skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also agree the community is frustrating to deal with a not insignificant amount of time. There are lots of good people, mind you, but also lots of "you are holding it wrong", etc. I reported what is a blazingly clear bug (once you know it exists):

Yes, when I posted this content on Reddit, someone immediately brought up "Svelte's reactivity doesn't exist at runtime" to refute me, which isn't even a valid argument in Svelte 5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/1j6ayaf/comment/m...

> put your arguments in order of strength, and remove the weakest ones. Quality wins over volume, and most people are not going to read the whole thing

I did remove some of them, such as the issue of "data ownership," which is the first time I've heard this term outside of Rust's web framework, but it was just a warning, not a blocking issue, so I deleted it.
https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/runtime-warnings#Client-warni...

> In any case, i think some of this is reasonable. But having spent lots of time with frameworks, i'll keep using Svelte5, but I do hope things improve. I feel like i'd spend the same amount of time with other idiosyncrasies if i moved to Solid.

Yes, the current project has been underway for 3 months, and I won't replace the entire web framework now, but I will definitely consider whether there are better options for the next project.
When did you do this 1Password evaluation?

Sounds like our experience with it could not be more different.

> The UI for 1P was a real mess.

In what way? You described how you feel about the UI, but I’m curious about actual specifics.

It’s entirely possible that I’m just too accustomed to it because I’ve been using it for many years, but what you’re describing is how I felt about Bitwarden.

I can completely see choosing BW in a corporate setting for a host of other reasons. But for me personally, the priority is a tool that gets out of my way and just works.

The tool that has done that is 1P.

> Less is more.

That really depends. If less means that the password manager doesn’t get used, then less is less.
> It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic...

Why do you want to learn Arabic? Answering this question will point you to which dialect to learn..

Do you want to read Arabic? Learn Modern Standard. Do you want to watch television and movies? Learn Egyptian. Do you want to study Islam and the Quran? Learn Quranic. Do you have a particular interest in a region and speaking with the people of that region? Learn the dialect that is predominately spoken there.
such an analysis is normally a fixpoint over the control flow graph; what structure would we be taking the fixpoint over in the Sen/Nussbaum case?

(non-sequitur) did you see https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/strange-new-rul... ?
Would be good on a T-Shirt
> Some years ago, Sanborn began charging $50 to review solutions, providing a speed bump to filter out wild guesses and nut cases

Oh man, oh man, this just gave me a great startup idea. What is the total addressable market of nutcases willing to pay $50 or more to have someone check whether they have cracked some difficult code? Perhaps even with a giant prize attached for cracking it?
Throwing up a page on geocities and editing the HTML was not only easy but it was fun, and you could immediately get into a dopamine-feedback loop that sees you actually improving your basic web development skills. The game-designers paradigm of "easy to learn, hard to master" rings out here.

Back then even throwing up a colored background and marquee text was sorta thrilling. I remember people put so much effort even to basic shit like their AOL profiles back in 1999 and that sorta bled into the personal website scene. But really for me I think it was tools like html and geocities that enabled this.

But where is that today? Python beginner webdev stuff? Can you really get into that feedback loop by messing around with flask and elixir? I guess it must work for some people but I look out at the web today and most of what I see is SEO garbage. Definitely not 100 flowers blooming, but one ugly google-kudzu blanketing the entire thing.
Apache is where projects go to slowly die.
To be fair it's still a stack (the data structure). It just isn't contiguous in memory anymore.

Of course modern LLVM already breaks it up into chunks anyway (given certain flags at least) so it likely isn't contiguous regardless.
Please don’t let the few who have co-opted LOTR ruin it for the rest of us. It is a shame though, I wear my Palantir shirt very infrequently now.

I’m currently on book 2 of Discworld and finding it ludicrously enjoyable. Its absurdity makes it feel like an antidote to many things.

It feels more fantasy than “hardest of hard sci fi” to me though? And I think the space suit was broken so is it a good model for tech?
They added a new tier and dropped some and increased some.

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/vw-ditches-base-2025-id-4-...

I was comparing a 3 row model Y AWD with tow hitch to AWD Pro ID.4 and ID.4 was coming in close to $50k, both with the federal tax credit. And the ID.4 lacked the 3rd row seating. I am also biased against European vehicles because I assume they will be more maintenance/expensive. I had a bunch of people recommend Model Y to me, and I trusted Tesla's electric vehicle making experience more than VW.
> third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.

Yes because the government is so well run with competent people waiting in line to join it in the era of DOGE?

Do you think that a web browser would be free of politics?
What entry point would you recommend to a total newcomer to the series?
That still doesn't mean it's not true...
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I'm getting intermittent timeouts, here's archive in case we hug it https://archive.fo/kfSVV
> It is not ok to put any innocent people to death

> I believe that the death penalty should be applied with extreme prejudice for the most serious of crimes.

