skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Flowglad founder here. I threw that README together really quickly, and was hoping to spruce it up before we'd do a show HN - but HN found us first. I totally agree it could be clearer.

Our goal is to maximize how much mileage you get per unit effort spent on payments + billing.

We have two levers to do this: 1) reduce effort and 2) increase mileage.

For the effort part, we're starting by shrinking the integration footprint and abstracting away the need to think about webhooks or model billing data in your database. Those should make it easier to get set up than other alternatives.

We're working on a lot of stuff to increase mileage. Today if you want to update how you price your product, or support multiple different pricing regimes (e.g. standard self service for smaller customers + and bespoke terms for larger customers) it can get messy pretty quickly. Managing how you gate feature access, keeping track of old customers on legacy pricing vs new ones on new pricing, putting together pricing tables, etc. And then dealing with all of this every time you want to try out new pricing. We're working on a bunch of features to make this easier, including embeddable billing UI that connects to your customers' billing state.

As for AI, all I can comment on is what I've seen:

1) On new programmers: anecdotally I've talked with about a dozen or so people who are non-technical and are launching their first paid SaaS products after prompting v1s into existence with Lovable/Cursor/Bolt. Last week, I coworked with one of them, a friend. I saw firsthand how hard it was for her to set up even straightforward payments. Some of that is being new to programming, and some is just AI having a harder time reasoning about distributed systems. If you can build a more approachable devex that abstracts this away, more people will be able to monetize the products they build with less effort.

2) On startup billing: my founder friends building in AI are all hitting much more complex billing scenarios around usage, monthly meter allocations, measuring overage, etc. Many AI products simply want to be priced on usage, and usage has more complexity than the standard monthly SaaS subscription.
>infrastructure, databases, data engineering, stats

Why would those areas be less exposed to the "LLM threat"?
Y Combinator's startups grow the fastest and are the most profitable
I wanted to throw out that one of the founders of Traveler's Tales, actually has a Youtube Channel (GameHut) where he goes over a lot of early videogame programming techniques for (mostly) the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn.

It's quite eye-opening what this guy and his company was able to pull off in the early 90s with an 8 MHz processor, and a limitation of 2 MB cartridge storage capacity, and only be allowed to code in assembly (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhMMK3QLxSM
And the first $1,000 you process every month are at-cost, 0% surcharge.

For comparison, Stripe's Billing productcomes with a .7% surcharge on top of their standard processing fees.

I've been somewhat surprised since starting Flowglad by the number of founders and devs who aren't aware of this.
Hiked to the tree a few years ago. It is a very strong, healthy, attractive tree. You really feel the power of life when looking at it. Mighty.
I’ve been referring to this kind of belief as a ‘pigeon religion.’ This one time an operator has a problem (it’s an e-stop that hasn’t been reset) and they ‘fixed it’ by switching the system into test mode and back, then pressing the e-stop reset three times. So they tell all their friends.

Next time that doesn’t work (the e-stop button is still pressed in) but someone tries switching the system into test mode and back twice, slamming the control cabinet door, pressing and releasing the e-stop button three times, then pressing the e-stop reset button three times. They report their findings on the new standard procedure…

And so on.
Simplicity, don't need to worry about storing passwords etc. Should hopefully cover most users with Apple and Google. Can add alternative options later if there's demand for the app.
Why doesn't China pay instead of complain?
Congratulations on launching, great idea. Can I ask you about AWS lambda for the email sending. Did you integrate with a third party email service, or node mailer, or just a Gmail (I believe they get throttled at 500 emails per day). Or does AWS send the emails? I'm working on a project that needs emails to go automatically and I'm not sure on the best implementation yet, I'm leaning towards the Gmail option but don't want to hit the limit. Thanks
I understand that you're trying to make a point, but there's no need to provoke him like that. Everyone has to make their own decisions based on their own circumstances, and pushing them in a certain direction doesn't really help. Let's keep it constructive please.

@scarface_74: My goal is to avoid a high tax that I am used to from my home country without getting (enough) in return in my opinion. I would rather take my chances and prepare for retirement etc myself than leave it to a government.

I never want to be "stateless", quite the opposite! I would like to collect some citizenships to have more freedom, because even with a strong rank other passports still give you access to different areas of the world.

I am fine with paying taxes if the rate seems fair (e.g. not 50% of my income if I am not a multi-millionaire) and if I get a good value for it. Yes, security is one of those values, but depending on your situation, a government may or may not be able to provide that (in my case, my home country was not able to do so, another good reason to believe that my tax is not being used well enough to achieve that goal).
the Web? Really?
> It's the other participants.

Even better, it's the general public. Anyone who wants to can publish an analysis at any time, even after the competition ends. If someone published a practical attack against SHA-3 tomorrow the recommended standards would change overnight.
Sounds like China is admitting that they indeed had significant developments in Panama, indicating that the US - Panama treaties governing the handover of the canal were not being upheld. Otherwise why would the Chinese government put up such a fuss?
> AJAX of jQuery fame, is extremely similar to ActiveX XmlHttpRequest.

I think you have two names mixed up: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1600419/xmlhttprequest-v...

This stuck out because I remember jQuery's ajax being a wrapper around XMLHttpRequest (and maybe still is?).
> Implemented non-euclidean topology optimization for multi-dimensional data representation

Based on Google Scholar the best match is this article by researchers from Imperial College, London:

Tensor Networks for Multi-Modal Non-Euclidean Data:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14998

Looks like a very legit game changing and ground breaking work.
I’m aware of the reputation of XML signatures, but it’s the first time I read about technical details, and they make my head spin.

Q: Is there any non-legacy reason to use SAML instead of libsodium’s public key authenticated encryption (crypto_box)?

Another Q: Is there any non-theoretical risk of parser differential when using libsodium’s cyrpto_box on one end and Golang’s x/crypto/nacl/box on the other end?
I'm mostly just waiting for Scott Aaronson to tell me any of these sorts of claims are true
I’ve worked for BigTech. If you look at how to pass any of the interview processes, it’s basically all about generic coding interviews.

That’s it, those are the only “skills” you have to have to get into the BigTech - pass coding and system design interviews.

And there are thousands of developers looking for jobs - even those who are coming out of well known tech companies.
Creative workers and professionals share their fears and hopes about rise of AI
Over the last months, I have been compiling a list of state of the art in Mandelbrot implementations that run in the browser:

https://github.com/no-gravity/WorldWideMandelbrot

Every solution has its pros and cons. I still have not seen one that allows deep zooms (The parent only allows up to 48x zoom for example), is written in JS (parent is written in Rust and then compiled to JS), is fast, has a UI that nicely works on mobile and allows to save arbitrarely high resolutions. If there is none, I'm planning to write one myself.

Thinking about it, this could also be an interesting test on how far AI has come. When will I be able to hand the above text to an LLM and get out an HTML page with all the code that satisfies the above criteria?
I see the evolution, atleast until things get drastic, to be where the interviewer will allow LLM use and observe how fast you can deliver the objective while dealing with hallucinations etc.
To be brutally honest, LLMs aren't very good at solving novel problems, they aren't very good at integrating business context, and they make many small mistakes. That's why they are a good fit for frontend development! Frontend features are

1. often quite deterministic (well-defined specs and mockups from product managers) and

2. repetitive (95% of all frontend features have already been built many times in the training set) and

3. small mistakes often don't really matter much, the page will just be slightly degraded. Speed of development usually beats perfection.

So you can often say "hey, Claude, here is the exact feature I want, this has been done many times before, can you update the codebase to mostly do that?" And Claude can do that in a lot of cases now, and will probably continue to get better at it over time.

By contrast, infrastructure work tends to be more complex and higher stakes (a small mistake can cost you a lot of money or downtime). Also you usually aren't optimizing as much for a large number of small features. So there's just not as much value, and much more danger, in turning an LLM agent loose on this stuff.
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy
Isn’t it just smarter to clear your actual build folder and then rebuild it with a script? Bonus points if you limit resources to it so it takes ages? That way if they ever actually look closely, they’ll see it’s the REAL work you’re supposed to be doing that’s building, and you’ll never get in trouble
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Like I said, black-and-white thinking - some company CEO supporting some particular public policy of an administration doesn't make them a part of "their" camp and hence your "enemy". I support the end of the genocide in Gaza and the war in Ukraine, and am happy that Trump as the US President wants to do so too (for his own political reasons, and in his own idiotic political ways). That doesn't make me a Trump MAGA fan or a right-wing supporter of the Republican.
You're right, I had misparsed the comment.
If I was a boss and saw someone being busy building Rust all day I would offer a faster computer.
Pulled my hair out about doing this all over the place when integrating with a node api, ended up writing https://github.com/byrnedo/pjson. Feels like this should be covered as a more first class thing in go.
System design yes, leetcode no.

Leetcode is only a useful problem to ask if the candidate has not encountered that problem before and has not practiced leetcode. Otherwise it is exactly as good a signal as knowing some arbitrary framework or database.
I feel the same way. I have an original iPhone that I still use as a music player, and the old UI still looks insanely great compared to the flat, gray expanse we find ourselves in today. System 7 was pretty solid design work as well. Imagine what our desktops would look like if they had gotten Copeland running.
We built Videocrawl [1] to enhance the learning and watching experience using LLMs. It handles the usual tasks like clean transcript extraction, summarization, and chat-based interaction with videos. However, we go a step further by analyzing frames to extract code snippets, references, sources, and more.

You can try it out by watching a video on Videocrawl, such as the OpenAI Agent video, by following this link [2]. LLMs have the potential to significantly improve how we learn from and engage with videos.

1. https://www.videocrawl.dev/
2. https://www.videocrawl.dev/studio?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yout...
I caught a friend's mother going through a ritual like this with the dishwasher. She had to press the heat mode or something on the dishwasher four times in a row before starting it (so it toggled it on and off twice). Who knows how this got started, but she was adamant that it had to be done before starting it.
... yep, you could, though I don't think a small farm would cover my yearly needs for gas.

A small roof can cover an EV.

Best thing here is electrons are very pure, no matter the source. Chemicals - not so much. Distilled alcohol still has a significant amount of water, and if you're trying to get biogas, that one needs to be desulfurized. It's just messy.
> We have geological formations within our territory that are both incredibly stable as well as located within a dry climate.

Even more comical is that it's not like we didn't think of that because we literally do use that space for those reasons. We just also decided to fill the atoll with large amounts of nuclear waste... Seemingly for fun. To give the benefit of the doubt, for transportation logistics reasons.
I wonder if you’re both half correct.

There’s an assumption that TT is what the success is about, and then a counter claim about recent observed changes.

A very plausible anecdotal hypothesis would be that it was never “TT” per se, but a group of talented people that managed, for a period to find a chemistry that brought them and success together. And that as is so often the case, eventually this group of people lost that chemistry for any number of regularly observed reasons: poached talent, talent attrition, Puournelles Law, change in employer relations, you name it, we’ve seen them all.

So if I were Lego, I’d go find the people that used to be behind the regular success TT had, and investigate whether THAT arrangement could be resurrected in a worthwhile way.
I think our growth to 8 billion was a consequence of technology advancement rather than our acceptance of each other. While I don't disagree with the parent that humans do exterminate each other, they seem to be also keen to assimilate the other into their "own" line.
Ridiculous, uninformed comment. There is no question that Effective Altruism has done tremendous good overall by saving many, many lives. I say this as someone who disagrees with important aspects, such as valuing distant lives equally to local ones. They have also been more correct than anyone else about AI, pandemics, etc.
It will be incredible when the bubble pops. Especially if it coincides with the upcoming downturn in the economy.
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I get the impression that all these quantum computing "results" are actually just quantum experiments dictated by the hardware and they don't have enough degrees of freedom in the system to control it enough to be called a computer.

And of course simulating a complex quantum system classically is intractable, so the comparison to classical computers is deceptive.
Yeah... unfortunately that might be where we are.

I have no analogy for this except the railroads of the Gilded Age. Did railroads become a pretty big deal? Yeah. They were also a giant vortex that slurped up endless investment, far more than the real demand could possibly justify. And it ends, well, we know how it ends.
It feels like it's multishot nl-means, then immedeately those pre-trained "AI upscale" things like Topaz with nothing in between. Like, if I have 500 shots from a single session and I would like to pile the data together to remove noise and increase detail, preferably starting from the raw data, then - nothing? Only guys doing something like that are astrophotographers, but their tools are .. specific.

But for "normal" photography, it is either pre-trained ML, pulling external data in, or something "dumb" like anisotrophic blurring.
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I hope this was vibe-coded
Slight update, more fancy initialization of DyT weights (instead of having them be ones) seems to help a lot in my case (although it's still not as good as just using RMSNorm). Do something like this on the very first training step (`x` is the input to the layer):

y = x.to(torch.float32)
y = y * torch.rsqrt(y.pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-6)
z = torch.tanh(self.alpha * x)
scale = (y / (z + 1e-6)).mean(dim = -2).flatten()
self.weight.detach().copy_(scale)

This basically tries to initialize the weights so that the output of DyT is closer to what RMSNorm would have outputted, and it seems to help.
Creative use case for a TSR :)

The classic "fun" TSR use-case was to make an app that installs an interrupt vector to decode mouse hardware "events" directly from the RS232 port before exiting via 0x21h, so that DOS screen would display a pointless "native" mouse cursor that doesn't do anything :)

When I say mouse cursor, I mean an ASCII block character with the blink bit on.
Lots of old games have this, I played many MicroProse flight simulators and they all had it.
No, you would have an extensible markup language. And json is not a good fit for markup.

Now, xml has also been used for a lot of things where a hierarchical format like json would have worked better than a markup format, of which SAML would be a good example. But there are also cases where a markup format makes more sense, like svg or docbook, or odf.
The badges are hilarious lol

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The "as read only" options produce an HTML document that lacks the editor features - when you open that file from your computer, you'll see static content (although it just changes a couple of HTML attributes and leaves all the JavaScript in, inactive). The normal options re-create the entire page - editor, content and all.
I am not here to debate meaning of words. If LLaMA 3.1 8B can understand the difference between a fundamental restriction and a restriction in general on its own, so can you. If you feel like this topic is worth your time for intellectual pursuit, feel free to debate with it: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct I don't feel that it is worth mine. See if you can convince it the definition your are implying is more accepted than the one I am.
In other news: Blending a newspaper outperforms a "classical" computer simulating blending a newspaper.
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When I say Kanban, I mean "strip away all of the unnecessary processes that scrum/safe likely gave you and instead, simplify your process so you can focus on getting the work done...with a WIP limit."
BTW double unmarshalling (and double marshalling) can be quite slow, so to speed up determining the object type you can extract the type field e.g. by using gjson (https://github.com/tidwall/gjson). It can be easily 10x faster for this kind of scenario
Not just one, though. We've sold a few to customers, not to mention the computers in our Burnaby lab that you can easily access through our cloud service.
I agree, that is how many big tech interviews look. I've done 'em too. If one's dream job is a generic, mid-level role at BigTech, then the path is clear - get very good at Leetcode and system design, and flag down a recruiter.

My dream jobs tend to be more eclectic, and not necessarily at giant companies. I'm more interested in getting really skilled at a particular type of technology and being hired to work on that. And this kind of targeted recruitment still exists at big companies, too.

But also Leetcode doesn't scare me too much, so maybe I'm dismissing it too easily. I've done a lot of those problems over the years, and I'm FAR from great at them but it's never been the blocker to a particular role in practice.
Vibe coding has been such a full behavior change that people are vibe coding even sensitive mission-critical parts of their app, like payments. Which, I agree, means a lot more can go wrong.

We're building an SDK that makes it easier vibe code payments correctly.
Is that a photo of the actual tallest tree or just the tallest photographed tree?
These mini grids will never lift any African country into modernity. The cost of renewables is not falling, if you take into account the hours those renewables are not producing power. If a country cannot build a basic power grid, they will remain a village, most likely with widespread poverty.
This is ultimately such a weirdly aggressive comment. I don't feel like systemd or its alternatives drastically elevated what ops can do.

Most goals achievable in 2025 are those achievable in 1995.Its a small problem space without 30-60 years of headroom to explore and by simple logic most interesting things are going to be outside this fairly basic space.

It provided greater standardization and more power like 5 other options many of which existed prior with a simple syntax which is not without virtue.

Its just weird to refer to proponents of alternatives as "losers" who hate learning things when most proponents know systemd and other options.
I have tried different approaches and ended up with a single small bus of raw materials (coal,cobber,iron,stone) with everything else hanging off it. It scales amazingly well and avoid spaghetti layouts.

Oil stuff is done separately and fed into the structure where needed.
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Lean applies to software probably more than any other methodology in my opinion.

The simple practice of aggressively removing waste in all of your processes offers more benefit than anything else. The result of that is often closer to a much more simplified kanban system in my experience as well.
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But Chrome is not "collecting" this information secretly. Users are voluntarily giving this information to associate with their Google account. Chrome "collects" your physical address because it gives you the option of saving what "Home" is to your account, and a lot of people like that feature, so they use it.
The introduction of mass contraceptives in DRC and its neighbors is happening. There's a lot of social and economic drivers that make it hard however.
run it during a DOGE audit.
I don't think yours is working.
Because they have infinite fund now.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-nationalism/

https://restofworld.org/2025/china-embeds-deepseek-ai-in-eve...
> Set your APs to use 20 Mhz wide channels

This is not a superstition for 2.4GHz. Other devices sharing 2.4ghz tend to malfunction when 40MHz channels are in use. This is a well known phenomenon. I have been able to reproduce it in my household by enabling 40MHz channel support for 2.4GHz on my ruckus APs while listening to audio from a Bluetooth speaker. The Bluetooth speaker will start having discontinuities in the audio stream that disappear when 40MHz support in the APs is disabled.
Apparently there is a lot going in to fingerprinting a browser (Tsl analysis, HTTP headers etc), and changing User Agent string is definitely not enough. By accepting only major browsers, smaller ones are forced to adopt the same standard. Seems it would create a market for standardized bots. The result would be a monoculture of browsers and more advanced standardized bots.
The tank weighs at least 10x what the hydrogen weighs, so yes it’s relatively little per trip, but it does add up over the lifetime of the vehicle and I thought it was worth mentioning. Same goes for very high voltage in BEVs. There’s weight savings to be had by maximizing voltage which allows you to reduce the thickness of the wiring. But the savings are small compared to the weight of the battery.
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I have TST set up thus: closing a tab will close all its child tabs, if that branch is collapsed. Pretty sure Sidebery can be configured the same way.