skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who brought up the lab-leak as the most self-explanatory and obvious cause of Covid, given all the data including the gain-of-function research being sponsored in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, were down-voted thousands of times into oblivion here on HN. Most such comments were even flagged for removal.

This happened even as recently as last month after the CIA grudgingly admitted Covid was considered a likely cause. Hell, Trump was crucified and lambasted in the media for even bringing up this point in the past.

Now, it seems that the dominos are slowly falling as every intelligence agency admits that they knew that lab-leak was the cause of Covid. Mostly disgusted at HN since it has proven itself to be a lemming echo-chamber with little independent thought.
I have never seen a MCU that cannot write its own flash memory with a new program. This is how everybody makes firmware updates. At most, some MCUs have the option to blow some fuses to make some part of the memory immutable, but during program development the memory is still writable and used as such.

Ancient MCUs with true ROM or ultraviolet-erasable PROM may be claimed to not be a stored-program computer, but this claim is completely false about any MCU with a flash memory.

Manchester Baby was just a test device, not intended to be really useful, but its successor Manchester Mark 1, which became operational next year, in 1949, already had index registers.

Nevertheless, in the next few years there have been built many computers that lacked index registers, despite the precedent of Manchester Mark 1, so instruction modification during program execution was mandatory in them. After 1954, few, if any, computers remained without index registers, so instruction modification was no longer necessary.
Trump's tariff chaos explained – Yanis Varoufakis [video]
Chinese Bismuth Transistor Breakthrough
> That's what I'm trying to understand. His educational background was in Physics/Nuclear Engineering so he's obviously a smart guy, and he was CEO/Chairman of Cadence for 15 years, but other than that his 40+ year career has most been in VC and being on the boards of an incredibly large number of companies.

He is no Pat. He is no Andy. He is a business guy with some hard science behind (not electronics per se). It doesn't feel right.
This article seems a little ranty, but you could definitely be forgiven for thinking that iPads are general-purpose computing devices. There aren't any hardware limitations, and for years (haven't checked the last year or two), Apple was heavily advertising them as being just that, especially with keyboards and other add-ons. If you weren't intimately familiar with the goings-on, had brand loyalty from a MacBook that previously did what you wanted, and only spent an hour or three of research (a few hundred dollars of your time, or a 10-30% tax on this upcoming purchase) after seeing those ads, an article about how you were swindled would be appropriate.
Even with access to explosives, you still need a bit of gusto to carry out the rest of the crime. I think it's a bit different when you can ask the weapon to find and eliminate its target without you ever having to leave your garage.

Not being a high profile target myself, I'd rather take that risk and see where it goes. Unfortunately it's the high profile targets themselves that make the decisions, so after the first few incidents I figure there will be this whole mess where they try to clamp down on access to such things without sufficient forethought.
It’s crazy I’m so afraid of this kind of security failures that I wouldn’t even think of releasing an app like that online, I’d ask myself too many questions about jailbreaking like that. But some people are fine with this kind of risks ?
How does this compare to Mise: https://mise.jdx.dev/lang/python.html ?
YC funded a bunch of AI video companies (4+), and AFAICT the Eggnog folks are hustling the hardest.

The path forward as a foundation video model company closed, so they worked hard on end-to-end story creation workflows and mobile.

Turns out that's hard to gain traction and distribution amongst dozens of other similarly shaped startups. So they hack on games and fun viral loops.

Keep at it! This is super clever. You're getting noticed.

Video is going to be huge, and even though power law dictates there will be only a few winners, I think there's space for teams hustling this hard if you can find distribution.

Let the foundation video model companies fight to the death. They've over-raised and are being commoditized by Tencent and Alibaba's open source foundation video models (Hunyuan and Wan). You can use their APIs on the cheap and still provide value. And value will accrue to the application layer.

Focus on what the creators want and need.
More disturbing.

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government [0]

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook [1]

[0] https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...

[1] https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...
Yes, sadly, not many places are wheelchair friendly.
Intel employees are at high risk of losing their jobs. I don't think cornering the new CEO at an all-hands is a good idea. And I wouldn't even trust his answer, anyway.
Then taxes could be used to pay government employees whose job is to contribute on a specific project. That could apply to Linux, a browser, maybe AOSP. Sure it'd require funding, but spent on employees within said countries you get it back and it does give Europe as a whole the ability to contribute its vision, both positive and negative.
The functionalities of three tooling projects, namely uv, ruff (linter), and pyright (type checker) need to merge and become mandatory for new Python projects. Together they will bring some limited sanity to Python.
I think this isn't about subtle nuances but blatant errors that require full multimodal input to notice. Most MTLs(including LLMs) are done by divorcing text from content and processing it in CSV-like lists, and there's just not enough data in text by itself. This routinely lead to outputs doing something completely different from input.

