skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slowliness of the user base trust erosion means annual bonuses for the C-levels. Every year. That's by design. I'm sure they are pro's in burning frogs (or users) slowly. (Until one morning we realize that FF has become Chrome).
>modern JavaScript

This is really one of the major problems. Much of the web is now fairly terrible, and so for a browser to get any meaningful traction it must work on nearly all websites; which means that any browser is going to be compromised unless it aims to remain incredibly niche. Some days I can't decide who I dislike more; MBAs or web developers.
PubMed has been sabotaged.

RFK Jr. and Elon Musk gaining political power will be one of the most challenging disasters the human race has ever encountered.
Glycocalyx dysregulation impairs blood–brain barrier in ageing and disease
I dunno, if there were like 30 of you all wearing orange vests and had relevant department of transportation stickers on actual work pickup trucks I think you might be able to get away with it as long as you threw some cones to dead-end one way of the intersection.
Yep. A wealth tax on billionaires brings in some tax revenue, but that's not the key thing it achieves. It achieves no more billionaires. It is bad for society when one single unaccountable person can accrue this much power.
It makes me think people can write things on the keyboard without the need for the things to make any sense.

Which is of course nothing new, but it does make me remember it.
I tried the demo, but I decided to not say anything. It desperately tried to make me talk. The entire experience was bizarre and unsettling - another commenter described it as a northern Californian startup CEO’s level of strange fake enthusiasm. As a Brit, I found the level of synthetic bubbliness in the voice extremely off-putting. I’d hate to live in a world where that was the way everyone behaved in real life.

The entire thing felt like it was a hyper advanced engagement hack. Not there to achieve anything (even my enjoyment), just something to keep my attention locked on my device.

AI products in the future should have a clear objective for me as a user - what can they help me do? Some simulacrum of a person that is just there to talk to me at length is probably going to be a net negative on society. As a tech demo, this makes me afraid for the future.
Salvia is the closest thing to witchcraft I have experienced.

After a few incredibly strange experiences, the last time I smoked it the trip came on then it told me "don't ever come back here" and that was it. The whole trip was like 30 seconds. That was almost 30 years ago.

A bad LSD or mushroom trip is scary in a much different way. I was pretty fearless when younger with these things but never wanted to see what that salvia demon thing would do if I went back.

Anything amanita related never sounded much fun to me.
Fortunately, it's only been a month and his approval rating is already plummeting. I doubt him proclaiming himself "Eternal Sovereign of America" would bode well with Americans, but who knows. His true fans seem completely oblivious to the insanity of what he does.
You should not be assuming one's politics just because they take stimulants and listen to jungle music. That is textbook prejudice.
Does Google effectively own Webkit, though? This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm really asking. Whether or not Webkit can be thought of as disjoint from Chromium is really the question here.
I don’t even think most of the commentators are even expats. It’s just a lot of people are hell-bent on the idea that outside of the US everything else is crumbling, is on fire, and will blow up the next month.

When I was bumming around US, I kept telling people how my best time in NA was living in a 800sq ft. apartment, in the best neighbourhood in the continent (also subjective), and I never upsized because it was subjectively the best choice for my lifestyle. Most of the responses were something like “you made yourself to believe in that”. Or “if you moved lived in X state you would have a better life”. But those were just not true for me, and will never will be. And from my personal circles, the same applies. People are just having a hard time to understand that if you make decent income, the life for some people is just better in other countries than US.
I don't understand how they could be pulling in half a billion a year for a decade and still have financial problems... even if they just put that money in a low risk money market investment account the whole company could have just ran off interest by this point.
Rust is my main programming language and Python the second. Rust is very much useful for application programming - especially these sort of applications. In fact, Rust is the language I sometimes reach for when my shell scripts cross a certain threshold of complexity. Rust even has some tools and an RFC to address the use case of using it like a scripting language (I believe that Go has something similar too).

I don't face much friction from the borrow checker to consider it a 'heavy price for not having a garbage collector'. There are even tools like bacon [1] that can give your real-time feedback on your code. It's even better with the default language server. I sometimes train other developers in Rust - mostly people who are not even into systems programming (JS, Python programmers). However, they don't seem to struggle too much with the borrow checker either. Could you elaborate a bit on what you consider as 'the heavy price'? What sort of issues were you facing frequently?

[1] https://github.com/Canop/bacon
I'm genuinely afraid of what we're doing to our childrens' futures.
It's an evolution, not a hijack. Even Mitt Romney accepts it as the new normal: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/politics/video/mitt-romney-ma...
China's DeepSeek claims theoretical cost-profit ratio of 545% per day
You can't see anything here...

