skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave the short version. Your outline of consequence and effect is correct.

The British demanded specific oats and other crops, which required large allotments; this left the Irish farmers with a small portion of land to grow their own subsistence on, in turn leading to Potatoes as the only option (ending in a monoculture). When the potatoes started dying, the Irish had no access to the other crops (as they were grown for the tenant holders).
Mainline Linux on Qualcomm SoCs, are we here now? (2024) [video]
The automatic generation was mainly a step to help with manual porting, since it requires so much vetting and updating for differences in data layout; effectively all of the checker code Anders ported himself!
What people say on polls and reality are very different. Most people in all countries don't support mixed race marriage.
I do want a computer which talks to me like a person, with that agility. I am used to listening to voice.

I am tired of reading so much stuff which could well be spoken to me. Like this comment here, which you now need to read.

It's only very recently that living beings on this world have learned to read and write, it's not normal. It's normal to communicate through sound.
That's the one. Nifty little program.
I'm sure Microsoft could find the money to do a lot of different things. But why that instead of the infinite alternatives that the money could be spent on instead?
“Much literature has historically claimed that hydrogen cyanide smells of almonds or bitter almonds. However, there has been considerable confusion and disagreement over this, because the smell of household almond essence is due to benzaldehyde, which is released along with hydrogen cyanide from the breakdown of amygdalin present in some plant seeds, and thus is often mistaken for it.[12][13] In an experiment to test what hydrogen cyanide smells like, the chemistry Youtuber NileRed described the smell as "not at all like an almond" but like "weak bleach or chlorine" or "swimming pools".[14]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide
One thing to keep in mind. When you're interviewing for jobs, you're also interviewing them. You've discovered some of your preferences on what I generally lump into the 'process' bucket --- when you're considering changing jobs, or selecting from multiple available jobs, you need to know about how they handle all of this, so you can guess which job will make you happier.

There's a spectrum of process from cowboy to multi-decade space mission, and as an experienced engineer, I know where I want to be, and I can grudgingly accept that other places on the spectrum can be appropriate if there's a real business justification.

Since it sounds like you're more on the cowboy side of the spectrum, one thing to be aware of while you're interviewing is that 'best practices' seems to be more process, so when you ask, most people aren't going to just come out and say they YOLO editing PHP on prod... you've got to ask and refine your probing questions so that you get to something close to accurate, while sometimes not revealing your preferences.

The other thing is that generally, the more experience and tenure you have, the more clout you have to skip process. Skipping meetings has consequences, of course, but sometimes it's better for you to have an hour of sanity and accept that decisions will be made without your input. IMHO, when you intentionally skip meetings, you should not re-litigate the decisions of the meetings, unless they're really infeasible or damaging to the business.
I have an AI-powered NOTAM mapper at https://notam-mapper.obliscence.com. It's just intended for fun, but you can try pasting arbitrary NOTAMs into it and check the results.
Fair. I am not sure if people working at AI companies is a good measurement for this, as they have a personal stake in their claims.

Maybe I am just morally corrupt enough to entertain this idea, but people working at AI companies overexaggerating and overhyping the impact of their work sounds like an obvious move.
They did not announce the price(s) in the presentation. Likely because they know it is going to be very expensive:

Web Search [0]
* $30 and $25 per 1K queries for GPT‑4o search and 4o-mini search.

File search [1]
* $2.50 per 1K queries and file storage at $0.10/GB/day
* First 1GB is free.

Computer use tool (computer-use-preview model) [2]
* $3 per 1M input tokens and $12/1M output tokens.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#web-search

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#built-in-tools

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#latest-models
Dealing with references you typically find in a compiler is not a problem for Rust. Arena allocation and indices are your friend.
They can disagree if they want but as a career-long Microsoft developer they can't fool me that easily. I'm not even complaining, I'm just stating a fact that high-level steering decisions like this are made in Teams meetings between Microsoft employees, not in open discussion with the community. It's the same in .NET, which is a very open source project whose highest-level decisions are, nonetheless, made in Teams meetings between Microsoft employees and then announced to the public. I'm fine with this but let's not kid ourselves about it.

