skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is some exgeration for sure, it's probably 95% line completion that writing code alone and present a finished feature for developer. I was looking at https://x.com/levelsio/status/1893385114496766155 and a bit shocked on how quickly someone can make a game with it and gnerate revenue in such a short time.
With frameworks like Laravel, PHP can be super productive, especially for basic CRUD apps. Also, it is incredibly simple to deploy compared to a more "modern" cloud stack.
> Even Donald Trump now admits that stalling NATO expansion and not treating Russian security concerns with utter contempt could have prevented this.

Even person who panders to Putin repeat bullshit Russian propaganda? How surprising. The NATO expansion excuse is just ignorant talking point. Russian imperialism is the very reason why every neighbour of Russia (apart from the ones that are it's puppet states) want to be in NATO, not the other way around.
Consider no stock market. Just keep the company private.

Honest question, why do so many companies strive to go public?
That would not be a split in halves, by any means, though. East Germany accounts for about 15% of the population, last I looked. Also, the far-right AfD got about 20% of the votes in the recent election. That is also not a split in halves.
You mean the _Vichy_ French soldiers? that's quite a different situation than the allied French army :)

And, I was more thinking of the situation on American ground, within the USA and between the USA and Canada. I don't mean it wouldn't happen. I mean that I don't think that would happen with 100% engagement from all US army. The disconnect and reversal of strategy of the US, against its own allies, is too sudden.
It was alright when the site was up
I wasn't sure what "based on Rust" meant and looking at the announcement / GitHub etc I think they just mean that it's built in Rust. I couldn't find any commentary on or comparison to the rust language or tooling etc
Scientists Confirm the Existence of 'Second Sound'
Unfortunately, optimizing for not getting yourself laid off is not the same as optimizing for max productivity. In many ways, they're quite opposite.
FWIW, previously discussed under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853845
What changes should the Rust Belt have made that would have prevented the gutting of their communities when financiers and board rooms decided to ship their livelihoods to third world countries?

There isn’t a “progress” switch to turn on. The current state of the Rust Belt isn’t because they are full of knuckle dragging idiots inferior to the coasts. It’s because they were dealt the economic equivalent of a traumatic brain injury, and have spent decades trying to recover. Meanwhile, the areas of the country that inflicted this injury on them are now trying to convince everyone that it was their own fault.

I’m as disgusted by Trump as anyone, and would never vote for him. But I am from the Rust Belt and absolutely sympathize with the anger that would make someone want to burn the system down.
You know I've fallen in love with Svelte (specifically Sveltekit). I would strongly recommend giving it a shot.

I'm an experienced React dev and thought I'd try something new for a side project. I tried and liked SolidJS (and agree with a lot of the positive comments here) and Ryan seems super knowledgeably about everything front end. (It was a close second).

However I wanted to give Sveltekit a shot as it's so different to React (and SolidJS is not).

For me it seems to put me back to those good olde days (insert rose tinted glasses and violin music), where web dev was just html, css and js/jquery (yes, it was hard for it not to turn into spaghetti). However I coded like I was being chased by demons and loved every minute of it.

I don't get that with React. Having to fix stupid race conditions and constant rendering glitches gets to become grating.

Sveltekit (with it's signals approach, like SolidJS) sort of puts me back there. It's all just html, css (or tailwind), simple js and event driven.

You set up some state at the top <script> block and have loaders/actions (superforms is great) in external files. To me it all seems super intuitive.
Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
My wife gave me a t shirt (from broke @$$ Stuart) that has a picture of Sutro Tower on it, yet says "Coit Tower".

Good stuff
Like all things it depends on the terms, in my mind though China would probably be incentivized to give us a good deal - Im sure they would be very amused delivering real hardware while the USA continues to demonstrate their incompetence at shipbuilding. It would also signal that Australia wants to sit out any USA/China war, which might be hard to do politically (which is maybe why Im not PM) but its certainly the position I hope Aus ends up taking should these 2 buffoons start a real blue
> It doesn't matter that Republicans are slightly more to blame then Democrats in the thinning out of rural places - the folks who live there, IMO, see both parties as the same thing.

Yes, and they're very aware that Trump is not a Republican in the traditional sense. It doesn't matter to them which banner he hijacked, they know he's different.
>forces participants to consider long term outcomes more

I remember many years ago telling a senior executive that I had concerns that some of the steps we were taking to boost current quarter financials would negatively impact business performance in the long term. He just chuckled and said, "there's no such thing as the long term, only a never ending series of current quarters".
Political science has decades of research that consistently shows that it’s entirely correct to think that most voters have no clue about anything, including what would be best for them.

Reasoned, informed votes aren’t a major factor in elections.

