skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dark energy, the new measurement suggests, may not resign our universe to a fate of being ripped apart across every scale, from galaxy clusters down to atomic nuclei.

Wasn’t ‘the universe won’t end in a “big rip” the widely held idea?
You can read a config file at runtime, but this will need recompilation with every config change, which is kind of useless.
https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-to-bi...

> The levers of government should never be used to pick winners and losers based on political priorities.

From six months ago. Six.
Wow. We have gone full circle.
Slightly less enthusiastic Californian - good - but the “British” voice feels cringe.
> The other thing I would add is consider passing in all environment variables as args. This makes it easy to see what dependencies the script actually needs, and has the bonus of being even more portable.

This is the dumbest thing I see installers do a lot lately.
This depends on definition of "better". Maybe your question is better suited as "So, where are the others that supposedly are richer than them?"

In that case, we have the CPU manufacturers, which already do this as the business, Google, which is not that interested, or already make their own chips, Apple, which has an in-house CPU/GPU company, and probably IBM, which also designs and builds their own processors.

So, the only interested shopper in the vicinity is Oracle, and they happen to have the money. The others have the money, but not the interest.
I’m pretty sure FTE stands for full-time employee
I don't think you should see the 5T number as static, but rather as "it took a couple months and 20M users to get to 5TB", which projects to hundreds of terabytes of storage pretty quickly.

I agree 100% with you that we probably want mid-scale orgs to run relays and those would be able to run it without issues (I wrote "not so easy" rather than "impossible" :) ) but I think it's significant we haven't seen a single one popping up yet.

But again, the article I linked makes a very good point: Bluesky does not need to actually be decentralized as long as it is a "credible exit" that someone else could in theory run their own Relay/AppView, even if no-one does.
> Appraisers they knew could be a little generous with the numbers to make the clients happy

This can only work if only very few appraisers in the area are overvaluing. But if that works, why wouldn't all of them get in on the game? And if most of them do, it falls apart because the actual sale prices will be out of line with the appraisals. So, it doesn't really work outside of edge cases here and there.
The TS doesn't seem to provide for a way to modify return values for the function. For example the following is a common pattern in Go using defer to ensure that errors closing a writeable file are returned:

func foo() (retErr error) {
f, err := os.Create("out.txt")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("error opening file: %w", err)
}
defer func() {
err := f.Close()
if err != nil && retErr == nil {
retErr = fmt.Errorf("error closing file: %w", err)
}
}()
_, err = f.Write([]byte("hello world!"))
return err
}
Living at the equator most of my life, it's actually funny how schedules are messed up when the sunrise is half an hour earlier or later. Traffic becomes chaotic because some people insist on getting home before sundown, or things like people becoming uneasy that the school starts before sunrise.

Weather is fun too, because it changes by +/- 3 degrees throughout the year. The heat makes my bedroom door expand. We had an argument with the housing developers because we had custom doors that didn't fit. But turns out it was passing all the tests when they ran it, and not in hotter periods of the year.
Adding onto this - it might help to start by looking at how well-established tools like Buckets help to manage subscriptions. Your typical user probably has other monthly fees besides Netflix and the like, so they would more likely look for a tool that can help them track all of their monthly spending. There is definitely room in the budgeting tool market, and people (myself included!) regularly pay for those tools.

I'd suggest trying them for a few months and see how you can improve on the idea with a focus on subscriptions, if you want to turn this idea into a viable product that people will pay for.

(I hope my comments come across as the constructive criticism they were meant to be.)
lol

>One of the passwords that I know by heart is a famous classic quote clumsily translated in a mix of French and Dutch. It is long, it can not be brute-forced because of its length and I am pretty sure it is not present in any of the rainbow tables. I never spell it out, let alone write it down, but it is in my muscle memory as I haven't changed it for years.

One keylogger OR phishing attempt and his super complex and secure password is ruined. with no 2FA to protect him.
It sux, but the idea that Americans would NOT actively sabotage on whim is a sci fi now. It is basically certain America will try to harm Europe when it can. There is no meaningful internal opposition to hard conservative side which is intent on destroying democracy itself too, so there is not much hope it will change in next 10-15 years.
> If dark energy really is Einstein’s constant, the standard model portends a bleak future: The universe will keep speeding up, forever, becoming darker and lonelier. Distant galaxies will eventually be too far away to see. All energy, life and thought will be sucked from the cosmos.

The laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees this anyways does it not?
Lots of non-paywalled coverage out there in the mainstream press, eg:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/19/dark-energy-...
I believe the PC is hinting about station barriers. Major stations need you to scan a ticket (or con a guard) to get off the platform or out of the station. Minor stations sometimes don't - and if it's your station you'll know.

