skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would definitely not getting the same effect from a tiktok or facebook feed, but static art/decoration are quite different from that for me. For one, the art stays the same, the only thing you can change are your position and the lighting. Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something. So quite some advantages.
Sweet taste receptors in the heart: A new pathway for cardiac regulation
I know it's not just wireguard. That's why I said it's 'functionally' just a VPN. For the average user, it provides VPN-like functionality
> The IPv4 space is tiny and trivial to scan

Something many people don't expect is that the IPv6 space is also tiny and trivial to scan, if you follow certain patterns.

For example, many server hosts give you a /48 or /64 subnet, and your server is at your prefix::1 by default. If they have a /24 and they give you a /48, someone only has to scan 2^24 addresses at that host to find all the ones using prefix::1.
Yes, it might be misinformation, but it's convenient misinformation, is that the idea? And yes, it's true that a source like wikipedia could be too, but that has to withstand scrutiny to remain on the site, no such checks or balances in AI.
What are Cognitive Light Cones? (Michael Levin Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnObwxJZpZc
Understanding ground-up community development from a practice perspective
Maybe, sarcasm was aimed at 'natural' being 'harmless' and/or common, because it is 'natural'.

When really, just being 'natural', doesn't mean anything really. There are poisons that are 'natural'.

Like resveratrol. Yes, it is natural and its in wine. But you need to drink many gallons a day to get enough to do anything. But people see 'Natural' and wine, and think it is a license to drink a lot.
This is security theater.
>"For this sovereignty, we must yield to the temptation of preferring SpaceX or another competitor that may seem trendier, more reliable, or cheaper," Baptiste said.

must NOT yield
Oh man. I was talking to my wife’s acquaintance and he was excited to talk shop when he found out I was technical. He worked at “this small company you’ve never heard of, Livingston.” “As in, Portmaster?” “You know about that?!”

Yeah, friend. I’m very familiar, and it was amazing tech. It sure kept the data center cooling system busy, though.
US Army soldiers accused of selling military secrets to buyers in China
You'll love this one then!

[0]: https://cardoni.net/parsing-proper-nouns-with-regex/
For me the starkest contrast is that Christianity introduced the idea of thoughtcrime, though they didn't call it that. In Christianity it is important that you believe the correct things, whereas the pagan religions only cared if you performed the rituals.
Can anyone explain Google's moves here? Pre-2024, it made sense. LLMs seem like a game changer technology that could threaten Google Search. But in 2024 and onwards, we know that's not the case as we are past peak LLM. Adding LLMs unreliability to their main money maker seems awfully misguided. Are they under investor pressure to add LLMs everywhere?
Did you consider reading the details linked or going to Settings => Location and looking?

Seriously. How did you even install GrapheneOS without a little bit of self-determination?
Additionally to what other people said, you can assume Cloudflare is selling lists of DNS names to someone.
I guess this is where the noun “shiv” comes from. I don’t think I’d ever heard it before playing The Last of Us.
Ok, sadly in England the installer has to disconnect and remove the gas boiler and you won’t be able to reinstall it afterward as your property becomes blacklisted for such installations by the utility providers.

British Gas basically won’t touch you. You can keep gas for cooking I think still but the boiler has to go.
It feels a bit unfair to lay the blame for all of this on C. All other mainstream compilable languages compile to similar abstract machines in a similar fashion to C.
Primitive Technology – Water powered forge blower [video]
Your analogy means you would only like to enter war after Russia bombs somewhere else in Europe? When it becomes inevitable to go to war and we have to pay orders of magnitude more in economical terms, and an immeasurable price in lives?

That sounds rather... Stupid?
You might prefer the devil you know over the devil you don't, especially when it happens to be immortal.
France literally just yesterday successfully launched their spy satellite, which seems to be fortunate timing to get away from the US.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/europes-a...
That has been the line of French car manufacturers in France for decades...
A law putting an (reasonably low) upper limit on what you can buy with cash is quite draconian
A proper litmus test, what's causing the hang in your case?

Regex to me, is pattern finding and abstraction taken to the extreme. I like the challenge
How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree
Cutting off imagery and Starlink are going to seriously ream the performance of the Ukrainian front, which is arguably even more heavily dependent on that than on US military hardware. Ukraine has used these advantages over Russia to exceed all expectations; I've heard things like a 3:1 RU:UKR casualty rate on lines where Ukraine is outnumbered 5:1, with 80% of casualties caused by drones and most of the rest by artillery. Much of that is informed by fast-cadence imagery and organized by Starlink.

Europe and Ukraine possess only very limited ways to mitigate those losses.

This betrayal is going to kill a lot of people.
I was, too. Granted, I'm not not sure what the point is in collecting either those OR government seizure banners.
I agree that the most important part of learning a language is talking to people in that language. It also solves for the common Duolingo problem that you'll learn to say "The bear is tying his shoelaces" but have no idea how to chit chat with colleagues in the break room.

