skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant to this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

PDF of the story: https://archive.org/download/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling...
I'm definitely betting the AI bubble is going to burst but NVIDIA isn't the company that will go down with it, they actually have a real business that is not just AI hype behind it. The insane valuation they have now might not hold but I doubt they are at any risk of disappearing.
gkrellm, konqueror, irssi, xmms

of course i had to dual-boot windows so i could still program in vb6 and be a general shit on AOL
Both, they're incompetently trying to pull a big scam. It's said that Trump did a lot of shady stuff in real estate, same for musk .. so they probably thought they could sell cutting everything federal as a 'new american age' while ensuring massive profits on the sell-off.

Sometimes I worry that, somehow, their reckless actions land onto a tangibly visible positive outcome, and they would brag about it until they die.
This is the common narrative but you have to ask yourself why it makes sense, because it doesn't. Interest rates going up doesn't hurt everyone, some benefit! Interest rates going up benefit savers and hurt debtors. A lot of the large companies that laid people off had huge amounts of cash reserves and benefit from higher interest rates.

These were highly profitable companies laying people off. Neither over-hiring or interest rates explains this. What does explain it are sudden increase in costs (like taxes).
For what it's worth, intelligent sexual robots will likely be massive in the next decade
just another reason to break up the monopoly
What do you make of something like Reddit (RDDT, down -15% at this moment)?

It's unaffected by tariffs, but its insane valuation is driven by the narrative that Reddit posts can be used to train AI. Without that narrative, you have a semi-toxic collection of forums and the valuation would probably be somewhere in the millions at best, not the current $20 BB.
But for how long? I'm sure Google is hard at work on Manifest V4.
Phone Needs a Burner Number
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/spam-texts-privacy-bu...
The compromise between fucking insanity and good governance is not agreeing to go half way into fucking insanity.

Meeting an unreasonable person half-way is giving them a blank cheque to become more unreasonable.

All it does is tell them that you're a sucker.
Which part of the economy are you taking inspiration from?
I really wish you would say outright what you're referring to, because to me right now your comment comes off as a bit of cryptic snark. Perhaps there were some comments along the lines you mean earlier, but scanning through the top 6 or 7 comments now, none of them appear to display the kind of arrogance you are implying.
I loved Vivaldi's configurability. But it's sync is slightly moody as well. It can fail for a while. Though it is better than Firefox's in that it fixes itself.

But Vivaldi doesn't support bookmarklets and I use those a lot.
People have come to accept dishonesty and sociopathy from corporations as normal and even acceptable unfortunately.
It's incredibly good autocomplete, though!

I remember the 90s, and the time when translation programs were truly awful. They had pretty much no memory, not knowing what "it", or "she" might refer to, from the previous sentence. They tended to pick a translation based on the selected dictionary, and choked on typos and trademarks. A popular past time in my neck of the woods was feeding a translator the manual for a computer mouse, selecting the medical dictionary and giggling at all the incoherent talk about mouse testicles and their removal and cleaning procedures.

In light of that, ChatGPT is scifi magic. It translates very well, it deals with informal speech, it can deal with typos, and you can even feed it a random meme JPG and it'll tell you what's it about. It's really like living in the future.
Peter Navarro is the big driver of Trump's economic approach (and he's a mercantilist quack):

https://hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-trumps-wa... (podcast with Justin Ling, a great independent journalist)

and https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/beggar-thy-neighbor-be...
My neighbours and I have been buying up cropland on the cheap as a result of the trade war. As an ethical move, we’re only buying in Trump-voting counties from registered Republicans. But at the end of the day, there is massive pain in that sector, particularly among soybean farmers and dairy farmers close to Canada, and it’s directly attributable to Trump.
Manus mania is here: Chinese 'general agent'
You're right. They might regret it financially if they could plan past their next meal. In the case of locusts it results in their decline.

Music industry has been... not great with licensing and archives. There are recordings of Lightning Hopkins that only exist because of the Smithsonian Archives. And there are re-issues of that music today that only exist because of independent labels sourcing from those archives.

If the music industry had had its way they would have been done with Hopkins years ago and his music would have been forgotten, having moved on to the next crop.

Books are good at republishing. Film has been decent at it but suffer from licensing issues. Video games are probably the worst at archiving and maintaining access to libraries of prior art.

Locusts. Good analogy.
It would appear you can watch Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser watch Micro Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaonVYOTSsk -- and then have a post-viewing chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4I2ktcWdJM

"I saw the first five minutes and had to run away, because I couldn't bear to see myself portrayed by Martin Freeman" -- Chris Curry
You mistake IQ for judgement.

They are related but distinct.
Interesting hypothesis, any corroboration from a reputable source?

