skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not really the discussion. We know that iPadOS is shit. On windows and Linux there are form factors that fit the users use case perfectly but they don’t want these products. Instead of adapting to those system they decide to rant about apple not doing what they want… yet we only see these posts from apple users that talk like there is no alternative.
>...Aureal Semiconductor Inc on the 9th of September in 1995. This company would also go bankrupt and later be acquired by Creative.

The brutal story of Creative v Aureal is interesting.

The grossly oversimplified version being Creative ripped them off, sued them into bankruptcy, and then bought them cheap in a bankruptcy sale thus avoiding any real penalties for it, getting all their IP, and destroying the only real competition.
Yeah this seems to be a pattern with this guy. Maybe he just really enjoys thinking about stuff, though.
I’ve used Firefox almost every day since it was released. I have way less issues with it than Chrome even though web developers never test their work with it.

I think an open web is critical to our society. I think Chrome is the new IE and that Google cannot be trusted with controlling the engine of essentially every browser besides Firefox.

I have disposable income and would pay every month to support it…but only if Mozilla had new management. I have zero trust in Mozilla’s management and feel that most money given to them would be wasted rather than used for browser development.
Eh Segfaults are like the easiest error to debug, they almost always tell you exactly where the problem is.
> (OJ obviously did it and the other memory I had of that period was this wild Tim Meadows SNL opening bit about the trial).

This is from further down the page, but it reminded me: when the not guilty news broke, Norm MacDonald, who hosted SNL's fake news bit at the time, and had been constantly making OJ jokes about how obviously guilty he was, opened with the line, "Murder is legal in the state of California."[0] Perfect.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CR8u-2TKb0
Is there an equivalent to cursorrules and copilot-instructions for the Jetbrains IDEs (Rider) + GitHub Copilot extension?
I think that, at least for b2b software, there's a lack of appreciation here for the role compliance plays. The author cites both googles and Microsofts office tools, but they really suck. My fiancee has to use Microsoft, and now I do too; no one likes them! Their janky online office actually deletes text as I type!

However, I know that the only reason my company is using it is because it makes compliance really easy, and they just don't have the bandwidth to take on more. This is further complicated by microsofts, let's say not great security record, which indicates that security compliance is really more of a box checking activity than anything else.

This is where Europe could come in. By lowering the barrier or, even better, coming up with requirements that required something closer to real security, you could seriously challenge these US companies.
Ask HN: Best 40" 16:9 TV for Use as a Monitor in 2025?
I’m looking for a 40” TV with a 16:9 aspect ratio that works well as a computer monitor to replace my current Samsung UN40KU6000 (2016). Ideally, it should have:
• 8K or higher resolution
• Low input lag
• Good pixel density for text clarity
• Proper chroma 4:4:4 support
• Decent refresh rate (ideally 120Hz)

It seems that 8K TVs in this size range are quite limited compared to larger models. Does anyone have experience using a 40” TV as a daily monitor? Any recommendations for the best models in 2025?
coalma3
I would. That kind of thing is a federal requirement for many years (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-18-01-enhanc... was codifying existing practice) and everyone gets training on phishing which includes things like getting confirmation if you’re unsure.

This is a highly sensitive request, almost certainly in violation of their records policies, so asking for confirmation is about as controversial as a bank teller calling the bank’s president to confirm that it’s really him asking to empty out the vault.
Scorched earth policy: prevent the reactivation of USAID, regardless of damage to its staff. The shutdown has stranded a number of Americans overseas who are effectively forced to repatriate themselves at their own (considerable) expense.

However it's an interesting question as to why an aid agency needs SECRET rather than merely ordinary confidentiality for things like personnel records. Presumably this stuff represents the extent to which USAID actually is a front for US intelligence agencies.
Some additional thoughts on GPT-4.5: it provides BFK-9k experience - eats e̶n̶e̶r̶g̶y̶ ̶c̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ budget ($2 per call!) like there is no tomorrow, but removes bugs with a blast.