I speak 4 languages and my way to go is always, always, always immersion over any classes. And language exchanges/buddies like you're proposing have always been super useful.

The only thing I'm worried about with your app is that it lacks a single player mode and thus has marketplace economics, which means you'll need to drive growth on two fronts: The language learner and the language buddy.

Others have figured it out though, so I totally applaud you in doing this!
Emerging supersolidity in photonic-crystal polariton condensates
I think books are a bit of an outdated format related to mushing up trees, turning them into a product and putting them on shop shelves. I read all the time but seldom whole books these days as they often seem to force an idea which could be communicated in say ten pages to be padded out to 400 pages to fit the retail requirements.
As well as assuming Cloudflare sells DNS lists, it's probably safe to assume the operators of public resolvers like 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 and 1.1.1.1 (that is Google, Quad9 and Cloudflare again) are looking at their logs and either selling them or using them internally.
I'm trying to quit Amazon as well. Any German online retailers in particular that you can recommend?
I wonder how this molecule will compare with gold nanoparticles [1]. Headline: Gold outperforms common weight loss drugs – and leaves muscles alone

[1] https://newatlas.com/disease/obesity/gold-nanoparticles-obes...
The New World Order: How Ukraine's Fate Could Reshape Global Power
You just need to use a sufficiently large storage system. One of the proposals of Project Plowshare was to use underground detonation of thermonuclear weapons as a geothermal energy sources.
Except the definition of natural is a human made concept which means "anything non-human made/consequence" ;)
I have always faced a lot of issues cleaning files and colleagues unable to utilize Design Systems.

Would love to hear feedback and early users to test, and improve product to suit every team's design needs.

Sharing a demo here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NdMULGUuFg

It’s early, but I’d love feedback or 5-10 testers to try it. What’s your biggest design workflow headache around Design Systems or Collaborations issues?
@freud1856 entered the chat
Guessing the U.S. will be watching from the sidelines then as China essentially colonizes the Moon.
Help Me Help You, Maintainers
That's what I think it is about, reverse engineering basic rules from the end pattern.
Still have to change WebFlow's Entropy Site Template Title ;)
i am 40 and am worried about retirement. what sort of retirement planning did you do? how much do you think is a good plan. i love startups, i see similar aspiration to continue to work for startups till 60. i am not interested in creating any sort of generational weath or such as i am already doing what i would like to do, large sum of money won't change anything. but i am asking so i can be a bit peaceful to know some advise from my senior.
I'm on them too, and after being seriously grumpy for a while it dawned on me that not being hungry doesn't mean my body doesn't need satisfying food. I think it's easy to fall into 'don't need to eat, won't eat' and then get some form of malnutrition. I force myself to make good food and just eat less of it, so far it worked *fingers crossed*
Well, not sure if that part matters as much (from first principles). But the more important part being that RL lets a model figure out which methods are effective for it. Most of the time it probably has the tools already from pre-training, but doesn't "make the connection" to use them (or at least not often enough).
This is quite transparent appeasement.

Are you russian by any chance? Or just deeply, irredeemably brainwashed?

> Not that it was illegal

Yes it was.

> Not sure I believe the press either side over civilian exodus vs evacuations

Straying into conspiracy territory again, unsurprisingly.

> And as a nice bonus a demilitarised zone

Ah, you mean a DMZ in Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, and so on, down the internationally recognised border? Somehow, I don't think you do.

> With regards to land, imo that's unfortunately best either traded for goods or leave it as is

Surprise, surprise. You want to give the terrorists everything they want.

> no NATO

That's not for you or russia to determine. And this was never about NATO anyway, given that NATO has been on russia's immediate land border for decades already. The narrative about NATO is yet more kremlin bullshit that you not only believe, but propagate here.

> elections

The Ukrainian opposition parties don't want this, so why do you? Zelensky's approval rating is through the roof. Ukrainians trust Zelensky. He is a true hero.

> As for EU protections Russia never used to object to that but the name calling may have changed their minds.

Oh really? The EU are now the bad guys for saying mean things? Oh goodness, poor russia. My heart truly bleeds. Yes, I can now understand why they've killed hundreds of thousands of people, tortured people, raped people, stolen children, levelled entire cities, displaced millions. Yes, yes. How dare we say mean things.

---

Honestly, I find you disgusting. This discussion is over.
I wonder if it has to do with patentability
Show HN: Fabric – sign Nostr events, DNS records with a Bitcoin sovereign handle
I envy you. I tried three times and got bad side effects each time, so I've given up :(
There was an update from Sacks, the 'crypto tzar' last night that they will not in fact use money to buy crypto for the reserve. They will just put confiscated assets into it. https://x.com/davidsacks47/status/1897802280738734236
I'm not being snarky, I just don't understand how it helps solve the problem?