A survey like this is always going to skew heavily toward people who are agitated enough to go and answer it - particularly when you preface it with a biased post about the issue you're asking people about...
I think we should have more public shaming of companies' negligence. If you don't pay your bills you're publicly shamed in your credit score.

Also consider that those types of things happen after several rounds of ignored warnings.
On what basis do you make this accusation? Does HN need a new rule specifying what the other rules already explain? Give OP the benefit of the doubt. I read the entire article and it was absolutely not LLM-generated.
For me: no Multi-Account Containers, full uBlock Origin about to be disabled.
Python's success is partly because it is easy to do things. It has a huge market share. Combining the speed advantage of one programming language, with another seems like a great idea.
The population age has very little to do with it. Demographic density is what matters. Old and immigrants have to be housed, as long as population is increasing, the problem will worsen.
> capitalism has eaten itself and utterly failed

Is it really the capitalism, or is it the monopolism of exclusively owning the copyright and making the money out of it? Who'd fund the widely expensive shows, the CCP? Guess what the quality of the TV shows was during Socialism (and the level of creative freedom they had)?

The capitalism gave the pirates the way to cheaply reap, host and distribute by providing the means to do so for a fraction of the price. If you don't like the service, you don't pay, netflix shares go down and they end up like Blockbuster. If they succeed that means there are enough people who pay gladly.

Copyright system is flawed, but it's not because of capitalism per se (private ownership of the means of production), but because of the over regulation coerced from the government by the copyright owners. But that's bad governance, not the capitalism itself.
The TCJA made $4.5T in cuts for the richest 0.1%? Can you explain more about that? Is that by income, wealth?
> the only one that is Manifest V2 compatible

Could you provide a reason why that is a feature?

All the extensions I’ve implemented runs fine as V3 manifests, and they allow much more fine-grained security permissions. That’s something I’m happy with, even as a developer. It limits the security impact of whatever flaws my extension may have.
That's what YOU mean to say.
Fox News and "Mainstream Media" isn't that relevant anymore.

Podcasts overtook them a long time ago; people like Joe Rogan are the new Mainstream Media.

ex. https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/rvdcea/oc_joe_rog...
The outrage here is that she was detained. One thing is to be denied entry even when you did everything right, another is to be detained for an indefinite period of time.
There's probably no ideal out there, just different better (or if you prefer, 'less bad') options. With the modern web, nothing is permanent. If a company or software is amazing, it could always become awful in the future. In principle software always potentially suffered from this problem, but the modern web really accelerates this process. There's effectively no web browser which can remain static as the web around it changes so rapidly. And, in order to be meaningfully useful for a broad audience it would also need to keep up with Chromium, which is incredibly well-funded. I think we're in a losing game.
So, umm, abusing the C switch statement to implement polymorphism?

I kid, I kid...

I am curious about how much this really saves over just using C++ classes and something like the curiously recurring template pattern while turning off runtime type checking.
It's a visa violation, so the rules require a formal deportation as a deterrent. A country like Germany or France does the same as well.

Hopefully European nations will reform their immigration system based on this, but based on the German election results, there's no hope.
> mainly, I'm still dependant on Mozilla no matter where I go. They are the ones actually doing the hard work of developing the browser engine

You are being reasonable. Firefox is an essential application in my day. I support Mozilla directly -- in a small way, this helps to ensure that Firefox is available to me and others.

Consider --

Browser Market Share Worldwide - February 2025
Chrome 66.29%
Safari 18.01%
Edge 5.33%
Firefox 2.63%
Samsung Internet 2.3%
Opera 2.09%

That's three Webkit browsers with 90% market domination. GOOG, MSFT, and APPL don't need my pennies.

No software is perfect and no browser is free as in beer and free as in zero risk. There is no browser that is perfectly respectful of privacy (i.e. zero data leakage, zero surveillance). The WWW monstrosity is now tooled for surveillance.

In addition to the actual coding that makes Firefox possible, Firefox has support for uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and the excellent Multi-Account Containers extension. These alone make me happy to support Mozilla.

I don't like all the features and services that Mozilla has added or tested, but it is interesting to design and test new features. And if the TOS about sharing data must change, that's where we are in 2025.

GOOG dropped the slogan "Don't Be Evil" -- I cordially invite all relaxing frogs to speculate about future increases to the water temperature.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke Mozilla to remove this feature. I agree with you was the entire reason I used Pocket (literally replacing AvantGo for me).

Now Pocket is basically yet another ... web portal? advertisement platform? social network? I do not know how to describe what it is now, other than useless.
> It looked to me like the fleet did consistently fall behind, which seems like thoughtful design

Thoughtful, but I think it isn’t necessary with ‘modern' NTP algorithms. They lose time by slowing down a clock derived from their hardware clock for a while, not by moving the hardware time back (https://serverfault.com/a/94691, https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ntp-atom...)
The GIL which is currently being removed from CPython?
Thanks for the info.

