skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not with understanding, but with maintainability. If you need, for any reason, to touch that code again, instead of a few changes, you have to be consistently doing a lot of changes. This has a higher chance of manual errors. And it has nothing to do with other bad code, like the one that you encounter. Both can be bad code, and what you inherited sounds worse. I hate it when the badness is compounded with complexity. It feels pretentious to me.
The website looks good, but as I scroll down in mobile Safari the page starts glitching until it fully crashes and Safari says an error repeatedly occurred. It doesn’t inspire much confidence when the web page for a web browser is broken.
Any resources you’d recommend to learn more about this?

for context: 10 yrs experience as a software engineer and only a couple on high traffic products. Some things (like this) continue to surprise me.
DROP TABLE is explicit. Inadvertently removing a line from a config file and having Postgres decide to automatically "clean up" that "unneeded table" would be a more apt analogy.
Can we add DOORS to this list please?

I have no idea how/why IBM of all places developed or sold this software but it badly needs to die in a fire.

Database technology which would seem outdated in 1994 with a UI and admin management tools to match.
The tech companies (mostly Facebook) are responsible for MAGA both times, but there's no amount of ass kissing that would have got them to do the necessary level of pro Dem moderation.
Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
You cannot share happiness with others if you don’t create it for yourself first as you will have no happiness to give away.
Grokski
A little browser game inspired by classics like SkiFree—ski down a slalom course, dodge trees, and outrun a yeti! It’s made with vanilla HTML5, CSS, and JS, no frameworks. Use arrow keys to steer, F to boost speed, and aim for slalom gates to rack up points. High scores are saved locally.
You can get better at it, that is what makes the game so rewarding. Im just average at the game and I can probably win on the easiest difficulty 95% of the time.

Part of it is also just being OK with losing, if anything I think you deterministically lose more often in solitaire than in balatro.

I also see belatro similar to poker where you can take all the right actions, play to your outs, and still lose to bad variance. All you can do is your best.
If only SIP wasn't such a trashfire of non-interoperating impossible to configure garbage.
Right but the quantum leap in capabilities that came from GPT2->GPT3->GPT3.5Turbo (which I personally felt didn't fare as well at coding as the former)->GPT4 won't be replicated anytime soon with the pure text/chat generation models.
I see the buggy text too (You caught 0 coins out of 0 in 0 seconds (+1 upgrade and choice). You missed 0 times .). Usually on the 2nd+ item selection screen.
There is a learning curve, but not coping. One of the crest things with terminal: with experience one can type ahead, even before the form fully opened one can type data, which is queued in the input buffer and work efficiently. In a modern GUI application a lot of time is wasted with reaching for the mouse, aiming and waiting for the new form to render. That requires coping with it
No, it's not that, it look more "command-line" style, very minimal UI... if that helps
Anyone have suggestions for which other browser is best for power saving? I’ve been using Edge on my Surface as it seemed much better on the battery than Chrome.
thanks for the research. I just quickly tried them all. I have an older mac with older FF. Results: librewolf and waterfox wont run (10.15 min) and the floorp (react) website crashes. IceCat runs! and seems to use LibreJS for javascript, so my first few tests failed because you have to individually allow scripts per site. I quite like that idea! although my quick test of breakout (HN yesterday) runs slow/stuttery. A couple other sites are throwing up js console errors, so I need to play around with it more. It did enable me to access the floorp website, but also 10.15 min. I guess this helps me migrate faster to my asahi setup, although I've been trying to keep that one away from daily browsing and the little web of horrors.

I wonder if this FF change is pre AI infection, which might end up affecting these other builds too. Pretty disappointing after such strong privacy promises for so long, whatever the reason for these changes.
What'd be interesting would being able to shut down specific auto-immune responses. Currently most of what we have are hammers of one sort or another.
Have you looked into remind[0] while working on this?

There might be value in checking that out.

Personally I haven't used it in years, but the latest release is from this year so it seems active.

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[0] https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Anyone tried uBlock Origin Lite, the v3 compatible version?
That's a great reason why Apple (absent regulation) will never do it, but that's not really the point. I don't particularly care what Apple does or doesn't want.

Software piracy is a fact of life. Attempting to protect against it, and eating whatever (possibly imagined losses) are costs of doing business. That's been that case as long as there have been personal computers.

> On Android, it’s pretty well documented the majority of APK installs are piracy.

How many of those would actually lead to a sale, though? This is the same argument the music and movie studios always trotted out, and it's just as invalid now. Many people just won't pay for things, and will otherwise do without.
Especially an alternative that doesn't mean giving money to Google or using any Meta service.
The probability of token generation is a function of the logits. Do you have an actual point related to the linked paper?
Also impact of diet should not be underestimated https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5357144/

edit: at least on mices for now
They could do something really funny and just fork Chromium like Google forked WebKit.

The reality is that no business likes ad-blockers so why go through that trouble only to get less money?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23249964 "EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3" May 20, 2020 253 comments
》 Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, open and accessible.

》 “Mozilla isn’t your typical tech brand; it’s a trailblazing, activist organization in both its mission and its approach,”

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-o...

I do not doubt they employ 750 people. I am saying they have tons of other projects. If you go throught their blog posts, Firefox has tiny fraction of posts.
I suspect they may launch a GPT4.5Turbo with a price cut... GPT4/GPT432k etc were all pricier than the GPT4Turbo models which also came with the added context length.. but with this huge jump in price, even 4.5Turbo if it does come out would be pricier
I created a super-simple CalDav-esque web endpoint in my personal website that receives HTTP requests from a command line tool, stores the calendar events, and then returns them as a dynamic ICS file. Then, I use Apple’s Calendar app to subscribe to a “hidden” URL and iCloud automatically distributes the subscription to all my devices.

It sounds super dumb but it works so well.

The main feature is that I can categorize the events (personal, family, work, friends, etc.) and share individual URL’s with other people. Admitedly, I didn’t try solving this problem with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or any other calendar service, mostly because I wanted to own my data and also learn a bit more about CalDav itself.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650
Honestly if long context (that doesn't start to degrade quickly) is what you're after, I would use Grok 3 (not sure when the api version releases though). Over the last week or so I've had a massive thread of conversation with it that started with plenty of my project's relevant code (as in couple hundred lines), and several days later, after like 20 question-aswer blocks, you ask it something and it aswers "since you're doing that this way, and you said you want x, y and z, here are your options blabla"... It's like thinking Gemini but better. Also, unlike Gemini (and others) it seems to have a much more recent data cutoff. Try asking about some language feature / library / framework that has been released recently (say 3 months ago) and most of the models shit the bed, use older versions of the thing or just start to imitate what the code might look like. For example try asking Gemini if it can generate Tailwind 4 code, it will tell you that it's training cutoff is like October or something and Tailwind 4 "isn't released yet" and that it can try to imitate what the code might look like. Uhhhhhh, thanks I guess??
I just want a Finder that actually works. It’s pretty incredible just how bad Finder is. It’s by far the worst piece of software I’m forced to use on a daily basis.
Terrateam too[0]

Although Terrateam is more tightly integrated with a VCS provider.

Disclaimer: I co-founded Terrateam.

[0]https://github.com/terrateamio/terrateam
There's several examples where this is true even in other industries, like Uber. That being said that is the wrong take away. Upon seing some unfair cases of crime not being put to justice, the response shouldn't be "everyone does it, let me do it too". In fact the idea that "everyone does" whatever crime you're considering is the first and foremost rationalization people make before committing crimes like tax evasion and so on.
People did not used to marry early in the good old times
1. Sleazy

2. Weird but not evil

3. 100% acceptable

4. Good, maybe. What vpn?
Magnet is pretty good for window management, IMO.
If the plan is to have most people out of job soon-ish, then big population with bunch of young people without good prospects is a recipe for disaster.
Link directly to the Github commit: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b..., which links to the following issue: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/issues/16016

There are a bunch of locked Google docs linked in the issue, probably internal privacy guidelines.

I can't say that this surprises me, perhaps they are looking for alternate revenue streams in case Google cuts them out?

To HN: Will you be quitting firefox over this change, or is there simply no better place to leave for?
Can't wait for Ladybird to become usable. To be fair, it already is fairly usable, but I'd need history syncing / Keychain sync to make it a daily driver.
"use some clever cryptography"

And who will hold the keys?
In my experience, Gemini Flash has been the best at writing, and GPT 3.5 onwards has been terrible.

GPT-3 and GPT-2 were actually remarkably good at it, arguably better than a skilled human. I had a bit of fun ghostwriting with these and got a little fan base for a while.

It seems that GPT-4.5 is better than 4 but it's nowhere near the quality of GPT-3 davinci. Davinci-002 has been nerfed quite a bit, but in the end it's $2/MTok for higher quality output.

It's clear this is something users want, but OpenAI and Anthropic seem to be going in the opposite direction.
If your family is naive enough to be duped into ignoring several big scary warnings, then they are vulnerable enough to be duped into something worse. The problem here is not the magical walled garden tech but you not educating your family sufficiently.
> We will have to agree to disagree on whether SSO is security or not.