Not in manga space, but Microsoft had been notorious for nonchalantly shipping crazy MTL errors for past 3-5 years, e.g. "Copilot Child Adoption Kit", "Reply in cost estimate", or "Print in scenery". For manga and entertainments, more likely modes of errors would be wildly fluctuating pronouns, genders, personas, formalities almost in styles of Monty Python satire.

These are less likely to manifest with language pairs that are closer together like English and German, and less likely with human translators who can trivially go through pages to read with full context and/or write with consistency.
Even if the alternatives were just as good or better, their workflow is likely entirely different. Different keystrokes, different ways of doing everything, slightly different quirks than the "brand name" software.

I like some of the Linux alternatives more than the "brand name" software, but I don't work in media or document creation. If I had all the keystrokes for Adobe Premiere memorized, it would be a pretty tough sell for me to drop that to move to something like Lightworks or something.
Think of how safe we'd all be if we were on camera 24/7/365!

Let me put it this way: I don't do anything illegal in my bathroom, but damned if I want someone watching me in there. Everyone has their line they don't want crossed. Klein's - and the EFF's, and mine - is somewhere past the NSA monitoring every single communication in the entire country without a warrant. I have no objection with them monitoring specific suspects with a court order, but I don't want them listening to people who aren't being actively, personally investigated.
Ackshually, it has nothing to do with the C language. It's an implementation choice by some compilers. A conforming implementation could give you the whole RAM and swap to your stack.
Maybe there's a way to send messages/files over the covid19 protocol.
Unfortunately if you give non-technical users root you are also giving root to the phishing site or fraudster that cons them into giving it root.

It's hard for technical people to get their heads around just what a hostile environment the modern scam and hustler riddled slop and spam infested Internet is. Using the net as a non-technical user is like walking around a dodgy high crime area of some third world city at night as an unarmed sixteen year old girl there on holiday.

Tech folks get so good at ignoring and skipping all that nonsense that they stop noticing it. I get three or four phishing or scam attempts a week, some of which look convincing if you don't know how to examine an e-mail domain or a URL. It's a hellscape.

An exercise for readers who don't believe me: get on a Windows machine and try to use regular web search to find and download a piece of software outside the App Store. Pretend you are non-technical and just looking for something to get something done. Be sure you do this from a VM you can delete after it becomes compromised, assuming you can actually get to a download at all behind all the popups and scam "your PC is infected!" sites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33071211

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682709
Gerard Reve - De avonden (Вечерa)

Arnon Grunberg comes to mind as a more contemporary writer, but couldn`t find a Russian translation.
Well, the question at hand was, and is: what should we be supporting? I don't, in fact, assume that what the NSA is doing is bad, but in order for the public and the oversight systems the legislature put in place, someone has to know what's going on. The program Mark Klein revealed surprised legislators, including John Sensenbrenner, the author of the legislation that was used as a justification for the program: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/patriot-act-author-introd...

Many people worried that the PATRIOT Act was overreach for surveillance, but the bill did pass. What happened with Mark's whistleblowing is that policymakers and the public found out that there were other programs, potentially illegal under even the PATRIOT Act (and, indeed the US Constitution), that had been hidden or obfuscated to their oversight bodies.

(Incidentally, the government's strategy in the cases against the NSA program was to say that even asking about legal authorisation and grounding of the program was in itself, a violation of national security. Many years after Mark's act, Ed Snowden's first published leak was this authorisation document, confirming that Mark was right, and that, had those cases been able to proceed, there would have been grounds for investigation.)
What is really at risk?
I welcome the oncoming hate, but THIS is what DAOs are for…

A DOA specifically setup to build a user-respecting browser run by a Foundation where token holders could vote out the waste we’ve seen Mozilla and the like do, could work.

And for those crypto-haters, I’m not sqying token-based as an speculative investment, I’m saying here token specifically here for voting rights to control asset allocation and business decisions
It probably was! But given the batch of circumstances, I think it's at least plausible that it was more than that.
I wanted to point out that when visiting those sites from Germany (nationalplant.com and the specializedmaintenance.com website) it shows the same unavailable geoblocked message. I wouldn't have recognized it but after opening both links in new tabs on my phone I thought I forgot to open one of the links in this thread and I double-checked it.

Are those fake companies both hosted on wordfence or something? What are the odds, huh?
First thing I thought of was the Balloonfest '86 fiasco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786
> Bottom line: If you reject Chromium, shouldn't you also reject Mozilla/Firefox? Virtually all development over the past decade was funded by Google.