[edit] see if your library has a copy of Democracy for Realists and also dig into older major works they cite, if you’re interested in more on this. For a quick gut-check, look up the proportion of US voters that understand how marginal income tax rates work, then reflect on the fact that this is something very simple that directly affects them in ways they must confront at least once per year, and despair at how bad similar measures must look for practically everything else and that if they don’t understand the basics of how things work, they can’t even begin to figure out “what’s best” for them or for anyone else.
That's what populists do, everywhere including Europe - they take real issue and low-income & low-education folks (usually big overlap), tell then how they were wronged, play on their emotions, dumb down things to us-vs-them yada yada.

But they never ever deliver any real solution. Never. What trump solved in first term? No wall, he was joke of the world for that. No middle east peace - fuck, he made the invasion to Israel by giving Jerusalem official israeli status. Palestinians lost all hope at that point (I know its way more complex than that, I know, but this was the trigger point to go full mental like a cornered animal). Afghanistan withdrawal? Thats his contracts with taliban which made US look so weak they were shooting ducks as you guys and rest of west literally ran away for your life.

To make any successful long term massive changes, you need a steady leadership. trump is the opposite due to his mental & childhood issues, heck he is the epitome of instability. And so he drags whole world into same instability, changing global markets from bullish to bearish within a week, losing literally all friends and allies, globally. No, puttin' ain't your friend and never will be, he is a murderous sociopathic p.o.s. till his last breath.

If simpler folks refuse to see all this and much more and connect those few dots, your idea of babysitting them and hald-holding in ever changing environment is laughable. Even in Europe you guys consider semi-communist we don't do that, we can't do that, its idiotic. This problem is not unique to US in any way and solution ain't what he wants to do. But its so nice to hear all that crap, "I will fix your woes", "the others are to blame for all your issues" and so on. Full on emotions, 0 rationality. Folks, even societies work like that, but get ready China will overtake you sooner than you would like.

I kept thinking he is just a russian agent brainwashed in 80s during his visit to moscow (maybe deep hypnosis or something else), but it seems more and more he is doing massive favors to China actually, since russia is already insignificant globally. I don't mean some pesky tariffs, I mean whole world will realign around China, and he is giving it all to them for free. Bravo.
The Gleam Chess Tournament
I contracted/consulted around London for decades, and though I was with some clients for many years in total, others were much shorter, and short entries on a CV were not seen as a red flag AFAIK.

(Well, there was one hiring manager idiot who could not conceive of anything other than linear non-concurrent contracts as being honest - that interview did not go well, but I dodged a bullet!)
I also found this weirdly meditative!

Almost made me worry: how much of a phone addict am I when I find this meditative?
This stuff moves slowly, until it doesn't. I'd honestly say at least ten years for large changes.
Of course you could when even a 1st grader knows this is true.

You have to be delusional to believe this would be so easy though a 1000 years ago when not only everyone would be saying you are wrong but completely insane, maybe even such a heretic to be worthy of being burned at the stake. Certainly worthy of house arrest for such ungodly thoughts when everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth.
Your idea, while well-founded, is practically impossible. If he put all his money into the S&P 500, and I refused to do business with any of its constituent companies, I’d barely be able to enjoy the fruits of modern society. I’m not that principled.

As for the second point, I’d contend that the quality of Tesla’s vehicles is suffering in large part because of his direct involvement. Choices like substituting a yoke for a steering wheel and the design of the Cybertruck were his ideas. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the latest idiotic move of eliminating steering column stalks for the turn signal, lights, and windshield wiper and washer were his, too.
I would rather not have to live through an emboldened and desperate autocracy rolling over Europe and opening up the very real possibility of a third world war.

and while we're here, since the US is ostensibly going isolationist, maybe they should stop telling the Ukrainians they need to submit to subjugation.
Swedish griphen e/d variants use an American engine. Possibly other avionics idk. So those will be grounded after few months into a conflict.

I expect a crash program to reengineer them has already started if only unofficially.
It's like you and I are reading from the same book! - If I just go off what I see online, most of the loudest anti-trans voices, and most of the racists, I'm more or less convinced have never met or gotten to know any trans people or any black people. It's a certain amount of willful ignorance on their part.
> By 2015, the chess program Stockfish could defeat the strongest human-computer partnerships 100% of the time. From that point onward, humans only got in the way. Human-robot partnerships for performing labor will follow exactly the same pattern.

Wow, how convincing -- NOT! Just dogmatic statements with no substance. The comparison might be illustrative but you still need to argue why it has enough parallels. And in this case I think you are way out of wack. Just think of Moravac's paradox -- which doesn't apply in chess, but does in the real-world!
This is the stupidest thing I have read on HN today.

With regards from a hardcore european leftist
It's not a goal just a concept.

Point 1 isn't true. There doesn't need to be a issuing institution. Just look at gold.

As for 2., yes, it seems that the promises from centralised institutions you mention always end up being fraudulent
I'd be very interested to know of a way to make it work with AI that doesn't require debugging if you can illustrate.
The Allies forced a system of re-eductaion on Germany post ww2.

https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/scholarsweek/2016/Ger...
ScholarlyArticle: "Thermography of the superfluid transition in a strongly interacting Fermi gas" (2025)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg3430
The youth are also of poor quality these days. It was one thing in 1860 when a given 18 year old was built like an ox from hauling bales of hay or whatever else. Today most 18 year olds are sedentary. We don’t even do the mile run in gym class anymore.
Certainly ultra-secret nuclear program makes sense. Perhaps working with another country with development abroad so there is nowhere directly related for China to strike in Taiwan (the calculus for “we attacked a weapons development facility in Taiwan” is different from “we attacked Taiwan because they are participating in weapons development in the Philippines)

Probably also increased military and economic ties to South Korea and Australia, and an effort to build a NATO of the area, absent the US, perhaps under ASEAN. Or something new.

It’s a tough problem but it’s a real problem and I don’t see how Taiwan could ever go back to trusting the US to defend democracies facing invasion.
Rheinmetall has already been going absolutely bonkers on the stock market.
Before you can be a leader people have to follow you, and in democracies people have to vote for you. And the unfortunate reality is that reality doesn't matter for elections, only the perception of reality matters.

So if you want to be a leader, you have to start by understanding people and, yes, pandering to them. There's a reason why too many of our powerful politicians have been essentially indistinguishable from sociopaths.
Those are sponser segments and I have no problem with them. These videos can be expensive to produce and these people need to support themselves still. If you take away or reduce their ad revenue, how do we expect them to survive?

There is an extension called SponserBlock that will automatically skip them and other marketing / time wastes. Otherwise I just skip ahead (the highest peak in the watch graph playbar at will usually be the end of the segment)
> would expose how much safer for the occupants it is to be in a larger, higher, more massive vehicle.

Interesting that you phrase it that way - yes, it's safer for the occupants in the more massive vehicle, and consequently much more dangerous and destructive for those in smaller vehicles. My primary point is that this "race to larger vehicles" is classic Tragedy of the Commons: "A social problem in which each individual is incentivized to act in a way that is ultimately harmful to all individuals."
In rural parts of Colorado, I have seen large signs on farm building protesting the use of agriculture land for solar.
Technically you are correct.
But actually the real winners were the extreme vote suppression tactics.
Without them trump would have lost clearly: read the extremely conservative estimates targeted mostly non-trump voters: https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won...
> Companies must invest to train current workers to pick up new tasks — and invest to recruit replacement employees after the economy improves or the company’s financial troubles clear up.

It always baffled me how could a businessman fail to understand that loosing a reliably working employee (even of mediocre productivity) is like shooting your own leg - resulting in having to look for a replacement, train them and hope (certainty is value worth money as well) they are going to be as good. To me it seems it is always better to increase the wage to avoid losing people already working for you so you save yourself from the hassle.
Ferrules: A fast document parser written in Rust
After battling Python dependencies, slow processing, and deployment headaches with tools like unstructured, I finally snapped—and built Ferrules, a blazing-fast document parser in Rust.

Why Ferrules?
- Speed – Native PDF parsing (pdfium), hardware-accelerated ML inference
- No Python – Single binary, zero dependency deployment, built-in tracing
- Smart Processing – Layout detection, OCR, intelligent element merging
- Flexible Outputs – JSON, HTML, Markdown (ideal for RAG pipelines)

Tech Highlights
- Runs layout detection on Apple Neural Engine/GPU
- Apple Vision API for high-quality OCR (macOS)
- Multithreaded, CLI + HTTP API server
- Debug mode with visual parsing output

If you're tired of Python-based parsers in production, check it out !

(P.S. Named after those metal rings on pencils—because it keeps your documents structured )
> ...do all the changes myself little by little, checking that the tests keep succeeding as I go along.

Or... you can do that with the robots instead?

I tried that with the last generation of Claude, only adding new functionality when the previously added functionality was complete, and it did a very good job. Well, Claude for writing the code and Deepseek-R1 for debugging.

Then I tried a more involved project with apparently too many moving parts for the stupid robots to keep track of and they failed miserably. Mostly Claude failed since that's where the code was being produced, can't really say if Deepseek would've fared any better because the usage limits didn't let me experiment as much.

Now that I have an idea of their limitations and had them successfully shave a couple yaks I feel pretty confident to get them working on a project which I've been wanting to do for a while.
I cannot tell if the original tweet is sarcasm or not. Sections like this make me think yes? It's got to be at least tongue-in-cheek.
New visualization but not a new phenomenon. I observed it in the 510 lab when I was getting my physics PhD at Cornell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_sound
Oof. Please go visit "flyover county". Its just more Americans trying to make a good life for their families.
In a few words, human nature wasn't built for rational thought all the time.
They were French army, just as any other, only the part which was in North Africa when France fell.

My thought here was that armies can fight with the most brutal oppressors of their very own country, against those who would liberate it.
If by worked you mean steadily losing users for the first time in the history of the platform and a 0.2x of the company's valuation, then sure. That worked.

And what's that about Grok AI being better than the competition? I think I misheard.
First-past-the-post voting systems are extra dangerous. I.e. where all the votes of a district go to the winner of the district.

If instead all votes go proportionally according to what people voted, you get less extreme policies and encourage parties to build coalitions. Nobody is happy, but fewer people are extremely unhappy.
I'm not American, but the issue I saw time and time again from Americans getting interviewed by various news organizations was inflation, specifically food prices. So many people said that food was cheaper when Trump was president, so they want him and his food prices back. This is of course totally disregarding that the rest of the world also had massive inflation, and most of it comes from increased oil prices because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and governments printing money to use for Covid stimulus. The tariffs probably didn't help either, but I don't know how many of those Biden kept so I don't know if any side can be blamed there. I doubt all these new tariffs will help though.

I actually saw a couple people saying that they've received a check from Trump during Covid, and mentioned that as a clear reason to vote for him. I thought it sounded dumb when I saw that he insisted on having his name on the stimulus checks, but apparently it worked. I also saw some people, southern women and big city black men, saying that they definitely didn't want a female president. That was probably part of why Hillary lost, and making the same play this time wasn't very wise from the democrats, although I would probably blame Biden for not dropping out earlier and leaving them very little choice.
The largest ARREST of scammers in the world – Jim Browning [video]
For more information about LFortran, see

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFortran

- Homepage: https://lfortran.org

- GitHub: https://github.com/lfortran/lfortran

If you like to play with it, see

- LFortran in web browsers using WebAssembly: https://dev.lfortran.org

- LFortran in Compiler Explorer: https://godbolt.org/z/EfWvsY6Kh
What is the advertisement intrusion like with this setup? Do you still see some version of those godforsaken banner ads?
Not voting in the Democratic primary because Trump had already shifted them to the Republican party.
In theory, that isn't too far from the system we have. The President was never meant to have so much authority, and Congress already requires a 2/3 majority in order to make certain kinds of decisions, including overruling a presidential veto.
I used to be a social media addict and had even accepted the term addict for some time. But mid-last year, Facebook flagged one of my posts for violating its "platform guidelines"—and that was my breaking point.

That moment made me realize something deeper: it wasn’t just the endless feed algorithms shaping my behavior, but also the platform "guidelines" themselves—subtly reinforcing a habit designed to keep me engaged for advertisers.

So I quit. Completely. What Worked for Me-

WHAT I STOPPED:

1. Deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Deleted my Twitter account.

2. Removed all social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube) from my phone.

3. Deleted Chrome from my phone and switched to my OS’s default browser (Safari) in signed-out mode.

4. Kept only one messaging app—Telegram.

WHAT I STARTED

1. Installed News Feed Eradicator on my computer (Chrome). I can still check messages and notifications (e.g., LinkedIn), but I don’t let the feed hijack my focus.

2. Went outside more—leaving my phone behind.

RESULTs:

1. Surprisingly, I think about sex less often throughout the day.

2. My close relationships have improved—I now have more meaningful time for a few important people instead of spreading myself thin over thousands.

3. I worry less—both in frequency and intensity.

4. I’ve regained my ability to read novels for hours—which, for me, requires the longest chain of attention.

5. My perspective is changing. The way I see the world feels different. I’ll need more time to articulate this fully, but I can sense the shift happening.
The tech industry also doesn’t reward loyalty, even at big tech.

There’s a reason for the low tenure at most firms and it’s primarily due to the lack of rewarding experience and depth of field knowledge at most companies. When you have to get a new job just to get a salary increase that keeps up with inflation you are going to see a lot of job hopping when the skills of the workforce are generally in demand.

How often is it that someone leaves because they can get paid better elsewhere? Why do we think this wouldn’t drive the primary cause of people leaving companies?

Where the fuck is the company showing any loyalty to its workforce?
Hilarious that this is controversial
Well yeah, plenty of developed countries are xenophobic and bigoted in terms of same sex marriage still. I’m curious what “social issue” you are imagining that is represented by the american left but not the european left otherwise.
Source please, that seems totally made up.

He has been clear about NATO %'s, very little room for your confusion.