skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From author Roald Dahl:

> Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

> “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

> “I feel all sleepy,” she said.

> In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

> [...]

> I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach‘. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG‘, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

https://fs.blog/roald-dahl-letter-daughter/
One of the non-goals is “to be useful to anyone,” after all.

I like this language, it shares my aesthetics.
Wow, as someone with vivid and fond memories of watching this in college, I'm seeing this in this very thread. Kinda wild, and really makes me feel old and out of touch. And that heartbeats song is a banger and will forever take me back.
Hey other-Kenton! Can I suggest you maybe re-register your username as "kvizdos" instead of "_kentonv", otherwise people might think you're trying to impersonate me. :)
I think you might have your dates confused. Pyenv was first released about 8 years ago.
BDXL is so expensive and low capacity. It seems totally unviable.

I thought Sony's 5.5 TB Optical Disc Archive looked cool but it was probably crazy expensive and AFAIK it's now discontinued.
Folks in the industry are certainly thinking about this. The economic forces at play could be huge.
Good lord, I've gone a long time without knowing what that was all about. First time I heard it I assumed the lorry had a broken reversing beep speaker or something!
Parts of the video are sped up. These are labeled "Autonomous 5x", etc. In some cases, it's not obvious, so it's useful to have the label.

And many popular robotics demos are either controlled by humans or scripted, so it's useful to have the "Autonomous" label as well to clear up confusion. For example, I know a lot of people who thought the recent Unitree G1 demos were autonomous.
See I don't get that at all. I don't find it selling me something - it's from TWENTY YEARS AGO. It's just a video of 250,000 bouncy balls flying down a hill at 100mph. It's a cool sight. It's something that, if I was 10 and had access to that many bouncy balls, I'd be plotting myself.
VACE: All-in-One Video Creation and Editing
Thanks for the blog post, I like these personal pieces of software history
ThorVG – lightweight portable vector graphics library
I'm looking at another use-case further down the spectrum. I don't believe you're making an argument for/against those things. On the contrary, I am expanding the argument to what I believe is a more reasonable scenario to analyze this new fed gov policy.

Unfortunately our government does not engage in nuance well, so if I have to sacrifice translation services for criminal defendants in order to secure against ballots, passports, and other citizen-specific materials in foreign languages I am willing to make that tradeoff.
I am from the west country (and recognize people in the show) and there really are people that speak like that, including dropping off in the middle of a sentence. We had someone working on our farm that was very hard for most people to understand - basically the same accent/dialect.
Interesting term.

Its still not broadly recognized, would be my guess, but the near- term today for this "
teleo-reactivity would probably be autonomic.

Autonomic technically is about auto-responsive systems, ones that self update without human intervention. But it often is used in the context of control-loops and computer operators, self healing systems that respond to change/incidents on their own.

Teleo-reactive is an interesting classifier, term, in part because it a) doesn't definitionally exclude human involvement, b) doesn't necessarily have to keep trying to converge on the same goals (not that autonomic has to,
but self-healing often . Its a broader idea, to me.

There's big overlaps with embodied agents or computing, of sensing & re-orienting, & re planning.
I LOVED the Honda Cog video and the story [1] about how they made it along with the purported 100+ takes is craziness. I can't imagine resetting it so many times... especially since the offending item that kept killing it was so late in the chain.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28advertisement%29
I saw mentions of Zig here often, so I decided to look at the docs to see what features it has. I had to scroll through all the docs only to find myself disappointed by the fact that Zig doesn't help with memory management in any way and advices to use comments and careful coding instead. And what adds to the disappointment is that its plus/minus operators do not catch overflow. If I wanted undefined behaviour, I could just use C/C++ as no language can compete with them in this regard.
This is an interesting question! You're giving me a chance to reflect a little more than I did when I wrote that last comment.

I can only speak for myself, but it's not that I care a lot about me personally being the first one to discover some new piece of mathematics. (If I did, I'd probably still be doing research, which I'm not.) There is something very satisfying about solving a problem for yourself rather than being handed the answer, though, even if it's not an original problem. It's the same reason some people like doing sudokus, and why those people wouldn't respond well to being told that they could save a lot of time if they just used a sudoku solver or looked up the answer in the back of the book.

