skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with your points about load distribution assuming the weight isn't trivial. Instead of waist, the common term in English would be hips/hipbelt.
Today? Sure. Photopea blows any hobby project out of the water.

In the summer of 2006? This could've been a commercial product for sure.
Not sure how its different from self hosted outline?
Krita blows though. It looks and feels like a horse of an app. I'd pay for better UX.
yes, it is an escalation.

Governance is maintaining public support for the government having a monopoly on violent escalation.

If the government does not have this power, then any person has an individual veto over the rest of the country.

Laws are used to describe how and when individuals can protest.
> This has resulted in a contender for the world's smallest open source patch:

Hah, got you beat: https://github.com/eki3z/mise.el/pull/12/files

It's one ASCII character, so a one-byte patch. I don't think you can get smaller than that.
Oh yeah? +1UP with WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 in text mode with reveal codes, graphics mode print preview, and arbitrary font sizes using raster 600 dpi laser printing that took 2 minutes to send over ECP. That's the only way I could cram 12 pages of text and equations onto a 3x5" card allowed for AP Physics final... I had way better eyesight then.
The head of a Biden program that could help rural broadband has left
There is no such intent from us to throw around our weight. The team is challenged with a very hard task of balancing protecting web assets VS ensuring that those same assets remain accessible to everyone. It's not an easy problem.

The features you refer to are not bleeding edge, and not only that, they are security features. We are still discussing internally but I hope we can publish soon the details so that point can be addressed.

Final but not last, this only affects our challenge system, which is never issued by us as a blanket action across Internet traffic. It's normally a configuration a Cloudflare user implements in response to an ongoing issue they have (like a bot problem). We do report challenge pass rates and error rates but we can certainly always improve that feedback loop.
Yup. Strikes me as obvious that folks figured out how to get in there earlier rather than leave it to the public markets. Just sort of speaks to a combination of market efficiency plus increased regulation in my mind.
If you want AI to make you less dumb, instead of using it like stack overflow, you can go on a road trip and have a deep conversation about a topic or field you want to learn more about, you can have it quiz you, do mock interviews, ask questions, have a chat, its incredible at that. As long as its not something where the documentation is less than a year or two old.
Don’t we want it to be like way better than humans at driving? The dream pitch was that we wouldn’t have tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year. So install the damn lidar. At some point it is coming down to penny pinching and that means that preventable deaths number will not sink to the promise.
> A major, major problem are engineers that have zero vision of the big picture. I get a ticket, I work on it, I go home.

I don't disagree with you, and ... isn't that true for most employees, in whatever technical or non-technical role, in all industries?

In my experience, it is. Even if the rare rank-and-file employee wanted to think about the big picture, they are never rewarded for doing so, and would be smacked down for acting in support of the big picture if it involved disobeying their chain of command. After a few years of this, you can see why they prefer to stick to the assigned job description.

In your last line, "President" presumably refers to the head of your company. But think about US Federal employees today - should they act in service of the Constitution, or obey Trump's orders? (If they don't obey Trump's orders, they will be fired.)
>Like you’re doing right now?

Lol Okay

>When people are put in situations where they will be shamed or suffer other social stigmas for admitting ignorance then we can expect them to be less than candid.

Good thing I wasn't talking about that. There's a lot of evidence that human explanations are regularly post-hoc rationalizations they fully believe in. They're not lieing to anyone, they just fully believe the nonsense their brain has concocted.

Experiments on choice and preferences https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/

Split Brain Experiments
https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a

>As for your links to research showing that LLMs do possess the ability of introspection, I have one question: why have we not seen this in consumer-facing tools? Are the LLMs afraid of social stigma?

Maybe read any of them ? If you weren't interested in evidence to the contrary of your points then you could have just said so and I wouldn't have wasted my time. The 1st and 6th Links make it quite clear current post-training processes hurt calibration a lot.
He also had a theory pretty close to the big bang in Eureka. It offended a lot of people at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem
Wtf, since when?

Besides the famous "C is not a low-level language" blog post.. I don't even get what you are thinking. C is not even the performance queen for large programs (the de facto standard today is C++ for good reasons), let alone for tiny ultra hot loops like codecs and stuff, which are all hand-written assembly.

It's not even hard to beat C with something like Rust or C++, because you can properly do high level optimizations as the language is expressive enough for that.
His solution: Less taxes for the rich, more taxes for everyone else.

The big lie/con: Telling consumers that tariffs are not a tax on them.
The Vampire is way overpriced and the extensions it adds are useless because they only work on other Vamprire machines. The PiStorm is much, much cheaper, and emulates a standard 68k while continuing to use the Amiga chipset.
I created a few stickers with my guest network WiFi details QR code to put on my fridge and around the house for when I have guests. I also recommend writing the SSID and password on it for those times the QR code won’t work with someone’s device (usually my mom’s ancient Android phone).
Moebio Labs – advanced interactive visualization projects
No, unfortunately, and DRMs are still legal. Which is a shame given that we have to pay a tax to the copyright industry whenever we buy a storage media (be it an SD card or an HDD) in exchange for this right…

What I mean is that there's no legal reason for Youtube to prevent downloading their videos (they can't be sued by IP holders for providing a download link for that matter).
What's wrong with tabs in notepad?

I personally find them super useful.
From this state, adding a button to join the network shouldn't be too complicated, at least not on Android. There's an API for offering a WiFi connection to the user. I don't know about iOS but I presume there's a similar API there.
Why is it named like this on ships or planes then? You most certainly need to intervene, when other vehicles are approaching. Just because this happens less in those environments, the name autopilot certainly fits.

If you go back in history, Tesla was one of the first manufacturers, to provide something more than just a lane assist. It is fair in my opinion to search for a different name, that distinguishes yourself from the competition.
That's a line modification, so presumably you'd count just an insertion or just a deletion as 'smaller'.
Sure, microsoft isn’t going to foot the openai bill for every idiot with a pirated windows installation. I’m sure nobody is really surprised to hear that.

The fact that somebody at Microsoft saw fit to add AI integration for notepad.exe in the first place is … interesting. I guess it’s been a very dull time for the notepad product manager during the past 30 years so now they finally get their revenge on the world.
The point is to simply demonstrate mass support by any means available. You can do it by gathering as a large crowd, but when that becomes a vulnerability your tactics must evolve somehow.
Vampire is real hardware alright, but is basically just emulation in that layer instead. The hardware has nothing to do with an Amiga. So I don’t see much being won over traditional emulation in this case, other than perhaps improved input latency and performance.

If I were to go there, I’d go MiSTer or a clone instead, and save a load of cash in the process. You’ll get an A1200 level + AGA performance, and this ought to cover by far most of the content from the Amiga scene.
Reminds me of a meme about how as an aerospace graduate, after a year and a thousand rejections, you just need to “live, laugh, Lockheed Martin”
The thing that made Elon look dumb was his car not doing what his competition cars can while dismissing and removing the tech that enabled this safety.
MEASURED WEEKLY AUDIENCE PERCENT GROWTH 2020–2024 -- VOA 361M [2]

[1] https://www.usagm.gov/2025/01/17/usagm-networks-reached-record-global-audience-in-fy-2024-according-to-new-report/
[2] https://www.usagm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/USAGM_Audience_and_Impact_Report_2025_11x17version_2-24-25.pdf
Same, except it's Word and Excel 97. I run them in an NT4 VM and the whole thing still starts faster than newer versions.
Interestingly, Mercurial had solved the bundles more than ten years ago and back then they already worked better than Git's today
This is super interesting, as I maintain a 1M commits / 10GB size repo at work, and I'm researching ways to have it cloned by the users faster. Basically for now I do a very similar thing manually, storing a "seed" repo in S3 and having a custom script to fetch from S3 instead of doing `git clone`. (It's faster than cloning from GitHub, as apart from not having to enumerate millions of objects, S3 doesn't throttle the download, while GH seem to throttle at 16MiB/s.)

Semi-related: I always wondered but never got time to dig into what exactly are the contents of the exchange between server and client; I sometimes notice that when creating a new branch off
main (still talking the 1M commits repo), with just one new tiny commit, the amount of data the client sends is way bigger than I expected (tens of MBs). I always assumed the client somehow established with the server that it has a certain sha, and only uploads missing commit, but it seems it's not exactly the case when creating a new branch.
Those 8 years were painful. To make money, I worked as a bartender, an LSAT test prep instructor, as an adjunct law professor at a law school that was so bad it doesn’t exist anymore. I remember 4am at the bar in Chicago where I worked, cleaning up some patron’s puke off the floor, and thinking: I need to figure something else out.

All the time I was trying to find an idea for a startup. I still had the lawyer bit flipped on so lots of things I tried had a legal/regulatory bent. That was definitely a blind spot that held me back for a while.

The fun YC-related story on the founding of Cloudflare is that, before YC, Paul Graham used to host a conference called the “MIT Anti-Spam Conference.” He invited me the second year of the conference (2003, I think) to give a talk on how to write effective anti-spam laws. The very technical crowd was polite to the lawyer. I met a ton of interesting people, many of whom played outsized roles in machine learning over the next few years, including John Graham-Cumming, now Cloudflare’s CTO. Paul invited me back the following year saying I should do something similar.

I was pretty sure the audience wouldn’t tolerate the lawyer giving another talk about regulation, so I went to a young engineer on the team of the (bad) startup I was working on and suggested we build a system to track how spammers scrape your email addresses. He agreed to build the backend if I built the front end (which I largely stole from the hot startup of the time: LinkedIn). That turned into Project Honey Pot, which I gave a talk on at Paul’s conference. Project Honey Pot gave the initial seed of an idea that turned into Cloudflare. And the young engineer was Lee Holloway who cofounded Cloudflare with me and Michelle Zatlyn.

Lesson to me has always been even in times where you don’t feel like you’re making forward progress in your life and career, find ways to stay involved with interesting people and projects and chances are they’ll pay dividends in ways you don’t expect later in life.

I clearly remember walking back to Paul’s house in Cambridge after the 2004 conference where I’d presented Project Honey Pot. I believe he and Jessica had relatively recently started dating. They were talking about startups and how people didn’t understand how they worked. Paul suggested they should teach a class at MIT. And that, of course, is what later turned into YC.

There were other dramatic events that evening in Cambridge that I think sharpened all our minds and made us appreciate there’s no time like the present, but I’ll leave that story for another day.
> I specifically said that kneading dough was bad friction.

Ha, quite right, that's what happens when you get the bad friction of spreading an exchange out an hour or two... ;)

I think I understand what you're saying, but I don't think it's what TFA was calling friction, and I don't think it should be called friction at all. I think you're just talking about investing in building skills if they will be beneficial in the long run, and I don't think anyone will argue with that. But calling that "friction" is confusing.

And that's why your original comment that "AI chat is too devoid of friction" or later saying "too little friction is terrible too" still makes no sense to me. You should never add friction, or complain that something's friction is too low. AI chat is a tool like a dough hook. It gives you the answers you need faster than driving to a library or trawling through Google links. Adding friction to ChatGPT makes as much sense as saying you should use a card catalog rather than a library terminal to find a book's shelf. There's enough friction in life already. Don't add more.
I can believe it. For a physical keyboard, I would much prefer a layout with a DVORAK-like home row, but probably not for mobile. The imprecision of touch and swiping text entry likely do markedly worse when high frequency characters are on top of each other.
If I remember correctly most of the 600s compatibility issues could be worked around by adjusting settings via _early startup control system_.
Eg by switching off newer hardware features.
AFAIK, there are lots of contributions from developers in the French government to the Grist open source repository. We also deploy it, we have instances running in various government agencies.

For Docs, we bootstrapped the repository ourselves on top of Django, Next.js, BlockNote.js, Y.js and many others. We welcome contributions!
Sounds like Einstein's hidden variables theory: below wave function picture there's more fundamental newtonian reality that produces the higher level wave function behavior, but is itself inaccessible due to insufficiently fine instruments, aka hidden variables. "God doesn't throw dice" is about that.
https://archive.ph/YsASc

I'm just waiting for them to hit the cartel and then we have a complete shit show of American expats and tourists getting caught in the middle if you know what I mean. The cartel runs Mexico and these Americans are in a very precarious position if things get real.....
> And I can't name several customers with very deep pockets working on their own chips to squeeze/compete with NVDA.

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all have custom ASIC and TPU projects in their pipeline, and what holds true today might not hold true in 5 years.

A major reason Nvidia was able to do so well was because of technical outreach by donating their GPUs to programs all over the US, building a strong albeit self serving OSS relationship, the CUDA ecosystem, and the acquisition of Infiniband.

Much of these advantages can be nullified by competitive margins and pricing for hyperscalers designed and owned hardware.

Cisco was hit by this same situation as server vendors like Dell began integrating their own in-house networking functionality within their servers, and Dell itself was outcompeted by cloud vendors.
Show HN: Try to Outsmart the Genie
Here is a game where your goal is to outsmart the genie while it tries to twist all of your wishes.

All feedback is greatly appreciated as this is very much a work in progress!
Russian tactics have been largely ineffective and characterized by horrendous losses despite immense advantages in manpower and material
Putting paywall on notepad and paint features, wether it's ai ones is still disrespectful to their user.

You pay for the operating system, in exchange you get a system that will track on everything you do, show you advertisement everywhere and now will nag you about buying a subscription to unlock all features.

It's more or less what used to be the scammy software 10 or 15 years ago you could download on sketchy website.

Although one difference is that they would also silently change your default search engine to Yahoo.
https://archive.is/GQriC
Not 100% a Redis clone, but the API appears to be very similar to Redis of 10 years ago, with some additions that Redis doesn't have. See the list of commands: https://dicedb.io/get-started/installation/
Not only has he tanked the brand, he thinks he deserves $56B for his efforts. And if he doesn’t get it, he might reallocate his attention elsewhere lololol.
Launch and launch again — how to launch your products
Could a 3rd-party app use Whisper to drive Siri / Shortcuts?
Automatic means something different. Here is the definition of what an autopilot is:

The autopilot controls the watercraft or spacecraft without the need for constant manual control by a human. Autopilots do not replace the human operator, rather the autopilot assists the operator in controlling the vehicle or aircraft, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of the operation. (Wikipedia)

I do not like Tesla but to this day I don't get the outrage about their autopilot capabilities. It 100% fits the definition of what an autopilot does.
AI and ML Study Notes
And how, given Apple's Severance-grade secrecy?
Something I discovered while changing the thumb track of a range slider just the other day, is if you add padding-top to the thumb, it will also add padding to the bottom.

Even better, you have to set its appearance to none for chromium before you're able to style it in any capacity, which probably makes sense to somebody but not to me.
You might enjoy reading Rules for Radicals if you haven't already. If your riot can provoke a worse response from the authority, it can help your cause. The reaction is the action.

It may be that this protest in Serbia got a bit rowdy and riotous (see "diversity of tactics") and now the headline is about the government's use of a disproportionate weapon against protestors, not about a riot.
@2OEH8eoCRo0

> I've worked on lethal weapons. I feel great!

Assuming that "I feel great" was with respect to having worked on lethal weapons, can you elaborate a bit? Do you consider your work to be supporting good cause(s) and feel it was well motivated for you to work on them, or do you just have no moral grievances working on lethal weapons (for whatever psychological reason)?
sorting floats with NaN ? almost anything involving threading and mutation where people either don't realise how important locks are, or don't realise their code has suddenly been threaded?
Apologies for going off-topic but putting light grey text on a white background is one of the most baffling (and infuriating) design trends I've ever witnessed on the web.
Testing all (or at least most) browsers should be quite easy to automate…
Before I started working with Rust, I spent a lot of time using Swift for systems-y/server-side code, outside of the Apple ecosystem. There is a lot I like about that language, but one of the biggest factors that drove me away was just how fast the Apple team was to add more and more compiler-magic features without considering whether they were really the best possible design. (One example: adding compiler-magic derived implementations of specific protocols instead of an extensible macro system like Rust has.) When these concerns were raised on the mailing lists, the response from leadership was "yes, something like that would be better in the long run, but we want to ship this now." Or even in one case, "yes, that tweak to the design would be better, but we already showed off the old design at the WWDC keynote and we don't want to break code we put in a keynote slide."

When I started working in Rust, I'd want some feature or function, look it up, and find it was unstable, sometimes for years. This was frustrating at first, but then I'd go read the GitHub issue thread and find that there was some design or implementation concern that needed to be overcome, and that people were actively working on it and unwilling to stabilize the feature until they were sure it was the best possible design. And the result of that is that features that do get stabilized are well thought out, generalize, and compose well with everything else in the language.

Yes, I really want things like portable SIMD, allocators, generators, or Iterator::intersperse. But programming languages are the one place I really do want perfect to be the enemy of good. I'd rather it take 5+ years to stabilize features than for us to end up with another Swift or C++.
They do build a 3D model: https://youtu.be/6x-Xb_uT7ts?t=129

Although I think it's interesting that even in his demo there are cars popping in and out of existence in the 3D visualization of the environment. I don't think that makes much sense, if a car is observed and then occluded the logical conclusion should be that it's probably still there, maybe add an increasing uncertainty to its location, instead of assuming it disappeared.
The first step (which you are correctly doing) is to ignore the fads and distractions such as "vibe coding".

It gives the illusion to newcomers that they think they understand how the program works internally provided by the LLM, but when it makes a mistake, both of you have no clue how to maintain the software. So it is good that you see it as an aid and not as a substitute.

But knowing where and when to dive into the details is what gives the advantage over others who get stuck when "vibe-coding".

> if u could do it all over again, what would you be doing at my age?

You want to be ambitious and work on hard problems? I would sign up here [0].

[0] https://www.livetheresidency.com
I didn't think newer versions of Windows generated Thumbs.db either (well I think they do, but in some centralised location I thought rather than in every single individual directory).
Absolutely not. I find it more unpatriotic when people say things like "we can't have that/do that here" as if the Japanese are an advanced alien race. It especially peeves me when they take this attitude with anything technological. America can do anything, when it gets out of its own way.
I recall now the shutdown of Nekochan.net, which had been the main hub and message board at the time for SGI retrocomputing for several decades, due to concerns about the GDPR. While that might have been an overwrought reaction, and that laws like the GDPR and the Online Safety Act _can_ be followed by a dutiful webmaster, I can't fault any webmasters who choose to throw in the towel when they look at the potential penalties for failing to do so quite right. FAANG and the like can of course make the investments in compliance.