skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I've heard that this area is improving exponentially for years now, but I can't really say the results I'm getting are any better than I originally experienced with ChatGTP.

The dev tooling has gotten better; I use the integrated copilot every day and it saves me from writing a lot of boilerplate.

But it's not really replacing me as a coder. Yeah I can go further faster. I can fill in gaps in knowledge. Mostly, I don't have to spend hours on forums and stack overflow anymore trying to work out an issue. But it's not replacing me because I still have to make fine-grained decisions and corrections along the way.

To use an analogy, it's a car but not a self-driving one -- it augments my natural ability to super-human levels; but it's not autonomous, I still have to steer it quite a lot or else it'll run into oncoming traffic. So like a Tesla.

And like you I don't see how to get there from where we are. I think we're at a local maxima here.
The maker of Roomba has 'substantial doubt' about surviving
Balancing Content Size in RAG-Text2SQL System
It only needs to be easier to ship than hydrogen.
My DOCSIS service provider turned off encryption. That's likely due to the certificate expiring on a popular modem brand. Key management is hard, certificate management is hard. Especially when they don't care about security. The encryption was only DES to begin with instead of AES which is supported in DOCSIS but few service providers bother.
Anyone who has the tools to sniff DOCSIS can eavesdrop on my provider's nodes and hear the incoming leg of phone calls.
Sounds good, I'll test this out for a while.

I am using a combo of you.com and DuckDuckGo, and I really like the ddg bangs, does Ecosia have this?

Can I also customize the start page, it is a bit "loud".
It's cathartic.

Plus, it's not JUST about the crying. I'm order to get to the point where the tears are actually falling, you have to go through all the build up that makes you care very deeply about the characters and situation. When that works well enough to get you to cry over a cartoon? It's fucking MAGICAL. =)
But you just described what Mozilla is doing right now! 0% of what anyone donates goes to the browser, and its a disaster!
I mean reality have aspects of both. We have the capacity to make things how they ought to be, to an extent - especially if we agree on what ought to be. This discussion boils down to how far we think that extent goes.

I think we tend to both under and over estimate how far that goes. We underperform when we lack the means to coordinate. When we align and stay motivated we can push ought to to is pretty damn far.
I'm still none the wiser. What attitudes?
> The cost efficiency of ammonia production is highly dependent on the process being continuous and steady state.

Hydrogen is the overwhelming energy input to ammonia production. Hydrogen is readily storable -- this is done even today, when the hydrogen comes from natural gas, to smooth things out to keep the ammonia plant running -- so intermittency of renewables will be almost entirely countered by doing the same thing and storing the green hydrogen.

What matters is cost of electrolysers, but they have been getting very cheap in China.
I was commenting on the parent's mention of suspecting it could be a UPS that feeds power back into the house. It's one of those things that's super easy to DIY, or even do accidentally, but is super dangerous, so I didn't want anyone else thinking why not. I don't think you could even get a UL certification for such a device.
Very nice, purchased!
Silicon Valley TV show
Doesn't that mean that you're charging extra from those that don't care about updates to subsidize them for those that do?
The Zero-Sum Mindset
Thank you for sharing this. I linked it from my list of resources for C-based game development: https://github.com/aaron9000/c-game-resources
Democratic backsliding isn't a concept owned by Asians: see Hungary, Brazil, Poland, the US under the Confederacy, etc. All of these countries have been "doing democracy wrong" at various times.

And no matter how gleefully you celebrate the distress of liberal westerners when minority populations are abused and human rights are violated, the essential force driving towards the liberation of minorities everywhere is not some foreign tradition, but their own humanity. Until the Muslims and Sikhs of India are killed off entirely, they have their will to survive and to seek a better life. Modi may be popular, but short of genocide he cannot take that away.
This is beautiful. I wish I had a specific project in mind to try this out.
Bingo, if the meeting is geared for openness but people aren’t open, now you’ve got conflict. Of course if people aren’t open you might run into trouble anyway but there’s a grey area there
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood [0] is directly based on the character by the same name from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.'

Daniel Tiger is one of the very, very few TV shows we let our daughter watch, and it teaches emotional regulation so incredibly well and has plenty of tunes that I've caught her singing to herself, such as "it's okay to feel sad sometimes, little by little, you'll feel better again"

I'm in Australia and never grew up watching Mr Rogers, but after seeing the "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" movie I recognised the tunes and then spent an inordinate amount of time looking into the origins.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tiger%27s_Neighborhood
No, it's not TypeScript that is 10 times as fast, only the TypeScript compiler. Bad title. Also, "10x faster" would be a factor of 11.
How this Japanese ski town became the powder capital of Asia
Can We Use
Was very annoyed when they acquired ShareDrop.
Swiss Micros have some fairly decent recreations of HP's greatest hits. Pricey, but I am going to get myself one for my birthday.
https://www.swissmicros.com/products
I do think the bigger nicer key is you get the links too, so you can always confirm. The downside is some sites will not be able to handle the lack of revenue generating traffic.
I'm exploring something akin to this, but focusing on 3D views via mesh shading, also powered by DuckDB.