But that's not really what I'm getting at in the sentence you're quoting --- people are still free to solve sudokus even though sudoku solvers exist, and the same would presumably be true of proving theorems in the world we're considering. The thing I'd be most worried about is the destruction of the community of mathematicians. If math were just a fun but useless hobby, like, I don't know, whittling or something, I think there would be way fewer people doing it. And there would be even fewer people doing it as deeply and intensely as they are now when it's their full-time job. And as someone who likes math a lot, I don't love the idea of that happening.
And that too. Company towns are usually built around a resource like a
mine or something, whereas city states arise at natural confluences. A
company setup has only one show in town and whoever controls that is
boss. Building out in the desert is Red Alert command sims stuff
IMHO. and probably works if you've a nuclear reactor and a ring of
tesla-coils around the whole perimeter.
I immediately am reminded of stuff like https://oasis-model.github.io/, simply because I think you could probably:

1) tweak something like that to increase the likelihood of certain situations (abundance of a particular resource/object; frequent geographical feature), and

2) instruct your embodied AI to control a "player" model (to whatever degree of accuracy in articulation/mobility) to wander and perform certain types of tasks.
Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll check it out!

I love that this podcast only comes every two weeks. Some (like Software Engineering Daily) are far too often so I either feel the paradox of choice or that I’m missing out.
At least those can currently pass industry level audits.
Motivation to fix things?
Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF
The _only_ thing I feel Niri still needs is this: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/discussions/352#discussioncom...

Otherwise it is the perfect endgame UX for me. Regardless of screen size or form factor. I never thought I'd find something that I liked better than i3/sway, but those subtle niri animations, at double speed? On a high refresh rate monitor, w/ amdgpu? Ahh. Chef's kiss <3
AGI was supposed to replace me. instead, I have more work to do than
This is a great idea - loved it!

And I’d love to see the idea expanded further. “AI recreations of historical scenes” is an idea with tons of interesting potential.
>Exactly how is one supposed to determine what evidence is faked versus what evidence is not?

It's pretty simple. If the "evidence" can be created by software, it's not evidence. Perhaps some specially designed recording hardware might digitally sign a voice recording, and one might be inclined to trust that it was a real recording if the design of that hardware/software system was vetted.

But just for a recording? There's no point. Allowing a jury to decide that this recording is bad, but this other one is okay when they have no expertise to be able to determine if it is fake or not and none of the technical details either is just asking for prejudicial and even superstitious deliberation.

We are at the point where audio (and probably video) recordings no longer count as evidence of real world events. It's been this way for photographs for a long time already.
I’ll use the other car.
inference speed of the models is probably the bottleneck
In this case it’s the model. There’s an insane amount of computation that should happen in milliseconds but given today’s hardware might run 10 times too slow. Mind you these models take in lots of sensor data and spit out trajectories in a tight feedback loop.
> python does have pointers under the hood. objects are passed via pointers.

Of courses there’s pointers under the hood. It’s a runtime built in C++.

But that doesn’t mean that Python -the language not the runtime- has pointers itself.

> the optional static type checking in python gives you a stronger typing than what golang does

“Stronger” isn’t the term you’d want to use there. Python is not more strongly typed than Go just by virtue of it being more a dynamic language.

I do agree that the Go type system is pretty inflexible though.
I see the confusion between medecine and drug

Here in France, drugs = some shit you get addicted easily
Oh, oh, thanks!
Very interesting as CNCF also behind https://opentelemetry.io/ could make for an interesting approach.

Interested to see how the "messaging" protocols will work at this scale with use of pub/sub for agent communication (https://dapr.github.io/dapr-agents/home/principles/#5-messag...).
“Memory management”, “bygone era.” The problem is you and many others probably think this is actually true.
I love DuckDB Labs. They get to work on their cool engine. Get paid by Databricks to build Delta Support. Get paid by MotherDuck to build a UI. Always making the core open-source offering better, but getting massively VC funded companies to pay for it.
The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.
As I understand it, the gotcha with aluminum is: there is no such thing as non-fatiguing stress — whereas, say, steels, have a range of elasticity where it can operate and not lose strength (or get cold-work hardened).

With aluminum, any flexion — no matter how little — marginally reduces the strength of the material. Ergo, even under ideal conditions it's saddled with a limited service life.
> That is almost certainly user error on my part

If an interested and reasonably savvy person can't get a program to work as it claims, the problem is the program, not the user.
100% agreed, it just takes a task that was a 10-15min setup depending on your environment and personal knowledge to a 2min thing. It just makes life easier and it puts the bar for starting lower, a win in my book =)
> You have to memorize the borrow checker

Correct me if I am wrong, but Rust at least has a borrow checker while in C (and Zig) one has to do the borrow checking in their head. If you read a documentation for C libraries, some of them mention things like "caller must free this memory" and others don't specify anything and you have to go to the source code to find out who is responsible for freeing the memory.
Spend $50 experimenting with both architectures in a VPS and buy whichever you preferred.
I think you have something promising there.