Edit Hey! Look at that: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-gro...
Yeah, I think Tesla would be in approximately the same position if Elon never jumped into the political fray. Their market cap has been beyond ludicrous for years. Any slowdown in sales was due to crater the stock.

The Cybertruck is a turd, driverless cabs seem still not that close. The early adopters all have EVs and sales growth as a whole has plateaued. Other automakers have greatly improved their offerings, and Tesla's vehicle quality and fit-and-finish have both remained poor. The EV tax credits are probably going away soon.

One doesn't have to tip the scales against them at the moment.
I mean, sure, inducing a recession works for lowering prices, but it's freaking stupid and makes people poorer.
Playpen IRL!
What is lost by going to this version?
How do tariffs fit into the stated goal of “increasing supply?”
These people are breaking things that cannot be fixed quite so easily. Things like the trust of other nations. Scientific research. There are a lot of things that will take a generation or more to repair, if ever.
Remember when USA americans were demanding Europe would just give their money to Elon instead of working on their own stuff? I was wasting my time to explain Elon fans why this is stupid and now we have proof that would have been stupid.
> The rest of the economy saw job growth every single month [1] and real GDP growth every quarter except Q1 ‘22

Neither of those "accomplishments" are impressive or unusual. The population is growing, so jobs and GDP tend to grow as well. Negative job or GDP growth are both extremely rare events that happened only during the covid pandemic, the 2008 financial crisis, 9/11, etc.
I don't see how a distinction here is anything but semantically arbitrary.

Transitively, it most definitely uses OO techniques. Furthermore, by having such a clean C ffi (in both directions) it allows for the weaving of the Lua based OO techniques back into C code.
Peaked? Nah, it's barely started. Wait till we get decent SWE agents reliably writing good code, probably later this year or next. Once AI moves beyond simple boilerplate, the productivity boost will be huge. Too soon to call hype when we've barely scratched the surface.
You cannot avoid the ballyhack.
I still say it’s too early to tell.

It took a decade to reach LLMs. It will likely be another decade for agi. There is still clear trendline progress and we have clear real world targets of actual human level intelligence that exists so we know it can be done.
I'm assuming point two about "no knowledge of the game is put into the program" is more that none is put into the neural network? Or am I misunderstanding what is meant there? Seems the scoring function is clearly how you score the game?
Wow, you know my family better than I do! Are you psychic?
I have been using the Claude Code for about 48 hours now and nearly done with one full MVP. It did both my FastAPI side, building all the models guiding me through the Postgres part as well as a well polished React frontend. Burnt about $25 in 2 days [I have a lot of Anthropic credits] and created about 10k lines of good quality code all the way to a deployment. It is scary how much it can do to the point I'm not sure how long I will be needed.
The article is a bit strange. While GPS can be used to receive accurate timing (phase correction once per second), for gps less navigation, even a picosecond accurate atomic clock wont really give any additional benefit compared to a wirst watch.

Using an accurate clock, you might be able to detect spoofing (by detecting small “jumps in time”).
However, the same should be possible even with a non accurate clock (a few ppms) by detecting conflicts between the different satellites timings (since the “fake” transmitter is on earth, it will never be able to accurately simulate the real satellites’ airtime delays from space to your specific reception location).

On the other hand, if you pair a very accurate clock with a very accurate gyroscope, you might be able to replace gps altogether (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system) But from my knowledge, these kind of gyros are not really available for sale (but this is already outside of my knowledge, so maybe something changed).
The stock market falls by 10% or more on average every 1.2 years: https://www.covenantwealthadvisors.com/post/understanding-st....

There were 5 such drops in 2020, 4 in 2022, and 1 in 2023. Somehow, the nation avoided ruin during those periods.
Entrepreneurs are supposed to offer domestic versions at their own risk
Yep. That stuff was necessary then and still is today. Just look at DeepSeek doing low(er) level NVIDIA stuff and making the GPUs work hard.
The funny thing is, when the first dotcom bubble had been going on, people would have been making references back to the first AI winter in 1974-1980, where funding for AI related projects dropped precipitously as interest waned.
How are sandwich generation developers dealing?
Writing a C Compiler in Clojure
I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions, unlike the locked-down and hobbled Chromium ecosystem. I suspect they do realize this because they've been really leaning into extensions recently, but over the years I've worried that Mozilla's committment to Firefox isn't as serious as I would like.