In my experience, the gap between Claude 3.7 and GPT-4.5 is substantial. Claude 3.7 behaves like an overzealous intern on stimulants. It delivers results but often includes unwanted code changes, resulting in spaghetti code with deeply nested conditionals and redundant null checks. Although initial results might appear functional, the resulting technical debt makes subsequent modifications increasingly difficult, often leaving the codebase in disarray. GPT-4.5 behaves more like a mid-level developer, thoughtfully applying good programming patterns.

Unfortunately, the cost difference is significant. For practical purposes, I typically combine models. GPT-4.5 is generally reserved for planning, complex bug fixes, and code refinement or refactoring.

In my experience, GPT-4.5 consistently outperforms thinking models like o1. Occasionally, I'll use o3-mini or DeepSeek R1, but GPT-4.5 tends to be noticeably superior (at least, on average). Of course, effectiveness depends heavily on prompts and specific problems. GPT-4.5 often possesses direct knowledge about particular libraries (even without web searching), whereas o3-mini frequently struggles without additional context.
> “Just mass firings … it’s not good for a business to run that way,”

Doesn't make much sense to compare government agencies with businesses. They have wildly different goals.
And they removed the post after November... Oof
I suspect you don't appreciate how much quieter modern devices are growing to be. The hum of electric lights is mostly a thing of the past. As we move to larger electric motors, the roar of gas motors will become a thing of the past.

Obviously, some things are just loud. My kids hate how loud the frogs are next to our house. And blowers will remain loud. As are fast cars.

But, I really believe the future will sound vastly different in most cities. Would be neat to hear the differences through the years. Moving from horses to pully based carriages to gas cars. Now to electric cars. We have moved really fast.
Ideally there should be some first line who deals with BAU customer support but completely separating value delivery from support bakes moral hazard into the org design.
Maybe model is sensitive to quantization, by default ollama quantize it significantly.
I'd fund a browser that has the following:

1. Zero telemetry. I mean ZERO: remove all telemetry code from the codebase. They can ask me about features the old-fashioned way - surveys!

2. Focus on privacy and security. Put these to the top of the list.

3. Stop paying your CEO millions! Not worth it imo!

4. Stop with all the other Mozilla shit! I am interested in a browser (and perhaps an email client... I'll let you work on that too!). No more Pocket, VPN and all that other shite.

5. ZERO, I mean ZERO data capture at all! Nothing. Not a single bit except when someone clicks the link to download Firefox, you can capture their userAgent and whatnot. But the browser, Firefox, should not be capturing a single byte of data from me once installed (except perhaps a periodic version check and you can pass in the version like this: https://firefox.com/update?v=123.568).

6. For sync, allow me to sync an encrypted file to Dropbox, OneDrive, Local drive, Whatever.com. That way my passwords, bookmarks etc. can be sync'd from MY location that I control, not yours!).

7. Have a "Block all shady JS tactics" button. This would include fingerprinting, location and such. Perhaps you could send bogus, random data when it's asked for instead. That'd be fine too.

I think that's it :)

For a browser that did this, and was properly audited to prevent anything shady from creeping in, I'd pay $30 a year for it.

Edit: To clarify - I wouldn't pay the current Mozilla a single penny!
A WebAssembly Actor System with Tracked State
What would a EVE Online Internet look like? (2019)
this is really cool thanks! totally i need of a good software renderer!. Not in c++ but this should be portable techniques i guess. my first attempts tryjng t draw 3d stuff to a framebuffer, needless to say, were so slow. didnt think it was possible to make something run that slow on a modern pc...

thanks! super cool project to learn stuff from =)
I would fund one of the Firefox forks to become independent of Mozilla.
You forgot Rust. That was also funded by old-Mozilla
A big (but not only) point of going into a testing center is to make sure that the person taking the test is the person they say they are.
I think one of the nice things about C is that since the language was not designed to abstract e.g.: heap is that it is really easy to replace manual memory management with GC or any other approach to manage memory, because most APIs expects to be called with `malloc()` when heap allocation is needed.

