skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit confused.

Ex-Googler so maybe I'm just spoiled by access to non-public information?

But I'm fairly sure there's plenty of public material of Google robots gripping.

Is it a play on words?

Like, "we don't need to see to grasp", but obviously that isn't what you meant. We just don't need to if we saw it previously, and it hadn't moved.

EDIT: It does look like the video demonstrates this, including why you can't forgo vision (changing conditions, see 1m02s https://youtu.be/4MvGnmmP3c0?t=62)
Collecting a single paycheque makes it worth it, especially if you're doing it with a bunch of companies all at the same time.
I moved to "the city" in 1989 from England, and people were complaining then about yuppies and it wasn't the same as the good ol' days of the 60's.

SF seems to be a lot more in-flux compared to other cities, so if you don't like the scene now just wait a few years and a new one will be along :-)
In the UK (the study was covered the UK and Ireland) using glycerol rather than sugar avoids the "sugar tax" on sugar in drinks (I assume slushies as taxed at drinks).

The tax was imposed mostly to encourage people to consume healthier sweeteners instead of sugar.
Plus the overall network architecture was evolved over millions of years, is compressed in DNA and grows from cells multiplying and self-organizing.
These have been on sale for at least 50 years.
I'm a former research mathematician who worked for a little while in AI research, and this article matched up very well with my own experience with this particular cultural divide. Since I've spent a lot more time in the math world than the AI world, it's very natural for me to see this divide from the mathematicians' perspective, and I definitely agree that a lot of the people I've talked to on the other side of this divide don't seem to quite get what it is that mathematicians want from math: that the primary aim isn't really to find out whether a result is true but why it's true.

To be honest, it's hard for me not to get kind of emotional about this. Obviously I don't know what's going to happen, but I can imagine a future where some future model is better at proving theorems than any human mathematician, like the situation, say, chess has been in for some time now. In that future, I would still care a lot about learning why theorems are true --- the process of answering those questions is one of the things I find the most beautiful and fulfilling in the world --- and it makes me really sad to hear people talk about math being "solved", as though all we're doing is checking theorems off of a to-do list. I often find the conversation pretty demoralizing, especially because I think a lot of the people I have it with would probably really enjoy the thing mathematics actually is much more than the thing they seem to think it is.
AI demos and even live presentations have exacerbated my trust issues. The tech has great uses but there is no modesty from the proprieters.
Thank you, this is helpful framing. Obviously all the details are missing, but the blog post was impenetrable for me, and I’m quite technical.
> “You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” Trump said.

Coming from the guy who will have security detail for the rest of his life because he worked for the government. Truly comical time to be alive
Show HN: ContextBuilder for the Idea IDEs
Excalidraw and PlantUML
Each one has its own benefits / drawbacks.
PlantUML is great for version-controlled files.
Excalidraw for throwaway diagrams and discussion. Ocassionally I draw comic strips with Excalidraw.
Postgres, Dbt, and Iceberg: Scalable Data Transformation
Perfect Pan-Seared Steaks Recipe
I've got the feeling that Claude doesn't use its knowledge properly. I often need to ask some things it left out in the answer in order for it to realize that that should also have been part of the answer. This does not happen as often with ChatGPT or Gemini. Specially ChatGPT is good at providing a well-rounded first answer.

Though I like Claude's conversation style more than the other ones.
Ian Banks' Culture series is the only one that comes to mind.
Animals are quite easy to get to do all sorts of experiments, and per very similar anatomy it seems very likely that the basic fundamental operating principles are same across species. If we can't figure out how a fruit fly's nervous system works, we have no hope at figuring out the human brain.
Fair enough! I stand on the side that the current ad landscape in the US gravitates towards convincing us to buy things we don’t need and consume more. And normally using manipulative tactics. For example, ads in the car industry that sell a lifestyle that convinces people to buy large pick up trucks they don’t need at costs they can’t actually afford.
Or 1949 if you consider the Turing Test, or 1912 if you consider Torres Quevedo's machine El Ajedrecista that plays rook endings. The illusion of AI dates back to 1770's The Turk.
For me it's leaf blowers. Maybe mowers or string trimmers though they seem to be done faster. Leaf blowers for HOURS from ... March through December!
Greg Egan is a master of this (making compelling hard scifi stories where the characters aren't the great american novel quality, still fine though).
>You can call it what you want

I call it as it is.

>but absolutely no one considers chroot virtualization in any meaningful sense.

Absolutely everyone who's knowledgable in virtualization considers chroot to be a type of OS-level virtualization.

>Nothing is being virtualized, containers are just regular processes on the host system.

Wrong, "...OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances..."

"OS Virtualization" == "OS " + "Virtualization"
This is still the case when troubleshooting POTS lines on analog PBX systems.

All you need is the probe side of a tone generator and you can listen to analog phone conversations in progress with no additional configuration or hardware.
I don't know how society managed to normalize playing with your phone during a face to face conversation. Like, imagine going back to 1990 and getting into a conversation with your friend over coffee, and in the middle of him talking, you whip out a newspaper and start reading it. He would instantly say "WTF are you doing, man?" But today, the same thing happens with the phone, and it's just kind of...accepted?
As the world grows more interconnected, the proliferation of news about horrible events happening spreads faster, and even if you personally ignore the news, other people don’t, and this colors the overall mood of society.

There is horror everywhere, and always will be until the end of our days.
This is lack of impulse response data, usually broken by motor control paradigms. I reread Cybernetic by Norbert Weiner recently and this is one of the fundamental insights he had. Once we go from Position/Velocity/Torque to encoder ticks, resolver ADCs, and PWM we will have proprioception as you expect. This also requires several orders of magnitude cycle time improvement and variable rate controllers.
How does a regular hacker get their hands on this kind of equipment to do research?
OK, that I guess that kinda-sorta makes sense if the accelerometers were rigidly mounted to the floor. Was that the case? Because if so then what you would have would basically be a seismometer, and floor bending from the test masses would, it seems to me, be the least of your worries.
> Zillow list price for vacant land doesn't consider all the vacant lots held by people who aren't building for various reasons nor does it consider the surrounding suburbs etc. or the land uvm holds but doesn't develop (who they gonna sell to? they have more money than anybody). there are a lot more variables than just zillow!

What? Yes it does. That's how prices work. If UVM sold all of their land, prices would go down, but they aren't selling all of their land, so the prices are higher.

I never said "all land is being used productively." I said "land prices are the primary source of cost in high COL areas." One contributor to high land prices are all the things you mention: people withholding their unused land from the market.

No, there are not more variables than just the sale price. The price of land is the price of land, and it factors in all the variables you mentioned.
Excellent work. What optimizer did you use? I assume AdamW? I didn't see it listed.
I’m excited to share ContextBuilder – a new IntelliJ IDEA plugin designed to streamline your workflow for creating markdown contexts from your project files.
What It Does:

ContextBuilder lets you select discrete files, folders, or any combination of both directly from your Project view. Simply right-click and choose Generate Context, and the plugin will:

Recursively gather file contents:

Whether you select a single file, an entire folder, or multiple selections, the plugin merges them into a single markdown document.

Immediate clipboard support:

The generated markdown context is automatically copied to your clipboard, ready for use in AI prompts, documentation, or code reviews.

Intuitive Tool Window Interface:

A docked tool window displays your context generation history, a detailed file tree preview, and even a token count (using jtokkit’s BPE encoding) to help you manage context size effectively.

Drag-and-Drop & History Management:

Easily add files by dragging and dropping them onto the tool window. The history view supports filtering, sorting (by date or name), and renaming entries, so you always know which context came from where.

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Source: https://github.com/Brostoffed/ContextBuilder
Some render algorithms require sorting, like the currently hugely popular gaussian splats. Those sort like 5 to 20 million items per frame, in real-time.
Ask HN: EM to Director
How are you all thinking about your careers and making this move?

I'm going on 10 years of management with another 6-7 years of IC experience. I'm starting to see directors at big tech companies that are not only younger than me, but with far less management experience. Granted, I did get a few unlucky breaks - first startup got acquired and the parent company brought their own execs in, second startup promised me a director role but wasn't a good fit, and my current role is in a bigger tech org and they're not promoting from within and all recent hires are from the C-suite's previous company.

I could probably go to a smaller company and be a director, but that would be a step back in terms of scale and money.

A lot of companies aren't hiring in the US like they were, so growing organically seems like a poor strategy.

Is there a secret I'm missing?
What holds people back from questions and how to overcome it
It's not that they don't keep up, and more that it's hard to make a truly compelling and exciting space opera story it you abide by the reality of physics. The reality of space travel and war will be much closer to the forever war than to the countless water navy inspired stories out there.
Vibe Coding Is Not My Future
Interview, fail at interviews, learn from there where you need to improve, repeat until hired. Once hired, level up. There is no speed limit (https://sive.rs/kimo). Your experience at a YC startup as an early engineer would potentially provide you with the expertise and network to eventually move to another org or become a founder yourself (bootstrap or VC funding, depending on your objectives).