If the problem is that you scroll on your phone, how does an app with a feature where you scroll on your phone solve the problem?
Watched Andrej's recent video on YouTue and was impressed by Cursor (mentioned in the article) and Andrej's plea for something like that for eBook reading.

Yeah, apps look like a good fit right now.
If Google wants to play stupid games, have them win stupid prizes: Use an adblocker. Ublock Origin works great.
Drones Now Rule the Battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine War
Exactly the time to cut NIH funding, exit the WHO, and put a vaccine sceptic as Secretary of Health.

Obviously the work of a real genius who understands the power of using very bright lights inside the body to fight COVID.

Remember: COVID spared babies. H1N5 won’t.
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/03/world/europe/...
If you ever email a link and it hits gmail, Google will index it.
Why Does Everyone Hate Fork(2)?
M3+ will likely never be supported - that is a ridiculous claim
It’ll be interesting to see if Ariane 6 can ever reach competitiveness with SpaceX on price for commercial launches, but I’m sure Europe will be happy to have their own workhorse rocket for the next decade or two, whatever the cost may be.
Same for me. Though I started weightlifting 3x a week to combat any potential muscle loss.

I cycle frequently and the impact of the weight loss and added strength has made me feel much faster this year (and it's still rainy/cold season).
Is this a mean trick to snipe HN users into thinking about algorithms for hours? I have a friend who wants to know.
Oh yes - "Risky to invest in Europe, it'll scupper our future plans to break a peace treaty and violate international law by invading one of their countries".
"Confirmation. So the question in my mind is: is the UK Government attempting to cover-up its previous advocacy of ADP, by censoring this old document? Or does it instead want the UK legal profession to avoid use of ADP and to what end?"

No, they just changed their advice/webpage. They aren't trying to "cover-up" anything. They just changed their stance in the face of current requests and laws. It's not a conspiracy.
Combine that with the real likelihood of a 9/11-type event due to collapse of the FBI and boy oh boy will Trump fans have a lot to answer for.
You're not wrong but I think there is absolutely a case to be made for these kinds of restructurings as well. For one, giving you the restructured version exposes you to different ways of stating the same content, it might make reading longform content (without falling back to the original source material too often) more fluid, and more situationally, this kind of simplification and restructuring actually happens really often in subtitling, where character count is more leading than the lip movements a dub is based on. e.g. you'll hear one thing, but the sub is that same content often radically redone :)
Hacker News now runs on top of SBCL (2024)
Looks like it's still there to me.
I'm surprised they didn't benchmark it against Pixtral.

They test it against a bunch of different Multimodal LLMs, so why not their own?

I don't really see the purpose of the OCR form factor, when you have multimodal LLMs. Unless it's significantly cheaper.
Make Biology Great Again, Mr. President
>Between the unfairness to make an adult pay for a child who isn't theirs and the unfairness to throw an innocent child into financial distress, protecting the child takes priority everywhere I know of.

I wonder how would you react if you received a notification that half your paycheck will be henceforth withheld to support some random kid.

this comparison is not entirely fair, because in this scenario, the kid's mother did not deliver a grievous, unforgivable insult to you - which is the case with those poor souls who got scammed into paying child support for some whore's bastard whelp.

the state doesn't give a flying fuck about the child's 'financial distress'. the state simply doesn't want to support it.
Denmark is ending a 400-year run with the public letter delivery
Show HN: A Simple, Modern Uptime Monitor with Real-Time Alerts
I built a free SaaS uptime monitoring solution that helps you track whether your websites and services are running.

Key features:
Clean, modern UI for monitoring multiple endpoints

Real-time status updates and response time tracking

Instant notifications when services go down

Easy setup and configuration

Built with modern web technologies (Next.js, React)

I created this because I wanted a simple and beautiful solution for monitoring my own services without relying on overpriced third-party providers. The focus is on simplicity and reliability.

Would love feedback from the HN community on features and use cases!
We've already seen Qwen's new QWQ 32B (not distilled) model doing impressive things on benchmarks. It'll definitely be interesting to see how just good small models can get. When combined with rag and large context window for expanded knowledge, might be able to get pretty far.
This old canard again? Hasn't this been debunked multiple times already?

"C is not a low-level language"

Uh, okay, then what is?

What are you comparing it to? Low-level/high-level is not a binary switch, it's a spectrum; exactly how many languages are lower-level than C and how many are higher?
I don't think that's the mechanism. A caloric deficit causes your system to metabolize whatever it can. It likes fat because that's energy dense, but muscle is also a good source of energy as well, and the more rapid the weight loss, the more body mass it has to burn.
The entire darknet industry revolves around this small yet precious thing, something to be proud of.
To be fair, C was never even considered to be a low level language in cs textbooks, although I see it mentioned at Wikipedia
Thanks for the tip. Marker solved a table conversion without LLM that docling wasn't able to solve.
I wanted an XPS15 for a while, but they kept getting relatively worse than my 2017 one. I ended up just replacing the battery on it and kept the 1080p screen that wasn't great anymore, but I was not going to buy a laptop with a worse battery for a higher price than what I got the old laptop for.