Can you describe your cortex mapping data sources (volumetric? approx number of samples?) and is there any open data to grab? What kinds of visualizations/manipulations you would want or is there an existing product to compare to? Thanks :)

EDIT: Confused WGPU with WebGPU, so deleted a sentence.
Why under 25 years of age? It is well documented that older entrepreneurs are more successful than younger ones?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873332...
There are enough small model teams competing that I fell confident one of them will try this, and if it just sticking to english gives a large boost, the others will be forced to follow suite.

It would also kind of suck for non-english speakers, because it will just be another feather in the hat of "English eats the world".
These are neat but... it's 2025, and there is still no first class standardized ways to move files over the Internet between PC/mobile/edge devices.
They even make a joke about this in the Ghostbasket episode. Bandit is pretending to be a realtor and Chilli remarks that the house is a bit small, to which he replies "it's bigger on the inside"
How Do We Build a General Intelligence? [video]
They didn't just decide it. They witnessed it.
OpenAI API Updates, Steelmanning the API Business, the Problem with Both
Is the noon color scheme supposed to look like Finn from Adventure Time?
I very strongly agree with this. However, the time change is so terrible that I just want it to stop even if that means we start lying about what "noon" means.

On the other hand, there have been a couple of times in the past when we've eliminated the time change and settled on daylight savings, and they've failed. A very common hypothesis about why they failed is that it's because it settled on daylight time.
> One of many everything-and-the-kitchen-sink features Opera Presto had during its heyday.

oh the Presto engine.. shame its not the same opera we used anymore.
still has the best ux on phone, unfortunately no other browser come close.
I'm not shocked although it's messy. From the technical point of view elections have rules and if candidates break the rules it seems ok to block them.

At another level, Russia is kind of waging war on Europe to try to engineer a fascist takeover. Some of us don't like that - remember Hitler was democratically elected and Putin is merrily killing thousands of innocents in his imperial quest.

There is other iffy stuff:

> ... evidence about a plot organised by former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu and a group of former French Foreign Legion fighters ... were planning to "infiltrate peaceful protests and trigger chaos through violent actions"

>Police found large amounts of lethal weapons, ammunition, and cash https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-prosecutors-georgesc...

>Russian Military Intelligence Behind Attempted Coup in Romania: The Shadowy Network Supporting Pro-Russian Candidate Călin Georgescu https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/03/10/russian-military-int...

etc. 6 charged with treason. I'm not sure how proven it is but Russian military coups are bad and all that.
As a Middle-Aged person who does math on the periphery of calculus reasonably often, for work and in my day to day life, my irritation with calculators is that their capabilities are largely driven by the education markets demands. The small handful of calculators with CAS abilities are usually kneecaped to what would be allowed in a testing environment.

I want a calculator that can do all the transforms for me and show the work so I know what I'm doing.

For my day-to-day needs I literally run a TI-89 emulator on my android phone these days. Seems silly.
CommandFor just made it's way into Chrome
It doesn't seem to be.
https://wormhole.app/ has been spared and is pretty good. Encrypted, dl can start before up is finished, decent size limit.

Unrelated to the wormhole python cli tool and associated file sharing protocol.
In general that is true.

In the specific case where you are experimentally verifying reproducibility you do need to.
It does, via unsafe package, yes it does look ugly, that is on purpose.

item := *(*int)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(start) + size*uintptr(i)))

A random example taken from Internet.
Extracting the core of the abstract:

> .. We found that sex differences in personality, verbal abilities, episodic memory, and negative emotions are more pronounced ... [while] differences in sexual behavior, partner preferences, and math are smaller in countries with higher living conditions.

> Taken together, results indicate that more sex differences are larger, rather than smaller, in countries with higher living conditions ... [defined amongst other things by higher] gender equality, and education.

I haven't read through the whole thing yet, but so far my takeaway is that higher living conditions and gender equality promote some (innate?) gender differences, which are diminished (hidden?) when living conditions are lower. This rings true to me.
Thanks for sharing your project! Hoardbase looks really interesting - I appreciate you taking the time to link it.

Your experience of starting with the MongoDB API idea and then deciding SQL syntax was sufficient is really valuable feedback. It makes me wonder about the specific pain points that initially drove you toward a MongoDB API, and what aspects of SQL ended up working well enough for your needs.