It's not a binary flag, it's a spectrum. "Defense in depth" is a thing, and that means a layered approach to security.

Just because a product is missing SSO does not in any way mean that that product fails any security check.

IMO, holding the position that not having SSO is the same as not having security is unreasonable.

Missing SSO does not magically make the other $FOO layers of your security vanish into the ether.
So many here are in agreement that queer erasure is occurring you're saying that being informed about it happening can have no positive impact at all? How should we fight against something if we ignore that it is even happening?
I suppose I rather appreciate the lot of you who believe I am wealthy and therefore able to find happiness in life. I suppose I’ll have to disappoint you a bit and tell you that I am not wealthy and certainly not wealthy by most standards on HN. I simply accept that it’s my job to create my happiness. Nobody else will do it for me.
> Every resource necessitates API calls that consume compute resources

In that world, I think it'd make more sense to charge per run-time second of performing an operation. I understand the argument you are making but the issue is you get charged even if you never touch that resource again via an operation.

It might make sense if TFC did something, anything, with those resources between operations to like...manage them. But...
FWIW, it works fine in FF mobile.
> Firefox (including derivatives) is by far the most fingerprint resistant

Do you have a source? The fingerprint detectors [0] as well as reddit's banned/duplicate account system suggests otherwise.

Maybe at one point Firefox stopped the fingerprinting, but the tools have quickly found other ways to uniquely identify me.

[0] - https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/kcarter?aat=1 https://firstpartysimulator.org/kcarter?&aat=1&a=11&t=11&dnt...
The answer is probably some combination of all 3. The modern web is indeed insanely complicated, Chromium is a massive enterprise project with all the resulting inefficiencies one would expect, and a competing web browser should likely aim to support the 90% use-case and ignore a large fraction of the total complexity in the process.
I find Planets are more powerful with better hands. A pluto for instance is nearly useless early game, but a single saturn can get you through the first two antes on its own.

I had a run on nebula deck today where I made it to ante 6 just slamming saturns and straights over and over, no scoring jokers.

Eventually you need X mult to make it to ante 8, but I think you can usually get away with as little as 2X mult if you are hitting saturns.
OpenAI took a bullet for the team, by perhaps scaling the model to something bigger than the 1.6T params GPT4 possibly had and basically telling its competitors its not gonna be worth scaling much beyond those number of params in GPT4, without a change in the model architecture
??? Your op argues that 230 most go but you're linking an unabashedly pro 230 article.
OCR, VLM or LLM for such important use cases seems like a a problem we should not have in 2025.

The real solution would be to have machine readable data embedded in those PDFs, and have the table be built around that data.

We could then we actual machine readable financial statements or reports, much like our passports.
> It's already a basically bleeding edge C++. Why is it so much to ask for developers to use a more mature and established iteration so I don't need a brand new compiler?

Because C++ got better and better in recent versions?

You are essentially asking to forego large amounts of improvements that allow for writing more maintainable code, just because you are too lazy to install a compiler that has been released 1 year and 10 months ago (in the case of GCC 13) or 1 year and 5 months (in the case of Clang 17).
> I don't think the IDE is good for other programming languages or non-programming things like team communication and task management.

It works great for Python and C++, honestly. If you're a solo dev, Mylyn does a great job of syncing with your in-code todo list and issue tracker, but it's not as smooth as the IDE side.

However, its Git implementation is something else. It makes Git understandable and allows this knowledge to bleed back to git CLI. This is why I'm using it for 20+ years now.
One of my friends was in management at HashiCorp and what he told he was there were a series of bad internal promotions to product management and heads of development that tanked the company. At the same time there was a huge problem with leftist activist employees taking the company for hostage, not surprised they got scooped up for pennies on the dollar.
I wonder how the new subs are going?
Compared to GPT-4.5 I prefer the GPT-4o version because it is less wordy. It summarizes and gives the gist of the conversation rather than reproducing it along with commentary.
I fail to see how this works with hyperloglog. But will read more
About 2-3 rotations per second so 120-180 rpm.
It depends on lightning conditions, how far you are from the bike wheel etc.

If it's dark out the pov effect works better. If you're far away, the arms sweep across a smaller field of view for you which lessens the effect.
> Running my own keycloak or another ory hydra is a boring task.

Simply running keycloak is not sufficient for SSO.

An SSO implementation may take months of dev time (i.e. $50k, minimum, considering cost of dev hours spent on it, and opportunity cost of not having those devs putting those hours into features).

And after you have done that, it remains an expensive feature - it's a high-touch feature that will eat product support time like you wouldn't believe.

