skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They introduced the concept of top-level scripts a little while back - though I don't know whether its just syntactic sugar such that when it compiles down to IL everything just gets wrapped in a main class.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...
I remember just before the release of renegade, a game store by my work had an event for it and was giving out posters and had a few people from the development team there signing them. I had that poster on my wall until I moved out.
Clicked on this post because the domain name sounded familiar from the Tor mailing list. I knew you ran a large set of relays but didn't know you were also a pretty extensive contributor over many years! You're definitely smart and if you were able to get a job at Microsoft you're capable of getting a job at most other places, so this doesn't really have to be a permanent decision if you don't want it to be. You can work at Let's Encrypt, Tor, Signal, etc while making an impact and still doing pretty well for yourself. Anyways, in the spirit of this forum, I wish you luck with your startup.
That wouldn't block crap that is delivered from the same domain as the content, or stuff delivered within the content itself, like embedded ads, or even content advertising (where the content itself is just advertising).
This sounds like my whole life, I've always been trim and have never understood the joy people get from food. Facinating to see there's a drug that recreates that physiology.
Python's standard library is phenomenal.
Also, you "assume bad faith"? What is this?
I wrote the comment so long mostly to appease people like you. But please, post unuseful responses and I’ll just assume this was the DOGE actually doing something efficient
People have pointed out to me that the Flash platform basically still exists with Adobe Animate, AS 3 and everything (including web publishing).

So you can theoretically use the same flow as in your memory. I wish the price was not what it was, and I do not pirate software anymore. And Adobe's tricks when it comes to subscriptions are so nasty. This is a huge barrier to me trying to use Animate for anything, even though I'd probably enjoy it so much.

Timeline-based programming is such a good system for one-offs.
I fear I am done with it as well. I am trying this AI thing and it's really good at it. So I can't motivate myself, to spend the mental energy to code it myself. But starting new tasks is very difficult for me and every new prompt feels like a new task.

In the past, when I finally managed to actually start coding I would eventually get in the zone and be productive. Now with this AI stuff, the constant back and forth, the constant waiting for the output to complete, it does prevent me from getting into the zone.
I question your info hygiene if it's led you to a position where you think it's likely there won't be elections in three years. Obviously there will be elections, and either you know there will be as well and are being needlessly inflammatory or have a wildly uncalibrated view of the world.
Ross Perot back in the nineties showed that half of the budget was for Medicare/Medicaid. I suspect getting the country healthy so we’re not all just paying for big pharma’s yachts will have a significant effect on the federal budget.

I’m very intrigued by what homeopathy can do here. It can replace fertizlers and pesticides, cleaning up the environment and our fresh water supply. We have to do this to get everyone healthy. It can replace widespread antibiotic use on livestock. We got to do these things or we’re all just going to be big pharma zombies.
"Overeating" is reductive.

It's not like people are eating too many plates of vegetables.

Hypercaloric overprocessed food contributes heavily to obesity outcomes.

Sure, people eating smaller amounts (of hypercaloric overprocessed food) is a win. But we should aim higher.
The GP was talking about microgrids in neihgborhoods (presumably fixed, permanent installations), so there isn't really a reason to worry too much about weight.

Reliability, efficiency/cost of operation, and noise is probably the priorities that come way ahead of weight.
This complete denial of institutions and experts is fueled by the complete baseless confidence in effortless expertise and success that social media have been promoting.

People have been convinced they can be making boatloads of money, printing cash from day trading, traveling the world 24x7x365, being PhD level experts on everything etc instantly and effortlessly.

Just because l I watched LeBron James on YouTube does not make me capable of dunking.
This is precisely what’s happened with the educational system in many U.S. states:

1. Reduce funding and investment in public education.

2. Claim that our educational system is broken and we need to privatize.

3. Fund charter and private schools with vouchers while continuing to defund public schools.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see steps 4 and 5 where we return to well-support education for all.
Anders Hejlsberg was chief architect of .net after creating both Turbo Pascal and Delphi.
I used JetBrains for Java (IntelliJ IDEA), Python (PyCharm) and Javascript (WebStorm) and many of the same affordances work across all those languages and I'd expect Rider to do the same.

(Funny I am doing a hackathon this weekend where we are writing a game with Unity and I'm using Visual Studio for the first time in 15 years! It's pretty amazing how big a role C# plays in game development as it is used in many other frameworks like Godot)
Tried it for a while, paid for the full bundle for a year to try a few of the products. Just could not see what the fuss was about, Visual Studio (the full version) does everything I need it to.
Presumably proving 100% efficacy is impossible. Among other things, there are immune disorders that ensure you're still at risk even if fully vaccinated. And anyone is at risk with a depressed immune system, which can be caused by sleep, diet, stress, unrelated illness, pregnancy, etc etc. and finally remember that vaccinated people still get infected, they just are able to fight the infection with high success rate (you claim 100% but 3% is a big gap to explain away). Even people who successfully fight the infection completely unsymptomatically likely incur a cost to their organs and immune system as a result.

