skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really do want a browser subscription or purchase, so that its incentives are aligned with mine and not the advertisers'.

Paid browsers used to be common in the past, and ones like Netcaptor gave us tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc. Opera was great too. Netscape itself used to be paid at first. It was big companies like Microsoft and Google tyring to EEE the web by giving away free browsers that killed the thriving browser marketplace and led to monopolies like the ones we have now.

There very much can be a browser market and business model IF antitrust were actually enforced.

Divest that shit yesterday.
1) se asia is a much more densely populated region, making infrastructure cheaper per capita to produce (some things scale better, most do not) and 2) se asia has capital flowing through it at a far higher volume, mostly because of manufacturing.

I can't speak to why there historically hasn't been as much manufacturing in Africa—I'm guessing it's just cheaper to colocate with others for lower costs across the board?

Regardless, (neo)colonialism does dominate both regions—it's a hard state to avoid if you want to interact with a global economy at a deep financial disadvantage.
Balony express?
https://www.sundayassembly.org/ is the closest organized effort I've found, besides local community groups around volunteering, philanthropy, and hobbies/shared interests.
Secure Scuttlebutt can do similarly. A wandering node can ferry messages to another cluster of nodes; it's used by sailboats where someone visits shore to run errands and exchanges messages as they go.
I thought it was a Halo reference https://www.halopedia.org/Strix-class_harrier
Depends how far away her desk is.
But most deliveries take place in cities and in suburban areas, just because more people live there.
There are a ton of anecdotal stories that tt takes up to a year to join.

There are abundant anecdotes on Canadian subreddits of people who wanted to join, are supposedly eligible to join, but couldn't actually get through the entire process for various reasons, from delays in paperwork processing to confusion about what was available. And after a year, people have made other life plans.

You still cannot even start an application online.
Discussion on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373500
Show HN: I Built MentorAI; an Educational AI Chat Application
Hi HN;

Imagine could chat to Isaac Newton, or Einstein! MentorAI does just that. It is an educational ai chat application where you get to chat to AI personas of what we would consider experts in a given field. My available lists may not be very comprehensive but i'm working on adding as many as i can.

You are all welcome to try it out.
Yeah that’s a fun one to solve.

On the plus side, the factory faces a problem as the consequences of being caught are severe. They’ll often take mitigating action to try and obfuscate the source, such as using slightly different materials so eg leather stock can’t be traced. When I was in the industry, it’d be unusual for a factory to produce the exact same thing without _any_ attempt to hide.

If you’ve ever seen a dvd with the various identifiers sanded off, now you know why :)
> it’s an always/never take

No, it isn't—I'm the one who inserted the word "almost" into that sentence! Where did you get the idea that I meant always/never?

Like I said, you can point to exceptions but that doesn't change the rule. It's better to teach the rule and break it when you really know what you're doing—when you understand that you're breaking a rule and can articulate why you need to and why it's okay this time—than it is to spread the idea that globals are really just fine and you need to weigh the trade-offs. The odds are strongly against you being the exception, and you should act accordingly, not treat globals as just another tool.

Sometimes amputation is the right move to save someone's life, but you certainly should not default to that for every papercut. It's a tool that comes out in extreme circumstances only when a surgeon can thoroughly justify it.
This is great!

I posted the following the other day -- and if you like this post and the maths involved - you will really enjoy Randall Carlson's Sacred Geometry lecture whereby he talks about all the Ancient Sacred Geometry and how it was used to measure the earth, moon, sun, stars and Earth's precession -- and how it all relates down to the measurements from the Human Body - whereby the 12-inch foot comes from, Cubits, etc.

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>Speaking of "feet" as a measurement - Randall Carlson has an AMAZING video[0] on the source of the 12 inch foot.

>And how its all related to the measurement of the precession of the earth. And yes - its specifically how to measure things in space. And its all from Sacred Geometry.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os
Molecular genetics perspective on the heritability of human behavior [pdf]
Full title: A molecular genetics perspective on the heritability of human behavior and group differences
So every website that prints labels should solve that separately?

There is an age-old problem here: how to take content on the screen and produce a printed artifact. It’s not easy, and everyone hates printer drivers, and kernel permissions, etc.

But if you want any portability of content at all, you need something like a print dialog and something like a printer driver. All the WebUSB stuff is just embedding those problems into the application.
Issue are worries America will make them dysfunctional either because while attacking Canada or just to blackmail.
From https://rubyllm.com/#have-great-conversations

# Stream responses in real-time
chat.ask "Tell me a story about a Ruby programmer" do |chunk|
print chunk.content
end
Yeah, I think i would make it “put this card in the reorder box”
When I was a teenager in the late 80's, I ran a BBS and a mockingbird outside my window learned the "paging sysop" beeps the computer made. It was very confusing, and like your bird, it was annoying because it was usually in the early morning hours.
> the leader we have right now is also a coward and a bully

These labels are being misapplied in my opinion. What people saw after the first assassination attempt was the opposite of cowardice, and I think it helped Trump win. As for bullying - there’s certainly some. But you can also look at how Biden bullied private companies to implement the Democrat’s censorship machine and find that bullying appears in many forms. Is the EU any better? Given their love of censorship and slip towards authoritarianism, I don’t think so. What about Canada? We saw their authoritarian handling of protests, where they literally denied protesters access to financial assets, and I view that as extreme bullying.

> He might be willing to go for a small country like Panama (and that would still be an _insane_ move)

Would it be insane? The canal was built by the US. It is a key part of economic and national security. Panama is violating treaties around its handover (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/1/senators-sound-alarm-...). Why do you think China is so upset about the recent sale to Blackrock? It’s because they have been quietly gaining control over the canal.

> the economies that are going to hurt the most are going to be those built on top of the US dollar as they have outsourced control over the fundamental tools you can use to stabilize your economy in rough times

I would say the opposite is true - they benefit from the world’s most powerful and best managed currency. That stability makes them resilient as well. Countries trade in dollars and accept debt in dollars for basic but well thought out reasons. They aren’t making irrational choices.
This structure sounds completely broken. So the people who work on it answer only to the people who hold the purse, but not the people (the Foundation). Do I get that right?
Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc and APL
> There are 1 million PUT requests and 10 million GET requests that month

> + 1,000,000 GET requests x ($0.004 / 1,000 requests) = $9
Ah I'd been using https://www.opengraph.xyz/
Realistically probably China as they are probably among the countries that depend the least on the US in terms of defense, banking, manufacturing, digital services, culture and the like.

If you want to live there is different question for a number of reasons, but I do think it is probably your best bet avoid the impact of a US collapse (which I think is very unlikely).
If you look on the forces.ca website, there is very clearly a shortage of non-comissioned but highly technical soldiers. You see it in the bonuses and "in-demand" tags.

https://forces.ca/en/careers

I don't think mandatory service would fix that problem.
He describes the renovations being done taking two years:

> A whole new roof, to start; now the building has a 50-year roof, which means it will almost certainly outlive me. The electricity was knob and tube and had to be redone. There was an outside retaining wall that had to be torn out and redone. The aforementioned balcony was actually not safe to be on; it was cantilevered out into space with no support and had a shin-high barrier that wouldn’t stop anyone from going over the side. That was fixed, and new floors and custom bookcases by a local artisan built in so I could have my library. The basement floor was redone; the kitchen space down there gutted and remodeled. We pulled up high-traffic industrial carpet glued to the sanctuary floor and reconditioned the hardwood floors underneath. New HVAC, and improved drainage for the maintenance room. The office and Sunday school room in the basement was turned into a guest suite. The structure was sealed against moisture and the walls were all replastered and repainted.

I live in a reasonably large city, and it took me much more than two years just to get some unsatisfactory work done on a couple of rooms. (Much of that time being trying to get the contractor to come finish up the work so I could finally give him money, an inducement which seemed to have startlingly little power.) I'd always thought that was just because I started peri- and post-pandemic, but Scalzi says that this work, too, was done during the pandemic, so that can't be it. I guess I'm just really bad at picking contractors.
This seems very sensible for an earthquake zone.
This year about 55 solar parks of ~20MW each are supposed to join the network. I think 4 or 5 are operating already. The daily demand is of 3000MW with a deficit of 1500MW, so the whole country never has had electricity at the same time for the last few months.
From the episode: "You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful than any computer could ever be. You know why--you're a living human being, and a computer is just a machine. Human beings are far more wonderful than machines!" -Fred Rogers

I appreciate that a computer has become such a wonderful tool for realizing ideas that come from my imagination.
That actually sounds a lot better.
> Panglossian

I had to look it up, but what a fantastic word which applies perfectly to this context:

"Panglossian" describes something or someone characterized by extreme and often naive optimism, especially in the face of adversity

Panglossian • \pan-GLAH-see-un\ • adjective. : marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic.

Example: Even the most Panglossian temperament would have had trouble finding the good in this situation.

Thank you!
The example was in React but I don’t see how that prevents potentially using this with other frameworks or languages.

That said, I feel like this is learning something like CoffeeScript. You have to learn all this language specific syntax (though simplified), why not just learn the language itself at that point?
That’s a big contrast to the US where the various services they’re ready to sign you up asap in high school.
You have expertly summarized the first and last lines of my original post about Color NTSC. Interlacing is effectively dithered color super-resolution at low frame rate with blur from fast motion line tearing at the interlace rate.

Your cones are surprisingly low bandwidth (why old color TVs even worked at
30Hz), while your rods provide danger/flicker cues outside the fovea.

Uncorrelated subpixel scale dithering works just fine at 30Hz.
The statics on kidnapped or missing children in the US say most are taken by a family member, not by a stranger in public. I rode my bike to school in fifth grade but had to stop because of my mom's anxiety.
I suspect you may have an overly sanitized view of the US impact on indigenous populations, at least in North America. You might want to read about the "Indian Wars" post US revolution and efforts by the US government such as those to eradicate bison as a means to wipe out the Plains Indian tribes, the Trail of Tears, the California Genocide, etc., etc.
Welp, I worked on this one. Specifically, I worked on the laser rangefinders which are under so much scrutiny. I no longer work at Intuitive Machines, but I'm certainly interested in finding out what happened to the lasers this time.
except that there are more than two possibilities, but the debate is reduced to artificial Left and Right -- a miniature copy of the American political duopoly
It's been obvious for a long time this was going to be the development path for Africa. Just as they leapfrogged land line telephones for cellular. Africa was never going to build out massive coal and natural gas based electrical grids with transmission lines substations and utility poles bringing electricity to every home. The capital isn't there and the cost of renewables keeps falling.
I know several people that worked there back in the growth days of the company. They had all drunk the kool aid hard on the work connecting people and making the world a better place. Several of them became very disenchanted when scandals like Cambridge Analytica or the manipulation of the public during 2016 election occurred.

Zuck and the leadership there had really spun a positive, world changing narrative to employees.
Your docs are borked but I guess anyone that really wanted to read the backend developer guide should be reading it from the repo anyway, huh? https://github.com/prodaft/cradle/blob/main/docs/content/doc...
This is really telling of the current vibe I get from Firefox, and why I feel resistant to support them beyond “It’s a bit more private than default Chrome”

Companies gonna company and expand in the wrong direction if they forget were they come frome.
I ask questions to AI
and learn exactly what I need to learn. Perplexity gives me sources to verify or expand upon the answers. I’m getting better information and I’m getting it faster, what am I losing? I’ve experienced it both ways and I’m telling you without doubt that AI is enhancing my productivity significantly. It’s hard for me to believe that I’m an edge case.
I recently bought 4 lifepo4 12v 100ah ~1200 wh for $159 off Amazon as a retail customer. Battery storage is indeed cheap and accessible to the average person. Pair it with new 24% efficient solar panels and you can see why there's little to be gained by running expensive lines to distribute power when it can be sent everywhere wirelessly.

It's not too different to how developing counties rolled out wireless Internet and gained a huge benefit without much infrastructure investment.
Show HN: I built an app that rewrites the news in 11 different AI personalities
Hello HN! I'm excited to share my side project that just launched on the App Store. I was tired of doom-scrolling and thought, "What if an app could keep me informed while making me laugh?"

What it does: AI Satire News takes real news stories and transforms them using different comedic personalities. Want to see how "The Onion" would cover tech layoffs? Or how a "Gen Z Brainrot" would explain inflation? Or even how "Bob Ross" would gently narrate geopolitical conflicts? The app handles it all.

I built a system that:

1. Ingests news from multiple sources in real-time
2. Uses specialized LLM prompting with personality-specific templates (all 11 personalities have different prompt structures)
3. Implements a multi-stage generation pipeline where headlines are created, voted on, and then full articles are generated based on the winning headline
4. Creates an interactive comment section where personalities argue with each other

Some unique features:
- Each personality has a specific role - some are "posters" who create full articles (like The Onion, Gen Z Brainrot, and Bob Ross), while others are "commenters" who react to articles
- Personalities like "Conspiracy Grandma," "Tech Bro Disruptor," and "Pedantic Corrector" will comment on articles and even reply to each other's comments with their unique perspectives
- Comments include reactions (agree, disagree, shocked, amused) from other personalities
- The entire system creates a simulated social media experience where AI personalities interact with each other in entertaining ways

Some technical challenges I solved:
- Prompt engineering to make these AI more entertaining
- Prompt engineering to maintain each personality's voice while preserving factual accuracy
- Building a real-time processing queue that scales with news volume
- Creating natural-sounding interactions between different AI personalities in the comments
- Keeping costs manageable while processing realtime news stories every hour

The app is completely free and has no ads. I built it as an experiment to see if AI could make staying informed more enjoyable.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ai-satire-news/id6742298141?uo...

I'd love your feedback! What other personalities would you like to see? Any suggestions for improving the concept?
> But with AI bringing more and more developers on line and exploding the complexity of startup billing

These two things are unrelated, and while I'm skeptical about the first point (do more people program solely due to AI?), startup billing hasn't become more complex because of AI, and to be honest if you're just doing small scale sales to consumers (B2C), getting set up is not that challenging with the big providers like Stripe. It takes a bit of work, yes, but it's not really that challenging even if you have to manage multiple subscriptions.

There are other things I could point out (is it common that products need to support multiple payment processors?), and while I'm not trying to be completely negative about this project because it's commendable to try to make it easier for small teams to be able to accept payments, the reality is that it's difficult for multiple reasons (e.g. KYC) and this shouldn't be fully hidden from the developer that deals with billing. You can't get away from the complexity just by making an abstraction layer and when the abstraction fails the "vibes coding" will hit a brick wall.
I don't really care because I only use the TV to access other streaming apps, and I know they already see everything I watch anyway. I don't have either cable TV or a cable-like alternative (YTTV, Roku Live, Sling, etc). Periodically I'll use it to cast something to, but it's usually my kid's soccer matches from a website on a laptop.

Fwiw, to the best of my awareness, I don't receive any advertising from my Samsung TV other than perhaps the strip of suggested things to watch (half of which are "continue watching" linked to watch history in the app I'm hovering over) that lives above the app list. This is wildly different from Google TV, which has a core value prop of embedding advertising right in your face.
Unfortunately, the comment you are responding to is more correct on this than I think you are. The python thing was stupid, though - a lot of high-performance code gets written in libraries like numpy (that call C 99.99% of the time) or pytorch (JIT-ed before executing) that keep Python our of the critical path.

The problem with this research is that many similar ideas have been tried before in the contexts of supercomputers or CPU compilers. They ultimately all fail because they end up (1) being more work to program in, and (2) not being any faster because real life happens. Networks drop packets, clock frequencies jitter, and all sorts of non-determinism happens when you have large scale. A static scheduler forces you to stall the whole program for any of these faults. All the gain you got by painstakingly optimizing things goes away.

PhD theses, in a best-case scenario, are the basis for new applications. Most of them amount to nothing. This one belongs on that pile. The sad part about that is that it isn't the student's fault that the professor sent them down a research direction that is guaranteed to amount to nothing of use. This one is on the professor.
No need to even hypothesize a conspiracy when incentives alone suffice to explain behavior.

There is benefit in controlling the governmental process and the wealthy have resources to take the time to do it (and pay others to use their the to do it). Individual citizens don't have the money but they have the numbers. What's missing is the actual collective action.
Even if he was, being correct wouldn’t make the condescension cool.
A great read. Even today in the indie game developer scene there's a huge range of opinion about what constitutes borrowing, copying, stealing, ripping, and grifting.
But LLM performance scales according to the log of compute, so yeah it’s pretty insignificant. I think we’ve reached a bit of a plateau.
Still doesn't answer how you quantify "enough".
I would think that ML is exactly useful in developing an “eye”.
This isn't a high-value space mission.
I lost confidence completelythe moment I saw that the example code was with React.js.

Immediately felt like one of those disposable framework ideas.
I get a lot or usability from having one single operating system.

Sure it’s less secure than full isolation, but full isolation is a real pain.
Every gram of weight is directly trading off payload.
A little downside, yeah, but these scripts can be easily toggled. What can't be easily done is finding my last timestamp in a 5h long vod when &t-in-history screws it up.
Another effect they're glossing over is inflation. They're measuring real labor productivity ((dollars generated / inflation) / hours worked), but usually the way you measure inflation in that equation is to plug in some society-wide metric like the CPI or GDP deflator. By most accounts restaurant inflation has gone up more than overall CPI inflation; at least, I'm spending $120 on a meal that would've cost $80 pre-pandemic, yet official CPI inflation over this time period has been only about 23%. If you use that formula naively, it looks like the earnings of the restaurant sector have increased (which, technically speaking, they have relative to the rest of the economy), but it's really because you're paying more for the same service than you did before.
Booting into personal mode wouldn't protect the user from having to return the laptop without notice in the event of layoff/termination, without any opportunity to recover or erase personal info. It also doesn't nullify the right of the corporate IT, HR, legal, etc. to inspect any data on the machine, personal or not, at any time. It's utterly not worth it even if it were offered.
Robots are not a silver bullet for recycling. If anything, they impose stricter requirements on what you are required to do before recycling and what you can recycle. For example, you have to rinse food residues even more thoroughly to prevent them from contaminating paper and cardboard. And smaller pieces of recyclable materials often cannot be recycled, because it's not efficient to run the conveyor belts slowly enough to sort them.
The price of a ride to the moon alone would make this "high-value." Cubesats are an example of when you can get away with no redundancy, but this is not a cubesat.