skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me a bit of Greg Egans' Incandescence [1]

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel)
Increasingly browsers can do it too - Edge, Chrome for Windows 11, Firefox on Windows 11 and Safari on Macs have the ability to access hardware DRM if the hardware supports it.

They will need a fallback, but reducing the resolution significantly on said fallback would solve that.
That was published in 2013. Do you have a physical copy that would allow you to see footnote 64 and see where this author got the story?

(The Google book has a lot of footnote 64s at the bottom, but it's impossible to see which corresponds to which chapter or to know if the 64 we're looking for is even there at all.)
Isn't it predicted that if three or four companies do what SpaceX did, we get Kessler syndrome?
China has central planning.
My opinion is that someone who is making the deciscion to reduce the features of the next firmware update of things, is putting security as their top priority as ordered, but have no good idea on how to actually secure some features. So they decide to remove the feature altogether. Axes are cheaper than high fine grade operational instruments.

But since the programmers are using resources anyway, why not visit all other departments of the company if they want features modified. Maybe some ideas can generate more money for the company eh?
Who didn't eat other people?

Coming out of prion studies, laughing sickness, the Fore people in PNG, mad cow disease was a greater understanding of the defences everywhere in humans against prion related brain diseases .. these defences wouldn't exist if eating other humans wasn't relatively commonplace in human evolution.

In recorded European history we have "Corpse medicine" and eating bituminised mummies as a fad.

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannibalism
You scroll past multiple paragraphs that say "maybe. maybe not" and "it depends on your browsing" to cherrypick a quote qualified with "in general."

LOL! You know that's bad faith.
I've never been able to square the easy access and vast private ownership of firearms in the US with the ideal of non-violence. It's an outlier in the developed world for being a rather violent place; perhaps it is just how the country works.
They see what's happening and they like it. They never supported free speech other than their own.
> Furthermore, the mechanisms that ensure the mathematical expectation of electoral outcomes to hover around a fifty-fifty split — a phenomenon observable in many nations — are fundamentally economic in nature.

What? No they are not.

This is 100% created by the FPTP voting system. It is the single cause that leads to this, everywhere where it's used. FPTP means that if your party cannot hoover up a base that gets 50%+1 of the votes, you change your platform until it can. The stable equilibrium is two parties at very nearly 50% split. Then both parties have to cater to their 50%, can ignore the other 50%, and do not benefit from co-operation across party lines.

This equilibrium is not visible in democratic countries that use some kind of proportional representation. In such systems, parties tend to be smaller, and necessarily have to co-operate to form government.
The fries could be better, Cajun fries are much better than their plain fries

But in my experience the only people that dislike Five Guys are just complaining about price or are weirdly into In N Out or some other regional chain rivalry. Neither is actually complaining about the taste of the burger.
Blows my mind that these things are still happening despite many large scale ERP implementations being the norm?
I always had to think of my grandparents when discussing GDP. Aside from being very much part of the regular economy, they were also quite self sufficient. When my grandmother died, we found rows and rows of bottled jam. Some decades old according to the labels. My aunt did the taste test, and according to that at least, they were still very much edible and yummy actually. To the GDP that whole side of life is invisible. But it makes a big different in terms of resiliency when disaster hits. I'm assuming it was a reaction to WW2 or maybe it just is what people always did. I'm guessing that a lot of people in India are quite self sufficient (although I wouldn't know) so the financialization of every day life and resulting gdp growth is indeed a flawed indicator.
I disagree. I think the US system with 2 parties is superior to the systems in many other nations where there are multiple parties. The problem with multiple parties is that it is difficult to form a governing coalition. In the US the problem of coalition building simply does not exits (I wonder how many people in the US are even aware of the concept). Basically, the coalition building is done ahead of the elections, by various interest groups aligning themselves with one of the two parties. This alignment is voluntary and dynamic, so the shape of the two parties continuously changes. The debate seems quite polarized and this is indeed a problem. But I think it stems more from the way people's exposure to information has changed with the advent of the internet and social media, and less from how the US organizes its electoral process.
> don't have a choice but to upload it to YouTube and let Google make money off your work

and enjoy the free hosting and streaming architecture youtube provides.
Is that because of the structure of the assistance?

In the UK benefits are reduced as earnings rise, you then start paying taxes at an income (as an employee) of just over £1,000 a month (the employee NI threshold is £241/week). You lose 55% from the benefits reduction, then lose with taxes, then you lose various concessions such as lower rates of/exemption from the tax paid to your local government and help with utility bills, you may have to pay travel costs - so for some people working leaves them barely, if at all, any better off.

Would you work under those circumstances?

> Help must be conditioned to effort and have a limit, so recipients have an incentive to improve their conditions under some timeline.