I think the real reason is less sensational: trains that go full in one direction still have to go back in the other direction whether they're full or not.
Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper
Hi! I build an MCP server that allows clients to play Minesweeper. It turns out that Claude is not very good at it (makes obvious mistakes, hasn't won a single game on a 9x9 board after many attempts).

I am curious how I can prompt Claude to do better?
iPhone market share is around 25% in the EU
I dated a live translator and she complained about a single word at the end could either leave the whole meaning of the sentence suspended, or revert it at the last minute.

As a German learner I always struggle with holding the second half of a word in my head for the length of a sentence.

Fun language.
> Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup; Hundreds of Thousands at Risk of Poisoning

and then:

> Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.

They call it journalism.
BTW, are there any pictures of American USAID employees cleaning Agent Orange ? I'm asking because, AFAIK, USAID was the 5th column of the American empire responsible with propaganda and regime changes (and taking into acount some recent events, they don't seem to be affected by cuts).
Before working on Cayley/Magma, back in the day, I worked cattle stations in high school, mining during university breaks, with two days a week kitchen handing during term time.

My eldest son started rail work and is still doing it a decade later .. it does keep you well grounded: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/eleven...
Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
Show HN: I made a platform you can use to test your API's
I built BuzzBench because I was frustrated with how complex performance testing tools have become. And I was ending up writing my own scripts to test endpoints and manually check out resource usage at the time of testing.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, and suggestions. What problems do you face with performance test y t ing? What features would make this more valuable for you?
In my opinion passkeys, whilst solving the password related issues, introduce their own. The risk of losing access to your accounts is greater if you tie everything to one device and that's lost or stolen, and the "solution" to use more than one device is not a solution, or feasible for everyone. There's also the risk of vendor lock-in, which is definitely an aim of the big providers like Apple, Google and Microsoft; which is a bigger risk to those less tech savvy.
That's not a server. It is a rackable desktop.

You won't run general purpose server apps on this.
Modern Computing's Roots or the Manchester Baby
Build nuclear like France, one of the four countries named in the article as having negative prices?

The nuclear that random posters here believe in is magical and mysterious and not at all related to the nuclear plants that exist in the real world.
You write well. I loved my days in restaurants, and you capture it way better than I ever could. I wish I could go back, but its impossible..
Knowledge is significantly different from a training set. In particular we can hold incomplete knowledge that is eventually resolved through further practice and observation. Also knowledge access is analog and inaccurate to a degree that often introduces emergent behavior into outputs.
How I force LLMs to generate correct code
Series 4 isn't getting updates anymore, though.
To be fair, in my experience a lot of train operators will not declassify a train unless it is very very full. So if you got a first class ticket, you wouldn't be as stuck.
The only reason it would be devastating is because of mortgages. People don't want to liquidate their homes, they just want somewhere to live, so shifting house prices would be totally inconsequential for a homeowner. The market price of your house would be lower, but then so would the ones you want to buy. Makes no difference.

This is because houses don't really lose or gain much value. The worst that can happen is the building falls apart.

Houses aren't worth a number in a made up money system. Their worth is real, tangible: shelter, warmth, comfort etc.

Why can't more people see the banks are the cause of this? They can print out money for houses at their leisure. It's not like it's a conspiracy or anything, there's tons of information out there about how 2008 happened including major Hollywood films. They do this openly. Of course it looks like house values are going up more than they should, you're measuring value in numbers that can just be made larger by the banking sector.
I know GP said internet, but browsers give access to the web, not internet. Does the UN consider internet a human right, or the web?
This.

I heavily invested in a local runner based CI/CD workflow. First I was using gogs and drone, now the forgejo and woodpecker CI forks.

It runs with multiple redundancies because it's a pretty easy setup to replicate on decentralized hardware. The only thing that's a little painful is authentication and cross-system pull requests, so we still need our single point of failure to merge feature branches and do code reviews.

Due to us building everything in go, we also decided to have always a /toolchain/build.go so that we have everything in a single language, and don't need even bash in our CI/CD podman/docker images. We just use FROM scratch, with go, and that's it. The only exception being when we need to compile/rebuild our ebpf kernel modules.

To me, personally, the Github Actions CVE from August 2024 was the final nail in the coffin. I blogged about it in more technical detail [1] and guess what was the reason that the TJ actions have been compromised last week? Yep, you guessed right, the same attack surface that Github refuses to fix, a year later.

The only tool, as far as I know, that somehow validates against these kind of vulnerabilities, is zizmor [2]. All other tools validate schemas, not vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/malware-insights-git...

[2] https://github.com/woodruffw/zizmor
Feel this pain so much. If you are debugging Github Action container builds, and each takes over ~40 minutes to build.. you can burn through a whole work day only testing six or seven changes.

