skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain what "wide-spectrum content blocker" means and how it differs from other ad blockers available for Safari?
I used Teams through most of lockdown. The developers were all on macs, and used slack for chat, so the only feature of teams we used was for the daily stand-up video call.

The desktop app ran very poorly on macs, and left everyone pretty much blaming it whenever their Mac acted up.

I only used the website version myself, and it was fine, so I'm assuming there was just some hanky programming in an election wrapper that needed optimizing.
Funnily enough, I put that blog post in a sibling comment and described why I think it's bad advice. Why don't you think Skype is a perfect counterpoint to Joel's argument? I mean, Skype basically died because they didn't throw it away and start from scratch. Like the parent comment said, competitors came up, and what used to be a million line giant project was about a bajillion times easier when WhatsApp came along.

Yes, it's absolutely true getting the working bits correct is hard, by consigning yourself to a slow death doesn't seem like much of an improvement.
There are some businesses trying to do emotional support with AI, like AI GF's, etc

Some will make some profit as a niche thing (millions of users on a global scale, and if unit economics work, can make millions of $)

But it seems it will never be something really mainstream because most normal people don't care what a bot says or does.

The example I always think of is chess bots have been better at chess than humans for decades. But very few people watch stockfish tournaments. Everyone loves Magnus Carlsen though.

This is 100x for emotional support type things.
I'm gonna say this every time this comes up: These people should be in PRISON. They are criminals. If we care about law and order, we must remove them immediately from office. End of story. I am sick and tired of apologists for these people, if you believe they are conducting themselves legally, you do not believe in our Republic, you are complicit, you are a traitor to our country and to the American project. We will find you with our pitchforks, it is only a matter of time.
It takes less than a minute to add ublock
Please use Firefox instead of a Chromium derivative. We need variety in the browser space and Gecko is pretty much the only independent option remaining.
AltStore or jailbreaking ftw.
Functionality + ad-free life > security
I think having CUDA available in consumer cards probably played a big part in it being the de facto "AI framework." AMD would be wise to do the same thing.
The alternative being implemented is that insiders could not police themselves, so outsiders are doing it for them with far less precision.

It’s like a hoarders show where everyone is shocked (SHOCKED!) that things had gotten as bad as it is, the hoarder has lost the capability to determine what is valuable or necessary, so a third party with no attachment or sentiment comes in to clean house and throws out the good with the bad.
When Microsoft took it over, I lost the ability to log in. Despite having many paid credits on the system. There were numerous issues like -- you couldnt log in if you already had a microsoft account under the same email in some cases.
Yeah, especially as Elixir is gradually gaining gradual typing support so you will get some level of static type safety anyway.
GPT-4.5 Multimodal and Vision Analysis
Does Waterfox sell your data like Firefox?

I hate the Mozilla 'clarification' because they gave no example. The only information I type into Firefox is using websites. Them being 100% vague makes it feel even worse.
FF users might want to take look at KDE's Falkon. It's come a long way - fast and solid.

>can be installed on Windows 7 or newer as well as Linux from the repositories, as a flatpak and as a snap. https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon
Yes, it helps me write SQL queries in seconds that I otherwise would spend days on or give up completely.
Was never my experience over decades. Nvidia’s proprietary drivers were a pain the ass to install but they were great to use.
I understand this makes complete sense from an app ecology perspective, but if we were to make a similar bulletin for any other community built product..that list might sound a little overbearing.
Okay. So why don't you tell us what the better choice(s) are?
The Free-Market Welfare State: Preserving Dynamism in a Volatile World [pdf]
This is the major way roaming is implemented, transferring all data through your home network greatly simplifies things.
See through the noise. It’s not in American interests to annex Canada. This is negotiation
Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
If your grandmother happens to have a Google account already, Google Hangouts. [1]

Wouldn't need to set up anything. And works as reliably as anything I've seen.

EDIT: Signal is a very HN recommendation for drop dead simplicity. Syncing keys?

[1] https://hangouts.google.com
> No one in my family but me has iPhones, so I think Facetime is out,

So FaceTime lets you make a link that you can give to someone with a web browser and they can use it to reach you, and it works pretty well. You might just try it.

> I suppose I'll have to talk my parents into installing Signal desktop, but I was kind of hoping for something that gave you the "user is online" status thing like Skype does.

That's probably the biggest limitation: It's a webpage for calling you (the person with the iPhone), not a page for you to call them. If you want them to open a app/page when they are available, I think Messenger is best in terms of features and usability.

