skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the parent, but one reference they made but didn't link was this 60 Minutes clip "Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime". It was a bit of a meme in Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc

Still, the author of the original article has some pretty polarising and crude views, and I think it's valuable to keep that context in mind. The key is not to be lazy and just dismiss everything that doesn't come from the smoothest PR media personality.

For me, it felt like reading a frustrated author arguing against over-reliance on the service sector as an economy, given the dependencies it creates. There is certainly nationalism, realism/geopolitical views and a somewhat raw criticism of the current monetary system in the mix. The author sprinkles a lot of cultural references all over it and concludes with a tongue-in-cheek hint at an accelerationist strategy.

.. based on that random blogpost I probably still wouldn't buy any gold just yet.
Isn't this the worst possible case for an LLM? The integrity of the product is central to the value of it and the user is by definition unable to verify that integrity?
Uh, no? And I think you’re confusing abiogenesis with the process of evolution - they are different processes.
> It may surprise a lot of people to know that the JVM's bytecode is actually very, very much not cleanly mappable back to a normal processor's machine code or instruction set

I believe this is a very sensible decision: being too close to a real architecture would probably tie the bytecode to similar architectures too much and make it quite useless as opposed to compiling to an actual architecture.

The bytecode being abstract enough is likely a good thing to be able to achieve okay performance everywhere. Like, you wouldn't want the bytecode to specify a fixed number of registers.

What may also surprise many people thinking Java is a bloated language is that the Java bytecode is actually quite simple, straightforward to understand, clean and also very well documented. It's an interesting thing to look into, even for someone not involved day to day in some Java.
Callstack just announced a new framework for React Native. It's focused on reusable builds on your own cloud, supporting all available platforms and easy adoption in existing community CLI projects and native apps with some new brownfield packaging approach.
For context: there's only Expo recognized as a framework in this space, so this creates some diversity.
It's not yet open source, but it's gonna be in the upcoming weeks.
Robotics News 03-05-2025
Viam raises $30M to scale robotics development platform, Stereotaxis submits catheter pair for FDA clearance, Ukrainian DroneUA begins supplying robotics to NASA, Sensing-actuating integrated asymmetric multilayer hydrogel muscle for soft robotics, AI researchers launch AnySense app for gathering visual training data, Dexory signs robotics partnership with giant Saudi company, Regulator approves Samsung's acquisition of robotics startup

https://open.substack.com/pub/machinadigest/p/viams-30m-boost-robotic-catheters?r=1x7nl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Trust Infrastructure
German police raid homes of activists for making anti-Israel social media posts https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-raid-prop...

(Trump also just tweeted that activists will be imprisoned)
> Money simply isn't as big a differentiator

It seems by your standards nothing is. Yet if you add it all together instead of looking at a single indicator money is inarguably (if you have any arguments or data please share them) statistically the biggest differentiator compared to anything else besides congenital diseases and other health conditions we can't treat yet.

> And that's the tiny bit of common sense required

Well having more than a "tiny bit" of common sense would made it obvious than it's not the case.

> For 50x chance in income.

Directly comparing wealth/income ratios and absolute differences in life expectancy or other indicator just makes no sense and claiming that it somehow proves something. Having only a tiny bit of knowledge about statistics would make that obvious.
The only people who are in jail for political reasons in the UK are fossil fuel company protestors, who were jailed for planning a protest during a Zoom meeting. Others have been jailed for relatively minor but high profile actions, such as throwing paint at paintings (protected behind glass).

People have been jailed for racist rioting and planning racist riots, but not many people in the UK see that as a bad thing.

The climate change prisoners are getting a lot more support.

The US imprisons countless black people every year for the flimsiest reasons with questionable due process, in for-profit prisons, some of which have been caught operating with kickbacks for judges.

Also, Aaron Swartz.

And multiple arrests of journalists.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalists-arrested-in-...

The idea that the US is some kind of utopian beacon of free speech while the rest of the world is authoritarian and repressive is utter nonsense.
It's probably because it's not my country
NextJS + Tailwind CSS and the TailwindUI (apparently now Tailwind Plus) Spotlight template. Code managed on GitHub and auto-deployed to Netlify free tier.

No database, nothing to manage. Just write, commit, and push to deploy.

https://wjgilmore.com
Previous discussion:

What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498483 - March 2019 (17 comments)
It was even easier to buy the US government.
I'm still praying for the future of trained whale-on-whale submarine cable offense/defense action.
My question was specifically about being jailed for expressing their opinion? Is this something that happens all the time in Germany (from what you wrote I would say no. It's a hassle but at most you get a fine that you can appeal, right?). Americans seem to think that people post a meme and end up in an american style max-security federal prison or something, while actually the offender gets a minor slap on the wrist.
Chinese Team Claims Zuchongzhi-3 Million Times Speedup over Google's Sycamore
Not sure if I read this wrong.

Are you making the assumption he, as an EM that codes, has the coding skills of an intern?
Don’t forget your phone on the Artemis mission so you can catch some sweet rare Pokémon!
Can't be defeated? Are you a Russian bot?
There are places in the tropics where a lot of the houses aren't kept closed up with AC running constantly. A lot of South-East Asia, for example.
Man, most folks will never go through oven manual. Usually new oven means new kitchen, and more focus is ie on induction hob, fridge, dishwasher etvc.

I am one of those that just wants simple clear stuff like a lot of people here mention. Whats more important is the consistency between various products - if I am used to a recipe that requires 15 mins at this setting and this temperature, let it be consistent across all products. Which is never the case, more sophisticated cooks struggle in new environment.

But yes the specific use case of mixed products you mention this won't be enough. I'd say thats fringe part of the market and folks knowing they are getting something special take time to understand the tool.
> shield you from politics beyond your level.

ppl here always say "politics" is just learning to work with other people. So your manager is shieding you from working with other ppl ?
I really like the distinction between DeepSearch and DeepResearch proposed in this piece by Han Xiao: https://jina.ai/news/a-practical-guide-to-implementing-deeps...

> DeepSearch runs through an iterative loop of searching, reading, and reasoning until it finds the optimal answer. [...]

> DeepResearch builds upon DeepSearch by adding a structured framework for generating long research reports

Given these definitions, I think DeepSearch is the more valuable and interesting pattern. It's effectively RAG built using tools in a loop, which is much more likely to answer questions effectively than more traditional RAG where there is only one attempt to find relevant documents to include in a single prompt to an LLM.

DeepResearch is a cosmetic enhancement that wraps the results in a "report" - it looks impressive but IMO is much more likely to lead to inaccurate or misleading results.

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/4/deepsearch-deepresearch...
The UK, Portugal and Spain are surely up there.
I thought it was going to be a problem when I gave up the IP I've had for a mailserver at hoster A for 15 years and moved to Hetzner, but it wasn't. But of course that's only anecdata, like everything 90% of personal mail server operators will tell you, no one runs several different setups at different IPs/hosters.
I don't think you understand what "very much possible" means. It isn't a synonym for "I very much believe."

We have actual evidence of evolution as a real and active process and can (and have) studied and mapped that process across species and across time - including in humans - and we find absolutely no evidence of nor the necessity for extraterrestrial influence anywhere.

And even if some flavor of is assumed true for the sake of argument, that still wouldn't somehow negate evolution. It's entirely possible for life to have an extraterrestrial origin and to have evolved on Earth after that origin, having first evolved somewhere else.
First there was AlphaGo, which had learnt from human games, then further improved from self-play, then there was AlphaGo Zero which taught itself from scratch just by self-play, not using any human data at all.

Game programs like AlphaGo and AlphaZero (chess) are all brute force at core - using MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search) to project all potential branching game continuations many moves ahead. Where the intelligence/heuristics comes to play is in pruning away unpromising branches from this expanding tree to keep the search space under control; this is done by using a board evaluation function to assess the strength of a given considered board position and assess if it is worth continuing to evaluate that potential line of play.

In DeepBlue (old IBM "chess computer" that beat Kasparov) the board evalation function was hand written using human chess expertise. In modern neural-net based engines such as AlphaGo and AlphaZero, the board evaluation function is learnt - either from human games and/or from self-play, learning what positions lead to winning outcomes.

So, not just brute force, but that (MCTS) is still the core of the algorithm.
Every failure of once-famous Web 2.0 platforms proves that websites are products of their time - temporary and ultimately irrelevant. Each generation has its own favorite services, apps, and channels, all destined to fade away. Some collapse due to mismanagement, enshittification, bad design choices, censorship, or simply because users move on. Digg is as much a relic of the past as MySpace, and no amount of money, marketing, or exaggerated "superpowers" can change that - especially when they're partnering with a platform that is itself dying a slow, painful death.
Given that all parameters are trained jointly at inference time and a single sample of z is supposed to encode ALL inputs and outputs for a given puzzle (I think), I don't quite understand the role of the latent z here. Feels like μ and Σ could be absorbed into θ (and an additional variance parameter).

Although if they partition z such that each section corresponds to one input and run f_θ through those sections iteratively, then I guess it makes sense.
This is called lamphshading.

Lampshading is when someone acknowledges a flaw or controversial aspect upfront, often humorously or ironically, to deflect criticism or give the appearance of humility or openness.

Saying something like "A home for poorly researched ideas" while actually propagating extremist, controversial, or misleading content is a tactic intended to: disarm critics, avoid accountability, and create plausible deniability.
Evaluating Intelligence via Trial and Error
Yeah, people have put pens on the printhead to make them into a plotter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10zg0aL0Y5M
> Low-profile is nicer to joints in the long run

I think low profile is worse on joints in the long run. It probably isn't a universal truth.
The gprof profiler was used long before 1993. It dates back to 1982.

I did game engine dev professionally in 1994 (and non-professionally before that). We profiled both time and memory use, using GCC and gprof for function-level profiling, recording memory allocation statistics by type and pool (and measuring allocation time), microbenchmarking the time spent sending commands to blitters and coprocessors, visually measuring the time in different phases of the frame rendering loop to 10-100 microsecond granularity by toggling border or palette registers, measuring time spent sorting display lists, time in collision detection, etc.

You might regard most of those as not what you mean by profiling, but the GCC/gprof stuff certainly counts, as it provides a detailed profile after a run, showing hot functions and call stacks to investigate.

It's true that most of the time, we just changed the code, ran the game again and just looked at the frame rate or even just how fluid it felt, though :-)
And when burned in bigger plants the waste heat can be used to heat up homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
These chuckleheads have had their brains reduced to scrambled egg by decades of propaganda telling them that inflation is solely caused by "printing money", while failing to apply even the Econ 101 lesson that the value of a dollar is subject to supply and demand, and holding supply constant means that the value will vary based on demand.
I still have trouble understanding your code. I don’t get why you’re still using ‘probas’ and the inverse probability (line 186:187). I suggest creating an array of 3^14 random numbers and simply using it as input to the function to sum Hamming distances. Since you prefer C++, I made a naive version. I create a space of 3^14 elements, but instead of random numbers, I use sequential ones (the value at position i is equal to i). This makes it easier to compare results. For example, the sum of the Hamming neighbors up to 4 from the first element should give you 18847285404. Let me know how long it takes on your machine (maybe better via GitHub, as it notifies replies to comments). I’m sure you’ll figure out how to optimize it. https://github.com/petopello/PSA/blob/main/naive.cpp
The cultural dominance is ending quickly. Most American TV shows are re-hashes of British shows from the year prior. Today's hip hop for non-geezers is called Phonk, and it doesn't come from the US. Hollywood is making Yet Another Comic Book Movie, over and over again. The source material for these is almost 100 years old.
A lot of people think we didn’t have fractional reserve banking when we had the gold standard. Alas: we did.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241205224611/http://rachelbyth...
Trump Calls for End to $52B CHIPS Act Subsidy Program
Just like the Apple system COULD LOCALLY detect CSAM on your phone.