For document-oriented workloads, did you find any particular patterns or techniques with SQLite's JSON functions that made working with nested data and arrays more manageable? Or did you end up modeling your data differently to better fit SQL's approach?

I'm also curious about your decision to use Rust for the implementation. Was that primarily for performance reasons, or were there other factors that led you in that direction?

Thanks again for sharing your experience - it's really helpful to hear from someone who's explored this space before.
I wholeheartedly agree, though how to utilize the tax money isn’t the problematic part in the taxation IMO.
> [I probably shouldn't mention that I personally think adblockers are unethical :) ]

Okay, I’ll bite. How are adblockers unethical?
If you code you are not a CTO. if you have to code then You don't need a CTO.

And if you are 3 person startup and you are CTO , hire a DEV Team in [enter country].

code as a CTO But just for you to know , you are making a mistake, we all did.
And when the new equilibrium point involves a huge amount of centralization and off-shoring and therefore wealth concentration and loss of livelihood, the proletariat becomes angry.

In that context it's a fiendishly genius move to atomize and distract the "obsolete parts of the economy" and have them vote for their own disempowerment.

It's maddeningly obvious and feels unrelentingly deterministic. If the plutocrats fail to properly cement their position however, we already know what happens next.
How does this happen?

I get that competitors show up and sales go down, that seems likely.

But a company that makes robot vacuums seems like it wouldn't have growing overhead costs forever and once you've got a reasonable product line you might sell less but you should remain profitable / sustainable as a business...

I guess they took out a $200m loan:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/29/24034201/amazon-irobot-ac...

I guess we don't hear about companies that operate within their means so it seems like there's not many of them, but perhaps we only hear about the exceptions?
I tend to agree but also think AI is changing this narrative. Now some of the coding can be done by LLM and the "architect" skills are more important
I find I use Niri in a similar way to other tiling WMs, but instead of having one application per workspace, it lets me keep accessory applications clustered with the main ones. For example, my password manager lives in the same workspace (usually off-screen) as my browser. Whenever I need to generate a password or something, it's right there. Same with whatever accessory terminals I need in addition to my text editor.
> There is a lot of talk on culture fit. Most of the talk on "culture fit" is bringing up a hidden layer of discrimination, of one sort of the other - to the detriment of the companies

That’s the cynical interpretation, but more often than not I’ve seen culture fit used to protect candidates from taking a job they’ll loathe.

At one of my first jobs they tried to ban anything that could be called culture fit from the hiring criteria. It led to a couple hires yo joined, hated the company, and quit within weeks or months. The first one was a candidate who emphasized planning and predictability and complained that past employers had moved too fast. We were a startup. Predictably, he hated it. But we were disqualified from voicing those concerns in the hiring decision process because it was “culture fit” and they were afraid it would lead to discrimination.

There were several other instances before the policy quietly went away and we were allowed to evaluate candidates for compatibility with our engineering culture once again.
Good points. A few responses:

> "Everything is memory safe" means speed penalty

Not much, and sometimes none if the optimizer is smart. See: Rust, Go. The JVM and CLR are not slow either, though they are a little less efficient than the former for legacy reasons... and of course like all benchmarks it will depend on the use case and code.

> The same can be said about "Software can be hot upgraded" - that seems insane

That's something that has to be engineered properly. I saw it done quite a long time ago via distinct versions distributed and then loaded in place of currently loaded .jar files (Java). Things stayed consistent. This one does require some forethought and developer discipline to do properly but it lets you build insanely high uptime systems without the clunkiness and waste of current approaches. I guess the current approach works too, but this is just so elegant.

I agree about this stuff being PC-centric, but that's a function of the era in which it was developed. Nothing intrinsic about these systems prohibits their use in a cloudy environment. They'd just be deployed and used a little differently.
I generally agree that C# == Java == Go in most aspects and have far more and generally think C# is nicer to use and probably faster for many use cases. But, it is not the same as Go at all in terms of AOT. In golang that is just the default and always works - basically on all platforms, in C#, that is not the case. Do you really want to find out that a popular library uses some reflection and therefore doesn't work half way through the project?

In my opinion, using C# for this use case isn't a practical choice on a greenfield project.
I was trying to get a historical sense of what happens after tariffs.

From what I could find, the modern example is the EU tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The outcome was negotiation.

I think trade negotiation is the best outcome we can hope for. Tariffs are going to really hurt jobs if they persist.
That's the beginning of The New Internet.
Yeah, probably too harsh... I was thinking of Docker/containers when I wrote that, which really is "tar up your machine" as a software distribution mechanism the way most people use it.