There has to be a better way. How has nobody figured this out?
is there any reason not to just use `-ngl 999` to avoid that error? Thanks for the help though, I didn't realize lmstudio was just llama.cpp under the hood. I have it running now, though decoding is happening on CPU torch because of venv issues, still running about realtime though, I'm interested in making a full fat gguf to see what sort of degradation the quant introduces. Sounds great though, can't wait to try finetuning and messing with the pretrained model. Have you tried it? I guess you just tokenize the voice with SNAC, transcribe it with whisper, and then feed that in as a prompt? What a fascinating architecture.
To get around the horror that is YAML, I wholeheartedly recommend writing GitHub workflows in CUE and generating the required YAML out of them. I'm hopefully never going back to writing YAML myself!
Does it include non western media sources? I recently tried to prompt information about a event Front he perspective of non western media and chatgpt blatantly told me that it didn’t read any Chinese media. It also wouldn’t let me exclude any western media sources and always used the same ones.
You have the most powerful AI, scrape the whole web continuously and are unable to translate and include all existing media sources, something is going as intended.
Specific Recommendations for the Bourbon Beginner. (2010)
As always, you can go and look at the electricity generation and see that e.g. coal in Germany was still generating when "solar" caused negative prices.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE/72h/hourly

Wind and solar combined are barely above 50% for an hour in Poland

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL/72h/hourly
For small probabilities it works :)

1-(1-p1)(1-p2) = p1+p2-p1p2

and a similar formula holds for more terms. so neglecting terms of order p^2 gives the form in the article
Not quite a straight line, but definitely a dramatic change (toggle the "Day/Night Length" view to see what I mean): https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/longyearbyen
Thanks for clarifying that; I didn’t check my sources. For comparison, 81-85 IQ points is where the US disqualifies you four being unable to follow basic training. And 75 IQ points considers you mentally retarded. So for a country average to be way below the retard limit is unlikely.
I was wondering if native calls were solved, but I don't see how those can ever be solved
>Now, my Github access depends on the second factor, which I have chosen to be Microsoft Authenticator running on my phone. I genuinely do not know what will happen if my phone breaks down, so I downloaded TOTP codes from Github and even tried one to see if it works, and so far it does, but now I have one less TOTP code to use in case something happens. Moreover, since Github is now a special case for my password management routine, I am afraid I may loose those TOTP codes and be totally locked out of my account.

You don't need a phone for this. You can put the secret key into your password manager and it can generate the TOTP code whenever you need it. KeepassXC and 1Password support it.

It stretches the definition of "two-factor" but I don't care; like the author I'm more concerned about phone theft and losing access to everything.
But there is no irony, because it's two different meanings of the word "hacking": firstly "gaining unauthorized access", and secondly "focused programming".

I always hated that there is this second meaning. Especially since IMO it's being used to "steal" some of the glory associated with the original meaning.

When did this second meaning emerge anyway? Is this site here partially at fault?
App itself might be AI generated as well.
1. The YAML spec is extremely complex with some things being ambiguous. You might not notice this if your restrict yourself to a small subset of the language. But you will notice it when different YAML libraries and programming languages interpret the same YAML file as different content.

2. Trying to encode logic and control flow in a YAML document is much more difficult than writing that flow in a "real" programming language. Debugging is especially much easier in "real" languages.
I guess this only works for people whose time is worth nothing
I just pulled up Whitehorse, Yukon (at the 60th parallel), and sure enough, the longest day of the year is essentially always day: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/whitehorse. Almost 5 hours of civil twilight, but civil twilight is still daytime in my book.
Words mean what people think they mean. People often mean slightly different (or very different!) things when using the same word. Often words are used non-literally. This all seemed too obvious to mention before now.
Proves my point. Both sides insult each other using pig symbols.
I have seen this repo on github, I don't really know a lot about Linux but could be interesting.

https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
The value of their home for the lower quartile, and probably the bottom 3 quartiles will be >100% of their net worth.
If a system used for logging in has a keylogger its game over anyways since it could just copy 2FA (excluding hardware token) or cookies.
Indeed, which kind of proves the point, in the scenarios where the only shopper at shows at the store is Oracle, the alternative is bankruptcy.
DOGE's Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique
Search Roulette
I was once over 90 minutes late on a TGV. Naturally, SNCF reported a delay of 59 minutes when calculating my rebate...
I prefer teams just for the fact that by default everyone can mute everyone else in the call. It just gives me peace of mind that if I ever leave my mic on by mistake, someone in the call would have my back and just mute me.
My take aways from this:

- The EU’s interpretation of the DMA is vastly different from what they actually wrote on paper.

- If Apple were asking hardware vendors to access iOS through these methods it would be deemed anticompetitive.

