skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX bought the land and applied to and received approval from the FAA to conduct launches there. First as a set number of Falcon flights per year, then a small number of Starship test launches, and now up to 25 Starship orbital launches per year.

They have been pursuing a Starship integration and launch facility at Cape Canaveral in parallel to this, but the Texas site allowed them to move more quickly and be their own range control.

Getting approval for, building, and operating a launch site as part of Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral is a lot more complex.
If what you worry is about privacy, Kagi has very strong privacy features that shouldn't be vulnerable to gov interference. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html
Another thing that is being looked at are antennas (CRPA: Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas) which filter signals more, so that "GPS signals" that come from the ground and the sides are more likely to be rejected:

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/02/26/faa-moving-toward-crpa-on-airc...

One tripping point is that in the US, CRPAs are on ITAR, so exports are difficult:

* https://www.gpsworld.com/first-fix-freeing-crpas/

Given that GPS/GNSS comes from satellites, ignoring signals from not-from-the-sky seems like a quick win.
I've made https://store.steampowered.com/app/3248650/JOBifAI/

It's in ren'py, so the states are all hard-coded, LLM powers interactions with NPCs --including branching based on being able to convince them. So rather complementary to this project.

The dynamic features presented are interesting; at the same time, the lack of great consistency with LLMs makes me prefer their use for local tasks, and have a human make the global decisions.

Other interesting games (that are readily playable):

https://ai-murder-mystery.onrender.com/

https://talktomehuman.com/demo

https://sirius-cybernetics.pollinations.ai/
By making gender matching even a thing at all, they're obviously trying to make another horny creep site. Otherwise you wouldn't have that feature and certainly wouldn't ask it first thing.

Consider it a compliment that transgender and nonbinary people are considered wise enough to stay off such sites.
Do you think you can get a 5080 for a 1000?
In the Netherland they're going for 1600 euro's minimum, more like 1800. So I would totally get a new 5080 for a 1000 dollars.
It's not.

A lot -- and I mean a lot -- of people who hype it up are hobby or aspirational coders.

If you drill down on what exactly they use it for, they invariably don't write code in professional settings that will be maintained and which other humans have to read.

Everyone who does goes "eh, it's good for throwaway code or one offs and it's decent at code completion".

Then there's the "AGI will doom us all" cult weirdos, but we don't talk about them.
Reddit comments are mostly bots shilling ideology or products nowadays though. At least that's the impression I get.
Trump just took $400m from them over this issue.
Nikon lenses will mount on any Nikon body, but that’s sort of where the compatibility ends.

Their f mount autofocus lenses are a variety of standards that are not at all backwards compatible across eras.
> Aye, but this is the same as Elixir; it doesn't have full support for OTP and you are expected to use Erlang modules when you want the rest.

Ya that's what I was asking about, mostly the interop. But I can just look it up :). Thanks, Louis!
Which aspect of it is non-GDPR compliant?
The Axel Springer-Verlag (Publisher) is nothing to be toying around with and accepting money from them is like making a deal with the devil. They own the news from the entire range of lower working class up to the upper middle class and have no hesitation in using those channels to brainwash those targets with the political views which Mathias Döpfner wants to be seen spread.

Second to none in Germany, but probably normal in the US.
FCC to Meet on GPS Alternatives
Rewrite of a Flask Web App in Clojure – Ken Huang
It should be. If the interview tests for what you crammed for, it doesn't test for what you'll remember a month onto the job. That's a sub-optimal strategy for the interviewer.
Why not? It is a specific brand of gamebooks, like Fighting Fantasy or Lone Wolf or Fabled Lands.
> You're putting YC into the same box as Meta?

Only in the sense that their primary interest is making money and they'll do what it takes to keep making money, whether that's in education, crypto, social media, or the euphemistically called "defense" industry.

> I think it's necessary to defend your users if your business model depends on them

As a user of Big Tech I'm having a hard time coming up with too many situations when I was "defended" by them. Rather exploited just short of losing me (and occasionally past that).

> HN is a forum cultivated to encourage free exchange of disruptive ideas. That is not possible under conditions of technofascism.

HN is just a place for people to talk. The actions are where the checks are written, and that's YC. For YC the best bet is to keep playing ball and not endanger the money stream. Almost none of these companies are actively fighting what's going on now. They're trying to straddle the line between playing ball with the power while looking moral about it.
When doing paid marketing you need to track users as hard as you can otherwise you have no clue which ads work and which don’t, what are profit margins etc.

With GA, google uses cookies, fingerprinting and all other possible options to track correct attribution from various channels.

So even with ad blockers you can get a pretty accurate picture. It is also tightly integrated with google ads.

Plausible can tell you what users do inside your app. But honestly this is so basic you can pretty much build same functionality with a few sql queries.
The Founder's Algorithm – 7 lessons I wish I learned sooner
This is for the first-time founders out there. I have been running a startup for 5+ years and here are some of the lessons I wish I learned sooner (Hopefully, other founders can benefit from the inight). If you are seasoned, what lessons might I have left out that have instrumental for your startup growth and survival?
If the US actually tried to annex Canada, there would be huge ramifications in the EU. And besides, Trump seems more serious about Greenland: in his address to Congress, he said something along the line of "I think we're going to get it, one way or another". Trump is serious about wanting to steal EU land. You seem to be trying to hand wave that away.

And what about his very clear support of Russia? Is that also a positive change for the EU?
Orion Browser is basically as old a product as Kagi Search.
Yes, but FDR's executive order allowed the military to order the exclusion of anyone from any place. The actual thing a person could be arrested for was passed unanimously by Congress to support the EO and enforced by courts. Even during a real national emergency, nobody was disappearing Japanese people without due process. Korematsu was arrested and tried and convicted and their conviction was upheld by courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. At the time FDR, Congress, the Court, and everybody else thought they were doing due process. There's a lot of daylight between that and what Trump is doing.
Are you in Alaska?
For those who work in the dark matter of the industry, there are no real resources because most places don't even have "question banks". When an interview request pops up on my calendar, I just go out and find a random question - it's totally disposable and unlikely to be used again, and we don't interview enough for someone to compile enough information on us.

None of the places I've interviewed at in the last 5 years are on this list. One of them has a single question reported on Glassdoor and wasn't similar to what I was asked.
Or it's just a bubble and after diminishing returns they'll go in the bin with all the blockchain startups lol
Probably AI generated spam of the original [0]. And there

> 8. This triggers the polymorphic extension to:

> Temporarily disable 1Password, removing it from the pinned tab

Uhm. I guess temporarily disabling a completely different extension is left as an exercise to the reader?

> Furthermore, based on Chrome’s permission classification system, all the APIs used in this attack — namely activeTab, scripting and chrome.management are classified as medium risk. In fact, the very same permissions are commonly used by popular extensions such as page stylers, ad blockers and even password managers themselves.

One of those APIs is not like the other…

I guess they needed to come up with something to advertise their "Browser Detection and Response" product.

[0]: https://labs.sqrx.com/polymorphic-extensions-dd2310006e04
How to Setup Preview Environments with FluxCD in Kubernetes
I had a mind-bending Salvia trip at eighteen that went sort of like that.

My mind turned into an infinitely large department store where each aisle was a concurrent branch of thought, and the common ingredient lists above each aisle were populated with words, feelings and concepts related to each branch.

The PA system replaced my internal monologue, which I no longer had, but instead I was hearing my thoughts externally as if they were another person's.

I was able to walk through these aisles and marvel at the immense, fractal, interdependent web of concurrent thought my brain was producing in realtime.
3090, the 24 GB of VRAM will be more relevant than running smaller models even faster on lower capacity card (small models already run fast by nature of being less to copy from memory and compute on).
Kagi allows you to do things like inject CSS to filter out pre-translated Reddit results (although it is on their radar to make this a default setting).

Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations:

(technically you could inject it as a userscript but that's a bit more involved on mobile)

/*
Hide pre-translated webpages.
"sri-group" is main result, "__srgi" are sub results.
You can append `:not(:has(a[href*="tl=en"]))` to allow English translations.
*/
:is(div.__srgi, div.sri group._ext_r):has(a[href*="tl="]) {
display: none !important;
}

Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results. They also do things like deprioritizing and labeling AI in image search, and concatenating listicles ("10 best Android note taking apps") under a single header.
So you can't block search engines other than your favorite - that's a positive. If you want to block one you have to block them all.

Recency is not a problem any more than it's a problem for one individual search crawler
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026862 (2 years ago, 376 comments, 671 points)
Obviously hyperinflation is a bad thing, and well-managed governments don't have that.

But inflation isn't the same as volatility. Even when it's high, it's still gradual, predictable within a range, and goes in one direction only.

Bitcoin volatility is sudden, completely unpredictable, and goes in both directions. It's far worse in every possible way.
Not really worth fighting it on these issues in forums like HN anymore, they’re becoming reddit-ized and tribal. People will probably read your comment as an endorsement/defense of Trump rather than the factual clarification it is.
I absolutely love the background music here.

What's this genre called?

Big Band?
you can just not track the users, that might be easier.
My first 3D card was a Righteous Orchid 3d. It had a mechanical relay in it to switch between 2d and 3d modes, so it made a distinctive click[0] when you loaded Quake3D.

Or, too many times, it didn't, and I had to try again.

[0] https://riksrandomretro.com/2021/06/07/the-righteous-click
Oh yeah, that’s even better, totally agree, but it doesn’t negate my point. I don’t think Canon’s 30 or 40 years would be matched by a hypothetical present-day camera upstart, let alone Nikon’s 70 years.
No. The US stopped degrading civilian GPS accuracy in 2001[1]. Although the US retains the ability to degrade civilian GPS in specific target areas.

Regardless, if you’re building a long range missile, you need some ability for it to navigate. If you’re not using GPS, then what would you use instead? Additionally there’s nothing preventing you from using multiple navigation systems in tandem and fusing the results together, which is almost certainly what these missile do.

Sensor fusion reduces the impact of stuff like GPS jamming, but certainly doesn’t eliminate it. The over all system will be less accurate with fewer inputs, and if you’re the one faced with a high speed missile flying at you, I suspect you’ll take every edge you can get, regardless of how small the impact might be.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...
Do you usually post links without reading them?

all the time -- I call it "crowd-sourcing intelligence" :-)
This man publicly stood in Montreal and celebrated October 7 in a grand party.

https://tnc.news/2025/01/18/montreal-anti-israel-repeat-oct-...
I like Sublime Text because it's fast, has multiple cursors. And it's pretty. It's redundant with Obsidian but it just feels good.
epsom salt absolutely can be eaten as a laxative. It has a "drug facts" panels on the container with instructions.

It can also be added to your bathwater or used as a foot soak.
`a = num; a += 1; if (num < a)` is the same as `if (num < (num + 1))`, which for unsigned integer addition can be rewritten as `if (num != UINT_MAX)`. So there's no need to actually compute `a+1`, the comparison is against a constant.

If the code returns `num * a` then the value of `a` is now necessary, and must be computed before the function returns.

For signed integer addition the compiler is allowed to assume that `(num < (num + 1))` is true, so the comparison can be removed entirely.
No intended joke in that case, but it’s nice to have the feedback it might seen as if it was.

I don’t know Go to be frank, just had a very shallow look at it once because of an interview, and apart big names behind it, it didn’t shine in any obvious way — but that’s also maybe aligned with the "boring" tech label it seems associated with (that is, in positive manner for those who praise it).
Yes they did. The suggestion that another country made something better than the USA did isn't popular inside companies whose sole purpose is to fund the forefront of the USA's innovation which is evidently not good enough.