And it was the Worst Thing Ever according to hackernews and the internet at large.

Now when Google does it, it's just fine and dandy.
I used to get excited for these kinds of news, and from a science perspective, this is very cool.

On the other hand, as we get closer to colonize other planets, or at least try to plan for this end, I get depressed more and more.

We're enough burden for a single planet, and definitely too much for a solar system.

Honestly, no, I don't want more humans around.
Echoes of 2021 when we were just doing "[insert saturated category here] but it's decentralized/web3" aka has NFTs/tokens shoehorned into it
Show HN: AI-powered extension for starting LinkedIn conversations
If u ask me this should be common sense more or less in 2025, but only Algolia knows how many lurkers are there on HN and not everyone is prepared to emerge into conversation with veteran guys around, many of them very peculiar about things.

Also you can definitely argue HN forums are very very high quality training corpus :)
for a feed reader i built that year (2022) i was polling each feed every second day, except the ones which had a new item within 50 days -> every day
> … and likely also don’t understand the difference and the consequences that well.

this could be a very good argument to explain why so many have become skeptical of companies.

we have example after example where companies take advantage of people.

hearing my grandfathers generation go on about “the days when you could trust a company to be fair” i used to think they were seeing with rose-tinted glasses, but more and more im convinced we’re dealing something much more nefarious than that generation.
The Bitter Lesson seems to be generally accepted knowledge in the field. Wouldn't that make DeepSeek R1 even more of a breakthrough?
Your link doesn’t state that.
They are certainly diverging, and becoming more useful tools, but the answer to “which one can actually become AGI?” is, as always, “none of them.”
Reminds me of Topicbox (by Fastmail).

https://www.topicbox.com/
From a quick skim of the article...I see no reference to a certain $10B Foxconn factory in Wisconsin, which was ever-so-loudly announced back in 2017. Then didn't actually happen.

Not saying that $100B won't really happen. But big announcements are cheap.
How does git fit into 4 MiB of RAM?
> Fiat is printable, bitcoin is not and have limited amount, same as gold.

Having a limited amount is a bug, not a feature. Being able to create and destroy money is a feature and a not a bug.

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...

Monetary flexibility to deal with economic shocks is a handy thing to have.
For me, these are the main use-case differences.

1. if I start something which will run for a long time and/or the connection is unstable, I start a screen session on the remote node and start the program in it

2. if I want to check something (i.e. tail -f foo.log) on several servers at the same time, I start tmux on my machine, create 2,3,...,N panes and in each pane I ssh to the 1-1 remote server and start tail -f foo.log there. So I'll see the logs at the same time on several servers, just like if I had 1-1 monitor for each remote server.
I always appreciate Rachel's writings. I don't know much about her, but my takeaway is that she has worked at some of the hardest sysadmin jobs in the past few decades and writes to her experience super well.
I tried it a couple years ago and it sorted everything neatly into a Deltachat folder. But a friend of mine also complained abut too many mails
I'm thinking probably no one should listen to this guy about anything
At that resolution the utility is somewhat questionable - I suppose the next inevitable step is LPS, and having a fleet of selenostationary satellites performing the same function locally.
I like two kinds of managers:

- Managers who came from the trench and can guide us through the mist;

- Managers who know nothing about the trench but leave us alone;
At this point, like with many things, you'll have to go model by model and not trust a whole company to do something right. I have several of the Netgear R6220 router running OpenWrt, but Netgear as a whole tends to not have OpenWrt support, so I would never blindly recommend someone buy Netgear. Instead I'd say to look at the Table of Hardware on OpenWrt's site. That being said, a list of "good" printers somewhere would be fantastic. I have an old HP monochrome laser printer (sorry to be part of the problem, don't have the model handy, may edit it in later) I got at a thrift store, it happily accepted some very cheap toner I got from eBay. I understand everyone has hated HP printers for years, though I think it's mostly the inkjet models.
I hadn’t realized it, but you are right.

