skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'd be in much more agreement with you if we were talking about people being forced to buy Apple products, but that's rarely if ever the case.

By and large, the people who buy these products are freely choosing to do so. To claim that, for those people, the price is "too high" is equivalent to telling them "you shouldn't be willing to pay that much for that product".

I think it's perfectly fine for me or any other individual to hold the opinion that their products are overpriced, but I think it would be at best borderline presumptuous for me to attempt to tell someone else what they should or should not value.
Safe{Wallet}'S Forensic Investigation Report
You're right in theory but history shows us it's not black and white and rarely has an effect after the fact.
If you are downvoting, I hope you've read at least one of D&K's papers. Or at least looked at the plots. Not meta-stuff pro or con, but what Dunning and Krueger wrote.
I understand that. But I also think that manufacturers in Europe should do better and not just try to survive on patriotism.

Better products == better sales. After all, we live in a capitalist world.
Are these compatible with Linux? My 4yo Carbon x1 (gen 9) is very sluggish and its battery is drained after 1h.
> What does "2FA" stand for?

Two factor authentication, I'm sure you can google it.

> The passkeys that you (and GitHub) are talking about require a separate authenticator to use.

I'm not using anything other than my browser.

> You have already indicated a willingness and desire to use an authenticator

I'm only using my browser, it was 1 click.

> This is all before we even mention that you have to set all this up.

Yeah, once (which doesn't take longer than 15-20s), just like registering on HN, you do it once.

Also as I stated it's my opinion, having a different opinion doesn't make me dishonest
I'm going to second ativzzz. It's a great program. I did it the same way: 1 class a semester over 4 years.
> 51% attack is now outrageously prohibitive

No, it's not! It's almost happened in the past - Google it. The rapid adoption and deployment of ASICs around subsidized or cheap electricity makes it relatively straightforward for anyone with real resources to pull it off.

> Gold is a fancy paperweight that's impractical to use

Bitcoin (the core blockchain) can only process about seven transactions per second. Don't tell me gold is impractical!

> I have been using bitcoin since shortly after it's inception

Yes, and that's the only reason you seem to able to believe these things. Tell me, what can you ACTUALLY buy with Bitcoin without requiring a conversion to fiat currency under the hood? It's not just for tax reasons, it's because it's an awful store of value and would be disastrous for any modern, long-lead supply chain to rely on.

> If you can't see it too bad.

What I see is a "currency" with such terrible liquidity and deflationary properties that Trump is planning to sell off the US gold reserve to pay out these "Bitcoin billionaires" who would otherwise be totally screwed.
The only 'exercise' I've heard of that offers measurable improvement is "N-Back", kind of like the old TV game "Concentration". The app is available on most smartphones.
Did you buy Z3 in the end? :D
Making GitHub Copilot Order Me Cheeseburgers
I got pretty hungry one day and decided that copilot should solve this problem. LMK if you have any questions about tech behind it!

Here is the vscode link to the extension if you want to try it yourself:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=buildwit...
I don't think people that are obese (partly due to corn subsidies) or commit gun violence are acting rationally.

Do you still believe that relationships I originally mentioned are strained?
> When we could have had basic resources like energy, water, some staple foods and shelter provided for free (or nearly free) through automation.

I was inspired to get into programming by Star Trek in the early 2000s because I thought I could contribute to automation that would lead towards that kind of society; much like you've stated here. Some will say we're naive and unrealistic, but all the ingredients for having society function in this way are attainable with a bit of a cultural shift. I was fine with the idea that society could take baby steps towards it, but it seems the last 25 years have been a mixture of regressing and small incremental improvements to things that don't contribute towards that goal. Just like you, my expectations have been utterly destroyed and my outlook for the future is grim.
Completely agree. All of the pieces are there and it's just waiting to be acted upon. I haven't seen any of the major players really doubling down on this, but would be so compelling.
Yep, and that's why I only very recently picked it up in Enterprise world, where the AWS team used it to deploy resources. What used to take them ~45min by hand using prebuilt AMIs, now takes ~500 lines of Terraform "code" and several hours of troubleshooting every time Terraform (or whatever fork they're now using post-Hashicorp) updates/changes, because Enterprise architecture is mutable by default and cannot simply be torn down and replaced.
Evaluating LLMs – Notes on a NeurIPS'24 Tutorial
It was an honest misunderstanding. I am completely ignorant on this subject, honestly trying to understand something.

Like, why would the humans need to have a specific generic configuration? Only with some specific genes the T-Cells are affected by platelets? This is not something that happens on every human?
No comments there yet - this at the top of the home page, let’s use this one.
BMW is considered relatively unreliable, categorized into "hasn't been that much expensive for me so far" tier by Japanese standards. So that's probably not a great counter example.
'M 'Mickey 17' Review: This Job Is Killing Him
Ask HN: Why are there no realtime open weights voice models like Elevenlabs?
2. I think to improve is the next step. KNOWING if the sytem even performs according to set criteria is more important. Improvement can't be made if you don't have any evals to know it is improving.
The CPUs with iGPUs didn't also have the memory on-chip. The Nintendo 64 did. Not sure about the old home computers, but I thought those had separate memory usually.
Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/movies/mickey-17-review.h...
We are quit full ourselves with limited housing and services.
I think it's something that's coming about because of the level of performance reached by the average sports car - in prior eras, the actual mechanical challenge of making a car fast meant achieving higher and higher peak performance also required more engagement from the driver, and I think a lot of people implicitly conflated the two. Starting in the 2000s (and this is really where it's interesting to see the perspective here on the R35, because I recall this being a critique of the car at the time), computer-controlled transmissions, AWD, engine tuning, etc. took a lot of that out of the drivers' hands in the service of making the cars just absolutely brutally fast. EVs are the apex of this - the acceleration is ridiculous, the "skateboard" with all the heavy batteries at the bottom does wonders for keeping the cars planted, and the performance these cars can reach is astounding, but... it's boring. So now I think more people are coming around to the idea that sports car driving is not a numbers game - who can be the fastest around the lap - but an actual visceral hobby, something to engage the senses, and in many cases that almost requires the car to not be as fast or as capable as what you can get with more tech in the middle.
Porsche just had the best year for the 911 ever. I think the low-end sportscar market probably isn't highly profitable, but I think that if nissan had pursued a strategy other than "these sports car platforms were good once, let's never update them more than absolutely necessary" they would have the credibility to justify continuing to innovate closer to the top end of the market.

I think there's also intangible benefits related to brand image. Toyota doesn't sell millions of Supras or 86, but it's enough to break out of the "prius and rav4" mentality of the brand.
As opposed to IRC? Forums? hell - even an email list... All things that are a lot easier to search then Discord, have much lighter clients, and can be done free.

Do you really think there was 'no way to communicate' for projects before discord ?
Pushing what used to occur on web forums into Discord chats has been a net loss for the Internet.
Why is this news? Other car manufacturers offers low or 0% financing on their underperforming models.

"Dodge now offers discounted financing on Hornet as the car a flop"
My brother worked at Nissan back when the R35 was new and exciting.

It sounded like the ownership experience (at least in the US) was not good. Reliability and maintenance were bad. Word got out that it wasn't a fun car to own and then they got very hard to sell so the salesforce didn't even like them. Dealers didn't want to put them on the lot, etc..

And then it did the standard Japanese sports car thing where it languished without updates and got old and outdated compared to other brands' sports cars.
TUR: A multi-repository commit tracker
I needed to keep track of the commits I made for various open-source projects I collaborate on. I also wanted to automatically update my resume and portfolio with this information in a nice readable format.
So, I wrote this simple C tool that allows me to extract the complete list of commits in which I am the author or the co-author from all the repositories I’m involved in. This list can be printed in different formats: latex, html, or markdown.
I’ve also added a to-do list so anyone interested can see the direction this project is headed.
This is wrong.

Before you type a message it says “iMessage” or “SMS” or “RCS” in the text field so you know what you are sending.

If a message doesn’t initially go through first as iMessage then it tries to send it as SMS but you can disable the “Send as text message” in the Settings app on your phone if you don’t want your phone to do this.
Dang. Super fast and significantly more accurate than google, Claude and others.

Pricing : $1/1000 pages, or per 2k pages if “batched”. I’m not sure what batching means in this case: multiple pdfs? Why not split them to halve the cost?

Anyway this looks great at pdf to markdown.
Super interesting - more info like this helps.

I have a 17th Century cottage and the folks came and just said that there was no point at all... maybe they were clueless!
They say: "releasing the API mistral-ocr-latest at 1000 pages / $"

I had to reread that a few times. I assume this means 1000pg/$1 but I'm still not sure about it.
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270665)
The Moon Lander Athena's Fate on the Lunar Surface Is Uncertain
You've fallen one of the dumbest conspiracy theories. There are no facts whatsoever to support it. Russia tried to label regular scientific research as "secret bioweapon labs" and even scientists from Russia published an open letter calling these claims outright lies. If by "prominent US policy folks" you mean Tulsi Gabbard, then yes, she too fell for it and was widely criticised for lacking basic critical thinking skills. Many right-wing social media channels repeat Russian propaganda word-for-word, so people following them may not even realize where all that actually originates from.