That said, I must have misstated my opinion if it seems like I didn't think they have a good reason. This is Anders Hejlsberg. The guy is a genius; he definitely has a good reason. They just didn't say what it is in this blog post (but did elsewhere in a podcast video linked in the HN thread).
In my experience it is pretty difficult to make WASM faster than JS unless your JS is really crappy and inefficient to begin with. LLVM-generated WASM is your best bet to surpass vanilla JS, but even then it's not a guarantee, especially when you add js interop overhead in. It sort of depends on the specific thing you are doing.

I've found that as of 2025, Go's WASM generator isn't as good as LLVM and it has been very difficult for me to even get parity with vanilla JS performance. There is supposedly a way to use a subset of go with llvm for faster wasm, but I haven't tried it (https://tinygo.org/).

I'm hoping that Microsoft might eventually use some of their wasm chops to improve GO's native wasm compiler. Their .NET wasm compiler is pretty darn good, especially if you enable AOT.
I remember the initial PG announcement about the founder's summer program and wanting desperately to be a part of it. I wasn't at a place in my life where I ever could join YC but the tribe that's been built by everyone involved has added tremendous value to my life. I'll always be incredibly grateful that this place and YC exists.
How std::any Works
Trump administration to resume military aid to Ukraine and intelligence sharing
> How much context can they be assumed to have? The name of the class? The name of of the module? The nature and terminology of the business that the function serves? The nature and terminology of the related subsystems, infrastructure and libraries?

All of this.
Ukraine agrees to accept immediate, 30-day ceasefire -US-Ukraine statement
Looks like we're waiting on Russia. Young people dying to drones needs to be addressed in the Geneva convention. Each of those deaths looked particularly cruel and unusual, they were all begging for mercy (I only saw a little bit of one). It was like an actual Valkyrie over them.
Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting "CSAM" That Wasn't
> If you go far beyond that, you are in high end territory. (Ferrari vs Alfa Romeo, champagne over prosecco). There is no limit to what you can spend to get the most unique flavour experiences.

I really don't agree with that. $20/kg of coffee is quite cheap, at least in the US. Maybe Sweden has wildly cheaper coffee prices, but I doubt that.

$20/kg equates to roughly $6.80 per 12oz, which is below the bottom end of coffee prices you can find in a store if you're buying 12oz bags.

A normal 'specialty' coffee costs at least $14/12oz (or, ~$40/kg). That coffee is nothing particularly extraordinary. In car analogies, that would be the equivalent of a low-end Lexus or Mercedes.
And chosen by NIST…
AST level would have to automatically figure out what parts should be aligned, an alternative is to keep saving it in text but tweak the meaning of the "tab" character, so the developer still has control over what gets aligned: https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

Not great since viewing it in something that doesn't understand elastic tabstops would just be a mess, but it solves one of the issues the other response brings up, and I think some sort of user control like that is going to remain necessary either way.
Show HN: Create AI games with a single prompt
Just launched Dreamwarps – a tool that lets you generate entire interactive role-playing games from a text prompt.

Type something like "Debug consciousness with Richard Feynman" or "Convince Warren Buffett to invest in dogecoin" and it:

- Builds a complete narrative with characters, conflicts, and scenes
- Sets challenging goals that you have to achieve
- Generates images for the game world and characters

As you play, the system:

- Tracks your progress toward the goal (0-100%)
- Adapts the scenario based on your actions
- Introduces new characters and unexpected events

It is designed to generate edgy, unhinged game experience – not sanitized corporate stuff. Characters have real personality flaws, curse when appropriate, and reference actual events and controversies.

I built this for fun mostly - a tool that lets your crazy imagination materialize into a world that you can interact with.
Any project that is availabke on BOINC could be a good idea
Some US carriers are still missing RCS on iPhone: who's to blame?
Looks like the Dune show even introduces a YC:

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Ynez_Corrino

Incidentally, querying "YC Dune" on DuckDuckGo / Bing yields that link in the results, but Google does not, which seems rather troubling for the modern state of that search engine.
Also breaking news: Trump administration to resume military aid to Ukraine and intelligence sharing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335482
Really glad to see it. It sounds like their reasoning is essentially the same as mine for implementing HQC alongside Kyber in Cyph three years ago: having a different theoretical basis makes it highly complementary to Kyber/ML-KEM, but its public key sizes are much more practical than those of the more well known code-based candidate Classic McEliece.
TIL medical exoskeletons. Neat.

I want gear that can also resist. Akin to wearing weights on ankles. Like the DNSYS's "aqua mode" mentioned elsethread. But for the whole body.

Such an exoskeleton could help astronauts maintain strength and muscle mass, right?

Then the astronaut could also be passively "working out" while doing other tasks.

Further, imagine simulating swimming, burpees, stair climbs, body weight exercises, whatever, while floating in space. That'd be cool.
Hey so the Trump Administration resumed military aid, as I said above.
The usual chain of custody goes something like: The store has a video surveillance system which the police collect the footage from, so the chain of custody goes through the store and the police which implies that nobody other than those two have tampered with it.

But then you have an inside job where the perpetrators work for the store and have doctored the footage before the police come to pick it up, or a corrupt cop who wants to convict someone without proving their case or is accepting bribes to convict the wrong person and now has easy access to forgeries. Chain of custody can't help you in either of these cases, and both of those things definitely happen in real life, so how do you determine when they happen or don't?
Oh yeah! Thanks for asking cause this was the dilemma that we were experiencing at first. When starting out, think we were using mediapipe from ML Kit (Google) and CoreML. If you want a visual example of our first version, here it is: https://www.swivi.app/.

We started out on Android but switched to iOS because everyone in our area had iPhones lol. In short, the skeleton (the white lines) kept flickering a lot so we made our own implementation. Feel free to check out our iOS version history too!

You can see our tracking capabilities from this stupid short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cGJs9pJW_nE (Skip to the last part where I wave my arms around quickly)

You're very right, the general body pose estimators are laggy and doesn't track very well. We worked full-time to implement our own solution that took YEARS XD. So this isn't smth that we just made. Admittedly, we were focused on building which I know isn't the best approach. But..at least, we got this tho ahaha

For our full iterative building process, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5CAK40wTwo&t=17s

But the most important aspect that you pointed out which I liked is safety. Like all AI, you shouldn't completely trust it 100%. The app is good at what it does, but it's just a tool that can assist your needs.

I tried to keep it brief, so I hope this is answered your points. Appreciate you!
> It's hard to tell if there will even be a runtime that somehow uses TS types to optimize even further.

Yeah, that exists. AssemblyScript has an AOT compiler that generates binaries from statically typed code.
"The dose makes the poison" but I'm not in a hurry to make myself a test case for no good reason. Tastier preserves might be a good enough reason.
It took me a moment to think through what a leading zero on a DOB meant and that it wasn't a Long Now foundation thing.
My Claude 3.7 n8n AI Researcher agent capable using scattered internet data
Psychopathic tendencies more likely to gamble with other peoples lives (2021)
Lockheed Offers a New Low-Cost Cruise Missile as Part of 'High-Low Mix'
You can run any program that is in the container you select. Right now it ignores the entrypoint from the container config (though you could manually copy that into the Cmd field). Shell is a convenient program to run though so you can pass it a script to then run multiple commands. But you can run `date` directly for instance: https://programexplorer.org/#s=eyJjbWQiOiJkYXRlIiwic3RkaW4iO...
That's probably because pcmpestri is trash for substring search. There is a good reason why ripgrep doesn't use it. :-)

I looked for an authoritative search for why pcmpestri is trash, and I couldn't find anything I was happy linking to other than Agner Fog's instruction tables: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf You can see that the throughput and latency for pcmpestri is just awful.

And yes, not having any code to print the matching lines means that the only code path in krep is just counting things. If that's all your tool is doing, you can totally beat ripgrep or any other tool that is more applicable to generalized use cases. It's why the `memchr` crate (what ripgrep uses for single substring search) has a specialized routine for counting occurrences of bytes (which ripgrep uses for line counting): https://github.com/BurntSushi/memchr/blob/746182171d2e886006...

Because it's faster to do that than it is to reuse the generalized `memchr` API for finding the location of matching bytes.

And counting matches in a multi-threaded context is way easier than actual managing the printing of matches in the same order that you get them.

krep isn't big. You can skim its source code in a few minutes and get a good idea of how it works.
Thank you for taking the time to post this!
That sounds like sanewashing Trump. Just consider this: if Greenland has a such a strategic importance to the US, all the US had to do is to ask Denmark nicely to house a dozen more US military bases there, and Denmark (pre-Trump) would've been happy to follow along.

All Trump did was to make sure that Greenland will not see another US base in the near future. Which would, when you think about it, make Russia quite happy if Greenland is strategically important.
It's statistical information arbitrage.

Let's say you go to the futures market:

Seller pays a contract-buyer $1 if it rains tomorrow. How much will seller charge for that contract?

Bookmaker using forecaster A will sell that contract for $0.51 every day, and earn a profit of $0.01/contract, on average.

Bookmaker using forecaster B and their clients will buy that contract on probably sunny says, and bankrupt Forecaster A.

Similar result if Bookmaker B sells contracts to Bookmaker A, at $0.11 on probably-sunny days, and $0.90 on probably-rainy days.
That is a fun fact! Gave me a smile to think about our solar system’s variety. Thank you!
Being keen for new macOS releases
Garry Tan and the rest of YC leadership are 100% aligned with Musk's goal of crashing the American economy so they can subjugate labor and buy assets cheap. It can't be a surprise they post on X.
That's not true. The lambdas used in the functional version are each called once for every item in the list.
YC changed my life, and I'll be forever grateful to PG, Jessica, and the team for taking a chance on a homeschooled, GED-wielding solo founder.
You're talking about Canada nuclearizing in US backyard which frankly is more delulu discourse than felating Trump to buy time.
I have used those “corporate” aspects to go through the promotional ladder, gain experience in them and then share the best parts with others in new roles/orgs.

The challenge is that you can’t avoid them and you need to work within the boundaries of those processes. So I suggest a level of acceptance that they exist but challenging them to be as lean as possible
What about the site led to the assumption that the time limit is related to discipline and social media overuse? The tag-line is "Because social media is better when we're all online together" not "because social media is hard to stay off of and we need boundaries forced on us."

You're making a great point, and one I think most people agree with, but I'm not sure it's relevant. At least, based on what I see of the website in its "offline" status.
The President is not elected by popular vote, and I should hope that the polling probabilities take that into account.

312 to 226 (58%/42%) was the final electoral college count. Do you know what the Polymarket odds for the race were at 11:30pm on November 4th, the day before election day? 59.8% Trump, 40.2% Harris. Yes, actually, seriously, go look them up, they didn't just correctly predict the winner, the odds themselves were within an incredibly accurate margin for the actual electoral vote share. The Robinhood election market odds were similarly placed. The Harris campaign said recently that they basically knew they were going to lose very early on. This information was out there, everyone knew it, except the "professional pollsters" who are now begging/pleading that their 50-50 models aren't worth giving up on.

You don't need to white knight the pollsters. They're selling a defective product. The marketplace for their product will punish them in 2026 and 2028 far more than any of our comments on HackerNews will.
I thank dang for putting up with me.
> Europe's critical talent blind-spot. The misconception that cloud competitiveness requires massive data centres persists despite hardware costs dropping to nearly 1/8th since 2016... The real competitive advantage lies in the software engineers who build sophisticated infrastructure management systems. European companies fundamentally undervalue these specialists, resisting competitive salaries while failing to recognise that this talent - not physical infrastructure - creates the efficiencies that make cloud computing revolutionary. This cultural blind-spot has proven more damaging than any funding gap.

ah. Finally, someone to see the elephant in the room.

Although, still nothing is mentioned about the smartphone-universe, and what it means that being colonized.
Wait, is this carry on sized or checked size?

Is it delta's size limits, or are we following united or American Airlines? Or heaven forbid, alligent?
knot-resolver
not implementing doesn't mean its not supported https://github.com/dylibso/mcpx-openai-node (this is for mcp.run tool calling with OpenAI models, not generic)

but yes, it's the strongest anti-developer move to not directly support MCP. not surprised given OpenAI generally. but would be a very nice addition!
It sounds like you're making a principled argument against tariffs. That's great, and whether you're right or wrong is independent of the stock market reaction. And there's a fine discussion to be had on the merits of tariffs and tariff uncertainty on economic activity.

But attributing short-term market movement to a specific phenomenon is, to put it bluntly, plain foolishness. Ex post facto reasoning is almost always an absurd task and it's important to push back on it, *especially* when it confirms your own biases.
Claude wins.
Yeah I'm colorblind myself and usually it's not a big deal until I try to play a boardgame or tell good values from bad on random powerpoints at work. Every once in a while I'll pass a little regional airport with a "free flying lessons" sign and get excited before I remember that being colorblind precludes me from flying.
Based on every macos update for the last 15+ years, where usability gets worse, I'm not looking forward to this, but here's hoping.

Archive link to the Bloomberg article[0] this is based on:

https://archive.is/Ow5Lo

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/apple-rea...
Centre of the Earth could hold large reservoir of iron–helium compounds
https://archive.ph/CYxYi
It could easily go the other way, where the public doesn't care what people think they did or didn't do and just does whatever they want, because they don't respect the state and believe the social contract has been broken. "Fuck justice, talk to my AR-15."

There's ample evidence that this is already happening, eg. recent headlines about kids being radicalized at increasingly younger ages, groups like No Lives Matter that embrace violent nihilism, increased domestic terrorism, record high gun ownership across both sides of the political spectrum, authority figures that just do whatever they want and ignore any form of law or accountability, etc.
You just posted the same comment three times in three different posts in 10 minutes. I'd say it would be nice to take it a bit slower...
Yep, it looks like it will be cut and closed, which is truly unfortunate. It’s disappointing to see that science nor innovation are not a priority for this administration. And this doge cutting of funding or even shutting down important projects will have long-term consequences, impacting research, education, and technological advancements that benefit everyone.
> Ireland "appeased" the UK by giving up Northern Ireland.

This is a gross mischaracterization. NI was created as part of the partitioning of Ireland (1920), carried out at a time when the UK government in Westminster also controlled all of the island. In 1922, Ireland became an independent country, and at no time after that was it at war with the UK.

There was a violent resistance to UK rule in Ireland (particularly leading up to 1921) but there was no recognized national actor negotiating with the UK. The eventual outcome could be seen as a victory for Sinn Fein, but this was not a pair of national actors at war and reaching an agreement to stop fighting. It was more a resistance movement which eventually won some of what it wanted (an independent Ireland) but not all (Ireland did not cover the entire island).
This is actually a huge part of a modern airline's business. There's an interesting Wendover video[1] that argues the airline operations of the legacy carriers is just a loss-leader for their financial functions like credit cards, points partners, etc. United (my home airline) recently adjusted their frequent flier system to basically stop anyone without a credit card or tons of business travel from getting status. Looks like Southwest wanted a piece of that pie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4
Someone who understands that 97% success rate is better than much smaller success rate?