skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of positive comments.

Allow me to share a different perspective:

I hate this.

I long for serious content and straightforward UX, and less on gimmicks. The modern scrollbars is a good example of how terrible UX has become, which is obvious when comparing to the design principles of the 90s.

The smartphone dominates UX today. I suspect the reason why scrollbars disappeared was to save pixels on low-resolution smartphone screens. And now we're stuck with it.
Excellent collection of work
Many hypothesis, one of my favorite, however not at all proven, is the heavy use or sautee / stir fry cooking over gas stove. That’s like second hand smoke exposure at least a few times a day
Well, technically for Gödel's theorem to apply to a formal system it has to satisfy a few properties. One of those is that it has a computable list of axioms. Infinite sets can be computable too - the only requirement is that determining whether an axiom is contained in the set can be performed by an algorithm.

For instance the set of even numbers is infinite but computable, just check whether the number is divisible by 2.

The algorithm itself is finite, even if the set it determines is not.
262m is the estimate for the "Population of Voting Age for Each State and the District of Columbia". Not all of these are voters, and only malicious thinking could lead to the conclusion that these people are all happy (or unhappy) with Trump.
Geothermal and Tidal are in the same category -- niche energy that works for very specific locations on the planet. The strategy should be deploy solar - deploy nuclear.

Put some research dollars towards deep geothermal and piggy back on O&G research but don't distract from the needed current strategy.
You seem fun at parties
Yes. Ungoogled-chromium runs ublock still.

By default - Google disabled the store extension pages for browsers it flags as "Not Google" (incl ungoogled-chromium) but the extensions are still compatible.

I use https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

There's a longer walk-through here: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-wiki...

Long story short - my extensions work just fine. Ublock, bitwarden, etc.

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Editing this to add - Ublock Origin (not lite) is still working for me on ungoogled-chromium v133.0.XXXXX.

The same version of Chrome on macOS (v133.0.XXXXX) has disabled it by default claiming it's no longer compatible.

So we'll see how long the fork continues manifest v2 support, but at least right now it's still a much better version of chromium than chrome.

I'm already planning on moving to dns based blocking here, because I still have to touch chrome for work...
The Phil Donahue Show – Computers (1985) [video]
Mercedes-Benz testing first ever solid-state battery EV inspired by F1
Push to strip soda from state food-aid programs is getting personal
Two decades in I still love ruby and rails, but I’m a bit surprised that the subculture promoting aesthetic perfection of code via over-wrought DSLs is still this strong. Haven’t we learned anything about pragmatism since 2009?
I just don't agree. The energy we use today would be seen as absurd even 100 years ago, as will our energy use in the future.
I rarely literally LOL to HN posts but this one did it for me.
The title of the movie is perfect. It’s more of the same. Which is still very good, but lacking in anything novel.
In spite of its dwindling usage, Firefox is still used by more than a 100 million people on desktop.

I posted this comment some days ago [1]:

To put some numbers on what a 2.54% market share means, Firefox actually tracks this data. See here: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity:

> Monthly Active Users (MAU) measures the number of Firefox Desktop clients active in the past 28 days.

> February 10, 2025: 163,203,913 clients

> February 17, 2025: 163,742,671 clients

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219572
For me, Flow's greatest strength was the complete lack of voiceovers, almost like a silent film. No overbearing narrator coercing you. Flow allows you to feel on your own terms without interference.

With most media since the dawn of Hollywood, the internet and now AI, we are accustomed to being told exactly what is happening. Think about how 'laugh tracks' tell you to laugh. The search for an answer or meaning of something is largely taken away from you. Without that instruction you are left to make your own interpretation of things, no delivery of a specific message or theme. This means the movie is experienced differently by everyone. That why it's so great.
What does Cornell's 10 billion dollar endowment pay for?
Advisors don't work so well if you ignore them and surround yourself with yes-people
Incredible, thanks for sharing. My understanding is that ternary computers would have been based on tri-state logic which was less reliable than say transistors or even vacuum tubes encoding binary state. Is that understanding correct?
> delivery driver peeing in a Gatorade bottle to meet quotas

I agree that that is fucked up too. But that's kind of my point about the layers of crap once you start digging.