Outsourcing this is still the cheapest option, and it still costs more than the product itself in many cases.
Yes a URL is much handier than a QR code because I can read and remember it.
Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
I agree with your sentiment one hundred percent. However, I am just stating that this is how the world works.

Cryptocurrency is another horrific example, where the value-add is avoiding KYC = tax and sanctions evasion! I knew this over a decade ago, and decided to sit it out for moral reasons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: to be honest, not just moral reasons. I just could not imagine that in a just world, this illegality would be allowed to continue. So little did I know.
Does Chrome have a similar policy that says that it owns a license to your data?
EDIT: I got this working, here is what AI can do for you today. It's only been 54 minutes since I posted the question at the end of this comment:

http://taonexus.com/p2p-voice-video-chat.html

It's p2p voice, video, and chat without logging. To use it send someone the link and your peer ID and they can connect to you and you can start chatting.

In those 54 minutes I got it working on Chrome, Firefox, and mobile including Safari and Chrome, fixed emojis so it worked (I had to be in the loop for that and walk it through how to fix it). There are no analytics or recording, it just works. It totals 468 lines of code.

Writeup about it:

"How we made a Skype alternative in 45 minutes (video, voice, chat)."

https://medium.com/@rviragh/how-we-made-a-skype-alternative-...

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My original question:

Question from the State of Utopia:[1] would you like a free State-run alternative?

What you could expect if you say yes: our AI infrastructure can currently produce a total of about 1,000 lines of code, this is enough for us to get peer to peer person to person calling on mobile from a browser and Desktop, with voice, video, ephemeral chat that isn't saved at the end of the session, including emojis, and no address book, and no logging or recording or even analytics. We previously got peer to peer filesharing working with webrtc: https://taonexus.com/p2pfilesharing/ it is buggy but worked for us, barely.

We probably can't get multiple people in the same conversation, it could be too difficult for our AI.

We can't build something as complicated as a browser (our attempt: https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/feb2025/84toy-toy-browser-w...

So don't get your hopes up, but we could get the basic infrastructure up, barely. Would that be of any benefit to anyone today?

[1] The State of Utopia (which will be available at stateofutopia.com or stofut.com - St. of Ut. - for short) is a sovereign country with the vision of using autonomous AI that "owns itself" to give free money, goods, and services, to its citizens/beneficiaries - it is a country rather than a company because it acts in the interests of its citizens/beneficiaries rather than shareholders.
Sounds like 22nd century tech at least. Good to dream of, not practical even for very young here to think it would help them
Nothing snarky about a guy worth $100 billion telling his minions that they should work for 60 hours per week, instead of the usual 40. Maybe he should remember from what country his parents came and what happened to the billionaires there.
> You agree to indemnify and hold Mozilla and its affiliates harmless for any liability or claim from your use of Firefox, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Yikes. Good thing i was never informed or agreed to this nonsense.
The menu immediately closing was recently fixed[1] in Firefox 136. We'll look into the content of that menu not working correctly. Thanks.

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257
It's fascinating, but while this does mean it strays from the given example, I actually feel the result is a better summary. The 4.5 version is so long you might just read the whole thread yourself.
AudioGalaxy was my favorite, personally.
So they Nokia-ed Skype. RIP.
That all sounds like an issue with your particular setup more than with Skype. Just because that isn't how the Linux app works for most people at all.
How many of those vulnerabilities were related to JITs? How many were actually feasibly exploitable, and not just theoretical? How many would have resulted in something actually dangerous (code execution, privilege escalation) and not just something annoying (denial of service)?

How many people are actively doing security research on each browser? Is the number of finds per browser more a function of how many eyeballs are on it than how many issues actually exist?

I don't doubt that there are actual, real differences here, but presenting context-free stats like that is misleading.
I use tello.com. You can get eSIM and activate it while you are outside the U.S. If you won't activate roaming, sms and calling will use wifi calling.
First of all, US population has been steadily growing, so I don't get why big business (whose interests current administration represent) would need to engage in long-term culture engineering for steady supply of new workers.

Second of all, majority of US population is urban. People in NY or Bay Area can't elect a president who represents their interests due to how Electoral College is designed but attempting to change their opinions on having children by banning porn is a pipe dream.
Now I really hope Microsoft buys Google.
> The first neural network, the Mark 1 Perceptron, was invented during WWII for OCR.

You're about a decade off, the Mark 1 Perceptron was created in 1958 [0]. The original paper (A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity) that introduced the idea however was written during WW2 (1943) [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Perceptron

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logical_Calculus_of_the_Id...
Servo browser engine: Roadmap 2025
Exactly. These are the people that champion "small government" thinking it hurts regulation, not realizing that without regulation companies screw over consumers as much as they possibly can.
Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing