skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK was horrible. No real protection for workers - just layers of mandatory legal mumbo-jumbo with zero actual chances for people to keep their jobs. It was like ripping off the band-aid 1mm at a time for four months.

Spain/France were an employer’s nightmare. Anyone without another job lined up secured a "special deal"—workers have massive leverage, they know it, and they’re actively litigious. People on parental leave had close to a year of guaranteed no-shows. The reaction was, of course, "never again" rippling across American corporate circles.

The rest of Europe was okay-ish.

US was predictably the easiest. We were generous with packages, but it's easy to see how the system can be used to screw people over.

Middle East was the roughest. Visas in UAE/Qatar expire instantly, and the local tech market is almost non-existent. We extended until the end of the school year to help with visa concerns, and some people managed to arrange golden visas. But for many, it was a massive shock — losing both jobs and residency overnight.
I also really like:

https://github.com/eza-community/eza (modern ls replacement)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd (modern tree replacement)

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (modern cat(1) replacement)

my .zshrc for every system now uses these as drop in replacements
s/are/were barely making progress. The ~20% [1] reduction [2] in total supplies to the ukraine front line lead to the logical prediction that frontline dynamics would be impacted. Early indicators suggest this prediction is materializing. [3].

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-europe-react-sh... Pre freeze: "Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute think tank in the U.K., told ABC News that recent estimates indicate the U.S. share of all military hardware sent to the front has fallen to around 20%, with 25% coming from Europe and 55% domestically produced in Ukraine." ; also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/04/us-weapo...

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-ku...
I used to think that the people who accused Reddit mods of being "power hungry" were overreacting and were just using that to deflect from their own bad behavior.

Then, weird things started to happen. Some of the things I would post/comment would only get one upvote, and my posts would frequently get immediately removed by an auto-mod. A year or so later, Reddit updated their UI, and the posts with one upvote had a message from Reddit saying they were intentionally hidden.

I conclude it's most likely a combination of subreddits auto-blocking people who post in certain subs, and in some cases the Reddit spam algorithm going completely off the rails. I think a few of my blocked posts criticized Reddit or another social media platform, but most weren't really that notable.
Cursor 0.47 prices Sonnet 3.7 max at $0.12 per request
Yes, I used to be skeptical about the hype, but now I'm somewhat concerned. I don't think they will replace engineers but they do increase their productivity. I'm not able to quantify by how much though. In my case, maybe it increases my productivity by 5-10%, saving me a few hours of work each week. Very rough estimate.

Does it mean that we'll need less engineers to perform the same amount of work? or we'll produce better products? In my company, there's no shortage of things to do, so I don't think we'll hire less people if suddenly engineers are a bit more productive. But who knows how it'll impact the industry as a whole.
Gender neutral. I know it's a machine. I do have fun though asking it philosophical questions about itself and its future and what it perceives consciousness to be.
Although I understand it doesn’t mean this is even nearly useable for a real thing rn, that’s fucking dope.
When Putin can't take back Kursk, it seems odd to call Russia a super power.

But yes, agree with you about China.

Putin wants people to think Russia is a super power, when it's instead a corrupted inefficient mafia state. Look at research or startups coming from there (not much) or it's economy - the country is not interesting any longer (Putin has damaged it that much). Except for Putin attacking Ukraine, and his nukes and troll farms.

If Pakistan starts threatening other countries with nuclear war, and tries to invade a neighbor but mostly fails, is it then suddenly a super power?

Maybe "terror power" could be a new word
But why do we need “power projection?” Why do we need bases all over the world?
When being a paying customer is not good enough, and the CEO sees fit to point out the power they have over you by providing a life critical service, that seems like a solid sign that your business is more than a little deranged and you are a liability.
I’m sorry if reality is too much for you.

Saying doing X wouldn’t have mattered is a perfectly reasonable rebuttal here. Ukraine not using a missile for attacking that aircraft means they could have used it to attack a different aircraft. Similarly Russia got to use all forces in that plan not destroyed with the aircraft in some other plan.

That’s not backpedaling that’s just the inherent complexities involved.
Wait. I thought the Musk-Trump regime was going to usher in a glorious post-scarcity economy based on the genius and purity of crypto?
> "I'm going to state the obvious, that Rust is very good for security, for parallelism, for performance".

That's not obvious.

> He is "almost certain" that code he writes in Rust is going to work well on everything from Android to Windows.

I'd think the problem with security in code is cocky developers who believe that some part of the environment is magical and can save them from themselves.

> Ledru cited laziness as another reason for using Rust. "So if there is a crate or library doing that work, I'm going to use it. I'm not going to implement it [myself]."

Precisely. Where does this "certainty" come from then?

> He is thinking about "what we are going to leave to the next generation".

At this rate, a complete and total mess, of two slightly incompatible libraries neither of which have any significant features which differentiate it from the other, save for in the imagination of the developers themselves.
These same people invoking the concept of totalitarianism to push their agenda are totally silent on the US allying with Al Queda in Syria. The concept that we have moral standards for foreign policy friends or enemies is a joke.
The point of an atmospheric test wouldn't be to merely say "we have capability" it would be to say "we have capability and we're absolutely not afraid to use it, no matter what the cost." The idea is to demonstrate overwhelming strength and resolve, such that the opponent doesn't dare attack, not to escalate slowly.
This is cause the harvests were fucked
Some sites include a JS "log in with google" that does the same thing. You can tell by whether you can select it with the element inspector. Use ublock to block the js version. Also, the login prompt appearing has nothing to do with Google tracking you or using fingerprinting. It's just the site author added google sign-in. That's all. Block google domains in your dns if you're paranoid.
Show HN: Chess Using NFTs and Game Theory
Beyond Checkmate transforms traditional chess into a dynamic value-creation system by tokenizing chess pieces as NFTs with values that update based on move quality. The platform rewards strategic excellence and skilled gameplay through a mathematically sound economic model, creating new opportunities for chess players to earn based on their abilities.

The platform consists of three primary components:

Chess Gameplay Engine

Web-based interface
Real-time move evaluation
Integration with Stockfish engine
Dynamic Valuation Model

Real-time position evaluation
Game theory-based value updates
Performance tracking metrics
Blockchain Layer

SFT minting and management
Smart contract integration
Marketplace functionality
Just using dependencies isn't bad IMO. Your code might be of much higher quality when you use libraries that are used by many other packages instead of coding your own stuff that is only used by your package and thus less reviewed / less improved upon.
I think losing the European market will do a lot of harm to the US, especially their precious tech giants, plus they'll lose creditors. The $$$ won't be what it used to be, and once that falls...

But the whole point of Musk and Thiel is for the USA to lose its power. You can't coerce large institutions, but you can do that with small ones, so they want decentralization, small zones. There they can buy power, and do whatever they please. For this, the federal USA has to be upended.
That's not a gang against another here.

Those are democratic, sovereign countries, in an international order governed by law. Joining voluntarily a _defense_ alliance.

And one bully country that keeps on bullying, and pretends to be the victim of everyone, and unlawfully attacks a neighbouring country.

Despite its own twisted narrative, if someone took the wrong decision, that's Russia.
ARM Holdings is, ah, not necessarily the easiest company to work with. See the Qualcomm saga: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/arm_qualcomm_nuvia/

The _current_ big EU supercomputer initiative does use ARM designs (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/sipearl_rhea1_specs/ ), but you wouldn’t necessarily want to be totally dependent on them if you can help it.
I'm not fully qualified but in a nutshell, Gleam doesn't support OTP out of the box. There is a separate package for it [0] but it doesn't offer everything, so it depends on your needs. If you're going to be doing heavy OTP stuff you'll need to stick with Elixir. If you want to transpile to JS, then Gleam is the better choice. Otherwise it's up to your tastes around type systems and syntax.

[0] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
A good friend of mine has a PhD in labor economics and is now a senior management consultant for a big firm and I've been told that in general just cutting people is bad for businesses and most businesses will be worse off by just cutting people, especially without changing any of the underlying systems that got the company to the position it's in. Next time I'll have to ask him about the studies on it but there definitely isn't a consensus that general layoffs help businesses in the medium/long term. He was saying the times they seem to work best is in the context of a broader restructuring, (which in my experience is not common for companies).
Probably not. :-)

I often found that assignments from my boss were to please the fantasies the boss or their boss, who seemed to pay more attention to those fantasies and toys on their desktop than actually getting things done in a solid way for the customer.

On one job, I attended meetings where amazing ideas were dropped off the table because management couldn't see the big picture potential. We were in a market where every vendor had a proprietary database schema, to stymie conversion. A bunch of us proposed giving away an open database schema, and competing in that larger market, which was beneficial to customers, and a meritocracy. Oh no. That would mean that product quality was more important than slick salesmanship.

The boss sued a disgruntled employee for hacking his computer, and after he won, the judgment was "Well, you two work it out". Right.

One director had a mania for "Windows NT is the next great thing" in production systems. Fortunately, I was on the Solaris side. I didn't hang around long enough to hear the success stories (as in throwing chairs, I imagine)
I'm getting a novel optical illusion with the spinning line in the box that shows up near the beginning: Whichever end I'm looking at looks normal, but the other end looks like a split hair, or an open pair of chopsticks. Like what's spinning isn't actually a "/" but actually a very narrow "V" .. only, if I try to look at the split part of the V, that part closes up and the opposite end splits.

