skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0.04% is an extremely small number and (it needs to be said) also includes papers retracted due to errors and other good-faith corrections. Remember that we want people to retract flawed papers! treating it as evidence of fraud is not only a mischaracterization of the result but also a choice that is bad for a society that wants quality scientific results.

The other two metrics seem pretty weak. 1.9% of papers in a vast database containing 40 journals show signs of duplication. But then dig into the details: apparently a huge fraction of those are in one journal and in two specific years. Look at Figure 1 and it just screams “something very weird is going on here, let’s look closely at this methodology before we accept the top line results.”

The final result is a meta-survey based on surveys done across scientists all over the world, including surveys that are written in other languages, presumably based on scientists also publishing in smaller local journals. Presumably this covers a vast range of scientists with different reputations. As I said before, if you cast a wide net that includes everyone doing science in the entire world, I bet you’ll find tons of fraud. This study just seems to do that.
I didn't buy a Eee PC, instead picking up an Acer Aspire One. Loved that little thing – it was great on the train – and was very sad when Arch discontinied support for 32bit processors. By that time the netbook market had died a death. (I, too, went to second-hand Thinkpads at this point.)
I agree there needs to be remedy, but Does chrome have a profit without Google? Who’s going to buy it? Oracle?
"Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time." quoted from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)
Show HN: Hacker News for Solopreneurs
I like hackernews a lot, and I also like the solopreneur community, so I made a nice, minimalist platform based on HackerNews but specifically linking these two worlds.
In 3 months, we've got around 350 registered users.
I love how people in this thread just unilaterally declare and accept as fact that you can't possibly turn the monopolistic browser and browser engine powering millions of devices and with billions of users into a profitable business. Aim low I guess?
Eh, I tried using Firefox again for a few months when manifest v3 was announced, nothing worked quite right, then I ran into this: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
I think we can all agree that any Go program that just executes some other program, is way better than a shell script!

I mean, what if you needed to change the way it worked? With bash you'd have to open a text editor, change a line, and save the file! And on top of that you need to understand shell scripting!

With Go, you can set up your development environment, edit the source code, run the compiler, download the external dependencies, generate a new binary, and copy it to your server. And all this requires is learning the Go language and its development model. This is clearly more advanced, and thus better.
True, but AT&T and Xerox were kind of infamous for not capitalizing on what Bell Labs and PARC were creating. If you have either an iPhone or an Android phone you are using an OS based on UNIX and yet AT&T gets none of that money. If you are using Windows, Mac, or a graphical interface on Linux, you are using interface concepts created by Xerox, although likewise they "fumbled the future" (as a famous book about PARC put it).
I used to buy Analog on paper once in a while. A few years back I wanted to subscribe the digital version, but there wasn't a convenient way to do so, just closed platforms and drm'd readers, so I didn't subscribe. Don't make it hard for people to give you money. They could just email pdfs...
I tried using it every once in a while and it still feels like a massive bubble.

It can get basic front-end react apps done but nothing beyond that.

But since front-end programming wasn't ever really programming, I don't mind that and I sometimes use it for that.

For everything else, it just makes a massive mess.

It's good to ask it questions about pretty common topics and get a cleaner reply than searching stuff yourself on Google and going through spam articles.

But any sort of insight or any sort of new learning, it just simply doesn't have it.

Furthermore, all of the hyping of research assistants for $20,000 and all of that is just absolute bullshit.

And no, there is no AGI coming.
> It is increasing my ability and productivity beyond belief and I see incredible potential.

How?
Two ongoing projects to solve this:

Qwant and Ecosia, two European search engines, announced on October 24, 2023, a partnership to develop a European search index to lessen their dependence on US tech giants Google and Microsoft.
https://insidetelecom.com/qwant-and-ecosia-are-building-an-i...

For the OpenWebSearch.eu initiative, 14 renowned European research and computer centers from 7 countries have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search
https://openwebsearch.eu/
If a Chinese company has a monopoly you get All those things, minus the US jobs.

It seems like you are comparing small companies vs large companies, rather than US vs Chinese.
Here's a proposal for an amendment restricting the pardon power: https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congress...

Here's the proposed text:

SECTION 1. The President shall not have the power to grant pardons and reprieves to—

(1) the President’s self;

(2) any person, up to a third degree relation, of the President, or a spouse thereof;

(3) any current or former member of the President’s administration;

(4) any person who worked on the President’s presidential campaign as a paid employee;

(5) any person or entity for an offense that was motivated by a direct and significant personal or pecuniary interest of any of the foregoing persons; or

(6) any person or entity for an offense that was at the direction of, or in coordination with, the President.

Any pardon issued for a corrupt purpose shall be invalid.

SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Yeah Falkon is not using KIO. Same for Konqueror for network request. In the old time of QtWebkit and even older time of KHTML, the webview would reuse the Qt network stack, but now it's reusing the implementation from Chromium.

