skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open protocols are great but they are also absolutely a hindrance on change. If you’ve ever worked on a public API you know how painful making a breaking change to that API can be. Inevitably something you want to change becomes some one else’s “hold space bar to heat room” feature. And sure you can have “private”
Or reserved spaces in APIs, but that can often lead to messes like needed 5 different vendor specific CSS tags to accomplish the same thing in all browsers, which in turn really leads to consolidation around one “winner” (see also IE6 and Chrome). They might very well still be able to make unified systems on open APIs and platforms, but it’s not clear whether they would be able to make them as well as they do when they control and own the whole stack and can change it without having to worry about anyone else.
"That was some good slop, sir. Can I come back here for lunch every day for the next 10 years?"

Hilarious, and accurate.
twist, 30 years later the aliens tunnel up from under the concrete
> Neat tool!

thanks! (author here not OP)

lambda/api/dynamo is just a start. I have very clear vision where i want to take this and it's not limited to lambda/api/dynamo. but these are easier to start with before you get to VPC, NAT, security groups etc. etc.
> a real risk of a lot of stress for 0 gain in actual safety, or worse.

Couldn't parse this part very well. Do you mean that there is a risk of taking stress but without getting any safety in return?

But if the OP decides not to travel, then they are eliminating stress, aren't they? So they are both benefiting from reduction of stress and the safety is definitely not becoming worse by taking this decision.
That's not my experience. If you look at my post history you'll see I've recently engaged in several long-winded back-and-forths with people here that have stayed civil and substantive. I don't find that in many other places, yet I still find it here.

I think one thing that has shifted dramatically in the last two months is that it's become clear many people who had a more moderated outlook on the current administration have turned out to be flat wrong about who these people are and what their intended course of action is. A "mask drop" moment. That's going to cause people to disengage, stick their hands, and even become irrationally angry.

Nonetheless I find this is still a place where you can talk to people on the "other side" in a rational way.
Reference for those who haven't seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
It'd have to be a really old one. Almost every CPU with an L1 cache loads in cache lines and loads don't have to be cache line aligned because it's supposed to be transparent to the programmer. So there's little to no penalty on modern architectures for non-aligned words. I know there hasn't been one on ARM or Intel for at least a decade.

If you try to load and use consecutive words in a hot loop that are, say, 72 bytes apart you'll see a huge performance drop but that's more because you're only using 1/8th of the cache line and not because they're unaligned.
This is exactly why I am a huge fan of ember.js

Unfortunatelly it fell behind in popularity mostly due to some unimportant reasons (eg not being able to render 1M rows faster than react) and some important ones (load times), but boy did they build a stable ecosystem! I haven't seen such a commitment to stability and guardrail upgrades to this day on any other piece of front end library.
FWIW, I lived in Chicago (one of the favorite punching bags for gun violence) for over 30 years and heard gunshots twice.

While gun violence here is absolutely far more common compared to Europe, it is still very rare in absolute terms. The only guns I’ve even ever seen were in a police officer’s holster or in the possession of military personnel. Most gun violence is related to domestic disputes or among criminals. If you’re not selling drugs or don’t have an ex-husband with an anger problem and access to a gun, you’re probably going to be fine.

It’s not the guns you should worry about, but the border and entry process.
Yep -- our story here: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse... (quoted in the OP) -- everyone I know has a similar story who is running large internet infrastructure -- this post does a great job of rounding a bunch of them up in 1 place.

I called it when I wrote it, they are just burning their goodwill to the ground.

I will note that one of the main startups in the space worked with us directly, refunded our costs, and fixed the bug in their crawler. Facebook never replied to our emails, the link in their User Agent led to a 404 -- an engineer at the company saw our post and reached out, giving me the right email -- which I then emailed 3x and never got a reply.
The Saturn product line was made this way for a long time, it worked really well. You could go buy a new "skin" and just glue it on.
I’m all for open source but suggesting libre office is perfect is a bit too much for me
How about Reuters and some others?

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tesla-to-re...

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-recall-over-46-000-0...

https://www.cnbctv18.com/auto/tesla-recalls-46096-cybertruck...

I think it's weird to dismiss an article without engaging with it at all and not making any arguments as to why it should be dismissed beyond "it's CNN".

What news sites would you believe?
The US is little different in many areas, it's just that the EU is less integrated so there are bigger differences between EU Member States than US States.
Yes. As someone publicly critical of the Trump administration, I don't want my entire social media presence crawled by immigration officers, just to end up in some detention centre for weeks or months. I'd rather just stay at home or travel to safer countries like Canada or Mexico.
Where are you getting "since the trump adm." from? This is what OP wrote:

> but in the last 10 years or so, it seems to me that there has been a huge increase in violence, and I have huge fears about guns.