Is anyone else getting that?
crates.io does not allow a dependency of another crate to be arbitrarily deleted as per their usage policy section 'package ownership' paragraph 4.
There are plenty, Singapore is an example.
US companies are required by US law to disclose data to US authorities when requested - no matter where in the world they operate.

Doesn't matter if it is a EU subsidiary. The US parent company must abide by US law and give US authorities the data.

EU citizens cannot trust their data in the hands of US companies. No matter if it is on servers in Europe hosted by European subsidiaries.
I think the administration is gambling on being able to consolidate global power before anyone is going to have a chance to build anything. Europe is completely reliant on the US and US technology for defense right now, these systems took decades and trillions of dollars to build and refine, and an 800 billion EUR investment does not magically create a military industrial complex overnight. Decades ago in my early career I briefly worked on some logistics software for the Joint Strike Fighter project and had some contact with a couple of the army of contractors working on the project. The scale and complexity of this effort blows away anything else I've ever seen in my career, which includes a number of multi-billion dollar infrastructure and nuclear power projects.

Trump talks about invading Canada or Greenland and people act like it is a joke. I don't think it is.

The US is in a position to completely dictate to Europe what they will or won't do, using Russia as a proxy for now. We are 48 days in. A couple of weeks ago I replied to someone suggesting the US could provide weapons to Russia with disbelief. I no longer consider that an impossible scenario. Europe stops buying F35s? Trump tells Europe that if they don't buy them he's going to sell them to Russia. I mean that's a relatively tame response compared to the options on the table.

Right now the only chance for Europe is to stop this madness in the US. We have this "take it down" act, the executive order to produce a report advising whether or not to declare martial law, the January 6th pardon of the Proud Boys who are now effectively a paramilitary force of thousands waiting for Trump to deploy. These are all familiar elements in history and I think we are in for a bloody, bloody summer. I think we're going to see government forces opening fire on protesters, martial law declared, and the implementation of Chinese style suppression and crackdown on dissent online. Maybe attempts to strip US citizens of their citizenship and "deport" them for good measure, anything to try to sow fear into average people to not step out of line. If the administration is successful in quashing the opposition and getting everyone to go back to work, Europe could easily next on the chopping block. Remember all the things Bannon said about the EU during the first administration.
There’s a certain irony here as ARM is 100% British European.
I mean let’s be honest, coffee will rise to 6-8 bucks either way cause of inflation
>Also it's not clear what "Even Donald Trump now admits

Obviously American left coast DNC die hards and neoliberals hate him with a passion that beggars belief but he's basically still a different face of American imperialism repesenting similar goals with a changed strategy. Patching things up with Russia is part of that.

The conspiracy theory that he's a Russian plant is amusing, but a delusion to which even the most die hard Putin supporter cannot reach. I guess it's easier to admit than the idea that America lost.
Rubio> "And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now," Rubio added.

Everything would be settled if people just remembered to say "Thank you" a little more!

Thank you USA and in particular the president and DOGE for allowing me to write this post.
Probably because 2/3 of the population can't be reached. They either want to do whatever they can to be anti-left, even if it hurts themselves, or they don't care at all. So voting harder isn't going to work. All while education is being gutted. I honestly don't know what other options are left. Maybe turning states into their own countries and let them raw dog the world without any help from the federal govt. Idk, it's bleak.
How can he be trusted with any governments data? He's shown that he intends to influence elections and force procurement of his own companies once inside.
PHP is already in mature stage, it has integrated support for many libraries like MySQLi, PDO, curl etc.

A huge community is also a major plus point.

And the foremost point is because of WordPress which run on PHP, it's empowers 62.8% of the web including big sites like Tech Crunch.

Third and more practical one is because of old conservative developers who are very resistant to change.

Also it is supported by many web hosting provider by default, due to its availability and integration with cpanel and WHMCS. Thus many personal blog owner prefer php.
How many people do you think are reviewing stuff? Does more reviews make code better?
I wouldn't consider it that opinionated, there's many ways to do the same thing. I'd say there's implementation for most design patterns you'd want to use in this context, so you can choose the style pretty much within the boundaries of the framework.
Yeah, greenland is mismanaged, luckily the perfectly ran united states of america will want to take it over.
Whataboutism is a legitimate rhetorical tactic. Without it we would just be exploring hegemonic (and hypocritical) talking points, forever.
Typically in these situations you get infighting, splintering and general collapse of the movement.

The question is will it happen soon enough to mitigate some of the damage.
Yup, and one doesn't need to look further than FreeBSD to see what the end result is.

I wonder, to what extent is the Linux Rust effort "generously subsidized" by corporations?