- Orbit height: 20,200 km

- Earths diameter: 12,760 km

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/space/

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/
Colleges want international students because they pay full price and don’t get financial aid.
Intentional can mean a lot of things. Some plane crashes are caused by suicidal pilots. I'm sure there is the occasional captain or crew member who just goes postal and decides to take his anger out on infrastructure.

This sounds like a situation where even if it is deliberate enemy action the appropriate thing to do is ask them to stop. Maybe invite the Chinese diplomats in, tell them to stop, then expel the embassy for a week and then allocate some extra budget to cable repairs.

If we're talking about - and I quote the article - a "sabotage campaign aimed at destabilising Nato allies" then it'd look more like the Nord Stream explosions; big showy events where the US looks so suspicious that we can almost dismiss their involvement because that'd be too obvious. Random cable cutting is a bit too weird in that it doesn't sound like it achieves anything and seems too subtle an attack to have a motive.
https://hyphenonline.com/2024/10/04/ava-moayeri-germany-pro-...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-berlin-raid-flats-pro-1333...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-homes-of-pro-palest...
I think the more appropriate question is how do modern apps not fit into 4MB of RAM?

How is it that simple tools like text editors work the same as they did 20 ago but take orders of magnitude more RAM?
We already do electricity -> hydrogen generation, the hydrogen is then stored in underground pumped storage (empty gas wells), and can be used in place of natural gas.

Although presumably if you set up one of these facilities you need it running 24/7 to be profitable not just when there is a lull in demand elsewhere.
"Electric snow plow put to the test by the Norwegian Road Administration"

https://www.designwerk.com/en/post/e-truck/pioneering-work-e...

I also saw a person in Norway commenting about their high uptake of EVs noting that at the end of the day the snow piles in the city are noticeably cleaner than they used to be when ICE engines were more common.
Everyone who can read source code of bitcoin.

Do you belive in debt that current fiat money represent?
Sorry about that. The post itself isn't relevant, it's just the plot from it I refer to.
AGI is about performing actions with a high multi-task intelligence. Only the top right corner (Deep, Trained) has any hope of getting closer to AGI. The rest can still be useful for specific tasks, e.g. "deep-research".
Reddit is worth 27 billion right now. What could have been.
I was literally thinking about how we dance watching my 1 year old instinctively bounce the rhythm of music and then looked at my dog just lovingly stare into my eyes. I’ve only seen humans dance.
This is the hospital where the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a video purportedly from a nurse who worked there, only to delete it a day later after it was widely derided as staged, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi... goes into quite a bit of detail about that allegation, and the lack of solid, independent verification.

But hey, I'm from a country whose military repeatedly bombed a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital "to defend U.S. forces on the ground", even after being given explicit notice and "Médecins Sans Frontières said no Taliban fighters were in the compound", so who am I to judge what's a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike . A weregild of $6,000 per death ought to be enough, right? Patriotism needs no evidence.
How so? Isn't 21 mil BTC defntive?
Helium? Finite supply that is only going down until we get off planet.

It seems like the actual value of gold is that it is useless, and thus not used up, and all the easy gold is extracted. We could just use numbers instead.
The founders sold Reddit for how much was it $10M or $20M?
City and County of San Francisco vs. EPA [pdf]
5-4 the court decides that the EPA cannot mandate final water quality.

Enjoy your norovirus and cholera outbreaks.