Btw KIO is now using QtNetwork for it's http implementation, instead of having it's own. So http2 is now also supported.
I don't get it

I'm using redis only for temp state data like a session (when I can't use a jwt).

Or when I have to scale and need a warmed up cache

Is that bad now?

I'm also wondering right now why there is no local cache with p2p self discovery and sync. Should be easier than deploying an extra piece of software.
Tl;dr: It is just pointer dereferencing.

I.e. C's

*ptr

is

ptr.*

in Zig.
Self-similarity is a really nice property for lots of sound synthesis
too, so textures like water, fire and wind can make use of Perlin
control and basis signals.
It’s a larger device, but I’m hoping the new Framework 12 comes in at a price point to fill the “cheap hacker laptop” category. The original eee was a fantastic “throw it in your bag & bring it anywhere”, and it all but required running Linux to get anything out of it.

There was a brief side line on netbooks where you could swap in a daylight-readable display of the sort used in the OLPCs, too, but I never had the confluence of money, time, and availability to make that happen.
Any time algorithmic terrain generation comes up. I always think of Bryce. What a revolutionary product. I had an amazing time working at Meta Creations right out of school. So many smart people and great stories.
Demo: Running Python using the new Java integration in Lucee 6.2
Personally I see there being a whiplash effect in the US workforce where after the crash (stock market, egregious wealth gap, cost of living in food/medical basics) the nation will return to a “local minded” situation where jobs will become lower efficiency, higher headcount, akin to the CCC’s “make work” type programs. The efficiency of AI in replacing humans is evident in many menial tasks…but the consumer driven economy of the US is showing real signs of pending disaster. Unemployment isn’t low, the numbers are troubling when seen in real terms.

To put it another way, cutting people who stopped looking as “not unemployed” is as ridiculous as excluding the price of milk or eggs from real inflation / COL metrics. The fudging of numbers simply cannot last forever.

So while AI will absolutely be a boon in the short term, in the long run, and how it all come apart could be very disturbing circa 1793 France, the human element will rebound. Will we see self-checkout at grocery stores taken away for humans once again? Will there be work from home operators instead of AI call routing? It’s hard to imagine just what a collapse of the high point of human productivity (and general repression of lower economic classes through insurance and wage stagnation tracing back decades) but it is a cyclical historical framework.

In short, whatever it is, it’s going to be pretty ugly and potentially break apart the US Federal structure because the rifts are beyond closing. AI is simply the gasoline on the fire. True fear and loathing my friends…
> neo nazis

I have heard this a few times now, what is going on? The news hasn't mentioned anything about Neo Nazis, and there is no large organized effort to round up the Jews, let alone exterminate them. This seems like hyperbolic language that is in really poor taste, which undermines the seriousness of what the second world war was fought over.
Was this written by a LLM?
I managed to write a glsl shader that generates perlin noise with octaves, and pull that data as 32bit float.

Much simpler than using opencl or cuda.
Police are not your friends. Arresting you is more preferable to them than helping you.
It may be non-obvious, but bubble doesn't mean that there isn't potential or that there isn't value - which is basically what the point of this post is.

It's that the amount of investment outpaces the current value of return.

Think about the internet. Everyone rushed in and billions was spent. But we never stopped getting utility from the internet. In fact utility likely increased during the bust, which is why there was a 2nd boom in 2003, which may have continued had the GFC not occurred.
I was reading an article last week where the author did a bunch of testing and found Redis is only 3-5x faster than just using a multi model NoSQL. Basically it rarely makes sense to use Redis.
https://adamfowler.org/2015/09/07/hybrid-nosql-marklogic-as-...
You can’t, however stop it from suggestion huge blocks of shorts or crappy free to play games.
A peek into the closet of pseudoscience: The Catt Anomaly
FlexControl: Dynamic Gating for Efficient Diffusion Control
Unbelievable. How in the hell is Waybourn still in charge!?

Extremely sorry to hear about the pain you went through.
Even if this law passes, it will face a problem of violating the constitution: ArtII.S2.C1.3.1
It seems like MCP is a pretty cool protocol, but has anyone seen any actually useful integrations?

I've played a lot with the FileSystem MCP server but couldn't get it to do something useful that I can't already do faster on my own. For instance, asking it how many files have word "main" in it. It returns 267, but in reality there are 12k.

Looks promising, but I am still looking for useful ways to integrate it into my workflow.
Well, and XULRunner was based in XUL, something Mozilla was trying to get rid of for very good reasons.
Focus: Minimalist Text Editor
This is so weird! So this was the whole point of HN! A funnel!
People still choose to drive around in 20 or 30 year old Toyotas.

If price and fuel wasn't a consideration (diesel cars and fuel have crazy taxes around here) I'd end with Toyota 10/10 times.
> Several leading organizations have already pledged their support for the initiative, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera.