If your parents/grandmother aren't already on WhatsApp I don't think you should link their phone number (which might be linked to their banking etc) with a public chat system because there are a _lot_ of online scams targeting the elderly through WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and linking to the mobile number associated with other (higher value) services. It is very easy to lock-down Messenger so nobody who isn't already a friend can't target them.
Sure but but the argument here is that Scala.js failed to grow the ecosystem. It doesn't convince people who aren't already.
This was a BETA test, not the product... YouTube on the other hand...
There are probably better sources that go deeper, but here’s one I just got from a quick search (https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311609/tesla-sales-eur...)

> In January, according to the ACEA data, Tesla clocked the largest — by far — decrease in sales of any auto manufacturer in Europe. The largest increase, at 36.8%, was for SAIC Motor, a Chinese automaker whose brands include MG.

> In January, SAIC Motor sold more than twice as many vehicles in Europe as Tesla did, according to the ACEA data.
Are you aware of any browser / extension that enables this behavior? It sounds like the privacy grail for some of us.
Well, the nicest ones are two dimensions and one dimension, which sort of (not really) exist as subsets of 3D. So a single variable is one-dimensional. Then you could have a gradient, say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_gradient

And you could have a gradient (of colors if you like, or salinity or force of whatever) along a line, one dimension, or on a plane, two dimensions, or in space, three dimensions. By extension, just adding components to vectors and iterating over the components when you do stuff with them, you can apply the same logic about higher dimensions. This makes people thin and unhealthy and serves no purpose, but seems to have a compulsive appeal for a certain kind of mind.

You can't always reliably extend some idea to different numbers of dimensions, because the interactions between components can get complicated, sometimes a thing that's valid for certain numbers of dimensions is not in fact valid for other numbers of dimensions, like maybe you have to have a odd number of dimensions to prevent positives and negatives cancelling out or something. Like many people, I knew this stuff for about a month once but forgot the specifics. But a tesseract is kind of fun to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

This is like the next step in the sequence dot, line, square, cube. The animation is a "projection into 3 dimensions", like how the shadow of a cube on a piece of paper is in two dimensions. It can't be shown in four dimensions, due to four dimensions being complete fiction.

(It's squirming like that because it's rotating, but the axis it's rotating around is at some 4D angle.)
The best use of themovoltaics I've seen is

https://www.rockfordchimneysupply.com/products/thermo-self-p...

since you've got a concentrated heat source that you want to spread around. Themoelectric devices have been active research field for a long time and there is still some hope of improvement because it is a largely a matter of discovering materials with a high electrical conductivity and poor thermal conductivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
Do game jams! They let you practice skills and helps you learn what sticks.

Big ones like Ludum Dare will also give you feedback on the game, which is good not for improving that gamejam game you made but for learning what things are important with a first impression. You often are meant to leave feedback on other games which is another good way to learn what works and potential pitfalls.

You're welcome to try hard on your first project but project ideas often have to be really really good to stick. Another advantage of doing gamejams is it let's you make something that you can easily just walk away from
Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025
I like ForkLift and QSpace. ForkLift "feels" more Mac native, but QSpace is kind of the everything tool use see in the Windows world.
Time to enact Article 5. Let's see how good NATO is.
These are all true but the browser is open source. When they say "we don't do that" (even if the stuff is in the gui) I don't have to take their word for it. I can check it.
So much of the world runs on WhatsApp. It being down even for a short amount of time seems to lead to many negative impacts.
Google Duo is gone. The functionality has moved to Meet, causing much confusion for non-technical users and annoyance for everyone.
If your focus is programming, work with someone who is good at design. Don't expect to just be able to read some books and independently pull off interesting and innovative game design that will be commerically successful, unless you are very serious about diving deep and learning, to the same extent you would study art hard enough to call yourself a professional artist. Game design isn't some optional nice skill to have when making an independent game, it is literally all that matters. Coding is an important and useful skill, so find someone who feels confident about their design and implement their ideas together.
WhatsApp doesn't require contact permissions to work. Neither do other apps I use for messaging like Facebook Messenger, Instagram, or Snapchat.

iMessage sort of does, but that's only because it's more a part of the OS, which already has your contacts anyway.
Medical treatments devised for war can quickly be implemented in US hospitals
> If github removes it, it will move somewhere else and be harder to keep a thumb on.

It’s on GitHub for visibility and credibility to victims.

If it moves somewhere else where victims can find it, the researchers can find it too.
Mozilla has better lawyers than PR
That's unfortunate, I was still using as a cheaper option for international calls to landlines.

Is there any good EU alternative for this specifically ?
if you do not do rdma the latency kills everything from what i understand.
Hundreds in US climate agency fired in latest cuts
There’s a book called The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. One of the main tasks is writing three pages every morning, called The Morning Pages. I personally find the first two pages quite quick and easy, but it’s that third page where the interesting stuff comes out.

I’m nine weeks into the twelve week program and it has taken me on an incredible journey of self discovery. Memories from childhood, dreams and hopes for the future. All of them uncovered to explore.