Regardless, I'd love to see this give FF a big bounce in the stats. Something to reinforce that there are people out here that really want manifest v2, badly enough to switch!
Or they are silently buying the dip till the midterms.
I’m sorry there is only one party which is consistently doesn’t compromise at all. It’s a party of bullies and it’s a party which brought us here (and will bring us somewhere much worse). I’m afraid by now the only option forward don’t compromise with them at all, they understand only power.
> a fully self-sovereign life, with no dependence on trust or agents, is an unrealizable ideal

I agree with this part, but relying Apple is quite far from self-sovereignty compared to many other practical alternatives: not relying on external clouds, GrapheneOS, Linux. By relying on Apple, you not only pay a tax to essentially bribe them to not attack you (perhaps a viable strategy, not too different from taxes to governments), but more importantly you give up the ability to resist without serious compromises (can't have E2EE backups on your own cloud if they said so). This is akin to trying to be paying taxes to the government to get better police coverage, and they decide to ban locks, security cameras, and leaving the walled garden.

The problem with the current computing security paradigm is that it puts too much trust in entities that do not deserve it, because the entities are simply too powerful and do not suffer consequences when they break that trust.
Your prediction seems to be coming true! For my part, I’m still shorting TSLA, and needless to say, it’s going well. Thanks for the nudge to put my money where my mouth is.
Good question.

I'd start here if I were you: https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations
Indeed, under very limited circumstances of copying files and the man page says "-o" and "-g" only work as superuser, though I just tested it and that seems to be more a note about how chgrp()/chown() work (if you are changing to a group/user you don't have privs for), and it works in the case of a copy. Indeed very useful in some cases; I use it in CI/CD pipelines and Dockerfiles typically.
You can run distilled LLMs on your phone today that are surprisingly good. In 3-4 years I think an individual could self host for much less than thousands a month.

This wouldn’t be my biggest worry.
Sorry it’s for corp legal users, so desktop only Not for mobile and never tested on Firefox.
I think it's possible they are telling their friends of these random policy flip flops to trade the news things like tariff exemptions and crypto reserve. But it's pretty poor politics, businesses hate it, elites see their stocks go down. I don't care what concessions Mexico, Canada or China give if tariffs raise my cost of living and interest rates are kept high
Ask HN: Why are IT salaries falling?
In my view, IT salaries may be falling due to factors such as increased automation, offshoring (transferring jobs to lower-cost countries), a greater number of skilled workers and economic pressures that reduce demand. In addition, some technological functions are becoming more standardized, lowering the salary of certain positions.
So Deep Research and the latest reasoning models don't deserve mention here? I wish there was accountability on the internet, so that people posting stuff like this can be held accountable a year from now.
Weirdly enough Sweden has fallen victim to the same thing, a lot of rich man's taxes are gone, like inheritance taxes and low property taxes and such. We've gone from 100 billionaires to 500+ in 20 years, and it's not because of natural growth...

Note that that's SEK billionaire so $100M+-ish

Yay democracy
The IPO S-1 from 1997. Very promising back then. :p
https://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FilingID=46...
Simple explanation. Musk has lost it. His long term drug (ketamine) use has resulted in a psychotic break, which we are watching play out publicly.
Disney didn’t invent this technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera#History

And there were various predecessors like for example tunnel books: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/tunnel-books-art-histor...
>We may look back in a decade and lament how self-serving and short-sighted employers stopped hiring less experienced workers, denied them the opportunity to learn by doing, and thereby limited the future supply of experience developers.

I think bootcamps will bloom again and companies will hire people from there. The bootcamp pipeline is way faster than 4 year degrees and easy to spin up if the industry decides the dev pipeline needs more juniors. Most businesses don't need CompSci degrees for the implementation work because it's mostly CRUD apps, so the degree is often a signal of intellect.

This model has a few advantages to employers (provided the bootcamps aren't being predatory) like ISAs and referrals. Bootcamp reputations probably need some work though.

What I think will go away is the bootstraps idea that you can self-teach and do projects by yourself and cold-apply to junior positions and expect an interview on merit alone. You'll need to network to get an 'in' at a company, but that can be slow. Or do visible open source work which is also slow.
I'm not sure what the state of Pi 5 support is, but RISC OS seems to work on the Pi 1, 2, 3 and 4.

ArcEm is a decent emulator for the Archimedes series, and RPCem is the equivalent for the RiscPC which succeeded it. OS ROM images are available from a variety of places.

For floppy disk emulation, ADFFS is what you are looking for, and some games have been released in this format with the consent of the copyright holders.
The shareholders will be grateful! A great victory for google!
Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending like none of that was a part of her campaign.

Anyways, it's telling that everyone who was anxious over $3.50/dozen eggs in November is deathly silent over what's been happening in the past few weeks. All of a sudden, all of those people are now in the 'we have to be patient and get through the pain, there's definitely a payoff at the end' boat.

(Milk's $11/gallon at my grocery, by the way. Unless I buy 5 gallons at a time.)
But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree with her politics, people might see that as censorship, or at least shady.
“Lots of people wrongly believe that we have mass fraud in our elections, and it’s just not true, but we need to restore trust to them as well.”