But you're giving a false dichotomy — like we have to choose between flying chainsaws and drivers peeing in bottles. I'm pretty sure that most people thinking about it for a bit can come up with a few more alternatives.
I've always felt Matt's channel was a bit too "cheerleady" (for lack of a better term) regarding the topics it covers. A lot of the videos seem to be in the format of: "Here's some long-shot green energy idea still in the concept/early planning stages of development. Here's a list of all the positives of this technology, and none of the downsides or challenges. What do you think? Is this the future? Leave a comment and subscribe!"

It just feels like I can't trust anything the videos say because they're completely unskeptical of everything they cover, which makes them feel way less informative.
But there's also an efficiency argument there.

If technology now allows us to JIT distribute from a single store / warehouse across a larger area, isn't that better?

Imho, the real problem with American suburban design is (a) the elimination of spaces where community organically happens (read: corner store) without replacement with something else (e.g. a park) & (b) the centralization of corporate power enabled by monopolies (e.g. Amazon logistics).

To (b), I'd much prefer if drone distribution centers like this were city-owned property, with the drone service provided by one or more drone operators, with adjacent warehouse space for any company that wanted to distribute.
It was no experiment at all, it was Bjarne Stroustroup way to never ever repeat his downgrade experience from Simula to BCPL, after he started working at Bell Labs and was originally going to have to write a distributed systems infrastructure in C.

Also there have been alternatives to C and C++, even if they tend to be ignored by most folks.
You really are hitting the propaganda talking point bingo here.
If we can get drilling tech improved, we could drill far deeper and geothermal would be viable anywhere on the planet.
Surge in malware-free cyberattacks and AI-driven threats
Well, and a lot of people don't want to pay the premium usually associated with a bodega/corner store if they don't need to. I frequented some local camera stores over the years when they were more of a thing and, however rose-colored glasses I want to view them through, they weren't that great relative to today's options.
In the beginning there will likely be bad ones that are obvious to spot like explicitly pushing products or services relating to the prompt.

Soon, I expect them to be almost invisible. The LLM will gently be nudging the user towards some products rather than others.

For example, let's say a user asks how to do X. The LLM could then respond with an itemised list of steps to accomplish X. But the steps might involve doing it in a way that would later require services from some company.

Obviously, there is a potential to do this in ways we cannot even imagine yet.

Blocking it using traditional adblocking technologies like uBO will not be possible.

Only solution I see is to run trusted LLMs locally. But it will require some sort of "open source"-like trusted training of those LLMs. I think we need a movement similar to what gave us Wikipedia and Free software in the 90s/00s.
It does look like the exec class has become a new aristocracy that lives in a world separate from the rest of the society - new technofeudal lords.

The best solution to this is to create employee-owned private corporations like Huawei: All its shares are owned by its employee union, and the union democratically decides how much dividends to distribute to the employees every year. Easiest worker-ownership setup.
I repeat: language obviously matters, and it's one of many factors Trump/Vance exploited to create an intimidating atmosphere. But it's not such an overwhelming factor that it would make Zelensky turn to Russia.
> it was synced to the tube, the strobe effect made it look stationary.

Why is it synced like that? Seems dangerous, and I don't know much about lathes but lighting synchronization doesn't seem something that would affect the mechanical parts being processed :)
Take your property tax idea, and assume you solve issues like the wealthy "selling" the property to companies who "lease" them right back to their wealthy owners (the wealthy will spend a lot of time and effort avoiding the tax)

But say you succeed. The wealthy sell their second homes with only a small impact on house pieces. Now your tax raises nothing (everyone sold) and the wealthy invest in something else. It's a marginal improvement in housing affordability but not a solution to societies problems.