This is a non sequitur. Google supplies Mozilla with money, but Mozilla decides how to deploy that money. This is significantly different than Google directing the development of Firefox, which they clearly don't do. They absolutely do direct the development of chromium, however. It makes no sense to trust an advertising company to direct the development of your browser, but not to trust a nonprofit. Conversely, it makes perfect sense to place more trust in a browser developed by a nonprofit, even one funded by an advertiser, over a browser developed by an advertising company. Web attestation and manifest V2 are both examples of exactly why this is the case.
People really need to just accept this. Apple might market the ipad as being a laptop replacement, but their actions is that it clearly isn't and won't be at least any time soon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-based_model
Theres a huge gap between inefficient and unusable. There’s a lot of usable code out there that leaks memory. I’d argue compilers are hardly pressed by memory usage given the transient nature of their execution.
He was the concept artist for a very influential Robert and Abel Associates pioneering 3D computer graphic TV ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedXpclrKCc
Likewise, Manning got pardoned when her release was clearly messier and less targeted than Snowden’s. There isn’t much logic to these things.

To be clear, all 3 are personal heroes of mine.
May be… the OP means mobile apps? Apps are easier to instrument with massive data mining and tracking capabilities and the core distributor is also google for at least the Android ecosystem. If you try to sideload or provide OSS apps, generic users will be frightened by google’s mafia banner warnings … “I see you trying to install an app from outside playstore, would be a shame if it had infinite spy and tracking malware, we can’t protect you unless you come over here and only use our apps from playstore…”
The designers make us commit war crimes with JavaScript. Can’t even use native form elements.
The point of bulk data collection is to be able to, in effect, take a wiretap in the past before you knew what you'd need to be wiretapping in the present, by querying the bulk datasets for communications between specific endpoints within specific points in time.

As time travel doesn't exist, this is the next best technology available.
This is objectively nonsense
The question is more "Do these events and keynote speakers in Zambia have anything to do with browser development?" This isn't supposed to be a generic non-profit charity, it's a non-profit for supporting web browser development. If only 5% of the funds are going toward the browser or related technology, the organization is corrupt.
In my attic is a Dell PowerEdge T320 - it used to run VMware. That got as far as ESXi 6.5 and then it went out of support completely by VMware.

Last year I migrated all my VMs to Proxmox. I have two RAID volumes on it, so I moved the lot to the second volume, wiped the first one and installed Proxmox on it. I migrated the VMs over to QEMMU and binned the second volume (save power!)

The real point of this diatribe is that my attic server is fully supported once more by the OS vendor(s). They give a shit about me - Debian and Proxmox. Perhaps you might contrast that with your discussion about Microsoft and Apple's approaches to hardware and systems support.
The Smallest Microcontroller
In this History football (soccer) is played with 2 balls. Who knew?!
Those lofty corporate diversity commitments? Many companies are quickly backpedaling. But who’s changing course isn’t random.
I don't think it's very plausible. The subtext of the photo is "that looks comically unlike what you'd inspect from a sewer inspection van". Well, I can tell you pretty much for sure: thats' what the inside of a sewer inspection van from that company looks like.

It took just a couple minutes (less than 5) to go look this up and find the video, for what it's worth.

Maybe it's an NSA wet team! Wet, because they do sewer inspection work. :)
I guess a sandbox escape, something, profit?
Now if you tell me it's 100% organic, carefully handpicked American-sourced measles and free from microplastic, I'm sold!
Gnome is starting on a built-in mosaic layout tiler that looks on the surface similar to newm. newm is sadly no longer actively enhanced.

Cosmic Desktop (creators of pop-shell) is further innovating in this area as well.
Totally, I really hope it inspires a love of history in kids.
I am very puzzled. Apple has locked you in a cage because you bought an iPad to replace a MacBook? What is the cage, and why weren’t you the jailer?
Rill founder here, I have no comment on the UI similarity :) but I would emphasize our vision is building DuckDB-powered metrics layers and exploratory dashboards -- which we presented at DuckCon #6 last month, PDF below [1] -- and less on notebook style UIs like Hex and Jupyter.

Rill is fully open-source under the Apache license. [2]

[1] https://blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckcon6/mike-driscoll-rill-...

[2] https://github.com/rilldata/rill
The point of what I spelled out above is that they can jump to the instruction but the kernel will kill the program if they don't go through the function up to that point. That allows you to restrict the arguments to the syscall at the point of call.
ideally mise could be replaced entirely by uv or at least just be a thin wrapper around uv (in some ways that's already the case), but given this article requires the use of the custom uv-python-symlink utility it seems uv isn't quite there yet
The Asimov inspired constitution is troubling. He didn't really understand anything about how robots actually work.
You don't have to be a billionaire, I got a Curta mark I for ~£850 on ebay and it's like the world's greatest fidget toy.
Haha yeah some of them are pretty tricky
Niri doesn't use 400MB by itself, that's the entire memory footprint of everything running. In comparison, OpenBox with all the utilities needed for wallet, ssh agent etc is in the 450MB range on my box. That's probably due X11 vs Wayland.