So you're going to go with the people that you admit are wrong. You're restoring their trust. Meantime, people who legitimately find it difficult to vote now know for a fact that their voices aren't being heard.
Well, Elon just confirmed it.

> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
They let us do things efficiently. Sure, you could have moved a truckload of goods up the coast using 20 wagons, 40 mules, 20 drivers, 10 security, and a week's time. Today, one dude can move a truckload of goods up the coast same day.

(Numbers have been entirely fabricated, feel free to send adjustments.)
Euromaidan was a protests because Yanukovych didn't act on his promise to integrate Ukraine with the EU. Protesters were upset because that was not what he promised during his campaign.

The storming of the capital in US was under false claims that the elections were stolen.

There is both evidence that the elections were not stolen, and evidence what Yanukovuch said during his election campaign were not his actions. You can't tell the difference between the two?

Plenty of protests ended in the fall of a government and electing a new one. Why would that be the same as the US storming of the Capital?

If you would have said to compare it to the Georgian protests that don't accept the election results, that would be more difficult. But Euromaidan? That's easy.
Strong Men and Strong Machines
Isn't this way more about regulation rather than the tech?

Still would be cool to see even if not allowed on the roads :-)
An anecdote about that pressure and how we assume that people are messaging or browsing all the time.

I was playing a game of Power Grid [1] about one year ago and I noticed that everybody were tapping on their phones all the time between their turns. After half an hour I finally said, "Oh well, I'll also start sending messages or you guys will think that I have no social life." They raised their eyes and looked at me startled. "But I'm using the calculator!" "Me too." "Me too."

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
Well human beings are just auto complete if thats all LLMs are
> After the 1979 revolution, US-Iran relations collapsed.

Amusing way of putting it, if you ignore the US/UK instigated 1953 coup of Mossadegh and the installation of the Shah who was busy selling out Iran to the western powers, yeah you can assuming US-Iran relations "collapsed". I'd say they collapsed in 1953 and 1979 was the aftermath.
> Nvidia’s stock price

Market may be pricing in possible takeover of Taiwan by China.
As a long time embedded programmer, I don't understand this. Even 20 years ago, there is no way I really understood the machine, despite writing assembly and looking at compiler output.

10 years ago, running an arm core at 40 Mhz, I barely had the need to inspect my compiler's assembly. I still could roughly read things when I needed to (since embedded compilers tend to have bugs more regularly), but there's no way I could write assembly anymore. I had no qualms at the time using a massively inefficient library like arduino to try things out. If it works and the timing is correct, it works.

These days where I don't do embedded for work, I have no qualms writing my embedded projects in micropython. I want to build things, not micro optimize assembly.
>Fast: our model runs with a real-time factor of ~2x on an RTX 4090 (i.e. generates 2 seconds of audio per 1 second of compute time)

This is great as heavy TTS user. Waiting for real time 3x.
I blacklisted Chrome in dnf (the Fedora system update manager) once we hit near the last version to allow manifest v2, but apparently it wasn't enough. They reached in to my system and deactivated/deleted my manifest v2 extensions anyway regardless, even though my version still "supports" them. I'm quite displeased to say the least. Ultimately it's probably for the best though as now my "slow fade" plan has to be accelerated. Time to rip the bandaid off.
> Considering the fact that he is very smart

Is he though?

Plenty of people start out smart and then melt their brains in one way or another. Musk really seems like he's going down the same road.

Smarts aren't a permanent state of being, they're a temporary blessing, and if you're lucky they're slowly replaced with wisdom as you age. Musk doesn't seem to be getting the late-life migration to wisdom. Wise elders generally focus on a legacy that benefits their community, they don't spout slurs and pay people to make them look like they're good at video games.
This statement refers to the fact that, there are no rules like "you should put a O to block X.X" and things like that. Inside the program there is just the rule to understand if the game ended and who won. In the NN there is nothing at all of course, it's just random weights at start.
No I mean this in a physics sense, not ‘feelings’ sense.

If there is a physical phenomenon that depends on temperature, you can’t use C or F in that calculation unless the temperature parameters somehow cancel out.

So, if y = Tx, twice the temperature means y is twice if x is constant. But only if it’s in Kelvin.
I've been using Firefox for years now after being an avid chrome user and I do not miss it at all.
So shut down a good org today, in favor of bad orgs today, because good org might be bad in the future?
Hoping someone can point me to a Chrome browser extension that supports custom block rules. My strange situ involves an IT-managed laptop / browser that can't access certain websites because of their embedded resources (eg fonts) hosted on 3rd-party domains; firewall rules block the embedded content, breaking the (allowed) main site I'm trying to visit. uBlock Origin was perfect: I'd craft custom rules to disallow problematic embedded resources, problem solved.
The wiki outlines the differences.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
I also use the word exponential to refer to any curve that trends upwards