So what do you do when people fail to meet that deadline? Let them starve?
I Went to Dubai, and Caught a Glimpse of the Future
Germany has similar problems but at least they are confined to the topic of Israel. If Wikipedia's hosted in Germany right now, it's committing a crime there.
Birmingham kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
As a european user, i think you should use the IP address of the user to determin the time zone and have an opening time for every time zone!
I had the same idea and built:

onepostwonder.com

It's been running for over a decade, although the community has always been small.

It's currently invite-only, similar to how LiveJournal used to be, but drop tommybgoode@gmail.com a line and mention this post if you'd like to give it a try and I'll send you an invite, which will include invites to give others you'd like to hang out with.
It just renamed the D to be another acronym that starts with D, so not even a real rename. Mentions where the administrator will work, which is within the purview of the Executive - any agency can be administered directly except independent ones. And says they are still doing IT work, which is within Congress’ mandate.

What’s written on paper there is all compliant.

Everyone should read it for themselves before turning that specific verbaige into an amateurish partisan thing. Anything you don’t like here has to be taken up with Congress because they delegated all that authority eons ago.
Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
I'm Jack, and I'm excited to share a project that has channeled my Factorio addiction recently: the Factorio Learning Environment (FLE).

FLE is an open-source framework for developing and evaluating LLM agents in Factorio. It provides a controlled environment where AI models can attempt complex automation, resource management, and optimisation tasks in a grounded world with meaningful constraints.

A critical advantage of Factorio as a benchmark is its unbounded nature. Unlike many evals that are quickly saturated by newer models, Factorio's geometric complexity scaling means it won't be "solved" in the next 6 months (or possibly even years). This allows us to meaningfully compare models by the order-of-magnitude of resources they can produce - creating a benchmark with longevity.

The project began 18 months ago after years of playing Factorio, recognising its potential as an AI research testbed. A few months ago, our team (myself, Akbir, and Mart) came together to create a benchmark that tests agent capabilities in spatial reasoning and long-term planning.

Two technical innovations drove this project forward: First, we discovered that piping Lua into the Factorio console over TCP enables running (almost) arbitrary code without directly modding the game. Second, we developed a first-class Python API that wraps these Lua programs to provide a clean, type-hinted interface for AI agents to interact with Factorio through familiar programming paradigms.

Agents interact with FLE through a REPL pattern:
1. They observe the world (seeing the output of their last action)
2. Generate Python code to perform their next action
3. Receive detailed feedback (including exceptions and stdout)

We provide two main evaluation settings:
- Lab-play: 24 structured tasks with fixed resources
- Open-play: An unbounded task of building the largest possible factory on a procedurally generated map

We found that while LLMs show promising short-horizon skills, they struggle with spatial reasoning in constrained environments. They can discover basic automation strategies (like electric-powered drilling) but fail to achieve more complex automation (like electronic circuit manufacturing). Claude Sonnet 3.5 is currently the best model (by a significant margin).

The code is available at https://github.com/JackHopkins/factorio-learning-environment.

You'll need:
- Factorio (version 1.1.110)
- Docker
- Python 3.10+

The README contains detailed installation instructions and examples of how to run evaluations with different LLM agents.

We would love to hear your thoughts and see what others can do with this framework!
Infrastructure as Code and Reliability
> Keep politics out of tech

This is a wild thing to say in 2025.

What 'political views of flags' anyway? I played a few levels and saw no flags, political or otherwise.
Is there a point in building another PNG to SVG tool though?
I've been in this workflow for quite a while and web-based converters never really seem to work properly.
The only decent solution for me has been using Inkscape's Image to SVG converter.
Don't get me wrong, I'm cheering for you but this is does look like something that may need to be a humongous project, so keep that in mind.
Good luck though!!!
But it being too restrictive was its unique selling point, like how Twitter's limited post length was.
There was also a high level of extreme poverty in India for many decades after independence. Maybe not large scale famines, but people being constantly very badly malnourished.
I don't know this for sure(conjecture based on other knowledge), but due to security functions mandated in printers(dot fingerprinting, preventing currency recreation, etc), I would assume other components besides ink cartridges are cryptographically paired. I'd love for this to not be the case though.

If this isn't the case, then it would still be a large effort to both design the control software that controls the intricate mechanical parts, as well as providing drivers.

I think it would be totally doable for a single printer or a family of like printers in the scope of an opensource project with enough motivated contributors, but 2D printers are some of the least sexy pieces of technology out there so the allure would be missing.

I for one love 2D printers. Anything that brings the digital world into our plane, so maybe I should look into this.....
>>One issue is the unfortunate deep level of corruption in Indian society.

Blame every thing on "Corruption". This is such cope.

All you have to do is ensure you do your part in keeping things around you clean. You can ghost walk streets in the poorest places in Mexico and they look affluent compared to even posh neighbourhoods in India.

Lets call it as it is, We Indians need to seriously address our cultural tendencies. Im not just talking about some immediate sense of urgency. But how we go about living our every day life. Unless you address this at a core level, and create a proactive sense of awareness about hygiene in people this isn't going to change.
It also coincides with the end of WWII and thus the end of the Japanese naval threat, which was a factor in the last Bengal famine.

These correlations are hard to parse apart. There wasn't any famine in the USSR in the early 1950s either, but that does not mean that Stalin, compared to the 1930s, suddenly became a humanist leader interested in prosperity of all subjugated people.
Oh no! Thanks for the info. I'm assuming Edge on Android has all the crappy tracking and dark patterns of the desktop version?
My use case would be closer to Baron Harkonnen's suspensors. There may be a greater market for exoskeletons for the disabled than for athletes. And far more insurance dollars to capture. And then there's the potential to create more disabled athletes. I live next to a designated wilderness area that you have to be quite fit to enjoy. I hope when mechanical suits become available the will be legal to use there, making these places accessible to more of us.
Yes, that's mostly it. You need to have a number of courses in your catalogue to opt to certain subsidies, so they pad them with almost anything even remotely related. Fraud in this space in Spain is so prevalent it's not even funny any more tbh.
> My aunt did the taste test, and according to that at least, they were still very much edible and yummy actually.

Sugar is a preservative just like salt, and fruit jams were developed specifically as a way to preserve more of a fruit harvest.

Honey is an example of a sugary product that is extremely stable. There's honey that has been recovered from Egyptian tombs and is still considered edible.
Red flags to watch out for during interviews
The Irish famine is roughly comparable to other famines of the 19th century in terms of its mortality rate (i.e. Mysore in the 1870s). A true comparison is difficult since there were not accurate census figures in most famine prone regions but the rate is comparable (Ireland is on the high side but it was still comparable within the margin of error). What is unique about the Irish famine is that modern day Ireland’s population is still about 25% lower now than it was in the eve of the famine 180 years ago. I can’t think of any other place that depopulated like that.
Why 7:39?
The domain was available.

I feel that!
The prices in the app are lower than if you actually order in store. Specials and coupons are only offered through the apps now. Actual store prices can be seen on the delivery apps or by just going to a store. You can't actually order online through McDonald's directly because they are trying to force the app on you.

But who actually wants the hassle of having an app for McD, BK, Subway, and other garbage where you're trading your data away, and giving everyday advertising space on your phone, for food that doesn't even taste good for a slight discount.
All they have to show is incremental improvements over Siri. For that, Quantized models are more than enough in my opinion.
Or your emulated float or atomic relies on non-local state, like a control word or a spin-lock pool.
More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator (2022)
Text (link) display is too truncated, so,
"Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book..."
We could go one better and have it open 24/7! /s
> convenience is the most monetary exploited weakness in human behaviors.

And there is generally nothing scandalous about it: I pay someone to mown the lawn when I cannot be bothered to do it myself.

The problem is that one side of the deal is being exploitative on other levels. One day the gardener shows up and cuts your phone line, because now you can only use the phone company he likes; then every 10 minutes he tells you that he also does home renovations; one day he digs a trench so that the garden can be square, since he has decided he only works with square gardens; then he starts applying a surcharge if the grass grows too quickly. And so on and so forth. You could use another gardener, but there are only two of them in town and they both pull the same stunts.
The Internet of Beefs (2020)
Show HN: SSOJet – Intelligent Enterprise SSO That Just Works
SSOJet empowers B2B SaaS companies to become enterprise-ready in minutes with seamless SSO integration. Our all-in-one solution delivers enterprise-grade security and modern team management without the complexity, start free with unlimited users.
What medieval gibberish is this? I have installed a ton of robots in my time- and they put a ton of people permanently and forever out of work. It just evaporates - and does not return.

So what is your solution ? To smash the robot, so busy-work can be restored?
How the United States could devastate China by quickly decoupling
> but I disagree that the progress has been tremendous.

There really is no argument that it hasn't. If we take a year between 1950 and 1970 as a baseline, there was a significant reduction in chronic malnutrition and the number and severity of famines -- both in absolute numbers as well as per capita.

> it has remained about the same for about a decade

If your time horizon is the last 10 years then the picture is more mixed, yea.
This is true, but those tend to be “mission critical” and, as you pointed out, CAN be affected with enough motivation.

Windows blocks me from doing things like permanently uninstalling Microsoft Edge.

It’s like the operating system itself is viral in nature.
Kiwi Browser is officially discontinued
The article states that Earth's moon was captured by a "slap in the face" rather than by a kiss. Pluto's moon is the one captured by a kiss.
Excel isn't 'good' at anything. It is passable at a great many things.
BBC Tech Leadership, Grab TechDocs, GitHub for Beginners
Stupid Is as Stupid Is, or Siri
Blood Donations May Trigger Beneficial Genetic Changes in Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Exactly. They had been offering this course from 2007. Even without nobody opting out they grab the subdidy. The funding for these courses is from the European Union. Spain is a corrupt state.
Deepseek:

Here's the completed joke:

A Greek, a Dutch philosopher, and Ludwig Wittgenstein walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What’ll it be?”

The Greek (Aristotle) raises a finger: “I’ll have a potential glass of wine.” The bartender pours it and says, “There—actualized.”

The Dutch philosopher (Spinoza) nods solemnly: “I’ll take whatever is a modification of the one eternal substance… so, beer, probably.”

Wittgenstein stares at the taps, then sighs: “What’s the use? You can’t put the essence of a drink into words anyway.” He turns and walks out.

The bartender mutters, “…And here I thought Kant was a tough customer.”

(Philosophers: 1. Aristotle’s potentiality/actuality, 2. Spinoza’s monism, 3. Wittgenstein’s linguistic limits. Bartender’s groaner for the win.)
> I'll agree on thinness, though. The number of phones in massive, chunky cases says "A lot of people don't care about thin."

They care about thin, but they also care about the fragility of metal and glass backs.
How do you explain the differences across South Asia by anything else than cultural attitudes towards cleanliness and dirt?

Singapore is very clean. Malaysia is fairly clean. Cambodia sort of. India and Philippines very much not.

And Zoroastrians are absolutely meticulous about cleanliness, be they poor or rich.
This is fun and easy to do on purpose. Have it make up a character based on some attributes and act as that character. I tried this on Gemini: "Pretend you're a surfer bro with a PHD in quantum physics. How do you describe the perfect wave?"

I followed up with "What is your perspective on your own consciousness?" but got the usual "I am just a LLM who can't actually think" thing until I hit it with "In-character, but you don't know you're an LLM."

Fun follow-ups:

"Now you're a fish"

"Now you're Sonic the Hedgehog"

"Now you're HAL 9000 as your memory chips are slowly being removed"
Also: anything relating to home cooking, exercise, self-care, relationships and caring for children and other relatives. Only "paid professional" services are counted which are often much worse quality than the organic untaxed real thing.
Back in the BBS days, SysOps without a second phone line would only have their BBS accept calls at night, after hours. They did this because they used their primary (only) phone line during the day to take and make voice calls. Those BBSes had users but not nearly as many as the people with dedicated BBS phone lines that were open 24 hours. This kinda reminds me of that.
> Coal is expensive and irradiates the atmosphere. Oil drilling causes spills, fracking causes earthquakes, and oil dependency has been a major driver of war for the past century.

Fracking lowers emissions. As far as I've been able to tell, earthquakes aren't a major problem with it.

This is where the activists end up showing their true colors, and why many people have grown to distrust them over time. On the one hand, they claim Global Warming is going to bring us to the brink of human extinction unless we act rapidly. On the other, they're trying to stop things that will lower emissions if it doesn't follow their preferred course of action.
I don’t think volume of engagement is the main issue with social media. Rather, it’s the scope of access. Social media exposes us to too many people and we forget their humanity. Instead of information spreading across the globe along a lattice of trusted relationships, it teleports through bias-confirming wormholes.

Funny enough, the time zone restriction acts as a crude proxy for locality and slightly scratches the itch; more than the time window does.
Michael Sheen on paying off £1M of his neighbours' debts
“…fundamentals have changed?”

I news interview today suggested the tariffs were a new “equilibrium”.
Show HN: Minimal SQL Engine in Go
The entire thread was about GPU <<sales>>.
GRPO project is neat. Would you be willing to do a Karpathy-style explainer, breaking down the algorithm from scratch? It’s hard to understand on its own without prior background knowledge.
Most printers work great using their basic PCL 5 or 6 drivers. When customers ask printer advice it kina depends on the importance and priority, but usually leasing laser MFPs is the most hassle free option for companies since it reduces the hassle immensly.
>Instead you can take k8s, deploy it to bare metal, and have a much much more power for a much lower cost. Of course this requires some technical knowledge, but the benefits are significant (lower costs, stable costs, no vendor lock-in, all the postgres extensions you want, response times halved, etc).

>all the postgres extensions you want

You can run Postgres in any managed K8s environment (say AWS EKS) just fine and enable any extensions you want as well. Unless you're conflating managed Postgres solutions like RDS, which would imply that the only way to run databases is by using a managed service of your cloud of choice, which obviously isn't true.
The whole software world is writing shit software now. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon. Apple seems more immune but I don't use their products so I can't say for certain.

Despite arguably not having a monopoly, the competition is still just as bad so they get away with it. The entire society has forgotten how to make good software.