek to hire them back.

Except he is wrong. Musk is a lot of things but one thing he isn’t capable of is backtracking showing his actions to be stupid.
A “maintenance and security only” trajectory for Firefox would be most interesting to me. Microsoft couldn’t keep up with Chrome, but that’s because they are a company that needs to be seen doing flashy things.

Firefox developed by the community could reject frivolous new features and move a lot slower than Chrome. The web is heading in a shitty direction anyway, so moving slower is better.
If they reach their goal, they won't need a lower class, and they can address that problem however they see fit. A soldier might refuse to fire on their own side, but an autonomous drone won't.
This is why I dislike Ubuntu – I don't like Snaps, and I don't want them to be considered the default.
Literally every browser extension injects itself into a visited web page.
Can you configure them as much as you can configure Git TUI clients? :P
Berlin is special place. You can find there all kinds of awkward Soviet or German Democratic Republic gear. I don’t know what for though. It has no sentimental value for me and for real work it is mostly useless in 2025.
Slackware 11 was all I had in PC as univ student circa 2006-2008 (yep, just said goodbye to Win XP). All the tools I need to do assignments were provided in 3 CDs. At that time, fast internet connection was considered a bit expensive.

Now I'm happy with Debian.
12 year old project, 2 developers per year, turnover every year. That’s all it takes.
Dear Me: Letters by Famous Faces to Their Teenage Selves
If that were true, its market share wouldn't have tanked.
We've figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material
> For some people the goal of Linux is to become the world's OS.

This is extremely worrying. There already is enough linux monoculture in critical network infrastructure due every manufacturer except Juniper seemingly putting their penguin eggs into one basket. I can only hope there will be some common sense brewing for the future before linux experiences major failure and Pluto's Kiss starts to feel a bit too real for comfort.
Is philosophy too Western for its own good?
'Ladybird' browser has so much buzz this year, and seems close to a proper release.

This is the best week ever for the SerenityOS guy. He must be over the moon.
Disclaimer: wholemarsblog is sponsored by Tesla.
It works. Including on me. I'm much more likely to pay attention to a tool that I know is written in Rust. This is both because I love the language and really enjoy using it, and because I've gotten conditioned to believing that tools written in it will be extremely robust, fast, useful, and stable. I can easily rattle off a dozen tools I use on a regular basis written in Rust that are significantly better than their non-Rust counterparts (starting with ripgrep, which is extremely fast). It's effective marketing still.
> allowing professional male combat athletes to unfairly dominate female participants

Had this actually happened somewhere, or is it just a hypothetical? Like trans women assaulting cis women en masse in women's restrooms.
Saying this is similar to Moshi is like saying GPT2 is similar to GPT4. You can't have any sort of conversation longer than 30s with moshi before it goes banana. You can talk to this model for an hour and it remains completely coherent.
> The super rich don’t really pay taxes,

No.

They often pay FAR less than an average person as a percentage, often times paying nothing for a year.

In total amounts - most of them are still paying millions in taxes per year - most of them end up paying tens if not hundreds of millions in taxes over their lifetimes.
Most important to who? Certainly not me
We're already far too balkanized as a country for a central dictatorship to make much sense in the long run. Especially when the money tap starts running dry. I think we'll just have an extremely weak federal government (or perhaps we will finally split.)
Elon got rid of it because he couldn't control. He'll put his own version in. Prepare for King Musk in 2028 or sooner (if Trump dies) unless people fight it overwhelmingly.
Startup Quantum Machines Raises $170M in Series C Round
Do you have a specific criticism of anything Yarvin has said? Specifically the things which he talks about in every interview he's given in the past 5 years.
I'm definitely gonna attend. See you there!
The Ladybird project is targeting an alpha release in 2026. they do make a lot of progress, but they are nowehere near a „proper release“.
Copper and calcium seem to stimulate some mucins.
https://archive.ph/C8CUL
Linux isn’t a unicorn here. Sure FreeBSD has pretty good driver support. In fact back in the 00s I had fewer problems with FreeBSD WiFi drivers than Linux.

I don’t know what the driver story is like for all of the other main BSDs but DragonflyBSD is a really interesting platform with some real innovations in the kernel.

Technically XNU, the macOS kernel, is open source too. Though there doesn’t seem to be much community effort behind that.

There’s also OpenIndiana. Which itself has some really novel ideas.

Then you have smaller projects that have compatibility layers, for example Haiku can run some Linux and FreeBSD systems. ReactOS and Windows driver support. But even if you exclude them in favour of larger, more stable projects, there’s still plenty of options out there.

I do also think you’re placing far too much emphasis on the kernel here. For example some platforms don’t guarantee ABI compatibility between releases, instead requiring their standard libraries being used as the kernel entry point (eg Darwin instead of XNU, or libc on some UNIXes). This is why people often talk about GNU/Linux, Darwin or NT as more than just a kernel.

And that’s before we address the massive elephant in the room that is all the abstractions that sit on top of the userland. For example how so many applications these days are basically running inside a virtual machine called a “web browser”. These days a modern browser is almost like an OS in its own right.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not taking anything away from Linux nor the Linux kernel. But its main strength is its momentum rather than it being unique.
So Mark Cuban wants to lean into exactly what DOGE is pushing by putting himself in the middle of the Governmental to Private shift?

That doesn't surprise me and gives more evidence that Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.
Yudkowsky isn't a billionaire nor someone who cons them. Did you mean someone else?
Uses it, but not dependant on it. I keep these things disabled.
Presented with the noblest of intensions, no doubt, but a symptom of an extremely disconcerning trend: the beginning of the endstate where the US government is completely privatized.
They built / manage login.gov?

Oh boy.

It’s one thing if Twitter has bugs. It’s another thing if people have bugs while trying to login or signup to government services. Or hackers finding vulnerabilities and no one to fix them?
Voting is a responsibility. If you "don't have time to do the research", please don't vote.
> Part of the uphill struggle for these forks is convincing people their brand is trustworthy.

Agreed. I recently installed one of the forks, appreciate how it defaults to the privacy related features that need to be manually enabled in Firefox, but won't use it for anything where privacy and security is important. Which kind of defeats the point.

As for how to build trust: I don't have a clue. Things like real names, day jobs, and backgrounds don't really mean much to me. First of all, verification would be an issue. Second, it isn't really an expectation that I hold any other project or organization to. I suppose being in the main repository of a distribution that I trust would help.

(It's also worth noting that trust is more than trust in motivation. There is also trust in the competence of the individuals involved and in the project's decision making process. One can build trust under a handle. True names are not required.)
If there are any of these hacker spaces that are friendly for English speakers (my German is only A2.1 sadly), I would love to join one of them :)
Manifest v1/v2 is already an illustration of the problem. Google will use its power to impose (de-facto) standards that hurt users and give itself more money and power.
You have far more faith in the market than I do.
Gnome Web is based on WebKit.
Also, oh my god, the enshittifcation!

I had to install it for some work thing, and booting a clean copy reminds me of a peak pre-loaded-software windows box.

All they need to add to reach full feature parity is a Candy Crush captcha that gates the “login to enhance google tracking” and “switch search engines” dialogs.

I honestly don’t understand how people put up with the boiled frog crap from Google. The last time I ran a test query, the ads pushed 100% of the search results off the front page.