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on this:

In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian officials falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing biological weapons, which was debunked as disinformation by multiple media outlets, scientific groups, and international bodies.[5] The claim was amplified by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chinese state media,[10] and was also promoted by followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory and subsequently supported by other far-right groups in the United States.[17]

Russian scientists, inside and outside Russia, have publicly accused the Russian government of lying about evidence for covert "bioweapons labs" in Ukraine, saying that documents presented by Russia's Defense Ministry describe pathogens collected for public health research.[18] The "bioweapons labs" claim has also been denied by the US, Ukraine, the United Nations,[12][19][4] and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
The only datastack iceberg (or lakehouse) will never replace is OLTP systems, for high-concurrency updates optimistic concurrency control & object store is simply a no go.

Iceberg out-of-the-box is "NOT" good at streaming use cases, unlike formats like Hudi or Paimon, the table format does not have the concept of merge/ index. However, the beauty of iceberg is it is very unopinionated, so it is indeed possible to design an engine to stream write to iceberg. As far as I know this is how engines like Upsolver was implemented:
1. Have in-memory buffer to track incoming rows before flushing a version to iceberg (every 10s to a few minutes).
2. Build Indexing structure to write position deletes/ deletion vector instead of equality deletes.
3. The writer will all try to merge small files and optimize the table.

And stay tuned, we at https://www.mooncake.dev/ are working on a solution to mirror a postgres table to iceberg, and keep them always up-to-date.
True!
The next major version of the format should use a more optimized format, as mentioned.

However, some of the important optimizations, that we're preparing are not related so much to the format, but to record more specific things and reconstruct more in the postprocessing.
The loss of manuals has been a pet peeve of mine. Like I need an internet connection just to see what the controls are.

We live in an era of extremes now. You either get an all-digital experience, an anemic cartridge/disc only experience, or a lavish, $100+ omake box from someone like Limited Run Games with a crapton of extras that the vast majority of people never actually see or use in-person, because paradoxically the people who can afford the lavish deluxe boxes are also the people who will never open them out of fear of ruining the "collectible" value.

I miss the era of the middle-ground, in which a Standard Edition came with a physical game, case, and manual, and the Collector's Edition maybe contained a metal tin instead of the standard plastic case.

Even for games I really like, where I might be encouraged to get a collector's edition--I don't think a freaking card game included with my videogame to extract more dollars from me[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Overlord-Collectors-Monarch-P...
I think that the issue is claimed to be that the pump will use lots of electricity trying to keep up with the heat escaping and therefore will not be economical.
Speaking of McVeigh, did they ever catch the second guy in the truck?
I'm not really all that surprised. Public opinion is easily swayed with good marketing.

The government mandated contact tracing, but not how it was to be implemented. There was a publicly developed open-source app for contact tracing that was perfectly privacy preserving.

Unfortunately, many restaurants instead used a commercial solution that was none of these things. What it did have was support from a mildly famous German musician and great lobbying. Most people didn't care, they just wanted to go to the restaurant.
It outperforms the competition significantly AND can extract embedded images from the text. I really like LLMs for OCR more and more. Gemini was already pretty good at it
> Car lovers have always disliked techy cars and longed for simpler driving experiences.

I consider myself a car enthusiast, but can't relate to this. I was always into cars for all the clever ways humanity made things on four wheels go, not the stuff that was associated with it.

Like, I still can't stand driving a regular automatic, but mainly due to how badly it translates my intent into motion. Well, except for CVTs, but they in turn are to me an inelegant and over complicated solution.
We really live in the stupidest timeline
No, I don't. There are multiple alternatives including (though not limited to) opt-in battery protection, removing battery DRM to enable hardware repairs, or declaring a first-party recall on the faulty units to replace components that are damaging to the hardware.

Conspicuously, Apple just so happened to pick the one that encouraged people to upgrade the entire phone. You know, an entire phone that is otherwise functional without arbitrary restrictions by the OEM.
> Update from Tim Crain, the mission director: “All right, team, keep working the problem. We’re shedding power as fast as we can to keep the vehicle in good health. We are generating power. We are communicating through our telemetry radio, and we are working to evaluate exactly what our orientation is on the surface.”

Speculations are that the unusually shaped lander has tipped over again, as was the case with the company's previous Moon landing attempt.
Orion: https://kagi.com/orion/

You can use Firefox and Chrome extensions via Webkit. It's macOS right now, but should be coming to other operating systems as it gains traction.
As I have said before, the fact that it is used, doesn't validate the usage. Yes, Go has recover. Yes, the stdlib uses it here and there.

Does any of that change the semantics of what a panic means, and how applications should therefore react? No. Does it make panics the equivalent of exceptions in Python semantically? Also no.