Even with vaccinations, you should attempt to avoid risk of infection if you can.
I think we’ll be priced into using WASM mode for at least one of our products, because we have VoIP functionality built-in. The call needs to stay live and controllable as the user navigates the application. I think that’s the main reason they chose Angular rather than .NET MVC.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

The early days of Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557848 - April 2023 (224 comments)
I once thought this was the solution too, then NYC's ranked-choice mayoral race gave it Eric Adams. Now I don't know. Maybe open primaries?
You technically have a point, even Russia has elections. But that doesn’t matter because they are just for show.

In US you generally gerrymander to the max or throw all sorts of road blocks to discourage voter participation, but we might also see more physical harassment going forward, both for voters and poll workers.
>However there is also Coherent Unix.

I was a customer and it was very good, I use to use kermit to dial into a Sun System at work and it would call me back so I would avoid charges. That was to get USENET and general Internet access. Fun times. It is too bad they had to fold, be to be honest by 1995 the writting was on the wall,

When they folded, I went to Slackware, which I still use. Back then, Linux was changing almost daily.

Coherent had one thing that Linux could not do, but via USENET I asked and someone supplied a patch for me within days. It would allow me to use 2 monitors with 2 cards on my 386sx, a BW and a VGA just like what Coherent was able to do.

People were far more accessible back then until the fortune 500 companies got involved in the 2000s.
Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara
"classitis" is much diminished
Cruelty and profit or it isn’t capitalism
Wait how do you publish stuff written with AS3 and Adobe Animate in 2025? Ruffle?
Was actually going to post a similar comment re: NASA and the SSME engines for the Space Shuttle. This graphic shows the coolant system circulation that pumps cold fuel through the outer casing to warm it up to proper temperatures before use. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#/media/File:Ssme_schemat...
99% of Americans are not supposed to be filing a tax return. Unless you paid US source income to it's foreign owner, you should not be either. What gave you the idea that you needed to?
At least it's one day off from 996.icu

for now.
Both Intel and AMD to some extent separate the vector ALUs and the register file in 128-bit (or 256-bit?) lanes, across which arithmetic ops won't need to cross at all. Of course loads/stores/shuffles still need to though, making this point somewhat moot.
The motivation behind DOGE didn't make sense to me until I also realized the money saved on government employees could be used to justify reducing taxes on corporations or the very wealthy.

And the rhetoric that the reason the working class have lower quality of life now than 20 years ago being due to immigrants and the poor ... is a way to focus attention elsewhere instead of increasing taxes on the rich.
I’ve heard it’s multiparadigm now, but I can’t yet substantiate that. Even if it is, I don’t know if it’s JavaScript-level (so functional they rewrote SICP in JS), Ruby-level (just a sprinkle of lambdas and pattern matching), or somewhere in between.

I’ll be sure to post an article once I find out. :-)
Your snarky tone aside, “overseas” usually means outside of one’s country. Microsoft has research teams all over the globe. You don’t have to be in the U.S. to work for Microsoft.
Show HN: GenieAI – Generate UI Components from Text Descriptions
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a tool I recently built called GenieAI. It allows users to generate UI components by simply describing what they want in plain text. For example, you can type something like "Create a financial dashboard with a sidebar, and a transaction table", and it will generate the corresponding UI for you.

How It Works:

-You enter a description of the UI you want (the more detailed your description is the better the result).

-GenieAI processes the input and generates a UI component using shadcn/ui.

-You get a preview and can copy the generated React + shadcnui code.

I've often found myself spending a lot of time piecing together UI components manually, even when using component libraries. The goal of GenieAI is to speed up this process by letting developers generate structured UI components instantly while maintaining flexibility to customize the output.

Note: You’ll need to sign in to use GenieAI (theres a demo video on the main page if u dont wish to sign up), but I’d love to hear your thoughts! Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear about any improvements, issues, or use cases you’d like to see supported.

Thanks..
Why? Because I've seen Propublica cherry pick quotes before and taken them entirely out of context?

The media has been lying to us for decades and no, I don't take them at their word, especially when they share a clip that removes all context.
You know about F# right? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/languages/fsharp

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fs...

Dotnet has compilers for C#, VB and F# and they can all share the same frameworks and libraries. C# is the most popular.
It is very simple. Nobody hates queue jumpers more than the people that stood in line.
It will probably be another 15-20 years before we see the pendulum swing back for education unfortunately since we're still in the fuck around part of FAFO. It will take at least another generation of poor performance and educational outcomes before we realize that the problem isn't public education but rather the lack of investment in early childhood development.
I've been able to pretty much drop Javascript for business oriented apps due to Blazor (both server rendered and WASM)
Salaries must be weighted by risk. Right now, there is a high risk that researchers funded by grants or working in government labs will lose their jobs and faculty will lose their grants and labs. Industry researchers are in a more stable situation, even though layoffs may be more common than on the average.

And if we focus specifically on the academia, American salaries have never been that high. Sure the numbers in the paycheck are bigger than in most countries, but the cost of living is also high. Particularly because good universities are often in very expensive areas, such as California, New York, or Boston. I've worked at a foreign university where grad students on dual income could buy a starter home. Now I'm at an American university, where you need to be tenured faculty on dual income to afford a similar home.
I find it surprising that someone who worked inside a banking corporation, and has seen first hand that nothing ever goes according to plan, is able to believe that somehow the machinery is perfectly orchestrating a privilege loop.
What sort of businesses do you recommend? I’m hesitant to take on someone else’s codebase.
Well, according to the two sources I'm familiar with, it's not necessarily the _current_ laws that are the most concerning, but rather the _direction_ things are heading.
40% alochol consumption reduction did not lead to "a fundamental restructuring of the social economy"

The hyperbole is just painful to listen to
Why calling loved ones by their name is strangely awkward
"Starbucks's greatest trick was convincing grown-ups it was OK to have a milkshake for breakfast."

(I heard this somewhere on the internet, about the Frappucino.)
Unrelated. What happened to your anime studio?
Also I doubt the jar ever fills up, not many people in this thread seemed to be aware of this limitation until reading this post.
Intentionally Fusing Direct Manipulations into SVG Programs
https://archive.ph/yUXWu
Musk has said that if you remove something that turns out to be important, you can always put it back. I think this is how they're operating. Like a giant scream-test. Some staff and agencies will return but only when the problems of their absence have become clear. This is one way to improve efficiency which may be very effective at the cost of some disasters here and there.
There is nothing wrong, I think, with having application-oriented exceptions, but you are going to either catch them individually or make them derive from some root like CreditCardException.

Real life does not respect encapsulation, that is, it is not really your application's business to know that such a thing as a SQLException exists, other than how to log it, if SQL is hidden beneath a DAO layer. I mean, just because the beautiful architecture of your application doesn't have things like backhoes cutting through fibers in it, doesn't mean those things can't happen to you. There are a lot of things that will happen to your application that it can't understand and the best it can do is: (i) protect its own integrity (use finally) and (ii) abort, retry or ignore and (iii) hopefully have the wisdom to choose the right one of those.
I understand your perspective. I imagine, since they're the shares he has and it would cost a lot of money to sell them all, this could be seen as another example of "No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism".

Paying for food that Nestle makes supports their system too, for example.
> I've seen Propublica cherry pick quotes

Wait until you see Twitter Files or whatever Elon is going to drop from DOGE.
Yes, that is the goal, but not quite how they sell it.

The sell is to individuals to get their votes, not corporations (who of course are on board, but cannot vote), and more amorphous for not being above board. About how people's hardship are being caused by "enemies" who must be punished. Thus the "cruelty is the point" observation.

Simply stating their goal, "the hyper rich feel too fettered, with respect to the rights/safety/wellbeing of individuals", would fail for being overly direct and honest.

(I have no doubt there is governmental waste. But their behavior is not consistent with doing the work of identifying and eliminating waste. Waste elmination here is a side effect (that can be pointed to) of mass elmination independent of waste.)
Dual layer CDs are not a thing but yes you can put a 'half hour' episode on a CD at 3.5-4Mbps and it will look pretty good, better than the average streamed video.
I am learning C# as well after decade of powershell, bash and (a little) python to fill security tool gaps. It feels heavy because I have to actually worry about error handling, speed and the quirks of compiled languages. Ive also had a great time learning with ChatGPT - i can ask it to explain and compare a C#-ism to a similar powershell or python pattern. Hugely helpful.
Real quiet in here on the comments, can’t figure out why he’s acting like this right?

Maybe because he’s attacking the country on behalf of some other world power

Just common sense
No personal attacks please, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Heroku (I work there) recently announced support for .NET on the platform https://blog.heroku.com/dotnet-support-on-heroku
Flash was kind of terrible, though. It was proprietary and the creation tools were largely inaccessible. Some of the plugins only worked on windows boxes. It had a lot of the same issues java applets had with accessibility. Today's ecosystem should be able to support basically the same creations in a much more portable, accessible, performant format. My understanding is that even the flash runtime itself has largely been ported to html/js/webgl/canvas. So why we don't see this is very curious indeed! It must be the lack of accessible animation studios.

I don't mean to diminish anything you say, of course, it's all true and these flash games are a cherished point of my childhood. But the true loss hasn't been flash itself but the creative tooling that enabled a generation of artists to express themselves and create fun things and the communities that arose around it.
IMO you have to take that with a grain of salt. Stalin is increasingly popular in Russia and more popular than Gorbachev. And Stalin is one of the world's most prolific mass murderers.

Russia currently is run by an ex-KGB dude. The KGB opposed Gorbachev's reforms. Putin is actively trying to rehabilitate the Stalin personality cult and revive a longing for Soviet era colonialism to legitimize his war of expansion.

The Russian people are amazing, but there's only so far you can go if you don't have a free press, if expressing certain facts about history is illegal and if people are murdered for being too open about their opinions.

I don't doubt there are people who are still unhappy that Russia lost its status from the imperial days, just as there are British people frustrated that they're no longer an important empire. But that was happening anyway and it was only a matter of time.

It's not really surprising that the average opinion in an authoritarian country aligns with the position actively promoted by the government of that country. Just like it's not surprising that the party wins by a landslide in a one party state.
You could remove these few sentences:

> Neel, based on your linkedin, you're 27 or 28. You're a grown adult. Stop following your mom's orders.

And be a lot less patronizing, more convincing.

(It appears you mean well though, and I do understand the point you're making in spirit).
Ever hear Monty Python’s Galaxy Song (from The Meaning of Life)?
I've never "seen" anything except the lights streaking, but I sure did spend a lot of time looking at the patterns in carpets and marveling at the beauty of trees.
C#/.NET is my go to always. But, I have a really hard time loving Blazor, and most of the other non-essentials that are piled on top of HttpContext.

My current preference is to lean on string interpolation [0] to do most of the heavy lifting when rendering web documents on the server. You can nest interpolations and use LINQ + collection aggregation (string.Join()) to trivially build things like tables and other complex documents. Combine interpolation with verbatim [1], and you basically get a poor man's PHP document system nested within your C# source files. I've done the whole razor template thing and I am completely over that. Managing the dependencies and weird initialization routines for these rendering engines is not worth it when the language has a built-in feature that accomplishes virtually the same thing with absolutely zero BS.

Writing raw HTML to the client is a simple one-liner [2]. You can quickly build your own bespoke web frameworks, leveraging the power of features like reflection to make your life 100x easier. You can sidestep virtually all of the AspNetCore namespaces and the attribute-driven nonsense that is hallmark of most .NET/MVC-style web apps. If you keep it light and avoid the boilerplate, you can do a lot of damage within 100 lines of code these days.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspne...
Thank you. For some reason HN search wasn't showing me anything for CookLang

See also: FOSDEM 2025 lightning talk

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6651-cook...
While true, they are not sustaining combustion within the turbo. I believe this is what makes the problem more difficult, and it sounded like what the OC was suggesting.

Turbos float on a layer of motor oil, and have a crude design compared to combustion-sustaining turbines.
Care to post any YouTube links that you find helpful?
The article says forecasts would be fine even during that temporary shutdown but long-term research would be reduced. There's no ceiling to how much long term research you can do so they'll always be understaffed as long as somebody believes that even more research could be fruitful.
In English it can be used to describe fact-finding, sometimes casually.
> Award winning faculty and scientists are fleeing US universities and institutions and setting up shop in China, often with more funding and talent available, and no McCarthyism accusations of being spies. It started officially in 2018 with the US Department of Justice's "China Initiative", which basically just allowed anyone to go on a witch hunt of Chinese and Chinese American academics.

While some of what you write is accurate, there’s also plenty of hyperbole and omission in what you said.

According to research by Stanford: ”19,955 scientists of Chinese descent who began their careers in the U.S. but left for other countries, including China, between 2010 and 2021.”

And: ”Among the scientists of Chinese descent who left the U.S. in 2010, 48% moved to mainland China and Hong Kong, and 52% moved to other countries.”

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reverse-brain-dr...
Don't try to be a rockstar. You don't know what you're doing, so just ask questions and don't act smarter than you are.
Please don't cross into personal attack.

Everyone here needs to make an extra effort to assume good faith, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Otherwise we're just going to get in a downward spiral.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
>It doesn't mean anything.

It certainly means something in context, seeing as virtually everyone in the civil service has been painted with this same brush regardless of whether the term's use is correct or not.