On The Prize, it's really phenomenal, and that's from someone who disagrees pretty strongly with Yergin on his general cozyness to the petroleum industry and enthusiasm for its future prospects. As a history the book is a brilliant work, there's an accompanying PBS/BBC miniseries, and the wealth of information contained (and number of head-turning new-to-me revelations) can't be briefly described. If you're into that sort of thing, I'd also recommend as much of Vaclav Smil as you can stand, though would suggest starting with Energy and Civilization, a look at human history through the lens of energy.

The octane ratings you give are about what I recall from Yergin's description (if that's where I first heard it, again, somewhat vague decade-plus recollection).

My understanding of diesel ignition is somewhat informed by WWII-era triple-expansion steamships, which burned bunker fuel, that requiring a lot of heating (utilising spent steam) just to get it flowing toward the boiler, then again getting toasted immediately before going into the burners. External combustion, obviously, but the challenge of getting a very nonvolatile fuel to burn left an impression. That engine room visit left an impression as well....

Otherwise, appreciate the additional knowledge, it fits pretty well with my own weaker understanding. Interesting especially about cetane. Looking that up, the name comes from Hexadecade, a/k/a C16H34, or a sixteen-chain hydrocarbon (double the carbon-atom count of octane, a/k/a C8H18).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecane>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetane_number>

And for octane: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating>
Would be cool if we could finally kill off false information. Not that I trust big tech to do so, but at least the possibility for the most trusted entity in a persons life to be strongly grounded in reality is there.
I know, just every now and then it is particularly weird and I comment. Also it was real quick, like I had said something so offensive it needed to be pounced on. :)
> the US needs a president like FDR

Conservatives like to argue that FDR was a dictator. And then argue that they want a "conservative dictator like FDR."

In fact, FDR was a democratic leader with a massive and overwhelming popular mandate. His mandate came because people could see that he was overturning the Gilded Age power structure and creating a system that made people's lives better.
No manifest v2, worse privacy options, controlled by Google and so sure to get worse over time.
> Example: it was saying "two dude-us" while trying to tell a melodramatic story. Which I assume was originally "two dude...s" or something.

Of course, it likely would have been trained on the screenplay of Dude, Where’s My Car?.
I don't think it was in the first one. The defense sec also told the dod civilians to reply to the second email

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/comply-next-what-y...
There are people doing that, Qutebrowser, Nyxt does that for WebKit(and they are moving to chromium engine). The main issue why others are not doing that is the issue with cutting yourself from extensions.
Is it a good idea centrelize all this fields in a one platform?. Mmmm...
Yes, very bad strategy because not only it is worsening the housing crisis, and thus accelerating the fertility crisis, triggering a vicious cycle.

And immigration is also a source of other problems, especially when it is fast and massive.

Governments should accept the demographic transition and adapt instead of trying to import a lumpen proletariat from elsewhere. This is the worst political mistake of Europe.
I need something that works across OSes. Chezmoi works pretty well.
>which is mostly around privacy and not being Google.

I don't understand why you're framing this as though those were mutually exclusive. They did the privacy stuff, and they did the side bets at the same time.

The side bets didn't come at the expense of privacy despite repeated breathless attempts to imply otherwise, mostly here in the backwaters of hn comment sections. That whole argument has been vibes all the way down and it's depressing to see so many people repeating it.
The original Kakeya problem is a really nice one for students, in that it's easy to understand and visualise, but has an unintuitive answer.

In this sense it's like Borel-Kolmogorov and imho much better than Banach-Tarski which is trotted out frequently, but actually very difficult to understand (both relatively and absolutely).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set#Kakeya_conjecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Kolmogorov_parad...
Thanks.

The impression I'd had from the interview(s) I'd heard were that it was common practice to use a fairly standardised characterset and then the specific auxiliary set as needed. How much individual typists might move between different machines and (nonstandard?) configurations I don't know.
The comparison breaks down on the other side also. It's not like the average court was just in thrall to the king, much of what they did was for access to wealth and power.
I guess that it is not what you want to hear, but just use a Linux desktop, like cinnamon!

Apple pretend to do ergonomic but their window manager is full of frustration. Using cinnamon is a breeze with everything working well as expected. Even having multi-screens and having apps in menu on the correct screen where they are located.

I usually have open multiple Firefox, console, folder, pdf windows and my life under os-x was a nightmare.

