skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good lesson on being a good citizen of the Internet.

It's easy to just curl a feed every second, but should you? (Of course not)

Take it as a challenge to make your reader as fancy as possible, use every trick in the book to optimise how it fetches content. Analyse the patterns of releasing new content per feed and adjust the fetch frequency based on that.

And if you're building a reader for distribution, don't let the user set a refresh interval that doesn't make sense.
I don’t know a ton about how chirality works. Couldn’t it just be that half(or some number) the asteroids contain left handed and half contain right? We only have a sample of one. Or is there something fundamental about left handed molecules that gives us reason to believe that if we see right handed ones once we would rarely see left handed ones in similar disconnected systems?
It’s the satellites’ size.

The satellites are 20 Mm high above the ground so their spread is 53 Mm, which is 4.4 times the diameter of the Earth (12 Mm). So yes, the angular size of the satellite cloud (7.896°) is quite a bit larger than the Earth (1.785°) from the moon PoV.
Yes, AGI was here at AlphaGo. People don't like that because they think it should have generalized outside of GO, but when you say AGI was here at AlphaZero which can play other games they again say not general enough. At this point is seem unlikely that AI will ever be general enough to satisfy the sceptics for the reason you said. There will always be some domain that requires training on new data.
No it isn't. Semantics matter, and using something against the defined semantics of the language is a huge code smell.

For example, I could ignore the fact that Python has exceptions, and instead let functions return error values.

Would that work? Yes, absolutely, and I have seen Py-Codebases that do this.

Is it semantically correct? No, because in python, semantics dictate that error states are handled via exceptions, and that is the expectation everyone has when opening a python codebase.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
HabitGrid – A simple, visual habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits
I’m Ariel, a developer and long-time fan of habit tracking. Over the past few years, I’ve manually tracked my daily habits using a paper-based grid, marking each day with my progress. It helped me stay consistent, spot trends, and improve my routines.

But I always felt something was missing:

Most habit tracking apps are too complex, filled with unnecessary features.
They lack visual clarity, making it hard to see progress at a glance.
They don’t leverage the power of small daily improvements.
So I built HabitGrid
It’s a simple, visual habit tracker inspired by the idea that 1% daily improvement leads to a 37% growth in a year (from Atomic Habits by James Clear).

How it works
Mark your daily progress in a grid-based calendar.
Visualize streaks and trends over time.
Track multiple habits like exercise, reading, or mindfulness.
Get basic stats (completion rate, streaks, active days).
No complex setups – just start tracking.

How is it different?
Unlike most habit trackers, HabitGrid is designed around visual motivation. Instead of overwhelming you with notifications or rigid routines, it lets your progress tell the story. It’s built to be low-friction, high-impact.

Try it out
https://habitgrid.io/
Glad, "Döner" is already on my list. :)
You're actually right, I didn't think of this.

My counter is based on JS .length and can get up to 11 characters for specific emojis while X count all emojis as 2 characters.

Thanks for highlighting this
Oh come now..
Don't just judge everyone by your own example.

There are groups of people who e.g. 3D print drone parts, along with all the "posturing".

From my own experience - it is quite easy to go through more than $500 of money in filament alone.
Maybe LLM generated text was their first-contact with structured and systematic writing.
Show HN: Pikku – Like Hono, but Beyond HTTP and Packed with Features
Digg killed itself and let reddit eat its lunch with user hostile practices. Just like slashdot before digg.

I find it fascinating that tech has gotten to a point where user hostile moves don't have as much of an impact anymore. Reddit pushing new Reddit layout and killing 3rd party apps is what did it for me. But it seems like nobody really cares.

I don't know what it means, but it means something.
Pretty much every nRF dev board has battery management built-in, including the $3 AliExpress ones. The chip is meant for ultra-low-power applications so including battery management is a no brainer.
I’d argue most folks can apply it. I’m in my late 30s and have two young children.

In order for me to exercise for 35 minutes undisturbed I wake at 4am.

For mental health I’ll prioritize short 10 minute outdoor walks throughout the day. I snooze work notifications, if the world burns down in those 10 minutes so be it.

This time is sacred to me. No time for alcohol, no time for processed foods.

The hardest piece is consistently getting 7hrs of sleep, this is much harder for parents with newborns.

There are folks in their 60s/70s exercising everyday, have abs, and can deadlift more than probably most of the population in their 20s/30s.

I used to prioritize everything else before physical and mental health. Everything clicked into place after fixing this.
I learned a while ago that more than half the population of Pompeii and Herculaneum fled and survived the destruction of their homes. And the ensuing refugee problem lasted a while in nearby settlements, including Napoli.