And this logic isn't limited to Go. Guess what, there are python libraries that use Exceptions for control flow. It certainly works. Does that validate using Exceptions as control flow elements? No, of course not. Why? Because that's not what an exception exists for semantically.

Panic-Recover cycles in go codebases are an antipattern, and unless I see an official statement by the people who make Go (who also write "Effective Go" btw.) saying otherwise, those are the semantics of the language.
Teamspeak and others were so well entrenched at the time. Wouldn't players of WoW, CS, etc. have brought those tools to FFXIV? What made that special?
I would assume this is 1 request containing 2k pages vs N requests whose total pages add up to 1000.
I view the installers the same as the discs or cartridges. They are yours and it's your responsibility to keep up with them if you want to play them in the future.

But unlike a disc or cartridge you can have it backed up in multiple places, more similar to family photos.
Batching likely means the response is not real-time. You set up a batch job and they send you the results later.
That reminds me of my short time with ISDN and the amazing availability to receive calls on the second line without forcing me offline.
So your problem was scrolling on your phone so you made a focus app with a social feed you can scroll through?
Woah, Haruhi is now considered classic.
A more rigourous approach was tried after WW2, when Americans feared the Soviets were edging ahead mathematically/scientifically. It was called "New Math" [0]. For an example of the type of textbook high school students were taught from, check out Dolciani's Modern Introductory Analysis (the 1960s and 1970s editions only; the later editions were dumbed down, especially when Dolciani died) [1], which starts with set theory, logic, field axioms, and proof writing techniques.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

[1] - https://archive.org/details/modernintroducto00dolc
I live in an area where basic infrastructure like this is safety critical. It was installed 50-100 years ago over a weekend for ~ $10Ks of 2025 money, with no environmental impact and lasted half a century with zero upkeep.

Now, with modern permits, etc, these projects take 5-10 years, $10M’s and have significant environmental impact.

As a direct result, every few years, people around here burn to death or lose their homes or whatever.

So, everyone is less safe, and the environment suffers.

Also, I make jokes about beavers, because it’s better than crying.
Show HN: Magnitude – Natural language E2E testing with multimodal LLM agents
Hey folks, we are building a platform for running e2e tests with multimodal LLM agents / natural language. Released our SDK recently and would love for some people to give it a shot and let us know what you think.

Basically you can define a test in natural language steps, run the test, and the LLM will carry out the test case by observing browser screenshots and taking actions. If it runs into issues or bugs the test case fails with a descriptive problem. We aim to eliminate the flakiness of existing paradigms like playwright/selenium by letting the LLM decide what to do based on what it observes to follow the test case. This way if you make a feature change or some selectors change around, the test case should still work and you don't have to update tests all the time.
Batched often means a higher latency option (minutes/hours instead of seconds), which providers can schedule more efficiently on their GPUs.
Government data would give an AI company extraordinary power
That makes sense. Idle time is nearly free after all.
Don't old UK full home renovations often take the house down to its studs? What would be limiting them from insulating well enough, or is just that full renovations are too expensive?
If you want to generalize across multiple election, GOP shifts their focus to the "values and cultural issues" of the moment, to get working-class Americans to vote against their own self-interest.

In the past, it was gay marriage and abortion; today, it's trans kids and DEI. Once these issues dominate the conversation, little attention is paid to the real priorities and actions of GOP and the Billionaires that bankroll them: cutting funds to Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare programs, cuts to health insurance subsidies, cuts to education, cuts to medical research funding, cuts to development assistance to the poorest in the world and so on, all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
My apologies if it seems like I'm speaking like a corporate bot. I always try to be as respectful as possible. To be completely honest, the decision to make changes to the homepage was quite difficult for us, but we are trying to figure out what we can do to improve adoption as we evolve.

I largely own the free product/service side of IPinfo, and it’s common for me to hear from developers that they didn’t know we have a free database they can download or we literally have this database for free on GCP and Snowflake. This happens with a lot of our products. For example, many of our users may even do not know we have a residential proxy detection database that we worked really hard to launch.

How can we improve the adoption of our service here? We would like users to explore the site and, at the same time, give us feedback on the areas where they’re facing friction.
Oy! You got a loicense for that encroiption?
Very impressive! Lisp people are always good at tooling.
Achieving financial independence and early retirement does not mean one no longer needs any advice about life. Indeed, because those people have a longer retirement, they might ponder things like the meaning of life much more than someone who's living paycheck to paycheck and has to devote all brain cycles to survival. And there are so many options for those who retire at 40 that they genuinely need advice about what to do, how to find what matters most to them, and how to go about doing the things they had always wanted to do but couldn't.

These people have succeeded in making money and that's all. But life is so much more than just making money.