Doesn't read like a takeover attempt to me...
Yes! Its weird. Who posts these?
For me the biggest boost has been for front-end code. I have never considered front-end development, real development and the whole madness of next.js components which somebody wants to write or add and all of the CSS animations and designs and some of the tailwind class madness I let AI handle.

That stuff is already a mess so the AI slop that comes out is also messy and that's fine as long as it looks good and performs well. and does what I want and it's also really trivial to change.

However, I'm not letting it come near any backend code or actual development.
Article says it’s about stack addresses but I think it should apply more generally to dynamically allocated memory as well.
Two things:

I think people forget (or don’t know) that adding data storage system to your architecture also involves management, scaling, retention, and backup. It’s not free.

And second, sometimes you do need to invest in storage to permit failover or to minimize latency but people do it for traffic when they really have little traffic. A server from 20 years ago could push a lot of traffic and systems have gotten only beefier.
Maybe you could train an LLM to recognize formulas (how else are you going to speak a formula coherently?) and treat the rest as normalized text.
I’ve been full-timing it on iOS lately and yeah, pretty buggy. It comes with uBlock but doesn’t seem to work, and neither does bookmark/fave syncing.
Show HN: ChatGPT, but Every Conversation in Public
https://morphic-ochre-zeta.vercel.app/

I'm making a permanent chatbot, but for now, it's a chatbot that has every conversation public!

Later I will add authentication & user-scoped conversations but for now it'll be interesting to see if there's any kind of game that can be made here.

Any feature suggestions will be implemented :)

Current implementation:

- Custom personality, try it out!

- See everyone's conversations in the sidebar

Todos:

- Add a feedback tool directly to the bot!

- More tools to control the UI/interact with message history

- Search tool

- Privacy!!! (need some private chats too)

- Users!!!!
The difference is actually quite shocking to me. I wasn't expecting it to be that extreme.

I would say that Kestrel is so damn fast it probably doesn't matter much either way. I've only ever used it on Windows and it hasn't disappointed.
I'm 20-50x more productive today compared to 25 years ago thanks to the internet being full of open source packages that solve most of the problems I run into.

Back in the late 1990s I had to build solutions to almost every problem from scratch.
Putin’s threats are not obviously insincere though is the problem.

He knows it would be strategically impossible for the US or Nato to respond in kind to a nuclear attack on Ukraine. It can be rational for him to climb the escalation ladder if he knows his enemy will have to back down before he does because they have less to gain and more to lose.

I don’t like this situation at all, and I understand the point about rolling over to threats. Unfortunately, this is just how nuclear game theory works whether we like it or not. You can’t win in a conflict under MAD against an opponent who has more at stake than you.
> But just survey the actual browser market in the last 10 years to understand Chrome's dominance

I feel like most people here wouldn't understand that to inherently indicate superior quality. I'd argue that the absolute dominance of Chrome is mostly evidence of the monopoly power that Google yields. It got on top via search, becomes the gateway to the web for people, leverages that to sell advertisement and also convince tons of people to use the browser. It's been all leverage.

I'd also disagree on it even being a better browser. Firefox has issues, but on actual usability and feeling like a user agent, it's head and shoulders above Chrome. It is more flexible, more customizable, and I find that it runs significantly better on every website that isn't owned by Google. If Chrome was a better browser, they wouldn't have had to sabotage Firefox on their sites for years (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349357).

It's Google that can't compete, if they have to use back-channels and leverage their other powers to maintain dominance. They aren't competing with the product alone.
In the case of Reddit:

4. It's not that unlikely that you are arguing with an actual child who has picked up enough terminology to be dangerous but completely lacks any deeper understanding.
Yes, they knew. That is why multiple other people got charged. The idea that this was some huge secret was part of the media spin story because: financial company doing financial company things can't be spun the same way (the public are stupid but some people do still remember 2008). Saying "spooky autist stole money" is a much easier sell.

They had zero responsibility to disclose this to users of this exchange. Again, completely unregulated financial institution operating in the Bahamas...what could go wrong?

Ironically, you have left-wing people who appear to be puzzled about why financial regulation exist.
Or tulips, even after the tulip mania of the 1630s tulips are still worth something. Perhaps that's not a fair comparison, though, since they're very pretty flowers and AI is only AI.
Was it the word “the” instead of “a”? Trying to think what else it could even be.
I love this! Great work!
Or it means they could double their spend on senior engineers and get a 8x boost in output from their team.