You could also apply for https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus and https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

Wishing you the best of luck.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/generative-ai

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

(no affiliation with YC)
I wish I had been on the committee when this change the browser API was proposed. I would obviously gotten kicked out for asking "just what the hell do you think people are going to do with this?". But at least I'd be somewhat infamous for asking the question when seemingly no one else was willing to.
Have you ever reported an issue? I use perspective heavily on a variety of platforms both conda and pypi without any problems.
AI Code Fusion: Optimize exporting your code for LLM contexts – packs files
I made this small tool that I use daily when I have to paste code into ChatGPT UI or Gemini sometimes for cross-checking. It mainly uses 2 steps to filter the files to send, excluding common noisy files. It provides an estimate of the token numbers (it may drift a bit due to end formatting).

And it allows adding the project code tree if you need to give the model more structural context.

It was orginally a CLI tool, but I found the UI is more intuitive and faster for exporting code.

May add later some improvemens, like more export formats, multiple folder sources.

I'm not an expert Electron/Read coder so feedback and code review are too welcome.

Cheers and thanks for the feedback in advance.
In my experience, both are needed. Product owners and developers who understand the product. It's possible to have both, they're not mutually exclusive.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams does a great job at being a timeless and priceless way to learn about the relativity of things.
Non-story. They compared their solution against an RTX 3090 (two generations old consumer card).
Based on your comment history and inability to accept that other people know what they're doing, I doubt that very much.
Apple Products Are Struggling
Basically, Murderbot.
I'm suggesting that's what would come to HR's mind, as a way that could come across, and risk lawsuits and/or social media outrage.

(Obviously someone isn't going to literally say "cupcake" in 2025. That doesn't mean that's not how it will come across. And it also doesn't mean that your employees won't mess up, and do your HR-vetted reasonable process in a totally wrong way.)
I remember watching a documentary years ago where at one point the filmmakers mentioned to some teens the concept of being a sellout. None of them were familiar with the term. When the filmmakers explained it, meaning sacrificing one’s own vision and opinions to shill a brand for cash, they all saw it as something positive they wish they could do.
> I'm not about to hand off anything I pour months and years into to my competitors for free.

Library authors can pour "months and years" into their projects, and yet you expect them (but not yourself) to give away their code under more permissive terms, while you keep yours closed? The (A)GPL is a great choice because it forces people like you to either (1) open up your code or (2) pay for a closed-source license.
Tactile input is a nice-to-have but unnecessary. A human can pilot a robot through image sensors alone.
> This is no different.

This is precisely my point.

We are not gonna get a new Geneva Convention banning drones.
diaspora by greg egan is a good example
This means that the Tesla Takedown is having an affect. Musk is starting to feel the heat. Keep it up.
How is this promoted as a "local UI" if it gets the UI from a remote URL?

Maybe the closed source UI is downloaded upon first execution for installation and then cached locally?

Or is this a web app that loads from the remote URL each time?
DuckDB labs has stock in MotherDuck to align ownership.

I actually really like the close partnerships in theory because it aligns incentives, but this crosses the line by not being open enough. The tight motherduck integration with DuckDB for externally hosted DuckDB/Motherduck databases is fine and good: preferential treatment where the software makes it easy to use the sponsoring service. The local UI which is actually fully dependent on the external service is off-putting. It's a little less bad because it's an extension, but it's still worrying from a governance and principals perspective.
>GOOG is around the same price as it was in 2022

Even after the massive total market correction in the last few weeks, the earliest that GOOG was the same price as today is not even a full year ago. In fact, it's up 90% since 2022.
Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
I do like rust and like I said, ideally in my opinion. I also did say choosing go was more pragmatic. We are on the same page believe it or not.
Extension Framework with Dev Mode, HMR, MV2/MV3, Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari
I've been building chrome extensions for 5+ years now and this framework makes the bad parts of developing extensions feel easy.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09246
Should have mentioned that I use Moom at the moment on Mac, and I love it. It's that scrolling paradigm that interests me here though.
I loved that machine! I still have a couple in a storage box somewhere. Maybe I should dig them out and have a bit of nostalgic fun.
And we wouldn't be talking about it 20 years later :)
Sure but these "trade surplus" memes Trump keeps parroting conveniently don't include the SW products and services that makes the US so rich.
Most constant-time code today is done in assembly, which is a mild downgrade from when it was done in C.
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineer #3
Gemini 2 Image Generation quality seems to be what OpenAI promised last year
Enhancing CA Practices: Key Updates in Mozilla Root Store Policy, v3.0
Are you open to hire outside USA?
Google is probably the most undervalued tech company there is currently, by far:

1.) Has cutting edge in house AI models (Like OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, etc.)

2.) Has cutting edge in house AI hardware acceleration (Like Nvidia)

3.) Has (likely) cutting edge robotics (Like Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Figure)

4.) Has industry leading self driving taxis (Like Tesla wants)

5.) Has all the other stuff that Google does. (Like insert most tech companies)

The big thing that Google lacks is excitement and hype (Look at the comments for all their development showcases). They've lost their veneer, for totally understandable reasons, but that veneer is just dusty, the fundamentals of it are still top notch. They are still poised to dominate in what the current forecasted future looks like. The things that are tripping Google up are relatively easy fixes compared to something like a true tech disadvantage.

I'm not trying to shill despite how shill like this post objectively is. It's just an observation that Google has all the right players and really just needs better coaching. Something that isn't too difficult fix, and something shareholders will get eventually.
Well of course, except the menu prices are the "max" and everyone gets varying discounts depending on their profile. Just like at your local auto parts store, basically nobody pays "list price", yet it's there for the odd walk-in cash sale who doesn't know how these things work.
When I visited in the 90's I remember conversations mentioning seeing the signs and trying to delay the inevitable end. Whether someone sees that as dooming or prescient is probably a matter of if they moved in before or after 2005.
It really is surrounded by amazing natural beauty. However, everything to do with humans has slowly morphed into an unfixable nightmare and it's heartbreaking. I think it's time to throw in the towel, evacuate everyone from the city and let it return to nature as a wildlife preserve.
> Be aware that the AGPL license might be a problem for many people.

Nothing prevents the author from selling closed-source licenses, as long as they retain sole copyright over the code.
Maybe off topic: I can't for the life of me figure out how therapy isn't a scam. CBT as proposed and studied in lab settings can't really be applied in the wild like most evidence based therapists try to, and the results of therapy I come across always seem extremely underwhelming. Maybe for some cases like severe phobias there is something to be solved, but do we really need to be paying thousands of dollars a year for a therapist to say "hey, maybe if you'd invest more in hobbies, social relationships and a healthy lifestyle you would feel better"?
Hardest of all is copying the earlier video games

On the other hand, many of the old games are exhaustively documented and built for component-level repair. A trade-off, I suppose.
Hey HN,

I’m building Blakfly, a travel platform designed to tackle the unique challenges that Black travelers face—ranging from visa struggles to racial discrimination in accommodations.

As a Ugandan passport holder, I’ve dealt with unclear visa policies, difficulty finding travel experiences tailored to my needs, and even being locked out of hotels in certain regions. Existing travel platforms don’t address these realities, so we decided to build our own.

Blakfly Features:
Real-time visa info based on your passport, eliminating guesswork.
A Black traveler rating system for destinations based on real lived experiences.
A marketplace for Black travel experiences, tours, and digital travel products.
A community feature to connect Black travelers in new cities.
A digital nomad index that scores countries based on factors that matter most to Black travelers.
Travel safety insights from a Black traveler’s perspective.

A seamless platform where users can plan trips, find resources, and get real reviews.

We're currently in the early stages and would love feedback from this community.

What do you think are the biggest gaps in Black travel tech?

How can we improve our approach to building a community-driven platform?

Would love to hear your insights!

Blakfly.com (still iterating & open to suggestions)
I feel similar ever since the 3.7 update. It feels like Claude has dropped a bit in its ability to grok my question, but on the other hand, once it does answer the right thing, I feel it's superior to the other LLMs.
Could this help categorize and prune backups?
Yes they said there were issues with cyclic data structures. Not really speculating just wrote it funny. I get why they chose what they did and even said I agree with it.
Ask HN: Tips for working with human virtual assistants?
If you've worked with remote assistants, what delegation strategies (types of tasks to delegate vs. not), communication tools (email/Slack/Loom/etc.), and automation setups have you found most effective? Have you changed how you work with them since the arrival of ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLM-based assistants?

Any recommendations for or thoughts on specific agencies, e.g., Athena, Double, Magic?

I remember reading a detailed post on this topic on HN recently but can't find it despite trying Algolia, Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT search. It might have had an embedded Notion table with the actual tasks the author delegates. if anyone recognizes the post or has a link to it, that’d be hugely appreciated.
No, pace is not considered in our form feedback. The user can go at whatever speed they wish. It'll just count their reps and provide feedback until they completed their entire workout. We do have a prototype ready for stats IF we ever get to calculating the user's velocity. Man, that would be really cool to get into!

Personally, I'd consider pace secondary. To your point, time under tension instead of using your momentum would help a lot. Just an additional implementation layer. It's something that we're capable of doing - but like everything, it just takes time ahaha

With this version, we got the most important step down which is form. So on to the next! Thanks for the question! Let me know if anything else comes into mind!! This was fun :-)
I lived in SF then and picked up a 5 gallon bucket of bouncy balls at a garage sale. I didn't realize until now that this is where they almost certainly came from.
A song parody comes to mind (HN strips the music emoji)

We built this city
We built this city
We built this city on broken code