I like that everything starts with a keyword, it makes the language feel consistant and I assume the parser is simple to understand because of it.

I like that you distinguish a procedure from a function in regards to side-effects and that you support both mutable and immutable types.

I like that you dont have to put a semicolon after each line but instead just use newline.

I like that you don't need parenthesis for ifs and whiles, however I am not sure I like the while syntax. Maybe I need to try it a bit before I can make up my mind.

On the other hand I think the type system could be expanded to support more types of different sizes. Especially if you are going for a systems programming language you want to be able to control that.

I think you could have a nil type because it is handy but it would be good if the language somehow made sure that any variable that could potentially be nil has to be explicitly checked before use.
Does anyone have a link to the ad? I couldn't find one in the article, which is a huge shame.
Well I'll need to fix that!

edit: it's fixed, you might need a shift-reload to get the new code.
Isn’t popover kinda useless without a position api of the popover element? Most of the time you want to create a ‚better‘ title. But the hard part is not something like the popover it‘s the positioning (can’t do middle at the end of screen even if the others are middle since it would cut stuff or add temporary scrollbars usw.?)

Edit: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/anchor-positioning-api?hl=... this one
Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now work on war
I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be stored either as liquid or at least pressurized.

Steam has something like 200x the volume of the water it’s boiled from.
iPhone 16e Camera Review
I enjoyed this a lot. Congratulations :)
There was, at the time, some sort of issue with the flake. So, really, I couldn't get it running with flakes. I should really try it again.
I've experimented with a two-crew type system before (Red Team for feature development, Blue Team for stability and bug fixes).

Rather than treating these as fixed teams, we treated them as workstreams that people rotated between every sprint (every two weeks).

It worked for about 3 months, until it didn't - by then we had grown enough to organising the teams around the business capabilities or domains instead.
Thank you! We have plans to expand it! We've been hearing from a few teachers that they like playing Time Portal with their class because it helps the kids empathize with people in the past. There are some really fun possibilities just in the learning space and more in gaming.
Oh my! Hello actual kentonv. My laziness strikes. (Though cmon, what’s the chances haha! I shoulda checked the profile beforehand..) I’ve hidden the post (I think that’s good? I don’t see a delete option). I’ll see about getting into kvizdos.. not sure I still have the email account around, but either way I’ll find a new username and this’ll become a dead account
I am not sure if Intel can survive on its own. Games changed quite a bit and Nvidia is about to enter the space and will likely gain significant shares if they bundle their products in anticompetitive ways. It will be cutthroat for both Intel and AMD. But if he pulls it off, he will go down in history as the guy who saved Intel.
IMO his expansion of the government was a best case scenario. The US was quickly barreling towards a socialist revolution. Any other president, particularly a greedy ultra-capitalist, would’ve stoked that flame.

The American people were angry about their exploitation at a level that hasn’t been seen since the creation of the US. He successfully bread crumbed the poor away from taking heads, literally. We so often forget that the most powerful people in this nation is Us, the People. We vote and we revolt. A nation-wide catastrophe is the perfect opportunity for mass organization.

Make no mistake, FDR was a staunch free market capitalist. He just wasn’t stupid.
I remember this from the 90s.

And I love your use of italics, Simon!
This is really useful I often find I want to spin through different designs and I was wanting something like this for my own projects.
Have you thought about being able to go back to previous designs?
Would also like to Shadcn components in the mockup too.
Really cool. Thanks!
Show HN: An Open Source Vector Optimized Equilizer Plugin
This EQ plugin is optimized for AVX, SSE, and NEON, delivering a 30-50% performance boost over a standard C++ implementation.
The current CEO was supposed to be a down to earth, technical, no bureaucracy guy as well.
It felt extra fake - the cherry picked people lacking rudimentary mechanical skills, using the ~$50K set of Franka Emika arms vs their default 'budget' ALOHA 2 grippers, the sheer luck that helped the robots put the belt on instead of removing it from the pulley.

