skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just Trump, but every truly rich person in the US has described “high interest rates” as their number one complaint with the economy.

The problem is that these people complaining about interest rates are stupid.
Yeah that's definitely fair, I have the same concern. Currently I've reduced my extensions to just a few that I either trust (like gorhill's) or that I wrote myself. But I think it would be huge if Mozilla built out the tooling needed to keep a better monitor on them. It's an extremely hard problem to be sure though.
Show HN: What if we were all talking to the same chatbot?
Imagine if ChatGPT thought you should meet someone it recently spoke with. boardy.ai is an example of an AI social network but ideally, each time you message the bot, it responds based on what other people are saying.

I built this simple demo that takes the top 20 most similar conversations and adds it to the context. You can modify the system prompt to decide what the whole point of this is. I’m looking for ideas!
The US makes startups easier due to easy access to capital from investors. OTOH, I'd be wary of starting a lifestyle business in the US due to the poor social safety net.

Red tape is also a concern, but it depends on what European country you're talking of, some are better than others, and red tape is awful in the US as well, depending on the state.

Those are basically the only considerations, everything else (like culture) is BS.
Very childish.

And even Rubio, who you would expect to take an expected diplomatic approach, is now talking like Elon and JD, with "say thank you" bullying. Pretty shocking.
It's an entertaining watch, although a fair bit of dramatic licence is taken when depicting various anecdotes that would be well-known to readers of The Micro User and similar magazines of the time.
Show HN: Using LLM to predict future trends and headlines before they happen
I remember a show growing up where the protagonist gets a newspaper a day early and uses the knowledge to prevent tragedies.

Forecast basically tries to emulate the functionality somewhat. The thesis is that there is enough knowledge baked in LLM that it will probably be able to predict the future.

Currently its a bring your own api key application (LLM api costs a lot of money). It currently only support integration with ChatGPT 4o, 4 turbo and 3.5-turbo, and Deepseek: deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner.

I'm working to add more LLM providers (hopefully Grok 3 API will be released soon).

Please let me know what you guys think and if you think it might be useful for you.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

-Hanlon's razor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
A note of possible interest for this crowd: all these motor types are open loop, so you can't actually command a specific state with any accuracy / repeatability. In other words, if you send a signal to the lens to focus at, say, 3m, it won't necessarily be in exactly the same state as the next time you focus at 3m.

This is why camera calibration can be tricky, and you often don't want to touch the cameras after you've done a calibration pass.
They had the market position and option to do that for years now. "Told you so" whenever a patterns matches, and ignoring the times when it does not instead of providing a good model that encompasses both, is a fairly lame way to reason about the world.
Probably still in A/B testing.
I hear so many people IRL complaining about this. I tell them to switch to firefox, that the adblockers still work there, and they still won't switch to it because they are "used to chrome". I really feel like google won this battle. People will through a lot of abuse just to maintain their habits.
Yes. I eyeballed it at roughly 9% earlier and rounded up. My point stands. We're already pretty much in the ballpark of what GP cited.
You think sebete republicans are going to have a spine? Boy do you have wayyy more faith in them than they deserve.
> I’ve never seen it at the remotely same level anywhere else.

To be fair to the other ones trying, we’ve set a fairly high bar recently, with "Let me show you how to run the world’s first superpower".
Do you want your tech landlord to have absolute control over what tools your agent can use on your computer?
This made me go back to Firefox after 15 years of using Chrome personally.
There is still a DOM hack to allow installation by re-enabling the "Add to Chrome" button on the linked page. See "Download and install uBlock Origin in Chrome" on this page: https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch...

After the install, Chrome will disable the extension on the next restart but it can be re-enabled .. for now.
> where our late co-founder is underperforming badly

That's hilarious. :-)

Sorry, carry on.
gone for some... many... most.
Counter point:

The decline in NVDA stock price may also be due to newer models that require fewer GPUs, specifically from NVDA.

In other words, the demand may stay the same but if fewer GPUs in general or non-NVDA GPUs specifically get you to the same point performance-wise then the supply just went up.
> There were 5 such drops in 2020, 4 in 2022, and 1 in 2023. Somehow, the nation avoided ruin during those periods

Come on, look at your numbers. Recession in 2020 with 5 blips on the monitor. Last quarter we saw negative real GDP Q1 ‘22, 4 blips. 1 blip in ‘23 and none in ‘24 while the economy did so well prices overheated.

Now we’re seeing 1 blip in Q1. If we annualise that to 4 blips, it puts us back in the last year in which we had a single quarter with negative real GDP growth.
Going faster and carrying more is enough to enable things that aren't otherwise possible.