I think the only other language that has a similar property is Zig.
The better news are, Mozilla gets around $30 million as investment income ($37M in 2023 [1]). Some people argue that it’s not enough to maintain Firefox but that sounds weird to me.

Chromium is not a good alternative: 95% of Chromium commits come from Google. [2]

[1]: https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozi...

[2]: https://chromiumstats.github.io/cr-stats/authors/company_aut...
I use it with Emacs ellama, Continue.dev plugin and as a Web Chat.
I've had really good results with Qwen2.5-7b-Instruct.

Do you have any recommendations for a "general AI assistant" model, not focused on a specific task, but more a jack-of-all-trades?
> If you are using LLMs to write anything more than a if(else)/for block at a time you are doing it wrong

Then what value are they actually adding?

If this is all they are capable of, surely you could just write this code yourself much faster than trying to describe what you want to the LLM in natural language?

I cannot imagine any decently competent programmer gaining productivity from these tools if this is how limited they still are

Why are people so bullish on them?
Yes, $10 per month per user (me).
Good stuff!
Single-file C application with zero dependencies, and well written at that, is impressive in itself.
The fact that the website is super-polished too kind of threw me off guard. I kept looking for a "Pricing" tab but couldn't find one lol.

A perfect 5/7!
Standards consolidate. Business differentiates. How will openui resolve that fundamental tension?
I'm curiously watching the room noise cancelling tech that manta sleep is building. Looks promising. Curious if folks have experience with similar devices?
Uncensored at inference time does not imply uncensored at training time (not a specific comment about Gemma)
Direct prompt injection attacks can be somewhat mitigated by using system prompts (though not completely) if that helps.
We also need to sort out the hardware where Linux runs.
No, no, no. Since the iRobot fiasco Mozilla is dead to me. Now I'm just enjoying the (oh so well deserved) downfall.
This and I would pay between 10 and 20 USD a year for it.

Much like Wikipedia, my donations depend on being able to donate to the actual engineers, and not to unrelated political advocacy.
We were able to pass all the early lab tasks manually - although it took a lot longer than using the UI!
Daily carbon dioxide crosses 430 ppm
I would like a way to donate to Firefox browser development directly.
I find New World LLMs kinda... well, they don't have the terroir, ya know?
BunnyCDN has been the fasted I've used on a couple of our projects. I would highly recommend.
I worked for a major telco in technical support/customer service.

I saw numerous security issues, and when I brought them up, with solutions to improve the service for customers, I was informed the the company would lose money.

Scammers are big customers for telcos, and when they get caught, and banned, they come back again and pay a new connection fee and start the cycle again. Scammers also enable feature upselling, another way to profit from not solving the problem.
Been a long time coming. They should've dismantled much earlier, no matter how good the intentions, it probably cost them, their clients, and their employees much more in the long-run to keep fighting the inevitable.

Sad day.
Wikipedia style donations. In fact Wikipedia should just create their own fork of Firefox.
You can absolutely be locked out effectively if they stop releasing upgrades while the other providers move forward.
Musk Gave Trump a Script for Desperate 'Tesla Ad'
follow the money. perverse incentives at play.
And their website: https://open-ui.org/

There's a lot in terms of reference on how the menu controls are defined and used across many libraries and frameworks.

Some of these are slowly making their way into the web
A very long time ago in AI time
I bet they are actually C++ with extern "C" public APIs.

Additionally Metal is implemented in Objective-C, with Swift and C++ bindings.
Rocket Lab Says NASA Lacks Leadership on Mars Sample Return
Unix has a hegemony that Go doesn't. Go can be a playground for the New Jersey Way.

But sure, I'll sign on to "quizzical". Mainly I'm glad that in Go there's only two levels of visibility, not 3+. Much easier to reason about. Altho I'll admit to being confused when you mix the two levels in the names of a struct and its fields.
i don't get it, why was this specifically bad? Other than it has little to do with the browser/Mozilla projects
No, it's because of Unix and AT&T monopoly.
Pivot Robotics (YC W24) Is Hiring
I moved across country and left all my friends behind at the age of 9, The Sign was a hard watch. I was those kids. I can still remember my reaction to being told we were moving (I would have been about 8).