A minimal Niri functional environment is similar to IceWM in RAM usage. I used to run antiX in VMs.
Ignore the AI comments, this app is so much more flexible with it, and the pictures will only get better. Great idea for an app!
Couldnt this be a first step before further escalation ?
That feature's in preview now. You can run it like:

uv python install --preview --default 3.13

and then you get Python 3.13 whenever you run `python` outside of an environment that declares something else.
Cool idea but the AI images are kind of lame. For anyone who wants something like this I recommend NYT's Flashback quiz: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/upshot/flashb...
At the same time, the author refers to things like "decades" of muscle memory and finishing "all of college." I wonder if there's just an error somewhere?!
Dont OpenAI have a ton of data on all of its users ?
'Pokémon Go' video game maker Niantic acquired by Scopely for $3.5B
DCGs are now up for formal adoption in the Prolog ISO specification[1].

If at all possible, please encourage your national ISO representatives to vote for its adoption.

For the US it's ANSI SC 22 WG 17.

[1]: https://www.iso.org/standard/83635.html
> like feminist AI conferences in Africa.

According to their 2023 form 990 (the 2024 one isn't published yet) those sort of donations are usually on the order of 15k. You don't get much browser for that money.
Waymo seems to be a counter example here
I expect there were 10,000 who knew, and he’s the only one who spoke up. Now, the other 9,999 likely believed it was to thwart terrorism, as this was post 9/11. Maybe those who had visibility into who was being surveyed were checking to ensure the spying didn’t cross their ethical boundaries. Interesting to think of what each individual in the system was considering.
As an aside, if you are purchasing an older home make sure you pay for a sewer line inspection. I had no idea this was a thing until a few years later when I had to replace mine and it cost ~$25,000.
Thank you!! Will try it tomorrow.
Probably because one absconded half-successfully and became sort of stateless. That's a way more exciting story!
A brief history of our serverless future (2024)
Hopefully they invent some kind of sticky gripper instead of just smashing all the windows like Doctor Octopus.
I feel like this rumbling can be summarized as "Ai is engineering, not math" - and suddenly a lot of things make sense

Why Ai field is so secretive? Because it's all trade secrets - and maybe soon to become patents. You don't give away precisely how semiconductor fabs work, only base research level of "this direction is promising"

Why everyone is pushed to add Ai in? Because that's where the money is, that's where the product is.

Why Ai needs results fast? Because it's production line, and you create and design stuff

Even the core distinction mentioned - that Ai is about "speculation and possibility" - that's all about tool experimenting and prototyping. It's all about building and constructing. Aka Engineering/Technology letters of STEM

I guess next step is to ask "what to do next?". IMO, math and Ai fields should realise the divide and slowly diverge, leaving each other alone on an arm's length. Just as engineers and programmers (not computer scientists) already do
A tool to monitor the sentiment of major news outlets
The implications of the "defense" tech boom are horrific because the only way for this industry to achieve the hockey stick growth demanded by Silicon Valley investors is a hot war.

It's also very depressing for students to talk like it's a foregone conclusion that people must die. Youthful naivete isn't a bad thing and I much prefer the idealistic pro-Palestinian protesters to this sort of "people are going to die (and in the process I'm going to make a bunch of money)" attitude.
The thing is that they're just tools. Having some keystrokes memorized does not mean you can't learn new keystrokes or, in some cases, you can't change them.

When I worked at uni I saw people rescinding when applying for a web design job because the computer they gave to them didn't had Photoshop installed - not that it was required to do anything super special, they just needed to crop images and export them to a given size. People, specially in the media sector, are incredibly dependent on "brand name" software.
Netscape's too big to fail, yo.
Thanks for the kind words and for the feedback! Good call about PG mode. We also want this to be usable in classrooms so that would definitely help.
Team develops prototype device to break up kidney stones
We had ours done when we moved in a couple years ago and it was a cool snakey camera thing; they only got us out to the service line; past that would have been a lot more elaborate. Also: that video feed? Pretty gross.

As an aside: I think a lot of people here would be surprised at the amount of technology (and surveillance) that goes into setting speed limits and placing stop signs in residential areas.
Show HN: I'm building an embedded shopping API
There appears to be no actual legal basis for this, but that's par for the course for the new American Reich.
I'd rather have my languages focus on being a language and use something non-language-specific like nix or bazel to situate the dependencies.

Sure, the language maintainers will need to provide some kind of api which can be called by the more general purpose tool, but why not have it be a first class citizen instead of some kind of foo2nix adapter maintained by a totally separate group of people?

There's no need to have a cozy CLI and a bespoke lockfile format and a dedicated package server when I'll be using other tools to handle those things in a non-language-specific way anyhow.