They do not mention Trump at all, and don't even vaguely hint at this being a problem of the last two months.
Meta; as a non-engineer I'm always fascinated by all the seemingly arbitrary, though surely well thought through design choices that go into anything mechanical.

For example, panels can be screwed in, welded, glued, riveted, snugly fitted, attached with some kind of retaining bolt... And so on. When assembling IKEA furniture, someone clearly though some bits require dowels, other screws or nails, other still those weird round spirally things that, when twisted, pull the metal bit in.

I guess car panels obviously (???) need to be removable for repairs, but still. In an alternative universe, I'd love to be an engineer and understand some of those things.
I'm not a USC, but I will be eligible to apply for citizenship next year.

I have made the decision to avoid international travel so that I don't run into any potential issues at the border until I've gone through the citizenship process.

I'm also keeping an eye on the situation with domestic air travel. If we start getting reports of people being detained and stripped of their LPR status while trying to board domestic flights, I'll probably just stick to ground travel.
I'd presume most of those weren't marketed as bulletproof, though.
Population may be vastly undercounted, study claims
>coming from CNN, I take it with a pinch of salt

We can't all get our news from OANN and Joe Rogan
I certainly think the latter is a more valid concern as we really don't know the math on it and the capricious nature of the executive branch / security folks is, but I also wouldn't let it interrupt my life. If they turn you around and send you home at the border, I say let everyone know and do what you can to document it and so on.

Obviously the latter is more of a personal choice too. But you're also not likely to have the same consequences as gun violence.
Don't forget the two-thirds of gun violence that only involves a single private party, and doesn't pose any risk to an unrelated tourist visiting the country.
Because web apps you see today were not feasible even 10 years ago

(and I'm not talking about simple static websites)
>They made a game you may have heard of called 'Fortnite'. It's been rather successful.

ehh, I give it a week /s

But yes, i'm surprised people still fall into this notion that the last 3 years of layoffs falls into anything close to a just world. it's been clear that these tech cuts are not merit based for a while.
Compare the statistics of murders per capita in your city and the US city you plan to visit.

I think your fear is unreasonzble.

But it's a good thing to avoid travel. By fying across ocean you would contribute to environment damage by the airplane emission and potentially transmit infections.

Participate remotely, stay home, save time, money and the planet.
A friend of mine who is german, traveled as a regular tourist through a major airport got detained for 6 hours. No access to the bathroom, got brutally yelled at when she asked for information. She has an hispanic name. This was pre-Trump.

Then more recently in the news, which wasn't a visa issue

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

So I agree that most people will be fine traveling to the US, but I understand some want to reconsider their travel plans. I can only imagine some immigration officers thinking they now have a free pass to harass people
Ichi-go ichi-e – "one time, one meeting"
As a European with a lot of US connections, I've always felt a bit uneasy about going to the US, and it's probably the only liberal democracy where I felt this way. So maybe the rule can be a rule now, that I only feel unfairly treated in non liberal democracies.

With the US, you just get the feeling every time you are at security that they might mistreat you, for no reason. The way the agent looks at you, the way the questioning goes, it's like they suspect you of being a criminal. The only other country where the guy made that atmosphere for me was Cuba.

As for violence when you're in the country, my impression with those statistics is that it's highly localized, wherever you are in the world. There's some neighbourhood that you're not supposed to go to, and if you just stay out, your risk is very low.

Regarding the people you meet, the US is the only place where I get the Jekyll/Hyde vibe. Lots of super friendly people who will be happy to chat with you. But also the feeling that if you get on their wrong side, it will be unpleasant really fast.
I love this project and particularly its documentation.

But:

> Design Goals

> - Simplicity (...) is the amount of information it takes to describe a system.

> (...)

>

> Anti-Features

> - There are no exceptions

>

> (Error handling etc. omitted for clarity.)

At first sight, error handling is going to be laborious in this language. I wonder what's the state of the art in PL theory regarding error handling in a context without automatic resource management. Anything better than manual bubbling up of errors up the chain of callers until one takes responsibility?
why should it be straightforward to establish that?
I've seen this so many times already, going from server-rendered web apps to client-side rendered web apps in React, then through multiple generations of state management and component management strategies in React, then back to server-side rendered stuff with Next.js, it is so tiring.
Very cool ideas to be honest! I took your advice and went through the react code. I don't know if everything is fixed, but I did find some memory leaks that would take my ram to 100% in idle. Very bad UX, thank you for the tip! As for the bots themselves, any tips on what would work for building these bots? What stack should I go for?
humanity and not Hamas, for sure.

https://unwatch.org/item-7/claim/claim-46-israel-targets-hos...
Apple is using closed-down features in iOS to gain an unfair advantage in Sales of accessories.