Bluey is a certified work of perfection. My kids have stopped watching it now. I'm tempted to watch them all from the start by myself.
A few years back the U.K. tried a political experiment in which it purchased Huawei equipment and also set up a special government/Huawei lab where they could analyze the source code to ensure it was safe to use. GCHQ found that the code quality made it unreviewable, and that they could not even ensure that the source code provided actually ran on the equipment (because Huawei had direct update capability.) I believe that equipment has been banned since 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/brita...
PSTN starts at the home router these days, I don't think I can get an actual analog line in my house.
> a critical mass of people have done mind-altering substances and thus it's almost a certainty that discoveries have been made under... their influence

This much is obvious. But that sneaky “and due to” which I cut out does not belong. You’re putting a completely unfounded assumption next to a simple statistical argument and presenting them as equivalent.
For so few Github stars, I'm surprised that this is the 4th time I'm reading about your aiide project in 2 days. It looks good, very good BTW.
No one prevents businesses from using their custom implementations if they so wish. Just as nothing prevents them from doing so on literally every platform from desktop OSes to mobile OSes
That rule has been like that since Vista came to be, when .NET approach from Longhorn was redone in COM/C++.
We’re talking about a tool whose performance profile with a managed language is perfectly acceptable as deemed by the choice to use Go. Let alone the fact that this thread you’ve been replying in has never been about achieving the utmost performance.

You’re absolutely delusional if you think C++ is enjoyable compared to any managed language or if you think AI is capable of replacing anything.

You’ve moved this conversation extremely far off topic and I won’t be replying again.

Cheers dude. Good luck with your chat bots and CVE’s from your raw pointers.
Even if they did release the code, that would not help you much unless you have the $ for traning and the talented individuals for pipelining and distributed training.
Would begs the question of could. And, sadly, that just isn't really likely, by my view.

You could regulate a lot of this idea. But financially, it just isn't there.
Funny / sad. GP is just highlighting the all too common attitude of people who grew up using new tech (graphing calculators, Wikipedia, etc) who reach a certain age and suddenly new tech is ruining the youth of today.

It’s just human nature, you can decide if it’s funny or sad or whatever
code here: https://github.com/davidesantangelo/fastrace
If you assume that everything here is facts, like, just take everything in the article at face value, it has a major issue. Trump cannot be re-elected, even if a republican is elected as the next president there is no guarantee that republican would be like Trump as opposed to a more Bush globalist kind of republican. And if the democrats get their act together, you could see a democrat president recreating all of the closed down government agencies. And so, even if this policy worked and was the greatest policy ever to be created, it will be circumvented by the new king-elect that america chooses in a few years. This, in my opinion, ultimately shows how the american system circumvents democracy and representation and is likely why there are so many difficulties.
It suggests a major political player be deplatformed for frivolous reasons and spreads conspiracy theories about white supremacy.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599419 (9 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412162 (2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186039 (2 years ago)
In fairness, with that level of vulnerability in the code, fixing it is like using paper towels to mop up the ocean.
Another benefit is they can be fine tuned. Also it's not only about if Openai will shut you down but decide to deprecate model (like they will do for gpt4.0) or swap the name for different model (like sonnet 3.5 did) or censure it or limit capability.
If OP had not been using a Comma, they still might have fallen asleep at the wheel that night. With the Comma, a crisis was averted. Without the Comma, they would almost certainly have wrecked.
I've read through your website and thinking processes.

Your work is genius! I hope KC3 can be adopted widely, there is great potential.
>just responding to the person who mischaracterized the source of most anti-Mozilla rhetoric.