Most of what I've seen in "cloud native" is a horror under the hood.
"tyranny of the minority" https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/a-review-of-tyranny-of-th...
that's how software as a service works.
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LambdaLabs is a small-scale, hobby and proof-of-concept project that enables dynamic creation of routes, serverless lambdas, and databases. It runs over FastAPI with almost no performance overhead. Currently this project is just a toy / hobby project for getting more into python.
I have some notes somewhere but unfortunately they don't have citations, these are just some of the vulns they've had in the last couple years:

• Storm-0558 Breach (2023): Chinese hackers exploited a leaked signing key from a crash dump to access U.S. government emails, affecting 60,000+ State Department communications

• Azure OpenAI Service Exploitation (2024): Hackers bypassed AI guardrails using stolen credentials to generate illicit content, leading to Microsoft lawsuits against developers in Iran, UK, and Vietnam

• CVE-2025-21415 (CVSS 9.9): Spoofing vulnerability in Azure AI Face Service allowed authentication bypass and privilege escalation

• CVE-2023-36052: Azure CLI logging flaw exposed plaintext credentials in CI/CD pipelines, risking sensitive data leakage

• Azurescape (2022): Container escape vulnerability enabled cross-tenant access in Azure Container Instances, discovered by Palo Alto Networks

• ChaosDB (2022): Wiz researchers exploited CosmosDB’s Jupyter Notebook integration to access thousands of customer databases including Fortune 500 companies

• Executive Account Takeover Campaign (2024): Phishing campaign compromised 500+ executive accounts via Azure collaboration tools with MFA manipulation

If your company or workplace is considering migrating from cloud to on-prem or from one cloud to another, I do this professionally btw, feel free to reach out at this temporary email and we can chat: pale.pearl2178 at fastmail.com (to prevent my real email being scraped from HN).
The reason the web won is that it does NOT need specific clients for every single thing.

Essentially every kind of service (e.g. email, blogging, q&a, live news) is available without JavaScript, thus, using a pure html through http interface. The problem with a-standard-protocol-per-service is that new uses arrive in a distributed, unplanned manner.

Looking at instant messaging history is instructive: there were 3 protocols in major use (aim, msn, icq) about 20 other in common use. The “standard” committee was sabotaged by the major players for years and eventually disbanded, culminating in the only open option in some use (not major use, just some use) - XMPP - to win by default, except the providers explicitly chose to NOT interop (Facebook, WhatsApp when it was independent, Google chat).
Another reason to be worried by Microsoft’s Azure security guidelines which state “Identity is the new perimeter”.

Well, the perimeter is not a gate but a cattle guard, and I am not surprised to see some wolves eating a secret and a cow swaggering into the road.

Azure service APIs have always conflated the principles of “reachability from the public internet” and “anonymous access” into a single concept called “Public Access” which, for Azure KV, has 6 different public/private configuration combinations!

This vulnerability report did not include the Key Vault Networking settings for “Public network access”, so more testing (but not much more) is needed to see if the proxy side door can circumvent a resource ACL or private endpoint or both.
why not? cross platform, lots of ui toolkits, huge ecosystem of packages and tools.

tbh java is a perfect choice for a tool like this. building it in rust or go would take 10x the time.
we're in for a rough ride when current overstimulated generation grows up. kids from 12 months watching youtube because parents need them to sit still? damn thats scary. even two year olds in my opinion is too young.

"Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers" talks about this that screen time is replacing connection (bond) between kids and parents. and bond is of most importance for raising children. which if you missed the train cant be created later (only mended)

our family was going that path (media consumption), but made a change (couple weeks of tantrums) and now it reflects quite positively. So i guess the main issue is to not overuse. even if the show is "really good"
This. The IP comes from the US and most of the profits go to the US.
> I understand you and I grew up in a different era. But life getting easier for the young isnt exactly something we must resent.

Of course not. But, eventually these young people are going to take over the systems that were built and understood by their ancestors. History shows what damage can be caused to a system when people who don't fully understand and appreciate how it was built take it over. We have to prepare them with the necessary knowledge to take over the future, which includes all the warts and shit piles.

I mean, we've spent a lot of our careers trying to dig ourselves out of these shit piles because they suck so bad, but we never got rid of them, we just hid them behind some polish. But it's all still there, and vibe coders aren't going to be equipped to deal with it.

Maybe the hope is that AI will reach god-like status and jut fix all of this for us magically one day, but that sounds like fixing social policy by waiting for the rapture, so we have to do something else to assure the future.
Yeah, I'm also confused by this... the only RPN calculator I know of is the HP 15C, which is old school and not used in education.
> It's harmful in that there exists a significant and vocal subset of users who does not wish to see that content or does not wish their children to do so.

"I have a right to live in a society that perfectly adheres to my personal morals" is not how companies or people should operate in a pluralistic society, despite Nassim Taleb's claim that the intolerant minority wins.[0]

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...