skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider `db` resolves to multiple A records:

db. IN A 100.64.123.1 # prod-db-1.
db. IN A 100.64.123.2 # prod-db-2.
db. IN A 100.64.123.3 # prod-db-3.

This is good for service discovery—e.g., you can configure something like RabbitMQ to discover cluster members from an A record—and it's nice for browsers, which will pick one host at random when connecting, which effectively is load balancing.

In a usual setup, the problem is that if a host goes down, clients will still try to reach it because it's still in the DNS record; but with Tailscale, the "DNS" is generated by the local Tailscale daemon on the fly, so you get a live view, and if this was implemented, it would be possible to only return available servers for tag queries.
> US has negotiated a deal

That challenges its borders! If I agree not to steal your stuff and you find me hiring someone to steal your stuff, and I start arguing around the technicalities of our agreement, I’m a dishonourable liar!

> US is still a reliable partner

Are you watching the markets? Are you seeing the trade barriers go up? Our export companies are crashing. Our allies are writing separate security agreements, agreements that not only duplicate our own but balance American power.

I swear to god modern America is half made up of Calvin Coolidges. I’m not quite with Thiel on revisiting universal suffrage. But obviously the law of large numbers isn’t working when so correlated by social media.
Since you put three evers - Amazon went public on May 15, 1997. If you can say it hasn’t improved since 1997, with a straight face, I’d be convinced you’re a few bats shy of a belfry.
I'm a casual user (I feel like "casual" overstates it, even), and I don't think I've noticed much either. But I think that's the point; most casual users of something will miss a lot of the changes, both good and bad, that come down.
I've had finance thank me for writing a perl script that reduced the time they spent on daily (yes, daily) work from 2 hours to 2 minutes (ok, maybe 5 minutes).

Never underestimate the benefit of having the finance department on the side of IT's innovation.
you could replicate another planet with just as many or more beachfronts
> This doesn't have to be an instantaneous effect for it to be real.

For the effect to be real business has generate more growth with the money than the government spending the money does.

In most cases private enterprise clearly is more efficient that the government in the long term. In other cases, like health, it's clear from the USA example that government can supply better services for cheaper, freeing resources to further fuel to capitalist engine. This is probably true for other stuff we traditionally get our governments to manage like roads, k12 education, and local power and water distribution. If you can lower taxes so much private enterprise takes these functions over, the end result would be the same as you see for USA health - GDP goes backwards rather than forwards.

Then there is this reality: most of these tax reductions have been funded by government borrowing. The businesses could have borrowed those funds on the market. The net outcome is you are not reducing the level of government influence on the economy, you're just re-arranging the deck chairs, and doing so in a way that favours the business owners who now effectively get the funds interest free, with citizens (who are also their employees) paying it instead.

Given that the House Republicans unveiled blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling and that their current major backers are these super rich business owners, it's hard not to be a little cynical.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-budget-blueprin...
Anyone can say anything on YouTube. I think you’re confusing confirmation bias with “citing your sources”.
April 17th. https://rubykaigi.org/2025/schedule/#day2
What do you mean? From a quick search, they had to pay in reparations:

* for WW1, $12.5 BILLION

* for WW2, $413 million

Even Allies figured out that the ridiculous demands of WW1, with the double whammy of 1929, were a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany trying to pay for it (which already had borrowed incredible amounts of money as they were the first country to abandon the gold standard to finance the Great War) and the second time around they allowed the country to have a chance to actually rebuild itself.
That's up to you. I block everything and I'll never go back. I just want the whole advertising industry to go away. They've betrayed my trust so often that I'm never going to let them back in. In any form. I don't care about the collateral damage in the services and sites they 'support'.

When I ask around me people don't really have a very nuanced view either, though they're not as hostile as me, most of them just believe it is unavoidable. They don't have the skills I have in ad avoidance. But they don't have any kind of ethical concerns.
That story was made up. The U.S. Mint charges more than face value for coins purchased through its retail store. It also doesn't accept credit cards for large orders; like most government agencies it requires large payments to be made electronically through the EFTPS system.
We can also try to selfhost this
https://github.com/openp2p-cn/openp2p
My message history for 15 years or so is taking up like 2gb in messages my local storage shows, and attachments are taking 20gb, with a list sorted by size of the largest ones if I want to remove them.

Not sure how it works if you save a photo or something, i figure it would get offloaded to iCloud like the rest eventually.
I've seen hundreds of these types of apps, to the point that I used Claude to build my own similar version of this app with similar features 100% for free.

What is the moat / advantage here when I or anyone else can build my own and at my own will serve it as a SaaS if I want to?

I'm assuming data isn't the moat here either as we all get the data from SEC Edgar.
Are you anticipating that the EU is going to put tarrifs on US goods?
Both variants (+3 & -3) have the same shape, and so do their derivatives, but they do land in different places on the X axis. Is that irrelevant?
Having driven an Audi A3 for a while... and that's the "premium" VW, it was not really great at all.