So it's likely that the ones who remained and died were either stubborn or disadvantaged somehow, as well as those just unlucky.
Some useful links I remember using back then:

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/qcstzv/downgrade_... (in German)

https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentLLC/oh-brother/issues/...

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/w60687/comment/ih...

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/w9bc3g/downdgradi...
Show HN: Most popular paper golf now is on iOS
For a quicker tie in than watching a whole podcast, the result of Hutter's stance takes the form of the Hutter prize[1], which in some ways has many of the same goals as ARC-AGI, but sees compression itself as the goalpost towards intelligence.

[1] http://prize.hutter1.net/
Years and years ago, some. However, editors which indicate where the matching bracket is are... how old? First one I remember using was in the late 90s, though I'm sure there was an emacs extension for it long before that.

From the stuff they say, I get the impression that a lot of "AI revolutionises programming" people have never used modern development tooling, mind you.

> the CIO of Coach and Kate Spade owner Tapestry about GenAI coding tools.

This is... a weird role to ask about this. Cynically, I would wonder did the author work down a list of people until they found someone willing to give them the quote that they wanted.
The link between autism and trans identity
It doesn't happen, unless your opinion is something very specific like holocaust denial and you double down on it multiple times. People do not get jailed for posting memes.
just check moravec paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
Skill is irrelevant: the output is a small, low-priority feature.
> The social media business model of harvesting data and forcing engagement over user experience has proven to be broken and not sustainable.

I totally agree. And modern research shows how unhealthy it is for people to use such exploratory social media pages.

You literally paying with your health, not only data, when using such things.
I like this because it's such a neat unexpected idea to try.
Markdown that is then unceremoniously shoveled to WordPress with some finagling of the images. I'm not trying to experiment with fancy tech when I write, just trying to get the words out of my head.

If something gets mathy I'll use LaTex.
Los Pulpos, the gang of four brothers who spread terror in Peru and Chile
Enemies define themselves by a actions.

This administration is an enemy to Canada, all Americans are not.

But it shows we need to reevaluate this friendship and move apart going forward.
Everyone mentioned in the article knows how to run a large social media site. The concrete ideas they have for AI are specific tasks that they have done by hand before. They're not just slapping AI on and optimizing for engagement.

And the future ideas are more like crazy art projects, which I think is a great use for AI.
Hello, AT&T.
> It's not surprising that editors / IDEs supporting less features are going to be faster

True, though performance is often completely unrelated to the amount of features. The build/debug actions you mentioned should not have any impact on text editing speed.
Ooh thank you for the tip!
We take drug addicts to rehab. We don’t just give them money so they don’t need to steal to get high. But we can’t take them to rehab until they admit to themselves that they have a problem.
To be fair, you can't just manufacture more gold. I mean you can dig more up or buy more but you're limited to how much gold there is. That's the argument used. There seems to be over 200,000 metric tons of it ever mined.

What many gold bugs and crypto bros don't seem to understand is that:

1. The US dollar was never 100% backed by silver (originally) or gold;

2. What really backs the US dollar is the US military. This was true with the gold standard and it's true now;

3. The ability to manufacture more dollars and thus control the money supply is a feature not a bug;

4. Fractional reserve banking is so stunningly successful, it's impossible to ignore; and

5. A lot of the problems detractors point to are really symptomatic of unfettered neoliberalism, not abandoning the gold standard.
My ancestors were fleeing from Russia to USA and certainly wouldn't be looking to return.
I understand the premise that the humanity is a burden for the Earth (though I disagree — we only make the conditions worse for ourselves, “The planet is fine; the people are fucked!”), but how could we possibly be a burden to a barren wasteland like Mars?
If-Modified-Since and ETag are nice and everyone should implement them but IME the implementation status is much better on the reader side than on the feed side. Trim your (main) feed to only recent posts and use Atom's paginatio to link to the rest for new subscribers and the difference in data transferred becomes much smaller.

> Besides that, a well-behaved feed will have the same content as what you will get on the actual web site. The HTML might be slightly different to account for any number of failings in stupid feed readers in order to save the people using those programs from themselves, but the actual content should be the same. Given that, there's an important thing to take away from this: there is no reason to request every single $(&^$(&^@#* post that's mentioned in the feed.

> If you pull the feed, don't pull the posts. If you pull the posts, don't pull the feed. If you pull both, you're missing the whole point of having an aggregated feed!

Unfortunately there are too many feeds that don't include the full content for this to work. And a reader won't know if the feed has the full content before fetching the HTML page. This can also change from post to post so it can't just determine this when subscribing.

> Then there are the user-agents who lie about who they are or where they are coming from because they think it's going to get them special treatment somehow.

These exist because of misbehaved web servers that block based on user agen't or send different content. And since you are complaining about faked user agents that probably includes you.

> Sending referrers which make no sense is just bad manners.