> He is thinking about ""what we are going to leave to the next generation"". Developers starting out don't want to use COBOL, Fortran, or C, he said. They want to work with fancy stuff like Rust, Swift, Go, or Kotlin.

Oh, think about the children! The wolf in sheep's clothing.
99% of leftist and roughly 2.76% rightists :)

the saddest part about a comment you are commenting on is that their mind has been so polluted that they only see the world through the views of two arbitrary political parties (who shift their own views every couple of decades, hard rightist from few decades ago is basically same-ish person as far-leftist today). all empires fall and USA is slowly getting there (now going “little” faster) because of thinking like this in part.
Plenty of videos from both sides indicating that Russians are also using starlink inside Ukraine. Less verifiable are claims that Russia relies heavily on it, with no alternative; while Ukraine at least has some backup communication options available.

But how is that so? Why isn't there some whitelisting process for terminals used inside Ukraine? Or, hell, even analyzing the signal should tell starlink roughly what side and how far from the front it is.. That should have been a massive news story, it's been happening for years already.

But instead we skip straight to the timeline where all pretense of allyship goes out the window. At least EU space/rocket Industry might get a boost of funding out of this all.
Perhaps, but MIT licensed code is Free like Air and Sunshine.
It’s still the wealthy, leaning on social issues to create a democratic majority
I like some of the directions you're heading with that. One thing I've thought is it might be useful to have tools that create filesystem objects (like "new" or "mov foo bar/") be able to take permissions. "mov --umask 027 --owner alice:bob foo bar/" and "new --mode a=rx foo/" for example.
I work at salesforce. 100% of my immediate team and gotta be over 50% of my broader team. We’ve barely hired since 2020.
Same :(

Great presentation, but I'll be holding my breath for v2 that actually generates audio of purring and hissing and meowing cats.
Good point I forgot about the meteor.
They say they're appalled so as to be able to take up opportunities left by the fleeing Americans in Europe.
It's not the point for the MAGA types. They want the power AND deference of the good old days, not actual feeble pullback and irrelevance. They think Europe paying it's share means Europe will pay for OUR military presence. Add on their kids no longer having access to military jobs/path to education and those communities will start to freak out. Trump wants to project power in the middle east. That's current done out of European bases.
They were upset about a tan suit. I don't think it's about any specific little incident.
I have to write this here it might help someone: I had the worst case of mite allergy since childhood - no smells let alone no breathing from my nose. 5 years ago I started immunotherapy - my good dr basically injected me with the allergen every week for 1-2 years. After that, I got a monthly injection with the max dosage for like a year. I haven't had this allergy ever since. I can smell again and breathe from my nose. My dr has healed this awful disease.

Modern medicine sometimes works like magic. If you have this disease know that you don't have to suffer this bs. Try to fix it with the help of your dr.
100% (I have owned and worked at my own company for 10 years)

Anecdotally, I've also worked at many startups that became big companies through acquisition and Let me tell you - J&J has a lot of employees who have been there more than 5 years, thousands. They also had several big layoffs of such people during the process.
> leave Ukraine

The United States was never "in Ukraine" in at all the same way it was in Iraq or Afghanistan. There were never American combat boots on the ground.
It was kind of a duff idea from the start. Patrick Boyles youtube Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg is rather epic if you haven't seen it.
Winning the attrition war. They have most likely less than a year left before their economy crumbles. 21% interest rates, capital controls, official 10% inflation, annihilated non military sectors (fe cars), forcing their banks to give loans to anything military adjacent while forbidding them to call them in.......

I am sure the Europeans would be willing to shoulder more of the cost but the US has been cutting Ukraine off from intelligence sources and now also support. There is no cost argument for that.

Also do you really think that these decisions will not cost the US in lost sales, reassurances for everything because of lost trust....
Speed vs. Accuracy
I recall packages on Debian considered available for some obscure platforms that would segfault immediately when executed. Platform support goes beyond "does a compiler happen to produce a binary".
Assuming we got Danes to run it, yes, I’d want their universal healthcare system too.
By "military subsidies" you mean US government money subsidizing US defense industry I assume?

Because that is where most of the money ends up when the US "supports" other countries. The US unloads weapons from its stockpiles (that need to be replaced at some point anyway) and then replenish the US stockpiles. This is both a huge injection of funds into US defense industry, and it takes care of the expensive problem of dealing with old ordnance.

US defense industry is going to be busy restocking the US stockpiles for a while longer.

If revenue were to soften before that, the Trump administration can distract from this reality by pumping more money into the industry short term. This may actually push the problem forward in time to the next president if they can keep pumping in enough money to hide the problem. It looks as if they are doing exactly this.

Of course, a few years down the line the defense industry will be in trouble as "consumer trust" is gone, Europe have ramped up their production and revenues will start to plummet.