Click on the timestamp to go to the individual comment's page and then click "vouch". It may not appear if you haven't used the site for long enough, though.
I have more memories of my 3dfx Voodoo cards than of any other old hardware. The OpenGL implementation was so buttery smooth that there is simply nothing to compare it to. Quake 2 at 120fps on a 90Hz CRT was just something else entirely. It felt like there was no input latency at all and even with a higher ping of 80-100 in RocketArena it felt smoother than modern shooters on a 144hz panel.
I own a Mazda CX30 since 2021 and the most important buttons are all physical. There is still a screen of course, but it is not a sensitive one.
Basically, after a few weeks, you reach most of the buttons through muscle memory. You never need to move your sight out of the road to start your music or anything else... So far, it has been a great experience
> It's not a big deal.

Agreed. If you don't have respiratory, skin, or sensory-processing issues that make it a big deal, it's not a big deal.

Given the "breaking the skin" comment, I wonder if PP is thinking of clear plastic face shields which protect against spatter, but not aerosols.
Sartre said many things. What specifically are you referring to?
> "I don't like making chips. I prefer producing steel. Why do you get to have all the fun?" they've said for decades and with increasing furor.

Who says this? TSMC?
Show HN: RisingLight – OLAP Database in Rust with SQL Support
> Perhaps this is a shift away from cancel culture? I don't see why that's a bad thing.

Wait, so canceling the account is a shift away from cancel culture?

What the fuck is cancel culture even at this point?
It's still (or maybe just coincidentally based on when I checked) down for me about 4hrs later.
I was unaware that Brexit included leaving the continent.
Rich people have smart folks whose job is to think ways to avoid regulation.

In your example they would probably just have puppet citizens who buy land on their behalf. Sure the cost would be a bit higher because the puppets would demand some commission, but hey it’s the cost of running business.

It’s close to impossible to regulate concentrated money. See the drug cartels or Musk as two examples. The cartels operate their own army in South America completely ignoring government regulation. Musk bought an entire gov for himself.
There was a period in tech when a lot of people had a certain sentiment that they could drop a few emails and have a well-paying job the next week. That's never been the norm for professional work.

During dot-bomb I was relatively lucky if not necessarily super-well compensated but I knew a lot of people who basically dropped out of the professional labor market.
Books suck (imho). We need a new format to teach and learn this deep technical stuff. Not youtube, something interactive with exercises and engagement.
The risk of physical harm and harassment goes up significantly, imagine a transwoman trying to travel anywhere with a passport that indicates male, they can be detained, searched for any reason. That's just one obvious example. There are plenty of other instances where physical harm might increase, and yes emotional harm is a big issue as well, not least because it's a clear attack on dignity.
I don't know really follow how this idea relates to alignment?
tells us how you really feel.
Gp didn't call it speeding though. Interstates in the US often do have an 80mph limit, which is in turn routinely exceeded. That doesn't change the fact that 80mph is vastly less fuel efficient than 50mph, which is a typical speed for a two lane highway. Americans (and Germans?) simply don't want to acknowledge that speed kills efficiency, just as incessant speed changes kill efficiency, although the latter is mitigated by regenerative braking.
>Regardless, if you’re building a long range missile, you need some ability for it to navigate. If you’re not using GPS, then what would you use instead?

US ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles use a combination of inertial and celestial navigation: in space of course there are no clouds to obscure the stars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation#:~:text=I...
Oh, sweet. Thanks very much for this new and useful vocabulary.
“They’re trying to do better, which means they’re claiming to be perfect, but I am wise enough to know nobody’s perfect, so they’re a bunch of liars who are no better than all those other liars”

It does get fatiguing.
Deportation and having a formal judicial process are not mutually exclusive. It seems that you're not thinking very clearly about this topic.
> Academics draw a salary to do their job, but when they go AWOL on tasks critical to their profession suddenly they're all unpaid volunteers. This Is Fine.