For example, I can take my kids to visit their cousins for the day and make it home by bedtime.
This summarizes my feelings pretty well. I've been writing code in a dozen languages for 25+ years at this point. Not only do I not gain anything from writing certain boilerplate for the nth time, I'm also less likely to actually do the work unless it reaches some threshold of importance because it's just not interesting.

With all of this said, I can see how this could be problematic with less experience. For this scanner project, it was like having the ability to hand off some tasks to a junior engineer. But having juniors around doesn't mean senior devs will atrophy.

It will ultimately come down to how people use these tools, and the mindset they bring to their work.
I am willing to bet you any amount of money you want that 3-4 years from now, current-generation AI models will cost less in real terms than they do now, not more.
British Company Develops Solar-Harvesting Film Instead of Panels
Did any of those apart from the Unity runtime ever gain any significant traction? (Iirc they've had some idea of porting to mainline .NET but weaning a sloppy codebase off Boehm is probably easier said than done).

Any particular reasons for Xamarin people not being happy? (I know Miguel left but can't remember why). I was still using some Java back then so I was particularly bummed from the outside about RoboVM being abandoned.
You are... unlikely to grow an olive tree successfully in Toronto.

Even for other kinds of long-lived trees, places without big ice storms, hurricanes, etc. that would prematurely end the tree are probably safer bets.
Yeah this is what I'd use too. Otherwise nothing wrong with PuTTY if you're emotionally attached
My approach has been simply signing up for new services on my non-Gmail addresses, and occasionally switching important ones over. Nobody's making you delete your Gmail account, so you can still keep it open for legacy stuff as long as you need to (especially since it's free).
You'd buy a computer magazines and it almost felt like the performance of CPUs and GPUs when up month by month.
> Thank you USA and in particular the president and DOGE for allowing me to write this post.

Doesn't feel heartfelt enough. Try again.
I would just wish that Europe worked on more ambitious designs. Ariane 6 was outdated years before its first flight.
Slightly OG-offtopic, but there is a very good book about edible games! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edible-Games-Cookbook-Play-your-ebo...
Kagi uses Google and Bing so no reason they won't add this new index to the mix, if they can gain access. The more indexes the better!
So Tesla could show a much more accurate value for the overall range but chooses not to.
also you'd think that the pushers of this agenda would get real-time updates to things like block lists metadata. God knows they do it themselves several times a day...
I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.
Heyo, did you try recently?
We had some bugs initially but released some fixes to make the experience better afterwards.

If you try again - it should work just fine.
If it does not, you can always contact support@kagi.com and we'll get it fixed asap.

As for the credit-card number, the form should not ask you for a card. It will ask you for your name and address for tax purposes, should you continue the trial afterwards but it will not ask for your card number.
We've had some other people mistake this form for a card form as well.
(and if it somehow is, then definitely contact support with screenshots because that is not expected)
To be clear, Yanukovych was fairly elected in 2010 and there are no claims that this was somehow rigged or undemocratic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_el...).

The protests started when he switched his stance on getting closer to EU. The protesters got him out and had a new election. How can you compare that to not accepting an election result?

Edit: To answer your question: if the Euromaidan protest didn't succeed, it was just a protest like it was now. They would have had another election a bit later, possibly pissing off Russia again (In 2004 Russia poisoned a pro-EU candidate).
I am coming from a place of ignorance, but could uBlock have worked on Manifest v3?

It seems like it would have worked, but the danger was over time Google report less and less information to the extension, but as it is today, the extension would have worked the same on v3 as v2?

As I say - I am ignorant sorry, its hard to search for an answer to this specific question

Edit:
Sorry the answer is here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
2 years of a 'dip' is, ummm, not just a dip, right?
> trying to pass a continuing resolution on Republican-only votes the keep the government open

They can’t. They need Democrats in the Senate [1].

It should honestly fail without a provision defunding and deauthorising DOGE.

[1] https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/10/congress/jo...
I don't know why there is this general vibe amongst technologists that they are somehow far superior in their thought process compared to the general populace. I have heard the words peasant class come up quite often in the tech circles. Why is this ? Aren't you part of the general populace ?

At the risk of getting downvoted let me posit a different narrative.

What if the past governments were just propping up growth by increasing government spending. The facts that are coming out now point in this direction.

Unemployment numbers that were fudged and recalled by nearly 1M on two occasions.
35% government hiring in the last 3 years.

What if this is the unwinding that was needed long ago but is happening now.

Yes tariffs are a net negative for the US economy, but there is no guarantee that tariffs will stay as we saw with the Canada and Mexico tariffs.

So may be, the government is not completely incompetent.

This data from Apollo management points to a not so bleak picture.