They are still fine to do that, but at the moment such a new feature/accessory is launched by Apple the necessary interfaces in iOS also needs to be available to competitors.

The result is that Apple will still be first with such features as they can orchestrate the launch of the feature in iOS with the product. They will still have a leg up in marketing and scale, as they will be able to market directly to their users and instantly sell in much larger volume.

They will JUST face a better balanced market where competitors will be able to catch up and match the experience.

The fact that this is causing any backlash at all is surprising. Apple still has the best cards in this game, they are just not allowed to change the rules in their favor all the time.
These are DDOS attacks and should be treated in law as such.
(Although I do realise that in many countries now we no longer have
any effective "rule of law")
I would be considerably more worried about being incorrectly detained by ICE and getting caught up in that nonsense than gun violence.

Simultaneously, you're getting a lot of Americans in the comments talking about how the risk of gun-violence is near-zero and nothing to be worried about. There have been 58 mass shootings in the U.S. In Europe, there have been 2. Statistically, going from Europe to the U.S, your risk of being caught up in a shooting ARE significantly higher.

Is that still worth not travelling for? In reality, 58 mass shootings in 3.5 months across that number of population centres, the risk is incredibly, incredibly low.

But is it still significantly higher than Europe? Yes, absolutely.

Should you worry about the U.S violence getting "worse"? No. But it is more violent, statistically, than Europe.

As I said though, I'd be more worried about ICE nonsense.
The counterpoint is that if you don’t adopt a framework you end up with a “framework” you built yourselves that people outside your team don’t understand, is generally poorly documented and needs constant work to add features existing frameworks already have. There are common features needed on the FE and common problems to solve, why not at least start with something instead of nothing?
I'm a US citizen who has been detained at the border in the past because facial recognition systems seemed to think that I didn't look like my passport photo. Agents could have just looked at me and seen that I am in fact the person in my passport photo, but no, they detained me instead and treated me like a criminal on two separate occasions. I've also been critical of Trump on social media. US border agents do not care about common sense or decency, they haven't for at least a decade. They're just following orders, and their orders are to look for any possible reason to detain you, and then treat you as guilty until proven innocent.

All that to say, even as a US citizen, I'm hoping to avoid traveling to the US until this fascist government is removed.
I gave a workshop yesterday on the effective use of large language models. We had participants from numerous Dutch corporations.

There is a lot of unmet demand for a non-American LLM. I suggested DeepSeek, but that's Chinese. I suggested Mistral, but that's French (joke!). I found OpenGPT-X from a European consortium, but it seems quite immature as yet. https://huggingface.co/openGPT-X

Perhaps there will be a European DeepSeek replica soon -- it should be quite affordable to build. But that's just one piece of the ecosystem -- there is a need for a lot of digital infrastructure.
People saying "This is crazy and emotional" - you don't realize how bizare your country has become: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

In short: French scientist denied access to the US based on the contents on his phone (critical messages).
> It’s funny because the Ford Pinto is thought of as an example of an unreliable death trap but the deaths from Tesla’s poor craftsmanship and design heavily outweigh the Pinto by a wide margin.

What are the stats you're referencing here? I find this difficult to believe, as modern cars are generally much safer than cars from the 1970s and Teslas seem to perform well in crash tests. They'd need to be incredibly dangerous relative to other modern cars to be as dangerous as a typical car from the 1970s.
This series of videos from Rcestflight is some nice testing of different RC boat propeller designs. It was a competition with a prize and people could send their designs to be 3d printed. There was at least one toroidal design as well. They could show this stuff at schools...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTh-TIhL9M
Right??? I started out the process trying to stick with yarn and upgrade it to use plug and play for better CI caching, but svelte apparently just does not work with it and will not do so, so I started looking into pnpm.
> Basically all gun violence in America is either confined to very specific economically depressed areas, that are well-known and easy to avoid, or is between two private parties.

Like schools?
OVH supports object storage and managed relational databases.

It's not on the level of AWS at the moment, but getting there fast.
Interesting.

For the government of a country like Denmark, with 1.4% the GDP and 1.7% the population of the US, the only viable way to build homegrown alternatives that avoid relying on software controlled by big US tech companies is to invest in open-source projects like GNU/Linux.

Many other governments around the world are in the same position as the government of Denmark.

Should they decide to invest in open-source projects, the impact could be significant.
Could be worse; Musk appears to be a _Sulla_ fanboy (Sulla’s major contribution to history was originating, or at least popularising, the charming Roman tradition of proscription, where you just make it legal to murder your enemies.)