Or maybe the housing market collapsed under all these forced sales and the wealth is gone, and a load of normal people are in negative equity and your tax still doesn't raise anything. You've made life better for non homeowners but you've also trapped a bunch of mortgage holders with expensive unsecured debt. That's not exactly perfect either.

It's not simple and I'm a bit tired of pretending it is.

This isn't me saying we shouldn't be trying to tax the wealthy, it's just that I'd really like to see a specific workable plan rather than hand waving.
It remains to be seen if any of those projects will be around in a couple of years.

I haven't yet seen something that would make me have to consider Zig, regardless of my personal opinion, like other languages that have grown to become unavoidable.
This sentence belongs in a dystopian novel, not in the real world where people have to live with the consequences.
I didn't say that amazon warehouses > low income housing, but I've edited my comment to make it more clear. Warehouses and distribution centers need to exist, even if they don't use drones.
It's a huge mental leap from "I like the output of nepo babies" to "the blandness in the works is due to the psychology of wealthy people".

I would suggest reading more about the history of development and ask yourself why we used to make prettier buildings, but generally no longer do. Rich people have not changed.
I feel like I was all super excited for the cool new electric car word and ... stuff like this really turns me off.
> How many of these people getting toothpaste or whatever delivered by electrically powered drone would alternatively be firing up their dinosaur-powered F-150 to drive to the local supermarket instead?

We can be outraged about both.
Relevant now as Chrome recently started force-removing/disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome.

(at least is has been force-removed on one of my machines. On another machine, it hasn't happened yet)
The thing I really like about Phlex is that it's not a full DSL, it's not its own language. It's an expressive Ruby API and the resulting code has the regular Ruby toolbox available. Ruby devs often call this a "DSL" and I lean away from that use of the term because I think it adds confusion in situations like this. But Phlex feels like a breath of fresh air because it's composable, testable, "just ruby", and has a lot fewer opportunities to footgun myself.

I agree on your criticisms of Erb and ActionView. I'd add that Erb is just really noisy jumping in and out of Ruby with <%= %> constantly. I'm regularly running down basic errors in producing well-formed HTML.

I'm still only experimenting a little with Phlex. I'm not sold on some of its design like the distinction between views and components, but maybe that's a practice/docs issue. I'd also like to see a performance test that's not a microbenchmark and I may try to make one this month. Similar to your note about haml, I've told the project devs that I'd be really encouraged by a phlex -> erb tool to reduce the perceived risk of getting locked into the dep.

EDIT: Oh, and I read the phlex code because I have similar experience outliving a dep. The library is ~1,600 loc with same again in tests. There's a little metaprogramming in SGML::Elements I dislike but it's not a dealbreaker. The library is small and straightforward enough that I'd be surprised if it broke without going unmaintained 5+ years, and I'd be fine maintaining a private fork for a year or so while migrating off.
The question isn’t whether the social sciences should exist as an academic field, the question is if they deliver reliable enough results to be a cost effective use of the defense budget.
Show HN: Pathik – Low-Memory, Fast Firecrawl Alternative for LLM Markdown
I built Pathik, a blazing-fast Firecrawl replacement, at a hackathon in under an hour and am now open-sourcing it!

What is Pathik?

• A high-performance web crawler written in Golang with Pythonic bindings

• Uses 134x less memory than Playwright (thanks to Rod)

• Supports proxies

• Outputs clean Markdown, making it LLM-friendly for fine-tuning & retrieval use cases

Why does this matter?

• Avoids bloated browser automation

• Ideal for structured web crawling for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and knowledge extraction

• Simple pip install pathik and you’re ready to go

Try it out

pip install pathik

Example script:

github.com/justrach/pathik/blob/main/examples/example.py

If you find it useful, drop a : github.com/justrach/pathik

Would love feedback & contributions!
Linux Gaining SMP Support for the OpenPOWER Microwatt
With US$100 million in taxpayer funding.
If this is target at developing nations, theft of the solar panels will be a major hindrance.
Can these be used as mixins? I looks like there’s only a single return value.

Edit: Looks like mixins are planned: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment...
Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors from Processed Foods
Think what you will about GM, but he predicted 2 years ago that naive scalling would hit a wall, and now, after countless spins and "re-interpretations" of the frontier labs, they all show via their actions that GM was right - even though they would never admit it - as it it would validate much of his other criticism of the industry.
Last Apollo landing was 53 years ago…
I've lived in china for nearly a decade. My family is Chinese. Just because some Chinese have great English, does not mean that all Chinese have great English, and you'd often see releases with fragmented or otherwise poor English. Now with LLMs, everyone can correct the English in their posts no matter their proficiency level.

How does this relate to propaganda? Propaganda is often posted to look like organic and natural conversations online rather than government bulletins. It's a lot easier to do that if you are perfectly proficient in the language. LLM tech enables this.

This is not particular to the Chinese by the way, all the major players are doing this. Like I said, my family is Chinese, and my intent is not to convey a negative meaning.
Just because it's common parlance does not mean it's a good practice. HN is supposed to be a forum for reasoned discussion. Any kind of sophistry or propaganda should be called out. Since Trump describes his regime as having an "unprecedented and powerful mandate", and this is actually incorrect in several ways, it is worth drawing the distinction here.

Another way in which Trump is incorrect is that his election victory margin is average among presidential elections in terms of both electoral vote margin and popular vote margin.
> Also I don't understand what "government surveyors" have to do with anything.

There have been a few published examples of overzealous code enforcement bureaus using drones to identify otherwise out of sight violations.

Which... I hate codes and ordinances as much as anyone, but if you're in violation you're in violation.

Better to address the overzealous part of that by forcing a more relaxed policy on the bureau through their leadership (e.g. the mayor).
Now consider that perhaps the current state is the result of a similar conspiracy but in the other direction.
> People need their things

Sorry but I completely disagree, People lived for thousands of years before warehouses. People dont need 'stuff' - that is a fabrication by capitalism to make you buy more stuff.

Housing, and specifically affordable housing for lower income people, is infinitely more required than more commercial warehouses built to ship people more Chinese rubbish.
Jetson's style future is a 1960s fantasy of futurism that hasn't held at all to the "cool" factor. Robots doing deliveries while creating noise pollution isn't cool at all, the new cool future is one where we are more intertwined with and respectful of nature, where we can live in calm places with green and convenience comes from smart solutions not a brute force fleet of Wall-E robots beeping around us all the time, instead one where the smart solutions are almost invisible so we can enjoy the environment around us. I much prefer seeing more trees in cities rather than metal, glass, and motors.

Unfortunately the urban design of most of the USA is not prepared to embrace the new cool future; current American urban fabric cannot support small shops dotted around neighbourhoods where you can shop for some basic items while fetching your newly delivered packages with a 10-15 minute walk taken going through community gardens, parks, and other amenities to calm your mind. It's all stroads with cars zipping by at 60 km/h or taking a walk passing by never-ending rows of gaudy suburban detached homes with no sense of uniqueness to the space like quirky parks, patches of woods with trails, and other features that can be interesting and calming to the mind at the same time.

That's what I think is cool, coming from growing up in a megacity like São Paulo and moving to Stockholm, Sweden, I'm fucking tired of machines, noise, pollution, the machines should be more invisible as we venture into the future on this Earth, not more prominent and disturbing.
So much wasted time and money spend on LLM as a way to AGI that would have needed to be invested in more sound and innovative approaches.
Elon Musk Calls Social Security a Ponzi Scheme as He Destroys the US Government
The title is pure clickbait - it doesn't link to an article with a matching title.