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DC_...
So far the Republicans haven't been willing to do anything except go along. They are inert.
Millions did not die of starvation during the Great Depression in the US.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12297/how-many-p...
Why would you need to short it? If you believe that is true just go long on AI stocks or buy calls on these companies
if you are in tech do your friends and family a favor:

Download and setup Brave browser on their device. I haven't seen an ad in years.

https://brave.com/
> They think most devices talk back to the satellites somehow.

To be honest, I don't think most people realize GPS is coming from satellites in the first place. Most people simply don't think about how/why at all when using things.
In full agreement with this. There is tremendous value in having code whose performance is robust to various compiler configurations.
seeing your first YT ad in a decade is quite the shock!
This is why I prefer Safari's content blockers. As far as I understand, there is no risk of content blockers sending out information.
"Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit..."

That's some fatalistic wording. How about:

Company that publishes a free product and business model relies on ads, stops distributing app that piggybacks on their free product while circumventing ads.
MaskCracker: A Tool to Assess Real-World Metamask Wallet Security
I've released MaskCracker, an open-source tool that demonstrates how browser password leaks can impact Metamask wallet security.

## Technical Details

MaskCracker implements a three-stage attack simulation:

1. *Browser Password Extraction*: Mimics the first stage of a potential attack by accessing stored Chrome passwords (with user permission)

2. *Dictionary Generation*: Processes common password databases and extracted credentials to create targeted wordlists, handling various formats like hash:password pairs

3. *Wallet Cracking*: Implements optimized Hashcat modules for attacking Metamask's PBKDF2-SHA256 encryption (fixed the outdated implementation in standard Hashcat)

## Performance Benchmarks

With Metamask's recent security improvements (increasing iterations from 10K to 600K):
- M-series Mac: ~968 H/s (down from 57,736 H/s)
- RTX 4060: ~2,400 H/s

This significantly increases crack time but doesn't make it impossible with targeted dictionaries.

All code and detailed documentation available here: https://github.com/learnerLj/MaskCracker

I built this purely for security research. If you try it, I'd be interested in hearing about your experience testing your own wallets.

====
SECURITY WARNING

This tool is designed for security research and personal wallet security assessment only. Please be aware of the following risks:

Password Exposure: This tool extracts and processes browser passwords. Ensure you're running it in a secure environment to prevent unauthorized access to your credentials.

Sensitive Data Handling: Seed phrases and private keys are extremely sensitive. Any exposure could result in complete loss of funds from associated wallets.

System Security: Running security tools may trigger antivirus software or security monitoring systems. This is especially true on work or managed computers.

Safe Usage Guidelines
Only run this tool on your own personal devices and wallets

Use a dedicated, isolated environment when possible

Clear terminal history and securely delete any extracted credentials after testing

Never share extracted passwords, seed phrases, or private keys

Consider using test wallets with minimal funds for security research
Since Chrome discontinued support for Manifest V2 extensions, I’ve switched to Mullvad Browser for browsing ad-heavy websites. It comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed, is open source, and is developed by a reputable company.
I would be amazed if there is not insider trading going on. The incompetent part I'm referring to is driving down the mid and future value of US stock. Reputational damage is often something that can't be reversed.
I guess my biggest worry is that the ones doing the outsourcing of all this "drudgery" are unlikely to be the workers who are currently being paid to do the work, but the owners who no longer have to pay them.

The rest of society and our economy doesn't seem to be adjusting to hundreds of thousands or millions of people being "outsourced", so it's not likely there will be a lot of playing music and dancing for these people, though you may be more prescient than either of us are comfortable with, with the "berry picking" prediction...
The problem with bootcamps right now is that they provide no predictive value. If I hire someone with a CS degree from, say, Stanford that has 2-3 internships and a few semester-long projects under their belt, that gives me reasonable confidence as a manager that the person has what it takes to solve problems with software and communicate well. Bootcamp candidate resumes are all basically identical and the projects are so heavily coached and curated that it is difficult to figure out how much the candidate actually knows.
Solution to the Student Housing Crisis? Review of Boxabl, a Prefab Housing Co
Which is why Mozilla are getting desperate to diversify their revenue.
They still miss something like good old T4 templates though.
Disable DNS over HTTPS I guess.
That would be a good thing.
If Firefox is funded by donations, rather than by Google, it ensures there is no enshittification in the future.
And yes, donations can fund a big project, as evidenced by Thunderbird and Ladybird.
Skeptical as I am about the generative AI, the quality of this particular article (in terms of evidence provided, logic, insights, etc) is substantially lower than ChatGPT / Gemini DeepResearch can generate. If I was grading, I'd rate an average (unedited) AI DeepResearch report at 3/10, and the headline article at 1/10.
The discussion started with

> That's not what people voted for (agreeing with the government)

I could play your game (asking at every point how do you know). And we will get to the point that we both agree it's just our interpretations of facts.