A somewhat less successful dictator than JC, but a significantly nastier one.
Perfect for 98% of the things government officials are using Word, Excel and PowerPoint for...
Link text doesn't match target.
Do you mean that you always carry a loaded gun with you and that you would shoot someone who tries to steal your phone?
The point is obviously to terrorize people and create fear.

So the question is when will the US be sanctioned for this behavior?

If cannot happen legally then financially?

Are tourists really going to risk coming here because this is not the first story and it is only going to get worse.

Imagine by the Olympics in 2028 - are people REALLY willing to visit here and being subjected to this incredible risk?

Can't say "you'll be fine" because just any one encouter with law enforcement on a power-trip and you'll have no rights to how you are treated and how long you are disappeared.

They are building holding facilities at military bases all over the country and there will be motivation to fill them up.

There will be no lawyer access, no reporter access.

You'll just disappear until they decide what to do with you.
Honestly for German it somewhat makes sense, since "Deutsch" (German for "German") sounds like "Dutch", but Danish is farther-fetched. Then again, I can imagine the two countries (and a couple of other similar ones) melting into a single concept if you're on the other side of the planet - I'd have a hard time telling most US states or Latin American countries apart as well.
I love the idea of a bit of inspiration and invigoration of tech in Europe.

But for some reason Estonia is the only country that can execute on this, I don’t know why. The rest of Europe loves their bureaucracy too much.
As there is a genuine risk my passport could be confiscated at the border for the gender marker not matching that on my birth certificate, it would probably be unwise for me to try and travel to the US
I understand that most of what Trump does fits in Project 2025.
That repo's only a week old, give it some time.

Did Mario not do it for you? https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E
This was true in the lodash and jquery as essential days, but hasn't been the case for years.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Good enough for the vast majority. Just not the ones making the decisions. And when it is changed, you have to fight all m$ because it keeps breaking formats and compatibility let alone standardisation with others.
I'd be concerned that compliance is a game there.
Not just a US thing, Ireland did this to critical skills employment holders for years. Worse, they pretended your spouse could work, but then made the process so cumbersome it was almost impossible to comply.
There's already an element <hr> "horizontal rule" in HTML
Well said. The BE / FE split has been a really bad experiment. It has exasperated the issue where the FE is overly complex because there are people on a FE team, so they toil away and just add complexity. It is also problematic that we have so many people who only know web development and nothing else.
There really aren’t mass shootings every day, unless you expand the criteria to absurd degrees.

And unless you go to very specific urban areas, or are involved in the drug trade, your risk of getting shot is incredibly low.

The ‘wtf factor’ with US immigration and gov’t behavior is definitely driving everyone crazy though.
the existing os alongside the new instructions could restrict apple plenty

unless you are saying you have inside knowledge about the amount of refactoring and new development necessary to comply, that would be fascinating to hear more about

such restrictions would be likely to spill over into customer impact

> you’re speculating

which is essentially the same as providing an estimate in a work setting

so… yes
I think it's a very sane behavior. I used to travel regularly to the US for both work and leisure, but I'll think twice before doing it again. On the one hand, I do know lots of Americans didn't vote from Trump. A lot of those who did probably aren't necessarily bad people. But still, this country has become hostile, it's pretty hard to pretend that everything's normal.
The Anatomy of a Non-Apology
Gun violence is very very rare. I’m in the northeast and there is very little gun culture here. A post doc college who came from Germany said his coworkers thought he was crazy coming to such a dangerous country, but after being here he realized it’s not bad. During the election there was lots of commentary about how bad it’s gotten, when it really hasn’t changed significantly.

There have been increased instances of foreigners being detained and there social media gone through. The results vary from being denied entry to being locked up for a couple weeks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-act...
> I’ve had my EV for five years and the brakes are still pristine (regenerative braking saves mechanical brake wear)

What did you expect? I have original brakes with original brakepads in my 5 years old ICE van. I have original brakes (pads, rotors) in my 2016 motorhome.

> Every time I see a fossil fuel car sitting outside my son’s nursery, engine idling

Sure, so how much better do you think EVs are in that matter? 10%? 30%? The solution is to stop using individual transport, not to make it slightly better.
People are in denial/frog boiled. It’s going to get worse too.
Are we peak ARM yet? Jokes aside, with coming decline in x86, why is AMD so slow to introduce ARM products?
> Imagine why this is a throwaway account because I read they check the phone, laptops at the boarder.

They ask for your social media accounts too. "Hey, you left out your HN throwaway account from this list. Come with me (1).".

Well, I guess I'm in someone's list now.

People were worried about donating to Assange defense fund when it was a thing.

To people defending it, imagine if this was happening to someone you care about in some country you think are run are by assholes: 1) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...