I’d recommend you re-read their comment and then try to reconcile these statements. In particular, pay special attention to this part:

> The death penalty necessarily means in our imperfect information world that innocent people will be put to death.
> I feel this. A lot of information has been lost

Or it was not available, in the first place. I had an Nvidia TNT 2 M64. It had terrible linux support because of missing documentation.
It's disgusting how scientists come up with these elaborate excuses to do things they know everyone will object to. Stop playing god
Note there is a CLAUDE.md file in the repo, so this was likely built at least in part with Claude Code.
You are being downvoted, but people surely realize this is 100% true, right? Not only is it 100% true, it is inevitably going to be the outcome. Google will not have to divest Chrome.

Sundar just has to pay the $5M to have dinner at Mara Lago and the next day Trump will be talking about how unfairly Google has been treated, probably blaming China or Canada or something for this DOJ action, and the DOJ will drop the remedy. Probably will fire some employees for daring to pursue this while they're at it.

Whichever oligarch or ruling class ultra-rich whispers in Trump's ear last gets the full force of government for their cause.

Like, surely everyone knows this is absolutely how your banana-republic, profoundly corrupt government works now, right? At least be honest about it.
If you'd like to see a similar work by Jim Sanborn, Cyrillic Projector is at the University of North Carolina Charlotte behind the Fretwell Building. Way easier to see in person than CIA headquarters!

It has a light inside and if you visit at night, the reverse-cut lettering will be readable on the walkway around it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tFbx6kBkMgSMDGGY8
Wodehouse is a great comparison. I typically suggest people start with “Guards! Guards!”, but the Witches or Night Watch books are both great starting points - Granny Weatherwax and Sam Vimes are probably the most explored characters, followed by Death, Tiffany, and Moist.

If you like “Guards! Guards!” or “Equal Rites”, then go back and start from the beginning. The first two novels are fun, but sound like Pratchett was channeling Monty Python and Douglas Adams. It took a few books before his own voice really shined through.
> (except the Tiffany Aching ones)

Those are actually some of the better ones among the later books though! If you're going to skip, skip the Moist von Lipwig books. They're substantially worse than the other books in the series, IMO. Not too big a fan of the Watch books after Night Watch either (Night Watch was definitely peak Vimes though!).

> These are books you cannot really appreciate if you’re too young.

Other than maybe missing one or two sex jokes, not really?

> The only story revolving consequentially around gods is Small Gods, about a meme-stock god named GameStop, whose power crashes, and who ambitiously plans to pump himself back up to a new high.

Did an LLM hallucinate or is this supposed to be a joke? The god's name is Om.
Or Oracle. :D
Could you expand on the "Not too rigorous cost accounting"
I think it is worth pointing out that Bell Labs was an Engineering research lab. Scientists there created new disciplines, but in the service of relatively well defined engineering goals.

Contrast this with the NIH, where the science also has a goal - improving human health - but the system to be improved was not engineered. Curing a disease, which has a natural origin, is quite different from improving communications channel capacity.

I suspect that managing engineering research is much more amenable to process analysis than research on biological systems.
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what are the long term effects of consuming such a banana daily?
If someone was previously using Chrome, though, they're probably not that protective off their data. So it would seem like Firefox is a decent solution even if it is selling your data. Google was probably selling your data too...
You didn't believe it then, but you better believe it now: RegEx is the final boss of both code and science.
Really? Airflow, Arrow, Iceberg, Kafka are dying projects?
Already posted a week ago.
On the flip side, I think a lot of skepticism is just cynicism, and you need to ensure that you are evaluating the tool objectively, not just doing the HN sneer the same way we dismiss Javascript or "web".

It's fine if you've found a use-case that LLMs aren't so helpful, like nonfiction writing that you don't want to have to constantly verify for hallucinations. Obviously those exist.

But don't forget that they are calling into question whether other people really are super productive with LLMs, and that hints at a self-limiting belief.
What about all the other times Trump has done something like that?

Trump's MO seems to be to take something away, then give it back and declare himself the savior of it. Just look at all the chaos with tariffs recently
Why not start with Colour of Magic?
For context, I started with it, then Light Fantastic and I'm finishing Sourcery now.
> Especially not when there are other third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.

Which government, though? The US is mired in corruption at the moment, and the UK is taking an extended dump on privacy, Russia is … Russia and China doesn't really believe in privacy or freedom of speech, among other things.
Humans produce it naturally.
I am reminded of a brief quip in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age where a character comments on remembering a time before "AI" had been correctly rebranded to "PI": pseudo-intelligence.

The valuation-perception-driven hyperbole around these Dunning-Kruger machines does not help the average person trying to bat above their level.
Safari only exists on the Apple platforms
Completely unsurprising. This whole project seems so superfluous that it must be some intelligence-related thing for a wholly different purpose. Can you share how you know it is CIA funded?
He posts too much slop and falsities. He should resign from Tesla and have a Shotwell equivalent run it.

Nobody is hating on Rubio for being in the administration. It's a disaster of his own Twitter usage.
I say the right of any sentient agent is that it has a baseline of not deserving to suffer. Here, I like Peter Singer's presentation in "All Animals Are Equal". No one should be made to suffer or harmed in any way without an intervening harm of equal or greater significance to be prevented. If clean food can be gotten for everyone reasonably, then it is impermissible to be greedy or even lazy and not give out the food. If clean food is limited, distribute it such that suffering is minimized. Healthcare wasn't a thing in the time of the Mesopotamians, but now that we have healthcare, it should be provided in the way that minimizes suffering. Land property should not be restricted needlessly, but obviously having some private space is important, so land is still a more exhaustible resource. For acts like sex, suicide, and wanting to be left alone, there is a deep complexity as to informed and unpressured consent. All interaction and therefore anything relevant to rights-talk has a fundamental complexity around understanding another's circumstances and discrimination (as long as all agents are not treated exactly the same, this arises).
Yes, but you hit diminishing returns pretty quickly there so it ends to coming back to Amdahl’s law. As the other work gets distributed and optimized, what users notice tends to be single core performance. This is quite noticeable on phones where people notice Android browsing performance being slower because that stands out the most – most people don’t talk about things which are fast enough, so you don’t get as much credit for all of the optimized multi core work as you get negatives for the slow single-threaded web experience which visibly runs faster elsewhere.
Seems like this "Chiang's law" would fail in Discworld, where both people and technology are strange.
That is one of my most hated features of modern cars. People don't feel hot or cold based just on ambient temperature, and everything with auto controls makes "blow hot air" far more complicated than just turning a knob.
Neither the commitment nor the losses (and, for the sake of this issue, I'll take the US numbers as realistic) imply that Russia will lose Kursk indefinitely. Even if Ukraine could somehow hold on to it, I don't think it is realistic to think that any party would hold up a resolution of this conflict in an almost-certainly futile attempt to force Russia to cede any territory that it legitimately held prior to its incursions into Ukraine.

I share your feelings about the entirely avoidable horror of it all.
Maybe this will help you figure it out:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
Just use NextDNS.
They as in the republicans did.
Trump won the popular vote. The democrats are a complete shit show. They still are and seem completely blind to the reasons they lost.
This isn't about "call you whatever", this is about family names. They were likely born as a Null between a Null and a Null. Null is a valid Irish surname long before NULL was a type. "I go by throatwobbler mangrove" part compounds on it only if they decide to do so.
Probably people are excited about the prospect of having this problem be solved so that we can focus more on getting the agents to work rather than all be reimplementing the same data fetchers/parsers etc.
There are great books on Iraqi Arabic at least. I used Duolingo and that, along with being on Discord with Iraqis.

Just find a community, that is how I learned other languages too.
The OP is trying to run a mixed analytic workload which Postgres does poorly even at relatively small scales. No amount of "light tweaking" can fix it, it is intrinsic to the architecture. You can put 100B records in a Postgres table (I have) and it works if your workload is trivial but not well. The Postgres internals are not designed for data this large, it is an OLTP system.

You can do fast-twitch analytical queries (sub-second, a few seconds at the tail) on complex operational data models where you are inserting millions of records per second on 100B record tables while those queries are running. Just not on Postgres.
Any chance you’ll publish the PDF version for those who are interested in the content and not the aesthetic coffee table appeal?
"It was launched by the first Trump admin"

The first Trump admin was positively benign and adult compared to the current one. The first Trump admin had significant checks and balances on its behaviours.

And of course almost everyone who served in that first Trump admin campaigned against/warned about Trump this time, which should be telling. Or maybe they're just "RINOs" or something.

"As much as it's trendy in 2025 to talk about this admin as though it's entirely unprincipled"

This administration is extraordinarily unprincipled and self-serving. The DOJ as a tool for use at the leisure and to the benefit of the president/king is blatantly in the open[1].

"Google's not getting out of this from just a small amount of kowtowing now"

I would bet real money they absolutely will get out from this. Not only that they will get out from it, they'll get the public "treated unfairly" speech as well.

[1] - There is a major plot point in the 1993 movie The Pelican Brief where the simple insinuation that the president influenced the DOJ in any way would be so politically devastating that it would destroy his administration. This is so quaint now. How far the country has fallen.
> 100% mission completion

They launched once. You don't make up stats on n=1

> So is no one close? Is Starship a failure? How many times do we have to watch a rocket explode when other programs and systems don’t and be told it’s all part of the plan this was actually a successful launch?

They mentioned it every single time before a launch: this is for learning. They expect things to go wrong. They don't expect things to be successful every single time. And they launch way more often than just any other company out there, so it's fair to say they are less careful about being 100% ready and rather want to test things and iterate on them. They also failed many times with the earlier rockets until they finally got it right - why do you think this time it will be different?
Yes, especially with the huge gap between the underlying hardware’s maximum capabilities and what people actually get with shipping software. Qualcomm’s historic focus on hardware has left them losing ground on anything which isn’t a simple driver tweak.
Essentially what you're saying is Google need to tell their users they will lose a lot if chrome is sold, and Google needs to say a few nice things about trump to get the same treatment.
Exactly. Here for example, the author's point seems to just be "don't be Sauron."

> What I have a problem with is people trying to live forever as part of a Chosen One script which involves them trying to carve up all of the world into the dead empires of a dystopian Great Game world run according to a totalizing script.

I'm confident Tolkien would agree.

I also think any evaluation of LoTR should take into account Tolkien's background as a veteran of the trenches in WWI. In 2025 America, maybe that makes LoTR seem less relevant to our world. To someone living in Ukraine, it probably feels like a much closer fit.
> I'm okay with Windows being owned by Microsoft which is (was) basically the same thing in a way

Windows is much worse by most metrics. I can't fork Windowsium and build (and sell) my own fully-compatible, 99.999999% R&D paid for by Microsoft, OS.

> This is all probably too vague and unspecified for you lot...but it is just an idea

It is a bit vague :) In that: who pays for it? Who decides what features are in or out? Public utilities are generally what we make things when they're feature complete and the only challenge is rolling it out as cheaply as possible. But it feels like web browsers have a way to go yet. There's nothing stopping the US government (or any government) from bulding their own browser off Chromium right now. Nothing needs selling or splitting.
RAG Without a Vector DB, PostgreSQL and Faiss for AI-Powered Docs
We've built Doclink.io, an AI-powered document analysis product with a from-scratch RAG implementation that uses PostgreSQL for persistent, high-performance storage of embeddings and document structure.

Most RAG implementations today rely on vector databases for document chunking, but they often lack customization options and can become costly at scale. Instead, we used a different approach: storing every sentence as an embedding in PostgreSQL. This gave us more control over retrieval while allowing us to manage both user-related and document-related data in a single SQL database.

At first, with a very basic RAG implementation, our answer relevancy was only 45%. We read every RAG related paper and try to get best practice methods to increase accuracy. We tested and implemented methods such as HyDE (Hypothetical Document Embeddings), header boosting, and hierarchical retrieval to improve accuracy to over 90%.

One of the biggest challenges was maintaining document structure during retrieval. Instead of retrieving arbitrary chunks, we use SQL joins to reconstruct the hierarchical context, connecting sentences to their parent headers. This ensures that the LLM receives properly structured information, reducing hallucinations and improving response accuracy.

Since we had no prior web development experience, we decided to build a simple Python backend with a JS frontend and deploy it on a VPS. You can use the product completely for free. We have a one time payment premium plan for lifetime, but this plan is for the users want to use it excessively. Mostly you can go with the free plan.

If you're interested in the technical details, we're fully open-source. You can see the technical implementation in GitHub (https://github.com/rahmansahinler1/doclink) or try it at doclink.io

Would love to hear from others who have explored RAG implementations or have ideas for further optimization!
'Startup Nation' Groups Meeting Trump to Push for Deregulated 'Freedom Cities'
> No one ever left your team? That’s not a badge of honor—it’s a red flag. No one’s being challenged enough to outgrow their role

I don't follow this, seems like you could conclude the exact opposite. I.e. If no one is leaving they must be sufficiently challenged to grow & stay engaged.

That aside, if someone is outgrowing their role due to them being challenged, why can't they move into a new role rather than quit? A bigger red flag to me is turnover due to lack of opportunity for advancement.
I think it's highly dependent on the significance of the memento. I have physical credentials I received for a major athletic event I competed in, and never in my life would I consider taking a picture of them and throwing them away.

It doesn't sound like you were all that attached to the coffee mugs to begin with, in which case digitizing them was a good move.

I'd imagine this is part of the reason why my parents still keep my terrible first grade art pieces framed on their desks.
Microsoft takes its time and has a lot of inconsistencies but eventually gets to some sort of desirable convergence state.

They are a lot less idealistic and have an approach of working on it slowly but surely in the open. Apple on the other hand tries to maintain an unrealistic image of perfection and thus is always playing some sort of binary game, which is why things get stuck and never evolve beyond a certain point.

I use to like Apple approach to things; with age I understand that Microsoft approach actually makes a lot more sense, especially if you need to maintain things over time.

We should be glad that Microsoft "won" the desktop PC war because if Apple software had been used for critical software we would be in a lot of trouble as a society; I'm joking but barely...