And having been to China and sitting in plenty of BYDs... they're on par. Decent.

The cars can be obviously cheaper, and yet aren't. Chinese market may be subsidized, but international? Not really. Coming back to VW, ID3 in China was half the price compared to the one in Europe, so there were even people trying to import them back and sell for less than official distribution - that effort was shut down thanks to VW's lobby.
I've worked on car infotainment, I know VW's is crap, but serious question: why give a shit? It's not what cars are for and all of them are good enough to play some music or listen to the radio while driving. You can use a phone holder for navigation.
I am quite happy with Asus and Thinkpad pro graphics laptops, wihout being bulky gaming laptops, and I get more tech per buck with the nice Win32/DirectX and CUDA ecosystems that everyone is "emulating" nowadays.

Why get the lesser copy, when I can get the original at better price?
That discussion is flagged and dead
Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?
They weren’t targeting China.
Problem is consuming too much „founder porn”.

Smaller communities one is overlooked because people think they can go with their idea to PG and get funded because they are so smart.

OP got corrected and learned his lesson - but he also wasted some time and money trying to get into big accelerators.
We more need FOSS (and supply chain) hardware, software, and (distributed) cloud platforms with encrypted all at rest and in-flight with zero knowledge storage (minus specific private keys and offline authoritative key locations, of course). The problem, of course, is the main platforms are ultimately owned by single point-of-failure (SPoF) corporations that can be leaned on, banned, or raided. This would require immense, deliberate investment to avoid compromise/slowly replace closed choices and to avoid supply chain attacks. And then, ultimately, it requires a socio-political bargain to decide whom to trust and why, such as, based on interests and leadership team.
Search, in a browser?

Feed it to a local model?

If so: Wikileaks made/makes(?) all of their stuff easily browseable, "her emails" included.
Patches were being mailed long before that, since they work perfectly fine without Git.
> why doesn't Los Angeles itself have 80 senators?

The electoral college internally balances the power of a population against the difficulty of holding land. Look at New York State, where NYC mostly holds court. If it were a country you’d see rebellion. Because while the city outnumbers the country, it’s culturally more similar to itself than the country, and that in practice leaves lots of people disenfranchised.

(Personally, I think the President should be popularly elected. But the Senate should continue resembling our geography.)
If I claim to have evidence that you committed a crime, and announce that I will post the evidence later, should my claims be taken seriously, or dismissed?

Even if he's right (and I'm not saying he isn't), this kind of behavior is inexcusable (though completely expected) coming from a guy who calls himself a journalist.
The article is from 2018. Here's Internet Archive's first copy of the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20180326213902/https://verfassun... .
Also not an American, and naturally more appealed by an Obama than a Trump.
I don't want to contribute any fuel to an online "political discussion", but yet I think it might be useful for some to hear that it's never been more visible to me how much the "left" also has its own issues with alternate reality.
How people reacted to this interview was another symptom of that.
I would guess it is a BIOS patch, just like the microcode normally is.

So it probably needs to be installed at every system boot.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can correct my guesses?
the "it's not a simulation" hypothesis lacks falsifiability.

also, falsifiability lacks falsifiability.

don't make up complex axioms and then believe in them on faith.

Occam's razor: if the universe can be simulated, then whatever form the simulation takes is the simpler explanation for the turtles all the way down.

if the universe can't be simulated, explain how you know that.
Pity that isn't how macOS has been lately.
You might be meaning something smart and good or something not so smart and good, but I only realized on my second reading.

What I mean is there is absolutely room somewhere between the current situation (examples from Norway) where:

- every road end up costing more than in comparable countries because no decision is final and everyone has a say

- school problems because teachers are not allowed to act, even in clear cases of abuse

- police have no tools against people under 14

but the solution is absolutely not to give politicians (or bureaucrats) unlimited power, bring back harsh physical punishment in school and turning a blind eye towards police violence.

In my understanding the problem seems to be that of polarization (examples sourced more globally):

- Why do I have to choose between 1. people who deny that trans people exist and 2. people who think that it isn't a problem when one inmate gets another inmate pregnant in a women's only prison? Or in sports, were womens sports, were people who were male athletes who never had a chance can transition and easily win as women? There certainly is a lot of room between these options.

- or why do I have to choose between 1. people who hate certain groups of people and 2. people who think it is OK when others arrive here and openly abuse our hospitality? Why did it take years to expel an internationally wanted terrorist?

List goes on.
Not presidential elections, no.
Do you understand that by their very nature, underwater cables have to span the width of a body of water? What are you going to do, draw a line of mines from Denmark to Sweden?
Why would the UK government limit itself to being reasonable?