The trick was in that the belt was too tight for an average human to put on with brute force, and disabling the tensioner or using tricks would require better than average mechanical skills their specially chosen 'random humans' lacked.
Fixing a Mac SE/30 to run A/UX (2021)
I'm over here with TTS: Underlining in a terminal rarely translates to audio. It isn't the only consideration that needs to be made, when making things clear.
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Numerous private device registries use the UDI to monitor long-term outcomes for breast implants, cardiac pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, and other devices. However, participating physicians may not be able to view each other’s submissions, and nonparticipating physicians cannot view submissions. The data are proprietary and not publicly available. Congress should authorize the infrastructure to create a national and publicly accessible registry that uses the UDI for tracking postmarket medical outcomes and safety."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
They may have just agreed to get Intel to this point and hand it off.
This made me so happy. Too many good quotes.
Loud cars aren't /inherently/ the issue, it's that most of the people who want their car to be loud also have no concept of sound quality for their exhaust tone. Your typical 4-banger ecobox driven by a 19 year old stoner with an Aliexpress exhaust is not what people mean when they say that they like the sound of cars.

I like the sounds of cars, and cars can absolutely have their sound tuned to be pleasant. Famously, Lexus for the LFA had Yamaha (yes the piano people) tune the sound of the engine and exhaust, which sounds absolutely lovely. Even far more mundane vehicles (not supercars) can sound quite nice. For instance, while I generally don't think positively about Ford, this last generation of Mustang GT had a wonderful exhaust note from the factory with the cutouts open, it was throaty and loud without being full of drone.

Nobody wants to hear an Aliexpress exhaust or the kid with the beater BMW leaking oil that they put a popcorn tune on.

Motorcycles are a different story, but motorcycle riders are also a different sort of asshole.
Yeah fair point. The game still has an issue with details creeping in that are not correct. I believe we can get these types of errors down quite a bit though.
This is awesome! Definitely some more obscure historical events in there. Agree that the scoring is a bit harsh, especially since the clips are, let’s say, somewhat impressionistic.

Excellent idea and can’t wait for the next version.
Show HN: Embed restaurant/grocery ordering into your App/AI agent
Hi HN! We built the MealMe SDK and API which lets apps embed restaurant and grocery ordering from local stores and send those orders directly into users' existing accounts on platforms like Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and directly into restaurant and grocery store accounts like McDonalds, Walmart, etc.

The SDK provides real-time product availability, pricing, and delivery options from restaurants and grocery stores. When a user places an order, it gets processed through their own marketplace account, preserving their saved payment methods, loyalty rewards, and order history.

This allows apps to offer seamless food ordering without managing their own store relationships, fulfillment or logistics. Would love to hear thoughts from the HN community—what use cases do you think this could unlock?
Related. Others?

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The production side of things comes from exploitation - the US is the strongest imperialist force in the world. We don’t just exploit the periphery, we also exploit our own citizens to the maximum they can bear.
Maybe that's true where you live. My town is just under 2000 years old.

I get that it makes sense from a logistics point to keep airports close to people. But's incredibly disruptive to all the people who are impacted by frequent loud bursts of noise during landing & takeoff.
so he's getting knifed after 6 months and Intel will be in even worse shape?
Nooooooo! He was my next door neighbor a few years ago, and I knew him as a person before I realized that I knew him as a hero.

His dogs were fiercely protective of his house, which is perfectly understandable. One day I saw a "sewer cleaning" van behind his house, and I have a hard time believing that's what it really was: https://honeypot.net/2025/03/12/rip-mark-klein.html
if it's anything like their past "demos" it's all staged anyway
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Most states have some form of car exhaust noise laws - a few even do state dB!

https://www.semasan.com/resources/exhaust-noise-laws-state
Show HN: I built an app to teach my toddler 30 languages in just 10 min/day
I wanted my toddler to benefit from early exposure to multiple languages but struggled to find a simple, engaging tool. So, I created 'Learn Colors - In 30 Languages,' a minimalist app designed specifically for toddlers.

The app helps children learn basic colors through interactive play, high-quality audio pronunciations, and a clean, minimalist design. Each language features carefully generated voiceovers from ElevenLabs for every color and phrase, with each audio file reviewed for accuracy and pronunciation.

I'd love to hear feedback from the community, especially from parents or those passionate about language learning for kids.
https://archive.ph/jGu6e
The physical labor will be for the robots in the video.

We'll probably spend all day consuming media and socializing. Thats the optimistic view of course.
I would perhaps amend that statement for adults to: consume it on very rare occasions as an enjoyable treat, but certainly not frequently.