There’s something beautiful about writing with a fountain pen and paper. Setting aside time every day to dive deep and see what comes out.
I don't know any small words for this, but the right word is "disproportionate."
Skype should be a textbook case of how a product team will keep inventing new projects to justify their continued employment, even if it means messing with a winning formula.

Skype achieved perfection a year or two after the Microsoft acquisition. At that point they should have downsized the team and focused on maintenance. Instead, they kept releasing new versions, each new version being worse than the previous one.
> For Youtube if I'm tempted to click something I wouldn't have searched for myself I use open in private.

Private browsing? I think that's not this kind of private.
I mean, do a search for "steal cookie":
https://github.com/search?q=steal+cookie&type=repositories

This one has been up for two years: https://github.com/Aker490/Steal-Cookie-Roblox

It would be good to hear an official response from GitHub on where the boundaries are, since it seems like there's plenty of examples of clearly malicious repos hosted for years.
Microsoft Retiring Skype
There used to be a thriving community in there but now it's mostly self-promotion.
So the answer can change over time. You have to periodically re-assess the benefits of a rewrite.
I had no idea how sloppy my thinking was until I started writing.
How does MS ToDo compare to Wunderlist.

It’s supposed to be the successor developed by the same team.
I couldn't disagree more. My principle is to write systems extremely simply and then distribute portions of it as it becomes necessary. Almost always it never becomes necessary and the rare cases it does, it is entirely straight forward to do so unless you have an over-complicated design. I don't think I've ever seen it done well when done in the opposite direction. It's always cost more in time and effort and resulted in something worse.
not just drop the ball, but willfully kick it to the other goal
Loved this article. Learning to love writing is one of my biggest takeaways from my Computer Science PhD program.
What actually changes? ublock origin is still available, right? But it just can't block requests?

My understanding is that adblockers:
1. block requests from certain domains
2. block elements matching certain criteria

Does this change just affect #1?
I was looking into it, and it looks like there's a free version of Teams. I think that might be the easiest to get them to onboard to simply I suspect it'll be easier to talk them into something with the "Microsoft" branding.

I hadn't really thought about scams. I'll keep that in mind.
Yeah, Firefox made a lot of sense when the problem was Microsoft’s incompetence and inability to make any real progress or support standards.

In the modern era, Google is the opposite problem. They DDoS the community by developing standards fast enough that nobody can keep up with them. Actually, it seems impossible to compete with them on their turf. We need an alternative that somehow avoids that competition.

Unfortunately Google is quite good, they managed to embrace-extend the whole internet. Not sure what the options are. Somewhere a filter needs to be applied to reject more proposals.
A new Linux backdoor is hitting US universities and governments
Rust has its advantages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588
Those were left-over 9600 cases and Steve would probably have told you that Gil was a fucking moron.
People who have never worked for a non-profit always think they're better. People who have worked for a non-profit know they're just as dysfunctional as corporations.
Thanks for the link. Those are the professional cards. For consumer cards, the only supported models on Linux are the 7900 series and Radeon VII according to that. Interestingly, all of the supported cards aside from Radeon VII have 24GB of RAM or more as if high VRAM were a prerequisite for support.

Seeing this, I am not surprised I misremembered the state of RDNA support in ROCm. The support matrix it pitiful compared to Nvidia’s CUDA support matrix.
> Define "Independent Agency"?

I said independent executive-branch agency. The very first sentence of Article II says: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." Congress can't create an agency that exercises "the executive Power" that's independent of the President. In the same way that Congress can't create an unelected mini-Congress that enacts laws binding on citizens, and can't create courts outside the judiciary branch that can convict people for federal crimes.

> [ Amtrak, CIA, FCC, FDIC, FEC, Federal Reserve, FERC, FTC, CFTC, SSA, TVA, NASA, NARA, OPM, ]

These entities all differ in whether they're exercising "executive power" or not. Amtrak doesn't meaningfully exercise executive power. Congress can provide for Amtrak to be independent of the President's control. Or to use another example, Congress could probably create a bank that provides student loans that's independent of Presidential control.

But the SEC is a quintessential executive-branch agency. It enacts rules that interpret the securities laws and can prosecute people for violations of securities laws.
wondering how many users firefox has lost, myself for sure..
For me it was Battleship Solitaire (https://lukerissacher.com/battleships), which I found via hackernews. For the first few weeks I played it every day at every opportunity, and since then I fire it up at least every couple days and burn through it. Its a less involved Sudoku logic puzzle that is mind-bogglingly satisfying to complete.
Counterpoints:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/845...

https://ladybird.org/posts/announcement/
It is always the same idea - if the data is even slightly touched and/or processed, it is suddenly not a personal data anymore and is "ok" to be sold.
Actually I just realized my grandmother doesn't have a smartphone of any kind, so I think Signal is out regardless.

I might see if I can just migrate her to the free Teams service from MS. It hurts me a little as an annoying Linux guy but I think this would be the easiest option.
Interested to see how OCR evals play a role in deciding the best model. Great read
The big winners are often ambitious players with appetite for risk, including legally and ethically questionable business practices. The risk/reward ratio is high so there are players who will do whatever is necessary to get big returns.

I guess we don't hear too much about those who failed, unless they fail big like Theranos and FTX.
Thework.com looks like a great resource, thanks for sharing.
A fascinating thing has been discovering that the US is single-handedly responsible for a raft of world improvements on its own. Despite being cast as the villain, it turns out the US government was responsible for so much of significance.

But America was asked to leave things alone, and perhaps we should. If the US was the only thing standing between order and chaos and they want chaos: give them chaos.
> as someone who lives in Europe I'm far more concerned about what the US is doing right now.

The fact that the US is now voting in the UN with Russia, Iran, NK, which mindlessly pushes the EU towards China is mind-blowing, and entirely understandable.

source: EU born, lived most of my life in the USA, then back in the EU for the last 10 years. I will truly miss the century of Pax Americana, and I hope for the coming century of Pax Europa.
The book “Quiet” talks a lot about this and the “extraversión ideal” in global western cultures. Great read for those curious about this research
I recently had a PR rejected because I used the name of a fictional character from a 90's movie in my tests. Keep in mind the character itself was not controversial. The reason given was that it's not professional.

Tbf, I chalked it up to a one singular cantankerous reviewer rather than the whole company.
Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including an age-checking system
I recommend the Godot documentation. The manual is not just a class reference, it's an entire book about best practices:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/best_practi...

Also scroll up a little bit and do the Getting Started "Your First 2D Game" tutorial.

Join the discord(s) and learn by chatting with other game devs.
Another day, another backdoor. At this point, I wonder if any system is actually secure, or if we just haven't found the backdoor yet.
You should try posting the English version https://calculadora-de-horas.net/en
This is just a bad model. I can't believe they released it. Yes it does have few interesting properties, but nothing that justifies the speed or cost when people are running R1 distillations on toasters for nothing.
What they pivoted to wasn’t lucrative either. I ubered all the time when it came out because pricing was like $4-7 for most trips that would be $30ish or more now. It was fueled on vc money to prime a generation of people going to bars to use uber and it worked perfectly. Now people just reflexively call that uber even when its surging to $60.
I have literally never once used teams officially in any degree. Every call i made before i graduated high school was skype, every school and graduate and job call I've ever made has been zoom.
Discussion (329 points, 11 hour s ago, 269 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052
Think for a second. What motivation would the KGB have to tell the American people that Trump is a KGB asset?

Wrong answers only! Go
I use TeamViewer for remote support
I use Radeon 7900GRE for gaming on linux mint without any problems, even tried some demoscene entries through steam (they didn't work with plain wine). Managed to run LM-Studio and deepseek-llama-70B, but installing ROCm support was a little more involved than "just download this and run", had to do several steps and install some missing packages, took me half hour.
Ugh. thank you for posting this link, its going in my favorites for certain. Please link to where I can contribute!
There are people generating mostly consistent AI porn models using LORA, the same strategy could be used to bias the model towards consistent output for corporate branding.

Even if its not perfect, many startups will be using AI to generate their branding for the first 5 years and put others out of a job.

Right now the tools are primitive, but leave it to the internet to pioneer the way with porn...
This reminds me of how Yahoo Messenger was silently a significant part of the oil trade, and its shutdown may have subtly made the industry more opaque: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/oil-traders-prepa...

I have no doubt that we'll see stories about niche industries still built on the backs of Skype that are scrambling to adapt. Nowadays, I suppose it's likely a rounding error compared to other ways that geopolitical forces are disrupting various industries... but we should all be aware of the implicit commitment we make to users when releasing any B2C service, and how people will build entire livelihoods around the simplest of services in ways we can't anticipate.
Yes but you can't easily put 3 GPUs in 1 PC
Intel Postpones Ohio Chip Project Until 2030s in Latest Delay
Would you sell your health data for cash?

No. I don't even want medical facilities to have it. After I leave they need to wipe it off their systems. As for money being involved all the labs already get hacked on a regular basis and its available on the dark web. These places are run by idiots. The last lab I dealt with LabCorp had me a patient helping their customers input their sensitive data into kiosks. I'm honestly surprised they did not have me help them draw blood.

What I want is real time proof they have wiped all my data before I leave for the day. If anything my data should be given to me in paper form and all digital records DoD wiped. I will not even get started on Kaiser. That would turn into a book.
I do. Besides, all frames are fake.