skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a perceptive question!

Learning boring technology and invisible infrastructure definitely can pay dividends. I don't think it's worth learning in isolation, but if you also engage in the relevant communities (think mailing lists, in-person conferences, company events, etc.) then the effort pays good dividends IME.

I'm a bit biased, but I recommend looking at APL[0]. For one, it has a legacy almost as old as COBOL, with large pieces of European infrastructure running on the language. At the same time, it's cutting edge in both performance and the software architecture principles it encourages. Heck, APL even runs on GPUs these days [1], boasting a solid route for learning modern GPU programming as well.

Also, the company behind the leading APL implementation these days, Dyalog[0], has some of the friendliest outreach around, and their yearly conferences are some of my favorites to attend.

Disclaimer: I am kind of in love with APL as a greenfield development language. Feel free to email me personally if you have any questions. Address is in my HN profile.

[0]:https://dyalog.com/

[1]:https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
I think that's the main issue. It's not enough to have a database that can automatically sync between frontend and backend. It would also need to be complex enough to keep some logic just on the backend (because you don't want to reveal it and entrust adherence to the client) and reject some changes done on frontend if they are invalid. Database would become the app itself.
If by "back then", you mean 2010, then yeah.

But if you still mean that the specific term "wellness farm" COULD have been used as a euphemism for concentration camps (regardless of whether or not it ever was), then what's the point? Like people also COULD have used the term "suburb" as euphemism for a concentration camp. Should we also be skeptical of anyone who says they want to build suburbs? What's even the point of of saying that a term COULD have been used as euphemism historically?
Show HN: Our first sales with our Alt-Text Generator SaaS
Hey everyone!

I wanted to share some exciting (and humbling) learnings from launching our very first SaaS product: the AI Alt-Text Generator, available as an API or WordPress plugin.

When we initially launched, we didn’t get any sales in the first couple of weeks, which was pretty discouraging. But just recently, we made a breakthrough—we had three purchases and officially welcomed our first-ever customers!

Sure, the revenue might still be small, but honestly, seeing those first conversions felt amazing. It’s a huge motivation boost to know that people are willing to pay for something we built.

What Changed?

We made quite a few adjustments to the website and pricing along the way, and it looks like one of them finally hit the mark.

Originally, we only offered a “pay-as-you-go” model, dynamically charging per usage. However, we noticed that this might feel too uncertain or risky for some users. So we introduced fixed pricing packages—one-time payments for a set amount of usage.

Guess what? All three of our first customers opted for those fixed packages! I’m pretty sure it’s because people generally dislike subscriptions and would rather pay a fixed amount upfront than commit to something intangible.

Next Steps

We’re planning to reach out to our new customers to learn how they discovered us. Interestingly, we had Google Ads running for a few weeks, but we actually turned them off the week before the purchases came through. Coincidence? Maybe. But we definitely want to dig deeper and understand what worked.

Would Love Your Input

Any feedback or insights on pricing strategies or customer acquisition would be super helpful. Also, if anyone has experience launching their first product and figuring out what worked (or didn’t), I’d love to hear your stories!

Thanks for the support—this community is awesome!
Ollama 0.6.2 Released with Support for AMD Strix Halo
You just check the "delete files in checkout directory" box in the run screen. Are you thinking of something different? I've never had trouble doing a clean clone.
Counterargument: my colleague with 15y exp (10 C++ & 5 Angular/Vue) has been unemployed for 2yrs already because he has no React on the CV and no local company wants to hire him (secondary size tech hub in the country, EU). He's probably have to force-relocate soon.
This crossed my mind. Was it an adversarial foreign nation state undertaking sabatgoe a la French train network on the opening day of the Olympics?
The future of webapps: wasm in the browser, direct SQL for the API.

Main problem? No result caching but that's "just" a middleware to implement.
Hmmm. You are describing pretty much any human organisation where people have to compete for limited resources.

I disagree strongly with describing learning what we currently know (or think we know) as reading sacred texts and being annointed as the only ones allowed to perform scientific research.

Scientific texts are very much not sacred. Yes, there are orthodoxies which most people believe, and if you are going to go against them, you better have damn good evidence. But you absolutely can challenge them, which is how science progresses and is the key difference between religion and science.

Since I just had a paper published in a computer science academic journal last year, (and I'm very much not an academic), I also challenge the idea that only people within the "priesthood" are allowed to practice the discipline. Obviously this will be rarer than people whose day job is doing this, but there is no license to practice science required from an anointed priesthood.

So forgive me if I really push back on that analogy, as it obscures the absolutely critical differences between them.
Support seems to be just adding "gfx1151" to the list of AMDGPUs.
And you also would have to factor in the negative externalities of giving the profesional managerial class like Bill Gates more money and power.
AngularJS hasn't just disappeared. There are security issues that are now unpatched, but what's the risk here? Users attack software running on their own computer?
Legal liability might not apply in the US. But card network rules still apply, and as far as I know even in the US those still very much require the merchant to ensure the goods are delivered as a condition of keeping their money.

Disputes/chargebacks is the very last remnant of "consumer protection" in the US that actually works - which is why nobody with money is actually incentivized to spread good words about it, and as a result it's not common knowledge even on HN.
Yeah, you're right, thank you. This is why you shouldn't do math past midnight, I guess :).
Is it actually her? I didn't think it was, but maybe.
I've never had to spend time debugging TeamCity setups. It's very transparent and easy to understand (to me, at least).

I tend to stick with the GUI because if you're doing JVM style work the complexity and tasks is all in the build you can run locally, the CI system is more about task scheduling so it's not that hard to configure. But being able to migrate from GUI to code when the setup becomes complex enough to justify it is a very nice thing.
The largest bank in Sweden offers a free 16 week COBOL training course and basically a guarantees job if you pass. That's how desperate they are to hire new COBOL developers.

But it's worth noting that what most of the places hiring COBOL developers actually need isn't someone that knows COBOL, but someone that knows how to develop for mainframe systems (using COBOL). If you just learn the COBOL language in a vacuum, you'll have a much harder time getting hired.
I think that 14 years old is too young to specialize. Your free time, which for now is plenty but will become less and less, would be better spent exploring and learning ad many things as possible according to your personal interests rather than following the job market. The next 5/10 years will be times of great change for you and you never know what will come your way, so the more things you know and explore the more opportunities you will have. You will have plenty of time to specialize once you know you are on the right path.

That is to say, if you find COBOL and Fortran interesting go for it! But after 6 months or a year consider trying something else.
Politically motivated xenophobia.
Seems like a waste to update the curricula every few years to include, for example, some random lady who published a holocasut denail book in 2010 as referenced in that source. Doesn't seem very useful pedagogically!
Donate to it.

Subscribe to the magazine, go to the museum and buy something in the gift shop.

It's an amazing place, I cried when I walked in.
That in no way supports the false claim that a "LED's efficency exceeds 100%"
Getting a visa to travel to conferences was one of the major blockers for non-EU citizens during my studies. It was heartbreaking to see people work for years on a subject, finally get accepted to a top conference, and then not be able to go and present just because the visa was impossible to get in time or was simply refused.

However, these cases were rejections of visa. And even Stenberg's case was about being denied entry, not arbitrary detainment and torture like we see now. IMHO this wave of cases is a change in quantity that results in a change of quality already. But the quality of the rejection/detainment has changed as well.
Show HN: I Built a Image Compressor and Fixed IT Try Now
Heard about the Space Shuttle? Or the SpaceX Falcon 9?

The reason it hasn’t been done in scale before SpaceX is that reusability is a hard problem to solve and it is/was more economical to use expendable launch vehicles than to develop recoverable and refurbishable stages.

You might also like to read about single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) which is something of a pipe dream. The rocket equation is a bitch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-stage-to-orbit
APL is a far cry from cobol, the only commonality is both are old and considered obsolete by some.
This is a 20 year old article and no we don't have "nazis kill foreigners with some regularity". Yes hate-crime happens, but you make it sound like an active war zone where you have to be afraid of your life if you are "foreign" looking.

I'd wager for tourists it's very safe in Germany.
A lot of people have been bamboozled by the word 'neuron' and extrapolated that as a category error. It's metaphorical use in compsci is as close to a physical neuron as being good is to gold. Put another way, a drawing of a snake will not bite you.
solar is nice for residential. you will still need gas for cooking + water heating. ohh yeah plus transportation i.e hybrid for long distance travellers or pure electric for city travellers.

anything else i.e industrial both heavy & light manufacturing nothing beats hydrocarbons
I just wanted to find some supporting information, what I know about this I know from visiting the camp myself so I didn't have an amazing source at hand.
I meant that as a side note, but even if we put the CO2 issue completely aside, I am still failing to see what is this "feature" bringing, and judging by the lame example they picked, the Anthropic are not quite sure either.
I think the reason can be the industry incumbents - there just isn't much money to be made with such a simple design, only a nozzle and combined fuel and oxidant tank in PET plastic which can be recycled, no moving parts.
At first I assumed you were kidding, then I realised that sadly… you probably weren’t.
Hell no. That's what the state and taxes are for. I certainly don't need more crap from a gift shop in my life. The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and the best postal service in the world. Without these things we're just sad, ignorant people obsessed with money and comfort
Part of the reason they don't do that is because they're already paying the lowest the market will bear (and being able to steal items might very well be priced in by said market).
It should, but there is, understandably, a lot of inertia and disbelief that this is the new status quo. That, and obviously, as the pamflet points out, a lot of people assume that this won't happen to them.

And let's be honest, a lot of people do indeed feel that this will only happen to people who make mistakes in their visa application (knowingly or not), have tattoos (or travel with tattooing gear), participate in any form of activism, are transgender or otherwise queer, or any other reason not applicable to conservative/right-leaning, white, middle class or higher, educated white collar workers. Some people are quite comfortable with all this (I won't bother pointing out the historical parallels), and it does come down to privilege and having an approved political mindset.

And here's the really nasty thing: if you point this out, you run the risk of sounding exactly like the 'woke' bogeymen this administration is 'fighting'. Language and the imagery invoked have been hijacked to a fascinating but troubling degree.
AI tool generates high-quality images faster than approaches
this gets me the wrong way. see, I live in Nuremberg, Germany. I went to school here, "higher education". I've learned a lot about fascism, how it lured voters into electing them, how they grabbed and secured power, how they introduced concentration camps ("animal protection" legislation, prohibiting kosher butchering, introduced the camps as punishment for those insisting on kosher law. twisted)

I've visited two concentration camp memorials, with their cynical writing at the gate.

I've read the Auschwitz documents edited by 2001 Verlag. I've watched the Holocaust movie series of the 1970s (way to early)

nonetheless, I was not aware of concentration camps being labeled as recreational leisure camps of some sort by the nazis.

my point being: it was no lack of education to not know that additional aspect of systematic brain sick evil.
> Around 95 percent of this figure is attributable to 3,000 developers worldwide

Linus is probably 60% of that?
Seconded. Moreover...

> as long as it is proper, maintainable code

...in an imperative language you know well and which has a sufficient amount of type/null checking you can tolerate.
> I'm not defending Microsoft but "scam" is probably the wrong label for what they did.

You should use their products to really see what "scam" means. /s
I think this is what they are referring to: "French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found" [1][2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418059
From the HN guidelines:

- Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

- Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

- Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

@dang the leaking of apoplectic American politics (on both ends of your polarized spectrum) is making HN a lot less interesting for the wider world audience.
Are there any significant systems and/or job prospects for lisp?
In today’s digital age, AI assistants have become integral to our daily lives, helping us manage tasks and streamline our routines. Google Assistant has long been a familiar tool, offering assistance through voice commands and simple queries. However, the emergence of Gemini, a powerful AI assistant, presents a compelling alternative. This article delves into a detailed comparison of these two assistants to help you determine which better suits your needs
idk this. Thank you.
Siri can’t even answer what month it is so the only way is up from here I guess

https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1jehkpm/apple_intel...
Similarly with the DOGE accessing federal servers there would have been no other community I trusted to understand the implications of physical access, the laws surrounding state data storage etc. "These discussions shouldn't be happening here" but where should they be happening? What other community has experience with Move fast and break stuff?
South Korea probably went too far in the other direction. Apparently their presidents have a tendency to end up imprisoned after they step down. If I were the sitting president I'd probably be scared too, and might take risks to try to hold onto power as long as possible even to the point of declaring martial law or something.
Blender is a gui first program, it makes sense that videos will work for it.
Ah yes, Experts-Exchange was a plague for a while. They did downrank it at some point though.
Yeah, but then some of us might mount a spirited argument along the third dimension - (honest / lying). In my experience, most of the "semantic arguments" you mention happen in context of someone wanting to sell you something (whether a product or a belief) - so while it's never binary, the borders get fuzzier the further you go towards "lying" on that third axis.
Since you're young, learn what you want based on what interests you. My best advice right now is not to focus on languages but on projects. Think about a particular project you're interested in creating and try to make it. The language required for said project will become apparent after a little googling.

That said, if you just have the interest in cobol, just go for any and just have fun. Don't worry at this point about how useful it will be.
Companies have shareholders and responsibilities.

They have to choose between contributing a salary for a year to open source projects that are the foundation of their business or fuelling one of the corporate jets for an hour. Making these sorts of tough decisions are what the 10mil+ in bonuses are for at the end of the year.
Show HN: Store GitHub repo metrics in Google Sheets using this GAS
To better promote our OSS, we needed more detailed insights into our GitHub metrics. The GitHub Web UI doesn’t display the daily increase in stars, and both the Web UI and API only offer traffic data for the past 14 days.

To address this, we created a Google Apps Script that accumulates data daily in a Google Sheets. This allows us to track repository growth trends over time and analyze engagement more effectively.
I suspect many of these open source developers are employed in this capacity on some level by for-profit corporations (which sadly does bring a high degree of dysfunction in terms of resource allocation). But I can't imagine being this productive as a side-gig.
I think it used to be much worse. While the youtube/Tiktok churn might be much more active than 5 years ago, back in the ancient era of 2018-2016, the churn was driven by the fact that tooling sucked, which was capitalized on by people who were very good at self promotion but a lot less good at engineering.

I'm not a 'frontend guy', but I do write frontend code. I use Typescript React with hooks and context most of the time, rollup with esbuild to bundle and to run my dev workflows and raw CSS/SCSS for styling or Bootstrap for cookie-cutter UIs. I've also dabbled with Svelte.

This stack has served me well, and nothing here is newer than 5 years old. There's a cadre of much newer technology that I would consider stable (Vite + SvelteKit), but since new projects come with a maturity curve from the framework side and a learning curve, learning to troubleshoot issues and solve problems.

Anyone who constantly hops frameworks is doomed to be a perpetual amateur, working with buggy frameworks they know nothing about, and they will leave a trail of projects using deprecated frameworks in their wake.
Famous YouTube influencer checks notes Carnegie Mellon university.
Yes, even expensive Phillips LEDs heat up to 100 C. There is no way they could last the designed 50000h at that temp.
Apparent age vs actual age follows a very different probability distribution than apparent sex vs actual sex (whatever that is). We don't have 10-year-olds looking like 90-year-olds, and if one existed, they would encounter a lot of problems at the border. This is analogous to someone who appears male, even on close inspection, but has an F on their passport (or birth certificate, or driver's license). Plus, these are the sorts of things you use to get a drink at a bar, not just borders.

Other countries allow one's sex to be changed legally to solve this problem. It's not "inaccurate" -- it's semantics. According to a different definition of sex (for instance, hormonal sex, which can be changed medically; or apparent sex), one's sex on passport might correctly differ from one's birth sex.

You might object that that's a worse definition, and those countries should change to the U.S.'s definition. But due to intersex people, there is no universally consistent binary definition of sex. For instance, no country which does not permit sex to be changed legally allows for options outside of "F" and "M". So if you believe sex cannot be changed, then you must also admit that there are people who can never have accurate passports.
I believe the colour wheels now spin twice as fast which may reduce the effect somewhat. But for me it's not a very nice effect which is why I use a 3 chip projector. Unfortunately 3 chip DLP is prohibitively expensive (cinemas use them), but JVC DLA projectors are good. Although it looks like the newer 4K models are also prohibitively expensive :/
How does open source avoid that? Red Hat, which got bought by IBM; both of them have executives in spades, as does Google and Meta, both of them are huge supporters of open source. (Not including Llama. Fsck Mark Zuckerberg for co-opting the term Open Source for llama when it isn't)
One of the recent strikes had a 1:400 ratio it seems. That is impressive, but in a very dark way.
You can add all kind of verification scripts to git hooks, that trigger before and after someone pushes, like you do with GitHub actions. Whether you trust you devs less than your build pipeline is an organizational issue, but in our org only a few senior devs can merge to master.
Then you’ve fundamentally misunderstood what a robots.txt file does or is even intended to do and should reevaluate if you should be in charge of how access is or is not prevented to such systems.

Absolutely nothing has to obey robots.txt. It’s a politeness guideline for crawlers, not a rule, and anyone expecting bots to universally respect it is misunderstanding its purpose.
My 80’ Concorde steel frame is still intact -well slightly bend but not failure in sight- despite the daily commute and holidays backpacking/trailer. Grandkid test check.

> If you do ride your bike enough, you're almost certainly replacing frequently enough that it will never be an issue.

True for the light athletes that take care during usage and "upgrade" often. Part of the motivation to upgrade is security.

Be more careful if you ride in urban/outdoor with potholes and like to keep using a piece a hardware when it fits your needs.

As a bike mechanist we checked meticulously every second hand frame we sell and find some cracks time to time. Those happen (CN and Aluminum). Direct to the bin.

More importantly: check your rims, especially as we entered the disk era and don’t change them so often. They also do get cracks and fail catastrophically.
Hilarious. In addition to lots of moo's and moo-ack's it hallucinated random words and phrases that weren't in the script.
I’ve had many expensive Philips or Osram bulbs failing.
How does this compare to supabase?
> I'm happier making my own deal with the boss.

And i bet your boss is even happier!
This website mixes some very real and very big problems (erosion of basic freedoms and rights in the US) with some entirely hallucinated ones (concentration camps for people with ADHD, and torture? I'd certainly want to learn more about that than a passing mention).

Personally I think the hyperbole only serves to cheapen the real problems.
From which countries do you need to transit through the US to get either to Canada or Mexico?
Congrats on the upcoming adoption!
The letter's author here. I'm actually British, living in Germany. By the standards of Europe the US has gone completely mad.