Later I bought a new Malibal laptop, but mostly for the screen, usb-c ports and lower weight,but had to compromise on getting an unnecessary nVidia GPU that I just blacklist right away because the right laptop just didn't exist. I like the laptop, but I can't recommend Malibal laptops though, they are a weird company and getting things to work alright took way more effort than on my old XPS.
Natural selection only favors adaptations that help us create more surviving offspring to spread genes to the next generations.
I wonder why nobody made a NN to find the weigths faster and better than gradient descent
It would be wonderful if CLARC were available since I'm running the HN news.arc with Anarki and I'd be happy to get the performance boost.
Is this sarcasm? Truly can’t tell to be honest.

I’m assuming it isn’t cause having privacy so great a whole industry can be revolved around it is indeed something to be proud of.
What's all this new-fangled DBus rubbish? (2021)
Russia's War Has Destroyed Forest Twice the Size of New York City
Well, we aren't exactly in the need to know here, but the DOD has been studying Climate Change for decades. At least as far back as the Bush administration of the early 00's if not well before. It is not so much oh look the climate is changing, but more what will people do when they lose access to X. In other words, what can we expect when due to climate issues all of a sudden the fishing industry in your village collapses. Or water is scarce, or a particular crop no longer is sustainable in your region. In most cases, resource scarcity will lead to conflict. Sort of the DOD's bread and butter. It is not exactly all about who will big the biggest and baddest killing machine. And more about when will those killing machines be needed.

Admittedly, that is a bit of a simplification.
Nasdaq Joins Exchanges Seeking to Offer Round-the-Clock Trading
For this task, general models will always perform poorly. My company trains custom gen ai models for document understanding. We recently trained a VLM for the German government to recognize documents written in old German handwriting, and it performed with exceptionally high accuracy.
1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882069
“ Cash is Censorship-Resistant, meaning it cannot be blocked by banks or governments”

No crypto is large enough to be useful as cash and yet still censorship resistant. Governments can and have censored developers, miners, and exchanges. Monero is no exception, as highlighted at the beginning of the article. Further censorship is just a matter of time, not capability.
You don't need one. You need hundreds.
There is https://www.rwkv.com/ which is an LLM based on RNN's, thus having "infinite" context length, it comes with its own tradebacks though. (Notably that its impossible to actually store infinite information in the network, so it prunes based on which information it finds more important.)
He touches on indexes but doesn't really mention the implementation. This is about the primitives.
I think you'll get a lot of use from this video from Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

It is long, but don't get scared off. He goes over a ton of different stuff related to model training, but makes it very easy to understand.
Meanwhile DOGE is amassing a fortune in information for.. whom?
Why are all the privacy oriented people unhelpful, rude and condescending (like yourself)?
As a side curiosity, this was the first Arianespace flight that made a controlled de-orbit of a cryogenic* upper stage for safe disposal[0,1].

Ariane 5 didn't have this capability, because its hydrogen-oxygen engines weren't designed to be re-ignited in space.

The first Ariane 6 deorbit attempt (2024) did not succeed[2]—that upper stage is now space junk that will reenter in an uncontrolled manner. Not that that's particularly wrong: all rocket stages used to do that, up until very recently. (There's even dead nuclear reactors orbiting the Earth that will reenter with their spent fuel, at some random location—though that won't happen for a few centuries).

*(Their hypergolic stages used have to this capability, but they retired those 15+ years ago for performance)

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3ljqmxl... ("Ariane 6002 deorbit trajectory, southward over the Indian Ocean with entry around 1910 UTC")

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3ljqfpg... ("Thanks to those who confirmed (1) Ariane 6 did its deorbit burn and (2) deorbit location was over the Indian Ocean around 90E 35S")

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_VA262#Mission ("The failure left the upper stage stranded in a 580-kilometre (360 mi) circular orbit. At this altitude, their natural orbital decay due to atmospheric drag is expected to take decades.")
>If they turn out to be a bad hire, who could've known, esp. with that Ivy League bachelor's degree?

No one got fired for buying ibm...
If I'm feeling ill, should I trust Google when it says that I am probably having "internet connectivity problems", or should I go to a proper doctor instead?

"LLM says X" is the new "I Googled it and here's a copy/paste of the top result". It adds literally nothing of value to the discussion.

Unless of course the discussion is specifically about the quality of LLMs - in which case you should be vetting the answer yourself so you can actually say something meaningful about it.
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow