skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most LLMs including Claude struggle using the @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem server - it's way too complex (and tools like Goose wrap ripgrep in an MCP to handle it). A simple MCP Server with the SDKs can easily be less than 20 lines of code and be useful.

I wrote mcp-hfspace to let you connect to Hugging Face Spaces; that opens up a lot of image generation, vision, audio transcription and other services that can be integrated quickly and easily in to your Host app.
My European perspective is that the brokenness is on a more fundamental level. My family has for three generations now avoided any and all debt. We earn and we spend what we earn. Yes, under current circumstances this is coming from a place of privilege. But its not too far off from the default in Europe, with free public education and healthcare and public retirement systems. All of them with flaws but actually mostly working.

My grandparents did not own a credit card. My parents do not. We rent. We have around 30 paid days off plus “unlimited“ paid sick days and months of paid maternity leave. Just to name a few things that are so standard here that most people just consider them a given and nothing worth even mentioning. I am in my forties myself and expect never to need a credit line on my bank account or card. Each generation has built their own “wealth“ sufficient to live well, with no inheritance or property ownership, and with support from the next generation in the final decade - most of it coming from the public pension system built on the idea of solidarity and community, not individualism.

So: No, where I am, credit cards could disappear without much effect. They are far from required. They are a component of a system meant to push you into slavery.
Can for myself just say I took the anime for a while but don't think it did anything. Way higher effect was switching to decaf and then drink mushroom coffee for alertness. There are different mixes out there, I just went with a random one from Amazon when I enjoyed some test-packages from chi-coffee. I'm also mixing with cocos cream and cows milk.
So can someone sum up what is said below the paywall fold?
Both Google and Meta could just charge for using their services. I already pay meta to see no ads. So there is no reason that they would entirely die.
There was an online contest to vote for Pitbull to go perform at your local Walmart. The internet being what it is, he got sent to the most remote Walmart in the US, Kodiak Alaska. He did go and perform. What a top lad.
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So kind of like the Mitsubishi Evo X?

The frame and body and interior was garbage. That drive train though.
The real issue is control. Facebook allowed you to go back to chronological view by appending &sk=chr to the URL, but they removed that safety valve at some point. Depending on context you may want to sort your feed chronologically, by relevance (which requires training or AI), or more exotic ways, but none of the platforms will give you that modicum of agency.

You also need filtering to remove the manufactured pop-culture dross like the Kardashians that is the new opium of the people.
Those cost hundreds of dollars and often only have 1 slot. The premium can’t be avoided.
The viewer is absolute garbage (on Firefox at least). It shows postage-stamp sized pictures which are hard to navigate:

https://salford.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldispla...

And of course it has some nonsense DRM so that you can't just download the photographs. The archive is publicly funded and the public gets this.
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Why bother: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-tru...
World leaders are casually scamming people for millions and nobody is batting an eye.

Society has at large approved of fraud. I’m not being a lone holdout.
I found, I take Abt. 4 days to react to stuff. Except for those cheap cooking oils, I get migraines within a time-frame of about 3 hrs.
> but now even just running the software is much more demanding and expensive. Never mind the fact that the UI has to be slick or people will be put off, because the bar is much higher now.

I'm skeptical of this. There's likely some open source software that's good enough and considering the advances in hardware likely much cheaper to run then it was way back when.

Besides the fact that many people prefer large platforms like reddit or Facebook or discord where they already have an account (don't have to make another one) I'd say the problem is the human one not software. Time and effort to popularize the forum and either paying for moderation or convincing people to volunteer to moderate and deal with inevitable shitshow that comes with moderating controversial topics even if forum isn't really related to them.
I always understood and used that idiom a little differently. I think of it as more about appearances vs internals —- e.g. imposter syndrome and the time it takes to develop skills fully. Nobody knows what they are doing on their first day a new job, but they have the title already.
https://refraction-explorer.lovable.app/

Take a look at the test @globnomulous I hope that this helps people.
>the truth is when we needed super high performance in production, the answer was either Go or Rust.

For high performance, the answer is C, C++, Zig or Rust.

For backend it can be Go, it can be Java, it can be C#, it can be Python or Javascript.

C# is on par performance wise with Go and I suspect the same for Java.

Choosing a language for something has to be done by considering trade offs, benefits and disadvantages, on both long and short term.

Rust would fit system programming while Go will fit the backend. I know "the right tool for the job" is very often mentioned but I will mention it again.

For backend I would be interested in a functional language, be it F#, OCaml, Elixir or Clojure, because I grew tired of OOP, SOLID, design patterns, clean coding, kingdom of nouns and Uncle Bob. All things, I used long ago to believe in. But since no one is hiring functional programming and I don't have the resources to be the sole owner and developer of a startup, I am stuck in kingdom of nouns.
Just in case you didn't know, the OSI model is wrong. The world uses the "TCP/IP model" - there's no "presentation layer" for example.
This is just false.

It’s a bit like that time Putin said he’d prefer Kamala with a wink and all the MAGAs started yelling “SEE!?!?”.

It’s obvious enough reverse psychology that even a five-year-old would roll their eyes at it.

Russian state media adores Trump, and I suspect the parent is fully aware of this.
Most debit cards globally run over credit card rails.
Depends where the bottleneck is. But basically, we're saying different server setups are also a factor and another reason why you need to do testing with representative loads :-)
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I really like the point about reading books. I often notice that some engineers miss a lot by preferring videos and shallow posts over documentation and books.

Also, it strikes me how often people would rather ask a question on something trivial rather than read the docs or at least Google the question.

Being able to search for information is such a crucial skill
I have read the beginning of the article and I don't think it's worth to find out more.
This applies to all languages with nil. The alternative being options (like ocaml).
Not a single source mentioned either so I think it’s made up?

This is posted by the author, apparently, so I hope he can clear this up.
Neat!

For me: I need 0.3 mg melatonin almost every day to control my sleep and do a bunch of other things. The onset is between 1 to 3 hours. In practice it means I need to be okay with an early wake-up if it kicks in within 1 hour.

When I feel jittery/trembly I need magnesium as my jitters stop when I take it.
https://archive.is/Jfwyl
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I wish people can pay for trials on products. e.g. In subreddits for hairfall, people cite all sort of very badly done research that shows some chemical in expensive product as effective, for which the only research is sponsored by the company making it. If 1000 people in that subreddit pays $100, it might be enough for a good trial and knowing the active people there, they would likely pay even more. Same for multivitamins, the research on that is so important yet so bad and biased, and getting million dollar crowdfunding should be possible.
I assume they're referring to internal references. It does not look like they feed cited papers in to their tool.
I mean, have you ever seen things work out for a whistleblower?

At best, they get some 15 minutes of praise. At worst, straight to jail.

I don’t work anywhere near academia. I still wouldn’t blow the whistle or advise others to do so.
Even the old VT220 had large fonts. They were just not used by most applications
> Monopolies lead to no competition, leading to reduced innovation, economic stagnation

That sounds smart, but is it actually true? How many of the things enabling the existence of this website are inventions made in the research institute of the Bell Telecom company.

On top of my head, there are transistors, C, Unix and a fair bit of cryptographical work. I'm sure others can add a lot more to the list.

Hell, this website recently carried an article that mentioned that the very financial concepts that enable companies like Y-combinator to exist were invented by a researcher at Bell labs.[1]

[1]https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/
PDF format.

> including if an LLM looks at it first.

Wow, do you have any links / examples of this kind of tracking or have you seen that done anywhere? If it is effective, I think it would be really useful!
No quotes, just my observation - that the buttons are more optimized for the good look (symmetrical, sleek) vs usable. Building a plastic molding form with some shape/tactile difference shouldn't be significantly more expensive.

Re Touch screen, I agree - that's pure cost cutting. But that's just crazy. I'm surprised regulators are not preventing it.
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Maybe you're right, but if you see no connection between the trivialization of violence and murder (that most media, not just games is pushing) and the attitude society has to the same violence I feel like maybe we're living in different worlds.

My problem is not that games make kids shoot schools, is with the fact that games in order to "be fun" and have people play them need to follow this recipe in the first place. The violence is probably intellectually understood as "wrong" by the large mass of players, but in my opinion it still desensitizes and erodes normal reactions against it to a level that should not be acceptable.
Maybe the place is not reserved to old grey beard? :)
Note: there might be a better source, just got this from a friend and after typing "China" and "euv" in the search bar, I didn't find anything.
The prayers and vigorous side-smacking are already here; only incenses and sanctified oils remain to be seen.

Praised be the Omnissiah.
> This applies to all languages with nil. The alternative being options (like ocaml)

It actually doesn't. Languages like Kotlin, C# and TypeScript special case null in the type system and allow you to specify whether or not a given type should include null or not.
C# at least came up with Nullable reference types.
The guardian is Western media. You posted a link to an article which undermines your thesis.

All wars have significant issues with fraud. If you think this is worse than any other consider the war budget.

Economics says that Ukraine is not doing as badly as you project. Their supply chains are robust. Russia on the other hand is a basket case. I agree victory is illusive, but to cast the war as lost, is I think hyperbole. The USA withdrawal is not insignificant and it can be said this is a war by proxy between nuclear superpowers. Something Putin is fond of saying. European views on this differ.

The anti war sentiment rather diluted out. There's a lot of global warfare, Putin has a hand in much of it. Perhaps when we have one war to fight, anti war left sentiment can coalesce but right now it has it's hands full in the middle east.
Why would you? There are other car manufacturers with better cars available.
I am hoping my level of self-delusion would be strong enough. When I was a kid and wanted to play sick to get out of school, I'd always quickly develop an actual low-grade fever and begin feeling legitimately sick. Even after I noticed the pattern, it still happened.

I'm hoping I can use this power of deception against myself with L-Theanine if I were to run this kind of study (but, maybe fortunately, have no motivation to do so at this point).
Do you find it poor just because it doesn't align with your experience and bias you hold from writing other languages?
Both blog posts were excellent. Thanks for the breakdown.

I’m bullish on MCP-what is are some non-obvious things I shod consider that might dampen my fire?
Lots of people still think this way about chickenpox, and I have no idea why.

In the US, vaccination for it is prevalent for years now (in a rare win for preventative health there).

Many other countries: "Chickenpox (and risk of shingles) will be good for you..."
I wonder what the audience thought - apart from the cool factor.
Not entirely true - e.g. Kotlin has null safety built into its type system, and I find it much nicer than the option/optional approaches used in various other languages.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/null-safety.html
Teslas have a large driver base (note, likely doesn't apply to this forum) who don't know good engineering or design when they see it. They confuse "I spent good money on this" with "this is a good product".

Sorry, we all have our opinions and perspective, but money isn't the only value judgement.

I want my speedo in my easy line of vision on any vehicle I drive. I want to be able to demist my windscreen by reaching for a button I can find without taking my eyes off the road.
This is the world of js frameworks. It's never _that_ simple because reasons.
You're replying to someone who is claiming to come from typescript where nullability must be expressly opted into and once opted into must be branched upon without use of a monad (isomorphism notwithstanding). Kotlin would be another example of that. Even with python type hints the same thing can be achieved or with Java and annotations. The problems in all of these cases is the boundaries between the languages where the nullability or lack thereof is often just assumed and not asserted upon.

There are language decisions other than options that can work, but they boil down to the same thing: force a branch before use. If go does not have this sort of secondary type system now, it won't be too long before someone sees the value.
Oh yes, I agree, it's not as bad on iOS for sure.
But acceptable for a premium device is a very low bar to clear.
It becomes much less acceptable over the years as well, infuriating.

In my country the mainline iPhone start around 1k€ and even the "e" is over 700€.
If I had paid 2-300€ like a low-end android device I would find it acceptable but Apple only sells stuff that is the high end of pricing, therefore it is not acceptable.
It's because of the two party system. Since there are only two parties, that allows special interests to capture the two party organizations, who control which candidate their party puts on the ballot. You can see this in what happened to Bernie Sanders in the run-up to the 2016 election, or Ron Paul a couple cycles before that.

This is also what sets the stage for candidates like Trump, not because Trump doesn't trade favors but because voters get so sick of being force-fed establishment candidates that any opportunity to set the status quo on fire starts to look attractive.

STAR voting might help with this, because then you get more than two viable parties/candidates and each one is a chance to put a non-corrupt candidate on the ballot.
But have you got your fingers back?
> fundamental notions like scarcity and exogenous total factor productivity will no longer hold.

I think the more relevant question is, will we have democracy, or not. If not then benefits of AI will go to the few, not for everybody.
Scala has null for interoperability with JVM but Option is the way to go.

Python these days has Optional[str] = str | None.

Both are in the alternative.

Dart hides optional as ?
Why is the article being upvoted then..? Not only is the content paywalled, but the quality of it is questionable
Touch screens & feature subscriptions are things that just don't belong in cars.
This. The bizarre way nils work in Go is completely over my head.
> there would be no way to identify them separately from the content

We'll use AI
But it works for me and I know more anecdata cases.

Maybe it depends on technical cause of what seems to be cramps. And maybe it helps indirectly by helping some other process in the body. But in ny experience there’s direct correlation between magnesium intake and cramps and nail health.

