skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This happens on all microcontrollers btw. Random charge accumulates and pushes the voltage on your pin to some arbitrary point. The way you fix this normally is by providing a path for that charge to escape in the form of a pull-down resistor. Usually you need something in the 100k range. Because of this bug you need something more in the 5k range.

Many microcontrollers provide an internal, selectable pull-up or pull-down resistor (or neither). For example, on the STM32, it's a 30-50k, and individually selectable on a per-pin basis:

https://www.keil.com/dd/docs/datashts/st/stm32f10xxx.pdf#G11...

It's normal for pins to float, it's not normal for them to both lack an internal bias option and to float to a condition where they source significant current. You don't typically put a very low impedance external pull-down resistor on every single input pin.
No? What makes you think that
I wouldn't use LLMs, but if I did, I would try to get the LLM to write parser code instead.

If it can convert from one format to another, then it can generate test cases for the parser. Then hopefully it can use those to iterate on parser code until it passes the tests.

In a sense, asking it to automate the work isn't as straightforward as asking it to do the work. But if the approach does pan out, it might be easier overall since it's probably easier to deploy generated code to production (than deploying LLMs).
The clumsy rollout of this is surprising considering Apple's conservative approach to new technology. I thought Apple was one of those companies that could afford to ignore the Gartner hype index.

As for the ham-fisted summarization on display in the OP example, I am reminded of the video of a dog that goes up to a shopkeeper and hands him a leaf, in exchange for a biscuit. The dog doesn't understand currency or context: he's simply seen hundreds of people hand the shopkeeper a leaf-like substance and walk off with a cookie.
Amazon is rarely the cheapest way to have a package delivered to your home in less than two days. You can often find people much cheaper if you don’t mind waiting a week or two.

I reduced Amazon by 90% when I realized how much money I was wasting over 70-120 packages a year.
Show HN: Scaniverse Gaussian Splat of a Sculpture
What storage backend are you using?

A write operation on a SSD takes 10s of uS - without any VFS layers
I’m wondering why switching Node from OpenSSL to BoringSSL is considered hard? Is the JavaScript API exposing too many implementation details?
"The fact is, the vast majority of the problems facing young men in Ireland and the UK are the same as those facing young women; rising cost of living, precarious work, a shrinking social safety net."

What could possibly cause a housing crisis and work shortage in Ireland? What indeed?

Perhaps the thing that is forbidden to talk about?

As long as the mainstream press evades that question, people will go to Jordan Peterson. Who will also not solve the issues (the Daily Wire was founded by fracking billionaires).
I think you just made my point. If designing an eScooter you'd look at available power needed across the problem space. Even more so you might put in a safety features like a temperature monitor so electronic components don't fail because someone decided to go up a steep 12 mile mountain path and overheat the battery.

If I was designing a software system, I could introduce a time constraint. An imagined conversation:
"How long will it take to get an answer?
Between half a second and the heat death of the universe.
OK. Can we just issue a timeout error after 1 second?"

This is putting controls in place so the system doesn't exceed its constraints and although hypothetical it might be able to do a job for any input, it can't because we haven't been able to find a more efficient solution for certain known and unknown scenarios.
Overengineered Distributed Hello World
And there’s a lot of great open source alternatives you can self-host as well, e.g. https://plane.so/ or a newer https://kaneo.app/ (recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143097).
I'm happy to report that - to my utter amazement - my ISP's on-prem device does /64 prefix delegation to each (DHCPv6?) client.
I heard that the drugs for sale in Mexican pharmacies are often counterfeit or defective in other ways, so I'm not sure how relevant that example is.
> I find myself uncomfortably on the side of AI bros like Sam Altman who argue for the expansion of the fair use doctrine

Why? Are you training LLMs?

I highly doubt they'll fight a pro-consumer fight completely incidental to their objectives (if not detracting: don't need to buy the source textbook if you can ask ChatGPT about its contents as soon as it's released).
"No true Scotsman" strikes again.
It's unsurprising that Meta would bring a legal case against someone who used to be their global director for public policy when that person signed a non-disparagement agreement. I also find it hard to think it was that bad if she stayed for seven years, but I don't have a strong opinion about the whole thing.

This is aside from the story but it's weird how obvious it is that a PR company was hired to blitz this book, and there's been a drip of stories over the last week playing it up in various outlets with the hope that people will say "well that settles it, I'll have to buy the book! That will show Meta!"

