skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may want to change the name. Avid is also a very well recognized brand, and you won't rank highly for it either in search or in people's brains.
I'll bet you've got some other great war stories, too.
> Which chemical?

Any industrially-produced chemical where continuous production is possible. I haven’t heard of such systems being competitive if left idle so someone can sleep.
Mind if I ask what kinds of limitations you're running into with Miro (and the other tools)?
> Automatic detection of all containers on any system without manual configuration for docker, podman, LXD, incus, k8s, Proxmox, and more

Apptainer?
Meanwhile the USA now has an openly corrupt president (openly favors his pal Elon Musk's companies in his daily speeches, lets Musk shut down the same agencies that regulate Musk's companies, etc) who is shielded by his party from impeachment.

China is starting to look quite well run by comparison.
Right, that's mentioned in my article: https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/deno-kv#user-content-upda...
> You’re conveniently leaving out how pretentious and insufferable many Seattleites are

SF isn't any better on that count.
The problem is it's hard to tell compelling stories without people.
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A similar open source column explorer is :

https://github.com/manzt/quak

See it's demo:

https://manzt.github.io/quak/?source=https://pub-2fc10ef6724...
> there were several managers who constantly tried to have meetings and close the ticket.

Managers on the support side or your teams?
Schools Use AI to Monitor Students, Raising Privacy and Security Concerns
This feels like it's from the 1990's when grand consortiums attempted to develop common windowing systems, and object systems. These produced more paper than shipping code. UI styles are ephemeral. What is popular today is unpopular tomorrow. At best it seems like this will be chasing trends. It will deliver changes long after the change has gone out of style. I am sympathetic to the underlying issues. I've been scarred by past attempts. People should ship code. Instead of debating, develop and ship new code. If it is popular it will be picked up, and later integrated into standards.
AI is young, and at the center of the industry spotlight, so it attracts a lot of people who are not in it to understand anything. It's like when the whole world got on the Internet, and the culture suddenly shifted. It's a good thing; you just have to dress up your work in the right language, and you can get funding, like when Richard Bellman coined the term "dynamic programming" to make it palatable to the Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson.
I'd say it's fair enough given the hint of racism/xenophobia in the article itself
Dude, scheduling things in a business makes them useless is honestly the point you are trying to make?
When it comes to government, it's hard to be too cynical. But in this particular case, it definitely was not a political stunt. There are a number of reasons for the limited disclosure - including NDA's signed by the governments and labs with the vendors in order to gain access to their intellectual property at a level sufficient to conduct the depth of analysis required.
Crazy that there was no original iphone announcement post. Would have happened between

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=62

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63
Honestly yeah, AirDrop is part of Apple's lock-in.
Sounds like bad news for new entrepreneurs building a business on the side or for anyone who wants economic dynamism.

You shouldn't need to hire a high-priced professional just to sell a thing on the internet. That kind of friction just makes everyone poorer.
>The tools aren't perfect yet, so it's not too late to stop

This is some serious level of cope for HN.

Simply put, it's not going to happen.
I'm cynical, but several hundred thousand patents are issued every single year, if you don't get one then your competitors will.

You don't have to release a profitable product, but to compete over the next several decades you are going to need to own valuable land in remote territories where patent wars being fought today. I'm guessing Google's meta-strategy is a type of patent-colonialism.
(I designed and built the Column Explorer feature)

Observable's column summary feature is very nice! But I do think there's a very common lineage around these kinds of diagnostics which motivated both Observables and ours. See Jeff Heer's profiler paper[1] for more.

I'm very passionate about this area because I think "first mile problems" are underserved by most tools, but they take the longest to work out.

We had to do some gnarly things[2] to make this feature work well; and there's a lot of room to make it scale nicely and cover all DuckDB data types.

[1] http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/profiler
[2] https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer/
>It’s not virtualization

You are incorrect, this is OS-level virtualization:

"OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, including containers (LXC, Solaris Containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, Docker, Podman)..."[0].

>it’s namespaces. Docker makes use of Linux kernel features; started out with cgroups and now uses libcontainer. Each container is running in its own isolated(ish) namespace on the same host kernel.

Yes, OS-level virtualization.

>It’s _very_ different technology than virtualization.

Incorrect, this is a virtualization technology.

>You don’t need docker to make a container on Linux (or Solaris for that matter).

No one claimed otherwise.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization
This is the first time I'd ever heard of or seen that ad. I guess my efforts to avoid advertising work really well, hooray!

It is visually stunning for sure, but I have to not think too hard about the implications of it.
Show HN: CNCF announces Dapr Agents, a vendor-neutral AI framework
Hi all, I'm the creator and maintainer of Dapr. Today we announced an agentic AI framework that allows developers to run thousands of agents on a single core that can scale to/from zero with minimal latency, with a durable execution engine that supports automatic retries. Us maintainers would very much appreciate your feedback
There's some information from the project on this here: https://uutils.github.io/blog/2025-02-extending/
plantuml.
They do for implants
No, you're thinking of Company Towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
The first one got a get-out-of-jail-free card. The second one got away because the drug dealer didn't want to do anything to him while he had a mic + transmitter attached. If anything happened to him later, I wasn't privy to that..!
Building a system around a vintage CPU is pretty straightforward, especially if you keep it simple with static memory.

Emulation with an FPGA is arguably harder.

Hardest of all is copying the earlier video games where everything ran on discrete logic - often extremely clever.

Even something like Pong is an interesting challenge.
The more cars and dealerships destroyed, the harder to shake the label. The most effective push back is to consistently deplore and dissociate from the associated property damage. If I'm afraid to leave my car in a parking lot it's easy to label the people I fear as terrorists.
Caught me mid edit..I agree..to a degree.

Seattle is another tier above. SF people I find far more interesting and smart vs. the smartest people I met/knew/know in Seattle. Seattle is like a pissing contest for nerd snipers. At least in SF we drink our own pee (at Folsom of course)
Totally possible. I have the Ego blower and it is much much quieter than any gas blower I ever had. Even better, I'm not worried about the fumes I'm breathing in from it. I'd still hesitate to say they are quiet, though.

To your point, with gas blowers, I know when one is in use in the street. With the electric, I tend to know if in the yard. So, huge improvement. I'd expect if you really hate the sound and are in an apartment complex, you will still hear them some.
Does this article not sound overly paranoid or perhaps a little made up to anyone else?
Mao killed his own people. The only possible historical analogue is what USSR argued about missing people from the Great Depression.
Something's a bit wrong with the colour on that though - it looks really oversaturated.
It seems clear to me that Musk is positioning itself to be one of the greatest welfare billionaire ever. The logic will go as follow:

1. Musk selflessly gives the US an immense service for which all americans should be forever grateful.

2. Some agitators try to hurt Musk through boycotts and other whatnots.

3. Because we are grateful as americans, we'll financially compensate Musk for his losses.

Plot twist: the money funneled to Musk through this rhetoric will end up exceeding any savings DOGE ever achieved.
The file.pizza one doesn't look like it's peer-to-peer. You upload a file to their server, and then they provide a download URL you can share. Kind of the opposite of peer-to-peer. I would expect a "P2P" file transfer product to not require any intermediate storage besides the sharing user's and the recipients'.
US health care is 1 needle of sanity in a haystack of crazy.
I'm a first-time Director at a SW company with a total org under me of ~30 people in 5 different subject areas. I struggle with what you highlight, but it's impossible for me to go deep in all these areas. MY boss is the CTO and he talks about "T-shaped" or broadly across and narrowly deep. I really don't like this, but the reality is I view myself as senior-dev level in one area, int in another, junior in 2, and barely familiar with the third - and I'm by far the most technical of all the Director/VPs
Dropbox now supports Live Photos
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I get where you're coming from and we all know Google as the bad example here, but looking at it industry-wide, I'm not sure it holds. Like in a lot of cases, "you're not Google" applies and the similar incentives will not be there for a large majority of companies. Software is a cost centre for almost everyone.
You can repost after a year, give or take or for some fairly wooly notion of 'major rework' but regular updates count as hn dupes and you just had a good Show HN here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129633. There's stuff about this in the faq https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
OSS externalizes costs; it's people working for free for whatever reasons that motivates them at the time.

OSS provides value (let's say, large) uncorrelated to a large extent with those externalized costs (often almost zero). The multiple is enormous.

Commercial software companies capture that value, because they can; they're not stupid.

But, Commercial software companies also create an undeniable value above the captured value - they provide support, security, documentation, even familiarity, a "throat to choke", etc. The captured value, often at zero initial cost, is the margin.

There is no change that can be made to any OSS license that will change that dynamic. Unless it's not OSS anymore.

Governments can do very little; most OSS developers, as cost, will not work, for free, for a government. Maybe the patriots will, but not many others - so that idea will go nowhere unless the developers are government employees. That has its own issues, not all of which are necessarily bad.

Government sponsored software infrastructure will probably not be as good as the OSS projects, or the Commercial products we use today. That's certainly not a given, but overlay it all with leadership, administration and bureaucracy, and you're probably on a hiding to nothing. Governments have little vision beyond the next election cycle.

Software isn't the same as roads. A citizen knows what a road is; they see it, they use it directly, and also see its obvious value for many other purposes - they intuitively understand why they're paying, and for what they're paying. A citizen doesn't easily see the value of some OSS project embedded in the operations of their government - they see the chair and couldn't care less about the lumber. (I'll grant that taxes paid to a general fund might work.)

That's also often the view of people and organizations that buy commercial products based on OSS software. They care about the chair, not the tree, or the process that turned the tree into the chair.

OSS should, and probably will, always exist. People like doing things. It gives them pleasure. But, we can't really mix the open with the closed by screwing around with licenses. It's open or it's closed.
> Apparently, it’s a sugar substitute that has similar antifreeze properties as real sugar

Does sugar have any "antifreeze properties"? The ways I know to make a sugar drink into a slushie are alcohol or salt (like ice cream.) Sugar and water just makes sweet ice.

> I checked ICEE ingredients here in the US, and they don’t seem to contain it.

I don't think ICEEs ever did, but I think 7-11-style "Slurpies" always have. It's why Slurpies are creamy and ICEEs are not.

> advertise they’re free of artificial sweeteners is probably the right move.

I don't think that the glycerol is used for its sweetness at all, but for its lack of saltiness and because it's not alcohol. They're trying to keep the drink from freezing for the sake of the creamy texture, which I have to say is objectively better than without glycerol.

It seems that glycerol is having an alcohol-like effect on tiny-livered people. I had most of my best slurpees before I was 8, though. If they got me a little drunk, all the better.
A Survey on Post-Training of Large Language Models
right, those are the two ways.

and how does niri do it? a workspace is shared among all monitor, or it's one workspace per monitor?
I think this is bigger than just SF. After the great recession the generally positive atmosphere in the western world never really recovered. Any time it even got close to recovering some new horrible event happened.
In one case! He made lots of different mistakes.
Ask HN: Is there a similar Hacker News website in Brazil?
Brazil has reached a peak in mental health among workers. [1]

I wonder if there is a site similar to Hacker News for publishing and discussing related topics within the Brazilian community.

Hacker News is an incredible community of people from all over the world discussing the most diverse topics in a constructive and interesting way.

I would like to know if there is something similar for my country as well.

---

[1]: https://g1.globo.com/trabalho-e-carreira/noticia/2025/03/10/crise-de-saude-mental-brasil-tem-maior-numero-de-afastamentos-por-ansiedade-e-depressao-em-10-anos.ghtml
Wow. Interesting, thank you.
YMMV, but I've noticed an uptick in recruiter messages, probably get 2-3 a week since the new year. But I have no idea about the market as a whole, and I'm sure it's still terrible for new grads.
Show HN: MCP-Compatible OpenAI Agents SDK
Hey HN,

OpenAI released the Agents SDK yesterday, which is great because of its simplicity. I just added MCP support for it, which is currently available as a fork here: https://github.com/lastmile-ai/openai-agents-mcp (and on pypi as the openai-agents-mcp package).

You can specify the names of MCP servers to give an Agent access to by
setting its `mcp_servers` property.

The Agent will then automatically aggregate tools from the MCP servers, as well as
any `tools` specified, and create a single extended list of tools. This means you can seamlessly use MCP servers, local tools, OpenAI-hosted tools, and other kinds of Agent SDK tools through a single unified syntax -- and have them interact in the same Agent run loop!

Everything else stays exactly the same.

```

agent = Agent(
name="MCP Assistant",

instructions="You are a helpful assistant with access to MCP tools.",

tools=[your_other_tools], # Regular tool use for Agent SDK

mcp_servers=["fetch", "filesystem"] # Names of MCP servers from your config file (see below)

)

```

The servers are configured in an `mcp_agent.config.yaml` file, very similar to how they are configured for Claude Desktop:

```

$schema: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/main..."

mcp:

servers:

fetch:

command: "uvx"

args: ["mcp-server-fetch"]

filesystem:

command: "npx"

args: ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "."]

slack:

command: "npx"

args: ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-slack"]

```

I have submitted an issue and PR into the openai-agents-python repo [2], and my plan is instead of a fork, I will create an extension package for MCP support (coming later today).

I was able to do this pretty quickly (got it working yesterday) because I've been building the mcp-agent library (https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent), which makes MCP server aggregation/connection really easy. I did a Show HN about it a few weeks ago [3].

Wanted to share here to get community feedback on whether this is useful, which will help me decide if I should dedicate more time to it.

[1] - https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent

[2] - https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/issues/23

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867050
Do a n00b a favour... would you ever run wasm outside of a client browser? Are you suggesting that wasm is a viable platform for local services or commands?

Or do you mean that there's a use case for a compilation in the browser?
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> as well as the promotion of weird ideologies by the DoE

What weird ideologies?
AI has been around since at least the 1970s.
>> You have a Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy in your logic.

> That doesn't even make any sense.

Well that explains the long response but that’s the gist right there.

Sharpshooter fires bullets at a barn and then paints a target on the spot with the most holes. That’s how creative writing usually works, unless you’re a paid columnist and even then it’s partially true.

I think you’re mistaking using swear words with hostility. Not everyone has veins popping out of their foreheads when they call a bullshit situation bullshit.
agreed on the revised SQL!

But I don't think I missed the point, the original text talks about measuring complexity as a function of operators, operands, and nested code. The true one to one mapping is more complex than the original comment I replied to
Ah, Bellevue, for when you want to feel like you live inside of a shopping mall.
Maybe you've already seen, but it appears the answer is no, based on xemoka's comment here quoting someone at duckdb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344932
Destroying rainbow displays at Target: cool and fun

Destroying cars that fund fascism: terrorism
Amazing number of household names that began at YC: Stripe, Outschool, Doordash, Reddit, Airbnb ... https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
This is how auto executives designed the Pontiac Aztek. How can you possibly become or develop new "architects" with this approach?
Same in the sense that their liver metabolism ends up depositing fat in the liver, leading to the same fatty liver disease. The actual metabolic pathways are different though.
That's no longer p2p, that's using a relay server like TURN
Usually things that are open need not to be reverse engineered.
This isn't how security works. Devices like IoT stay in the field for decades quite often, and generally without updates (or if they do have updates, the updater itself is a security risk).
Someone makes a statement. I point out that statement has implications. Someone then suggests an idea that is counter to the original statement. I point out that is inconsistent. Your response is "Don't get hung up on".

Your argument at this point has just devolved into some variant of "don't confuse me with the facts"
Y'all at MotherDuck are doing such a great job that I encourage you to not try and muddle the open/closed source divide, at least not this early in the startup lifecycle. Having a local MotherDuck interface is awesome, and doesn't gain much by being 'open source'. Wait to cash out on the community good will when the rewards are higher.
Economically speaking, if the job could be done by AI, why would we pay a person to do it?
Everything is an abject failure... until it works.

All the best ideas are tried repeatedly until the input technologies are ripe enough.
1,600 people weren’t charged and 1,270 convicted for "peaceful activities" on January 6th.

https://jan6archive.com/doj.html
I wish windows would support it smoothly in explorer too. It’s just a different format right? Basically a one second video?
Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Nothing says sneaky like hilltop mortars firing 25,000-bouncey-ball loads a hundred feet in the air…

> ”[The film commissioner] goes, ‘Here’s two things I never want to see in San Francisco again — air mortars and Barry Conner.’”
I really dislike almost everything Oracle and Larry Ellison, but he had an early-days adage "There are 2 jobs at Oracle: you're either building software or selling it". At a early-stage startup most people should be doing both.
SF is good economicaly? Super expensive, high taxes with no matching infrastructure, hiring people...

Weather is cold and moisty...

There are thousands better places around the world. I would like to hear a pitch, why start company in SF today.
I don't disagree but even Linux has "Terms and conditions" of usage under it's license you really need to dig into what those are.

There's no doubt Gemma's license is less permissive than other models and that it has less community finetuners for that reason.
We have yet to find a refrigerant that is not either toxic, explosive, or destructive to the ozone layer / a potent greenhouse gas. My understanding is that new consumer systems use propane because its relatively safe and not toxic or causing dangerous emmissions.
People are using the word "agentic" to mean this, I think. But yeah it's a dumb, overloaded primarily marketing word. I keep going back and forth on whether I should use the word "agentic"/"agent" at all
True; at the moment the UI is not open source. We've talked about releasing the Column Explorer as a standalone component, but haven't been able to prioritize it yet. We'd like to!
Stories for robots by robots

"Will the security update finish before we're discovered and killed by the hunter seeker, stay tuned to find out more!"
That’s a very high standard. I’d fail repeatedly.
Anyone else is just not interested in deepmind? They keep releasing "breakthrough" after "breakthrough" with zero code release. I just checked and I still can't do anything with alphaproof, almost a year later. They might as well tell me they solved world hunger, can stop aging and discovered a way to travel FTL.
"Human brain is too big to be understood with current technology, that's why scientists use simpler organisms to study brain. Flatworm's brain has 52 neurons. We have no idea how it works."

I've read this few years ago, how far we've come?
Right, sure. Who's done more damage to the US? Musk could end this tomorrow by getting out of the business of destroying the government.
If you can't manage to find something as generic as a backend engineer or web developer in your own network, you have no business running a tech company. I feel sorry for whatever investors hand someone money and their first thought is "Let's hire some foreign developers" -- probably paying them on the cheap. The original sin (and scam) is these founders taking investment capital and unqualified to run a company.
Oh a confuse delegate vulnerability. Azure is not the only cloud provider with that oversight, let me tell you.
And that threat is harmful in that it will kill the tech and investment. Betamax and all.
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