It links to an online ruby textbook, last updated 2 years ago according to the gitlab repo.
Extremely abrasive toner that smells like gunsmoke.
You're arguing that submarines swim.
The Ninth Circuit Has a Lot to Say About Online Contract Formation
The full title is:

> The Ninth Circuit Has a Lot to Say About Online Contract Formation (Much of It Confusing)–Chabolla v. ClassPass
> robust triangulation of n-gons and making per-face-per-vertex data per-vertex on disconnected triangles.

This is a simple post-process step after parsing.
They are working on that, well... kind of. They somehow convinced the NYC government to allow them to legally operate little trucks in bike lanes. They claim that they are "bikes" (bikes have two wheels, that's what "bi" means, these have four)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/1gw1wlj/amazon_box...
Well, it's also possible that delivery drones at scale maybe just have an unavoidable noise pollution factor. Sure, roads do too but those are pretty much a given even in areas with density that supports good public transit--and maybe especially if--see e.g. Manhattan. (And it's not like trains don't cause noise pollution too.)

Aside from the odd military helicopter from a nearby training area, I have pretty much zero audible air traffic at my house. I would very much object to large drones overhead on a regular basis.
How do you suggest toothpaste should occur in the real world? I can only go to the store with my electric vehicle which uses organically mined lithium in its batteries, charged by free trade manufacturered solar panels? To get toothpaste which hasn't been tested on animals (only humans) made up of chemicals that don't use any "bad" chemicals?
I've not yet managed to successfully write any meaningful contribution to a codebase with an llm, faster than I could have written it myself.

Ok sure it writes test code boiler plate for me.

Honestly the kind of work im doing requires that I understand the code im reading, more than have the ability to quickly churn out more of it.

I think probably an llm is going to greatly speed up Web development, or anything else where the impetus is on adding to a codebase quickly, as for maintaining older code, performing precise upgrades, and fixing bugs, so far ive seen zero benefits. And trust me, I would like my job to be easier! Its not like I've not tried to use these
As someone pretty firmly in the anti-AI camp, I'm genuinely glad that you've personally found AI a useful tool to polish text and help you communicate.

I think that just because someone might be more or less eloquent than someone else, the value of their thoughts and contributions shouldn't be weighed any differently. In a way, AI formatting and grammar assistance could be a step towards a more equitable future, one where ideas are judged on inherent merits rather than superficial junk like spel;ng or idk typos n shi.t

However, I think what the parent commenter (and I) might be saying is that it seems you're relying on AI for more than just help expressing yourself—it seems you're relying on it to do the thinking too. I'd urge you to consider if that's what you really want from a tool you use. That said, I'm just some random preachy-judgy stranger on the internet, you don't owe me shit, lol

(Side notes I couldn't help but include: I think talking about AI and language is way more complicated (and fascinating) than just that aspect, including things I'm absolutely unqualified to comment on—discrimination against AAVE use, classism, and racism can't and shouldn't be addressed by a magic-wand spell-checker that "fixes" everyone's speech to be "correct" (as if a sole cultural hegemony or way of speech is somehow better than any other))
Court Overturns a Bad Jury Verdict Against Scraping–Ryanair vs. Booking
The full title is:

> Court Overturns a Bad Jury Verdict Against Scraping–Ryanair v Booking (Guest Blog Post)
NORAD: Flares deployed to intercept planes flying near Mar-a-Lago
If only we owned our cars, then we could unlock their features at no cost.
So, exactly what the backers want.
Anyone has an interesting project to build with Kinect? I have a 360 kinect laying around, since nobody does Just Dance parties anymore. Also, was the XBone version of kinect much better than 360?
The technique shown can be easily adapted to mmap.
Look, I am in no way trying to diminish work developers put in Blender. It is great product. I saw videos made in Blender that looks way better than Flow from the tech point of view.

My point was that the value of Flow is in its story, both written and visual and far overshadows any technical aspect. Avatar for example is totally opposite from that point of view in my opinion. Great graphics and absolutely meh, story.