But its funny and a little bizarre that many comments over the last week say exactly that. It just feels too easy. But they're not getting some wily one-up on Meta (buying the book changes nothing, their own opinion is probably long settled), some PR firm is getting its job done.

same thing/topic from 4 days ago with more people saying "I wasn't going to buy the book, but now I am": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
Yep, I did this some time ago when I realized how few things actually need apps, when the website does the same thing without notifications and tracking.
> we're hoping to go open source in future :)

That's just lip service, either you intend to or you don't, it's not up to hope

We hope you will see the dev tooling space is based around open source and you will alienate many potential users by not being open source
I think that an additional factor might be the feeling of being part of something. I grew up very conservative and only became progressive later in life. A lot of my friends on the left are shocked when I say that there's a sense in which I miss the sense of purpose, mission, and community that the right provided. Even just watching Fox News there was constant messaging that you're part of the "real Americans" who are fighting back against "the liberals".

I'm very glad that my life experiences opened my eyes and I moved to the left, but that doesn't mean I don't still miss some aspects of being on the right.
Eh,that is the narrative he is trying to project so that when the courts issue injunctions or rulings against him he can claim to be victimized. Or that he tried his best to fulfill a campaign promise that can't be accomplished via exective orders. Many such cases.
Telegram founder allowed to leave France following arrest
Sure, our expectations about UI patterns are path dependent. However, if a program isn't consistent internally [0] (rather than against the body of software we are familiar with), then the complaint is less subjective.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tFYkGyaXCw0 1 minute example of the procedure for editing a brush style
I wonder if this will be an official "recall" or OTA update.
And for public toilets. I mean restrooms.
HTTP/2 already reduces roundtrips.
hey scosman, let me give it a try:
I don't really know if it could work, but I have a feeling it won't work mainly due to CORS (regardless if the app is served from http or file protocol) in the browser
Microsoft and NIST are collaborating to advance Zero Trust Implementation
but where they logged before the tools were built?
Not sure I'm following. I was under the impression that MCP defines a way for LLMs to reach into the "real world". The MCP servers I've played with basically say "I'm an MCP tool, and I can fetch a Jira ticket". The LLM then has the option to call the tool.

Check this out https://smithery.ai/
guerilla method: get this thread to #1 on HN and have every person search for "Autimo" AND THEN every person click your URL. within 1 week your autocorrect issue will be solved and your branded ranking issues should be solved as well.

it would also make a sick case study!

also liked what mkbkn said, def run PPC for your company name, it should be dirt cheap (unless your competitors start bidding against you)
They are most certainly not. It suffers from the nude beach paradox: Anyone who wants you to see them naked, is not someone you want to see naked.
Literate Programming (1983) [pdf]
The 'They Did It' Fallacy
I didn't necessarily mean exactly fsync. I guess I'll ask: Is it actually flushed to persistent disk in 600ns such that if the node crashes, the data can always be read again? Or does that not fully flush?
We see you.

We hear you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQw0-AkgQGM
This is Marin County we're talking about. Of course they're doing everything they can to not build new housing. Their plan is a perfectly sensible way to achieve what they want.
The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6
I hope someone can leak the memo which instructed this
Man it was really hard to not contradict you in detail and start discussing politics! Some people don't think it's so dramatic, let's leave it at that.

Also there are tons of places online to discuss politics. Maybe too many! there's no need to make everything about politics. One way to turn people against your opinion is to shove it in their face when they don't want it.
It is unprofessional for someone to just assume their co-worker has done a bad job, no?
If your goal is to weaken encryption, reducing entropy could be a step along that path.
A Tool to Automatically Detect Memory Leaks
Legacy OCR Tools Are Failing the Legal Industry: Here's Why
Very curious (and nervous, as I can imagine more bad outcomes than good ones) as somebody that frequently lends ebooks from libraries supporting LCP. (The only thing worse than "controlled" digital lending would be no digital lending at all.)

LCP is as close to the platonic ideal of DRM as it gets: Essentially no obfuscation; cryptography largely something to point at when filing DMCA takedown requests. For better or worse, I suspect we're about to get some new case law for what constitutes an effective technical measure.
>it became an insistence on being treated as a person and not as a thing, as a subject not as an object

At the risk of inflammation: sounds like Black Lives Matter.
https://moniotrlab.khoury.northeastern.edu/publications/smar...

Let me float an idea based on this study: it doesn't need to listen for more than the wake word (and some variations of same) in order to activate pretty regularly. The study indicates that just watching TV in a room w an echo device will cause it to wake 1-4 times per hour with half of all wakes resulting in at least 4 seconds of recording and virtually all recordings being sent to the cloud for processing. Even absent any "secret wake words" the device activates regularly enough that it will occasionally react to things you say in conversation as though it's secretly listening.

Also, just thinking like someone who is simultaneously evil and competent, if I were building a device like this that listened for secret keywords I wouldn't have it announce the fact that it heard one.
I just tried --no-binary with the torchvision package (on a Jetson system). It failed. Then I downloaded the source and it compiled without problems.
>The number is ridiculously low in comparison

Where are you getting your confidence that that is so?
To your drinking analogy, imagine there was a version of alcohol that had all the positive effects (being drunk is fun and silly, makes social interaction flow a bit easier, etc) and none of the negative effects. But then a company called Drinkbook comes along and their version has all the same positives but also many, many drawbacks. They become a huge company and kill off all the smaller producers, and everyone uses their version :)

That's effectively what happened to social interaction on the internet. We had all the connection before, but none of the addiction. So I just don't buy the argument that the hyper addictive variants of social media are a net good.
Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278
I've been trying to get a more foundational knowledge in areas that interest me, namely spaceflight and paleontology. For a long time now I've been casually interested in both, keeping an eye on major new developments and watching YouTube videos from time to time, but I never felt like I could really put the things I was learning into context.

It's been a while since school so progress is slow as I'm having to relearn how to actively learn, but it's already been super rewarding. I've been making my way through a couple textbooks and have signed up for a course online. Even just memorizing the geologic time scale has made pop paleontology videos feel less like disconnected factoids, like I'm actually building a knowledge base.

I've also decided to condense various web-related projects into one big full stack project with its own protocol, client, server, dns and so on. Basically my idea of what the world wide web should be. I get easily distracted and have multiple web servers, templating engines and so on littered in my wake from when I run into something I don't like and want to do it better.

I know I'll probably never finish it, and even if I do it probably won't be very good. But it makes it a lot easier to stay focused on other projects when they hit a roadblock, since instead of being tempted to remake whatever is causing the problem from scratch I can just make a note for how I think it should be done in my little stack when I get to it.

Plus, yknow, it's fun.
It already works. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Insofar as "the problem" is sifting through pages and pages of documentation to find the relevant information for an answer, I think that current-day LLMs are actually quite capable at this.
AP should be able to handle this and could if you used a lidar equipped Tesla from prior years before they went to pure vision.
Have McKinsey come along to facilitate.
Refact.ai Agent and 3.7 Sonnet is the new #1 on Aider polyglot bench–76.4% score
Refact.ai AI Coding Agent scored 76.4% on the Polyglot benchmark — beating Aider’s own 60.4% with the same model, as well as DeepSeek Chat V3, GPT-4.5 Preview, ChatGPT-4o, and others.

This comes from our AI Agent’s iterative approach: it writes code, validates its work, corrects itself, and repeats until the task is done right—fully autonomously (we call this a feedback loop).

While SWE Bench gets a lot of attention, it’s far from being representative or realistic — Python-only, limited to 12 repos, with just one file change per task, and more. That’s not how real-world coding works. Polyglot is a much better test of AI agents across multiple languages and real project structures.

More on our approach to handling programming tasks end-to-end in the article. Thoughts?
Connection migration sounds like a security nightmare
I would add that pursuing legal recourse is the only way to reach that Supreme Court decision where either the administration is slapped down or the courts relinquish their Art III powers. Until then we're only approaching a potential constitutional crisis, where the administration has plenty of opportunity to back down.
Honestly, that website is so far off the end of the sanity meter that I don't know what to say. Technically, you are right in that counterexamples exist. But on platforms like HN/techincal subreddits etc., never seen it myself, suggesting the problem is far less widespread than one might be initially moved to assume.
I wish there was more about the camera that images them. Is it that little security camera in the pod you can see in the video? Does it even have enough resolution for the minute water effects across the room to matter/be seen?

An interesting question I would have is do you get just as much randomness without the fluid at all?
Something that I find funny is that in my experience trans people are often pretty upfront about the biological differences between "men" and "women". After all, many of them have experienced both male and female hormone profiles.
The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measurements (Knuth, Mad Magazine,1962)
And yet, am I wrong? This is basically how they think
Yeah, people care about privacy, and a lot of other things, but generally lack the organization and resources to do much.

Privacy is also one of those things that is much easier to care about if the lack of privacy is highly visible (e.g. someone standing in your window), but tech companies are pretty good about keeping their snooping in the background.
it both is and isn't secret bullshit. there's no evidence that there's a list of secret keywords Lord Bezos is listening for, but there's plenty of evidence that these devices active unintentionally all the time and that those unintentional activations lead to you being recorded and that recording being sent off into the cloud

https://moniotrlab.khoury.northeastern.edu/publications/smar...
Experiencing the internet at 2000ms latency every month or so thanks to dead spots along train tracks, the latency improvements quickly become noticeable.

HTTP/3 is terrible for fast connections (with download speeds on gigabit fiber notably capped) and great for bad ones (where latency + three way handshakes make the web unusable).