I can imagine most CEOs pausing before picking a fight with the intelligence services.
I don’t understand any of that. Sorry. If you rephrase, maybe I can answer?
A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 5, 2025
The source is https://ddosecrets.com/article/paramilitary-leaks which states

> Over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias including American Patriots Three Percent (APIII) and the Oath Keepers

So no, neither of those groups are anti-fascists (seemingly the opposite actually) or "far-left", and the resulting documentation is only from the groups the individual successfully infiltrated.

Besides, how many bigger groups of militarized anti-fascist groups exists today in the US? I'm not from there, so don't know the situation, but from the outside it seems like mostly people on the right are the ones running the militias over there.
Would note that Silver owned the election model 538 ran on. When he left, he took it with him. The recent election forecasts 538 put out were not Nate Silver’s. (In my opinion, his were more accurate. More importantly, his commentary was more informative on the model’s shortcomings and insights.)
Show HN: Physical Programming Language Using Coding Bricks (DrBartha Toys)
Hi HN,

I am the creator of DrBartha Toys: a software-enabled coding brick system designed to introduce children to programming through hands-on play. Our system bridges the gap between physical and digital learning, making coding more accessible and fun.

How It Works:
Kids can build programs like LEGO: stacking magnetic coding bricks into a tower that represents a sequence of instructions. With concepts like loops, conditionals, variables, and functions, they can create logic that runs on our CodePad, controlling games and interactive tasks.

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Thinking About a "Pro" Version for Programmers:
While working on the kids' version, I started wondering:
- Would professional programmers be interested in a *physical programming kit* that can:
- Solve mathematical problems and real algorithms
- Execute real code (beyond simple logic gates)
- Create physical graphs or networks (would be great for visualizing neural networks, play with graph algos)
- Act as a tangible way to "feel" computation
- I will open-source the task and game creation, allowing anyone to design and share new challenges!

I have always loved physical interfaces for abstract concepts, and I think a hands-on, programmable brick system for professionals could be an interesting tool for problem-solving and teaching. Would this be something you would find useful?

Would love to hear your thoughts! <3

Dénes
Flagged isn't permanent, and anyone interested in the topic might be interested in prior discussion (or doomed to repeat).
I get all that, but why do you say it's not a VPN and then go on describe it as a VPN at length? Of course it's a VPN.

Is it because lot of people are just using a VPN as a proxy replacement, watering down the original meaning of the word?
> Likewise, people have different understandings of what exactly FOSS means and I'm not deeply familiar with the BSL, so I'm not sure whether it would meet your needs.

https://mariadb.com/bsl11/

> The Business Source License (this document, or the “License”) is not an Open Source license.

I'm gonna take them at their word.

> Best of luck in your search! Maybe take a look at Tinc or Yggdrasil.

I did, but thanks:)
You are blind? Could you perhaps point me to a good resource to make my websites or apps more accessible, perhaps even to test it in these regards?

I’ve found some resources but when I look at them I also hear stories of blind people saying these guidelines only make things worse.
I use an iPhone, and my Messages app is using 72GB at the moment (and it would be a lot more if I hadn’t lost all my history about 5 years ago). The issue is that extended family members send a lot of media (mostly family photos / videos) via group messages, and although there is a way to expire messages older than a certain age, there isn’t a way to only expire media from messages older than a certain date and/or automatically bulk export media from messages (you can do it manually, but we’re talking a LOT of media here). I guess I just haven’t been disciplined enough or had enough time to export media I wanted to keep and then remove it from Messages as time went on.

In any case this feature wouldn’t benefit me, because I don’t think any of my extended family would want to use it.
Was Tarsnap evaluated? Those behind it are well known and the construction is simple and explained clearly. My general rule: never make technology recommendations without throughly vetting/testing multiple candidates and digging deep into support, the company, and demoing close to intended use.
We're in the early days, like back when Uber offered $2.50 rides anywhere in San Francisco. They burned through tons of cash for years but had $9.8bn net income last year.
Speaking of baffling features missing:

The only thing I genuinely care about is some kind of a "raise hand" button in VoIP to indicate you have something to say while someone is talking. (emotes don't show user name if you are doing screenshare, and they disappear after a second anyway.) I've been switching between discord and Teams for work chats for years now, and it's literally the only thing I find superior in Teams.

I can't imagine what Discords reasoning is, but it continues to surprise me to see raise hand missing in every single increasingly annoying update. Just give me a stupid little yellow hand! Have it show my username! Keep it on the screen until I turn it off! That's all I need! I don't care about the shop! I don't want nitro! I don't care about party games or holiday integration or anything else.

Just give me the stupid yellow hand!
If it ends up a public service by providing some excellent art to the masses, I truly do not care if the return on investment was low or negative for one of the most profitable businesses in history. There’s more to life than “numbers go up” after all.
Arva AI (YC S24) Is Hiring an AI Product Engineer
> A particular thing I don’t like about git forge websites is the way they make you create an account.

Exactly. I used to have a GitHub account but as soon as it got bought out by Microsoft, I was gone.

I still refuse to create an account, even though there have been bugs I wanted to report or patches I wanted to contribute. Maybe some maintainers still have email addresses on their profile, many don't. Even if they do, I just don't get the motivation to email them.

People like to complain about email a lot, but I enjoy different mailing lists for open source software. You could have discussions with other users of that software or keep track of development by following the "-devel" list. All you needed is something you already had—email. Sadly, they're becoming less popular. Even python moved to discourse which—dun dun dun—requires an account. grumble grumble

I like SourceHut for many reasons—it's the fastest forge I've used, it's FOSS, doesn't try to copy the GitHub UI like every other Git forge these days. But by far the reason I love it is _because_ it doesn't require me creating an account to contribute. I think of it as gitweb, but nicer.
I get what you're saying, but I’m not sure it’s fully true. If it were true, then all public companies would be bad (using bad in a loose sense here). I think Apple, for example, has a good balance between optimizing money and product.
Step 1 of cutting spending: get people who know about it to investigate, not randoms from Silicon Valley

Step 2: don't speed run it in 4 weeks, give it time and do it properly. You know, scientifically. Adjust, measure, adjust again.
Once someone else receives, decrypts, and reads the message, the nexus of control in the iMessage system is really lost. "Disappearance" at the appointed time would probably be by far the lowest assurance property that the system would have, and Apple may simply not want to present properties that unreliable as an attribute of the system.
The educated are typically left leaning and that was the most decisive demographic for whether someone voted for trump or not in 2016.
Me, working through a problem: "So, that means..."

Girlfriend, coming in from outside: "Who are you talking to?"

Me: "I talk to myself. You know that."

Gf: "Oh right. You also whisper to yourself, which is scary."

Me: "Scary?"

Gf: "It sounds demonic."

Which, to be fair... Evidently, my internal monologuing gets quite a bit vocal even with other people around.
I think that this is a leak of a particular right-wing group, not leaks of left-wing groups?

What incident are you referring to where part of the US was occupied with automatic weapons? The closest thing I can think of is the Seattle CHOP/CHAZ/whatever the heck it's called. But AFAIK people there were only open carrying semi-automatic weapons, not fully automatic ones.
Donation page to Revolt before Discord succumbs to platform decay or (enshittification) after being owned by Wall Street soon.

https://wiki.revolt.chat/notes/project/financial-support/

https://ko-fi.com/insertish
That's actually not a bad recommendation if you want to keep sanity as a tech enthusiast :). Otherwise you start noticing how much stuff still hasn't been upgraded to support high dpi and high refresh rate and you can't go back
The popular IC-7300 transceiver from Icom does that.
Receiver samples the whole band and does downconversion in the digital domain (DDC) and same for the transmitter (DUC).

On the hobbyist side there is the TRX Wolf by UA3REO.
Without Chelsea Clinton's endorsement, I don't think I could possibly use a 24 hour day trading tool. The US is a flim-flam nation now and you shouldn't buy all the crap they sell each other on TV.
> The problem for them is that reality isn't going to adjust to fit their worldview.

The perpetual problem is that it will in the short term!

It’s just like the MBAs juicing profits by cutting R&D spending — this works every time!

It works, and it works long enough for a few to reap the benefits at the expense of the many.

This will play out over and over until we somehow magically achieve the Star Trek future utopia.
The argument to rebuild absolutely works. It allows Russia to recover their frozen assets, partner with China and Iran, and work with the US leadership. Understand that NATO will be diminished if Russia claims they are peaceful.
> I've never done analog circuits in my life. But hey, I also don't play guitar, so when it doesn't work, it doesn't really matter.

Makes pedals but doesn't play guitar :( My image of Linus playing dad rock to destress is shattered.
It will turn discord into shit
FYI you two are talking past each other. Snapshots and diffs are isomorphic to each other.

What I believe the GP is referring to is commutativity of patches. Personally, as someone with many years of source control experience, I think commutativity is very far down the list of what I think needs fixing.

One of the main jobs of source control is to be able to answer discovery requests when lawyers come knocking. You really need an effectively immutable history of published work for this.
I don't know what it costs. My point is that this doesn't seem like an example of Washington Monument syndrome because the people most impacted by the closure can't vote.
If AI or analytics can determine if a startup would be successful or even just the idea there wouldn't even be VC nor investors.

How does / would this work? How can it be data-driven? If there's data on it, is it still a startup idea?

If this was a thing the investors just need to pool the money and hire someone to execute. No bets needed.

Something seems off.
That also wasn’t prompted by Twitter going public, it was prompted by Twitter going _private_. And Twitter’s self-immolation is… unusual in its scale and ambition.