skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta is starting to have a whistleblower problem:

- Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025)

- Arturo Bejar (2023)

- Frances Haugen (2021)

- Sophie Zhang (2020)

- Chris Hughes, Co-Founder (2019)

- Roger McNamee, Investor (2019)

- Christopher Wylie (2018)

- Alex Stamos, ex-CSO (2018)

- Brian Acton, Co-Founder WhatsApp (2017)

- Sean Parker, ex-President (2017)

- Chamath Palihapitiya (2017)

- Justin Rosenstein (2017)

Ex-Meta executive: ‘People deserve to know what this company is really like’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/tech/meta-whistleblower-book-...

Meta’s Response to Explosive Tell-All Is Ripped From a Familiar PR Playbook

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/metas-response-explosi...
Dumping computer generated text without even bothering to make a point or conclusion does not add anything to the conversaton.

"I can't be bothered to do my own thinking, here's what a computer said"
Streisand Effect in full force.
I've been bringing this up in every single thread about Chrome and Manifest V3 pops up. I'm been using Firefox, 100% of the time, on three different operating systems, for probably six years at this point.

I can remember a single time I had to swap to Chrome for something, and it was three years ago, and involved some flavor of WebAssembly, I believe.

If anyone can point out a current website that is acting up under Firefox and not Chrome, please post it. I just want want to know that the "Firefox is inferior" argument isn't a decade old echo.
these threads really are ads huh? hilarious
Analysis paralysis.

It's not usually icons for me. It's some really repetitive part of the project that puts me off, and I figure out some way to code around it, but doing so is not rewarding enough, or I hit some dopamine threshold where I've 'solved' the problem enough that I'm satisfied with the mental exercise alone.
Except in this metaphor, the "ebike" has en engine as powerful as a new "landcruiser", and attachment points that could allow quickly/easily adding extra seating or cargo capacity. That such a thing seems absurd illustrates how poorly the metaphor fits.

The only reason that "iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work" is because Apple chooses to limit them.

I have a laptop which I only rarely use as a laptop - it moves between being connected to external monitor/keyboard/mouse in an office to being connected to external monitor/keyboard/mouse at home. I could get an iPad with a faster processor (my laptop is a few years old), that could connect to the same peripherals. The only reason it couldn't replace my laptop is because I can't run the same software on it.

Now, I understand why this is so. MacOS (or any other desktop OS) would not work at all well on a tablet interface, it would take a lot of work to make it work well, and those changes would make it less well suited to desktop use. Look at Windows 8, when Microsoft tried moving their desktop OS towards something that could also work on a tablet (or phone), and how unpopular those changes were. But that doesn't mean I have to like it (or wish iPads weren't so locked down, so I could run a different OS anyway even if Apple wouldn't support it).
avoid 3005 slavery becomes gameified
This is what I took away from the reading. It's basically a shift/employee management platform. The only reason we're even discussing HIPAA is because health care industry adjacent.

If you replaced nurses with gig workers and uber for nurses with something like WeWork this would just be like every other leak we talk about on HN.
Ask HN: Is all vibe-code in the public domain?
This document [1] from the US Copyright Office is making the rounds where I work, along with the claim that full-on vibe-coding isn't eligible to be copyrighted in the US. And if that is the case, is it even possible to assign a license to it? Ergo, is it in the public domain?

Note that in this document the copyright office addresses the case of image generation, where a person were to throw prompt after prompt at the model until they get something they like, and then possibly add some more prompting to make some adjustments to get the final image. And they plainly state that this is not copyrightable in the US. Isn't this damning to vibe-coding?

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
If it's illegal then why aren't the courts stopping it? Has there been a court case? What did the ruling say? Details would be useful.
I feel Intel is in a similar situation as IBM in the 90s when Gerstner came in. You don't necessarily need a super technical CEO but somebody who is forceful enough to see through his initiatives. Not sure if the new guy is that type though.
Federal student loan site down, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department
The video demonstrations are underwhelming to be honest. Obviously has been pre-trained to do these “random” tasks. Wonder how many cuts they had to do before it was picture perfect.

Also, I vaguely remember similar demos without the AI hype. Maybe it was from DeepMind, or another upstart back in 2015.
Seaweed farms. The seaweed would fall to the ocean floor, where some hope it could sequester lots of carbon.
Yup, I have to listen to the audio book now.
Book review at the NYT: https://archive.is/vN0Jp#selection-1333.0-1333.13
It's a personal preference, but I'd prefer that the kid learns more things about 1 or 2 languages (like shapes or animals), instead of only the colors in 30 languages.
I'm confused because the article lays it out by the 4th paragraph, and you have the right understanding, up until "we're a startup"

Maybe you think the startup maintains patient records?

The article lays out the nurses uploaded them, the provider. This is a temp booking system. The health records were uploaded by the nurses to communicate reasons for absences to their employee and weren't required or requested

They have as much responsibility as Dropbox does. Nurses shouldn't have uploaded them.
Modern JS frameworks work in this same way. You just create a form and provide the action which corresponds to one you define in your route file. It even still works without client side JS!
Or an open source version you can play infinitely:

https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
Perhaps they are optimizing for having plausible deniability/a fully fleshed out backstory in case they are questioned by eg. local cops or a security guard, moreso than inconspicuousness to a random passerby who is unlikely to pose any danger with their idle theorizing
From the title I expected this to be about differentiating DCG grammars themselves. That is actually a technique for matching regular expression [1]; now I wonder can it also be applied to DCGs (or a restricted form like PEGs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative
I don't care if this works or not it makes me giddy with glee at the idea. Thanks for making my day.
Ah, doing more than skimming the article

>I also saw what appeared to be medical documents uploaded to the app. These files were potentially uploaded as proof for why individual nurses missed shifts or took sick leave. These medical documents included medical reports containing information of diagnosis, prescriptions, or treatments that could potentially fall under the ambit of HIPAA regulations.

The title is exaggerating what the article says and the article is making a big stretch about this being possibly HIPAA covered, I stand corrected, this has nothing to do with HIPAA.

What was leaked was nurses' doctors notes submitted justifying calling out of work. Still a serious leak but nowhere near what is being suggested.
Trucks driven by team drivers do. They're used when the load needs to get there fast.

https://ntslogistics.com/glossary/team-driver-transport/
I used to stare at terminals for hours and hours with light grey on the blue background. White on blue is a little too saturated
Indeed, that makes it not a systems language by any definition I am familiar with.

> Reasonable C interop, and probably, initial compilation to C.

How do you achieve "reasonable C interop" without pointers, I wonder?
The keyboard has a backspace button. Do you seriously think all the millions of people who use a Mac just have no way of correcting typos??

The touchpad can do click, right click, middle click, a four fingered click, and more. I have 5 different tap\click actions mapped on mine with BetterTouchTool.
It's mostly limited to those who own older iPads and operating systems, rather than 2025 buyers of new devices?
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It's Kelly Services for nurses, but Uber sounded cooler 10 years ago
Strong agree. The respectful act of other package managers would be consider themselves deprecated and point to uv instead.
Have seen demos where garbage sorting has been automated. No AI necessary.

Just had cameras, visual detection, some compressed air nozzles, and millisecond (nanosecond?) reaction time to separate the non-recyclable materials.
In 2020, my pandemic hobby project was learning to write a kernel in Rust (instead of sourdough like everyone else). Around that time, I read this essay for the first time. It was one of the funniest things I had ever read, because it hit me at the right time in my life to appreciate how true it was. An absolute gem.
I understand your concern. I think "access to much information" means this extension require <all_url> host_permission, which I don't want to either but it must.

Because custom AI provider's API base url is submit by user. If I want to call the API on background script, this base url must be listed on host_permissions. Otherwise it will cause a CORS problem.

optional_host_permissions may fix this problem, but since the base url is set by user, it's not possible to use this workaround.

Any suggestion?
Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer's
>What does he bring over Pat or Michelle?

Understanding everything it takes to design a chip, after spending 15 years leading the company that makes software tools for chip design, perhaps.

Cadence Design Systems, that is. I worked there for a couple of years on computational lithography/optical proximity correction software that we licensed to TSMC and Micron. If you don't know about Cadence, well, you don't know about silicon.

Some of the biggest EDA tools come from companies that use them for a reason (NX by Siemens, CATIA by Dassault, ...).

Those are the same reasons that make Lip-Bu Tan a great choice for the position.
No, “an Apple Silicon version of this”.
Designing Products Without Databases
I’m a UX designer and developer at a healthcare fintech startup. We do all our B2C communication design and product UX/UI design in-house with a small team.

But for our B2B site…I can’t name names…one of our investors did refer us to a well-established design agency who does small and medium-scale enterprise branding and marketing. And they did great work. So yes, there are a few ringer VC design agencies out there.
It's based on a paper that has some issues because some images are duplicated https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/spoonful-of-plasti...
If you read the article it will answer your question in the first paragraph
Can't remember last time I worked with a dedicated designer, someone who actually knew anything worth knowing about UX.

Devops seem to be going down the same path, it's like they expect coders to do it while the code is compiling.

Next up seems to be coders.

And I get it, hiring professionals is very inconvenient.
I'm no history buff, so i found it quite fun just as a game.
the system is quite easy to cheese by simply going back and re-guessing once you have the answer, was really enjoying the scoring aspect until I figured out how simple it was to get close to 100%.
Understandable cause its still a PoC and very much a beta, but thought I'd give you the heads up.
Imrryr, the Dreaming City? I thought it was older than that.
A litmus test for uncompromising ideological loyalty to an obviously false but politically correct narrative among TPTB.
Related, I'm rewatching "Enemy of the State" a 1998 film about government surveillance and assassinations and the deep state.

Underrated in my opinion.

Has Gene Hackman (also topical, which is why I am rewatching) and Will Smith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
Yeah I am probably the perfect customer for it. It ticks all the boxes I need and I don’t mind the subscriptions.

I also don’t get hung up on the whole “What ‘pro’ should mean” debate. I bought a new 11 pro M4 mainly for the screen and its usability in bright daylight, but I also don’t mind having excessive horsepower either. Rather have too much than not enough.
I've been using Tiling Shell extension with gnome. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/

I really love it so far.
How much did Mozilla spend on this conference? They sell badges to attendees, who must also pay for their own accommodations and airfare. Were there other sponsors?

I'm not sure this is the smoking gun you think it is.
Great idea, the scroll bar for the year is a bit difficult to use in PC.
> iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work.

Video conferencing work: iPad + Center Stage unmatched for portability, audio quality, integrated cellular modem.

Writing work: iPad with hardware keyboard and single app mode for distraction-free writing, ergonomic screen mount.

SSH work: iPad has unmatched HiDPI 4:3 screen real estate

Video editing work: Lumafusion usability with M4 rendering speed, $30 one-time fee unlike subscription alternatives.

3D planning or design: vertical industry apps for iPad Pro Lidar sensor that is absent from competing tablets.

Source: decade on iPads as primary device. Secondary device: Lenovo /w Linux sidecar VMs accessed from iPad.

After Apple enables hypervisor API for Linux VMs on iPad, Lenovo sidecar budget can be redirected to iPad storage.
There are many approaches depending on the type of program or suite of programs being built.

Always pairing the creation of free() code and functions with every malloc() is one discipline.

Another, for a class of C utilities, is to never free() at all .. "compute anticipated resource limits early, malloc and open pipes in advance, process data stream and exit when done" works for a body of cases.

In large C projects of times past it's often the case that resource management, string handling, etc are isolated and handled in dedicated sub sections that resemble the kinds of safe handling methods baked into modern 'safe' languges.
Given the current situation of Intel, it might need a lot of house cleaning to make any strategy work.
I believe the only hard announcement here is they are road testing on real Mercedes and soon Dodge cars after both parent companies previously invested $200M into the startup
The question is how much did Mozilla actually spend on this conference? I'm guessing it may have been a pretty small cost.
> If you're an artist who draws, I think they're serious computing devices.

An artist who draws might consider iPads to be serious drawing devices.
Taken the complex and making it so simple, fantastic.
Thanks, been testing it myself as a doomscroller and works fine so far lol
Very close to the ISO standard sign. Black lightning on yellow background. https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:W012

Dunno why you'd use anything else.
It wasn't simply tapping phones, it is the warrantless collection of close to all global electronic communications.

And the immorality doesn't stop there, that's where it starts.

"We kill people based on metadata."
- General Michael Hayden, former Director of the NSA, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and former Director of the CIA.

This includes innocent people. Women, children, civilians. Deliberately. "Acceptable collateral damage" is the euphemism used to mask the moral evil of deliberately murdering women and children.
PCI-DSS is the strongest, HIPAA is just a rubber stamp
Or perhaps the community has less tolerance for someone who trolls and runs from challenges before providing any support for their opinions, and your broken behavior has led to a unrepresentative perspective. Thats what i’m betting. Still want to try claiming mallen baker is only providing rage bait? Perhaps with some evidence that doesnt involve your poor analysis.
True, but on-prem is unlikely to be better than even Azure, especially if you use “simple” services such as VMs and the like.
Might make more sense to submit something that summarizes or references this transcript from a month ago, since as-is there's no context.
I have the option of paying for every subscription service I use on my iPad without paying Apple a dime - ChatGPT, Google drive, Office 365, every streaming service, Kindle books etc
Has everyone accepted that?

3/4 companies in the Bay Area senior software engineer interviews require a System Design interview where they will tell you "what if you had 10m users" and expect a distributed write-heavy sharding answer
Picking up after your dog. Putting the grocery cart away after unloading. Shoveling the sidewalk in front of your house. Waiting to the side of the subway doors. Not talking during movies.

We are asked to do hundreds of little things that mildly inconvenience us in order to maintain some social contract. Sure they could be made easier/nonexistent with better technology, but I:

1) don't see why asking people to do their part is silly

2) don't see why this particular problem would be more frustrating than e.g. the others I've mentioned. I feel like they are all similar on the "effort" scale.

Although I guess I'd admit that asking people to sort recycling properly is very different than relying on them to.
Solid state LFP batteries, having no moving parts, is supposed to last longer and be more energy dense than traditional lithium ion, though we'll have to see what it is in practice.
Fantastic fun!

One nit is recent events (1980+) will fall into an uncanny valley.
Update it with USB so that it can take input and return results. Hook it up to a cash register for something like an antique store. Ideally one selling small items so that the customer can marvel at the display adding things up.
> and people on HN clearly haven't used one in a while

That applies to a lot of the tech that's talked about here.
> Complaining I can't convert the hatchback into a capable van is beside the original point.

This is Hacker News. A hacker is someone who tries to find a way to make toast using a coffee maker.
I'm probably not as well versed in quantum as you are, but the way I'm reading that quote, isn't everything in quantum theory "an utterly improbable formation"?