Now that we established that - can we return to a regular discussion?

I live among such people. They are my family and my neighbors. We talk about this. My uncle has a company distributing pig feed. He's doing it for 20 years. He pays taxes. When our Polish MAGA introduced a tax reform that they reverted next month (becuse it was self-contradictory) - he defended them and argued his taxes will be lower when it was mathematically false.

He's not stupid. He have choosen no to understand something he's good at - because he wanted to preserve his political beliefs.

My father is a teacher. He argued previous government "never raised teachers' salaries" and that his beloved MAGA government did. In reality (and I know that because my wife also was a teacher at the time) - it was the other way around. I've googled the data on the official government website. He did not changed his mind.

These are 2 examples out of dozens.

It's like talking with flat-earthers. It's not that they never encountered anybody to teach them science. They did, and they actively choose to ignore it. In fact they have to know the mainstream position at least well enough to know what not to believe.
IMO Grok and 4.5 show the we've reached the end of reasonable pre-training scaling. We'll see how far we can get with RL in post-training but I suspect we're pretty close to maxed there and will start seeing diminishing returns. The rest is just inference efficiency, porting the gains to smaller models, and building the right app-layer infrastructure to take advantage of the technology.

I do think we're overbuilding on Nvidia and the CUDA moat isn't as big as people think, inference workloads will dominate, and purpose-built inference accelerators will be preferred in the next hardware-cycle.
Google will just slip in a few more “improvements” to Gmeet, Gmail and YouTube that happen to not work or perform very poorly on Firefox.
For now you can still bring back manifest v2 support (which re-enables ublock origin if you haven't removed it) by making registry changes. Obviously only a temporary solution, might buy you a few months.

Powershell commands to set them:

1. New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" -Force

2. New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" -Name "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" -Value 2 -PropertyType DWORD -Force
Thanks for the clarification. IMO, the recent draw down in investment is political as people are seeing the US tech giants facing a more uncertain future under the current administration.

https://stocks.apple.com/AaYuqQyN_QVOYHhUY2G0IHg
This article is what is disingenuous. You can always cherry pick ways why you think some statistics matter more than others, but that doesn't mean that "the data is wrong". I don't have time to go through ever issue, but this one is particularly egregious

> The prevailing government indicator, known colloquially as “weekly earnings,” tracks full-time wages to the exclusion of both the unemployed and those engaged in (typically lower-paid) part-time work... Think of that: American workers on the median are making 16 percent less than the prevailing statistics would indicate.

As if that wasn't always the case. When you actually look at wages for the poorest Americas, they actually rose during the highest during the Biden administration https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/
Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?
I re-enabled it last week but they forced removed it again days later. I re-enabled it by force and it's still working, but it won't be for much longer, I'm certain.

https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch...

This URL, shared elsewhere in this thread, seems to tell you how to get it back up and running if you cannot do it easily; that said, I'll be moving to FF if they continue their shenanigans.
You are ignoring how trump focused far more on hurting people they don't like(immigrants , trans people and minorities) than on any actual economic policy. He and the Republicans fomented a hate wave and he rode it right back into the White House. So damn shameful for this country
You have a point that a powerful malicious AI can still be unplugged, if you are close to each and every power cord that would feed it, and react and do the right thing each and every time. Our world is far too big and too complicated to guarantee that.
Libkj: C++ utility library used in Cap'n Proto
This is the year 1999 again. You have companies that are valued tens of billions with no product AND no revenue.

There is also a race to zero where the best AI models are getting cheaper and big tech is there attempting to kill your startup (again) by lowering prices until it is free for as long as they want it.

More YC startups accepted are so-called AI startups are just vehicles for OpenAI to copy the best one and for the rest of the 90% of them to die.

This is an obvious bubble waiting to burst. With Big Tech coming out stronger, AI frontier companies becoming a new elite group "Big AI" and the so-called other startups getting wiped out.
The data this guy refers to suggests things were _still_ better than before during the Biden term.

I also don't think the economy is currently terrible - but it can easily tilt in that direction and we're on that path right now due to self-created chaos.
distributing the dispatch instructions lets the predictor pick up on specific patterns within the bytecode - for example, comparison instructions are probably followed by a conditional branch instruction
Wonder what the author thinks about https://effect.website/
I think with the number of libraries today you can't really remember everything. It's just not possible anymore.
It isn't clear that democracy is a prerequisite. The UK was a monarchy, albeit a parliamentary one, in the 19th century. The PRC was a one-party state with strictly limited political freedom in the period 01980–02015. Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century was a monarchy. Taiwan was a single-party state under martial law. Freedom of entrepreneurship and the resulting industrialization is clearly not dependent on democracy.
A wild road to the highest city in North America
Who would corroborate a cyber attack like that?