- There is now an opportunity for Apple to not support standards, forcing vendors to use their methods or not have access to the platform: making it more costly for hardware vendors to access the full market.
I would advise against password re-use regardless of 2FA.

- Lots of flaky 2FA implementations out there where it's easy to get in without it, if you have the password

- If a service doesn't offer 2FA you are now unable to use it for fear of sharing your password (like this website)

I suppose logically if your email is 2FA, then someone can't do 'forgot password', but man that feels super flaky.
And Google just spent five times that to acquire a cyber security startup with 1000 customers.

Is hardware so much less valuable?
I have found LLMs to be very good at the kind of code -> diagram task presented here. Fire up superwhisper[1] and stream-of-consciousness away about why you want the diagram, which bits are important, who the audience is, and so on. Then iterate a few times. Works brilliantly for even very complex things, including 5000 line CDK files.

It's disingenuous to conclude that AI is no good at diagramming after using an impotent prompt AND refusing to iterate with it. A human would do no better with the same instructions, LLMs aren't magic.

This is the same as my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524125

[1] https://superwhisper.com/
We joke that it is a twisted way to force people to keep attention.
It probably should be "when I turned 10".
I just wish the default wasn't bash. GHA with pwsh is a much better experience.
I travel between Vienna and Budapest quite frequently, and ÖBB (Austrian railway) does also this deliberately on Austrian side towards Vienna. Trains can arrive about 15-20 minutes early in Vienna if they go full speed in Austria, and they arrive in time to the Hungarian border. This rarely happens, and in that case, they go slower.

Also, there is almost always delay between Budapest and a smaller Hungarian city. ÖBB changed schedule for their own trains quite quickly reflecting that. MÁV (Hungarian railway) still hasn’t done that for almost two years now on the same line. They still basically lie about it.
Firestore's quick setup uses "test mode", which is free and unrestricted. The "locked mode" recommended for production blocks all reads and writes until you set up the rules.

So I don't know if they had the site in test mode, or they simply set a rule to allow everything (I've seen that happen) instead handling access based on user permissions.
They are totally separate the Wiz thing is a reverse IDF merger.

The SB purchase is part of Arm completely restructuring their IP philosophy and business model. Ampere was sold for "so little" because Arm could effectively just cut them off as soon as their contract ran out. This was a cleaner transfer.

Arm is bringing everything back in house, ceding the low end to RISC-V and taking the high end back in and producing their own silicon.
You don’t have to update them manually. Renovate supports pinned GitHub Actions dependencies [1]. Unfortunately, I don’t use Dependabot so can’t say whether it does the same.

Just make sure you don’t leak secrets to your PRs. Also I usually review changes in updated actions before merging them. It doesn’t take that much time, so far I’ve been perfectly fine with doing that.

[1]: https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/github-actions/...
I wanted to try dagger to solve some of these issues (https://github.com/dagger/dagger) anyone has feedback on it?
This assumes that services are handling your password responsibly and not e.g. storing it in clear text in a public S3 bucket, which in practice happens all the time.
I've had a few odd jobs before 'settling' as a software developer but while I appreciate the experience and diversity and sometimes think back on the simplicity of at least one of them, I don't really consider them the best jobs. I did a paper round (6 days a week, took about an hour), manufacturing (most brain-turn-off job ever), scaffold building (heaviest job, also because it was the height of summer), DIY store floor work (great part time job to do alongside an education), vegetable packing, that kind of thing.

Nowadays I rebuild front-ends over and over again. We're doing form fields again.
Malware can sniff one password in a similar way that malware can read your password manager's vault. So yeah, one malware and all your unique website passwords might need to be rotated after a recovery anyways.

If the 2fa was a yubikey or some other unique made-for-purpose device, the accounts wouldn't need to be recovered, but TFA is talking about microsoft authenticator so it could very well be on the compromised device.

The most irritating thing about security is people treating it as one dimensional: more or less secure. 2FA changes security in a complex way.
Your home page has some typo. Not sure why would anyone downvote brianUK.
Why don’t some Europeans get together and make a phone and OS?

Access to the EU market is voluntary. Apple only needs to abide by EU regulations if it wants access to that market.

Of course Europeans won’t ever ship a phone or OS —.

History didn't start in 2008 with iPhone. For the previous decade American mobile was - without exaggeration - backward (CDMA, no portability, cost prohibitive SMS). Meanwhile in Europe: Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia...

why doesn’t the EU have their own FAANGs?

A big factor is that the EU is less comfortable with extreme poverty. This allows the US and China essentially to undercut the EU.

A more complicated factor is culture. While European business culture isn't aggressive enough to succeed in the current era, the flip-side is it does have a reputation for great design and high quality.