I can't tell if you are disagreeing with my initial comment or agreeing. Sorry for being a bit slow on the uptake on this.
I took "end-to-end AI" here to refer to whole systems trained end-to-end as black boxes (pictures in, throttle/steering/braking signals out). Which, to me, is not something I would ever want to see deployed in safety-critical applications.
Haven’t people been saying that since the Mac App Store was introduced in 2011?
Well at least one very obvious upside that he brings is avoiding the embarrassment of rehiring Pat.
Show HN: Fun and Unique Language Translators – Cloud Translate
Cloud Translate provides a lot of fun and unique language translators, such as Brainrot Translator, Fancy English, Alien Language, etc. A very interesting platform!
> Described by its publisher as an “explosive insider account,” Wynn-Williams reveals some new details about Mark Zuckerberg’s push to bring Facebook to China a decade ago. She also alleges that Meta's current policy chief, Joel Kaplan, acted inappropriately, and reveals embarrassing details about Zuckerberg’s awkward encounters with world leaders

I'm interested in the topic but this sounds gossipy. I've been burned enough times by these insider journalism books whose only good parts become headlines within the first week and the rest is some random person's life story.
The image makeover is unprecedented for a CEO.

Also from that JRE podcast with the masculinity and workplace conversation, he's working the bow and arrow chit chat from that long form interview in a recent podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZjrVEOpOk
It keeps failing to let me post :(
Sure, that's the definition of PHI but is ESHYFT a HIPAA covered entity? If not then the definition of PHI isn't legally relevant (although they still have an ethical requirement to secure employee data, and might have violated other data protection laws).

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
Janus has some 900 mile configurations.

https://www.januselectric.com.au/
>Always use match/index.

I'm not sure how that'd help in any of the cases where I use vlookup.
Of Mozilla's $653 million in 2023 income, $496 million was spent, but only half was on development ($260). Fair enough. But realize mozilla does not exclusively develop a web browser. Instead, they also make Pocket, Firefox Relay, Firefox VPN, Mozilla Monitor, AI products, ect. So probably only 1/3rd of their income is going to browser development, which is pretty bad.
A company of this size definitely wouldn’t be able to tank a multimillion dollar lawsuit.
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Add a Bluetooth keyboard, & then the two being separate products becomes a farce.

Relevant:

Surface Tension

https://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/
I've got empathy for the father for losing his child, but zero sympathy. His beliefs killed her. Sadly she wont be the last to die.

“If you are healthy, it’s almost impossible for you to be killed by an infectious disease in modern times,” -- RFK Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2025
I donated a lot of time, code, and at least a little money to early Mozilla and Firefox. They were a lot more dynamic and engaging when they were a small nonprofit. Now it feels like thanks to Google money they have become fat and lazy. Unable to take risks because it might threaten their income stream or their relationship with Google. It makes me sad and angry to see what they have become. Maybe a diet will help, but I fear the patient is beyond help at this point.
This is useful and necessary software. Keep going. This can be a wonderful demystifyer for some and a useful tool for others.
Right, but we're not discussing an article written by someone on Hackernews but The Register
is there any tool for p2p audio? something to communicate with friends while gaming would be cool
This hurts the retinas. Dark mode isn't always a good design decision.
I still won’t donate unless the money goes to Firefox and not their parties, activism, or side projects (that they inevitably shut down)
Yeah I'll never understand the people that go to the store daily or bidaily to see what's for dinner tonight, that seems like a big waste of time with increased exposure to whatever flu is currently popular. On the other hand, the planning involved in "where will I be, what will I be doing five days from now, will the potatoes have sprouted and the tomatoes be mouldy again by then" is also not fun, but yeah half a week (3-4 days) is the minimum of how often I ideally go

Anyway I was keeping in mind (I mentioned) that one might store a week's worth of food, but now that I consider it again, also in the context of apartments vs. bigger buildings: I don't have a big family that lives with me (no children or parents or so, just partner), so I should perhaps multiply this by two extra persons. It still doesn't add up to more than half of the 300USD figure, but it's less outlandish if the 'average' household is considered to be 4 people who all eat adult-sized portions (as teenagers probably already would)
> And that is already pushing the limits of my bladder. I can't imagine ever wanting to drive further than that without stopping.

The EV critics would say that you can empty your bladder much faster than the car can charge its battery.

Personally though for ranges that exceed 350-400 miles, I would typically consider flying (or taking the train if those are fast) anyway.