Perhaps there should be some kind of addon/setting for the browser to detect the quality of the network (doesn't it already for some JS API?) and dynamically enable/disable HTTP/3 for the best performance. I can live with it off 99% of the time, but those rare times I'm dropped to 2G speeds, it's a night and day difference.
It was. It disengaged when it knew it couldn't prevent the crash. You can see it in AP before the crashes.
In situations where the power wasted by such a strong external pull-down or pull-up is inacceptable e.g. everything running of a small battery for more than a few hours. The resistors can easily burn more power than the whole chip.
You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)
Dancing. Roughly once a month I go to some small festival nearby, mostly live music - either oldschool swing, or blues and dance my hear out. These are not too big, like between 200 and 500 people? And I am mostly recognizing the core 100 by their faces, and more and more of them are genuine friends.

Took me around a year or two of several hours a week in courses to become comfortably intermediate in my dancing skills, and from that point onwards, it is mostly just fun!
Does it have ACID guarantees?
Why would I use C# over any other language though?
This was exactly my reaction.

I think a lot of people fail to appreciate that the alternative to big tech taking over was not keeping things exactly the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago, but developing in a different direction.

It was the direction in which people expected things to develop: decentralised and democratised. There was a lot of optimism about empowering individuals.
One giant Kubernetes cluster for everything
Sending them manuscripts, publishing nonsense on the arxiv, reducing the overall SNR of research.
Corpos can't resist not to spy when it's at their fingertips, too irresistible to them, they just can't help it. That's why we should take our privacy back and offer no benefit of the doubt.
Benchmark to KeyVal too please
Let me know when it's open source and I'd be happy to give it a try! It doesn't even have to be free - I'm fine with Unreal's model where you get access to the source even though commercial use requires a paid license.

I want something running locally on my machine that doesn't rely on calling home.
“she was detained by Customs and Border Protection officers and held at the airport for 36 hours, for reasons that are unclear.”

Since both articles here and NyTimes are only posting the positive things about the professor, I’ll throw in a possibility. They scanned the professors phone, didn’t like what they saw, and end of story.
The fact you have two such anecdotes means you kept the spying device in your home.
> I still don't like the rust community

I wonder whether you believe these people would ever be endorsed by the faces of the Rust language or whether the majority of people in the community would behave so. In my experience (not to minimise yours), the Rust community and FOSS in general, are some of the most open and welcoming communities online, albeit with clear exceptions
Name suggestion for the wall: "Hydrobit generator"
But now you’re cutting out all that biological shock absorption.

(Aka: why helmet cams are much smoother than any other bike mount)
Oooo nice, gridfinity but for cables
If that is the case (and I have no reason to believe otherwise), I apologise. Should work on detecting tone better.
It's not an issue for PIO-USB, since the pullup/pulldowns in USB are just used for device and speed detection. And for the pulldowns to do anything the pins have to be high impedance which you can't do in PIO code anyway. So just making sure to drive the pins low for 1 cycle before putting them in high impedance mode is sufficient as a workaround.

Could be an issue for logic analyzers, though usually you'd have a voltage translator in front of that anyway.
Yeah, what’s the best thing that can happen? It is just an Alexa device, and the worst? It leaks your data and spies on you. No thanks.
We were presumably talking about an ideal massless space [Minkowski] in which the speed of light in a vaccuum is considered -- that is what c is defined as.
It does not. A President cannot rescind a prior President's pardon. That would counteract the entire idea of clemency.
> But dismissing an emerging technology as useless baby stuff? Reminds me of what people were saying of web, web 2.0,

Nobody was saying that about the web. The web in 1994 had email and instant messaging out of the box, it replaced letter mail and consumer fax overnight.

We're several years into the GenAI wave, what has it changed for Apple users?
that's kinda interesting and kinda a nice PR stunt at the same time
It’s fair to question someone’s judgment based on their expressed opinions, and take that into account when evaluating what they say later on.
Also, he may just have a different definition of “ideal” than some of us.
Inbetween – Indie Game
My brother made his first (maybe second?) video game. If you're in to FPS horror give it a try. Please leave him a tip and feedback he would appreciate it.

https://kraftybeer.itch.io/inbetween
The complaint is amazing!

I love how they found out!

> On February 18, 2025, an investigative reporter at The Information contacted Rippling about a forthcoming article concerning Deel’s Russia-related sanctions activity, noting he had “been working on a story on Deel for the past few weeks” that “started as an exercise to look into the veracity of that lawsuit I previously reported on.” This reporter was referring to his January 9, 2025, article entitled “Deel Accused of Money Laundering, Sanctions Failures in Lawsuit,” which reported on Damian v. Deel Inc., No. 25-cv-20017 (S.D. Fla. Jan. 3, 2025). 84.
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> The reporter’s email listed eleven assertions regarding supposed issues at Rippling relating to payments into Russia and other sanctioned jurisdictions. Each individual assertion was followed by internal Rippling Slack messages—thirteen messages in total
Ah yes, the famous “multiple source files” antipattern…

Could it be the LLM simply not up to the task of maintaining an enterprise codebase?

No, it is the hard-won lessons from the history of software engineering that are wrong.