I’ve a feeling genetics may be involved since my kid also has similar tendencies. And doctor we went to for his night cramps did suggest magnesium which worked. So whether there’s research or not, doctors do suggest it and it does seem to help at least in some cases.
> version of socialism embraced by China and promoted on TikTok is fully authoritarian, anti-democratic, and does nothing to improve economic equality in the US

This oversells what China is. China is were government and oligarchy are in a strange symbiosis. Capitalism is worse in China in many ways. You are more free in China to exploit others on a large scale. H1B Visas seems to be an authorian idea to me and something that is heavily exploited in China.

What the US and China have in common is a strange kind of nationalism that I can not define, might be because I come from a smaller country.
Yeah. But I don’t really consider any language which has implicit nullability to be “modern”. It’s a bad design. It causes bugs.

Plenty of recent languages have fixed this problem - like zig, Swift, kotlin, rust and typescript. Go is behind the curve.
It's not the null that's the issue, it's the type system. As long as you have algebraic data types you can have safe null.

Ocaml's `None | Some of int` has the same basic meaning as TypeScript's `number | undefined`
Re: not pointing fingers unless one cleans up their own fact: I see what you mean, but you are totally allowed to say both sides suck. Which is why I'm doing that.

I also consider the "raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty" argument to be propaganda unless proven otherwise:

1. A proper government that isn't the CCP could have also pulled this off.

2. Even if it's true, then at what cost? There is no point to wealth if you lose your soul. No freedom of speech or thought, erasure of parts of pre-CCP culture, persecution of millions belonging to minorities, unsafe buildings, products and equipment, that's just the quantified tip of the iceberg.

If we're looking at this transactionally (give us power and we'll take care of the material needs), the Chinese people overpaid by a huge margin.
Yup. Though it's a JSON API and not an XML API like SOAP. As for how it differs form the old OpenAPI/Swaggar... shrug... not much... its got a lot less flexibility to it and it has specific tooling for agentic tool use.

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/specification/blob/m...
fwiw, you likely can't make real money with this.

The big drivers are (1) ever more increasing inventory (ie page loads/refreshes/whatever with ad slots). Relatively fixed demand plus increasing supply gives you a price fall that has been going on for 10+ years with no end in sight, combined with:

(2) retargeting has gotten endlessly more sophisticated allowing people whom advertisers wish to target to be found on places with cheap inventory.

You need immense numbers of pageviews or to be very high value to some specific audience. As an example of the latter, somewhat generically: imagine people really into high end watches. There are buyers for that. Or your site is valuable to eg vacation intenders.

It's why more and more sites (Defector, Talking Points Memo, 404, all major newspapers) that wish to, you know, not die are charging subscription revenue.
> Not sure how they're finding their way to Zig.

Lots of popular Youtubers such as Primeagen (somebody who easily gets 200/300k+ views per video) have been speaking highly about Zig.
Rust might make sense on the backend, though the ecosystem isn’t great. (I’m still waiting for something matching the experience of FastAPI in Python)
For backend almost certainly the winner is Elixir. It’s been slept on for years.
I think people reasonably expect, say, an aws lambda to be aws specific.

That's a very different story to React, which is supposed to be a library for general application ui development, and the official react documentation recommending Next as the way to use it.

https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app
Oh, they did find out about the original Japanese fancy mice from the 1800s, which were imported to Europe as first lab mice. https://bsky.app/profile/toriherridge.bsky.social/post/3ljln...

All well known and well studied mutations
There doesn't seem to be anything new here with Rust and Go that we already didn't know.

Reading the article, it looks like this article is generated by an LLM, as most things are nowadays.
> Do a bunch of other things

Curious about this! Currently trying to figure out a good 0.3mg melatonin dosing regimine for myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
Anyone know the reason Musk doesn't wear a suit? Is it because he too is fighting a war in multiple fronts?
Thank you. I think lots of people assume touch controls are for design, or to be cool, or maybe just "modern". It's just cheaper, though. That's why you see them on all generic Chinese made electronics (even stuff that could have no electronic component at all, like a fan).
I've been advised that Magnesium supplementation improves the efficacy of ibuprofen and acetaminophen in treating tension headaches by my physician.
While this is a wonderful idea in theory, a key reason it's often not used for experiments is that there are just too many variables to control for (including, for example, the ongoing effects of spending a month wondering if you're taking something that's affecting you... which affects you in and of itself).