skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like programming! I can't imagine how we'd teach machines to code.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About International Borders
From https://bunny.net/gdpr:

> How does bunny.net comply with GDPR?

> bunny.net is fully committed to complying with the GDPR. We have overhauled our user Privacy & Data policy and taken steps to ensure no personally identifiable data is stored from your users that access your services through bunny.net by anonymizing any data that could be used to directly or indirectly identify a user. [..]

Looks like they share personal data of Bunny customers but not the users of the customer's services.
Yes your example is extremely niche. It only works where you are going to work on one specific application for many years in the same place. It doesn't generalise to building a house, a supermarket or a road. It doesn't generalise to ploughing the Mid-West.

Even in your example it only works if you are taking all of the material to one destination, like an ore refinery. If it was road stone, the rock would get loaded onto a diesel truck for the final part of the journey. So again, the tractor, the excavator on a job site, the lorry, will all stay on diesel or hydrogen ICE
> The article frames Iran’s actions as repressive

In what way is the government monitoring and controlling what people wear not repressive?
Dollars are fake, or more accurately, a social construct, remember that. You can always tax the cheaper fuel and subsidize the more expensive one.
Switzerland has no oil and depend on its banking sector. If USA crashes then likely all modern supply line will be cut and finance will be something of the past.
The current well being of a country does not indicate much how it will survive a global crisis.
A farmer in rural Africa would be less affect by the implosion of USA than a trader at Geneve.
Mullvad is Swedish and they run no logs VPN so not illegal there
Follow up to his previous popular video on The Line a year ago https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg
Does anyone know was Tim Berners Lee a fan and was he influenced or did he have any inkling he was manifesting the infrastructure for the guide?
I remember in 1999, the DOJ wanted to split Microsoft into smaller parts. Now, the government wants to separate Chrome from Google. Google's business plan is to collect data and sell it, this is how Chrome, Gmail, etc. are free to use. Without Chrome Google might have to start charging for GMail, etc.
Start your business here, one-stop launch
Over the past few years of product development, I've built many products, but none have truly succeeded. The reason, I've realized, is that I spend too much time on development and never on marketing. Development is my comfort zone; marketing is tedious.

Marketing requires you to do things like: optimize SEO, improve user experience, create promotional images, write marketing copy, and manually add backlinks one by one. Each of these tasks is incredibly boring.

Is there really no solution to such tedious work? I wanted to try.

I developed sparknow.cc to attempt to solve this problem. SparkNow has several features: SEO diagnostics, global user experience diagnostics, marketing copy generation, promotional image generation, 200+ backlinks, and automatic backlink submission.

If you have similar frustrations, I hope you'll give it a try. The experience may not be perfect yet, but we are continuously improving it.

Our goal is to make product promotion no longer a difficult task, so you can just focus on development.
If I was 100% sure that my money goes to the browser, I would. If there is even 1% possibility of them spending some of my money funding other organisations (especially involved in politics / society reform / activism), I absolutely wouldn't.
> When it comes to energy expenditure, Apple is the only fitness tracker providing a strong accuracy of 71.02%. Jawbone, Fitbit, and Polar yield only moderate accuracy, ranging between 50.23% and 65.57%.

I don't buy it, no brand can be accurate on energy expenditure because it depends on a lot more things than what the watch can monitor.

Even in lab they have to put big mask on people while exercising to get something somewhat accurate.

On watch, calorie counter is a function of time and heart rate. Yet most watch brand can't even get heart rate right beside apple and Huawei.

Tried all the brand, went back to using a 10€ Casio and put a H10 monitor when doing sport.
It's not illegal for vendors, they just have to colaborare with law enforcement when a subpoena is received, and this collaboration can entail attacking their own users as long as a technical capability to do so exists.

If you think about it, it's more or less the only way this could work in any democratic society.
Potential difference without flow. A discharge is a dam breaking.
That's a good argument for voluntary individual contributions, but not for foreign aid.

The purpose of government is advancement of the common good of the citizens that form the polity. The good of people outside of the polity is beyond its scope and responsibility. Any aid to or alliance with a foreign nation can only be justified with tangible benefits at home.
This amuses me:

> But Lewis Ardern on our team wrote a Semgrep rule to find usages of tj-actions, which you can run locally (without sending code to the cloud) via: semgrep --config r/10Uz5qo/semgrep.tj-actions-compromised.

So "remote code you download from a repo automatically and run locally has been compromised, here run this remote code you download from a repo automatically and run locally to find it"
I like to say that I don't care if it's inaccurate, as long as it's precise.
The fallacy with that argument is that hydrogen's volumetric energy density is very low.

In liquid form, methane has about 2.7x more energy by volume than hydrogen. Diesel has 4.2x more energy. Keeping and transporting hydrogen in liquid form takes a lot of energy and requires constantly boiling it off to keep it liquid. In practice, most hydrogen is transported in compressed gas form (700 bars). In that form, you need about 11 hydrogen truckloads to a single diesel truckload.

So, it takes up a lot of space. This makes it very impractical for transport use cases. Unless you convert it to something that maybe contains hydrogen but also other atoms. Like carbon (carbohydrates) or nitrogen (e.g. ammonia). Converting it to those forms takes more energy. And those multiply. And doing the chemical conversion back to energy in a combustion engine has the same problem as all combustion engines: it loses most of the energy as heat. Fuel cells might improve on that; but they'd still be losing energy.

This is why battery electric trucks easily match the ranges of most hydrogen trucks on the road. There are currently no production hydrogen trucks or buses that offer a longer range than their battery-electric equivalents. You'd need significantly larger tanks and adding the same volume in battery would match the range easily. Even with current production batteries (160-200 wh/kg), which are about a third of the energy density of already announced new state of the art batteries (500wh/kg). Batteries are on a path of steady volumetric an mass density improvements. Hydrogen will never get better than it already is.

It's also why hydrogen planes are no longer being considered a viable plan by the likes of Airbus; most of the plane would have to be reserved for hydrogen containment.

For ships, using hydrogen as a fuel is not a serious option either. Simply too much volume. Transporting hydrogen by ship in liquid form loses 1-2% of the load per day to boil off. This is the only way to keep it liquid; boiling it off cools the liquid. The longer the journey, the more hydrogen is lost to unavoidable boil-off, making long-distance transport highly inefficient.
Yes and yes.

But still good to know if someone pick a service with this intention:
"I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare."
Firechat did meshed WiFi during 2014 Hong Kong protests

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/firechat-messa...

China went to hard mode to kill the app.
Advertising accounts for 80% of AlphaGoogle's revenue. That makes them Google's monarchy.

Re: AMP. AMP is like Cloudflare. Whatever is good about it is, by definition, bad for the Web, because its model replaces the Web as-we-know-it with something closer to Compuserve.

Re: Ad-blockers. It may not be a complete prohibition, but it is a hobbling of ad-blockers. It is clearly intentional, too, as evidenced by AlphaGoogle's recent anti-adblocker initiatives at Youtube.
This is not accurate. I do not know the details but netlify served things from a CDN by default if you set things up correctly with a CNAME entry in your DNS record.

People often misconfigure things by pointing their domain to netlify's IP with an A entry, but this is a user problem, not a netlify problem.

I'm sure their builds/functions run in a single region but not static files
But why Mozilla has this "mission"? Activists?
Show HN: Built a Beautiful Handwritten Signature Generator
The mainstream media essentially didn't cover it at all until halfway through the election.
Yeah, if you just phone random people they'll probably say Tesla is bad. It's different to a while later when the news has faded and they are actually buying a car and comparing options.
Seeing how you reply to others trying to explain what stoics actually tried to convey saddens me a little. But the only thing that is left to say is:

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
- Epictetus

I wish you all the great and hope that someday you will change you attitude and perspective on stoicism.
usual disclaimer: you decide on your own whether I'm an insider or not :)

where LeCun might be prescient should intersect with the nemesis SCHMIDHUBER. They can't both be wrong, I suppose?!

It's only "tangentially" related to energy minimization, technically speaking :) connection to multimodalities is spot-on.

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/3/252

To Compress or Not to Compress—Self-Supervised Learning and Information Theory: A Review

With Ravid, double-handedly blue-flag MDPI!

Sunmarized for the layman (propaganda?)
https://archive.is/https://nyudatascience.medium.com/how-sho...

>When asked about practical applications and areas where these insights might be immediately used, Shwartz-Ziv highlighted the potential in multi-modalities and tabula

Imho, best take I've seen on this thread (irony: literal energy minimization)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367126

Of course, this would make Google/OpenAI/DeepSeek wrong by two whole levels (both architecturally and conceptually)
It’s funny that everyone bashed Apple for their lack of RCS support and now that they have it, all posts seem to indicate RCS is a shit standard at best. I have no idea if it is but that’s the impression I got.

I guess it was just a talking point to shit on Apple’s approach?

I don’t care anyway. Here everyone uses WhatsApp so RCS is not important but just an outsider observation.
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HN strips query params. Here is the full link:

https://github.com/search?q=is%3Asponsorable&type=repositories
Never said anything else.
I think both Adams and Berners Lee were influenced/inspired by Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
It also silently fails if other party has android phone, but no internet connection. There is no fallback to SMS which works over plain GSM.
Here's the one that blows my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ

It's from one of (our honorary Uncle) David Attenborough's nature series, where a Lyre bird is imitating an analog professional camera, a car alarm, and a chainsaw. If I hadn't watched it well over a decade ago, I don't think I'd believe it.

Search YT for 'lyre bird imitating chainsaw' for a choice of vids.
How funny, I actually corresponded with one of the authors of the "Spiking Music..." paper when it first showed up on arxiv. I'll definitely give the amp-modeling paper a read, looks to be right up my alley!

Now that I understand the basics of how this works, I'd like to use a (much) more efficient version of the simulation as an infinite-dataset generator and try to learn a neural operator, or NERF like model that, given a spring mesh configuration, a sparse control signal, and a time, can produce an approximation of the simulation in a parallel and sample-rate-independent manner. This also (maybe) opens the door to spatial audio, such that you could approximate sound-pressure levels at a particular point in time _and_ space. At this point, I'm just dreaming out-loud a bit.
Not difficult...

But in the UK you would need HV powerlines overhead and 5 years of planning to get a 1MW connection
For website hosting, it's okay but not great. We encountered issues when we tried to cache a lot of images. Their CDN storage seems really low compared to Cloudflare and Cloudfront. It results in a really bad hit ratio the moment we try to deliver a lot of images.
That, and in many cases they get "stuck" at the firefox version they are based on which means that newer things might not work and more importantly security fixes might not be applied.
FP3: A 3D Foundation Policy for Robotic Manipulation
"...a couple of Seig Heil..." -- that's not even a thing.

It's "Sieg Heil". I've yet to read German articles doing so many errors when using or quoting foreign languages.

Doesn't change the general quality of any article, but it bothers me, that English speaking journalists seem so outright ignorant when it comes basic proof reading -- names, locations, basic phrased,... often ridiculously botched.
Inevitably, I'd want any feature worth paying for to be freely accessible. Presumably I'm not just trying to support the devs but also fund other people accessing the same features that draw me to firefox in the first place.
https://cancelled-games.fandom.com/wiki/Sega_Neptune_(game_c...
Because historically that money has been squandered on C-suite salaries, irrelevant acquisitions (Pocket), and development that has nothing to do with the browser (like failing to make a phone OS).
> 80% of the time

From classic Kenji

> There is no 100% foolproof method

> brute-force method of getting perfect boiled eggs: I boiled at least three times what I needed

Also from surveying friends who work in dining. It took years for me to accept that there will always be hard boil duds. Except ramen shops, apparently a lot of them have machines.
* This makes total sense for everyone on earth except the US
Had two. One showed so much measurement noise they couldn't trust it, other kept cutting out. Not great.
Great demo.

I used to do some web audio and tonejs works, but later switched to rust and glicol for sound synthesis.

For example, this handwritten dattorro reverb:

https://glicol.org/demo#handmadedattorroreverb

This karplus-stress-tester may also be interesting to you.

https://jackschaedler.github.io/karplus-stress-tester/

In short, I think to study more powerful physics synthesis, you need to consider the technology stack of

- rust -> wasm
- audioworklet
- sharedarraybuffer

Visual can rely on wgpu. Of course, webgl is enough in this case imho.

If it is purely desktop, you can consider using the physics library in bevy.
Modal prompts where applications (and websites!) request permissions are an absolutely terrible UX. Sure, they're very easy to use and convenient, but they're easy to use to accidentally grant very wide access to untrustworthy third parties.

Granting permission to pages should be, as you say, an explicit user-initiated flow via a permissions panel. The same should be so for sandboxed desktop applications. Does an application want to continuously record your screen? Then it should be granted this permission explicitly via a permissions control panel. It shouldn't be able to show a modal dialogue where people just click "yes". Many times, with good reason: they simply don't understand the technicalities of what they're being asked.
In their defense, using Athena again here would have definitely sounded strange and not natural. But, they could have used the word “it” without introducing ambiguity, which they do 2 times already.
End to end encryption achieves the same thing without having to share large one time pads. The only people with your key are the people on the ends.
I'm not sure what your point is. I care about Ruby and want it to die because I have worked on the Gitlab codebase, which is written in Ruby. It's a bad language and it stopped me being able to understand behaviours and fix bugs.

In contrast I have also worked on VSCode which is similarly huge but written in Typescript. Faaaar easier to work with, enough that I've been able to contribute a couple of medium sized features and several bug fixes.

So when people say "yeay Ruby" I try to discourage them because I don't want more Ruby code in the world that I might have the misfortune of having to interact with in future.
Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake
You should never have trusted blindly in third-party dependencies in the first place.

Abnormal behavior was to trust by default.
Drones were banned from cities already a good while ago, and I don't see that changing. Drone delivery could work on the countryside, but urban areas will be limited to delivery robots on wheels.
A stable productive trade partner is a benefit at home.
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I figured it was because he couldn't find a better car such as a 1986 volvo
It's so cool for you to have been blessed like this.

You may very well enjoy David Attenborough's series "The Life of Birds". I know my family has. Of course, all of DA's nature series are fantastic.

"The Private Life of Plants" (6 parts) is one of my favs, but they're all great.

Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_Collection

The only one I didn't know about (until now) is "Life in the Freezer". He also has one-offs and the "Planet Earth" series as well.

What a life! One of the very few human beings on Earth who deserves a 'Sir' in front of his name.
For those as confused as I, Blink is the webkit fork that powers the chromium-style browsers. Sort of like chrome's gecko.
Rubio says South Africa's ambassador to the US is no longer welcome
The existing infrastructure was originally built for town gas which is ~50% hydrogen, and run successfully for many decades as such. So this is mainly about checking out the more recently designed parts. My understanding is embrittlement is mainly a problem for storage tanks, which need to use high strength materials due to the enormous pressure -and ironically those materials are more susceptable.
My very mild question got flagged.
> And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle

aw yeah; recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experimental CSS properties which broke a default button behavior across all major browsers (not even making this up).

Velocity goes up because you produce _so much code so quickly_, most of which seems to be working; managers are happy, developers are happy, people picking up the slack - not so much.

I obviously use LLMs to some extent during daily work, but going full-on blind mode on autopilot gotta crash the ship at some point.
The Mathematical Science of Font Harmony
An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code – Suggested the User Learn to Do It
Yeah but look at the trajectories - Rust is one of the fastest growing languages and Ruby is one of the fastest declining languages.
Safari has Rust?
While you’re certainly right that the US isn’t like Germany in 1941, I don’t think there’s any reason to believe it can’t very quickly get to that point. Just ask the asylum seekers and other immigrants and tourists[1][2] (illegal or otherwise) that have been separated from their children[3], detained in extrajudicial facilities[4], kept in solitary confinement[1], or legal immigrants stripped of their permanent residency and deported for exercising their first amendment rights[5]. This is very equivalent to how it started in Germany as early as 1933[6]. I see no reason the US can’t VERY quickly slide down this path with immigrants (of any sort), trans people, and then after that, much more. Especially when so much has been done to destroy any oversight that the checks and balances of the government would have provided, i.e. two failed impeachments, (and congress now being filled with Trump bootlickers, unlikely to impeach again), entirely too broad presidential immunity rulings[7], and completely unpunished coup attempts[8].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-touri...
[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/british-tourist-detained-ice_...
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44303556
[4] https://apnews.com/article/us-immigration-detention-guantana...
[5] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/11/us/mahmoud-khalil-columbi...
[6] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Germany
[7] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024...
[8] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_S...
Don't forget ungreppable code! And what are type hints anyway?
Being factual is easily mistaken for a "liberal" bias, apparently.
'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth
One thing that video left me wondering is what happens to the vaporized rock; how are we collecting or transporting it so it doesen't immediately re-solidify, stringify and block the hole?
>While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support. Google Messages also enabled E2EE by default for RCS texts, but only conversations between Google Messages users were E2EE, and not those exchanged with iMessage users or users of other RCS clients on Android.

this dances around, but does not seem to answer, the big question of whether android will get iMessage or not?
As others mentioned mermaid and graphviz already, I want to throw in two slightly more obscure ways:

schemdraw (python library) is a library for drawing beautiful circuit diagrams. It has a surprisingly effective flowchart part as well, that allows you even to draw custom beziers arrows and stuff. You can do manual positioning of everything, which is sometimes an anonoyance with mermaid. Outputs to svg or png. https://schemdraw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

matplotlib (python library), people know it for drawing charts and such things, but if you want to build your own drawings that deviate strongly from existing solutions, all the drawing primitives are in there. See for example: https://matplotlib.org/matplotblog/posts/mpl-for-making-diag...

And for just wrapping your head around something, a piece of paper and a sharpened pencil are surprisingly effective at not wasting your time.
As long as any error is consistent, I don't really mind. Mostly I use it as a way to track progress over time anyway.
This has been a long argument, eg “ordo amoris” — 700 years (Aquinas) to 1600 years (Augustine) in Christian philosophy.

The split is aligned with politics [1]; and the two sides can’t even agree on which direction demonstrates a lack of empathy. To some people, it’s moral to take from your neighbor and give to a stranger; to others, that’s antisocial behavior.

[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-high...
Gmail was free (with ads) from the very beginning, before Chrome existed.

If Google charges for Gmail in the future, they might try to spin it as being because of not having Chrome, as an excuse, but it won’t be why.
One that comes to mind is SEO - they want their articles to show up in search engines and social media.