Ever seen a company that didn't have a backlog?
As I commented above, Int32 and Int64 are part of the standard library since at least 4.X Ocaml versions (we are now in 5.3). So normally all them are available when you install any distribution of Ocaml. Note that there is also a type named nativeint (which, I think is the kind of int that you were looking for in all your comments and post) and it is part of the standard library, so in summary:

Int type (the one you dislike for systems programming)

Int32 type (part of the standard library, one of those you were looking for)

Int64 type (part of the standard library, one of those you were looking for)

Nativeint (part of the standard library, maybe the one you were looking for)

The library stdint is other option, which can be convenient in some cases but for Int32 and Int64 you don't need it also for Nativeint you don't need it.
There's certainly an AI valuation bubble. It's starting to look like AI isn't going to be expensive, and that everybody can do it. So the startups with a P/E ratio over 10-20 are going to get a haircut. That includes OpenAI and Tesla. Even if Tesla can get self-driving to work, that's still just part of the low-margin auto industry.

There's Trump's "Stargate" consortium.[1] Don't want to go there.

We will see more routine use of AI. But it's still not good enough to use where you can't offload the externality costs of errors onto someone else. Customer service being the classic example of where you can.

There are probably two decades of wrenching change ahead as the world adjusts to a weaker US, a stronger Russia, and a much more dominant China. That may slow down civilian tech adoption.

The next big growth area is probably low-cost killbots in high volume.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/kelly-evans-what-on-earth-is...
It's a similar idea, but Crunchy Data Warehouse was built by several founding engineers of Citus, which lets us speedrun through it :)

It's a generally available (very solid) product powering some large production workloads, with fully transactional Iceberg, and auto-compaction. All SQL queries and almost all Postgres features are fully supported on Iceberg tables.

We are also seeing interesting patterns emerging with the ability to load/query csv/json/parquet/shapefile/... directly from S3 in combination with pg_parquet and pg_incremental. For instance, incrementally & transactionally loading CSV files that show up in S3 into Iceberg, or periodically exporting from Postgres to Parquet and then querying with data warehouse.
One of my teams at GitHub develops Copilot Autofix, which suggests fixes based on CodeQL alerts (another of my teams’ projects). Based on data of actual devs interacting with alerts and fixes, we see an average 3x speed up in time to fix over no Autofix, and up to 12x for some bug types. There’s more were doing but the theme I’m seeing is that lots of the friction points along the SDLC get accelerated.
The most important thing for developers to understand when it comes to MCP: MCP is a protocol for dynamically loading additional capabilities into an AI application, e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor, Highlight.ai etc...

If you are building your own applications, you can simply use "Tools APIs" provided by the LLM directly (e,.g. https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools).

MCP is not something most people need to bother with unless you are building an application that needs extension or you are trying to extend an application (like those I listed above). Under the hood the MCP is just an interface into the tools API.
I don’t even let my kids watch YouTube. Imagine what an llm could hallucinate to impressionable minds.

Edit (addition):

How the fuck did we decide that a large language model somehow became artificial intelligence? It’s like claiming a dictionary is intelligent. I just don’t get it.
Digital Clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
Ok, well in that case, sure. But the alternative to US monopoly is not automatically Chinese monopoly. No one was advocating for the destruction of Google in favor of Baidu or whatever.
You don't own the bluray you stole from your employer.
MLFlow Tracking Server OIDC Auth Plugin and Permission Management
YCombinator pays for servers and full-time staff. It's job ads for companies they invested it, the companies don't need to pay anything. HN is a big side-project not meant to be profitable.
Trump blinks on ending daylight saving time
Seems to be based on Google and Brave, both US companies.
Firefox had Servo, a project that among other things focused on delivering faster technologies for a web browser. They had impressive results (integrated into Firefox as Firefox Quantum) but were suddenly fired

At that point I think Firefox lost a vision of a better future
I know (or think) you're being facetious, but the tulip market never reclaimed it's former heights. Not yet at least...after NFTs, maybe that's next!
I own two Teslas and they are great! But definitely not premium. you are paying for brand, they are “premium” only because people have been willing to pay high price for a brand. car itself is as far for premium as it gets compared to other actual premium cars in the same price range
My indoor (non Transitions™) multifocus² glasses are CR-39¹.

I'd used the same material for my outdoor/sports/driving frames but it's higher density caused them to slide down my nose during activity so the next pair I opted for Trivex.

--

¹–CR-39 requires full frame spectacles, as drilling holes is verboten.

²–Shamir Autograph III, awesome & highly recommended.
Google just needs to send the appropriate amount to kleptocracy war chest and this will get killed on the backend.
Every Flop Counts [pdf]
I voted you up because I don't fully disagree, but the "if you're in it [only] for the story" part is an important conditional. Once you get beyond the story outline similarities, the books feel different in fundamental ways.

For eg., Going Postal and Making Money have the same basic setup, and a one-line story description would sound very similar. But Going Postal is about themes of past and future, regret and risk, connecting to the past while bringing in the future; while Making Money feels like a constant tug-of-war between order and chaos, and hence ultimately about balance.