I can't agree that it's mischaracterized given that it literally was the source of comments in this thread and just one of numerous instances of that argument I've seen across HN (if you check my user profile, at this point the first two or three pages of my comment history are responding to arguments of this type) and even you seemed to think it was close enough to something you agreed with to be a suitable jumping off point for a different argument borrowing from the same rhetorical momentum.

Sometimes it's the VPN sometimes it's AI, sometimes it's Pocket, sometimes it's about the blockchain, sometimes it's about their VC fund. Generally the idea is that these side bets supposedly siphoned away developer resources and are there reason for the loss of market share which involves a critical misunderstanding of real drivers of market share. So it's quite a prevalent argument. And so far as I can tell, baseless.

So as I said previously, I too care about Firefox and I too am concerned about issues related to ad tech and somehow I don't end up going off the deep end and nodding along to crazy arguments about the VPN.
Yes, I think so. Often it doesn’t take much more than a glance for simpler edits.
What's the carbon cost of what those people would be doing if not "streaming"?
> Edit: Also, side note, why are so many people running their LLMs in the cloud? All the cutting edge models are open weight licensed, and run locally. You don't need to depend on some corporation that will inevitably rug-pull you.

???

Deepseek R1 doesn't run locally unless you program on a dual socket server with 1 TB of RAM. Or enough cash to have a cabinet of GPUs. The trend for state-of-the-art LLMs is to get bigger over time, not smaller.

Look, I've played with llava and llama locally too, but the benchmarked performance is nowhere near what you can get from the larger cloud providers who can serve hundred-million+ parameter models without quantization.
Firefox lost market share because of factors outside their control. They'd have to have owned a popular OS or conglomerate of dominant web services.
Why did this get downvoted? Asking genuinely
yes, but firing half the people running a country is a huge loss of knowledge as well. The know how and worldwide soft power we built up over a century is being destroyed within 2 months.
The statement of purpose on the website (https://open-ui.org) is much clearer with their actual goal than the wordy Github document:

> The purpose of the Open UI, a W3C Community Group, is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI components and controls, such as <select> dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.

That'd be great. I hope they succeed.
Somewhat related: https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/story/CONT0000000000090151 (2020)

> Hyundai’s World’s First Road‒Noise Active Noise Control, RANC
As a Firefox user who is worried about he current browser landscape, I already donated to Mozilla in the past.

However as many others pointed out, there is no way to ensure that the donated amount is used specifically to fund Firefox.
I hope everyone reads to the end for the real takeaway — believing you can re-engineer a complex solution from first principles is generally a fool’s errand.
Compile time is also my top three major issues with C++, in a list that also includes memory safety.
You cannot talk about a victory when most US-based or supported war criminals are still free. They don't care about the ICC as Duterte did not.

Brazil's ex-military still not in prison e.g.
And all the US presidents or CIA leaders roaming free.
Certainly not a victory.
I would absolutely pay for the development of an independent, open source, privacy oriented and user friendly browser. I would never pay for the shitshow the Mozilla Corporation is.

I would find $5-$10 per month perfectly acceptable.

For now maybe donating to Ladybird [1] and Servo [2] makes more sense?

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[1] https://ladybird.org/
[2] https://servo.org/sponsorship/
For those of you who, like me, use Neovim, you can achieve "cursor at home" by using a plugin like Avante.nvim or CodeCompanion. You can configure it to suit your preferences.

Just sharing this because I think some might find it useful.
It saves it in the format it downloaded in (possibly in a different container if sent a raw stream). You can also change the format to directly download the one you want.
Organoid Learning Simulation Platform (Open Source)
If you and your manager have frequent contact so that you can talk to them at any time, then 1:1's aren't needed.

Some of us don't have matching calendars so having a regular 1:1 cadence is easier. I know that I'll have a meeting with my supervisor every 2 weeks and if I have something I can tell them then. And if there's nothing to say we end it early and get back to work.
> Euro to start with, it's quite stable (and even appreciates against the dollar).

There's not enough euro issuance to replace Treasuries, and issuing more (particularly at EU level where it would really help) is super, super controversial.