HTTP Referer should not exist. And has been abused by spammers for ages.
>Also, what about folks like Snowdon and Assange? I mean if freedom of speech is absolute in the USA why can't they just tell the CCP about USA nuclear control?

Why do people constantly and intentionally misconstrue arguments? It's so obnoxious and intellectually dishonest. I didn't say it was absolute. It's like people can't even have a conversation anymore without dealing with this.

>I think that the harm of stopping people saying these things is greater than the harm of the idiot saying them.

Oh, so you're a Nazi sympathizer? See how annoying that is when people intentionally misconstrue arguments?

I know it's a habit these days with the news and I don't mean to jump on your shit, it's quite common; but it's bleeding into person to person conversation and you just can't have any meaningful conversation this way.
I don't think anyone was arguing this point, really.
Gold has a limited supply and it's a precious metal, so it has nice properties, can't be easily destroyed and lasts forever.
I suppose this doesn't remotely qualify as "memes", but Mr. Bond went to prison for ten years in Germany for making racist rap songs.
I also used to get excited, and this is very cool science.

But same here: we have enough problems trying to survive on Earth, we should focus our great talents on that.

> as we get closer to colonize other planets

We won't colonise mars, and we definitely won't go further than the solar system. Just look at the distances, it's completely absurd.
Maybe it's time for Framework to start doing printers too.
To add, there's now a weekly extraction of ground water to maintain the pressure.
My print workload is very bursty but also low volume at the best of times. When my printer died I decided not to replace it because document printing services cost on the order of 10 cents per page (non-bulk) for basic printing.

I'd have to print hundreds of pages to even match the cost of a very cheap printer. I may never reach that threshold ever.

Best of all I don't have to worry about storing a crappy printer somewhere or have it dry out or clog up or spend time and effort on it and blocking it from accessing the internet and probably end up throwing it out and having to get a new one when I pull it out once every 4 years.
Those are the effects of enshittification. Users and advertisers are stuck.

Quoting Cory Doctorow:
"I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."
I'm pretty sure what Apple proposed was an offline system for scanning, but any matches would be submitted to them. This is just the offline parts, and apps can choose to use it to detect nudity or other NSFW images. There's no scanning going on at all actually.
I think you have ideas about these types that make them seem overcomplicated! Either that, or I'm way smarter than the average programmer and really am massively wasting my talent :) but if you ask me the first is much more likely. I'm awed by the clever things people post about on here and am still not 100% sure I understand what a monad even is, but Result and Option seemed very easy to pick up.

The one liner functor stuff in particular I think is a big distraction. To me the basic building block is the match statement - you match on a result, if it's Ok(T) then you get to do something with T, and if it's Err(e) then you get to do something with e. At that level it's very simple. And as far as I know (no expert though) any clever expression can be decomposed into a series of nested and possibly repetitive match statements, the apparent magic is illusory.

But I do hear you and I get the appeal of Go from that angle, obviously sticking with what you like is a good idea. Just saying Rust isn't that bad :)
https://archive.ph/2025.03.05-123859/https://www.nytimes.com...
I suppose you also know where the moon is, how it’s rotated and possibly your altitude on the moon.

So you could treat that as a virtual satellite in the other direction.
> The main product of the US is weapons not "the dollar"

I interpreted it as - the US "exports" debt in exchange for the import of goods and services. It's a deficit country, it consumes more than it produces.

China (not only China) is a surplus country, they produce more than they consume. They store that surplus into US financial assets but also increasingly into other places, like developing countries. I've read that their investments into developing countries are often unprofitable. Previously they've been using the excess production to invest into real estate and infrastructure but those were often money-losing investments too (empty houses, under-utilized high speed rail with high maintenance costs).
The golang core team may be working to crack that nut, but right up until that happens the community mantra will be: what we have right now is perfect. When it’s released, this will shortly become: we always wanted something better, it was just a matter of finding what that would be. I’ve seen this happen enough times I’m quite confident that’s the case.

The one exception to this trend has been generics. I think it was an inevitable addition to the language, but there are still a lot of holdouts who argue it wasn’t necessary. I think this is probably because it’s more important for library authors than app developers. But it does remain by far the most divisive update to the language.

> The "golang detractors" aren't acting rationally. If you watch carefully you will see that most of the time they don't even understand their detraction points, indicating that they are simply repeating what they saw elsewhere.

I personally don’t think I’ve seen a lot of that. At this point it’s endemic enough that there’s a small and shrinking number of engineers each year who haven’t spent time in it.

> To be fair, while I am sure we could do better, I am not sure we have found it yet.

Everything below here is a more or less reasonable take (even if I have mild disagreements), and I think a lot of people would feel less likely to snipe at the language if more people expressed opinions like this.
The company doing your risk assessments would act as your representative.
Limit gives you value, adding more devalue currency. One of reasons of inflation.

Actually one aspect of currency is storing a value, which it is not anymore with printing.
The problem comes when he thinks about making a deal that can't be made. Denmark can't sell Greenland. It's just not possible within their framework of relationship with the citizens of Greenland. So what will he do when it doesn't pan out? I don't know. We're seeing the same thing with Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia are not yet in a position where peace is possible. He wants to be seen making the peace. It can't happen, so he's going to punish Ukraine because they lost the blame game.
Working less with China makes the possibility of a war higher. Obama wanted to have a trading framework which prevents a mutual degradation of trade on America’s term, but Trump didn’t want that, and Americans voted to this again.

I think genie is out of the bottle, and it’s too late to prevent it. But the logical step would have been what Obama wanted. Now, we have dark times ahead of us. These forced shifts in trade just make the process to these bad times quicker. Nobody really benefits them, just make the war a possibility sooner. If not a full out war, but a new Cold War at least.
> We should’ve flipped our thinking on human exceptionalism long ago.

Disagree. Humans are hard-wired for anthropomorphism. We recognize two dots and an arc as a human face. Taking the hard-wired position and labeling eveything as "human-like" by default is lazy and wrong.
In the subtitle of the DW link: "One of the suspects was accused of a violent attack on a state politician."

Seems like this was not just about posting memes.
"AI will ever be general enough to satisfy the sceptics for the reason you said"

Also

People keep thinking "General" means one AI can "do everything that any human can do everywhere all at once".

When really, humans are also pretty specialized. Humans have Years of 'training' to do a 'single job'. And they do not easily switch tasks.
Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
> although I don’t agree: we only make the conditions worse for ourselves, “The planet is fine; the people are fucked

Except that we are measurably living in a mass extinction. Most species are dying, except for us (at the moment). So I disagree: we make the conditions worse for all species.

The climate change that we are measuring now is happening a lot faster than the one that got the dinosaurs (and most big animals) extinct. 96% of animals on Earth are cattle, living in the conditions we know. I am not sure we can say "we don't have any impact on other species".
There are orgs where you ask another team for help unconditionally with your problem affecting the company and there are orgs where no one will help you, huge problems be damned and you can't even get your coworkers to cooperate without going to your (and their) boss.

That's not "working with other people" - that's office politics.
You can always submit a pull request
A challenge there is that there are very few stable lunar orbits! High orbits are perturbed by Earth's gravity (3-body problem) and low lunar orbits are perturbed by the lumpy distribution of mass in the Moon's interior [0]. Lunar GNSS satellites with a little bit of onboard propulsion could probably correct for some of these perturbations but once they ran out of fuel they would have a limited orbital lifetime.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit#Perturbation_effec...
> it wasn’t clear to me why or how articles are rated the way they are [...] Take this op-ed: “People like Andrew Tate have no place in the American conservative movement,” by Josh Hammer [...] The AI says that this piece aligns with a “Right” point of view

The piece is expressing dismay that some others on the right have chosen to embrace Andrew Tate, but it's written by a conservative from an undeniably conservative point of view. Some excerpts:

> > A British U.S. citizen, the influencer has similarly clamored for a Muslim takeover of Britain

> > The new Trump administration, through word and deed, has already supported the dignity of women, including through an executive order to remove transgender women from women’s federal prisons. And the administration has certainly supported our Israeli allies in their war against Hamas.

> > If being a “conservative” means anything, then it must mean “conserving” biblical teachings and the two great religions — Judaism and Christianity — that created what we today call “the West.”
What's new in Svelte: March 2025
Freedesktop.org Gitlab Will Be Down for Up to One Week Due to Cloud Migration
As far as I remember, Apple was planning to detect CSAM, and upload the detected images to the cloud, showing the photos to apple employees. This is not at all comparable to a locally running API that returns something like "{nudity: true}".
I've hosted my mailserver myself for years now.
I recently (a number of months ago) have started using Mox for my mail server (after using stalwart, manual postfix/dovecot, a couple others). It's a perfect solution for a small personal mailserver.

It's among the simplest (/least complicated) mail servers I've used, and I have to waste basically zero time on it. Running backup & update every couple months takes <5 min.

However, I noticed: when I showcase it to some people, some of them mistake the very simple minimalist web interface for being ‘outdated’ or similar - it appears that to be "modern", things are required to be extremely bloated, and even technical people look down on fast (seriously: try it) clutter-less design.
The Digg of (literally) yesterday was not the Digg that shot itself in the foot. It was just a site that posted links to various things you could find in other places. Not sure what they're planning but I can't help feeling the ol' ship has sailed on Digg as any kind of community site.