Impossible to have one bottom icon per window (I tried everything, even U-bar that was my hope is just garbage), to not have all windows of the same app open when you click on the icon like Firefox, having to do right click on the icon all the time to go from one window of console to the other, terminals having tabs and window mixed in the menu bar,...
I’d also add that doing all of this by breaking laws/contracts makes it likely that the net cost will be greater than the advertised savings. Every one of the contractors they stiffed has pretty straight forward grounds for a breach of contract suit and every government employee they said was fired for poor performance has grounds and a strong incentive to sue to clear their name.

All of this makes everything more expensive in the future: new contracts are going to have higher overhead to account for new legal and accounting costs, and unless the government will never hire anyone again they’re going to struggle to get skilled employees at all, much less at the same salary, when it’s clear that they’d be signing up to be treated like this. The direct cost is bad but the productivity cost will be even greater and last for decades.
Ask HN: The Best Computer Activities for Kids in 2025?
My 11-year-old loves Fortnite, which is mostly fine—but I’d love to shift some of that screen time toward something more creative or productive.

We’ve tried programming with Scratch, but it didn’t quite click. He’s into drawing, but that’s not really my expertise. I’ve been toying with the idea of building a custom computer together, letting him choose all the components, case, lights, and really make it his own.

What are your kids into in 2025? What are the coolest computer-based activities, games, or projects out there that mix fun with learning? I’d love to hear what’s worked for your family.
The missing detail is that he was doing this whilst being the stereotypical midlife crisis lecturer who finally finds a peer group who respects the avant-garde nature and intellectual depth of his philosophy by inviting first year undergrads to enjoy their first acid trips in his flat. Eventually he managed to find a group of people impressionable and emotionally immature enough to find his schtick impressive without him having to get them high first by re-emerging as a figure on the fringe right. This involved quite a pivot on notional values and inspirations, but that was only a problem if you assumed there was any substance to it in the first place.
Safran can not make a competitive commercial jet engine on their own and Rolls Royce is a generation behind both GE and P&W, and given the state of the UK not likely to catch up. Right now there is really P&W and GE and then everyone else.
Sure once you have seen a couple of skits from the Jackass crew you shouldn't be surprised anymore, you know what their shtick is, nonetheless everyone is always surprised and tunes in for the next unbelievable episode of mayhem.
African developers, what pain points do you face with Next.js projects?
I'm building Codex37, a Next.js boilerplate specifically addressing challenges developers face in Africa.

The stack includes Paystack for local payment processing (avoiding Stripe's limitations with African currencies), Supabase for authentication and database, and Loops.so for email management - all with Next.js and shadcn components.

I started this after repeatedly spending days configuring payment gateways that work properly with African currencies and banks, setting up authentication flows, and rebuilding UI components for each new project.

For those working on web projects in Africa - what specific configuration hurdles slow you down the most? What features would make your development workflow significantly more efficient?
It's the age of automation. They likely got more than one courtesy automated reminder e-mails. If one doesn't respect automated reminders, one will respect automatic service cut-out.
I'm using UnGoogled Chromium right now, and it seems not to be willing to install uBlock Origin. You can use uBlock Origin Lite. Ironically, The author of uBlock originally recommended switching to Firefox; I wonder if he'll want to change that recommendation now...
This is for sure a firewall misconfiguration. If there would be malicious intent, the bad actor would for sure not just close UDP.
Hasn’t Python had native modules for eons now? How is this any different?
Scientists describe new type of fat in human bellies
David Brooks, at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, had a session called "How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart)"

I included a link just below to at the exact timestamp he talks about this:

How Brooks sees Trumpism: not conservative, they don't have a conservative or positive vision for society, they just want to destroy the institutions "dominated" by left. In his words, this means, they are astoundingly incompetent. "Elite Narcissicm" leads to the destruction of every thought system it encounters.

https://youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?si=Uckncgw-WbAfA5tZ&t=277
But we ALL want our toasters to ask us if we want any toast
It saddens me that so many voted for Trump thinking he will be some sort of savior, when all I see is an opportunistic billionaire that does not have their interests in mind anymore than needed to maintain popular support...
I fear consumer protections of all kinds will be gutted, the wealth gap will grow even wider, more wealth will be concentrated in fewer hands, and the US will be dealing with the fallout of these guttings for the next 20 years or more
I don't see Floorp [1] mentioned a lot here i think... i quite like it, might be a good alternative for now, until something better comes along.

Also there's Arkenfox [2] of course, if you want to fine-tune privacy settings.

[1] https://floorp.app/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorp

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
We were playing with it last night and it could understand Spanish, but it couldn't speak it.

My assumption is the LLM can translate no problem, but the audio model can't do Spanish. It seemed like there was an external catch to stop the model from trying too.
This is not true. Open your user folder and there will be tons of dotfiles. If you use git with ssh or Rust (.cargo) or C# (.nuget) and many other tools. In fact, even .config is started to show up now.

I guess devs are tired of %APPDATA% ?