Academics are paid by grants to work on concrete research and by their institution to work on tasks institution pays for. These institutions do not pay for general "tasks critical to their profession".

> This Is Fine.

That is as much fine as me not working on an open source project on my employer time.
Global Expansion in Gen AI: A Year of Growth, Newcomers, and Attacks
There is a built in help pages for every default mapping, e.g :help v_CTRL-A

Web version: https://neovim.io/doc/user/change.html#change.txt
Not only hand, but force, violence, etc.: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
Definitely switching default search engines.
"Do something existing with a different mechanism" is innovative, but not revolutionary, and certainly not a new "product genre". My parents used to order pizza by phone calls, then a website, then an app. It's the same thing. (The friction is a little bit less, but maybe forcing another human to bring food to you because you're feeling lazy should have a little friction. And as a side effect, we all stopped being as comfortable talking to real people on phone calls!)

Napster came before Spotify.
GPS Accuracy used to be limited, but that ended decades ago.

There are rules about GPS hardware that say that they should cease working above certain speeds and altitudes for guided missile purposes. But that is a firmware issue. I’m sure the Iranians have figured that out if the are even using off the shelf hardware.
I don't care. It's a chinese product, i refuse to take anyone who says otherwise seriously. European products are made in europe, not china.
Yes, and unfortunately the “desire” for scientific research of everyday life is hard to maintain because frankly in our current times it has dawned on many that scientific research is unable, by itself, to prevent or limit actions taken that fly in the face of the said research. So some domain experts have realized that upping their social media game is a better investment than broadening their scientific research efforts, because you’ve already lost if you are unable to derail a delusional narrative in real time. It’s the era of yellow journalism 2.0.
Twins Rivals Clones Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles
Not sure it should really be "hard if not impossible" to "behave properly."
I agree but I companies like Meta/Apple/Amazon hire so much that they probably have full time statisticians just to analyze interview process and map that back to performance. So you have to assume this maps to real world success. Even if you are just testing an employee's preparation, maybe that means something.
What I'm saying is that the poor psychology and overreach of one side empowered him in the first place. And I see no sign of those people understanding their role in that dynamic.
I had a minor desire to make a feature that had a slightly higher effort than reward, so although I knew I could struggle it out I didn't bother.

After years of this I decided to give an AI a shot at the code. It produced something plausible looking and I was excited. Was it that easy?

The code didn't work. But the approach made me more motivated to look into it and I found a solution.

So although the AI gave me crap code it still inspired the answer, so I'm calling that a win.

Simply making things feel approachable can be enough.
As Elon aligned himself with the party that continually justifies bad actions due to "economic anxiety", he has no one to blame but himself when the guillotines come out after he crashes the global economy.
It is neither a fallacy nor a contradiction, you completely misunderstood the point. What I am saying is precisely that you can defined those however you see fit and your definitions don’t even need to match the other person’s for a consensus.

To pull it to an extreme of simplicity, we can all agree that good things are good and bad things are bad without having to agree on which specific things are which.
It's still okay for specific niches or local communities imho
The “cancel culture” scare was a marketing campaign designed to elect right-wing politicians, not a serious free speech movement. You can note how many of the people involved have been silent or even expressed enthusiasm for the speech of their political opponents being stifled now.
The race to find the heaviest svg should yield some interesting results.
Ok the points you made are cool
> They have strategic reasons why they cannot be limited to SpaceX. Hence anything "saved" by a SpaceX launch is illusory: they can choose to pay for SLS ... or they can choose to pay for SLS AND for SpaceX.

There are other options than SpaceX and SLS. And SLS is not designed or destined to launch the majority of US government payloads as an alternative to SLS.

SpaceX's primary market competitors are ULA and Blue Origin. The US govt can continue to fund competition even if the SLS program goes way.